A/N:

Hey guys! This is it! The sequel I started to 'A Different Decision'! What originally started off as something quite short, just to show what happens next, turned into something much longer. If you haven't read 'A Different Decision', you might be a bit lost at the start of this: so check out the first story if you get confused.

When I wrote 'A Different Decision' I didn't really pay much attention to the Uchiha children that Itachi saved apart from Sasuke and a couple of OCs I created. There were 17 of them, I couldn't be bothered to give them all names and personalities! But alas... all 17 need some sort of identifier now that I'm writing a sequel. So below, instead of chapter one, is a list of all my OCs. You can refer back to it whenever a name crops up and you think: WTF? Who the heck is this guy?

Guide to the incredibly annoying group of OCs that became necessary when I decided it was a good idea to write a fic where 17 extra Uchiha survive the massacre and therefore become characters that need their own names different from 'Uchiha clan member no. whatever':

The one in charge:

Itachi: Please tell me I don't have to tell you who this guy is. For the record, he's 14 years old in these fics.

Girls:

Haruna: 11 years old. Older sister of Arata and Samuru. She has dark red hair and a somewhat cheerful personality for an Uchiha. She is only half a year away from becoming a genin.

Hikari: 9 years old. Had an older brother who was a genin at the time of the attack. She's very motherly, but can be very fierce when she wants to be.

Akane: 7 years old. Eri's cousin (Their fathers are brothers). She's the one that practically climbed into Hideki's lap during the massacre. She has black hair that she ties into two pigtails at the base of her skull.

Miyoko: 7 years old. A timid girl who was never really sure she actually wanted to be a shinobi, but she enrolled in the Academy anyway because it was expected. Takato is her little brother.

Chizue: 6 years old. Only child. She's the girl with the spiky black hair that turns up with Matsu, Eri and the twins when they meet up at Sasuke's house initially. She's shy, and doesn't like to talk much. She's close with Sora, was even before the massacre.

Junko: 5 years old. She's the youngest of three, Sora is her older brother, and their older sister was a genin who died in the massacre. She's a little whiny and cries quite a bit. She and Sora fight a lot.

Yoshi: 5 years old. Only child. She doesn't put up with Junko's bullshit, and would rather hang out with Samuru nine times out of ten. She's a bit of a tomboy actually.

Eri: 2 years old. She was a surprise child to her parents: her two older brothers were already chunin at the time of the massacre. She's Akane's cousin. She's shy and quiet, and still talks in baby talk. She has light brown hair with bangs that hang into her eyes.

Boys:

Matsu: 10 years old. Older brother to the twins. He has shoulder(ish) length black hair. He might have been the one changed the most by the massacre. Before he had quite a short temper and thought his little brothers were a drag. After he becomes a lot more tolerate and calm, and becomes almost paranoid about watching over his brothers.

Arata: 9 years old. Haruna's little brother, Samuru's older brother. He has a bit of a crush on Hikari.

Sasuke: If you don't know who this guy is... why are you reading Naruto fanfiction? He's eight in this, by the way.

Hideki: 7 years old. Only child. He has shaggy brown hair. His mother was a fringe member of the Inuzuka clan who married into the Uchiha clan. She was not on good terms with her family, so even though Hideki could have been adopted by his Inuzuka uncle after the massacre he chose to stay with the other Uchiha. He a bit of a secret dog fan though. (I have no idea where this slightly dramatic back story came from... but I'm rolling with it.)

Sora: 6 years old. Middle child, his older sister was a genin killed in the massacre and his little sister is Junko. He doesn't get on with Junko, but he really idolised his older sister. It leaves him a little bitter that she died in the massacre, so of all the surviving Uchiha he's probably the one who holds the worst grudge against Yoshiki. He's a bit outspoken, and he's friends with Chizue. Often he serves as her mouth piece in conversations because she's shy.

Samuru: 5 years old. Younger brother of Haruna and Arata. He's constantly trying to keep up with his older siblings: if they do something, he wants to do it too. Haruna is better at tolerating his clingy nature than Arata.

Takato: 4 years old. Miyoko's little brother. He doesn't like being mothered. He's a bit of a terror at kindergarten.

Ichiro: 4 years old. Only child, though his mother was pregnant with his little sister when she died in the massacre. He was deeply disappointed that he never got to be a big brother, until Matsu asked if he could help him out by being the twin's big brother too. He took to the role with gusto.

The twins: 2 years old. I am lazy, and I have yet to come up with separate names for these two. They do everything together anyway, so most people refer to them as 'the twins'. They have brown hair and are adorable. Matsu's very protective of them.

I might update this list if other details become important, but I think I got the basics down for each of my OC Uchiha. You know, I don't really like OCs, so isn't ironic that I ended up writing a fic with goddamn 17 of them?