Hey! Now that I have a break from school I shall continue on the Fanfic.

Just to let you people know. The story's ending is still up in the air. There are at least four different possible endings and all of them are pretty good. And I'm not leaning towards any of them at the moment. So Input would be good. It might influence the path I take in the Story.

Oh well.

Naruto: Chronicles of a Seer

Chapter 6: The other Uchiha.

Tsunade had made the decision to allow Saiyuri a few freedoms given the fact that she was completely cooperative during the interrogations. She revealed as much as she said she could. Orochimaru had no real plans as of yet. He wouldn't until he had switched Bodies. The only danger he felt was with the group he was formerly associated with. As soon as Sasuke was no longer Sasuke, Orochimaru would most likely go straight for the hidden leaf village. But that wouldn't be for another year.

All in all, Saiyuri's input wasn't incredibly helpful, but it gave them insight into what timeframe they had to defeat the Sannin. That still wasn't an easy task to defeat him within a year. Tsunade herself admitted that she probably couldn't defeat Orochimaru that easily. Her recalling of the time when she faced him more than two years ago was what caused her to have this answer.

The Hokage still didn't want to just let Saiyuri do as she pleased. As a seer she couldn't completely trust her words that she wanted to be free. However finding a proper place to keep her was an issue. In her interrogation the seer proved that her claim wasn't exactly unfounded. She knew things about the village she wasn't supposed to learn about. It was obvious where most of Orochimaru's information on Konoha was from. She could even locate the Kyuubi vessel and the third Sannin without much work. In the end, Saiyuri's knowledge was great enough to where she could find out how to escape. She needed a place where she could be effectively watched on almost all sides.

That was the reason why Hiashi and his nephew were in front of her now. The Byakugan's peripheral Vision was the best suited towards the constant watching of Saiyuri. Tsunade planned to keep her within the Hyuuga Household. With the Hyuuga guard constantly looking with their Byakugan, they would catch her on all sides.

"So you wish for us to keep the girl within the grounds until you believe she is trustworthy? That sounds like a very long timeframe to me," Hiashi remarked.

"So far the Konoichi has cooperated with the questioning without having to resort to more persuasive methods. And from what the ANBU tell, what she says is accurate," Tsunade remarked, "I still have a concern for Saiyuri's ability to perceive things that she shouldn't be able to perceive."

Hiashi didn't say anything at first. His face was very stony, but one could tell by the length of his silence that he was contemplating this.

"Very well," He replied, "We will be keeping her in an isolated room of the main house complex."

"Thank you Hyuuga Hiashi," Tsunade nodded. Both of them stood up, said their goodbyes, and Hiashi and Neji walked out of the room.

As they both walked, Hiashi turned over to his nephew, "Do you think she will try to escape?"

"She is difficult to predict," Neji replied, "However she seems very sincere in her wish to be away from Orochimaru. It wouldn't be logical for her to escape if that is her wish. The only other places that would have as good of protection as Konoha would be another of the major Ninja Villages,"

"There are other reasons for a person like that to escape," The family head looked back over to him, "Perhaps it's not protection she's after. Freedom might be more valuable to her."

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If the houses in Konoha were big to her, then Saiyuri could tell that the Hyuuga estate was humungous. She was lead into the very fine complex of the main branch house, and then placed into a small side room with a small pad and a dresser for her. Once there, the door was shut, locked, and had a special seal placed on the lock.

She could hear Neji's voice from the other side of the door, "Tsunade and Hiashi agree that you might be able to stay around the household in a couple of weeks."

"This should do me just fine. I hope I get my own bathing times as well though, I'd hate to stay dirty," She remarked this as she set up her own pad. The vitamins and medicine seemed to do her well. She felt much more refreshed.

"Yes you will. One of the other guards will open the door and lead you to the bathrooms."

"That sounds well enough. I won't complain," She began feeling the sleeping pad underneath her, "This place is very comfortable, albeit empty. It isn't much of a prison treatment."

Neji was amused by that comment, "The Hyuuga aren't known for being warm company."

"I am very used to lacking warm company. You have to remember who trained me," Saiyuri grinned at him. It was the first time he had ever seen her smile in any way, shape, or form. Her smile made her look a little warmer.

He gave a small nod and then turned around, "Someone will bring you some food soon. Until now, I can't give you any suggestions on what to do."

