Authors Note: First off, I want to apologize for not updating this in months! A lot happened (mostly had to deal with being sick with Covid recently) but I'm finally gonna get around to updating/re-writing this as much as I can to keep the story as canon as possible. Any feedback is appreciated (just don't be harsh to the point where you're being downright rude about it!)

-Prologue-

I stood with my katana drawn and my sharingan activated as he stood several feet away. Both of us had reached our limit and were almost out of chakra. There was one technique I could use but it was risky since I hardly ever used it. It wasn't until he spoke that it happened.

"Please, don't do this. No good will come of it." He said, his voice calm and reassuring.

I growled at him, my fangs sharpening. "You do not understand what it like to lose your family and learn that your whole life has been a lie."

He held his hand out to me. "You're right, I don't understand what that's like but I do know one thing."

"What might that be?" I crouched down, getting ready to attack.

"I almost lost you once. I'm not going to lose you now or ever." Hearing those words brought back images of my past, of our past. Memories I had buried a long time time ago.

Daichi P.O.V

-Seventeen Years Ago-

I stood by my wife's bedside as the doctor brought in a bundle of blankets and placed it in her arms. She was breathing heavily from the long hours of being in labor. Ayumi looked down at the face of our newborn daughter and smiled, tears running down her face.

"She is so beautiful..." Ayumi said, her voice barely a whisper.

I smiled and kissed the top of her head. "She takes after her mother."

Ayumi laughed at that and smiled up at me. "She may come to look like you when she's older. She already inherited my hair and eye color." It was true. Ayumi had bluish-white hair, a strange color that almost resembled the ocean and orangish-brown eyes. It seems our new daughter had inherited that from her mother like Reika inherited my black hair and black eyes.

"What are we going to name her?" I asked my wife. We had gone over several names during her pregnancy but we could never agree on one.

She thought about this for a second. "Her name will be Amaya. I want her to have this name because one day it will suit her." She hardly finished the sentence before the baby started to cry. She hummed under her breath and gently rocked her, calming her down. Ayumi handed her to me and the baby laughed. "Looks like she's going to be a daddy's girl like her sister was."

Reika, our four year old daughter, was sitting on the bed next to her mother. "Daddy, will she be strong like you and mommy?"

I looked at her and smiled. "That will be her choice like it will be yours." Little did we know that our happy life was about to be cut short in just a few months time.

Normal P.O.V.

-Four Months Later-

The sound of the villagers screaming echoed as debris fell all over the streets. Families were running out of their homes, trying to get to safe zones that were set up as multiple Jonin and ANBU were rushing to the battle field. Daichi and Ayumi were ordered to assist the Hokage in slowing down the tailed beast as they brought their daughters to safety. Reika held her baby sister in her arms as she stood next to a boy about her age who was carrying a baby boy in his arms.

"Daddy, mommy! Please don't go!" She begged, tears running down her face as she pleaded with her parents.

Daichi and Ayumi glanced at each other and Daichi knelt down in front of his daughter, putting his hands on her shoulders. "We'll try to come back for you, Reika. I promise." He took Amaya out of her sisters arms and together, he and Ayumi shunshinned to where Minato and Kushina were. They made it just in time before Kushina put the barrier up, trapping the nine tails inside along with them. Daichi placed Amaya on the altar next to the infant as the fox tried to attack.

Kushina used her Adament Chains to pin it to the ground but one of it's tails swung towards Daichi. Ayumi rushed forward to shield her husband from the attack and took the blow that was meant for him. The force of it slammed her into the ground with enough force to make a crater. Shouting, Daichi rushed forward and lifted his wife into his arms.

"Just hold on, Ayumi. We'll get you help." Daichi said, his whole body tense.

Ayumi looked up at Daichi and smiled, blood trickling from the corners of her mouth. "No one can help me now, my love. Stop this beast before it destroys everything and everyone...please, do whatever you can to protect our daughters...I want them to know the true way of the ninja..." With that, her eyes slipped closed and her body went limp in his arms.

