We are starting the chapter with some flashbacks. Thank you for all of the reviews! They are my motivation!

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(Yuuki at 7 years old)

I called upon the comforting warmth of my chakra. The rabbit withered in pain. I lay my hand on the rabbit and I could feel the disturbance in the chakra and tissue and bone present in its body.

I tried to control it towards the bone. I first got to fix the bone before anything else. I could feel my chakra gently trying to coarse the bone. It wouldn't budge, I used more chakra.

"Eep!" The bunny cried in its final moment and its leg exploded. I used too much. I broke the bone into many pieces piercing an artery in the process.

"When I heard you were killing bunny's in the forest, I wasn't expecting this." Startled I turned around and looked at Ren.

"This isn't what it looks like!" I sputtered quickly getting my bloodied hands off the rabbit and raising my hands in a defensive gesture.

He raised an eyebrow and leaned forward. God he was gorgeous. "Like you weren't breaking a bunny his leg and then using chakra to worsens it's death?"

I signed. "Almost." I muttered looking away, realizing how this must have looked.

"Almost!?" He laughed. "When Madara said you were a bit weird this wasn't what I was expecting."

"Madara calls me weird?"

"Why the sudden interest?" He raised his eyebrow and gave a suggestive smile.

"I do not have a crush on him."

"I wasn't saying that." He raised his hands in innocence. "You merely interpreted it that way."

I stood up and hit his shoulder. "I was trying to heal the damn bunny!" I turned towards the remains of the bunny but decided to hit Ren again. "And I don't like Madara!" He grabbed my fist with the second hit.

"Heal?" He asked leaning down. He was serious now.

"Yeah." I muttered looking down.

"Explain." He demanded. Well not really demanded more like asking but I knew he wouldn't leave without a proper answer, because he was damn annoying.

"I am experimenting with medical ninjutstu to heal people."

He nodded frowning slightly. "Why the rabbit?"

"I very well can't start experimenting on my family now can I?" he released my arm and took a step back.

"How much confidence do you have in this?"

"it might take a while but I know I can do it."

He thought for a moment. "When you are done experimenting on the animals come to me. I will persuade father so you can test it out on the prisoners first."

I nodded.

( Yuuki at 8 years old)

"Ryuu you okay?" I asked looking down.

He whimpered. "Yeah sorta."

I smirked and picked him up. "Are you hurt anywhere?" I asked while inspecting him.

He shook his head. "Just my pride."

Tamaki laughed. "That is what you get for underestimating a woman."

My lips curled. How I wished this day could last forever. I helped Ryuu sit on a rock.

"You need to work on your basic forms of taijutsu." I scolded him.

He waved his hand. "Yeah Yeah I know. It is just something I never have time for."

I pouted at him. "It is important."

"She's right you know. Basics are important and essentially lifesaving." Tamaki said. Tamaki looked up at the sky. "Yuu shouldn't you get back to your mother?"

I looked up, it was almost dark. "Yeah, she asked me if both of you wanted to come over for dinner. She hates the way our house is quiet without Shisui and dad."

"Nah Tajima is coming over for dinner tonight, so I can't." Tamaki answered.

Ryuu beamed. "I love your mother's cooking!" then again anything tastes better then what you get at the orphanage. "Count me in!"

(Yuuki at 10 years old)

It smelled like decay. Not a single survivor found. Everyone mutilated, burned, tortured and raped. Whoever it was, wasn't someone we knew. It didn't fit with their styles.

"Yu-" Ryuu leaned over and started puking. Can't blame him, in our short lives this was the worst we ever saw.

I handed him my water bottle. "I know."

He took it giving me a small thank you.

"Midget, I need you for a sec." Ren ordered coming into the clearing, that was once a marketplace.

I nodded following him around the houses that once belonged to the Hagorome.

"We found a body slaughtered slightly different." Ren explained. "I was wondering if you could use that freaky ninjutsu to see her insides?"

"I can't see inside people. It is more like allowing my ninjutsu to feel their insides." I explained for the tenth time.

"Freaky ninjutsu like I said." He muttered under his breath. He opened the door to what seemed like the clanheads house. We didn't bother to take our shoes off.

He lead me to the largest room in the house. A body was hanging upside down but with a rope around the neck. A woman around 17 years old, and judging by her mutilated face she was once a beauty. Her hands were tied behind her back forming an inverted triangle.

