Chapter 13

Waking up in the early morning, Itachi went to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water. Next he looked at himself in the mirror, knowing what kind of day it was.... One of the most difficult of his life, for he would have to completely cleanse the Uchiha clan... namely by killing them with ease....

As he got dressed and walked outside in his pure black T-shirt, he thought about his T-shirt first, and the fact that he had bought another pure black T-shirt over the past six months, but without the Uchiha clan crest, as it had been torn on the bomb squad missions he had been on from explosive seals with Shikaku-Nara. Walking on, the Hero-in-Chief thought about yesterday to distract his thoughts for a while, and thought about how he had been training Sakura in kunai throwing, and he was sure that sooner or later she would master this technique, with kunai throwing in the air, and yesterday in addition to training the Uchiha Clan Genius had also given her advice that "shinobi shouldn't keep emotions above missions" and she had replied "But why? even if there are those I love among them" and he replied, "Love better those who love you and not those you love and break your heart..." speaking of that he thought of Sasuke....

Itachi's POV

When I left Konoha, I went deep into the forest to the side of the river, and I stood by the bridge, grabbing the bars, and looking down at the waves as they flowed, and I wondered if they were flowing as smoothly as my time, if I was trying to keep a steady wave of time, or if I had already broken something... but it didn't matter, and even if I had, I would find out sooner or later, but it doesn't matter... and even if it does, I'll find out sooner or later, and while I was thinking looking at the river, I noticed a figure approaching me from behind, and it was like something familiar, I think I know this person, and she started:

-Hi Itachi," I turned around and saw Izumi smiling at me, her appearance was the same as always, long brown hair and a pink t-shirt, I smiled as I looked at her, I hadn't seen her at all since I'd come into this line, probably because I was rarely in the uchiha quarter.... and she looked at me and said, "Long time no see, where have you been?

-Hi Izumi, the Hokage gave me a house in the center of Konoha, so I left the Anbu and decided to stay closer to the center of Konoha, since that's where the Hokage's residence is, and the exit from Konoha is also closer, and especially the castle-kikyo, my favorite place in Konoha, is also a stone's throw away," I said this speech so calmly that it felt good because I was telling the truth.

-Now I see," she smiled, folding her arm across her chest, and added, "I thought you were avoiding your clan, or me," she added with a smile.

After these words I realized how smart she was, for her insight was philosophical almost like mine, and after her words when I made a little sad look and she I think realized that I was really avoiding the clan, and after a couple of seconds pause, seeing my look she decided to continue:

-Itachi, can we go back to the konoha?" she folded her hand over her chest and began to shiver, and added, "or I'm cold...

-Is it cold? -I decided to inquire, making a worried face, as I was really worried about her, because I had known her all my life, and taking a scroll from my left pocket, I folded the seals from the scroll came out my dark blue that looks like an Akatsuki cloak, I held it out to Izuma, and added -wear it, you'll get warmer - I said with a smile, and she answered me the same, and began to dress, and we headed towards Konoha.

As we walked through the spacious field, there were only grasses and trees, and it was quite cozy, but the weather was really cool, because the sky was gray, and I knew that it was the calm before the storm, but at the same time I knew that it would not rain, because during the clan slaying there was a clear sky and even the moon was bright, and even when Sasuke saw my black silhouette against the white moon, and while walking I decided to start a conversation.

-By the way Izumi- I started, and she looked at me, adjusting the neck of my cloak, and she looked good in it, I continued, -What were you doing here anyway?

-I've been following you Itachi - she answered, and I listened with a normal face and she continued - when I noticed you in Konoha, I started following you, because I was curious what you do in your free time I often noticed you in the castle-kikyo, but today you went out of Konoha for the first time in a long time, so I followed you, even though it was very cold - she said with a smile, which caused me too.

-I can see why I couldn't spot you, since you were following me from far away by activating your sharingan- and mentally I thought that I could only detect her if I activated my sharingan myself.

-By the way, have you awakened your sharingan? - Huh, we've seen each other so rarely these months, but she didn't know that I had awakened my sharingan in Anbu, and now she's asking me to make conversation, and I look at her with a smile and activate the three-tomoe sharingan, and she was happy when she saw three tomoes, and she only has two, but I surprised her even more when I activated the three-pointed mangekyo sharingan, and she added:

-Whoa! That's so cool Itachi you have mangekyo," I didn't take off my smile after that, but I did take off the mangekyo and she continued, "When did you awaken her?

