"Whew. I think that's everything from our place." Uchiha Amai said as she placed a parcel on a cart. A woman a few years younger than Amai nodded to her.

"There's still an item or two left in ours. I'll go inside and grab them while you guys secure everything." The woman said as she set her young daughter on her feet, kissed her husband on the cheek, and then headed inside her home. This was Uchiha Aiko, the younger cousin and apprentice of Amai's late husband, Uchiha Itachi.

"It's hard to believe that we're finally moving to Konoha." Amai's daughter, Uchiha Tamana remarked.

"It's always felt like a distant dream." Tamana's twin brother Dango agreed. Although they looked less similar to each other now that they were teenagers, the twins still bore a striking resemblance to their father. Dango's long hair was tied into a low ponytail, the same way that his father had worn it at that age. Tamana's hair was styled similarly, but divided into two low twin-tails in a style reminiscent of the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade. Both of them had deep brown hair that was almost black.

"Well, Nozomi is old enough to enter the Academy, so now it's becoming a reality." Aiko's husband, Uchiha Koujirou remarked as he tied down their belongings. Like Amai, he had married into the Uchiha Clan, but since he did not come from a shinobi clan himself, he had taken Aiko's last name, although this was a secret from the village where they had been living up until now.

Aiko and Koujirou's daughter, Uchiha Nozomi, was standing next to her father as he secured things. Suddenly she noticed something and tugged on her father's pant leg to get his attention. "Huh? What is it, Nozomi?" Koujirou asked as he knelt down beside his daughter. Nozomi didn't answer him directly, but she pointed at what she was looking at in the forest near their house. A man who was standing in the shadows of the trees quietly came forward. Amai and the twins were instantly on their guard and even Nozomi retrieved a kunai from the holster on her leg and held it in a defensive manner.

"Good afternoon. I am looking for the woman named Aiko, who should reside in this house." He said before looking at the five people before him, "Would one of you be so kind as to go and call for her?" None of them moved. Koujirou, having not been trained as a Shinobi, had no idea what was going on, but the other members of the group had no intentions of letting down their guards. Seeing this, the man sighed. "I see. It seems I'll have to get her attention then." He suddenly produced a black rod from seemingly nowhere and threw it. Koujirou immediately realized that his target was Nozomi and, acting purely on instinct, he dove forward and shoved his daughter aside.

He let out a strangled cry as Nozomi screamed, "Papa!"

The stranger dashed toward Nozomi but found his path swiftly blocked by Amai, who fended him off with the kodachi that had been in hidden within the sleeve of her kosode, and he jumped back to avoid it.

"I see..." The man said, "You never officially became a Shinobi and your husband died sixteen years ago, yet you haven't slacked in your training in the slightest." Amai narrowed her eyes at him, but he looked past her at the too-still Koujirou. "A pity. I was aiming away from his daughter's vital spots, but his attempt to protect her has cost him his life."

"I don't even want to know what you were thinking, trying to attack a little girl in such a way!" Amai exclaimed, though her voice belied how in control she was of herself.

"What is going on out here?!" Aiko's voice came from around the side of the house before the assailant could answer. Her eyes fell upon where Nozomi was sitting on the ground, trembling beside her lifeless father. "Koujirou-kun!" Aiko wailed in despair as she rushed toward her husband and daughter. She stopped short, not allowing herself to fall on her knees as she took in Koujirou's still form. She suddenly turned and glared at his killer. "What is the meaning of this, Jigen?! Or should I say Ōtsutsuki Isshiki?!" She demanded.

Jigen frowned, "I admit that I wasn't expecting you to know quite that much..." He shook his head. "I apologize for your husband's death. He misread my intentions."

"Don't speak as if you actually care about the lives of humans." Aiko said venomously, "You Ōtsutsuki look down on us as mere garbage. That hasn't exactly changed in the last thousand years and I doubt it ever will."

"Hm... you're quite knowledgeable about the past. Is that something that Uchiha Itachi taught you about, or did you learn of it from your contacts in Konoha?" He asked.

"Neither. My father did historical research in his spare time." Aiko replied, "He managed to uncover basically everything regarding Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and the long history of shinobi that followed her downfall."

"I see... then I'll get right to the point." Jigen told her, "I know that you are the disciple of Uchiha Itachi and that you specialize in gathering information. Kara is in need of new members. I came to invite you to work as one of our Inners."

Aiko snorted in contempt, "You killed my husband while attempting to do who-knows-what to my daughter, and you think that I would help you? It's clear that you don't actually know anything about me."

At Amai's beckoning, the twins gathered close to Aiko and her family, coming within range just in time as bright pink chakra swirled up around her and within seconds, shaped itself into a perfect Susanoo.

"Oh... A member of the Uchiha Clan, huh?" Jigen mused, "I will admit that that is a surprise."

