Sumiko lay in her room in the dark. In the two and a half years she'd spent with Orochimaru, she'd signed two summoning contracts, mastered her wind nature and her other chakra nature, fire. This wasn't a surprise seeing how she was an Uchiha, whose chakra nature is fire.
"Orochimaru, I have something I have to do," Sumiko said.
"Is that so?"
"I'm going to Konoha. The secrets to the sharingan lay there," Sumiko said.
"Then take Kabuto with you," Orochimaru grinned. Sumiko nodded and set off with Kabuto.
"Does this bring back memories?" Kabuto asked as they overlooked the village. Sumiko didn't respond. They began to walk through the village and people stayed away from them. Sumiko gave off an aura of death.
"Do I know you?" Sakura came up to her. Sumiko glared. She continued walking.
"I do, don't I!?" Sakura grabbed her shoulder. Sumiko slapped her hand away, suppressing the ice shield.
"S-sumiko?!" Sakura whispered. Sumiko activated her mangekyo sharingan and put Sakura in a strong genjutsu.
Sumiko kept walking, hoping she wouldn't run into anyone else. She was dead wrong. In front of the Uchiha compound stood Kakashi, Lee, Shikamaru, Neji, Kiba, Kei, and Sorata.
Sumiko almost laughed. She threw her cloak off, revealing her to look stunning; despite the fact she wanted to kill them for getting in her way.
"Why have you come back to the village?" Kakashi asked, pulling up his hitai-ate to reveal his sharingan.
"None of your business!" Sumiko said and froze everything in a ten foot diameter. Then, she used the water in their blood to temporarily stop them.
"You're missing one important person, don't you think?" Kabuto asked as they descended into the secret Uchiha meeting place.
"I don't care," Sumiko said. In the dark, her eyes glowed. After reading what she had to read, she raided the library for anything on the Uchiha.
"Show me," Sumiko gazed into the librarians' eyes to put her under a genjutsu.
"Hai…" the librarian gave her all the books on the Uchiha and their secret techniques, even the ones that were supposed to be secret books never given and under many seals to keep them away from curious Uchiha children. Sumiko sealed them all into a scroll and left the library. She concealed her chakra as well as she could as Sasuke walked by. He turned and stared.
Sumiko glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. She walked to the taiyaki stand and nibbled on it. He walked up to her.
"Do I know you?" Sasuke asked, his voice slightly hopeful. "Because you're just as pretty as this girl I knew, maybe you know her; she's really famous. The nuke-nin with two kekkei genkai, ice and the sharingan," Sasuke smiled. Sumiko stroked his face.
"I'm sorry," Sumiko said.
"Then why do you look exactly like her?" Sasuke asked, his smile disappearing. "Is this some sick trick, Sumiko?"
"I don't know who you're talking about," Sumiko replied levelly. "I mean, I've heard of her, but I don't know her. Calm down, mister," Sumiko sighed.
"Yakushi, let's go," Sumiko said.
"Wait!" Sasuke yelled out as they were walking away. "Where can I find you next time?"
"Orochimaru's lair," Sumiko grinned and reverse summoned herself back to Orochimaru's hideout.
"It was you!" Sasuke yelled as he looked into her eyes, charcoal ones. Sasuke gritted his teeth and ran to the Hokage to tell her what had happened.
"Well, go release Kakashi and the rest of them in front of the Uchiha compound. You're our best fire release ninja," Tsunade said.
"Hai," Sasuke said and disappearing to the Uchiha compound.
"Did you see her too?" Kakashi asked.
"Yeah," Sasuke said.
"Sumiko-san is still just as beautiful!" Lee said as Sasuke released him from the ice.
"Sasuke, Sumiko is even more dangerous. She froze our blood," Kakashi said.
"And?" Sasuke asked.
"And you should be more careful next time you walk about," Kakashi said.
Sasuke nodded and walked away to Kakashi's apartment. The necklace she'd had since she was a small child still lay on her dresser in their shared room. Sasuke was about to finish moving out of Kakashi's apartment.
"That's…" Kakashi's eye widened.
Sasuke nodded, his heart growing heavy.
Half a year passed. The Akatsuki had taken Gaara and on the retrieval team were Sakura, Kakashi, Sasuke, and Naruto. When Kakashi's team was sent on a mission to go to Orochimaru's hideout, Yamato stood as the stand-in for Kakashi. Sumiko knew they were coming even before Sasuke opened the door.
Still, her door opened. Sasuke stood in the doorway.
"Sumiko?" Sasuke asked. Sumiko exploded her room with simply chakra. She stood staring down at her former comrades.
"Hey," she greeted.
"Sumiko!" Sasuke repeated, in shock. Sumiko stared at them.