I walked over. As the rope suggested she was strangled to death most likely. The injuries to her face were made most likely after she died. "What would you like to know about her?" I turned around looking at Ren who looked disgusted.

"Cause of death?" He pulled his sleeve over his nose. The stench was really awful here.

I nodded, getting to work. Allowing my chakra to seep into my hand and checking her body, just letting het hang there. I couldn't feel any disruptions that suggested anything other than strangling until I reached her stomach. Something was missing.

"Her womb is missing." "What? Why?" "I don't know, but it wasn't her cause of death. I think her womb was taken out when she was alive, but it shouldn't have made her die. The strangling did kill her however. You can see the marks at her throat under the blood." I pointed at her neck and pulled her hair out of the way so Ren could see.

He signed, no one had slept barely these past few nights. Of all our men Ren slept the littlest.

The door to the back got shoved open by Akira. "We found something. Both of you follow me."

We both nodded and him into the woods. The stench got worse and worse. It wasn't even 200 meters into the woods.

The wombs lying in a symbol, I didn't recognize, on the ground. There had to be at least two hundred wombs. My food started coming back.

Akira glared at me. "What are these organs?"

"Wombs." Ren stated, clearly realising where the organ from earlier went.

Disbelief crossed Akira's face. "Are these from humans?"

I looked again. "Judging by the sizes even those of girls were used."

"Yuuki-san how much time would it cost to make this?" Akira asked disgusted.

"With the way it was surgically removed, I would say per person it would at least take 20 minutes. If said person was very skilled."

"4000 minutes so 67 hours, if done by 20 skilled people it would almost take 4 hours to achieve this. I think it is highly implausible they had that many skilled people. Not even the Senju have that many skilled medics. It takes a messenger 3 hours to arrive at the Uchiha." Akira stated.

"You're saying you think they sent the messenger?" Ren stated looking around.

I spread my chakra into the ground, I couldn't sense anyone that wasn't an Uchiha. "I can't sense anything that is off."

Akira gave the usual hn.

"A decoy?" Ren stated.

Akira shook his head. "With the current forces we have at the Uchiha, they would have to be a fool to attack now."

I looked at the symbol on the ground. "A warning? Otherwise why was it done so carefully? But the wounds on the woman from earlier suggested emotional attachment."

Akira turned towards me, eyebrow raised. "Emotional attachment?"

"Her killing compared to the rest was done more gently. Most women were raped, before or after they died. Or they were defiled in other ways, left behind naked, or skinned. Someone took the time to strangle that women tie her hands behind her back and hang het up, upside down."

Akira smirked, in the field of blood. "That does seem rather strange. For now we will go with your explanation, still I want to return before tomorrow evening. We will burn all bodies and houses." He looked down at the symbol. "Somebody sketch over the symbol, father might want it. Burn everything!" He barked at everyone.

Now

"You are bleeding." I turned around and saw Madara pointing at my ass.

I looked. "Oh god." Horrified I looked at Madara who slowly realised what it was.

"Period" He said blushing like an idiot. I completely forgot this was a possibility for the cramps. I turned around facing him also blushing.

I didn't know how it was fixed during this time era. "You wouldn't happen to know?.."

He started even blushing more than before. "I-I-I" as if realising something his posture changed. "You never had any talk like that right?" I raised an eyebrow. "From your parents I mean. You were too young for them to have told you."

I looked down, I rarely talked about my parents now a day. "yeah"

He signed and padded the floor next to him. I sat down.

"Well you see when a girl becomes a woman she starts to bleed from her private parts." He was actually giving me the talk. It was kinda cute, how helpful he wanted to be and it was also really embarrassing. "This means she can now bear children and can get married. But when having sex a-"

"Madara" I interrupted him. "I know about that, but what do I need to do to stop the bleeding?"

I have never seen Madara more relieved in my life. "I don't have a clue."

I peeked inside the cafe. Seeing the women from earlier I decided to ask them. It was embarrassing but I didn't have much of a choice at this point. "Misses?" my voice trembled.

They turned around. "Sweety have you decided to join us?" Suki asked, she was the one who talked to me first in the spring.

"well yes, you see, I, I, wanted to ask you something." I stuttered.

She raised an eyebrow amused. "Only me?"

"Yes possibly."

She stood up and gestured for me to follow her to the bar.

"What is it you wanted to talk about?"