Gritting his teeth, Daichi gently laid her on the ground and rushed at the nine tails, his sword drawn with his Sharingan activated. The nine tails saw his eyes and roared in anger, it's hand grabbing the Uchiha and crushing him into the ground. Minato performed the signs of the Reaper Death Seal and he and Kushina jumped in front of the two babies as the beast brought it's claw forward. They shielded their son and friends daughter with their own bodies as Minato sealed a portion of the Nine Tails' chakra into himself and the rest into Naruto and Amaya.

-Eight Years Later-

There was a loud CRASH as four academy students ran away from the three Jonin that were on their heels. The redhead looked over his shoulder and grabbed the girls wrist. "Come on, Aya! They're getting closer!"

The girl, Amaya, grabbed hold of his hand and picked up her pace. "I'm trying, Ren! It's not my fault they almost got me!"

Hiroto and Naruto laughed as they all rounded a corner, ducking out sight as the Jonin instructors ran by their hiding spot. They waited for a couple minutes to make sure they were in the clear and they all let out a relieved sigh. Their moment of freedom was soon interrupted when two shadows fell over them. Naruto, Ren, Hiroto and Amaya all froze in place as they turned around.

Standing behind them were Itachi and Reika.

They both had the same black hair, though Reika's was longer, reaching to the middle of her back while tied into a high ponytail, and onyx eyes, both traits that marked them as members of the Uchiha clan. They both wore black t-shirts with high collars that had the Uchiha crest on the back with Itachi wearing tan pants and Reika wearing dark grey, knee length shorts and they both wore black ninja sandals with bandages wrapped around their ankles. They both had the ANBU flak jacket over their shirts with arm guards and their masks on top of their heads.

"I hear the four of you have been causing chaos again, huh?" Reika said, her arms crossed as she glared at her sister. "We have a mission to leave for and we can't be here chasing you down. Now, let's go."

Leaving no room for arguments, the four of them followed Reika and Itachi back to the academy. Because of the trouble they caused, Iruka-sensei made everyone in the class practice their shuriken throwing for most of the day, much to the groups annoyance. When they were finally dismissed, Amaya told her friends that she would see them later. She ran back to the apartment where she lived at with her aunt and uncle and was tackled in a hug by her cousin.

"Welcome home, Aya-chan!" Kuriko said, hugging her cousin tightly. Even though they were only born a few months apart, Amaya was a half foot taller than her cousin. Laughing, Amaya hugged her back and carried her into the living room to wait for Rene, Kuriko's mother, to finish making dinner. About twenty minutes later, Amaya, Kuriko, Rene and Yoshiro all sat the table, eating dinner while talking about how their day went.

The peacefulness was cut short when Amaya realized that her sister wasn't home. "Where's Reika?" She asked her uncle.

Yoshiro and Rene shared a worried look. They knew she left for a mission that morning but she was supposed to have been back hours ago. Once she was finished, Amaya ran out of the apartment, her uncle yelling at her for her to stop but she didn't listen. Having a bad feeling, Amaya ran all the way to the Uchiha compound with her uncle running out after her. When she passed through the gates, her blood ran cold when she saw the scene before her.

All over the street were bodies of the clan members. men, women, even children were all lying around, none of them moving as blood was splattered everywhere. Shaking with fear, Amaya went further into the compound and stopped dead in her tracks when she saw someone wearing the ANBU uniform lying a few feet away from her, their mask obscuring their face. Hoping it wasn't who she thought it was, Amaya knelt down and slowly removed the mask, her eyes widening.

It was her sister. Reika had been murdered.

Clenching her fists, Amaya screamed as loud as she could, tears running down her face as she looked over and saw a boy laying a few feet away. Her vision blurry from the tears, Amaya tried to stand up but her legs gave out as the darkness took over and pulled her under.