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"Thank you!" I turned and left, I wanted to get going as fast as possible. I took a sprint towards the country of the rain, the last place that I completed a mission with my ANBU team, I really did like the quiet and rainy country, I'll just stay there until I can get my head straight. When I got past the city and into the forests, I changed my eye pigments to red and re-clipped my Konoha charm to my choker. Soon, I got to a big lake, dull with the sky full of clouds. I sat by its side, and suddenly, I heard a rustling sound in the bushes. I tried to activate my Byakugan but, this time, my eyes burned and I gave up. I turned to face the bushes and two figures came out… in black cloaks.

"Who—Who's there?!" She yelled out trying to sound fierce, hoping to scare them. Behind the bush, one of the two men smirked. Hana noticed at one whom they were when she saw their cloaks, black with blood red clouds. The blue skinned one took one step forward.

"Hey lady," he stared at her eyes," isn't the Uchiha supposed to be dead?" She cringed. She knew for a fact that one Uchiha lives, Sasuke. Uchiha Itachi, though, she only wishes.

"W—what?"

"Your eyes, they're red, pretty unnatural to me." The blue one continued to talk while the shorter, thinner one kept his head down and stayed silent.

"They're natural, but I'm not an Uchiha. What's Akatsuki doing here?"

"We're headed to a village," he grinned," We're capturing the Kyubi."

"You can't do that, do you know where the Kyubi is?"

"Of course," his grin grew wicked," Kohonagakure." Her face grew pale with shock. Even though she ran from home, she still cared for Konoha.

"N—no, I won't let you! You can't attack Konoha to kidnap an innocent child!" A growl escaped from her throat. She could feel the chakra pulsing through her.

"Let's see if you can stop us." He ran forward to attack. Hana also charged. When they collided, a loud crashing sound could be heard. The other one stayed back. He could see Hana's face. Everything about her reminded him of his childhood friend. It hurt, he had left her without a goodbye, but it wasn't her, he knew it, her eyes were a pale shade of lavender, not the red he sees now. He stayed back while his friend fought, the doubts lingering in his mind. As Hana pulsed a surge of chakra out, it came out looking like fire, red, raging fire. Shocked as she was, Hana went along with the power she currently has and sent the raging fire towards the blue Akatsuki member. Two elements clashed, fire was the weaker. The waves of water tore through the blazing fire and eventually to the source, Hana. It felt more like being hit with 10tons of gravel, in other words, it sucked. Weak from the hit, Hana's eyes momentarily returned to their original state, the pale lavender that the quiet Akatsuki member, Itachi, was so fond of. Startled by the change, both Itachi and Hana readjusted themselves. Hana instinctively turned her eyes an icy blue, instead of the red she had earlier. Itachi shook the fact that Hana could be his old friend out of his head, but kept his sharingan unactivated.

"A nice change, lady, your eyes look more natural to me." Before Itachi could get to her, she froze and her chakra system closed itself without warning. Itachi noticed something weird and activated his sharingan just as Hana's eye pigments disappeared and left her lavender eyes for all to see.

No, I knew Hana was strong, I knew she had a lot of potential, but how in the world could she mask her eyes like that?

Exhausted, Hana just laid there on the ground. Kisame and Itachi slowly walked over to her, when Kisami nudged her with his foot, Hana's eyes blinked open. The shocking part was that her eyes were a flat white. Even the faint pupil that a Hyuuga had was gone, her eyes were just white. She could see just fine, but her eyes made it seem otherwise.

"Itachi, she ok? Did we really kill her that easily?"

"No, her mind and body are unconscious. She's acting fully on the will of her chakra."

"Is that why her eyes are white now?"

"No, I think she was just pushing too much chakra into her eyes and using too much of it with those attacks."

"I see…" This was quite odd. Itachi never would have thought that Hana would be the type to be able to control her chakra so well; she always seemed so fragile to him, that is, until he left. Leaving her in a state of shock and pain, he actually made her stronger, a change that he wasn't expecting. Lost in his thoughts, Kisame walked in front of him and waved his arms.

"What are we gonna do, Itachi, we can't just leave her, and her power's just too nice to leave here in the open." Blinking himself back to reality, he focused on what his blue partner said.

"We should take her; see if she could replace the open spot that Orochimaru," he said his name coldly," has left in our hands."

"But doesn't she have to get the ring in order to join?"

"That's the point; it also gives Pein a reason to let her in, too." Kisame nodded in agreement. He started towards Hana, reaching to pick her up. When his hands touched her, he flinched and backed away.

"What's wrong, Kisame?"

"She's cold. No, more than cold," He said while he touched her again," she's freezing." Itachi walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder, it was indeed freezing cold.

"If you're that much of a whimp, I'll carry her." Kisame smirked.

"Yea, you should carry her, I don't want to freeze me ass off over this girl." Itachi swung her over his shoulders and held her in a piggy-back style. As he started to move, her smell reached his nose. Her floral smell, the one he still recognizes over all these years, hits him like a bomb.

