(A/N; MarieXWhitlock here, Anyway sorry for it being posted late, we both were busy last weekend and well, I admit we were still writing. So anyway here's to a new chapter! Chapter 4 will be posted on Jan, 31st! I promise you that. . . now only you gotta find out when chapter 5 is being posted. . . the next two chapters are gonna be well something different than our usual. . . anyway, enjoy. . . fan me on Wattpad if you read on there. . . anyway Ja ne!

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chapter 3

(Lyssa/Yumi)

I was sitting down in a comfy chair as Itachi walked in with three files on our next mission, I sat up straighter and grip one of them and opened them as I read through I saw it was on pacifically Itachi's father Fugaku Uchiha. I rubbed at my temples and looked up at Itachi's gloom looking face "this means its going to happen soon doesn't it?" he nodded and sat next to me handing me a file on my twin brother, Shisui Uchiha.

Danzo was watching him, I cursed out and slammed the file onto the table and stood up and started pacing around the room "We're going on a mission tomorrow how the hell are we gonna save my brother from this?!" I slammed my hands down onto the glass table and screeched in anger.

I breathed out slowly and looked at Itachi "tell the Hokage we need my brother on the mission, we'll delay Danzo for a bit, I may not be able to save him but I can delay Danzo's attack for now. . ." Itachi smiled a bit and nodded as he left quickly as he did I looked at the last file, it was on me and Itachi, Danzo wanted me and Itachi for a reason but what?

I read through the pages carefully and slowly so I could find a clue but at the moment I was finding none and that irritated the hell out of me, growing up as a Uchiha wasn't all that grand my father was still pissed off at the Hokage for allowing Kakashi to walk around with our older brother's Sharingan in his body, and that made it even harder for me and my brother

(Ashley)

Deidara closed the door behind him, allowing me a few moments to change before I meet my doom. As I went through the motions of dressing I thought about high school and how Lys and I became friends.

My first day of my freshman year was absolutely awful. Even at Catholic school kids could still be cruel about the fashion choices that were allowed. Many insulted my shoes, black clunky things, instead of the fashionable moccasins all the other girls wore. I could already tell that I wouldn't have any friends at this school, it almost made me miss public school. Almost.

I hunched into myself and curled my feet under me waiting for my dad to come pick me up. When a shadow fell over me, I look up and it's a girl. She was dark haired and had dark eyes, but what surprised me most was her accent. She sounded like she was trying to emulate a Japanese accent, I thought she must be a manga fan. "I'm Lyssa" sticking out her hand to me. I gave it the firmest shake I could muster, "And you are?"

"Uhh," I mumbled because I was never good with greetings, "I'm Ashley."

She grinned broadly, if not a little feral, "Nice to meet you Ash, I can tell we are going to be great friends."

I could feel the snarky reply that would normally stay in my head bubble up, "It's Ashley." I deadpan, 'who the hell is this chick' I thought.

Lyssa grin became more feral as she drawled out, "Ok Ash, I think we are going to be great friend." She slid right next to me, "Hey you look like you need to get into shape. You should join track with me!"

I just stared dumbly for a second before yelling, "I am NOT fat!" Which I wasn't.

Lyssa laughed as she gripped my shoulders, "I wasn't calling you fat! It's just I can't be "friends with someone who can't fight." And that is how we became friends. (Ps imagine this with middle schoolers and that is legitimately how we meet.)

I finished dressing, it was a black fishnet shirt under a black tube top, standard ninja pants complete with the wraps and blue sandals. There was even an empty kunai holder that I strapped to my left leg (because while I write with my right I shoot a bow with my left and kick with my left foot). I took out my messy bun from studying, knowing it would only get in the way.

I walked out the door plaiting my hair into a tight French braid. Deidara gave me a once over, his face undecipherable. "Hmmm," I guess I didn't take as long as he wanted, "Well at least you look the part now, hm."

I finished my braid and frowned at him, "Excited to see more bruises added to my collection?"

Deidara made a quick face that smoothed so quickly I almost couldn't tell that he made it. "Follow me, hmm." He started to walk down the hall at a brisk (asshole-ish) pace. I followed but my face scrunched up with effort trying not to stick out my tongue.

