Authors Notes: Hi again! Just a note: This chapter will be in Emi's point of view. It's mostly flashbacks, but it provides some much needed detail. Uh... Madara! Do the disclaimer!
Madara: No. -death glare-
Me: -whimper- Don't kill me!! -cowers- Uh... Ino, do the disclaimer!
Ino: Oookkk... Flicker doesn't own any of the Naruto characters... She does own her OCs, Emi Lily and Rose.
Me: Arigato Ino! Finally, someone who cooperates around here!
Deidara: You mean that idiot didn't have to do the disclaimer because he death glared at you?
Me: Yup! And the fact that he's a S ranked criminal leader of a S ranked criminal cult!
After Rose was taken to some other room where Sakura would continue treating her for that punch she got, Lily turned to me.
"Emily Komomatchi, You have a hell of a lot of explaining to do," she said. I winced when she added the ly to my name and our last name.
"Liliana, you know I hate it when you call me Emily... Isn't it easier to just call me Emi? Or better yet, Uchiha Emi," I smirked at the last line. My smirk turned to a grin when I saw the expression on Sasori, Tsundae, Jiriaya, and Lily's face. Hell, I think even Itachi smirked. Finally the silence was broken by Lily.
"He... he... proposed to you?" she asked in a small voice. I grinned and nodded.
"Have you done it yet?" Jiriaya asked. If Tsundae wasn't shocked, she would have been beating the crap out of him. So I did it for her.
"WHAT THE HELL?? HENTAI!" I screeched, throwing a volley of kunai at the white haired man. He dodged them and I poofed over to him. I proceeded to beat him, Tsundae joining in a moment later. Ah... That actually felt good. I felt Lily's gaze thinking things over and she glanced at Itachi. I sent her a glare saying 'don't you dare think that just because he's your brother in law means you can go all fan girl on him.' She flashed a nervous smile.
"Wait... So you mean he," Lily pointed to Itachi. "Is my brother-in-law?" she finished. I nodded. Lily proceeded to bang her head into the nearest wall.
"Lily... Stop banging your head against the wall..." Tsundae muttered. Lily hesitantly stopped banging.
"How are you going to explain this to mom and dad in two weeks?" Lily asked. I thought for a moment.
"Shit... Didn't think of that..." I muttered, going back to Itachi.
"You know they won't believe you if you say you went into the Naruto dimension and met him..." Lily pointed out. Good point... Damn... I never thought things through.
"Damn. I'm screwed..." I muttered, attempting to come up with something plausible for disappearing. Nothing came. Damn... I never thought of going back to my parents... I mean I had been missing for years and years. I had only come here for two things, one was to heal Itachi and if I got attacked, myself. The other was to get Tsundae or Sakura to heal Itachi's eyes. Ah... I'm rambling again.
"Back to the first topic... Emily Komo... uh... I mean Uchiha, you have a hell of a lot of explaining to do," Lily muttered. I sighed. Where should I start.
"Fine, but I'm starting when I disappeared years ago," I said, launching into a story.
I was running in the woods, back home, where my parents were waiting. I was late for dinner, they must be really worried... I hope they haven't called the police yet. Lily was waiting too, I had to finish modeling for her latest drawing. Despite being 13, I couldn't run fast enough. Why did I pick today to go and pick berries deep into the woods? Suddenly I tripped. I landed flat on my face. I looked around, expecting to find a root or a fallen branch. But I didn't find anything. I had hit one of the clearings in the forest. I knew every step of this forest, but I had never come across this clearing before. Something shined in the air 10 feet away. I walked over and investigated it. The shining danced around my skin and I giggled. It tickled. Then it started to pull me in. I could break free. Soon I was tumbling through something and I felt a number of things. One, I felt something unlock in me, giving me energy. Two, I realized I knew basic jutsus. I racked my memory for what these jutsu's reminded me of. Naruto. I was a fan of the manga along with my sister. And then I hit the ground with a fair amount of force.
