Turning 8 was one of the most stressful times of my life. The massacre is coming soon, but I don't know when. I don't even know if I can do anything.

The more pressing matter of this situation is Shisui Uchiha. Shisui is my brother in everything except blood and I refuse to let him die, I don't care if his death is supposedly a fixed event on a timeline, I refuse to let it happen.

I will do whatever it takes to stop him from getting taken by Danzo, and killing himself. I will die before I let that happen, I don't know if I can take the heartbreak of losing my big brother, the one who has cared for me and made me laugh just because he can tell I'm tense, the one who has trained me for years, the one who gets on my nerves yet makes it funny. This is stage one, I have to save Shisui.

I've been monitoring Shisui's chakra whenever he is in the village. If I can focus on one single chakra, my sensory range increased. If only a little. So I stalk when I can. Thats what I do everyday now, I can feel when it changes drastically and have been keeping track of it so that I know when he is in trouble.

I know the time is coming closer and closer because everything in the Uchiha compound is so tense; even Sasuke has noticed it. Itachi always has a fake and pained smile on his face, Shisui is overbearing with love and always makes it seem like his last goodbye when he goes somewhere.

I haven't slept in what felt like forever, I've been spending every moment planning and freaking out about what to do. I know I have to save Shisui, even if I am no match for Danzo, I have measures that will at least allow me to stay under his radar and keep Shisui alive.

I also lost my spot at the top of the class from spending all of my time stressing, planning, and training instead of doing school work. Lady Sieko has noticed but she's letting me have my meltdown. I just cant wait until this whole thing is over, it's been the hardest decisions I have ever made and every time I think about all of it now, my heart clenches in pain. All I can do now is wait.

. I was monitoring Shisui's chakra when it spiked higher than I have ever felt it. I waited a second to see if it was just from intense training, but when it kept freaking out in a wild way, I knew it was happening. I shot up and started to run away.

Lady Seiko stopped me and demanded to know where I was going, I ignored her and pushed past, heading to where Shisui's chakra was. He was so far away, the opposite side of the village, I pushed myself faster and faster, ignoring the searing pain from moving so fast.

I released my weights and was even quicker. I felt Shiusi's chakra surge yet again before it fell to drastically low levels. I turned on my Byakugan to see what was happening since I'm close enough now. I watched as Shisui's green Susano fell away and he fell to the floor. Danzo approached him and I screamed but nothing came out. I could feel myself shaking in fear and I raced to him.

Danzo reached down and plucked out one of Shisui's eyes and reached for another one, before he could, I summoned all of my strength and sent my Water snake at Danzo, pushing him away from Shisui. I could feel my strength draining slightly from putting so much Chakra into the jutsu to make sure it reached them. I then hit the ground with closer to them, releasing a large amount of chakra, shattering the ground in a large crater.

The ground that didn't crumble away still shook shocking Danzo for an instant, bringing his attention off of Shisui and to me. Where I was standing, couldn't see who I was, and with the attention on me, Shisui took the moment and flickered far away from here. Not wanting to be seen by the asshole Danzo, I pushed through my want to kill him where he stands, and I went to where Shisui was, using the body flicker over those long of distances, I could only flicker one more time before I'm too drained to stay awake, I'm still too weak.

I watched, tears streaming down my face as Shisui handed his other eye to Itachi, a serene smile on his face, not fitting with the scene of the blood dripping from his eyes. Itachi was crying and protesting, but finally stopped and put the eye in one of his birds.

Then Shisui leaned back and dove off of the cliff, passing out from exhaustion and pain on his way down. I screamed in panic, and flickered to the bottom of the cliff, using the last of my chakra to stick to the wall and catch Shisui. I put him on my back and began to climb back up the cliff. I knew Itachi was gone and had activated his Mangekyo.

I failed at saving Shisui from losing his eyes and couldn't make it in time to fight Danzo alongside him, but he's not dead. I cried in sadness and relief, my eyes to blurry to see where I was climbing, and my mind too wound up to think straight. Shisui's alive for now, but he's still dangerously low on chakra and has some serious injuries.

