My exam had gone well and I would know in a few hours if I passed or not. It was hard for me to sleep the night before, so hard I went in for a few hours to do rounds at the Hospital to maybe clear my head. So now after maybe four hours of sleep I was sitting in a Tea Café waiting for the person the Hokage had wanted me to meet with.

"Welcome,"

The hostess at the front said I turned to look and see who entered it was the Rokudaime Hokage entered the Café.

"Lord Sixth, how can we help you today?"

"I am meeting a young women, Hatsuharu Uchiha."

"Yes Sir right this way."

They walked over to me table and and the Sixth Hokage sat in front of me.

"I'll bring over your usual Sir,"

"Thank you."

I just stared at him for a moment before he spoke to me.

"Not what you were expecting?"

"No, I hadn't thought Lord Seventh would have sent you."

"Well I am one of the very few who knew your father back when he was still a Shinobi of Konoha."

"I see, the two of you were part of the same team?"

"I was his ANBU Captain for a short while. Your father advanced far too quickly for anyone to truly process the length of his capabilities."

I didn't say anything just yet, but he spoke first.

"He would have been proud of the person you have become. Which reminds me I have something for you."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out an envelope then handed it to me. I took the envelope that had my name neatly written on it. I opened it and read the letter inside.

"This is the results of my exam."

"And?"

"I had the highest marks. Out of everyone who has been studying for months. I passed the exam with the highest marks."

"A born genius. As expected of an Uchiha, especially Itachi's daughter."

"So everyone does expect me to be just like my father."

"Maybe, but those of us who knew him till the very end know that you could be so much more."

"How? My Taijutsu is slowly getting better, Genjutsu and Ninjutsu are horrible. And then there's my Kekkei Genkai that is the worst. I mean its almost nonexistent, I can't even use it long enough to cause damage."

"You're just coming late into knowing who you are. If you are so set on harnessing you skills as a shinobi then there are those that can train you. Become your personal tutors, back in the day that was how Clan children were taught. If it was not done by their parents a tutor was hired to do the job."

I opened my mouth to say something but closed it. Because even though you could not see the whole of the Sixth Hokage's face I could tell he had more to say.

"Sasuke has a mission coming up. And that means he will be gone for a while, a long while. I know that right now he is the only one training you. When he leaves you will need someone else to do it."

"I thought you were supposed to be telling me about my father."

"I am, but I thought maybe you'd also like to learn from some of my comrades who were the best at their skill in their time."

"Yes, I would like that."

"Good. Now back on topic. Itachi Uchiha, an enigma like no other. He was quiet most of the time, but when given a task he was more than capable to explain the strategy for a mission.

As for his personality, your father was a kind person to everyone he met. As far as his skills go, no one can really compare. One time while we were on a mission, Itachi had been slightly distracted by watching Maito Gai in action. I told his to finish the mission and admire later, and he did. Itachi was well known for caring out a mission to completion."

"Then what happened with my mother?"

"I don't know really. He left your mother and Sasuke alive, even though he was told to eliminate all of the Uchiha Clan. I know why he left Sasuke alive, he wanted him to avenge what was done to their Clan. But Izumi, as far as I was in understanding she had not been part of the deal Itachi made with the Third Hokage."

"My father made a deal with the Third Hokage?"

"Yes, he agreed to eliminate the Uchiha Clan under one condition. Sasuke Uchiha lived and was to be protected by the Village."

"So it all really happened. My father really did kill his whole Clan, all to protect a Village that treated him like the enemy."

"I admit to being in that category, Itachi wasn't the bad guy everyone made him out to be. I did not know the truth about what really happened until I myself became the Hokage. I was furious, and I confronted the Council about why they would force a child to do their dirty work. they could not give a well enough answer so I sent them into retirement."

As I listened it just made me even more mad about the whole thing. I hated that it was because of this Village I hade never been given the chance to even know my Father. Almost made me feel as if he loved this Village than me, and that was why he was willing to sacrifice himself for it. from my anger I hadn't noticed that my grip around my utensil had tightened and I bent it in half.

"Uh, my bad."

"It's okay to be angry; but try not to take it out on everything."

"Sorry."

"I know that Sasuke should be the one to tell you all that had really happened back then. But I think you can handle reading the documents that have everything recorded on them. It is part of your heritage, part of who you are and what you can become."

"I, I don't know. I appreciate that you are willing to tell me what I want to know. I just can't guarantee that I won't destroy those documents once I'm done reading them."

"That is understandable. Maybe take some time to think about it and when you are ready I will hand over the documents to you."

"If you had been with my father through out the time this was happening why hadn't you intervened. I know you could have, I may not have grown up in this Village but my mother kept me well informed."

