Chapter 3: Depression

Almost immediately after they told us our fate the soldiers took all of us to a special "Konohagure", or other village, where we were going to stay for the next two years. Each group of people were connected in some way. Whether it be family squads. I was forced to stay in the special compound they created that replicated the Uchiha compound. I…along with all the other members of the Uchiha clan…minus Obito. We were forced to act and react to each other as if we were really the characters.

Not only this… but Sasuke and I at least… started injections of a specialized Testosterone treatment. It's much more advanced than most scientists know… If someone wants to go from a female to a male it is so advanced that no surgeries are involved. Breasts start to shrink, and slowly the reproductive organs change from female to male. It's painful… more painful than menstruation. The doctors told us that our eggs would also start to become sperm so it's not like we would be sterile. We would actually be able to reproduce with a woman. I was surprised at how much advanced this science was… even during a dystopia…

Some of the people believed that we were saved from the dystopia outside the program but I don't think so. These were those who knew their character did not die. Those who knew they did not have to kill anyone. Outside the world was overpopulated and the middle class was no longer there. The only reason people still cosplayed was because they were donated costumes, worked under the table to afford them, or had them passed down from parents or grandparents who cosplayed before them. Conventions were now free because the governments wanted everyone to learn and enjoy other cultures in order to hopefully create peace.

However the government was getting out of hand too. The wealthy still ruled over the poor and they were always trying to find ways to overpower them and keep them poor. I was fortunate enough to be the daughter of a Celebrity. I did not let others know however. I wanted to keep it a secret. I had always wanted peace. I was like Itachi in that way. I wanted to eventually use my wealth to bring back the middle class and stop all the corruption the world was creating. Now I was just stuck in the middle of a crazy idea someone thought up. I knew what this was about… It was about creating real life shinobe from a Manga/Anime and then killing off a bunch of them to decrease the population. I'll bet that at the end of this the survivors either enter a Battle Royale type of thing… or their forced to become soldiers for the army…

Anyway… to get into the characters we were forced to live in the same households… which meant I had to live with Sasuke, Mikoto, and Fugaku Uchiha. We were all forced to become the characters even though we knew the fate of us all. I spent most of my free time alone in my room. I was scared and depressed. I didn't want to get attached to them because I knew I'd have to kill all of the "clan" except for Sasuke…who was forced to kill me years later.

I spent all my free time over the next few weeks wallowing in sorrow in my room. I didn't want to get attached. I couldn't get attached…especially if I had to kill them all. One day there was a knock at the door.

"Um…I…Itachi?" a shaky female (but turning male) voice came from the doorway. I looked up to see Sasuke… my new little brother… I gave her, well soon to be him, a kind smile. I had to keep reminding myself that she and I were going through injections to become male… I had to start referring to him as he and him. This same concept goes for myself… I was going through these changes as well… My voice was changing and my body was changing… I was losing my female qualities.

"Y…Yes…little brother?" I said trying to make him at least feel better.

"N…Nii-san…" he started looking down. "If…if we're going to do this I want to get to know you! I mean… they said we can gain the Sharingan…but I don't think we can gain it just because we're supposed to…I think we still have to be close to that person. How am I supposed to gain the Mangekyo…if we don't even talk?"

I sighed. He was right. I had to be with him. I had to be with my family… I even had to be with Shisui… I knew this but I was hoping there would be some way to get around this… but… If I wasn't able to gain the Mangekyo Sharingan… They'd probably kill me…

I looked up with a sad smile. "Your right… It's just… I… I'm…I'm scared. I'm scared to get close to these people… especially our...our mother and father…"

Sasuke just looked at me sadly and ran to hug me. I hugged him back out of love. I had to love him. He was going to be the one person I loved more than the village… The two of us held each other for a few minutes not wanting to let go. We then sat down and started talking. Getting to know each other better. Soon I even felt comfortable enough to smile and poke him in the forehead. He laughed obviously because he knew what it signified… I was his elder brother now.

Soon our mother came to the doorway and smiled. I had always loved Mikoto. She was a wonderful mother and was so kind. It was probably all to make up for Fugaku's uptight personality.

