Mangekyou

Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Finally

Part 3 of Naruto: Mangekyou.

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REVIEWS

HeWhoBurnsFire: Yeah standard did drop for the 2nd chapter (you can tell by the lack of reviews). Hopefully this one's better…

Kurakawa Minamo: Naruto basically can teleport but nobody knows he can. The idea alone of a GENIN having a technique that's greater than the Fourth Hokage's Hiraishin would be too preposterous for anyone to consider…

KitsuneNaru: Naruto isn't an Uchiha in the sense of blood. His old man is still the Fourth and so on…

LightningPath: Mikoto/Naruto/Kurenai is a maybe… Not sure. It's an idea to run with. Naruto/Kurenai is certain at the moment.

Evilfrog1: Hinata will be slightly different, kind of perverse.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 3:

Itachi Uchiha had his own reasons for leaving Konoha. It hadn't been because of his superior's reluctance to meet one simple demand in exchange for him annihilating his clan. Nor had it been because his father wanted him to lead the coup on the Hokage. It was simple he had no other choice too. The simple truth was he solely was the key to either sides plan succeeding. Either he killed off his clan and Konoha continued to prosper though weakened by the loss of one of its major clans. Or he could easily have caused a civil war by siding with his family. He'd thought long and hard about it. He'd even killed his best friend and attained a power that only two others had possessed in the entire history of his 'family'. But in the end neither side had appealed to him in all honesty. They both led down paths of bloodshed which he was never willing to walk. All he'd ever sought was to test his capacity. His decision to leave Konoha was in part based on testing his ability to thrive when outside a comfort zone. In his eyes, at the time he'd all but out grown Konoha having been in the ranks of ANBU for several years.

So he'd left to continue on his true purpose. Which was to gauge his skills, to better himself and he'd been fortunate in that sense. What he'd stumbled upon and was reading through at that very moment had the potential to make him the most powerful Nin since his clan's most infamous leader. Who'd have thought his clans eyes were as bloodied as its history. Grabbing the scroll, he quickly rolled it up and placed it in his cloak. They had a mission to attend to and Leader-Sama wasn't the most patient of men.

"We can leave now."

His partner for the day, a former Kiri Swordsmen managed a bare toothed grin.

"About time..."

Kisame had stood outside for hours bored out of his mind. It was the same every time he'd been partnered up with Itachi. The kid would drag him to some place on the outskirts of Land of Fire to do only Kami knows what. Hell the only reason he'd volunteered for this particular mission was because there was a chance he'd get to kill Orochimaru or at the very least see how Samaheda weighed up against the legendary Kusanagi no Tsurugi (Longsword of Heaven). At least now he could look forward to that.

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Konoha

Kurenai smiled at the sight of her student training as usual. In the few months she'd had the pleasure of teaching him, she could only say that it was a far cry from her unpleasant experience with Yakumo. She knew she was the envy of the other Jonin sensei. Most of her comrades were jealous because she wasn't stuck 'babysitting three wannabe Ninja'. They'd all told her how most of their charges complained about wanting better missions, better jutsu and in Asuma's Akimichi involved case free lunch.