War. Uchiha Itachi!

AN: Akuma will experience the horrors of war and meet Itachi in this chapter.

WC: 851

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[KA:63]

The next day,

Akuma and his family went to the memorial of all the shinobi who had died in the third great war so far. There were talks hushed around the village of Minato Namikaze decimating over one thousand Iwagakure shinobi with a single Jutsu earning him the epithet of the yellow flash of the leaf. Akuma knew the only Jutsu that could do such a thing was his father's Hiraishin. The Flying Thunder God Technique. Namikaze Minato's most prized jutsu.

Unfortunately for Akuma, this technique required you to be up to level ten in the sealing arts and to have complex knowledge of seals both of which Akuma did not have.

After coming back from the memorial, his father wished to show him something. Minato touched Akuma's shoulder and the moment they did so his surroundings changed instantly. Thousands of shinobi who were once strong living humans were now nothing more than corpses that lay dead on the floor utterly lifeless.

Akuma was shocked and felt sick to the core, he had known about the nature of war and death and it is an inevitable factor in the world full of shinobi however, he had actually witness lifeless bodies. Most weren't moving but few were twitching unable to move in a near-death-like state.

A foul stench circulated across the battleground. The smell of death and burnt flesh. Akuma turned out and puked, his father placed his hand on his shoulder. "Kuma-Kun, what do you think it means to be a shinobi?"

Akuma pondered on his father's words trying to come up with an answer, he played close attention to the battleground, the one prosperous green fields in the land of fire was reduced to a mere warzone, where death was everywhere.

"Shinobi are those burdened with the task of enduring hardships for the sake of a greater cause, in particular bringing about peace through unification. A shinobi is the one who endures, but it doesn't end there. A shinobi is one who can follow or lead others into any darkness and work together to overcome that darkness and make it out the other side. A shinobi walks towards danger when everyone else is running away, that is because it is the duty of a shinobi to look at any foe and simply say; "Bring it". That is because shinobi exist to protect those who can't protect themselves. It's not a matter of being forced to help others, it's a matter of wanting to help others, and believing fully that the power to do so is within everyone. Due to the greedy natures of few, many end up dying protecting what they love, its because of this, that death, war and pain will always be an interlinked theme throughout the world."

Minato silently thought about what Akuma had just said the will of fire was present within Akuma so much so that it even surpassed his own. "Then with your ideologies, I believe you'll make a magnificent shinobi. Do you want to go back now?"

"Yes, Tou-san," Akuma replied.

After coming back from the warzone, Akuma decided to head down to the Uchiha compound with his mother. As she was visiting to catch up with her best friend. Minato followed the two as well as he saw the perfect opportunity to discuss some matters with Fugaku the patriarch of the Uchiha Clan.

As the family made its way to the centre of the village, they reached the gates of the compound. Stationed there were two Uchiha chunnin that wore the basic Uchiha Police Force garb decorated with th Uchiha Fan. They saw Minato's face and let him enter. It was a common rule of thumb that only council members and the Hokage can access the compound without permission but it was also common knowledge of how close the two families were.

The three Namikazes made their way down the road until they encountered a bigger house than the rest and every wall had the Uchiha fan painted on it.

Kushina knocked on the door, taking a step back and waiting for someone to open the door.

Seconds went by until they could hear walking on the other side. The door opened to reveal a young boy around the same age as Akuma.

The young Uchiha was slightly smaller than the Namikaze. He had black eyes, under which were long, pronounced tear-troughs. He had jet-black hair, framed with centre-parted bangs that extended to his chin. His clothes consisted of a black shirt with the Uchiha clan symbol on the back, bandages around his ankles, and black sandals. He wore tan shinobi pants with a weapons pouch strapped to his back. As soon as he opened the door his eyes went straight to Akuma and as soon as they made a connection a bond was formed. One that would shake the foundations of the Great Shinobi world.

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AN: And there we have it.

Please leave powerstones after all, it is my motivation to work harder.