Well, when I first wrote this, I honestly had NO idea what was going to happen (amazing I got this far!). I didn't think I would have any spoilers so if you don't read the manga, well, I won't give everything away, but I'm going to go ahead and warn you, there's going to be some spoilers in here. I tried. I really did!

I was waiting at the shop Kakashi wanted to meet me at in my new jounin garb. He had said something about meeting Sasuke so I was pretty excited. I was hopeful that Sasuke was more like me then most of the Hyuuga clan. In the mean time, Neji and Hinata were both with me. Since I had moved into the Hyuuga estate (an Uchiha living with the Hyuuga, go figure), Hinata and Neji seemed to get closer since they were both getting closer to me. I had been alone in that apartment for five years so I was going to try and be friends with whoever I could. This made me think of Naruto. Neji, Hinata and I talked about all sorts of things and we had a lot of fun together. With permission, I would take them to certain places and show them the best restaurants. I would do impressions of Hinata's father or some one of authority, and they would laugh, or we would go out and do things that most of the Hyuuga clan—and I think the Uchiha clan—would have never approved of.

"So I think we should put the bucket of slime above this door instead," I said as I pointed at the map we had drawn of the Hyuuga estate. "He always goes through that door at 15:15 (3:15)."

"Yeah, but I think the dining room door is just as good," said Neji. It took a lot of convincing on my part to get them to try this. We were planning an assault on Hiashi, Hinata's father.

"If we get discovered, we'll get in so much trouble," said Hinata. I grinned wickedly at her.

"That's the point," I said. "Maybe we should get Naruto into this." I saw her blush at the mention of him and I knew immediately she had a crush on him. Aw, how cute!It was then I noticed the two suspicious persons walk into the building. They had straw hats with bells and ribbons hanging from them. The most notable trait was the strange cloaks they wore. They were black with red clouds. Neji and Hinata seemed to pick up on the sudden tension that had been built up. All three of us were silent for a moment. We did not want to cause alarm if they were not really dangerous. There were too many people around. I put up a smile and acted naturally as I possibly could.

"Why don't the both of you go on home?" I said. "We can talk about sliming Hiashi-sama later." They both nodded.

"See you at home," Hinata muttered as she picked up the map and walked out. I let out a sigh when I saw Kakashi step up to the shop. I stood up and stepped out, but as I stepped past them I looked at them.

"'Sup?" I said cheerfully. I saw the Sharingan under one of the hats, and it took everything in me not to bust out laughing. Especially when I heard the other say, "Did she just say 'Sup' to you?"

So when I came out trembling from the strain, Kakashi was a bit surprised.

"You okay?" He asked.

"Yeah," I said, my voice slightly constrained. I was going to be giggling about that for weeks. I noticed the two jounin behind me, Asuma and Kurenai. I turned and smiled at them, pretending not to notice the two behind me.

"Hey, you two look good together!" I said. They both glared at me, and I figured Kakashi had said the same thing. "What? It's true! Right Kakashi?!"

"Don't you drag me into your messes."

"So what are you two doing here?" asked Asuma. "I thought you didn't like sweets Kakashi."

"I'm actually here to put something on a grave. Sasuke is meeting us here," said Kakashi. I noticed Kurenai looked over at the two men sitting inside the shop ten back at us.

"Ah, for a moment I thought you two were on a date," Asuma joked. I turned bright red and quietly wondered what Kakashi thought of that. He didn't say anything, but I could tell (sort of) he was angry that Asuma suggested it.

"Now that's just stupid," I said.

"Whoa! Kakashi, you showed up before me?" said a male voice. I turned to find Uchiha Sasuke approaching us. He looked at me. Well, more specifically, he looked at my eyes and frowned. The two cloaked figures with in the shop disappeared.

"You have weird eyes." Little bastard.

"Well," sort of, I wasn't really, "it's nice to meet you, too." We were going to end up killing each other. He peered into the shop I had just been in.

"I don't like natto, or sweet things," he said.

"Yep, see! No relation to me whatsoever!" I proclaimed since I had a bit of a sweet tooth... Okay a lot of a sweet tooth!

