Amidst the Hate: Chapter 10

'Hm...I wonder what they're going to teach us next?' thought Anza as she walked through the woods to the new training ground. 'We pretty much know how to swing our weapons properly, we can throw ninja tools well enough, and they said we would be learning swordplay for awhile...does that mean we'll learn some specific techniques? I hope so, since only knowing the basics for kenjutsu is boring...' Abruptly, she stopped walking and began falling face first into the dirt, but she was caught by Shisui, fresh out of a shunshin.

"Got her."

Itachi similarly appeared next to his best friend. "You sure you caught her in a genjutsu?"

"Yeah. Her eyes have no aim to them, and she isn't moving besides the rise and fall of her chest."

"I hope this works."

"Me too. If we can keep her from having to unlock it during a tough spot, then we should do everything in our power to do so."

"But whatever she sees in the illusion might scar her for life."

"I know you're worried, but she'll be okay. You have to believe in that." Shisui hoisted her onto his shoulder and took her to where they were supposed to meet up, an area marked by a single kunai in the ground, leaving Itachi behind for the moment.

'He's right...but I can't help but feel as if this will have terrible consequences.' He thought back on the day Shisui came forward with this plan.

Itachi rose an eyebrow at his friends words. "A genjutsu?" he echoed.

"Yes. With the mangekyo, I can create an illusion that her brain won't be able to tell if it's fake or not. She'll think she's in a dire spot, but in reality everything will be fine."

"Isn't that going too far? As far as I know, she can't dispel normal genjutsus, let alone anything having to do with the sharingan."

"I don't know if anything less will cause the right stimuli for the sharingan's activation, so I'm forced to use the evolved form. This is all just theory at this point, and there's only one way to test it out."

"Why not let it come naturally? If she can gain it, it will happen when she needs it most."

"That's what I'm worried about, Itachi. In that moment when she needs it, it may not be enough. Would you be able to stomach telling her that there was something you could have given her that could have saved her teammates after they died on a mission? Or telling her family that she died because we didn't try awakening her sharingan?"

Itachi smiled. "You care for her like a sister, don't you?"

This caused the other Uchiha to chuckle. "And she isn't one to you? You treat her a bit like Sasuke."

"Yeah...I guess I do. So, when are you going to do this?"

"Next week at the least. We should let the two of them master kenjutsu a bit more first, just in case this doesn't work."

"Well, if I'm in Konoha, let me know the day before you enact your plan. I don't think my brother should go through something like this just yet."

"Noted. I'll also let her parents know what I'm doing so that if something happens, they have someone to blame."

'No...I have no reason to distrust Shisui's methods. He wouldn't do this unless he thought it was the best course of action.' He followed his fellow clansman, and watched his student with him.

-Anza's Genjutsu-

'That's strange...where is everybody? Shisui should be here at the very least.' The meeting place was vacant, with no sign of anybody. 'Was...was I not suppose to come here-' She could hear footsteps from behind her, and one of the first things she learnt from the Uchiha's was to always be on guard. Anza turned, unsheathed her katana and held it in a defensive position. "Who's there?!"

"Woah, woah, it's just me!" said a familiar blonde jinchuuriki.

"Mito? What are you doing here? Don't you have you have your own training to do?"

"Mom said that I should take today off, so I decided to watch you train."

"It might be boring, since it seems I'm the only one to turn up."

"Oh...well, I'll just hang out with you then."

"Sure, go ahead, but I'm going to look around the place. Maybe they're just testing me and I have to find them? But why would they do that...eh, it doesn't matter." The twins went around the forest for a time, Anza poking shrubs thick enough to hide a man with her sword while Mito walked around, hands behind her head.

"You're right, this is boring."

"I told you. You should go back home. I'll stay a few more hours before doing the same."

"How about we spar? It will pass the time while you wait for your sensei's get here."

"No. I have fuinjutsu to learn, and I want to get as far as I can."

"But you can do that at home! Come on, lets have some fun before we have to go back to training."

The white haired one sighed. "Fine. I can never dissuade you when you want to do something." She put the sword back into its scabbard, removed the entire thing from her hip, placed it against a tree, and got into a stance she based off of Shisui's. Legs wide enough apart for fluidity and speed, left arm with a palm facing outward to catch attacks, the other a closed fist. "No 'real' punches. We don't want to hurt each other, do we?"

"Nope." Mito took a more standard stance, both hands raised and legs not quite as spread apart as Anza. They stood there for a few minutes, neither going after the other. "So...who's going to-" Her twin charged forward and easily got into her guard, ending with a fist close to the jinchuuriki's face.

"First point goes to me. Don't talk before your opponent moves, or-" Now it was her turn to be cut off, having the situation reversed.

"Now we have an even score."

"It seems that way, except…" She sweeped Mito's legs from under her, causing her to hit the ground.

"Ow...I thought we didn't want to fight for real?"

"All I did was cause you to lose balance, and it didn't hurt that bad, did it?" Anza helped her sister back onto her feet.

"I guess you're right…but that was still dirty."

