"Itachi!"

The young Uchiha prodigy stopped short at the shout he heard coming from behind him. Shisui, who had also been with him turned. The two of them had been called out for a mission with their team. Itachi felt a burst of panic flood through him at the figure running towards him and his cousin.

Koka, hair streaming around her wildly and kimono haphazardly put on, had an expression he had never seen on her before. She ran up to him, nearly falling before he caught her. She bunched her fists into his shirt.

"Koka what is it?" He eyes were wide as she gasped for air.

"You need to guard your left, no matter what!" Itachi looked puzzled.

"What?"

"Promise me! Promise me you'll guard your left side!"

"Alright, I promise." Itachi tried to sooth the frantic girl.

Shisui looked as startled and confused as Itachi felt. Koka began crying, catching them even more unawares.

"You can't go!" She cried into his shirt as Itachi brought his arms around her to comfort her.

"You just can't! Refuse to go!" She pleaded with them both and Itachi felt a pang in his chest. But he was a shinobi. He could not just back out.

"I'm sorry Koka." He took her face in his hands, forcing her to meet his coal black eyes. He gave her a reassuring smile.

"We'll be alright. I promise." Shisui tried to reassure her as well. The girl only remained looking up at them, tears falling from her eyes. Itachi picked her up.

"We'll take you back to the shrine."

Kaede woke to a tear stained Koka calling her name. One look at the younger girl's face banished all sleepiness from her body as she got up.

When Itachi and Shisui arrived at the meeting place for their team, Koka's warnings still weighed heavily on their minds. While Itachi had become much closer to Koka over the past four years, he had never seen her that upset. He wondered what she had seen and pondered over it. He knew it was not their deaths, she would have said so.

But when Yukiko and Kumokin arrived, boys were forced to put the issue out of mind and focused on their mission. It was relatively simple and ranked as a C. They were to take a scroll and deliver it to an outpost not too far from the village. They could even be back before daybreak if they hurried. It was not until later that Itachi realized something was wrong.

The group had set off and had been running for about an hour. The silence was broken only once by Yukiko, pestering their sensei for information about the scroll. He had brushed her off saying it was updates for the outpost and nothing to worry about. But Yukiko continued to pester him until their sensei told he to shut up. That was the first alarm bell for Itachi. Yukiko never took an interest in missions.

The older girl's eyes caught his own. A hidden message, one that Itachi understood well. Something was very wrong, and it involved their sensei.

The farther they went, the twitchier their sensei became, sending alarm bells through Itachi's mind. Even Shisui had picked up on it, but when he opened his mouth to comment on it, both Itachi and Yukiko had had shot him the same look, silently telling him to be quiet. All three students became increasingly on guard.

Then, everything went to hell.

Out of nowhere, kunai rained down on them. Only the reflexes honed by endless training had stopped them from being shredded. Several strange shinobi stepped out from the trees. The three genin took up defensive stances back to back. Their sensei was nowhere to be seen.

"You're trespassing on Konoha territory. Leave now and we will ignore your attack." Yukiko took charge, calling out to their attackers.

One of the men laughed. "Sorry sweetheart, but we need those Uchiha eyes." The men attacked.

Itachi, Shisui and Yukiko were fighting for their lives. The attackers were strong and had numbers on their side. It was all the genin could do to avoid their attacks. They were being worn out, it would only be a matter of time before they fell to their opponents.

"We need to get out of here." Yukiko had taken charge in the absence of their sensei. The two Uchiha obeyed her sense of leadership, needing someone to guide them.

"How do you suggest we do that? We're a little pinned at the moment." Shisui panted out. Yukiko wasted no time explaining her plan to them.

"Fireballs. The two of you will let off two of the largest ones you can. Then the three of us will shunshin out of here and make a break for the village."

It was a crazy plan but it was all they had. On Yukiko's mark, twin fireballs engulfed the area, driving back their enemies and giving the three genin a chance to make a break for it. Injured, low on chakra and now a little singed, the three of them knew they would only be able to get so far before they were caught once again. Shisui said as much.

"That attack should have alerted and Konoha nin in the area. We just have to hold out until reinforcements arrive." She smiled at the two boys running beside her. The kindness in that smile scared them.

"It'll be ok. I promise."

They had been running for several minutes before the next devastating blow happened. Their pursuers had caught up. Things were looking worse than ever for the genin. Even if they managed to increase their speed, it would still take nearly an hour to reach their village.

The attackers threw more kunai to knock them off balance. With horror, Itachi realized he had failed to do the one thing Koka made him promise to do. In dodging the attack, Itachi was unable to guard against the one hidden behind it. His left side was wide open.

Time slowed down for the two Uchiha boys as the world became clear to them. There was no avoiding the attack heading towards Itachi. It was then that a blur hit the younger boy and the world was snapped into place for them.

Itachi looked up at Yukiko with red eyes as the older girl grabbed him in her arms and took off, Shisui right on her heels, his own red eyes guiding him. The girl had taken the hit for him.

