"Hontōni obaasan!?"

"Hai Akari-chan. I need to go into the village to get some things, and you can come with. After all, it's a great time to introduce you to the Uchihas; since you'll soon be training with them, ne?"

"Un! It's the perfect time to do that obaasan!"

Chiasa quietly waited as Akari got ready to leave, while remembering the events that occurred the last time she had taken Akari into the village.

*flashback*

"I have a bad feeling about bringing Akari-chan into the village today." Chiasa muttered.

"What could go wrong? And even if something does go wrong, she's a smart kid." Nao replied, watching Akari happily walk down the street staring at everything and greeting all of the marketmen.

Chiasa's eyebrows furrowed in worry as she mumbled, "That's what I'm afraid of."

"Arigato sir!" Akari chirped as she handed the man the money, and he handed her their bag.

"Īe, thank you young one." He said softly while giving her a smile.

"Eh obaasan I'm hungry." Akari grumbled slightly, after leaving the fifth shop.

"Perhaps it would be a good time to take a small break and have some dinner." Nao chimed in.

"Hai, I suppose so. Well what would you like to eat tonight Akari-chan?" Chiasa asked.

Akari looked around a bit before noticing two things, a ramen shop and a dango stand. She frowned and trailed her gaze back and forth between the two until she finally decided on one of them.

"Can we get dango obaasan, onegaishimasu?"

"Hai." Chiasa replied and they began walking towards the dango stand. "Do you know what you want?" She asked as they all sat down on a bench nearby the stand.

"Hai! Three skewers of mitarashi dango!"

"You sure you can eat all of that?" Nao teased.

"Of course I can Nao-sama!" Akari yelled.

"Hush child." Chiasa chuckled. "She's just teasing you. Nao-chan will you kindly order for the three of us?"

"Hai Chiasa-san. What do you want?"

"I think two skewers of the chadango will be enough for me." Chiasa hummed.

Akari gasped. "I'm eating more than you, obaasan?"

"Hai child." Chiasa chuckled again. "You're but a young thing, it's only normal that you will eat more than one of my age."

"Well- wait Nao-sama I wanna pay!" Akari jumped off the bench and ran after Nao who had begun walking to the dango stand.

"Can you even reach over the stand Akari-chan?" Nao chuckled as she ruffled Akari's hair.

"Eh, stop that." Akari swatted Nao's hand away and fixed her hair. "And I can reach up enough to hand the man the money!"

"It's a woman." Nao deadpanned.

"Gomen'nasai! All the other stands were men." Akari exclaimed.

~short time skip~

"What is that!?" "It can't be!" "It's the nine-tails!" "Run!" The people around her gasped and panicked.

Akari looked around until her eyes finally took in what was causing so much panic, the large nine-tailed beast in the village. She inhaled softly as the people panicking around her, bumped into her in their hurry to run away from the beast. She hadn't realized she was slowly wandering around until a young boy carrying a baby paused and touched her arm. A young girl paused when the boy did and kept glancing around nervously.

"It's not safe to be wandering out here."

"Hai, I know. That's why you should keep going and get yourselves and that baby to safety." She responded softly before running away from the children.

"W-wait what are you doing!" The girl yelled after her.

"We have to go Izumi." The boy shook his head and began walking.

"Itachi-kun!"

"I have to protect Sasuke. My father told me to get to safety. One of the Jonin or Anbu will find her."

Akari shook her head and ran faster, relaxing slightly when she could finally no longer hear the children talking. Where is obaasan at? She panicked silently as she ran up and down the streets, avoiding being hit by the rampaging beast.

Akari froze and just stared as one of the tails came swinging in her direction, and she noted that she had nowhere to go to dodge it. Just before she was hit, she was held tightly as she was swiftly moved from the path of the nine tail's rage by a masked man. Her small hands gripped onto his shirt as he landed quietly.

"Are you alright?" He asked her quietly.

Akari nodded slowly against his chest and shyly mumbled, "Arigatō mister."

His hold on her loosened enough to allow her to move, as he silently sighed in relief that he had made it in time.

"Pretty mask!" Akari clapped as she finally looked up at the man's face.

His lips pressed together unhappily beneath his mask as he took in the fact that she had the sharingan.

"I like your mask!" She said while running her hand across it.

"Arigato?" He said slowly, not really sure what to say to the young girl. "What's your name little one?"

"Uchiha Akari. Can I know your name mister?" She smiled at him, causing him to frown beneath his mask.

How innocent she is, even with those eyes... he muttered in his head.

"Call me O-" He went silent and tensed as he felt a chakra signature approaching. He frowned even though he had known he wouldn't have much time with his imouto before her caretaker finally found her.

"You must be 'him' then, ne? What are you going to do now?" Chiasa asked, watching Akari who seemed pretty comfortable in the masked man's embrace; as she occasionally glanced up at his mask.

"What's best for her right now." He said as he sat her feet back on the ground.

"And what is that exactly?"

"What are you going to do about her sharingan, which by the way why does she have them at what, two years old?" He asked flatly.

"She was born with her sharingan, they have not deactivated yet since then. She's going to train with the Uchihas. She will be training with a few of the clan members, depending on who's willing to train her."

While the man was talking to Chiasa, Akari quickly snuck away from the two of them; running towards the nine-tails. She stayed at a distance when she noticed the shinobi standing outside the barrier. She turned her gaze to the barrier just in time to witness the nine-tails being sealed into two newborns, a man who seemed rather upset by the occurring events, and a red-haired woman and blonde-haired male taking their final breaths.

"Akari-chan." The man sighed, startling the young child.

"How did you find me so fast?" Akari demanded.

"Never mind that, come here child." He said as he picked her up again and took her back to Chiasa, placing her on her feet.

He said nothing as he looked down at Akari who smiled up at him once more. He leaned down and moved his face close to her ear and shifted his mask slightly so that his mouth was just barely not touching her ear. She giggled as his breath tickled her ear when he spoke softly so that only she could hear him.

"My name is Obito. But you mustn't tell anyone imouto."

"Eh?" Akari blinked in confusion as he straightened his back and spoke to Chiasa.

"I assume you will not stop me from locking away the memory of me in her mind."

The elder woman stared at the man with pursed lips for a few moments before agreeing. "I will not stop you."

"Yoi. Then I shall begin." He spoke as he lightly gripped Akari's chin, preventing her from moving her head.

"I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to lock away your memory of me." He spoke soothingly as his sharingan spun, capturing Akari's attention. As Akari stared at his sharingan she felt her eyes beginning to close in exhaustion.

"Rest now." He said as she gave into exhaustion.

"Akari-chan!?"

"Relax Nao-chan." Chiasa sighed. "We must get her back to the house so she can rest. She's had quite an eventful night."

The man looked down at Akari sleeping peacefully in his arms one last time before stepping towards Nao and handing Akari to her.

"Take care of her." He warned before disappearing.

"Who the hell was that!?" Nao whisper-yelled so as to not disturb Akari.

*end of flashback*

"I'm ready obaasan!" Akari yelled as she skipped back into the room where Chiasa was waiting for her.

"Splendid, now let's get going. Nao-chan is meeting us at the gate."

"Hai!"

And so Akari and Chiasa began making their way to the village gates.

A/N - Yes I will be using a bit of Japenese in this story. And no, I will not refrain from using Japanese words, sorry. However I will include a guide for those of you who don't know the words.

Hontōni - Really

Un - yeah

obaasan - grandma

onegaishimasu - please

Gomen'nasai - I'm sorry

Hai - yes

Īe - no

Arigato - thank you

imouto - younger sister

Yoi - good