Chapter 1

FLASHBACK: KONOHA, 6 years ago

She walked down the moonlit road, the cold wind causing her long silver hair in its strange hair style to flutter slightly as she watched her surroundings with interested. The style of architecture was so different from her own home world! Tsuki, as her other side liked to be called, had liked here though, enough to give her only son to protect it. It was HER memories that urged the silver haired woman to come to this planet. To view with affection a village that was so foreign to herself. Tsuki's memories suggested that besides this new planet's obvious celestial position being of importance in the universe, there was also something special about the people on this planet, particularly in this village. She spoke to herself softly.

"I must find them soon. I don't know how the war will turn out so I must have safe guards in case we are unable to…but no I will not think like this. This is merely a precaution. "

She sighed looking up to the Moon for guidance to her thoughts.

"Hopefully we will not even need them."

When she found one he was sitting under a tree exhausted from training. He was only six years old but her special abilities allowed for seeing within another's soul. She saw loyalty and determination, a nice mixture; kindness and love, another excellent potion in there. However even with these qualities the soul she was looking at was a darker shade than most. Ahhhhh. This was a spirit ruled by the planet Saturn; perhaps one of her own had escaped and found its way to this place, this shinobi world. This was confirmed by the symbol on the back of the child's shirt. She was sure that she had seen the same symbol for the Saturn and Mars royal family. Interesting. It was unusual for males from that family to be given the powers she sensed. She wondered if he knew.

The boy turned out to be of a quiet sort, though that did not weaken the curiosity in those bright black eyes. He did not have many friends and those few he had hung out with him because of who his father was. He could not shake off the feeling that this woman was somewhat familiar and stared at the exotic looking lady, blushing a little as he realized she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

She found him an average boy who had average grades and an average goal, which was to do whatever his father deemed necessary for him to do, if you consider that average. Her large blue eyes twinkled as if she had just heard a delightful joke but had thought it rude to outright laugh.

"Really, don't you have any goals for yourself? What do you want to be? What is your dream?"

"My dream?"

"Hai."

The child looked slightly confused. Everyone normally told him what his dream should be. He had never been asked before what HE wanted to do. The woman sighed and closed her eyes, shaking her head in sadness. She wondered if they brainwashed all the kids here this way. Tsuki's memories suggested yes but she had hoped this memory was wrong. The child might be conforming now, but Saturn spirits were not known for their conforming. Plus she was a firm believer that this kind of environment, while good for creating soliders, was a poor place to create true warriors. Soliders followed orders without knowledge. Warriors understood exactly why they fought and walked into a fight with their eyes wide open.

She snapped out of her thoughts to look at the child observing her curiously. In her browse through his soul she had come to the conclusion that she liked this boy. He was straightforward almost boarder- lining rude. She gave a light chuckle.

"Would you like me to change your destiny young one?"

The boy narrowed his eyes suspiciously, he was average not stupid. Destinies could not be changed. One could not one change one's own destiny far less another's.

"What's the catch?" he asked in a demanding tone that would have sounded better if the person saying it didn't have such a high-pitched voice. Cursed childhood obstacles, he couldn't wait for puberty. He was not going to ask her 'why' having already discovered that grownups rarely if ever gave you the real reason for their actions.

"You must give me your loyalty and fight for me if needs be."

"My loyalty is to my Clan and the Hokage" he replied automatically like he had been taught too.

She laughed. It would have been nice if the boy had said this with more conviction. Yes, brainwashed indeed. Loyalty was earned not just given. Again another difference between a solider and a warrior.

"It's up to you young one. There is no pressure to decide. I will come by this tree every night for one month. Perhaps I might be able to earn your loyalty as well? After the month you can give me your decision."

"Ok fine then." he said.

He wasn't sure why he kept his meetings with the woman a secret. She kept her promise and came every night for the next month. He gradually got used to having her around as she told him about the places she had been and the people she had met. She seem not to care who his father was and he found he was grateful for finally being liked for himself. Sometimes they had arguments about how a country or a village should be run. Or his clan. He was afraid at first to give his opinion on this particular topic. No one in his clan questioned how it was run. He refused to answer. Silence. The reason that yet another day passed and he was still alive. It was only when she began assuming answers for him that he got annoyed. Tentatively he started answering and participating in their discussions until he stopped hesitating altogether, though he was more than aware he could be severely punished for some of the things he was saying. He did not realize that she was slowly and patiently starting him down the path out of his brainwashing.

By the end of the month the child had become quite taken with the beautiful silver-haired woman who did not berate him for speaking his mind. She'd said she could change his destiny.

"Fine" he told her, "change it then".

Only two months later after intense instruction under Usagi-sensei, Uchiha Itachi, the average boy who had average grades and an average goal was proclaimed by the Uchiha clan and Konoha's Shinobi Academy as a genius.

What a bunch of fools.

Author note: meaning of Hai : yes, Hokage: the leader of the village, sensei: a teacher

Shinobi: ninja , chakra: the combination of spiritual and physical energy that exist in all living things. It is used by shinobi to power their attacks.