Snapping out of his thoughts, Haruto stood up with one of the blunt-edged kunai he had picked up off the floor and got into a throwing position.
"Come Naru-chan, watch my movements and stances, then you try, okay?"
"Yay! Haru-nii is the best! Can we get Sasuke-baka later and then I can show him my super cool throwing skills I learned for you!" The idea of riling her best friend up by upstaging him was something Naruko savoured. Seeing the dumbfounded look as she beat him, an Uchiha in something, was incredibly satisfying. "He'll be so jealous!"
"Alright, Naru-chan," He patted her on the head affectionately, "We'll go make Sasuke jealous." Haruto said as he ruffled her hair, causing the girl to laugh at the mess he was making of her hair.
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8 years after the Kyuubi attack…
Naruko had taken the fact that she held a demon fox in herself quite well. She only freaked out due to her age and panicked, almost going into shock and fainting.
Yeah… pretty well overall.
It took Haruto's embrace to slowly calm her down, something that she had gotten addicted to over the years. Thunderstorms, that spider that jumped out from under the toilet seat and even Jiraiya had scared the life out of the girl when he had been first introduced upon his return to Konoha. And the only way she got comfort was by running to her Haru-nii's room and diving under the covers and snuggling with him if he was asleep or, secretly, taking in his scent by sniffing his worn shirts that had his intoxicating musk.
Perhaps her godfather had influenced her a little too much with his smutty books and general perverseness.
Still, the scent of her older brother let her calm down and unwillingly, she parted with the shirt that was still connected to his body and left his embrace to continue speaking to their parents.
"So… I'm not a demon girl?" Naruko asked her parents, who had told her that they were two absolutely separate entities. But if her brother had disagreed and called her a demon child, telling her to never speak to him again and leaving her presence, she was very sure she would have shattered emotionally immediately and broken down. Luckily, all she received from her brother aside from the loving hug was a soft chop to the forehead and a soft 'idiot' before he had walked away.
When she was sure he had left the house to take his Jonin exams, she quickly sneaked back into his room and grabbed the t-shirt he had slung onto his chair, dashing back into her own room and dived right into her bed and under the covers, sniffing the shirt heavily (and rather creepily) as a happy and dazed look appeared on her face.
Luckily, the only person she had confided in was her best friend, Sasuke, who also thought of Haruto as his other older brother, who was pretty surprised that she was heavily crushing on her older brother, more than just sibling love. But he seemed to have understood and agreed to keep it a secret until she either grew out of loving him in that way or she found someone else.
"I love you… Haru-nii."She whispered in a heavy exhale, her cheeks stained red.
She had not yet discovered the wonders of self-pleasure, and when she did… well, a lot of Haruto's clothing went missing. Much to Sasuke's chagrin. He seriously didn't need to know what Naruko did to her brother's clothes during her downtime.
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12 years after the Kyuubi attack... (Haruto: 16) (Naruko: 12)
A 16 year old Haruto stared at the scrolls in his hands, the two that he had kept hidden in his room for the past 8 years. His best friend, Uchiha Itachi, had told him about the coup, that the Uchiha Clan was going to be slaughtered tonight and that he would be running away, going undercover and joining a newly formed S-Rank criminal organisation: Akatsuki to inform Konoha about what they were going to be doing.
Haruto did not want Itachi to be considered a traitor to the village he was protecting undercover.
Itachi had been one of the few people who had bothered to become friends with Haruto after seeing him alone during his sister's birthday party. They had quickly become best friends and would confide each other in their deepest secrets. This friendship was made of iron and would not be shattering any time soon.
Killing your clan for fun was one thing while being chased out for stopping them from igniting the Fourth Shinobi War was another. And Itachi carrying the burden of killing his own family and being blamed for it was not something he would allow. Itachi was a person of virtue and Haruto couldn't just allow himself to let Itachi act out the task of slaying his own kinsmen just because of the revolt they wanted to start.
He would not accept that. It was just unfair. And to prevent Itachi from turning traitor and saving the Leaf at the same time, Haruto decided the path he would take for the future of himself, his village and even potentially the world. Thousands of innocent lives would not perish in an unnecessary war but at the price of a disgruntled and unhappy clan.
He would be the one to stop the Uchiha Clan instead of his first outside friend, turning himself into a missing-nin and to see if he could infiltrate Akatsuki.
With that in his mind, he quickly set himself to work at writing a letter to whomever found it, stating that he was the one who had slaughtered the whole clan and that he had no regrets doing so, it had torn his cold heart apart writing about the fact that he hated everyone, but he had to suck it up and act like he meant it to fool his village into thinking that he had killed the Uchiha's just to show off his power.
The secret that the Uchiha would never get out that way, and it was for the best. Itachi and Mikoto would teach Sasuke how to overcome the Curse of Hatred his clan had, but the problem lay in Naruko, who he feared would go into a state of depression and eventually suicide. He wouldn't mind if his sister killed him in a fit of rage at what he said
He unfurled the Kinjutsu that he had kept throughout the years, the Jiongu. He channelled chakra into the silencing seal behind his door and took a deep breath before he placed the tanto into his mouth and bit down hard onto the tough handle, activating the scroll at the same time.
Oh god. He told himself as black threads shot out and dug itself deep into his wrists and feet, inciting his blood to spill as they tunnelled through his entire body, replacing capillaries, veins and arteries. Haruto wasn't even sure if he still had blood after all of it. Perhaps some, but definitely very little of it.
"AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHH."Haruto screamed loudly, his tanto preventing his teeth from grinding against each other. His eyes were pouring tears at the feeling of sharp needles coursing through his body. Unable to stand as the burning agony travelled to his legs Haruto dropped to the floor, a silent scream etched on his face while his eyes were clenched shut, fingers digging deeply into the carpeted floor.
"FU-AAAARGGHHHHH-CK! RRRGGGGHHH!" The unbelievable pain was almost sending his body into shock, but suddenly, as fast as it came, the pain immediately left. Rasping and gasping, Haruto panted heavily, clawing his way to his wardrobe, he slowly propped himself up against the wall and slowly began putting on his armour, feeling the occasional twitch beneath his skin which told him the Jiongu was still getting used to his body.
After donning his Tokubetsu Jonin armour on and brandishing his tanto, he slowly walked into Naruko's room and watched as she lay in her bed, sleeping with a pair of his boxers in her hands and a perverted look on her face. He rolled his eyes at her perverseness and set the scroll for Kage Bunshin on the table as a parting gift, placing a soft kiss on her head that made her moan out his name sensually, causing the older brother to frown.
He hated hurting his little sister. But it had to be done. He would have to hurt everyone to show them his love.
He leapt out of his open window at the crack of dusk, exactly one day before the extermination of the Uchiha would take place. Unable to look back at his home lest he give up his mission in fear, he thought silently to himself as he approached the Uchiha Compound.
I'm sorry, Naruko, Sasuke. I can only hope that you understand and forgive your onii-chan when you grow older when you learn of the truth.