Chapter 3: Treasured Memory

Shisui- age 16 (Becausw you don't age when you're dead)

Itachi- 16

Tobirama- 20-25

Jeri- 19

Chapter 3

It was now 1:00 in the morning and the two teens just wanted to go the fuck to sleep but were too curious for their own good to call the police. Or at least Jeri was. Lori had once tried and failed, thanks to Itachi that is.

"So what the fuck is an Uchiha?" Lori demanded coldly, her voice filled with irritation, the only emotion showing at the moment on her normally stoic face. Jeri on the other hand paled considerably to the color of Lori's extremely pale skin, her eyes the size of dinner plates and fear glimmering in her now hazel pools.

"No!" She warned, the blonde only giving her a cold glare in response. "They are fucking Ninja! Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Lori only smirked in response.

"That would actually be a blessing for me." Lori responded cooly shocking everyone in the room. What the hell could make this girl want death to take her at such a young age?!

"...w-what…?" Jeri asked completely dazed by the blondes truthful statement. Hashirama looked heartbroken at hearing such words.

"Why?" He asked quietly looking at Lori.

"That's my business, none of yours." Lori responded looking to Hashirama emotionlessly before feeling arms wrap around her small body, her ice blue eyes looking to find Jeri's hazel ones filled with tears.

"No…!" Jeri cried out with tears staining her face. "I won't let you! I'll give you a reason to live!" Lori watched in confusion as Jeri's irises turned red with a single tomoe in each one with a ring. They were like the color of blood and the tomoe and ring were black, she retained her pupils.

What…? Why is she so sad and upset? She's only known me about a day! And what's up with her eyes changing like that…? Thought Lori as the burgundy haired girl continued to hug her but tighter than before.

"Dafuq happened to your eyes…?" Lori asked in slight curiosity as Jeir wiped away her tears before locking eyes with Lori who leaned closer to see if it was just the lighting. It wasn't.

"What do you mean…?" Jeri asked curiously. Tajima chose that time to speak up.

"It's the sharingan, a Kekkei Genkai, bloodline limit, of the Uchiha Clan."

Jeri looked focused as she concentrated on what, Lori did not know. Jeri was surprised that she could see what looked like energy flowing inside Lori, it was blue. Jeri remembered her favorite TV show and Anime...Naruto. If she had the sharingan, that meant…she is from the Narutoverse! Jeri couldn't help but feel giddy inside. The Uchiha's were her favorite Clan of the Naruto Anime!

"Blondie, please move." Jeri requested and although puzzled and with an eye twitch the blonde did as she was asked and moved her hand. Jeri was even more thrilled to find that she could see the movements in slow motion, like predicting the movements of the blonde.

"The first stage of the sharingan allows one to see chakra flow and predict the opponent's movements." Itachi explained to the two girls calmly, his voice like velvet. Jeri grinned.

"Quick! Go to the other side of the room and come at me!" Jeri ordered the blonde who raised an eyebrow.

"You sure you don't want to rephrase that?" Jeri only nodded in response as Jeri now stood in the middle of the living room and Lori was at the other side near the fish tank.

"Oh boy…" Kagami said.

Without any hesitation Lori speeded towards Jeri with a fist cocked back ready to punch the burgundy haired girl in the face. Jeri saw the movements that the blonde was making, it was shocking to say the least. It was like she could see what was coming before it happened.

She foresaw Lori's fish smashing into her nose so her body reacted reaching too early for Lori's fist in an effort to compensate for not being able to readily react in time with her eyes.

Instead of that fist crashing into either Jeri's fists or her nose, Jeri's foot moved forward in a stepping motion and Lori's foot slammed into her face sending her flying a few meters away with blood pouring down Jeri's now broken nose. "Fuck that hurt!" Oh yeah, Jeri managed to sprain her ankle with the way she stepped.

"That's for calling me "blondie"!" Lori said holding a fist in front of her face threateningly. Itachi sighed.

"You need to practice using the sharingan to be able to use it properly." Itachi says.

"You see, when you first activate the sharingan there is a slight gap between what your eyes see and your body's reaction time, and when your body tries to compensate for the slight gap, this happens. Don't worry it happened to Itachi too." Shisui explained cheerfully as always and Itachi didn't even bother glaring at the older Uchiha.

Itachi decided he would patch Jeri up as Hashirama went to talking. "Wow, you sure do have some physical strength!" He then started laughing loudly. Lori crossed her arms over her chest in response.

"Thanks I guess. Now, is an Uchiha supposed to be a family? That's what 'Clan' means." Lori asks making sure she understood clearly. Izuna nods at her.

"That's right. So if you're her sister, you're an Uchiha too."

Lori shook her head. "No. I'm not, we aren't related in any way, shape or form." She says seriously making everyone confused now.

"But she called you her sister." Kagami points out. Lori sighs.

