*TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of sexual assualt and mild depiction of said assualt. Proceed with caution.*

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"Betrayal is common for men with no conscience."

~ Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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Uzuki Umeko was declared missing in action after two weeks, around the same time that happened Elder Ayuma suffered a troubling heart attack. Completely out of nowhere, making him become bedridden as his body slowly started to fall apart. Naruto was sent on a month-long mission with his team around this time, Tsunade wanted them to try to open negotiations with Ame. Mitomi had a feeling that if she could remember anything that she probably would have protested that.

A body lying lifeless in a river…

That left her, Karin, and Kosuke as the only Uzumaki in the village. Karin was never around, she was busy with her work in the chunin offices and so they never really saw each other these days. Mitomi was still focusing on her retraining. Building up her skills, so they are natural extensions of herself. Everything but her fuinjutsu studies was going well. But when it came to fuinjutsu she just kept drawing a blank.

Kosuke was attempting to teach her… but something about the way he wanted her to do it.. It screamed wrong. Mitomi couldn't figure it out. She wished there was someone else she could ask. Her uncle unnerved her, she didn't know why.

But she didn't trust him.

Not to mention that anytime she seemed to remember something profound, any study session with him always left her blank. She didn't want to be alone with him anymore. Mitomi couldn't be for sure.. But she was pretty sure that he had something to do with her memory loss.

Or rather her lack of recall even months later. Just something wasn't right here… she needed to mention it to Inoichi-sama during their next therapy session. Something wasn't right.

In lue of this feeling she spent far more time away from the Senju/Uzu compound than before. Which meant that she usually ended up at the Naras. Sometimes she just hung around until she knew Tsunade would be back at the house. If Kosuke was planning something, if he was truly bad, she didn't think he'd attempt to do anything while Tsunade was there. Mitomi hoped.

Sometimes she ended up falling asleep next to the tree sitting in the middle of the deer field. Something about this place felt safe to her. But as if with most things these days she couldn't tell you why that was.

Which is where Shikamaru usually found her before he would just sigh and sit next to her quietly. Mitomi was almost a hundred percent certain that he was/is her boyfriend. But since no one was willing to confirm that, she was still not completely certain. Of course she'd yet to actually ask him.

She leans into him, laying her head on his shoulder. Hands still on the head of the doe she'd been petting. The little fawn makes a noise of protest, which was absolutely adorable but she needed to focus. Shikamaru ran a hand through her hair, almost as if it was second nature to him. Mitomi closes her eyes.

She doesn't have to ask. Her brain may have broken but her eyes still worked. This boy loved her with his entire being, she is his person. Which meant that she probably had felt the same way about him before. Mitomi wished she could remember, those memories sound like they were lovely.

"We've been dating for almost four years. But one time you told me that we were married in a past life that you remembered." She hummed, so a bond carved into her very soul then. Memories or not she'd always seek him out. It is why he felt so safe to her.

Shikamaru is home.

She nuzzles herself further into his side. Just content to watch the sunset with him. When she finally goes back to her house the sun has long since set, she is quiet as she slips into the back door.

"You were out late Mitomi-chan." Amethyst eyes glint maliciously in the darkness. Before she realizes what's happening she's being flung into a wall. There is a hand around her throat.

She makes a clawing motion at his face, as she tries to knee him in the groin. He pins them above her head with his other hand in a quick movement. Forces his knee into her thigh, the pressure hurts. Mitomi goes to headbutt him but the grib he has on her neck tightens. She gasps for a breath.

He chuckles, low, the sound sends shivers down her spine. "I've waited a long time for this Mitomi-chan." Kosuke let's go of her neck, he brushes a finger carefully across her cheek, she tries to bite his hand. He clicks his tongue at her.

"I was hoping that without your memories you'd be a much more willing participant, but it seems like you still insist on being difficult. Tell me niece, have you let your precious Nara boy defile you yet." He cuts open the front of her top, tsking at the bonds she used to keep her chest out of the way. That wouldn't do, he wanted to see. Kosuke breezed through those as well. Until she was bare before him, hands still pinned above her head, neck bruising and sore, she couldn't scream even though she wanted to. He cupped one of her breasts in his hands then trails that same hand down her stomach.

He pushes up the material of her skirt and forcefully rips off her underwear. Kosuke slips a finger between her dry folds, his nail nicks her and blood drips down his whimpers painfully, her will to fight slipping. He pulls it out and examines the blood carefully. Pathetic.

"You would have made such a beautiful wife for me, but unfortunately for you… you are just not worthy enough of the title." He adjusts his knee to force her legs further apart and his hand works on undoing his zipper. Her eyes widen, and for a brief moment she sees red.

Mitomi spits in his face and kicks out at the same time. It worked somewhat because he dropped her. Her already fragile wrists crack as she catches herself. She scrambled to get away, kicking and crawling as he grabbed her ankle and pulled her back towards him. She tries to call for the Kyuubi, but nothing happens.

He doesn't hear her.

Kosuke pins her to the ground, "Now now, you wouldn't really think I'd let you use that monster against me would you? He can't help you now." He spit on her face, his hand glowed a dangerous shade of green. One hand fisted in her hair pulling at it to give him a better angle. Kosuke lifts her head up by her hair and then slams it roughly back down.

Her ears ring, eyes unfocus.

"Now give me your eyes, I know you have unlocked our clan's greatest secret. Quite frankly Mitomi you just don't deserve the honor. Filthy half-blooded Uzumaki that you are." At this angle she can see some strange seal under his tongue. And it's the last drop of water as the damn breaks, flooding her entire mind.

Three lifetimes of memories come back with little tact. She flares her chakra in standard SOS code for anbu. The moment he tries to pry her eye out of the socket Kosuke ends up flying through a wall. Eyes tinted red behind a bird mask meet hers, Crow pins the older man in place like he had dared do to her.

