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Rated 'M' for sexual situations and lemons, violence and of course, bad language.

I gave it all my oxygen,

So let the flames begin.

Let the flames begin.

- Paramore, Let the Flames Begin

Prologue

In the hospital, the nurses called her "Akuma" when the fires started, regardless of the fact her nameplate read "Aimi Uchiha". She burned down that hospital wing when it happened. Her Sharingan aided her in the devastation, something she should not have been able to control at such a young age, the nurses said. She could control her Sharingan, but the chaos inside her was another matter. Sasuke came and visited her every day and sat by her bedside. Her anger subsided only to be replaced by sadness and a desperate need to be not more than a foot away from her twin.

"Look at her," the nurse named Shimasu would whisper to her colleague. "She is only safe with Sasuke around. We cannot afford such an outburst again. I mean, I know her whole family but one being obliterated by her older brother can be hard but she should at least respect where she is and who is taking care of her."

"Shimasu! How can you say that? Aimi is just an ordinary little girl born into an extraordinary family. And now they're all dead! She just lost control. She's so young, how can she be expected to deal with this like it was nothing?! How could anyone deal with what those two are going through?"

"She's such a demon," Shimasu hissed, her eyes trained on the little girl in the hospital bed crying on her brother's shoulder. While they looked alike, Aimi had a way of surprising you with an angelic expression at times when she first woke up and she hadn't yet realized what had happened, dazzling hazel eyes shining, her little face framed by a long mane of dark hair. Shimasu hated her. "One thing's for sure, she cannot be separated from her brother. Clearly, she's unstable. When Iruka asks for a report on his student's wellbeing, I shall merely report back that she cannot be separated from him, for the sake of the entire village. She's as dangerous and as bloodthirsty as her older brother."

Shimasu was wrong. Aimi was not bloodthirsty. When she left the hospital and went to live with Sasuke in sheltered accommodation, her fire dissipated. She had not meant to lose control when they had taken her to the Mental Institute, away from the only person she had left in the world, Sasuke. From then on, she did not lose control. She stayed with Sasuke.

Shimasu saw the Uchiha twins sometimes out by the forest, hurling kunai at logs and throwing shuriken at each other. People often sighed when they saw them.

"Look at them, the poor things. No one in the world," they would say as they passed, on their way to the convenience store, completely ignorant that their sympathetic words would not bring back the Uchiha clan or feed the boy and girl. Shimasu did not sigh when she saw them, but merely glared at the girl who was the reason her wage was cut for a couple of months to go towards repairs.

Shimasu saw them again the day they graduated the ninja academy and that girl was wearing that angelic expression once again, hugging her brother, who merely looked indifferent. He had the same expression and appearance as his older brother now, so it was no longer difficult for Shimasu to hate both of them for what they represented- the dying flames of a dangerous clan, flames that were too lethal to be allowed to burn any longer.

She saw them the day they were placed on a ninja team with the boy who was the Nine Tails' Jinchuriki and Mebuki Haruno's daughter. At that moment, she had ran straight to the Hokage's place of residence, making a formal complaint about the safety of the village, including a very blunt criticism of the fact that the first four man ninja squad had been formulated merely for the sake of Aimi's mental health, something the higher-ups were still very careful about.

"Aimi Uchiha was under my care for six months in the Hidden Leaf Village Mental Institute and I can tell you right now that to even allow her to wear the Leaf Village shinobi headband is preposterous, especially alongside that Uzumaki boy."

She had received a very clipped letter from the Hokage himself telling her that as she was not a shinobi, she was unable to comprehend the reason Team 7 had been created but that the Hokage had his reasons for allowing it. He also made mention of the fact that the Uchiha twins only had each other left in the world and that if she had not the compassion to understand this, perhaps she was not suitable in her post as a nurse at the Mental Institute. And so, Shimasu was fired very brutally, she thought.

When she started her job as a grocer in a little shop on the Leaf Village's main boulevard, she saw them again. The streets were buzzing with the upcoming Chunin exams and she had been asked to deliver some groceries personally to Lady Rouba who was too decrepit to make it to the store. She took a shortcut up a back alley. As she rounded the corner, she was faced with ten children. God, how she hated children. Three of them, a boy clad in black with glaring purple makeup on, a cold looking boy with bright red hair and a gourd on his back and a pretty blonde girl carrying a fan, were clearly outsiders, shinobi from the Village Hidden in the Sand.

She hated shinobi too.

They were facing the very ninja squad that had lost Shimasu her job and anger boiled inside her. A group of even younger children cowered behind them. However, just as the outsiders turned to walk away, the boy Uchiha demanded, "Hey, you! Identify yourself!"

The blonde outsider turned around with a lascivious look and said, "Hmm, you mean me?"

Kids, these days. They're far too young for all this, Shimasu thought.

Time really had flown since those days in the hospital. Sasuke and Aimi had only grown more attractive with age, something this female Sand ninja must have recognized.

"No, him. We mean the guy with the gourd on his back," Aimi replied, glaring for a fraction of a second at the blonde ninja clearly attempting to advance on her brother and pointing at the one with the red hair and an attitude problem that could rival only Aimi's twin.

Pointing, Shimasu scoffed inwardly, she never did have any manners.

"My name is Gaara of the Desert. And I'm curious about you too, you and your... friend. Who are you?" That boy's voice was so cold, Shimasu shivered inwardly, as if her bones were turning to ice.

"I am Sasuke Uchiha. This is my twin sister, Aimi Uchiha," Sasuke replied with a smirk and a sly grin spread across Aimi's face. God, Shimasu wished murder wasn't illegal. Their arrogance made her skin crawl.

That was when the Nine Tails boy burst in, desperate to be acknowledged. However, he was shot back by the one with the red hair. There was a moment then that Shimasu only noticed because of years of recognizing cues of patients under interview, trying to pinpoint the moment they would explode. It had been her job to learn this about Aimi for six months and in that moment, she noticed Aimi's eyes soften toward the one with the gourd on his back for such a tiny fraction of a second that she almost missed it, but there it was, a soft expression that Shimasu had only seen Aimi reserve for her brother.

The one with the gourd had his back to Shimasu and so she did not see his expression and in any case, he and his companions walked away from the scene in that moment, quite free from the knowledge that Aimi Uchiha had just developed a little crush on the cold, red haired one with the attitude problem.

Poor soul. I feel sorry for him. An attitude problem and an annoying admirer with the ability to leave chaos in her wake wherever she goes, Shimasu thought, turning away, deciding she would take another route rather than having to formally greet her former patient.

Shimasu Yamanaka was not a very good judge of character.

Author's Note: So, expect this to be a rewrite of Naruto and possibly Naruto: Shippuden in which Sasuke has a twin sister who is just as badass as Sasuke and just as fierce as Gaara. Also, I promise we shall not be hearing from Shimasu from now on, it will be predominantly from Aimi's POV. Consider me in this for the long haul if you are.

The only things I currently plan to change from the direct story without Aimi's influence changing things are that Dosu is not killed by Gaara and is set to fight Aimi rather than Shikamaru, Kabuto's team are a team of four and obviously that Sasuke has a sister who is also on Team 7.

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