Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ All for One ❯ Aftermath ( Chapter 4 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

All for One
 
Still in his evening clothes, Hiashi was in the middle of a pitched battle against unknown assailants. He dodged to the left, and a kunai flew past him. He retaliated with an open palm strike, knocking his attacker out cold. `Who are these people?!' Hiashi thought. `This is more assassins then anyone has ever sent after Naruto before!' He wrenched his mind back to the battle, and disarmed another attacker.
 
In the midst of the melee, the Hyuuga head found himself back-to-back with one of Naruto's bodyguard that still had the fortune to be standing: Hatake Tanken, Kakashi's cousin twice removed. “What is going on here, Hatake?!” Hiashi demanded as he crushed another skull.
 
Tanken breathed a sigh of relief. “Hiashi-sama, it is good to see you. We were on a modified patrol, because we're short one due to Itachi being on his mission. But one of the security seals was triggered, and we came in as fast as we could. By the time we got here, Ibiki was already down and a couple of the assassins were climbing the stairs towards Naruto-sama's room. We engaged immediately, and everything became a frenzy!”
 
“How many of you are still fighting?” Hiashi inquired calmly, as if he had not just used his Hyuuga techniques to shut down two chakra circulatory systems simultaneously.
 
“I'm not sure. Ibiki is down, as is Hizashi. Chouda went down fast, they just got him from behind. Ryoto put up a fight, I think she's still going at it.” Sure enough, as he spoke those words, one of the cloaked attackers was thrown against a wall by tiny serpentine dragons. “Yeah, she's still at it. Other then that, I don't know.”
 
As the battle wore on, it became apparent that the attackers were being halted. They might have been numerous, but as the fight had progressed, more and more of the clans had shown up and aided the Hyuuga in stopping them. Soon, Naruto's house, and the area around it, was covered with bodies, some alive, and some not.
 
In the middle of Naruto's living room, the twelve clan heads were standing. They all quickly took stock of each other, and none had any wounds deeper then a slash along the arm. Then one of them noticed something off. There were twelve of them, but thirteen clans. “Where is Fuguku?” Kosumo asked.
 
From the top of the stairs, a young voice said “Right here.” The clan heads looked towards the voice, and were just in time to see an unconscious Fuguku being tossed at them. Hastily, Chouza caught him and put him down gently. At the top of the stairs was Itachi, and he was holding a very unconscious Naruto.
 
“Itachi-san!” Hiashi bellowed. “What is the meaning of this!? You've attacked a clan head!”
 
Itachi made quieting gestures with one hand, while the other arm cradled Naruto. “Shhh. I just got him to sleep!” he said quietly. He carefully walked down the stairs, and put Naruto on the couch which was thankfully empty. Then he walked over to the assembled heads and spoke in a more normal voice. “As to the reason I've attacked your precious clan head, you should be able to figure that out.”
 
The heads looked at each other, exchanging confused glances. Inoichi spoke up for all of them. “What do you mean, Itachi-san?”
 
Itachi gestured to the shrouded figures on the ground. “Have any of you bothered to take off their masks?” He looked at the blank faces that stared at him. “I didn't think so.” Itachi walked over one figure, and pulled off his cowl. Dark eyes and dark hair met the eyes of the assembled heads. This man was clearly an Uchiha.
 
“Not enough evidence?” Itachi asked. He walked over to the next figure, and pulled off its mask, revealing another Uchiha face. Itachi slowly walked around the room, pulling all the masks off the bodies. Uchiha face after Uchiha face became uncovered. After all the faces in the room were bare (except Kakashi's), Itachi turned back to the cluster of clan heads. “For those of you who can't figure it out, the Uchiha clan were the attackers here. For some reason, they, or more specifically my dearest father over there, got it into their heads to kill Naruto. That would be a bad thing, in case you didn't know that.” He grinned as all of the clan heads glared at him for his insolent attitude. “So I came in, and stopped tou-san from decapitating my little brother here, although he was doing a pretty good job by himself.”
 