And on the way to Konoha, we started a real conversation, and I told her the same story as Shisui, how I had awakened the mangekyo, I wouldn't say it was a lie but half true, heh.... We walked through the spacious fields where the grasses seemed to dance, and when the wind of the gray sky hit my face, I felt better, because the cold always gave me strength and also a feeling of real freedom, because that's how it is, I walked around in only a black T-shirt, and then after finishing the story we went back to the gates of Konoha, and we both activated the sharingan and saw Izumo and Kotetsu still playing poker, and we laughed together with Izumi, and when they saw us they waved and smiled, and we smiled back.

It was very nice when I entered Konoha, and suddenly the gray clouds began to part and the sun was visible, Izumi took off even my cloak, I folded it back into a scroll, and she added "Thank you Itachi-kun If it wasn't for you I would have turned into ice" and then she came closer to me and kissed me on the cheek, and that made me smile, and everyone who was in the main street of Konoha, looked at us as a young couple and even smiled, even those who were passing by, later Izumi took my hand, I was surprised and smiled and pulled me towards the dango diner, adding, "Itachi, look it's your favorite place" and when we got to the diner she let go of my hand and we bought 4 dangos each to eat sweets and sat on the benches talking.

-Izumi, have you ever thought about who you were in your previous life?" I began, finishing my favorite dango food.

-I don't know... Maybe I was a princess," she said, smiling the smile she used to use as a child, which made even me smile, and she continued, "or maybe I was what I wanted to be, like a Hyuga or Senju, or maybe an Inuzika, and I was friends with Hana, too," she smiled, remembering her best friend, and added, "I'm quite happy being an Uchiha, maybe I was one in a previous life.

While we were talking positively we had already finished the first portion of dango, and then we see that we passed by a sad boy, I and Izumi immediately recognized him, it was Kiba Inuzuka, the younger brother of Hana, and he was walking a little even crying, I and Izumi approached him, and began:

-Hi Kiba-kun- Izumi began, kneeling down and wiping his tears with her fingers, she continued, -What happened to you, did someone hurt you?

-Akamaru is sick," Kiba said sadly, "and my sister is with him now, treating him.

When he finished, he abruptly made a sad look that fell into the ground, and he even seemed cute, for his mouth showed little fangs of top teeth, and when he was sad it looked quite pretty heh, and I decided to add to the conversation:

-Kiba actually he doesn't get sick he just evolves- he turned his face into a surprised look when he looked at me and I continued- I know a breed of dog like him, with white fur, they are not easy to kill and especially not with a disease, I'm sure he will even survive the war- in the last sentence I remembered the fourth war, I saw Kiba and Akamaru were there and I knew that until that moment they would not die, While I was thinking about it, I was interrupted by Kiba's shout of joy that his dog would live, and Izumi looked at me and smiled as she saw me as a good positive friend who heals many with just one touch, and I gave my last dango in Kiba's hand and he responded with a deep smile.

-Kiba, now you realize that everything is going to be okay," Izumi said, fixing the neck of his sweatshirt, and he smiled back and hugged her with joy, and Izumi ruffled his hair and added, "When you see Hana, say hi to Sister from Izumi," and he nodded and walked away, toward the park and met Naruto, and they went there together, and Naruto saw me and waved, and I waved back.

-You did a great job Itachi gave such valuable advice- I smiled lightly and added "I only told him the truth" and then folded my arms over my chest, satisfied with the truth and Izumi smiled and added looking right at me- "You would have been a good father to Itachi.

-And you'd make a great mom -I said that and looked at her eyes too -and then I turned my gaze to the roof of the hokage residence building, and began: -Izumi can go to the roof of the building, there's a great sunset -she nodded with a smile.