I was numb, the only thought running through my mind is to save Shisui. I couldn't feel the groaning of my young muscles from carrying him and using up my chakra, that has been running low from my lack of sleep and constant surveillance. I made it to the top of the cliff and instead of stopping, I ran and ran until I made it to the hospital.

I rushed inside the doors and everyone halted staring at us in worry.

"Help please help him. I can't lose him. Please. I cant lose him. Help!" I screamed in a panic. I faintly could hear the shocked gasps of the doctors around me and the yelling for people to take care of him. I felt Shisui be lifted off of my back and I saw the faint blob of a red headed woman in front of me. Her lips seemed to be moving but everything was too blurry. I finally let out a final cry and blacked out.

I woke up, yet again blinded by the brightness of the white room., I didn't even do any real fighting, yet I'm exhausted. I'm too weak to do anything right, I need to be stronger, I will be stronger. As soon as I can I will grow my reserves to be as large as possible.

My hands were covered in bandages for some reason. I looked to my arms and saw a large IV bag connected to the veins in my right arm. I pulled out the IV and detached the heart monitor making it flatline. I stood up on my slightly shaky legs and walked to the door. Right when I was leaving a nurse ran to me and tried to get me to lay back down.

She told me I had been sleep for days and my body was so exhausted and weak from lack of sleep, explaining why I was so weak. I protested wildly and kept asking fro Shisui. All I care about is if he's safe right now. Finally, the nurse stopped and she allowed me to go see him if I let her put my IV back in. I agreed and she led me to Shisui's room.

I walked in and held my breath at what was in front of me. I've never seen Shisui look so beat up, even after his more difficult missions. I rushed to sit in the chair at his bedside. His hair, normally wild and curly was matted down with dried blood looking lifeless and gross.

The upper half of his face was covered with bandages that I could tell blood was still seeping into. The lower half of his face was marred with cuts and he had a fairly large bruise on his jawline, making it swell largely, if I didn't know it was Shisui, I wouldn't have recognized his beat up face.

Although his body was covered, I knew it would look similar to his face. I could see the various wires and machines hooked up to him keeping him alive and monitoring his very weak heart rate. I let my tears flow as I stared upon my big brother, I carefully laid my hand on top of his and made a promise to do better for him and everyone else.

What's the point of trying to make things better if the people I love and want to fight for still end up like Shisui. There has to be something I can do, right. Coming here can't have been for nothing.

I watched in mournful and silence as a doctor came in and added healing chakra into his hands, when the faint green glow showed, he placed his hands on Shisui's chest and began to heal him. For the day, the same doctor would come in and every-other hour would heal Shisui for 30 minutes.

He was looking better, most of the superficial cuts were gone and the doctors told me his condition was no longer life threatening. I never left his side, I could only fall asleep when the doctor was healing Shisui, I think he messed with me because I was out instantly when he walked in the room, he must have drugged me or something.

Even though I didn't want to sleep, I felt better and stronger than I have been because of it. Different ANBU, and other Jounin have come in to drop presents off for Shisui, but I was alert. I will not let Danzo anywhere near Shisui to finish the job. I also haven't seen Itachi or any other Uchiha come in to visit Shisui but I could barley feel Itachi's chakra outside of Shisui's window, probably checking to see if he's ok.

I had just woken up from another healing session, and now that he is healed enough, I was told I could lay beside him. Not waisting the moment, I crawled next to him, comforted by my brothers warmth. Even though he still was in a medical induced coma, I told him stories to keep him entertained.

I told him about my favorite superheroes and how I want to be like them but will be better because I will be able to kill (come on their fatal flaw is not killing a bad guy), I told him about all of the foods I want to have somebody make here, I told him about anything and everything I could think of while imagining his responses to me.

He would wear that shit eating grin and enjoy my stories with me, never asking about what I was talking about, he gave up on questioning who the people and things were long ago. It was comforting and helped me deal with the intense fear I constantly was feeling.

Finally, after a week, the doctors decided Shisui was stable enough to wake up tomorrow, he would have to stay in the hospital for a few weeks after, but they would finally bring him back to me.

. My body was sore, but since I've been sleeping, I was getting back to my normal strength. I now know that I need to sleep to actually do anything successful. The intense weight I was holding, lifted slightly and I cried in relief and for the first time since I arrived at the hospital, I smiled.