Okay I have had people asking me where Kakashi went, and I can assure you that he has not left the story! But I have a slight comedic twist in the third chapter planned so he won't appear until then. I know there are a lot of Kakashi fans out there but I think you readers will like what I did when you read the third chapter. I find it funny but maybe my humor is a little wack.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter and if you don't then I failed but oh well…That is why you review! So I can help write better pieces for all you readers…if any.

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Chapter 2

Unknown Prophecy

I entered the forest in a rush, trying to catch a glimpse of Yumi. My eyes quickly scanned left and right but nothing caught my attention. Suddenly there was a bursting wave of chakra and I hurriedly followed the trail… Because I knew it was her. The girl I had grown up with and known since childhood was alive. Though it didn't make sense to me because I had watched her die. Everyone in the village, including the Hokage had come that day. She was to be killed for something I did not know about but it was supposed to be a turning point, an attempt for the better for our Clan and village. But here she was, the same girl that I had grown up with from so many years ago.

I jumped through the trees, shifting from tree branch to tree branch, moving easily through the foliage. I quickly slapped away offending bits of leaves as the wisped passed my face, a low growl suddenly slipping past out my throat. Where in the hell did she get to? She couldn't have gotten far, she was walking after all. But then again I know I can't underestimate her. The last time I did…My hand came to my face almost automatically, my eyes closing as I tried to push the though out of my head.

"Aniki! You said you would train with me today! "Tiny arms flew in the air trying to catch my older brothers attention and a bright gleaming grin plastered on my young and not yet matured face. My mouth corners of my mouth were tugged in a slight frown and the same words as always were given to me.

"Sorry Sasuke, not today. I am busy." He always said that to him. Nothing more, nothing less. It frustrated him beyond belief, yet he knew there was nothing that could be done about it.

They stood in the training grounds where Sasuke rarely ever had a chance to accompany his brother due to him being 'busy'. Sasuke sighed, leaning against a tree and looking up, smirking at his older brother. "And what is it you are busy with brother?"

Itachi smiled, something Sasuke found very chilling to see even if it did suit him rather nicely. He then bent his hand down, just like he always did and motioned me forward. Like always, I ran to him. To this very day I never understood why I always fell for the same trick because I knew what would follow if I did so. And just as every other time, I got to close and he poked my forehead. He then kneeled down and looked into my eyes, ruffling my hair and then standing back up. "I have to help train another child, ord —"

"Why do you insist on calling me a child!" A girl about the same age as me at the time exited the under brush, pushing bits and pieces of fallen hair out of her face. She crossed her arms in front of her chest and took a cocky stance before Itachi. "I'm almost as strong as you yet you continue to call me a child. I don't get it? What does it take to make you stop?" She almost said this in a whine as my eyes followed her as she clung to Itachi. At the time I felt a pang of jealousy because even I, his own brother, had never had the chance to hug him. I clenched my fist but soon released them as my gaze was met by hers, the same black whirlpools.

"You're nii-san's brother right? Sasuke?" She walked up to me, that same cocky look on her face as she took my face in one of her hands and moved it about. Her expression then fell blank and her hands moved to her hips. She then smiled and held out her hand. "I'm Yumi. Your brother trains me too." At first, I have to admit. I didn't want to take her hand. Who the hell did she think she was. She was the reason that I didn't get to see my aniki. But when I looked up, Itachi was staring at me, a trace of a smile pulling at the corner of his lip. So I took her hand, hers, so much softer than mine but yet, so much more worn down by fighting and work.

I stared at her and a smirk met my lips as I drew out a kunai and through it at her. It did. It hit her right in the chest, but as soon as it imbedded itself beneath the surface of her skin, a cloud of smoke appeared and I felt my arm being forced up. I tried to move but I was thrown to the ground, my face hitting the dirt in full force. Then I noticed the pain screaming through my stretched muscles of my arm. I winced in pain and tried to move but it only intensified the horrible feeling racking my body. The suddenly, without my acknowledgment, I started to cry and that's when she loosened up.

"Are you okay Sasuke?" Her lips were right by my ear and I could feel her warm breath hit my shell as she spoke softly to me. I then felt her weight shift as she moved off of my body and moved in front of me, he nose almost touching mine. I though I must have been radiating heat because my cheeks were burning with a blush at how close she was to me. To close for my liking. Her hands gripped my shoulder picked me up and that's when I met my brothers eyes. The look of disappointment and…something else I really could read or understand. I knew I had made an embarrassment myself and in the presence of the one person I had wished it hadn't been.

