Chapter 16

Itachi's POV

It's been about half a year since I slaughtered my clan, and my life seems to be getting better and my reputation is good, and I've done missions, rank-A or rank-B, and even some rank-S missions, and I've been lucky enough to have some companions, Hayate has always had my back if it's a rank-B mission, and Kakashi has also been there for rank-A missions, on the toughest missions, The most useful of all the partners was Gai, he was always excellent at taijutsu, and while he is not the captain of his team and therefore can freely carry out different missions with us, and I know what he is capable of even Sage Madara could barely resist against his eight-internal-gate, I saw what he was capable of in heaven through the Sage's orb, and therefore I was fully confident that with him my squad would not be lost.

During missions I used to wear my black cloak too, and it was useful, and it never got wrinkled, I guess I was too careful, and even if it did get wrinkled it could still be stitched or silk corrected, it's like healing a scar when you're an irienin, and mostly in such missions of such ranks I was the leader, and even managed to share the command with Kakashi during joint missions with Anbu, and sometimes I even commanded him when I had a better idea, and we kind of have a relationship with the fog village, and now the relationship is friendly, although they say that the fourth mizukage is missing or killed, and also now the next mizukage is Mei-Terumi, although I know that the fourth mizukage was used by Obito, he learned a lot from him with his sharingan, and then he tried to fight back and died and they never got the tailed one out of him, now they have to wait a long time for his chakra to form again on earth and the three-tailed one will regain his body and end up on the sea where Deidara and Tobi will capture him.

But what I find most interesting is that Shisui didn't come back from the missions.... of course he completed it, and cloud was grateful to the hokage when he sent the falcon with the letter, but they also noticed that Shisui didn't return back to konoha, and after a few months he was declared a nukenin, and they want to find him to find out why he didn't return to konoha, although I can guess why he left, maybe it's because I exterminated the whole clan and he's resentful?, or not?, maybe there was someone important among them and I killed him.... or maybe it's because his koto-amatsukami plan was interrupted by Danzo, or maybe there's another reason and I'll find out when we meet again.

While I was thinking about everything, my thoughts were interrupted by a ray of sunshine through the window, hitting me right in the face, and I got out of bed, removed the blanket and dressed in my favorite black T-shirt, without any emblems or signs of clans, going outside, I was heading towards the Konoha Hospital, as it had great trees, I haven't had a mission in over 2 weeks, so I'm taking advantage of that to walk around my favorite places, and near the hospital they planted a sakura tree, it smells as good as the daisies around it, or the lilac flowers that grow opposite the daisies, also I liked the biggest tree near it the most, where you can climb up and sometimes read your favorite books, I even found that book about "Brother and Sister" again, and as soon as I got to the hospital I climbed up into the tree and started reading, after reading a couple of pages I put it aside for a while and thought about it...

"Brother and Sister" is my favorite book... I even found out who the author was, it was Madara Uchiha, I didn't think he was a writer, but everyone has their hobbies even at that time, after the peace treaty was signed, they were both 35 years old, and Hashirama spent more time with his son, who he had when he was 20 years old, and Madara decided to reveal the truth to the world, and then he realized that many in the world had felt the same way, and that their children would experience the same thing, so he decided that the tsukuyomi were a great option, and he even wanted to use his clan, but they rejected him, wandering around for years after leaving Konoha, he planned everything carefully, he even knew that the types of all 5 elements, along with Hashirama's improved genome tree, were superior to his elemental types, and even against his perfect-susanoo he could counter the 1000-armed sage statue that Ashura had used against Indra, he wasn't sure of his strength, so he decided to use izanagi in case he was defeated, and yet, this izanagi must not be instantaneous, otherwise Hashirama would have realized he was alive and would have searched for him with all the kage and an army of all the shinobi, once he came to his senses, he hid in caves and began to study a lot of things and his knowledge of all the jutsu was incredible, even on this-tensei he found the key of control, like in the fourth world war... and Hashirama had his own story, after their battle he became even more respected, then he had a blonde granddaughter named Tsunade, and then when he was about 46 years old and she was 6 years old, he started to play private games with her and even taught her how to gamble, if Madara had seen this he would have scolded Hashirama for his stupidity and bad example, Heh....

Flashback

Then a shinobi who wanted to live forever came to the konoha and turned his body into a weapon to live forever, out of him came bodies of gray chakra and they were wearing different masks symbolizing different elements, which had many hearts in them, and each one of them uses different elements, Itachi learned the full story during those six months and realized that it was Kakuzu.... and he came to the konoha, he took out a lot of guards and Hashirama went outside the gates of the konoha to deal with him personally, when he got there he first asked:

-Who are you? -I see you as the protector of the waterfall village, but what do you want from my village? - Hashirama began to walk out of the gate, wearing the same clothes he had worn against Madara.

