The Goddess of Hunter

One year later…

Naruko enjoyed her time under the moon as she slowly lept from building to building, heading for the Uchiha clan house to meet up with Sasuke, who had decided to leave before her. As much as she loved the sun and sparring under the light with Heiwanakuro, as someone who had lived most her life in the forests as a huntress, she found the darkness to be the most comfortable place to be.

As she entered the manor, she felt something was off, it was far too quiet. Even though it was night, there was usually quite a lot of activity near the clan hall and training grounds, but currently she could even hear the leaves rustling under the silence. A pit began to form at the back of her stomach as he instincts were screaming at her that something bad was happening. She slowly broke into a sprint as she rushed over the clan head's house where she usually stayed during the weekends.

She silently made her way over the roof without making a sound, making use of her huntress shoes that silenced all noise from her steps.

"We are proud of you no matter what you do Itachi, all I ask of you is to protect Sasuke and Naruko in the coming years, no doubt people will be after them." She heard a voice say, recognised it as Fugaku.

"Remember, we will always love you." Another voice said, this time from Mikoto.

She silently removed a brick from the side of the roof and peered in to see what was happening. She could see Itachi with his ANBU mask on the side of his face with pained eyes as if he was holding in his tears and emotions. Mikoto and Fugaku both sat on the floor, backs turned from Itachi, eyes closed and smiling slightly.

"…Of course… I'm sorry." Itachi croaked out, and before she could register what had even happened, two flashes of silver appeared as both Mikoto and Fugaku fell to the floor in a pool of blood.

"…D-don't be… This is necessary… to protect the village… we have been prepared for this… since we decided to become shinobi…" Fugaku muttered, struggling to speak as life was slowly seeping out of him.

Horror was evident on Naruko's face as she held in the urge to vomit at the sight. If it were just her, she would have most likely revealed herself with a scream, but Kurama was silently holding back the urges without making a comment, perhaps frozen in surprise herself from what she was seeing.

She had just witnessed two of the most important people in her life die, not to mention by the hands of someone she had considered an older brother. Kurama had taken over the body as Naruko was beginning to hyperventilate and possibly pass out from shock. The tailed beast had never fully taken control of the body before as it was never needed, but this was a situation where she could not allow Naruko free reign. Who knew what the child would have done in her blind rage.

She watched as Itachi simply stared at the bodies of his two parents in silence, possibly in shock at what he had just done. Naruko and her had overheard several times plans of overthrowing the current Hokage and taking over the village, but had dismissed them as she didn't believe that the Uchihas that she had grown up with would do such a thing. From the looks of things, the situation must have gone South for the Hokage to order such a deed.

Or did the Hokage even order such a thing? No matter how much Kurama doubted Minato's abilities, it was clear that he was a man that valued relationships, and seeing that he a close friend of Fugaku's it didn't seem likely that he would send a kill order for the whole of Uchihas as a whole, so did someone else order it?

Neither Kurama nor Naruko knew much about Konoha's government, but they did know that the council held a noticeable amount of power over the village, perhaps more than the Hokage if they all banded together.

Or maybe this was done behind the Hokage's back without any permission or council meeting? It was unlikely, but the conclusion couldn't be thrown out the window yet.

"What's this, a survivor?" A voice mused from behind. She twirled around to see a man dressed in a coat with red clouds, donning an orange twirling mask. Before she could reply, the man reached out with his hand at an impossible speed, aimed at her heart for a swift kill. Perhaps the man underestimated her simply due to her age, but he certainly wasn't expecting to be blown back towards the street by a kick to the stomach.

***

Tobi, otherwise known as Uchiha Obito, was having a good day.

He had met Itachi earlier and was helping with the extermination of all Uchihas when he noticed a small shadow looming over the roof of the house that Itachi had explicitly told him not to approach nor let anyone approach except Sasuke.

To his surprise, someone had made it through his keen gaze, but instead of a shinobi, he found a child dressed strangely designed clothes, seemingly made for hunting.

Just a lost Uchiha child I suppose, I must be getting old to let such a novice pass. He thought as he approached the child, a girl, and attempted to end her life as swiftly as possible so that she couldn't cry for help.

To his surprise, the child managed to dodge the attack and kicked him onto the empty road. He certainly didn't remember academy students kicking so hard, perhaps it was a fluke? No… the way she reacted meant that she was experienced with combat to a degree, but who would teach a child such things? Perhaps the girl was a secret weapon that the Uchihas were raising to use in the uprising?

He didn't have much time to think as the child had leapt quite high into the air, and to his surprise materialised a sleek black sword of a design he had never before seen. Her black gear suddenly exploded in light before transforming into a pure white battle dress, armour covering various parts of the body. He could tell that the armour was of high quality as he had witnessed several samurai and swordsmen over the years, not to mention the mysterious black sword that was one of its kind.

The girl descended with a spin, swinging the blade downwards with considerable momentum. He activated his Sharingan, searching for any techniques that were present, but to his disappointment it was just a simple downward swing.

Deciding not to use his Kamui to let it faze through as it would drain chakra that could be used later if the ANBU arrived, he raised his hand, determined to catch the blade and show the child that it was pointless. As the girl got close, she let out a determined cry whilst aiming for his right arm, as if challenging him to a contest of strength, earning a snort from Tobi.

"HHAAAAA! [Weight of the World]!" Before he could even comprehend the words that she had shouted, the sword struck down and sliced straight through his arm as if it didn't even exist.

"What!?" He cried in surprise as he refused to believe that a child had beaten HIM in a contest of strength, so clearly as well. He didn't have time to think further either as he swiftly retreated a great distance backwards.

The girl continued the motion of the swing until the blade hit the floor. He expected the sword to either bounce off, or at best dig slightly into the concrete, but instead the surrounding area shook as a significant area around the point of impact caved into a crater.

"…"

What in the FUCK was this girl? To not only be able to beat him in terms of strength but to actually cause this much destruction with a single swing, furthermore without the use of chakra! Fortunately for him, the amputated arm could be regrown since it was on Zetsu's side, but the wound to his pride would remain for quite a while. Though it was true that he wasn't giving it his all when he attempted to catch the sword, he still put quite a significant amount of chakra into his arms just to be safe.

"…You're an interesting child to be able to wound me… The last person to do so was your precious Hokage." He said whilst ignoring the pain that was slowly disappearing as Zetsu's cells began to stop the bleeding. The girl's eyes widened before narrowing. Without another word, the sword disappeared and in its place a bow materialised. She swiftly nocked and arrow and aimed it straight towards him.

Though in most cases, he would simply go for the kill on the girl, he decided to see what she would do, as the more information he had, the better. As the arrow was released, the air around the girl shrieked as the projectile flew towards him at speeds that only jounin-ranked shinobi or above could track. He activated his Kamui to let it fly through him, and watched as the arrow flew straight into a nearby civilian building that previously belonged to an Uchiha and blew it into smithereens.

…An unknown variable that could possibly grow even stronger in the future, taking her out now is the best option, and with that, he leapt towards the child at full speed, not taking the risk of her having anymore tricks up her sleeve.