I shoved myself away from Yumi and turned my back to them. I then ran. Ran away from them and the unreadable look in my brother's eyes, everything because it just reminded me how much I couldn't do and how far apart Itachi and I were from one another. With that thought, Itachi teaching Yumi made me feel even worse. What was so special about her that he had to neglect me over it.

I remember arriving home late that night, my mother meeting me at the door her arms quickly wrapping around my small frame. I let my head fall into her shoulder, she smelt of water lilies and her words became slurred to my ears, something about me worrying her about my whereabouts. I didn't care at the moment. Mother than let go of me and she smiled reassuringly. She sat me down on the front porch and took off my wet sandals, the water still clung to them from the rain earlier on in the evening. She led me to the diner table and I took my seat. My father glanced at me, the same reaction as per usual. Itachi was already sitting down, his chopsticks working slowly through the rice my mother had prepared.

"I thought you would have come home right after Sasuke…" I looked, to see Itachi staring at me as he resumed eating his dish.

"I...well…" What was I supposed to say, to him and my parents. That I ran off to sulk by myself about how pathetic I was. How I couldn't defend myself when any real shinobi would be able to? My head fell, my line of vision falling into my lap as I tried to avoid the question. "I guess…I just needed time…To think, you know." Why was he asking me this anyway? Did he not tell mother or father about it and now expected me to tell them about me failure. Well it wasn't going to happen. "Well how come you never told me you could never train me because you were with that Yumi girl?"

That's when it turned deadly silent. I looked up and my brother had laid his bowl back on the table. My mother was peering over her shoulder, her eyebrow cocked in curiosity and my father just let his head lean into his hand. "Well I have been given orders to help her reach her full potential."

"Well, I suppose it will help build your relationship, neh?" Relationship? What was he talking about? My father smiled, something I knew was not genuine. My brother just did the same and smiled back. The tension filled the room like a smoke even though words ceased to be spoken afterwards.

"I don't think she realizes what is truly going on though. With us that is. She is still far too young to understand." With that, my father laughed and took a sip out of his glass, the brown liquid of the sake escaping into the dark cavern that was his mouth. He then set the cup back down and gazed at Itachi. I, though, was still confused about the whole conversation that was transpiring.

"Itachi, you are merely thirteen years old. How can you truly understand what your relationship with her means. You are a very smart child but you too, are still too young." He then bowed his head and left the room. My gaze proceeded to watch him depart from the room completely.

Relationship. I never did find out what that was all about. Itachi always did appear annoyed when I asked about Yumi and him. He would just brush me off and leave me to drown in my own confused and lost thoughts. I guess it wasn't important because he proved that the night he… I clenched a fist until my skin turned white and strained against my knuckles. I was going to make him pay no matter what it took. My hand trailed up my chest to my neck, where it lied. The cursed mark, the one thing he may have to resort to. I shook my head; I didn't have time for this type of shit right now. I had something to get done at the moment. The future could wait…for now that is. But how much longer I could was a different story.

A sigh passed through my cracked and dry lips as I swiftly approached a clearing. The sun poured in through the thick darkness that seemed to cover everything so that it was nearly impossible to miss. I sheltered my eyes from the burning blaze of the sun with my arm as I exited the dense field. I landed swiftly and slowly but hesitantly removed my arm away from me eyes. My pupils hadn't quite adjusted to the brightness from outside the forest yet and made my eyes water slightly. I blinked a few times and realized that I had come across a lake. More like a pond but led out into a larger body of water. There lying before me, only a mere few feet away was Yumi. Laying on her back and eyes closed, her head resting on her arms placed behind her head. I slowly approached her, knowing there was no reason to be secretive. I gave her a once over and say her head turn to the side, her staring up at me. I stopped, standing only a few feet away from her. I watched as her eyebrows furrowed in confusion and gradually work itself into a smirk.

I just gazed at her for a few moments, not completely sure of what I came here to in the first place. I then heaved a sigh and let out the first thing that popped into my mind. "How did you escape?" Short and blunt, right to the point, and I guess that is what I wanted to know the most. How did she survive and my parents couldn't. They died and they were just as skilled as any other shinobi.

"What exactly do you mean by 'escaped'?" She sat up, propping herself on her elbows. Then she sat up fully, back hunching as she crossed her legs in a sitting position. She stared up at me, she knew what I was talking about but she just insisted on being difficult. She brought her leg up to her chest and rested an arm on it, smiling calmly at me.

"Everyone was killed. You were just a child. You have never been able to beat that bastard. So I don't understand how you are here right now." Yumi just continued to look up at me, and frankly, I found it intimidating. She always did that. Even when we were kids, she would just peer at you until you looked away.

