- Ten Years Later -
Miyuki ran through Amegakure toward the tower in which her leader and best friend, Pein, lived in. She needed to talk to him before he and the rest of the Akatsuki left out on their mission to capture all nine of the bijuu.
Pein was much like a father to her; Konan was her mother; Zetsu, Tobi, Hidan, Kakazu, and Orochimaru were her uncles; Deidara, Sasori, and Itachi her older brothers. Kisame...she hated him but, he was still more or less her older brother too.
She smiled to herself, her ' family ' was pretty screwed up, each being a rouge shinobi of their home village and each being an S-rank criminal in every village and land but, she could care less. Since her parents had died ten years ago, the Akatsuki had been the ones to guide her and take care of her. All of them practiculy loved her, that is until Orochimaru had left them.
She stoped just outside the tower and clenched her fist. Orochimaru. He had left and turned into a sick, twisted snake, using inocent people for his own good. For his own games.
" I will find him...he's hurting all these inocent people, destroying their lives and...Pein-san..he's just letting that snake do this?" Miyuki looked down sadly. The day of her tenth birthday, just three days ago, she learned the truth. Her parents, twelve years before ebfore she was born, had given birth to her older brother Zack who had worked for Orochimaru. She hated Orochimaru for that too. He had used her older brother for his own sick games. And Konohagakure...that Nara had taken him in, yes but, there was no gauranteee her brother was there anymore. For all she knew her brother could be...
She wiped her eyes quickly as she felt the tears fall from her pale, icy blue eyes. Her brother might be dead, no one knew exactly where he was or if he was even safe. Itachi-nii promised he would help her find her brother, as had Dei-kun and Sasori but, still...
"That Nara may have taken your brother in but..there is no real gaurantee that he is even alive anymore..."
Her mother had said this over and over to her. A member of the Nara clan, twelve years ago, had taken Zack in and promised to protect him from those who wished to harm their caln. Amegakure was home or..it use to be home to a small section of Hakus clan.
Miyuki quickly shook her head and pushed open the doors walking in quitely. She soon culd hear voices comming from one of the rooms she had always been told not to enter. She quitely walked up to the door and knelt down leaning her ear against it.
"How can we be sure you are who you say you are?!" Itachi screamed at someone. Earlier she had heard Deidara, Pein and another humans voice but, thats it, only those three and now Itachi.
"Look, we want to believe you, un" Deidara said as he looked round the room, "But.."
"Miyukis' family is dead. How can you prove you are her brother when the last she heard about him, he was working for Orochimaru?" Pein added, wanting to believe this new commer.
Brother?! Miyuki stood up quickly and ran into the room, runing straight into the young man who had been claiming he was her brother.
- Miyuki's P.O.V -
I fell back and looked up at the young man, scared. Never before had I been so afraid. I didn't know him, I thought he'd be like the villagers and scream and yell at me. I stood up quickly and ran out the room toward my bedroom down the hall.
- Later that night -
I turned onto my back unable to sleep and sighed. Just as I was about to stand up, Itachi walked into my room, a small cup of tea in his hands.
"You missed dinner again tonight, imoto-chan, whats wrong?" he asked sincerly as he set the cup on my desk and sat down beside me.
"Ita-niisan...I just...that young man, was he telling the truth?" I looked up at him, hoping he would say yes," Sure, the young man scared me but, so had Okaa-san and Otou-san when I met them. As did Ojii-san.."
Jirriya was exactly that, my ojii-san and his wife, Tsunade, she was my Obaa-san. I smiled. Ojii-san and Obaa-san swore up and down they never meant for me to think of them as grandparents but, I did, and I loved them.
"Err...thats just it. Konans' testing his blood to see if it matches that of your mother and father. If so..." he looked down sadly, "Pein will give him custody over you.."
What?! Kami-sama help me! I barely knew the guy and, if his blood matched my parents, i'd...i'd have to leave Amegakure forever to go live with him?!
"I don't want to, Itachi!" I said, crying louder then normal.
Itachi looked at me trying to fight back his own tears. He wraped his arms round me and pulled me close allowing me to cry into his chest, " I know Imoto, i know...I don't want you to leave ether but..Pein and Konan, they just want you to be happy with your family.."
" But..Nii-san is my family, as is the rest of Akatsuki. I..don't want t-to leave you guys..." I mumbled under my breath, my voice barely above a whisper. If I left them, screw growing up to avenge my familes death. I needed their help just like they needed mine. Itachi, I had promised him i'd help watch over his sixteen year old brother, Uchiha Sasuke. Sasori just wanted Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro to know that he was their older brother. Deidara...well Dei-kun never did tell me why he needed my help. Hidan just wanted people to believe in Jashin-san. Nagato-san and Konan..i'm not sure of anymore. Kakazu..well, everyone knows what he wants, money. Tobi just wants to rule the world.
"Miyuki, listen to me. This kid, whoever he is, can't take you, if he is you brother, unless you want him too." Itachi said as he brushed my pale blonde hair behind my ears, "Besides, he really isn't that bad of a kid."
"But.." I looked up at him, "Ita-niisan, Dei-kun, and Nagato-san were yelling at him. How isn't he that bad of a kid when my brothers and father yell at him?"
Itachi covered my mouth quickly relising I had been using our leaders real name, "Miyuki, he just isn't and...you know you aren't suppose to speak Pein-sans' name outloud..."
"S-Sorry I-Ita-kun..."
He sighed and stood up droping his hand back to his side, "Get some sleep, Imoto..I'll come get you tomrrow when its time.." Itachi then kissed my forehead and walked out the room, turning the light off as he walked out, "Oyasumi Imoto-chan..."
"Yeah..night night Nii-san..."I mumbled as he walked out. I then layed down again, not caring I was still in my clothes form that day instead of my nightgown that I wore to bed, and closed my eyes. What had Itachi meant when he had said he was gonna come get me when it was time? Time for what exactly? I sighed and turned onto my side falling asleep.
Ita-niisan knows what he is doing, right? He wouldn't lie to me.