Ch. 1: Training Gone BOOM

"Nii-san!"

Hearing his little brother calling him, twelve-year old Uchiha Itachi looks up as young six-year old Uchiha Sasuke waves his arms with several kunai knives in each hand. "Hey, watch me! Watch me!"

Seeing how adorable Sasuke is with his excited, innocent black eyes and his overjoyed smile revealing his beautiful white teeth, Itachi couldn't help but allow his own smile to appear on his face. He tells his brother, "I'm watching."

Now with a cocky grin on his face, Sasuke jumps up high in the air and flips into an upside down position, eyes closed. He has four kunai knives in his right hand and three in his left. First he throws three, two from his right hand and one from his left in one direction. Then he throws two from the right in the opposite direction. When he counted the timing, he tosses the second kunai knife from his left hand to the right and throws both of them at the same time at two of the flying kunai knives. One knife hit the other but the other missed (if I got the description wrong then I'm sorry! We all know that this is the technique from episode 128, the one that Itachi was showing Sasuke before Sasuke got his ankle twisted. I was watching the technique about a dozen times to get it right but I don't think I did. I'm sorry!). As Sasuke falls back down to the ground, he looks up to see that he missed but lands on his feet, watching as the missed kunai knife stabs the ground and the other flies through the air going somewhere. The other six knives hit their target straight on but Sasuke's attention is on the one that flew away. Itachi looks at the hit targets and smiles, proud to see how his little brother almost mastered the technique he showed him.

Sasuke stands up and tells his brother, "Nii-san, I'm gonna go get the kunai knife."

"Alright, but be careful," his brother warns.

Sasuke smiles with the blush on his face before saying, "Yes, nii-san!" Then he goes off to find the knife.

Itachi watches him go before chuckling while raising his hand to his forehead and allowing a true smile from the heart to appear. "How cute."

Sasuke runs through the forest he's lived in his whole life, jumping from one branch of the tree to the other. He wonders out loud, "Where is that kunai knife? Suigetsu nii-san will be mad with me if I lost another one of his kunai knives." After he said that, he sees the shiny knife sparking in the sunlight. His face perks up from the sight of it. "Gotcha!"

But right when he lands on the last branch before landing on the ground, there is a sutra underneath the branch that is designed to go off from the weight of something heavy on the branch. Sasuke lands on it and it explodes.

Boom

Hearing the blast, Itachi looks where he heard it and he sees some smoke rising up to the skies from where his little brother should be. "Sasuke!" he whispers, before going off into a run.

Sasuke comes out of the cloud of smoke by leaping backwards, his arms covering his face and upper torso to protect himself. He just missed the full extent of that bomb. Right when he could see again, he sees a shadow appear above him. Before he knew it, he's hit with something that feels like metal pipes. A cage falls on him and forces him to the ground. While the cage stabs the ground and locks with the bottom half of it, it traps Sasuke inside and he hits his head on the hard metal beneath him. He lets out a moan before blacking out. He lays there, unconscious and the alarm on top of the cage goes off, sending signals and flashing red lights.

Far off from this area, the one holding the tracker of the trap looks at the screen when it beeped and sees an area blinking. A man who could be in his early twenties with mid length white hair that's tied back into a low pony tail and round glasses calls, "Dr. Orochimaru!"

Orochimaru, a sickly pale white man with long black hair and golden, snake like eyes, looks at his white hair apprentice, Kabuto and he reports, "We have a signal. It might be one of the shinobis!" Then he goes off running into the direction the tracker directs him with Orochimaru following.

However arriving before them, Itachi looks at the cage and gasps when he sees his little brother trapped inside and unconscious. Right when he was going to move, he senses movement coming and coming fast. He raises both hands and forms a hand signal before closing his eyes and concentrating.

'Sharingan!'

He opens his eyes and instead of the onyx eyes he had before, they're red with black tomoe signs surrounding the pupil.

Finally arriving, Kabuto and Orochimaru look at the cage only to see that it's empty. Seeing the results, they walk closer and Orochimaru observes the cage as Kabuto looks at his surrounds.

"I don't see a dead body anywhere so he must have escaped the cage," Kabuto reports.

"No," Orochimaru corrects. "The cage doesn't appear to be tampered with. The shinobi must have dodged it."

"But how is that possible? Your calculations are never wrong!"