Saiyuri watched him leave. As soon as she heard the door shut she began to mill over something she had overheard from a short distance. It was coming from the very edge of the hidden leaf village.

There were two of them. They dressed in dark cloaks riddled with red clouds. Both of them were staring off on the distance towards the location of their target.

One of them looked to the other. He had blue skin, blue hair. His eyes were a deep yellow, "Oi! So this is where they're keeping the seer?"

"Yes, it is intriguing of them to hold her in the Hyuuga's estate."

"I heard that the Hyuuga got Chakra-based taijutsu. They're supposed to be tough."

"They are insignificant to us. We will collect the seer and take her to our leader. We can use her to locate the tailed beasts."

She gave a sigh as she looked outside to the peaceful gardens that were right by her window. This place was peaceful, even with the cold undertones if being within the Hyuuga complex. She knew if they wanted to get in here, they probably could. She knew well of the dangers that Uchiha Itachi was. Not even Orochimaru could stand up against him alone. This would be a dangerous situation, something that neither Neji nor his teammates could go up against.

She was at a loss for what to do. She couldn't exactly tell anyone. Even if Saiyuri had lost a few of her moral senses, she still had quite a few more than Orochimaru or Kabuto. She would rather keep the other people who were trying to help her from running into an extreme danger such as Akatsuki.

There really wasn't anything that she could do that would give her any solace… except for one.

"Sorry.. I didn't realize that things would happen so quickly…"

She placed her hands together.

"Nehan Shōja no Jutsu" (Temple of Nirvana Technique)

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Hinata had been plucking a few herbs from her small little patch of garden near the corner of the main house complex. Most of these were going to be going into her medicines. Particularly one she was saving for both Neji and a large supply she had been saving for two years now. This would be for her Naruto.

She didn't notice anything at first. But soon enough she saw it. Feathers! There were countless feathers falling all over the Hyuuga estate. Sakura told her of this before. A few years ago during the first Chunin exam she had taken a part in. The Genjutsu could put an entire area asleep.

She placed her fingers together, "Dispel!" Her on-setting drowsiness disappeared immediately. This was quite a skilled person behind this genjutsu. Her drowsiness came in so quickly she had barely any time to react to it at all. Many of the others would most likely be asleep by now. She had to find her father, her sister, and her cousin as soon as possible.

She started to run towards the house only to see the woman who they brought in slipping out the back door. Hinata activated her Byakugan quickly and jumped in front of her.

"Wait! You can't leave!"

Saiyuri only looked at her for a few seconds, "I guess you're much better then I had expected. Forgive me, I can't stay."

"I can't let you leave!" Hinata shifted into an attack position.

"This isn't about escaping. This is about leading danger away from this place."

Hinata paused for a minute, then lowered her stance, "Wh-what do you mean?"

"If you really want to help, then tell your Hokage that Akatsuki are here."

With that she jumped clear over the lady Hyuuga and dashed over the nearest wall.

Hinata looked back for a minute. Akatsuki! Those were the people who were after her Naruto!

"Hinata-Sama!"

She turned around to find Neji coming towards her. He had obviously escaped the Genjutsu as well. Her father wasn't too far behind either.

"Neji-nii-san! Saiyuri said Akatsuki are here! She ran off to try and keep them away!"

Neji paused… He had heard rumors about these people. They couldn't be too far off.

His Byakugan had advanced to the point where he could see 500 meters all around. With it activated he started searching the entire area to look to confirm what Hinata had just said.

He found Saiyuri. She was moving as far away from the Hyuuga mansion and Konoha as possible. But coming at her from a short distance to her side. Two of them. One of them was known as Kisame, and the other was no one else but Sasuke's older brother.

He turned to Hiashi, "I'm going after her. The elder Uchiha is going after her. Hinata-Sama, please warn Tsunade-Sama!"

"It is the Hyuuga's responsibility to make sure that the Seer is secure," Hiashi replied to his nephew, "This is not just your failure. It is the failure of all the Hyuuga. We must recover our honor. I will go with you."

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Saiyuri stopped only when she felt there was enough distance between her, her pursuers, and Konoha. She opened her scroll and summoned her Shuriken as quickly as she could. The two of them came in as she hopped on two of her weapons.

"Hey! She's a cutie! I thought Orochimaru was only interested in men!" The Shark-man grinned looking at her.

"If you had someone with the power to see anything, it wouldn't matter what gender they were," came the reply from the Uchiha.

