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Chapter Ten: Uchiha Compound

Kagome had the distinct sensation she was being watched. After dragging the toad master all around Konoha for the day helping her find things, she'd finally bid him farewell nearby Naruto's apartment.

They'd secured a place to stay but it wouldn't be ready until a week later. It was as short notice as they could find, but she still felt bad about imposing on Naruto. Not that she wasn't sure he wouldn't mind but she didn't think they could keep sleeping on his bed forever.

She's barely gone two steps on her own before she paused. Expanding her senses in such a densely populated area was a foolish attempt but she could feel something briefly tugging on her awareness.

She sucked in a breath.

It felt like she was being called.

She had an inkling it had something to do with her… newfound sibling(s).

The thought was silly. One of them was a wanted criminal and the other she knew nothing about. Konoha was safe – a place they wouldn't dabble in unless they could help it.

Otherwise, why wouldn't they have come back to rebuild the Uchiha name?

As she rounded a corner she saw in the distance an old, worn entrance. A stray crow dived down inside.

'Was that it?'

She debated what this place could be before she suddenly became aware of the guards on standby, hidden from view. The miko quickly ducked out of the way.

She should've just up and asked Jiraiya about the clans here.

"Even if I asked, that's probably the place," Kagome muttered to herself. The fact she was feeling the sensation of the older Uchihas proved that much.

"Here goes nothing," Kagome sighed, sneaking her way into the compound.

The place was deserted.

She couldn't remember it being deserted but she would be lying if she said she didn't feel a familiar twinge of sadness. All around the compound seemed to be walled in.

It was eerily quiet.

She took in a steadying breath. "It's nothing like the Feudal Era… Get yourself together."

Kagome walked further down the road, noting the auras of the guards faded away as she walked on. It seemed they didn't have anyone stationed inside.

She couldn't wrap her head around how so many people could just die, leaving only three people behind.

"If I could just find an address."

It's not like she outright knew where her father had lived. The crow had disappeared altogether, leaving her wondering why it had even bothered to leave once it had her attention.

Her eyes strayed to an imposing building located on the other side of the road. On top of it was a symbol she recognized; a black ninja star. One she remembered drawing a lot of as a child.

The memory was enough to prompt her to walk towards the building. Upon arriving, she realized the door was locked but that wasn't going to stop her. Kagome broke a window up top, shimming her way into the building.

As expected, the floor was covered in dust. She held a hand to her nose, resisting the urge to sneeze. "There's got to be some sort of records here."

Some sort of clue indicating why everyone had died or maybe where her father's house could be.

She got right to investigating, but she couldn't find anything more than patrol routines and board meeting notes. The rest of the rooms were similar in nature to that.

"Is there actually anything useful?" The miko huffed, shutting the door to another empty interrogation room.

She was beginning to suspect things of importance had been cleared out before she noticed a room at the end of the hall.

A quick read of the words on the glass pane above it revealed to be the Police Chief's room. The window didn't hold to brute force and she was swinging it open.

The room was of course abandoned, but she could see there were still things left behind. Stacks of paper lay left forgotten on the desk among pen and ink. To the side of that, there was a filing cabinet.

'Bingo,' she thought, trying its handle.

Locked.

"Is everything in this godforsaken place locked?" Kagome groaned, looking around for anything that could help her. Doors she could open but trying to bend metal seemed a bit out of her element. There had to be a key.

The girl directed her attention back to the desk. It was as good a place as any.

She rifled through the customary paperwork before trying the drawers. The top two revealed nothing other than notes and some crudely made drawings she suspected had belonged to their child. Those she shoved away as quick as she found them.

There had been children here. Of course, there had to be, but the thought still unsettled her once she realized those kids were probably gone.

It felt like she was invading someone's privacy. She quickly yanked open the last one, hoping there weren't any more traces of this person's past life. With her luck, she quickly became aware of the picture frame sitting tucked away behind some office supplies with a key resting beside it.

She snatched up the key and turned to face the cabinet, pleased to note it fit and turned the lock. Pulling it open, there were files neatly stacked inside before she realized it was just the paperwork of the employees staffed there.

Nothing she could really use.

"A dead end." She tiredly began, thinking it was best to just return back to Naruto when she saw it.

Fugaku Uchiha.

The name was almost faded but she could see his name scrawled on a file.

Did he use to work here? As chief?

The odds were slim, but she hadn't seen anything about Fugaku in the other rooms. If this was his room…

The miko could feel her pulse steadily rising as she chanced a look down into the still open drawer. To her dismay, depicted in the photo was her father. In his lap, she could see her child-self with her mother at his side.

Tears welled up in her eyes.

"Why was mom even here?" She asked aloud, frustrated that things kept becoming more complicated the more time she spent in this world.