"Oh, am I interrupting something?" asked a rather crude voice. The girls, naturally, turned to face it, and saw a dark skinned man in grey uniform, which had a white, single strapped flak jacket, but the thing the whiskered girl noticed the most was his forehead protector. "It's the Hokage's brats. Just what I was looking for…"

"W-what's someone from Kumo doing here?"

"I don't need to tell you that. Especially with my orders."

'So he's not friendly...dad will not take this sitting down...I need my weapon.' Hoping for the best, she dived for her katana, but she was kicked away by the far faster and stronger shinobi.

"Anza!" The blonde moved to check on her twin, but she was grabbed by the throat. "Ack!"

"I only need one, and since the other is down for the count, I'm going to be taking you."

"N-no…" Anza got back up, and pulled out the two kunai she began keeping on her person. "Unhand her!"

"Sorry, but I can't. Will you come with, or will I have to kill you?"

"Neither! I won't let you take her!"

"And how will you do that? You can't hit me without hitting your sister."

She froze, bravado lost. 'He's right. If I throw one of my kunai, she'll become a human shield, and if she dies, he'll just go after me...darn it! Where's Shisui or Itachi?!'

"I see that you know of your predicament." The man walked over to a tree and slammed the girl in his grasp into it.

"What are you doing?!"

"It doesn't matter who I take, as long as I get one of you." Another slam.

"Stop it! You'll kill her!"

"...do I look like I care? We're already on the road to war, this will just speed it up if the Hokage cares that much for his daughter." One more.

"H-help…" Mito wheezed out. Her hair started changing color in the back, I sign that there was now an open wound.

'There...there are people that truly don't have a shred of remorse if they kill someone? He...he's nothing more than a monster in the shape of a human...saying that he'd just take her, and now he will murder her? No...I won't let him...no more...' "NO MORE!" With her last option being to rush, she charged at the shinobi with her tools, but when she got closer, everything started to crack. "Huh?" Pieces started to fall from around her, and she could see what looked like a different part of the forest. "W-what's happening?"

-back in the real world-

"Her eyes, they changed!" exclaimed Shisui.

"So they did. Your plan worked."

Indeed, Anza's purple orbs became blood red, with two tomoe in her left, and one in the right. Her body started to stir, and the new eyes gained back life. "M...Mito…"

Shisui moved into her vision. "Hey, everythings okay."

She sat up. "Ugh...what...how did I get here?"

"Well...you've been here for awhile."

"But...but I was attacked by someone from Kumo, and...and Mito was there! Did I pass out? Did he take her away?!" She began to rapidly check her surroundings, but it just irritated the headache she now had.

"Stop that. Let me explain." His student followed his advice, but she didn't look happy. "Okay...while you were walking to the usual place, I put you under a rather powerful genjutsu with this." His eyes turned into their mangekyo form. "Since you didn't know what to look for or how to disrupt them, you had no idea you were under one. What you saw was fake, so your twin is fine."

Anza could feel tears starting to well up. From relief, or from the 'betrayal', she wasn't sure. "Why would you do something like that? Do you realise how horrible that was? I...I was helpless while Mito was having her skull split open..."

"I'm sorry, for what it's worth...but remember how you said you wished there was another way of unlocking the sharingan?" She nodded. "Look into the reflection of your blade."

Anza scanned the area for her katana, finding it nowhere, but it was given to her by Itachi. Unsheathing just a little bit, she saw the dojutsu. "I...it's unlocked?"

"Yep. Take a few days to recover from the illusion, and then we'll teach you how to use it, if you'll let us."

"How do I deactivate it?"

"Cut off the chakra flow to your eyes...or you can start training them right now."

She stopped staring at herself and looked at him with a confused face. "What do you mean?"

"The more you use your sharingan, the less chakra it will consume. So if you keep it activated for extended periods, you'll be able to use it longer."

"Makes sense...but can I make a few requests?"

Itachi nodded in his friends stead. "Of course. After what we just put you through, name whatever you wish."

"One: even if he asks, don't do that to Sasuke. At first, it sounded so fanciful, saving the day with a new power...but if what I saw was the price for these eyes, then I don't think he should see that yet, if at all."

"My thoughts exactly."

"Two: when I come back, I want to learn a ninjutsu. At this point, all I can do is swing a sword, and that illusion showed me how unprepared I am."

Shisui thought about her second request for a moment. "Yeah. We can do that. I think I have the perfect jutsu for you."

"Thank you." She stood up, blade in hand, and began her journey home without another word.

When she got a considerable distance away, Itachi began whispering. "What are we going to tell our clan if they ask? Someone is bound to notice her eyes."

"We'll just say that she gained the sharingan during a training session."

"But that's never happened before."

"Then she'll be known as the first. It's better to tell them that lie then to tell them that every Uchiha can gain the sharingan by being put under an intense genjutsu. We'll also need to find a way to get Sasuke to keep the truth a secret."

"You won't have to worry about that. He's my brother, after all." The clan heir stood up. "Let's go home, Shisui. Our job is done for the day."

"Right."

A.N.: What exactly will change, now that Anza has one of the legendary dojutsus? Well, besides the obvious. I have a reason for giving it to her so early, you'll just have to trust me. I'll also have to start updating only once a day when I have a chapter, since it's hard for me to write two new chapters in one day, then because of that, it takes me three.