Aiko ignored him as she began to speak, "Sasuke-niichan, listen to me. I don't have time to explain, but what you've been seeing is the effect of my visual prowess. I'm going to end the connection, so please come here as fast as you can."

"Aunt Aiko, exactly how long have you had that jutsu active?" Dango asked.

"Since the very beginning." Aiko answered plainly.

"Aiko! Nozomi-chan has passed out!" Amai called urgently.

"She's probably exhausted her chakra." Aiko said as calmly as she could manage, "Dango, you need to divert your chakra away from your eyes. Look after Tamana. I think she's in shock."

"Understood." Dango said, kneeling next to his sister, who had fallen on her knees, staring at Koujirou's lifeless body. Up until now, he hadn't even noticed that his world had been dyed red, but now that Aiko had said something, he focused on redirecting his flow of chakra in order to avoid wasting any more than he already had.

Jigen seemed impassive as he rose into the air to be at eye-level with the Uchiha woman. "Do you really think you can take me?" He asked.

"No." Aiko said flatly, "I'm well aware that if you used your full power, you could break through my Susanoo quite easily. Nonetheless, this is the only thing that I can do to protect my family."

Before Jigen could reply, a purple fist came barreling out of a space-time rift towards him, although he dodged it with easy.

"Aiko! What is going on?!" Uchiha Sasuke asked as his own Perfect Susanoo formed around him.

"Can we discuss that later?!" Aiko asked, "He's already killed my husband, he's not taking anymore of us! Our clan is small enough as it is."

Sasuke nodded, fixing his eyes on Jigen, who had turned his attention to the last, pure-blooded Uchiha. However, as Jigen was debating what tactic he should use against the two Susanoo, he failed to notice Amai retrieving a peculiar kunai from within her clothes. A crackle of electricity was the only warning he got before the kunai went flying at him, quickly breaking the sound barrier. He briefly disappeared and a distant mountain crumbled as it was struck by the kunai.

"Did you get him?" Dango asked.

"No." Aiko replied instantly, her gaze shifting to Sasuke, "I have an idea. It's risky, but it may be all we have. If it fails, I'm counting on you to get everyone to safety. I don't care how many dimensions you have to jump through."

Sasuke nodded without looking at her, but Amai spoke up.

"But Aiko-chan, you're—"

"It doesn't matter." Aiko said bluntly. "I don't have the luxury of worrying about that now."

Suddenly Jigen attacked Aiko with a heel drop, which she blocked with the fan created by her Susanoo. He seemed to be interested in what she and Amai had been saying. "Oh? Is it possible that you're—"

"Big mistake." Aiko said, having locked eyes with him.

Jigen looked around, his surroundings having suddenly turned black and red with a white moon. He was bound with sealing chains as he looked at Aiko standing alone before him. "I see. Tsukuyomi, huh? I suppose it's only fitting that Itachi's pupil would possess that ability."

"Since you already know what this is, I can save time on the explanation." Aiko said tonelessly. "It will only be 1/100 of one-billionth of a second in the real world, but in here, every member of my clan that I possess any memory of will bombard you with kunai for the next four years. Even my precious daughter, whom you tried to harm."

Jigen raised a brow at her. "Such an interesting way of torturing an enemy. May I ask why?"

"Members of the Otsutsuki tend to be unfazed by pain, but you do experience humiliation in your own way." Aiko said as her clan members came forward. "For you, who came to this planet with Kaguya, who looks down on humans and consider us inferior, what could be more humiliating than to be tortured for years by an entire clan of her descendants? A clan that, for centuries, were the unwitting pawns of Kurozetsu. Men, women, and children, the vast majority of whom are already dead as a result of Kaguya's manipulation? And yet, despite that... despite all of hers and Kurozetsu's efforts and manipulation... She was once again defeated, and they were both sealed away... at the hands of her own descendants." Aiko produced a kunai of her own and threw it, the rest of her clan following suit.

It had only been a mere instant since Aiko had caught Jigen's gaze within the real world, so everybody else was slightly shocked when the man suddenly fell unconscious and plummeted to the ground. Aiko fell to her knees, panting, her Susanoo receding, but Sasuke caught her and all of the others in the hand of his own Susanoo, and she looked up at him. "That... cart... has all of our belongings on it." She managed before passing out in Amai's arms.

Sasuke nodded, picking up the cart with his other hand and quickly fleeing into a space-time portal, Susanoo and all.

一族

Somewhere in a completely different dimension, Sasuke pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Neesan, explain." He insisted bluntly.

