Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Blood of my Aneki ❯ Saving My Child ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I am not Masashi Kishimoto. I am, however, a goddess ^_^

Title: Strings of Fate

Pairings: ItaSasu, NaruHina, KakaIru, LeeSaku, KibaShino, ShikaIno,

Warnings: Yaoi, murder, psychopaths and lots of pretty blood…*_*

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"blah" is speech

blah is thoughts

//blah// is memories

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*Konoha Hospital, 17 years prior to present timeline in the manga/anime*

It was a supposed happy day for the Uchiha clan. A woman had just given birth to twins. Twins were very popular with the Uchiha. It usually meant that they'd have two powerful ninja to train. Two people that could easily carry own the Uchiha name with honor, respect and pride.

This, however was not the case in this birth.

Uchiha Itachi (Sasuke's mother, has the same name as Itachi the older brother) lay on the hospital bed, tired and worried. She had just finished her labor and had given birth to twins. One of them had been a healthy baby boy, with large black eyes that had stared up at her with a curios expression. The other was a girl. But the girl had not been healthy. She was very sickly, and the doctors had to start tending to her right away, or she would not live. She was not premature, but that was what she looked like. She unusually small and very feeble. Itachi bit her lip. If the clan found out that she had given birth to a runt, she would be in deep trouble. You were expected to give birth to fine, healthy babies in the Uchiha clan, not runts, especially when the twin came out just fine.

Itachi looked out the window. If worst came to worst, she would have to kill the baby. She didn't want to do that to her own child. She'd much rather face the shame of being banished from the clan and having her daughter given up for adoption than see it die. But she was also worried about what her husband would say. He was a proud man, and to hear that one of his children had been a runt would make him furious. Itachi shuddered. You didn't want to see her husband mad.

"Uchiha-san," a voice said from the doorway.

Itachi looked up to see a nurse coming in.

"Hai?"

"I've come to tell you that your daughter has been stabilized for now, but the doctors aren't sure if she'll make it," the nurse said softly.

Itachi felt tears well up in her eyes. She didn't want her child to die! She'd give her own life, if only it could live!

"Arigatou," she said to the nurse. "I appreciate your help."

The nurse nodded and left.

Itachi began to cry softly, partly from sadness, partly from fear and partly from sheer frustration. She had shamed the Uchiha clan by giving birth to a runt. She closed her eyes. She was tired and sad. She wanted to sleep, very much so.

Thought of how to avoid her currant situation ran through her mind as she drifted to sleep.

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"You gave birth to a runt! A runt! If this gets out I'll be the laughing stock of the Uchiha clan! I ought to kill you right here! You're a disgrace to the clan and to yourself! I can't believe I ever married such a woman! What was I thinking?"

Tears streamed down Itachi's streaks as the harsh words of her husband sank in. He had just arrived and the first thing he had done was come visit Itachi in the hospital. Upon hearing from one of the doctors that one of the twins his wife had bore was a runt, he flew into a storm of rage. He had gone up to Itachi's room and started yelling his ass off at her, telling her she was a shame to the name Uchiha and that she deserved to die.

"Darling, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean-" she began but he cut her off.

"I don't give a damn if you didn't mean it, that fact that you gave birth to a runt still remains and that's all that matters!" he yelled. Itachi winced at the anger in her husband's voice. She had known he would be mad, but she had never expected this.

"As soon as the girl is let out of the hospital, I'm going to take a knife to her throat and kill her," the angry man in front of Itachi said. She gasped.

"No! Please, give the child a chance! She made it through the labor; she's getting better! The doctors say she might be able to lead a normal life! Who cares if she's not a ninja, she can-"

SLAP!

Itachi's eyes widened as she lifted her hand to her cheek. Her husband was staring at her with such hatred in his eyes she wished she would just drop dead right now.

"What do you mean, who cares if she's a ninja?" he spat through clenched teeth. "I care, the clan cares, everyone cares! She's an Uchiha and she cannot live up to our standards!"

"I don't care, you're not killing her!"

"SHUT UP WOMAN!" Itachi's husband roared. She shrank back in fear.

"Please…" she whispered.

Her husband paid no attention to her. Instead he said, "When she gets out of the hospital, you will bring her to me, and I will kill her. If you try to protect her, I'll kill you too." And then he left.

Itachi sunk down into the bed, shaking. What could she do? If she tried to protect her child, they would both be killed. But she couldn't just hand her little girl over like that!

I need a plan. Something that will hopefully make it so we both can live, she thought. Itachi closed her eyes and began to think of a way to save both her child and herself.

Although, she thought, If I have to die and have the child live, then that would be alright. At least one of us will be able to live.

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*A forest at the edge of Konoha's borders*

One week had passed since the fight with her husband, and Itachi had only been able to think of one plan that might be able to let both her and her daughter live. She had asked her husband if it would be alright if she killed her own child, since she wanted it to be painless and she didn't trust him to do that. He had said yes, so Itachi had taken a knife and basket with her daughter in it down to the river. Of course, Itachi had no intention of killing her child. She was going to put it in a basket and let it float down the river into another country where it would hopefully be picked up by someone.

