"I thought I told you to Shut Up, loser." Sasuke said as Naruto shouted 'believe it!' for about the twentieth time that day.

"I think that both of you should shut up, at least before I get down there." said a childish voice. The trio on the ground looked up to see a young boy with light grey hair and Red-pink eyes standing on the telephone pole. He looked about 12 and wore a bright red fleece coat and tan cargo pants, his finger and toenails were painted black. Suddenly Kakashi appeared on the pole next to the boy in a swirl of leaves.

"Hey sorry I'm late. I was in a meeting," he said explaining his tardiness.

The boy jumped down from the pole, landing gracefully on the ground. Kakashi soon followed.

"Kakashi-sensei, who is this?"Naruto asked, slightly growling at the nameless boy.

"Well this is my son; Sen Hatake," Kakashi said introducing Sen to his young pupils.

"I'm pleased to meet dad's students. So you actually passed his test." Sen said as he fiddled with one of his long grey braids.

"Sen has been moved to our squad after an unfortunate accident with Gai-sensei." Kakashi sighed, standing up from his crouched position.

"So... how are you, Sasuke?" Sen said, quickly trying to change the subject. "I mean I haven't seen you since... you know... the... um... you know," he said awkwardly.

"Yeah... I know. I'm fine, how about you Sen?" Sasuke replied quietly.

"Hey, Sasuke... how do you know him?" Sakura asked possessively.

"We're cousins," Sasuke replied, looking at Sen.

"Oh... but you're Kakashi's kid,"Naruto said eyeing the cousins.

"Well... dad married into the Uchiha clan," Sen said in a Monotone.

"But, where's your mom?" Naruto and Sakura asked in unison.

"So... I'm gonna apply for the chunin exams with you guys?"Sen asked changing the subject.

"Yeah, I can't wait to see your jutsu." Sakura exclaimed excitedly.

"Yeah and I can not wait to see yours," Sen replied looking at Sakura. As Kakashi had nothing more to say to his team he dismissed them.

Before he left he pulled Sen aside to explain a few things, "I want you to get to know them before the Chunin exams, I know you know Sasuke and that you are going to use that as your excuse. But I want you to get to know Sakura and Naruto. They are your new teammates too, and they deserve your attention too."

After his father said this Sen replied, "Do... do I have to tell them... Naruto and Sakura... do I have to tell them about the... you know..."

Kakashi cut him off by saying, "No, you don't have to tell them. But know that they will find out eventually. Gai is still recommending your old teammates." As Kakashi said this Sen nodded and went to catch up with his cousin and new teammates. When he found finally found the blond and rosette duo they were being confronted by a pair of Sauna-nin.

"Yo, What's up?" He said maintaining his stoic demeanour.

The taller of the pair began to explain, "So me and my sister here were just walking along, heading to register for the chunin exams, when this little kid comes running out of nowhere and bumps into me. I was just going to teach this kid a lesson." to emphasize his point the unintroduced nin lifted the frazzled kid higher into the air. Sen nodded and thought the situation out.

"As much as I understand your temper and need to teach this brat some manners, I am afraid I cannot allow you to harm civilian children, especially when said child is the grandson of the 3rd Hokage. And as much as I find the brat to be spoilt I must leave his punishment to be decided by his family. Now if you hand me the young boy I will gladly escort you and him to the Hokage tower." Sen reasoned and held his hand out to the duo.

After processing this the taller nin frowned and replied, "No, I don't care who the kid is. He needs to be taught a lesson."

After hearing this Sen sighed and got into an offensive stance and replied, "Then I will have to treat this little confrontation as a threat and attack, and mind you that I have no reason to fight if you do not initiate." At this, the Sauna-nin grimaced and dropped the kid and reached behind his back to grab the parcel strapped to it. Once he had assured that Konohamaru was far enough away from the new shinobi he removed a thin piece of wire from his pouch and threw it towards the guy and it wrapped itself tightly around the shinobi's wrist. Then Sen pulled the wire, hard, which in turn sent the shinobi into the air and into a tree about 50 meters away. He then skilfully untangled the wire from the boy's wrist and tucked it back into his pouch. "Now, Konohamaru; come with me. I need to take you back to the academy to see that you are properly punished for playing hokie and for disruption of the peace. Now come along." Sen said tiredly as he grabbed the young boy's collar and effortlessly hoisted him into the air.

"No!" the young boy shouted as he was carried back to the academy.

"And you two," Sen shouted turning around briefly, "Wait here, I'll be back in a few minutes. I need to get to know you." And with this, he disappeared in a poof of smoke.

Sadly when Sen returned his two new teammates were nowhere to be found. After he had searched for them for about an hour, he decided to walk to the Uchiha estate to visit his mother's grave. When he arrived he found the gravesite to be vacant, as usual. He walked along the stone path plated in the middle of the gravesite. He walked in silence until he arrived at the 265th gravestone. The name Setsuko Uchiha-Hatake was printed there in the loopy curves of his aunt, Mikoto's handwriting. He sat down on the green patch of grass that surrounded the gravestone.

