Chapter 16: April first

'Inner thoughts'

°Telepathic communication°


1-year time skip


Mikoto's POV

Sensing a familiar signature enter the house I headed to my room and rummaged through the closet to look for something I had placed there. Finding the box I checked in it to see if everything was there. I pulled out a yellow kimono-style blouse that had a couple of adjustments which belonged to my friend in youth. Placing it to the side I took out a green obi, a short-sleeved mesh shirt, and black shorts. Noticing that something was missing, the red ribbon I placed in a couple days back, looking around I found it within the folds of the obi. Placing it on top I put everything back in before closing the box.

Box in hand I started making my way to Sasuke's room noticing how there was faint laughter coming from it. I opened the door with a smile and saw that the two kids turned to look at me. One of them was holding an ice pack while the other was laughing. One of them turned their full attention to me and smiled, "Mikoto-san" she said placing the ice pack she had in hand on the floor.

The one noticed a box and smiled brightly, "Here, look inside," I said to the girl handing over the box with a smile.

She glanced at me once before looking at the box, when she took it she placed it on the floor gently before opening it, "wow" I heard her say as pulled out the kimono shirt, she turned it to the side and saw the white spiral in the back, becoming silent as she stared at it.

"Is something wrong?" I asked, noting how she immediately shook her head and smiled brightly before standing up quickly.

"Can I put it on?" She asked eagerly as I nodded and brought Sasuke out of the room. "Ready!" I heard after a while, entering I saw her give a small twirl, her hair covering slightly the white spiral on her back. In her hand she had the ribbon, kneeling in front of her I took the ribbon gently from her hand, "Here let me help," I tied it into a loose bow on her right side of her head, "there." I said standing up and watching her pat the bow before smiling brightly once again.

"Thank you," she said jumping into my arms with a huge grin.


Yukino's POV

Laying in one of the futons Mikoto-san set up for me and Sasuke I looked up at the ceiling and traced the lines on the wood since it still wasn't time for me to sleep as noted the previous times I slept over.

Hearing the rustling of the sheets next to me I snapped out of my intense line tracking, "Yuki nee-san?" I heard him ask quietly.

"Hm?" I asked turning my head to look at him.

"I'm thirsty," he said standing up, "I'll be back," he whispered getting up from his futon and leaving the room through the veranda.

After a while of laying there waiting, I noticed how he was taking longer than usual so I closed my eyes and focused in the area around me looking for him. I could see him in the kitchen turning the faucet off and heading back. Relieved that nothing wrong happened to him I sighed and pulled the covers over my head.

Flashback

Arriving in the house by the time dinner ended, I noticed the stormy aura between Itachi and Fugaku-san the moment I entered. Entering into the house I headed to Sasuke's room to ask what happened between the two when I spotted him sitting alone in his room looking sad while holding an ice pack to his ankle. Knocking softly on the door frame he flinched looking up. "Hi." I waved "What happened?" I asked.

"I twisted my ankle," he responded. That wasn't the answer I was looking for but I went along with it. 'I'll just read his mind later'

Looking out into the hallway I entered the room before closing the door quietly behind me "Let me help, but keep quiet about it." I whispered placing a finger over my mouth. Walking up to him I took the ice pack from his hand and placed it on the ground next to me. Focusing some chakra to my hand my palm began to emit a light green glow, after a couple of moments the glow engulfed my hand completely. Breathing in deeply I cleared my mind and hovered my hand over his ankle. Noting that the injury wasn't too serious it became easier for me to heal a bit.

'Good I didn't worsen it.' I thought, removing my now shaking hand, "That's so cool!" I heard him exclaim moving his foot to test out how much I healed it.

"Shhh! Don't tell anyone I still need to work on it." I told him glancing at the door quickly.

He laughed and looked at his ankle, knowing that it could still swell up I grabbed his leg and placed the ice pack back on it. After all, it would be hard for him tomorrow if he can't walk properly for his big day.

Flashback end

Hearing the door slide open I stayed still until I felt someone shaking me. Lifting the covers from my head to look at the person that was shaking me.

"Yuki-nee san do you think father hates me?" He asked sitting down beside me.

'I shouldn't have read his mind so much to know what he was feeling' if I answered this wrong it could possibly create a division between him and Itachi, 'Itachi was on Fugaku-san's mind well not really, more like Itachi's potential,' "No… Fugaku-san is just like that. I always see him frowning." I whispered trying to comfort him, but not really believing in it either.