"You're right I could have. But I hadn't known what was going on until it happened. Even at that I had not thought to find out a real reason. Someone as powerful and well loved by the Village as your father was doesn't just one day decide he's going to kill his entire Clan. I was told he had a mental breakdown, he couldn't handle all the pressure he got from the Uchiha and the Village. I chalked it up to him losing his best friend not too long before that night. I'd seen it happen before. Shinobi who are just too powerful end up not being able to handle all the stress and weight of everything around them. I just thought Itachi was different, I thought he could be the first Uchiha Hokage. I would have supported it; a lot of Shinobi and the Village would have supported him being the Hokage.

I think had the Third Hokage kept Itachi close to him and not allowed for Danzo and the others to get into his head things would be very different. You could be sitting here having lunch with him instead. Not a day goes by that I don't regret looking into what really happened much sooner. I had failed my comrade and couldn't see past what the Shinobi world had made him. I had tried to do better by training Sasuke and keeping him here in the Village but I failed him too. I won't fail a third time, I won't fail you. I am not telling you these things to make you mad at the Village. I want for you to understand that no matter how could things look on the outside they are not always the same on the inside."

"I appreciate your honesty and the fact that you are not making excuses for the Village or my father. You have told me more about all of this then anyone else has, and you just met me."

Kakashi chuckled as if he knew something else I did not.

"Hatsuharu have you not noticed that I have been watching you this whole you have been in the Village? From the moment you walked through those gates, I have kept a very close eye on you. I didn't do it because I thought you to be a threat, I did it because your chakra signature was very, very similar to Itachi's. I just wanted to know what his daughter was really like."

"If you wanted to get to know you could have just come around from the beginning. And not watched me like a creepy old man."

"I am not a creepy old man!"

"Sure, keep telling yourself that. Whatever help you sleep at night."

"You still hadn't given me answer yet. Would you like the personal training? And I don't want you to think I am picking favorites. I will offer this to the Sarada and Boruto as well as Himawari when they are old enough. But for now I am only offering it to you."

"Okay, I will accept the training."

"Great, how about we start tomorrow?"

"I go back to work tomorrow."

"Right. Then I will have Sakura send me what your schedule looks like and you can train on your days off. Let's say met at the Uchiha training grounds like you do with Sasuke."

"That's sounds fine by me."

We finished our lunch and then parted ways. I went to the training grounds but not to train, I sat in the forest like area and meditated. I cleared my mind of all the things I had learned. My father had been the hero and not the villain, he was a good loyal man. But because the Elders at the time couldn't handle their own problems they forced my father to do the dirty work for them. I don't know how long I actually sat there but I was pretty sure at some point I kind of fell asleep. I looked up at the sky and noticed it was starting to get dark.

'I should head back home.'

I got up and made my way home. It would only be a few more days before we moved into the new house. This one would be slightly closer to the training grounds, given my Uncle has decided to rebuild the Uchiha Compound. We were to move into the new house built there and become its new residence. My uncle had offered me my own home when I felt ready, but for now I think I would stick to staying with them.

"Ah, Haru you stayed out pretty late today."

"Yeah, I just had some things on my mind they I needed to take some time to think about."

"Well dear you are just in time for dinner. Your uncle won't be joining us, it seems he has gone back to his mission. It will be awhile before he comes home."

"I see,"

"Don't worry Sasuke can take care of himself. He will be home before we even have time to miss him. I will tell you this, he was very much enjoying the training sessions the two of you were having."

"Really? I didn't think he was, I'm not all that good."

"He just has an odd way of showing affection to others. Sarada is still too young for him to train with yet and he doesn't want to inter fear with the training she is getting from her Sensei at the Academy."

I wasn't sure what else to say.

"You know he does care for you. You are all he has left of his brother and Izumi, his family that he lost so long ago. I was looking through some old photo albums and found one of Mikoto Uchiha, your grandmother. I think you look more like her then your father."

My aunt handed me a photo of a women I had never met. She was beautiful, in a simple kind of way and in that moment I had wished I was given the chance to know her. I wished I had been given the chance to know any of them.

"She was my father's mother. Do you have any pictures of his father? I think his name was Fugaku?"

"Yes I think we can find some of him. I should also be able to find some of you father and uncle when they were younger."

"I'm going to go wash up, I'll be back in a few for dinner."

"Okay dear."

I walked away with the picture still in my hand. Now I could put a face to a name, until now I hadn't thought to ask about pictures of my family. I had thought they were all destroyed, but maybe my uncle saved the meaningful ones. I know I'm not ready to hear the real truth behind what happened, what lead my father and uncle to live the lives they did before there was me or Sarada. I still had a lot of question about I am and who I am supposed to be, and more questions about my family. But now I knew that when I do feel ready I know where to find the answers to my question.