It was easier to be unnoticeable before I met Lyssa, now I (almost) don't care if I'm a bitch. But I still managed to surprise myself sometimes because under my breath I said, "Someone PMSing."

It was hilariously terrifying how quickly Deidara swung back to face me. I shut my feelings down at his glare, might as well finish what I started. The Akatsuki needed me anyway, right? "Sorry I know bring up menstruation is rude, but I know about some medications that can help with the mood swings. I think that it would help us get on the right foot."

His face turned a bright red that if I wasn't numb with fear I would have laughed out loud. I really hope Lyssa is ok because I'm going to die.

(Lyssa/Yumi)

I gasped sharply as I bent over in pain as I started to cough of blood, I held in a moan of pain that shot of from my chest and slowly spreading throughout my whole body as I hacked up more and more blood.

"Well, not something I was looking forward to, Ita-Kun" I wiped off the blood from my lips as I shakily stood up and roll my neck around, I shivered as I remembered running away from Madara in the forest to having to perform the Jutsu to erase and transfer me to another world.

"I've got three more years with this shit, fuck" I complained out as I saw Itachi smirk then go back to his stoic face as he slowly spoke "I warned you he would find you, Yumi"

I growled out and glared at him "I get that you warned me but it bought us time now didn't it?!"

I felt Itachi relax under my glare and look at me softly as he stroked my cheek "I had to do this, Ita. . ." I felt him stiffen as he looked outside to door as he heard voices outside of it.

"Ashley's started her training hasn't she?" Itachi just stood there looking at the door silently, I looked up at the ceiling and groaned out in pain as it started to take effect on my body.

I looked at Itachi one last time before I succumbed to the memories I needed back.

(Ashley)

Now most days I am not a stupid person, normally I know where I have to be, and what I have to do. But for the life of me, staring at Deidara angry face, I was stupefied. All I could think of was yoga.

That's right death was staring me in the face, and all I could think of was yoga.

Which, on later reflection, saved my life. Because it reminded me of all the meditations I did in yoga that focused on balancing the chakras.

I stared at Lyssa, now I had wanted to try yoga for a while but I didn't want to try it alone. So of course I asked Lys if she wanted to try it with me. She was skeptical at first but eventually I mentioned about wanting to learn more about the seven chakra's and it's like a switch was turned on in my friend. Lys became super excited and dragged me after school to the studio next to our dojo.

It was our third session and our Yoga said it was time to talk about the seven chakras. Lys was bouncing up and down. I had asked her before class why she was so excited but she couldn't put into words why she was so amped up so I left it alone. But as the lecture went on, I saw her slow become dishearten, and I was worried. And after the class she bolted looking like she had lost something but she didn't remember what.

But then after the next session she got better and started to excel in the class, just like in Muay Thai. She, just like in Muay Thai, started to teach me extra.

One particular mediation popped into my head.

"Now Ash," Lyssa asked me after a spar (her beating my ass) in her backyard, "Do you want to learn a new meditation technique?"

She had been trying to get me to practice seeing aura's and I did it with her to humor her, so I wondered what she wanted to try. Some of her beliefs seemed a little crazy, so tentatively I said, "Sure."

That day she walked me through how you can find someone based off of their aura. I had only paid attention because she was so insistent on me learning how to see auras.

I saw Deidara but my mind was somewhere else, I had instinctively started to focus on my sixth chakra. The one that allowed people to supposedly to see auras, and I saw for the first time an aura.

It was Deidara's, a vibrant yellow with angry red riming the outline. I felt it in my soul that he was about to strike so I pushed with the violet energy that surrounded me. I pulled it through my root chakra, just like Lyssa always said "Start with the base". Moving through me of its own volition out of my hands pushing Deidara away, I didn't wait to see what happen.

In my mind Lyssa said, when looking for someone you must think of their traits and connect it with a color. Since Sasori was an intellectual with an appreciation for the arts I though, blue! So frantically while running I searched for a small dot with the color blue. I felt, saw, I don't know, Deidara's energy flare up just as I spotted the indigo circle I was looking for.