I stood up and observed my surroundings. I was in some kind of forest, though it was unfamiliar to me. The air was chilly, but was slowly warming up. I decided to try out the jutsu's I learned. They were basic academy jutsus. I henged into what was my mom. My mom. My parents. My eyes widened. Oh no... My parents, my family... They were probably sending out search parties. But I couldn't go back. Err... I didn't know how to anyway. I searched my memory for jutsus I saw in the manga back home. Kage Bushin came to mind. I formed the cross seal and attempted to make a Kage Bushin. It didn't work out. I really needed help. I could do regular bushins, but not kage bushins. I figured my taijutsu was not that good. I didn't even want to think about genjutsu. I tried one of the genjutsus I remembered. Surprisingly, it worked. That was unexpected. I heard footsteps and I canceled the genjutsu. Suddenly the footsteps stopped. A second later something whizzed through the air. Eeping, I managed to dodge the kunai and they buried themselves into the tree behind me. A moment later I was surrounded by what I assumed were ninjas. They had masks on, ANBU masks. There were only three, but I knew that they would be able to take me down in an instant. One of them was a bit shorter than the others.
"State your business," the one on the right said. I stared at him.
"I...I..." I stuttered, not knowing what to say. I was scared. Really really scared. The middle one glared at the one who spoke.
"It is obvious from her chakra levels and age that she is probably Genin rank," the middle one said. The left one nodded. The right one sighed and nodded reluctantly. All this time, I was trying not to show how scared I was. The middle one moved and I tensed. He removed part of his mask so one eye showed. A blood red eye. The Sharingan eye. I snapped my stare away, not wanting to stare into that eye, knowing I would be sucked into that jutsu.
"Look into my eyes..." the middle on said. I glanced up and noticed he had both eyes out, but it was the regular Sharingan. I snapped my eyes back to the ground. Finally I found something to say.
"How do I know your not going to just capture me in that genjutsu and torture me?" I whispered. The ANBU looked at each other. They were at a loss. The Uchiha narrowed his eyes. I decided to make a deal with them.
"If I come with you willingly, I'll let you do whatever you want to me," I said. The Uchiha had his mask back on.
"What's in it for you?" he asked. I bit my lip.
"If you don't get any useful information from me... I get someone to teach me how to control my chakra better and useful jutsus," I said. It seemed pretty fair in my opinion. The middle ANBU thought it over for a minute.
"Deal," he said. A small smile graced my lips. I survived. I felt a hand on my wrist and a moment later I was in some kind of office. Now it was only the Uchiha ANBU with me. Then I realized somehow I understood Japanese. How weird. The ANBU and what I assumed was the Hokage talked in hushed voices. I gazed at them curiously. What were they... I never finished that thought as the Uchiha ANBU came back over.
"Come with me," he said, grabbing my wrist again and leading me through a bunch of hallways. I lost track the moment we took the first turn. Soon we came to a door. The Uchiha ANBU led me in and gestured for me to sit on the chair in the middle. I sat, and suddenly I was bound to the chair and a seal was put on my arm.
"Gomen, but this is standard procedure," the ANBU said. I nodded, feeling my chakra drain into the seal. The Uchiha ANBU left and a moment later another man, this one a bit older and taller. He had a few scars across his face, faint but you could notice if you looked close enough. He looked at me, maybe forming an opinion.
"A genin level ninja? What information could you have? I haven't seen you before," he said. I stared at him.
"Nice to meet you too," I said dryly. I swore he was smirking.
"Feisty one huh. Let's see what I can get from you," he said. Surprisingly, I didn't cooperate with him. I didn't trust this guy, even if he was the infamous Ibiki. I just wouldn't give him the information that I was from another dimension. Soon he called in the Uchiha ANBU again. I could tell the Uchiha was kinda pissed that he had to help with the interrogation. He removed his mask so only his sharingan showed. I attempted to look away, but I couldn't. In a matter of moments he had entered my mind.
"Get out of my head," I said as the Uchiha rummaged through my memories. He ignored me. I tried to suppress the memories, but that damn Sharingan kept rummaging around. When he came to the memory of how I got here, I tried in vain to block it, but he wouldn't let me. I sighed and sat in my mindscape and yawned. Soon the Uchiha ANBU finished and we were both sent back to our respective bodies again.
"Anything?" the older man said. The Uchiha looked at him.
"Nothing that is valuable information. She learned how to do basic academy jutsus at some small Fire country town by her parents. The town was burnt to the ground a few days ago. She wandered around until she came into the forest I was patrolling. Her clothes aren't burnt because she was out gathering herbs for her parents when the town was burned," he said. I did a double take. Did he just... lie for me? The older man sighed and muttered something about some town burning a few days ago in the Fire Country. He removed the chakra seal and the rope. I sighed in relief and rubbed my arm where the chakra seal was. Now I thought about something else. Where the hell is a hot spring or shower? The Uchiha ANBU took my wrist and led me back to the Hokage's office. Again the ANBU and Hokage spoke in hushed voices. The Hokage spoke to me now.
