章 1297: 2
Breaking Point
"It is nice to finally get a chance to meet you, Naruto-kun."
The young shinobi immediately turned around. "Sa… Sasuke…?" The Jinchuuriki questioned the figure standing before him. "No… It can't be Sasuke. This guy… His presence is frightening!" Naruto thought. Still, the appearance of the person in front of the genin was eerily similar to Sasuke's, with identical onyx color hair, and a face that would make the girls go crazy.
Taking a closer look, the blond realized several different aspects that prove his first theory wrong. The new comer was taller than Sasuke, had two long streaks between his eyes, and, perhaps the most apparent feature for the spiky haired boy, a scratched Leaf headband. There was no way that this person was Sasuke.
"Oh?" The man's voice snapped Naruto out of his thoughts. "I'm sorry, but I am not my dear little brother…" The stranger added with an amused tone.
The genin's eyes widened at the new revelation. "Brother…? Wait a minute!"
"Naruto…" Sasuke said weakly after been caught by his teammate. "He… He's still out there… My brother…" The wounds that Haku had inflicted on him seemed to be making it hard for the Uchiha to even breathe. "I promised myself that I would stay alive… Until I kill him… Naruto, don't let your dream die…"
This was him. The person who Sasuke wanted to kill so much, he had ended up killing his own personality.
"My name is Uchiha Itachi…" The missing nin casually presented himself. He was wearing a black cloak with a pattern of red clouds around it while a fully matured Sharingan shined ominously in his eyes. "You have no idea how long I wanted to meet you, Naruto-kun." The young man added.
At those words, the blond took a step back. "How do you know who I am?" The young shinobi asked.
The black haired man simply regarded the boy before him for a couple of seconds. "Oh? I know more about you that you may think, Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune." Itachi revealed with a hint of amusement.
Naruto's eyes widened in shock. Even if the man in front of him had once being a Leaf nin once, he was too young to have fought the Kyuubi during its original attack on the village, which meant that the knowledge of the fox's true fate should have being kept a secret from him.
"For the expression in your face, I can infer that you already know of the existence of the Bijuu inside of you…" The young man let out a sound that resembled a short laugh. "Figures that they would break their own law." The Uchiha commented.
Narrowing his eyes at the older shinobi, Naruto's anger started to get the best of him. "So what if I know?" He asked. "What's it to you?"
The black haired man gave the faintest of shrugs. "I do not really care if they told you or not…" Itachi confessed. "What I am more interested in is in how much of the Bijuu's power you can control." The missing nin added.
"Control?" The Jinchuuriki thought as his eyes widened once again. "What the hell does he mean by that?" His mind ranted in confusion. The spiky haired boy could remember the power boost he had received from his contact with the fox's chakra during his battle with Haku, but he could not even begin to imagine that such thing could be controlled.
The pair of Sharingan eyes continued to analyze the young shinobi. "It seems that you have already being able to tap into the Kyuubi's chakra." Itachi correctly commented, finding some amusement in the blonde's surprised face. Those who truly knew Itachi would know that he having more fun that he had in years. "That is good, you are already starting to develop you abilities and begun growing into your role as Jinchuuriki, and with the Kyuubi as your Bijuu you will truly become a powerful one." The Uchiha finished.
Inside his head, Naruto brain was review the missing nin's words over and over again, but he just could not understand. "What the hell do you mean by my role as Jinchuuriki?" The boy questioned when he could not formulate and answer by himself.
A sigh escaped the black haired man, but decided to ease the genin's confusion. "Jinchuuriki means human sacrifice. It is a testament to how far the Hidden Villages are willing to go to secure power." The Sharingan user began explaining. "They are willing to doom one of their own into a life of isolation and hatred simply for a chance to harness the Bijuu's power and turn a human into a weapon."
Naruto remained silent after the older shinobi's words. "So… That's what I am…" His gazed dropped to the floor. "A human sacrifice… Meant to become a weapon…" He said with a low whisper.
"Yes." Itachi curtly confirmed. "And now that that's clear, I am going to ask you to come with me." The former Leaf nin said, knowing that form here on out things will get more complicated.
Immediately, the blonde's disposition changed into a defensive one. "What… What do you mean coming with you?" The spiky haired boy questioned as he took several steps back.
Another sigh escaped the missing nin. "You see, Naruto-kun… I am part of an organization called Akatsuki." He explained nonchalantly. "And it is in the organization's best interests to come to Konoha and collect you." The Uchiha added. "Normally we work in pairs, but my partner had a little detour and could not make it tonight." The young man spoke as if he were discussing his favorite onigiri recipe. "I was supposed to wait until he came back to secure you, but fortunately you decided to take a walk around the forest afterhours just to make it easier for me, I thank you for that." He finished.
