(Timeskip: 2 years later; Unknown place)
Two figures with masks could be seen bowing to a man, sitting on a stone throne. The person on the throne was Shimura Danzo. He had summoned his ROOT Anbu that were under his control, not the Hokages. He had been leading ROOT for years, and the Hokage disbanded it a long time ago, but Danzo just doesn't care.
"At your orders, Danzo-sama," said one of the Anbu that was wearing an Ox mask.
Danzo smiled inwardly. He had trained them well, they were emotionless, only the mission mattered to them and they didn't care if they or their "friends" died on a mission. They were real shinobi, at least that was how Danzo saw a shinobi. A ruthless killing machine that was ready to sacrifice himself at every moment.
"I want you to keep a close look on the Kyuubi. Report to me everything that he does and continue to keep a watch on him, do you understand?" said Danzo without emotion.
"Yes, sir." said the other Anbu that wore a Mouse mask.
During his last 2 years of training, Naruto learned a lot of new Ninjutsu techniques but wasn't able to mature the Sharingan to the "final" level. He was able to master the second stage of the Sharingan, in his free time he would test out theories he made in his mind. While most of the theories were unsuccessful, he realized that he could use the Sharingan like a microscope.
About his Taijutsu, he mastered the Uchiha Interceptor Fist and was now learning new Taijutsu stances. And Genjutsu, without the Sharingan, he could cast to C-rank Genjutsu's and with it, up to A-rank. Over the 2 years of training, he picked quite the knowledge about Fuinjutsu. Naruto now could make explosion tags, and privacy seals, he can make seals to store chakra in them, etc.
Naruto was chilling on the training ground, he had just finished his laps for today and was about to continue his push-ups before an Anbu-masked figure suddenly came into view. Naruto looked at him suspiciously, before asking:
"Why are you here? State your presence." pushed Naruto.
"To kill you." said the Anbu emotionlessly.
The Anbu rushed Naruto at speeds Naruto couldn't follow. Naruto was beaten ruthlessly until Naruto decided he had enough of this. This Anbu was forcing him to use the Sharingan, and if he didn't, he knew he would die.
'Sharingan...' thought the Anbu and Naruto simuteniosly.
'It looks like I'll need to take this up a notch' thought the Anbu. The Anbu rushed at Naruto again and engaged him in a Taijutsu battle.
Both of them were fighting very well, but the Anbu seemed to have the upper hand. Naruto switched to The Uchiha Interceptor Fist and was still losing.
The Anbu jumped and threw 6 kunais that were not even in Naruto's direction. A normal person would've scoffed, but certainly not Naruto.
Over these couple of years, Shisui had taught him to never underestimate an opponent, even if he is weaker than him. With his Sharingan, Naruto saw what the Anbu was trying to do - the kunais were going to collide mid-air and start a route toward Naruto.
He moved out of the way, only to see another couple of kunai flying toward his back. Naruto grabbed a kunai of his own and threw it, ricocheting off one of his opponent's kunai and hitting the other one, saving himself.
'He's better than I thought...' thought the Anbu.
'He's keeping me on edge. I hope this works...' added Naruto in his head as he landed on a tree. He then reached for his legs and took out his leg weights. As he dropped them to the ground the Anbu thought:
'These weights won't change anything...'
The weights dropped and small 3-meter craters occurred. The Anbu's eyes slightly widened. Just what kind of training did the kid go through?
Naruto rushed at the Anbu. If Naruto was rushing at low-chuunin speeds, he was now at high-chuunin tо low-jounin. Naruto was throwing fists and kicks, but the Anbu just swiftly dodged them.
"Weak..." said the Anbu. And as soon as he said that, Naruto smirked.
Behind the Anbu, the earth busted open, showing another Naruto.
'Shadow Clone!' had the Anbu in his mind surprised.
The clone kicked the Anbu on the back sending him flying toward Naruto who was already prepared and sent an elbow toward the Anbu's face. He knew he couldn't dodge it and "imbraced" for impact.
