Authors note: Sorry it took me so frig'n long to post this. The next chapter is already written I am just tinkering it so it should be posted extremely soon, in a matter of days promise. I had massive trouble with this chapter and I hope it's not too boring, I'm not sure anymore I have read it and re-read it, written and re-written it so many times I got really frustrated. But I hope you enjoy and R&R!

Sasuke stood in the doorway shocked. A girl around his age was chained to the wall opposite him spread eagled. The girl had stunning silky blood red hair that fell over her shoulders to her hips, her slim figure looked delicate. Her head was facing down so all Sasuke could see of her face was that her eyes were closed. She wore white shorts that rode just above her knees, you could see white bandages on her right leg peeking out, and she had on a sand coloured t-shirt that fit her figure well.

A thick collar was around her neck, it was red with black dots the size of ten cent piece that went around it in a row. Every black dot had a skinny tube attached to it that dropped to her feet and trailed on the stone floor to computer that was alit, the only light in the room, casting her in faint light. Sasuke was too far away to see what was on the screen but a high pitched beeping tone was coming from it, Sasuke guessed that was the girl's heart beet being monitored.

Even through her clothing Sasuke could tell that she had a healthy amount of muscle, telling him that either she worked out often or did physical labour daily. That meant she was probably a lot stronger than she looked. Sasuke contemplated weather she was a ninja. Her clothing resembled what a ninja would wear; it was casual and wouldn't be a hindrance in a fight. If she was a ninja as Sasuke strongly suspected, she was probably a Genin or even a Chunin. However the question didn't seem to Sasuke to be if she was a ninja or not; it was why Madara was keeping her prisoner and why she mean something to his brother.

Sasuke moved forward to get a closer to her. He walked over to the machines and stared at the monitor. Numbers flashed changing every few seconds, words on top of them were in different colours. The key board was imbedded in the table the screen was sitting on. Sasuke took an educated guess that this machine showed her vitals. Giving up on trying to translate what was on the screen, he moved even closer to the girl. He put two fingers on her chin and lifted her head. Sasuke frowned and squinted in the dim light at her face. Something was bugging him at the back of his mind as he stared into her soft face as if he had seen her somewhere before. Sasuke jumped out of his skin when her eye lashes flew open to reveal light blue mysterious eyes that were striking and intense, as if she was looking into his soul, his deepest darkest secrets laid before her paralysing gaze.

Sasuke's breath left his chest in a gush of sound. She raised her head further to stare into Sasuke's eyes. When she spoke it was quiet and startling lethal, like her very breath being exhaled was enough to take down even the most seasoned and powerful Ninja.

"Friend or foe?"

Sasuke was so startled he didn't speak for a moment.

"Friend." Sasuke said after clearing his throat, then added,

"Itachi sent me."

The girl was quiet for a moment no emotion showing on her face then unexpectedly her mask seemed to crack and she relaxed, snorting softly her mouth lifted into a small smile worth a thousand secrets.

"Of course he did. That could only mean that you are one person." She said in the same soft voice but her tone was friendlier and her eyes glittered with curiosity. Her voice when she spoke was filled with a strange power and coated in wisdom older than time. At the same time she radiated innocence and naiveté that was undeniable.

"Hello Sasuke. My name is Lilith."

Sasuke was confused as ever.

"How do you know my name?"

"Itachi talks about you, when he comes to see me in the Hidden Sand Village."

"How did you get here then?" He asked.

"Madara." Said a voice behind them. Sasuke didn't even have to turn around to know it was Itachi. Itachi stepped into the room. Sasuke noticed that he seemed to have more composure this time as he faced them.

"Let me explain Lilith please. I really didn't mean for you to get mixed up on all this." Said Itachi.