"What's your name?" he asked. I blinked. My name...
"Komomatchi, Emi," I said. I hated my real name, Emily, so I went by Emi. My last name was far to weird in my opinion. The Hokage smiled.
"Emi, you will be staying at the Uchiha residence until we can get you an apartment. Itachi-san will be your guide and accomplice," he said. I nodded and noticed the Uchiha ANBU take off his mask. He had long dark hair in a ponytail and a really cute face. Cute? What was I thinking... He was drop dead gorgeous!
"Uchiha, Itachi," he introduced himself, in a monotone voice. I nodded and bowed, almost forgetting it was customary to bow. He bowed back. He led the way out of the tower and I followed him. We walked through the streets of Konoha. Soon we came to a huge estate with the Uchiha crest at the gate. I marveled at the sight of the estate. Wow. It was huge. The guards glanced at Itachi then stared at me. Itachi entered, and I followed, only to get stopped by the guards. I glared at them.
"She's with me. Let her through," Itachi said coldly to the guards. The guards eyes narrowed but they let me through anyway. I quickly followed after Itachi, trying to keep pace with him.
"A...Ano, Itachi-san..." but I was cut off by his voice.
"Your room is here. My room's next door and the bathroom is at the end of the hall. And to answer your question, the nearest hot springs is about a mile away, and you can go there, but I have to accompany you," Itachi said. I nodded.
"Tomorrow Kaa-san will take you out shopping with Sasuke, I will be doing other things," he added. I nodded again. Quickly glancing into my room, I saw things with mostly the Uchiha crest on it. I sweat dropped. Arrogant idiots... Well... I wanted to go to the hot springs. I was all sweaty from running home and then being in that hot interrogation room.
"Come on, let's go to the hot springs," Itachi said, scaring the shit out of me. Didn't he go into his room?
"H...Hai Itachi-san," I said. I followed after him, picking up our shoes at the front room, and then walking back out into the streets of Konoha. I marveled at the hugeness of the various clan estates. Soon we were at the hot springs. Itachi went to one door, label males, and I walked toward the other door, labeled females. I realized I could read Japanese too. I grabbed a towel and stripped off my clothing, and wrapped the towel around my body. I walked through the door and gazed around. There was only a few people here. I hesitantly took the towel off and climbed in the steaming water. It felt really good. I could almost feel the sweat and dirt wash off. I put my towel near the two other towels, belonging to the two other people in the hot springs, and dipped my head underwater.
After relaxing a while, I got out and towel dried myself off. I wrapped the towel around myself and went to go change into my clothes, which had been washed by the staff of the hot springs. I was surprised.
"Arigato," I told one of the employees, who was carrying a bundle of clothes and towels. She smiled and nodded. I probably kept Itachi waiting. Oh well... I exited and found Itachi eating some dango at the small stand that was attached to the hot springs. I walked over to him. He didn't say anything, just glanced up and finished the rest of his dango. He got up and I followed him. I quickly realized this was the normal procedure. And I also realized Itachi wasn't a very outgoing person. I followed him back to the Uchiha estates and to my room. It was getting dark, so I decided to tidy things up a bit.
"Dinner is in 15 minutes, I'll come and get you," Itachi said. I nodded and he disappeared into his room. I entered my room and started to look over the books in the bookshelf in my room. My eyes fell upon a book bearing the title 'Katon Jutsus' I grinned and took it out. I started to read but then thought about something. I needed to learn how to control my chakra... I couldn't walk up trees, and there wasn't water around. I looked around for a leaf. Giving up and grabbing one from outside the window, I proceeded to attempt the leaf floating exercise. At first it didn't work. Then I put too much chakra and the leaf launched itself across the room. Sighing I went for exactly in between the two extremes. It worked. After a few minutes of this, I added a little more chakra and attempted to keep the leaf afloat in the air. Soon I heard a knock on the door and Itachi saying it was time for dinner. I put the leaf down and came out of the room. I followed him, secretly scared that his father was going to kick me out.