"So I finally meet you face to face Uchiha Itachi," Saiyuri looked at them coolly, "I suppose your leader wants to use me."

"We have come to collect you," Itachi stepped forward, "You would be wise to step down and come quietly. You are too valuable to harm."

"Freedom is worth dying for!"

There was no argument after that. She placed her hands on a second pair of Shuriken. Using her mind's speed and not the speed of her body, She moved with blinding velocity behind Kisame. She quickly sliced the ties that bound Samehada to the shark's back. Once it fell she shoved him out of the way, where the rest of the shuriken had done their work at slicing the truck of two trees nearby. They fell on top of the sword, this would give her opponent difficulty in retrieving his weapon.

"Damn! You're a smart bitch!" Kisame growled and moved to kick her off her shuriken.

Saiyuri flipped away using her shuriken as the landing grounds for her hands and feet. However, she had to duck Itachi's own furious moves.

"There is no reason for you to be resisting us. We are offering you a chance to get away from Orochimaru."

"Perhaps, but I'm already away from him! Sorry! Konoha bears the possibility of a sweeter deal,"

Saiyuri launched five of her weapons towards the red-eyed man. He moved out of the way of their initial assault. But he would have to deal with their quick rebound and second strikes. Itachi himself was growing weary of this. He knew the potential of Saiyuri to be able to drag out the battle long enough for someone to come and find her. Or long enough for her to cause a distraction to make her escape. He had one option open to him.

His body moved faster than her eyes could see. Only her second sight saw this coming. It left her body no time to react. Soon she found herself pinned by her shoulders against a large boulder by the Uchiha, unintentionally staring right into his pinwheel eyes.

"You are supposed to be unaffected by all of the genjutsu you have ever encountered, but you will not escape this one."

Unfortunately Saiyuri feared this moment more than anything.

"Tsukuyomi" (Moon reader)

He was correct when he said there was no escaping this genjutsu. She was rendered so deaf and blind by it that she couldn't see the red moon hanging above her head even if she wanted to.

"You will spend the next 24 hours in this state, unbeknownst to anything that I do to you."

Neji and Hiashi could hear her scream from the few feet that they were from their location.

"That was Saiyuri! Could… Could she be trapped In Itachi's Mangekyo Sharningan?!"

Both of them landed in front of their target. Saiyuri was laying limp on the ground. She wasn't conscious, but she was still breathing. Itachi turned around to see who had come.

"Hyuuga Hiashi. I didn't think that you would come."

"You have taken something that was our responsibility to watch over. I will not allow you to soil our Honor."

"Arrogent as ever Hyuuga," the Uchiha looked fowarard.

"Avoid eye contact with him Hiashi-Sama. Try to guess his moves from reading his body language."

"I have faced Uchiha before, I remember it well."

"Che! You guys think you can take us down!" Kisame grinned at what he considered to be some fresh meat."

Neji circled around the blue ninja. Then, not saying anything, he went in with his palms glowing. Kisame moved quickly then moved to strike him back. Neji gripped the arm that was after him, sticking as many tenketsu as possible before being forced to jump back.

Hiashi and Itachi were already exchanging blows. They were both moving quickly. It seemed safe to assume that Hiashi really did remember how to face an Uchiha. He two was taking opportunities to strike at the small chakra valve whenever possible, albeit those opportunities were extremely few in number.

Saiyuri's eyes slowly opened to the sounds of two Hyuuga taking on her would-be abductors. She was so mentally worn out from trying to fight the Tsukoyoni that she had exhausted herself. She had done this once before in a very risky mission that she was on. Her second sight was slowly coming back go her. But her real sight was proving to be temporarily gone. She couldn't see what was going on with her own eyes.

Tsunade was still a few minutes away. A few minutes could mean the difference between the deaths of Neji and Hiashi. She was exhausted, but she couldn't allow herself to keep from guiding them.

"Hiashi-sama, Itachi never allows people to see that his is a little more open on his left side than his right. If you can dodge his initial attacks you can possibly hit him there."

Hiashi at first was a little confused at the strange voice that was speaking to him in his head. But it was something he was finding to be true. Itachi's next strike was with Kunai. He gripped his arm, avoiding the Uchiha's face entirely with his eyes, then gave a sudden burst of Chakra into his chest. Sure enough it knocked the man back a little.

"Neji, you have Kisame at a disadvantage. He is nowhere near water, and his sword his currently not accessible with the openings that you give him. Attack him from behind and towards his lower back."

