The Other Nine-Tailed Fox

..::The Truth::..

~Sasuke's p.o.v~

I slowly open my eyes and just stare at the rock above my head.

"I treated your wounds." I heard a voice say, making me sit up. I looked around trying to see where the voice is coming from. "You won." The voice spoke again causing Itachi's dead face to flash to the front of my mind, the image burned into my memories, never allowing me to forget. "But you've sustained quite a bit of damage as well. Try not to force yourself up." I look away, and a man came out from the shadows. "We have met once before."

It took me a second to recognize who it was, but then it hit me. It was the hyper guy at the battle, the guy who ripped (y/n) from me! That bastard! "The last time, it was as enemies. Don't worry about Deidara's death...I am not your enemy. I brought you here in order to tell you something. You're not interested at all, I see...Maybe if I put it another way, you'll want to listen? It is about Itachi Uchiha. Yes...you think you know about your brother, but you know nothing." He took of his mask once he told me he was an Uchiha as well. Once his sharingan was showing, mine activated in my left eye. Black fire soon appeared onto the guy and he started to scream from pain, and back to the shadows once his mask fell to the ground. My left eye was bleeding and I was breathing heavily.

"What was that just now?" I asked.

"The Amaterasu, which Itachi implanted inside you." He placed his mask back on and continued to talk. "How like Itachi. He surprises you even after he is dead. To think he planned things this far..."

"What are you talking about?" I asked as he walked closer to me, now standing in front of me. He answered.

"In order to kill me, he placed a jutsu into you...or rather should I say, to keep me away from you...He probably set his Amaterasu to self activate when you look into my sharingan. So this was his fail safe plan...Although it didn't work on me." He spoke.

"So...what is this all about?" I asked.

"Before he died, Itachi must have done something to you." He spoke. My eyes went wide and I clenched my teeth as I flashed back to when he poked my forehead like he used to, with his bloody hand..as..he...died. "At the end...for your sake, he transported his own ocular powers to you." He said.

"What are you saying? Just...what are you trying to say? Why would Itachi do something like that?!" I asked.

"Don't you get it? In order to...protect you." He said.

"Protect?" I asked, not believing him. "Did you say protect?! You've got to be kidding!" I yelled.

"I'll say it once more...You think you know about your brother, but you know nothing." He told me.

"If you continue to speak such nonsense, I'll kill you!" I said, not looking at him.

"You're not making this easy, are you? I suppose that's natural though, suddenly being told such a story by a stranger like me. But what I tell you is the truth. Itachi did mention it, did he not? About his accomplice that night. I am that Madara Uchiha." ...Madara said. I looked down, not believing what he is saying. "I know everything about Itachi. I suppose that Itachi died without realizing that." Madara added. I griped the green blanket and brought it closer to my face.

"Shut up! Such things don't matter anymore! Just get out of my sight!" I yelled.

"No, you will listen. You need to hear this. It's your obligation! For the sake of the ninja world...For the sake of the Hidden Leaf Village...And for your sake...You're brother risked everything. You will know how Itachi Uchiha lived! Do you know why? Why Itachi implanted Amaterasu into your eye? Itachi was determined to make sure that you and I would not meet. You will understand why, as well as everything else, when you hear me out. Those who knew the truth about Itachi were Denzo of the Hidden Leaf, the Third Hokage, and his advisors Homura and Koharu. Just those four. The Third Hokage died...and now, there are only three aging folk. Still those three will probably never reveal the abominable truth. The truth about Itachi with fade into the darkness forever. And that is what Itachi wished. However I know the truth about Itachi too. As I said earlier...Itachi died without realizing that. However he wanted to make doubly sure. It seems Itachi didn't trust me. So just in case I did know the truth, he planned to silence me with the Amaterasu. He probably anticipated I would show my sharingan in order to speak to you. Why is this?" Madara said.