"If Sasuke and Naruto are here, then where is Kakashi?"
"I'm his substitute. We'll be taking you back to Konoha now," Yamato said.
"Are you sure you want those as your last words?" Sumiko asked, monotone.
Yamato stiffened.
"Please come back to the village with us!" Sasuke pleaded. "Don't you still have bonds with us?"
"I did. That's why I severed them," Sumiko said.
"If you really severed our bond, why didn't you kill me back then? You had so many chances!" Sasuke yelled.
"It's not that I couldn't break our bond, it's just that I spared you on a whim," Sumiko said.
"Wasn't it your dream to become Hokage?" Sumiko reappeared in front of Naruto and was drawing her sword. Naruto stiffened. She's so fast!
"If you had the time to be chasing after me, you should've spent that time training or something," Sumiko said. "Right, Naruto? And so this time around, you'll lose your life because of my passing whim."
"Sumiko, stop!" Sasuke said, activating his now three tomoe sharingan.
"I didn't ask you to talk," Sumiko glanced at him with her matching three tomoe sharingan. Sasuke weaved signs for the chidori. Sumiko weaved signs for a water jutsu and covered them as Sasuke's jutsu hit. The only one not electrocuted was Sumiko.
Sakura clenched her fists and channeled chakra into them. She raced towards Sumiko who simply stood there.
Yamato stepped in to defend Sakura, but Sumiko stabbed him and lit her sword on fire.
"That manner of defense was the wrong one," Sumiko glared down at him. "You see, my sword is special because you can't guard."
Naruto slowly rose to his knees. Red eyes with black slits glared at Sumiko. Sumiko looked at him with her hate-filled sharingan and entered his mindscape.
"You're…" Kyuubi started. Sumiko had her hand out, almost touching the Kyuubi.
"I see, you're an Uchiha. My, have you grown," the Kyuubi said.
"Now I can see it, your unusual power. Of course, I've known for ten long years," Sumiko smirked.
"To think you'd be able to see me within Naruto, that dreadful sharingan. So that's the power of that cursed clan?"
"It seems like you've seen the sharingan before, Kyuubi," Sumiko glared.
"That vision, and chakra more ominous than mine, it reminds me of Uchiha Madara from long ago," Kyuubi said and Sumiko grabbed his nose and dispersed his chakra.
"As if I'd know who that is," Sumiko said.
"I never thought that you'd go as far as suppressing my chakra," Kyuubi said. "This might be the end, but let me tell you one thing: don't kill Naruto. You'll regret it."
Back in the real world, Sasuke struggled to stand. Sumiko glanced at Sasuke and played with all the water in his blood. He screamed in pain.
"How're you able to do that without looking in his eyes or touching his chakra?" Sakura asked.
"That mark," Sumiko replied.
"You mean our promise?!" Sasuke growled. "I haven't forgotten!"
"I didn't want to know if you've forgotten, Uchiha. Oh, and Yamato, I have one question," Sumiko clenched her fists.
"Why wasn't my cousin put on this team as my replacement?"
Silence echoed in the group. Sumiko released her control over his body.
"Haku…" Sasuke bit his lip. "Died."
Sumiko stiffened and walked away. "That weakling."
"Oi, you're coming back to Konoha with us!" Naruto and Sasuke yelled. Sumiko gritted her teeth and unleashed a power she'd only read about, Amaterasu. Her snowflake-shaped mangekyo sharingan flared with anger.
"Who killed him?" Sumiko screamed.
"We don't know," Sasuke admitted. Death-bringing eyes landed on Sasuke.
"He was killed on a mission," Naruto said. Sumiko appeared next to him and began to try to kill him. She stabbed him in the stomach with her sword. Naruto tried to fight back but Sumiko had the upper hand.
"Tsukuyomi," Sumiko whispered.
"Sumiko, no! That jutsu…" Sasuke tried to stop her but ice spears formed and tried to stab him, but his sharingan gave him a split-second warning. The chidori screamed in his hand as he raced to Sumiko. Naruto screamed and passed out.
"What did you do to Naruto?!" Sasuke tried to hit her with the chidori but she blocked with her sword.
Sumiko glared and disappeared in a bit of snow.
"She's gone," Sasuke panted. "Dammit!"
"Sasuke-kun…" Sakura put a hand on his shoulder.
"Heh, did you see her sharingan? That was no ordinary sharingan," Sasuke smirked in bitter defeat.
"Let's go," Yamato said, picking up Naruto. Sasuke dropped to his knees.
"The difference between our skill levels hasn't changed at all, even though I know I've trained so hard," Sasuke felt tears roll down his face. "I'm so weak…"
"Crying won't bring her home. I'm going to help bring her back with all my power," Naruto and Sakura said, pulling him up. Sasuke glared at them and walked home with them.
