Betrayal

Chapter IV

"Itsuki, Naruto is in jail right now." Touma informed Itsuki about the Forbidden Scroll incident. Itsuki's heart sunk when he realized his favorite brother was gone and made a criminal. Both of the children thought that Naruto never should've been jailed; he was tricked into stealing the scroll. But there was always a prejudice against that blonde child.

"Is there any way we can get him out?" Itsuki said on the verge of tears. Touma just shook his head no. Touma was well informed of the mechanics of the village that he resided in.

"As far as I know, he will be gone for a while, probably exiled for 'treason against the village'." Touma continued as he pushed his glasses up. Itsuki's hopes for Naruto were ripped asunder.

"I hate this village." Itsuki muttered under his breath. "They treat my brother like shit, when he's done nothing wrong."

"I do as well, but there's nothing we can do about it." Touma replied.

"Not yet.. but when I get stronger, I'm leaving this shithole." Itsuki said with determination. "I will get revenge on this village."

"Boys! You're running late!" Niko called from downstairs. The two brothers hurried up and went downstairs to go to the Academy. 

When the two went to the Academy, they had a newfound determination to become strong enough to avenge their brother. 

"Okay class, settle down." Iruka commanded. When the class didn't calm their selves, he said, "SHUT UP YOU BRATS!"

"Today, we will just do the shinobi arts, nothing more, nothing less." 

They aren't even thinking about my brother. Itsuki thought with rage. Touma simply looked upon Itsuki with a look of concern; he was being extremely irrational. Of course they wouldn't care; the student's didn't even know Naruto's name.

"First, we will do taijutsu sparring. Please follow me to the sparring grounds." Iruka said. The children went to a field with one large circle in the middle.

Iruka called up Itsuki and another random civilian student to spar. 

"HAJIME!"

Itsuki realized that that student was one of the children who called Naruto a demon. So he decided to take his anger out on him. He charged at the child and threw a punch that knocked him back. The child retaliated with a sloppy kick to his ribcage that Itsuki dodged. Itsuki then grabbed him by his leg and threw him out of the ring. The child looked at Itsuki with a fearful look and said, "Get away from me.. you.. you DEMON!"

"Ayamatta. That is enough. You've lost." Iruka said with a very stern voice. Itsuki took heavy breaths as he regained his composure, realizing that he just had an outburst in front of all of his classmates.

"Oops.." Itsuki said while scratching the back of his head, secretly enjoying inflicting pain upon the ones whom he hated.

"Right... the winner of this spar is Itsuki." Iruka declared. The students looked at Itsuki with fear as they backed away from him to make a path.

Control yourself, Itsuki. You can't control your emotions at all. Touma thought as he looked at Itsuki.

The children continued sparring, the last match being Itsuki vs Sasuke. The two students walked up to the circle, they faced each other as they did the seal of confrontation. Once Iruka gave them the signal to start, they ran towards each other and threw a series of punches and kicks. Touma jumped back and pushed up his glasses.

Sasuke ran towards Touma and attempted a Lariat but Touma used a substitution. Touma charged at Sasuke, threw him on the floor, and restrained him.

"The winner of this spar is Touma." Iruka declared. The class gasped as they saw their class prodigy defeated by someone else; a civilian child at that.

"Touma is so cool!" Sakura said as she looked at Touma. "But he looks like such a nerd." Sakura continued, her childish excitement faded as she said that sentence.

Sasuke seethed as he saw himself beaten up by someone else. "You got lucky, idiot." Sasuke said with anger evident in his voice.

"Hmm.. I still won; luck was on my side this time." Touma retorted, he inwardly smirked as he saw Sasuke lose his composure and storm away; he was definitely going to ask Itachi to train him that day.

Looks like we are on the path to avenging Naruto.. Touma thought as he looked at the sky.