We sat down at a formal looking table. I could see Itachi's father at the head of the table, and his mother at the other end. A number of Uchiha clan members filled the chairs. They all had dark hair. Great. I was the only one with blond hair. Itachi sat to the right of his father, and a little boy, whom I assumed was Sasuke, sat to the left. I sat next to Itachi. Immediately Itachi's father was staring at me.
"Who is she?" he asked. Itachi looked at his father. He proceeded to explain the days events concerning me. I could feel the cold stares I was receiving from all the members, except for maybe Itachi's mother and Sasuke. I cast my eyes downward, in an attempt to somehow rid the stares from my face.
"You, girl, look at me," I heard Itachi's father say. I slowly looked up at him.
"Hai?" I asked quietly. I had a bad feeling about this.
"Don't think you're welcome here. The moment I am allowed to kick you out, I will," his voice and eyes turned cold. I nodded quickly and went back to staring at my food. I had a really bad feeling about staying at the Uchiha residence.
"That still doesn't explain anything..." Lily muttered. I glared at her.
"I wasn't done yet..." I muttered back. Lily huffed but kept quiet as I continued.
Soon enough it was the day of the massacre. By now I was avoiding the clan elders and clan head. They didn't seem to like me very much. I was asked by Itachi to walk Sasuke to the academy because he was busy. I accepted, having developed a liking to the little guy. He was so sweet and innocent. I had earned Itachi's trust too. I knew all about the clan and how it was planning to overthrow the Hokage. That's why he was going to kill all of them. Except for Sasuke. At least that was what Itachi had told me.
"Emi-chan, can you tell kaa-san that I'll be a little late today, I want to train after classes today," Sasuke said.
"Of course Sasuke-kun," I said. Unfortunately, Ino and Sakura were turning the corner at that moment and froze. Damn... They froze and stared at me. I started to walk back to the Uchiha estates. Unfortunately, Sakura decided to ask questions.
"Why are you walking Sasuke-kun? I thought his brother did that!" she said. I smiled.
"Itachi-san is busy today, so he asked me to do it," I said.
"Eh... You don't look like an Uchiha," Ino said, narrowing her eyes.
"And even if you are an Uchiha, wouldn't you be working or something?" Sakura added. My smile faltered for a second.
"I'm not an Uchiha... I'm just uh... staying there for a while... I'm distantly related to one of the wives married into the Uchiha family," I said, making up a lie. They seemed to buy it.
"That still doesn't answer my question to why you aren't working..." Sakura muttered.
"I'm uh... recovering from a mission I took a while ago," I said. I walked away before they could ask any more questions. My thoughts drifted back to the day before. I had finally gotten the person who was supposed to train me. I almost had a heart attack when I found out it was Itachi. Why would the Uchiha heir teach me? I didn't know, but I went along with it. I was already at least Chunin level in my chakra reserves and control. I was learning some of the fire jutsus of the Uchihas. It helped that my natural chakra element was fire. I could go on missions, but apparently the village didn't trust me that much. Instead I mostly took D-ranked missions. Which weren't really hard. They consisted of painting houses and weeding gardens. My thoughts were stopped when I heard someone call my name.
"Emi," I heard a familiar monotone voice say. Itachi? What was he doing here? I thought he said he was busy! I turned around to see the Uchiha with his ANBU mask off, but his ANBU uniform still on.
"Hai?" I asked. He signaled me to follow him, so I did. What was he doing? I knew today was the day, but shouldn't he be doing something? I followed regardless. It took hours to walk to the destination. Why we couldn't run, I have no idea. Soon we came to a clearing in a forest. It was now getting dark.
"Wait here," he said, and then disappeared. I sat down at the base of a tree. A few hours later I started to wonder if Itachi would come back. Maybe not. Great. He left me in the forest. A moment later Itachi appeared. So much for that...
"Come on," he said, jumping to the trees. I followed after him, trying to keep up. Soon I got tired. I only had so much chakra...
"Itachi-san... How much longer till we can stop?" I asked, almost out of breath. He didn't answer. Suddenly I sensed something following us, or rather, me. Itachi hadn't sensed it yet? That was interesting... Unless... I refused to think that. But this was Itachi... He must be in on the person trailing us. And forgot to tell me. Itachi doesn't forget. So this must have been a set up. Even though I wasn't all that powerful, I knew a few things that would usually take down most opponents.
