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Epilogue:

A New Start:

The sun was shining brightly over the village of Konohagakure, causing it's occupants to rise with smiles on their faces and happiness in their hearts. Birds were twittering gaily and being merry, while the shinobi felt that nothing could go-

"ANIKI!!!"

Uchiha Itachi groaned, and pressed his face further into his pillow. It didn't help, and the blue monster (as he referred to him in his mind) raced into the room and jumped onto his bed.

"Aniki, Aniki!" Sasuke said happily, "Guess what? It's morning, and that means that you have to wake up!!"

Itachi just groaned, and ignored his little brother. Sometimes, he wondered why he didn't slaughter his whole family, but he only wondered that when his brother woke him up at the break of dawn. It's not like he would actually kill them.

"I'm up, I'm up," Itachi murmured, before slowly waking up with a monster rat's nest on his head. He moved sluggishly towards the bathroom and looked into the mirror with a blank expression, before grabbing his hair brush and beginning the tedious task of unknotting his hair with a resigned sigh.

Itachi then went through his day as the average Child Prodigy would: smile at some fan girls, go see if there's a mission, no mission? Then just go wander the streets aimlessly. He watched amused as the blond Uzumaki chatted with the Hyuuga Heiress in an upbeat manner, ignoring the ferocious glare of the heiress' cousin.

Itachi stopped by the grocers and picked up some groceries (what else?) for his mother, then stopped by the weapons shop and picked up his katana (which had been broken during his last mission) and chuckling as the store clerks daughter TenTen watched the male Hyuuga with reverence.

On his way home, he decided to stop by Ichirakus, and he took a seat beside a man with a high collared cloak and a straw traveling hat. He noticed an odd three-bladed scythe leaned up against the counter, but thought nothing of it; the Chuunin exams were coming up soon.

"What'll you have, Itachi?" Ichiraku asked with a kind grin, and the Uchiha replied with a tired, 'the usual' and sat his things on the ground beside him.

It took less then a minute for a bowl of steaming hot ramen to be placed in front of him. He ate slowly, and after a minute he gained the odd sensation of being watched. He glanced around through the corners of his eyes, and saw that the man he had sat by was watching him; he had oddly colored, magenta eyes. Itachi vaguely wondered if the poor fellow had pink eye.

Suddenly, the man snorted.

"Shit, I never realized it be so fucking odd to see you settin' at a bar in fucking Konoha. Seriously," the man said rudely, and Itachi raised an eyebrow.

"Do I know you?" He asked calmly, prepared for anything. It was possible that this man was a spy and as a loyal Konoha Shinobi, it would be his job to turn him in to the Hokage. The man just scratched his chin.

"Well…you knew me," He offered lamely, "And I still know you, but you don't know me…it's really fucking confusing."

"I can tell," Itachi replied, amusement clear in his tone. The man laughed again.

"Fuck, I also never realized how weird it would be to see you with fucking emotion," he said, and Itachi non-too-subtly tried to move away. 'Stalker' he thought slowly, praying that this wasn't some weird, freaky fan-boy. The man seemed to realize his thoughts, because his face twisted in disgust.

"Ew. That's fucking nasty," He said, before scratching his cheek again, "Maybe I can do this shit right…" He trailed off, snapped his fingers, and memories came flooding into Itachi's head; but the odd thing was, was that they were from…the future?

And suddenly, everything fit together in his mind.

"I see Jashin kept her promise," he said blandly, and the man, he now remembered as Hidan, grinned.

"Fuck yes! I did it right this time!!"

A thick silence stretched between the two, and Itachi lamely began to finish his ramen. A stressed two minutes passed, and as he tossed his payment onto the table after standing and gathering his things, he glanced back at Hidan.

"Send Jashin my regards," he said, before pushing all thoughts (and memories) of what almost happened to the back of his head.

It took a while for him to truly realize what their meeting again met, and it happened while he was taking a shower. He almost slipped and realized that Hidan was supposed to become Jashin's un-holy messenger of Havoc.

So…why was he in Konoha?

More disturbingly…why is he thinking of Hidan while he was in the shower?

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BAH HAA!!!

OK, I didn't update as soon as I got 100 reveiws cuz I was on vacation with no internet. It wasn't half bad, really.

BUT anyway, this is the conclusion of Scissors, and leads to the breath taking sequel where Hidan becomes Jashin's Bitch, er...I mean un-holy messenger of Havoc. Haha ::sweat drop:: It'd be best if you just ignored that little slip...haha...

Ciao!!

B.E.N