The truth behind it all(Itachi x Naruto)18+

Chapter 4: The last note from a dead man:

"talk"
´thoughts`

He spend the rest of the early afternoon on his own. He avoided anyone’s company and if he saw someone or walked past anyone of his family or clan… he just ignored their presence.

He hated their guts and decided to go look for the missing part of Shisui´s suicide note; if there was any missing part!

Itachi had known Shisui his entire life and had considerate the man to be his best friend and brother and was sure that there was a missing part hidden somewhere; all he had to do was to find it. Shisui would never write a suicide note on a torn piece of paper… he was a perfectionist and very proud… like it could be expected from a man of honor.

The Uchiha heir choose to leave the clan’s district; not by the front gate, but through the forest behind his families estate. His thoughts trailed back to the fight against his late friend. Itachi felt a bit uneasy with the fact that he had managed to kill Shisui without even having to break a sweat.

Once he arrived at the Nakano River he began to search the place with help of the sharingan. At first he didn’t find anything… but then he suddenly remembered a game from the past. Shisui had often brought the younger Itachi along with him; to this place too train the younger boy’s bloodline. Shisui had used to hide an object and Itachi had to find it with the sharingan… maybe… just maybe he had hidden the counterpart of the note at one of these hiding spots.

Itachi walked straight towards one of the old hiding places. It was an old oak… which was filled with small holes. This tree was unknown to most people of the clan and could keep anything hidden and dry. Crawling up to the small and very well hidden hole, which he knew had been Shisui´s favorite hiding place and searched the wooden cave; and found what he was looking for.

Leaning against the trunk from his hidden spot in the crowning leafs he unfolded the note and read it:

Itachi

I know you were smart enough to figure out this little puzzle of mine… as always.

I know that if you read this, I´m already dead… one way or the other.

I´m sorry that I had to provoke you and force you to attack and probably kill me… but I just couldn’t live with myself and the things I was forced to do, anymore.

I loved you like a brother and I let myself be persuaded to spy on you… to betray the trust you had in me…

They never trusted any of us… and so they poisoned me… as I refused to go on with their little scheme.

Thank you for saving me from a slow and painful death, Ototo… and please forgive me for the wrongs I have done… don´t ever blame yourself for my death… I choose to die like a true shinobi… in a battle with a worthy opponent… you! My friend and true brother.

I´m not gonna ask you not to go on with your plan… yes I know you better than anyone else, you know…They deserve to feel your pain, anger and power… But I wish that you’ll spare your little foolish brother… he’s an innocent child and too young and naïve to know what is going on... That is all I wish for…

May Kami have merci on our souls!

Shisui

Itachi stared at the note for a few seconds with a sad look in his dark eyes. They had poisoned Shisui… because he had refused to spy on him anymore… poisoning one of their own.

And they called themselves the elite force of justice? He would have laughed out loud if it hadn’t been so sad, angry and disappointed. Besides… he was to close to the place where Naruto was sleeping under the influence of his genjutsu.

“Naruto,” he whispered the blonde boys name as he turned his gaze to the darkening sky. The sun was already setting and the end was near. He would make them pay. He decided to skip the visit to the Hokage for now and go see Naruto instead.

´I just wanna make sure that everything is alright and that he is safe, ´ he told himself as he jumped the treetops towards the small glade where his little angel were. Itachi needed the soothing feeling of warmth and affection for someone else; he always felt when he was near the younger boy.

He needed it to be able to go through with it… he never had any trouble with the killing part… but the hatred and the anger would not do him any good. He needed to be calm… to be able to keep control and think straight.

A rare warm smile curled his lips. His little angel was snoring peacefully on the soft moss. Itachi´s cloak still wrapped around the young boy. The Uchiha heir sat down next to the sleeping figure and ran a hand through soft blonde locks.

The blonde moved closer to the warm body beside him and wrapped his small slender arms around Itachi´s waist. His arms were not long enough the go all the way around yet, but the feeling of closeness made both Naruto and Itachi smile happily.

“You are the light of my darkening life… stay just the way you are and wait for my return. I WILL come back to get you… I promise I’ll come back for you… no matter how long it will take. And then I’ll restore your memory of the time we spend together… and we will be able to feel something else than hate, fear and anger again,” he scoped the frail body up into his arms and let the blonde sleep on his lap. A whiskered cheek resting at the nape of Itachi´s strong neck.

“O-nii chan…I missed you,” the blonde whispered in his sleep as his small hands grabbed a hold on Itachi´s vest. The Uchiha wrapped his arms protectively around the small boy’s body and held him close to his heart. He softly kissed the sunny hair and drew in the scent of the boy with a smile.

They stayed like that for what seemed like hours. Naruto resting peacefully in Itachi´s warm embrace, his hands never stopped clutching the soft fabric of the older nin´s vest.

“I´m sorry, my angel… but I have to go. I have to wander into the darkness to keep them away from you… I will keep an eye on you from time to time… You will have to train hard to become stronger… but I have faith in you… “He placed the blonde back on the soft green moss and kissed his tanned nose.

´This is the last time I’ll smile for anyone…“ The heir promised himself as he whispered of soft goodbye into the blonde’s ear. ´These smiles stays with you, Naruto… and no one except you will ever see them again.´

~ # ~

Before returning to the Uchiha district to carry out his plan he used his stealth and training to enter the Hokage tower in the center of town. His movement was soundless as he jumped from one shadow to the next towards his destination; the hidden scroll room.

