Hello everyone. This was up rather quickly. I'm proud of myself. :)

Well, this is the sequel to The Life of a Lower Class Uchiha: A Tragic World. If you haven't read that yet, then you should or things will be really confusing. As for everyone else, welcome back.

By the way, the theme song for this is Angels by Within Temptation.

I don't own Naruto.

Enjoy.

In the two months since the massacre, Katerina continued to work with Michi. However, she was sick, and Michi noticed.

"Katerina, I really wish you would let Kanade look at you." Michi said as she held her friends hair back.

"I'm fine Michi. It's probably just a stomach bug." Katerina said when her nausea passed.

"For a month?" Michi asked skeptically.

Katerina just shook her head. "I'm fine." Katerina said attempting to leave.

Michi stopped her. "Katerina, I won't let you go back to work until you go to Kanade for a checkup."

Katerina said in frustration. "Fine," She muttered. "If it'll get you off my back then I'll go."

Michi put a hand on her shoulder. "You know I'm just worried about you."

Katerina nodded looking at her friend. "Yeah, I know." She said. "Come on, I want to get this over with."

Itachi found his partner to be impulsive, and foolish. However, he was an oddly good friend as well. Itachi sighed. He supposed it was easy for one to befriend someone they spent every day with though. He looked at the picture in his hand. 'Isn't that right Katerina?' He wondered. 'If we hadn't spent all those days together, I'm not so sure we would have become friends.'

Itachi felt Kisame come up behind him and he quickly put the picture away. "Ready to go?" His partner asked him.

"Yes," He said standing. With that they continued on.

"That's not possible Kanade." Katerina said looking at the old woman. "I can't…"

"The chances were indeed slim Katerina. I could tell that, but not impossible."

"B-but…"

"I won't try to pry information from you Katerina. Just know I'm here for you child." Kanade said.

Katerina nodded. "Thank you Kanade." She said quietly.

Michi was waiting for Katerina when she exited Kanade's home. "Well?" She asked.

"I'll tell you when we get home." Katerina said quietly looking at the ground.

Michi immediately knew something was wrong. "Katerina…are you okay?"

"I…don't know." She said putting a hand on her stomach, where a tiny life was now growing.

"What?!" Michi said jumping from her seat. "Katerina, how…when could this have happened?"

"I was only ever with one man, and we only shared one night. It was two weeks before I left my village." Katerina said. "It was my seventeenth birthday."

"So that means…"

"I'm almost at three months." Katerina finished.

Michi sighed putting a hand on her forehead. "How could you not have noticed you missed two cycles, maybe three?"

"I didn't really pay much attention." She said honestly. "I didn't think about it."

Michi looked at Katerina. "I'm mad, mostly because you ignored the signs, and then didn't tell me you were sick, but I'm here for you."

Katerina looked up at her friend. "Thank you Michi. That means a lot."

"Maybe someday you'll trust me enough to tell me your past." Her friend said.

"My only fear is that you'll no longer accept me."

"Katerina, you can't tell me anything that would make me not accept you."

"Don't say that until you're sure Michi."

Katerina wasn't so sure she was ready for this, and she was saddened by the fact that Itachi wasn't going to know. Despite the times they had spoken the what ifs in their time together, she wasn't prepared for the real thing. She wasn't ready for her own child. Saria was old enough to be easy to raise, she was a little over two, and talking quite well while learning to walk. Katerina's only fear was that she may have inherited the sharingan. If she did, Katerina would have to keep a close eye to make sure it didn't activate. Katerina and her brother hadn't been full blood Uchihas, their grandmother was from a different clan, so the fact that Amaya was a non Uchiha meant Saria probably didn't get the Sharingan, but Itachi was a full blood, so her child did without a doubt.

That night she found herself looking at the picture she had again. "Itachi…" She said. "I don't know how you would take this, but you're going to be a father." She looked at Shisui. "I wonder how you would react to this. Probably run around being your crazy self. You'd tease us for hours wouldn't you." Tears started flowing down her face. "I miss you guys; I miss how we used to be."

"Who are they?" Katerina jumped when her friend spoke. "That has to be the first time you didn't sense me coming." Michi looked at the picture in Katerina's hand again and her face fell. Katerina knew why, she and Itachi were in their ANBU uniforms, and Shisui was in his Jonin. "You're a ninja." She said looking at Katerina.

"Was…" She said. "Michi…please don't hate me. I know how you feel; it's the violence of ninja that ripped my family apart. That's why I'm here now."

Michi sighed. "Well that explains how you were able to sense me. So are you going to answer my question?" Katerina looked at her nervously. "Katerina, I won't hate you for that, but don't let anyone else know."

Katerina nodded. "Well this," She said pointing at Itachi. "Is Itachi, he was my lover, and my child's father, and this," She pointed at Shisui. "Was his cousin Shisui. He was loud and obnoxious, but a really good friend."

"You three look like you were close." Michi said.

"We were, I miss them a lot."

Michi nodded. "Well, I'm going to bed. You should get some sleep too Katerina, you need it."

Katerina nodded. "I know. Goodnight Michi."

"Goodnight Katerina."

I know this is really short, but it served as a prologue. The other chapters should be much longer than this. I hope you liked it.

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