Quick recap.
"I can't blame you for forgetting her…I did tell you that I killed her on that night and you just repressed it, forgetting her existence, making it seem that she was just part of your imagination"
Sasuke stared at his brother. "Who is she?"
Itachi closed his eyes.
"She's our little sister…your twin"
End Chapter one.
Chapter two. The Forgotten Sister.
Sasuke felt as if Kisame had smacked the back of his head with Samehada (His sword, if you don't know).
'Me…a twin...A little sister?' Sasuke mind was so confused.
It couldn't be true, could it? He would have remembered having a twin sister if he did? Or what if he did have one and just repressed her 'death' like Itachi said?
Itachi was staring at his little brother.
"Sayuri was born shortly after you did. It was considered a miracle throughout the clan, it's rare for the Uchihas main house to have a girl and even rarer for twins. Father named you both and, as mother had once said, you two could not be separated. Plus you two were so alike that the only sure way on telling you apart was your hair"
Itachi waited a bit. Sasuke was trying to get the information to sink in.
"Hair?" Sasuke asked.
"She had long hair like mother"
Sasuke nodded. "What happened to her?"
Itachi looked down, sadden.
"She inherited Hitomi Sharingan when she turned six and father sent her to some old relatives in the Land of Mountains to learn how to use it"
"Hitomi Sharingan? Is it like Mangekyo?"
Itachi shook his head.
"With Sharingan, there are only two higher levels than the three tomoes. There is our Mangekyo, Sasuke, and Sayuri's Hitomi. You and I will never gain Hitomi while Sayuri shall never use Mangekyo. Hitomi only occurs in females and Madara discovered Mangekyo for only male use. Do you understand?"
Sasuke nodded.
"Hitomi is the 'beautiful eyes' of Sharingan. They are also known as the 'seeing eyes'. What Hitomi does is let the user, Sayuri, see things that were, things that are and things that are to come. Putting it simply, Sayuri can see the past, present and future. The only thing that both Hitomi and Mangekyo have in common is that each user has their own unique design pattern while using either one"
Sasuke blinked. "There a Sharingan that shows the future and past?"
"Only in females"
Sasuke was trying to let is information sink into his head. The thought of a little sister did please him a bit; it meant that he wasn't the youngest anymore, not the weakest link.
But there was a question that he needed answered.
"Where she is?"
Itachi looked away. "Sayuri disappeared on the night you went to Orochimaru. I think she died"
Sasuke was shocked.
"How? What was she doing the night I left the Leaf village?"
Itachi stored Sasuke in the eye.
"Trying to stop you"
Sasuke took a step back. Itachi continued though.
"I was just lingering around outside the Valley village, waiting for Kisame, when she came flying out. It took me a good 15 minutes before I managed to block her from going any further. She…she was crying and ordered me to move out of her way. When I refused and tried to lead her back, she screamed at me."
Itachi paused.
"Sayuri kept trying to run from me. I wasn't listening to her until she yelled that she was going to stop you from ruining your life. She told me that you were leaving the village, going to give yourself to Orochimaru so that you could get enough power to kill me. I was that frozen that she managed to get pass me but before she left, she told me that she refused to let you fall into the same darkness as me, that she refused to have this vision of you be true. In that moment I really could see how strong she was. I haven't seen her since then and there is no evidence of her being alive…I just keep hoping that she didn't die"
Sasuke was now leaning against the wall. He couldn't believe it.
'Its my fault…she could have died because of me'
No, he couldn't take it, the idea of her death being his fault for leaving.
"She shouldn't have done that! It's not her responsible as a younger sister to look after me!"
Itachi watched. "But it was her choice to try and help her twin. She was always that type of person to place others before herself…just like mother used to"
Sasuke straighten himself up and walked towards the door, he needed time to think and gather himself.
Yet before he reached the door, Itachi placed something in his brother's hand. It was a small box.
"I saved these for you," he said.
Sasuke clutched onto the box and walked out of Itachi's room, leaving his older brother alone in the dark.
*
As soon as Sasuke was in his room, he collapsed onto the floor, his head suffering under everything it had learned.
He clutched onto the box tighter and then bought it up to his face to look at it. It was really big and rest comfortably in his palm. It was made out of dark ebony wood and it had the Uchiha symbol engraved on the lid. Lifting the lid up with his thumb, Sasuke saw that there was folded paper inside.
It wasn't until he lifted the paper out that he realised that they were photos.
The first one was of Itachi; age 10, and two smaller children, a boy and a girl, both looking close to six.
Sasuke knew that the boy was him. He blinked when he saw the girl, Sayuri.
She really did look like their mother, same face structure, bight eyes, the caring smile and the long hair that was tied back into half a ponytail. Yet Itachi was also right about how much the both of them looked alike too; Sayuri was wearing the same clothes as his.
Looking closely, Sasuke could see that she was clutching onto his sleeve like her life depended on it.
Sayuri looked so innocent…and breakable. He could remember her better now, the way she used to trail after Itachi and him.
Sasuke looked at the next photo to see that Sayuri had growed from a breakable little girl to a delicate yet strong genin. Her hair was still long and tied in half a ponytail but now her forehead was covered with a ninja headband; it had a 'V' symbol in the middle. She wore a blue shirt that was covering over a white dress that ended at the top of her knees. She was also wearing black leggings and arm warmers.
Yet, her eyes, they didn't seem as bight any more, they looked sad and sorrowful now.
Sasuke continued looking at the photos for a few hours until he fell asleep.
That night, his dreams were all of his memories of Sayuri.
End chapter two.