Fur Raising Switch

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor do I earn money from them. I do however own the OC’s that I create in each of these stories.

A/N: Sorry guys, this chapter would have been out before now but of course my brain needed a break from the massive chapter that came out last week of HGAS. Also, the brain still won’t shut it on new ideas and now I have a zombie story that kind of came to me when I was watching “The Walking Dead”. Yeah, yeah, I know of course this story will be a lot different than most of the ones I have already read. Granted on my point of view these stories that I have read were ones of the bests I’ve seen out there. I’m not joking since when I start I cannot pause on it. Also, it turns out I get disappointed in reading stories that are not finished since I do have to wait for a chapter. Bad me, *sticks tongue out* but at least it gives me a look into others opinions on how exactly they think the Z-day will start.

CHAPTER TEN

       Sasuke and Naruto ran their errands before they could go and train.   Fugaku told them that they should practice one hour for each of their lessons.   After they finished giving the weekly letters to the other heads of the clans around the village they went to the academy and ate their dinner that Fugaku and Itachi packed for them.   “Mmm, ramen!!!”

       “I’d rather stick with my sushi.”   Sasuke said to the blond who had a girlish blush covering his whiskered cheeks.   They finished eating and cleaned up the remains of their dinner.   “So which first?    Shuriken, Kunai, Taijutsu, Ninjutsu or Genjutsu?”

       “How about projectile then work down to Taijutsu, Ninjutsu and Genjutsu?”   Naruto asked as he looks cutely at Sasuke.   The brunette smiles as he nods.

       “Sure.”   They grabbed their Shuriken and walked to the targets.

       The man wearing a mask snuck around in the shadows.   With every scream of horror or terror and the slashing of a sword cutting through skin made him laugh.   He looked like a giddy little boy.   He snickers quietly as he watched a window get a new streak of blood added to it as Itachi slits a woman’s throat.   ANBU’s lurked in the shadows as they watched Itachi kill another man who had his Sharingan activated.   They then move in to confiscate the water.

       “It’s time, goodbye, dear friend.”   Hiashi says as he held the note the boys brought to him.   “I’ll watch over them like you ask.”   Tears ran down his cheeks.   “They will be yours and Minato’s legacy for the future.   Too bad I cannot save Itachi.”   All through the village, the family heads held the same expression as they promised the same thing.   The Hokage look at his wife’s photo as he promises.

       The last house that Itachi enters is his.   He knew his father was inside waiting for him.   He walks towards the visitor lounge.   As expected there sat Fugaku with his back facing him as he continued forward, he watches the back of the man who has raised him.   Tears fall from his eyes as his sword shakes from his silent sobs.   “Don’t cry, Itachi.   I know you are unwilling for this part.”   Tears fall down the older males cheeks.   His voice showed that he is crying for his son.   “I have always been proud of you, my son.   The only thing I wish was different was that it was someone else instead of you.   The boys will need you greatly and now they cannot have you to protect them as they grow.   For this I’m sorry, my son.   For being such a poor clan head.”

       “Don’t say that, Father!”   Itachi shouts.

       “Okay, this conversation is getting boring.”   The masked man says from the corner.   “Looks as if you failed, Itachi.   What kind of Uchiha does that?”   He disappears only to reappear in front of Fugaku.   “This is how you do it.”   The man raised his sword only to slice it across the man’s chest.

       “Father!”   Itachi screams out as his father falls back dead.

       “Emotions are not part of a ninja’s life.   Get rid of them.”   The man says as he disappears.   Itachi stood in the shadows looking at his father’s body.

       “Naruto!”   Sasuke shouts as the boy falls back yet again.   He giggles as the larger boy helps him up.

       “Sorry.”   He giggles some more.   “I just feel a little tired from all that training.   We are going home now?”   He asks as he grins up into the black eyes.

       “Yeah, we are.”   They hold hands as they head home.

       “Hey, Sasuke?”   The boy looks at him.

       “Yes?”   Naruto’s eyes held tears.

       “I think my real father was a bad man.”   Sasuke’s eyes widen.

       “Why do you say that?”   The blue eyes looked into his.

       “That’s what some of the clan members said.   That Namikaze Minato created a monster and that it is me.   They kept on saying it for the past few weeks.   And then we find out about Kurama and Yue.   So is he a bad person to create me?”

       “No, Naruto.   Your father has never done anything bad.   You should find out about him.   No, we should.   Your mother also.”   They have now entered the Uchiha compound and saw the blood splatters and darkened lights.   “What?”   Sasuke’s eyes furrowed.

       “Who could do this?”   Naruto asks loudly.   He runs over to the old couple that was the only ones in the clan that didn’t treat them like monsters.   “Sasuke, they’re dead!”   Naruto cries out loudly.   Both runs through the body covered streets of the compound.   They timidly approached their front door.

       “Stay behind me, Naruto.   I’ll protect you.”   Sasuke says as he stands in front of Naruto.   “Father, are you here?”   He calls out as they walk through the halls.   He quickly opens the doors to the sight of Fugaku’s body lying in his own blood.   “Father!”

       “Father!”   Naruto cries out and both boys started running to his body until they heard a footstep.   They stopped immediately.   Itachi steps out of the shadows so that they could see him.

       “Brother, Father’s dead!   Everyone’s dead!”   He shouts at him and Naruto starts crying.

       “What happened, Itachi-niisan?”   Naruto asked through his tears.   Itachi’s sword shone in the light covered in blood.

       “You killed even Father?”   Sasuke growls out at him.

       “Yes, I did.”   The teen replies.

       “Why?”   Naruto asks.

       “To prove that I can.   That I don’t need a clan to be strong.”   He wiped the blood off of his sword and put it away.   “I am not weak like the two of you.”   The boys’ growl and rush at the older boy.   He threw two Shuriken that nicks their shoulders to stop them, and then activates his Mangekyo Sharingan to use Tsukiyomi on them showing them him slaughtering the whole clan.   While the boys watched the horrible scenes he taunts them.   “You will never be as strong as I am.   You lack hatred.   You lack anger.   Create those.”   When he released them from the illusions they were shaking.

       “No, don’t kill us.   Sasuke, I’m scared.”   Naruto is frozen in the same spot.   Sasuke looks at him.   He grabs the small hand.

       “You won’t, I promise.”   They ran from the house down the main street of the Uchiha compound until Itachi appears in front of them.

       “The only way you can get stronger than me is if you can use that anger and hatred to become stronger.”   He puts his face into the shadows as tears ran down his cheeks.   ‘Goodbye, little brothers.   I’m so sorry.’   He watches as they faint, he then disappears.

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