DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS/PLOTS. I ONLY OWN MY OC'S.

"Fight till the last gasp."

William Shakespeare (Henry VI, Part One)

Everything changes again

Izumi removed her katana from the man's stomach and stood up, her Sharingan revealing no one alive besides the man standing next to her, her own father.

"We need to keep moving, reinforcements could arrive at any moment." Her father announced. After flicking the blood off her katana, she nodded her head.

"Then we should start going, shouldn't we?" Giving Izumi a slight smile, Tajima took one last look around and started running north in the direction of Sandai, the Uchiha's third and smallest compound.

Izumi looked at her father who happened to be running in front of her and noticed how he was favoring his right foot instead of his left. "Father, did someone injure your foot while we were fighting?"

Tajima looked back and noticed worry in his daughter's eyes. "It's fine, I can wait until we rest or get to Sandai."

"…Are you sure?"

"Of course, I've had to survive with worse wounds then this before Izumi, I'll be fine." He teased. Sometimes, Izumi forgets that her father was a warrior, one of the strongest, if not strongest in the Uchiha. He's faced many battles and probably had many wounds and scars from them.

"That was a stupid question then, wasn't it?"

"Probably." Izumi chuckled and focused at the task on hand; deliver the stolen scroll that contained the locations of the Senju compounds. That's probably why her father was personally doing the mission, usually the clan head would stay at the main compound under the protection of the clan. The council did want a bigger group traveling with them, but her father had denied that and made an excuse about how a bigger group would cause more attention.

Izumi secretly thought that her father just wanted to get awake from the paperwork.

She looked around with her Sharingan and wished she had the eyesight her twin had after developing his Mangekyō Sharingan, but at the same time she didn't want to go through the kinds of things Madara and Izuna both had to go through in order to get that Sharingan, despite its strength. Izumi's seen her brothers' train with the Mangekyō together; it was scary to see its power. But every single time they do use it, she always noticed how tired and drained her they are afterwards, and it scared her because somewhere in the back of her mind there a nagging thought that something bad was going to happen.

'They'll go blind; that is the price to pay for a power that high. It drains the user of its chakra after its use and it weakens the body tremendously.'

Hearing this voice almost caused Izumi to miss her step and trip (good thing she was able to catch herself before that happened). The last time she heard this voice were years ago, during the time that she didn't really like to remember.

"Izumi? Everything okay?"

Izumi quickly looked up and pushed her thoughts and that voice to the back of her mind. "Of course Father, nothing wrong." She answered with a smile.

Izumi groaned as she massaged her stiff muscles from running all day.

"Out of all things, I think I hate running the most." Tajima looked behind him to look at his daughter.

"Aiko, your mother, hated running too. She always complained on the missions we went on before she gave birth to Madara." He gave a nostalgic laugh. "You're just like her."

Izumi paused. "…Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

Tajima shook his head. "You tell me. Is the way I'm talking about her good or bad?"

After giving his question some thought, Izumi answered. "Oh, that's true." She turned to her father and gave him a wide smile. "Thanks!"

'Just like you Aiko… Just like you. You would be proud of her if you saw her now.'

"So are we camping here for today Father?"

Tajima turned towards Izumi. "Yes, we'll be staying here for the night." She nodded her head and stood up, her hand containing a kunai.

"I'll go find us some dinner, I'll be back."

"Be careful." She turned towards her father and gave him a loving smile.

"Of course Father, don't worry!" She walked off into the forest, leaving Tajima alone to his thoughts.

In the past five years, his daughter has grown so much stronger; she was almost on par with her twin, Izuna, the only other person in the clan that could train with Madara and not get beaten to a bloody pulp (not that Izuna didn't get beaten up, it just wasn't as bad as some of the others Madara's faced). And the only reason why Izumi was still considered "weaker" than Izuna was because of that Sharingan that only he and Madara possessed. But as Izuna and Izumi got older, Tajima could tell that they both would have raw power similar to Madara's, someone who was considered the strongest Shinobi the Uchiha's ever had. It was always Senju Hashirama that his son would fight against while his other son would fight Hashirama's younger brother Tobirama.