The two of us went up to the hokage building, accumulating chakra on my leg and climbing the walls and even noticed the third hokage outside the window, he was covered in papers, we even felt sorry for him with a smile and we kept climbing until we got to the roof and I was admiring the orange sunset, taking the bars in my hands and Izumi suddenly comes up to me and hugs me from the back, snuggling up, both her arms around my side, she folds her arms in a ring around my stomach and she also whispers softly "Thank you for a wonderful day with you" such a wonderful feeling, I turn to her and hug her and her arms are much warmer and gentle which give me positivity and her smell is also native and when we pull away from hugging each other she licks her lips with her tongue, walks towards me as suddenly:

-Itachi-san wants to see Danzo-sama-" Anbu appears on the roof with us, interrupting the moment, and Izumi looks at him with such anger as if she was ready to awaken the mangekyo-sharingan, and I smiled in response, holding back a slight laugh at her angry look, even Anbu became uncomfortable with his childish trembling, and he quickly vanished.

-Sorry Izumi but I have to go- I told her, she replied with a nod, and I also added- -and promise me something...

-Whatever Itachi-kun-" she replied looking at me and added a smile.

-Don't come to uchiha quarter today- -she wanted to say something, and started with the word "but..." I interrupted her by saying- -just say yes, it's my request to you... - she nodded and I left the roof towards the Anbu Root headquarters.

I got to the headquarters and Danzo gave me an Anbu uniform, it was very unusual, and the armor was stronger and steel and he also added "You may have left the Anbu, but consider this your last, and not finished mission in it..."."And I nodded and walked off into the uchiha quarter, and the sunset had passed, and there was no clouds in the sky, the sky was clear and the full moon was visible, and I remembered the moment in the first timeline when Danzo tried to tear Shisui's eye out, and he used genjutsu to grab his arm sharply, but Dazno used izanagi and broke out of his genjutsu and created the most unexpected moment for Shisui, because he didn't know he had several eyes of killed uchiha on missions, and then after tearing out the eye Danzo added "Even if you used koto-amatsukami on the fugaku, it would only delay the hatred and attempted revolutions of the clan, you are too kind to see their true face and how they want to take Konoha by force and start a revolution, I'll take the other eye to help me" then several root shinobi appeared beside him, and Shisui used katon, and those used suiton, and a steam was triggered in which Shisui disappeared, and when he met me he showed me the memories with one eye before he gave it to me, and I was also angry that Danzo didn't want to destroy the Uchiha, but that he was right... and looking at Sasuke, I can already appreciate that.

I made it to the uchiha quarter and stood on its doorstep ready.... But this time Obito won't be there because the third one decided to destroy those scrolls from the Uzumaki clan about paralyzing the enemy that he was looking for before the deadline, so he left earlier, this time I'll have to destroy the uchiha quarter as well as the police, but alone.

I'm already walking through the threshold of the uchihi neighborhood, wearing an anbu uniform just like the one I wore that night in the first timeline, although, come to think of it, that's what it is.... and starting to enter each house and I kill everyone who gets in the way and especially those who were on the council, and I give them a quick death, entering different houses in which there were different personalities, some were a couple who were married and were preparing kunai to attack Konoha, and in others were my peers, Some were brothers and sisters who wanted to betray their clan just for their own sake, and the extreme houses were people in deep maturity, and they were 50-55, who were imbued with such negativity that only death would save them, or rather my blade, so that in the next life their blood would not be uchiha.

I was able to destroy half of the uchiha neighborhood, and going into the largest one, I see that there were kids about 6-12 years old, and they were looking at me in a way that I knew they had the same angry and hateful look that Sasuke had when he would be a vigilante, and they lived arrogant lives looking at all the other kids like dirt, and were also bullies in the academies, thinking they were purebloods, I didn't even feel much regret when I killed them all, I even felt relieved that I gave them a quick death from such a life, I killed the whole neighborhood in peace because the police were all in their headquarters, and they were discussing strategy on how to capture Naruto, stealthily and bring him to Fugaku, and there were all the police in one pile, and they were also resting there in case of their sudden failure... But their failure came before they even realized it, as soon as I entered the police uchiha itself, entering the vice of the police buildings I was covered in the blood of the people I had killed.

All the more than twenty police officers looked at me with surprise and one of them said "what's all this about?, you betrayed our clan?, we'll kill you for it!"

-Actually that I am not a traitor I am darkness in its purest form, like a black hole that can purify negativity -I started and they all looked at me strangely and some thought I was ready to die, but I didn't care about their opinion -and let me show my power.