"Who are you Itachi? Huh? Cause you certainly aren't my long lost cousin as you claimed. You taught me everything I know Itachi, you were my mentor. How could you do this? How could you just stand there and watch me while that asshole keeps me prisoner?" Lilith's said in an angry and hurt voice. It was obvious that she took great offence in being lied to. Itachi winced,

"I would say that I am sorry for lying to you but I'm not. The lie was necessary to keep you safe. And I will never apologise for keeping you safe."

"How is this keeping me safe Itachi! The truth this time."

. Sasuke was worried about Itachi. His brother was acting like a wreck at the moment which was very out of place. What in the world could make Itachi-Itachi! The cold and merciless Itachi Uchiha that killed his kinsmen in a single night, break down so badly? It was a petrifying unanswered question.

Itachi drew an audible breath in then started to speak with obvious effort.

"Let me start for the beginning so you can completely understand. Please, will you listen? That is all I ask. I will answer any questions you have after that."

There was a tense silence, no one spoke, no one moved. Lilith contemplated Itachi with her eyes, until finally she nodded.

"I'll listen." Sasuke stated.

Itachi let out a breath in relief.

"Thank you. Both of you. Now where do I start?" It was a rhetorical question but Sasuke answered it anyway.

"From the beginning would be nice."

Itachi mouth twisted into a small smile. Well it was more a twitch of his lips, but for Itachi it may as well have been.

"As you wish little brother. In every generation a Saviour is born into the Uchiha clan."

"Saviour?' Sasuke asked in confusion at the foreign term.

"Patience Sasuke I was getting to that. I am sure that you know that The Sage of Six Paths created the Rinnegan, the next level of the Sharingun. The Rinnegan can control death and life and even re-birth. It was and still is the most powerful weapon. The information about the Rinnegan has been passed down for centuries, clan leader to clan leader."

Sasuke nodded and so did Lilith; they were with him so far.

"Well the real translation was lost in the ages and history was distorted through every generation it was passed down to until eventually most of it was lost. It's not the Sage of Six Paths it's The Sages of Six Paths. There were six sages who created the Rinnegan. One sage for each path."

"How did Pain possess them all then? He had all six paths, all six rings in his eyes." Asked Sasuke; remembering the deadly and bloody fight that had taken place when he and Naruto had fought against Pien.

"Only certain people can achieve the Rinnegan, Pain was one of them."

"Why?" Asked Lilith

"When the six Sages were getting old and to the point of death they did not want to leave this plane of existence. They were on the last stretch of creating the peace they had fought so hard to achieve. However by then they were on the panicle of death. So, Sage of re-birth took all of the other Sages souls into his own soul and merged them together then birthed them as one being. As one they became the Sage of all six paths. Together as a single consciousness they also became the Sage the history books of today know, as Sage that created the tailed beasts.

Only his descendants can achieve the Rinnegan. He started the age of ninja as protectors and peacemakers after all people weren't perfect and needed policing to keep peace. However instead of creating a more harmonic environment as he intended, his plan back fired. When he died power over the great nation that the Sages had worked so hard to build was fought over and the first Great Ninja war started. The war eventually split the nation into the four great nations we know today." Itachi explained. Sasuke and Lilith were spellbound listening hard to every word. Itachi continued,

"When he died the six sages once again became separate consciousness's. They looked over the great nations as the war continued for many years, hopping that the war would run its course and peace would once again settle across the land. But as more and more people died and unimaginable pain was brought to their loved ones, corruption blackened the hearts of the noblest and peace was the furthest thing in sight. The sages decided that enough was enough. They decided to stop the war and came down to earth once again from the spirit realm. They succeeded in stopping the war, how they did so is irrelevant but what they did after isn't. To prevent such vicious waring in the future they chose a Saviour, someone that could channel their power. A peace maker that would have the power to balance the evil in the world. They gave this gift to one of their sons. The son that believed in love and compromise over hatred and revenge. That clan was the Uzumaki clan. From that day a Saviour was born each generation in the Uzumaki clan. As one died another was born all with the same birth mark on the base of their spines. In all of history there have never been two Saviours walking this earth at one time. Until Kushina Uzumaki birthed twins and two saviours were born."

