~NARUTO'S POV~
It's been 5 years since I started at the Konoha Ninja Academy and a lot has happened and come to light. I smiled as I remembered all that has happened in the past few years.
• FIRST YEAR •
When I first started at the academy. I could immediately could tell that the teachers hated me and tried to sabotage me. I brought this to Jiji's attention at the end of the 1st week and he said he'll handle it. After the weekend ended and I returned back to the academy. The teachers started to just outright ignore me, well except for one.
Iruka U. had changed and started teaching me and talking to me. On good days he'd take me out for Ramen. He was the first one I told about my act of being an idiot. After I felt that I could truly trust him. He asked me why I was even putting up the idiotic mask. When I'm more of a prodigy than anyone in the class even Sasuke Uchiha.
"The Hokage had given me a mission." I whispered, Iruka gave me a confused look.
"But you're not even a genin, why would he give you a mission?" Iruka asked, I continued to eat my ramen.
"Hey, old man! Hit me and my friend up with two rolls!" I said, Tushi understood and lead us to the back, where a secure meeting room was hidden.
After I had activated the privacy seals and sat down in front of Iruka. I dropped my mask and looked at my sensei seriously. I then pulled out a scroll and passed it to him. Iruka took it and opened it.
"This is to stay between the two of us. You are to not under any circumstances tell anyone about this." I said with authority in my voice.
Iruka nodded in understanding. Before handing the scroll back to me. I took it from him and sealed it in a storage seal on my arm.
"Do you have any leads?" Iruka asked, I nodded.
"Indeed, four in fact. The first is Mizuki O. He has ignored the Hokage's order of teaching me correctly and has been trying to sabotage me in my Taijutsu stances and Shuriken-throwing education." I explained, Iruka's eyes widened at the information, before asking.
"And the others?" I released a long sigh.
"The others are on the Council. I was lucky to have heard everything they said and had planned, but I was unlucky to have been noticed by a current war hog. I was lucky that I had used a shadow clone in a very convincing hinge of an Iwa ninja. The clone dispersed the moment its pursuers lost sight of it when it entered the forest." I said, Iruka looked at me with a troubled expression before he spoke again.
"Naruto... I want you to promise me something."
"What is it Iruku-sensei?" I replied, he put a hand on my shoulder and gave me a hard and serious look.
"Under no circumstances let Donzo S. find out. Also if you notice any ANBU wearing a blank mask with the kanji for Root on the mask and their following you. You are not to pay attention to them and are to immediately head to the Hokage's office." Iruka said, I nodded and promised.
• Second Year •
In the second semester of my second year in the Academy. The class was informed that the Uchiha clan had been massacred by Itachi Uchiha, but he left Sasuke Uchiha to live with the guilt of surviving, but I know the truth. After class ended I immediately channeled chakra to my nose to find Sasuke's scent.
When I found his scent, I quickly made my way to him. When I found him he was sitting on the end of a dock, looking at his reflection. I sat down next to him staying quite. After a while, I spoke.
"Sasuke..." The Onix-eyed black-haired boy looked up at me.
"Do you know why he did it..." I said it not as a question.
Sasuke looked at me as if deciding on whether or not to answer me, but I continued.
"Before you get angry and start ranting. I want you to come with me. Cuz what I have to say is something you need to hear." I then poked him in the center of his forehead.
This was something that only Itachi ever did to Sasuke and he knew it. Meaning that if I did that. Then I had information that he wanted.
He blinked and before he could say something I was already up and walking away. I looked back.
"You coming? I mean I'm pretty sure you'd rather be anywhere else, then being alone in your clan compound. Also if you want I'll pay for your dinner. The Ichruku's recently started severing Curry and Tomato and Spice Ramen." I said, Sasuke looked at me for a moment.
"Also Weasel told me to tell you something. That I didn't understand, but he said that you would. He said, 'I come, I go, and with the Orange Leaf, I leave a story to my Little Crow to learn to the find the truth of a time as a Weasel for last time, but be warn this Orange Leaf is not what it's seen as.' That was the last thing that Weasel ever said to me. That was on the same night as the massacre. That was also the last time I saw them." I see Sasuke's eyes widen in realization as he quickly got to his feet and began to follow me.
We walked in silence all the way to the Ichruku's once we arrived inside. Sasuke was about to speak but I held up a hand to silence him.
"Oi, Old Man! Can I get my usual and two bowls of your spicy Tomato curry for my friend here. Also Two Pop Tins." He looked up at me, then at Sasuke and nodded before leading us into the Hidden meeting room I meet with Iruka sensei in.