"But he smiles around Itachi, he barely does that around me." Sighing I flicked his forehead to distract him and shift some of his anger towards me, "Ow!" he said rubbing his head, frowning he looked at me, "Why did you-"

"Your father praises Itachi because of his talent just like how he and the rest of the clan do to Shisui." I explained quickly but saw confusion in his eyes, "he is like that because he is the head of the clan he has to be stern and that just sticks when he comes home." I explained the best I could. "Even if he doesn't smile in front of you how do you know he isn't smiling when thinking about you when you are not looking." I sat in front of him and stared him in the face noticing how his forehead was becoming red 'I flicked him too hard,' as I was thinking this I realized that my hands had begun to feel cold.

"You think so?" he asked with hope in his voice, his anger gone.

"Yes," I said 'Maybe,' I thought, "Now, go to sleep." I quickly whispered tucking myself into the futon and covering everything under it even my head. Feeling cold air hit my back I turned around to see Sasuke tucking himself inside my futon, "What are you doing?!" I whispered.

"Sleeping here." He said getting comfortable and closing his eyes.

"No. Mikoto-san has enough pictures of you doing that," I said remembering how she had a few pages in her photo album that she showed to Shisui and Itachi once. Due to that Shisui would tease me about it when the topic leaned toward Sasuke and I still haven't been able to find something embarrassing about him. When I didn't hear a response I sat up and looked at his already sleeping face.

Sighing I stood up and took the covers off. Bending over I took hold of an arm and leg. His face scrunched up the moment I made contact with my cold hands so I started dragging him to his futon as quickly as I could. Gasping I almost tripped to the side as my sight was becoming blurry. Kneeling down I pulled the covers over him and tucked them in so he wouldn't kick them off in his sleep like he usually did. Wobbling to a stand I slowly made my way to my futon and dragged myself underneath the covers before everything went black.


The morning was like any other but different because Sasuke would be going to the entrance ceremony. Mikoto and Fugaku-san were dressed up for the occasion as well, for this extremely important day. But not everyone was going early in the morning I saw Itachi at the entrance putting on his shoes preparing to leave before anyone woke up. I stayed there knowing what he and Shisui were going to do, it was the only thing he was thinking about other than Sasuke's big day, he wanted to go badly but couldn't.

Feeling that I wasn't needed there I began packing up my stuff from last night into my satchel, after brushing my hair and tying the ribbon back on my hair. Noticing the white strand hair I hid it so it wouldn't be visible realizing that it would be a full moon tonight, 'That means Tsukiyomi will become a guy again tonight' "Yukino-chan, why aren't you getting ready?" Mikoto-san asked startling me as she came into the room noticing how I was packing up.

"Me?" I asked pointing my hand to myself, which was stupid looking back and realizing that I was the only one in the room.

"Yes, you are coming along too." feeling included I nodded happily.

・・・

Lingering at the front gate leading outside the compound I watched Sasuke run ahead bringing back memories of the last year and the many times I crossed through that same gate. When we went to a nearby teashop, when we went to buy dango for that time Itachi was sick, that time I snuck into the arena to watch Itachi's fight but was caught by Shisui who only let me watch his first fight or that time I forced Shisui to take me to a shoe store because I noticed how my shoes were becoming tighter. The memories were simple but precious and now I was standing there once again to go see what the academy was like.


Academy

Standing behind Mikoto-san I watched Sasuke walk to the center of the u-shaped formation of parents to join the other kids by standing next to them. From time to time I would peak from behind her to catch a glimpse of the other students before ducking behind her again. Seeing a man in a green vest walk up to Fugaku-san I heard something that caught my interest, "Ah, Fugaku-san I see that today your second son will be entering the academy hopefully he will be just as great or better than his brother."

"I don't doubt it." He responded.

"After all it only took Itachi-san just one year to graduate, however, it would've been two months if they let him graduate right there on the spot." he joyfully laughed. 'I didn't know Itachi was that good.'

After hearing this I saw Fugaku-san smile which surprised me since he rarely does, mostly in the morning, "Of course, he is my boy," is what he responded.

Feeling a hand on my shoulder I looked up to Mikoto-san, "Yukino-chan go join the others." she told me.

Raising my brows I looked at her confused, "But-"

"Your name is up there, look," she said pointing to a board on the side of the building.

