Flight of the Uchiha
Three days earlier, Takai was carrying his beloved sister on his shoulder, running to a safe haven, not running from the Leaf ninja, but to save his sister, who had now lost so much blood.
"Hang on, Mitsuko!" Takai called as she coughed up more blood. Soon, Takai found a hollow tree and hid in it's barky sanctity, not before using his Mangekyou Sharingan to erase the fragments of Chakra leaking out of them, to stop the Leaf from tracking them. Immediately, he began to use his keen instincts to heal Mitsuko's arm.
It took many days to heal, but the wound had completely closed up, after many attempts to remove the ominous Chakra preventing it's healing. Soon, Mitsuko began to wake, as Takai kept on guard.
"Are you ready?" He asked.
"Yes." Mitsuko said, standing up and stood next to her brother.
"Good. Today, we will show our pride of the Uchiha!" The two ran at full speed to the west, with a particular target in mind. "What did you find while I was away?"
"Quite the find." Mitsuko replied. "I managed to capture one of their allies." Takai gaped.
"Are you sure?!" Takai responded in awe.
"I know, because it took me a while to track and subdue him." Mitsuko said.
"Excellent, sister." Takai said in praise. "This may be easier than I thought."
"What about you?" Asked Mitsuko. "Even through your mind powers, giving us telapathy, did the Hidden Leaf yield any results?"
"If the girl still wants me by her side, she'll call on her Hokage father to do her bidding. And if we play our cards right, they could be useful in our battle."
"I understand. But we need to locate their hideout, and our captive will be the one for that."
The two arrived outside a large cavern, to which their were obvious sounds of bats and limewater drips.
"This the place?" Asked Takai.
"Yes. I got one and took them here, out of sight." Mitsuko said. The two proceeded, it was a dark gloomy cave with rock hard walls, occasional stalagmites and bats fluttering away from their presence.
"How do you know if this guy's here?" Asked Takai.
"I don't." Mitsuko said in embarrassment. And Takai's guess was correct: they came to the end of the cave, known by it's dead end, and all that were present were a pile of ropes. "H-He got away?!" She inspected the ropes to be cut on several places. "Damn!"
"It's not a surprise. We've been gone for three days." Takai said. Suddenly, a kunai whizzed towards them, Takai was aware in seconds, grabbed Mitsuko and avoided the Kunai, as it had a paper bomb attached, to which it exploded on contact.
"Damn it!" Cursed Mitsuko. "I was so sure he wouldn't escape!"
"If the guy's been gone for three days, his allies would've been suspicious!" Takai informed. Then a strange silhouette appeared from behind the smoke caused by the explosion.
"Pity. Looks like my surprise attack failed." The captured ninja said behind the smoke. Takai continually look behind him, expecting to be ambushed from behind. "Oh, don't worry, I'm alone. It was naive of the girl beside you to think she had captured me successfully." Mitsuko gasped at this.
"Genjutsu!" She said in shock.
"That was stupid of you!" Takai cursed. "You should know by now, Mitsuko, our enemy is us!" The smoke finally cleared to reveal a tall male ninja, wearing a black vest and had long black hair in a ponytail and had a long spiky fringe in front. But what was most alarming, was his eyes glowing with the Sharingan.
"Believe me, little ninja. I won't be as easy to capture as the girl tried." Said the ninja. Immediately, he vanished in a wavery illusion-like wave.
"This guy's an expert in Genjutsu, Takai, careful." Mitsuko noted.
"I know, and don't worry, I have it under control." Takai said, using his own Sharingan.
Unknown to the two, the Leaf nine were on hot pursuit of Takai, hopping between the trees, with the Inuzuka twins leading them.
"He's still a few miles up ahead. More to it, he's on the move!" Kitsuin reported.
"That complicates things." Konohamaru said. "Hanabi, is he close enough for your Byakugan?"
"Hold on." Hanabi said, and formed a single hand seal. "Byakugan!" Her eyes began to glow, and the sides of her face grew large veins towards it.
"What's that, Sensei?" Asked Haruhi in curiosity.
"The Hyuuga clans secret Kekkei Genkai." Konohamaru said. "Just like the Sharingan, the Byakugan is a Jutsu on the user's eyes. It allows the user to see a vast distance away, see things in a 360 degree radius, and even see the Chakra in a person."
"Whoa!" Haruhi said in wonder.
"Hanabi isn't the only one here that can use it. Kitsuin and Hitsuin can use it too." Konohamaru continued.
"But they aren't Hyuuga." Haruhi said.
"Our mother was." Hitsuin replied.
"Bad thing was, the Hyuuga clan made it forbidden for us to be taught how to use it properly, seeing as mom was married outside of their clan." Kitsuin continued.
"Why?" Haruhi asked in shock.
"Guess they were afraid of the Byakugan passing to other bloodlines, like the Inuzuka clan." Kitsuin said. Haruhi growled in shock. "But, we still have our own family Jutsu, Inuzuka style!" The puppies inside their jackets barked happily.
