A/N: Although it's not in any Naruto based communities, it's gotten a bigger jump start than I thought it would've. So for that, I thank you! 40 reviews and 74 followers on the first chapter alone! That's fucking amazing! Thank you all!
Just to clear something up, NARUTO DOES NOT KNOW HE CONTAINS THE KYUUBI!
A big shout out to DominoNamikaze2010! He found some errors with the first chapter where I wrote 'Natsu' when it should have been 'Naruto.' Thanks for pointing that out!
To The Reviewers:
Update (Guest): Update schedule will be once every three to five weeks So you can expect once a month at the very LEAST. School and work might complicate that so… yeaaaah.
Sweetlilly90: I'm glad you enjoy it thus far, and about Iruka… Yeah… He didn't really play a pivotal role in Naruto's life unless you count him talking about Naruto not being a demon. So I added that in and killed him off. It's not that I don't like him… It was an idea in my head. And shit is indeed about to go down.
Redkross: Yeah, you can expect it to LOOSELY, and I mean LOOSELY follow canon with great alterations. I'm only planning on deviating somewhat around chunin exams and even then, the main canon arc will be followed.
Guest12344567 (Guest): Chapter two will be revealed, chapter three training, chapter four some training and possible time skip. Chapter five, last year at the academy. Any more than that revealed will be . I have more jumbled ideas so don't rely on that timeline. And by that I mean I could speed the process up or slow it down!
"Speech"
'thought'
"Jutsu: in use"
'Kyuubi/Summon thought'
"Kyuubi/Summon speech"
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Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself
Chapter 2: A New Era.
X
Half a second.
That's all Naruto had before his senses kicked and realized there was an eight inch kunai in his eye. His first sensation was just the sense of intrusion being… cold.
Then it became hot.
Extremely hot.
Excruciating pain flared in his damaged orbital. Blood and serous fluid gushed out from his socket in an unrestrained torrent quickly coating the right side of his face with blood. Naruto's scream filled the night with agony only to be cut off by the blood leaking into his esophagus.
Spluttering and sobbing, Naruto spat out blood as he tried screaming out in pain, speak even, yet it was to no avail as the pain overrode his urge to emit any form of decibel.
For reasons unknown, the grunts of the shinobi group came forward and ripped the kunai out viciously from the boy's limbs and let the demon container drop to the floor like a heap of trash. Naruto immediately took to the fetal position and whimpered uncontrollably.
At the sight of this, the shinobis roared with laughter and continued jaunting at the jinchuuriki's expense. Everyone encircled the boy and took turns spitting and kicking at the 'demon boy.'
Suddenly, everyone froze as they felt as though a very dangerous predator was in the vicinity.
Killer Intent took a hold of everyone like a giant wave had just crashed upon them. After a few moments of fear-induced stupor, the heinous group of shinobis looked around desperately trying to pinpoint the source of terror.
No one made a sound except for the still whimpering Naruto.
"You had all made a grave mistake… Katon: Ryuka no Jutsu (Fire Release: Racing Fire.)." the voice whispered.
Suddenly, a figure jumped up into the night sky with his silhouette against the bright translucent moon. A pair of Sharingan-activated eyes stared bore holes into everyone's gaze as fire split into five directions; each toward their own target. Rapidly approaching them, the shinobis emptied their bladders as they knew it was too late to survive, screams of fear filled the forest before being silenced by their fate.
Itachi quickly dispelled his Kage Bunshins that were still searching and did a quick scan of his surroundings, ensuring that no more danger was present. After confirming that there was indeed no more danger present, Itachi approached the near-dead boy he came to know as a younger brother. Anger bubbled once again in Itachi's core as he realized what they did to the young boy.
Kneeling down to the sun-kissed blonde, he began healing the small wounds; he had a basic proficiency in medical Ninjutsu due to his Sharingan.; however, it was only basic… he wished now more than ever that he should have given more attention to it.
"You're late…" Naruto managed out with his good eye closed. He cracked a small smile, "Teme-nii-san."
Itachi shook his head with incredulously, 'You must be strong to make light of this horrendous situation Naruto…'
"Don't talk Naruto, save your energy… you're going to need it." Taking the boy's silence as an answer, he continued to patch the minor injuries. To heal the jinchuuriki's broken bone was out of Itachi's medical ninjutsu's league, the basic healing would have to do for now…
Completing his simple healing process, Itachi then bit his thumb, "Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" a cloud poof'd and revealed a slightly larger than average crow.
"Why did you summon me Itachi-san?" asked the crow in a surprisingly deep baritone. The crow looked around his surroundings before looking at the boy with a kunai embedded in one of his eye socket. The crow's reaction looked disgusted; humans were the most barbaric organisms to walk this forsaken world.
"Kuro-san, I need you to find and relay a message to the Hokage, he should be easy enough to find if you search for his signature from the sky." The older Uchiha answered.