Itachi walked along side the river, trying to find a good place to set the basket in; a place where the current wouldn't tip the basket over. She was crying silently, tears streaming down her face like the rain.

As she saw a spot in the river that looked safe, she knelt down on the bank and looked down into the basket. Her daughter slept peacefully, unaware that she would never see her mother again. Itachi gave a little sob and began singing,

"Mori no fukura ga

iimashita

watashi wa mori no

mihari yaku

kowai okami, kitsune

nado

kosasenai kara ne ne

shina

gorosuke ho ho

gorosuke ho{1}"

Then Itachi kissed her little girl on her forehead, and set the basket in the water. She watched as it drifted down the river, and she felt the wetness of the tears on her cheeks increase. She stayed there crying silently, until the basket was out of sight. Then she turned to the skies.

"Oh Lord, keep her safe. Please, keep her," Itachi whispered. She began walking back to the Uchiha part of the village.

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The father of the twins looked at the dead baby in his wife's arms with satisfaction. No one in the clan knew about the disgrace his wife had given birth too, and now it would remain that way. He had already told the hospital to erase all records of the girl twin, and now the child was dead. It was perfect.

"Well, Itachi, I never thought you would have had the courage to kill your own child. But you've proved my wrong," he said. Itachi did not say anything, just kept staring down at the little child in her arms. She prayed to God that her husband would not see through the genjutsu she had cast upon the poor raccoon she had killed so she would have a body to bring back to her husband.

"I did not wish to bring you shame in front of the clan," she answered him quietly. Her husband smiled cruelly.

"That's very considerate of you. Because you killed the child yourself, I'll give you a full pardon for your awful blunder. Consider yourself lucky, Itachi," he said. Then he turned and left the room.

Itachi's lip's were quivering. If she had known that this would happen to her first born children, then she would not have ever married her husband. Her eyes drifted heaven-ward as if to say, "What did I do to deserve this?"

The Uchiha woman sighed. I should burn the body, she thought. The genjutsu will were off soon and I can't have him know that this isn't my child. Itachi took the raccoon outside to a small hole in the ground, surrounded by rocks. It was were some of the Uchiha children held slumber parties with a campfire. She carefully set the raccoon in the pit, performed a set of hand seals, and lit the raccoon body on fire. She watched as it burned, not able to take her eyes off what might have been her child.

The raccoon body was almost entirely burned when Itachi realized that she hadn't given her daughter a name. She thought for a moment. Then she looked yet again to the heavens.

"Her name is Akako," she said. Then she got up and went back into the house.

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Somewhere along the river, a little girl in a basket awoke. Her black eyes shining with the moonlight, she opened her mouth.

"A…ka…ko…"

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Perhaps it was her husband's pride and selfishness that did it, but Itachi's life was never the same. After that day, she might as well have been cursed. Her life never really held good fortune, no matter how much it was covered by what seemed a blessing.

Her first son, Itachi, became a prodigy, graduating from the academy at age seven, mastering the Sharingan at age eight, becoming a chuunin at age nine, and an Anbu captain at age thirteen. Her other son, Sasuke, also showed promise, and was a very nice little boy that idolized his brother in every aspect of his being.

But even a prodigy can be lead astray. Itachi never had a real connection with his family. The binds that held them to together were lose and weak. And Itachi (the son) severed those bonds with one clean cut of a sword the night he killed all of the Uchiha clan except for Sasuke at age thirteen.

But as she lay there dying, Itachi couldn't be mad at her eldest son. He has always acted like he was missing part of him. And Itachi knew what it was. And she knew that she had brought it upon herself this miserable fortune the day she let Akako drift down the river.

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In a small dark room in Tokyo, Japan, a black-haired girl eyes turned red. She was holding a sword given to her as a gift. In front of her lay her terrible step-father. She did not why she had killed him, but the sudden impulse had been so overwhelming, so powerful, she had just taken the sword and killed him.

She looked out the window and her eyes narrowed. From that moment on, Uchiha Akako knew she would never be the same girl again.

Funny, how she killed her family on the exact same night and time as Itachi killed his. But then again, family bonds often hold strings hidden deep within that connect you.

Especially the bonds of twins.

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{1} A lullaby that my mom used to sing to me. It's about an owl, but the English translations are weird, so I'm keeping it Japanese

Pyro: Ok, I finally finished the repost!

Itachi: o_O? Repost?

Pyro: Yup! I didn't like the first version I posted, so I took it down and now I'm reposting it. It made Akako sound like a Mary-Sue

Akako: I still sound like a Mary-Sue in here!

Pyro: Ah, but I never made specific details as to why you killed your step-father. And when the time comes to reveal that, it would be Mary-Sue-ish. TAKE THAT NARA SHIKAMARU (A reviewer who gave me a really bad flame)!!!!!!!!!! I'LL SHOW YOU A FICCY THAT THE LIKES OF YOUR PUNY LITTLE JACK-ASS SELF COULD NEVER AMOUNT TOO!!!! MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Itachi and Akako: O__________________O

Pyro: Also, a special thanks to Karen, who helped me realize that Akako was a Mary-Sue. THANKIES!!! *Hugs Karen and gives her a certificate for an unlimited shopping spree at the "We have everything in the world" store*