Prologue
A name was all he had left. All that remained of a once great family. It was his duty to restore that name; to ensure, through his actions, that it would once again be whispered in reverent fear.
All that shining glory had become merely a tarnished reputation trampled into blood-soaked mud. Power had proved to be a malicious mistress for the mighty Uchiha clan; at the height, when the clouds shrouding heaven were just in view, she had cut the ties of fortune and favored the bold no more. Instead she gifted her worshippers with ignominious death; now they were nothing more than corpses rotting beneath hard-packed soil but t
Awake
The rush of coldness washing over her entire body made the hair on the back of her neck rise. Strangely enough Tenten didn't feel threatened by it. Kami knew, she should have – the unsettling feeling coupled with the carnage of war that surrounded her should have been enough to scare her out of her mind. She only felt peace though; peace and affection flooding through her body, warming her in the wake of the sudden cold. It lasted seconds only and disappeared as if it had all been a figment of her imagination. After the brief instant of pure happiness came the icy flood of fear, far colder than the brush of moments before; coatin