5.UCHIHA MASSACRE

NARUTO UZUMAKI,

EIGHT YEARS OLD,

STREETS OF KONOHAGAKURE.....

Naruto for the past two months has kept a close constant watch on the Uchiha clan. He is going to prank them and then show Sakura chan and Sasuke teme who is the real boss. "Muhahaha...once I prank Sasuke-teme's entire clan, even Sakura-chan would understand that the Uchiha clan and that teme, is all talk and nothing more. That teme's face would be priceless to watch when he finds out who pranked the so called elites of the village. He will then finally understand that nobody gets away after insulting prankster king Naruto Uzumaki, not even the Uchihas and then Sasuke-teme will be like Naruto-sama, please make me your underling and Sakura-chan will be like Naruto-kun, I am so sorry. I misunderstood you, you are so cool, let's go on a date. And then we will live happily together and that teme will become our servant.... Hahahaha.... speaking of that, let's begin the mission 'Prank the Pricks'!"

MEANWHILE WITH SASUKE....

Sasuke was running towards the Uchiha compound as fast as possible. He was late because he stayed at the Academy longer than usual for his training. Infact, it was a little dark by the time he'd left.

"I'm so late." Sasuke thought, as he approached near the Uchiha compound. But for some reasons, he started having a bad feeling. Even though the moon was shining, it wasn't that late. So the silence was a little unnerving to him. Glancing up at the electrical post, he spotted a shadow, but when he stopped and looked over it, it was already gone.

"I could've sworn, I think I saw big bro Itachi on the pole... but he was on a mission... naah I must be imagining things..." he thought to himself.

He then looked around as he noticed all the lights were out. He stood in the same position a little while longer thinking, "It's too early for everyone to be in the bed. Did something happened? The compound is unusually deathly silent today?" Along with these new questions a deep sense of foreboding passed through him for some reasons and he shivered at the possible answers to them.

With these thoughts in mind sasuke took off again towards the Uchiha compound. Turning around the corner, he stopped dead in his tracks, as he stared at the ground in horror. The area was a disaster, scattered Kunai's, and lifeless bodies were piled everywhere. Everything was covered in blood. And judging by the smells, he could tell that the bodies had been there for a couple of hours at least.

"What is this? How could anybody do something so horrible?" he asked himself as he ran up ahead towards his home. "Who could've done something like this? What is going on?"

He then found his Uncle and Aunt, who had also been killed at their shops.

"Uncle!... Auntie!... No... No... Not them too..." he thought trembling. Then suddenly, a horrible realisation and two names ran through his mind

"Oh no! Father and Mother... Please! be alive! please!..... Not them too!" he wished and ran off towards his home.

JUST OUTSIDE UCHIHA COMPOUND GATES....

Naruto was in the middle of preparing his supplies of paint and glitter. He was getting ready to launch his greatest prank when he heard a scream. It was sasuke's scream before itachi caught him in his genjutsu, the Uchiha massacre is over.

"Huh!... what was that? I didn't even started my pranks and they are already screaming. No something is wrong, first the creepy silence and now somebody is screaming! What should I do? Let's take a look in the compound then I will decide what to do?"

He steeled his resolve and took off towards the Uchiha compound gates.

At the compound gates, what he found horrified and scarred him to the core. The area was a disaster, scattered Kunais, swords and lifeless bodies were piled everywhere. Everything was covered in blood. And judging by the smells, he could tell that the bodies had been there for a couple of hours, at least.

"What is the meaning of this?" he asked himself, trembling and took a step forward.

He slipped on the puddle of blood coming from one of the gate gaurds getting his orange clothes stained red in Uchiha blood.

"What is th-this? This is bl-blood... blood of the gu-guards... what should I do? The mu-murderer was strong enough to ki-kill even the guards... what was it th-that Hokage jiji said to me in case of tr-trouble... ah yes! In case of trouble I must g-go to the po-police station. But should I?" Naruto asked himself shivering.

After a moment of contemplation, he decided to go to the Uchiha Police Station on the opposite side of the compound. He made his way to the end of the alley and looked around. The street was quiet. Seemingly no one was around, not even patrolling squads which was weird and the only light came from the moon and a couple of street lights. He needed to get to the Uchiha Police Station as fast as possible.

Currently, he could think of only one course of action that he could take. He needed to get this news to Hokage jiji and that meant that he needed to make his way to the Uchiha Police Station. "They would inform Hokage jiji and he would know what was going on and then everything will be fine."

Naruto knew from prior experience that no matter how much the rest of the village hated him he could always trust and count on the kind old man in the white robes and red hat, whom he would succeed one day.

Exiting the alley he was in, Naruto made his way through the village at a fast pace. He wiped his bloody hand off on his shorts as best as he could but it was still covered in somewhat dried blood that would not come out without laving. He reached the end of the street that he was on and rounded the corner. From the street that he was now on, the Uchiha Police Station was in view. The lights were still on in the tower which was a good indication that was until he saw a corpse hanging in the centre window of the station and light blinking on and off.

"Oh no! The... the ni-ninja police men were also ki-killed... Does that mea I will also be... No!?" he whispered to himself. It scared the shit out of him seeing so many corpses and even the highly trained policemen dead. He started chanting to himself, out of fear; "I don't want to die. I won't die. I won't die. I won't die. I won't die. I won't die. I won't die... I will go to Hokage jiji... he will help me..."

Wrestling his thoughts back to the current situation, Naruto with trembling legs started making his way to the Hokage Tower. On his way, an old Uchiha Police men called him, "He-help... me... P-please!"