The information was very difficult to handle for the clan heads. One of them, one who had sworn to protect and nurture a small boy, had tried to kill him for reasons unknown. All of the heads reacted very differently. Torahi, who was normally a very strong man, was already distraught from the loss of his beloved Anko, and began to cry. Chouza, Shikaku, and Inoichi all exchanged glances, with Chouza muttering something about needing a drink. Kakashi looked sick to his stomach, while Tenoshi had suddenly become very pale. Kosumo looked disgusted, and Shibi looked impassive, though the bugs buzzing angrily behind him told a different story. Iriai sat down hard, stunned that a fellow clan head could do such a thing. Nidaho knelt down to comfort her dog, who was whimpering. Goitro just shook his head, and murmured that he was getting too old for this shit. And Hiashi…
 
Hiashi looked livid. Those who had never seen an angry Hyuuga before were now treated to that sight. As a matter of fact, if Chouza hadn't restrained him with a partial multisize jutsu, Hiashi showed every sign of charging at the unconscious Fuguku to destroy him. After a minute of fighting Chouza, who was thankful that Hiashi had forgotten he could use the jyuuken, he calmed down. Chouza released him, and Hiashi looked cold once again, though his left eyelid was twitching. “Itachi-san,” he asked. “What did you do to him?”
 
Itachi grinned a feral, bestial grin. “I've recently activated the final level of my Sharingan, which adds three powerful techniques. One is a genjutsu that transports the target to a world of my creation, where I control everything. In one second, he was just burned by Katon jutsus for an hour. It didn't actually burn him, but it knocked him out.”
 
Hiashi's eye stopped twitching. “That was most appropriate, Itachi-san.” He turned and looked at Naruto's bodyguard (most of whom were unconscious) and Ibiki, who was also out cold. “Will Ibiki-san be alright?”
 
Inoichi walked over and did a hasty diagnosis. “He'll be fine in an hour or two.”
 
Hiashi let out a cold smile. “He will have a lot of work to do when he feels better.”
 
Their conversation was interrupted by the sound of many ninja landing outside, and the door flying open. It revealed the Hokage, who seemed to have brought most of ANBU with him. With a glance, he took in the very strange scene: a room full of unconscious Uchiha, twelve clan heads plus Itachi standing in a circle in the middle of the room, Naruto sleeping on the couch, and all of them occasionally shooting the unconscious Fuguku. Sarutobi breathed out a sigh. “Do I want to know?”
 
Kakashi made a small grin. “No, probably not, but you'd better.”
 
A couple of people let out a small chuckle. Sarutobi walked over to the gathering, and said, “About five minutes ago, I felt enough chakra here to be equal to a small war between villages. What exactly happened?”
 
Hiashi took a step forward, signifying that he would be serving as the spokesman right now. “We were all at home, when we felt Naruto's distress signal. We immediately rushed here, where we saw his bodyguard and Ibiki engaged in combat. Quickly, we joined in and stopped the assailants.”
 
Itachi stepped forward, and continued the narrative. “Around that time, I was rushing here, having been warned of an attempt on Naruto by an… assassin sent after me.” Everyone noticed the pause before he said assassin. “I arrived just in time to stop Fuguku from cutting Naruto's head off.”
 
Finally, Chouza stepped forward. “Then, after all of the clans had come, we joined forces and killed almost all of the attackers. Only afterwards did we learn that they were all Uchiha.”
 
The Hokage rubbed his head. “Blessed Kami.” He murmured. “Does anyone know why the Uchiha clan attacked Naruto?” Everyone shook their heads. “I didn't think so. Well, after Ibiki wakes up, he will get to work. And, Inoichi, once Fuguku wakes up, you'll have to interrogate him yourself.”
 
Inoichi sighed. “If there's no other way.”
 
