Summary: When both Mikoto and Kushina have twins, the world is drastically altered. Sasuke is not the only one consumed with revenge when the Massacre comes and Naruto knows the love of a sibling. Just how will this change things on top of the fact the Sharingan isn't the only Kekkei Genkai the Uchiha have?

Chapter 10: 90% Chance of Rain

Sasuke opened his eyes slowly, still feeling tired. He had a strong urge to go back to sleep, but forced himself to wake up. He blinked the sleep out of his eyes and noticed Mei was gone. He gasped and looked for his sister and other teammate.

He exhaled. They were still there, although unconscious. He ran a hand through his hair, matted and dirty from lack of access to a shower for the last four days. He shuffled over to his sister's form and put a hand to her forehead.

Her fever hadn't gone down. Sasuke frowned and wrung out a cloth after putting it in water. He folded it in half and put the cool damp cloth over her forehead. Her small cries lessened a bit, feeling the effects of the cold cloth on her head.

Sasuke glanced at Naruto and didn't see his cheeks flushed anymore. So all Naruto had to do was to wake up. Sasuke leaned against the wall of the cave. Whenever that would be, anyway.

He twirled a kunai on his finger lazily, watching the clouds. They were all one color and was a huge mass, making it impossible to tell if they were moving or not. He looked around and saw a few traps hidden around the area.

Mediocre. Sasuke clicked his tongue and dragged himself to his feet, setting to work on setting up more traps. This time, it was nearly impossible to see them unless you knew they were there. Sasuke turned his head, sensing someone's chakra. He gripped a kunai inside his pocket and held his breath.

"Sasuke-kun?" Mei asked.

Sasuke sighed. It was just Mei. "Come over here."

Mei nodded and skipped over, her blonde twin ponytails bouncing a little. She smiled at him brightly but her smile faded when she noticed he wasn't looking at her; Sasuke was looking at Noriko.

"Could you wake Noriko up? We'd like to fight her," a voice said. Sasuke whirled around, angry. A kunai was in his hand and he stepped into a defense position. Mei gasped and took a kunai out, nervous.

"Who the hell are you?" Sasuke demanded. The three shinobi in front of him chuckled lowly.

Mei gritted her teeth. Always Noriko this, Noriko that! Sasuke-kun is always with her and worrying about her and training with her and even Naruto-nii likes her! I don't get what's so great about her! She's stuck-up and weak! I'm stronger than her; I'm still conscious. I had to take care of her wounds and her fever and she's still unconscious. I've got to show Sasuke-kun that I'm strong too! That I can fight and be strong and then…then maybe he'll notice me! Then he'll be with me instead of Noriko, who can just leave!

Sasuke noticed the change in her demeanor, but pinned it up to the fact that the Oto shinobi in front of them were leaking killer intent. Sasuke's Sharingan spun angrily but before he could charge and attack them, Mei rushed forward with a paper and kunai in her hand. Sasuke noticed the paper was laced with chakra and had what looked like sealing formulas on it. He frowned. Is that what they were doing with that old hag?

Mei was easily punched away; taijutsu wasn't her strong suit. The punch seemed normal in the sense that it left a painful sensation and a red mark on her cheek. Then, she screamed and held her ear, trying to stand but falling back down. Sasuke stood his ground but didn't rush forward, wary of the unknown jutsu.

"W-what did you do to me?" Mei choked out, her vision distorted.

"This is a move of sound, exceeding any Genin's level of speed. Even if you had dodged, you would've still felt the effects you're feeling now," the shinobi said. Then, he went on and explained his arm and how sound tied into his jutsu.

Sasuke frowned. How the hell am I going to fight this guy? Mei brought herself to her feet and slammed exploding kunai on both his arms. He stumbled back, her momentum and sudden movement even without chakra, just a simple shove, was enough to shock him. He'd underestimated Mei too much. She was part of Team 7, after all.

