c h a l l e n g e {accepted}

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Everybody has a purpose. Everybody has a person who is precious to him.
These are my stories for rose's character challenge, revolving around characters from the anime Naruto. Some of my -ocs- are included, and you can see a few of them featured in sasukeuchiha.'s entry!
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Itachi Uchiha
-Lucina Jinsokuna-
-Hikari Hatake-
Kakashi Hatake
Naruto Uzumaki
Shisui Uchiha
-Mireko Uchiha-
Sasuke Uchiha
-Katsute Hatake-
Sakura Haruno

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"I think...we killed it."

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Mireko Uchiha was running faster than she ever had in her life. Her hair, which she had worked so hard to pull up, was disheveled once again. She had to find her brother, immediately. “Shisui!” she hollered as she ran through the streets, no doubt disturbing the people of her clan. After thirteen years, they were only slightly used to Mireko’s volume. “Shi-” halting in the middle of her word, she crashed to the ground as she ran into something solid. “Shisui,” she finished, though this time it was a groan. Her brother looked down at her grumpily. “What do you want, Mireko? That’s the fifth time you’ve run into me this week. I can feel the bruises already.” Mireko got to her feet, not one to be put down by petty squabbling, and brushed herself off. “Shisui, I found something!” Her older brother raised an eyebrow. “Was it an off switch? Because you need one.” Crossing her arms in a sassy way, she glared stubbornly up at the seventeen-year-old shinobi. “No. I found something cool, so if you want to see it you have to follow me. If you don’t, well, it’s your loss.” She turned swiftly and made her way in the opposite direction, darting through the streets only a little more quietly. She smirked to herself when she heard rapid footsteps following.

Outside of the little sector where the Uchiha Clan made its home, the forests of Konoha were thick and green. Genin often trained there to become strong ninja, which is exactly what Mireko had been doing. She had already passed the Chunin Exams, but she still spent her free days training for hours. She wanted to become as respected and admired as her brother. So it is, in a way, expected that she would make some discoveries during her many hours of hard work. Whilst searching for a clearing where she could work on some rather dangerous moves, she had stumbled upon a creature. It was a nasty thing, all shiny and black with numerous legs and a mean-looking set of pincers. The strangest part of it, however, was the long pink tongue that would occasionally flick out of its buggy mouth. Seeing that tongue turned Mireko into quite the scared little girl, so of course her first instinct was to run to her big brother.

Now, having taken said brother to the location of her finding, Mireko found herself quite unable to spot the creature again. “W-where did it go?” she stuttered incredulously. Shisui glanced about, appearing quite unimpressed. “You’re interrupting my training ya know,” he complained, but Mireko waved him off. “Itachi can wait, he’s patient. Now help me look for a gigantic bug.” While the two siblings were both very brave, and very strong, Shisui had a small weakness. While he could face the deadliest of enemies with a cunning smile, he did not know how to kill bugs. He had never admitted this to his little sister, of course, so he was forced to swallow his pride and glance around for the aforementioned critter. Knowing his sister was not at all squeamish, he assumed the insect must have been unusually terrifying.

It only took a moment before Shisui looked up and saw something that made his fair complexion go stark white. “Mireko?” he squeaked. The duo both focused their sharp eyes on a lurking shape that hung ominously to a tree branch above their heads. With a foamy hiss, the insect dropped down right onto the young Mireko’s head. The ensuing scream must have echoed for miles, and with poorly aimed flailing Mireko managed to whack the bug away. Reaching for the first thing she saw, the kunoichi threw a rock at her attacker. With a loud thump, the scene paused.

The monster was immobile. Shisui and Mireko tiptoed forward with extreme caution, giving each other several warning glances with some heavy eyebrow signals. “Be careful,” Shisui rasped as his sibling crept further forward than he could dare. He watched anxiously from a distance until the girl motioned for him to approach. After a moment of chilling anticipation, the ninja looked at one another with shock. “I think we killed it,” Mireko said solemnly, with a slight hint of relief. But all was not well, and from the sounds echoing in the trees Mireko soon realized the problem. Upon further examination, she could hear the chittering of angry mouths and see one hundred glistening eyes. “Shisui?” she whimpered. “Run!”

Only moments later, the Uchiha Clan could once again hear Mireko yelling as she bolted down the street.