Kuro, the crow summon, simply nodded his affirmative, "And what does this message entail?"
"Please inform the Hokage that I had found Naruto and he'll be arriving shortly, please also inform him that…" Itachi leaned in and whispered something to the crow.
The crow's eyes widened with surprise, "Are you sure you want to that? The repercussions could be severe, you especially don't know how that process could react! Especially cause of a certain… being that is held. No, I don't think you should go through with this, it'd be painful for the boy on and top of that, we would be uncertain in knowing if it would work-"
"Go. I have made my decision, it must be done." Itachi interrupted with a stern voice. He had already put a great amount of thought behind this.
The crow looked apprehensive but eventually nodded; Itachi was one of the strongest shinobi this world had to offer, Kuro would trust in the genius of the Uchiha clan.
Itachi turned to the still form of one Uzumaki Naruto, he knelt down and called out softly, "Naruto."
Itachi grew worried as the boy with his good eye closed didn't respond. Just as he was about to act, The boy moved his hand to his cheek, almost touching the kunai that had been forcefully implanted into his socket. He held his hand there on the verge of making contact with the weapon before finally dropping his hand on his cheek.
"It hurts." Naruto whispered hoarsely, voice trembling full of pain.
"I know otouto… I know. But I need you to be brave for me, okay? Can you do that for me?" At Naruto's weak nod, Itachi continued, "The kunai ruptured everything in your eye, if I were to take it out, you will be blind in that one eye…"
"I figured as much…" Naruto said quietly with tight lips.
"However, if you choose to do so, I can replace it… but the process itself would hold an untold amount of pai-"
"No! I won't take your eye just so I can see Itachi-nii! I'd rather go blind than hurt someone I love!" Naruto spoke loudly with ferocity. Screw that! He wasn't no sissy bitch!
Itachi gave an amused smile, not that Naruto could see, "Always thinking about others Naruto-kun… sometimes it's good to be selfish."
Naruto managed a small pained smile, "Hell yeah I'm always thinking about others… heroes always think about others and they get all the ladies dattebayo…" he chuckled weakly, "just kidding… brooders like the teme always get em… which is complete bullshit by the way."
Itachi again looked at the boy with slight awe, 'Just how do you do it Naruto? Always remaining strong and steadfast…'
"I wouldn't be using my eyes… so you don't have to be worried-"
"Oh gross Itachi-nii! I'm not gonna use one of those bastards' eyes! They just assaulted me so screw them and their shitty-"
"Not theirs either." Itachi said quickly, placating the boy into silence.
Naruto remained silent before speaking slowly, "… If it's not yours… and if it's not theirs… then whose?"
Itachi pulled out a vial that contained a pair of eyes and briefly thought back to the conversation he had with the Sandaime Hokage.
: FLASH BACK STARTS :
Sarutobi sat silently in his office contemplating his recent decision. Did he really make the right choice? Would his predecessors have condoned his decision or would they have chastised him?
Unfortunately, he would never find out.
Regardless of his decision, he couldn't fight off the intrusion of guilt that had seeped into his soul.
"It has been done Hokage-sama." Came an emotionless voice.
Despite the monotonous tone of the speakers voice, Sarutobi Hiruzen knew there was an emotional turmoil warring inside the young man. He knew what he had forced on the young adult was an unbearable weight that could never be fully alleviated.
Sarutobi clenched his jaw as he spoke with guilt and sorrow riddling his voice. He avoided eye contact with the genius, "I am truly and sincerely sorry, I wish it had never came to this-"
"I will do whatever it is to keep this village safe Hokage-sama. I nearly regret nothing, however I would like to tell you I had failed in one aspect…"
Sarutobi gave a sad smile, "I would have never expected you to kill your own otouto… Even I know that you're not the perfect ninja... Now I have to ask, did you perform the Tsukiyomi on young Sasuke-kun… and were you able to obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan?"
Itachi shook his head, "I simply knocked my little brother out, I didn't see a reason to put him through such torture, the… 'incident' tonight should be well enough to motivate him to be stronger…" Itachi's fist clenched ever so slightly, this did not go unnoticed by Sarutobi as Itachi continued, "And I was successful in killing S-Shisui Uchiha successfully obtaining the Mangekyou Sharingan without using his eyes… However, I would like to take them as keepsakes Hokage-sama, if you don't mind that is…"
Sarutobi understood immediately, the bond between the two Uchihas was akin to brotherhood. It forged upon being the talented and young prodigies always together during countless life-threatening missions and perilous situations.
Sarutobi waved the Uchiha's hesitation off, "It's fine Itachi-kun, it's the least I could do for you, especially after all you've done for us."