"Well I didn't do anything special, if that is what you are wondering…" She transferred her gazed to the water, the water rippling from tiny insects moving along the waters edge. Her eyes fluttered closed as she sighed and took a stand in front of me. "I was moved out here, about five months before you brother killed everyone. So I wasn't there when it happened."

We stood there in silence for quite some time, I'm guessing she didn't know what to say now or she just didn't have anything to say. I hesitantly took a seat on the ground, Yumi following suit and sitting down where she had been before. I shifted a little, the tension that thickly pooling the air made me feel oddly uneasy. She lied back down and moved my arms, placing them on my knees.

"So…" When she turned to me, I felt as though I was being tested under her gaze. Her eyes felt like they were piercing through me but they had the gentlest look in them. "Why were you sent here? I mean…it has been over eight years or so." She smiled, but it soon turned into a frown. Not an obvious one but it was definitely there. The way she seemed to be transfixed in a memory, just staring off in space…and that sadden look that laced her dark eyes. I never realized I was staring at her until she broke the harsh silence.

"I was supposed to be the one who killed everyone. They thought I was the dangerous one, so they had to get me away from the village and the people who resided there." She gave a forced chuckle but I could tell it bothered her. She shook her head and let it hang in between her legs. And what was she talking about? She was supposed to…but how would someone know that?

"Obviously you aren't aware but someone, an older man, came to our village at one point in time and made some kind of prophecy about a bad seed within the clan. Over the years, everyone thought that it would never come true but when Itachi was born, it changed matters. Your father didn't want to believe that his oldest son would ever commit such a crime so he refused to acknowledge the facts in front of him. But then I was born. My mother died when she gave birth to me and my father died on a mission so I was left to defend for myself. When I started to develop skills akin to Itachi, it was a good break for your father. No one believed that I would do such a thing but your father had his son to look out for. With that in mind, your brother and I were to be married, a way that was supposed to keep me in check if needed. He also wanted the marriage so that we could have a child with equal skills. He thought that with both parents of such an amazing abilities that chances of producing a child of similar talent."

So that was there relationship. It made sense…in a kind of twisted way. But now I knew what it all meant when my parents discussed it.

"Although I was young and still growing, I was equally matched with your brother. Well not completely but I developed as fast as he had when he was my age. But I guess that fact that he had to baby-sit his entire life pushed him a little too far. It was something I knew, even then, that he didn't want. He wanted to live his own life and with the clan always holding him down, he would never accomplish that. I suppose our people took one step to far because that is when Itachi rid himself of that nuisance. I'm guessing that is the way he looked at it at the time." She sighed, rubbing her eyes with her hands and shaking her head. At first I thought she was crying but seemed to be amused. "I was supposed to be killed but Itachi said that maybe they should send me somewhere secluded incase that were wrong. I found it weird at the time, but when I last talk to your brother, he told me what was going to happen and I wasn't going to stop him. I couldn't, no one could. He didn't, of course, come right out and tell me that he was going to slaughter the clan but I knew he had that in mind."

I turned sharply and glared at her. How can she say things like that? She knew what was going to happen and she did nothing to stop it. She could have saved everyone but she didn't. She was equally responsible for all their deaths just as Itachi was. I went to go at her, but lifted her hand as to silence my actions.

"I knew what I had done wrong but I was young at the time. And scared. For me and my life. I didn't want to die but I knew if I said anything or even tried to, Itachi would make sure I wouldn't. So I was sent here, a family friend took me in and I lived her, trying to rebuild me life. Soon after, I received word that I would be inheriting a large amount of money and belongings from the clan due to the fact they had been killed. I didn't keep most of the things I was given. I couldn't. I had betrayed everyone and I knew it. Having there things in my home did not help me sleep at night either."

She let her head rest in the palm of her hand, a soft and almost inaudible sigh escaping her lips. A chilling breeze blew her hair and she laid down on the ground, her black locks scattering the earth beneath her head. She rolled her head to the side and peered up at me, a half-hearted smile stretching across her face.

"But…" Her eyebrows arched in a look of anticipation and confusion, surprise even at the fact I was talking. "Didn't you feel…betrayed? I mean, they had no evidence that you were the one that was going to murder everyone. Even Itachi. He let you take the blame." She laughed and smiled.

"Just because I was supposed to marry him, we didn't really have anything in common. But I presume that was his way of showing affection towards me. By letting me take the fall, he let me live. He was the one who suggested me to live here in the first place. I did care for Itachi, don't get me wrong but we weren't suited for one another, and I betrayed our people so what difference did it make if they betrayed me. I deserved it. Not just that but they were thinking of you and the others in the village. They were considering your future in the way that they wanted you to have one. I can't blame them for that. But you…I guess he never killed you because you never forced him to do anything. Never judged him. And–"

"But he said I wasn't worth killing…" My voice nothing but a whisper. I almost felt ashamed to say it because I knew it was true. I couldn't do anything. "He said I wasn't a challenge, so he left me to live and told me to kill him when I had enough power."