I closed my eyes and they were all preparing their swords and kunai as well as vakizashi, but when I opened my eyes there was a mangekyo sharingan and I used susanoo and the whole room was surrounded by red susanoo and as it continued to increase the ceiling started to collapse, and all the police were shocked that I was using a technique that even Fukaku Uchiha couldn't master, and using the totsuka sword, I killed 7 policemen with one blow, and when the ceiling collapsed, they all died too, and only one survived, who managed to escape from Uchiha's headquarters in time, and when I canceled the susanoo, I took out a wakizashi against him, and he ran at me with a regular kunai and a wild vengeful scream, and I easily fought off his attacks with my mangekyo, and so far there were no side effects, because it was my first time using it, and my eyesight would only be affected by one or two percent, and when I fought off his attacks, I kicked him in the side and kicked him in the thigh, which made him fall to his knees, and I did a backflip, while flying, my feet kicked his chin, and while flying when I was distant I threw the last six shurikens at him, and he died, but before he did he said something like, "Beautiful...".

The whole clan was wiped out, everyone was dead there was only one house left to kill, and that was Sasuke's house, later I noticed the silhouette that had been following me all this time, at the very beginning of the time I had entered the threshold of the uchiha headquarters, and I recognized it, it was the head of the uchiha clan himself, who had shown him a memory of his plan, and how he was the monster there, controlling the Nine-Tails, and it was Fugaku Uchiha, and he even allowed the thought "but, how can he even use susanoo at that age, my mangekyo can only enhance speed and reaction, and induce powerful genjutsu, but he easily induces susanoo?"., what else is he capable of?" and I guessed he had such thoughts, because I know all about his mangekyo, and that it's inferior to mine.....

-Itachi what's all this?" he said folding his arms across his chest.

-I chose Konoha's side," I said, putting the wakizashi back in his back as I knew he wasn't going to fight me, and later added after my words, "I chose Konoha's side. I also added," again.....

He didn't understand my last part, and closing his eyes disappeared, as his shadow clone was, I realized where he was and what he was going to do, and as soon as I quickly got to the place where I killed them in the first timeline, and going into the room I saw the exact picture, and just like that the two of them were sitting on their knees preparing to die by my blade.

-We all know Itachi and we understand your decision- Said the wife of the head of the Uchiha clan.

-And I don't intend to fight to the death against you-" Fugaku continued, "because when you kill me, I don't want you to think that I wanted you dead to the last...

-I'm sorry to have to do it again, but I have no way out, I have to keep the chronology so that the village would be better in the future, it takes a lot of time to fix all this, and it's time that I'm fixing.... - I told them part of the truth knowing that they would have no effect now that they were dead.

-I've never understood your philosophy," said the Uchiha Clan Leader sadly, and continued, "But I'm proud of you, because your essence wasn't just human, it's like God created it. - I was thinking about my words, who told the third that the soul is the original creation like sparks from the stars, created by God, and while I was thinking my thoughts were distracted by his voice - I have one more request to you.... - A couple of seconds of silence and he continued - take care of Sasuke... and if he and like us succumb to his bloody blood - He closed his eyes and opened them and continued - I think you know what to do....

He didn't say that in the first timeline, probably watching me, and when he saw susanoo, he thought about a lot of things and remembered how uchiha killed friends to gain power, and he probably realized he was wrong all along,

and he had the idea that Sasuke could also become like the other uchiha, didn't realize I had changed so much.

-Okay, I promise, Thank you for your understanding and support, -This time, my will became even stronger, and I didn't let out a tear like the last time, I immediately pulled out my long wakizashi and gave them the same easy death as the rest of the clan, and later I took out a jar of yellow liquid water and took the mangekyo eyes off the dead clan leader and put them in the jar, and thought it might be useful for transplanting if I needed to awaken the eternal mangekyo...

Later, I went out into the street of a dead uchiha neighborhood.... and I saw a black silhouette that ran towards the shadows near the counter, and stopped, and I took out four kunai, and threw them at it, aiming at the deadly points, and the silhouette didn't even resist, and instead opened up, and fell down, and when I got closer I saw Izumi lying wounded by my kunai.... and I quickly ran to her, I dragged her body away from that counter, and when I was in the center of the uchiha quarter, where the moon was shining brightly and I appreciated her beauty as she lay there and I took her body in my arms, I realized that I loved her....

