Summary: "AnBu Owl, your mission as stated annihilate the uprising Hyuuga clan, leave none alive. Any left alive aside from afore mentioned Hyuuga heiress, will be seen as disloyalty and you will be immediately dispatched as a Nuke Nin. Do not disappoint us.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto

Chapter five

Black sheep

Itachi raised a brow, what was the Hyuuga doing with Shisui? The small girl recognized him and her eyes lit up slightly, before quickly dimming as she hid behind Shisui her tiny hands curling at his pants.

"Hello Itachi." Shisui said with a small wave seemingly nudging the small girl forward. Her eyes widened and Itachi noted the rather haphazardly made clothing, he smirked.

"Shisui." He acknowledged falling into step besides his cousin, occasionally glancing over to the tiny child in between them.

"Excuse me, but what is your name?" Her face turned a very, VERY light shade of red as she poked her fingers together.

"Hyuuga Hinata." He nodded, the name made since but he found it didn't really suit her. No, he thought eyebrows furrowed together slightly.

'Tsuki Hana' the two words surfaced from his thoughts like something rising from still water, however he found that the name seemingly described the small girl. The girl named for the sun, yet should have been named for the moon.

Itachi shook his head mentally chiding at himself for such ridiculous thoughts, rather irate really.

"Of course we've met before, unless you do not remember? You were still but a child then." Itachi began trying to converse with Hinata slightly, regardless of Shisui's staring.

"Y-yes, I remember y-you. You w-were the o-one in the b-black and s-silver kimono." Itachi honestly didn't think she would remember him, but then again Hyuuga have always been observant. It would only be natural for their children to as well, even if they were only five…

"That is correct, you were crying when we first met." He was sure that Shisui would have hit him across the jaw, from that glare he was subtly sending to Itachi he could only assume.

"Y-yes, ah I-it w-was a bad training session, that's all." Itachi nodded, accepting those words, for now at least. Right now he wanted to know why she was with Shisui, and why she was wearing his clothes.

"Why are you with my cousin?" Hinata's eyes widened slightly, did she not know till know?

"YOUR Shisui-Nii's cousin?" her mouth dropped slightly before realizing how rude she had just been, her jaw clicking sharply like a coiled wire as her face turned scarlet.

Already she had bowed onto her knees for her rudeness as Itachi himself often had done for his own father, and sadly his own clan mates.

Itachi quickly took mental notes, wanting information for later. Hinata had instantly dropped after her 'rudeness' as if expecting some sort of punishment right then and there, she was shaking as well. Not noticeably but it was evident in her slumped shoulders and how she curled into herself far more tightly than usual for a common bow.

As time dragged on she grew even tighter, Itachi didn't miss the gleam in his cousin's eyes. Something boiled at that small but rather obvious glance at the Heiress.

Itachi could tell Shisui genuinely cared for the girl, but damn it the clan. The pride at seeing the Hyuuga Heiress bow to the Uchiha Heir, it was enough to give Shisui some sort of morbid fascination.

Itachi could easily see, so long as Hinata feared him Shisui would not hurt her. But that didn't mean he wouldn't try to keep her as she was, if she tried to get stronger he might push her back down. Under the heel of his foot of the next Uchiha Heir, rubbing it into the noses of the other clans.

It was so blatantly obvious Itachi couldn't help how sharp his words how sounded.

"Get up; no one wants to see you cowering in the dirt." Quickly the girl stood up in a fluid motion, her eyes wide ad shiny. Shisui seemed more then angry, but Itachi could almost taste his disappointment in seeing the girl rise.

"You will come with me." Shisui opened his mouth to protest but Itachi shut him up with a glare.

"I have informed my father of Hinata's arrival, he wants her to stay with my family for the time being." Half a lie half a truth, his father did not know she was here. But he wanted her at his house; Itachi knew he was more than likely taking Hinata into the cave of the devil.

But Itachi was a demon, or so he was told. He could protect her, he WOULD protect her. It was his promise.

Moments later after explain his reasons for her leaving (obviously he couldn't tell Shisui the truth, he already suspected Itachi of something. So he went with his half-truth and half-lie once again) with him Shisui and Hinata parted ways.

"Do not bow for merely thinking you have been rude. You are in the Uchiha compound and only with arrogance and pride will you be able to stand. Do not become arrogant though, do not become prideful. I have seen you and I have met you before Hinata, you can act very well. I expect you to do so again unless me and you are alone for training, understand?"

Expectedly she nodded being the empathetic child she was; she knew he was only trying to protect her. He had promised her that, and he had shielded her before.

Why couldn't she trust him know after all?

"Y-yes I-Itachi-san." Itachi frowned.

"Call me Itachi; I have no desire for honor suffixes ok Hinata?" once again she nodded as they entered the house. He grasped her hand quickly, tightly. He knew she was afraid, it was written clearly in her eyes.

For his father was home, and he seemed angry. The scowl in place and eyes narrowed, his eyebrows were drawn together and Itachi could see the tightness of his jaw.

Even a small twitch was evident in his left eye. And so, once again Itachi became the demon, and once again he protected his Tsuki Hana.

Author's note: Tsuki means moon and Hana means flower it makes sense if you think of the title! Special thanks to sama-kawaii25 for calling this unique, I honestly didn't think it was since it was so overdone!