Itachi then cleared his throat somewhat awkwardly, "Actually hokage-sama, there is one more thing I would ask of you… if it was alright with you, I would like to make one more visit to one Uzumaki Naruto…"
The Sandaime froze.
The mention of Naruto's name on this particular day made the Sandaime Hokage paled with unease.
'How could I have forgotten?'
: FLASH BACK ENDS :
"Don't worry about trivial matters like that, just answer the question Naruto… yes… or no?" Itachi spoke sternly, despite the quietness of his voice.
Naruto took several painful breaths before he gave an answer. Grimacing, he spoke slowly, "Well… Not much of a choice if I want to keep my eyesight I suppose…"
Naruto tilted his head towards Itachi, this action elicited a giant wince from the young blonde. Naruto held himself still and let the pain dull out before he asked, "As long as it's not your eye I'm fine with it Tachi-nii."
Itachi allowed himself a small smile as he tried to steel his nerves. He didn't know anything about surgical processes but he hoped he didn't need to; when he was healing the minor cuts and bruises, he felt the deeper lacerations and broken bones healing on its own. When he focused his attention, he felt a malevolent chakra at work... he suspected it had something to do with the Kyuubi No Kitsune.
On that piece of information alone, was what Itachi was basing this whole eye operation on; he was relying on the seemingly miraculous healing prowess of the Kyuubi.
In the small amount of time since he had since the situation made itself known, he put an impressive amount of thought into his next course of action. In the precious moments he had to think, he ended up deciding that the risk would be worth it. Even if the procedure failed, it would still result with the loss of an eye…
And if it succeeded, then Naruto would come out stronger than ever; hopefully to the point where nothing even remotely similar to this situation would ever occur. So if that was the reward from all this, Itachi would have to risk it… This would be the last time he'd ever be able to watch out for Naruto for a long, very long, time.
He just hoped it would pay off.
Quickly muttering a quick "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!", Itachi ordered his shadow clone to pick up the blonde into a more comfortable position. As soon as that was done, Itachi set the vial that contained Shisui's eyes onto the ground next to the jinchuuriki lying flat on his black. Kneeling next to the side of Naruto's face with the kunai stuck in it, he gently tried tugging the kunai out only to find it stuck.
Naruto involuntarily let out a yelp of pain at Itachi's action. Despite the Uchiha's good intention, Naruto couldn't help but scowl slightly; Of course, any facial movement that even slightly contracted the muscles around Naruto's right eye flared a sudden increase in pain.
So he yelped again.
'Man this fucking sucks... man from here on out, my luck better multiply into infinity and freakin beyond cause I am tired of all this freakin bull crap... ' he thought as the pain dulled to a more bearable amount.
"Naruto, I'm gonna have to heat up the kunai with flames slowly so it doesn't stay lodged in your socket, I'm going to heat it from the handle so I don't burn the rest of your face... In other words…"
"… It's gonna hurt like a bitch." Naruto finished.
Itachi let out a small "Hn" in affirmative. Naruto grimaced once more, "Well, sooner always better than later right…"
Itachi summoned another Kage Bunshin on top of the other one. Ordering them to hold Naruto down, Itachi quickly placed his hands on the handle and used an extremely simple Katon jutsu to coat his hands with flames.
Naruto gave a loud gulp as he waited for the kunai to heat up. He didn't have to wait long as he felt the metal starting to heat up to the point of it being similar to luke-warm. Naruto's pace of breath quickened from the anxiety of waiting.
Despite the brave face he put on, this whole thing was actually quite freaking scary.
Naruto didn't know why he expected the pain to be sudden, but he did. Every time he experienced pain, the suffering was always delivered swiftly. Should be the same for this time, right?
Kami was he wrong.
The first sign of his error was the fact he was becoming extremely uncomfortable- Well as uncomfortable as you could get with a kunai already embedded into your socket.
Naruto gritted his teeth as he felt a small degree of burn, "Can you pull it out now?"
A short tug that led to more pain answered him, "It's not hot enough yet… and I can't go any faster or I might cauterize the flesh around the wound. That would effectively seal this kunai as a permanent fixture to your face… I'm sorry but bear with me otouto." Itachi murmured.
Naruto let out a strained noise indicating pain was building up. He clenched his jaws and grinded his teeth furiously. He fingers penetrated the ground as he exerted pressure; hoping somehow that grasping at something tightly would dull the ever increasing pain.
He thrashed against the shadow clones restraining grip on him to no avail. He cried out desperate pleas for Itachi to stop; to end the suffering. In response, Itachi continued whispering encouragements that fell to deaf ears.
Right as the pain reached the apex of Naruto's tolerance, the pain immediately died down to a small ache eliciting a somewhat relieved gasp from the jinchuuriki. "I-i-is it out?" he whispered as he opened his one good eye to see Itachi smile and nodding.
Naruto shut his one eye tightly and bared his teeth as the open air felt hit his gaping socket; it felt like a brick ton of salt against an open wound.
