Naruto Story-
Oh my god I am so sorry! I should've gotten this up so much longer ago! I don't even have an excuse! I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT FORTY CHAPTERS AFTER THIS! I JUST HAVEN'T POSTED THEM! I am so so so sorry! Thank you to pandadora for reviewing! HERE IS THE LONG AWAITED CHAPTER AND, just to be nice, I'LL POST CHAPTER 10 AS WELL! HOW DOES THAT SOUND?!
Chapter 9-
"What?! That's insane!" Naruto exploded, looking between Sasuke and I. I calmed down since we were away from the village but I mentally bookmarked it so I'd remember to get back to it and destroy it after I was done with my mission.
Sasuke was staring at me with a mixture of horror and sadness and just a tiny bit of…awe?
"No, not really." I growled and continued letting myself get dragged through the dirt, not struggling anymore.
"How can that possibly be called sane?!" he yelped.
"I believe this was explained by both you and Temari wasn't it? You're jealous of them." Kakashi said casually. I smirked at him but it was forced, I was not happy about talking about this.
"Guess so." I said and closed my eyes, trying to end the conversation at that.
"Why?" Sakura asked. I sighed and kept my eyes closed.
"Just an old grudge."
"That doesn't sound like a good reason!" Naruto snapped at me.
"It's a perfectly good excuse, I'm just not going to explain it." I drawled. "How far are we from the leaf, most of you are starting to piss me off." I spat.
"One more day." Kakashi sighed. I nodded and shot a glare at Naruto and Sakura before reclosing my eyes but I didn't sleep, memories just flashed behind my eyelids.
Soon they became too much and overwhelmed me, sucking me back in a riptide of emotions. I could barely ever really remember any of the actually memories I just remember general things.
Pain.
Hatred.
Fear.
All at such a young age, all for my own mother and her husband, the two people who are supposed to love their children unconditionally no matter what but they hated me and cast me out the first chance they got. If I had been in on Itachi's plan I would've helped but I wasn't I was just caught on my way back to the small underground damp room I was forced to live in when Itachi attacked me.
Without being aware of it I had dragged everyone else into the one memory I really remembered with me so I forced everyone to watch as I ran through the dark streets at night, it was raining, freezing rain that lashed at my skin, I can still feel it to this day, after Itachi had attacked me and retreated after he couldn't, or wouldn't, kill me. I was seeing the death and despair all over again, the bodies littering the street, blood making me slip on the ground and tripping over kunai sticking out of the ground but I tried to fight against it, to get out of the memory but this was one of the times I couldn't control that part of my Sharingan and I couldn't do anything about it, just try to make it through it. I watched myself run through the streets and I froze, if this didn't end soon…
No!
The memory flashed away for a second before starting back up again. I turned the corner into the main house and skidded around the hallway, looking into a room and seeing a young Sasuke cringing against the back of our house, looking absolutely terrified but as I stepped forward to comfort him, to tell him there was one other Uchiha alive with him besides the person who murdered everyone to start out with hands clenched around my arms and sides, a hand over my mouth and I was pulled backwards away from my little brother.
NO! I broke the illusion gasping for breath, the ANBU hadn't been effected since I had never used my illusions on them before but Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto, Kakashi and I'm sure Itachi had all seen it too.
I took deep gasping breaths, trying to regain all I could from that experience. I kept gasping, looking around, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke were on the ground, Sasuke looked ready to start crying and the other two looked horrified. Kakashi's eye was wide and I could feel Itachi's shock slicing through my head in waves.
"Tsumi! What was that?!" Itachi snarled.
"I-I don't know." I whispered, not caring that I was speaking out loud, "I-I lost control of my Sharingan."
"Has that happened before?" I shook my head,
"Not to that extent. I apologize, did I mess anything up?" I asked, regaining my breath and my heart rate lowering to normal level.
"I was sleeping."
"Then I apologize again." I answered and turned to the people in front of me. "Is everyone okay?" I asked worriedly.
"What was that?!" Naruto asked, his voice shaking.
"I apologize, it never happened to that extent."
"But what was it?" Sakura asked. I winced and shook my head.
"A memory no remaining Uchiha likes to relive." I said quietly, my eyes flashing to Sasuke, his eyes were wide and he was shaking like a leaf, a lot like how he was in my memory.
"That was…who grabbed you at the end?" Kakashi asked. I shook my head and clamped my lips shut, clenching my eyes tighter. "Who…grabbed you?" he demanded, his voice sharp, unlike how I had ever heard before. I flinched and swallowed.
"I-I'm not supposed to say." I breathed.
"What does that mean?" the white haired man pressed. I flinched away from him, that memory leaving me raw and vulnerable feeling and I didn't want to answer so I just shook my head, biting my tongue. He gave me a look of annoyance but Sasuke stepped forward, still looking pained.
"Who was it?" he asked stiffly, his eyes covered in shadows.
"I'm sorry, I was forbidden to tell." I said quietly, looking away from my youngest brother.
"Tell me!" he exploded and I shied back, sure he was about eight years younger than me but that kid gets scary when he's pissed and he looks close to tears, activating the big sister in me. I sighed and closed my eyes,
"Can you hear me? Don't react." I called out to him, I saw the subtle twitch then he turned away, stalking in the very back of the group.
"I can hear you. This is how you talk with him?" he asked, his voice tight.
"Yes, I can communicate with him from any distance, as I can with you now as well." I said, keeping my voice light.
"Hn. So who were those people who grabbed you?"
