My Sister

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Inuyasha.

"Itachi-nii-san?" The Sharingan-user looked down at the girl by his side to let her know that he was listening. "You'll always be here, right? With me?" Itachi blinked. She was scared of something, but of what, he didn't know.

He gave her a ghost of a smile and pulled her onto his lap to better watch the sunset. "Aa, I'll be here, and even if I'm not," he placed a hand over his little sister's heart. "I'll be right here, always remember that, Kagome-chan." Kagome smiled and leaned back into his chest.

Itachi wrapped his arms around her and stayed like that until she had fallen asleep. Sasuke will be jealous. He picked her up and took her back into the house, amazingly gentle for an ANBU captain who had already killed countless people. Tucking her into bed, he pushed some hair out of her eyes. "I'll always protect you, Imouto…"

Even though he promised, he wasn't sure it would be a promise that even he could keep.

"Why?! Nii-san!" Sasuke let the tears stream down his face as he looked up at his idol, his brother, who stood over their parents' dead bodies. Itachi didn't answer, just stared down at him blankly. Sasuke looked to his family and his eyes widened. One body wasn't there. Kagome! I need to get her out!

Itachi blinked when his little brother got up from where he had fallen to the floor from the Tsukiyomi and ran; the elder brother had expected him to continue ranting for at least two more minutes before running in terror. He listened to Sasuke's footsteps take him not out of the house and onto the street, but down the hall… and into Kagome's room. His Sharingan hardened. He won't take her from me.

"Kagome! Imouto, wake up!" The girl blearily opened her eyes and yawned. "Imouto, we have to go! Nii-san – he kille – "

"Nii-san?" Kagome was looking past him, to the door. Sasuke froze and turned to the door, only to see Itachi glaring at him. "Sasu-chan? Nii-san? What's wrong? Why are you staring at each other like that?"

Itachi turned to her and his Sharingan nearly faded as his eyes softened. "It's nothing, Kagome-chan; the others and I had an argument, that's all. Go back to sleep." Sasuke looked at him as though he had not grown one, but three more heads. Kagome looked between them again before obeying him and beginning to settle down again.

"No! We have to run! Nii-san –" He was stopped short by a hand on his shoulder. Itachi was right behind him, guiding him out of the room before he could try to warn their sister. Once her door was shut, he tore from his older brother and glared at him. "Why!? Why did you kill everyone else, but not her!?"

Itachi looked down at him indifferently. "There would be no gain in killing her; I killed the others to test my capability." Besides, I wouldn't have been able to kill her even if I tried. "Now, you will not remember her until I deem it necessary that you do so."

Sasuke's eyes widened and he took a step back. "Y-You can't do that! She's my sister, I would never forget her!"

Itachi let out a humorless chuckle and bent down a little to look him in the eyes. "I beg to differ, baka otouto. (foolish little brother.) Tsukiyomi." Within seconds, Sasuke was on the ground, screaming, all memories of his sister gone.

Itachi watched him pass and let his façade fall. "Sasuke… Gomen." He turned and walked back to his sister's room. "Kagome-chan, Imouto, we need to leave." He traced her cheek with the back on his fingers.

"Nii-san?" Kagome looked up at him innocently, not knowing the fate of any of her family.

"Get dressed, I have to take you somewhere where it's safe." Kagome yawned but nodded and did as he said. Once she was dressed, he picked her up and left through her window so she wouldn't have to see all the blood that he had spilt that night.

He took her deep into the forest and to a well that only he knew of and jumped in without hesitation. Blue light surrounded them and he landed at the bottom. Kagome looked above them and furrowed her brows in confusion at the roof above them. "Nii-san, where are we?"

Itachi tightened his hold on her and jumped out of the well. He set her down on her feet and knelt down to her eye level. "We're safe, Kagome-chan, now I need you to listen carefully." He waited until she was completely focused on him before giving her a sad smile. "You're going to have to stay here for a long time, but I promise to come get you when it's safe again, okay?"

Kagome bent her head in sadness but comforted him a little by patting his cheek softly. "Okay, Nii-san, I'll wait." Itachi pulled her into a tight hug, wishing that it didn't have to be this way, but he couldn't allow the clan to live after what he heard them planning for his siblings, and he didn't want to leave Kagome with Sasuke for fear that he would convince her to hate him as well. Kagome hugged him back and some tears trailed down her face and she buried her head into his shirt. "Never forget me…"

"I won't." Then he was gone.

The next morning, an old priest found the girl sleeping beside the well with tearstains on her face.

Higurashi Kun-loon looked outside at the well house and sighed. Kagome hadn't come home yet after a whole month and it was only natural that she be worried. It wasn't that she thought that Inuyasha was incapable of protecting her daughter, but it was around this time that her father had found her beside the well, crying for her brother.

It was also around this time that Kagome would begin to go into a daze and would often gaze into space with a wistful look. Inuyasha had even come and asked her about it, but she had no answer. It was just something that Kagome did.

She sighed again and was about to return to the dishes when she felt cold metal against her neck. On instinct, she froze and glanced to the side to try to see who was there, but she only saw black with red clouds.

"Where is Kagome?" The cold voice sent shivers of fear down her spine but she didn't answer, he could want to kill her daughter! The man behind her pressed the knife closer to her neck, breaking the skin just enough to draw blood. His deep voice became more insistent. "Where is she?"