He took in a deep shuddering breath as he adjusted to the strange emptiness and pain of his eye socket, "Now this is the hard part right?"
Itachi hesitated a bit before answering. Pursing his lips, he spoke unsurely, "Naruto… I really don't know what is gonna happen but I believe you should and can expect pain… and lots of it. I'm going on a whim here as to this final step… do you still want to continue?"
One sapphire eye stared at Itachi dully, "I-I don't k-know… I-i-im scared… I d-don't think I can h-handle this…" Naruto finally whispered out as tears escaped his eye freely. Naruto didn't know why he had to be so weak, it should have never turned out this way… If only he had been-
"You are strong." Came the quiet yet stern voice of the only Uchiha present.
Naruto shook his head, "No… I was never strong… I couldn't even protect Iruka-sensei and I can't even protect myself-"
Itachi lifted his hand briefly and flicked the whiskered boy on the forehead, "Don't be a baka otouto… You are more strong than you'll ever know, trust me."
Hearing those words brought a strange effect In Naruto. He still felt all the negative emotions but the words of his 'older brother' instilled a new sense of security in him, if the genius amongst genius saw something in him, perhaps he himself can one day see it.
"Thank you nii-san…" Naruto whispered. He looked up towards the night sky and continued, "I think I'm ready."
Itachi patted the boy's head before giving a grim nod, "Let us begin."
X
Naruto had thought he had known pain to an intimate level.
Well Sally fucked that notion sideways and tossed it in the trash.
Cause what he felt at this moment…
That was pain.
He tried screaming but he found his throat parched and was barely able to whimper. He tried thrashing against the Kage Bunshins that were restraining him. He tugged and kicked but it was to no avail as he felt his world explode with pain…
Yet underneath all that pain… he felt something incredibly difficult to describe… he felt… something different. As vague as that was, it was the truth.
Yet if he had to describe the strange sensation, he would have to say…
Evil.
However-thank kami- the feeling Naruto had felt lasted for a few seconds seeing as to how he passed out from the pain.
Again, thank kami.
X
'Ugh… where am i… why does my head feel like it's been hit with a Fuma Shuriken? I wonder if nii-san is still here-"
"Itachi-nii?"
Hearing no response, Naruto groggily awoke to an all too familiar place, albeit blurry, he knew exactly where he was. The familiarity of the place assaulted his sensitive senses; the clean anti-bacterial scent attacked his already-sensitive nose. The whiteness of the room and the texture of his clothing- which felt much like a gown- were dead giveaways as to where he could be.
Yeah, he knew exactly where he was.
A place that he hated waking up to: Konoha's hospital.
That or he was at some crazy OCD freak's house with an extreme hospital fetish.
Naruto groaned as he tried moving. His body felt like complete crap; everything fucking hurt and he was sore as hell, 'What the hell caused this? Last thing he remembered was-'
The memories hit him like a tidal wave. Naruto closed his eye and took a deep breath. He opened his eye just realized that that his vision was supplied only from the left side. From his other optical perspective… he simply saw pitch black.
"I guess it didn't work…" Naruto spoke softly to no one in particular. With great difficulty, Naruto sat up straight with a severe wince and groaned, "Fucking shit! that hurt like a motherfuc-"
"Now now Naruto-kun, do I need to wash your mouth out with soap?" came a somewhat amused voice.
Naruto looked up to see the one and only Sandaime Hokage standing in the door way. Although he spoke with an amused tone, his visage was dead serious.
Averting his gaze, Naruto murmured dejectedly, "Hey jiji…"
"How are you feeling Naruto-kun?"
"Like shit."
The Sandaime let out a mirthless chuckle as he approached the bed Naruto was sleeping on. Rolling a wheeled chair closer so he could sit and converse more easily, this talk wouldn't be easy… the Sandaime sighed.
"I guess that's a given after what had happened last night…" The Sandaime rubbed his chin in a thoughtful manner.
"Where's nii-sa-" Naruto caught himself quickly, "-Itachi?"
Sarutobi frowned, why didn't the Uchiha prodigy tell the jinchuuriki? Sarutobi hesitantly spoke, "Naruto… Itachi betrayed Konoha."
Naruto frowned, "Haha… jiji, I'm not really in the mood for jokes so can you seriously tell me where he's at? Or send him here?"
"Naruto… I'm sorry… But I am being completely serious when I say he massacred the Uchiha clan last night…"
Naruto stared at the Sandaime desperately looking for any signs of joke but he only found regret and sorrow on the face of the man he saw as grandfather.
Naruto then looked forward with his one eye. His gaze took in everything yet he saw nothing. The sapphire-colored eye dulled; much like a gemstone covered in sheets of dust. His thoughts ran a million miles per second. How could he do this to Konoha? Why would he do that to his family…
Why would Itachi leave him?
