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Chapter 8

Warning: This chapter has swearing, violence, and PTSD. Proceed at your own risk.

"Maki, wake up. I need to take you out today."

She instantly bolted up with a grin.

"Where?!" He chuckled.

"Just get dressed." She nodded, jumping out and running towards the bathroom. Tenzo frowned and walked down the stairs and to the kitchen table, where he had prepared breakfast.

He didn't like what the hokage had ordered him to do. He was to take Maki to T&I so they could check her memories, to try and understand her better. It wasn't a suggestion, no.

It was an order.

The hokage himself had ordered it, and the hokages word is law. For once, Tenzo found the rules and law annoying. But, he was an ANBU and a shinobi of the leaf so he didn't have much choice. He made sure to build as much energy for this day.

Three more weeks, it had been since he discovered her fear of alcohol and since he started practicing the shadow clone jutsu with her, which she had mastered on the third day since, apparently, she understood a lot about chakra.

It was...

Weird?

God, he hoped she wasn't going to be a prodigy. That never ended good. If you want proof, just ask his senpai. Now, he was hoping she would become strong, but he didn't want her to be labeled as a prodigy because of how valued they were. Honestly, genin at five? He couldn't help but wonder how desperate the hokage was when he made that decision.

"You okay, yo?" He froze.

"Yeah. Take a seat." She slowly nodded and jumped onto her seat. He began to sweat as he felt her eyes piercing his head. He couldn't help but sigh in relief when she turned her gaze to her food and began slowly eating.

"Can you teach me any earth jutsu?" 

"No." 

"Worth a try." She smirked, though her mind soon wandered off to somewhere else.

There was a lot she could change, and a lot she couldn't. The important thing is whether she should change things? To most, the answer would be a simple yes. It was obvious, right? But to her, it was complicated. Everything that happens in the original plot happens for a reason. For example, the war brang all shinobi together, thus resulting in the shinobi alliance and thus peace was obtained.

Another example?

Sasuke leaving motivated Naruto to become the best he could be.

But he could always do that without having to lose a friend. It was hard, to know that the massacre must happen. But...Maybe she could somehow save the clan without physically doing anything? Doubtful, but not impossible.

So, she would try.

Try like she always does, and hope like she always does.

The only problem with her, is that in case the Uchiha massacre does happen. She would live with that guilt for a very long time, knowing she could have changed it. She always felt guilt, no matter how small or how big, she always felt guilt. And it weighed her down constantly.

She had so much issues from the past, that she felt like she was drowning in them. Now, with the entire fate of this world in her hands, it was becoming unbearable. If the Uchiha clan were to die, she would regret too much. She would look back, even though most never wanted to and didn't, she did. She had to look back.