And I can think of it that, this can't be fucking real!

(Lyssa/ Yumi)

Fugaku stood firm and strong as he spoke both to me and Itachi about how we needed to be at the Uchiha compound meeting tonight, it's been and week and me and Itachi stood nowhere close to stopping this suicide mission on taking over the Hokage.

I kept my hands fisted behind my back as I stood stoically nodding to everything Itachi's father was saying, I had to meet my brother soon so we could start on helping Itachi with something he was not going to like.

I stood up slowly and looked coldly at Itachi's father as I spoke my truth on the matter that all these meeting's that he'd been creating "If this carries on much longer this clan will be massacred, Uchiha-sama"

I slowly turned away from him and walked out the door leaving Itachi to deal with my outspoken words to his father.

I met up with Shisui as we both stood talking with the Hokage and the council about what was going on with the clan, I kept my eyes on Danzo but knew that he was going to have me and my brother talk to him privately behind the ground of this place.

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I walked with my brother towards the exit of the council room as we were about to exit I felt Danzo walk up to us in anger and what from I had no idea. Shisui and I stepped outside as we spoke to Danzo when things went out of control.

"NO!" I coughed up blood when one of Danzo's men punched me in the stomach keeping me from saving my brothers eyes.

"What did you do?!" I screamed and thrashed as I watched Danzo pull out my brothers eye then toss him aside as he then turned to me to do the same.

I pulled out a Kunai as I stabbed the boys left leg that was holding me here and took the opportunity to run to my brother and teleport us out of here. "You just condemned the Uchiha clan Danzo! You killed them all!"

I cursed out in pain when I felt a few too many Kunai pierce into my body, I teleported me and my brother away before finally dropping to the ground. "Plan B, Brother" I gasped out in pain as I took out the four Kunai that were lodged deeply into my abdomen as blood poured heavily out onto the floor as the kuni fell from my body.

I hissed out in pain when I felt Shisui pull out the Kunai that were lodged deeply into my back "Madara will be here in two days, ane... Run away now" I heard the break in his voice as he saw that we couldn't save the Uchiha clan any now.

"I'm sorry, Otōto..." I looked up at him in pain as I stroked his cheek and kissed him one last time on his forehead. "Goodbye..."

I flashed away to Itachi's house and dropped into his room. Sasuke stood there shocked and scared as he saw all the blood "hello, Sasuke..." Sasuke smiled and murmured back a reply when Itachi walked in and saw me.

"Sasuke go to bed, adult time now..." Sasuke whined and did as he was told them Itachi rushed over to me.

"Danzo... He betrayed us... I-" I cut off as I gasped for breath and coughed up some more blood. Itachi winced in sympathy as he saw the pain I was in.

"I have to run, we can't save the clan anymore... Goodbye Itachi" I whispered softly as I took his face in my hands and leaned my forehead against his and kisses him softly before vanishing into a flutter of Feathers out the window.

"Anata ga sugoku daisuki,Ita-Kun..."

(Ashley)

I felt the orange balls of energy follow me as I ran toward a door that was three feet away. All my focus was on staying alive, one ball of orange flew over my head as I reached my target door. I pushed away from the door closing my eyes and covering my ears as it exploded. I rammed into the wall, slightly disoriented. Eyes still closed I pushed off the wall and through the newly made hole. Deidara close behind and the other two of his bombs behind me.

A spike of red went through the orange rimmed balls and I curled into myself. The double explosion sent me flying, the only thing that saved me was the ice that appeared that quickly sprung between me and the blasts. I skipped over the ground like a rock on a lake, colors flashed before my eyes, and pain bloomed everywhere. For what seemed like an endless second my inertia was stopped by a hard metal wall.

Blood pooled in my mouth, from where I didn't care. I have to get up, Deidara's bright angry aura was coming closer and I had to get away. My eyes couldn't see, and nothing seemed to gain purchase as I stood. But then what I thought was a metal wall wrapped itself around me and righted me. As my vision cleared and I took a defensive stance, if I was to die, I'm dying with honor.

