Blood Binds

Uchiha Sayuri-known in Konoha as Hatake-has been Hatake Kakashi's goddaughter and foster child since the age of five. The Council entrusted her to him for a reason: he is a disciplined, seasoned mentor, and few shinobi possess a deeper understanding of the Sharingan than he does. Kakashi accepted without hesitation. He took in his friend's child not merely out of duty, but because of an old promise-one he intended to keep at all costs. He had sworn never to leave her alone.

Sayuri survived the fall of her clan through a bitter twist of fate, a coincidence so painful that no one dares speak of it aloud. Officially, Itachi Uchiha has no knowledge that his former fiancée still lives-nor that she is being raised in the shadow of his most trusted ally.

But crows do not sleep.