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A/N: This chapter is to explain the events leading to the Nakamaru Massacre. Enjoy!

My name is Sakura Haruno. When I was 8, I had two best friends.One turned out to be a rival, one a crazy murderer. Ino and I.... well, we didn't always have a crush on Sasuke. Hosuke was our first love... and he actually was very innocent, until that one day.... but let's go to the day before that day. Ino, Hosuke, and I were walking down Konoha's main street,talking about school. Suddenly, Hosuke brought up a different topic.....

"If either of you were in danger, you'd count on me to rescue you, right?"
Hosuke brought up.

"Of course we would" This was in fact true, since Hosuke was already a Genin at age 9, almost a Chounin,(he was one year older than us) and very gifted in the art of Ninjutsu. He had two special Jutsu: One was passed down between family lines, which he told no one about, not even his mother. The other was called Fire Claw jutsu. In this jutsu, small metallic rings came out of a small pouch on his belt. They floated in the air, amplifying his chakra.He would put each of his fingers in the small rings fast as lightning, do hand signals, then solidify his chakra in a claw like shape jutting out of the rings. He'd then clap his hands together, and flames licked at the claws.

"Well then, let's take an oath... An oath that no matter what, we'll protect and look out for each other, no matter the consequences."

I took that oath...... not even realizing what it meant, I took it.
But I ended up heart broken.We went home and ate dinner. We had planned on meeting again, in the alley beside the bookstore the next day. So, each of us went to sleep. But, that night, Hosuke had a nightmare. His nightmare, was actually a prediction of the future. He woke up breathless and hot.He took a few deep breaths, and forgot about the dream, and went back to sleep. A deadly
mistake.

Ino and I were in the alley, waiting. Hosuke was 2 hours late.

"No way he can be this late!" Ino cried out in a huff.

"Perhaps he had something to do, like buy groceries." I replied back.

"If he had to buy groceries, the least he could do was call us!"
"Still-AHHHHHH!" I screamed in a high-pitched scream as a Chounin with a sword jumped down in front of us.

"You gonna-AUUUUUGGHHHHHH-die today" The Chounin said after he threw up in front of us.

"Y-you're drunk!" Ino exclaimed, noticing that he swayed when he walked.

"What's it to ya, missy!"
Ino threw a few shuriken at him, a direct hit, and it did nothing. Then she threw Kunai, a direct hit also.... she rushed at him, only to be thrown back where she was. No escape, they could only cower in fear. The Chounin raised his sword for the killing strike, then...

"FIRE CLAW!" Hosuke yelled and slashed at the Chounin's back. The Chounin fought back, but got gauged in the chest legs and arms. The Chounin slashed downward, but Hosuke jumped on top of the blade and...

Hosuke tore out the Chounin's heart, he held it in his hand, and then crushed it, blood splattered everywhere.

"No one TOUCHES my friends!" He snarled and kicked the body, lying on the ground, cold and lifeless. Hosuke took the body, and hid it on the roof of the bookstore.

The rest of the day he started acting weird, like wanting to slaughter a chicken for no reason! As his bloodlust grew, so did Ino and I's worry. His bloodlust grew more and more, until it was unbearable. And that night, he led the Nakamaru Massacre, killing thousands of people, slowly and painfully. He killed his mother, his father, and his older brother.

When Ino and I went out to see what was going on, We saw him. In the middle of a thousand corpses, there he was. We rushed towards him.

When we approached, he said to us:

"It's a beautiful thing, death. It makes you feel so...." He turned around, and smiled crazily, like a criminally
insane person at a genocide, "ALIVE!!" He laughed maniacally.

"You killed all these people!" I yelled, surprised.

"Who else?" Ino replied. " He's got criminally insane written on his face. We gotta stop him!"

"But....."I stammered. I didn't want to hurt him. After all, I loved him, and Ino did too!

"RAHHHHH!" Ino ran at him, 3 shurikens and a kunai in her hands.She jumped.

"You can't stop me, Ino!" Hosuke struck her in the stomach with his Fire Claw Jutsu. " You shall have this scar as a remembrance of me!"

Ino screamed in pain, her stomach bleeding extremely bad. I ran at him with 2 kunais, reluctant to hurt him, angry that he hurt Ino. I striked.... but he dodged and clawed my back.

"Heh! Like you could stop me! But still..... I say goodbye to you now, but we will meet agan!" He did something unexpected then..... He leaned over Me and Ino, and his lips touched mine, as he kissed me I cried, thinking that there was no hope. He kissed Ino, but she was unconscience. She couldn't feel a thing, but she knew it was happening.
And with that, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

2 weeks later, Hosuke crawled in the wilderness, looking for food. He hadn't eaten in 2 weeks... he was starving, parched, and suffering. He passed out. When he woke up later that day, someone stood over him. He had a black cloak with red clo on it, black hair, and Red eyes.

"Who are you?"Hosuke inquired.

"Itachi Uchiha is my name, but you may call me 'Master'."

Itachi picked him up and they disappeared.The next time he ever visited Konoha, he was wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it.