Confused I walked up to the board and began scanning through all the different last names, stopping near the end at the name Uzumaki I looked at the name next to it hoping that it would be mine but it wasn't, the name said Naruto. I kept looking down the list until I reached the end where I saw my name Yukino. Looking back at Mikoto-san I saw her encouraging me to stand at an empty spot by a couple of kids I didn't know. Doing what she told me I stood in an empty spot that was near Mikoto-san and Sasuke was a bit far with a couple of kids separating us.

Noticing me join in with the other kids he walked over, "You'll be attending too?" I heard him ask with a grin on his face.

"I think," I responded in a quiet voice while warily looking at every other kid near us. "My name was on the board," I whispered pointing to it.

"Listen, everyone," the same man I just saw moments ago said loudly, while on top of the elevated stage in front of us, "Now for a few words from the Hokage." The kids immediately went silent and organized themselves better into neat rows as an old looking man with a red hat with the kanji for fire began ascending the steps leading to the stage. Finally reaching the mike he cleared his throat "Congratulations on your acceptance into the Academy, everyone! From this day forth, do your best to reach your goals to become a shinobi." after finishing the adults started clapping and during that time the man stepped down and another man with a green vest came forward, "We will begin announcing names if you hear your name being called make sure to follow your teacher…"

Looking at the man that the one on the stage motioned to I memorized him as students started to gather around him one by one, "Hey, Yuki nee-san do you think we'll end up together." Sasuke asked grabbing my attention, I shrugged unable to respond while listening faintly to the names already being called.

"Uchiha Sasuke," the moment his name was announced he began walking towards the direction of the teacher with a scar over his nose and only glanced back at me once. Looking at his suddenly professional and mature attitude I was surprised, 'He isn't like this at home'

"And that's all for Umino Iruka's class," I heard the man say before going to the next page, "Wait there is one more," he said aloud "Yukino." He called looking around.

I looked at where the man was and then walked quickly to where Sasuke was waving goodbye to Mikoto-san as I left.

・・・

The class was huge, 'So this is where I'll spend the next six years' I thought the moment we stepped in. I looked around noticing how everyone was beginning to sit down when I noticed Sasuke waving me over from the window seat patting the seat next to him.

Taking the seat, I looked at the front to see the teacher place a thin book down on the pedestal at the front, "Quiet down please, I am Iruka Umino and I'll be your sensei. Now to start off when I call your name you will come to the front and introduce yourself and say your dream for the future." He said to the class before opening the thin book and began calling names.

After hearing this I started to think about what he said drowning out everything else 'Dream? My dream is to help, but now that I remember Itachi's dream…'

Flashback a couple months back

"Our order is ready. Wait here I'll go get it." Shisui said getting up from the table. We were waiting inside a tea shop within the village for the order of dango to surprise Itachi and Sasuke with 'I'm so smart' I thought since I was the one that came up with the idea.

Sitting there I began swinging my legs when a familiar voice from outside caught my attention 'Itachi? But there is someone else with him' I thought noticing the person's figure sitting right next to him.

Shisui was coming over with the dango so I crossed my hands over each other forming an x-shape shaking my head and pointed to outside. He looked over and noticed Itachi so I quickly linked myself to his mind. After studying the technique over and over on paper I needed someone to use it on and so Shisui became that someone.

°Shisui° I said, the moment I did he looked back in my direction.

°Yukino-chan, I'll wait at the compound entrance° at that moment I saw him teleport away right in front of my eyes with the dango in hand.

I took a while for a while to process what happened, °What about me!° I shrieked internally sensing him back at the compound entrance.

°Please find out what Itachi thinks about Izumi, that's the girl next to him° I heard him say in my head with a light chuckle.

Cutting our link I huffed angrily and looked in Itachi's direction and tried forming a link. 'tiger, snake, monkey' I thought as I did each hand seal carefully while focusing on Itachi.

Feeling that the jutsu connected I sat there and listened quietly to how Itachi mentioned that the girl that helped run the tea shop was once a shinobi. He didn't feel sad by the fact that he was part of the reason why she stopped, no he was happy, that it was a step toward his goal. A goal to a world of fewer ninja fighting. Cutting of the connection I began thinking to myself about what he thought, 'a world of less fighting.' Thinking back to what Shakko-kun told me many times and the things I read. I noted many times that it was true, in the past, there have been wars over small things killing many people as a result. Sighing, I enhanced my hearing to hear what Itachi and the girl were saying. "Being a ninja means actual battle. Which means you'll have to deal with so many awful, terrible things all the time. A girl like you shouldn't have to go through that." I heard him say

His words struck me as I heard it, what he said was true it was just something I didn't focus on the whole time after that incident in Sunagakure. Remembering that I had to eavesdrop I focused on the conversation once again.