"How is it, Hanabi?" Asked Konohamaru.
"I'm picking up a large amount of Chakra in the North-East approximately 10 miles from here. It could be the Uchiha." Hanabi reported.
"Good call. Alright, let's go!" Ordered Konohamaru as they picked up the pace.
"You were weak!" Takai said in the cave, having defeated the enemy Mitsuko found difficult to fight. The enemy with the Sharingan, was lying on the ground, his back slashed numerous times, and ultimately weakened. "So long as I can read your mind, their is only one victor."
"You Uchiha traitor!" The enemy weakly coughed. Outraged, Takai picked him up by his neck.
"You are the traitors here!" Takai yelled in fury. "Now tell me where the others are! Tell me where your base is!" The enemy laughed.
"Don't think you're so high and mighty, just because you are the true blood! We have ascended far beyond the stupidity of the Sharingan! Very soon, the world will bow before us! And we'll see to it that your new friends from the Leaf Village will be one of the first!" The enemy then held up a paper bomb to himself, to which Takai responded by jumping away, as the enemy killed himself with a huge explosion, caving in the rock structure of the cavern, forcing the Uchiha siblings to retreat out of the cave.
"Damn it!" Whined Mitsuko.
"Well, let's go." Takai said, walking away.
"Wait, we don't know where others like him are!" Mitsuko said stopping him.
"I know because I read his mind. On the second I asked the question of where their base was, he thought about it, just for a second. That's all I need." Takai said.
"So? Where is it?" Asked Mitsuko in ecstacy.
"On the corner of the Fire Country, on the mouth of it's widest valley, lies a castle. It's surrounded by an impenetrable Genjutsu, that makes passers by unable to see it, and unable to touch it. It's a Genjutsu I can break." Takai explained.
"Great!" Mitsuko cheered. "We'll kill them and finally be at peace!"
"Yeah..." Takai mumbled, and with his sister, headed to the said castle. While hopping between the endless forest, Mitsuko looked to her brother.
"What if we fail?" Mitsuko deliberately asked in her mind. Takai gave her a glance.
"We won't."
Over two hours later, the Leaf team had arrived outside of the cave where Takai once stood.
"There's a strong scent on Takai-kun!" Hitsuin said.
"Really?!" Haruhi exclaimed. Hitsuin became nervous.
"It leads in there." She said, pointing to the boulder blocked cave. Haruhi looked in horror.
"Takai-kun!!!!" She screamed, running to the cave boulders and began fruitlessly shifting them. "Hang on, we'll get you out!!" But she was stopped by Konohamaru.
"Hold on, Haruhi." He said, soothingly, trying to calm her down and looked to Hanabi who had her Byakugan active.
"Only one died in the cave collapse. But it was neither Takai nor his sibling." She said.
"How do you know that, Hanabi-Sensei?!" Yelled Haruhi. "You can only see Chakra, it might be Takai!" Then there came the barking of Kitsuin's dog.
"Wait guys! We got another scent trail heading to the North-West!" Kitsuin said. "It's still Takai and his sister!" Haruhi sighed.
"But the question remains." Shikari intervened. "If Takai and his sis are still kicking around, then who in the Hokage's rectum is under there?" Haruhi lowered her eyebrows in wonder.
"That...That's a good question." She said. Hanabi focussed her Byakugan on the dead more.
"I don't know who it is. But there is one thing this guy has." Hanabi said in controlled surprise. "The Sharingan." This shocked the team.
"This is seriously growing weird!" Ayane growled. "The Uchiha were extinct long ago! Takai and his sister is one thing, but to have another unrelated is really getting suspicious!"
"Perhaps this is the motive behind Takai's departure." Konohamaru said. "Takai being of Uchiha blood, must be finding this as fishy as all nine of us."
"But...how did this guy get the Sharingan?" Haruhi asked. The other eight lowered their heads.
"That's...a mystery we have to solve." Konohamaru said.
The two Uchiha siblings continued their route towards their pre-planned destination, arriving at a cliffside, overlooking a large valley with a woodland in it's vast bottom.
"This is it, Mitsuko!" Takai said in wonder. "The castle many like to call Castle Mashin, is at the bottom of that valley!"
"How do you know?" Asked Mitsuko. Suddenly, Takai formed a hand seal.
"Release! Shadow Genjutsu!" He cried. And from the giant meadow arrived a huge black dome with a red glow on it's edge; the dome cracked and vanished, making Mitsuko's eyes open in shock: a castle, almost as tall as the valley walls, stretched with pride in it's size, fashioning guard walls, which seemed impenetrable in a circular fashion; the interior behind the walls had eight large towers also going in a circular method, and in the middle stood a larger spiked tower that was the crown jewels of the truly spectacuar sight.
"Mitsuko...victory is in sight..."