The Uchiha Clan Survivors

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Chapter 3 - Is it all a dream?

Sasuke had fallen asleep with the thought of how great it would be, not to be alone. His dreams were filled with pictures of his 'childhood' which he gave up at age 9. Him playing with his mom and brother. His dad. He faintly and subconsciously remembered hearing that a family was leaving.

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I was running through town, the thought of being alone was far from my mind. I was only 6 years old. Fun and games, along with training, were some of the only things that mattered. But I didn't take my training seriously enough.

I saw her. She had long hair that went to the center of her back almost. Damn me for being stupid. She wore a Konohagakure village headband around her neck, and her hand was in her mother's. They were heading for the edge of town. Her mom held a small bag and a slightly larger bag.

I was interested, so I followed them. She was my age, was the headband her mother's? No she had one of her own. That little girl was a ninja at her age? Just like my brother. They were headed for the forest. Mom never mentioned them, dad hardly spoke, how was I supposed to know who they were?

As they reached the forest edge, the girl turned her head to look back. Her eyes...so full of sadness. They caught me by surprise, and for what seemed like forever, our eyes locked. I had to know who she was. She was a Uchiha. That much I knew just from looking at her. But why was she leaving?

Our gaze broke as her mom pulled her further and further from my spot near a store wall. For a moment I couldn't move. Then I jumped up and ran after her, staring through the trees, but she was gone. Who had that girl been? Would I see her again? I felt connected, by Uchiha blood alone was uncertain, and I didn't care. I really hoped I'd meet her again.

For days I was obsessed with who she was and where she was. I searched the house windows and the stores. I asked my mom if she knew, she didn't. She knew that there were many people in the town and many Uchiha's, it was hard to tell whom I meant. I felt discouraged, and then I asked the guy at the restaurant one day when my dad took me.

I asked him the question that had been bugging me. Did he know a girl who was a new ninja, my age, with long black hair. He told me of a girl like that and where she lived. I thanked him and next chance I got, I went to the address.

All I found was a building with the door unlocked. I opened the door and felt my heart drop to my knees. It was empty. She wasn't here. I had searched all this time for a shadow? As I looked around the deserted house I asked myself, was she just a dream? Maybe she had been a ghost...but it wasn't logical at all.

Soon, I left the house, glancing back at it over my shoulder as I walked. Her eyes...they had been so full of sadness...

Soon she passed out of my thought, my memory, and only in the back of my mind did I remember the girl with long black hair and distant eyes, who bore the headband of Konohagakure Village, hidden in the leaves.

My life continued, and training, fun, and games were back on my top priority list. Then, at age 9, Itachi betrayed us all. He murdered everyone except me, telling me to live my pathetic life hating him. I did, I hated him. I trained, but I was never strong enough...I'm still not strong enough.

Distant eyes...they invaded my dreams, my subconscious, but I never could remember my dreams, and besides the thought of Itachi, my subconscious wasn't really what I listened to. Sadness...distance...those eyes...the Konohagakure ninja from my past. The Uchiha girl with long black hair, distant eyes, and the headband of the Hidden in the Leaves village...

Was she just a dream?

The darkness envelopes me...

Was it all just a dream?

The cause consumes me...

Is life just a dream?

I become an empty shell...

Is it all just a dream?

I swore to the kill...

Was she...

I swore to kill Itachi...

Was she just...

The darkness envelopes me...

Was she just a dream?

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Preview : 'Sasuke is popular among the ladies...he must've thought me to be just another boy crazy fan...maybe he still thinks of me that way...' she shook her head to rid herself of the thoughts. Then she heard a yell.