-Izumi I'm sorry... - I began sadly and guiltily, I didn't know it was you, and why are you here? I told you to stay away from the clan today....

-After you left the roof of the hokage's building-" she started with a slow voice, as she was injured... but continued: - I followed you to Danzo's office and realized your hidden order when I stealthily evaded his anbu root shinobi to sneak into his room and look at the documents, and he didn't hide them from his anbu shinobi and didn't even lock them up because he sealed their tongues and they couldn't mentally go through his things, But I'm not a root anbu so I could - She started coughing up blood and I was sad that I couldn't do anything about it and she continued - In those documents when I saw that the uchiha clan was cursed with hatred I realized that those legends were true and then I remembered that you told me to stay away and when I finished reading the documents I found out that you would exterminate the entire uchiha clan today.

-But even knowing that, why did you come anyway? - I answered without letting go of her body.

-I didn't want to be like them," she let out a tear and continued, "and I realized that in the meetings I went to it wasn't for the clan but for my own gain, the Danzo documents opened my eyes and I realized what I could become, so I decided to die like my father during the nine-tailed attack, which is why I awakened the sharingan, and like my mother who also died after missions, I decided my sharingan would do more harm than good, so when I saw the dead neighborhood, I saw you, and I knew you wouldn't kill me, so I stepped into the shadows to die by the hand of the one I love with all my heart...

After she said that, I forgot about the sadness and even smiled, but remembering that she was dying, I wanted to talk to her more and I used the normal sharingan genjutsu on her and we ended up on the roof of the hokage's buildings and in which we were today even had the exact same sunset, in this genjutsu she could move calmly and just like that, was happy and she added "beautiful place" with a smile, and this time she knew that this anbu-mask would not hurt in the world in which I am a god.

She came to me, I grabbed her right hand with my left hand and her waist with my right hand, pulling her body to me, and kissed her passionately, she was so happy that she let out a tear, and with both hands she made a ring in my neck, and I kept kissing her showing my feelings for her and it felt like it was real, because I could feel the warmth of the rays leaving with the sunset, as well as her warmth, and after finishing our kiss she said "I want to tell you something, cancel the genjutsu" I did, and once again I found myself in the middle of the block holding her body, and she was dying to spend the last of her strength on her right hand and with it she took my face, and from the corner of her lips blood was flowing, and she smiled and said "I love you..." and then she didn't move and I closed her eyes and I was so sad that I realized that everyone in the clan was easy to kill, but her death hurt me the most, I closed my eyes and hugged her dead body, which was still warm, and then resigned to her death, I let go of her gently and got to my feet, with a feeling of love helped me to overcome this by the strong will that I always had, and also the honor to make this world a cleaner and better place when I will be in the fourth world after Kaguya, and meet Sasuke.

***

I saw Sasuke coming back from the academies, and standing on the roof, I think he noticed me, or rather my silhouette, and I quickly disappeared, and he thought he was imagining it, and after a while he saw the corpses of the Uchiha clan, and when he came home he saw two bodies, his dead family and me in the shadows....

-What's going on here? -Who did this? - I activated genjutsu and showed him how I killed many in the clan, and he fell to his knees in response, and with both hands holding his head, while screaming, I pull out a wakizashi from my back to point at him and say what I think about him, but he thinks I want to kill him, and runs out of the house, and continues to run away, I intercept him on the main street-quarter of Uchiha, standing 6-7 meters away from him, and he looks at me with fear and asks - why did you do it?

I know that no matter what I tell him, or even how I influence him, he'll still be the one who won't change and will still be a rinnegan, so I tell him as it is, and even risk changing the course of time, but the thought that it can be improved makes me even more sure I'm right.

-I did what I had to do, the Uchiha clan was preparing a coup, Danzo said that the cursed blood of the Uchiha clan would be persecuted, according to Danzo's words, and I realized that he was right, though I knew it before he was sure, and it was only by killing that I saved the clan, because not everyone in the clan is like me or Shisui, Sasuke became sad that he is not around, because during these half a year, Shisui trained him replacing my version of the first timeline, and now he is on a mission in the cloud country, and Sasuke looks at me with hatred, because he has not yet recovered from the shock, from the death of loved ones, he awakened the sharingan, with only tomoyo, and continued to look at me like that and began to cry.