Itachi stared intently into Lilith's eyes.

"Their names were Lilith and Naruto Uzumaki."

Sasuke froze. He turned his head sharply to Lilith for the first time recognising the startling resemblance to Naruto.

"She's Naruto's sister?"

"I have a brother?" Asked Lilith at the same time sounding breathless. Itachi nodded to both of their questions. Sasuke's head reeled at the thought and stared at Lilith in amazement. Lilith looked stunned. Sasuke shook his head to clear it; he had known that she looked familiar. Sasuke had been thrown by their different coloured hair, but then again he remembered that Kushina Uzumaki had been famous for her red hair. Now that Sasuke looked closer he could see the resemblance strongly to Naruto in her bone structure.

"Where do you fit into all this?" Questioned Sasuke after a moment to Itachi. Itachi regarded Lilith with forlorn eyes.

"Your father was a man named Minato, he was the Hokage at the time. Kushina Uzumaki as I said before was the name of your mother. I was a guard the compound where she was birthing. I watched as you were birthed then Naruto. It was only when the nurses cleaned you both of blood that they noticed the strange mark and pointed it out to Minato and Kushina. The nurses had no idea of the significance of that mark. But Kushina and Minato knew.

Kushina was a wise woman and knew that if they told the elders that they had had twins that had the Saviour mark that they would be order to kill one or even both. Saviours were extremely powerful; two Saviours would be considered too much power for the Uzumaki clan. Minato knew that whether they agreed to kill one or not, it didn't matter. Hokage or not the elders had great power and influence. Minato was powerful and confident that he could protect his family. However Kushina didn't want her children to live in fear. So they made the toughest decision a parent could make-"

"And sent me away and kept Naruto!" Lilith's heartbroken cry echoed in the room. Sasuke had never seen his brother act like this, so… depressed.

"No, they quickly planned to send both of you away to grow up with a family friend called Jiriaya, Minato's mentor, to live a happy life. They wanted you out of danger or at least ignorant of the danger until you were old enough to know." Itachi's eyes were pleading.

"Jiriaya knew that Naruto had family left in the world and yet said nothing? How could he? Jiriaya knew how Naruto craved a family! Even just a sister would mean the world to him!" Sasuke roared furiously. The mention of Naruto almost brought him to his knees. Once a dull shredding pain the sharp pain was back with a vengeance. Sasuke felt like whimpering but bit him lip hard from doing so.

"He never found out." Itachi said quietly,

"Kushina's best friend was our mother. She would come around often to our house and we spoke just in passing at first, but over the years she somehow slowly became one of my few true friends. She asked me personally to help guard the compound where she was birthing, because she trusted me. And when they found the marks I agreed to smuggle you out and my mother was called to take Naruto. I left immediately. They were going to tell the elders that Kushina had had a miscarriage. But everything went wrong when Madara attacked and took Naruto; he also released the nine-tails from Kushina, who was a Jinchuriki."

"A jinchuriki?" Gasped Lilith.

"You don't know?" Asked Sasuke. Lilith frowned,

"What?"

"Naruto is a jinchuriki too. He hosts the nine tailed beast."

Lilith's eyes widened, she seemed very disturbed. Itachi continued his story all of a sudden drawing their attention back.

"I was smuggling you out of the village when I heard the attack. I later found out that the elders spy's that were spying on the compound where Kushina was birthing saw Naruto being kidnapped and so it didn't take long for the spy to report back that Kushina had had a son. The fight to get back Naruto was intense. I knew that much at the time. The ground shook violently even from outside the village where I was. I continued to smuggle Lilith out as planned. I thought that the Hokage could handle the situation. Going back would achieve nothing. A few hours later, the vibrations from the massive fight between Madara and Minato had just stopped when I myself was attacked. He came out of know where…"

"Madara attacked you?" Guessed Sasuke with an expectant look on his face. Itachi regarded Sasuke for a moment before sighing,

"No, father did."