Then, the kunai exploded after she made a simple seal with one hand. Explode! The kunai did their job and the dust cleared from the attack, revealing the arm guards with holes in them to be cracked in many places. Mei slammed two papers with sealing formulas written on them on her ears and focused chakra. In anger, the shinobi attacked Mei again. The shinobi attacked again with his sound attacks, but Mei didn't fall over or lose her sense of balance again. Sasuke looked at the seals with his Sharingan and saw she was focusing chakra to her ears on top of the chakra the seals contained.

"What?" the shinobi muttered. "Why didn't my attack work?"

Mei shook her head. "I'm afraid I don't read lips."

His eyes widened. "Those are seals, aren't they? There's no way a little girl like you knows fuuinjutsu! That art died ages ago!"

Mei narrowed her eyes, getting the feeling that he was saying something bad. She didn't really care though; his words would probably only get her angrier. She charged again with another kunai and threw shuriken and thrust the kunai at him. She faltered and fell over, the effects of his previous attack still taking their toll on her.

"Sasuke-kun…" Mei said.

Sasuke nodded and weaved signs for a fire release jutsu. I have to fight with long-range jutsu, or simply not engage him in close combat. If I do, then I'll end up unable to fight.

As the flames distracted the three enemy shinobi, Sasuke created a clone with wire from the original Sasuke to weave around the shinobi. The flames began to die down as Sasuke was exhaling the last bits of converted chakra and the clone came back, handing him the wire to pull.

Sasuke pulled and was shocked to see that the enemy shinobi weren't being strangled or even moved at least. Sasuke stood in shock for a moment before sensing something coming, quickly. He saw kunai coming at him from the shadows at him and jumped out of the way. He backed up and his foot stepped onto something that cracked. He cringed and saw some other kunai coming from another direction. He jumped again once more and dodged a punch coming from the enemy nin.

It was too late. Sasuke had done a misstep and fell into their trap. Sasuke's vision and balance failed him and he fell to his knees, clutching his ear. His Sharingan faded to black; he needed to chakra he was diverting to his eyes to try to speed up the healing of his ear. He took his hand away and began to weave signs for a fire release jutsu, putting an enormous amount of chakra into it. His enemy was just a foot away from him and his body began to burn before he kicked Sasuke as he was exhaling fire.

Sasuke couldn't simply stop the jutsu; the chakra he'd converted into fire was still in his throat and at the top of his lungs. If he stopped now, he'd burn himself from the inside out. He had no choice but to open his mouth wider and push out the fire.

The fire was going towards where Noriko and Naruto were and Sasuke couldn't move; the enemy shinobi was holding his head in place and messing around by stabbing his back with kunai. Sasuke refused to let tears fall but he couldn't help it because he felt sick simply of the thought that his sister's death would he his fault.

Suddenly, the place where Noriko and Naruto were cracked loudly and a plume of dust and smoke rose up. The flames coming from Sasuke sputtered away and Sasuke simply shook in fear and resentment and hate. He was kicked away and laid on his back, in pain.

As the dust settled, Sasuke was expecting to see his sister and Naruto in a bloody mess, bleeding out. Instead, he saw something terrifying.

A dark purple aura swirled around his sister, her Sharingan glaring down at the enemy shinobi. Once of the female enemy shinobi was kicking Mei repeatedly, apparently bored. She stopped immediately, frozen by Noriko's killer intent-filled aura.

"Sasuke…who hurt you?" Noriko asked, her words filled with poison as she threw off her weights. They made cracks into the ground as she dropped them.

Sasuke didn't answer; he was in too much shock. That's…Noriko? What the hell is going on with her?! Orange marks glowed on her body and her hair waved around a bit, the raw chakra swirling around her creating a kind of wind. She narrowed her eyes, not liking his lack of response.

"Sasuke! Answer me," Noriko walked over to him and knelt in front of him. Sasuke willed himself to calm down, but the enemy shinobi answered for him.