Amai sighed, unable to blame her brother-in-law for his frustration. "I don't know if you were told, but we're supposed to move to Konoha today. When Aiko-chan went inside to retrieve something, that guy, Jigen or Isshiki or whoever he is, showed up. Apparently, he wanted to recruit Aiko-chan as a member of Kara. He threw a black chakra at Nozomi-chan. I think he was planning to take her hostage to obtain leverage, because he said that he was aiming away from her vitals. But when Koujirou realized that Jigen was aiming for his child, he shoved Nozomi out of the way and was killed by the rod. He may not have been a shinobi, but he still possessed the instinct to protect his child. Aiko-chan came out immediately afterward." Sasuke nodded in understanding and Amai looked at her much taller brother-in-law with a hint of fear in her eyes. "I don't understand though. I attacked that man with Denjyuudou Douteki. How could he have possibly dodged it?"

"It's possible that he has some knowledge of the technique. He may have sensed the electrical current used to propel the kunai and then shrunk himself to a size that only the Sharingan could see in order to avoid the attack." Sasuke speculated.

At that moment, Aiko groaned and carefully sat up.

"Aiko-chan, how are you feeling?" Amai asked with worry.

"I'm fine. I don't think I overexerted myself." Aiko answered, "My body just didn't like that very much."

"What did you do?" Sasuke asked.

"Tsukuyomi." Aiko replied, "I honestly wasn't sure if it would work against that guy or not, and he'll probably recover from it far easier than a normal person, but I had to at least try, since physical attacks were of relatively little use. To increase my chances, I compressed a relatively large amount of time into a significantly small interval."

"It worked well enough for me to get you guys to safety. That's what counts." Sasuke said. "Now that you're awake, let's get moving. I have just enough chakra left to open a portal to Konoha."

"In a moment." Aiko said as she walked over to the wagon that she and the others had been packing and rummaged through it before pulling out a sheet and turning to Amai, who had walked over to her, holding the piece of fabric out. "We can... We can wrap Koujirou-kun in..."

Amai nodded, her face filled with sympathy and understanding as she hugged Aiko gently. "Dango and I will take care of it. It's going to be okay, Aiko-chan." She reassured her gently.

Aiko sighed sadly. Sasuke, seeing that she needed a moment, walked over to his niece, who was still sitting on the ground, though she was no longer in shock and was now cradling the unconscious Nozomi. "Are you all right, Tamana?" He could see that the teenaged girl was horrified by what she had just witnessed.

"My eyes hurt..." Tamana replied while reaching up and rubbing her eyes with one hand. Sasuke's expression grew more worried as she sniffled and continued, "If only I had been faster... I could've..."

Sasuke reached forward and placed a hand on the young girl's shoulder. "It wasn't your fault, Tamana." He said gently.

"Sasuke-kun is right." Amai said from where she was tending to Koujirou's body with Dango, "Nozomi-chan will probably blame herself too, but the fact is that she was far out of her league. Koujirou-kun knew what he was risking when he shoved her aside."

"Then his target was actually this child?" Sasuke asked. Although Amai had mentioned it earlier, he had not been formally introduced to Nozomi.

"Yes." Amai replied sadly. "She's Aiko-chan's daughter and was the first of us to notice him. I think he had been suppressing his chakra to mask his approach. In fact, I'm certain of it." Sasuke nodded in acknowledgement and then realized that he was curious about something, "What about your right eye? You said it was only your left eye which can cast the Tsukuyomi."

"The ability of my right eye is called Hijichoumoku." Aiko replied, "It's a visual prowess that allows me to see and hear things through somebody else's eyes, or to let them see what I see. It's the perfect visual prowess for spying and gathering information. Using it in reverse allows me to contact allies when I'm in trouble, as you literally saw. In the war, I mostly used it to keep track of what was happening on the battlefield. Now I've been trying to gather information on Kara and other threats via my network of unwitting spies. My power works by first marking a person anywhere on their body. Then, I can activate it without their knowledge. I placed the mark on you when we were outside the shrine that night. It enabled me to literally have you be my eyes on the battlefield. The mark also allows me to sense whether or not a person who bears it is still alive and track them from anywhere, provided we're in the same dimension. I occasionally travel to other villages here and in the Land of Steam to mark people who are likely to come into contact with persons of interest. Since they don't know that I'm using them as a spy, it doesn't put them in any danger, but it can be hard to determine the correct target sometimes."

"Out of curiosity, what would you have done if I wasn't available to come help you?" Sasuke asked, "For that matter, how did you know that I wasn't in the middle of a battle myself?"

"I could sense that you were in Konoha, so the odds of you being in battle were low." Aiko answered. "If you hadn't been in the same dimension, I would've likely contacted Naruto-kun instead. I placed the same mark on him years ago, but I've never used it for anything except to keep track of whether he was alive. He's the Hokage after all. To be honest, if there were a way to remove it, I would probably do so, just so nobody would have reason to question my intentions."

Sasuke nodded in understanding, "It's better if we don't say anything about it. As you said, it does serve as a means to at least know he's alive."

Notes: So this is the beginning of a new story of mine about the other the Uchiha Clan truly being reestablished in Konoha.

EDIT: 01/20 I've edited this two times now. The first was to change the villain. The second was to make sure everything stays consistent within the series.