It wasn't until after I had finished that I realized what Itachi had done. From asking me his question in the open in front of Sasuke to using his hate-filled tone with me. Was all to upset me enough that I wouldn't take from Sasuke and I fell for it. "It's up ahead." I speak up as I could feel an electric current through my energy blanket. "The energy... it's massive and compressed." I try to explain to them. Though even I'm not sure I explained it well. Adjusting my direction I retake the lead from Itachi. Guiding them towards the occurrence that was making my skin crawl. The closer we come the more it feels like insects are moving over every inch of my body.

"The air." Sasuke mutters absentmindedly and I give him a small sound of agreement. "This is no jutsu." I realize feeling the point where the energies are converging growing. Leaping down from the trees I found my eyes widening at the sight before me. A bright white in flecks that almost looked like snowflakes were raising from the ground and foliage. "What..." Sasuke breathes as Itachi walks in front of us, his Sharingan already blazing against his features. His eyes tracking the white lights as they are pulled towards a bright ball Electricity sizzling and crackling above it. I found myself walking towards it until Sasuke catches my hand to keep me from getting any closer. The ball feels like it's vibrating as if it is echoing inside me causing my veins to hum in tune. "Each light has an aura." Itachi points out in an almost disbelieving tone. "This doesn't feel like Damen." I inform them as I close my eyes, focusing more on the feelings around me.

Both boys look at me as if they were watching for some sort of hint I could give them. Patiently waiting for me to evaluate the area from my perspective. "I don't feel anyone nearby that could be causing this." Now for the first time since we got back from the Uchiha hideout, I find myself wishing Aphrodite was here. There is a good chance that she would know what's going on. "As for what is going on right now... I'm not sure. The area is lit up with electricity and the lights feel tangible in my blanket. The ball itself... It's humming and still growing."

"Is there a way to prevent its growth?" Itachi questions as he steps closer to us, I can feel his eyes move to Sasuke before lingering on our hands. "I don't know. Anything I can think of has a high percentage of causing it to become volatile." I shake my head with my words as I hook the thumb of my free hand onto my front pocket. Trying to relax beneath the weight of the air around us. "I see." Itachi comments before I feel his hands move in signs just before there is a sudden popping as a white dove appears on his shoulder. He reaches into his pouch and retrieves the items he needs. "I am sending our findings to the Lady Hokage." He more speaks as an afterthought. "But we should pull back for now and watch it."

Nodding to him I walk with Sasuke further away from the area. His grip on my hand is still firm enough I would not easily be able to remove my hand. After Itachi's dove flies from his shoulder he follows us. His gaze set dead on Sasuke bringing rise back to the tension we had previously been dealing with. As if he knew of Itachi's glare Sasuke's hold on my hand tightens momentarily before he finally releases me. I move to a tree and set down on the ground with my back against the bark a sigh threatening to break through my grip. On top of this situation, what am I going to do with these boys?

It didn't take long for Itachi and Sasuke both to sit next to me at the base of the tree. Itachi is on my right this time situated in a way he can keep watch on the accumulating energy ball. Sasuke on my left with his left arm resting on his knee. By looking at him it would seem his right hand was on the ground steadying his relaxed posture, however, I could feel his fingers linking around mine. This very nearly made me smile except for the fact Itachi's hand resting over my other one was a constant reminder of both of their feelings towards me. Were they nervous? As if by my saying this wasn't a jutsu they felt like they needed to keep me close? Almost as if they think I need protecting. This thought finally dislodged my sigh. I was never one to need protection, though even Light tried to pull me from the death note in order to protect me.

"The speed we traveled if the Hokage does send another unit. It will be a while before they get here." Sasuke breaks the silence with his thought and I could feel Itachi nod. "There is only a handful in the village that are capable of our speeds." He speaks lowly as he turns around more finally taking his eyes off of the ball. Probably from knowing I'm already keeping my focus on it. "True, but there is one that I hope she sends." I pipe up as I feel them nearly tense at their thoughts. "Kira, your cousin has become creepy." Sasuke mutters with a smirk this time making me smile. "That must say something coming from a guy that spent his time with the creepiest being I've ever had the displeasure of meeting." This actually had Itachi giving a short chuckle next to me.