Mitomi is already bruising from the assault, her eye is burning and there is nothing she can do about it right now. Her memories aren't sticking but they're there and she can use them. So she does what she must, her swords that were being kept in a scroll she unseals. She draws one and aims it at Kosuke's throat.

"Do you know why Uzu men are not allowed to learn touch fuinjutsu." She jabs her palm into his shoulder, his entire body goes limp. Crow lets him fall to the floor wordlessly. Mitomi keeps her sword pointed at his throat.

"It's because cretins like you exist. Touch fuinjutsu is a sacred art, and far too many times has it been used against the wives, and daughters, and sisters, and lovers of Uzu men. Uzumaki Yume outlawed the study for men when she was the Shodaime Uzushiorokage." She tells him, a certain level of disdain in her voice. Mitomi presses the tip of her blade into his adam's apple. A thin line of blood drips down.

"Now Kosuke, tell me why you have Danzo's seal under your tongue. Because I saw Shimura Danzo die four years ago, so you shouldn't have that mark." He cackles.

"Where do you think he got it from." And that is enough of an admittance of treason to make a sentence. Mitomi stabs him through the neck, unblinking, without a second thought.

She watches as his life drains out of his eyes with unwavering focus. Not even a second later she collapses against Crow. Drained, from the physical and mental effort. Her access to Kurama is still gone.

What had Kosuke done to her? How hadn't she noticed? Her memories were flooding her mind at such a quick pace that she couldn't make sense of anything. How had she missed this?

There was no price… no toll.. It had all been a trick. He took advantage of her unconscious and weak state. Used her memories of gods from lifetimes lived before against her. He had turned the very things she prided in her herself into a weapon. And when that wasn't good enough, he went so far as to physically, sexually assault her.

Mitomi was going to be sick.

"Thanks for having my back, Uchiha-san." She meets his gaze, his eyes still glowing behind the Crow mask. He shakes his head, scoping her up off the ground. He grabs a blanket from over the back of one of the couches and drapes it over her exposed body. Quickly he makes a clone to deal with the corpse, then he shunshins them to the hospital.

He can see her mind unravelling before him. She needs a Yamanaka, before she loses everything. Crow had been watching over her for a long time now, since that day on the banks of the Naka river. He'd seen a glimpse into her soul and seen his future in the process. So he revised his plan, knowing that the seemingly innocent little girl was playing a long game.

A long game that he could get behind and support. Even if she hadn't tried to stop his clan from being murdered. At six years old no one would have believed her, she knew that and he had seen that.

The nurse on duty looks alarmed by his sudden appearance in the general lobby. "She needs medical attention immediately. Possible concussion, popped blood vessels around the left eye, damaged windpipe, sprained possible broken wrist." He lists as a gurney is brought to him to lay her on. She barely let's go of his armour plate before she starts seizing.

Tsunade appears a second later, she flips Mitomi into the recovery position. "Crow what they fuck happened?" The Godaime barks at him.

"Uzumaki Kosuke is a traitor. He sexualy assulted her before trying to steal her eyes. I responded when an SOS flare went out, It seems as if she has regained some of the previous memories." Crow reports in monotone… even though he was feeling several things akin to murder all at once.

Tsunade curses the emotions he can't afford to show. They rush Mitomi to a room. Crow follows without having to be told to. Mitomi stops seizing and slips in and out of consciousness.

"Is Kosuke dead?" Tsunade asks as she works on healing the girl's physical wounds. Crow nods.

"I killed him." Because he'd take the fall for her in this matter if he needed to. Tsunade eyes him carefully then nods.

"Good. I need you to go retrieve Inoichi, he should be home right now. If her memories are back he'll need to be here to help her with them. It's been six months since the incident, we still don't know why they went missing in the first place. Not to mention we don't know what will happen to the memories she's made in the last six months." Crow nods he vanishes without another word.

Tsunade is left alone with the unconscious girl she considered her daughter. She healed the bruises on her face carefully, didn't even jump when nine tailed chakra started circulating in her coils. What had that bastard done to her?

Why had he even done it in the first place?

"She got in his way." Tsunade looks up, Umeko is slipping through the hospital's window. A horrible burn scar covering her entire right side. The woman limps over to them.

"In his way?" Tsunade asks as Umeko brushes a strand of bright red hair out of the girl's face. She nods slowly.

"Kosuke wanted to be king. But how could he when Uzushio already has a princess it adores. He would never be king as long as she lived." Umeko takes a seat in an empty chair. Tsunade continues her healing.

"He attacked you." The Uzuki woman nods.

"He did, and he almost killed me… but the Uzuki clan is special. We have a deal with the god of gateways. I escaped barely, I would have alerted you sooner, but I couldn't be sure who Kosuke had already turned to his side. I assume he grew desperate when it started to show that Mitomi was starting to remember things. He's been the one wiping her memories, with fuinjutsu, it was always his specialty. Torture and interrogation… I don't know how we missed the warning signs." Umeko sounds absolutely defeated. Tsunade shakes her head.

"Probably the same way we missed the warning signs with Shimura and ROOT. Shizune is on call, go have her look at the burns, we may be able to reduce the scar tissue." Umeko appears as if she will protest but Tsunade pins her with a look. Despite the fact that these two women were roughly the same age, Umeko could not deny the authority the Godaime held.

By the time Inoichi has arrived Umeko is being checked into her own room for treatment. Tsunade works on healing Mitomi's body, and Inoichi has the even harder task of trying to heal her mind.

It was going to be a long night.

XOXOX

I will not apologize for what has happened in this chapter...I never said I was going to be nice, or that horrible things weren't going to happen to Mitomi…

So yeah.

Thank you for reading!

~LaRae