Then there's his daughter, fighting in the side lines when she should be in the front. But Tajima knew that his oldest son was paranoid about losing anybody anymore, it was probably safer for Izumi to be in the back. After all, she didn't possess the same Sharingan that only Madara and Izuna had, and in a way, Tajima was happy about that.

The Mangekyō…

That kind of power that has to come at a price, and at what, Tajima didn't know.

Izumi was walking through the forest with her hand containing a dead rabbit and her chakra concealed when she heard voices from behind her. Her eyes widened and she jumped up into the tree next to her, making sure that she didn't make any noises. Activating her Sharingan, she noticed a group of men making camp a few feet away from her. She immediately knew that they were following her and her father just because of the clan symbol on their armor.

Senju

Mentally cursing to herself, she jumped away, careful to not make even a single leaf on the tree shake. She needed to get to her father, she needed to warn him and make sure that they leave now. As Izumi jumped from tree to tree, she thought that she hadn't been detected, that she had concealed her chakra enough. But she was wrong; there was one person in that group who could sense anything and anyone, the one person she didn't see.

It was a certain white-haired Senju named Tobirama.

"Father, we need to go now." Izumi hissed out as she landed in front of the camp they made.

Tajima stood up, worried about how tense Izumi was. "What?"

"I just saw a group of Senju men trailing us, we have to go now." He nodded and handed Izumi her katana. Sliding her katana in its sheath, she started biting her bottom lip in nervousness.

"All right, let's go." Jumping up to the trees with a chakra powered jump, they both continued their path to Sandai, away from the Senju. They stayed quiet throughout their run, but when both Izumi and her father activated their Sharingan, they could make out five men running towards them, their chakra obviously concealed (but not enough for their kekkei genkai, it could after all, see everything).

"Shit!" Izumi cursed. As much as Tajima wanted to scold his daughter for the use of foul language, even he had to admit that they weren't in the best of situations. He would let that word slide.

He turned his head towards his daughter. "Izumi, we can't continue until we finish those men off."

Izumi nodded her head. "Yes, I figured that is what needed to be done." She unsheathed her katana, a weird gleam in her eye. "Let's go meet up with our dear friends, shall we?" She said. They dropped to the ground and quickly turned around with their weapons up to face the Senju.

"Get ready Izumi. They've bound to notice our sudden stop."

She nodded her head and tightened her grip on the handle of her katana. Izumi could feel the sudden adrenaline rush, and oh was she excited.

This would probably mean something was slightly wrong with her, but she didn't care, most Shinobi's and Kunoichi's are a little weird in the head like that. Izumi started counting down. 'Three... Two… One…'

Clang

The two Uchiha's and the six Senju's clashed, two on Izumi and four on her father.

Izumi knew that she needed to do first, get rid of at least one Senju, that way it would be a fair fight. She also knew that her father was one of the strongest shinobi was alive in the world right now, so he would probably be fine.

Meeting a highkick with her own, she pushed the Senju with her leg then moved her leg to his chest and used that momentum to jump from it to swing her sword down to the black haired Senju. Although the man raised his kunai to block it, she quickly shunshined away and went through handseals.

"Suiton: Tenkyū!" She kneaded chakra in her stomach and out from her mouth came needle like structures that were made of water.

For some reason, Izumi being able to use Suiton jutsu's without a source of water around her seemed to impress many people (but she didn't know that her mother could do the same exact thing).

The black haired Senju blocked the needles, but the other didn't block all of them in time and three hit his neck, bursting an artery. Seeing this, Izumi could tell that the man was dead (or going to be) so she focused all her attention on the other Senju.

"What is your name, Senju?"

The man scowled, as if he hated being called his last name. "Why do want to know?"

She tilted her head, her eyes flashing with the famed kekkei genkai of her clan. "I would like to know you name because you seem to be strong, someone that I can fight on par with."

The man stayed silent, but was careful to avoid her eyes for the fear of her using the Sharingan to cast a Genjutsu on him. "I'm Yure."