"Long story short, this is my temporary foster family. I won't be staying long, a month at most, a week or 3 days at least." The room grew an uncomfortable atmosphere as Jeri tensed up and rushed to Lori glomping her.

"There's no way we'd get rid of you! Your family now!" Jeir protests. Lori was getting angrier by the second.

"Do you even know my name Jeri?" Lori asks coldly making the girl stop in her tracks before looking down sadly. "Exactly." Lori said.

"Just call me Lori. Anyway you can't stop me from leaving if that's what your parents decide. Now, I'm going to be as nice as possible, but PLEASE GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME!" Jeri slowly got off of her 'sister' and took a few steps back not saying anything but hurt clear in her eyes.

Itama frowns as well as shisui, Itachi and Hashirama. Hell even Tobirama was frowning. Sister, Uchiha or not no one should be treated this way!

"You said foster family…" Tobirama began locking his red orbs with Lori's icy blue ones. "What does that mean?"

"Foster family is when a family takes in a foster child for a period of time without becoming the child's legal parents. And the government or DHS has to make sure the parents won't abuse the foster child, that goes for every case." Lori explains and Itachi decided to speak.

"Why are you a foster child? Why are you in foster care?"

Kagami then asks as well. "And why is there not adoption?"

"I'm not going to answer those questions." Says Lori after a few moments of silence. Shisui frowns.

"Where are your parents?"

Lori looked at him. "Don't know, and after what they did I really don't care. Though, I suspect that my mother is in prison." Now everyone was dumbfounded.

"What do you mean you don't care? And what did they do?!" Hashirama asks now in front of Lori in the blink of an eye making Lori blink twice to register he was there.

"Well, I haven't seen my father since I was 8 years old and I haven't seen my mother since I was 5 years old. After a lot of time passes by without any source of contact for most of your life, you don't really care. And as for what they did… That's my business."

After a few minutes Madara finally broke the silence. "Go get some rest. We train tomorrow morning." Jeri looks as excited as a puppy but then looks sad.

"But we have school tomorrow! We can't skip, our parents will kill us!" Lori only laughed.

"You. They would kill you. They can't physically harm me since I'm not adopted by them, if they did it would apparently be grounds for abuse, they would lose their ability to adopt and I would be placed in foster care again. I'm not quite sure what the other penalties are. Especially considering I was born in Germany and as such I am a legal citizen there so that would be one hell of some hot water."

"Fine. Tomorrow after school." Madara replies to Jeri, too tired to argue at 2:00 in the morning.

AU: This is true, foster parents can't spank or physically punish their foster kids unless adopted, if you know of any other penalties especially considering Lori is from Germany and is now in America please tell me!

Jeri stares at Lori with her jaw hitting the floor. "You are so lucky!" Lori glared at Jeri fearsly.

"No. No I'm not." Jeri quickly shut up feeling Lori's slight anger in her voice, feeling the chakra leave her eyes as the sharingan deactivated. Yes she knew what chakra was, she was a Narutard. She got a few blankets and pillows laying them out in the living room for the ninja after Lori blew up the air mattresses that Jeri found without being told. She must have been bored.

"If you're wondering about why we have so many blow up mattresses, it's because we have relatives that come down to stay for a while from time to time. Some of you can sleep in here, and there is my parent's room on the left down the hall and another room in between Lori and I's room and my parents. Some of you may need to sleep in our room on the a blow up mattress though."

After a few people called their air mattresses, it was decided that Hashirama, Tobirama, Madara and Izuna would sleep in Lori and Jeri's room for tonight on the blow up mattress. Two of them to be exact.

Once everyone was comfy the lights were turned out and everyone tried to get some shut eye.


The next morning Lori was in a white form fitting shirt, a blue jacket matching her equally icy blue eyes, and dark blue jeans with black combat boots with her light blonde hair straightened and in a ponytail with her side bangs parted to the right with a small amount framing her left side and all in all framing her face nicely. Jeri was in her red form fitting shirt, black jacket, black jeans and grey sneakers. Her maroon hair was left down in deep waves down her back with her choppy side bangs starting over her right eye and swooping down over on top of her left side framing her face nicely. Her eyes were a moss green this morning (They change constantly!).

Lori made coffee for the both of them as they had gotten ready without disturbing the slumbering ninja. Well, she made coffee for herself and Jeri just ended up taking what was left in the pot which just so happened to be one cup left. Or one huge mug left.

They sipped on their morning coffee in silence while eating their french toast and ice cream, or Jeri was enjoying the ice cream. Lori winced slightly as she felt her deltoid, the area above the tricep and bicep flare with pain. It was an aching pain that happened often. Not only that but it was stiffening up again, Jeri seemed to notice Lori's discomfort as she looked concerned.