Why had she been taken away? Had Fugaku consented to this? Had anyone even known about her?

Her thoughts kept becoming more distorted until she eventually wondered if Fugaku had ever loved her at all.

She threw the picture at the wall, relishing in the way the glass shattered.

"Why did I come here?"

Would she have been better off speculating?

Swallowing, the Uchiha turned back to the file. She found his home address, but all she could do was stare at the words.

She could turn around right now. She could go home to Souta right now. And Naruto. She could forget all of this ever happened.

But she found herself walking out of the Police Force and in the direction of her father's home. Everything was so quiet.

All she could hear were her own footsteps. Her heartbeat roared in her ears.

It didn't take her long to reach the house.

Things should've felt out of place. She should've felt like an intruder sliding open the door, but it felt just like coming home as inexplicable as it sounded.

The miko didn't question going up the stairs and stepping into her old room. Or what had been left of it.

What she remembered as a nursery filled with toys had now been converted into a boy's room.

The girl blinked. And blinked again.

The tears started back up again, blurred by the fact she'd activated her Sharingan.

She ran into Fugaku's room, tearing open the closet where she knew there would be answers.

She had to confirm it. For her sake and for her mother's.

When she found a photo album stashed in a box, she almost ripped the pages trying to flip it open.

Pictures of her. Pictures of Itachi. Pictures of Sasuke filling the gap of where she'd once existed before she'd been forgotten.

"This doesn't make sense. This doesn't make any sense!"

She seemed to like throwing things. The box smashed into a wall.

She didn't remember this woman beside her dad. Or Itachi himself, but the proof was staring her right in the eye as she saw herself being carried around on her older brother's back.

When the door shifted, she shot up – pressing a hand to the person's throat and slamming them against the wall.

"O-ouch! Kagome!"

Naruto stared wide-eyed as his newfound friend blinked watery eyes at him. While that would have been alarming on its own, he took notice of the color of her eyes. Eyes that should have been blue now held an unmistakable Kekkai Genkai he'd seen from his childhood friend and rival so many times.

"Naruto…"

"You're an Uchiha." He breathed out, staring at her eyes as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing. "B-but how? Sasuke's the only one left besides Itachi!"

The dark-haired girl shook her head, bitterly casting a glance at the photo album. "He wasn't."

She defeatedly stepped back and handed it to him.

Naruto looked at the current page, doing a double take at her and then at the pictures. "That's you!" He gaped, taking notice of the abnormal blue eyes.

He would never have suspected it had he not already seen her crimson irises. "You were here?" His voice rose, "That doesn't make sense. How did you survive the attack?"

"What attack?"

The blond teenager froze, going silent once he realized she didn't know all of the pieces. She had said she was looking for things.

"Naruto, what attack?" She demanded louder, "If it's about everyone being killed I know that already but what attack?!"

Had it been planned? Was that why she was sent away?

"Do you… know who did it?"

When she failed to answer, he was about to back off before things seemed to slide into place. "You're Sasuke's sister!" He shouted, going wide-eyed again.

Kagome recoiled as if struck.

"I-it's not all bad!" He quickly tried to comfort, seeing he'd hit a nerve. "Sasuke may be a bit of a prick but he's actually a really nice guy!"

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't make my sister cry."

Naruto could only snap his head up at the sudden appearance of Sasuke followed by Itachi.

"Sasu-!"

He was cut short by the sudden awakening of Itachi's Mangekyo Sharingan, throwing the unsuspecting boy into a genjutsu and effectively immobilizing him. They didn't need unnecessary interruptions.

"You found the book," Itachi observed, taking in the sight of the album. He thought it had long been thrown away.

"I did," the girl said, nodding numbly. "We're siblings."

He tried not to let the sight of his crying little sister derail him from his goal. It was as if she could not comprehend the idea.

"Where did you go, imouto?"

It was a question that had plagued him for so long, eating at his conscious.

Sasuke looked at his older brother, "You don't have the answers, then?"

What had he been waiting for?

To his annoyance, the eldest Uchiha shook his head. "Kagome disappeared one day. We never could find her."

Sasuke furrowed his brows in confusion. "That doesn't answer anything." He turned a glare to the still silent girl. "You – where have you been?"

She was still silent, unprocessing even as her brothers bickered before her.

"She is in shock." Itachi murmured, walking forward to her. She had grown so much, he noted.

"Imouto," he gently said, bending down on one knee, "Look at me."

Teary blue eyes found his own before they strayed to Sasuke's and then his again.

"Who killed everyone?"

End of Chapter Ten

(I've had questions about the pairing and to clarify this is a KagomexItachi fic with some subtle hints at others but for the most part the pairing has already been decided. How's that for a rocky start lol.)