The sound of her parents gasping was a sound that made Akiri fear to look up. Her eyes were focused on the light wooden flooring that had been sun-bleached over the two years she'd spent "resting". Slowly, her eyes wandered up and she caught sight of both of her parents giving her looks of uncertain shock. Hinata's eyes were wide and she looked completely terrified by the look of her own daughter, back from the crypt that Hinata herself had lay her in. Naruto just looked terrified, as though what he were seeing were just merely a hallucination and not his own flesh and blood stood in the doorway.

"Wha- What in hell?!" Naruto yelled, looking at his son as though it was a sick, twisted joke.

"Dad..."

"Hinato what sort of sick joke is this?!" Naruto yelled in horror.

"Dad, please calm down."

"Tell him about being revived by my chakra."

"What is this?!"

"Dad! Shut up and listen! The Kyuubi chakra healed my body because I hadn't got enough chakra and strength to keep holding myself up. It was my own fault for not anticipating the amount of stress and pressure the Kyuubi put on my body. In the end, I'm just lucky to have been revived." Akiri yelled, eyes watering in anger.

In anger, Akiri hit the wall beside her, causing the wall to collapse around her fist. In shock, Akiri pulled her arm away and her eyes widened in shock considering she was so much stronger than she'd been before death. She'd barely put any strength into the hit but still, she'd punched straight through the wall. In horror, Akiri looked at both her parents who looked mortified.

"Byakugan!" Hinata yelled, the veins around her lilac-white eyes suddenly raising and making it clear that she was using the ninjustu.

And when her mother's eyes returned to normal, Akiri understood that her Mother knew it was real. And when Hinata sat down, her eyes were wide and there was a faint smile on her lips. Slowly, Hinata got to her feet and hugged Akiri in her warm arms. Tears slid down her cheeks as she whispered, "My Daughter, where did you go?" causing Akiri to cry also.

"This is our daughter, Naruto." Hinata whispered, "Her chakra is infused with the Kyuubi's chakra as well as her own so she can survive."

Naruto watched Akiri with wide eyes, focusing on her entiriety. Then, he hugged Akiri also. And soon enough, Naruto was crying also whilst Hinato hugged them all as well. It was a moment of shock for Akiri as she hugged her whole family before pulling away. There was one person missing from the hug who deserved to be there as well.

"I hate to ask, but where is Itachi?" Akiri asked, sniffing as she wiped away the tears and smiled.

But the grave look on her parent's faces made Akiri stiffen. Had he done something stupid? She begged the god in the skies that he hadn't died. If she had been brought back and he was lying in the ground somewhere, Akiri didn't think she would want to live her life another day. But it was Hinato who stood up and spoke, his eyes dark as though the story he was about to tell was filled with sadness and despair.

"After your death, Itachi fled the village. He's a missing-nin and we know he's killed many. In fact, I am shortly leaving on a mission to kill him. To find him and kill him." Hinato said, his eyes focused on the ground in a sort of melancholy depression.

"No!" Akiri gasped, sliding to the floor.

"Dad agreed it was best!" Hinato yelled.

"I'll do it!" Akiri yelled, crying as she spoke.

Itachi was determined, still burning with the passion he'd developed when Akiri died all those seasons ago. It had been... Two years? Three? He wasn't entirely sure since every day had passed in a blur of murder and cold-blooded depression. He had only one goal and that was to make a jutsu that would revive the dead. And Itachi had found the one man who could tell him how to do it.

The man was old now, his skin looked like scales and he had a look of murderous insanity in his eyes. His hair had greyed whilst being locked in a prison so deep beneath the ground that not an inch of sunlight would ever penetrate the cell in which the grotesque man sat. His crazy eyes watched Itachi in a sort of delirious enthusiasm as though he believed he was escaping. Itachi was no idiot. He had planned every single little attack and was ready to kill this bastard did he make the tiniest mistake.

His Mangekyo Sharingan was clear to be seen by the elderly man, but he made sure the elderly man caught a glimpse of it. His breath caught in his throat but Itachi made him quickly forget. Then, Itachi smiled slightly before leaning against a metal wall. Then, he glared.

"Make the tiniest mistake and you're dead." Itachi growled dangerously, causing the man to flinch slightly.

"I know." Kabuto chuckled, his eyes filled with intense hatred and anger.

"You have something I want." Itachi growled, causing the snake-man to snicker.

"And what might that be?"

"The jutsu known as Edo Tensei. You're famed teacher, Orochimaru came up with the idea and I know you know the completed form of the Jutsu." Itachi snarled, throwing a kunai past the Snake-man's head and watching the man flinched. He was jumpy and restless, clearly the type that was easily manipulated by someone better than him.

The snake man recoiled slightly from the attack and it was only a matter of seconds before he was laughing like a hyena, that manic laughter echoing around the steel and stone cell. After just a minute, the man had laughed away his energy and was coughing and hacking up dust. Kabuto finally sat up, looking at his attacker with distaste.

"That is correct, but who is it you lost? A sibling, a friend..." The man disappeared and was suddenly behind Itachi's ear. "Or perhaps even a lover?"

"My suffering is none of your business, but what you ought know is that I plan on gaining this information." Itachi said quietly, before smiling. He hadn't moved an inch. "My name is Itachi Uchiha and you will teach me what I wish to know."

"Uchiha Itachi, it has been some time. I haven't heard your name for a good twenty years. But you are different." Kabuto chuckled, grinning. "Your eyes are no longer a dull shade of black, but green. Your demeanor is different. Could you be lying?"

"No lie has left my lips. Upon teaching me this jutsu, I will give you freedom." Itachi said calmly, lifting a palm to cover his eyes.

"And why would I believe that?"

Itachi chuckled, smiling.

"You should understand that you have been within my Tsukuyomi all this time. You noticed my red eyes the second I walked in, but I made you forget and look at my normally green eyes." Itachi said without any sort of emotion in his voice. "Welcome to the class of teaching me."