As a defense mechanism, the genin shot back. "What? Are you so weak that you need a bodyguard just to enter the village?" Naruto exclaimed as fear and dread invaded his mind and clouded his judgment.
Itachi decided to play along. "No, it is not that, I simply would like to carry out missions with the least trouble possible." He answered as his Sharingan bored into the younger shinobi. "And it is notably difficult to sneak into a village where you once slaughtered one of its most prominent clans." The missing nin said with a small smirk. "Especially when it was you own…"
The revelation sent the Jinchuuriki into a world of shock. The spiky haired boy had heard that the Uchiha clan had being massacred in a single night, but he had never imagined that the culprit had being a single person. "So… So you're the reason why the Uchiha clan is no more… That's why Sasuke wants to kill you…!" The terrified blond stated.
The small smirk became slightly more marked. "Yes…" The young man moved his upper body faintly forwards as if giving spiky haired boy a small bow. "Uchiha Itachi, at your service…" Suddenly, a frightening killer intent permeated the surroundings.
Immediately, the younger shinobi turned around and started off towards the village. Naruto could not hear the missing nin's footsteps behind him, but he could feel the killer intent catching up with him, getting closer and closer for ever step forward that the blood took. Unexpectedly, the presence behind the blond vanished.
At the moment of false security, Naruto committed a grave error. Stopping his mad dash towards the village's gates, the spiky haired boy looked around trying to find where his pursuer had disappeared to.
All of a sudden, the genin felt a hand grab him by the collar, and, before the boy knew what had happened, his body was violently pinned against a tree. "Ok, Naruto-kun, now is time for you to come with me." Itachi said as his figure appeared right in front of the boy.
"Like hell I will!" The Jinchuuriki responded. Naruto flailed his legs trying to kick the Uchiha, but none of his kicks seemed to make contact.
With an impressive display of physical strength, the black haired man threw the blond towards another tree.
The blond hit the trunk with a sickening impact and fell to the ground. When he finally looked up, azure eyes met the Sharingan.
Right in front of the genin, the Uchiha's dojutsu started to transform. In each eye, the black comas seemed to change and come together until the formed what looked like a three pointed shuriken.
The only thing that Naruto was able to hear was the word "Tsukuyomi" being uttered with Itachi's voice, before he was unexpectedly tied up to the tree's trunk and his surroundings completely changed. "What the hell just happened?" He thought. "Where's that bastard? What is this place?" The boy questioned as he looked around one more time. The large number for trees in Konoha's forest had been severely scaled down, and the few that remained where all black and dead, and the dark night sky had been completely covered by a blood crimson color.
Suddenly, several figures of Itachi appeared surrounding the Jinchuuriki. The forms were completely black, except for the crimson color of their odd Sharingan eyes. "Welcome to the Tsukuyomi world, Naruto-kun." The Itachi right in front of the spiky haired boy said. "This is a jutsu that can only be created with these…" He took a moment to point at his strange dojutsu. "The Mangekyou Sharingan, the ultimate form of the Uchiha bloodline." The former Leaf nin informed.
Naruto simply remained silent, paralyzed by fear and dread.
"Now, this jutsu might only last for a second…" The black haired man continued, ignoring the younger shinobi's terror. "But take my word for it, it can feel like days." He added with a mocking tone. "Since the Tsukuyomi world give its caster complete control over reality…" The Uchiha said as raised one of his hands and a crow suddenly flew down and landed on it.
The bounded blond watched in shock as the raven in the missing nin's hand suddenly turn into a kunai and then into a katana.
"You are at my mercy for the next three days…" Itachi said, his tone getting darker with every word.
Naruto's eyes completely filled with terror. He was trapped inside a strange and frightening word controlled by a man who had killed his entire family in cold blood. Even his childhood beatings seemed like a fond memory compared to his current situation.
"Now…" The Uchiha's voice snapped the genin back into attention. "From what I have gathered, your teammates are my foolish littler brother and that pink haired girl that was all over him, right? And Kakashi-sempai is your jounin instructor, am I wrong?" The young man asked. "I am really disappointed of him, only looking after two of his students and leaving one of them without any form of training whatsoever…" He commented, letting his target know under how much surveillance he had been under.
Gritting his teeth at his captor's words, Naruto's gaze fell on the floor.
A faint smirk appeared in Itachi's face. "Do you want to know why he did that, Naruto-kun?" The black haired man asked. Suddenly, another Itachi appeared right next to the restricted Jinchuuriki, leaning closer to the boy's ear so that the genin could barely hear him whisper. "Because he hates you… All of them hate you…"
In an instant, Itachi and all of his replicas disappeared and three new figures started to emerge from the ground, taking the form of Kakashi, Sasuke, and Sakura, and each holding a kunai in hand.
The three clones stood in front of the captured Naruto and remained silent for a whole several minutes before Kakashi finally step forward. "It is time for you to pay for what you did to the village, demon!" The blond heard his sensei's voice exclaimed, echoing his nightmare.