Orochimaru smirks from the young man's strong belief in him. "I'm not right all the time. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here now, would we?"

Before his co-worker could say anything else, a shuriken shoots out of the forest and hits the ground right next to Orochimaru's feet. They both flinch from the sudden appearance and they look behind Orochimaru to see a black shadow running away.

"There it goes!"

Both Kabuto and Orochimaru chase after the black shadow, running farther and farther away from the cage. When they became far enough, Itachi came out from the cover of the trees from the opposite side of direction of where Orochimaru and Kabuto ran to. He still has the Sharingan eyes activated and he runs to the cage, his feet hardly making a sound. He stands in front the cage and his eyes return back to onyx. In doing so, the image of the cage changes. Before, there was nothing inside the cage and now Sasuke is still inside the cage but now he's awake and he's shivering in the corner.

"N-Nii-san," he shutters in fear.

"Shh, shh, shh," Itachi tells him. "Relax. I'm going to get you out of here." He examines the cage and Sasuke looks like he's panicking.

"Hurry! They might come back!"

His older brother doesn't say anything. He continues to examine this horrid cage that's trapping his little brother inside. Usually, Itachi is a patient man but the longer he can't figure out how to open the cage that's keeping his brother inside, the more impatient he becomes. Finally he had enough.

"Sasuke, get back."

A bit confused at first, Sasuke backs away to the far corner of the cage, away from his brother and Itachi stands up and takes a couple of back steps himself. He activates his Sharingan again and then concentrates a little more of his chakra to his eyes. From what Sasuke could see, he sees Itachi's right eye starting to leak tears of blood. He knows what that means as Itachi opens his eyes, revealing their new pinwheel shape design, and black flames appear at the top of the cage.

'Amaterasu!'

Sasuke watches the black flames burning the metal pipes with slight fear, hoping that he doesn't get touched with any of these black flames because once he's burned, that it's. He'll turn to ash and there is no way to extinguish those flames. Except by the one who conquers them.

He whimpers in fear and Itachi closes his bleeding eye. Allowing the flames to create a big hole in the cage, Itachi waits until it was the right size before opening the eye again. Slowly but surely, the flames get smaller and smaller until they have completely disappeared. His eyes relax back into his normal Sharingan and then he reaches for Sasuke. He grabs his older brother's hand and allows him to pull himself out of it. Now safely out, Itachi pulls him away and begins to run but Sasuke stands his ground.

"Wait!" he yells. Itachi looks at him confused. Wasn't he the one who said to hurry? "We have to get Suigetsu nii-san's kunai knife!" He points to the knife still sparkling in the sunlight and Itachi lets out an annoyed sigh. Oh for the love of…

He pulls Sasuke to a tree for him to hide incase those two scientists come back and tells him, "Stay here." Then he runs to the knife, his little brother praying that there aren't any more traps.

His prayers weren't answered.

As Itachi gets closer and closer to the knife, he trips a wire. He noticed. Before that explosion goes off, Itachi uses incredible speed to jump away, landing on another explosive branch. He jumps away just as fast from that too and Sasuke gasps with every explosion that goes off near his brother. Finally, Itachi lands right next to the knife and grabs it as a fishnet starts falling on him.

"Nii-san, look out!"

Itachi looks up and his first thought became as he observes the falling trap, 'Fireproof, iron ropes.'

Since he already has a kunai knife in his hand, he throws it at the fishnet and it hits the alarm on the rope, causing it to get pinned to the tree. He goes to it and takes the knife and backs away from the booby trapped area. Who knows if any of those traps are activated and he's not going to wait to find out. He grabs his little brother's wrist and runs off using his super speed. Sasuke had a hard time keeping his feet on the ground but right now, he can't ask his brother to slow down, especially when he can see that his brother is already really agitated.

Hey guys! Yes I know, this chapter is short compared to what I usually write but remember. This is my first fanfic coming back to life and really, I cut this chapter in half with the second chapter because it would have been too long for a first chapter. Also compared to the prologue, this is still longer than that.

Anyway, I hope you're enjoying this! I still need help on what to do with these two. Just make it a brotherly love thing or yaoi. I love my Uchihacest but I love their brotherly bond too.

Thank you all for readying this and second chapter will be up soon! Wait for it! I DO NOT OWN the Naruto characters or their story or the movie this story is inspired by. Thank you everyone!