Theres no way, no way, that this is Hana. She wouldn't be out here in the first place, she wouldn't be able to lift a finger to Kisame, she wouldn't be able to, not at all.

"You alright, Itachi?"

"Yea, just fine. Mind if we drop her off with Pein first? We're pretty close to the Country Hidden in the Rain."

"Sure, sure, just hurry." As they started to dart towards the Country Hidden in the Rain, memories started to seep back into Itachi's mind. That night, the night he left.

I can't leave, I don't have the heart to. Yes, I love Hana, I absolutely adore her, but we can never be that way. I have to go, anyways, the elders say so. I'll leave, right after my mission; right after I say bye to my little brother, Sasuke. Tonight I'll kill what is closest to me, my family. I don't want to do this, I don't have to, but I don't want to cause any troubles, I'm already too deep into this, I can't get out now.

I walk towards my first victim, my mother's oldest brother and his wife. I have to kill this couple, this innocent couple. But this is for Konoha, I must do this. I raise my knife… -SLICE-

When I finally said my farewell to Sasuke, I manage to pass by Hana's room to see her sleeping peacefully, uncorrupted by this madness. I sneak in her open window and leave a note, a note only able to be open the moment I die. Here, inside this letter, is the truth. Why I left, that I love her, who told me to leave. These words only visible to her eyes; only able to be open upon my death.

Tch… Itachi scowls back at his memories; they're the last things he wants to think of at the moment. But, each step he takes only makes him believe that this girl is indeed his childhood love. When they get to the wall separating them from the village, Itachi pressed a button on a hidden microphone.

"Kisami and I are back early to drop something off, please open hidden door." A soft click came from the microphone and the wall suddenly started to open, exposing a dark and damp hall underground. They stepped into it, the pitter-patter sound of their shoes were the only sound they could hear. The hall brightened when they came up to a lit room, Konan was there waiting for them.

"Hello, what have you got there?" Her flat voice seemed to hold a slight hint of curiosity.

"It's not for Pein, Konan," stated Itachi," It's someone that I found, and thought might be a good replacement for Orochimaru."

"Really, and what of her made you think she could be in the Akatsuki? Is it her looks? Has she allured you to the point that you aren't even able to kill her? None the less leave her alone?"

"No, Konan, one, I believe she has amazing chakra control. Two, I also think that she is of the Hyuuga clan. Three, I think her eyes are her best feature."

"But, aren't all Hyuuga eyes the same? What of her makes her so different that you wouldn't choose another?" Itachi swung Hana around so he held her bridal style and with one hand, opened her eye for Konan to see. She gasped in surprise.

"Her eyes—they're so different, yet so similar. Itachi, what have you done to this girl?"

"Nothing, Konan, Kisame and I were fighting her-- well, more of Kisame—we got her to a point of what we think is a shock from her chakra. Like when you pull a rubber band and let go, she fainted and sat right back up, but with these eyes."

"So you were saying that her eyes were of a different color when you found her?"

"Precisely, her eyes were a bloody red, much like that of my sharingan."

"Then wouldn't she be one of your clan, and not of the Hyuuga?"

"No Konan, her eyes shifted to a blue afterwards, and even after that, there was a brief moment where her eyes were the pale lavender of a Hyuuga."

"I see. You're saying that she has such a high chakra control that she can manipulate the color of it, and imprint it on her eye?"

"Yes, but I don't think that's all she is capable of. Earlyer on, while she had her red eyes, she could use fire based attacks."

"But that's not very uncommon."

"Listen Konan, when she had blue eyes, I swore I felt a chill run up and down my spine when she gazed at me."

"Now you're saying that she has specific attacks according to her eye color? I don't think that's possible, only Pein is allowed to use more than one element attack."

"But do you know how most Hyuuga don't have or use an element attack?"

"Yes."

"What if this is her skill, her own power branched off from the clan?"

"I suppose so."

"So we should keep her, I'll even give up my room so she can stay." Konan thought, this girl must be something, to make Itachi convince me so thoroughly and offer up his room.

"Itachi, where will you stay?"

"I'll sleep on the ground, or get another mat to sleep on."

"Alright, I'll be off to go tell Pein, you are excused from your mission."

"Thank you, Konan." As soon as she was gone, he turned to Kisame.

"Nice convincing, did you really think all those things about her?"

"Yea."

"How did you come up with those things?"

"Common sense, Kisame, common sense."

"Well, you should go put her in your room, I'm starving."

"Alright." Itachi turned his back and started towards his room. When he got there, he opened the door with his foot and walked in. The walls were painted black making the spacious room seem quite small. Near the far left corner of the room, there was a mat raised 3 inches off of the ground, he walked towards it. He carefully laid the unconscious girl on it. Before he left he made sure to move the hair from her face, and while he did that, he saw her choker. With a grin he unclasped it from her neck and carefully put it in the inner pocket of his robe. He walked out the door, closing it as soft as he could…

Thank You all for reading! And although I'm not getting any reviews I'll keep writing like I am! :D I also hoped you all liked it :) because I know I liked writing it ;D Next chapter is bound to be somewhere in the new year o.o so be patient please!

~Hoshi