Chapter 032

"Damn it," Naruto cursed with pain coursing through his already injured body, "Where the hell are all these shurikens and kunais coming from?!"

"Naruto-kun," Itachi stated as he reappeared in front of Naruto again with his katana in his hand, "This is an illusion world of my creation. I can control all mass and laws of matter in this universe! Here, I am god."

"Fuck you," Naruto cursed as he aim his katana straight at him, "You may have invaded my mind and my body but no one is god in my mind but me! Now get out of my head!"

Itachi and Naruto engaged in another sword fight with each other. This time however, Naruto fought more fiercely and carefully against the former ANBU captain. Itachi was surprised to see Naruto giving him some problems now. However the situation changed again when another Itachi appeared and slashed and stabbed Naruto from behind. Naruto screamed in pain as another Itachi appeared and stabbed him from the left and another from the right. The young fighter found himself in a most unfavorable situation as the main Itachi stepped forward.

"You've put up a good resistance against me Naruto, but your level of power and mine are far too different."

With that Itachi shoved his katana straight into Naruto stomach, causing the boy to yelled out in immense pain. Naruto head limped down seemingly as though his defeat was eminent. A couple of moments later however, Naruto remembers his father's words, 'Itachi is using and manipulating your mind against you! He's making your mind believe that everything you're seeing, experiencing and all that's happening is real!'

If he can shape and manipulate my mind into whatever he likes, Naruto contemplated, Then maybe I can as well. I just have to find some way of tapping into my mind's abilities.

Closing his eyes, Naruto focused his thoughts and power on one objective. Itachi looked on at Naruto momentarily with a wondering expression.

"What are you up to," Itachi asked as he continued looking on at Naruto for the next couple of minutes, "Whatever you're planning it won't wor-"

Itachi was unable to finish his statment when suddenly…

"RASENGAN!"

Itachi turned in time to be blasted away by a mighty chakra spiral ball. Three more like the previous spiral ball appeared and blasted away to the other three that were at Naruto's sides. The katana embedded into Naruto were pulled away before he fell forward. Before hitting the ground, an arm came and held him up, keeping him on his feet as he gave Naruto time to recuperate.

Meanwhile, Itachi rose up from the ground to see from whom the attack come from. His eyes widen upon seeing the attacker who aided Naruto.

"Yondaime!?"

"Uchiha Itachi," Minato said venomously, "You're a disgraceful and dishonorable testimony to everything that the shinobis of Konohagakure No Sato stands for! And you made an even worst mistake coming here to torture Naruto! For your crimes, you will suffer my wrath!"

"You died years ago Yondaime," Itachi stated, "There's no way you should be here!"

"Be that as it may," Naruto said, "But in my mind, I can bring back whomever I choose! And since I'm very familiar and well versed with Yondaime Hokage's legacy, I have the ability to mentally create the perfect replica of him. In my mind, he's as real and as strong as the original."

"This shouldn't be possible! How are you able to resist and fight against my Tsukuyomi?"

"Like I'd tell you! Yondaime, let's show this traitor never to underestimate us!"

Minato nodded as both he and Naruto turned to face him. Before Itachi could do anything, he found himself kneecapped hard to his guts by Minato who speed dashed at him like the wind, complemented with Naruto delivering a solid blow to the back of his head with his right leg. As Itachi doubled over, Minato grabbed and threw him across the streets of Konoha, before creating another Rasengan and speedily charging at him with it, driving it into his stomach. Itachi gave out a scream of pain as the spiral ball drilled its way through him before exploding on him, blasting him further back away from Minato. As Itachi was sent flying backwards, Naruto performed the Shunshin No Jutsu and teleported some distance behind Itachi, with a tri-pronged kunai in his hand. He threw the specially made kunai Minato gave him towards Itachi in time for a yellow flash to appear with a kunai slashed against Itachi's throat. Those were last things Itachi saw and experienced before being forced fiercely out of Naruto's mind…

(Back In The Real World)

Kakashi was standing next to Naruto just before Itachi fell to his knees while holding his head. The Akatsuki nin winced and grimaced from the massive pain his head was in. Naruto was breathing hard as though nearly ten hours have passed by when merely a second went by in the real world. The effects of the Tsukuyomi were having their affects on him.

"Itachi," Kisame called out as he went over to his partner. Kisame was surprised to see blood trickling down from Itachi's nose (A/N: Not in the 'being a pervert' sense in this situation). The injury that Itachi suffered from his mental battle with Naruto proved to be more damaging than expected. From the look on Itachi's face, the sixteen-year-old Uchiha was not happy at how a seemingly mere eleven-year-old not only defeated his Tsukuyomi, but also caused him to bleed his own blood.

"This Naruto is not an ordinary kid," Itachi voiced lowly, but enough for Kisame to hear, "We came ill-prepared to face him Kisame, that we did."

Kakashi was speechless at the turn of events. He was almost certain that Naruto was a goner the moment he fell into Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan. The ANBU captain was amazed that Naruto somehow managed to overpower and defeat it.

This Naruto is truly my sensei's son, Kakashi thought to himself with a grin hidden underneath his mask. Naruto fell to his knees and hand before Kakashi hurried to him and held him up, with a kunai pulled out and held in his hand ready to protect Minato's son.

"Tell me Itachi," Naruto asked weakly, "There's something I want to know...Why did you slaughter your own clan? For what purpose was it?"

"…I wanted to see what I was capable of," Itachi replied coldly, "It was important for me to know and to advance to higher levels."

"You ruthlessly murdered and slaughtered your own clan and family for that reason," Naruto asked in disbelief.

"My former clan held me back from my advancements. I have no regrets."

After hearing his answers, Naruto felt more disgusted at the Uchiha in front of him, "You're inhuman! You have no conscience!"

"I sense your hatred me of Naruto," Itachi said with a small cruel grin on his face, "That's good. Hatred gives us shinobis our power and strength, something my foolish little brother lacks, which makes him so weak. Your hatred must be far stronger if you were able to hurt me this much. In some ways you remind me of myself."

"Where are you getting at," Naruto asked cautiously.

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