Sasuke stilled. Confusion fogged his mind and questions raced through his mind at en-comprehendible speeds. Before his questions could be voiced though Itachi held up his hand.

"Patience Sasuke. I will explain."

Sasuke pressed his lips together and nodded in acceptance. Itachi's eyes misted over slowly as he spoke, his tone was all most dead, his voice becoming even deeper and mesmerising.

***Flashback***

It was cold; my skin was covered with goose bumps that abraded against my clothing as I ran full speed toward where I was told Jiriaya would be. The forest flew past my vision, my eyes picking up everything not a single detail lost under my gaze. Or so I had thought, I was too arrogant. It is a mistake that weighs upon me to this day with unforgivable heaviness. If I had just been more careful then father would have never been able to find me.

I was attacked from above, he must have used an extremely powerful cloaking Jutsu because I barley sensed his presence in time to dodge his tackle. I still had Lilith in my arms wrapped in a blanket; my body crouched slightly over her, pulling her in closer to my chest in a protective gesture. I could feel her small breaths against my neck. She was sound asleep and for that I was grateful. My senses went on high alert as I warily searched my surroundings with a piecing gaze.

I faced my father who had come out of hiding when I turned around from my leap away. He had a dark scowl on his face that had sent many proud men to their knees. He was wearing a black t-shirt and pants that blended in with the night. His short black hair swayed slightly in the wind. I always called my father by his first name for some reason, Fugaku. I just didn't feel comfortable calling him father.

I was only fifteen, but even then I was still very powerful. Power and fighting skill had come to me easily at a young age.

Fugaku however was also very powerful and had experience over me. He looked down at me with cool eyes as he asked,

"What are you doing so far away from the village and with a babe none the less? Are you not supposed to be guarding Kushina?"

I didn't ask how he knew that I had agreed to help Kushina. It was irreverent, he just knew.

I refused to lie to him but also to tell him the truth. So I said nothing. We stood there staring at each other locking gazes, silently testing each other, waiting for the other to crack and talk. Fugaku was the first to look away after some time. He could see that tactic was not going to work on me so he tried another approach. He ask,

"Son, whose babe do you hold?"

His voice was gentle but deadly at the same time. There is nothing soft about Fugaku's; he had always been that way so I was used to it and could see through the cold mask he wore to some degree. He knew that I held Kushina's baby. He just wanted to know if I would admit it. I couldn't tell if he knew that she was a Saviour but he was defiantly more than interested in the warm bundle that I had been charged with. I would protect her with my life. That startling realisation made me jerk capturing Fugaku's attention but I ignored him. I was perplexed as I analysed my feelings. I looked down at the baby and suddenly I couldn't imagine a world without her. Like her every breath was what kept my heart beating. Protectiveness like I had only known for Sasuke except a thousand times more potent hummed through my blood like adrenaline, filling every cell of my body. My fingertips tingled and my breath came in faster, the hairs on the back of my neck arose. Every single sense I possessed…amplified.

"So she's the Saviour. I would have thought the Saviour would have been male like the others, but I had a feeling it wasn't when my informant told me that Kushina had had twins. Lilith and Naruto correct?"

I narrowed my eyes at him in suspicion going through a list on my head of the people that could be leaking information. Then it hit me who it could be- the nurses. I had not been in charge of hiring the nurse but I had been the one to investigate their lives so this exact thing would not happen. I had cleared them myself. I had gone through their lives vigorously, but obviously not thoroughly enough. They were the only ones that it could have been. They were the only people in the room other than Minato, Kushina and himself at the time if the baby's birth. He knew it wasn't him, it definitely wasn't Minato, and it sure wasn't Kushina. So that only left the nurses. I had failed Kushina my friend and Minato my Hokage.