"I…I made dinner boys…" she said smiling trying not to cry. I knew she wanted to. This "family" we had…wasn't going to last more than three years…

I nodded and went up to hug her. "I…I want to be close to you as much as I can… ok… Mother?" I said to her.

She smiled kindly. "Of course…Itachi. I want to be as much a mother as Mikoto was to you two… for as long as I can."

I nodded as Sasuke joined the hug. The two of us still looked over the age of 18, but they said after our bodies turned male is when the injections of reversing our age to the ages of 14 and 7 would begin. The three of us went into the kitchen and joined Fugaku. He was very quiet and I didn't know if I should make conversation with him or not. I knew he had to acknowledge me before Sasuke… and I knew I was the one who had to try the hardest… but… I was still afraid… I knew despite his personality Fugaku truly loved both of his children.

"Hello… father…" I said still hesitant.

"Itachi…" he nodded. I could see he was trying to stay in character and not let any emotion get the better of him…but I could see he was scared. He knew he was going to die…and he didn't want to die…

The four of us sat in silence while we ate the delicious food Mikoto made for us. For a few days that is just how we spent our time together… until Fugaku pulled me aside one day.

"Itachi…That…that guy in charge… he…he wants us to start the Uchiha Police force… Just as a practice run… you know what that means…" he said sadly not even looking at me.

"Yes…I know father… I have to attend the meetings correct?" I said sadly.

"Yes…" he said also sadly. "he said you all need to get to know each other. He's happy you and Sasuke have… been getting along…and with your mother and me… but… I think you know what he means by all this… Shisui attends the meetings as well…"

I sighed. It was true… and I knew this meant that he wanted me to get to know and be close to Shisui… "yes father… I understand…" I confirmed sadly.

With that there was no more conversation. I said goodbye to Sasuke and our mother and went with my new Father to the meeting. It was kind of on the boring side. We didn't really do much except talk about how we were going to go about doing everything once the program begins. After the meeting Shisui came up to me.

"Uh hey… I don't know if you know me… I'm…only like mentioned…never really shown… Um… I'm Shisui…" he said nervously to me.

I blushed a little. Obviously the man who played Shisui and Itachi's best friend… had to be my type…

"Um…Hi…" I said looking down. I knew I had to get close to him… but I didn't like the idea of getting attached to someone I supposedly had to kill… even though I had suspicions that Danzo was the one to kill him….

Shisui looked at me with a frown. "hey…" he said with a smile and poking me in the forehead…

"Oh…"I said smiling a little and rubbing my forehead. "Hey I'm supposed to do that to Sasuke…"

He smiled at me. "Yes… and I'm supposed to be your best friend Itachi…" he reminded me. He put an arm around me and walked to a part of the compound that was deserted. I looked down and sat on a nearby bench.

"I… I know I need to get close to you so I can get to know you and get close to you…but… I'm just… afraid… I mean… I'm at first… a girl… I have girl emotions and now I have to throw them all away and become a man… Just for some rich guy's dream of creating a program to depleat the population in this dystopic world… " I said. I started crying. I held all this in and now I'm crying… in front of a complete stranger that I had to get close to…

Shisui looked at me sadly and hugged me, holding me close to him. "Hey… are you by any chance a yaoi fangirl?" he asked randomly.

I looked at him with my eyes stained with tears. What did this mean all of a sudden? "Why…why are you asking me that?"

"Well… I think I have a good way to make us close… I mean… no one's going to know you're originally a girl right?"

"Well…yea…I guess… but… aren't you going to feel a little weird? I mean…once the injections are done… I'm going to be a full scale male… " I said nervously.

"Well it's a good thing I'm Bisexual." Shisui responded with a smirk.

I smiled at him. "Really? I am too."

"Then we're on the same page." He said joining me on the bench. We sat there talking for a little while until it became so late that we had to get to bed. Over the next few months we dated (in secret since the "Uchiha Clan" could not know about this scandal) and we got closer and closer. It figured that the first man that ever notices me… I'm going to have to kill in order to get stronger. I had to keep telling myself it was temporary… that there was no way for us to stay together…for us to have a child… We couldn't even have sexual intercourse until my injections were complete and I literally became a man. Until then I was happy and content with the times I spent with Shisui, my little brother, my mother…and even my father…