Itachi, my brother

by Preferably Bitter 52

It's amazing how much a story can change from a different perspective. The new view of the world is told by someone else this time, that someone; Itachi Uchiha. What will happen when Sasuke is put in the position to kill his clan while Itachi has to put up with Team 7?

5. Chapter 5: Ready, set, GO! Exams begin!

Recap: Team 7 signs up for the exams, but things never go as planned, Itachi beats Rock Lee and the entire Rookie 9 ninja come in on the scene. Kabuto makes his first appearance, (get used to him folks) and gives Itachi some info on upcoming ninja.

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Chapter 5: Ready, set, GO! Exams begin

That comment blew a short fuse between the genin in the back, and suddenly, everyone got angry. A group of shinobi from Oto glared at Kabuto. "Under seller!" One of them barked.

When things got full blown messy, not even the trainee-proctors could settle things down.

"Ahem!"

The room got eerily quiet as the main proctor entered in the room. "My name is Morino Ibiki and right now...your exams begin!" Ibiki announced, he got out a thick stack of papers. "We're having a written test."

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"A written test?!" Naruto started to panic. "I thought it was gonna be an all out battle, I didn't know we had a written test! Wait..." He looked over to Sakura. 'Sakura-chan's really smart!' Naruto grinned. 'Perfect! I'll sit by Sakura-chan then I'll copy and then I'll pass!'

"With assigned seats." Ibiki added.

'Damn!'

After settling down everyone, and placing them in their correct seats Ibiki began handing out the stack of papers. "To pass the written test you must answer all ten questions within the half hour time limit. No asking questions and most importantly, no cheating, If we catch you cheating five times your entire team will be disqualified. If any one of your members fail the test, your entire team will be disqualified as well." Ibiki explained.

Sakura looked over to Naruto, he looked super stressed. 'Naruto...of course, great.'

Itachi stared at his test, but what he was more intrigued by were the rules. 'Interesting rules.'

Ibiki held out a timer. "Begin."

'These questions I could all answer easily, but that wouldn't be the point, would it? ' Itachi eye's shifted to the person next to him, he seemed to be answering all the questions flawlessly. 'I see, very interesting.' Using his sharigan, he copied the movements of his pencil and got the answers down.

OoO

'THESE QUESTIONS ARE CRAZY HARD!' Naruto stared at all the questions in frustration.

OoO

Sakura on the other hand used her brains to answer the questions. 'An average genin would have trouble with these questions...heh! Good thing I have in-average intelligence!'

As the clock ticked, more and more people left after they got caught five times. Naruto studied his paper, sweat dropped down from his nose and splashed onto the paper. 'Because of me...I'll fail the entire team!'

"Hey, Naruto." A small voice whispered.

Naruto looked beside him to see a flustered Hinata was handing him her very own paper in order to cheat. He looked at it for a second then started to reach over to grab it. He stopped. "No Hinata, you could get disqualified!"

"I-I don't...care."

"...No. I can't allow you to do that." He smiled. "It's fine, I got it!"

Naruto flipped to the back of his paper. It was blank 'I'll do the tenth question, then. Hopefully it won't be hard...'

Ibiki cleared his throat and stood up, their time was up. "As you know, there are only nine questions, I'll tell you the tenth question, before you do however, I do have a warning. If you get this question wrong you'll be disqualified and can never, ever be able to participate in the Chūnin exams, again."

"Leave now if you wish, no one will shame you."

Many people who doubted themselves left, leaving only a handful of shinobi.

Sakura looked back towards Naruto, there was no way they could risk that. '...Naruto won't drop out will he, no he has that stupid look again.'

'I guess I'll have to drop out, then we'll all have that chance again.'

Itachi slightly glanced at Sakura who was beginning to stand up. '...Is this the faith she has in our team?' However, Itachi did nothing to stop her.

Naruto sprung straight up and smacked his palm on the desk. "No! I will never ever back down and go back on my word! Even if I fail because that's my ninja way!" He loudly proclaimed, inspiring others to stay as well.

Sakura sat back down and sighed. '...Why me?'

"Sit down." Ibiki ordered. "Now...you tenth question is..." The room was tense.

"Well everyone, you've all passed!"

Mostly, everyone looked at each other in confusion. "Wait what?!" Naruto asked.