I have no idea how long we had been sitting there in silence. A silence I had grown used to over my life especially the last few years with Itachi at my side. It left time to think, to try and strategize with the different possibilities. And, to think about the future. Pein's attack, what to do about Zetsu, how to handle Obito also.. what to do about the men in my life. I already know if I choose one there would be far more animosity in the air than there already is. No matter which one I choose the team will be affected. I want to choose, to accept the happiness each one offers. Then again I also do not wish to. Not just because I would be forced to watch them age before my eyes and inevitably lose them but also, it wouldn't be fair to them. Sasuke himself is supposed to have a daughter with Sakura. The thought alone causes my stomach to knot and pain to build in my chest, threatening to bring rise to tears that so desperately wishes to break through my ever-weakening hold. It's the same with Itachi, I have given him the opportunity to build new ties. To possibly one day have a wife of his own and children. Kakashi, who still stands a chance of doing the same. Lives that I cannot offer them.

Sasuke's sudden shocked grunt and light jerk draws Itachi's attention to him. The sight of Kira's form meeting their eyes. At some point, while she had been focusing on the mission and lost in her thoughts she had fallen asleep. Her head now resting on Sasuke's confused shoulder. "She must still be having a difficult time sleeping." Itachi mutters officially drawing Sasuke's gaze from her. Even without the confusion still lingering in his little brother's gaze, Itachi had already figured out that even with their time together in the village and how close they had become. She had never really opened up to Sasuke. Not like she had with him. This alone brought a level of solace to Itachi. A fact that he knows her better than the other two who care for her. This thought alone eased the weight he had been feeling in his chest every time he sees his little brother with her. "Hn, well you gonna tell me or not?" Sasuke's usual tone he has whenever he isn't speaking with Kira breaks the surface. The tone he had built up over the years filled with his own arrogance and temper. The very tone that would always anger Kabuto.

"There is a reason she hasn't told you." Itachi speaks up a smirk already in place as he looks away from Kira. His eyes closing only enhancing his own arrogant air about him. A normal for Sasuke to witness from his brother. He was telling him again that he knows more about Kira than he does. As if that alone made her his. Sasuke growls under his breath and looks away from his brother. "Sasuke." Itachi speaks lowly as if he was trying not to be overheard by the one now sleeping next to him. "Hn." Sasuke grunts looking towards his brother from the corner of his eye. "Do not think you hold precedence in her heart. There is far more to your sway over her than even you know and it's not from her feelings she harbors for you." With these words, Itachi's low tone tightens almost maliciously matching the very way Sasuke had grown to know from his brother. Filled with hate. These words alone left Sasuke confused. Silently wondering what could cause her to be like she is with him if not from feelings she has for him.

This isn't the first time Itachi has told him this. When he had arrived home after he had spent the night with Kira, Itachi had been waiting for him. The happiness he had felt feeling as if he had finally gotten her to choose him squashed by those very same words. Just like last time, it seems Itachi wasn't going to shed light on his words. Another way of holding it over him that he knows more about the girl he loves than Sasuke himself knows. "Right, and you expect me to believe that." Sasuke retorts figuring Itachi was only saying that to throw him off again. "Believe as you wish, little brother, it's the truth." Itachi sighs. It was then Sasuke looks back towards his brother only to find his Sharingan already activated and trained on him. In an instant he found himself standing just behind the tree on the Hokage mountain. Watching the end of his date with Kira from Itachi's perspective.

He pulls her close after telling her what he sees when he watches her in an attempt to disprove her claim of a spell. "You told Itachi earlier that you are having a hard time with three people suddenly confessing their love for you." His voice was low almost inaudible. "I will wait for you to decide. Don't think that means I'll give you up without a fight. I will hold you and kiss you as many times as I like so you don't forget me in your decision, just so you are warned." His voice rose knowing Itachi and Kakashi had been watching them the entire time. Content with his warning he watches himself walk away from Kira, leaving her to think about what he had told her. "Emo boy, can't you see? That just makes it harder." Her quiet pain-filled voice all but echo's within him as she sighs. He watches as she bows her head, her gaze flicking towards the steps leading down to the street as if she had hoped to catch a glimpse of him before he watches as she closed her eyes.

"Sasuke.." She suddenly gasped opening her eyes and looking back ahead of her a moment before she practically ran to the top of the steps. Almost as if she nearly lost herself and ran to catch him. The satisfaction at witnessing this was short-lived as she stops at the top of the steps staring down the way he had left. A tear glistens in the moonlight with her hidden thoughts as her gaze fills with pain. "I can see it now. He's so much like you, Light." He watches her sad smile as she turns facing the moon. Her eyes still glistening with unshed tears staring up at it with a faraway look as if she was remembering something. It took a few moments before she looked away from the moon and turns away from it slowly. The pain-filled expression still lingering on her features. "Can't be, he's Emo boy after all. Not you."