Hearing his name caused Izumi to smile and point her weapon at him. "Well Yure, I am pretty sure you know who I am. But I am glad to have fought a worthy opponent like you." She placed both hands on her katana and with a boost of chakra, ran forward to Yure.

Clang

Her katana clashed with his smaller one and Izumi tried to sweep his legs off from the ground, but he jumped back to avoid it. She raised her katana and was about to run forward when she heard a grunt of pain from behind her. She quickly turned her head back to see her father on the ground, his face in pain. Izumi decided to end the fight here and ran towards Yure and looked at him straight in the eye, casting a Genjutsu. When she turned back though, she saw a man (Senju) about to stab her father with his own sword.

"No!" She ran and sent the man away with a chakra powered push, causing him to hit a tree with his back a few feet away. There were only five bodies on the ground, one person was missing. Not that Izumi noticed though.

"Izumi-"

"You'll be okay, the Senju are all either dead or knocked out." She said to him, her hand glowing green with iryo-ninjutsu. But Izumi didn't notice the man that had almost killed her father had sneaking up on her to kill her. Izumi was too focused on trying to save her father.

Tajima's eyes widened and despite his body protesting, he grabbed Izumi's shoulders and switched places with her, him kneeling over her while she laid on the ground. But because Tajima was in this position, it resulting in him getting stabbed.

Right in front of his daughter.

Tajima's blood splattered onto Izumi's armor, a sword sticking out from his own chest. "I-Izumi."

A sword sticking out of Katsumi's chest, his eyes flashing red with the Uchiha's famed kekkei genkai.

"I-Izumi, Run."

Her father fell on top of her while the Senju crawled away (slowly) trying to get to the forest.

"No, no no no no!" Izumi carefully placed her father on the ground, moving him from her chest. She was trying to take his armor off to heal him, but Tajima knew that it was too late.

He was going to die.

"Father, please stay with me. All I have to do is remove your armor, I can heal you-"

"Izumi, it's…too late." He opened his eyes to see the tear streaked face of his daughter.

"N-No, I can heal-"

Tajima raised his hand to her cheek. "Stop it Izumi…I know it's…too late." Blood dripped from the side of his mouth.

"But…"

"You have made…me so proud Izumi, my little…sunshine."

A cry came out from Izumi's mouth when she heard her father call her by a nickname that she hasn't heard in about a decade.

"D-daddy, please don't do this-"

The corners of Tajima's lips rose from hearing Izumi call him daddy, a word that she stopped using when she was three.

"I am glad…to have called you…my daughter." He wiped away the tears that were falling fast from Izumi's eyes.

"No no no,!" Tajima closed his eyes and could feel his daughter trying desperately to take his armor off.

"You can't die, what will happen Madara? To Izuna?" Izumi looked at her father's face. "What will happen to me?"

Her father opened his eyes and looked at her. "You need to be-"

Cough

He stopped halfway through his sentence, coughing to the point where blood dripped from the side of his mouth. "-You need…to be…strong." Too tired to keep his hand on her cheek, it fell, but Izumi was able to catch it.

"You have…to be strong…for Izuna…for Madara…and for…yourself. Okay?"

Izumi nodded her head as she placed her cheek onto her father's hand.

"I love you…so much. More than you…will ever know." He said, his voice getting weaker and weaker.

"I love you too." She choked out each word, her chest too tight. Her grip tightened on his hand, but it was too late to do anything. Izumi saw the life in her father's eyes fade away, the weak grip of his hand weaken, making it limp.

"No no no no!" She dropped her father's hand and checked his neck for a heartbeat. It had to be there, he wasn't dead. He couldn't be!

But when she checked, there was no bump in his vein.

There was no heartbeat.

…Her father had died.

Izumi let out a bloodcurdling scream, one strong enough to shock the crows in the surrounding trees to fly off. She continued crying and screaming for her father, the man that had raised her, the man that had loved her.

She screamed and screamed, feeling tears and something thicker run down her eyes.

She could feel this…power course through her veins. This uncontrollable fire. It was like this black flame had ignited in her heart.

She screamed and screamed, she could feel everything burning. So much pain, so much heat.