“ANBU!” The Hokage barked. “Take all Uchiha present save Itachi to either the prison cells or the morgue, depending on their condition! Take all other wounded parties to hospital!”
 
The ANBU barked as one, “HAI!” Then they began their allotted tasks. The Hokage turned back towards the gathering.
 
“Hiashi, take Naruto to the Hyuuga compound for the night. Everyone, get some rest. We'll have a lot of work to do tomorrow.”
 
The next morning, Itachi walked into the Hokage's office. Without preamble, he asked “Hokage-sama, what exactly is going to happen?”
 
“In regards to what, exactly?” the old man responded. Itachi felt a vein in his temple begin pulsing.
 
“What will happen to the Uchiha clan?”
 
“As of right now, it has been determined by Inoichi-san that almost the entire Uchiha clan was at Naruto's house, attempting to kill him. So as of right now, there are seven members of the clan remaining.” Itachi quirked an eyebrow, inviting him to continue. “The majority of the clan was executed, and their bodies incinerated, about an hour ago. There remains you, congratulations on becoming clan head by the way, Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun, Kurochi-chan, Hishin-chan, Metsuki-chan, and the former clan head.”
 
Itachi gaped. “He's still alive?! Why is he still alive?!”
 
“Because we've been debating on whether or not to make it a public execution.”
 
Itachi stopped in mid-rant. “Ah. I see.”
 
The Hokage looked at Itachi gravely. “Itachi, there is a more pressing problem here then Uchiha Fuguku.”
 
“What could be more important then the ringleader of an assassination attempt on Naruto?”
 
“Naruto himself.” The Hokage said, leaning forwards on his desk. “Itachi, you told me last night that Naruto awoke his Sharingan?” Itachi nodded. “And are you aware then Naruto has also awoken his Inner Persona, Byakugan, Bug Contract, Beast Transformations, Dragon Powers, Akamichi Expansion, the Living Shadow of the Nara, the Inner Weapon, and his Monkey Abilities?”
 
Itachi gaped. Naruto had awoken all the major bloodlines he had been gifted with, at the age of six! “I was aware of most of them, but not the Inner Weapon or the Monkey Abilities.”
 
“Well, he has awoken Ten Bloodline abilities! As you can imagine, that is extraordinary for such a young boy.” Itachi nodded, still stunned. “But it is too much.”
 
Itachi shook his head to clear it. “Excuse me?”
 
“Naruto cannot handle all ten of them at the moment. He could handle one, maybe two, safely at the moment. But three or more are extremely dangerous. Naruto could overload his brain, killing him! It was no threat before yesterday, because his body could contain the nine bloodlines. But the tenth one throws his entire control out of balance, and the ten abilities within him could kill him.”
 
“Shit!” Itachi screamed, temporarily forgetting that he was in the presence of the Hokage. Then he remembered, and the old man was treated to this sight of the unshakable Uchiha Itachi blushing. “I apologize, Hokage-sama.”
 
“Quite understandable. I have let similar sentiments out over the course of the morning.”
 
Returning to the topic at hand, Itachi asked “How do you know this? No one else has had ten bloodlines at the same time before.”
 
The Hokage nodded. “But Naruto woke up at about five o'clock this morning. He immediately began screaming in pain. All of his bloodlines were acting up. The Hyuuga guarding him stated that, `his eyes turned red and grew a comma, veins popped up around them, his shadow started boiling, he suddenly put on twenty pounds, swords began appearing out of midair, lights shaped like dragons or monkeys began shining out of him, his dog started to howl, centipedes started swarming near him, and he started cursing fluently.' In short, all of the signs of uncontrolled bloodlines.”
 
“Can we help him?” Itachi asked frantically.
 
“We can, but it will be… difficult.”
 
“How? What do we have to do?”
 
The Hokage took in a deep breath, then let Itachi know the bad news. “His bloodlines must be sealed.”