Years before Sasuke Uchiha was born, his mother gave birth to twins, Kari and Itachi. For reaons unknown to anyone except for the Heads of the Uchiha clan and their parents, the twins were separated when they were five years old, just a few months before Sasuke's birth, and were to never see each other again.

The wind was chillier this time of year. Kari had been perfecting a new ninjutsu for the past four weeks. For the moment, she was resting on a small rock in an infinitely wide field dotted with white daises against the green landscape. She pushed her jet black hair away from her ebony eyes and hastily brushed away a tear. She thought back to a memory she had of Itachi. They had been playing on the pier of their pond. Itachi had been making shapes in the water with various chakra techniques, anxious to delight Kari. No matter what Itachi had thought of his parents or the clan heads, he had always loved his sister dearly, had always been very protective, had always made sure she was safe.

That particular day, Kari had been disturbed by something she overheard her parents saying.

"They want to separate us Itachi...the clan heads, not our parents...they say we're too dangerous to stay together."

"They're ignorant, Kari. Why would they do that? What have we done to them? Is it our fault we were born the way we were?"

"Of course not, Itachi, but they're scared anyway. I'm scared too. What if we never see each other again?"

"It's not going to happen Kari...really...it's not...Look, I'm making a swan for you. You love swans...it's even flapping its wings."

Three days later, Kari was dragged away from Itachi, never to see him again. Both children cried and begged. Their father was in tears and their mother was bawling, but the clan heads would hear none of it. Kari would not come in contact with her brother for eleven years.

It had been a horrible adjustment. Separating from a sibling was hard enough, but separating from a twin was ten times worse. The transition had made Kari ill, near death at points, and very fragile for almost a year. Shortly after her recovery, she was training vigorously, in the ninja art that only two people in the whole world had the potential to master or even use: her and Itachi.

She had been told to live with a different clan in Konoha, but she refused outright and lived by herself in a small cabin near the field she was now sitting in. She seldom showed herself in Konoha. Since Itachi had left, it was easier for her to move around without breaking the rule of her relations with Itachi, but she still never came there openly. Kari came to Konoha covertly for one reason and one reason alone. Her self-made mission of protecting and helping her little brother from afar.

Kari had learned the truth about her birth, her strange power, and her separation from Itachi when she was ten years old. Desperate for answers and armed with powerful genjutsu, she stole away to the home of the Uchiha clan head. She did this for many nights until he began talking to another Uchiha about the twins' schism.

You may ask why it was necessary, Uruki. The answer is simply. Kari and Itachi are not normal twins. They are Auralens. They are a special breed of ninja that are seen once every millenia or so and who always come in sets of twins. The last Auralens were born about 1500 years ago. You may now ask what an Auralen is. An Auralen is a ninja that can master the control of the very light we see. Not necessarily how it shines, but how it reflects and refracts. This makes for a powerful genjutsu. It also creates attacks that can destroy and wound exponentially. Can you imagine a ninja with control of the light waves you use to see objects? You would never know if you were actually seeing an object or an illusion or if the object you were seeing was actually in the place you thought it was. Plus, there is a substantial amout of power in light waves and when concentrated, they are fast and lethal. Wars were started from the actions of previous Auralens. Massacres. Holocausts. It was almost thought that there would never be another pair. But we were quickly proved wrong by those two. It was odd that they should be so powerful at such a young age. Our suspicions were not high until Kari bent a beam of light reflecting off a mirror with a wave of her hand. I witnessed this personally and immediately thought of the legend. It became obvious we were correct. I made the decision to separate them to keep them from becoming the power hungry shinobis of the past. It was hard to do...especially when I saw their faces...but what else could I do Uruki?

Kari had been stunned. She ran back to her home so quickly, she didn't remember the trip back. Bursting in the door, Kari flung herself on her bed and cried. She was miserable about everything and now, more than ever, she wanted to see Itachi.

A few years later, Kari would learn that Itachi had killed everyone in the clan except his brother and fled Konoha.

Kari shook herself, stood up, and stretched her arms. She looked across the field and thought the colors were duller than usual.

So many memories...

Kari enacted her Sharingan, which was quite a bit more advanced than any other Uchiha's she had ever known. She raised both hands to create a seal she had made herself: the swan. Kari bent several light beams to form the image of swan's wings behind her and with a swish of those wings exactly one petal from every daisy was sliced off within a fraction of a second. Perfect. This attack was percise to a nanometer and faster than a blink of an eye. Plus it could attack several things at the same time. Satisifed, Kari walked towards Konoha's metropolis.

Turning on her heel, Kari looked back just once to see many naked daisy centers and petals strewn about the grass. Then she turned back and continued walking. She had some business to take care of...

Author's Note:

Ok, so y'all are probably wondering where the heck the story went and where its sequel is and stuff.

Well don't worry, I'll repost it again. But I was really hating how the sequel was coming along. I also don't think enough people read this one to justify a sequel. So I'll be reposting this story chapter by chapter.

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry. This does not apply.

Manwaithiel