"Not only have you learned shinobi information from this test, but the whole point of this was to cheat, it was to use your gathering intelligence skills. Especially on the tenth question, you had no idea what was coming, but you made a decision. That's what being a chūnin is about. For a ninja's willingness to face the unknown." Ibiki explained.

"Congratu-"

Early as usual, a woman randomly appeared in the room. "Time to start the second phase!"

"Anko," Ibiki calmly said. "you're too early, again."

Anko rubbed the back of her head and sheepishly grinned. "Yeesh...wrong timing."

"So like I said," Ibiki continued. "congratulations everyone for passing the first phase of the Chūnin exams. Your next phase will now begin."

Entrance to the Forest of death

Naruto read the sign to the gate entrance. 'Forest of death?' "Ha! Yeah right! I'm not scared of some stupid forest of death!" Naruto loudly proclaimed.

Out of nowhere, a kunai zipped past Naruto and cut him on the cheek. "Ow! What'd you do that for?!"

"For being so cheeky."

A person giving off a creepy vibe appeared right behind Anko. She rolled out her snake-like tongue and dropped Anko's kunai into her hand. "Oh why thank you!"

Itachi stared at the person. 'Interesting.'

"Ahem! This is the second phase of the Chūnin exams, where genin are to collect two scrolls, once collected you'll head down to the building in the center of the forest." Anko explained, she got out the two scrolls, one heaven, one earth.

Anko passed out scrolls to everyone. "Do not open these or else."

'We have the heaven scrolls, so we need the earth scroll don't we?' Along with the scrolls, there was a form each team had to sign. Sakura looked at the form. "Konoha not responsible for death of any shinobi..."

Itachi took a look at everyone who had earth scrolls. 'This is our competition, hm?'

The gates swung open after all the forms were filled out. "You may now enter!" Anko announced.

Without hesitation, the genin blew through the opened gates and entered the dark creepy forest. As everyone scattered, Team seven landed near a big tree. Itachi flipped out a kunai and marked the tree, he turned to everyone. "I bet they're setting up traps already, we have to be cautious from now on."

OoO

Team eight was by a large tree as well, waiting for Kiba to finish setting up the trap. He jumped down. "Ok...done!" Kiba said as a net fell onto the ground. "Everyone, hide!"

A group of unsuspecting ninjas fell for their trap. One shinobi peeled a leech off his hand. "Why is thi-" Suddenly, a barrage of leeches came flying at him, with all the weight, the branch they were standing off snapped making them all fall down into a pile of disgusting, slimy leeches. "AHHHHHHHHH!"

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"

Kiba jumped from out of the bushes. "Heh-I guess you outsiders don't know about Konoha's special leeches. When first sense life forms they attack in groups, five minutes give or take...let me put this bluntly, you'll all be dead." He explained.

OoO

Not even five minutes after entering the forest an ear-piercing scream bombed though the forest. "Was that a...human scream?" Sakura asked.

Itachi crossed his arms. "Let's go ahead, there isn't any time to-"

'...!' Naruto rubbed the back of his head and sheepishly grinned. "Uh...hey guys..."

Itachi and Sakura looked towards Naruto.

"Just wait like five seconds! I gotta take a big leak." Naruto turned around and unzipped his fly.

"NOT IN FRONT OF A LADY!" Sakura yelled as she whammed Naruto in the head. "DO THAT IN THE BUSHES!"

"Alright! Alright!" Naruto muttered, he rubbed his head and disappeared in the bushes.

Sakura and Itachi sighed and waited for Naruto while he wasted time. "Hey guys!" Naruto yelled once he finally came back, rather quickly. "Man, I pissed so much! He, he, I even got to write my entir-"

Before he even got to finish, Itachi punched Naruto in the face, sending him flying into a nearby tree. "Why did-" He covered his mouth as blood dripped from the crevices of his fingers.

"Itachi-kun! I know Naruto can be really annoying, but you can't kill him!" Sakura yelled. "He's our teammate!"

"He is not our teammate," Itachi walked over to Naruto and threw him over to Sakura, he picked him up by his spiky blonde hair showing his bloody face. "Look closer, Sakura. The cut that Anko gave him is no longer there. This guy is an enemy, he could've tried to kill us."

Itachi picked up his beaten up body and threw it.

Sakura gazed at Itachi in horror. 'I never knew he could be so...ruthless.'

