Chapter Twenty: The Death of Aiko Uchiha

Meanwhile Kakashi had found Konohamaru, Sachi, Saki, and Kizashi as they came to the clearing of the woods. "We can't find Keiko." Kizashi confessed. "And we were supposed to train together and Sachi was going to teach me how to do Chidori. At least you're alright though and I'm really glad that we found you." He told him.

"Yeah, me too, but where's Uncle Sasuke?" Sachi wondered as Kakashi heaved a deep and heavy sad sigh before squatting down in front of her. "Oh no." she began. "What happened to him?" she questioned him reluctantly already dreading his answer.

"Sachi, I don't know how to tell you this but your aunt and uncle and baby cousin have all been kidnapped by Lord Orochimaru." He told her as she gasped and widened her eyes at him in shock and disbelief.

Flashback

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"Alright Sachi, it's time for bed sweetheart." Her mother told her while she stuck her head inside of her bedroom while Sachi was busy chatting on the computer with one of her friends.

"Oh come on Mom, five more minutes." She pleaded but her mother just simply shook her head at her.

"I'm sorry Sachi but you have to go to school tomorrow. It's time to get into your pajamas and brush your teeth and then I'll be in in a few minutes to say goodnight to you alright?" she questioned her before her daughter suddenly let out a huge sigh.

"Fine,.." she replied reluctantly before she turned off her computer and stood up and headed straight for the hallway and into bathroom and then quietly shut the door behind her.

Meanwhile Orochimaru was deep inside of his secret hideout plotting with some other guy hidden deep inside the shadows. "We might have lost Itachi and Sasuke, but I still see great power deep inside of Sachi. That's why I wanted to give her the gift of the cursemark at a very young age. I didn't want to waste any time at all with her." Orochimaru hissed.

"Oh she has great power alright. She has my power. The power of the chienigan. Just think what all you could accomplish if you had her body my lord even if she's just an eleven year old brat." Another man told him.

"Oh I'm thinking about it alright, but I have an even bigger plan. You see either way I need a new body, and Sachi's heart is more like her father's than her uncle's so I highly doubt that she will come to me so willingly." Orochimaru told him.

"So what do you plan to do then my lord?" the other man wondered as Orochimaru simply just sneered at him.

"Oh don't you worry about that Doragon. Just follow my lead." Orochimaru told him.

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"Alright darling, it's time for bed." Sachi's mother told her before Sachi let out a great big sleepy yawn. Her mother pulled the covers up over her and tucked her in tight before planting a kiss on her forehead. "I'm so proud of what a great ninja and a wonderful person that you're growing up to be and I already know for a fact that your father would be too." She said before she sat down beside her and smiled warmly and lovingly down at her.

"And you know what? I'm sure that he's looking down from Heaven and watching over you right now." She told her. "All ninjas go to Heaven you know because they help protect our village." She said with a grin. "Well,.. except for the rogue ones." She added before kissing her forehead again. "Goodnight baby, never forget how much Mommy loves you." She told her.

"I love you too Mom." Sachi said before they started singing their special little lullaby together.

"Goodnight my child, sleep tight as the moon drifts up in the sky,

And the birds sing their song about how the day is done,

And so for now I will say goodbye until the morning light and mister sun will welcome us to a brand new day."

They sang together before Sachi's mother kissed her forehead a final time and then stood up and walked over to the wall to turn off the light and quietly left the room while Sachi drifted off to sleep. They were both currently unaware of the fact that Orochimaru and the Akatsuki were now currently entering the sand village. The Akatsuki broke into Sachi's house and then set it on fire before abducting her and taking her hostage into a nearby tree. (that later on wound up to be her treehouse)

"Mother!" Sachi cried frantically while reaching her hand out desperately towards her house. "Leave her alone!" she hollered angrily while activating her sharingan and cursemark at exactly the same time.

"Relax Sachi,.." one of the Akatsuki members began. "Your mother will be alright as long as you behave yourself and do exactly what we say." He told her.

"Whatever, whatever you want just please don't hurt my mom." She pleaded as her cursemark receded and her eyes returned to blue and there grew a deep sadness inside of them as she heaved a light sigh. "She's the only thing that I have left now." She added.

"Don't worry Sachi, Lord Orochimaru isn't interested in your mother at all. He's interested in you and that's why he's willing to make you a deal. If you come back with us your mom will be safe, but if you don't,.. she will be killed." The man told her. "However, you do realize that either way you'll never see her again." He added as she sighed again and a tear rolled down her cheek.

"Alright, seeing as I don't have any other choice I'll come with you." She began before glancing up at him. "Can I at least tell her goodbye though?" she wondered but all the hope that she still had left inside her heart was short lived as at that moment they took her away. Later on that night when she had managed to escape and return home she had found that her house was burnt to a crisp and Orochimaru was standing there in front of her.

"What have you done!?" she hollered angrily while activating her sharingan and cursemark again. "Where's my mother!?" she shouted as he simply just sneered and stepped aside to reveal her mother's corpse lying on the ground beside him. Sachi gasped and felt a sudden rage of anger start to boil up inside of her.

"You promised!" she shouted when suddenly she found to her horror that tears were once again rolling down both of her cheeks and she knew that true ninjas,.. especially Uchihas were never supposed to show their emotions because it made them appear weaker than they really were but she couldn't help it.

"My apologies my dear darling and sweet young girl, but in order for me to keep my immortality, I have to keep transferring my soul into a new body every three years." He told her. "And I figured that your mother's was perfect and that way I could use her as bait to get you. It only took a very persuasive argument of attempting to save her and treat her dinner. I just left out the part about her wineglass containing a few drops of poison inside of it." He hissed as Sachi gasped in pure and utter astonishment and widened her eyes at him.

"I know what you currently must be thinking,.." he began. "If I truly am an Uchiha how could I have just been so trusting and naïve?" he said and that's when suddenly Sachi's eyes of sadness and sorrow turned to rage and hate.

"No, quite the contrary actually." She began. "What I was thinking was how long will it take me to finish you once and for all!?" she hollered angrily before she formed a Chidori ball inside the palm of her hand and came charging towards him. That's when all of a sudden Orochimaru started making a few hand signs.

"Well I'm sorry Sachi but it's going to be at least a few more years." He told her before he transferred his soul inside of her mother's body.

End of flashback

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That was it. That was the last time Sachi ever remembered seeing her mother and still being able to recognize her as her mother before Orochimaru started taking over it and then it just didn't seem like her own mother then after that.

"Sachi, are you alright sweetheart?" Kakashi questioned her when suddenly her brain snapped back to reality. She had taken a vow that night that she would get her revenge on Orochimaru and that's mostly what she had thought about ever since.

"Yes,.. I'm fine." She began. "And since I'm an avenger, Orochimaru will pay for what he has done." She told him while activating her sharingan at exactly the same time.