This is a Next Generation Fan fiction written by me, and a friend of mine. It will be mostly OC based, but there will be plenty of mentions to canon characters and such. The main couple is NaruHina, but there will also be plenty of ShikaTema coming up. This is planned on being a long running series, and the first chapter is the prologue. Enjoy.

The bodies of Kakashi and Sasuke lay adjacent from one another. They were horribly mangled, but more importantly, dead. A single figure stood over them. He was a nondescript sort of person except for his cloak, which was covered in red clouds and his two eyes, which held the Mangekyou Sharingan.

The cold air rushed past her as she ran, frantically, she ran. She had to get away. She had to get far away, or she would be caught, and killed.

"It was Itachi who did this!" Naruto roared. Sakura watched helplessly as her teammate destroyed his living quarters. Naruto hadn't slept for a couple days now, he had just spent all his time ranting and raving about the deaths of Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke-kun.

"I'm going to kill that bastard." He hissed under his breath, not for the first time.

"But Naruto…" Sakura began

"What?" He asked bluntly, not hiding the rage from his voice, his eyes turning momentarily red.

"Itachi is dead, he's been dead for three years now."

She couldn't afford to pause for even a second. Her eyes were heavy from lack of sleep, but it didn't matter. Itachi was a master tracker, if she stopped, he would find her. She kept on running, paying no attention to where she ran, as long as it was far away from that monster.

"I know what I saw Tsunade-baachan!" Naruto cried out.

Tsunade gave a sigh. "Naruto, the deaths were tragic, but it couldn't have been Itachi. His innocence was proven shortly after his death. He wouldn't have killed two Konoha shinobi even if he was alive." She said calmly.

Naruto widened his eyes in disbelief. How could she take this so lightly? How could she take his eye witness as simply a misconception? He knew what he saw, and he had seen Itachi kill two of the closest members in his family.

Itachi had threatened his family, he was alive, and Naruto would find him.

Perhaps if she had been awake, she would have noticed it slowly got colder. The arid air of the Wind was no longer present, and the air became cooler, and the ground became greener. Any other day she would have taken this as an omen and turned around. But not today, she couldn't today.

Naruto stared in disbelief as piles of massacred genin and acadamy students were piled on top of each other. Even some chuunin were in the gruesome scene. On the wall, written in blood, the message scrawled:

Naruto, you're my target, but you'll be the last victim

Naruto felt his blood freeze, this…this was his entire fault; Itachi was killing all of these innocent people, because of him. Even though he had spent days tracking this ninja, he hadn't arrived in time to stop this. This event had taken about half a minute.

He had to get away. Leave Konoha. As the sickening truth radiated throughout his body, Naruto felt a lump in his throat. His home, his village, where he would eventually become Hokage- now it was all impossible.

Without another word he turned around, and left Konoha. Forever.

It was night now. She must have run throughout the entire day. Lack of sleep, and fatigue took over her. She had to rest, or she would end up killing herself. As if by instinct, her body leaned against a tree, and she sat down. She struggled to open her bag. She had soldier pills that could rejuvenate her- but she was too tired to make enough of an effort. Her eyes closed, and all she saw was darkness.

Naruto was sprawled across the ground, gasping for breath. He was surrounded by enemy ninja. Any of them by themselves he could have easily beaten. He could have beaten ten of them without breaking a sweat, but an army of 85 stone shinobi was simply too much. Even his demon chakra had been spent.

He had only been gone a little less than a week, and he was already dead. A fine ending for a shinobi of the leaf. Why…?

All of a sudden, the ninja started to fall, and the remaining stone shinobi were killed. Naruto forced himself up to catch a glimpse of his savior;

It was Hinata Hyuuga.

Nara Uzumaki slept peacefully. She had been running from Itachi for her entire life of thirteen years. She could afford a quick rest.

Little did Nara know that a mile or so away, lay the very same village that Nara had tried so hard to avoid. Konohagakure. The Village Hidden in the Leaves. All her life, Nara had been taught to never go near the village. At least, not until Itachi was dead. But Itachi had never died, so she had never gone near the village.

If Nara had known where she was, she would have forced herself up, and ran for a couple more miles, but she didn't know.

Unfortunately, the pleasant state of ignorance would not last.

It had been a year after Naruto left that it happened. A massive amount of foreign shinobi gathered around the walls of Konoha. Some were only children, and others were probably older then Tsunade. But they all had one thing in common.

They all carried the fan, also known as the Uchiwa on their backs. Better known as the symbol of the Uchiha clan.

A single representative was allowed an audience with Tsunade.

His name was Hakaru Uchiha. Leader of the Uchiha clan. He explained his story:

Long before Madara Uchiha was even born, a group of Uchihas had splintered off, for they were not interested in fighting. They lived peacefully way up north. Unfortunately, a price had to be paid. Since that time, not a single member had been born with the Sharingan. They had lived largely as simply a clan with fire based jutsus. Unfortunately, rumors of missing-nin coming from the Uchihas spread like wildfire, and they were soon hunted down by mobs. Their last hope was to follow their long forgotten ancestors footsteps, and make their home at Konohagakure.

Tsunade listened quietly to the story. She gave no evidence of surprise or astonishment. Afterwards, she gave a nod. "Very well"

Haraku looked at her hopefully as she talked. If Konohagakure did not accept them, then they would have nowhere else to go.

"You may join Konoha as part of the village."

It's been sixteen years since Naruto left

It's been fifteen years since the Uchiha clan was reinstated in the ranks of Konoha.

It's been thirteen years since the child of Naruto and Hinata, Nara, was born

It's been three years since Naruto and Hinata have died.

Yes Naruto and Hinata are really dead. Sorry to disappoint, but don't worry, there will be plenty of mentioning's about them. We hope you enjoyed the prologue, and we now ask you to be so kind as to review… Please?