"Never show fear" Lyssa was in one of her moods again, "if someone wants to take you out they will." She looked at me, Lys looked ten years older. "But if they are sadist then they'll enjoy it less if you are not afraid." It was when Lyssa was like this that I truly worried about her.

Lyssa must have subconsciously remembered this, because looking back all the time we spent together was for this. I could finally see again and I saw that Sasori was hidden in Hiruko.

Sasori was reprimanding Deidara, "Brat don't kill her before she has a chance to be useful." It must have been Sasori who had stopped my rolling. I can use Sasori intrigue to my advantage, his blue aura had spikes of violet whenever Deidara tried to speak over him. I found that I had made it outside into what looks to be a rainforest. The door lead right into a damp dark clearing, some stubborn made it through the thick canopy causing a slight fog. Weapons laid out on a sheet approximately four feet to my left, the two ninja had minimal attention on me. They were in the midst of a heated argument (Sasori's aura showing how upset he was becoming, a swirling purple overcoming the blue).

I wasn't under any illusion that they would take me out as soon as possible, but if I could make it to Lyssa then I might have a chance. Slowly moving toward the weapons I focus on the two Akatsuki. I tried to feel my own energy, it was resistant and cold frigid blue, much lighter in color than Sasori's. Out of the corner of my eye I scanned the weapons dropping my defensive stance. I hoped the less threatening I seemed the less attention I would draw. But the more agitated their auras became the less they looked at the civilian girl. Somehow their argument devolved into art.

Stopping I stared at the weapons, pacing my move until I could identify which weapon I had the best chance with. While also trying to draw on the kekkei genkai I supposedly had, in the show it had to do with balancing mind and spirit.

All the sharp weapons I spied would only be a liability because I had no idea how to wield, plus many had a deadly shine that would spell death after a mistake. The weapons that had weights would also only slow me down, no weapon was better than trying to handle something new. All the way at the far end of the sheet was a staff, I think a Bo staff, and I almost smiled. That was a bit of luck.

With my interest in colorguard I was naturally drawn to working with Bo staffs when Lyssa implored me to learn a weapon. I saw no need to learn about blades in my life when I lead such a safe life, but the beauty of the Bo staff was something that came naturally. It wasn't fighting (which I never really enjoyed) but a dance.

But I was running out of time because Deidara and Sasori started to talk in hushed tone, their auras calmed back to a warm yellow and indigo blue. I tried once more to pull at the icy blue out but it snapped back into my core (or wherever energy goes), so I started to scan the building for Lyssa. I felt in my soul that her aura would be a passionate red, full of the fire in which she led her life.

I watched the two shinobi, waiting for a change. Anything that would indicate that their focus was broken, trying with little success to loosen my stance, to look as submissive as possible. Looking in the building I saw no auras within, but I felt Deidara's aura become brighter.

I started running for the Bo staff a few seconds before he yelled, "Oi! Girl what are you up to, hmm." But I knew it was now or never. I felt the chakra strings pull Hiruko tail from within. I pitched forward a split second before Sasori grabbed me, ungracefully rolling the last foot to the Bo staff. The small orange balls of Deidara's bird came racing towards me as I scrambled to grab the staff and get up. I managed to grab the staff but I had to roll on my back swing. It hit one of the birds and accidently threw it into the other.

The explosion pushed me back several feet sending bladed weapon at me, I spun the Bo staff double time blocking most of them. My back was burning with rug burn, but I pushed myself up with it.

Exhaustion was finally overcoming the adrenaline and I could finally feel the energy being pulled from my reserves to my brow chakra. Concentrating I forced my body to give up its one advantage, knowing from the show that if I didn't I would probably die.

Using my distraction someone sent a kunai that made home in my arm. Both shinobi didn't move, obviously I wasn't worth effort. Immediately I began to feel the effects of the poison, numbing my arm. It was the pin prick feeling of a neurotoxin, and with the speed of the sensation a potent one.

(Lyssa/Yumi)
I rushed through the forest outside of the Village as I ran for the clearing with the scroll in hand, This had to work. I had to make myself disappear or I'd die for nothing and with no time bought.

