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Sarutobi Hiruzen once said, "To those who possess the Will of Fire, everyone is family. The desire to protect one's family builds thicker and stronger bonds between each and everyone in the village. If the Will of Fire is embraced by everyone, the village will be alright no matter what happens." Today was a day where this family would shed each other's blood. Where they would face each other in combat where one of them may perish by the other's hand.
Satsuki stood across from Natsuki in the middle of the battlefield. She had been waited for this particular matchup for a long time now. To Satsuki, Natsuki had always been too obsessed with her brother for her liking. To Satsuki, this was a girl who abandoned her Nii-san and threw him away like he was nothing more than trash.
Satsuki could honestly say that she hated the girl in front of her. Before Naruto had met the Uchiha family, he was broken. His heart had been shattered repeatedly by those who dared call themselves his family, and they had spent years piecing it back together. The one question he always buried deep within his heart was if it was good that he was born. He was incapable of love for a long time, the kind of neglect and pain that he went through wasn't able to be healed overnight.
It had taken years but he was finally able to see Satsuki as a little sister and Mikoto as a mother, perhaps something even more. Satsuki had always been suspicious of her mother, she knew that after everything that they've gone through together it was only natural for Mikoto to develop feelings for her Nii-san. Though she tried to deny it, she knew that her Nii-san felt the same way about Mikoto too.
She just hoped that he could see her the same way too. She didn't care if she had to share him with her mother, but she just wanted to be with him. For him to make her his. She loved him more than anyone would ever know.
Ever since she was a little girl and helped to rebuild Naruto's heart from the ground up, she had loved Naruto. She began to fall in love with him after seeing how tainted his mind and heart were, but yet how they were also so pure. He didn't try to hide behind his false sense of ideals or beliefs, he looked at the world for what it truly was and had no illusions about how ugly it was. Yet he kept on walking down his own path for the sake of her and Mikoto alone.
He was there for when nobody else was and helped her pick up the pieces when everything went to hell. Satsuki was a lot smarter than she let on, and he knew this. From an early age she had seen how corrupt this village was, but how they hid behind the excuse that everything was for the good of the village. She knew the truth of what had happened three years ago.
She had noticed how everyone had been acting, she had noticed that all of the adults would all disappear for periods of time, she had noticed how Shisui-nii and Itachi-nii were acting. While it took her a while to figure out after the massacre, she finally realized that everything had been planned. That the Hokage forced Itachi to kill the clan.
Now Satsuki didn't hate Itachi for doing this, nor did she hate the Hokage for ordering it. It should be expected as he would do anything for the sake of the village. It was only after she realized everything, did it make sense why Naruto had turned out so broken.
A person who would willingly put the sake of the village above the sake of its people can never be a real father. And Kushina had bought into the village's ideals at a young age and would never even think of straying from them, she was too far gone. On the surface they were a perfect family, but underneath all of the false pretenses, they were no better than Danzo training his mindless drones.
Naruto was the only one who could see through her. He could tell that Satsuki knew of some of the village's darker secrets, she was the daughter of a clan head after all, it should be expected. However, he never mentioned it, and she was thankful for that. She saw that he was in even more pain than she was. It had been his own father who cost him the life of the first person to ever treat him like family, the man he saw as a brother, and the clan of his new family.
He had chosen their little family over the prestigious honor of being the son of the Yondaime Hokage and the head of the Uzumaki clan. He had left them behind and he would never look back.
Ever since then they had only grown closer to each other. To some level she knew that she loved him as much as he did Mikoto, but he would never show it unless she did first. He had always seen her as something of a higher being, something fragile, something untouchable. She was the one who healed his broken heart, the one who made him whole again. He would always think to protect her innocence, for the sake of never corrupting her.
She never understood why he saw her as such. He was the one who was her angel. He was her savior from a clan who would never seek anything besides power. The Uchiha respected strength above all else, they couldn't care less about family. Naruto was her escape from that, he and Mikoto were the only ones who would always love her unconditionally.
That is why Satsuki couldn't hold in her rage whenever the Hokage's family would try to bring him back to them. She knew it was foolish, he would never leave them, but she was still scared that she would lose him. That was her one fear, to lose her Nii-san the same way she lost everything else in her life. She would die before she let that happen.
That is why she would rip the girl in front of her limb from limb.