Wow…this is incredible! At first I was disappointed because there was only two reviews for it, but it turned into sixteen! Arigatou gozaimasu! Enjoy! Just in case you didn't notice, this was re-written because I only got a few complaints that it was too rushed, so…oh well, if you want to read it again, go ahead.
The Lost Uchiha Twin
2
Return
A thunderous silence lingered in the air of a grotesque battlefield. Bodies were strewn all across it, covering the ground with scarlet liquid and corpses. A tall girl in her late teens stood in the center of the battlefield, staring emotionlessly at her enemy, dark obsidian eyes promising a painful death as they locked on to malicious red ones.
Naraku was the result of this. It was all his fault that the friends, companions, and allies she once knew and shared her life with were now gone, leaving her alone in the world. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Inuyasha, Kirara, Kikyo, Koga, Sesshomaru, Ayame, Kohaku, Jaken, Rin…your deaths will not have been in vain. I will take down Naraku once and for all. Thank you, she thought.
The bastard stood in front of her a few meters away, his infamous, taunting smirk grinning victoriously at her. If he killed her, he would rule the world! Kagome knew she couldn't let that happen. Whatever it takes, I will not die.
She considered using the Sharingan on him once, to give herself the element of surprise, but decided not to. She wanted to see if her own power alone would be enough to defeat him. In all their bouts against Naraku and his evil minions, she hadn't once shown the Sharingan. Although, she did wonder if Naraku knew about it, for Kanna spied on them a lot. She'd awakened the Sharingan early, and her foster family was startled. Eight years of age was rather young to awaken the Sharingan, but then again, she was faced with a burglary.
Naraku studied her closely, so he could prepare an attack when he found an opening. But to his disappointment, she held no flaws in her stance. "Naraku, today is the day you atone for all your sins," she whispered venomously.
While it was true that her friends' deaths hurt her, she wouldn't let her emotions get in the way while she fought. She drew her katana and charged the blade with purification power. Sesshomaru gave Totosai a fang to forge this sword with. I won't disappoint him, she thought.
Before Naraku could prepare himself for the attack, Kagome rushed forward speedily and dealt him an onslaught of strikes. He hissed in pain as one of the strikes hit him in the arm.
Damn, that bitch is fast! He thought, his red eyes darting around wildly to find even the slightest hint of movement.
A flash of silver glinted to his right and he swerved to avoid the deadly blade that sliced through the air right where his head had formerly been.
His heart, Akago, had been sealed back into his body by Kikyo before he killed her. But thanks to that, he was now as vulnerable to death as a human. At least he still retained his speed and his –
While he was buried deep within his thoughts, Kagome snuck up behind him and thrust the sword through his throat. Naraku choked as he was roughly forced out of his mind.
The purification power crackled and began to flow throughout his body. It felt like electricity was burning his body inside out. Naraku howled in pain (well, he choked in pain; can't really howl if a sword destroyed your vocal cords).
Kagome twisted the blade before pulling it out. Naraku dropped to ground like a rag doll, clutching his bleeding throat. Blood gushed from his wounds in torrents and covered the ground in puddles of scarlet red.
Miasma also hissed out from his body, but Kagome purified the air around her to allow herself to breathe. "You're pathetic," she said coldly, approaching him.
Naraku glared up at her and spit blood. The purified air destroyed the tainted blood before it hit her. Kagome decided to let Naraku see her Sharingan right before he died. She sent chakra into her eyes and let her special kekkei genkai show through.
Naraku's eyes widened in shock. The ebony eyes had turned deep red with three tomoe marks in them with a dot in the center.
Then his world went eternally black as Kagome through the tip of her katana through his heart, purifying every last speck of dust and blood that belonged to him.
"And now he is dead," she spoke to the air, as though the lingering spirits of her friends and allies were there and listening to her. She could almost hear them cheering for her.
"Thank you and … goodbye," she whispered, turning away from the blood-splattered spot where Naraku once lay.
Sighing, she looked up into the fading light of the sky. "Itachi…I wish you were here by my side right now…"
Kagome gathered up the bodies of her friends and her allies and laid them all in a single row. She went to each of them in turn to say something memorable about them before she buried them.
The sun dipped slowly behind the peaks of the mountains in the distance just as she finished burying the last body. Hefting the heavy Hiraikotsu on her back, she started off alone in the direction of the well.
She jumped down the well, but noticed that the well flashed green instead of its normal deep blue. "I'm going back to my true home, then," she soliloquized.