"I'm fine. I'm going to the bathroom." Lori answered her unspoken question and walked into the bathroom, closing the door behind her and making sure it was locked before opening up the medicine cabinet for the tube of cool heat gel. She opened the cap and put a generous amount on her two index fingers of her left hand before shrugging her jacket off her right arm and pulling the sleeve up exposing her deltoid muscle, the muscle of the shoulder and rubbing the white gel onto the muscle.

Lori's shoulder started to relax as the soothing effects of the medicine could be felt. Cool but hot at the same time, it was very relaxing as she massaged it into her skin feeling the pain start to subside and her muscle relax. Lori sighed in relief as she now only felt minor pain but that would be gone soon.

Lori didn't know why her deltoid kept acting up like this, she hasn't told anyone. She needs to remain strong, otherwise… She shuddered to think what would happen should she ever break. Putting the cap back on the white tube and stuffing it into her jacket pocket as she pulled her short sleeve down over her deltoid before slipping on her jacket again and walked out of the bathroom closing the door behind her.

"Are you okay?" Jeri asked worry lacing her voice as Lori replied with a dip of her head as she grabbed her backpack with her left hand, something she didn't normally do, and slung it over her shoulder. Jeri nodded with a smile plastered on her face as they left the house, locking the door behind them.


This time Jeri followed Lori to the back of the class where the blonde sat yesterday and sat on her left. Lori is getting slightly annoyed with Jeri, that is visibly obvious. With the blonde's eye twitching regularly now instead of every once in awhile as the maroon haired girl continued to talk non stop. Lori quickly found a solution to this problem by plugging in her earbuds and blasting Misery Loves Its Company - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in her ears until she could no longer hear the girl.

Soon Lori began to sing the lyrics of the song, and everyone was listening to her sing as this was a free class.

"Beat but I'm not broken... Guide me through with your hand, lead with your words spoken show me how to listen let your light shine through me take this hate I can release help me make the blind see misery loves its company…!~" Sang Lori with her eyes closed as she listened to the music. When the music ended she opened her eyes she found the stares of everyone on her, even Jeri's.

Had she done something wrong?

Clapps and whistles erupted from most everyone in the room, save for a certain irritated, slightly tan girl wearing dark green eyeshadow and had a winged cat eyeliner going.

Some people however, just settled for giving Lori an appreciative smile that said 'Well done'. Lori was confused for a strange feeling bubbled up in her chest. It was slightly warm, not at all like the cold feeling that usually lingered there and it practically lit her body up in what felt could only be described as ice melting in her veins. Her cheeks started to feel unusually warm and she actually felt her heart beating for the first time in a long time.

She hasn't felt this since her Father, Mother and Great Grandmother… As much as she hated to admit it, she liked the feeling, it was not familiar to her, but it made her feel...appreciated? Liked? What was the word…?

But at the same time it brought back painful memories… One's she wanted to forget.

Fortunately a certain maroon headed girl brought her out of her thoughts. "Way to go! I never knew you could sing like that! You have an amazing voice!" Jeri cheered with a smile that seemed to light up the whole room. Something about Jeri's smile hit home in Lori's brain.

That smile…!

Lori's grandmother who had the same piercing ice blue eyes and light blonde hair as Lori looked down at a 3 ½ year old Lori as she finished singing a song she had heard her grandmother and her mother sing all her life. "Way to go! You have an amazing voice! I know one day, you will grow up to be a strong, mature, and very beautiful young woman... -" As the end of her grandmother's sentence was cut off the image of her smiling face, so eerily similar to Jeri's appeared in her mind.

Lori felt herself fall back into reality as she still saw Jeri smiling the same way at her, if people were still praising her voice she could hear nothing as she tried to recover from the shock. Her eyes began to soften ever so slightly before becoming cold and emotionless like usual as she started to feel the warm feeling disappear as it was replaced with a pang of...sorrow before feeling the usual nothingness.

Thankfully the bell rang.

Lori quickly stood up, slinging her backpack over her right shoulder, she winced slightly at the pain as she began to run to the door beating everyone else and running to the bus outside waiting to pick everyone that goes to Vo Tech up.

She quickly put one foot after the other as she ascended the steps and slowly walked to the back of the bus taking a seat and placing her bag beside her in an attempt to make sure Jeri wouldn't claim it.

Why was I seeing that?

Jeri walked onto the bus and instead of taking moving Lori's blue backpack to take the seat next to her, she took the seat opposite of her.


The bell started to sound throughout the school as everyone stampeded out of the classrooms and to the buses or their cars in a hurry to get home and relax. Lori was one of them. Jeri ran while Lori walked once they reached the fresh crisp air of the outside world.

Lori breathed in the fresh air, she was so tired of breathing in that musty air of the school all the time and enjoyed being outside more anyway. The two girls began to walk in silence on the gravel of the pavement at a leisurely pace both of them feeling at peace.

