Inevitable
Chapter 3

A few hours later in the Ishi district, Amejisuto had finishedpacking her clothes, books, ninja weapons and scrolls. Just as she sealed thelast box, someone knocked on the door of the large house and she rushed to openit. It was her blonde haired, green eyed cousin, Sora Ishi, who decided tobarge in and flop onto the couch. "Please tell me that you aren't doingwhat the rumors say you are," she looked over at the brunette.

"What rumors?" she asked half-heartedly, lookingaround to make sure she didn't forget anything.

"Jiji, they say you're going to be an apprentice of anUchiha and go live with them! Auntie announced it through the wind!" sheyelled, following with an exasperated sigh.

"Do you think that a clan leader would spread a lie? I am an Uchiha apprentice now. Besides,it's not bad, it's awesome. I’ll become a greater ninja, and I'm training withan old friend," Amejisuto explained.

"Either way, you have to spend almost every second withthe Itachi Uchiha and live as anUchiha, right?"

"Well yes, but I was really close to him and Sasuke, soit's just like having an extra big family again. It's not like I'm going torandomly fall in love with them."

"Don’t overestimate yourself, Jiji. No one can resistan Uchiha," Sora crossed her arms. "I bet that you won't last a monthwithout falling hopelessly in love, but I'll be nice and bet a year," sheteased.

Amejisuto laughed and stuck out her hand. "I'll last over a year, and maybe for eternity. Ifyou lose, then you will have to challenge Naruto to a fight for Sasuke's love,even though you both pretty much 'hate' him."

"And if youlose like you usually do, you have to dancein front of me and the person. Free-style." Sora challenged, takingthe hand and shaking it. Amejisuto scowled. She was a terrible dancer.

"Ameji, are you ready to go?" Itachi knocked onthe open door. Sora's green eyes almost popped out of her head. She knew ofItachi and his serious fan club, but she never saw him in person, and he wasthe type who looked god-like by just standing with light shining around him.

"I have to write the formulas for a summoning scroll, butI need a few specifics. Could you please help?" Amejisuto requested.

"Sure, where is it?"

"In my room. Please follow me," she led him thoughthe modern with Sora trailing after, wanting to see more of the raven hairedmale beauty. Amejisuto saw the look in her cousin's eyes. "Please Sora,don't become a fangirl. It will only cause problems."

The older cousin turned red and stated protesting."Pfft, I'm not a fangirl, just seeing if the famous Uchihas are reallyawesome like people say," she denied. Amejisuto didn't buy it and silentlylaughed at her strange relative. They got to her room and Itachi looked around.Boxes were packed, and there was a large scroll already painted with different charactersfor all the types of things she had packed up.

"I just didn't know the exact formula for sending it toyour house," the brunette explained. He took the brush that was left rightnext to the scroll and dipped it in ink, setting to work on the last fewdetails. Soon it was ready to go, and Amejisuto activated the jutsu whileItachi and Sora helped move the boxes onto the scroll and watched themdisappear. After the last box was transported, they rolled up the scroll andItachi put it in his weapons pouch.

"We are good to go!" Amejisuto shouted. Itachigave a kind smile and Sora became saddened.

"I'm gonna miss you around here, Jiji," she huggedher cousin.

"It's not like I'm moving to Suna. I'll just be acrossthe village, and I'll visit," the other Ishi assured her.

"Just don't forget about our bet, and if you ever getmarried, I wanna at least be a bridesmaid."

'Well then let's justget your measurements ready to go,' Itachi thought, remaining quiet.

"Alright, but remember what you have to do when youlose." And with that, Itachi and Amejisuto left to the Uchiha part of thecity.

Fugaku had apparently announced his son taking on an Ishiapprentice, and the members of the clan gathered on the streets in the compoundto welcome her. They all looked similar with dark hair in different styles andmost had black eyes. The only exceptions were the ones who obviously marriedinto the clan, or the elders, whose hair had turned grey.

They walked past the bakery that Amejisuto had been eyeingthe day before. There were two old people standing outside and Itachi waved atthem. They stopped walking to talk to them. "Welcome to the family,"the friendly looking Uchihas greeted.

"Hello Aunt, hello Uncle," Itachi smiled.

"Itachi, we're so proud of you for taking anapprentice. This young woman looks like she's ready to learn anything!" theauntie gushed. Amejisuto immediately took a liking to her.

"Yes. Well, it's nice to see you, but I think we shouldget her settled. We'll see you later," the raven bowed and pushed hisstudent along.

The gathering of Uchihas smiled warmly as the brunettewalked past them with her teacher. 'I betthey're mainly being nice since Itachi is my sensei now,' she thought,knowing the usual coldness and suspicion to outsiders intruding unless it wasfor marriages or special circumstances. Or Naruto. Everyone loved that hyperactive blonde.

They walked down the roads to Itachi's home where Sasuke ranout and greeted them, with Naruto following behind. "Ameji, you never toldus you were moving here," he complained.

