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Itachi stepped back and examined his work.
Kira's smile and bubbliness was gone from her eyes. Her face showed total determination. Her eyes cold, and her hands clenched into a fist at her sides.
One of the Akatsuki members held up a picture of Kakashi and suddenly there was a kunai through it.
She walked up to the member and grabbed the picture out of his hands. He backed out of the way of the girl.
She looked at the picture and for a second Itachi thought that an emotion had come into her eyes. Recognition? Regret? Sadness?
Whatever emotion that had been in there was now gone and she crushed the picture in her hand.
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Kira was now sixteen. Itachi was still seventeen and Kakashi would still be twenty-six. Akatsuki members had used the time machine on her to make her older. Her body and mind were equivalent to one of a sixteen-year-old.
Her attitude was like her brothers. She felt as if she needed to kill. She felt as if she needed…blood.
Kira's eyes were still a deep purple, only deeper than the last time. Her hair was jet-black. Her clothes were no longer the bright pink kimonos but a black cape with a collar over her lower face.
Her forehead protector was twisted so it was on the side of her head. A cloth covered the lower half of her face and her collar did too, for Itachi did not want her being recognized by anyone.
Itachi had trained her so she was now as skillful, and more lethal, than any jounin.
Kira did not fear Itachi anymore, for when he trained her, it was like he was putting a little of himself into her.
She told him every vision she had. She told him every vision she had previously. She told him everything.
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Kakashi did not talk. He did not eat. He did not sleep. He did not do anything unless he was forced to. He didn't even read his books unless someone made him. He was depressed.
Sasuke was not as bad, but he was often caught thinking and staring out of the window instead of doing what he was supposed to be doing.
Sakura wasn't as bad as those two, though she missed Kira.
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If she were here right now, she'd be cheering everyone up with her smile and her jokes and her bubbliness.
If she were here right now she would be sparring with Naruto.
Or cooking.
Or having a vision.
I sighed when I remembered the kinds of visions she used to have.
Like this one time when she had a vision that I would be very embarrassed in front of the whole village. I didn't believe her and went about my work.
Five minutes later, I was painting a fence when someone dumped a can of paint on my head.
I heard laughter and saw the whole village standing there and laughing.
Her vision came true.
I remembered the other types of visions she had.
I remembered that she had a vision and it said an important life was about to end.
Two minutes later, I killed the queen bee for a colony by accident.
"Told ya," Kira had said and then laughed.
Kira had been like a daughter to me and now she was gone for sure.
Why won't I go after her?
Because she is in the hands of Itachi, the ninja feared even by Orochimaru.
And because there is no point. Itachi has probably already brainwashed her, and once he made it permanent, there was no turning back.
It was over.
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Haha, or was it?
Bum bum bum.
You have to wait until next chapter to find out. HAVE FUN!
Once again I oppose you with the question.
Shall I change my penname?
You decide.
-ZukoKrazy