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  Itachi Uchiha.

  Itachi walked with heavy slow steps and soon reached his destination.

  'This pce… This is where I made my promise to Shisui… Before he gave his life for everyone’s sake.'

  It was the cliff where Shisui itted suicide and the pce where he entrusted Itachi with the future of the Uchiha d the vilge.

  'Tomorrow the will unch the coup.'

  Itachi sat down and thought about the st twelve years of his life. Each important moment from the twelve years of his life flickered to his mind and vanished. He closed his eyes and the memories of his childhood appeared.

  'It all began that day…'

  Itachi Uchiha, who had only turned four retly, was standing in the rain. The rain poured down so heavily that he had trouble opening his eyes.

  "Remember this moment, Itachi. Burn this image into your heart. This battlefield… This is the truth of the ninja world." Fugaku Uchiha's words pierced through the sound of the rain and reached Itachi's ears.

  Dozens upon dozens of bodies scattered all across the battlefield filled the child's vision. The ninjas wearing the leaf forehead ptes and the rest from other nds. The numerous dead bodies covered the earth. All of their faces showed nothing but misery and pain. None of them at peace, as they surreo their iable death.

  "This war will end soon. And in a few years you'll bee a ninja. But the truth is battles between ninjas never end. We kill our enemies so that our allies live. This is the world you'll step into."

  Fugaku's cold hearted voice filled his head. Itachi couldn't move as he looked ahead... Itachi felt a tightness in his heart and he could barely e. His fists ched and face tightened. He was determined not to cry. The child desperately tried to trol himself but he failed to stop the tears that came spilling out.

  'Are the ninja arts and chakra teiques only fhting and causiru? No. It 't be. There has to be more to this than senseless death and chaos.'

  Itachi opened his eyes and brought himself out of that memory. He let out a slow tired breath. 'Father wao show me the reality of this world. He wanted me to see what he saw and uand what ninjas are… But he failed to see what I did and what I uood that day.'

  Itaever accepted his father's cept of a ninja and chose to take another path.

  'I never fot that day. I promised myself that I would bee stronger. Strohan anyone else so that I could bee a deterrent to all the wars and pointless deaths… But now… All of those efforts…Meaningless.'

  Itachi thought about the end of the third world war and the beginning of the new Hokage's reign.

  The third Hokage decided to end the fighting with the stone vilge despite the war flowing in the Leaf vilge's favor. The decision to not seek reparations were opposed by many and in order to keep the stability of the vilge Hiruzen Sarutobi stepped down from the position of Hokage and hahe title to the hero of the war Minato Namikaze. And the vilge slowly began to recover.

  'That day when Minato was selected as the fourth Hokage, Yashiro, Inabi and Tekka fronted my father at the house and showed their dissatisfa. They were angry that father's name wasn't sidered for the positioe his efforts in the war. That day their meeting… It was filled with malice. It was the same as that battlefield…'

  Itachi trained and days turned into weeks and into months. His fifth birthday came but he didn't care about it. To Itachi it was just like any other day. To him training was the most important thing. But that year annifit ge happened in his life.

  "Meet your baby brother." His mother Mikoto Uchiha said as she id ba the floor.

  Itachi stared at the small creature lying before him. The small newborn baby was tent with sleeping in his cozy b. Itachi gently touched his baby brother's cheek. The infant twitched at the sudden touch. Mikoto smiled watg her two children.

  "Sasuke Uchiha… We decided to name him after the father of the third Hokage." Mikoto said to him.

  Itachi looked at his new brother. "Sasuke…" He uttered his brother's name for the first time and in that moment his heart was filled with indescribable happiness and the desire to protect his i and precious little brother.

  As he thought about his little brother, the sunlight hitting his face made Itachi open his eyes. He thought about Sasuke and his future.

  'I'm sorry I 't be there for you…'

  That apology came from the bottom of his heart, for Itachi was going to walk doath he could never e back from. At that moment the image of his best friend and the one he looked up to as an older brother showed up in his mind. Itachi remembered the first day he met Shisui Uchiha.

  Itachi was training and sharpening his skills whenever he could. A grove near his house was where he practiced his shuriken teiques. Wooden targets with circles drawn on it were hung all around. Holding 8 kunais between his fingers he jumped high into the air ahem lose. 8 fshes of metal shot to both sides of Itachi and perfectly pierced the ter of all targets.

  "Good job. That's some serious skill there." Someone spoke from behind him.

  Itachi looked bad saw an older boy with bck hair and a leaf forehead protector. Itachi had seen the boy before in his grounds. So he khe boy was an Uchiha.

  "How old are you?" The ninja of the Uchiha asked.

  "Five." Itachi gave a short reply.