So much darkness.

Everything burned, this black fire burned. Everything has to burn in black.

It has too.

Izumi slowly groggily opened her eyes, unsure of what had happened. But when she saw the person that she was laying on, she fell backwards, shocked.

Her father? What had happened?

Izumi looked around and saw that there was no trees, no grass. There was a faint smell of something burning, but that was about it. There were things on the ground that looked like wood but she couldn't tell because it was black, like charcoal. Looking a little bit further, Izumi could barely make out five things of black mass on the ground that suspiciously looked like bodies. She looked down and saw that there was a small circle of live grass, unlike the ones a few feet in front of her. She kneeled down to her father's body and checked for a heartbeat, and found none.

"W-What?" Izumi took a step back and looked around, only to see something flickering in the distance. She narrowed her eyes and took a few steps forward. It looked like a flame? She walked towards it and was shocked to see what it was.

It was a black flame, burning with nothing.

The only time Izumi's ever seen this type of fire was when she went on a mission with her brothers. It was when they used their Mangekyō Sharingan. She thought that this type of fire was only available for the ones who had that-

"I love you…so much. More than you…will ever know."

Izumi clutched her head in pain, her memories overpowering her. She saw herself fighting a Senju, her father getting stabbed.

She saw her father protecting her, telling her to be strong for her brothers.

She saw her father dying.

It causing another burst of pain through her heart and mind, she could feel tears forming in her eyes again.

Then she saw herself igniting a black flame out of nothing, burning everything in its path. Izumi now knew what had happened, what she had done.

"No, I can't have this! I can't!"

And for the second time in less than an hour, Izumi passed out.

"Wake up." Izumi could hear someone talking to her, but it sounded so far away. She didn't want to wake up; there was too much pain, her father-

"Izumi, you need to wake up." Someone was slapping her cheeks, trying to get her to wake up, to open her eyes.

And so that's what she did, she opened her eyes only to see red eyes, ones different from the Uchiha's Sharingan. But when she blinked, there was no one standing above her, she was all alone, only the smell of a river that didn't seem to belong.

Izumi quickly sat up and realized she was still in the same place she passed out. The only thing missing was the burned bodies and the scroll containing the Senju's compound locations.

"Who the hell..?"

She was so confused, did someone wake her up? Did she really see red eyes? But Izumi realized she had bigger things to worry about. She looked to her left to see the still body of her father and she felt pain pass through her heart.

"Father…" She stood up and took out a body scroll to seal her father in. She placed the unfurled scroll over him and closed her eyes. "…Goodbye." She pushed chakra into the seal mark and she heard the scroll close itself. Izumi opened her eyes and where her father had lay was now a scroll.

She couldn't believe it, her father had died. He had died protecting her and in turn, caused her to activate the one thing she didn't want.

The Mangekyō.

As much as she wanted to cry and ponder over who woke her up, Izumi knew that she needed to get back to the compound, the main one. She grabbed the scroll and placed it in a pocket and jumped away, crying silent tears for the man that had raised her.

But what she didn't notice was the man hiding in the bushes around the burned area.

If Izumi had paid attention, she would have noticed that this man smelled like the river and had red eyes and white hair.

A/N: Ba-Bam! This chapter is now over and I feel years younger! This was so hard for me to write, but for some reason I like it too. I hope the last paragraph made sense; I was so tempted to just delete it because of how much I think it sucks. Like, 'ew why would I ever write that' kind of suck. I decided to let it stay just because…I don't know.

But anyhow, I hope this chapter didn't suck that much! It's the weekend right now and I was like 'yes, free time!' so I finished all of this in about two hours. Not to mention I was able to update In Time too at like the same time! xD

Talk about no life. *cough* me *cough*

But did you know that I had a totally different ending to this chapter? Of course you don't know, I just told you! But yeah, I did and I just about pulled my hair out because of it. That's how that last paragraph was born!

So, for this chapter's book recommendation, I totally TOTALLY recommend reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. This book is like a mixture of the apocalypse, vampires, and experiments. It's a great book, you should totally read it.

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