I decided to get to the point. "You see I am an orphan and I used bled down there for the first time and I don't have a clue as to what I am supposed to be doing."

Suki started laughing, at one point she even started to cry. "Not what I was expecting."

She straightened herself. "I will give you some of mine stuff for tonight, but I can take you shopping tomorrow morning at 9. Me and my friends are leaving at 10 so don't be late. I will explain how to use them later."

I bowed for her. "Thank you!" I wheezed. She smiled and ruffled my hair.

When later that night I returned to the room and told Madera the problem was solved he seemed relieved. When I told him we couldn't leave at 6 like planned he was less happy. But well beggars can't be choosers.

The next day we arrived at the town. Pretending we were cousins who ran away from home so they could pursue their romance. Madara really shouldn't allow me to make up these things, but then again Ren did tell him to let me be the leader of this mission.

Because it was late when we arrived, I stayed in the room. A civilian would never leave at this hour. I was reading one of my books on our shared bed when he got back from the bar.

He plopped down next to me. "I got good news and bad news."

I raised an eyebrow. "The good first?"

"The head of the Itoki is dead." He muttered.

I turned towards him. "That certainly is good news."

"But so is his son."

I blinked. "Your joking."

He gave me a typical hn. "How did he die? And do we have a way of knowing this for sure?"

"He choked on his own food." Poison or he was just a terrible shinobi. "What do you want to do?"

"We should still infiltrate the castle and make sure he really is dead."

Madara nodded in agreement.

"Tomorrow morning I will look around for a job, I suggest we do so together." I stated looking at Madara's relaxed posture leaning against the wall.

"hn" Was all the reaction I got.

"Excuse me sir?" I asked the man on the other side of the counter.

"My lady, how can I help?" The man turned towards. When he saw me he blushed. Although I had the figure of an under fed boy, I had a nice face and make up does wonders.

"Do you maybe know where I could go looking for any jobs, or my husband can?" I asked gently smiling at the man.

"Husband?" He asked startled. "I thought the two of you were related? Aren't you also very young?"

I hid my mouth behind the sleeve of my kimono. "We are, which is the reason we ran away. I am fifteen so not that young."

The man seemed to think for a moment. "The Itoki are in need of more servants, male and female. There were a lot them killed recently. But you shouldn't worry, things have stabilized now. They live down at the river. My wife works there as well. I can ask her to take you two tomorrow?"

I smiled and bowed at him. "Thank you, we would like that very much."

I looked at the cover. The beauty and the damned, I turned it to a random page. A romance novel. Should do for now.

"How much?" Barked Madara.

"3 Ryo please." The sales man said. He smiled gently at me.

Madara handed it over. He put an arm around my waist and pulled me close.

"No need to get jealous honey." I spoke softly.

I heard him smirk. He leaned down and kissed my neck. "I know."

He leaned towards my ear and bit it. "following." He whispered, getting the message across.

I spread my chakra. A larger than average chakra signature was following us. Judging by his following techniques he wasn't very skilled. Perhaps we got attention from the Itoki since we dropped by earlier today.

Madara bit my ear again in a playful way. I slapped him softly on the shoulder and giggled, "Not in public honey."

He smirked. "Sorry dear just got to excited about our new life."

I smiled and moved closer as we were walking. "Continue." I said smirking and eyeing him flirtatious.

He threw an arm around my shoulder and started tickling me with his other hand.

"Stop." I wheezed out. He kissed my cheek.

"Never." The girl that was going the marry Madara is going the be luckiest women in the world. Because that man could be a romantic when he wanted to be.

"Finally back." Madara signed laying on the bed.

I took my now blond hair out of the bun. "Not exactly an useful day."

Madara gave an hn as an answer, since in Uchiha language it was. We sat in silence for a few moments while I worked through my hair with a brush and Madara just staring at the ceiling.

"Till when was he following us?" Madara asked sitting up from the bed and looking at me through the mirror.

"He stopped following us when we almost made it until the inn." I could see Madara looking troubled through the mirror. His unease was unsettling. "What's the matter?"

He looked me in the eye. "This was supposed to be an easy infiltration and kill mission, even me who has little experience in this era should be able to do it easily, even you for that matter. It unsettles me that our victim is already dead and that we were being followed for as long as we were. After a few blocks he should have just given up, but he didn't. Meaning they are either expecting something or someone." He threw himself back on the bed. "I am getting an headache, I am going to sleep for a while." He muttered.