-My name is Kakuzu, and what clan I'm from doesn't matter, because I don't care about the village, I'm here to kill you Hashirama," he said indifferently, and Hashirama looked at him with anger and a questioning face.

-What's wrong with me bringing peace to the world?" the first hokage asked.

-That's the thing, you've become a legend and you're even called the Shinobi God, and I'm sure the next hokage will remember you as a legend as well," Kakuzu said with his usual air of truthfulness, and he was dressed the same way he had been during the fight with Naruto and Kakashi that was to come, But he was without the Akatsuki cloak, because at that time there was no Akatsuki, and Kakuzu closed his eyes and opened them sharply and continued, "And that's why I'm going to kill you, so that when you die I'll be the strongest shinobi ever, and people will look up to me even more than to you... - As he finished speaking, he ran straight to Hashirama.

They started the fight with taijutsu, Kakuzu was still young then, and even younger than Hashirama, by 20 years, Kakuzu was 26 years old, and he was also weak in taijutsu, and started losing to Hashirama, so he abruptly stepped back, and abruptly applied his spare bodies with masks, elements of lightning and fire, Hashirama didn't expect this, and he was hit by a strong lightning with flames, Even though Hashirama created a huge log between them, the lightning still struck his tree, and the fire burned part of his shirt, and Hashirama, after finishing his sage mode treatment, made a serious face and decided not to deal with him, so he used a lot of trees, and Kakuzu was trapped in a cage of trees, and then each of them began to break him, as if dragons began to hit him, with their foreheads, and from the trees he created sharp spears, and as soon as they came out of the ground, they began to poke Kakuzu, along with his bodies, in all directions, and all the bodies were destroyed, because Hashirama and the hearts also managed to hit, and himself also badly wounded he was lying on the ground, Hashirama thought he was dead, and he took a breath, and suddenly he noticed that one of the bodies consisting of gray chakra, still alive, then he realized that Kakuzu is also alive, and he gathered his strength and quickly left, while Hashirama took a breath, and added one last time "You won the battle Hashirama but not the war, I will be back, and it will be very soon, I promise.." after evaporated, for while he was talking, his other gray-chakra body pulled out a seal, and moved Kakuzu to safety.

The next day, Kakuzu still managed to kill enough people, and regained his collection of bodies from the hearts, already filled with gray chakra and masks, and stealthily infiltrated the konoha, since, even before the duel with Hashirama, Kakuzu had managed to leave a crack in the weak wall of the konoha and infiltrated it, and even quietly began to watch the Five Kage meeting, mostly talking about the harvest of the sand village, and how they were starting to accumulate residents from different clans since they had become Kage, and they were basically rejoicing that the world was going to be a better place soon, because now the states would stick to the Kage and unite and their descendants would live happily ever after, and they were all talking about it in the Hokage's residence, in the great hall, and Kakuzi was listening through the window, and he was wearing a seal in his dob that would completely hide his chakra, a seal he bought because he had a great passion for money, he liked to buy things, he felt he deserved it... and when the kage councils were over, everyone left for their villages, they were escorted out of the gate by the shinobi of Konoha, and Hashirama went to his home, it was 8:00 in the evening, but Kakuzu had gotten there early and there was no one there, and when Hashirama arrived, he reapplied his chakra concealment seal and took the form of his granddaughter Tsunade, and then when the first hokage walked over the threshold he noticed his granddaughter and smiled and went over to her and noticed her indifferent face and thought something was wrong, and he came closer and wondered:

-What's the matter Tsuna, not happy to see your grandfather? - he said with a smile and went over to her to hug her, and suddenly he noticed that there was a kunai stuck in his solar plexus, he didn't expect it, opening his eyes in surprise, and falling on his knee, he used both hands to cover the wound until he activated the sage mode that would heal his body, and transferring his gaze to the image of his granddaughter decided to ask -Tsuna.... why?

Then Kakuzu took his own form and Hashirama realized that everything was coming together, he wanted to fold the seal to use the style of the tree, but he couldn't.

-You're wasting your time, my kunai, which is very expensive, it had a seal that blocks all the chakra channels, and even paralyzes your body, and you won't be able to use it for another five minutes, even for the great Hashirama you can't break it in a blink of an eye because you're not the shinobi god they call you- said Kakuzu, standing against the kneeling Hashirama.

