PROLOGUE

"Get the boy here!" The voice was so far yet close.

"What about the girl?"

"Get her as well! It will be easier for us then!"

The bombing was not yet over and the screams and the bloody shouts were what we were surrounded with. I clutched both my kids to my heart as I heard them nearing. I was trying to shield them with all the power left within me but that was not enough. And I knew that. There was no way I could deny that it was for our own good but still - they were my kids!

"Ma'am ! The portal's almost ready !" I heard a shout from behind me. At the same time the curtains were drawn apart for some men to enter. They leaned forward and took both my hearts away...

But I did not react because I knew that it was for our own good. That monster had to be stopped! Eventually, I stood up with them and went outside.

"B-But, ma'am, it's almost complete! The portal! You cannot go out... its-its too dangerous for you! The Fourth is already doing his best to save our village!" The caretaker of the Uchiha Clan's soon to be only survivor, who was also a partial Uchiha , exclaimed.

I turned around and smiled at her. "You have two sons to look at and both of them are the heirs of the Uchiha... What if you had to chose between them? Whom will you choose?" I asked , still smiling.

This question confused her but she did reply. "I may have two sons but only one of them is the real heir of the Uchiha. As you already know, I am only partially an Uchiha, so is my son! So he may or may not be having the powers. So that leave us with the master's child... the true Uchiha."

"So what does that lead you to? Won't you want your child to be the master?

"I would, but - "

"Exactly what I meant. Don't you see that I have to choose between my two children? The village, Konoha, or my children. Being the wife of the Fourth Hokage and a kunoichi is not a very easy task! I chose Konoha because I know that my children, eventually, would be safe. Otherwise their dad wouldn't have chosen this fate for them..." My smile had vanished as well as Sanako's confused look which was now filled with understandment.

Yes, my husband was the fourth Hokage of Konoha, which meant that he was the one in whom every single person of our village has put his or her faith in. Being his wife, it was my duty too, to gain there trust and help them everytime they needed. I also stated that being a 'kunoichi' isn't easy. Kunoichi means female ninja and there were not many who wanted to be. So I turned away from her and started to walk out, into the battle field.

"I hope you will try to keep the portal open a little longer so I could bring them back and let them live their lives peacefully." Sanako nodded as I disappeared into the dark night where the Nine-Tailed monster waited to be destroyed.

~XXXXXX~

The rain poured down washing away my wounds as I saw Namikaze Minato with my girl. He started with his plan but as soon as he put his hands up to do the jutsu, I knew there was not much power left in him. I watched in awe how he controlled the monster and divided its chakra into two parts, Yin & Yang. And I saw him as he sealed one of those powers into my daughter. She was crying.

The Fox cried in agony and my heart sank when I saw that Minato was no longer on his feet. He was down on his knees and coughing blood!

"Minato! " I cried and ran towards him.

"Take her to a safer place... please!" He managed to say. I nodded in disbelief as I took our girl in my arms. So small. She looked so innocent as she kept on crying.

I ran towards Sanako with her in my arms. As soon as I reached her I saw the portal closing an inch per second.

I kept my child and her own in her hands and shoved her in the portal. She was saying something but I did not realize that there was still a child left. But it was too late. The portal had closed. I gasped. And cried. I covered the other child with a cloth as he kept on crying.

As I turned around, I saw a child looking at me. He came forward and took the other Uchiha in his arms and started to leave. But then he stopped, "Why do you trust Sanako so much?" he said, his tone pointing out that he doesn't really need an answer.

I managed to smile, "I guess you will come to know about it later..Itachi."

That's when I heard Minato's scream filled with pain and I knew I had to leave.

I ran and I cried as I saw him losing. Everyone else was still fighting so I rushed to him and touched his hands with both of mine.

He looked up and cried "NO!".

I had given him all of my powers to seal the other half of the power in my boy. I cried as he cried and I saw my boy cry too as he also got the same mark as his sister had got. Though I was able to see that his mark was much more stronger and needed more controlling. Minato looked into my eyes as he cried. We both held our child close to our heart as the seal was finally completed and the monster was burned down.

The whole village cheered but we cried as we knew that along with end of the rain, it would wash us away too...

We knew that we were going to die.