Uzumaki

46: Blind Sighted

I spend most of my time at the Uzumaki estate with the Uzumaki Ma'ze had rescued, "does it feel like home being here with blood relatives?" I ask a girl younger than me, she nods.

"My mom survived the Uzushiogakure massacre and was able to find shelter, she met my dad a few years later and they had me."

She pauses to recall a memory, "I was about two when my mom enountered another Uzumaki, I remember she started crying when she saw this elderly lady with red hair, the lady was crying too, I didn't understand then and it wasn't until I was older that I realized why it was they started crying when they saw one another. It's our clan trade mark so to say, and seeing another survivor was huge to them." I smile and nod.

"I get it. I was five when the Uzushiogakure Village was attacked, my brother died protecting me. Till this day I can clearly hear the rescue Leaf ninjas say, 'there is no survivors,'" I smile sadly.

"I thought I was the only one, I thought there was no point in living if it was just going to be me. Then a young woman named Kushina came and took me home with her, she was an Uzumaki like me, her parents moved to the leaf when she was eight so she wasn't in the massacre. But her clan was so she mourned with me and it helped not being the only one left."

She squeezes my hand, "I don't know if I could have handled losing everyone I love. Those that survived and continued to live through the pain are so brave and strong, I don't know who you did it, but I'm glad you did because you helped our clan grow one person bigger and it makes a difference."

I smile and thank her for her words, "come on let me show you around some more, we're adding a new section to the estate." I get up and follow her.

We return to the main house where Ma'ze was sitting out front drinking tea. "Would you like to join me Yuki?" I nod and accept the cup he was handing me.

I was half way through the tea when my sensory goes off, I notice the change immediately, Shisui. Better much I noticed the lack if Shisui's presence, the cup slips from my hand as I begin to panic, "I have to go, I have to - I have to go."

I teleport back to the leaf, to the person he was with last, "itachi!" He turns back to me and I see the tears running down his eyes, "no." He nods, and I rush to the edge, he holds me back, "no!" Itachi hugs me and we fall to our knees, I start crying, "no Itachi. How is this possible?"

Itachi holds onto me as he cries, "what is going on with you all Itachi?" I ask as his around squeeze me, "if I tell you, you can't tell a soul," we're quickly in a black and red space, he explains what's going on between the Leaf and the Village.

"So what now?" I ask him and he tells me he's thinking of a plan, "Yuki beware of Danzo." I look up and ask why, my body stops moving and I get trapped in place, "Itachi?" He had tears in his eyes, "I'm need to see what happens next with my clan Yuki, please let me see where this goes," he was pleading.

"Release me," my body loosens, "you were like a brother to Shisui and you're a friend to me, I will always be here for you." I hug him tightly.

I spend the next few days vigilant of Itachi as I make my way through town just so I won't stand still, anything to keep the emotions from over flowing. "Yuki?" I look up and I see Kakashi walking up to me, "what do you want Kakashi? You here to watch me drown?" He sits by me, "I came to check up on you," I return my head to my raised knees, "Yuki-" I shake my head, I don't want to hear it.

He stays sitting next to me in silence, "why am I the one always left standing alone?"

"If I knew that anwser we wouldn't be the on the same sinking boat," I start crying.

"They're all gone Kakashi." He grabs my hand and squeezes it.

"I was away trying to find my surviving clan and I completely forget about the family I gained here. He's really gone Kakashi," Kakashi nods and sits by me.

"I'm sorry Yuki."