HEY HEY READERS, I've noticed that you lucky things have had three chapters in a week,a nd I've only just started! Well, I can say that you may have to wait a bit as the weeks progress, I won't always be so quick to update, with Exams and Homework I'm hardly going to have any time to myself to knuckle down and write new chappies for you ): It's sad I know but, unfortunately it is the truth.
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Sasuke walked into the Uchiha mansion and hunted around for his brother's box. It was a plain black box with the Uchiha clan symbol on the top. He was determined to find it for in this box was the all the Uchiha clan's historical documents. The raven had seen his brother looking through the box a few years ago, when Itachi was questioned about it he had lied.
Sasuke knew that there was something in that box that Itachi didn't want him knowing or remembering. This, however, just wouldn't do. The raven was set on finding out about the Uzumaki's and their clan traits.
He didn't know why it bothered him so much, though. He had never before been this intent on discovering anyone else's past, but something about the blond dobe had intrigued the Uchiha ever since he'd first met the kid. Although nothing had seemed odd about him back then other than he was a little delirious from his bullet wound.
Sasuke had seen the dobe run out in front of Itachi's car and watched as the three men had chased him from the alleyway. It seemed like the blond was injured before Itachi clipped him with the bumper.
If the raven was honest it was both his fault that Itachi was speeding and managed to hit the dobe in the first place.
Earlier that evening, Itachi had been talking with Kyuubi on the phone and was too engrossed with their conversation to listen to his brother. The younger raven had gotten angry with his brother's lack of acknowledgement as he'd asked for help with homework, and so he had left in a huff. He'd walked down the streets for hours before he'd realized he had ended up in the red light district. Admittedly he didn't remember much after he walked into a bar and was given a drink without ordering, but he did remember his brother storming in furious and frantic yelling about something and dragging the younger boy to his car.
Once he was out of the bar his rational thinking had slowly returned and by that time Itachi had round the corner and Bang! He met a blond dobe named Uzumaki Naruto.
But if the raven hadn't stormed out that night, the dobe might have been dead right now, Kyuubi would have been devestated and Itachi would have been even worse that he is now over the red head.
It just so happened that at dinner that night, Itachi had invited Kyuubi over.
I'm going to ask anyway, Sasuke thought. Maybe Kyuubi would tell me something.
While the dinner was probably delicious, as was all food Kyuubi made, Sasuke barely touched the meal.
"What's up, Sasuke?" Itachi asked.
The smaller boy cleared his throat. "What are the Uzumaki's?" He asked as he put his fork down.
Kyuubi froze, his body rigid as Sasuke looked to his brother, who was also lost for words. "Um, what do you mean?"
"Today, at lunch, Dobe had his hands on his head when everything went loud, adn when he released them his hair moved."
Kyuubi waved his hand. "It was probably just the air," He said, smiling.
"There was no wind, windows were shut."
"So what if his hair moved? Everyone's does it, see?" Itachi said ruffling Sasuke's hair for emphasis.
He pushed his brothers hand away and glared at him. "You know what I mean, Itachi. Besides, afterwards he froze, he knew something was up and I want to know what."
"Aww, you lik him don't you?" Itachi said. "It's unlike you to ask about others."
"I don't like the Dobe!" Sasuke snapped, probably a second to quickly. "I'm only asking because it could benefit me."
Itachi looked to his boyfriend who was just looking at the food in front of him with an angry expression. He mumbled something to himself that Itachi didn't like before he got up and pulled his cell out of his pocket and started to dial a number. "Just tell him, I have to talk with Naruto anyway," the red head growled as the receiver on the other end was picked up.
"Tell me what?" Sasuke asked. Itachi stood and walked away waving his hand for the younger raven to follow him. In one of the spare empty rooms Itachi walked to the far right side of the room and lifted the seventh tatami mat there. Under this mat was a secret place Sasuke had never seen.
"This was a secret meeting place for the Uchiha Elders at one point, before the massacre," Itachi explained. "All and any special documents of our clan are kept in here."
