Kapitel 26: The Worst Game of Pac-Man

Haruko's trip to the Uchiha complex was almost too easy, granted he did now have the ability to fluently use shunshin omnidirectional with shidui's memories, and skills. Arriving outside the complex he melded with the shadow's, and despite the memory of this event seeing Itachi on the pole looking down upon his clan sent shivers down Haruko's spine. Itachi disappeared from his position, and Haruko could hardly trail him. Sneaking into the house he found two dead bodies throat's slit, and their eyes looked unaware of what happened. Quickly Haruko swallowed the bodies only to be hit with a massive wave of disappointment as much like with the things he had eaten while he was a fetus the memories were scattered, and broken. No new skills or abilities. Just raw biomass, and a small amount of chakra from each.

'I guess they either need to be exactly fresh or they need to die by my hands for me to truly benefit from absorbing them. I can tell I gained the genetic marker for the Uchiha from both, but since I already have it I didn't benefit from it. Oh well it's still free biomass.'

Haruko moved from house to house, just a few moments behind Itachi in an attempt to test his hypothesis. But alas he in fact needed to be the one to kill them. However having consumed so many different pairs of sharingan he felt his right eye stirring, and his vision became blurry while he darted from house to house playing maid.

Opposite to what he expected seeing this many dead bodies, and blood had much less effect on him than he expected. While what was happening did break his heart a bit as Itachi was sacrificing everything for a chance at peace this village didn't really deserve.

'I'll do as he asked out of respect, but honestly Fuck the Third for allowing this to happen, and fuck him for allowing these dumbass elders to still exist, and fuck him for Danzo. Just fuck all of this man.'

Performing his duty to the best of his ability, Haruko consumed one corpse after another, and decided to pool all of his acclimated biomass. Itachi was so fast, and efficient it terrorfied Haruko. The other thing that deeply unnerved Haruko was the masked man he had seen going from home to home as well. Haruko knew this was Obito, and despite Haruko being here Obito either hadn't noticed him, or didn't care.

Obito was far faster than Itachi, and the corpses he left behind were eyeless as he seemed to be collecting them for himself. Everything came to a hold as Itachi had returned home, and Haruko was not prepared to watch this heart wrenching shit in person.

Itachi appeared in the backyard, and snuck towards the back door as a voice called out for him.

"Come, there are no traps."

A pause followed as Itachi entered.

"Father" A heart broken voice called out as he entered.

'Fuck this is making me tear up.'

"I don't wish to fight to the death with my son." Itachi brought out his blade, and tears welled up in his eyes. "You've joined the other side."

"Father, Mother I…." Itachi began, but he was cut off

"We already know Itachi…" His mother replied

"Itachi… Promise me this." Another pause followed "Take care of Sasuke." His father spoke before closing his eyes. Itachi took a step forward, and the moonlight shone upon half his face. The tears were freely flowing at this point, and he answered "I will"

Itachi's blade was quivering "Do not fear it. This is the path you have chosen. Compared to yours, our pain will end in an instant. Our philosophies may differ, but I am proud of you." Itachi was silently sobbing while his arms shook "You truly are a kind child" His father spoke, and Itachi let out an audible cry. Itachi's blade sang through the air as he raised it, and plunged it through his father, and then his mother.

The sound of their flesh being torn asunder was sickening to Haruko who to his own discredit had begun crying as well. Seeing Itachi standing there so broken, and beaten tore Haruko up. He wanted to comfort his menor/friend, but there were no words for this. There are no words to comfort somebody who had just slain their entire family for the sake of a flimsy peace for a quack of a Hokage.

Rage built in Haruko as he observed the crying Itachi. While he may not remember everything Haruko knows, this should have been avoided, and maybe he should have put more of an effort into it. Not all of these people were guilty but they all paid the price of their elders. Maybe the lesson to take away from this is that old people suck?

Itachi vanished, and joined the masked figure upon the roof. The figure made brief eye contact with Haruko before having a conversation with itachi, and they both disappeared.

Haruko's job wasn't over as there were still many bodies in the area. He got back to work, and was unable to deal with the heavy feeling in his chest.

*Zwoosh*

Hearing the noise Haruko turned quickly to be met with a blade swiftly crashing down upon his form. Tendrils shot out from Haruko's body, and a sharp clang rang out as the blade was deflected off of his hardened head. Looking into the mask which looked back at him showed a badger. Badger continued his assault upon the 7 year old Haruko, whose metallic body shrugged off each, and every blow. Time came to a stand still as his Mangekyo activated.

'This motherfucker! How long was he here? Did he see me eat all those bodies? He cannot live. I don't even care if he's a part of root or regular Anbu. Best way to achieve that? Something fast, and strong enough he can't react to.'

Time slowly resumed, and Haruko moved one arm behind his back, while using the other as a shield. Tendrils morphed out from his back forming a third arm, and hand. Using his bulky frame to cover what he was doing, the two hands behind his back flashed through hand signs quickly before the cry of a bird could be heard.

Haruko's lightning-covered hand shot out from his side, and pierced through the unsuspecting victim. Shock sown on the face the Badger mask had fallen off of, and the hand which pierced through his body had exploded from the use of the chidori. While he could use the jutsu he couldn't handle the repercussions at this age. However upon absorbing the man his arm healed right back up, and learned this man was apart of a three man squad sent by Danzo to ensure there were no survivors, and to collect his trophies.

Haruko dropped all pretenses of stealth, and switched to his agile armor before blitzing all over using Shunshin. Moving as fast as he possibly could he went from house to house absorbing body after body while a hail of kunai, and shuriken followed swiftly behind him. From the memories of Badger he already knew the other two knew of him as well, and Badger was sent to kill him assuming he was a survivor.

Haruko pushed his eye's, and body to the limit as he focused everything on getting rid of the bodies as quickly as possible to prevent Danzo from becoming an even greater threat. In the midst of all the chaos, and destruction a small boy woke up, and wandered through the streets of his clan wanting to find the noises.

Though Sasuke was marked as a no kill target, the two Anbu had found no other bodies, and no eyes available. Making a split second decision they decided it was better to return his eyes, than to return empty handed. While Haruko was solely focused on his task he managed to notice his pursuers had stopped, and could easily track where they were heading. Time slowed to a crawl as Haruko's thoughts sped up. Pain filled his left eye as using his ability soon was taking a bit of a toll, but he needed a second to think.

'I could let them kill him, and then Itachi would finish off the sham that is the upper management of the leaf. But if I do that I'll have failed Itachi in what he made me promise. Fuck me what do I do? With sasuke gone that's one less headache, but if Itachi goes full blown rogue ninja Nobody here will be able to stop him. He may kill me in his rage for breaking my promise. I don't want to let itachi down.'