The police man had a sword skewered through his abdomen.

Naruto heard him and decided to help him. He asked the police man, "Wh-What should I d-do?"

The old man with all the strength he could muster up said, "Th-the sword... t-take it... out!"

"Ok!... Ok!... Old man just h-hang on there... D-don't close y-your eyes..." said Naruto.

With trembling hands Naruto grabbed the sword to take it out but it was too late the old Uchiha Police man had died and unfortunately some civilians have witnessed it, who screamed, "The demon had killed the Uchiha Police man."

"It has finally shown it's true colours."

"Somebody help us!"

Just like that a hoarde of civilians came to the crime scene from the nearby market, beside the police station. They witnessed Naruto holding the sword that had skewered the Uchiha Police man. Still frozen, Naruto stared at them and they stared back at him. Suddenly he came back to his senses and tried to justify himself in a futile attempt, "It's not what it looks like. Somebody else did this. I was just trying to help him."

But the large group of civilians full of hatred has already pass their judgement on him and started advancing towards him with the intent on lynching him. They murmured among themselves like we should kill him before he took more lives, it has finally shown it's true colours, etc.

Naruto understanding their intentions, pulled out the sword from the corpse to scare them away. He pointed the sword at the incoming mob and said, "Don't come any closer.... I said don't come any closer!" He tried yelling at them but they just continued to come forward, uncaring and unresponsive not taking his threat seriously at all. He panicked and to keep himself safe, did a grave mistake and in full view of the entire mob of civilians and some shinobis, he said; "Don't come any closer... or... or I will kill you all just like I killed that old police man."

The effect was instantaneous, the entire mob took a step back in fear and began to edge away giving him a wide breadth. He took the chance and started running towards the Hokage Tower with the sword still in his hands.

Despite the tower being in view, the boy's sense of panic and unease was not lifted. He wasn't traveling that fast and he had not traveled that far but he still seemed out of breath and his heart was thundering in his chest. Naruto had now reached halfway to the tower when he felt the distinct impression that he was being watched. Not even a second after he heard shouting behind him and watched an entire mob pursuing him.

Several people, civilians and some shinobi from what he could make out were coming up fast behind him and shouting for him to stop so naturally Naruto sped up. He was now scared more than ever and running as fast as his legs could take him. The Hokage Tower was still far away and being that Naruto was only eight years old whereas his pursuers were way older than him, they were covering the distance fast.

The Konoha ANBU Force then announced themselves and asked Naruto to stop which just made Naruto run all the faster because currently he can only trust his Hokage-jiji. He knew by experience that Hokage-jiji is the only one who could help him, Hokage-jiji has always helped him whenever he was in trouble no matter what.

Out of the corner of his eye, Naruto saw a shadow begin growing on the ground next to him as he ran. As it grew he only managed to realize what exactly it was when he heard a slight 'whoosh' sound and a pain in the back of his neck. Someone had pounced on Naruto from the roof tops and whoever he was, he was much faster than the general ANBU force. Naruto's body went limp as his vision was blurred and he lost consciousness. It was non other than Anbu captain Dog.

IN THE MEAN TIME, WITH DANZO...

He has just found out from his Root Anbu, assigned to watch over the village jinchuriki, what has transpired with the said Jinchuriki.

Reading the report he smiled and thought, "It looks like today the heaven is smiling upon me, not only I have managed to get rid of the accursed Uchiha clan which has plagued the village since it's finding but now I have a potential chance to recruit the jinchuriki in my root forces or atleast train him. All I have to do is play my cards right."

"Fuū! Good work! With this development, I will finally have the Jinchuriki for myself." he said to Fuū who nodded in reply.

He then summoned his best infiltrators and information gatherers, and made Fuū the squad captain.

He then ordered them, "I want you all to go to the Jinchuriki's house and plant some false evidences against him which must indicates that he had a hand in the Uchiha massacre. Also erase all the evidences related to his intended pranks on the said clan." ordered Danzo.

Seeing the confused look on Fuū's face, Danzo elaborated, "The Jinchuriki has already admitted that he had murdered that Uchiha Police man infront of an entire mob even if to only halt the advance of the mob. But the real twist comes here, when you all will erase all the evidences related to his intended prank on the Uchiha clan at his home, which was also the reason in the first place why the jinchuriki kept a watch over the said clan for the past two months and visited their compound today. So when the investigators won't found any proof regrading his prank, it will indicate that the Jinchuriki kept the watch over the Uchiha clan not for some prank but to murder them. As absurd as it sound but with the hatred, the masses has for the boy, they will believe and do everything and anything to get rid of him. And as soon as the Konoha population will find out about these facts, it will only solidify their theory that he has a hand in the Uchiha massacre. And on top of that the Jinchuriki will have no valid proof to justify himself why he went to the Uchiha compound. No matter how much he screams that he had visited the compound, only to prank them." said Danzo and then continued, "Once the case comes before the council, I will manipulate the hatred of the masses, Sarutobi's love for the Jinchuriki and the situation itself in a way that he will fall right into my grasp. Then I will train him to become what he is destined to become, a weapon of the Leaf. So Failure isn't an option, you all must do everything carefully so as to not get caught! Understood!" he said sternly.

"Hai" they replied in unison.

"I am going to the Uchiha compound to help with the situation where I will meet Sarutobi to discuss the next course of action. Prepare the preservation vault to store the sharingans of the Uchiha clan." said Danzō happily and departed to meet with Homura, Kohura and Hiruzen, unaware that soon he is going to lose his position within the council and his plans for Naruto is going to go haywire.