The vision ends as the genjutsu releases leaving Sasuke sitting on the ground with Kira's head still on his shoulder. He finds himself looking away from his brother with warring emotions. He got to see how she loved him and the pain he caused as she realized he reminds her of the man she had loved in that other world of hers. In a way, he was glad Itachi showed him that vision. The way she had gasped beneath him as her eyes widened when she was staring into his eyes. The flash of sadness that briefly showed itself in her gaze as if begging to be seen when he had nearly lost himself to her touch. It explains it all. The very fact she loves him hurts her in ways he can't stop or prevent. These thoughts had Sasuke clenching his left hand into a fist from his own emotions. An action that did not escape Itachi's gaze only adding to the pain he could now see his brother is going through. After having caused his little brother so much suffering Itachi felt the guilt from having caused him more torment. However, he finds himself nearly smiling with knowing this would drive a wedge between Kira and his little brother. Officially opening up room for Itachi to take her from him.

Itachi himself can see why his little brother would remind her of Light. From the time he had spent trapped in her memories, he was able to learn more than he cared to about the man who had first stolen Kira's heart. His little brother acts a lot like Light and has a tendency to even emulate the man as if Sasuke was his reincarnate. However, the innocence that still brews in his brother's eyes and rules his decisions is what sets them apart. In that view, Itachi himself was more like the man than Sasuke. However, he himself knows that he cannot compare to Sasuke's similarities. Even when he was labeled as a criminal and killed for the Akatsuki there was always a part of him Kira could see that no one else could. He didn't want to do any of it. And that is the major difference between Light and the rest of them. Light enjoyed killing. Ever since the time he was trapped in her memories he had found himself often wondering if that was truly what put Light even above himself. Though he knew otherwise. While in her memories he had seen far more than just that other world. He had seen the one she was born into and her memories of her time in this one. Even then he knew the pull his brother had over her. He witnessed it. The love in his gaze that she had overlooked. He had also seen himself through her eyes. Feel the pain he had caused with his distance. He already knew how she felt about his little brother and himself. And those feelings weren't because they were killers as he had placed as the factor between Light and himself. It is quite possible in his eyes that if he hadn't of pushed her away, her heart would have already been his.

The air around the three of them suddenly ignites with a loud crack that seems to shake the ground itself. Successfully waking Kira up. In a single moment, the three of them were on their feet. Sasuke moves up into the tree peering down at the disturbance, Itachi looking around the tree as Kira moves closer to Itachi. Pressing herself against him as she peers around him. The white ball of light had spread tearing through the air as if it was ripping open their reality. Itachi and Sasuke's eyes widen as Kira's narrows with her confusion trying to understand how this could be happening. Slowly the dimensional hole grows further ripping through time. A vision of the pool just outside of her parent's house coming into view brought a gasp from her. "Home." Was the only word she could utter. As the hole grew the sight of two dark figures standing before it had her eyes widening. "Mom?" She breathes absentmindedly. Before the other two had realized it Kira had appeared before the opening watching as it finishes. Though what stepped into the brightened area.. was not her parents.

Standing before her was a girl that looked as if she had reached the age of her maturity. Her dark hair peeking out from beneath the hood of her zip-up hoodie nearly shined green in the light with almost an otherworldly hue. Her brown eyes were bored rather than curious. Just from the expression on her face, she looked almost as if she was bored enough she could fall asleep. Her sweater was left unzipped enough it gave full view to her red shirt beneath flashing the majority of a rock band's emblem. Two small wires run from the pocket of her loose-fitting black cargo pants and disappear beneath her hood on either side of her face. Headphones, Kira realizes silently. Both of her wrists sporting black sweatbands. Beneath her pants, a pair of black and red skater shoes peak out into view.

As the confusion was settling in a boy steps out beside the girl just as the portal snaps shut with another loud crack and vanishes. The boy had black hair much like her own that flows down just before his icy blue eyes beneath the hood of his own black jacket. His expression matched the girl's as his eyes were half-closed, though his lips parted a bit lazily as he looks at her. His jacket much like his counterpart's was unzipped though not nearly as far giving view to his own red shirt. Though instead of her cargo pants he was wearing a pair of loose-fitting torn black jeans and a pair of black sneakers. His own pair of red earbuds peeking out around his face from beneath his jacket. As if he had zipped his jacket up over his wires. "Krista, who is she?" He asks just as boredly as he looks. It was then in a flash Sasuke and Itachi comes to Kira's side. Sasuke's hand already curled around the hilt of his sword. "I dunno." She answers him matching his tone. Kira found she was unable to stop herself from tilting her head curiously at the two in front of her.