Suddenly a whimper broke my revelry like a balloon popping in front of my face. My vision focused on the baby in my arms who was crying, her incredibly little hands were balled up into fists either side of his face shaking with every heart wrenching cry. I was frozen for a moment unsure what to do. Her big blue eyes locked onto mine and held. She stopped crying to stare at me with eyes that held undeniable power and untold strength, it took my breath away. An almost scary feeling welled up inside of me, it felt like…love. I didn't understand my feelings at all. It was illogical and ridicules that I could love someone, even a cute baby, in a matter of hours. It just didn't make sense. For once I was the one to look away.

"This is...unexpected. If I am not mistaken, what you are feeling is the Guardians Pull." Fugaku said the voice of reason in a sea of confusion.

"Guardians Pull?" I said looking up at Fugaku's, confused at the foreign term.

"Every Saviour born has a Guardian within the Uchiha clan. Someone that will protect them no matter what and never betray them. A Guardians duty is to help Saviours and guide them in any way needed as they grow up. You should be honoured, only the wisest and greatest have the mark of a Guardian. There is only ever one Guardian to one Saviour. Most of the time Guardians don't even realise what they are. The Saviour may be a brother or sister, or best friend. They are only conscious of a strong intense need to protect them."

I could sense that he was telling me the truth but it was still hard to believe his words. For once in my life a struggled to understand a concept I knew should be simple, yet it seemed so much more complicated. My gaze wondered once again to the baby in my arms that had just become my entire world. She looked up at me with soft eyes filled with nothing but acceptance. No judgment, no fear or distrust, just pure innocence that I never wanted to see clouded. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I have no idea how long we were like that, just staring at each other in complete and utter silence but the sound of Fugaku's clearing his throat snapped me back to reality.

I had to make a great effort to drag my gaze away from Lilith back to Fugaku's who was looking at me with the cold indifference he always wore. He circled me suddenly almost like a wolf stalking its fallen prey. The wind shifted and with it smells that permeated the night.

I had trained myself to be aware of all my senses, not just my eyes and ears. Eye can be easily fooled, an Uchiha was especially aware of it being a clan specializing in Genjutsu. Ears could also be tricked easily but your sense of smell was nearly impossible to fool because no scent could be erased only covered with another smell. I had grown up in these woods so I could easily detect the foreign smell moving through the dense forest at a rapid place.

I knew the smell of every single Uchiha in the village. I could tell when they were near just by taking a deep breath in and focusing on the scents around me. I suddenly realized that Fugaku's was stalling for time, wanting the other leaders of the Uchiha clan to arrive. They were not far away, judging from how strong their scent was.

I stood up straighter but my body wasn't tense but relaxed in a hunter's stance despite how tense I felt inside. I had been taught how to push fear and other useless emotions away on the eve of a battle. But the fear for the little baby in my arms destroyed my efforts. I had never felt anything like it and for the first time in a long time a felt panic creep up my spine as I realised just how many Uchiha elders were on their way. I was one of the strongest and I was almost certain I could take them all by myself but I was hampered by Lilith. Protecting her and fighting over what I guessed to be over fifteen powerful Uchiha's was pushing my luck. If It had been anyone else's child I know I would have risked it, but not with Lilith, never with Lilith. She had to be protected at all costs, even at the price of my own life. This knowledge ran deep, imbedded in the strong instincs I had trusted for my entire life. It had been what made me one of the best, my unconditional and unwavering blind faith in my instincts. They had never, not once failed me and I wasn't about to doubt them now. I stopped fighting my feelings and ceased trying to understand my emotions of love and stubborn protectiveness and just accepted them as they were. A deadly calm swept over me allowing me once again to think clearly.

