A Long Lost Uchiha

AN: Here's another installment, I hope you like it. This is a flashback scene.

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Chapter 2

Discoveries and Lost Memories

Four years ago…

ANBU got word that there was a body lying in front of the Uchiha’s gate. It appeared to be a little boy.

On arrival, the ANBU noticed the small body. It wasn’t uncommon for them to see such things, but for it to be a boy from the Uchiha clan was saying a lot. One of the black ops, a female, walked in through the gates and knelt down above the boy. She was the captain and she felt as though she should make the first inspection.

“He’s alive, but barely. We need to take him to the hospital. Crow,” she pointed to one of their newest member, “Take him to the hospital, ASAP, and send word that something has happened in the Uchiha Compound.”

The ANBU known as Crow nodded and quickly took the small boy in his arms and flickered off. The rest carefully walked into the compound with the stealthiest of their profession and the caution of a well-trained shinobi. The first thing they were greeted with was a body, barely there but recognizable. They saw more as they traveled further into the luxurious compound. They needed to find the leader, Uchiha Fugaku, but they had a feeling that he too did not survive this massacre. And they were right, because seconds later, they found him and his wife in the middle of their room. The three ANBU that accompanied the female captain, stared at the bodies with awe. They did notice another ANBU flicker into the room, but didn’t acknowledge him until he had spoken.

“There seem to be no survivors, captain, except for the boy.”

The female captain looked around the room and stopped at a photograph on the night stand by the bed. She picked it up and scanned it. “I think we have two survivors, or shall I say, one survivor and one murder.”

There were silenced between the ANBU.

“You can’t be serious, captain, one person did all this. It can’t…”

“Itachi is a member of ANBU and an Uchiha. I think the possibility is that he is capable of something like this. The question is why,” their captain put down the picture and walked out of the room. “Give the Hokage the word of what happened here and who is responsible. We rank one of our own an S-rank criminal.”

The Hokage got word about what happened in the Uchiha compound. He ordered that they keep it quiet until further information. The village was not to know about the only survivor and to keep who have done it also low key.

But words traveled fast and of course the whole area of Konoha has heard what had become of their beloved clan, the Uchihas. Everyone mourned, there was a huge funeral, and there even was a day in honor of the great clan itself. But while this was going on, ANBU was searching and hunting for any possible leads to the other Uchiha. They found nothing and it turned out to be a dead end. Their only hope was that he doesn’t come back for the boy.

“His name is Sasuke Uchiha, the youngest son of Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha, and the younger brother of Itachi Uchiha,” the nurse told the ANBU captain. “He was born, July the twenty-third, and …”

“Enough of the small details, I already know that, what his condition is like? Is he going to make it,” the ANBU captain interrupted.

“Well, yes, but he is so traumatized that I don’t think he will be critically okay after he wakes up. The wound across his chest was sealed, but we still needed to patch him up, it was deep, there may be scarring. And the psychological damage, well… we won’t know until he awakes, but a boy his age and the severity of what happened at the…well, I don’t think it will be good,” the nurse finished with a heavy sigh. She was one of many who have seen the boy in the hospital after the incident and they all felt for the boy.

“I want to see him,” the captain ordered.

The nurse grabbed her clipboard and headed down the hallway. The ANBU followed her in silence. They descended a few stairs until they were in a basement-like area, only used for top secret patients who were either under watch or carefully guarded. Only to be hidden from the rest of the patients so words won’t get out about ANBU’s dealings. They walked down another hallway, only to hear the sound of a long dragged-out, high pitched beeping sound.

“His heart monitor,” the nurse gasped out. She ran further ahead from the ANBU captain and opened the double doors to the single room. Upon entering the room, she gasped and clumsily leaned her self on the wall next to the door. The ANBU captain entered shortly afterwards and was greeted with… nothing. Or no one, the boy was missing.

The council was getting restless. Their only survivor of their adored clan was missing. They needed to get him back, if not for his safety than to insure them that Itachi didn't get his hands on him and try to finish him off which he almost succeeded in doing during the massacre.

"Have you tried looking for him," an elderly woman asked the Third.

"Yes," the Third answered.

"And," she prompted. "Were there any clues to his whereabouts?"

"None. My squad of both Jonins and ANBU found nothing and there were no traces of force entry into the hospital to indicate that the boy was kidnapped. He just vanished."

"Little boys who were surrounded by top security don't just get up one day and vanish, Sarutobi."