In a moment, the well light died and she landed at the bottom. She looked up, expecting to see the familiar forest canopy above her. And it was there.
She climbed out from the well and sat on the edge, deciding to observe her surroundings to get familiar with them again before she ventured further. Itachi should be eighteen by now…and Sasuke is twelve…I wonder how they're all faring without me? Do they miss me, I wonder? She thought.
She got up, her choice made. She would go back to Konoha and let the ninja village grace her presence again. Though from the way I look now, they will no doubt think I'm a stranger, she said sarcastically in her mind.
She was brought out her thoughts when she sensed four chakra signatures in the trees around her. Damn, caught on to me already? That was quick…
Kagome simply ignored them and continued walking, occasionally stopping to study the scenery. She noted mentally that the four signatures followed her. It was obvious they were spying on her. She wheeled around and looked at one particular spot on a tree behind her.
"Why don't you just come out and save yourself the trouble of following someone who is aware of your presence," she said.
Not a leave rustled; not a twig twitched. Kagome sighed. This was stupid. Might as well just teach them to listen to someone when they're talking.
She lifted the Hiraikotsu off her back and flung it so that it would slice through the trees in a circle. "Hiraikotsu!" she shouted.
One yell and one scream was the result of the flying boomerang bone.
Kagome blinked as four people landed in front of her and attacked. She leaned to side to avoid the tip of a kunai wielded by a blonde-haired boy with blue eyes and strange whisker marks on his cheeks, caught two shuriken chucked at her by a pink-haired girl with green eyes, dodged a fire jutsu she knew from an ebony-haired boy with obsidian eyes and a high-collared blue shirt that had the symbol of the Uchiha clan on it, and leaped aside to steer clear of a lightning jutsu sent to her by a silver-haired man wearing a hitai-ate over one eye.
She scrutinized them while they got back together and planned on how to bring her down. "Hmm…do I know you?" she asked, breaking the unpleasant silence.
"We've never seen you before; how can you know us?" the pink-haired girl sneered.
Kagome pointed to Kakashi, "That's…Hatake Kakashi, am I right?" She got two pairs of narrowed eyes and two gasps of shock. She then pointed at Sasuke and said, "My, my, you've grown up a bit…Sasuke."
"How do you know me? I don't know you," he hissed.
Kagome frowned. "What's the matter with you? Your aura's tainted," she said, not bothered the least bit by Sasuke's glare.
"Hey, hey, introduce yourself first!" the blonde kid shouted. "And how do you know Sasuke-teme?!"
"He isn't a bastard, but right now, obviously something's been shoved up his ass," Kagome said, reprimanding him for calling Sasuke a bastard.
"Why don't you just tell us who you are so we can get on with our own lives," Sasuke growled.
"Gee, what crawled up your ass and died? Can't any of you even tell who I am? Or can't you, 'cause I'll just tell you a few things about myself," Kagome said, rolling her eyes. "Mind you, it's best not to interrupt.
"First and foremost of all, I am an Uchiha – " This caught all of their attention, plus two gaping jaws and four pairs of saucer-sized eyes. " – secondly, I disappeared from Konoha twelve years ago during the attack by Kyuubi no Kitsune – " She saw the blonde kid flinch slightly " – and lastly, I am Itachi's twin sister."
Sasuke's eyes blazed in rage when she spoke Itachi's name. He detested his fucking brother and now this wench had the gall to say she was his sister?! Suddenly a memory from before Itachi's defection flashed through his mind. The picture in Itachi's room…
"You can't be Sasuke's older sister! You're lying so you can steal Sasuke's heart!" the pink-haired girl screamed.
"And pray tell why would I want to vie for my brother's heart?" Kagome asked coolly. "Now if we could simply get to Konoha, that would be nice."
"You won't find anyone in the Uchiha compound. They're all dead," Sasuke said quietly.
Kagome whipped around to face him. "What?!"
"They're dead. Everyone is. Itachi killed them all and I'm going to kill him," Sasuke spat Itachi's name venomously.
"I'm sure he had a reason to. If what you say is really true, then I'm going to ask Itachi myself," Kagome said, turning to vanish into the trees.
"You think he'll just give you the answer?" Kakashi said.
"And why Itachi? That guy is insane!" Naruto exclaimed.