"I'm not...giving up j-just yet!" Ama-ninja released the jutsu and charged after Itachi while his back was still turned.

As the Ama-ninja moved in closer, without even turning around, Itachi raised his heel and jabbed into the guy's stomach. "FUCK-" Blood shot from his mouth and splattered onto Itachi's leg. "-YOU."

Itachi grabbed a kunai knife and threw it somewhere.

"Finally." Naruto said as a kunai knife dropped near him.

The Ama-nin staggered up, he adjusted his mask. "I told you, it's-"

Itachi placed his foot on the Ama-nin's head, forcing him back on the ground. "I advise you to retreat, otherwise, I'll just kill you right here."

"Itachi-kun..." Sakura cried. "You wouldn't really kill him, right?"

Itachi stared at his hands, stained with blood. "..."

Seeing this as an opportunity, the Ama-nin retreated so he could be alive to fight another day.

A kunai stuck in the ground between Sakura and Itachi. "Oi! The hero's back!" Naruto yelled as he came flying down.

Naruto smiled. "Heh, miss me?"

Sakura pumped her fist. "No way! It was actually quiet when you were gone!"

XxxxxXxxx

-Area by a pond-

"If we get separated again and another imposter shows up, we'll need a password, If and only if they get the password wrong, then assume they're the enemy and attack them." Itachi explained.

"What's the password?" Sakura asked.

"Listen carefully, I'll only say this once, when asked 'what is the password' answer this..."

In the surrounding pond a particular woman from Ota wearing a conical hat was under the water. Meanwhile, in a close by tree, a man with an orange swirled masked appeared.

'...looks like we have company...' "This is a quote from a friend I once had; the day I die won't be when I perish from this world, it will be the day my dreams are forgotten."

Naruto nodded. 'Yeah, I can remember that...I think.'

"...And I when I do perish from this world one day, I don't ever want you to forget my dream. You are the only one who is...precious to me and the only one who can carry out that dream." Itachi cited.

"Got it!" Sakura quickly stated.

"...What?! I can't remember that!" Naruto said.

"How dumb are you? I've already memorized it."

OoO

Up in the trees again the man wearing the mask, felt the presence of another powerful chakra. 'Good, I'll let him weaken Itachi.'

A figure beside him slowly popped out of the ground beside him. "This will be interesting, right?"

OoO

'Smart...' The other person in the pond thought himself. 'I wonder where the boy got those words from?'

Itachi and Sakura started to get up.

"We don't...this isn't the password, is it?" Naruto asked.

"...So, you show yourself?" Itachi suddenly said.

"What the hell are you talki-" Another cut on the opposite side of Naruto's cheek appeared. "What the..."

A gust of air swirled through the area, creating a cyclone of dust particles. "Everyone, run."

"Itachi, what?"

"Just run."

*BAM*

Everyone scattered as the dust cleared up, three Ota ninjas finally showed themselves, one of them being the guy in the pond. Itachi peaked from behind the bushes. '...it's him...the person who gave Anko the kunai.'

The lead person, the one from the pond, flicked her tongue. "Have a little fun over there, I'll personally take care of them."

Itachi heard footsteps approach, it was only Sakura. "Itachi-kun!" Sakura whispered, finally finding him.

"What is the password?" Itachi asked, holding out a kunai knife.

"The day I die won't be when I perish from this world, it will be the day my dreams are forgotten...And I when I do perish from this world one day, I don't ever want you to forget my dream. You are the only one who is...precious to me and the only one who can carry out that dream."

Itachi kept his kunai but he nodded in approval, signifying she was safe.

"Hey you guys ok?" Naruto asked, running up to them.

"Stop. What is the password?"

"The day I die won't be when I perish from this world, it will be the day my dreams are forgotten...And I when I do perish from this world one day, I don't ever want you to forget my dream. You are the only one who is...precious to me and the only one who can carry out that dream."

Sakura breathed a sigh of a relief. "Huh, that was close."

Itachi used his kunai and stuck it through Naruto's stomach, blood spilled from his insides and showered onto the ground, dying the grass crimson. "Damn you!" Naruto yelled, jumping away.

"Itachi-kun! Naruto told us the code word, why?!"

"It's not that hard, Sakura."

Naruto creepily smiled and revealed his true form, the Oto-nin from the pond. "How did you know I was an imposter?"