"It was only made official a few hours ago,"Amejisuto rubbed the back of her head in nervousness, realising she would haveto explain the situation to the other kunoichi too, who would probably do whather cousin did and assume that she was in love with an Uchiha or something. Shesighed and just told Naruto the basics.

"Wait, so you're being adopted?!?"

"Yes… No… Loser, stop reacting like an idiot,"Sasuke sighed, unsure of how to answer.

Amejisuto ignored them. "Itachi sensei, where did wetransport my stuff to?"

"Oh, I set up a room for you. Follow me. I also keepforgetting to tell you this, but you don't need to call me sensei when we'renot training. Just Itachi is fine," he led her to a room in the house,giving a small tour on the way, showing where the dojo, living room, kitchen,meditation room, main bathroom and everyone else's rooms were. She had a roomacross from Itachi's, Sasuke's room was in another hall, and his parent's roomwas near the dojo. It was pretty spread out, but she guessed Uchiha's didn'tlike others being in their business much.

Amejisuto suddenly wondered why she got a room so close toItachi when everyone else who was actually family were spread out. Maybe so hecould wake her up at random times for training drills or something.

"Are you going to go in?" her mentor's voicesnapped her out of her thoughts. She nodded and slid open the door, gasping atthe room. It was all decorated with a white wooden bed with dark purple sheets,a white full-body mirror, a white wooden end table next to the bed, a whitedesk on a far corner of the room, and the room had purple walls with a plainbeige floor. Her boxes were all in a pile in the corner near a bathroom andcloset.

"Wow, this is so... Wow!" she exclaimed. Not evenher old room at her clan compound had a bathroom. Then again, her house backthere wasn’t nearly as big and elegant as this was.

"Yah, we figured we would change your room up a bitmore than it was before, since it used to match every other room in the house:All black and blue. I remembered your favorite color was purple, and whitegenerally goes well with it," he was surprised when the brunette turnedaround and hugged him.

"Thank you so much! It's awesome!" she grinned andthen went inside to start unpacking.

"You're welcome," the raven mumbled before goinginto his room. "If you need me, just knock."

The female instantly sorted out her boxes and put away herbelongings, admiring the fancy room. There weren't many houses with the old andmodern styles mixed anymore. "There's so much room in here," shegushed as she filled the back of the walk-in closet with weapons and filled thefront with different cool outfits for different kinds of missions. She was ableto even practise a few flips and cartwheels in the space she had left over inthe main part. "I should do something about all this space..."

After she was done unpacking, she heard a knock on her doorand turned around. There stood a beautiful middle aged woman with black hairthat had a slight tinge of blue, and kind brown eyes. "Hi, if you forgot,I'm Mikoto, Sasuke and Itachi's mother," she waved. "I apologise fornot greeting you along with the rest of the clan. I was out shopping. It’s beenages since I last saw you! You’re all pretty and grown up now!"

Amejisuto stood up and bowed with a light blush at thecompliment. "Thank you… And also thanks for allowing me into your home, especiallysince it was so sudden."

"Oh, it's ok dear. It will be nice to have another girlin the house. You can come to me if you need anything," Mikoto gave alight bow and left.

"Hm, sweeter woman than I remember... This whole familyis great,” the girl beamed.

“Glad you think so,” Itachi grinned slightly as he saw hisapprentice whirl around quickly, shocked that he was there again, leavingagainst the open door. “Now, would you like a more detailed tour of thecompound since the crowd has dissipated?”

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"So you're saying that since she's from anotherpowerful clan, they have to get married?" Konan gasped.

"Itachi Uchiha must be captured before then. If not, weshall have to capture the female too," Pain concluded.

"The question is how we get him to join. It's not likehe would want to help give out deadlymonsters as weapons to different ninja villages for military power," Konantried to think of something that would convince him.

"The key do getting what we want is throughmanipulation," announced Madara.

"How? We're all S-ranked criminals, even though noteven most of our group knows that the great Madara Uchiha is still alive,"the woman pointed out.

"That gives me an idea..." Pain smirked.

"Well, let's hear it," Madara commanded.

"I think that we-"

"SASORI! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DETONATING CLAY, YEAH?!"A loud yell was heard from the hall. The three leaders poked their heads out ofthe room. There stood Deidara and Sasori, arguing once again.

"I threw it out. Is there a problem?" a smug replycame from the redhead.

"I was making a sculpture to blow up outside, yeah!"

"It was all over our room and my puppets. You're luckyI didn't kill you."

Kisame walked into the hall. "What are ya fightingabout now?"

"He threw out my clay!" Deidara pointed madly atSasori, who rolled his eyes and started walking back to their room. "Hey!Don't walk away from me, yeah!"

Konan sighed and closed the door. "I swear we're livingin a high school."

"So what was it you were saying about manipulation,Madara?" Pain got back into the conversation.

The Uchiha smirked under his mask. Ah yes, manipulation. Oneof his most powerful weapons, and a fun game to play. His eyes glowed withsinister plans on how to capture the Uchiha and make him stay with them, atleast for long enough to capture and seal the jinchuriki.