"You have to promise me you will tell no one I feel terrible keeping it from you but no one else can know understand? Not the Hokage, not Kakashi, no one." I opened my eyes to look at him and my eyes met his own Sharingan, he only had two tears at the moment so he wasn't that far along.
"I Promise." I nodded and closed my eyes again, mentally preparing myself for this, it would be hard to tell him this…
"Those people who grabbed me…they were ANBU black ops."
"What? ANBU? Why?" I almost laughed, always with the questions.
"I was to be placed as the blame for the Massacre since Itachi was gone, they wanted someone to take the blame, someone they had in captivity, to make the village feel safe. If they sentenced me to death then everyone would think the person who managed to kill the esteemed Uchiha clan was taken down so they didn't have to worry about their own clans and families." I explained sadly.
"But what about me? I knew who killed everyone! I saw him!" Sasuke mentally shouted angrily.
"Oh please Sasuke, it was raining and the middle of the night, they would say you say things, make a fake Itachi corpse and show it to you, make even you believed you had seen wrong and I was the one who killed everyone." He was silent in shock.
"But…what Itachi said to me…how could I forget that?" I opened my eyes and looked at the ANBU holding me.
"Another way to convince you that what they say actually happened, happened, would be to alter your memories and make you forget that. I'm sure Itachi would've come and made you remember again after a while when he found out you weren't planning to be his strength gauge but by then it probably would be too late." I said softly. I opened my eyes again, Sasuke looked shell-shocked and horrified just by the mere idea of not having Itachi's strength to overcome.
"Without that…what would I do?" he breathed in horror.
"You know, there can be more to life than just overcoming Itachi, he's a wanted criminal at the moment, he's made thousands of enemies, you don't have to kill him, someone else can do it but since I know that's not how you think you can still have a life outside of training…really. Even I have an occasional boyfriend, and I'm a high ranked murderer on tons of bingo books!" I laughed silently.
"I don't think I wanted to know that." He grumbled and I peeked at him, seeing a slight pink tint in his cheeks.
"No, what you really didn't want to know is the reason those end quickly since I—"
"IF I DON'T WANT TO KNOW DON'T TELL ME!" he yelped, I laughed mentally.
"Fine, fine, but seriously, think about getting a life outside of Itachi." I said, returning to my original point.
He took a while to answer and I saw him frowning, looking at me.
"I don't think I remember how." He confessed. I blinked in shock and hummed.
"Well, I'd love to help as your sister but…" I fidgeted in my chains, giving him an apologetic smile he rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Riiiight, maybe if you just acted good they'd let you stay." I heard a little tint of hope in his voice and I winced.
"That does sound nice but..." I was cut off by another voice.
"Sister, I'm on a break for the next few weeks, come train with me." Itachi's voice cut into my own. I winced, a three way bond at the same time hurt.
"Sorry, no can do. I'm sort of captured at the moment!" I returned, I wasn't sure if Sasuke could hear us or not.
"Is that…?" Yup, Sasuke could hear him.
"Hm? Is that our little kid brother? How interesting…" Itachi drawled. "Whatever, he's not worth my time. You can get loose whenever you want, I have a few new ideas I want to test out and I know you do too." Itachi said cooly, I sighed and looked at Sasuke, he looked absolutely furious.
"Can't do that, chakra infused cuffs, can't break them, guess you'll have to train with someone else." I answered back,
Itachi 'hn'ed and left, letting me breathe a sigh of relief before looking at Sasuke. "Sasuke…? You okay…?"
"That bastard!" I sighed, thanks a lot Brother, I was actually starting to get him to be a normal kid, unlike both of us were able to.
"Hey! Sasuke! Are you okay?We're stopping for the night." I snapped out of the illusion, as did Sasuke and we looked around in shock, the sun had fallen out of the sky, we were all surrounded by a thick darkness I couldn't even see through.
Sasuke looked at me in confusion and I gave him and awkward smile.
"So I'm not good at controlling time while doing that…at least the day passed quickly!" I said awkwardly. He glared at me and stalked away. I sighed and shook my head, allowing myself to be tied to a tree for the night. I grumbled to myself about it and yawned, using the Sharingan for hours on end…it was tiring. I didn't even eat, I just fell right asleep within minutes of the knots being finished.
As always I didn't dream, I don't think I've ever actually had a dream in my life, the closest I've come to is reliving new nightmares in my sleep, nothing more, nothing less.
The next morning I woke up before everyone else and smirked, besides the ANBU everyone was asleep, my Sharingan, since basically all I do is root around people's heads and bring their old fears back up to the surface, allowed me to enter their dreams, and I was curious. I looked over my four possible targets, I didn't care about Sakura or Naruto, and I was a little worried about what I'd find in Kakashi's head but I didn't really want to peek in Sasuke's mind…KAKASHI'S IT IS!
I looked at him and fell back asleep in an instant, going into his dream instead.
It wasn't as dirty and perverted as I expected from someone who reads Icha Icha paradise. In fact it was really boring, he was just at some wooded area, where there was a collapsed cave, he looked at it and, in his reflection of a small puddle outside the cave, I saw he didn't have a Sharingan or a scar over his eye. He just have two deep gray, sad eyes, looking over the area. I was about to step out myself, automatically inclined to comfort someone that upset but to my vast shock, another woman appeared, created by his subconscious and did what I wanted to do, wrapped her arms around his waist and give him a kind smile. I froze, seeing her face turn towards his in profile.
It was me.