-But Nii-san... - he probably wanted to add, "how could you?, or why?, you must have a heart?," I had those thoughts, but I interrupted him:

-I told you never to call me that again - he looked at me in surprise, I stood 6 meters away from him pulling a vakizashi from my back and pointing at his side - Call me Itachi, as that's my real name, and I choose the side of Konoha Again, and if given the choice, I'll kill you too," he wipes his tears as he continues to listen, "but I'll let you live," he opens his eyes in surprise, and I add, "since you weren't on the Uchiha council to overturn Konoha, and dying now is not your destiny Sasuke-Uchiha...

-Anything you say! - I won't call you Itachi Uchiha anymore, but someday you'll pay for it, along with Konoha, when I have my revolution!" he said grudgingly, shifting his gaze to an angry one,

-Konoha and the elders have nothing to do with it - I answered in a calm voice, and he stopped making a hurt look, and listened further - only Danzo and I knew about it, and now that I will be considered as a criminal I will have to hide from the village goodbye, see you later - I thought about the moment when he will awaken the rinnegan and I will kill him, so naturally I said see you and before I could finish talking, Danzo appeared between us, jumped down from the roof and landed on the ground between us, and started:

-No Itachi," I looked at him in surprise, and listened to the end, "my men from the anbu root are already aware of all this, and so I ordered them to inform all the clans and the people of Konoha about it, and what you're doing and for what purpose, and I even told them that the Uchiha are the ones responsible for the attacks on Konoha by summoning the nine-tails, and also my men told them that tomorrow the Uchiha would stage a coup, and the villagers were already preparing weapons and kunai to prevent the coup right now, but my men added that Itachi-Uchiha was already dealing with it alone, now go home and I'll take care of everything here, with the bodies of the neighborhood... - and I left nodded and headed for my house confused and still not recovered from his words, and he headed over to Sasuke's to talk personally about something or to calm down.

Did Danzo start revealing his emotions? It's not that crazy, it's easier to travel through time than to make him smile or be sad, and when he started to say all that, I could tell from his voice that he had no ulterior motives, and the sad tone he was saying it in, there was no doubt that it was his real emotion, but there's something wrong, the passage of time couldn't have affected his character, someday I'll find out why he became like that, but for now I'm going home, but even this news that I'm staying in konoha doesn't make me happy, I still think about Izumi, her smell and her soft hand and her smile, now I get out of uchiha's apartment, I take off my bloody anbu uniform and throw it in the trash thinking "my last mission in anbu is over" and I wash my face with cold water, and my black t-shirt that doesn't have the uchiha crest on it is not covered in blood, and I leave it behind, and washing my face as I did this morning, I can't stop thinking about Izumi, going to the side of the bed, I take out a scroll, and folding the seal, there is my Black Cloak, which still has Izumi's scent in it, and I hug the cloak, feeling her, and remembering that when I used genjutsu on her, I felt her chakra flow, and when during World War IV I defeated Kabuto and canceled Edo-tensei, through his thoughts I noticed Madara-Uchihi's chakra, and realized that Izumi had a similar chakra, or as if there was a trace of Madara, and then I thought that Izumi was the reincarnation of Madara's sister Sarada, because before she died, she also hugged and touched Madara's face with her right hand, just like Izumi did with me, and he must have unknowingly transferred his chakra to her, and the trace remained, and Izumi was definitely the reincarnation of her sister.

The end of Itachi's POV

After the hardest day, Itachi went to the side of his bed, and closed his eyes, thought about the fact that Izumi was like "Love at the center of negativity" Itachi was relieved with the thought that the worst was over, and that he would be like the purest form of Darkness that had washed away the filthy Evil... and he also he knew someday instead of the Good called Naruto, he would also deal with Sasuke as well as the Uchiha clan, and fell asleep hugging his cloak, which still had Izumi's scent in it, but the main everlasting scent of the cloak was Itachi's, and he knew that Izumi's scent would someday wash away from his dark blue cloak, but he knew not today... and went back to sleep.