"It's not just that," the girl declared, "walking down the same path as the person you like… maybe I shouldn't want that." 'Person, she likes… is she talking about Itachi?' I heard a faint "see you" before I heard her footsteps indicating that she was leaving.

"What's this? Made yer girl cry?" I heard the girl who Itachi called Shinko say in a teasing manner. I began thinking about what happened, before standing up and teleporting a couple of blocks away.

Flashback end

"Yukino-san," I heard my name being called, standing up immediately and I headed to the front of the class to stand in front of the blackboard facing the rest of the class. "Yukino-san please introduce yourself and your dream for the future." The teacher said with a soft smile.

Nodding in response I turned to look at the class. "Hi, My name is Yukino…" Everyone was staring so looked down and grabbed my side before looking up, "and my dream is to become really strong to help people around me." I heard a couple of students laughing silently making my face flame up. 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that…'

"That's great now take your seat." The moment he said that I headed quickly to my seat, face still red.

"I think that was great," Sasuke reassured me patting my back.

"Really?" I asked

"Yes," he said with a big smile. Feeling a smile on my face I nodded and began paying attention to everyone else.

After everyone had gone I realized how simple some of their dreams were. To become famous in the village, to have a stable life, to help with the family income, to make their family name popular and so on. But there must have been some interesting ones before my name was called, 'I should've listened' I thought to myself disappointed by how rude that was 'Tsukiyomi taught me better…'

The hour went by slowly as he explained what we will be learning. After finishing the explanation he started to give out sealed envelopes to everyone with their names on them. Finally receiving mine I heard him instruct the class to give them to our parents or guardians.

"That is all for today, one more thing, the girls will be staying behind for the kunoichi classes wait here and your teacher will come soon," Iruka-sensei said as more than half the class stood up to leave, Sasuke glanced back and waved slightly as he left. I waved back as well before he left my view. Knowing he was gone I laid my head on the table with a huge sigh tired.

The moment the teacher left I heard the girls get up from their seats and begin talking to each other. Lifting my head I began glancing around seeing that each of them already seemed to have their own friends minus one who sat alone in the back seat, her pupilless lavender colored eyes scanning the room as well. Our eyes met and I quickly looked down at my lap, 'Now is your chance!' I thought, trying to convince myself to get up and go to her. I wasn't going to go home without doing anything worthy of telling so I was getting ready to stand up when the teacher came in. She stood by the doorway and looked at each and every one of us through her oval glasses. Standing in front of the class she set her book down and addressed the class, "I'm Suzume and I will be your sensei for this class. Now girls every Tuesday and Thursday we will have kunoichi classes after your history class so don't forget that tomorrow we will be together here, any questions?" she asked, her black curly hair bounced slightly as she moved her head.

"I do," A girl with platinum hair and light blue eyes said confidently raising her hand. "What exactly will you be teaching us?"

"In this class, you will be learning how to blend in as normal civilian women when on a mission, from flower arrangements, to speech, writing, dance, and learning about other cultures in different lands. Anything else?" the teacher asked scanning the room. 'That's it? I learned most of it' "Then, today is over you can head home."

Relieved I stood up to leave when I remembered the girl. I started to make my way to the back of the classroom when the teacher asked something to the whole class, "One more thing, is there someone with the name Yukino?"

"H-here." I stuttered raising my hand, two girls passed me whispering to each other, "ooh, she's in trouble…" 'Am I in trouble? Shisui said that students who get into trouble are called out by the teachers' The other girls glanced at me and then began whispering between each other the same thing as they were leaving.

"Please follow me then." The teacher said grabbing her book and motioning me to follow after her. By the time I reached the door, everybody had already left including the girl I wanted to talk to.

・・・

Now that I was alone it wasn't so frightening, "Am I in trouble?" I asked more calmly.

"No, no, no I have just been informed that someone has come looking for you," she said quickly making sure I didn't misunderstand. 'That's good.' I sighed relieved.

"Who?" I asked curiously.

"I don't know they didn't tell me," she said becoming suspicious but shrugged it off. The moment we reached the room she told me to go in before leaving. Once she left I pushed the door open slowly and peeked in, seeing the same man from the entrance ceremony standing in the empty classroom.

"Come in." He said, looking at the door I entered. "It has been a long time since I last saw you," he said taking the pipe from his mouth and turning around with a small smile on his face.

