The next part was a hard time in my life and I am just going to pick it up the day after the attack. My mom and dad were both gone and I was left to attempt to take care of my two siblings. I opened my door, dragged myself inside. It was barely the next morning, the event happened just a few hours ago. My hands clutched over my head as I slid down the wall. Maybe it was just a dream, a horrible nightmare that I would soon wake up from…but it wasn't and I knew that. Nothing was comforting my mind. I threw myself onto the bed, just sobbing in the pillow. I just couldn't get to sleep, so many things filled my head. I felt awful because I could have helped or anything he just told me to stay back and just do my job and let him handle it…but I shouldn't have I should have stopped him from doing it…and maybe we would have found another way, maybe he would still be here. I didn't want act too much like an older sister because if I did then they would act as if we were a cursed family or something because the only three of us left are Jinchuuriki. I let some of the ANBU and the Third take them for now. I just couldn't handle this right now, I was just going to stay in the house, alone the whole day. I barely moved the whole day, I just couldn't believe this was happening to me. Why am I now expected to be self sufficient!? There's nobody to help me out now, nobody to guide me enough. Two of the people I loved most were gone forever from my life…and I just didn't think I was going to make it through something like this. Every once in a while, I would just scream to myself, it would echo throughout the endless hallways and eventually get drowned out. I heard a knock on the door and figured I should probably get it. I stopped the crying as much as possible as I opened the door. Itachi was standing in the doorway, it was raining outside by now. He had a very discomforted look on his face when he saw me. I just shook my head, letting the tears flow again. I hugged his am hard as I could, burying my face in his soaking wet shirt.

"Why…why Itachi…why did this have to happen to me. Why did they have to leave me all alone. I'm too young for something like this"

"You'll never be alone, you have a village full of friendly faces"

"Most of those faces aren't truly friendly, just fake smiles to confuse people"

"You'd be surprised at how many of them really do care. Now let's get out of this rain"

He stepped inside and dried off, I sat down on the couch and held my head in my hands. He gave me comforting words, and it helped slightly, but he knew it was going to take a while to get even close to normal again. He offered to stay over, but I refused, I just wanted to be alone for a while. He understood and went back to his house. The next day was probably the hardest. I dragged myself out of bed, threw on the only black outfit that I had. I walked up to the Hokage's building where we were holding the precession. I held up well until I had to say something. I got through with my speech and just lost it. I collapsed onto the ground, just letting the tears flow. Many people came to comfort me, I guess Itachi was right. The next week or so, I just stayed alone in the house, not really feeling up to doing missions or anything. People stopped by and gave me things, groceries and such. I thanked them, I barely ate and there was hardly any food anyway, so it was an improvement. When I finally did get myself together enough to go on missions, the Third wouldn't send me on anything particularly dangerous. Everything was coming well, until one day Hiro just up and left, disappeared without a trace. We had no idea where he went and we didn't really have any time to go and find him. About five years later, we heard of a weird mission, something about some rouge ninja looking to capture bijuu. At first Hokage-san, I don't really talk to them with much respect, didn't want me to go on this mission, but eventually agreed to let us go. When we got to the site where we got the call from, we just stared. There was Hiro in a black cloak with red clouds on it. It was like he was the head of a gang with just a few random Chuunin and Jounin. We confronted him and he kept murmuring something fairly inaudible.

"The bijuu are the key, they can help end all wars and help us to rebuild this world into the perfect paradise"

We just looked at him and he came up, trying to attack us. We backed off a bit but I had a splitting pain go through my stomach, more precisely the seal. This time I didn't even go to the room, it just broke loose. The chakra came resonating out at an alarming rate. I lost most consciousness but held on a little bit. The dragon came out and wasn't kidding around this time. It let out not just the 'normal' amount of chakra, but 2 tails. Considering if I ever got to three, it would be catastrophic, 2 couldn't have been good. It got down on all fours and ran towards them.

"Odama Rasengan!"

It went through all of them like it was nothing. They weren't dead, but close to it. It wasn't going to stop there, it wanted blood and lots of it. It ran its tongue over the pure white fangs and set its eyes on Itachi. It lounged for him and right before it struck, it stopped dead in its tracks. I was trying to pull back consciousness but it was so hard. I wasn't going to let it hurt someone I care about, not again. I had to release all of the chakra I had left, but it finally dissipated. I regained my vision but didn't have enough energy to do anything else. I was on the ground within a few seconds.