I secured Lilith tightly onto my back so that I had my hands free. My right hand lifted slowly and in a swift practiced movement I slide my deadly sword out of its sheath with a hiss. The black cold smooth hilt felt reassuring as it rested in my palm. The sword was my own creation, the blade was made from pure silver, and it glinted in the moonlight shining dully from above. I held it expertly as I faced Fugaku's. He raised an eye brow.

"Now what are you planning to do with that son?" He asked softly.

"That depends on you…Father." I asked in return.

"Answering a question with a question is rude." Fugaku said still using the same quiet tone.

"So is trying to enslave a Saviour, but that doesn't seem to stop you from trying." I got right to the point; time for mind games was over. Fugaku's face hardened slightly then relaxed. That small second of expression told me that I had hit home perfectly.

"Not rude, necessary Itachi."

"How so?" I asked as we started to circle each other slowly. Fugaku held no weapon but I was not foolish enough to think he was powerless.

"The Uzumaki Clan has dwindled almost to nothing, only those twins are left to carry along the blood line of Saviours. The babe you hold is a female, a saviour nonetheless; when she grows up she will be fine breeding material to carry on the Uzumaki clan. The Uzumaki's must live; leaving their numbers at two is too risky. If they are both killed then the entire world would become unbalanced because no more Saviours will be born. You must see reason Itachi. Hand it over to me." His voice was smooth and logical.

What he was suggesting was so vulgar and cold that I felt like throwing up. They wouldn't give Lilith choice. If she refused they wouldn't be beyond raping her. I would never let Lilith go through that. I had no delusions about my father. He was a cruel man when he needed to be to get the job done.

"Lilith is not an It." I snapped before I could stop myself. For some reason it irritated me that way me spoke about Lilith in such an offhanded matter, like she was nothing but a pawn to him when her very existence meant so much to me.

"Excuse me?" If I wasn't mistaken Fugaku sounded almost startled.

"Her name is Lilith not It." I gritted out refusing to back down.

"So that its name." Fugaku said in an unconcernedly manner, like he could give crap about what her name was.

"I won't let you take her." I said abruptly. Fugaku sighed,

"I had hoped you weren't going to say that. Well I know how stubborn you are when you have made up your mind, so I won't try and persuade you to see reason. Now I am going to have to take her from you forcefully."

As the last words left his lips he moved with blinding speed to attack me. A small knife was pulled from his inner pocket as he ran. Flexing m y shoulders I made sure that Lilith was secured before dodging Fugaku's first attack.

Bring up my sword I paraded his second swipe of his small blade. I jumped back and watched Fugaku's warily as he reached behind himself to unsheathe his own sword. It was long black with no guard. The sword was a simple design, but that didn't make it any less alarming. I had never seen Fugaku's with a sword.

Fugaku twirled it around his body in a way that suggested that he wasn't trying to show off his skill more that he was testing the weight of the blade. The movement suggested that he wasn't used to carrying such a weapon. However that didn't mean that he couldn't wield one.

Fugaku slashed out all of a sudden with surprising force. He used his height over me to try and gain the upper by pounding on my own sword which was held over my head to protect myself as he swung with intense energy over and over again.

I matched his every thrust, but I did that instinctually. Inside my head I was planning ten moves ahead, calculating every risk and probability. I knew that Fugaku wasn't actually trying to kill me this was just another tactic to stall for time. I could now hear the elders speeding toward us. They were getting too close; I had to end this as soon as possible.

I activated my sharingun; it was time to get serious. I focused myself for my next and final attack. My Genjutsu was stronger than Fugaku's, I knew that and he knew that. So when he saw my Sharingun eyes he instantly backed off, not that it would do him any good. I was confused for a moment at his choice of action. Until…

Authors note: So what do you think? If you peoples don't like it I can always re-write this to make it less complicated. Feedback would be great I am not sure if this stupid chapter makes sense anymore, please review!

BTW: JUST POSTED A CUTE ONE-SHOT, SASUKE X NARUTO. CALLED: A FORGOTEN STATEMENT