Chapter 6
She cried for days after, and never smiled. Naruto helped her through it, and she stopped crying around him, knowing it hurt him, and let out her sadness in private. She was at the memorial stone, sitting behind it, crying again. "What's wrong?" A king voice questioned. She looked up to see a man in his twenty's, with silver hair and a mask covering the lower half of his face. "Nothing's wrong..." She said, trying to stop sobbing. "It's okay. My name's Kakashi Hatake. What's yours?" ""Ayumi Uchiha..." "Now I see why you're upset...Come with me."
He lifted her up onto his back, and she wiped away her tears. He carried her to the Uchiha complex, and said, "They're never really gone. They're always in your heart, and as long as you remember them, they're right there with you. If you need time to just think about them, just come here...it helps get the feelings off your chest." She held on tight, asking, "Why do shinobi kill?" "To protect what is precious to them." "...But, someone precious to me did...all of this..." "Itachi?" She nodded, saying, more tears coming to her eyes, "Yes. He's my nii-san..." "You still see him as your nii-san?" "Of course! No matter what he does, he'll always be my nii-san...I could never hate him...kill him...Sasuke wants to..." "You're different. Family is family to you." "But...it's partly my fault that it happened..." "How?" "...Father would...get mad at me for being...me...and he'd hit me...one day, I was mad, and wrote in my diary that I wished he was dead...I didn't mean it, but Itachi read it...we were close..." "You still are."
She looked at Kakashi, confused. "As long as you remember him as he was, it'll be like he never left..." She smiled, asking, "It's like you know exactly how I feel...thank you, Kakashi-san." He smiled underneath his mask, and said, "No problem." She slid off his back, and said, "I wish things had turned out differently..." "Why weren't you there when it happened?"
"Itachi told me to stay out late that night, but I came back earlier." Kakashi was silent a moment before saying, "We need to go to the Hokage for a sec, okay?" She nodded, and he poofed them in with a jutsu. The Third said, "Why, Ayumi!" "Hokage-sama." She said, smiling very slightly. "Hokage-sama…you said that someone would have to be her guardian…" "Yes. Are you interested?" "Well, she does have the Sharingan. We already know each other pretty well…" The Third asked, "Ayumi, do you want Kakashi to take care of you?"
She smiled brightly for the first time in days, and said, "Yes!! YES-YES-YES-YES-YES-YES-YES!!!" "I guess she's your responsibility now, Kakashi." "I'll do my best, Hokage-sama."