Kagome halted. "He's my twin brother. In the past, we didn't keep any secrets from each other. Our parents called us prodigal human magnets. I wish to see him again," she said softly. "Before I go, may I ask you where the Akatsuki lair is?"
"We aren't absolutely sure, but Jiraiya's information sources tell us that it is somewhere in Earth Country," Kakashi answered. Without another word, Kagome was gone.
Naruto had a silly grin on his face. "Hey, Sasuke, you've got a hot sister!" he said.
The other three glanced at him bemusedly. "Dobe, I'm not sure if she really is my sister. I've never seen her before."
"She said she disappeared the night of the Kyuubi attack. You were only three months old, Sasuke," Kakashi reminded the Sharingan wielder.
"Hn."
Meanwhile, Kagome was about to cross the border of Fire country when she ran into two people. One was extremely tall and had the face of a shark. He had a long-sword-thing swathed in bandages strapped to his back. His companion had long raven hair and cold, Sharingan eyes.
Kagome skidded to a halt and examined the Sharingan wielder again. Was he Itachi? He looked…as if his heart was closed off and unreachable.
"Itachi-san, doesn't that girl look like you?" Fish-Face asked, looking at his partner.
There was no answer from him. Kagome smirked. "Long time no see, eh, Itachi?" she said.
"I don't know you," was the direct, bland reply.
Kagome mentally rolled her eyes. She poured chakra into her eyes to change them into the Uchiha clan kekkei genkai. Both men stiffened as they stared at another pair of Sharingan.
"You…" Itachi whispered, his own pair deactivating back into obsidian eyes.
"A-another Sharingan?" Kisame stuttered.
"Long time no see, 'Tachi-chan!" Kagome chirped.
Kisame almost laughed out loud at Itachi's childhood nickname, but chose not to when said Sharingan wielder glared venomously at him.
Itachi decided that Kisame was unimportant at the current moment and promptly ignored him. He walked forward, staring at Kagome. Is this a dream? He wondered.
Kagome spread her arms out wide. Itachi may be taller than she was now, but she was still older than him by ten minutes. Itachi smiled. It's not.
Kisame gaped in shock when Itachi ran forward and glomped Kagome in a very un-Uchiha-ish fashion. Kagome grinned as she felt his hold tightening on her.
"Kagome, I thought…you died when Kyuubi attack," he said.
Kisame's jaw, if possible, dropped even further down to the ground.
"No…no, I didn't…" Kagome answered. "I faintly remember that I was running…I was running towards the beast and unluckily for me, one of its tails swept over the ground. It hit me in the stomach and sent me flying deep into the Konoha forest. I fell into an old well and ended up sometime in the future."
Itachi released her and stepped back. They stared at each other, the same dark obsidian eyes observing the telltale changes in the other from twelve years of separation.
Itachi had a lean body with pale skin, cold obsidian eyes that spun fiercely with his Sharingan, and long, silky black hair that was tied to the nape of his neck with a white hair tie. He wore the black Akatsuki cloak with red clouds, indicating that he was a part of that criminal organization. He wore toeless boots, black pants, and a fishnet shirt underneath.
Kagome, on the other hand, was wearing a silver haori top and dark blue hakamas bottoms, sort of like a priestess's robes except they were a different color. She had a huge boomerang strapped to her back. A sheathed katana was kept by her side by a light purple obi. She wore traditional Japanese zoris. She was tanner than her twin brother, but had the same cold, obsidian eyes and Sharingan, though Kisame would never admit that Kagome's eyes were warmer than his partner's.
"Now, enough with the reunion. I just so happened coincidentally to run into you when I was looking for you, because I heard from Sasuke that you killed the clan, Itachi. I am not holding it against you, but I want to know why," Kagome said sternly, her formerly friendly voice turning sharp as a knife and colder than ice.
Kisame shivered. Sure, he had thought Itachi was a master of death glares and the ultimate touch-me-not king of ice, but compared to this woman, who seemed to know him…ugh, if looks could kill, he'd be dead more than he would have liked.
Itachi knew that Kagome wouldn't take no for an answer, so he calmly explained his reasons, "The Uchiha clan was becoming too arrogant. Father and some others were pushing me harder than ever. Since you supposedly died, they dropped all the responsibilities and burdens on to me. I just happened to crack one day. I found out that Shisui, our cousin, worked for Orochimaru. I killed him and obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan. After that, they had a clan meeting that I eavesdropped on. I found out that they were planning to extract the Kyuubi from Naruto and seal it into Sasuke, to make him the ultimate weapon. I killed them all for their impudence, blindness, and greed. That is the truth. I told Sasuke I killed them to measure my capacity, so he wouldn't find out the real reason why. But I suppose one day I should tell him the truth."