"Yo... mom... I'm... I'm gonna be a chunin soon. I'd like to think that you'd be proud of me... proud of how I'm gonna become a great shinobi just like you and dad... but... The thing is... I'm not proud of me. As crazy as it sounds... I fear what I could become... I don't wanna become like... like him. I don't... I don't wanna get so mad that it comes out again... I don't want Aki to get mad... as he did with the shinobi girl from Iwa... I'm sorry I didn't get to know you... I'm sorry that I killed you... dad and papa say it's not my fault... that you died... They say it's Danzo-teme's fault... for putting Aki inside me... but I..." Sen paused and took a deep breath, trying to stop the sobs rising in his throat, "I just know... I must've had something to do with it. If... I hadn't been born then you would still be alive... but... then dad wouldn't have papa... I guess it worked out... You would like papa... dad says that he's a lot like you... but... he isn't you... I know I never really got to know you... but I feel like I miss you..." Sen stopped as he began to fully sob. After a few minutes to compose himself and finished with, "Good-bye, mom...I love you... see you tomorrow." and with that he left, standing slowly and walking back to the apartment he shared with his two fathers.

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(Sen's POV)

I woke up around 4 am the next morning, quickly jumping into my regular routine. First I made breakfast, which was Tamagoyaki (rolled egg omelette) and Okayu (Rice porridge), papa's favourite. I made his favourite cause I knew he had to deal with all the genin applying for the chunin exams. After I sealed dad's and papa's portion I ate mine and started on all our bentos. First I made papa's, his consisted of sautéed enokitake with pork and rice on the side. After I finished his I worked on dad's. I made him his favourite, salt-broiled saury and carrots with rice. Once I had finished that I set to work on my own bento, some leftover Tamagoyaki and some onigiri with some extra pork inside. I also put some strawberries and blueberries in it, gotta have some fruit ya know. When I was finally done I grabbed my coat and sealed my bento into a scroll and put it into my pouch. After I quadruple checked the apartment windows and the stove. I finally left the apartment and set off on my way to the Uchiha memorial grounds to visit mom.

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(3rd Person POV)

Sasuke woke up at around 5:30 am from a nightmare. He tried to go back to sleep, but after a few minutes, he gave up trying and got dressed. He had an apple for breakfast(he was never much of a cook) and read over one of his technique scrolls. After about ten minutes he decided to take a walk to the pond he and Sen used to play by. After emerging from his house he heard a quiet voice coming from the memorial grounds; curious; he walked towards the voice and saw his cousin, Sen sitting about 10 meters away, at what Sasuke assumed was his mother's grave. Instead of calling out to the boy he walked in close enough to hear what Sen was saying. And what he heard made him stop and rethink what he was striving for.

"Yo, mom. I hope you are well and that everyone else is also well. I'm gonna start the chunin exams today with Sasuke. Yeah, I hope he does well too. I know he will become stronger than Itachi, but I hope he will realize what he did was... for the best of the village... The coupe would've destroyed Konoha. It was wrong of grandpa and the others to plan it, but it was also wrong of Danzo-teme to ask such a deed of Itachi. I hope that someday Sasuke will learn and understand that it wasn't Itachi's fault, but that both the Uchiha and Danzo-teme's fault. Oh... and mom don't worry, I'm taking good care of dad and papa wants to meet you soon. Don't worry mom, dad hasn't forgotten about you. He just... He visits you at the KIA stone. He still loves you. I'm sure papa loves you too. He leaves Katsudon for you sometimes, cause dad told him that it was your favourite. I have to go now, I need to go home and make bentos for my new teammates, though I don't know what Sakura likes, dad told me that Naruto likes ramen. I might even make enough to last us for a week, 'cause apparently, Naruto eats like a pig. Well good-bye, mom. I love you." Sen then left in a poof of smoke.

Sasuke just stood there in shock, 'Itachi was told... to... to... to kill everyone. No... that... can't... be... He murdered everyone! But... Sen... He never lies... and why would he... he's talking to his dead mother... He has no reason to lie...' Sasuke frantically looked around looking for something to ground him, he then noticed that there were hundreds, if not thousands of flower crowns lying on all the gravestones. Well all except one, this was the grave of Madara Uchiha, his and Sen's great(times like a thousand) grandfather.

"Madara," Sasuke said quietly as if the whole world was listening, "What could you have done to deserve being neglected by Sen, the sweetest boy in Konoha. He left flowers on the grave of Daisuke Uchiha, an infamous murderer, what could you have done to warrant this?" After a few minutes of just staring at the grave, he headed back to his house, the things that he had heard rattling around in his brain.