That had hurt the most. He knew they bonded like a little brother would with an older brother.
Didn't Itachi know he was one of his most precious person? Naruto only had him and the jiji. He had to have known, Naruto had told him a million times.
Tears started to fall out as Naruto clenched at his heart, desperate to placate the heartbreaking ache. His chest shuddered with short and uncontrolled breathing.
Naruto glanced at the Sandaime and suddenly felt angry. He clenched his jaws and tightened his fist, 'Why is this shit always happening to me?! It's not fair!' frustrated tears started to stream out of his open eye. 'How come the supposed leader of our village fail so miserably at preventing pain-'
"Are you alright Naruto-kun?" came the worried voice the Sandaime.
"Fucking fantastic jiji. This year had been abso-fucking-lutely amazing! Couldn't you tell?" He spat out venomously
The Sandaime placed a gentle hand on Naruto's shou,"I'm sorry Naruto, just know that in time, everything will be better-"
Shoving the old man's hand away forcefully Naruto spoke coldly, "Don't touch me."
Sarutobi smiled sadly, the boy was in the right to feel angry. All he could do is be patient and hear the child out, "Tell me what's wrong Naruto-kun."
"Tell yo- are you fuc- TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG?!" he asked incredulously. He glared at the village leader, "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN!? ARE YOU SERIOUSLY THAT OLD THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG?!"
Naruto took a forced breath as he closed his eye, "Well let me tell you Hokage-sama" he spoke of the formal title with obvious sarcasm before continuing, "In this month alone, I had lost nearly half of the people that care for me. The two people that was actually willing to protect me-"
"Naruto-kun, you know I do my best to try and protect you-"
"BULLSHIT JIJI! And you know it!" He pointed a finger to the eye that been destroyed, "How the hell did this happen if you try your best to protect me?! YOU'RE THE FREAKING HOKAGE!" He gritted his teeth, "I want to know why this happens to me. Every year jiji, this happens to me. I want to know why!"
"Naruto-kun… I'm sorry, I can't tell you because it's a classified S-ranked secret-"
Naruto grinded his teeth and let out a frustrated growl, "Then when will it be okay?! When I get raped? Next year when I die?!" Naruto spat out.
Sarutobi took on an aghast look, 'Is this how you truly feel Naruto-kun? I had no idea… he must've been holding it in for so long…'
"Naruto-kun, I would never let that happen to you! From here on out, I'll double the Anbu-"
Naruto scoffed, "The fucking Anbu? Are you fucking serious!"
"WHERE WAS THE ANBU WHEN I WAS GETTING MY EYE CARVED OUT?" Naruto yelled with angry tears rolling down his face. He was about to continue his angry ventilation when a sudden sleepiness sensation took ahold of him.
"Whatever Hokage-sama, I'm done… leave me alone" Naruto muttered as he went to lay back down. He turned his back to him, effectively ignoring the sad face on the wizened old man.
"Very well Naruto-kun… just know that I love you and better days will come for you."
If Naruto had heard him, he certainly gave no indication that he did. Silence ensued as the Hokage took his leave.
X
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed as he walked outside into the hallway, "Did you hear all of young Naruto-kun's words?"
Itachi looked at the door of the jinchuuriki's and sighed, briefly thinking over last night's event.
: : : FLASH BACK STARTS : : :
Itachi sighed in relief as the malevolent chakra seemed to be doing proper reconstruction of Naruto's eye. As soon as he coaxed (Read: shoved) Shisui's eye into Naruto's bleeding socket, a dark and evil chakra immediately emerged and snaked its way from Naruto's naval area to up his chest and slithered along the neck until it finally went towards his orbital socket.
Almost immediately, the burnt skin of Naruto's returned to its natural tanned hide. Tendrils reconnected themselves along with various muscles and connective tissues. As this was happening Naruto screamed only to have it turn into a pitiful whimper.
Itachi closed his eyes and sent a silent prayer to whatever Kami that was out there to help the boy. To do anything to ease the boy's pain.
Itachi's prayer seemed to have been answered as the boy seemed to fall into an unconscious state. Itachi's worry eased a bit; he had thought his surrogate brother had died but the yuubi's chakra was still at work. However, instead of the chakra only reaching the eye, it had now spread and encased his whole body with the chakra.
As soon as Itachi's Kage Bunshins came in contact with the chakra, their hands corroded a bit before dispelling.
Itachi sat down and closed his eyes. Tears streamed out of the prodigy's eyes. It had been such an exhausting past twenty-four hours. The incident involving his clan had affected him more than he had let on. As much as he'd like to be the perfect shinobi; one without emotion, he just… couldn't.
How could someone kill their friends, best friends, and their family without feeling such a thing?
Itachi was strong, a genius amongst a genius.