"Sasuke, I called you here to meet some one really important," said Kakashi, stepping in before he and I killed each other. "This is Uchiha Tsukiko."

"First known as Yoshikawa Tsukiko, then Phoenix with in the ANBU ranks, then as of recently, Uchiha Tsukiko when my identity was released to the public," I declared cheerfully. He simply glared at me.

"Well, I'll leave you two alone to get to know each other," said Kakashi.

"All right," I said when he left. "Wait, what? Kakashi, we're going to end up killing each other! Kakashi!"

While I was yelling, my shadow clone was following him. I knew the real reason he had taken off, but I wasn't about to let them have all the fun. I stopped short when I saw whom they were fighting, Hoshigaki Kisame and Uchiha Itachi. Both were S-class missing nins Orochimaru seemed to pale in comparison with these two. Most people would have been angry or frightened, but ever since I had read that letter, I had felt a sort of compassion for the younger-then-I Uchiha.

If you had been discovered as an Uchiha any sooner, you would have been the one to carry the burden.

What would I have done in Itachi's place? Would I have gone through with it? I don't know, but I probably would have done the exact same thing. I felt something in my heart clench painfully, I was going to fail my mission to destroy him. I was going to save him.

Suddenly Kakashi seemed to fall. My heart leaped into my chest; I would have to step in.

"You're not the only ones, are you?" he said through heavy pants. "I know all about you. You call yourselves the Akatsuki."

I was silent, waiting for my opportunity.

"Kisame, change of plans: we're taking Kakashi with us. Make the other two disappear," I heard Itachi say. I activated both my eyes and jumped. I kicked Kisame in the face as hard as I could sending him flying across the river. Everyone seemed pretty surprised to see me.

"Took you long enough," said Kakashi.

"I thought you could handle it," I replied. I didn't want to fight. One of us would surely end up dead.

"Who are you?" asked Itachi. He was staring at my Sharingan. My heart was racing a mile a minute. This was him, the one who destroyed my other half of my family. There was no guarantee that he wouldn't kill me.

"Uchiha Tsukiko, a long lost relative of yours," I said. Having seen how his Mangekyo Sharingan works, I was confident I could use it... to some extent any way. Perhaps I could just scare him off. "I don't want to fight anyone, so get lost!"

"Don't let them go!" shouted Asuma. "They're after Naruto."

"I know," I said. "However, I don't think Itachi wants to try his hand against some one with the Mangekyo and the kekkei genkai for it. Plus I have the Byakugan to back me up."

"Byakugan?" said Kisame.

"Yes, someone in the Uchiha wasn't exactly proper, you might say, same for the Hyuuga." I looked back at Itachi. I watched him as his body went rigid with tension when our eyes met. He wasn't about to let his guard down with me. Perhaps he had fought with another Mangekyo before.

"Kisame, let's go," said Itachi.

"What?"

"We didn't come here to start a war. Tempting as it is," liar, "this is not the way to do this, let's go."

"Before you go Itachi, let me just say something," I said. He turned and looked at me. I grinned wickedly. "You're a pretty good actor."

Sasuke and I headed down the street. Neither of us knew where we were going, and I knew I didn't really care. It was obvious Sasuke and I were not going to get along.

"So, what happened exactly?" he asked.

"It's a long story, you sure you want to hear it?"

"Yeah, I've got time, I guess." He was lying. He probably wanted to go train or something. I grinned and poked his shoulder.

"Hey, let's go train and I'll tell you everything as we're training. I'll even see if I can teach you some of my techniques."

We got to my special training grounds. Sasuke looked at me expectantly. Waiting for me to talk about how I found out I was an Uchiha and such. I told him about how on my fourteenth birthday, the same day of the massacre, I had been told by a group of ANBU black ops about how my parents weren't really my parents. My real mother was of the Hyuuga clan, Hyuuga Nanami, and my father was of the Uchiha clan, name was unknown.

My mother had wanted me to grow up out of the ninja world, but the reality of my heritage would not let me escape easily. For my own protection, and for the protection of Konoha, I was forced into ANBU at age fourteen. For five years I trained and lived secretly away from the rest of the village. Until the Chuunin exams.

