Chapter 5

She woke up earlier than usual, and Itachi said, "Ayumi, I need you to do something..." "What?" She questioned, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "I need you to come home late today, okay?" "Why?" "...It's important that you do this for me, nii-chan." "Okay...I'll do it." She smiled, looking out the window. "It's pretty early...I might as well get ready." "I need to go." "See you later, Itachi-nii-san." She changed into a light gray t-shirt and black pants, with the Uchiha fan on the back.

She gathered together all of her school stuff, putting it into her backpack, and woke up Sasuke. "Nii-san! You need to get up! I don't want to be late..." He finally woke up, and Ayumi went to the bathroom. She washed her face, did her hair, and brushed her teeth before going downstairs. She got the cereal down as her mother came in. "Hi, mom!" Ayumi said cheerfully, giving her mom a kiss on the cheek. She ate her breakfast as Sasuke came down, and washed her bowl. When she was completely ready, she said, "Mom..." Her mother turned to her from the stove, and Ayumi hugged her, saying, "I love you so much! You know that...don't you?"

"Of course! I love you, too." They stayed like that a moment before Sasuke said, "I'm ready!" Ayumi released her mother, saying, "Goodbye!" They left quickly, and she was walking through the streets...when her nightmare flashed before her eyes, making them widen and her heart race. The whole day, she felt something bad was going to happen. After school, Naruto took her to Ichiraku's, and they had a great time. Sasuke was training, so she didn't have to worry about him. After finishing a couple bowls,

Ayumi settled with just talking. The sun had already set a while ago when she said, "I should head home, Naruto-san. See you tomorrow!" She said, smiling, as she walked off. She was walking home with a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach, saying something happened. It made her run the rest of the way, and nothing seemed out of place, except..."Why are all the lamps off? It's too early for everyone to be asleep..." She walked around, until she turned a corner. Her nightmare flashed through her eyes as she saw the bodies strewn on the ground, kunais impaling buildings and bodies...she felt a scream building in her throat, threatening to escape her lips, when a thought occurred to her.

'What about Sasuke and Itachi?'

She started running towards her house, and dropped her backpack in the front, seeing Sasuke's there, and ran in. She looked around, and heard a scream from the end of the hall. She ran towards the door, yelling, "Sasuke-nii-san!" She was about to open the door when Sasuke ran out, scared. She looked at him, confused, until she looked in the room. Her parents bodies were there, covered in blood. Tears started rolling down her cheeks as she said, "Mom...dad...MOM!! DAD!!" She couldn't believe it...they were dead...'Sasuke...' she ran after Sasuke, her vision blurred by her tears, and saw Sasuke on the floor, shaking with fear. A kunai was racing toward him, and she unknowingly activated the Ayaka Sharingan, hitting the kunai away.

The Ayaka Sharingan was a pale red/white with the pupil and commas a dark red/black color. "Nii-san, are you okay?" She questioned. She turned to see him shaking with fright, but it didn't seem to be from the kunai. It didn't seem he even noticed she was there...She turned to the attacker, and her eyes widened as tears filled them.
"Itachi-nii-san?" Sasuke said, "He killed...all of them..." It felt like a million kunai had pierced her heart at the same time. "You didn't...you couldn't..." She was in denial. "Why did you...do it?"

He didn't answer, and she said, louder, "WHY DID YOU DO THIS?!" "It was for the best..." "What do you mean? You killed...everyone...you almost killed Sasuke-nii-san..." Something occurred to her, and she asked, "Why didn't...you want me to come?" He didn't answer, and she said,
"You told me to come home late...but what about Sasuke-nii-san? You didn't try to protect him! Why..." She breathed deeply, holding back her tears and sibs. "Why didn't you want to kill me?" He looked away, saying, "You have...promise. You could become a powerful shinobi...and I thought it would be interesting to see."

"But...why did you kill mom...and dad..." "I thought you wanted dad to die..." "I DIDN'T!" "You seem to forget I read your diary, nii-chan." "I was mad when I wrote that...I didn't mean it...I just wanted him to stop hurting me..." "And he can't hurt you anymore." "But...mom..." "She got in the way." "But...you did...all of this...for me? Or did you do it...for yourself?" "I did it for both of us." He left quickly, saying, "Become a powerful kunoichi." When she couldn't feel his chakra anymore, she fell to her knees, crying heavily, sobs wracking her throat and chest painfully.

"...I didn't want this! I just...wanted to be loved..." She looked back at Sasuke, and walked over, hugging him. He cried into her shirt, and she cried, too. 'I won't...try to kill Itachi...he's still my nii-san...but I'll protect Sasuke with my life...even if it kills me...'