Me: Okay, so it's been a while. But Yami's Devil has more or less twisted my arm, and now I have this burning desire to finish my story.

Sasuke: Really, you abandon me in this piece of crap for fricking ever and now you're going to fix it?

Me: Look, I'm sorry.

Itachi: We all had to undergo therapy!

Edo: She wrote me and Jun out of here into other, better stories, but I still feel bad for you guys.

Jun: She owns NOTHING!

Naruto was of course a little bit shocked by the sudden death threat.

"Hey, why would you say something like that!" He shouted "I'm going to be Hokage someday, you should show me some respect!"

Edo rolled his head back to crack his neck "Then stop being irritating and I won't say stuff like that."

"So let's get to the point, dearies." Jun said smirking predatorily "where's Chiyo?"

"Sasuke has said that they live in his house." Neji tossed in.

Jun nodded. "Very well. We will go and check it out quick. Edo!" He called as he exited the room "You coming?"

Edo tuned on his heel and glided over the floor to reach Jun in the hallway.

"Are we just going to go in and resolve it now?"

"Yes"

"Can we do it alone?"

"No" said a different voice.

Jun whirled around "Itachi, what are you doing?"

Itachi gave him the patented Uchiha you're-an-idiot glare "I'm offering to help, aniki*."

Edo smiled softly at Jun's shocked facial expression, the shadow behind his eyes shrinking under the warm feeling in his heart. He was pleased that Itachi thought so much of his long absent cousin.

"Itachi…" Jun said softly "Thank you."

Itachi smirked, stopping just short of a real smile "So are you going to tell me where you've been?"

And suddenly the soft smile on Jun's lips was gone. "Sasuke and I got home late." He began "we were walking home in the dark, and Amoraq was walking beside Sasuke, like he always did. We got to the outer gate and noticed that none of the lights were on." Jun stopped, his eyes widening in panic.

Edo carefully placed a hand on his shoulder to calm him down. The memories were always so sharp in a demons mind. Sharpness was rarely a pleasant feeling.

Jun swallowed compulsively and inhaled to begin again "I smelt blood; but Sasuke wasn't old enough to access his piece inside of him. So I started getting a headache, I felt so sick; it must have been my piece of Anubis reacting to the carnage. Every step I took, I felt the bile rising in my throat." Jun looked up at Itachi pleadingly "Sasuke is alive, so he made it to you, right? I sent him when I got hungry, the blood made me so hungry." Jun said, his eyes glazing over as his voice got more sing-song "I got so very hungry." He hissed lowly. "So hungry." He ended sadly.

Edo's grip tightened on his shoulder snapping Jun out of his trance, his mental state was very unbalanced due to the abrupt sealing of Anubis in a vessel that wasn't strong enough to hold him. The later fusion of the demon often times prevented Jun from differentiating himself, from the dark side of the god. Death and blood often sent him into an odd predatory state. Something Edo knew all to well.

"Ah, yes, sorry." Jun said, coming back to himself "I smelt blood, and when I started feeling like I was starving, I realized that the pieces were coming out of the bodies in the compound, and were seeping into me, as I was close to Sasuke, but was closer to sixteen than he. I wasn't sure what was supposed to happen, and Shisui was dead so I couldn't send Sasuke to him, but I knew you had to be fine, so I told him to run home. I had hoped that there were no bodies on the way to the main house." I heard him scream, but I couldn't come. That's how I knew I was wrong.

Itachi looked sympathetic "I don't want to make you relive all of this Jun, can you just tell me why you left?"

Jun looked shocked "I did leave didn't I?"

Itachi began to look worried, it was like talking to a shell, a shell of a man, filled only with the darkest parts of insanity.

"I went into my house, like I always did. Amoraq was whimpering at me, like he was scared, so he followed pressed to my leg. I went inside and Shoji was pulling my Mothers heart out. It was disgusting. And her piece flew to me as well. All of the pieces did. Anubis abandoned my brothers and went to the one with the biggest piece. I hated my parents." Jun continued "they hurt me, even more than was necessary, they hated me."

Jun smiled a grin that stretched his lips to the point of splitting "They hated me enough to tell my big brothers to kill me. But they couldn't with the demon so strong inside of me. But it hurt, oh so badly. It felt like I was being torn from here" Jun touched Itachi's waist "To here." He gestured to Itachi's throat.

"Chosaku said we had to go and as I lay on the floor they pulled me up by my hair and we weren't in the Uchiha compound anymore. They told me my name was Jun Manjoume, and it hurt so badly in my stomach, I agreed. I didn't remember who I was until Edo showed up."

Itachi looked green. "I'm sorry, aniki. They visited my house first and killed my mother and father. Shoji had always been close to Shisui as his guardian and when he killed him, he developed the mangenkyo sharingan, he trapped me in his version of events, where I killed everyone. I believed him after a while." Itachi looked down as Edo shot him a curious look "I don't like feeling like I was a monster, even if I only cared about Mikoto, Sasuke and Jun. I attacked Sasuke, Jun."

The dark haired man's head shot up to look at Itachi directly, a snarl forming on his lips.

"I told him to hate me, and abandoned the village. " Itachi made a placating gesture "I was supposed to kill my clan, so I told the Hokage I was going into hiding. And I left. I had only just returned when you got here."

He expected to be attacked, instead Jun embraced him. "Let's just kill the ghosts and fix our problems later, okay?"

Itachi smiled for what felt like the first time in years "Of course. You were always so serious."

Aniki= Affectionate term for older brother.