"You know me?" I asked.

"Of course, you were left in my care the day you were born."

'The day I was born does he know who my parents are?' I thought curious for the answer, "What about my parents?" I asked immediately.

"Your parents believed it would be better for you to be here." That didn't answer my question but before I could ask he kept talking, "In addition to that they also left something for you." In saying this I stayed silent listening to what he had to say, "They told me to teach you your clans techniques, to make sure you can grow up to become a strong kunoichi worthy of the clan name. However there is only so much I can teach you so you will learn the rest on your own." he stayed silent for a while expecting some response before choosing to head to the door, "It is your choice whether or not you want to follow the instructions that they left for you." He said placing the pipe back in his mouth.


Konoha-outside

I listened to him speak but I didn't ask any more 'I was left behind?' I concluded sighing and accepting the answer that I knew for a long time, 'Who cares… I at least have Mikoto-san and the others.' Following without saying anything just thinking of what he was saying as we walked. Bumping suddenly into something I looked up to see he had stopped and we were standing in front of a building, something about the air surrounding it brought a chill to my body.

"This is the Konoha Hospital if you feel anything is wrong, come here to be checked."

Freezing at what he said brought back the distant memories, 'Does he want me to return to that room?' I thought realizing exactly where we were and I immediately began to back away from him slowly, looking around for the possible routes I could take to run if it came down to it. 'I could always stay hidden in the forest and Uchiha district…' "W-what is my clan name that you mentioned." I tried asking normally but my voice came out quivering instead.

He seemed to sigh, as he looked at me "They told me it was Uzumaki."

Freezing up I shook my head, "How come I never met you… " I asked remembering what he said back at the academy.

"I was coming to pick you up to move you to your home when you disappeared 3 years ago," he explained calmly.

'That's when I left the hospital.' I realized feeling awkward 'oops'. He looked at me before walking towards the building, 'what else does he know.' I asked myself before resolving to follow after him 'If they try to lock me up I'll escape again.' I thought confident 'I could jump from the window to that tree,' I thought looking faintly where I think my room was located, 'It's not that high.' I thought trying to convince myself.

・・・

"Nice to meet you call me doctor Satomi Hyuga. If you feel like anything is wrong come to me," said the woman with long brown hair with a forehead protector over her forehead. She sat in her chair with a clipboard on hand, her pupil-less lavender eyes scanning the paper before looking back up again. "If you feel like it, I would like to know about what you eat, and record your height and weight." She smiled warmly clicking her pen. She told the old man to leave the room before she began talking to me. "Now tell me your name, age, and when you were born."

Seeing no harm in telling her this type of information I chose to go along, "Uzumaki, Yukino. I'm six and I was born October 11," I responded swinging my legs a bit on the chair, feeling different from the other times 'they never asked me this before.' I thought while looking around the office.

"Hm. Now if you don't mind please take off your shoes and anklets and step on the scale behind you," she said pointing to the thing. Taking off my shoes I stopped before reaching my anklets, leaving them on I stepped on the scale. She noticed I still had them on but ignored it. Moving the weights around she looked at my anklets and mumbled for a bit before writing down a number. "18.8 kilograms or so minus the anklets… Now please stand against that please." she looked up from her clipboard and pointed to a tree looking thing against the wall with numbers on its trunk

I stood against the thing she told me, she arrived and pushed me slightly to be against the wall. "Now stand straight with your feet against the wall." She asked and when I did she brought down a thing from above me laying it flat against the top of my head. "Duck," I did and moved to the side to look at what she was doing, she looked at the number before placing the thing back up, "115 centimeters…" she said before making her way back to her desk. "Now, tell me what you eat."

・・・

After all that she called in the old man again. "So, she is healthy, sort of short but normal. I found nothing wrong." She told the old man before looking up from her notes. "That is all. I will make sure she is added to the registry." She said bowing slightly.

After leaving I felt more confused than I ever did in that building, 'What are the numbers for? Why does she need them? Where are we going?' I thought realizing that we weren't going back in the direction of the academy but to the outskirts of the village. A distance from reaching the huge wall surrounding the village we stopped at a lonely looking house nearly hidden in the foliage of the tall trees belonging to the forest.

"This is where you were meant to stay," the old man said staying by the front gate, as he reached into his robes he took out a key before placing it in my hand. "This is also where you will be staying." looking at the small key in my hand and at the house, I realized that it was a two-story house but it was small compared to Mikoto-san's home. As I was thinking this I placed the key in my pocket. "There is still more. Follow me," he said making his way back to the direction of the center of the village.

