I woke the next afternoon, found by Konoha-nin who helped me back to the village.

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The Uchiha Clan had been wiped out. Clean. By Itachi. Except Sasuke.

Sasuke was in the psych ward. He had been hit hard.

Tsukuyomi, I sensed.

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But- why did Itachi do such a thing? I wept.

He never told me anything of this.

I- once again, lost the ones I called dear family.

First was my own mother, then Minato-san and Kushina-san who loved me like their own daughter, now even Fugaku-san, and the entire Uchiha clan, even Itachi – whom I loved. Why is it always me?

Why does it have to be always me?

Why did you do such a thing, Itachi?

I remembered that night.

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Itachi slaughtered the entire clan in cold blood. I sensed this massacre from a few miles away.

Wait, why didn't anyone else come to help? To the rescue?

If this thing happened inside the village, and an entire clan was killed. How could one not sense this?

How could no shinobi in the entire village not come to know this?

I recognized it from miles away. Sure, there were dozens, if not hundreds, of sensory nin posted around the village.

The shriek, the terror, the blood curdling cries. Did they ignore them?

I asked the chunin and jonin of the village.

They said, the area around the Uchiha clan was to be monitored by Anbu and Root only. No genin, chunin or jonin were allowed in the night.

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I asked the Hokage office directly about this.

Danzo replied to me, "Recently, there was high tensions between the Uchiha clan and the Village."

"So, what of it", I raged."

Danzo replied coldly, "Therefore, the decree of only Anbu guarding the Uchiha quarters was passed to check on their activity."

"So, how did this come about? Why didn't the Anbu rush in and save others. What happened?!", I hit the table.

"There was a scare about someone invading Konoha from outside, and the Anbu were redirected there."

"You mean every single one of them had to abandon the Uchiha settlement and go?"

He stayed mum and then said, "We are currently still investigating and not sure about many things. We will let all the villagers know shortly."

"This is a complete waste of time.", I said as I stormed out of the room.

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What crap.

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There is no clear information at the top.

The Elders had been telling me to stay away from Uchiha Clan for months now. Also how could they not know anything when the massacre happened?

It's too sketchy, as if they chose to ignore it.

But then, how does Itachi tie into all this? And that masked one? No one apparently, knows of him.

Sasuke told me Itachi said he did this merely to gauge his strength - No way.

Itachi wouldn't ever do something like this. This is.. I cannot even think of this.. Itachi must have his reasons… he always has. I know him better than anyone does.

Between the village elders and Itachi… I don't know if I'm being biased or being influenced by feelings for him, I choose to believe in him.

Even if I don't know the whole story or even though I don't know clearly which path is correct, I wish to believe in him.

I don't know if I'm doing the right thing or not… but those moments – his voice then - "Stop she's not an Uchiha" and the moments he showed me in his Genjutsu… warp me into believing otherwise..

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As for the village elders… they have fallen too low in my sight to even consider them.

I leave the Anbu and become a Jonin.

I know if I want to face Itachi again, I need to get stronger…Orochimaru-sensei.

Before becoming a missing-nin, I report to Danzo that the 'dark' and 'secrets' he treasured, I'm going to wreck it one day… and also, every Hidan of Konoha… like the Shadow Technique of the Nara Clan, Psychic skills of the Yamanaka Clan, and the Body Size Manipulation of the Akimichi clan, and other Hidan like Aburame Clan's and Inuzuka Clan's are all but copied and taken by me, rendering Konoha's every clan's secret jutsu and defense ineffective.