Neji, unlike Hiashi, had heard this prompting before. He was quick to trust it. He flipped his opponent so that he was behind him and began hitting him hard in the small of his back.

Uchiha Itachi took a moment to turn around and check on his target. So that was what happened. She was awake now. The reason why the two Hyuuga were starting to gain any ground was because somehow, she guided their actions.

This was why the seer was so powerful. He was a little amazed at the ability that she had to keep going even after she had faced a horrendous barrage to her psyche through his Mangekyo Sharningan. It was obvious that Orochimaru had trained her in this.

His thoughts were interrupted. Suddenly, without much warning except for the added insight that his eyes gave him, a hardened fist came at very quickly. It gave him little time to dodge, He knew better than to try and block that blow. If he had, he would have probably suffered a shattered bone.

Kisame had to dodge too. He didn't have a blow from a fist though. It was more like a frantic attempt to avoid a fist charged with electricity. He didn't completely make it either. The fist gave him a horrible graze to his arm. He jumped backwards to look into another Sharningan.

"Well it seems that you two have come back to make some trouble again," A white-haired, masked-faced shinobi spoke.

Tsunade looked towards Itachi, knowing very well not to stare into those eyes, "Get out of here Akatsuki! You're severely out-numbered."

"You think that we're going to just turn around and run like that?!" Kisame growled at the blond-haired Hokage.

"Kisame," Itachi spoke, "Grab your blade. We are leaving."

"What?!"

"We are leaving."

Kisame didn't have the time to cuss his partner out. The Uchiha simply turned around and started on his own. The shark-man grabbed his blade and gave a hard heave to pull the large sword out from underneath the two fallen trunks. With that he turned around and caught up with his partner.

"Why now are we going?"

"I am not about to face the Hokage without my full strength," He replied, "Saiyuri fought hard to try and break the Tsukoyoni. She didn't gain much of an advantage, but it was twice as exhausting as usual to perform that technique. I doubt we would have been able to handle them, the Hyuuga, and Kakashi and still have enough energy to escape with the Seer."

"I swear I will slaughter them Konoha Shinobi!"

"Do what you will, we must report to our leader of the unexpected situation at hand."

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"Why didn't you just warn us!" Lee was looking at the black-haired Konoichi who was lying back in a hospital bed for the second time.

"You're making it difficult for Konoha to trust you Saiyuri," Neji corrected his teammate, "Tsunade and Kakashi would have been there to help with Akatsuki anyway."

"If I had said anything, my chances of keeping here would have been lessened,"

"What on earth do you mean!? Kakashi and Tsunade were there last night and those two ran off!" Lee scratched his head at the Seer's logic.

"That was only after he had used his Mangekyo Sharningan on me. Had I warned them before without escaping. Tsunade and Kakashi would have to face the pair at their full strength, and most likely they would have gone near water to give Kisame a larger advantage. I knew I wasn't going to be able to fight them off or escape them."

"You purposely fought them. You knew that Itachi was most likely to use the Tsukoyomi on you. So instead of running from it you used it to your advantage by fighting back and forcing him to use as much energy as possible," Neji looked at her, "Do you know how risky a move that was?!"

"None of the options had any greater risk value. I simply used the one that would probably have the best possible outcome. I can't say Orochimaru gave me many great life lessons, but something that he did teach me was sometimes, for the best possible outcome, you must experience some…'minor discomfort…'"

Kakashi walked into the room, "If you call that 'minor discomfort,' I would hate to see your definition of pain."

Her eyes moved over towards the copy ninja, "I suppose that little outburst of mine didn't do me any credit to my being trustworthy."

"No it did not. You will be held for some time until you regain said trust. If you prove that your little shenanigan was just and true, then we'll let you back to your little room in the Hyuuga compound. Tsunade wants me to keep tabs on you now."

"Amusing, this coming from the man who supposedly bluffed his way out of a fight with Orochimaru. What were you do to do if I did try and run off again?"

"Most likely be forced to contain you. It's a good thing your body doesn't keep up with your mind. If it was, I'd daresay you'd be more powerful than even the Yondaime was."

There was a small laugh, then she shrugged, "I suppose I should consider myself fortunate that I'm not a fool."

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Whew.. I hit a wall when it came to creativity recently. If anyone has any good ways of breaking a writer's block please message me by all means!!"