"Oh, I put you both in a genjutsu when Sasuke left."

Itachi has the complicated look on his face of a teenager who just realized adults can, in fact, out-smart kids.

"...I suppose we're not keeping it from her."

Kouji facepalms. He is such an idiot. "How do I know you are the real Itachi? Last weeks passwords and this weeks password set 1 please." And it's not just the passwords themselves they set up it's the particular phrasing when giving them that also matters. If Itachi's mom had the phrasings then she read his mind and she knew too much anyway.

Kouji was an inexperienced idiot but he was an almost suitably paranoid one. Kouji thinks Mad-eye Moody from Harry Potter still wouldn't think him adequate though.

He sighs and recites them, with the correct phrasing.

"Well she would have to read your mind for those and if she's read your mind the game is up anyway. Is that a clear yes on trusting her?"

"For now, yes."

"On the night of the nine-tails attack. Where Obito Uchiha freed the nine-tails from Minato Uzumaki and controlled it with his Sharingan to attack the village and killed the fourth Hokage. I saw visions from that moment to the future of about...10 years from now? roughly. Focusing on Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha. Also turns out they are reincarnations of Indra and Asura as were Harashima Senju and Madara Uchiha. So that is probably why they are so important. Anyway, Itachi does wipe out the Uchiha in that future because Danzo kills Shisui and steals one of his eyes and orders Itachi to do it. Guess who warned Shisui and made sure Sasuke did not grow up without a family? So I would appreciate being taken seriously when I say some info IS TOO DANGEROUS TO SHARE! I have been conscious since I was a single-year-old knowing all of this and there are a dozen fucking threats already moving against the village I am trying to prevent so there!"

Panting at getting out that rant of information and complaining all in a few breaths.

"What happens if you die, your information not passed on? Because you're not very subtle about knowing something."

"The good guys win anyhow in the future I saw and you are already in a much better position what with a whole clan of living Uchiha and Danzo not having Shisui's special technique and a mentally stable Sasuke.

If Danzo or someone else dangerous I've told Itachi about finds out I'm working against them then that's not too bad on the large scale. But I'm not even supposed to know certain players in this game exist and as long as they don't know that anyone knows they do exist the bigger advantage everyone has. They cannot be alerted early or its all over!. All my plans and ideas could be seen as me working against someone else instead. It is honestly better I die than the information getting out. But that I know something Isn't so dangerous to let out because it could be me knowing about Orochimaru or the Akatsuki or the Hidden Sound. Anyone spying would think this is all about something lower stakes to me but high stakes to them.

I'm doing my best okay! I haven't even finished the academy yet! I can't outplot ninja who have been doing this for years! So it's probably better to just keep the scariest cards I have hidden until I am more ready to deal with them." This is the most anxiety-inducing day ever. Can't people just take his warnings seriously?

She seems exasperated. "That's the point. You're going to be able to affect far less - and will be in far more danger - if you don't tell. And how costly was winning?"

“Uhhhh....about half? With heavier losses on the civilian side... But, a lot of these smaller threats lead up to the bigger threat so taking them out early might prevent it for a really long time?” Well, now Kouji does feel guilty for keeping secrets that important... It didn't seem like that many important people died in the manga but he wasn't really thinking about what happened to everyone else who wasn't a named character until now.

"Did your visions go into the complete collapse of civilization afterwards? We can't afford to lose half - especially of civilians. And we can't know how to best prevent said threats without knowing what we're protecting against - not to mention you've likely already completely changed the sequence of events, so what we need is the background information. Who are the major players? Who's planning what? What secrets are there that come out  later - "

" - Mother, I think you should drop it." 'For now' goes unsaid. Shisui will do better, he suspects.

She frowns, but backs off.

"You tell your mom whatever you want to tell her I guess Itachi. Can I get out of this genjutsu now?"

"Fine."

And the genjutsu drops.

And Mikoto's back to smiling pleasantly.

"I think I need to talk to Senpai Shisui now? can you tell Sasuke I had to go?" Today was the worst ever. He felt like such an idiot giving away so much and just letting her know pretty much everything he had already revealed. He needed to figure out how to prevent this happening again and Shisui needed to be told what happened.

"Of course, dear," Mikoto says pleasantly. "I hope you feel better soon."