"I already knew you were hiding in the pond, so I made the password something hard to remember for Naruto. He can't remember a...quote." Itachi explained.

"I see you're even smarter than your brother, we'll have an interesting fight." She hissed.

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Sasuke...

-Iwagakure-

As Deidara was making more art, several shadows covered him. "You, Deidara, join the Akatsuki." Sasuke demanded.

Deidara turned around, a clay spider in hand. "And why should I, hm?"

"Because I said so."

Kisame stepped up. "How about we make a deal, if Sasuke beats you in battle, then you'll join the Akatsuki."

"And what if I win, hm?"

Sasuke turned his Mangeyko sharigan powers on. "I'll make sure, that won't happen."

XxxxxXxxx

After the latest explosion, Naruto found himself under a fallen tree. "...ugh...oww." A loud noise startled him. "...what the...?"

Naruto managed to get himself out from under the tree, he looked around. "...! Where's Sakura-chan and that asshole, Itachi?"

A huge shadow loomed over Naruto, he turned around. "What no way! It's huge!" Surprisingly, it was a gigantic snake. The snake dug its tail into the ground, then sprouted back up to where Naruto was standing. Swiftly, it wrapped its tail around Naruto. Ina flash, the snake opened it's mouth and threw Naruto in.

"...it ate me...DAMMIT LET ME OUT!" Naruto yelled, stuck in the slimy, gross throat.

Itachi and Sakura...

"Another Naruto imposter?" She got into fighting stance. 'Then that means...where is Naruto?!'

"You want my scroll don't you?" The Oto-nin hissed, he rolled out his tongue, revealing his earth scroll. "Since you have a heaven scroll, after all."

He swallowed the scroll. "You'll just have to kill me and dig it out of my intestines."

"Now let's begin our battle. With our lives at stake." He added, with one finger, he pulled down the skin under his eye.

Much to their horror, Itachi and Sakura saw gruesome images of death and blood. 'This has to be genjutsu.' Itachi released the genjutsu and he picked up Sakura from the incoming kunai.

Itachi placed Sakura down, she was still paralyzed, he bent down and shook her. 'If we don't run right now, we're going to die if and I can't move fast enough while carrying Sakura. If I use shadow clones, I'll waste my chakra, I have to save every bit of it for this...person.'

"You can move, Itachi-kun?" The Oto-nin asked.

"I've been through hell and back. Do you honestly think something as petty as that would paralyze me?" He shot back.

'This boy...a genjutsu as powerful as that...he broke it.' The Oto-nin merely flickered his tongue. "Perhaps."

"Sakura. You have to wake up!"

"..."

Itachi got out a kunai knife. "Please forgive me, Sakura."

Naruto...

The snake was fast asleep. "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!" Naruto yelled.

'Shit...at this rate I'll be melted and turned to crap if I don't get out soon...' Naruto thought back to the time at Tazuna's where he and Itachi had an eating contest. 'That's it! I'll make him barf!' "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!" Naruto yelled.

With so many shadow clones inside the snake, it exploded, splattering blood and guts all over the forest. As Naruto staggered out of the best, h wiped some snake blood off his face. "Since I'm gonna be Hokage I can't be turned to some snake shit!"

"Now it's time to find Sakura-chan and that weasel, Itachi!"

Itachi and Sakura...

Sakura awoke, somehow she was out of the genjutsu. She looked down and saw a kunai knife through her leg.

"AAHHH-" Itachi clamped his hand over her mouth. "Sakura, you have to run...run as fast as you can and never look back."

Sakura worriedly looked at Itachi, she had never seen his face so flushed out of emotion.

Itachi sighed, he let go of Sakura, pulled the kunai knife out of her leg and threw it at the white snake. It kept on going as if it was nothing. Since that didn't kill it, Itachi weaved several hand signs and blew a gigantic blast of fire at the snake then ran over and kicked the snake off the branch making it fall all the way down onto the cold ground.

Much to their surprise, the same Oto-nin burst out of the snake, and began slithering up the tree.

'Is she immortal or something?' Acting quickly, Itachi created several clones and all of them jumped away.

Itachi ran down the bark of the tree the Oto-nin was slithering up, he began weaving several signs to a new jutsu. "Water Release: Black rain Technique!" He yelled.