"I did it," two of the enemy shinobi answered. The orange marks faded to black and stretched across her face, an angry look on it.

Fire Release: Phoenix Fire Technique!

Flames filled the air, making Sasuke shut his eyes from the heat of it. One of the enemies underestimated her and used the holes in his hands to blast air to try to get the flames away from him. Noriko didn't try anything more on him; he simply burned until his screams stopped due to the fact that if you make yourself the epicenter of flames with concentrated chakra in them, you'll only pose a risk to yourself. He fell unconscious after his screams died down and the female enemy patted the flames off of him. Noriko could tell he was already dead.

She moved onto the female, who was surprisingly easy to kill; simply move quickly enough to get behind her, an easy task thanks to the lack of weights, and snap her neck. A smirk spread across Noriko's face as she stood over the female Oto kunoichi. Mei laid in shock, her grey eyes wide and her mouth agape. This…this is Noriko?!

Noriko turned to the last shinobi, who was smart enough to see that she'd kill him as well. He shook as he laid an earth scroll down on the ground. Noriko grinned wider as she advanced towards him with no hesitation in her mind about killing him.

Sasuke managed to bring himself up and hold her from behind tears streaming out of his eyes. Noriko lowered her eyes at this; she hated seeing him cry. It had been roughly five years since she'd seen him cry. Noriko stopped and didn't shake him off. Instead, she turned around and hugged him back, wondering what caused him to be so frightened.

"Noriko…stop," Sasuke whispered.

Noriko frowned. "Yeah," Noriko said, unsure. The enemy shinobi fled after that.

Noriko sensed more shinobi watching in the shadows. She pushed back the black markings back to the strange mark on her neck and her Sharingan faded to black. Her chakra coils and points still felt fuzzy, like when one's foot or leg is asleep. However, this feeling went away after a few seconds. Sasuke let go and Noriko pulled the kunai out of him and bandaged him up.

Once he was patched up, Noriko turned to the chakra signatures that were watching them.

"Come out. I know you're there," Noriko commanded. It was Gai's team with Neji, Tenten, and Lee. Noriko stiffened at the sight of the green idiot. Her mouth tasted bitter and Noriko didn't want to remember what had happened a few nights ago when he kissed her. Sure, he was drunk but by no means would she ever forgive him. And, if she ever needed to blackmail him or someone else and use him, forgiving him was going to get in the way of that.

"N-noriko-san…what was that power? Are you alright?" Lee asked, his dark eyes wide in shock.

"None of your business. Get lost, idiot," Sasuke glared. Lee frowned, unfazed.

Noriko suddenly fell to her knees, gripping her neck where the mark was. She shut her eyes in pain and Sasuke turned to her, unsure of what to do. Neji produced some cooling cream from his pocket and handed it to the Uchiha boy, who applied it to her neck. After a moment, Noriko's pain subsided to a dull throb, something she could handle without any outward symptoms.

"Why did you help us? We're your enemies, aren't we?" Noriko asked, walking over to Mei and looking at her as the latter sat up, her injuries slowly healing.

"We're all Konoha Genin. This is just a one-time thing. If we face each other again, we'll fight one another for real. It's just that I'm…" Neji started. Noriko raised a brow. "I'm grateful to you, for being kind to Hinata-sama. I once was cruel to her, but a certain person showed me the error of my ways and how I shouldn't hold a grudge against her; she had done nothing. However, in front of clan elders, I had to be cruel to avoid being ridiculed. We grew distant despite being cousins, but you were her light, her only friend," Neji said, his fists clenching. "Have you seen her or her team?"

Noriko shook her head. "I haven't. Thanks for your help, Neji."

Neji flinched a moment before nodding and disappearing with his team. Noriko turned to her team and saw Naruto was just waking up. Mei knelt by his side and Naruto slowly opened his blue eyes to see Mei's worried face, tears streaming down them in relief when she saw Naruto waking up. She hugged her brother tightly and he patted her back, unsure of what was wrong. He saw Sasuke and Noriko, patched up in a few places.

