Chapter 9

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All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.

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*3rd POV*

Time had passed, all a blur for the young Uchiha.

The day that Kin had died, something inside of her had snapped.

She continued on as she normally did, traveling on foot from one village to another, making deals, selling goods. The normal buyers expressed their sympathies, each gaze that settled on her filled with pity instead of their normal welcoming aura. It was peaceful, and the silence was the only thing that bothered her.

But one rumor sent it all into chaos.

And at the center of that rumor, and all the rumors that circulated around that one, was the Uchiha.

Or Uchihas, in this case.

It seemed as if people had discovered that Itachi had a daughter, and Konoha, as well as other ninja villages, was sending patrols out to look for this 'Uchiha heiress'.

She wondered how much they'd found out, how much they knew, and how they'd found out.

She needed to know, to find the answers to the questions that were bouncing around in her brain day and night.

And it just so happened that the village that she was heading to now was the village that was looking for her the hardest, and also the place where answers could be found.

Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves.

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