-Maybe it's my destiny to die right here," Hashirama replied to the smug Kakuzu, and continued, "but that doesn't mean the shinobi world will fall and you won't last forever, some day there will be a stronger shinobi to take my place, he will be a better hokage, and he will be your doom.

-Hokage to the highest title, and by killing you I proved it, now I am the strongest shinobi, and you are just a trace of Hashirama-senju stories from now on-" Kakuzu continued the conversation with his hands folded on his chest.

-Maybe you're right... maybe the Hokage is just a side effect that Madara and I created, but... - But, I believe in the Chosen One of the Toad Nation in Gore-Myeboku, the hero who will transcend time to change history, and no matter what happens next, I will die knowing that it is so....

-You're wise, Hashirama... I'm almost sorry I killed you, but I won't make you suffer... goodbye... - Hashirama closed his eyes with a serious look and accepted his death, Kakuzu took out a kunai from his pouch and slit his throat, and then abruptly left the konoha the way he had come.

In time he regretted this decision, the whole world didn't look at him, not as a superior shinobi, but instead as a criminal who killed the first hokage of the tuck, then Tobirama-senju was chosen to replace him as hokage, he became the second hokage, and his first order was to search and kill Kakuzu from the waterfall country all over the world, starting from the waterfall country itself, and he hid carefully all these years, even pretending to be a mercenary from Waterfall Country, many people thought he wouldn't go there, but he suspected they would, so he went there and started wearing another bandana with his country's protector, it was a different shape, it covered his forehead and even superficially, and all these years for over 50 years... ...even though he knew he was dead, he continued to do what he had been doing before, killing for money, and buying something he felt as if he deserved it, and over the years he had done more good than evil, because he had killed strong criminals, although there were some good ones among the strong, but he was no longer involved with Konoha, he was afraid to take risks, and his life went on like that until he met Six-Tel-Payne in the forest, The Six-Tel-Payne, who wanted to recruit him to Akatsuki, but first he wanted to know what he was capable of and fought him, and after 10 minutes he lost to Pein, as he had never met the strength of a rinnegan, and even if he knew what he was capable of he could still lose, because shinobi of his level could not oppose him even with their other bodies, and then he accepted Pein's offer, and joined the Akatsuki organization.

End Flashback

While I put the book down I thought about the fact that the author of the book was Madara, I continued to think about the further story of Hashirama, and his death, it is said that he was found dead at home, and then some sentries found someone running behind a broken crack in the weak wall of the Konoha, three men ran after him, but Kakuzu knocked them out with one of the bodies, and I knew it was Kakuzu because the descriptions were similar, and I found out about it from inside the castle-kikyo, I spent a lot of time on the roof of the castle because it's the tallest building in Konoha, but inside it's like a museum, and I found Tobirama Senju's diary, and I read it in my spare time for six months, and I even began to understand him and the way he thought, all his emotions about his lost brothers, when he lost his younger brother Itama-senju as a child, and then many of his clanmates, and in the end even his older brother lost Hashirama-senju, the first hokage, and took the burden to become the second hokage, and if he had been an uchiha, he would have awakened the mangekyo long ago, but he didn't need to, because he mastered the hiraishin, which the fourth hokage eventually used to instantly move the seals, so I realized that there's nothing complicated about it, so maybe I'll master it too, it won't be useless when fighting Sasuke with the rinnegan...

While I was thinking, I looked down and saw Hana walking to the hospital, to her job, and I felt bad, because when I was slaughtering my clan, I had accidentally killed her best friend Izumi, and Izumi was dear to me too, how would she look at me now, but it would be better now, because sooner or later we would meet anyway, I came down from the tree and jumped on top of her when she was almost to the entrance.

-Itachi, don't do that again you scared me a lot-" I said fearfully as I jumped suddenly and started fixing strands of hair.

-Sorry Hana," I said with my usual face, and then I shifted my gaze to a smile and began, "It's been a while, how are you doing?

I was wearing my black t-shirt, and she was wearing a jonin outfit, since she had become a jonin in those six months.

-I'm doing the same thing, I'm working as a veterinarian and at the hospital," she replied with a smile, and added, "And how are you doing, I'm sure you haven't missed the hero-in-chief in six months.

-So you're not mad?"-I decided to get right to the point, and she looked at me questioningly and said, "What's there to be mad about?" and I said, shifting my gaze to sadness-"for killing Izumi....

-Itachi... I know what you're thinking, but what's done is done, and Izumi left me a note before she died.... - I turned my gaze sharply to Hana, and listened with surprise - in it she wrote in detail that the clan was not what it seemed, and she could become like them, and so she arranged everything to die by the hand of the one she loved - here she already made a sad look at the ground, And she apologized for not saying goodbye in person, but I was happy when my brother sent me Izumi's greetings when I was treating Akamaru." She changed her gaze to a smile, and I smiled with my left lip, relaxing my eyes.