It was the least I could do for Itachi, buy him time before Madara found me in the other world and recruit me into the Akatsuki to use me for the "peace" I screamed out in agony as I fell from the tree with a Kunai deeply lodged into my ribs "Yumi Uchiha. . ." I hissed and glared up at Madara with his white Sharingan masked face and hissed as I felt his hand shoot out as he gripped my throat tightly as he lifted me up and throw me into the tree.

"You won't escape me, Yumi!" I smiled and kicked back against the tree as I rushed into him as I gripped his arm twisting it behind his back as I kicked out his legs from under him as I grabbed three kunai with wires as I tossed them all around him with Explosive tags attached to him.

I held two fingers in front of me as Madara yelled in rage as he saw my stance and started pulling the tags away as soon as I jumped away I yelled out "Kai!" I flashed away quickly as the bombs went off one by one.

I bought some time, I had to disappear quickly.

I tossed the scroll out bit into my thumb hard as I could as I drew blood then smirked as I saw Madara a few feet away behind me yelling in rage "YUMI, I WILL FIND YOU AND WHEN I DO I WILL KILL YOU!"

"Memery shōkyo yusō no jutsu!" I slammed my hand down onto the scroll as I lit it on fire as I erased myself from the ninja world, hopefully for good.

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(3rd Person)

"YUMI!" Madara yelled as he watched her smirk at him as a few explosives tags went off after her lighting the scroll of her jutsu on fire erasing anything that would of helped find her.

Zetsu slowly lifted up out of the ground as he assessed the damage that was done and whistled as he watched Madara scream in anger at the loss of the Uchiha girl escaping his grasps.

"Thats something, she must of been smart to out do you like this. . ." Zetsu smiled and smirked up at madara as he paced and looked hard around the clearing that had blown away his chances of reversing the damage that Yumi Uchiha had done to make sure he wouldn't get her.

"I'll get her back but It'll take time, Zetsu. . . Now leave me. . . I have to go back to help Itachi and quickly, get the others ready to meet him." Madara snapped out as he turned away from Zetsu and looked one last time around and as he did he smirked as one little piece of paper floated down with the name of her new Identity. "Luck is not on your side Yumi Uchiha. . . I found you" He murmured as he caught the floating piece of paper and looked down at the name she now took up in some other world.

Lyssa Whitlock

(Ashley)

"I surrender!" I could hear the panic in my voice as I threw down my staff. I ripped off my bandages around my kunai pouch and the motion to make a tourniquet. "Just please give me the binder before it causes irreversible damage." I was beat, even with the tourniquet on my right arm the poison will paralyze me within three minutes. But I hope Sasori's analytical side would keep me just for my knowledge of toxins.

Deidara just sneered as I tilted to my right side in an effort to slow the toxin. "One hit and you give up, hmmm."

But lucky, Sasori paused, tail no longer swishing back and forth. "Girl," Sasori said, "Who taught you about poisons?" His voice was impassive, but I could tell there was interest.

As respectfully as I could I responded, "I'm a biochemical engineer, and I'll tell you all about it once you ensure that I'll be able to use my arm in the future." Deidara rolled his eyes.

Almost growling, "Why would a weakling like you need your arms, hmmm?" I mustered my best glare, I could I ever fangirl over this asshole.

Sasori however ignored him, his puppet pulling out an emergency injector and had his tail deliver it. Feverishly I took the capsule, "femoral or vertebral?" Wanting to know his opinion on best delivery to prevent the poison to making its way to my heart.

Turning Sasori stated vertebral so I jammed it into my neck, feeling the cool serum make its way through the body. "Deidara take her back to her room. Don't kill her yet, she's workable for now." I almost felt grateful for that assessment especially after I tried to rebel. "However try anything like that again," Sasori impassively said, "and you will die a slow death. Be back here by six hundred tomorrow. And don't make me wait."

I collapsed as Deidara made his way over, hate burning in his eyes as he yanked out the injector. My grimace gave him feral smile, "You're lucky danna see something in your pathetic eyes or else you would be dead, hmm." Power walking off I stared at his back, dick, and he smugly looked back at me, "And I am not leading you here tomorrow so pay attention to the way, hmm."

I hate him.

And where the hell is Lyssa?