But he was not a monster.
He still felt every emotion torrent through him just as any other human. He looked upon the night sky and spoke to no one in particular, "Shisui… I am so sorry… for everything." He looked at the boy covered in the bijuu's chakra, "But know that you will live on through him in a way, he is strong-minded and strong-willed much like you…"
His tears stopped as he let out his feelings. It had been way too long since he had shown any emotions..
A few minutes later, Itachi sighed once again in relief as the chakra-enveloped boy seemed to thin out to the point where it wouldn't be fatal to come in contact with for a few minutes.. Itachi knew not to touch the boy when the vile chakra was so thickly saturating the boy's figure.
However, he didn't have much time left, he had to leave soon.
So without a single care in the world, He picked the young boy up while the chakra ate at his clothes and skin, albeit slowly. Itachi gritted his teeth, 'This pain is nothing compared to Naruto's suffering.'
He hugged the boy tighter to his chest despite the pain, a lone tear fell into the cheek of unconscious boy.
"I'm sorry for everything otouto…'
: : : FLASH BACK ENDS : : :
"The boy is in pain, hopefully time will be able to mend his heart."
Itachi wordlessly nodded in agreement with a slight frown on his face, he could practically feel the emotions rolling off from the young jinchuuriki's room. "Hokage-sama, why didn't you tell him of his other eye?"
"In all truth, I was going to… but he is emotionally distraught at the moment and I don't believe being emotionally stable with a Sharingan in your eye is not a very good mix…" the old man said honestly.
Itachi nodded, the Uchiha clan was indeed a bit unstable like that… His father, nearly all his uncles and elder were power-crazed and tended to get a bit… crazy. Shaking his head from his thoughts,
"Will I be allowed to see him one last time?"
Sarutobi hesitated before shaking his head, "Itachi… I'm sorry, but you can't now, I know this isn't how you wanted to leave the village but for Konoha's sake, you need to go… Again, I can't express how sorry I am for making you shoulder this whole ordeal-"
"I knew what consequences my decisions would reap, I am happy to be of use Hokage-sama. I will be in contact with you soon."
Sarutobi watched as the loyal but now nuke-nin (Missing ninja) bow before turning to leave. But before Itachi made use of a shunshin, he spoke softly but clearly.
"Please watch over them both Hokage-sama."
With that being said, Itachi Uchiha left the place he had called home for his whole entire life; Konohagakure No Sato would now be nothing but a memory.
X
Naruto felt himself being reeled from his dream into the real world; Eventually, after his little rant with the hokage, he had fallen asleep…
Lying down and closing your eyes for an extended period of time would eventually do that to you he supposed.
He sighed as he recollected the events that had happened before he childishly ignored the hokage, the one person who he had considered family. Ayame-nee-chan and Teuchi-ojisan were close in terms of bonds, but the hokage-jiji was his jiji damnit!
He needed to apologize.
As if sensing his inner turmoil, several knocks were heard followed the sound of the door opening announced someone was coming in. Naruto glanced up with his one good eye and saw the telltale sign of the village leader's robe.
Despite his thoughts of making amends with the old man, he childishly pouted and turned his head away immaturely.
Hey, before anyone judges, he is a child and he most definitely is immature!
And besides, it's tough to forgive someone.
The Sandaime, seeing that Naruto seemed to have lost most of his previous' night's hostility, smiled.
"How are you feeling Naruto-kun?"
"Better." Came an impassive voice.
"Maa maa, Naruto-kun, for much longer are you gonna keep this angry façade up?"
"What!? How can you ask me something like that especially…" Naruto began ranting.
The Sandaime spoke quickly, "Ahem, YouHaveYourOtherEyeButYou'reAnIdiot."
"…when I went through the most out of anyone- wait what!?"
Sarutobi simply chuckled before answering, "I believe you heard correctly…"
"Are you high out of your mind old man?!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen sweat dropped, "Naruto, I am very much serious and very much sobered, you have two functional eyes-"
"Two functional eyes would mean I can see out of both sides jiji…" Naruto blatantly pointed out.
"Yes I am well aware of that, but-"
"Listen jiji, I forgive you but only on the condition that you stop taking drugs, I don't really know what brought you to the point that you needed to start taking drugs but- OW!" Naruto felt two hands grab him and lift him with surprising ease. "HEY! I'M STILL SORE AND MY HEAD STILL HURTS! LET ME DOWN YOU OLD JIJI-BAKA!"
Sarutobi had grown tired of the admonishment of a child, so here he was, taking said child and walking to the bathroom. He plopped him on a chair that he had brought with him.
The blonde jinchuuriki crossed his arms and huffed as he glared at the Hokage of Konoha, "What kind of fucked up drugs are you taking to make you do all this weird shit jiji!?"