When light once again shone on my eyes, I was at my house, in my bed.

"Wha…what the"

"I brought you back to the leaf"

"You're not hurt are you!"

He shook his head and I breathed a sigh of relief. It was short lived though, I winced in pain and curled in on my stomach with my arms over it.

"This is just out of control"

He gave me a very concerned look, he knew it was trouble.

A while later, it came up again. The Third wanted us to take care of it, but I had no idea where Itachi was. By now it was night and I had a really bad feeling about this. I was running around trying to find Itachi, when I heard something from the Uchiha complex. I ran in there to see that there were dead bodies all on the ground. I shimmered around it trying to keep myself together. Then I ran into Itachi's house, and I saw it, he was right there with a bloody katana.

"Itachi what the hell are you doing!?"

"Something I have to do"

Then he took the sword brought it down on two shadowy figured on the ground. I turned my head away from the sight at the last second.

"Itachi, why are you doing this!?"

"I'm going to find a way to help"

How is this helping anything!?"

"You'll understand later"

He just looked at me with an odd emotion in his eyes and he started to walk out. Right as he was, Sasuke and Naoki came in. I shoved Itachi aside, grabbed both of them, and attempted to run back over to my house. I got a few yards, and then Hiro come up in front of me.

"Well, looks like you're trapped"

"What now…"

I told Naoki and Sasuke to keep going while I held him off. We started to fight, but I had been on an S ranked mission earlier that day. I didn't have much chakra and he had a power unlike anything I had ever seen. It was his Kekkei Genkai. It made 6 copies of him more like 6 personalities of him. Each one had different strengths and I couldn't keep up and he nearly killed me but let me live because I had one of the bijuu he needed, why he didn't take me to take it out of me that day I will never know. Within a few minutes, I had passed out from bloodloss. Sasuke or Naoki must have seen me because when I woke up I was at the hospital but I still needed to find a purpose in life…now I didn't have any teammates here or family really…I guess that the next couple of years I just wandered trying to find myself a purpose or at least try to bide time until I could think of a plan to get my teammates back. I wandered the village not really doing anything, just getting by. I wasn't my usual self, the person that wouldn't let anything get to her, I was just a very depressed kunoichi. I tried to hide my sorrow behind my usual grin, but it didn't fool anyone. They all knew that I was just covering up my true feelings. After a while, I just stopped smiling, I didn't frown either, just a normal face. So much loss, such is the life of a shinobi, or at least that's what we're taught. I tried going on missions, but it just was never the same going alone. I had just come back from such a mission and I was just heading home.

"I wonder if I'm going to get another mission tomorrow. It would be nice if I could do something else for a change"

I noticed a familiar blonde boy running down the street. I sighed and grabbed him by the collar as he was passing by.

"Ok what did you do now?"

"Well…"

"NARUTO YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE!" Iruka shouted as he ran down the road.

"Not again, what did you do?"

"Oh Mariah you got him, he was drawing graffiti again"

"How many times are you going to do this before you get it in your head it's not a good thing?"

"Many more times!"

"Well if you don't go and clean it up, I'm not going to take you to some ramen"

"I'm going, I'm going!!!!"

"What am I going to do with that kid"

"You're actually dealing with him quite well"

"Ya right, I'm always on stupid missions alone, I can't watch both of them"

"I understand that you're trying to deal with all of this, just remember to smile every once in a while"

"What is there to smile about? My teammates are gone, my parents are dead, and now I have to take care of these little kids!"

"But at least you're still here in the village, making sure it will always be safe"

"Oh that's wonderful, all my existence is only to help the village? Iruka I'm still just a kid myself, I can't handle all of this!"

"Well I'm always here if you want to talk"

"I've had about enough of just talking. I'm out of here"

I just walked back to my house, my big almost empty house. I tossed my ninja stuff on the bed and went into the backyard. I lay down on the grass and stared up at the starry sky, trying to get my head straight. I ended up talking and yelling to myself for a while. I heard something from the other side of the yard, Naoki popped her head outside.

"Look I get it, your teammates left and now you have to go on missions alone. There's no reason why you can't be sad"

"Thanks for that, how about we train together tomorrow?"