"I know," he shamelessly admitted.

"The rest of the council and I have agreed, this can no longer be withheld under just our knowledge," the elderly woman announced.

The Third knew what they were implying.

"Please, you can't, it's dangerous. What if enemy countries hear about this? What if Itachi finds out that his brother is…"
"We have tried your way Sarutobi. We have ally countries near; maybe they have seen the boy and we will have more than just our shinobis looking for the Uchiha. The council have already agreed…see to it that it is accomplished. That is all."

News traveled fast. With ally countries help and Fire country, posters of the missing Uchiha went out within a week. An reward was given and details were held at a minimum, his injuries of what he received at the massacre was held low key, only the Hokage and a few selected shinobis knew of that fact, thus creating chaos. Many young boys were brought in by villagers of all over claiming that they were the missing Uchiha…none of them were, of course, but that didn't stop more and more people from coming. When things did settle down and there was still no Uchiha, the search was over and Sarutobi was grateful but he still felt uneasy. Not only does the whole world know that there was a surviving lost Uchiha somewhere, but that he wasn't found and Sarutobi couldn't help but think that this could lead to something more…something much more dangerous. God only knows just how dangerous it would be in the future.

Somewhere, early in the morning, in a village between, the Land of Waterfall and the Land of Grass, a couple walked through a path along the forestry road. They were of their early thirties and they were a happy couple, just married in fact. The weather was nice and cool and the light wind carried pretty pink petals from Sakura trees from somewhere near. It was a beautiful sight and very pleasant. The female of the couple ran out in front to pick up a few Sakura flowers that had fallen onto the ground near the road. She placed some in her black hair and the rest lie gracefully in her hands. She followed them along the path until some lead her absently into the grassy area, near a pond. It was not until she reached for one near the pond did she notice a pale hand near one. She screeched, dropping the rest of her flowers, and ran towards the path. Her husband met her halfway and worriedly asked what the matter was?

“There…there was a…hand, I think…I think he might…be dead. Oh, Kiyoshi, it was so small.” She leaned into her husband chest and cried.

“I will go see, stay here.” He let his wife go and followed the path he saw his wife took so absentmindedly.

He reached the heap of pink flowers and saw the hand his wife must have seen. Following the hand to an arm, to a shoulder, and so on, he noticed that the body belonged to a little boy. He had black hair and pale skin. Turning the body onto his back, the body let out a small gasp and then a whimper. The husband jumped back a little. The boy’s expression was a painful one and he looked as though he was about to cry any second.

“Ayame, come, it’s just a little boy.” He heard his wife travel towards his voice until she was standing next to him. She looked down at the small body and gasped.

“Oh, Kiyoshi,” she bends down to brush the bangs away from the small face. “He’s so small.”

“Nooo,” the boy woke seating up with wide terrified eyes.

Out of instinct, Ayame found herself embracing the boy. She calmingly “shushed” and whispered soft nothing to him to sooth his trembling body. The husband came down to knelt behind his wife and softly patted the boy on the head.

“What’s your name, son,” Kiyoshi asked.

The boy slowly pushed away from the woman’s embrace and searched his surroundings.

“Where are you from,” Ayame asked afterwards.

The boy looked at the couple and his started to tremble again. Ayame went to reach for him, but he backed away, almost landing into the pond.

“Who are you? Where am I?” the boy cried.

“You’re in Destiny Village, north west of the Land of Fire. Please, come back so you won’t fall into the pond.” She reached again and the boy jumped back again. He was starting to panic.

“I…I don’t remember…I can’t remember how…I,” the boy cried out, covering his face with his small hands. Ayame took the opportunity to embrace the boy again. He cried in her shoulder and wrapped his small arms around her.

“I-I …how…I don’t…I can’t…remember my name. W-who am I” He cried.

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AN: So the plot thickens. How was it? I really like writing this chapter, it was fun and so serious. Oh, so you know, the ANBU in the beginning known as Crow isn't Kakashi, I just couldn't think of another animal other than a crow...uhm...yeah...EHEHEEHE.

Another thing is the council, I wasn't sure if they can be really that forceful over the Hokage, but it really seem to work out so I kept it that way. I didn't intentionally wanted them to be so mean, but I needed something or someone to be disperate in wanting the Uchiha back. Sarutobi was disperate, but he was doing his job in keeping the missing Uchiha safe.

Please review to let me know how you liked it or something, I really appreciate them a lot. Please and Thank You.