"What…happened? Where's that snake guy? How did we get here?" Naruto asked.

"That isn't important," Noriko said.

"What is important is that we have an earth scroll and we've got tonight and tomorrow to get to the tower," Sasuke said.

"So, get up Naruto. We're going," Noriko said.

"Congratulations," Iruka said. "Well, you're a day early so you can find one of the unoccupied rooms. Normally, it's three people to a room, but you four can split off into twos. You're the second team to arrive."

"Who was the first?" Sasuke asked.

"The Suna team, I think," Iruka said.

"Is there ramen?" the two Uzumaki asked, their eyes wide.

Iruka shook his head. "Sorry."

Then, Team 7 headed off within the tower to find rooms. Naruto and Mei immediately raided the vending machines while Noriko and Sasuke took turns showering and napping. In the end, neither Uchiha could sleep for long.

One team from Suna and two teams from Konoha stood before the Hokage. Those teams had both gotten a heaven and earth scroll and completed the Second Exam within five days. Team Kurenai had been able to get both scrolls but unable to complete the test in the allotted time. Team Asuma had not been able to get a scroll, but had come anyway simply because being in the Forest with wild animals hell-bent on killing any humans was 'a drag'.

Team Kakashi and Team Gai had completed the Second Exam. Kakashi was proud of his cute Genin as they stood, looking tired and weary and in serious need of a bath. As the Hokage congratulated the three teams on making it to the finals, Kakashi sensed another chakra signature enter the room. By the looks of it, the Jounin scattered around had noticed. Kakashi craned his neck to see Jiraiya walking towards him, looking between emotionless and smug.

Despite the fact most of the teams on the second floor hadn't passed, they were still let in to hear the Hokage's words. It was nothing but a formality considering Konoha had foreign company. The one Genin that stood behind a pale man with the symbol for 'sound' on her hitai-ate with red hair caught Jiraiya's eye. She was pretty with her short hair and colorless eyes. If Jiraiya didn't know better, he'd say that Maki-obaasan had taken Tsunade's jutsu of being young and turned the clock back about fifty-something years.

Jiraiya shrugged. There were all sorts of strange kids here, like the Suna boy with the gourd on his back. He'd tried to do research on the boy, but for once, couldn't find anything on him. He didn't like the feeling he got from the boy, though. He seemed dangerous and reckless in a sort of lethal way. Well, whatever it was, it was probably simply because Jiraiya was a Konoha-nin and wasn't used to Suna-nin, or at least the current generation of Genin. Kids these days are a bit strange. Like the way Mei-chan is looking at those Itachi-lookalikes.

Jiraiya leaned against the railing, appearing bored. Kakashi leaned next to him and watched the grinning Genin make their way up to the second floor. Sasuke and Noriko stuck close together. Kakashi wouldn't usually bat an eye at their antics, but something seemed off. He narrowed his visible eye at the Uchiha girl and saw that her wince was becoming a cringe and her fists were tightening.

He glanced at Minato's daughter and tilted his head as he looked at her to Noriko and back. Mei had a flash of guilt before shaking her head, flawlessly playing the innocent card. Kakashi had to hand it to her; the girl was good at lying. For now.

"You four look tired. How about a relaxing trip to the bathhouses?" Kakashi suggested. He felt Jiraiya's perverted grin. Kakashi inwardly shuddered but shook it off, remembering he had to be polite in front of a Konoha legend, the famous perverted Sannin.

As Jiraiya conversed with his godchildren, Kakashi hung back with the Sharingan users. Eventually, Sasuke read the atmosphere and quickened his pace to the Sannin and made annoying small talk with the white-haired man, leaving his sister with their sensei. Sasuke didn't like doing that and knew Noriko'd reprimand him later for leaving her alone with their observant sensei.