Shaking his head in exasperation, Sarutobi Hiruzen simply pointed at the mirror, "The reason you couldn't see out of your other eye is because of that!"
Naruto scoffed as he turned to look in the mirror, "What the hell are you talkin about- Oh."
Naruto blinked.
"Oh."
That was the problem?
Are you fucking kidding me?!
Naruto groaned, "I AM SUCH A COMPLETE MORONIC IDIOT!"
Sarutobi nodded in agreement, "Indeed you are."
Naruto sighed as he stared in the mirror, he couldn't believe that this misled him to believe that he didn't have a proper set of eyes.
Of course he would see pitch black if there was a shit ton of bandage wrappings around his eye.
It was so tightly wrapped around his head it was probably the cause of his damn near migraine. He began unwrapping the gauze.
As he continued unwinding the bandage wrapping from his head, he began fumbling with the bandage wrap due to increased excitement with a hint of anxiousness; it was getting too much for him, will he have the some crazy colored eyes? He continued pondering what kind of eye color it could be hopefully it was anything but black. He didn't want to look anything like Sasuke-teme. Oh! Maybe it'd be a vibrant green like Sakura- Oh! Or maybe even gold! Yeah! Gold would be cool-
Eh?
He had just unfinished wrapping the bandage and leaned forward with anticipation to scrutinize every little detail of change….
Except… there was no change. Staring back at him was the exact eye that should have been completely decimated from existence…
Right?
Thinking back, he couldn't really remember what became of his eye that night. It was sort of tough with… well, you know.
Anyways, back to reality, where nothing was different. He cocked his face to the side and blinked furiously, "Jiji! Is this my eye?! It looks the exactly the same!"
The Sandaime found himself chuckling once again, "No my boy, that eye belongs to the one and only Shisui Uchiha… Do you know of him?"
"Yeah… Itachi mentioned him tons of time, something about them being rivals and brother in arms."
"Indeed they were… Shisui along with Itachi were renowned Sharingan users; they were among the best in the Uchiha clan if not the top two. Nearly every Uchiha who had unlocked their doujutsu seemed to have some passive ability unlocked unique to them." Sarutobi looked at Naruto's right eye thoughtfully, 'Hmm… I wonder if he will possess the Sharingan?'
"Whoa whoa whoa! Wait a second! So Itachi actually killed the whole clan off?!" At the jiji's nod, Naruto yelled, "So why the hell did he give me this eye?!"
"Perhaps he saw something in you… we may never know…"
"Ne, jiji! does this mean I have a- the sharingan?" he started off excitedly, but ended up slightly frowning, "it certainly doesn't feel like it... and from the looks of it, it feels like my other one."
The Sandaime stared at the boy intently, "Hmm... I honestly don't know Naruto, your body adapted to it well enough, someone did a remarkable job of patching you up. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see."
Naruto looked at the mirror intently, 'What the hell were you thinking nii-san?'
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Due to the whole incident that involved a certain traitorous Uchiha and his clan, Sarutobi Hiruzen canceled the academy classes for a whole month.
A WHOLE FUCKING MONTH!
'What the hell am I supposed to do now?!' Naruto thought, a tad bit annoyed at the fact that he had nothing to do. He was currently walking in a Henge of a non-descript civilian.
'I guess I can go train… I wonder if the caterpillar guy is out there…'
He was near the Inuzuka compound when he heard a whimper. Naruto stopped for a brief second contemplating whether or not it was worth the trouble to actually sate his curiosity before walking on; he didn't want to really deal with anything. He found that his curiosity often led him to more trouble than any good-
Another whimper.
"Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!" he groaned as his body moved on its own will toward the pained whimpering. He continued walking around until he reached an area of alleyways. Occasionally pausing and preening his ears when he entered the maze of alleyways, he took on a satisfied expression when he heard he was getting closer by the second.
Dropping his Henge in a plume of smoke, he quickened his pace to a run when he heard a pained bark and several threatening growls. When he rounded a corner, he saw a puppy that was the size of a large adult fist. Surrounding the small dog were several larger dogs baring their teeth at the obviously injured puppy.
The puppy itself had a black fur coat with hints of orange around his body's underside and paws.
Naruto clenched his fists; if there was one thing he hated, it was bullies. Subconsciously letting out KI (Killer Intent), Naruto picked up a lead pipe lying on the floor and roared. However, the lead pipe was not needed as the dogs cowered at the unintentionally leaked KI. Naruto stared after the dogs that were bullying the pup for several seconds before returning his attention to said pup.
Naruto tentatively held a hand out to the nearly all black puppy only to see it bare it's tiny canines at him. Naruto frowned, it was obvious that the puppy wasn't used to any form of help. Naruto's frown became even more pronounced when he noticed how malnourished the pup looked.
