Epilogue
"That morning, I got to the Konoha Military Police Force at eight a.m. checked in with the secretary Ms Aiko Mizuno just like normal you know; it was such an ordinary day like any other. But it took an odd turn when it hit around half past eight and we at the Konoha Police Force noticed that more than half of our force hadn't arrived for work yet as most of the force is comprised of Uchiha. It was odd; none of them had ever been half an hour late before. When it hit around nine o' clock, we were all confused as to why most of the squad including our captain Chief Fugaku Uchiha hadn't arrived yet, so all of us at the station decided that one of us should go and investigate why they hadn't arrived so I volunteered. I walked a few metres down the road to the Uchiha clan area, rang their iron bell and decided to walk in when no one answered… Nothing in the world could've prepared me for what I was about to see…Just…Bodies were scattered everywhere. Everywhere. It was a bloodbath and a scene looking like the end of a war...Just horrible…"
That was one of the non Uchiha members of the Police Force interviewed as he was the very first witness. He told of his account of finding the Uchiha's in the state they were in. He later told me that the Police Force had-early that morning before the discovery of the Uchiha's- received several complaints from Konohan citizens about loud noises they had heard the previous night but couldn't exactly pinpoint where they had come from. No one could have ever guessed…
Upon making the horrific discovery of the Uchiha clan massacre, he had alerted the Hokage and the ANBU black ops who arrived on the scene within minutes, along with the ordinary public of the village who came to witness the results of what had happened. By ten o'clock that morning, it was nearly impossible to even get close to the Uchiha clan area as hundreds of people crowded the area. The entire street was blocked by non Uchiha members of the Police Force of course, zoning off the area with yellow tape and jonin and chunin trying to keep people on the other side of the line and control the crowd to allow some space for the medical core and black ops to carry the bodies out covered in black body bags on stretchers to the medical core. It was a horrible sight; there were at least forty families of the Uchiha clan's bodies that they had to carry out; twenty one of those families had small children. There was the Hokage, elders of the leaf village, people from other villages as news spread, the black ops, representatives from other villages, leaders of the great clans of Konoha, medical core staff and curious, shocked, crying, gasping, screaming people of Konoha present. It was complete and total chaos. The black ops and medical core began the grim work of retrieving the decaying bodies when they discovered a young boy, Sasuke Uchiha lying face down on the main street alive. He was later seen as the only survivor.
The Hidden Leaf Village was nothing short of devastated as the unimaginable news spread around the village to way beyond its borders. They had mixed feelings of anger and grief and demanded answers of what happened to the innocent peoples of one of their most powerful and ancient clans. The Uchiha clan was part of Konoha's history and had played a role in the birth of the Hidden Leaf Village. It was unbelievable, such a powerful clan-gone and all in one night…
Later that week after all the death reports were done, Sarutobi Hokage decided not to have the bodies of the shinobi members of the clan destroyed, that way their friends and other loved ones could mourn them properly. Konohagakure then staged a mass funeral for the entire clan buried on their sacred home soil. People from all of the great Hidden Villages, small villages and allied nations attended the funeral. From the prominent kages and feudal lords to all kinds of ninja and ordinary folk on the street. They all came to witness the end of one of the most powerful and formidable clans to come out of the leaf village.
The body of Misaki Uchiha was discovered with a single flower in her hand and retrieved at twenty minutes to ten o' clock on that morning and taken to the medical core for examination. According to autopsy reports Misaki had died of exsanguination due to the lack of blood in her body. After her eyes were destroyed as the tradition for the Uchiha's who didn't leave their eyes to anyone, she was wrapped in a white cloth and placed in a casket. Later in the week her tiny white diary was found lying under her pillow back at home. The basis of what would become her story.
Misaki Uchiha's casket was carried by her two distraught friends Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane and a few members of the black ops team she'd been a part of to her untimely grave. The rest of the Uchiha's caskets were carried by their own close friends and volunteers from their village.
A picture of a smiling long dark haired honey eyed coloured kunoichi was placed on top of Misaki's casket before burial and during the hokage's eulogy by her best friend Anko Mitarashi who needed to be comforted by Izumo and Kotetsu as she was overwhelmed with grief, all three of them held onto each other staring at the picture of their friend they had known their whole lives. Gone forever. She was buried next to her parents Reika and Tsuyoshi Uchiha.
As for Itachi, reaction to the news that he'd assassinated his own clan and girlfriend whom he'd never been afraid to show his affection to in public shook people of Konoha to the core as he was always seen as a hardworking and noble shinobi. The news that his said girlfriend, admired and loved by the community of Konoha, had killed herself to prevent him from killing her made her story somewhat of a local hero's story here. He was immediately classified as a super 'S' class ranked wanted criminal and rogue ninja. The black ops have tried to trace his whereabouts to no avail but they're still searching. At least the organisation of the Akatsuki that Orochimaru worked with was now known by the black ops who would continue to try and find out about them...
"Heart breaking and gut wrenching. Just plain unfair. She'll never know how special she really was to everyone" Izumo Kamizuki
"Itachi really didn't deserve her after all. She was the most amazing loyal person I've ever met" Anko Mitarashi
"She had so much love to give but she is resting in peace where nobody can hurt her anymore" Kotetsu Hagane
"One of the most promising young kunoichi in the world. It was a privilege to have worked with her" ANBU black ops captain Ichiro Miyake.
"Fantastic role model to young female ninja who meant so much to her and her to them" Sarutobi Hokage
As for myself having done this research on her for the Konoha Chronicles I felt the need to tell her story so that people would remember the young woman who was so brave with such a fighting spirit. That is why we here in Konoha can't forget the Uchiha's and continue to tell their stories…
Asuka Sayako. The Konoha Chronicles publication.
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Sasuke Uchiha turns the last page of the book and closes it with a final hit on its back. He stares down hard at the ground feeling the grief for his clan and his own family that the book highlighted. He stands up and hands the book back to me nodding. I take it that I passed the test. He walks to the picture of Misaki Uchiha here at the clan's memorial museum in downtown Konoha and read information about her. Nearing the five year anniversary of the Uchiha clan massacre, the museum has been receiving a lot of traffic. Sasuke reads the information written about her then he closes his eyes and clenches his fist. I can see that the thirst and the fire raging inside him for justice and revenge and killing his brother had just been amplified…for her sake…
Disclaimer: 'Naruto' by Masashi Kishimoto
Cover Image: 'Fan Bingbing' by Ken Lee600 740, April 29 2012,