The room wasn't large, but wasn't particularly small either. There was enough room to sit seven or eight people comfortably and still have the room to move about. Framed on the wall above a small stone desk was a scroll with two Uchiha fan's hung next to it on either side. There were two small fire pits unlit on either side of the room and on the opposite wall was a bookcase from wall to wall. There on the second shelf was the black box Sasuke had searched for.
"Why is this all hidden?" The younger Uchiha asked.
"We had to keep all evidence of our doings safe from prying eyes and -"
"What do you mean by 'doings'?"
Itachi sighed. "We, the Uchiha's, were once an extremely successful clan of assassins, bounty hunters and hunters. We were so successful because nobody knew of what we did. We hunted, killed and poached unique animals. Legendary beasts included.
"Our power was known an feared through many lands and someone let it slip that we could control the legendary tailed beasts. So, to protect themselves each of the nine beasts chose a clan to serve it, these clans were to be trained to perfection; to be made into absolute killing machines, no remorse, no mercy, no emotions."
Itachi took a breath and fetched the black box from the bookshelf full of documentations from many years prior.
"However, the deal that the beasts offered each clan was unfair and so one of the clans, the Uzumaki's who specialized in sealing, sealed the fox demon inside of a newborn child. From then on each child born unto the Uzumaki's were to have the ears of a fox. After the other eight clans heard of this they sent messengers to the sealing clan proposing some sort of a deal, all of which, the Uzumaki's accepted on one condition; No war between the nine clans. Like the Uzumaki's each clan with a tailed beast would have abnormalities with their future kin. Since then the sealed nine tails has been passed through the generations, sealed inside of the next suitable Jinchuuriki."
Sasuke nodded, unable to speak. The story was so unrealistic it was almost impossible, but Sasuke could hear the truth in his brothers voice.
"After the Uchiha's discovered this news they began to capture people from the nine clans and slaughter them for their distinguishing traits." Itachi passed his brother a peice of paper he had pulled from the full black box.
The paper looked like some kind of table there were nine clan names at the top most of which Sasuke didn't recognize. He saw only one that he was interested in.
Uzumaki - 494 Total. Clan deceased.
"Our ancestors, up to our grandparents, had hunted and killed almost all of the Uzumaki's. They were believed to be gone. But the first Hokage's wife had survived and had managed to save a few of the younger generation from the slaughter also. Among these young was the last Jinchuuriki to date; Kushina Uzumaki. Kyuubi and Naruto's mother."
Sasuke was still speechless but cleared his throat and gained some composure before asking, "So, like us, their clan was slaughtered?"
"Yes, but, unlike us, their clan was slaughtered by a clan they had a treaty with."
"The Uchiha's and the Uzumaki's had a treaty?"
Itachi nodded. "It began about three generations after the sealing of the tailed beasts, the Uzumaki's had formed an alliance and all had vowed to protect the other, but one of our ancestors disagreed and so the treaty was partially ignored."
"Partially?"
"No body knew who it was behind the deaths, the Uchiha's wore masks to help with that. To be frank, the treaty still stands until this day but it is a very risky job, there are only two of us and two of them left, however, while we don't hunt them anymore, they are still hunted. Both the Uzumaki's and the rest of the Jinchuuriki are still in danger."
"Like what happened four years ago?" Sasuke asked. Itachi nodded and stareed at his brother waiting for his reation. "Who is the Jinchuuriki now?"
The taller raven shrugs. "We don't know, the Uzumaki's don't even know. It could be either one of the two left but all I know is that I'm going to protect them as best I can, as far as I'm concerned Kyuubi is my priority and therefore so is Naruto."
Sasuke nods and follows Itachi out of the hidden room where Kyuubi is yelling into his cell. "Damnit, Naruto, yes, it's all the truth now get your ass here NOW!" The red head hung up and pocketed his phone. "I swear he's got to much energy for his own good."
After ten minutes of waiting around the doorbell sounded bt Itachi made no move to open it and invite them in. Instead Sasuke got up and walked to the front door.
He sighed and turned the handle.
It wasn't Naruto.
Well, well, well what'd you think of my little cliffy there? Huh? Huh? I have to say I really enjoyed writing this chapter.
Sorry if anyone is OOC.
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It's like Midnight here so I'm going to sleep now, Night.
Ja Ne ~ Jayce