Once the our food was given to us and the door closed I checked for any root Anbu finding a few hiding outside in a trees. Making a pair of Shadow Clones. I had one of them henge into Sasuke perfectly.
Once I was sure that they were prefect enough to fool even the Anbu. I sent them out of the hidden room. Sensing that it worked I activated the Seals in the room. Sasuke watched this in silence while eating his food. Once I sat down I created another clone to help speak while I ate.
"Now Sasuke, What we're about to tell you is considered an S class secret that not even the Hokage about before hand. It's only a secret if nobody else knows other than the one's that know who is there, but since Boss had one us henged as a gnat and placed a seal on it to hide it's chakra from others, the clone was able to get the information without any trouble or the notice of the occupants in the room." My clone said, I finished my first and second bowls of ramen.
Sasuke had just finished his first bowl of Curry and started on his second. He looked at the clone and motions for them to continue.
"Tho before we share the info Boss has gathered. We need you to promise to us that you'll keep quiet until the time is right." My clone said, holding out his hand, the seal for keeping secrets on his outstretch hand.
Sasuke looked at the seal and looked at me with a questioning look. I looked at my clone.
"If your wondering what the seal is on my hand is. It's a seal called Secret Keeper as the name implies it stops you from ever mentioning anything that deals with Boss's true personality and what is said here. It's a precaution incase someone tried to get information on Boss." My clone said, nodding their head towards me.
Sasuke nodded and shook my clone's hand it dispersed in a small cloud of smoke. I just finished off my last bowl of Ramen and Sasuke finished his other bowl of Curry. Releasing a burp. I continued where my clone left off.
"Now, as I asked you earlier. Do you know why he did it?" I said, with a cool tone.
I saw a flash of anger in Sasuke's eyes. As he was about to say something. I spoke out.
"Before you answer that I first want you to take into account what kind of person Itachi was before he went into the Anbu black ops. Then tell me." I said, Sasuke closed his mouth for a moment before he spoke.
"He was always there for me. Like my mother was. He always encouraged me to do better. He was there whenever my Father put me down. He even allowed me to watch him practice. He showed me how to throw shurikens and kunais." I noticed that he was tearing up, tho I continued.
"Did he ever tell you what his dreams were. Did he ever tell you what he wanted to do in life. Maybe Shishu told you what he's like, or overhead conversations about him." I asked, while I made a clone to make some tea.
Sasuke blinked and went quite for a moment. Before he took the tea that my clone made with a nod in thanks. It dispel it's self. Sasuke drink the warm liquid and sigh in contentment.
"I do recall moments were I overheard my clan talking about him. but I don't get it." I looked at him and tilted my head.
"What don't you get, Sasuke?" He looked at me with a complicated expression on his face.
"His actions and behavior on that night don't match up with, how I heard he was kind hearted and didn't like bloodshed. I still can't get around it." Sasuke frown and looked at me, I nodded and sipped my tea.
"Also I pretty sure Weasel was his Anbu identity. He taught me how to decode his riddles and the riddle he told you decoded is: I've come with a final massage for Naruto to tell my secret to you, Little brother. To learn the truth of my time as an Anbu and my last mission, but be warn Naruto is not what he's made himself out to be... So I'm gonna guess that you wear a idiot mask to hide the fact that your actual a genius and a prodigy like me maybe better if you managed to make those Anbu follow your clones." I set down my tea and smirked at him.
"You hit the nail on the head, Sasuke, but we can talk about my mask later. Right now it seems Weasel found out about it and has told me to tell you the truth about the Uchiha massacre." I said, Sasuke narrowed his eyes at this.
"What do you mean by the truth?" Sasuke asked, I signed before I spoke.
"Sasuke what I'm about to tell you is SS ranks secret made by Donzo Shiromori. I only learned about it can Itachi had asked me to make a Shadow clone to follow him transformed, now reference my transformation jutsus are very realistic to the point that I am basically a very real copy my transformations are solid. So my show clone transformed into a crow that was similar to Itachi's summoning animal. My clone heard the order and I received the memories after it disbursed. It was cuz your clan elders and father were planning a coup d'etat on the third hokage." I explained, Sasuke looked at me with disbelief.
"I don't believe you." He said, I shrug my shoulders.
"You don't have to believe me it's the truth. But I warned you do not bring this up with anybody else unless it's secure. With noise blocking talisman like this room has. Unless you want Danzo in his root agents coming for your life." I said extremely serious. Sasuke gave a firm nod that he understood. Before we both left the room I may offered to Sasuke.
"Sasuke would you like to train together?"