"Why not today?" she said softly.
Itachi stared at her. "Sasuke will try to take my head off the moment I am within his line of vision," he said bluntly.
"Yeah, that Sasuke kid is mentally unbalanced," Kisame added, which resulted in twin glares of death. He shrunk under the twins' murderous gazes and squeaked in a voice that was totally unfamiliar to him, "…but then again, isn't he a lucky bastard?"
Bam!
Itachi blinked. Kisame was as flat as a pancake on the ground. Kagome stood over him with her foot pressing on his back. "I dare you to say that again, Fish-Face!" she snarled.
Silence met her. Itachi coughed. "I think you knocked him out," he said, a slight sweatdrop appearing at the back of his head and his sister's monstrous strength and speed.
"I guess I used too much power. Must come from fighting too many demons and bad humans," she sighed.
Itachi's gaze immediately snapped to her. "Demons?" he repeated. "The Bijuu?"
"No, not the all-mighty Bijuu. Weaker demons, and they're so ugly, stupid, and greedy," Kagome answered. "Let's make a deal. If I tell you my tale, though you might not believe me, will you come back to the village with me?"
Itachi cogitated. It seems fair enough, he deducted. At least Sasuke is too weak to defeat me.
"Deal," he said. Kagome held out her hand and he shook it.
"I'm guessing you do want to know why I'm dressed like this?" Kagome asked. Itachi nodded.
"First of all, it started with a special jewel that we called the Shikon no Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls. This jewel was made from the actions a priestess fusing her soul with a demon's and expelling it out of her body. This priestess was Midoriko, the only woman who could cleanse demon souls. The demon was a construction of demons that hated her and wanted to bring her down. They fought for seven days and seven nights and finally Midoriko was spent and she took the demon's to combine it with her own and expel it out of her body. Both of them died, leaving behind a crystallized soul, the Shikon no Tama.
"On my fifteenth birthday, I was captured by a centipede demon and I fell down the old well again. But this time, I ended up five hundred years into the past. I discovered a teenager pinned to a tree, but he wasn't a normal boy. He had long white hair and two furry white dog ears on his head. He wore a bright red haori with hakamas and he was barefoot.
"Later, while we were fighting a crow demon, I shattered the Shikon no Tama by accident. The boy screamed at me because he too wanted the Shikon for his own uses. His name was Inuyasha.
"We partnered up to find all the Shikon no Kakaera (sp?). Along the way, we met an orphaned fox demon kit by the name of Shippo, a lecherous Buddhist monk with a kazaana in his left hand name Miroku, and a female demon slayer with a boomerang bone named Sango, with her companion Kirara, the two-tailed cat.
"We battled our greatest enemy for the Shikon no Kakaera, Naraku. He was the evilest man alive, a half-demon born from the hate and lust of a bandit named Onigumo. He's eviler than two Orochimarus put together.
"Others we met were Inuyasha's older half-brother, a cold-blooded, full-fledged dog demon named Sesshomaru, a kind old woman named Kaede, who was Inuyasha's love's sister, Kikyo, a dead priestess who used to be Inuyasha's lover before Naraku made them betray each other, Urasue, a demonic witch who resurrected Kikyo with a clay body, Myoga, Inuyasha's tiny flea advisor, Jaken, Sesshomaru's water kappa lackey, Koga, a lovestruck wolf demon with a fiancé, Ayame, a female wolf demon and Koga's fiancé, Rin, the little girl Sesshomaru resurrected with his sword Tenseiga, Kohaku, Sango's little brother and a pawn of Naraku's, Kagura, one of Naraku's incarnations, a user of wind, Kanna, Naraku's little mirror girl who has nothing, no shadow, no aura, Hakudoushi, a demonic child without a heart, Akago, a little baby who was Naraku's heart, the Shichinintai, a band of seven mercenaries who had some major issues, and others.
"After three years, we came to our final battle with Naraku. I changed because I received personal training from both Sango and Sesshomaru. We confronted Naraku in all his evil glory. I killed him, but the cost of the battle was too much. I was the only one left alive on the battlefield. Everyone else was dead.
"I buried them all and took Sango's boomerang. When I jumped down the well, I ended up back here again."