"Ka…Kakashi-sen…"
Before the blond could finish, the fake jounin stabbed him in the gut with his kunai.
"Graaargh!" The Jinchuuriki screamed as the very real pain permeated his entire body. Panting heavily as his blood started to flow down to the ground, the young boy forced his head up to gaze at the figures of his teammates. "Sasuke… Sa… Sakura…" He let out.
The first to move was the black haired boy. "Everybody in the village hates you! We would all be better off if you just died!" The Uchiha proclaimed before his kunai impaled the blond.
Naruto's eyes were blinded for a few seconds, the genin didn't know if it was because of the horrifying pain that plagued his body, or from the terrible scream he let out due to said pain. Struggling with his blurry eye sight, the Jinchuuriki could barely discern a red and pink figure approaching him. "No… Not you too…" He said weakly.
Sakura's clone simply glared at the blond in response. "You have no idea how sickening it has being having to deal with you everyday!" She stated. "I despise you with all of my heart! Do us all a favor and die already!" The pink haired girl shouted before stabbing the boy in his chest, inches away from his crumbling heart.
"Gyaaargh!" The young genin's cry resounded through the crimson sky. Panting through the echo of his own screams, Naruto could not even find enough strength to raise his head again. "Why…? Why… Why do you hate me this much…?" The broken blond questioned. Tears ran down his sorrowful face and mixed with his blood in the ground.
Soon, the piercing pain of the kunais returned time and time again.
"Die!"
"I thought you cared for me!"
"Disappear!"
"I never did anything!"
"Why don't you just die?"
"Please…"
"We hate you!"
"Please… Stop…"
"There will never be a place for you in the village!"
"Stop…"
"We can't wait for your death!"
"Stop… I… I can't take it anymore…"
"Don't you see?" A dark and twisted version of Kakashi's voice said. "We don't care about you, we never did, all that we want is for you to die and rot in hell!"
Through pained cries and sobs, Naruto shook his head. "No…" The whisper was barely audible.
The stabs came in even faster, accompanied by the calls for the Jinchuuriki's death by the three attackers. As the torture continued, time became irrelevant, truth became twisted, the assailants' shouts became enhanced and hypnotic, and pain became overwhelming and all consuming, until.
"STOP!"
As if something had being ripped right from the fabric of the Tsukuyomi world, a powerful shockwave spread throughout the surroundings and the captured blond was covered by a light blue chakra. Out of sight, a faint smirk formed in Itachi's face as he watched the genin's chakra gradually turning orange and growing stronger with each passing second. "Finally… He's starting to draw out the fox's chakra." The former Leaf nin reasoned as he continued to observe the situation develop.
"Gaaargh!" Naruto thoughts were torrential. The Bijuu's chakra was running rampant throughout his body and, with every passing moment, the blond could feel an overpowering hatred building up inside of him.
"Kit!" A new voice broke through the boy's turmoil. "Calm down! You're absorbing too much chakra at an alarming rate, Kit!" The voice sounded scared and desperate. "Calm Down!" It repeated its plea, but it was left unheard as the Jinchuuriki's chakra pull suddenly became stronger.
Already completely surrounded by the terrifying orange chakra, the genin was hyperventilating, feeling that his body would be crushed by the pressure of the sudden power surge until. "Gaaaaargh!" With a sudden spike of power, Naruto's chakra burst, taking a dark blue color and blowing all of this teammate's figures away. "I hate you… I HATE YOU All!" He screamed as his power continued to increase.
Sharingan eyes widened in surprise. "Incredible, he was able to subjugate Kyuubi's chakra and his killer intent has become terrifyingly powerful!" The Uchiha thought in amazement.
"I will destroy everything! Everything!" The boy continued screaming. With each shout, the Tsukuyomi world's crimson sky flashed back to normal.
Worry started to seep into the missing nin. "How is it possible…? He is actually breaking through Tsukuyomi…" The black haired man's mind raged.
The Jinchuuriki could feel the power building up inside of him. "THIS WORLD CAN GO TO HELL!" Naruto proclaimed, and with one more chakra spike, he sent an even more powerful shockwave blowing the Tsukuyomi world and its caster away.
The Sharingan user found himself back in the forest of Konoha with a cloud of dust hovering in front of him where his target had previously stood. Scanning the chaos of small debris as the dust begun to settle, Itachi could see the genin's figure started to become visible.
Naruto stood in the middle of a small crater gazing up at the sky, his eyes looking through the clouds, and setting on a bright and imposing moon. Ever so slowly, the Jinchuuriki's eyes lowered and focused on the former Leaf nin in front of him.
The Uchiha's Sharingan eyes widened in shock at the sight before them. "Impossible… There is no way…." He muttered. "How can he…?"
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