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Even when Rei was little her hands were already stained with blood. The family of killers that were born with bloodstained hands.

“Rei try harder!”
“Yes Itachi!” Rei said as she ran at him.
She was to slow; he dodged her and then kicked her into a tree. She hit the ground. She tried to get up but couldn’t. It only took a second and Itachi had a kunai to her throat.
“If this were a real fight you’d be dead.” He coldly whispered in her ear.
“I…I know…” She sighed as he pulled the kunai away.
“Get up and try again!”
“Right…” She got up and attacked him again. It was the same scene over again, she was slow, he got behind her and she hit the tree.
“Ooo….” She sighed as she got up.
“Again!” Itachi demanded.
She came at him again, this time she got behind him first.
She all most caught him off guard. But Itachi moved around the attack easily. She fell again.
“Itachi give the kid a break…” Kisame started. Itachi turned his gaze to his partner. “I mean she’s only five.” He finished.
“I’M SEVEN NOT FIVE!” Rei yelled in anger.
She looked fierce. Her eyes burned in to Kisame’s.
“REI!” Itachi turned to her. “Don’t speak unless spoken to! Got it?”
“Yes sir!”

Itachi trained her every day. He put her through hell to make her the ultimate weapon. It worked.

Two months after her eighth birthday she got a mission with Itachi. Everything went well until… She had to kill someone. They were attacked by an enemy ninja.
“REI TAKE HIM OUT!” Itachi ordered.
Rei ran at the ninja. She easily knocked the kunai out of his hand. She fought him hand to hand. She landed every hit, and then he threw her back. When she was on the ground he came at her with a kunai. She quickly got to her feet and drew a kunai from the holster. She slashed the ninja’s shoulder. Blood splattered on her face and hands. He came at her again. She didn’t think she’d have to kill someone, she thought Itachi would come to her aid, but he didn’t. She stood there and just before she would have been killed her body moved on its own, out of fear, or instinct. It didn’t matter, because she had slit his throat. She had killed him. Her hands were covered in blood. She looked down at her bloodstained hands…and screamed. She ran… She ended up at a river. She got down on the bank and stuck her hands in the water. Tears ran down her face she couldn’t believe she had killed someone. She threw water on her face and scrubbed and scrubbed her hands but the blood would not wash off. After awhile Itachi walked up behind her.
“You did well…” He said.
“…” Rei didn’t answer.
Itachi got down behind her and put his arms around her.
Her hands still were in the water and still covered with blood. Itachi put his hands in the water around hers. He gently rubbed them. Not in an attempt to clean off the blood but to comfort Rei.
“Remember this well…” He said. “Red is not a color that washes off easily…”