"Have you started her training?" Fugaku asked. "You have to prepare her for the worst, the ANBU are ruthless, and they won't have any mercy."
"She can't even handle a kunai..." Yusuke muttered, tightening his hold on his wife. "She's not fit for this," he said, hiding his face on the crook of Akira's neck.
Fugaku let out a sigh. "Let me speak to her," he said. "I'll make sure to prepare her for the ANBU." Yusuke looked up at his friend. "But first, you have to enroll her in the Academy." Yusuke nodded, pressing his lips into a thin line.
"Let's get going Itachi," the leader said, starting to walk away followed by his son. "See you around, Yusuke, Akira." Yusuke observed them walk away until they disappeared in the horizon of the road.
"Fugaku's right," his wife commented, slowly pulling her hands away from her face. "It would be better to go look for her before something bad happens." Yusuke sighed and looked at her.
"I'll be back soon." And with that he went off, back into the woods.
* * *
Hanako watched the sky as it started to become dark, while she rested on the ground. In her mind was still fresh the conversation she had with Danzo just a few minutes earlier. The Uchiha breathed slowly, closing her eyes and inhaling the pure air of the woods. She then opened them to find a man with dark clothes and an orange mask on his face standing right in front of her. She stood quickly and backed away as much as she could.
"You seem scared." The man spoke with a deep voice. "I see you don't remember me."
"Who are you?" she asked confused.
"I couldn't help but listen to your conversation with Danzo." He completely ignored her as he continued speaking. "Forget everything he said, he knows nothing about the Uchiha." He started to move closer.
"And you do?" she inquired curiously, never letting her guard down.
"I can't say I don't." He stopped in his steps. "Correct me if I'm wrong but you want to be a ninja and your father doesn't want to train you."
"Danzo-san told me everything I had to do was show my father of what I'm capable of, so he would feel proud of me." Hanako let out a sigh. "But for that I have to let my power come to light, although I don't know what he meant by that..." That last thing she mumbled to herself.
"I do," said the masked man. "In the years I have lived, I've learnt that the Uchiha awaken their power when they found themselves in a life or death situation." He pulled out his kunai. "We only have to let that happen," he said and suddenly vanished.
Hanako felt a shiver run down her spine when she couldn't see him, and the darkness that engulfed the woods in that instant wasn't helping at all. The Uchiha girl felt something behind her, but when she turned around she saw nothing. Hanako looked up and noticed that some leaves were moving strangely. She took a stone and tossed it upwards, it changed its direction when it hit an object. "I found you," she thought in her head, with a small smirk. But then what? She couldn't do anything. She couldn't jump up and face him. She didn't know how to fight. She didn't even know how to properly handle knives.
"You're different," Hanako heard a deep voice like an echo from above her and the mysterious man emerged from the shadows. "Are you a sensor type, maybe?" He jumped to land just right in front of her. Hanako looked at him with terror as she backed away. "It could be." At that moment she felt an intense pain in her stomach and went flying through the air. She fell hardly on the ground and some tears fell from her eyes because of the strong impact. Hanako stood up still looking at the man. "You're just a kid, you'll never be strong. All those fantasies will never come true, you'll realize that when you really meet the world that you live in. Here there are no dreams, only realities."
CHAPTER THREE: Encounter with the Masked Man
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