Itachi was silent as he digested this outflow of information. "This is all you went through after you disappeared?" he asked.
"Yes."
A low groan came from the side. Both gazes averted to the body. Kisame peeled himself off the ground. "Ouch," he grumbled.
"That's for saying Sasuke is a mentally unstable lucky bastard," Kagome growled.
"Shall we head to Konoha now?" Itachi asked.
"Sure," Kagome said, shrugging.
"What about our mission, Itachi-san? Have you forgotten?!" Kisame yelled.
Itachi turned. "Tell Leader-sama," he began slowly, "that I quit." With that, Kagome grabbed Itachi and the twins disappeared, leaving Kisame alone at the border.
The two appeared just a little ways away from the village gates. Itachi used a simple Henge as a cover-up for his usual appearance. Kagome smirked. "Nobody's gonna give a shit who I am, so I can just waltz in," she said.
The twins wended along the road until Konoha came into sight. Itachi placed a minor genjutsu on the guards so they wouldn't see them. They slipped stealthily into the village.
"First, we should see the Hokage," Itachi whispered.
"Mm," Kagome agreed.
They snuck to the Hokage tower. Once they were outside Tsunade's door, Kagome knocked quickly. "Come in," was said from inside the room.
They slipped in and shut the door hastily behind them. "Busata no Jutsu," Kagome whispered.
Tsunade eyed them warily. She'd never seen them before, why were they here? "Excuse me, may I help you?" she asked. She was wary because one of them had a fat-ass boomerang strapped to his or her back.
"You're the new Hokage? What happened to Yondaime-sama?" Kagome asked.
Tsunade's eyes widened. "You knew Yondaime?"
"We'll get everything cleared up in a minute, but promise you won't freak out," Kagome said. When Tsunade hesitantly nodded, Itachi dropped the Henge.
Tsunade almost face-planted into the floor in shock. Kagome stifled a chuckled as Itachi scowled. "Uchiha Itachi, why are you back here?" she asked, recovering from her shock.
"I quit the Akatsuki," he replied.
"We are here to tell the village the truth behind the Uchiha massacre," Kagome said.
"First, who are you?" Tsunade inquired, looking at her. "A companion of Itachi's?"
"Not exactly," Kagome said.
"She's my older twin sister," Itachi answered.
Kagome heard something and she quickly performed a jutsu, "Bijon Rokkingu no Jutsu!" A moment later a thud hit the ground outside.
Tsunade and Itachi glanced at her. "I assume someone is spying on us?" Itachi said.
"Exactly why I did that jutsu. The spy cannot see anything now," Kagome whispered.
Who was the spy, you readers wonder? Why, let's tune into the authoress's POV of said spy.
Jiraiya saw Tsunade conversating with two mysterious people in her office. He tried to sneak in to see and hear what was going on, but one of them did a jutsu and suddenly his vision went black. Jiraiya didn't panic, but he did fall from the window and hit the ground flat on his back.
"Now, Godaime-sama, you are Tsunade, am I correct?" Kagome said.
"Yes," she responded.
"If it isn't too much, would you please gather up all the people in this village and assemble them outside within three hours? We would like to tell all of Konoha the truth behind the Uchiha massacre," Kagome said.
"It's not a problem," Tsunade said.
"Good. We will clear Itachi's name and I will let myself be known once more in Konoha. Good day, Godaime-sama," Kagome said, smiling. The duo vanished from her office, leaving behind no time for protests.
Tsunade immediately went into action. She was about to yell out orders when she realized that first, she'd have to undo the Silencing Jutsu Kagome cast on the room. With a sigh, she went to work.
Itachi and Kagome went to the Uchiha manor. Kagome shivered, feeling the eeriness of its haunted silence bite her in the ass.
"It's too quiet here," she murmured, looking sadly at everything she used to know.
Itachi was silent. This place was full of dark, unneeded memories. "We should go before Sasuke sees us," he said.
"All right," Kagome concurred. "Besides, this place is way too gloomy for my taste." They teleported into a tree outside the manor. And luckily for them, Sasuke walked right in. At least he hadn't seen them.
Three hours later, all Konoha citizens, civilian and shinobi alike, were standing in a massive crowd outside the Hokage tower. Itachi and Kagome were two mysterious hooded figures standing in the shadows behind Tsunade so they weren't seen.
"Quiet!" Tsunade yelled.
The crowd instantly became silent. Kakashi was the first to ask, "Why have you called us all here, Hokage-sama?"