The blow he received was hard. His mask cracked, and Naruto still had his own cocky smirk on his face.
'I'll need to be more careful...' thought the Anbu again.
"Katon: Hosenka no jutsu (Phoenix Immortal Fire Technique)!" said Naruto as he fired 10 small fireballs from his mouth.
After the Anbu waved a few hand signs, he exhaled a huge fireball. The fireball ended all the other ones from Naruto's jutsu and continued toward
Naruto. He almost didn't dodge it, it was a close call. The fireball burned his clothes a little.
'Maybe genjutsu will work on this guy.' thought Naruto.
Naruto looked him dead in the eyes what he saw surprised him to the core. He saw another pair of Sharingan looking at him. Suddenly the world around Naruto changed into what looked like hell. Naruto couldn't move, there was a large boulder on top of him.
(Outside the genjutsu)
"Katon Gokagyuu no jutsu. (Fireball jutsu)"
A large fireball went flying at Naruto, who wasn't moving. The case with this genjutsu was different. Naruto knew what was going on outside of it, but he couldn't move because his body was under a boulder in another world(mentally).
Memories from 2 years ago hit him, as he felt the same feelings of being hopeless... the same type of twisted anger coursing through his mind, the same type of regret.
But suddenly, Naruto was able to move freely. He felt so fast and strong too, almost like a power buff. He walked out of the fireball's way and looked at the Anbu's eyes. The Anbu was quite shocked, to say the least. Naruto had 3 tomoe Sharingan with slits across his pupil. He rushed at the Anbu with speeds he was never been able to use before.
At this point, the Anbu was struggling to keep up with Naruto. Now, Naruto had the upper hand in the fight, and things weren't looking good for the Anbu.
Until another voice could be heard. A voice too familiar with Naruto.
"Oi! Itachi! I share with you personal things, and I get this in return!" screamed Shisui.
The fight stopped immediately. Naruto looked confused and the Anbu just sighed.
"Shiusi, you know such matters are important to the clan and the village, right?" asked the Anbu in a relaxed tone
"I did promise to him that I'll keep it a secret," replied Shisui.
"You of all people should know the importance of such "secrets"." said The Anbu, removing his mask, revealing a raven-haired boy just like Naruto's, that was no more than 4 years older than him.
'Uchiha Itachi!' thought Naruto knowingly. If the books didn't give him enough information about the current clan head heirs, Shisui surely did.
'Shit... To hell keeping the Sharingan a secret, what a joke. It ends right here...' Naruto knew that Itachi was the heir of the Uchiha clan, the fucking Uchiha clan.
"And you came and started to beat the shit out of him? Just because he's our family?" asked Shisui.
By now Naruto's Nine-Tailed Chakra disappeared leaving a fully matured Sharingan. Shisui picked it qickly and decided to praise him and continue to scowl at Itachi.
"Congratulations Naruto! And Itachi, look just how much you forced the kid," said Shisui in a disapproving tone, Naruto totally ignoring his words since he was too busy eying Itachi.
"But I guess at least something good came out of this," he added.
"Uchiha Itachi," said Naruto, speaking for the first time since Shisui arrived.
Itachi tuned to the kid. He was surprised, to say the least, he was no ordinary kid, he knew that much. Naruto was able to identify him. Also, he was not only brute strength like he thought he was, but he had the brains too. He used clever tactics like the one with the Shadow Clone and saw in which area he was inferior in and tried to avoid it.
"Uzumaki Naruto," replied Itachi.
Naruto sighed. He already knew Shiusi told him about his Sharingan, there wasn't really another reason the Uchiha clan heir would attack him.
"Shisui, what happens now?" asked Naruto.
"Don't worry about your little secret, Naruto. I'm sure I and Itachi can sort it out, right Itachi?" replied Shisui.
Itachi sighed, "I guess we can think something up, I trust you. And it seems that you trust him, so I'll try to do that too."