"Well I think he most likely said that because he knew if he just left you alive, you would kill him for revenge anyway. So he just added fuel to the fire and gave you that push you needed to do it. Itachi could have easily told you that you would never be strong enough but he gave you the option to get stronger…He didn't have to be that nice. Plus that was a way that you didn't have to bound by the clan. You could grow on your own and not have to live by always having to wonder if you were good enough. Of course this is all just theory. I can't be completely sure, I could be absolutely wrong."

"He took everything away from me. Itachi took everyone's futures away just of his own selfish gain. So that he would be able to grow. But everyone has to make sacrifices. I'm sure he wasn't the only one to feel trapped with in the clan; he didn't have to kill anyone. He could have just left." This was pissing me off. Why was I trying to explain this? I have my mind set and nothing is going to change it. And why was she trying to defend him. Well she obviously did care for him but doesn't want to admit it to anyone or herself.

"Well you want to know what? You are the one that is being selfish now. You want everything back but it isn't going to happen. Just be thankful that he didn't kill you and that you have a future to continue living. Don't waste your time on something that you can never achieve." Her words rung true, though they were harsh and unwanted by my ears. I knew what I was chasing after might be impossible but I wasn't going to give up just because one person didn't believe in me. I don't care what it takes me…even if I have to sell my soul, I would do it.

With that, a smile formed on my lips and I let out a short chuckle. "Maybe it is but I refuse to do nothing. Why should I? I have nothing to live for. He took that away." I stood up. I couldn't stand being in her presence any longer. She was starting to annoy me and I think she knew that. I stuffed my hands into my shorts pockets and began to walk off. She didn't say anything or protest to me staying. She just laid there and rolled her eyes, which I caught out of the corner of me eye. I smirked and continued to take my leave when I heard the voice of a person I really didn't want to be around right at the moment.

"Sasuke you bastard!" He yelled as he came pelting down the green field and hurriedly approaching me. I hated it when he said me name. I had heard it so many times from him that it was almost as bad when Sakura said my name to get my attention. Before I had a chance to brace myself, he jumped me and him and myself went toppling backwards. "You just left and didn't tell us where you were going! What the hell is up with you today?"

"Arg…Get off dobe. I don't have ti--?" I lifted Naruto off of me and through him to the side, causing him to land flat onto his back. He groaned and sat up quickly, trying to go at me again. Like

I said; I did not want to be around him right now.

"Gees' Sasuke! What's the matter with you? That stick in your ass seems to be in deeper than usual. Damn…" He stuck out his tongue and stood back up, rubbing his butt from falling on it. I just rolled over and laced my fingers together and locked them behind me head. Naruto looked from me and then to Yumi, his eyes widening in bewilderment and his hand letting his fingers run through his wild and tangled hair.

"Okito." Came Yumi's commanding voice, compelling me to sit up and look over at the scene. I heard feet scamper and Okito and Ryuu appeared before her. She stood up and brushed herself off and rested her hands on her slim hips. "Well I need to get back to my house and begin a meal for them to eat. I'm not sure were they will be staying but bring to the house when the food is ready. It should be finished before dark so bring them then, until then, do whatever you want okay. Show them around or something. But Okito I would like you to help me with the preparations to Ryuu, I will leave you in charge of taking care of the group. 'Til then…"

With that they were gone and no where to be found. Only a few leaves of where they had once been filtered the air, drifting slowly in the calm breeze. Everyone just sat in silence, although Naruto seemed to be amusing himself with something on the ground with the sounds that he kept making. Sakura wasn't saying anything and that itself I found odd and Ryuu just looked to each person.

"Well was there anything any of you wanted to do? If you prefer, you can look around on your own and we can meet back her at a designated time?" His statement was more of a question as he peered at the group, looking hopeful for an answer. He sighed and sat down leaning against a tree, his head falling back. Sakura still hadn't moved from her position and her eyes where dilated, making her looked more spaced out than ordinarily. "Well? Anything?" Ryuu asked again. Sakura moved her gaze her eyes up and nodded.

"Yes. That sounds like a very good idea right now"

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Yeah I finished the second chapter. I am so happy. I kind of think that it is written a lot better than my first chapter because it is a lot more organized that my first one. Oh well, I like this and I'm happy. I hoped you like it though, I decided to change the perspective to make it a little different.

Until next time and don't forget to review!