"Let's go brats." She grunted out as Yukiko displayed a speed and strength the two had never once seen from her. She ran, Itachi in one arm and her other hand clasped around Shisui's wrist.

"That girl, with the blue eyes. We met up a few weeks ago." The Uchiha's had their eyes fixed on her as Yukiko mentioned Koka.

"She had given me a warning and told me a few things." Yukiko gave them a wry grin.

Flash back

Yukiko had been walking to the market place when she spied a familiar looking girl dressed in blue. It was that same smart mouthed girl who had been with her two teammates when they first met. Her blue eyes focused on Yukiko.

"The store will be out of the soba noodles you want, there will be a sale on your shampoo, and when you go looking in the clothing store, the first shirt will have a rip in it and the cashier will try to hit on you."

"The hell you talking about brat?"

"If you want to know how I know this and if you want to know when something bad is going to happen, find me at the memorial stone."

The girl left, leaving Yukiko feeling creeped out as she went about her business shopping.

When the first prediction came true, she put it off as coincidence. The second one Yukiko put off as the girl being a stalker. When she checked the shirt for a rip and found none, Yukiko smirked. The girl just wanted to bother her. But when she tried it on and found a rip, Yukiko felt icy fingers sink into her gut. The girl was right even about the cashier. Yukiko knew she slacked off a lot in practice, but even she was a shinobi. Yukiko sought out the strange girl.

Just as she had said, the girl was at the stone. Yukiko walked up to her and the girl looked up, a sad look in her eyes, before turning her attention back to the stone.

"I can see things that will happen. Some things I can change, some I can't."

"What's going to happen?" If the girl posed a threat to their village, then Yukiko would have to hand her in. A wry smile crept onto the younger girl's face and her eyes began to glow. Yukiko stepped back in surprise.

"I can see things that have been determined. When someone makes up their mind, the future changes to fit that scenario unless someone else changed their mind. The future is never set in stone. I'm not a threat to the village, you won't have to turn me in. I want to save it."

Yukiko was frozen as the blue eyes locked on her own.

"Your team will be called for a simple c-ranked mission in the middle of the night. You will be tasked with taking a scroll to an outpost nearby. But when you ask your sensei about it, he will just tell you it's an update and get mad when you question him about it."

Yukiko could not move as the hypnotic voice the girl spoke with kept her from moving.

"He will start acting strange and then, you will be attacked. Your sense will disappear, leaving you, Itachi and Shisui alone to face the threat. The group will say they want the Uchiha eyes, but will really just try to kill you all. You won't stand a chance. If you want to escape, then you must distract them with fireballs and escape. It will get the attention of other Konoha shinobi.

You won't be able to get too far before you're attacked again. Here is where you can make a choice. Itachi won't be able to defend his left side. You can either defend him and risk getting hurt, or you can let him get hurt and slow you down. You will need to run faster.

You might be able to get closer to the village but whoever is hit will not survive it. If you can make another signal to the village then they will be able to get to you before you reach the village and before the attackers get you all."

The blue eyed girl finished and her eyes returned to normal. Yukiko was left shaking, still unable to move.

"Koka, what are you doing here?" Just like that the spell was broken and the girl, Koka, changed back into the girl she appeared to be, instead of the frightening woman she had just felt like.

"Kakashi!" The young girl ran over to the silver haired teen. Yukiko knew who he was, and knew he was a very powerful ANBU member. The teen was scolding Koka for being out without telling someone where she had ran off to. He pushed her to the path back to the village, following close behind her.

But before he left, Kakashi had looked over his shoulder at Yukiko. The girl felt her heart freeze at the look he gave her. Yukiko was not to tell anyone of this encounter with Koka, or Kakashi himself would be meeting with Yukiko.

She dropped to her knees as the pair left, still shaking from the encounter.

End Flashback

Itachi and Shisui were silent. They remembered that day. The two had arrived at the shrine from training to find a sour looking Kaede with a note in her hand from Koka. It was a little while later that the blue eyed girl had shown up with Kakashi.

"It looks like we put some distance between us." Yukiko stopped and put Itachi on his feet before looking at both boys.

"Get back to the village, tell them what happened here." Shisui and Itachi tried to protest but Yukiko cut them off.

"This is what it means to be a shinobi. You two are still so young, with that girl, you two might be able to save the village like she said." She pushed them towards the village.

"I'll buy you some time."

Itachi and Shisui were given no choice as they ran towards the village. They ran as fast as they could, hoping to make it on time.

It was minutes later that an explosion rocked the land. Large and loud enough, it served as an alert for almost every shinobi in the village. Kakashi was the first to reach the two Uchiha, a knowing look on his face.

More ANBU members arrived shortly after Kakashi and he told them what had occurred, as if Itachi and Shisui had reported it to him. While the others took care of the intruders, Kakashi lead the two Uchiha to the shrine. Lights shown in the window as two figures stood on the stairs.

Itachi and Shisui fell into the arms of their friends.

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