Itachi hadn’t the time or the intent to wake the Hokage from his sleep to tell him about the secret scheme his clan was planning. Sarutobi-sama would probable believe him… he was a good and honorable man, but the counsel would most likely not. They were stupid idiots who couldn’t comprehend what was going on beyond their own noses.

No, he would leave this scroll with the Uchiha seal on it… so that only the Hokage would be able to open and read it. In it, he had recorded every word and scheme from all the meetings he had been attending too.

As a more personal note; he wrote that he would continue to search for the reasons for the Kyuubi´s attack on the city. He ended the note with a promise that he would keep an eye and Naruto from the distance and that he would return with news if he found any.

He hid the scroll where the Hokage would eventually stumble across it and then left in the same way he had come in, never looking back even once.

~ # ~

As he walked through the gates to the Uchiha district, he could sense that someone was waiting for him to return. Six members of the Uchiha family were standing under the pale light of the moon; all dressed in black without any Uchiha fan to be seen on their clothing.

They had come here to punish him, to remind him of his place. Itachi had to restrain himself from laughing out in mockery. Did they really think that they were a match for him and the Mangekyo Sharingan?

The man who called himself his uncle with the name Yuki, were among them. They were all male as far as Itachi could tell; not that it really mattered if it were men or women, he would kill them all none the less.

They were waiting for him in silence… and then Itachi saw it; one of them was holding the sleeping Naruto under his arm… so that his angel was hanging loosely from the man’s arm at his hip.

“What did you do to him?” Itachi hissed coldly. His face revealed none of the murderous thoughts that roamed his mind as he saw the man that held onto Naruto… dropped the blonde to the ground and rested his foot on the boy’s back… that was a big mistake, the last one he would ever make… but Itachi wouldn’t kill him just yet, he would give them the chance to explain their motives for bringing his little angel here.

“You were supposed to bring the demon to the meeting yesterday, Itachi… “Yuki smirked and pointed at the unconscious blonde with his foot.

“I had a mission… but we’ve already been through that, haven’t we, Yuki-san?” Itachi activated the sharingan and began to plan his moves. He would not let them hurt Naruto… they were not worthy to lay another hand on his blonde angel.

“Yeah… I know… just as well as I know that it was you who killed Shisui. Not that I mind that you did it… he was a weakness for our clan… he grew soft and lost the greater perspective… just like you, Itachi.”

“Don´t badmouth Shisui… you don´t know anything of his reasons… You corrupted him and you tried to corrupt me as well… you poisoned him and wanted him to waist away slowly; in pain and without honor…but it all ends here and now!”

“Yeah right!” His uncle mocked him. Yuki knelt down next to the blonde and grabbed the child by his golden hair.” If you want the demon that badly… why didn’t you just use a genjutsu and f*** him senseless… I must admit I would like too… he’s a pretty demon after all.”
He smirked at Itachi who remained expressionless though it became harder and harder to stay calm and in control.

“I wonder what it would be like… to f*** that tight little ass of his, to make him scream out in pain while I would f*** him over and over! Do you think I could make him beg me to kill him, Itachi?” Yuki got back on his feet and walked to stand in front of Itachi with a smirk on his face. “Do you think that I could use the sharingan to make him suck my di-“He never got a chance to finish his sentence as Itachi´s katana pierced through his stomach.

“Don´t. Ever. touch. Him. Again!” The Uchiha heir hissed through gritted teeth. He had drawn his katana so fast that none of the men present had seen him move at all. They stared at him in disbelief and backed away as they saw the advanced bloodline activated.

“You killed him?” The one on the far left grasped as he reached down to use Naruto as a shield and as a hostage. He never had the chance to even touch the blonde before he lost his head.

“I said, DON`T touch him!” The Uchiha growled at the remaining four. “And no, Yuki-san isn’t dead… yet!”

The four men were so surprised at Itachi´s fast movements that they just stood there; staring at him in horror.

Itachi moved; killing all four by slitting their throats with a kunai from his belt. They never saw what hit them and they died a quick death.

He turned and lifted the blonde gently from the dirty ground and hugged his sleeping frame close to his heart, before their lifeless bodies even hit the ground.

“Why… why would you… betray us… for a lowlife… demon like him… a freaking monster?” Yuki tried desperately to keep his intestines where they belonged by clutching the hole in his stomach with his hands.

“… Naruto isn’t a monster… he might be the keeper of a demon, but he is not one himself. The only monsters here are people like the man that calls himself my father. People like him and you… like the rest of this pathetic clan who craves for power, but who are unwilling to claim it themselves… you all deserve to be wiped away from the surface of this world. This boy is pure like an angel… and I will never allow any of you to touch him, ever again!” He kicked the wounded man in the gut which made his wound bleed even worse than before. Itachi shifted his hold on the blonde; leaning the tanned boy against his shoulder so he could hold him with only one arm.

“I will let you bleed to death right here at this very spot… and trust me… it takes a while and it’s quite painful.”

“I’ll scream… I’ll scream so loud that they’ll all wake up and-“

“Really? And how will you do that?... without your tongue, Yuki-san?” Horror and fear was displayed in the wounded man’s eyes as he could only watch as the Heir to their clan pulled out a kunai from his weapons bag.

Yuki was later found with a horrified look on his blood drained face. His tongue had been cute out with a blunt blade and his hands had been tied behind his back with a steel wire.

The report stared that the man had probably suffered greatly before the end.

TBC