A/N: This is Midori's POV okay?

I opened my eyes and found out that I'm gently floating. I looked around me. All I see is black, I could hear drops of water not far away from here, but that's it. Other than that, there is... nothing... inhere. Nothing... at all. Am I dead? Probably.

Then I saw it, the bright light in the distance. I wondered, if I reach it, will I be able to see mother and father again? I reached for it, ran after it, chased it. I'm getting closer... closer... closer. I reached out my hand and touched the light, the light is blinding, it consumed me.

When I opened my eyes, I saw my old home. I'm standing on my old street. I saw a little girl walking, with brown hair, and green eyes clutching a stuffed bear. She's walking side by side with a girl that looked exactly like her, except for blue eyes. Say, is that girl.. me?

I saw little me laugh with my sister, I'm 4 at the time. The little me spotted something and her smile grew big. She waved at someone and my eyes followed where she is waving. Then I saw Itachi, he waved back.

The scenes shifted, I saw times where the three of us will play together, when my father and mother always hugs me every night, tears stung my eyes. Why? Why are they resurfacing now?!

I was tugged away from the scene and all I saw is the night sky. I watched as Itachi walked side by side with the young me when aloud roar filled the air. My eyes widened in despair. This is the night where it happened. Oh kami. I saw my little self shriek in terror and ran towards the direction of the roar, Itachi hot on his heels. My heart raced, I quickly turned around and dashed towards the direction of the roar.

When I reached it, I saw the Kyuubi growling at my parents. My father and mother covered little me and tried to fight the monster, panic welled in me, I wanted to shout. Warn them. Help them, but I can't. The huge beast swiped his huge claws at my parents, then I saw my self wail in terror in the middle of the night. Itachi took me in his arms and comforted me, but I pushed him away. Instead, I helped in the evacuation of the civilians.

Loud murmuring echoed around me, I tightly closed my eyes to get rid of the feeling, but when I opened them, I'm in a different place. This, I thought. This is our graduation day when we were 7. We wore our hitai-ates proudly, and the tiny crowd applauded us. I smiled at the memory, then suddenly, the ground below me began to rumble. I fell into a deep chasm, I screamed, clawing my way out, but it's no use. In the end, I just let my self fall.

I'm falling... falling... then light rushed above me, green filled the place, I fell down into a forest. I tried walking around, but my effort is worthless, I just kept returning to the place I came from. Then suddenly, a scream echoed in the forest. I turned around and ran to the direction where it came from.

"Yuû-kun! Help me!" I heard a girl voice scream. I ran faster, and when I'm closed enough already, that is when I noticed that, the girl is me. The 8 year old me. My eyes widened. 'No.' She's standing in the middle with a ninja restraining her from the back. Our old sensei is slumped down on the tree trunk.

Yuû, only a year older than me, jumped out of his hiding place. He was badly wounded and breathing heavily, but despite this, he ran to the rouge ninja restraining little me while holding a kunai.

This is the time I panicked. I remember this too well, because of me, everyone...
'Stop! Yuû, stop!' I flung my body in front of him to stop him from running, but he just went through me. I turned around and yelled atthe top of my lungs. 'Yuû! STOP!' But of course, he can't hear me. This is just a memory after all.

When Yuû was just meters away, the rouge ninja used an earth jutsu and stabbed him in the heart with the earth. Tears stung little my eyes. "No!"

He crumpled to the ground, blood gushing out. Then suddenly, the ninja restraining me fell down and Aoi stood behind him, kunai in hand. Aoi grabbed little me's hand and dragged me to the top of thehighest tree. We sat down on the branch, Aoi trying to calm my crying, young self.

We're too busy that time that we didn't notice an Iwa nin behind us, she set up an explosion and Aoi flew away from me. She got hit by the explosion and fell down the tree, hitting other branches in the process. The Iwa nin began to make another explosion, she threw the clay bomb at me and I closed my eyes painfully. Then I heard a loud explosion, but instead of hitting me, it hit our sensei. Asuka-sensei.

Little me's eyes flew open. "S-sensei?"

My sensei ruffled my hair wit her remaining hand, smiling. "Yes, Asuka-sensei is here Midori. I promised to protect you, no?". Little me sobbed. "Sensei... your feet.. and arm." It's true, her arm and feet are missing, her green hair caked in blood. "Go." She choked. "Go with Aoi.. back to the village... I'll.. hold her back for you.."

Little me's eyes widened. "Are you sure... sensei?"

She smiled one last time. "Yes. I am. Now go!"

I picked up Aoi on my back and ran back towards the village, not stopping until I reached the hospital. The nurses announced that my sister fell into a coma. The next day, I waited in front of the gates, waiting for our sensei's return. and the next, and the next, and the next. It went on for a month until Itachi convinced me she's gone.

The scene rippled and vanished, replaced by a scene of me, training harder than ever. I parried with Hatake-san, caked in dirt, sweat and blood. Itachi sat patiently on the side, watching.

The scene changed again, it was of me being announced as ANBU captain. Itachi, Sasuke and I ate at a restaurant to celebrate that night.

Then there was this scene where I was training Mirai, then Naruto came from behind and tackled me to the ground. He was such an energetic kid, and forced fed dumpling on my mouth. Mirai fell over laughing, but she forgot that we're near the river and she fell on the water instead.

The scene changed again, this time it's the festival. I'm 13 at the time, I'm wearing a green yukata while Itachi walked with me. Now that I am just a bystander in my own memories, I can see that every time I turn, Itachi will smile at me. Every time I grabbed his hand when I found something interesting, he would blush slightly. I wonder why though.

I saw myself point at a pretty silver necklace and asked him to buy it, but my neighbor Emi, saw us and teased us about being a couple. We both blushed hard and walked away awkwardly.

Then screams filled the air, then I noticed that I was no longer in the festival, the scene was in the Uchiha compound. I saw myself shouting and cursing at Itachi while the ANBU dragged me away, Itachi quickly turned around and fled. 'Now, are my eyes playing tricks on me or did I saw a tear fall from his eyes?' I decided to pickthe first choice.

The scene vanished and was replaced of me being sent out the village. I was sentenced guilty but because there wasn't enough evidence, I was banished from Konoha forever that night.

Darkness enveloped me, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a small cell, filled with torture materials. Mirai sat grinning in front of me. This time though, I'm not a bystander anymore, I'm in my own body. She stabbed me repeatedly with kunais, my hand, my legs, my stomach, everywhere. I screamed in pain over and over again.

I opened my eyes, gasping. Cold sweat beaded my forehead and I sat up shakily. I noticed that someone is sitting beside me, and I must have woken him or her because him or her stirred.

The room was dark so I came closer to see who it was. But the person must have woken up, so when he/she woke up, it immediately hugged me.

"Don't ever be reckless like that again. Ever again." He whispered in my ear and that is when I realized who it was.

"I-Itachi? W-why?"

A/N

*Le;sigh* I don't know about you but.. this chapter spells BORING for me. Oh well. Ja ne~