・・・

Entering the huge round building that was in front of the stone monument. I followed him to a section of the building that merged with another. After a while of following him in the round shaped building, we entered a windowless room and he pushed a button in his desk with a crystal-like orb opening up to a hidden room. Leading me into the dark room with books lining the walls he stopped and turned to me.

"I told you before that they wished for you to learn your clans techniques, after school tomorrow your classes will begin and I will teach you what I can." He said facing me but somehow I could see doubt in his eyes about what he was saying.

"What about the other Uzumaki?" I asked remembering the name I read earlier in the day.

"You are an exception." He said, "you should head home it is getting late." Glancing back at the hidden room I followed him out.


Somewhere Outside the Village

Two women figures sat on top a shrine looking at the setting sun. The black haired woman stared ahead eyes focused on the village a couple of miles ahead while the white-haired woman stared ahead with a grin.

"It is done." The white-haired woman chirped. "What will you do now?" she asked turning her head to look at the woman next to her.

"Just wait to see what happens…" she replied with a sigh. "Now what do I owe you?"

"Nothing. Seeing what plays out is pay enough," she grinned laying back. "A little persuasion is not hard," she yawned. "So what are you going to do about the child now?"

"See how she develops without my supervision." the black-haired woman said plainly.

"Hmm… that's it?" The white-haired woman asked glancing at the woman once, "that's boring." The woman whined and began staring at the stars appearing in the sky until an idea popped into her head. "Can I watch over her?" She enthusiastically asked bolting to a sitting position and clapping her hands together. 'Please say yes, but even if she says no I will still do it.'

"You will do it no matter my response," the black-haired woman said standing up. "I need to congratulate the old man for keeping his word," she said glancing at the woman next to her with her silver eye, "Until next time," she said vanishing into the air heading to the village. She believed that with the amount of skill the girl was developing it would be hard for them to discard of her and attempt to keep her for their use. Believing in this she was confident in the child's safety with her being not around.

'Yes!' The white-haired woman thought, she jumped off the roof of the shrine without making a sound and turned into a fox heading to the village as well. 'Now what should I do with my new doll.' She grinned unable to contain herself. With each leap and duck, she thought of what she would have the power to do, what she would teach. 'Tsu shouldn't have been so trusting… I'm going to ruin that perfect little doll she created.' she thought with a smirk.


3rd POV

By the time night arrived the compound was quiet and everybody was asleep in their homes minus one.

Sitting in a room a girl sat smoothing out the boy's black hair that was sleeping on her lap. She looked up from where she was and glanced outside every once in awhile looking for someone before resuming playing with the boy's hair.

She looked at the light the moon created through the door crack and passed her hand underneath it. Something about it had grabbed her interest ever since she gained her sight, she would feel no sleep or tiredness on a full moon and somehow every time she looked straight at it, it would bring her peace.

Sensing a familiar chakra signature she carefully removed the boy's head from her lap and placed him in his futon. Opening the door wider she looked out into the veranda recognizing the familiar raven-haired boy coming her way carrying a stack of books in his arms.

She opened the door wider and moved from the doorway allowing him space to enter. Upon entering he set the books down before sitting next to Sasuke brushing his bangs to the side. He apologized quietly to the sleeping boy before standing up to leave. Once in the veranda, she closed the door behind her before walking up to him and offering to help, without saying a word she took a couple of books from him and quickly scanned their titles. To her realization, they were pretty advanced and came to the conclusion that his mission was a success. Knowing what he had to do in order to become anbu she followed silently behind him carrying the books all the way to his room.

She placed the books down on his bedside table and waited in his room for a while before silently speaking, "Sasuke wanted to see you at the academy today…" before he could say anything she continued while fidgeting with her sleeves, "I know you wanted to go… but I'm sure he will understand one day… night." She said exiting the room and closing the door behind her watching how the boy turned on a lamp before reaching for one of the books.


Naruto Shippuden episode 452 (entrance ceremony speech)

The Itachi novels were written by Masashi Kishimoto and Takashi Yano it belongs to them I will only use some of the story moments for timeline purposes and refer to some parts from time to time. The books are great please, read them if you want to have a glimpse of Itachi's life and thoughts. Starting from age four to the day he abandoned the village.

Itachi daylight novel page 135

Itachi midnight novel page 20 (tea shop flashback)