"Did anything happen in the Forest I should be aware about?" Kakashi asked, already knowing the answer.

"Y-yeah," Noriko mumbled.

"What happened?" Kakashi asked, playing the stupid card.

"There was this guy, Orochimaru I think. After fighting me but holding back I guess after separating me from the rest of my team, he put this mark on me," Noriko tilted her head a bit to show her neck for Kakashi. Kakashi covered his surprise. And fear. Orochimaru is after Noriko? She's just a child. But, I shouldn't forget the same thing happened to Anko. Just what is Orochimaru after? Her Sharingan? Or the Kyouzou?

"I take it you want to go to the bathhouse, right?" Kakashi asked. Noriko nodded slowly. "Well, for now, I'll put a chakra suppressing seal on you so neither the chakra from the seal nor your chakra will harm or be accessible, respectively. In this way, you can go to the bathhouse but after that, you're coming with me to get the mark on your neck safely sealed so it won't pose a risk to you."

"Risk?" Noriko asked.

"It'll poison you if I don't either seal it or temporarily freeze it with a chakra suppressor," Kakashi explained. "But you're going to be fine. There's no need to worry," Kakashi eye-smiled, seeing the worry on her face.

"Ne, Kakashi-sensei," Noriko started softly, almost too softly for him to hear.

"Hm?" Kakashi asked, getting serious.

"Why did that Orochimaru guy give me this mark? Why not Sasuke or Naruto or Mei or anyone else?" Noriko asked.

"Well—"

Kakashi was interrupted as they arrived at the bathhouse and by Jiraiya's exclamation after having a very hushed conversation with Naruto. The two grinned like devils and rushed into the men's side of the bathhouse.

Kakashi applied the seal to Noriko's arm and she nearly fell over, the feeling of the inability to summon chakra was nearly unbearable. Noriko summoned her willpower and stayed standing. Kakashi sighed and followed them, leaving Mei and Noriko to go to the women's side.

"You're so pale," Mei said, shocked as she scrubbed Noriko's back. Noriko frowned.

"So?" Noriko asked.

"I wish I was pretty and pale like you," Mei said, not thinking Noriko had heard. Noriko looked at her hands, unsure of what to think. She grabbed the bucket of water and doused herself with it and stepped into the water and shoved herself at the edge of the area, away from Mei.

Mei's been acting strange. First she's eerily silent about my mark, even though I was sure she'd tell Naruto or Kakashi-sensei. Then, she says weird things about comparing my skin to hers. I'd never given anything that petty and useless any thought. What's she getting at?

"What's with you?" Noriko demanded, feeling uneasy. "What're you planning?"

Mei didn't answer, looking at her knees through the water as she hugged her knees to her chest. Noriko didn't like her lack of response but before she could demand an answer, a giggle was heard from the other side of the bath. The steam was too thick to discern anything but Noriko had a bad feeling. Unconsciously she lifted an arm to cover her nonexistent chest. She glanced at Mei and saw she had spread herself out like a starfish. Another giggle was heard and then a splash of water, as if someone had been thrown in or dragged in.

Noriko tilted her head, confused. Just what were Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke and Naruto and Jiraiya up to? She wished she could focus chakra to her ears to listen to the whispers she heard from the other side. Her chakra was sealed away to an extent and she didn't want to risk being poisoned by the weird curse mark.

A rather loud sigh escaped the Uchiha girl. "Just what're you so nervous about Mei?"

Mei had guilt reflect in her eyes before taking a breath to answer. "Maki-baachan said you were dangerous and walking a deadly path. When I saw you and the curse mark and how it affected you in the Forest, I was so scared. You were giving off so much killer intent I thought you were going to kill me. When you killed those two enemy ninja, I couldn't help but wonder…is that the same fear you felt when you found out your brother had killed your entire clan?"

