The student. (A Naruto fanfiction)

Chapter #14 Revenge or Justice?

Naruto knocked on Sasuke's house, the Ravenette answering the door with an impassive face.

"If you still want to kill your brother to avenge your clan, then you need to come with me."

"Why?"

"I have information on why he slaughtered your clan, information that might change your mind."

Sasuke followed Naruto to Shisui's house, and was lead to an office, where an Investigation Board was set up on the wall.

"What is this?"

"This is all the evidence I could dig up in a month on how Shisui died. But it's enough to tell me the full story." Sasuke turned to Naruto, his brows furrowed.

"And what is the full story?"

"Let's start with my birth. The day I was born, Lord Third had several medics and his wife help deliver me in a cave, hundreds of miles away from here. My mother was the Jinchuriki of the Kyubi, and apparently when a female Jinchuriki gets pregnant, the beasts seal weakens, their Chakra being split to care for the fetus. So I was born in a cave where my father, the Fourth Hokage handled the sealing process, making sure that the Kyubi didn't escape. However, a man in a mask, claiming to be Madara Uchiha attacked them, extracted the Kyubi and unleashed it onto the village. The masked man was thought to be an Uchiha due the Sharingan being capable of controlling it, and none of the Uchiha's made a move to control it, to stop it's pillage.

This caused a good portion of the village to believe them responsible, and for this they treated like outcasts, like lesser people, so they planned a Coup de tat. A Coup would've created a civil war, and after it was over other villages would've attacked, knowing this Shisui reported it to the Hokage, and offered to stop it."

"How!?" Sasuke questioned.

"Sasuke, what do you know of the Mangekyou Sharingan?" Naruto questioned as anxiously he folded his twitching hands.

"It's an evolved Sharingan, it gives it's user unimaginable power, but the requirement to activate it is to kill your best friend. And Itachi-" Sasuke cut himself off, but Naruto finished his sentence

"Itachi activated it by killing Shisui. It's the trauma of killing your best friend, or the guilt that allows you to awaken it. Itachi awakened his Mangekyou by watching Shisui kill himself."

"Wait! Why did he-"

"During the Kyubi attack, the Third wanted to utilize the Uchiha's Sharingan against the Kyubi, but an Elder advised against it, so he instead used them to protect the civilains. When Shisui attempted to use his Mangekyou ability to stop the Coup, the Elder, Danzo Shim- what was his name? I don't care, it was stupid. Danzo Fuck-face attacked him and stole one of his eyes, a powerful eye that he's still in possession of.

With the danger of the Coup still coming, the Hokage was forced to order Itachi to kill the clan. He then left the village to play as a double agent for the Leaf and joined an organization of S-class traitors, that is run by the masked man that attacked the Leaf."

Naruto watched Sasuke, waiting for his reaction. Sasuke clenched his fists and teeth in anger.

"Then Danzo and the Hokage are responsible, I'll kill them instead." Sasuke promised.

"You could do that, I'll help with that, my parents and master died as a result, just as your clan did. But, are you ready to risk the consequences of that path? If you kill an Elder and a Kage, you might as well join your brother in the Akatsuki. I don't have a lot of love for this village as I once did, it causing my family and clan's death, so I'm fine with killing them for revenge, I can rebuild my ancestral home and we can start a village..." Naruto trailed off, chuckling at the irony.