Hinata Chronicles Chapter 22: Xion's Search! Secrets Revealed!
(These events happened during the "Rescues The Kazekage" Arc)
"Hmm. . . Three days have passed since Hinata and her team went to Suna to rescue Gaara. I wonder how they're doing?" Xion asked herself as she walk through the village. She then tackled by what looked like a giant white dog that started licking her with someone on it.
"Come on Akamaru, we don't have to play." The teenage on the dog's back said as he got off, his outfit was a black leather jacket, pants, forehead protector, pants and sandals. The most noticeable feature was the red markings on his face. "Hmm? Hey can that be? Well, well, well! Hey Xion! Long time no see!" Kiba said
Unfortunately, Kiba didn't get her attention because she was too busy hugging Akamaru as he licked her face. "Hehe. . . Same old Xion with dogs."
(FLASHBACK) (Before "Search For Tsunade" Arc)
Hinata was bring Xion to meet her teammates Kiba, Akamaru and Shino at the academy.
"So what are these guys like?" Xion asked as they were walking.
"Well Shino's sort of the silent type and Kiba and Akamaru have a strong brotherly bond." Hinata explained.
"Oh. . . Are Kiba and Akamaru twin brothers or something?"
"Uh. . . No, they're-"
"Hey Hinata!" Kiba called out in the distance.
The two rushed over to Kiba and Shino.
"So. . . This is her?" Shino asked.
"Yes. . . My name is Xion. It's nice to meet you." she said as she bowed her head.
"The pleasure is ours." Shino said as he bowed his head.
"You know we should be thanking you." Kiba said as he scratched his head.
"Hmm. . . What for?" Xion asked with a confused look on her face.
"Well you see-" Shino started to explained but was interrupted as the four heard small barking from the distance that was getting closer.
"Hmm? What's that? A dog?" Xion thought. Suddenly Xion was tackled to the ground by a white blur knocking her out.
"AKAMARU!" Kiba and Hinata cried out.
When Xion reopened her eyes, they started to twinkle at the sight of the little puppy on her. "UWAAAAAAAAAA!" she cried out as she quickly go up started to pet Akamaru as he was smiling and licking her face.
"Whoa! Didn't see that coming." Kiba said surprise at both Xion and Akamaru.
Hinata and Shino just stood there just as surprised as sweat came down Hinata's head.
(FLASHBACK END)
Kiba then started to chuckle. "Good times." he thought.
"Hmm? Oh hey Kiba, long time no see!" Xion finally got say.
"Yeah! So if you're here, does that mean Hinata here as well?" Kiba wondered.
"Well she isn't here right now."
"Oh, already back and sent out on a mission. I heard from Kurenai-sensei that she got chosen to be Kakashi-sensei's new team."
"Yup. She's grown stronger and confident in herself."
Kiba then smile, but quickly realized the time. "Ah crud, I gotta go, my sisters need me." He then got back on to Akamaru's back and started to ride off back to his house giving her a thumbs-up.
"Oh, ok see ya later!" Xion called out.
Soon Xion was walking through the village again, but this time with a serious look on her face. "Well. . . Time to get to work." She thought. She then started to dash to the abandon area where the Uchiha clan lived. By the time she got there, it was the afternoon. "So. . . This is where the Uchiha Clan mainly live. . " She thought as she walked through the abandon street. "So empty. . . To think this is where a massacre happened." she said. Suddenly she started to hear footsteps that sounded like they were coming towards her, to avoid being noticed by whoever it was, Xion decided to run in a random house. "Who could that have been?" Xion thought as she wanted to gasp for breath but had to hold it in
"Hmm. . . interesting to see someone in my old home. . . " a voice said coming from behind her.
Xion gasped as she turned around to see a long-haired man in a black cloak with red clouds on it, but the noticeable feature about him was his red eyes. "S-Sharingan!" Xion muttered.
"Ah. . . It seems you know of my clan's Dōjutsu or eye technique." the man said in a monotone like voice.
"Y-your clan's!" Xion said in a fearful tone of voice. "This is insane, beside Sasuke, Kakashi, and that Madara guy, the only other person to have those eyes is!" Xion thought as became wide-eyed at the realization. "Are you. . . Itachi Uchiha?" Xion finally got to ask.
"Hmm. . . I see my reputation proceeds me." Itachi said.
Xion then gave him a serious glare at him. "What are you doing here? Answer me! NOW!" Xion said summoning her keyblade preparing for battle.
Itachi stood at her as if he had no emotion on his face. "Don't worry little girl, I'm not here to fight. . . but just to . . . reminisce and maybe. . . to help you."
"What do you mean?"
"You know about the massacre. . . but. . . do you know the truth behind it?"
Xion then glared at him with even more force until she sent back her keyblade. "Oh. . .which truth do mean?" she dumb fully asked.
Itachi then smirked at her as a crow then came off his body. "Clever, you already know one of the truths of Uchiha. . . about why I murdered the clan. But. . . There is one other truth you should find out. Follow my crow. . . and you will know the other truth." Itachi said as he disappeared in the shadows, leaving only the crow.
Xion then walked over to the crow with a discomforting look on her face. "I don't know what this "other truth" is. . . but I think its important to find out." Xion bluntly said as the crow started to fly away with Xion right behind it. After a couple minutes, Xion with the crow now on her shoulder appeared to be at what looked like a shine, where it went from being the afternoon to night.
"So you've come." Itachi said appearing out of nowhere behind a pillar.
"Yeah. . ." Xion said in a calmer tone of voice.
"Follow." Itachi said as he went into the shrine with Xion keeping her distance behind Itachi. He then went to the seventh tatami on the far right of the building.