"We have two special guests today. I ask that no one attack them. They are here to reveal the truth behind the Uchiha massacre," Tsunade announced to the whole crowd.
"The truth? But didn't Sasuke's brother simply annihilate the clan and run?" Sakura soliloquized.
"What truth is there? Itachi killed the clan and I will avenge them by killing him," Sasuke vowed never to revoke his unsaid promise.
When it was exactly five o'clock, two hooded figures stepped out of the shadows. "It is time you erudite the truth," a soft female voice issued from under the first hood.
"I will tell it," a deep male voice said.
"Now, as your Hokage has ordered, do not attack us," the female said, reaching for her hood. Everyone tensed, expecting to see hard-core shinobi girl.
Instead, the sight that greeted them caused much shock. It was a beautiful female teenager with ebony hair and glittering obsidian eyes. She wore a silver haori top and dark blue hakamas, had a huge boomerang bone strapped to her back, and a katana by her side. She wore tradition Japanese zoris. Many single males drooled openly, even though a lot of the shinobi shivered because her aura radiated confidence and absolute power.
As soon as Itachi took off his hood, shouts of alarm and panic exploded throughout the crowd. Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, and a few others failed to stop a rage-driven Sasuke from leaping from the crowd.
"Itachi, I'm going to kill you!" he roared, his left hand sizzling with the Chidori.
Quicker than the naked human eye could see, Kagome moved in front of Itachi and held out a palm. Pink light burst from it and created a barrier in front of her. Sasuke, unable to stop himself, crashed headfirst into the barrier and fell down.
"I thought Godaime-sama's orders were specifically not to attack us," Kagome said coldly, her formerly confident attitude turning harsh and arctic cold. The citizens of Konoha shivered. Even though it was quite warm outside, they swore the temperature dropped several degrees.
"Why are you defending that bastard?" Sasuke spat, struggling to get up from the ground.
"We are not here to get killed. So move your arrogant ass back to the crowd before I kick you there," Kagome said coolly.
Grudgingly Sasuke stood back and glared hatefully up at his older brother, who promptly ignored him. A random shinobi in the crowd shouted, "You may be beautiful, but we don't know who you are!"
Kagome snapped back, "Oh, be patient, I will be getting to that in a moment."
All the males who were drooling over her minutes before now quickly decided she was way too dangerous for their liking. Except for the shinobi males. They thought she was scary with that icy attitude and cold, glaring eyes.
"My name…is Uchiha Kagome."
"Uchiha Kagome?! The female prodigy of the Uchiha clan?!"
"Impossible! She died twelve years ago!"
"Even Fugaku reluctantly confirmed it! Though we never did find her body…"
"YOU MUST BE AN UNYOUTHFUL IMPOSTER!"
"You guys are so paranoid," Kagome said blatantly. She poured chakra into her eyes and revealed the infamous Uchiha clan kekkei genkai…the Sharingan! The crowd stared, blinking furiously as if this was some sort of illusion.
"Damn, you guys are so loud!" Naruto complained, holding his hands over his ears. Being the vessel of the Kyuubi no Kitsune made his hearing a little sharper than a normal human's.
"BUT OF COURSE, NARUTO! WE MUST BE LOUD TO PROVE OUR ENTHUSIASM!" Gai yelled.
Everyone except Lee sweatdropped. "Enthusiasm my ass," Neji muttered.
Kagome and Itachi mentally agreed. Gai is way too loud for his own good, they thought.
"Um…anyways, yes, I'm Uchiha Kagome. Itachi will tell you the truth about the Uchiha massacre," Kagome said.
The ex-Akatsuki member cleared his throat. "You all know that there are ten Bijuu in the world? (1)"
They all frowned and some showed confusion. There's only nine, was the thought that ran through many a head.
"I guess not. The Akatsuki have made a recent discovery on a ten-tailed holy demon hiding in the Kajaoki Shrine (Pure Fire). It is a ten-tailed phoenix who is said to spit large fireballs of Hell Fire," Itachi explained to the wide-eyed Konohans.
"Now, you all know of the Kyuubi incident twelve years ago?" Everyone nodded. Itachi looked at Tsunade. "Shall I tell them the secret or keep it?"
Tsunade hesitated, her hazel-brown eyes skimming the crowd to rest on Naruto. He bowed his head for a moment. Then he gave the barest of nods to them.
