Chapter Sixteen- Older Sister and Middle Child

Sasuke/Meena

Sasuke only looks at Itachi, but then something tips him off. Something, or someone, had appeared behind him and caught Itachi's leg.

"Aniki, what a surprise," a girl said her raven hair was tied the same way as Itachi's, along with the two long marks on his and her face. She looked like the little girl from that picture. "Sasuke? This is not the time to be spacing out."

Sasuke only looked at her, but blinked at her eyes. Itachi went to attack them, but she just looked at him and he froze. "Thank you, Mina."

"It's fine, but do you know who did this?" Mina asked waiting for Sasuke to snap out of his shock, but she might as well she what Itachi has planned, and knowing her brother. He has something planned, he always does.

But that doesn't mean she agrees with him. If she hadn't turned up, she mightn't have known the reason behind the massacre.

"Wait... Meena? Mina?" Sasuke says looked at her. He had thought she was his best friend, but it turned out that she was his sister. Why didn't he know? "Why didn't you help me?"

"I helped you as much as I was able," Mina said a frown on her face. She wanted to help him, but she wasn't allowed to. With the kyuubi, she had to be careful, but not only that Danzo didn't want her getting to close to him. Seeing as he knew that Madara Uchiha could control the kyuubi with his Sharingan. "But Danzo was keeping an eye on me, I didn't want him to know. That would've put your life at risk."

"Why would that put my life at risk?"

"Fox, Sasuke, I know you've seen him."

"Why did they use you?"

"I was the one who made the decision."

"What? Why?" Sasuke asked. He didn't think that anyone would want the nine tails sealed in them, but his own sister told me that she was the one who made that decision. "Why would you want to do that?"

"To protect you, and Naruto," Mina told him he didn't want to upset his sister, nor he could he get the entire story out of her, not in the middle of a war. But he would remember to ask her later. "To protect everyone I love. But afterwards, I had to change who I was. Just in case people thought the Uchiha had planned it."

Sasuke just looked at her. He had told her years ago that she didn't understand, but now it looked like she did understand, that she understood the pain of losing family more then he did.

To look at a family member, knowing that they didn't even know who you were. He could understand the pain she went through.

"Mina, Sasuke. Kabuto is doing this," Itachi said stopping both of their trains of thought. "We need to stop this. It'll most likely end the war."

"Key words brother, most likely," Mina said. She doubted the orange-masked man was going to give up that easily, but their was something familiar about him, something she hadn't seen since she was two or three years old. A few months before the end of the war, along with Kushina getting pregnant. "I don't he'll give up. But it'll reduce his numbers. I don't think he knows Edo Tensei."

"Was that what Orochimaru used? When he attacked Konaha?"

"Yes. Kabuto is his medic, so it makes sense that he knows it. But you don't." Mina thought it was a fair question on Sasuke's part. She was sure, that if she was still acting she would've asked. It wasn't a common thing to know about it. It was forbidden for a reason, a very good reason. "Also the fact that I don't think the snake wanted to give you more power. He knew that jutsu, so you didn't need to. Not if he wanted to use your body. It might be a good thing, that I took Pein's eyes. Good forbid what would happen if they got into the wrong hands."

"Pein? How did you..." Itachi said but then shook his head. He didn't want to know, how Mina did things, he had no clue. But they didn't have time for this, they had a snake to stop. "Never mind. Mina, you and I are going to talk about this later."

"Yes, daddy."

"Stop being a wise ass," Itachi told her while rolling his eyes. He didn't need to pretend, Sasuke knew the truth. Mina was the one who killed Danzo, so he knew his brother hadn't thought about attacking the village. "Mina, Sasuke. I'll tell what happened as we head in Kabuto's direction."

"I know why you attacked the clan," Sasuke said. Tobi had told him, about how the village elders pressured him into doing it. But all of them were dead, but so were his family par one person. He would become Hokage, and he would make sure no child would have to see their entire family dead. That was his promise, to his parents, to his future children and his two siblings. "I understand. But I wished you trusted either me or Meena with the truth."