"Wait! What are you doing?" Xion asked in a serious tone of voice.
Itachi then removed the mat and opened what looked like a hidden doorway. "Follow." He once again said as he down into the hole.
"What could be down there?. . . I guess I won't know until I find out." Xion said as she follow Itachi. "Hmm. . . It's strange but. . . I don't any darkness from him for some reason, I wonder why?" Xion thought.
Itachi and Xion soon came to a small room where there were two flames, the mark of the Uchiha clan on the walls and in the middle of it was what looked like a stone tablet. "This is the Secret Meeting Place of the Uchiha clan. This tablet will tell you the truths of the Sharingan, and the secret to unlocking its power even further." Itachi explained.
"F-further then the Sharingan?" Xion asked.
"Yes, The Mangekyō Sharingan. . . But there are certain requirements to unlock it." Itachi said.
"Requirements being?" Xion asked.
Without saying a word, Itachi then disappeared again in the shadows leaving Xion, leaving behind where he was, a sheet of paper with a single order. "Bring the Hokage here."
Xion stood there for a few minute, trying to realize what just happened as she then looked back at the stone tablet. "Well. . . I better let Tsunade take at a look at this." She thought as left the shine to go get her. She rushed for the Hokage mansion as fast as she could, also trying to fit all the pieces in her head. "I don't get! How did Itachi get pass the village's defenses? Why would he show me that shine? What this secret to this " Mangekyō Sharingan"? Man this is all confusing." she thought. She then yawned from exhaustion and decided to go home for the night.
(The next morning)
Tsunade was in her office drinking a bottle of sake and doing paper work. "Yup! That hit's the spot!" She said as she finished chugging an entire bottle.
Shizune then walked in with a depressed look on her face. "Lady Tsunade, should you really being drinking this early in the more?"
"Hey I'm the Hokage so I can do what I want! Anyway I can tell that isn't the reason why you're here is it?"
"Well. . . Xion hear and she would like to talk to you privately, should I send her up?"
"Yes, send her in."
Shizune soon left to get Xion who in front of the Hokage Mansion. Xion was waiting to see Tsunade when a strange bandaged old man with an X-shaped scar on his chin passed her. As soon as she passed the man, she sensed something. "Hmm. . . What was that?" She thought. She then took a good look at and thought she saw something but wasn't able to tell for sure, so enough Shizune came over.
"Tsunade is ready to see you Xion." Shizune told her.
"Thank you." Xion replied as she followed Shizune to Tsunade's office. "Umm. . . Shizune?"
"Yes Xion, what's is it?"
"Well before you came, a strange man passed me and I thought I sensed something."
"What did he look like?"
"Well. . . He had bandages over one side of his body, he was walking with a cane, but a distinctive feature he had was an X-shape scar on his chin." Xion explained.
"Oh. . . Him. . ." Shizune said in a serious tone of voice.
"You know him?"
"Yeah, Danzō Shimura, he competed for the chair the 3rd Hokage, but he is completely different then the 3rd, he's got a thing with a military power and also hate Tsunade."
Xion quietly gasped so that Shizune couldn't hear. " S-so that's Danzō! The man that toke advantage of Itachi and force him to kill his own clan! I better avoid him at all cost." Xion thought. "I don't trust him." She said to Shizune as she nodded her head in agreement.
The two were silent until they got to the doors of Tsunade's office. "I'll tell Tsunade that your hear, please wait here."
"Alright." She said as Shizune went into her office, after a few minutes Shizune told her she could come in as she was told to.
"You had something to talk to me about?" Tsunade said getting straight to the point.
Xion nodded her head. "Hold on, can we walk around town so we can be alone? The information I recently gained is pretty important and maybe you could use a "drink"."
Thinking of what she meant by "drink" Tsunade quickly dragged her out of her office speeding past Shizune. Soon the two were at a bar, Tsunade was drinking a whole bottle of sake, while Xion was just having a water sweat dropping of her head as she watched Tsunade drink. "So Xion, what is it that you had to tell me that is so important?"
"Well. . . recently I stumbled to well. . . where Sasuke's clan used to live." Xion began to say.
"Ah. . . The Uchiha clan. . . such a prestige clan."
"I decided to walk around and I decided to go into some kind of shine." She lied not wanting to tell her about meeting Itachi.
"Oh, you must mean the "Naka Shrine."
"I don't know how exactly, but it seemed that one of floor plates was loose so I sort of took it off and it revealed a doorway."
Tsunade stopped her drinking when she heard about this. "Really! What did you do?"
Xion then started to chuckle a bit. "I sort of opened and went down the stair."
"Hmm. . . What did you end up finding?"
Xion then got out of her seat "I think it would best to bring to you to it." she said as started to leave with Tsunade quickly following her.
The two then got to the "Naka Shrine" as Xion went in. "Follow" Xion said sort of mocking Itachi. Tsunade quickly did as she asked. Once inside Xion then mimicked Itachi again by going to the seventh tatami on the far right of the building and opening the floor passage. "Come on." She seriously said as she went down the passage with Tsunade following and soon enough the two were at the stone tablet.
"Here it is. I can't read what is on the tablet. Do you know anyone who can?"
Tsunade then walked up to the tablet then turned back to Xion. "Hmm. . . This will be difficult, but I think the Cryptanalysis Squadmight be able to decipher it. I'll go and get them over here and decipher this message." Tsunade said as she rushed out to get them.
"Alright" Xion stood there looking at the stone tablet, thinking to herself. "Requirements for the Mangekyō Sharingan. . . What could they be?" Xion thought.