We then started talking about her promotion from the Hokage, and how she'd completed a mission to track down a Konoha nukenin and found thanks to Hana she'd been promoted, and then she remembered she had work to do and hadn't entered the building yet and apologized.

-Nothing Hana I understand, it was nice talking to you," I said smiling while folding my arm across the chest of my black t-shirt.

-Good luck to you, Itachi," she replied with a smile as she walked away.

***

I walked towards the house to change into a warmer thing like my black cloak, and when I got home I took out the cloak and put it on, not because it was cold, I just wanted to feel like myself, and as I walked out of the house Anbu comes up to me and starts.

-Itachi-san Hokage-sama wants to see you- -he said my name with a suffix, since I'm the main-hero of Konoha...

-You shouldn't call me Tenzo like that, after all, I did what a shinobi would do to save the village- -I said this with a slight smile.

-Not everyone would do that Itachi-san," he took off his mask after the last sentence and added, "and by the way, the hokage decided to give me a name, from now on I don't have code names for my fellow anbu, my name is now Yamato.

-Yamato... - I said thoughtfully, as I knew that he was called that by the fifth hokage Tsunade, but now I understand why she called him that, as the third had left him that name in the papers, I'm sure that Kakashi will find out his name before the deadline, although I'm sure it won't affect the second timeline much, and I continued the topic - interesting name, Yamato, so what did the third want from me?

-He said it's private, even from the anbu," Yamato answered me, and I nodded to him in return and went to the hokage's residence.

On the way jumping from roof to roof, I noticed how people looked at my cloak, probably they liked the fact that in dark alleys it glowed with small blue sparks, for six months that I walk many people have probably already noticed, mostly in contact with light with any color, they were reflected by blue sparks, But mostly the cloak was pure-black, and they glowed only in the light, and mostly in the area of blue-lock, jumping from roof to roof, I still got to the roof of the hokage residences, and went down to the level of the hokage's office, and knocked, but before that I felt the chakra not only of the hokage, but also of the other one, there were two in the office.

-I entered the office and saw the third hokage sitting in his clothes, and the second one I didn't expect to see, it was Kisame, now he was also wearing the cloak I gave him.

-It's been a long time Itachi-san-" he said with a smile, and standing in front of the hokage, turned his face to me.

-I said with a smile as I was glad to see him, but I added his full name to let him know I remembered it, since we'd only met once, and if I told him just Kisame, he'd suddenly have that weird de-ja-view again.

-Itachi-san?, I didn't expect you to show respect to someone you barely know Kisame-" the third replied in surprise, tossing the tobacco aside.

-Well, what can I say... that's the least I can call the main-hero of Konoha, heheh-" his reply made the third smile for a while.

-Itachi, we called you here to give you some bad news.... - The third man continued with a serious look, his elbows folded on the chair and his fingers crossed.

-What happened? -I decided to ask.

-I'm sure everyone knows that our fourth mizukage named Yagura is already dead, and his three-tailed will not soon appear on earth, while it will exist as a stream of mass chakra, and then will take back its form - answered me Kisame, and I continued to listen to him - but this is not the main news that I told the third.

-I see... I'm listening - I once again gave a cold-blooded Akatsuki stare to prepare for the worst.

-Hoshigake-Kisame, he told me that a couple weeks ago, when Juzo-biwo nukenin of the mist came to the village of hidden water, he had a partner with a mangekyo-sharingan-kamui at his side -I continued to listen to the third, and for a moment I even allowed myself to think that Obito.... if this time he'd be actively involved in the Akatsuki organizations... and the third continued - and when Juzo-biwo was mortally wounded while using the biju abilities of the fourth mizukage, this uchiha had no choice but to use kamui on him, chopping his left arm, and then when he was weakened, he used genjutsu, and the fourth passed out - strange.... Obito can't use kamui from a distance, he can only move his body to another space, so of all the surviving uchiha only one can do it.... I decided to add it:

-And he has a quadrangular mangekyo-sharingan...-. - I answered confidently, and after their affirmative gaze, I closed my eyes and pulled myself together, realizing it was Shisui....

The end of Itachi's POV

Itachi thought that even if he was in Akatsuki, he would try to get him back, or at least try to... and he also remembered the words of the sage that sometimes time has its price and consequence, and Itachi also guessed that Shisui, became his replacement, now everything he did in the first timeline is now to go through Shisui....