"Demon be –" Ji-chan had just come into the room to see his daughter being threatened by a possible demon, so he was planning on defending her with his ofudas, but the piece of paper he was planning on purifying the demon with was stuck to the wall by the knife that the man had been holding to her neck.

Ji-chan was now sitting against the wall, trembling in fear as the intruder turned back to question Kun-loon. Those eyes… Red with black markings was not a common eye color, even among demons, and they scared him more than anything he had ever seen before.

"Where is Kagome?" His answer was in the form of a loud argument coming from outside the house.

"Go back, Inuyasha! I'm safe here – What are you doing?!" The strong female voice brought a smirk to the intruder's lips as he turned to face the door.

"I'm telling you, I smell fear and blood! There is no way I'm leaving you here without checking it out!" His smirk faded and his eyes narrowed as a silver-haired, dog-eared boy came through the doorway. "Who the hell are you?!" The boy tried to pull out his sword, but he heard the female voice cry out something and the boy fell to the ground, much to the intruder's amusement.

The intruder looked past the fallen dog to see a girl younger than him standing in the doorway. "Kagome-chan." His call ended the string of curses come from the boy and the girl looked up at him. As their eyes met over the brim of his cloak and under his hat, her eyes widened and she took a tentative step toward him.

"Kagome, don't go near him, he's dangerous –" Kun-loon cut herself off as she saw her daughter run across the room and into the man's awaiting arms. "Kagome!"

The miko didn't listen as she buried her face into her brother's cloak. No one else who knew where she was had those eyes, though she was certain that Sasuke probably had three tomoe by now. "I knew you'd come back for me…"

Itachi merely tightened his hold on her. "I missed you as well, Imouto." He could feel the shock from all of the three watched and stroked her hair soothingly. "Everything is safe now, Kagome-chan; we can go home."

Inuyasha shook off his shock and scowled. "What do you mean 'go home'? She is home! And she can't go anywhere, especially not with you! She's still my shard detector!"

Kagome flinched at the last two words and Itachi glared at the hanyou causing said hanyou to take a step back; he looked too damn much like Sesshomaru. "If you must know, Kagome and I belong in a different world, but I had to bring her here to keep her safe, although," his fingers traced a scar on her back through her shirt. "It seems that it is not as safe here as I assumed."

While Itachi was lecturing the hanyou, Kagome thought about what he had said. Is that still all I am to him? After all we've been through? She thought of her other friends and had to close her eyes to keep the tears from falling. I can't not go back with Nii-san, but I have to see them again.

"Let's just go home, onegai." Itachi nodded and formed a single hand sign while continuing to hold onto his sister. "But I need to do something first, so let me control where we go when we fall through the well." Itachi nodded again then in a poof of smoke, the two of them were gone.

"Kagome!"

The miko ignored the call as she and her brother fell down the well, Itachi having teleported them right above it. She smiled as the familiar blue lights surrounded them.

When he jumped out on the other side, Kagome saw the familiar forestry of the Sengoku Jidai. She stepped away from her brother and tugged his hand. He followed her about half-way to Edo when they saw an orange blur and heard a shout of "Kagome!"

The miko had to hold Itachi back from attacking the blur as it attached itself to her waist. "Hey Shippo-chan." The kitsune looked up at her happily. "You couldn't have missed me that much; I wasn't even gone for fifteen minutes!"

"So? I can still miss my 'Kaa-chan, can't I?" Kagome felt Itachi stiffen and smiled while making a show of petting his tail.

"Shippo-chan, this is my brother, Itachi; Nii-san, this is my adoptive son, Shippo." Itachi relaxed and nodded to the kitsune who beamed up at him. "Ne, where are Sango-chan and Miroku-sama?"

"Here, Kagome-chan." Itachi already knew they were there and gazed over the two of them. A monk and a woman fighter, a strange pair, but his sister's son was even stranger. "Who is he, and where is Inuyasha?"

Kagome smiled and turned to them. "Itachi-nii-san is my elder brother and Inuyasha is still on the other side of the well." She walked over to them and hugged them both. "I'm going back home with Nii-san, and I'm not sure if I'll be back, so I'm here to say goodbye."

Her friends' eyes widened, but they also understood, except for Shippo, who immediately turned to Itachi and looked up at him with scared and hopeful eyes. "Can I come with you, please?"

Kagome then looked back at him with the same eyes. The Sharingan-user heaved an unnoticeable sigh then nodded. "You will be trained as Kagome and I were; I will not allow someone to travel with me when they are helpless." He saw it coming, but he did nothing to stop the two hugs that engulfed him, one from his sister, and one from his new nephew.

Once Kagome and Shippo had said their goodbyes, Kagome having left something behind for a person named Sesshomaru, Itachi took them through the well to the forest outside of Konoha. Shippo jumped down from their arms and began looking around in curious wonder while Kagome stayed beside her brother. "Thank you for coming to get us, Nii-san."

Itachi didn't reply, but he did revel in her bright smile. He may not harbor any romantic feelings for her, which many people would believe to be true if they watched them interact, but she was the one person he cared about most, and he would do anything to protect her and her happiness.

AN: Yeah, I think that I did pretty well on this one, but I'll let you guys decide that. Thank you all for reading! Please leave me a review and if you want me to write anything.