PROLOGUE

Rain pelted on the thirteen year old body of Uchiha Itachi. The massacre was nearly over. He had one last family, besides his, to take care of. As he silently raced along the rooftops, he caught sight of a figure, dressed in a dark green cloak, rushing out of the very house he'd been heading to. He turned his attention to the house and looked in, only for his nose to crinkle in disgust. The person in the green cloak had taken care of this family for him. As he turned to pursue the shinobi, a kunai cut his cheek and a lock of his hair, pinning itself in the door Itachi was about to close. He turned to see the eyes of his Anbu partner, his best friend, and girlfriend. Uchiha Ryuu. His heart sped, but he kept his emotionless mask in place. It was hard as he saw the tears begin to leak out of Ryuu's eyes, but the only thing he showed was a narrowing of his eyes.

"Ryuu. What are you doing here?" Itachi asked, wincing mentally at his monotonous voice. Ryuu half smiled, though her eyes remained grim and teary.

"Making your job easier." She replied. Itachi narrowed his eyes again, and attempted to punch the girl, but she flipped out of reach and stood straight and tall. Itachi couldn't help but admire her strong yet graceful figure, but her next words had him focused intently on her.

"I'm taking Yumi with me, Ita-kun." Itachi growled animalisticly, crouching into a taijutsu stance. He wasn't going to allow Ryuu to take his Imouto, and the only thing Sasuke would have to hang on to in this world. He didn't want his brother to go through life without his twin, and other half. Itachi successfully landed a kick on the girl, but with a cry and a puff of smoke, she was gone.

"Kuso... Shadow clone." Itachi cursed, running at a dead sprint to his house. Hw finished his parents off, tears gathering at what they had told him, before he heard footsteps coming.

"Sasuke..."

His Otouto was alone, which was strange because Yumi was normally always by Sasuke's side. In that instant, Itachi knew he was too late. He blanked out on Sasuke, watching emotionlessly as his brother screamed at him. Itachi scoffed when Sasuke told Itachi to kill him. His next words were filled with his growing rage at Ryuu.

"Please. You aren't even worth killing. If you wish to kill me, foster your hatred. Despise me. For now, flee, run, and cling to your miserable life. One day, when you have the same eyes I have, you will fight me." Amd with those last words of hatred, with tears of sorrow running down his face, Itachi left to find Uchiha Madara.

Killing her family was easy. Taking Yumi was easy. Going up against Itachi? Not so much. The hardest thing for Uchiha Ryuu was watching the old Itachi struggle against the emotionless one. How could she tell? Itachi's eyes. The sight of her two best friends and fellow kunoichi shook her out of her thoughts. She quickly stopped her tears and made it look as if the rain was just running down her face as she halted in front of her companions.

"Kiyomi. Do you have Kanae and the scrolls?" Ryuu asked. The brown haired eighteen year old sighed and nodded.

"Tiresome." She muttered, showing the eight year old brunette girl holding her hand, then opened her jacket and showed the many scrolls about her clan's Shadow Possesion and other ninjutsu hidden in her pockets. Ryuu nodded in satisfaction.

"Miyuki. Miaka and the scrolls?" The snowy haired seventeen year old nodded enthusiastically, gesturing towards the seven year old crimson haired girl asleep on her back.

"Hey Ryuu, check my bag for the scrolls. I can't with Miaka here." Miyuki said quietly, as to not wake the girl. Ryuu nodded and quickly went through the bag, finding scrolls on her clan's Gentle Fist style, the Rotation, and many other jutsu. Finally, Ryuu checked to see the seven year old Yumi still fast asleep on her back. Ryuu's well trained thirteen year old body would be able to hold the girl for another eighteen hours at most. She checked her bag with one hand, the other holding up Yumi, and found her scrolls on the Sharingan, genjutsu, ninjutsu, taijutsu and kenjutsu. Ryuu nodded in satisfaction.

"Alright. Let's go girls."

The trio of kunoichi set off, Kanae now on Kiyomi's back, and the other two children in their original spots.

It would be five to six years before Konohagakure got a look at the six females again. And what a surprise they would be.