Improbability
14
Intermission: Letters
Keika:
I should not be writing this, so if you are reading this as I hope you will, my first word of warning is this; tell no one of this journal. I should also apologize for stealing the journal of your friend Mitsuo. At first I was simply curious and surrounded in thoughts of your fuinjutsu and so stole the book that contained your sketches. However when it began to burn in my pocket as this knowledge did in my mind, I realized that it was the perfect vessel for my instructions to you. I mean Mitsuo no disrespect, and I have left all his old drawings intact and unharmed.
My warnings: Cease taking the drugs that Danzo has prescribed you.
I have sources and allies outside of Konoha and one of my allies has informed me that these drugs were taken directly from Orochimaru, a name I know you are aware of. The drugs that I am forced to take have already began to affect me, but it is not too late for you. I doubt that yours are as damaging as mine, but even so. Watch out for Orochimaru. He has an interest in rare kekkei genkai.
Your brother. Fushidara. His body was not buried in the memorial graveyard as you were told, instead he still lies in a scroll in Danzo's private vault. I know that you will give him the proper funeral that he rightly deserves.
There are so many more things that I wish to tell you, and so many things that I am not able to. Once I find a way to bypass the seal placed on me, I will tell you everything, I promise. Until then, be wary of Danzo. He has a thousand secrets. Learn as many as you can.
Stay safe.
Hitomi
Keika:
I apologize for the sorrow you must feel after having lost your sensei. The Hokage was a good man, and the whole village mourns. I am glad that you are safe and unharmed. I don't know why I'm writing this. I only wrote to give you a warning. Perhaps I too am feeling lonely. My eldest brother was lost in the attack. I do not miss him. So then why am I writing?
Maybe I do.
Stay safe. Please.
Keika,
Congratulations on making chunin.
I was watching the final round, even though you most likely did not see me. It was difficult to secure a mission nearby Iwa in time for the tournament, but it was well worth the hassle to see you fight. I am sad to see that our lessons have been entirely cancelled. Be wary of the instructors Danzo choses for you. You are growing into a powerful ninja. If Fushidara had been watching you fight he would have been cheering you on.
Dear Keika,
I take back everything I said last letter.
Your brother would not have been cheering you on.
He would have said the exact same thing I am about to tell you. Get out.
Get out of Root, get out of Konoha. Leave the life of a ninja and go live somewhere peaceful. I saw you return from your most recent mission, the one to Kusa. I don't care if you are a chunin, I don't care how much promise Danzo says you show, I don't even care that you're Root anymore. You are nine. No nine year old should see that kind of torture, much less have to carry it out.
I confess, before I knew you, my plan was to leave Root and carry on with life somewhere away from Konoha. Once I became your sensei, my plan somehow included taking you with me. Please, get out of Root. You are not suited for life as a ninja. Your eyes have banned you from that, your kind soul has too.
I repeat;
Get. Out.
Dear Keika,
I'm so sorry.
I don't quite know what for, but I am.
I wish that I could be your instructor again, if only for a short while, but I fear that I will soon… well…
I'm becoming useless, and I know as well as you do that there are no useless people in Root.
The drugs have begun to show some of the more nasty side effects. I can no longer speak, so I must write. I am lucky enough to still preform missions, although things that I could do a month or so ago now exhaust me to the point where I am forced to rest. My eyes will be taken from me soon as well. My vision is at times better than when I was healthy, and sometimes I cannot see my own hands in front of my face.
If Danzo does not soon see fit to execute me (in a discreet and quiet manner of course), then I fear I will die from this illness. Because I am selfish, I ask that I can see you and talk to you again soon. I miss you Keika. I wish this had never happened to either of us.
Dearest Keika,
Happy eleventh birthday.
Please get out now. Go.
The seal cracked this morning.
It is because I am nearing death and the seal fades when that happens. I can now tell you everything.
Danzo forced you to stop being Minato's apprentice, even though he did not know that it was the Hokage who taught you. He sent a false message proclaiming you dead in combat.
He did not steal the drugs he has been giving you from Orochimaru either. He has been in regular contact with the sanin himself, considers him an ally of sorts and willingly handed over blood tests and DNA tests so that Orochimaru could create a panel of drugs for you.
The disaster in Kiri.
We did have a spy in our midst back then, but it was not one of the rebel faction. It was Danzo. He leaked out plans to Yagura. In a way, he killed Mitsuo.
You have long since blamed Mei Terumi for the death of your brother Fushidara. It was Danzo who changed the mission plans, not her. He was aware that if he honestly wanted to carry out the assassination of Yagura, he could not just send a jonin, but he did anyways. Danzo wanted Fushidara dead, he wanted him dead from the moment that he assigned us that mission. He wished for you to become colder and less kind and so assigned us the perfect mission to accomplish that.
I am sorry.
I don't know when or how I can get this journal to you without being discovered, especially now that I am no longer your teacher. I will find a way to get this truth to you. I know that I can do that much for you.
I know that my death will soon approach me, whether it is by Danzo's methods or by this illness, and so I only request that you get revenge. Revenge for all that have fallen to his schemes.
-Hitomi
S-S: Thus is our timeskip chapter! I promise, Itachi will show up soon, in like, two chapters. Just be patient.