Black Mist spewed out of Itachi's mouth and formed into a black cloud. The cloud hovered over the Oto-nin and it rained over him, covering him a thick black oil. "You think oil will stop me?!" He yelled, rushing towards Itachi even faster.

Itachi stopped running and jumped back. "Now!"

A barrage of fire came straight towards the Oto-nin, easily lighting him on fire. "Fire release: Exploding flame shot!" He sent the flame shot towards him and jumped back even farther.

*BAM*

A large area of the forest exploded, sending trees flying all over the place.

OoO

As Naruto was running, he saw trees falling down from the sky. 'What the hell?!' Natuto jumped onto the falling trees and escalated into the sky. "Ah! Itachi, Sakura, there you guys are!"

He leaped off the tree and landed next to Itachi. "Sorry, weasel but I don't know the password!"

"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Release!" 'So after all of that, he still lives?'

Itachi picked Naruto up and dodged as the Oto-nin flung himself towards them, his skin peeled off from all the damage Itachi gave it, revealing his true form.

Itachi recognized him immediately. 'This guy, he's the legendary sanin; Orochimaru. What is he doing here?'

"Good for you Naruto-kun you defeated the snake." Orochimaru congratulated.

'Man, this guy is really fucking creepy, and did he just call me -kun? What a major pedo.'

Itachi sighed. "...Will you leave us if we give you the scroll?" He took out the scroll much to Naruto's surprise. "Because you can have it."

"Very smart, boy."

Itachi flung the scroll towards him.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU ITACHI?!" Naruto yelled, he jumped off the tree limb and caught it in mid-air.

'I have no respect for you anymore.' Naruto's expression darkened, he jumped back to the tree limb and punched Itachi in the face. "

"Why the hell would you try to give up our scroll?"

Itachi took out another scroll while the scroll in Naruto's hand turned back into a kunai knife. "It was our chance of escape."

"...Escape?! Either way it would've never worked! 'Cause I never back down from a fight!"

"I guess you're right, after all I forgot to factor how much of a fool you are, it was my mistake."

"Don't forget who your opponent is while you two are bickering." Orochimaru lifted his sleeve showing summoning mark tattooed on his pale arm. He bit his finger and wiped the blood on his forearm.

"Oh yeah! Can't forget about you!" Naruto yelled as he jumped towards Orochimaru.

Before Naruto could get to Orochimaru, it was already too late. "Summoning jutsu!" A giant purple snake appeared from under his feet.

The snake lunged at Naruto, he smacked his tail on his stomach and sent him flying into a tree. Too dazed to support himself, Naruto started falling down.

"Naruto!" Sakura screamed

Itachi glanced at Naruto. 'I don't think I have to help him, he's about to go into Kyuubi mode.'

"Go ahead. You can eat him." Orochimaru approved and the snake went for Naruto.

Just in time, Naruto's eyes slit as an orange fox cloak surrounded him, it was on. He used his claws and dug them into the tree. Once the snake neared him, he took off. "GO TO HELL!"

Orochimaru was shocked, this kid was special indeed. "That's...it couldn't be..." 'How interesting, I might not kill you after all.'

Just as Orochimaru was about to release his hold, Itachi appeared in front of Orochimaru and kicked him in the gut. He quickly grabbed Naruto and set him by the tree trunk.

"Just run away, I'll try to-"

Naruto's head was still down. "No! I won't let you do this by yourself all the time!"

Orochimaru jumped down onto his snake. "Itachi-kun, it's your turn to have fun with my snake!"

Hungry, the snake sped towards them.

Naruto raised his head. "WE ARE A TEAM AND WE FIGHT TOGETHER!"

"Itachi-kun!" Sakura yelled as the snake sped towards him.

The snake was almost on them, Naruto pushed Itachi out of his way and jumped in front of it. He dug his heels in the ground and managed to barely stop the snake.

"If you can't fight, then you'll just have to get out of the way."

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A/N: Day five of my re-edits, as always, if you are reading this on June 15th, 2015, wait a day or two or three before the next chapter. Thanks for everything.

Old news: Long update yeah I'm sorry. Next update won't be. And I'm guessing you're starting to see some changes are you? I would think so.

Extra info! I also completely changed the fact that Itachi isn't as scared and paranoid as Sasuke. Why? Well because I thought that was out of character. Originally I planned for Itachi to just run with the scroll, but then I said, that's stupid and rash. Something Naruto would do.