It's here! It's here! It's finally here! The second chapter. We got two reviews last time. Very few indeed, but it was more than I've ever hoped for. So to thank all of you, here's a new chapter explaining Sasuke and Sadako's past.

Chapter 2

Remember

"Please Sadako-chan, stop crying." Three year old Sasuke begged. "If father hears you, he'll get angry again."

Every time Sadako cried, father hated her even more, but it wasn't her fault to be in so much pain.

She was a shame to the family. The rejects of the Uchiha clan. But it wasn't like that when they where born.

Sasuke's eyes had been the usual charcoal black, but Sadako's eyes were a little bit… different.

Blazing eyes. Red as blood. She was born with Sharingan, the eye technique that only those in the Uchiha family could use.

"She was the Uchiha's pride." Itachi once told him.

Yes, they used to love her back then.

But something must have gone wrong. Sadako couldn't control the Sharingan. She could not stop it from working. It took the strength from her, made her weary. Wore her eyes down until they bled.

So she sat on her room every day, with her bleeding eyes heavily bandaged and her pale little face no longer smiling.

Sasuke would go into her room every day. It hurt him to see his beloved sister so sad, so he made it his special mission to bring a smile to her face.

"Sadako-chan." He would say, holding five fingers before her face. "How many fingers am I holding up?"

"Three." She would guess.

"No fair, you cheated!"

"I did NOT!"

"Let's play again. How many fingers?" Ten fingers up.

"Two!"

"You're peeking!"

"I'm not!"

Sadako would then start to laugh so it didn't mattered that Sasuke had lost on purpose. Seeing her happy was all that mattered.

Sometimes she had enough strength to walk out of her room and into the garden. And sometimes in rainy days, she would sing next to him in her choppy, three year old voice.

How he loved her voice. The voice that only he was allowed to hear because she would talk to no one else, not even Itachi.

But Sadako wasn't singing today. She was crying, and in so much pain.

It hurts so much." She muttered to Sasuke. Drops of blood began to drip on the floor as Sadako winced in pain.

"Let me see." Sasuke took Sadako's hands away from her face. The sight was horrible to him.

The bandage covering her sick eyes was soaked in blood. The red liquid ran down her cheeks, mixing with Sadako's tears of pain.

"Stay here!" He commanded and dashed out of the room.

He kept on running down the hall and stopped on front of the nearest door.

"Itachi!" He yelled, banging on Itachi's door. "Onii-san!"

"What is it?" Itachi asked with concern as the door opened for him.

"It's Sadako-chan! Come quickly, she's…" Sadako's scream sounded like daggers on his ears.

Both Itachi and Sasuke ran to Sadako's room as fast as they could to find her on the floor, twisting in pain while father looked down at her in disgust.

"Crying again, huh?" He said coldly, grabbing Sadako's hair and pulling her up. "You really ARE the Uchiha's shame."

"Let her go!" Sasuke shout as he started to run towards them. He knew father was bigger and stronger that him, but it didn't mattered. He couldn't let him hurt Sadako.

Father released Sadako as Sasuke punched his right side.

"You little idiot!" He yelled, kicking Sasuke out of the way.

Sasuke landed heavily next to Itachi and whinced when father raised his fist at him. The blow, however, was caught on midair by Itachi's hand.

"What are you doing?" Father's face was red from anger.

"All he wasnted was to protect her. Can't you see that?" Itachi asked, kneeling next to Sadako.

"It's none of your business!"

"Of course it is. She's my sister and I won't let you hurt her."

"She can't stay here anymore!" Father hissed. "We can't allow this worthless thing to live here. She's only wasting our time!"

"Please, let her stay!" Sasuke begged at father's feet.

"There's no room in this place that she can stay at!"

"She can stay in my room!" Sasuke offered.

"We won't waste any food feeding her!"

"Then I'll give her half of my food every day!"

"She's sick!"

"Then we'll take care of her!" Itachi answered, cradling Sadako on his arms.

"Fine! You can keep your stray dog, but if she ever comes out of your room Sasuke, both of you damned twins are out of here!"

As father stomped angrily out of the room, Sasuke realized something. This was the first time anyone had accepted the fact that they were twins.

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"It'll never get better if you keep covering your eyes." Itachi told her as Sasuke passed her a clean bandage.

Sadako looked at Sasuke with her tired red eyes.

"It's to stop the blood." He answered, wrapping the clean bandage around Sadako's head to cover her sick eyes.

Sadako whispered something on Sasuke's ear. Sasuke smiled and nodded.

"Sadako wants to tell you something."

"Huh?"

"She says 'Thank you onii-san'"

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"No, please don't!" Five year old Sasuke begged. "You can't take her away! You can't!

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He stood on front of Sadako, protecting her form those who wanted to take her.

"But, Sasuke." Mother said kindly. "They're sending her to someone who can heal her eyes. It will only get worse if she stays here."

"I don't care! No one will help her, they'll just hurt her even more!" He wrapped his arms around Sadako so that they couldn't snatch her away.

What were they thinking? They were the Uchiha twins. Taking Sadako away would be like taking half of his life.

"Sasuke, stop acting like that!" Father yelled "They will train her to be a good kunoichi, that's all!"

Two men stood at his sides and tried to pull Sadako away from him.

"No!" He pleaded.

How he wished for Itachi to save them this time.

'Itachi!' He wanted to shout 'onii-san! Help us!'

But Itachi was out on a mission. There was no one to save them now.

"Sasuke." Sadako whispered on his ear. Her voice so faint that he was hardly sure to have heard it.

"It's ok onii-san." Her voice was sad. "I'll take care of myself. You've done enough."

"But… He was trying very hard not to cry.

"It's ok. Let me go." She pushed him gently away from her. "Thank you for everything."

Sasuke could only watch as the men grabbed Sadako's hands and led her outside. There was nothing he could do now.

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"Where is Sadako?" Itachi asked once he returned from his mission.

"She's gone." Sasuke told him.

"Gone? Gone where?"

"I don't know. They didn't tell me. They just took her away."

"Didn't you try to stop them?!"

"I did, but she wanted to go!" Sasuke's eyes were glassy.

"Hmp." Itachi sighed. "Wherever she is now, I just hope she's ok."

But ever since that day, Itachi had changed.

He never wanted to be around anyone, not even Sasuke.

He was cold and distant.

He forgot his family. He forgot his friends. He forgot Sadako.

He forgot to smile.

And then that terrible day came. The day when the Uchiha clan was whipped out.

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Ten.- Oh, my word! This is terrible.

Vianey.- Somebody please kill me.

Glacia.- The shame… the unbearable shame!

Vianey.- The re-edition has to be better (when we can finally bring ourselves into writing it) or I'll break my own hands with a hammer.

Ten.- Wait… how would you break the second hand, though?