Itachi sighed and continued, "Tell it is. If any of you didn't know, Naruto is connected with the Kyuubi no Kitsune. Our Yondaime Hokage sacrificed his life to seal the soul of the Kyuubi inside a baby. Naruto was born on the same day as the attack, thus making him a jinchuuriki after the sealing, a human sacrifice."
And all of the shinobi and civilians who didn't know that stared at Naruto in disbelief, fear and shock written all over their faces. Naruto was annoyed and he snapped, "What? Are you all happy now that my secret is out? Kyuubi isn't as dangerous as you think."
They turned away. Sasuke and Sakura's gazes lingered a little longer on their teammate. So that was…his red chakra, Sasuke thought.
Itachi cleared his throat again. "My father and the elders of the Uchiha clan were plotting to release Kyuubi from its prison and seal it into Sasuke, making him a living weapon for the clan because he was failing to live up to their expectations. I was furious when I heard that," he said, rather calmly.
Sasuke was shocked. Naruto stared wide-eyed at the ex-missing nin. Sakura gaped.
"After that, I found out that our cousin Shisui was in the lead with Orochimaru, so I killed him and obtained the Mangekyou Sharingan. I wrote the suicidal drowning note for faking, so they wouldn't know. When I finally cracked under pressure and rage, I rampaged and slaughtered everyone. I told Sasuke a lie so he wouldn't do something unnecessary. And now we are here," he said. "The lives of two innocent and naïve children would have been destroyed had I not intervened and killed all the Uchihas to prevent this."
"I…" Sasuke was speechless and he could only choke out his words. "I-I never knew…you were in so much pain…aniki."
Kagome smiled secretively. She could see Sasuke's resolve breaking. "And so you all know the truth now! You are free to go!" she told the Konohans. Murmurs shot through the crowd as they departed.
Sasuke was one of the only ones who stayed.
"You're…you're really my…" Sasuke stammered, approaching Kagome slowly.
Kagome knew that all traces of detestation were driven out of the boy's heart with the truth. He stared at Itachi, who remained relaxed where he was.
"Sasuke, Itachi…let's go home," she said, grinning at them.
Itachi cracked a small smile and Sasuke…actually…smiled!
A lone villager who'd been eyeing the reunion turned away in shock. Well, well, well, three things have happened today, he thought.
Uchiha Kagome, who was M.I.A. (missing in action) returned after a twelve-year absence.
Uchiha Itachi, an S-class ex-missing nin who had been charged with the murder of his clan, returned to Konoha.
Uchiha Sasuke…smiled.
What a day it turned out to be.
X—X—X
So how was the rewritten version? Was it better? Some people are a little OOC, I know, but hey, who cares? It's just a story.
Replies and comments to my reviewers:
MangaFreak15 – As you have read in this chapter, she went to the future by accident.
sad demon gurl – Was it that sad?
kamiam714 – Coming up ASAP.
Akatsuki's Dark Mistress – I'm sorry, this isn't an ItachixKagome story.
Elvira Duchess Of The Night – Was Sasuke a little too OOC in this part?
Cherrie.Checkaz – They can't kick Inuyasha's ass 'cause he's dead.
kage kitsune taiyoukai – I'll try my best.
kaliy-moon07 – I'll…try to finish it…
Kage-Otome – It's a mystery! Not, you just read how she came back.
Natsumi Tsuchi-Ookami – Thanks, I try not to be too confusing.
Bishonen'sFoxyMiko – I don't know who Kagome will be with yet, but no Uchihacest.
tsukasa-girl83 – Thanks! It was a little difficult to mesh things together, but it turned out like this!
demon prince-sesshoumaru – Will do!
Kagome Lady of Darkness –I was aiming for that!
Simply Hopeless – When I read your review, I almost cried because you were so nice! Thank you!
disneyrulz23 – I hope you find the next chapters as interesting as the prologue.
Arigatou gozaimasu – Thank you very much
Sharingan – Copy Wheel Mirror Eye
Hiraikotsu – Boomerang Bone
Mangekyou Sharingan – Kaleidoscope Copy Wheel Mirror Eye
Bijuu – Tailed Demons
Henge no Jutsu – Transformation Technique
Busata no Jutsu – Silencing Technique
Bijon Rokkingu no Jutsu – Vision Locking Technique
Chidori – One Thousand Birds
Aniki – Older Brother
1) There are not really ten Bijuu; only nine, but I just thought ten would be better.
IGS
itachigurlsaiyaku