"Itachi-san," I said, getting his attention. "Where are we going?" I asked. There was a town about a mile away. We would probably stop there for the night. Then I could face the one following me.
"Rain Country, but we'll stop in that town for now," he said. Rain Country eh? Quite a ways away. I guess we were missing nin now. I never did get a headband, but I could see Itachi had already slashed through his. A few minutes later we arrived in the village. About a quarter of my chakra reserves were used to run the distance. Not too bad. Probably enough to find out why this person was following me. We rented a hotel room for the night and Itachi went to shower. I told him I was going to walk around for a bit.
I closed my eyes, trying to sense the presence I felt earlier. There it was, just a flash in the waning crowd. It was almost soft, but it had a certain edge to it. I yawned and ducked into a dango bar to get something to eat, and hopefully lure the person out of hiding. I ordered some dango and waited for it to come. I searched for the presence again. It was closer now, right outside. It was under a henge, I could tell that. But that was it. My chakra sensing abilities weren't that good. My dango came and I started to eat it, pretending to drop my guard. The presence came closer. It was entering the stand. It was... sitting right beside me? That was weird. It was obviously a female. She had brown hair and green eyes, but I knew that was the henge. There was no way to dispel it without bringing notice to myself. I just had to play along... The owner of the stand asked if the woman wanted some dango, but she declined, saying she was waiting for me to finish. That was warning sign #1. I finished and payed for the meal. The other woman got up and followed me out into the now empty streets. I walked for a bit, away from the stand, and then turned around to face her.
"What do you want?" I asked, getting right to the point. I brought my hands up to release the henge. Now there was a blue haired woman in front of me, with gray eyes. She wore a black cloak adored with red clouds. Akatsuki. Where Itachi was going. Where, inevitably, I was going. The woman chuckled.
"About time you noticed me," she said. I rolled my eyes.
"No. I noticed you a while ago," I said. The blue haired woman raised an eyebrow. She clearly didn't expect that. She still hadn't answered my question.
"I'm curious, why is Uchiha taking you with him?" she asked. I thought for a moment. That was a very good question. A moment later I felt Itachi's chakra signature flare for a millisecond and then die down again. He was really close.
"You'll have to ask him yourself... Because frankly, I have no idea," I said. Just as I finished saying that, Itachi appeared.
"Emi," he said in a voice that seemed to say 'You've been gone too long.' I nodded and began to walk back to the hotel. Apparently it was my turn for the shower. I left the blue haired woman and Itachi to converse. I found out later that the blue haired woman, Konan was her name, was escorting us to the Akatsuki base. I found a place in the Akatsuki as a traveling spy, mostly because my genjutsu's seemed so real. Then the day when Sasuke came.
It had been a long time, years at least, when all of the members not on missions sensed his presence. I gulped. It was Sasuke, but a twisted dark version. His chakra had increased a hell of a lot, and he had three others with him. I just hoped he wouldn't recognize me. Luck was not on my side today. The moment he entered, his eyes locked on me.
"Emi," he said, as emotionless as his brother. I glanced at him.
"Sasuke," I said, yawning. I probably couldn't kill him, but I could give him a run for his money. His gaze floated over to Itachi. A silent battle raged between them. Then they poofed somewhere else. The shark bastard, I mean Kisame, was challenged by a guy with a sword on his back to a fight. The red haired girl scowled at the sword boy. The orange haired man behind the red haired girl was emotionless. It was a while before I stared to get worried. Itachi never took this long to end a fight, even if the opponent was insanely strong. But he was going blind. And sick too. Yet he still fought to stay alive. He once told me it wasn't just for his brother, but for me too. I smiled that day. And accepted his offer of becoming his wife. I didn't see that coming, but it was a very good surprise. I decided to search for the battle.
It didn't take long to find. But by the time I got there, Itachi was already close to death. Sasuke looked pretty bad too. I knew a little medical ninjutsu, but not much. I pour half of my chakra into bringing him back to life, so to say. Another quarter was used to summon a tracking nin-dog. Fortunately, it knew Tsundae's scent. But she was a long way off. In another dimension, the dog had said. The only other dimension I could think of was the one I came from. I gulped but went along anyway. Itachi needed my help. I wasn't going to let him die.
Authors Notes: Wow... That meant to be out yesterday, but it took a lot longer to type... Sorry all! Schools officially started, so I won't have as much time to update... :( I'm sorry if the updates are getting more infrequent!