Noriko stared at her, unable to respond. However, Mei kept going. "And, I feel like, if you continue like this, you're going to be surrounded by death and I'm going to be one of those bodies."

"What…" Noriko started, feeling a strange anger. "What makes you think that? Why do you make it seem as if I'm dangerous and I'm a murderer? I'm…I'm not him. I'll never be like him."

"Because…" Mei paused. "I'm scared of—"

"Of what? How can you be afraid? You've got Naruto. Naruto is the one who despite the fact he's stupid, he makes everything lighter and almost humorous. You're the one Kakashi-sensei truly cares about. I can't explain it, but there's something there. Kakashi-sensei, I feel that he wants to protect you. So why…" Noriko almost gritted her teeth but settled for a nonchalant look as she leaned against the wall. "Why're you afraid? According to you, I'm the best, I'm pretty, I'm your friend. I don't get you; you compliment me and turn around and call me dangerous and make it seem like I'm going to kill you. As if."

"I'm scared of you," Mei whispered.

Noriko's eyes widened. "Me?"

Mei nodded. "I'm sorry, Noriko. I don't want to fear you. When I see you, I see a girl that's good at everything that I suck at and a girl that's going to be strong. You're going to rival Sasuke-kun's strength but…there's some kind of air about you that I get a bad feeling about. It scares me."

"I'd never kill you. I protected you, remember?" Noriko asked. "Sasuke and I, actually."

"What?" Mei asked. "When?"

"Before the Academy started. That day when you and Naruto were being beat up and then Sasuke and I ran over and even landed a few punches I think on the guy," Noriko said. "You don't remember?"

Mei's eyes widened. "You're…you're the one that Naruto-nii used to talk about. You and Sasuke-kun. He'd been obsessed with trying to find you two because you two were the first two kind people we'd met," Mei smirked a little. "You know, Naruto-nii likes you. I don't know if you know."

"What?" Noriko asked as her mind shattered. "That idiot? You've got to be kidding me. I'm the one with the dark aura or whatever and yet that simple idiot likes me?" Noriko put a hand on her head, groaning. "I hope there's no other idiots like him."

"There's Lee and Neji," Mei stated.

"Stop talking," Noriko said sharply. "If you say another name I'll kill you and everyone you've mentioned."

"I thought you weren't going to kill me. Whatever happened to that promise?" Mei snickered. Noriko glared harshly at her and stepped out of the water. Another giggle came from the other side.

Noriko had had enough. Whoever that was giggling like a girl was making a fool of himself and Noriko wished she could use her Sharingan to see whose chakra it was to bust their asses later. She settled for some harsh words.

"Who's laughing?" Noriko demanded. "If it's you, Sasuke, I'll make it so that you won't be able to move for a week."

There was no answer. It was eerily silent so Noriko took that as a confirmation that they'd taken her seriously. She changed back into her clothes and waited outside for her brother. When Sasuke came outside, Noriko looked up and gave him a look that Sasuke shivered a little from.

"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked.

"What was all that laughing from the men's side of the bath?" Noriko demanded.

"Jiraiya was peeping," Sasuke said.

"Hey! I told you not to tell her, brat!" Jiraiya came rushing over with only a towel around his waist. Noriko paled and turned around, disturbed.

"We're going home, Sasuke," Noriko said. Sasuke nodded, glaring at Jiraiya, who blushed as he stared at Noriko's back. Sasuke glared once more before both Uchiha jumped to the rooftops and disappeared to their apartment. Just then, it began to rain and lightning flashed across the sky, striking in the distance every few seconds. Jiraiya frowned, growing serious as he ignored screams from female passerby and went back to get properly dressed.

No one noticed the crow that grabbed a snake and flew away from the bathhouse. Unbeknownst to anyone, the snake ended up poisoning the crow and subsequently killing it. In the shadows surrounding Konoha, a certain person partial to crows frowned in dismay and worry. Something is going to happen. I get the feeling it's already begun. I need to protect those two.