"Mission: Failure," Tsunade said as she wrote this down. "Tell me why our Uchiha is so depressed."
"Sumiko had shown extreme strength and prowess with her sharingan, ice release, and another chakra nature, fire. She also released black flames, entered Naruto's mindscape, and put him under a genjutsu Sasuke says is called the 'tsukuyomi'. After hearing that Haku had died, she tried to kill Naruto. I do not believe that we had any chance from the start," Yamato said.
"I see. You all are dismissed except Sasuke," Tsunade laced her fingers.
"Hai," Yamato and Sakura said and left.
"What?" Sasuke asked, avoiding eye contact.
"What happened, to you specifically?"
"I failed again and I am reminded that I'm weaker than her. But…I can't help but still love her," Sasuke bit his lip.
"I suggest you train with Kakashi once he gets out of the hospital," Tsunade said. "Or, do you want to go on a mission right now to clear your mind?"
"Are you sure?" Sasuke asked.
"Look, even as one of our most skilled jounin, you need to clear your mind," Tsunade said.
"Where is this mission?"
"In Kirigakure. Deliver this scroll to the Mizukage. I've already alerted them of your coming arrival," Tsunade handed him a scroll.
"Hai," Sasuke said and left.
After a few days, Sasuke was about half a day away from Kirigakure, in an area where it snowed. He stopped at a small town and bought a taiyaki. Eating it, he couldn't help but be reminded on Sumiko. He walked to a bar and put his head down on the counter.
"What's wrong, buddy?" the owner asked.
"The girl I love is a nuke-nin," Sasuke said.
"Who?"
"Uchiha Sumiko," Sasuke said.
"That means you're Uchiha Sasuke, right?" the owner narrowed his eyes.
"Is that her?" the owner asked, pulling out a bingo book. Sasuke nodded.
"Sumiko, huh? I can see why she was named that. Still, I think she's over there," he pointed to the taiyaki stand. Sasuke stood and ran over.
"Sumiko!"
Sumiko turned. She activated the mark on his arm and pain came. Sasuke looked at her through the pain.
"Why are you here?" Sumiko asked, with her foot on his chest.
"You look so…pretty in that kimono…" Sasuke said. "And you have the Uchiha crest on it…"
"Shut up, Konoha trash!" Sumiko yelled. She stopped the pain from the mark on his arm. She knelt and placed a hand over it, allowing her icy hands to cool his mark.
Sasuke leaned forward quickly and kissed her.
"You've been drinking," Sumiko noted as Sasuke broke the kiss.
"You've been eating taiyaki," Sasuke smirked.
"Let me go," Sumiko tried to make the ice appear, but it didn't. She began to panic. Sasuke moved and fell on top of her.
"Get off of me!" Sumiko screamed and ice finally appeared and pushed him away. Sumiko summoned snakes to bind Sasuke and ran off into the forest.
"Sumiko, don't leave again!" Sasuke yelled as he burned the snakes. Soon, other men began to follow Sasuke.
"Oi, she's so pretty," one of them snickered.
"Leave her alone," another chimed. "She's mine."
The men began to talk dirty and Sasuke tried his best to not kill them.
"You know, that Forest is called the ghost forest," a teen poked Sasuke's shoulder.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked as the group stopped by the trees.
"I mean that the trees emit a special kind of poison that affects people's minds and then ghosts from their past appear," he said. "Wait…aren't you…"
Sasuke weaved signs and burned some of the forest.
"Come out, Sumiko!" Sasuke yelled as his sharingan flared. Black flames followed with ice forming around the entire group.
"This is so hot!" one of the men gasped. After saying that, his head popped off and blood sprayed.
"I'm a bad mood," Sumiko stepped out. "If any of you are a Konoha shinobi or are in the mood to die, I suggest you talk more." Killer intent shut everyone up.
"Come back to Konoha," Sasuke wheezed as the ice squeezed him.
"You and Naruto and Sakura talk about coming back to that rotting village! There's nothing there except ghosts of the past," Sumiko said. She turned at saw something.
"Haku-nii…" Sumiko took out a kunai and threw it at the ghost. She flared her chakra and burned the rest of the forest.
"You're…" a Kiri ANBU appeared after an hour after the forest burned to ash. Sumiko was sitting in the ashes.
"What of it, Kiri trash?" Sumiko glared. The ANBU backed away and ran for backup.
In the ashes, Sumiko shed tears. Pale lines of where the tears had cut away the ash shone on her face, with the rest of her face was covered with a thin layer of ash.
Sasuke had gone to complete his mission and promised to come back. Sumiko stood and made her way to Kirigakure no Sato. I'm going to kill every last one of them.