'Wow… this puppy reminds me of…well…me.' Naruto sadly thought. Naruto brought out a piece of jerky that he had been saving for himself as a treat and offered it to the young pup while crouching; ever slowly trying to approach the small dog.
As he drew closer with the piece of meat, the dog growled and snapped at the drawing hand. Naruto stopped in his tracks and sat. The dog needed some treatment but without trust, Naruto couldn't get near him.
So he'd wait, patiently. Even if patience wasn't his strong suit.
And wait he did.
A staring contest ensued between both occupants of the alleyway. For what seemed like a century, the two continued staring until the pup finally gave up. A small smiled tugged at Naruto's lip as he saw the dog extend its neck toward the jerky that had been placed on the ground all the while staring at Naruto with suspicion.
Suddenly, the dog snapped out and took the piece of jerky, immediately retreating with its back to the wall. The injured pup scarfed the jerky down in a heartbeat. Then it promptly fell over from what seemed to be exhaustion.
Naruto sighed in relief as he scooped the young canine into his arms, now all he had to do was find a place that could take care of the pup. Naruto frowned as he realized that most likely no one would care for anything that had any relation to the blonde.
Realizing where he was near, a metaphoric light-bulb appeared above his head.
'Duh! How could I forget? We're near Kiba's place! I think… it certainly smells like him…' Naruto thought as his senses picked up on a somewhat familiar scent. Kiba wasn't exactly his friend but they got along well enough as classmates. Kiba, Shikamaru, Chouji were the few that treated him indifferently… They were the closest things he could call a friend.
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Kiba laughed boisterously as he chased his little furry companion down. Yep this was the life, getting a pup and then spending the rest of your days-
Kiba halted his game of tags and looked up sniffing the air, 'Huh… I know that smell… If I'm not mistaken, this smells like the dob-'
"KIBAAAAAAAA!" came the unmistakable voice of the whiskered boy.
'Yep, that's definitely Naruto.' Kiba smirked.
The puzzling thing was that there was another smell that accompanied the pariah. It sort of smelled like a dirty dog.
Kiba wrinkled his nose and narrowed his eyes, he also smelled a bit of blood…
His suspicions were confirmed as Naruto came running around the corner panting with a bundle of fur in his arms. Kiba, immediately jumping to conclusions, started screaming accusations at the jinchuuriki.
If it weren't for the severity of the situation, Naruto would have rolled his eyes. Instead, he ran up to the red-marked face tatted boy and gave him a good and solid kick between the legs.
Kiba's scream changed from accusing screams to a pained one.
Naruto winced, no guy should ever have to go through that.
Meh, whatever, it had to be done… Well, there were probably some other ways that Naruto could have stopped the incessant rambling of the Inuzuka heir but he didn't really have time.
So one kick to the family jewels would have to do.
Naruto then explained, "Listen here you ass! I found this pup being manhandled by some bigger dogs so I went and rescued it you jerk!"
At this, Kiba weakly nodded and groaned in pain.
"Anyways, I don't really know any hospitals or vets near here so this is probably the best choice." Naruto lied, he was fully aware of the various medical treating establishments but he knew they didn't like him for some odd reason he himself couldn't depict.
"So that's why I'm here, this pup needs to be treated and you were nearby so here we are! Now get up and treat the pup you wimp!" Naruto finished in a somewhat rushed manner; It'd do no good to be caught around hanging here… he didn't know how much of the shinobi populace hated him but he wasn't willing to find out if the Inuzuka clan shared the hatred.
Naruto helped his classmate up and thrusted the dog into the boy's arms, "so I can trust you to handle it right?"
Kiba nodded and closely examined the puppy, the puppy was bleeding but it wasn't too severe. If anything, the cause for the unconsciousness might've been a slight infection or malnourishment, possibly both. Upon further observations, Kiba's eyes widened, "Oi oi oi! This is a Tibetan Mastiff and Gray Wolf hybrid! Naruto! Where the hell did you find this pup! This is super freaking rare- Naruto?"
Kiba looked up to find the sun-kissed blonde gone. Kiba sighed, "Whatever, I'll just take it to mom… Come on Akamaru, let's get going!"
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A/N: And that clocks this story in at roughly 7.8 k! To be honest, you can expect chapters to be this long (Or short, however you see it.). My first chapter was almost 10 k because I wanted to get the story rollin. If I were to do another 3 k, it'd probably take me a couple weeks cause I'm so slow at writing and editing… lol
BY THE WAY, Pairing is leaning towards Harem. i'm gonna keep it small. At the moment, the for sure girls in the harem is Anko and Ino. everyone demanded this practically so gratz, they are in. these two happened to be some of my favorite. Cheers! Out of curiosity, how do you guys feel about Sakura being in the harem?
Anyhow! Drop a review? Could be questions, feedback, flames. I WILL TAKE ALL OF IT AND EAT IT!
Those are the only things that can speed up my update ;)