(Intro)

Thunder rumbled loudly, shaking the earth as lightning strikes lit up the pitch black night sky. The rain recently petered to a cease, only one or two minutes ago, as it was just a full on downpour from the stuffed grey clouds.

Leaves fell in multiple directions from the numerous trees in the forested area. It was a small camp, 3 tents settled into a clearing, all surrounding a bundle of logs that seemed to previously be a campfire.

"You hear that Shouzou? The rain's stopped, let's see if we can catch us some fucking food now." A deep guttural voice spoke from inside one of the tents.

Another voice, sounding older and tired, responded "You go ahead Miro-kun, I'm tired from all that running in the rain. Besides I need to take a nap anyways I got the next watch shift."

Miro snorted, "Heh you just don't wanna lose at shogi anymore, but suit yourself. I don't know why you insist on doing your shift anyways when you know Ryoku has it covered with that sensor shit." and exited the tent revealing a tall and abnormally muscled man with a bald head and a large sword on his back.

He started to the nearby stream to catch some fish but suddenly had the urge to pee, and promptly whipped out behind a tree. Not even ten seconds later Miro stopped pissing as his body fell to the ground, a deep cut across his jugular gushing blood.

The last thing Miro saw was blood red eyes, staring into his soul, before everything faded into black.

XXX

'Fuck! I can't even sleep I'm so damn hungry! Let me see what Miro plans on cooking.' Shouza thought, exiting the tent revealing a tall lanky man with bandages covering his entire face except his eyes. He also had a sword on his back but unlike Miros his sword was double edged and much smaller.

Walking to the stream that had a plentiful supply of fish, Shouza was suddenly hit with a strong sensation to his bladder.

'We made a beeline from Kumo to just outside the land of fire, running non-stop, it's no wonder I gotta piss.' he thought. Walking over to a nearby tree and beginning to relieve himself.

After only about five seconds he abruptly ducked a slash aimed for his neck and somehow pulled his pants up and sword out to face his attacker, but found nobody there.

Looking around angrily he spoke loudly "Show yourself pussy, only cowards use cheap tricks like hit and run tactics!" Lying, as he used hit and run tactics himself, but hoping to rile his assailant up enough to show himself.

It worked but Shouza found himself in shock as he looked at the small kid that couldn't be any older than ten walk from behind a tree.

He wore a black shirt with a high collar, black bandages over his arms and hands, black shinobi pants with black bandages taping the bottoms and black shinobi sandals with his feet being wrapped too. He had spiky black hair, with two bangs reaching down just above his eyes, which were closed. Just like the leaf headband around his neck there was no emotion whatsoever on his pale face.

"You dodged my strike, meaning you must have some competence. However, as unfortunate as I find it, I don't have the luxury of time to dance with you at this moment." the child said in a condescending voice.

Before Shouza could even move to behead the cocky brat though, he opened his eyes, and Shouza found himself enraptured by the three black tomoes swirling in the sea of blood red.

Not even one full second later Shouza also found himself clutching futilely at the slash across his throat, a sea of blood red pooling beneath him, before everything faded into black.

XXX

"Oh Shouza-kuuuun" a short medium sized man with no visible weapons sang as he made his way to his taichous tent.

"Time for your shift, I'm sleepy for once." he said and stifled a yawn before opening the tent to find it devoid of Shouza.

He immediately flared his chakra and stretched his sensing range out, knowing Shouza always tried to sleep before his watch shift.

Not sensing his signature or Miros signature he drew a kunai and sent out multiple pulses, using his chakra like a sonar, trying to enhance his sensory abilities and locate any enemies. After two minutes of constant pulsing gave him no results he gave up and conceded the fact they were eliminated.

Moving quickly he reached Shouza's tent, grabbing the scroll from inside before sealing it within himself. He was about to burn the campsite and remove any traces of their presence when his bladder started screaming at him to pee.

Sighing, he took one step towards a tree before he felt it, the slightest pulse of chakra one gave off when performing a jutsu, no matter how much they tried to conceal it. He disrupted the flow of his own chakra, effectively cancelling the genjutsu, and went through handseals at a absurd rate while mentally saying 'Hakaisuru no jutsu.'

He spat out a gigantic wave of bright red flames towards where he felt the pulse, catching numerous trees on fire and watched in satisfaction as even more trees were turned to ash.

'That attack has a damage radius of 100 feet, so if they were to dodge they would have to come from-' he never got the chance to finish that thought, his world fading to black with a pair of red eyes permanently etched into his brain.

XXX

Flicking the blood off of my kunai I sighed disappointedly and unsatisfactorily as I retrieved the scroll from the sealing matrix on Ryokus left hand and sealed it into myself, before sealing his body just like I did his friends.

Genjutsu is such a slept on and underrated facet of the shinobi arts, and in my opinion the strongest.

Unfortunately using genjutsu in tandem with my sharingan almost guaranteed victory and I never got the chance to dance with my enemies. Regardless if you couldn't resist my genjutsu there was definitely no chance of you withstanding my ninjutsu.

Looking through their tents I found nothing of any worth, so I burned the campsite to the ground and made my way back to the village, another mission completed to utmost perfection.

Perfection, hn, the Uchiha and the word perfection are synonymous.

Making liberal use of the shunshin I arrived at the village gates in ten minutes. Walking past Izumo and Kotetsu, ignoring their cries of indignation, I shushinned in front of the Hokage tower and walked in.

I ignored the secretary when she said "Hello Hikaku-sama" and opened the door, ready to report and receive my next mission. Walking in, the Sandaime Hokage was smoking his pipe while simultaneously reading a orange book.

"Mission complete Hokage-sama, the scroll was retrieved and all three targets were neutralized. Although the bingo book says that they were A-rank, I'm sure that was a mistake." I said and gave him the scroll I took from Ryoku and the 3 scrolls containing their bodies.

The God of shinobi himself took his pipe out and gave me a grandfatherly smile, though I always saw a slight hint of sadness in that smile.

"Ah, thank you very much Hikaku-kun. I'm sorry I couldn't send you on a more, problematic, mission but this was very time sensitive and the small amount of ninja I have skilled enough to complete it were already occupied." he said and took another puff of his pipe before reading the contents of the scroll.

Shaking his head and smiling he spoke once more "It's a shame, you're barely nine years old and have already done more for the village than most three times your age. For the past four months since you've made jonin you've been going on high risk missions back to back with no regards to your own health. While you don't see anything wrong with that, I know what that kind of stress can do to someone so young. So, you have a month off Hikaku-kun, use it to relax and enjoy yourself."

I almost objected but caught myself and simply nodded. The last time I denied a week of leave I had to do D-ranks with the genin for a week, I almost shivered simply thinking about those useless missions.

Looking up I ignored the Hokages amused knowing expression and responded "Thank you Hokage-sama."

I shunshinned to the now empty Uchiha compound. I made my way to our flat, and walked in, removing my sandals as I went.

Looking inside my big brother Sasuke's room I found him asleep, so I went to my room and grabbed a change of clothes and headed to the bathroom. After showering and changing, I just laid on my bed, looking up at the ceiling and thinking 'What am I going to do for a whole month?'

XXX / End Intro

(A/N - Welp this is the story I was talking about, I won't spoil too much but you should know if you read my Taiyogan story I'm not one who likes sticking to canon lol. But if you've read all the way down to this authors note, please review. I promise this will be a great story and I've never seen a story done on Hikaku Uchiha, in fact I've never heard him mentioned before except in the manga, once. Anyways at 5 reviews I'll post the next chapter, it's already written. Thank you!)