The Other Uchihas
"We weren't really called Uchiha, but that's where our sharingan came from."
"How did it escape the Konoha Uchiha clan?" Sasuke asked.
"I never really worked up the courage to ask anyone, guess I'll never get that chance now." she said with a forced smile.
"Let me guess, your sister was a prodigy?"
"And you were the one left out?" she finished.
Sasuke paused for a minute. who is this girl? he thought.
"Yeah, that was her, always excelling, while I was left with the same expectations. Naturally I tried my hardest to keep up, but she was always putting milestones between us."
"Yeah, I know how that feels." Sasuke said before he stopped himself.
"Hm, I bet. I'm also betting that right now, you're about to close up and shut me out because I'm getting to close."
Annoyed at this prediction, Sasuke glared at her then turned his attention to the outside world.
Smiling to herself, Bara began to heal the scars along the back of his neck and back.
"How can you do that?" He asked suddenly.
"What?"
"Remain so calm and caring, even though I'm being a total ass to you?"
"Why get angry at something that would cause the situation to be worse? I've been angry most of my life, and it didn't help me. Unlike Sarah, she's always yelling and irritated about something."
Sarah was walking through the hall with Shawn when she sneezed.
"Allergies?" Shawn asked.
"Must be." she answered sniffling.
"Well."
"What?"
"Are you gonna continue your story?"
"Oh, sure. Well, I remember coming home, and seeing everyone dead. I thought some sort of enemy strike team had swept through the city. I ran home as fast as I can, and saw my parents' corpses on the porch. When I was going up to inspect them, my sister walked through the door. Her eyes were brown, and soulless." She stopped.
Sasuke turned to see that she was holding herself, as though the room was suddenly ice cold.
"I remember asking her what happened, why everyone was dead. She looked at me, and the last thing I ever heard her say was 'Mangekyo Sharingan'. I don't know what she did, but, I remember standing on the road, watching everyone die, unable to move. I saw every person in the village fall to her sword. She did it without mercy, like they were enemy ninja from a totally different country. I didn't see her kill my parents, I had already passed out. I do remember her telling me, through that genjutsu 'foolish little sister, if you wish to kill me one day, then hate and despise me, that is, if you survive.' When I woke up, it was at my grandmama's house."
"Why didn't she kill your grandmother?"
"No one ever fights grandmama, she may be blind, but she can paralyze anyone in a six foot radius of her. She doesn't fight often, but she isn't a pushover."
"I still didn't want to believe her, so, I went back to the village, searching for everyone. It took some time for me to finally realize that they were all gone."
She stopped healing him for a minute and looked as though she was holding back tears.
She closed her eyes and continued.
"Anyway, I did want revenge, I did want to kill her, but, they turned me away from it...for a time. She returned, of course, and we fought. I almost won, I just forgot about her mangekyo sharingan, and looked into her eyes. After that, I didn't want anything more to do with her."
"Why not? Why not kill her to avenge your family?"
"Because she is family, even if she slaughtered the rest, she is my sister. I know she would kill me, but I couldn't kill her. If I did, then would that make me any better than her. I would become the person I've been trying to kill. Don't worry though, I'm not telling you that trying to kill Itachi is wrong, but to trust Orochimaru to do it."
"He offered me power, and that's what I need."
"Weren't you worried that he would switch bodies with you?"
"So...you know about that too?"
"I'm only 16, but I'm kind of a genius in my generation." she said with a small smile.
She stood up and said briskly "Well, that's all of them for now. I'll have to come back in about two hours to do it again."
"Again?"
"Yeah, you spent some time inside of Him, so my medical techniques need to be repeatedly administered to fully heal the wounds."
She opened the door and stopped.
"Sasuke, one more thing," she said in a somewhat sad tone, "Even though you have so much loss in your heart, you can let the kindness of others help you through it, that's the reason why people go so far for you."