  "Such mastery of shurikenjutsu at ye. You're definitely something special… I'm Shisui Uchiha." The older boy extended his hand. Itachi was about to introduce himself as well but Shisui interrupted him. "I already know who you are… Wanna see something cool?"

  Without waiting for Itachi's answer Shisui disappeared. Itachi followed the boy's aura. Shisui was high up in the air just like Itachi had been seds ago a out several kunais at once almost mimig Itachi's movements earlier. The new kunais all struck right o Itachi's oarget boards.

  Itachi's eyes widened as he saw the se. "Wow."

  "Not too bad huh. I got some skills too… Hey, let's be friends… What do you say?" Shisui held out his hand once more.

  Shisui's gentle smile and warm demeanged on Itachi's heart. The younger Uchiha walked forward and shook the extended hand. That day he made his first and greatest friend.

  Itachi recalled the words Shisui said to him during his academy days. "As long as you're here the future of the Uchiha is safe and secure."

  "Caw… caw…" The cry of the crow above him shook Itachi from his memories.

  'Your death was meaningless Shisui. The Hokage and vilge elders didn't find a solution and the didn't stop. Things have reached a precipice. There is no stopping what's to e… I couldn't keep my promise. I failed you… All of this because of that one i.'

  Itachi's mi back to that night. The night that ged everything for him, his d the vilge.

  Itachi stared at the full moon with Sasuke in his arms. Despite its brilliant radiahe young Uchiha had an uneasy feeling in his heart.

  "What is this feeling…"

  As though feeling his brother's tension, young Sasuke began to cry in Itachi's arms.

  "There, there… Everything's going to be alright. Big brother is here to protect you." Itachi held his brhtly in his arms.

  Itachi remembered the disaster the ailed fht to the vilge. The creature rampaged indiscriminately. Destroying and killing everything in its path. He remembered fleeing with his brother in his arms through the vilge streets.

  All around him were people running and shouting. Trying to escape their deaths to save others. He saw a man who lost his arm, a child who lost his mother and a woman on her karing lifelessly at a mountain of rubble that used to be a home. He ran desperately trying to escape the violence of the malevole. It was a destru the likes of which the vilge had never seen before.

  Itachi remembered the stru of the new pound and was satisfied with the location of the pound because of its close proximity with the Naka Shrine and the abundant training space. But he could see that the adults were not. They were feeling the exact opposite of tent.

  He remembered seeing several members ing to meet his father throughout the weeks after the attack. False accusations and discrimination. Those were the words he often heard during their meetings. Itachi realized that one of the Uchiha was suspected of causing the ails i and the whole was being punished for it. He uood his father's and the 's e. But he couldn't accept it.

  'That day was the beginning of the end… The vilge lost trust in the d accused us. Even in the academy, I had to bear the brunt of their mispced anger and aggression. No one believed we were i and victims like them. And with each day passing like this, it pushed everyone in the to their breaking point… And with people like Danzo, Madara and Yashiro scheming and plotting their own agendas… Perhaps the end of the Uchiha was iable…'

  Itachi remembered his first day at the academy. He recalled what he said to the css as the teacher asked Itachi to introduce himself.

  "My name is Itachi Uchiha and my dream is…. My dream is to bee the greatest ninja ever. So I stop all the fighting in this world."

  Some ughed at those words while others appuded. But none of them believed in him or his dream. To them it was just an absurd and delusional goal that would never e true. Only Itachi believed in himself and his dream. And he worked hard everyday to realize it.

  In the academy Itachi dispyed a level of talent that couldn't be matched by anyone. He set new records after records for each of the tests that resented before him. His fwless shurikenjutsu, his vast knowledge, his ninja skills… All of them earned him the title of genius. But those talents and titles also made it impossible for him to make friends. His cssmates hesitated to i with him. But it was fih Itachi. He never cared about making friends. His focus was on training aering himself. He had no energy to spare on something as trivial as friendship with his cssmates.

  'No. There was one person who reached out to me.'

  As he thought about his academy days an i came to his mind. Some of the senior students tried to intimidate him but at that moment someoood up for him. Spoke on his behalf.

  The image of a certain girl came to Itachi's mind.

  'Despite my attitude she stuck up for me when others tried to pie. She talked to me and somewhere along the way she became my sed friend… Izumi Uchiha.'

  Itachi spent his days training and studying. In six months he pleted every test and homework his teachers assigned him. Itachi mastered everything the academy threw at him and the staff decided there was nothing more they could teach him. Due to the ck of capable ninjas because of the war and ails attack, the vilge was in need of talented ninjas. Itachi graduated from the academy in 6 months and began his duties as a genin.

  Itachi opened his eyes and stared at the sky. He could hear the rushing water of the Naka river below him. His fingers gripped the hard stone underh him as he thought about his genin days.

  'I thought I could ge my d the opinions of the vilge by being a ninja… But… Everything I endured. It was all for nothing.'

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