The past three weeks had been the best of Katori's Life. Her new family bought her clothes with the uchiha symbol on them and everything. Necklaces with their clan symbol

and anything she wanted. She never wanted for anything. They made her feel like a blood member of the family, and she would not like it any other way.

She had been working with her shinobi horse, who she had named Suri later that Night. She was coming along great with training and rode her back and forth from

the academy to home. Sasuke never stood a chance racing her home anymore.

No one dared question Katori on her change in appearance, but it was most likely because they were too afraid of Sasuke, who was always by her side. They were

inseparable ever since they started fostering her.

.

Then one Night on the way home, something seemed off.

Everything was quiet on the busy streets they called home. Everyone was usually bustling around. Although they were late, nothing had ever been this quiet in

the streets of Konoha.

Sasuke knew something was not right. Katori struggled as Sure fought against Katori's signals to slow down. Katori knew something was not right because Suri was a very quiet animal.

"Go ahead of me and check things out." Sasuke told Katori. Katori looked at Sasuke and nodded once before kicking Suri forward to full speed.

Katori weaved in and out of the streets as she zig-zagged through the fastest possible route home.

Sasuke got more and more worried as he grew closer to home. It had been ten minutes since Katori had gone ahead of him and she would have come back to either tell him everything

was fine or tell him something was wrong, which meant something was drasticly wrong. He put the last of his chakra that he had left after training into his feat to run faster. He had to get home quickly.

As he entered the door to his house, he slipped off his shoes. "Katori?" he wispered. No answer.

He walked further into the house, cautious of everything he did. He searched all the floors, but nothing.

Then, he reached his parent's room.

He hesitated at the door, nervous ass to what he would find, oblivious to the fact someone was watching his every move.

He opened the door, and instantly felt sick to his stomach.

His parents, dead on the floor.

Katori raced home, growing more and more nervous with every empty street she passed. It was never this quiet before dusk.

She finally reached home and leaped off of Suri, leaving her outside of the house.

She removed her shoes before entering the house. "Mom? Dad? Itachi? I'm home!" no answer. "Hello?"

again, no answer. She wandered throughout all five floors before coming to her parent's room. "Itachi! This is absolute madness!" she heard her father yell.

She burst through the door to find her parents kneeling on the floor and Itachi standing over them with a sword in hand.

"Your home. Good. Then you can watch." Itachi looked back at Katori and then back to their parents. He then proceeded to decapitate them both.

"NOOOO!" Katori yelled and fell to the ground. Her perfect world that was finally in order again, was coming down once more. It would never end.

Itachi walked over to her, and kicked her, sending her flying into the wall and out into the street below.

She blacked out.

"MOM! Dad!" sasuke yelled as he kneeled to the floor.

He saw Itachi standing there, sword in hand.

"Why!? Why would you do this!?"

"I wanted to test my skills as a ninja. Of course you and your poor excuse for a 'sister' would never understand. She's not even blood related. She could never truly be an Uchiha and you know that. She was living in a dream world."

Sasuke realized a few seconds later he said 'was.'

"what did you do to Katori!?"

"I took care of her."

"BASTARD!" Sasuke ran at him, but Itachi easily knocked him to his knees.

Sasuke got up and ran out of the house and into the street, but Itachi got there first.

"Please! don't kill me!" sasuke yelled

"Don't worry, you not worth killing. Become strong, grow with the hatred of me and someday maybe you can kill me."

and with that Itachi was gone and sasuke was unconscious on the cold unforgiving ground.

Katori landed hard on the ground, the impact knocking the breath out of her.

She looked farther down the street to see Itachi walking towards her. She struggled to her feet, but could not more

from the impact to the ground.

"So your alive?"

he came over and kneeled down next to her.

"You really want to live so badly? Fine, then your coming with me."

Itachi grabbed her, put her on Suri's back then they were gone.