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No one knew her anymore
No one knew her anymore. The two men in her life were gone. Both Uchihas had gone in search for something she couldn't offer.
She looked up when she reached the gate. The sign announcing that she was about to enter the Hidden Village of Leaf swung precariously as if it was tired of a village that was slipping. Only two guards, chuunin level, were standing at the sides of the gate, well, more like slouching against the poles.
It wasn't like this six years ago. Then, everything still shined; the sign with new paint, the guards with new spirits and the people with levity.
She remembered the first time she met Itachi. She was only 4 and living with the 4th Hokage. The blonde, blue-eyed Hokage found her in a forest during a mission, unconscious and worn down. She had no memory of what had happened before she woke up to look up in bright blue eyes. Both the Third and Fourth Hokage suspected she was part of a fallen village that didn't exist anymore due to the Third Ninja War.
Itachi was training with a kunai, aiming accurately already for a four year old. She had surprised him when she jumped down from the tree above and a kunai struck her leg. He looked shocked, anticipating for the moment she would cry but she didn't.
A young boy with darks eyes observed the blood run down her leg, and asked, "What's your name?"
She stood there with a kunai in her leg, her violet eyes staring back at him. Her hair was just above her shoulders and a mess of waves as if she didn't bother brushing it. She looked wild, unable to be tamed and he liked it. He was attracted to this strange spirit of defiance.
After a long pause, she finally answered, "Kira."
He brought her back to the Uchiha complex where his mother treated her and asked questions about what she was training on at the training grounds.
"So what's a cute young girl like you doing at the training grounds? It can be very dangerous there."
She looked at her leg; it was bound but bleeding through the bandage already. The mother was helping her down off the seat.
"I was waiting for Yondaime-sensei."
"Yondai- The Fourth Hokage? Why?", the boy's mother looked surprised. She still didn't know the boy's name…
"I'm living with him and he's teaching me the art of ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu."
She watched the boy's mother taking off the bloody bandage and began to use chakra to heal her leg.
Apparently her relationship with the Hokage gave her some sort of importance, some sort of in. She remembered how Itachi watched from the doorway, his face blank yet tense about something. As he walked her to the Hokage building, he didn't say a word.
In a week, he had arranged for her to live with his family and she was eventually adopted. Her name was changed to Kira Uchiha. It wasn't spoken about to anyone and Itachi made sure of that. She grew up with Itachi and Sasuke. She adored the youngest Uchiha. She loved the oldest.
And he loved her back
They were always together. They trained together and her skills rivaled his own. One reason was because the Sharingan didn't affect her. No one knew why but it didn't and she would stare back during every match. Her dark violet eyes versus his black-blue eyes.
They weren't allowed on missions together and she wasn't allowed to join ANBU or officially go on missions since she never enrolled into the Academy. She refused to go to some school that made her into everyone else and the Uchihas didn't push the matter any further.
The massacre stunned her more than anyone. She was supposed to know Itachi the best. She remembered the Third Hokage asking her why it had happened. She remembered Ibiki Morino asking her why it had happened. She barely remembered her reply, all mumbled and vague. Out of all the interrogations, she remembered Sasuke's.
"Why? Tell me why", his eyes stared at hers, wide and still child-like but she saw them narrow as the days go by.
"I don't know Sasuke. I don't know why."
"You're lying. You know more about him than anyone. Tell me why. Tell me why he killed my family! Why he killed all I had!"
"Sasuke-"
"I heard you talking to the Hokage. You never even apologized."
"Apologize? APOLOGIZE? I didn't do anything! I didn't know what he was up to!"
"You could have stopped him! Why didn't you STOP him?"
"How could I stop something I didn't know about? And it isn't my duty to apologize for him."
"Liar. You know it as well as I did that you were his only connection to everyone else. He never talked to anyone except you. You should have known. You should have known!", he whispered intensely, looking down at the wooden floor as it was a fascinating piece of art. She looked at him and walked out of the complex, never looking back.
She left the village for years, staying miles away. The Third Hokage sent some hunter-nin after her but he gave up after a year. Sasuke was right and the Hokage knew it. She should have known.
She faded into the background, becoming a small-time ninja doing errands and the ever-popular bodyguard position for rich clients or turning into an undercover spy for a noble family that didn't want to attract the attention of the Kages.
Even with all the distance, she heard about how Sasuke left to gain power with Orochimaru. The idea of Sasuke with one of the most twisted person ever made her sick. She heard how Akatsuki was getting restless, ready to strike. Both Sound nin and Akatsuki were aiming their attacks at Konoha and she knew that Konoha would never be able to handle it in the shape they were in.
Even now, she wondered if it was worth it, to come back and repair what she had left damaged.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry", she said hollowly, looking at the Leaf symbol on the gate one last time before stepping beyond it.
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