For once, Lori was actually feeling pretty...calm? Yeah, calm, around the talkative girl.

"There you guys are!"

Fuck! Well, it was good while it lasted… Thought both girls as two black blurs appeared in front of them sporting grey shirts and blue jeans. Both had black hair in low ponytails, one was more spikey and longer than the other.

Izuna and Itachi.

"You were at school." It was more of a statement from Itachi as he remembered that the girls said they had school the next morning the night before and had told the other ninja at the house but they insisted on believing that the girls had escaped and were not coming back.

Jeri grinned. "Of course we were!" Itachi and Izuna shared a look. They kneeled before the girls with their backs to them, waiting for them to climb onto their backs so they could quickly get back to the house.

"Get on." Izuna said to Lori who raised an eyebrow.

"Are you sure you want us to get on your backs?" Jeri asked hesitantly. "I mean, we are carrying pretty heavy backpacks…" Itachi gave the burgundy haired girl a reassuring look.

"No worries. I will not drop you." He assured his voice like silk and melting Jeri's heart making her swoon on the inside as a blush developed onto her cheeks. She slowly got on Itachi's back and he rose taking off to the roofs of other houses in the neighborhood to get home.

Izuna waited patiently for Lori to get on his back. Truth be told he saw her as an Uchiha woman of their Clan, even if she claimed not to be one. Izuna was a naturally harmonic person to begin with so he would be patient with Lori.

"I can walk. I have two good feet ya know." Lori said still staring at Izuna who only smirked in response to her answer. He slowly stood up and instead of carrying her decided to walk with her to the house. It would be more relaxing than jumping roof to roof at the speed of a hawk anyway.

"Then I will walk you home." He said coolly as he let the smallest of a smile raise his lips for a brief second before it disappeared. Walking around street after street Izuna saw the rows and rows of houses that lined the streets. They were far from home, about a mile or two at least, they would have to cross the train tracks.

Izuna found that there were moving metal boxes with people in them. "What are they?" Izuna asked the blonde beside him with curiosity etched into his voice, his black hair giving off a stronger blue tint in the sunlight.

"Vehicles. Used for transportation." Lori answered calmly surprisingly feeling at ease, maybe it was because Izuna was giving off a harmonic aura or maybe she just liked the silence and how he was much more quiet and less hyper than the energetic Jeri.

"Why not use chakra and jump tree to tree or roof to roof?" Izuna questioned again.

"What is chakra?" Lori asked monotonly. Izuna stopped in his tracks and stared at the girl in disbelief.

"You're… Joking right?" When Lori gave no response of joking he blinked before closing his eyes calmly and opening them a minute later. "Chakra is the living essence of life. You mix your Physical Energy with your Spiritual Energy creating chakra. We Ninja force chakra to the soles of our feet, the hardest place to concentrate your chakra, to go faster or to jump extreme heights and perform Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and to activate Dojutsu."

Okay...so basically Physical Energy plus Spiritual Energy equals Chakra which allows ninja to do what they do. Chakra in a nutshell.

Lori nodded understanding but now curious to know what this 'Ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Dojutsu' looked like not to mention what 'chakra' looked like.

"I'll show you what chakra looks like when we get back home if you'd like. I know I didn't get the chance to introduce myself earlier, my name is Izuna." Izuna offered and Lori began to weigh the pros and cons of this offer.

Pros: If I accept my curiosity will be sedated, I may learn a thing or two and be able to better defend myself should I ever be attacked by one of them. Cons: If I refuse one of them may kill me, Izuna could get mad and kill me effectively hiding my body, Jeri would be left alone to fend for herself and who knows what the Ninja would do to her, and if I were ever attacked by one of the Ninja I would be fucked beyond all comprehension. Accept the offer it is. Wait…did I really just think about someone else getting hurt?

"I accept your offer, Izuna. Call me Lori."

Izuna dipped his head in understanding as they continued to walk to the house as they made it past the train tracks.


Man I am so excited! I loved this chapter! Truth be told Izuna really is harmonic and peaceful, as stated on Narutopedia. I thought a little ItaJeri moment would be needed near the ending so I did it. Thank you FailingErin and FairyGirl960 and World Of Chronicles for the reviews! I really enjoyed hearing your comments and favorite parts! This next chapter took a lot of thinking on how I was going to make it happen!

Questions for this chapter:

Q1: Why did Lori treat Jeri that way? And what did she mean by she would not be staying for long? Should Jeri had dropped Lori on her ass when she opened her mouth the first time?

Q2: What is your favorite Clan?

Q3: what is your favorite Element?

Q4: who do you want Lori to end up with?

Q5: What's your favorite Clan?

Q6: Why do you think Lori doesn't care about her parents and what was the flashback she had because of Jeri? What happened between her and her mother to land her in prison?