Of course, I still don't own Naruto. Blah.

IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE. AND THEN THE NEXT CHAPTER BECAUSE IT IS AGAINST THE RULES TO PUT JUST AN AUTHOR'S NOTE AND NOT A CHAPTER. YEAH.

I wouldn't have posted this so soon, as I said, what, was it Thursday? Idk, I'm on vacation right now. I'm also doing this by phone, so I will correct any mistakes in this chapter later when I have an actual computer. Anyways, I know I said I'd post this Friday or so, but alas, circumstances do not agree. I felt I should tell you now, instead of waiting several days.

If you were to look back at my story, you will see that any explicit scene has been removed. You will also see that one of my oneshots, Moods, has been deleted. I will not be putting them back up, and there will be no more lemons or limes or whatever the hell in my story.

On this site.

If you have no idea what the hell I'm yarping on about, I advise you to read the new announcement on the main page of Fanfiction.

They are cracking down on Rating Rules and Guidelines, and they are letting terrible people weed through the stories and report them, so that the story is deleted and the account is suspended. The terrible part about it is... they are bullying the authors. They are, in reviews, telling authors their work is a "piece of shit," or "toxic," and, and I quote, "God, this is a bigger piece of shit than I was expecting. Do you try to suck this hard or is it a natural talent?" There is a difference between giving constructive criticism and outright being an asshole. This is not professional. At all.

But maybe I shouldn't have bothered editing my story. I'm, what, one out of hundreds of thousands of authors on this site. What's the chance of them finding me?

Quite large, because if I hear any more of this damn bullying I'm going to fucking do something about it, and getting myself suspended because of my stories would be rather stupid. I'd much rather do it by verbally ripping them a new asshole.

I will be posting the full chapters on another site. I don't know which yet. If going to another site is too much if a hassel for you, which I know it can be a rather pain, then feel free to PM me your emails, and I will personally send them to you. Those who have this alerted, well, you'll already be getting an email. Why not the full chapter.

And now, after my rant, the new chapter. Which, luckily for us, happened to be free of any explicit material anyways.

Now please excuse me while I go change the name of my FF7 story. I have a feeling the poor little dearies' mothers would be quiet upset and in an uproar over the scandel that is me subjecting poor, little innocent children to the word "hell." which, if they're in a bad mood, will probably be the equivalent to "fuck."

Speaking of

FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK

This story is rated M, and I CAN fucking do that.

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"The fuck do you mean, "eliminate the clan?"" Shisui snarled, stepping forward with a deadly expression on his face. Itachi paled in absolute horror, a strangled noise escaping his throat.

"What have you been planning, Itachi?" Shisui asked darkly, crossing his arms and looking for all the world like an impenetrable wall. "What has our beloved Hokage been planning?"

"Shisui," Itachi choked, "Shisui, I-"

"Don't you dare say my name like that," the other Uchiha hissed. Itachi flinched back, eyes wide and hurt, before he started speaking softly.

"The coup," he whispered. "I couldn't let it happen. Think about it!" His voice started increasing in volume and strength at the malevolent look on Shisui's face. "It would have started a war, Shisui! You know it would have started a war!"

"We have things planned out," Shisui said with a dismissive movement of his head. "It would have been quick and easy."

"Are you all even thinking?" Itachi nearly shouted, desperate to get his point across to Shisui. "Do you think the Hokage's tower won't even be guarded? Half of our offensive movement would be wiped out before we could even get through the front gate!"

"A small child could get through that security," Shisui scowled. "There are hardly any Anbu on watch."

"A child can get through because they let them," Itachi pressed. "Do you honestly think they'd waste their time dealing with children who couldn't even scratch the Hokage? And then there's also the fact that the village, shinobi included, won't exactly be happy with us assassinating their beloved leader. How do you expect the Uchiha to rule them?"

"We won't be "ruling them,"" Shisui stated, grimacing. "We're removing a corrupt power from the government. It's not like we're establishing our own Hokage."

"But the people that do run for Hokage will be either too scared of us to be a proper ruler or will be a proper ruler and turn the village against us," Itachi said shortly. "There is no way this can work out, Shisui. The Leaf's government will be shredded by the end of the coup. Think about it!" he shouted when Shisui scoffed. "The Lightning has had a grudge on us ever since the Hyuuga incident, and Rock wouldn't hesitate to join them in attacking us while we can hardly assemble any forces. Do you know how many smaller countries there are between the three of us? It would cause another Shinobi War! Goddamnit, Shisui, do you really want to see another one of those!"

"Well it seems like if I want to live, I have no choice!" Shisui yelled right back. "Would you really kill all of us just to prevent something that might happen?"

"There's no "might" about it! The Raikage isn't stupid, he would be a fool to pass this chance up!"

"But would you really kill all of us to make sure that doesn't happen? What about the people who don't even want the coup? What about my Dad, or Old man Teyaki or Granny Uruchi?" Itachi stood stock still, lips pressed together tightly. "Or what about the children? What about my little sister? What about Sasuke, if he were alive? Would you have killed him? Would you have killed me?"

This time Itachi jerked violently, eyes closed in a pained grimace and still pursing his lips. "It would have been my mission-" he began weakly. Shisui snapped, pain shining in his expressive eyes now.

"Do you have no heart?" Shisui raged, at a volume which made Itachi flinch. "Your fucking brother! Your family! What good would killing innocent people do!"

"Either way innocent people are going to die," Itachi argued softly. "You can't get away from it."

"But we wouldn't be murdering children in their sleep, now would we?" Shisui seethed. Itachi flinched again, bringing one hand up to lightly cover his mouth. "Don't you dare act like you have feelings now," Shisui hissed. "Not after what you've been planning."

"Do you think I want this?" Itachi asked, choking on the tears that were threatening to fall. "Shisui, I'd rather die than hurt any of you!"

"Then I guess it's a pity you didn't come home a few hours earlier that day," Shisui spat. "We wouldn't dare to start a coup without both you and Fugaku."

Itachi stood frozen, eyes wide and shining with disbelief and utter agony. Shisui grimaced when felt a pang of regret but it was smothered under his own hurt and fury. He scoffed and turned around to leave, and tensed when he felt a light touch on his back.

"Shisui-"

"Don't touch me," he bit out, not even turning around. "I don't want to look at you, let alone be near you."

And then he was gone with the slam of the front door, and Itachi crumpled to the ground, too broken to even sob.