Symphony of The Fallen Crow {Itachi's daughter Story}

Act 7: Part 3

"𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠!" ~ 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑩. 𝑾𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒏

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"Can I ask you a question?" the boy asked hesitantly. Mina nodded, gesturing for him to continue.

"Can you tell me about your birth mother, since you know about mine?" Mina pursed her lips, gathering her limited knowledge of her mother in her head.

"To be honest, I don't know much about my mother. Her name was Uchiha Aneko. Father met her before he left the village, in childhood, I think. From the picture Dad gave me a few months ago, she had maroon hair and dark purple colored eyes like mine. That's all I really know- oh! She also was really incredible at kinjutsu and a clan jutsu Adamantine Sealing Chains."

"But that technique is from the Uzumaki clan?" Mina shrugged, unable to answer why her mother could use that technique.

"That aside though, What an interesting clan to be from. The same as the war hero, Uzumaki Naruto, right?" He said before shifting slightly on the bench. Mina nodded, gazing off into the foggy sky.

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Finally, Mina asked the other question in her mind.

"What about my mother?" Sasuke frowned at the question and arranged his thoughts before speaking to the eight-year-old.

"Your mother was known to other shinobi as Uchiha Aneko, but that was the name she used to hide her maiden name even before marrying my brother. It was Uzumaki Aneko." The reveal made Mina gasp in surprise. Wasn't that the same surname as her Uncle Naru?

"Aneko was more of a mystery to me than anyone else I'd ever met. She was confident and seemed to ridicule me excessively and yet, her past may have been worse than my own. She was born to Uchiha Hanako and Uzumaki Taro, the brother of the Dob-, I mean, Naruto's mother. I don't know all of the details, but Taro died before he found out about Hanako's pregnancy. When your mother, Aneko, was young- two, I believe- Hanako died from what they said was heartbreak. Aneko was then placed under the care of her aunt Kushina and her husband Minato, the Fourth Hokage, for two years."

"What about you, Papa?" the young girl questioned, listening intently. Sasuke pursed his lips and continued.

"Toward the end of the two years, Kushina had given birth to a son, Naruto. But tragically, Kushina and Minato both died that same day. As for me, I was a few months old and your father was four, the same age as your mother. So, Aneko was placed under the care of my parents, Mikoto and Fugaku, her distant cousins, and lived with our family. But, much to her sadness, the village elders decided that she could not have contact with her cousin Naruto, since the Uchiha were believed to have been the ones who helped kill the Yondaime and his wife with the events of the nine tails release. 

I had never noticed, but my brother and Aneko-nee started dating around the age of twelve, I believe, even as both were in the Anbu. Aneko-nee specialized in the Uzumaki's special technique Adamantine sealing chains as well as the Sharingan that she inherited from her own mother. Though as she got older, she stopped using her Uzumaki abilities. This was likely because the clan was extinct and finding an Uzumaki was rare, thus she would be hunted for her technique. Despite being told not to be near Naruto, Aneko did anyway and would protect him from the villagers who would harm him, though she did so in her Anbu attire so as to not draw suspicion.