DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM NARUTO IN THIS STORY. I CREATED UCHIHA HYORIN. THIS STORY IS TO BE READ AFTER THE SASUKE VS. ITACHI ARC IN THE NARUTO SERIES. PLEASE ENJOY!

Sasuke opened his eyes to find someone in a mask leaning over him. The white mask, decorated with red swirls, covered their entire face, with only small wave-like openings for each eye.

"You're awake. How do you feel?"

It was a feminine voice, so Sasuke assumed it was a girl. He grunted in response to her question and started to sit up, but she held him down. Her long raven-black hair fell over her shoulders and brushed his skin. In the dim light, Sasuke noticed that her bangs were red.

"Please don't try to move. Your wounds haven't healed completely."

Just then, Sasuke noticed the bandage wrapped around his chest and over his shoulder. The girl in the mask had just begun to wrap his left forearm in bandages. Who would want to help him anyways? Just then, he realized how much danger he could be in by staying in this… this…

Sasuke started to notice his surroundings. He ceiling was rocky and uneven, and the room was lit only by a single candle in the corner of the room. I'm in a cave!

"Who are you? Why are you helping me?"

"I can't tell you."

Sasuke looked at her again and the mask triggered a memory from when he was a genin in the Land of Waves.

"Are you…Yuki?"

The girl abruptly stopped bandaging his arm, but started again. Something cold fell on his arm, which made him look instinctively at it. Whatever had fallen on his skin glistened in the candlelight. More and more fell, and Sasuke realized what they were. Tears… She's crying! Water gathered beneath the mask and fell on his arm more frequently. Her hands shook as she tied the bandages.

"How do you know that?"

"From what Haku said, you have Sharingan. Will you take off that mask?"

"I can't. Itachi-sama would kill me."

"Itachi's dead, Yuki. He can't do anything to you."

Sasuke expected her to take off her mask, but she packed her medical supplies into a bag and sat against the wall.

After a while, she said,"Yuki's not my real name. It's Hyorin, but you can call me Rin."

"Okay, Rin. Are you an Uchiha?"

"I won't hold it against you if you don't remember me, but I'm your twin sister."

Sasuke was speechless. There had never been a daughter born into the head family. Twins were especially bad omens.

"How is that possible?"

"Hidden Cloud ninja kidnapped me on the night I refused to talk to you, our birthday."

Sasuke's eyes widened. What? How am I remembering these childhood memories? I didn't grow up with a twin sister. But she's in my memory now…

"It must be hard on your mind, remembering everything now, but that's what happens when you break the barrier to your memories of me when we were little. The Cloud ninja cast a mind barrier on the people in the village to block all the memories of me. Itachi-sama was on a mission that day and came back a week later.

"He found the note I left and realized what had happened. I had been completely wiped out of the Leaf Village and no one knew where I went and no one cared."

"Do you know a man by the name of Uchiha Madara?"

"So Itachi-sama told you about him, too? Yes, I do know him… It might not seem possible to you, but Uchiha Madara is the masked member of the Akatsuki that was Deidara's partner."

"That idiot Tobi is Uchiha Madara?"

"Yeah."

"Wait, if you know Uchiha Madara, then you're in the Akatsuki, too, right?"

"I'm not a full-fledged member, but I do things here and there. I'm not rouge either, so I can do more than most of the actual members," Rin declared proudly. "Anyway, I should probably take off this mask."

And she did. Sasuke was mesmerized by Hyorin's ice-blue eyes.

"You… You're Hyorin from the mission we had in the Land of Waves! You helped my cell in the Forest of Death! I could recognize your red hair and blue eyes anywhere!"

Sasuke suddenly began to have a coughing fit, so Rin made him a glass of water and said, "Get some rest."