"So you kind of lost your parents the same way I did," he said.

"Sort of, but unlike you I might see them again. Who knows?"

"Itachi killed our entire family," he hissed.

"I know," I replied.

"Don't get in my way. I'm going to be the one to kill Itachi."

"Why do you have to do it alone?" I asked. "You think I'm not hurt by all of this? You think I like the fact that I'll never even get to see my father's face? Sasuke, You are not the only one who suffers from this loss, I want to help you. That's why we're here. You ready to start training with me?"

"Yeah."

"I still don't understand why you let them go," said Asuma. I ignored this. Explaining was not going to be easy so I dropped it.

"From their behavior, it doesn't seem like they've found Naruto yet," I said. Asuma glared at me but let the subject drop.

"But don't you think that's odd?" he asked. "They've already been here inside the village, and Itachi knows Naruto's face." The door opened to reveal Sasuke.

"Hey Sasuke, sorry I had to cut our time together short," I said. I had actually told him quite suddenly that I had to go and disappeared. I don't think he appreciated that since he continually glared at me.

"Why is Kakashi bedridden?" he asked. "What are all you jounin doing here? What the heck is going on?"

"Nothing much," I said when another jounin burst through the door.

"Is it true that Itachi showed up in town," he shouted, "and that he's after Naruto?!" The look on Sasuke's face before he bolted was truly bone chilling. I ended up chasing him down. There was no way Sasuke would be able to do anything against Itachi.

Looks like I'm going to have to be the peace maker in the family,I thought to myself. "Why is it always me? It happened at the Yoshikawa family reunions too!"

I managed to follow his movements with my Byakugan, but I lost track of him when we got to the city. I wasn't going to let either of them get hurt.

Unfortunately, Sasuke got there first.

"Long time no see, Sasuke," said the oh-so-familiar voice of Itachi.

"Uchiha Itachi," said Sasuke.

"My, my, today is truly an unusual day indeed," said Kisame. "To see the Sharingan not just twice, but three times." Sasuke ignored Kisame. More like he didn't even notice Kisame's or Naruto's presence, his sole focus was Itachi.

"I will kill you."

The hallway got heavy with tension, but I was not—I was not—going to let anything happen. If I had to use my own Mangekyo, so be it.

"Not today Sasuke!" I came up behind him. "You're not strong enough yet, and I'm not about to let you go and get yourself killed. It would prove nothing." My Sharingan and Byakugan were active and ready. Naruto was surprised to see me. "Naruto, I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, but my identity was a secret when I met you so I couldn't tell you. Now just back away, this is not your fight."

"He destroyed our family, surely if you and I work together we could take him down!" shouted Sasuke.

"I may not be able to empathize with your loss, Sasuke," I said, "but I sure as all hell am not about to let what's left of the Uchiha clan go down in flames."

"Well, you're going to have to fight anyway," said Kisame. "If you want to save this kid!" He brought down his sword but it was stopped by a large toad that had been summoned by Jiraiya.

"Sasuke, when I tell you, run," I said. I was going to fight Itachi. Jiraiya was quick to understand the situation.

"But-"

"Sasuke, you want to live right, get out of here," I whispered. "I'm not getting in your way, I'm helping you." I didn't know how to put it. I just wanted him out of there. I was glad he got the picture.

Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Hey!" shouted Kisame.

"Run Sasuke!" With that he bolted but not before looking back at me. We got off on the wrong foot, but we were still family. That much was proven with my Sharingan and willingness to protect him.

"Looks like it's just the four of us," said Jiraiya.

Well, I'm gonna stop there. Hopefully the fight there will be something to read about, unlike the fight with Orochimaru. I'm kind of wondering how she'll hold out against Itachi. (Wait, I'm the writer right?) Any way, every reviewer gets ten cookies! Repeat: every reviewer gets ten (10) cookies!

Also, if anyone has any suggestions on couples that would be great. Not SasuSaku! I'm sorry, I can't do it (not without bashing it subconsciously). I wouldn't be caught dead writing SasuSaku.

P.S. Does anyone know (or have an educated guess) how old Kakashi is?