"Sorry Naruto-kun, it seems that I pushed you more than I intended." apologized Itachi.
"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked. He inwardly accepted Itachi's apology, and if Shisui trusted him he would trust him too.
"Hmm? you haven't realized?" asked Shisui now coming closer to the duo.
"What?" asked Naruto suspiciously.
"Your Sharingan, it evolved," replied Itachi, instead of Shisui.
Naruto took a kunai and watched a reflection of his eyes, he was surprised to see a matured Sharingan.
'Wow...' thought Naruto kindly surprised.
"That's good, now I can take your training to the next level..." Shisui said.
Naruto hummed, "Okay, now I have places to attend to. I hope you two don't start another fight." Shisui left with these words.
"Want to grab something to eat" suggested Naruto.
"I'd love that"
Naruto smiled as he walked with Itachi to his favorite restaurant.
Naruto and Itachi were peacefully eating ramen at the Ichiraku's. Naruto finished his bowl and turned to Itachi.
"Itachi-san, I suggest you go home, I wouldn't like you to be caught in a... mess," said Naruto
Itachi wasn't sure how to take what Naruto just told him. What would the word mess mean in this context? Itachi wasn't sure, so he decided to ask him.
"Itachi is just fine, Naruto-kun. And I don't quite follow...?" Itachi replied.
"It doesn't matter anyway. It's too late now." Naruto sighed.
The Third Hokage was behind Naruto with six other Anbus'. Itachi was shocked.
'What..? Why is the Third here? How did Naruto know that he'll come? What did he do?' were the thoughts running through Itachi's mind.
"Naruto are you okay? What happened?" asked Hiruzen unknowingly.
"I don't know Jiji. At one point I was sitting at the training ground and after that I was with Itachi and Shisui, trying to help me," said Naruto "honestly". After saying that Naruto shot a glance to Itachi that said 'Play with me for now'.
Itachi seemed to catch it and worked with Naruto.
Hiruzen was surprised to see Itachi next to Naruto. When did those two meet, it must've been Shisui since they were great friends with Itachi.
"Is that true, Itachi?" asked the Hokage.
"Yes, sir. Shisui and I were going to meet Naruto and when Shisui started introducing me he started attacking us. We somehow calmed him and we came to eat since Naruto was hungry."
'Wow, he is a good liar.' thought Naruto amused.
"I want the both of you in my office." commanded The Third. He and most of the stronger Shinobi felt that chakra. Playing with the Kyuubi was no joke.
"Is it okay if Itachi finishes his ramen first? I mean I did drag him into this," asked Naruto with pleading eyes. He of course used Itachi's ramen for diversion, so they can set up, what they will tell the Hokage.
"It's okay I reckon, and know this - you are not in any kind of trouble, the both of you. I will wait for you in my office." said the Third as he vanished with his Anbu.
"Why did you lie to the Hokage?" asked Itachi.
"There are things he shouldn't know," replied Naruto.
"Like you Shar-" Naruto stopped Itachi in his tracks.
"Like that, yeah."
"Okay."
"And there is another thing you should know. I don't want you to hear it from someone else," said Naruto and Itachi nodded.
"I'm the Nine-Tailed Fox jinchuriki."
Itachi's eyes widened. He knew what a jinchuriki was because his father made him read books about history. In the books, there was information about jinchuriki - human sacrifice. The people who hold great Tailed Beasts inside them. they were usually used as a weapon.
"Do you hate me?" asked Naruto.
Itachi thought and thought. He knew Naruto did nothing wrong so why would he hate him? He was just a human sacrifice.
"No I don't hate you Naruto-kun." answered Itachi with a smile.
"Really?" asked Naruto trying to see if Itachi was lying but he couldn't detect any lies.
"Yeah."
"That's good. Now, do you trust me?" asked Naruto.
"I do," replied Itachi.
Next chapter will be on monday. I will try to keep up with my promise to upload 4 times a week. A chapter on monday, wednesday, friday and sunday.
bye!
