Here are some facts that you might want to know about the current OC:

Name: Hayashibara Tsumi

Age: Six

Gender: Female

Eyes: onyx coloured

Hair: raven black and falls half-way down her back

Physical description: She's as tall as Itachi, not too skinny, not too fat. She wears black sandals, a blood-red coloured t-shirt and a pair of black shorts. Her long hair is tied back in a pony-tail at all times to stay out of her way.

Changes

Chapter Two

The Truth

The next morning came by quickly, and Itachi woke up with a start. He rubbed his eyes as the sun shone through the window near his bed, illuminating the room. He yawned and stretched his arms as he got out of bed to wash up. After a bit, he sat down at the kitchen table for breakfast.

"Good morning father, mother and little Sasuke," he said as he smiled at his baby brother who was kicking around furiously in his high chair, trying to escape its clutches.

"Good morning Itachi," his parents said as they busied themselves with work. Sasuke was trying to feed himself with a spoon, but kept on slapping his food all over his face.

Their father chuckled. "Sasuke is getting really restless nowadays..."

"Yes! It's annoying though, always having to clean up after him," the kind lady teased the baby. She looked up at Itachi, who was eating his toast. "So, I've heard that you've grown to like this new girl, Tsumi, is it?" she asked Itachi, whose face turned a little pink when his mother mentioned his new friend.

"Yeah, she's really nice," he managed to say to cover for himself. He looked up from his food to see that his parents were looking at each other smiling, and he didn't like the idea of it. "Is there something I need to know...?" he wondered out loud.

"Oh? No. We were just talking about some business with Hokage-sama, that's all," his father replied quickly.

"Oh, ok then." Itachi still didn't quite believe what his parents keep telling him, but he stuck with it anyway, for he didn't want to look like a nosy little kid. However, his parents seemed to have picked up on this, but didn't say furthermore about it.

A short while later after Itachi and his father had finished their breakfast, they headed out to the Hokage's place. When they got there, they were greeted by the already waiting Hokage and Tsumi. When Tsumi saw Itachi walking beside his father towards her, she ran up to him and threw her arms around his neck, gave him a hug.

"Good morning Itachi!" she said happily with her arms still wrapped around his neck.

"G-g-good m-morning Ts-tsumi," he stuttered back. 'What's this feeling that I get when I'm around Tsumi?'

"Well you two run along now," ushered his father, "and make sure you'll be back here by dusk."

"Yes father," Itachi said as Tsumi pulled him away, hugging his arm with both her arms, and her head on his shoulder.

Uchiha-san sighed. "Young love these days," he said as we walked away. The Hokage just chuckled.

So Tsumi and Itachi walked off, hand in hand as if they were dating.

They were walking down the street and got quite a few stares from people walking down the street too.

"Umm, Tsumi, do you really have to hug my arm like that?" he finally brought up the courage to ask.

"Huh? Oh, sorry, I didn't even notice..." She finally let go of his arm, and the colour immediately drained from Itachi's face a little.

Itachi

We walked down the street furthermore and spent the day walking around. Somehow, after a while, I found that we were holding hands again, though I can't quite remember who grabbed whose hand first...

By the end of the first week together, the two of us were such close friends that it we were almost inseparable from each other. She even slept over once and said that Sasuke was kind of cute, but not as cute as me...I remember that, I was blushing like crazy! And when we were watching those horror movies...

Flashback…

I was looking around my room to make sure that everything was neat and organized. When I was satisfied, it was as if on cue that Tsumi turned up for a sleep-over; I mean, staying Hokage-sama's place wouldn't be all that fun. Anyway, I ran down the hall to open the door for Tsumi.

"Itachi!" she smiled and gave me a hug and I returned it. I felt eyes on us as we embraced, which was a normal thing for us now, since we did it so often. Well, I could hear mother and father whispering to each other about something, but I wasn't so sure what they were talking about because I was too busy showing Tsumi around the house.

"You have a nice place, Itachi," she had said to me. I showed her to my room and she put down her stuff, and started to look around. She took in the sight of my room, and sighed. "I wish I had a family and place of my own," she sighed. I heard movement on the other side of the door, and my head shot up to see what was there, though I didn't see anyone or anything there, and continued to talk to Tsumi.

When we went to the kitchen for dinner, Sasuke was already eating his dinner in his highchair. Once again, he was slapping his food onto his face, but this time it was closer to his mouth. 'Boy this kid learns fast,' I thought.

When Tsumi caught sight of the little baby sitting there trying to feed himself, she squealed with delight. Sometimes she makes me wonder if she's really a teenager in disguise, or really six years old.

"He's so cute!" she squeaked again, and started to play around with Sasuke. I laughed as my baby brother put on a pout as if he wanted Tsumi to leave him alone. "But, of course, he's nowhere near as cute as you are," she said to me with a wide grin on her face. I didn't know what I could've done, so I just stood there, my eyes wide, jaw almost dropped down, and my face was, once again, a deep shade of crimson. I watch in almost horror as she went into a giggle-fit and let Sasuke finish eating his food. "What? It's true you know," she said and winked at me as we sat down for dinner. I think my parents may have caught onto this as they shot each other shifty glances during dinner.

After dinner, it started to feel quite awkward being around Tsumi because we were huddled together on the couch in front of the TV, watching some mild horror movies of ANBU going out on missions. At some scary scenes, she would huddle even closer to me, and burry her face into my shirt until it was over. Then, after a while, she fell asleep while hugging me with her head on my shoulder through a boring scene. 'I guess she does look kind of cute,' I had thought when I started to look closely at her when she was asleep. 'And kind of pretty, too...wait, what am I thinking?' I stopped myself as I carried her off to bed when the whole night all I did was glance at Tsumi's sleeping form. After a bit, she seemed to have been having nightmares, and then crawled over to me.

"Itachi? Are you awake?" she whimpered.

"Yes Tsumi?"

"I'm scared," she whispered as if she didn't want to be heard by anyone.

"Scared of what?"

"I'm scared of the movies of course! Silly Itachi, you seem quite dim when you're half asleep," she giggled.

"Well, who wouldn't be?" I groaned.

"You." I kicked off my covers and sat up. Tsumi did the same. I went to lean my back against one of the four walls, and Tsumi came and huddled beside me, her head resting on my shoulder. The scent of her washed hair filled my nose. Almost instantly, she fell asleep, and I grabbed my sheets and covered Tsumi and myself with it to keep us warm.

I slept for maybe a few hours, but it was hard to get any sleep with your best friend sleeping beside you.

In the morning, when the morning light crept through my windows and into my room, mother opened the door to wake us up, but only found the two of us with our backs against the wall, and Tsumi's head resting on my shoulder as I was reading a scroll.

I held my finger up to my lips. "Shh mother! You'll wake Tsumi up!" I whispered quietly to her. She smiled and left the room, closing the door behind her.

End of flashback

'I never thought that my first sleepover would be like that. Especially with Tsumi...' My thought trailed off and I thought of when I was watching Tsumi sleep, and how I had thought that she looked cute. 'Maybe I do...no, that can't be right! A great shinobi doesn't let his feelings get in the way! But this time...I...really can't deny it.' I sighed as I lay in my bed, staring up at my ceiling. I sighed again. "Tsumi...I love you," I whispered out loud. I couldn't believe myself – I actually said that! 'I guess that's the truth that I've been denying from myself for this last while...' I slowly drifted off to sleep with the thoughts of Tsumi in my head.

TBC