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Thirteen years on so:
Sasuke and Sakura etc 39 or so
Sekai and Asuma 21
Sai and Toyomo etc 12
Tsunade and Fugaku etc 10
Chapter One - The Past Relayed In Pictures
A small bundle, wrapped in white cloth sat, comfortably held in the arms of a smiling young woman. Her pink locks cascaded down her pale shoulders and her jade green eyes reflected her happiness beautifully. Those same soft pink locks poked their way out of the bundle she was holding so gently, as did a tiny scrunched up fist, held straight up in the air as if in outrage at having being taken into the outside world.
A page turned and a fresh image came into view. The same pink haired woman was holding the hands of a giggling toddler up in the air as the little creature attempted to walk. The woman was smiling again, pride shining in her eyes and she looked…up away from the child? A pale hand extended down from what seemed to be behind the camera onto her shoulder and it seemed that it was to the owner of this hand that she was exchanging proud smiles at her child's achievement.
The page flipped over once more and a petite girl of about eight or nine stood in front of the Academy smiling widely a flush of pink through her cheeks and the sun shone into her onyx eyes making them shine and sparkle. Below that was another image of the same girl, a few years older proudly displaying a Konoha headband having just graduated.
Another turn of a page showed four smiling figures, the easily recognisable girl crouching in the front of the photo grinning sweetly, one hand to her face, about to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear. The others in the photo consisted of an also easily recognisable white haired man with a mask covering the lower half of his face standing in the background. On either side of the girl stood two boys one with dark brown hair drawn back into a loose tail and haughty green eyes; the other was a lighter haired boy with sea-blue eyes, grinning in a stupid fashion but still warm. Below this photo read "Kakashi-sensei, Nara Asuma, Kanagi Yasu and Me! 3rd of March"
The boy turned the page once more, not even knowing fully why he continued. The next selection of images showed the same girl along with her brunette friend looking happy with themselves having just passed their chunin exams. A heavily pregnant older version of the girl stood behind along with a tall, pale, dark-haired man; another spiky brown haired man and a blonde woman with four signature pigtails. There was a picture of a new jounin with the same pink and black parents as before; this time, however, a dark haired toddler joined them. The man who was undoubtedly his father held him in his arms, though the child held onto a long lock of his mother's hair gently.
A new and surprisingly young ANBU, no older than fifteen, claimed the final space on the double page. Her family was with her once more. The toddler from before was now a brooding six-year-old, obviously annoyed at having his photo taken but also at his energetic twin four-year-old siblings who seemed to be running rings around him.
That same, now twelve-year-old boy sighed and closed over the thick volume, deciding it better to continue looking through it in the comfort of his own room. He picked it up and made to move when out of the corner of his eye he saw something fall from the back of it. Two more photographs. He stooped down and picked them up, looking first at the up-facing backs. One read: "Uzumaki-sama, Okaa-san and Otou-san." The other: "Okaa-san and Otou-san on their wedding day. March 13th."
Gazing at the photo's the boy audibly noticed something. Looking closer one could tell that the two supposed "Otou-sans" were not the same person. They definitely looked alike, tall, pale, black hair and eyes; but they were not the same. The guy in the first photo was paler and his hair shorted. He smiled strangely also…fake. It was just of the pink haired woman, the fake man and an all to familiar eccentric blonde Hokage in his younger years. The other photo stood out less. He had seen that one a million times; every time he walked past the mantle place in the main living area of his home. The same two pink and black haired parents, far younger than in the last photo he'd seen adhered to the book. The woman was beaming, wearing a long white dress that was tight around her body but flared out into a loosely pleated skirt. Her hair was worn down straight and fell around her shoulders with the same grace at the dress around her. The man behind her too smiled widely with his hand loosely placed on her waist as they stood beneath the sakura trees that made up their wedding ceremony. The man wore a simple black suit, white shirt and black tie which matched him perfectly as well as his seldom smile. They went together. Fitting like two pieces of a puzzle.
"Onii-san!" said a pretty black-haired girl popping her head around the sliding door.
"Hn?"
"Dinner's ready!" she chirped happily before turning and zooming away down the covered outer hallway, him following along at his ease.
"Evening Okaa-san, Otou-san." he said impassively.
"Evening, Darling." his mother smiled, flicking her pink bangs out of her eyes as she laid a steaming bowl down for him.
His father looked up from his bowl and nodded, unable to talk, chopsticks up to his full mouth.
He took his seat and began eating quietly without any further indication that he acknowledged his family's existence.
"So, Sai!" grinned his mother, trying to start some much needed conversation with her eldest son. "You got your team today. How did that go?"
"Fine."
"Who was put on your team, Onii-san?" asked a miniature version of him.
"Mm! Who?" nodded the identical female counterpart of the questioner. Fugaku and Tsunade looked up at him eagerly. "Uzumaki Toyomo and Hyuuga Riato." he said coldly.
"Oooooh! To-yo-mo-san!" Fugaku and Tsunade sang in unison, teasingly.
Sai shot them a death glare which they brushed off easily, one was just like any other.
"Shhh." hushed his mother trying to quieten the giddy ten-year-olds while obviously restraining a giggle herself. Sai looked to his father in desperation; the bastard was smirking. Sai pretended to ignore them and turned down to his food, the steam ran up along his face, leaving small cold streaks of water along his cheeks.
"Hey everyone." came a voice from the door, as in walked a bubbly pink haired girl, the image of the one sitting at the table, though younger. She wore the traditional ANBU armour, her hair down and a long red scarf wrapped around her neck once and fell down the full of her back.
"Back already Sekai?" Sakura asked happily.
"Mm! The mission didn't take as long as we though." she replied while hugging Tsunade who had jumped up to greet her.
She fixed herself a bowl of ramen and sat down next to her father and kissed him on the cheek. "Hey Otou-san." He smiled and patted her hair sweetly.
Sai looked at his father and soon disappeared into deep thought. Sasuke was caught up in a conversation with Sekai but quickly noticed his son staring at him out of the corner of his eye, as if he was trying to bore into his thoughts. His son scared him sometimes; he was so like Itachi it was frightening. His hair was even longer than Fugaku's and he had a more tired expression. He progressed at a speed close to Itachi's also. It terrified Sakura too but for Sasuke it haunted him.
Sekai looked at her father noticing how he was no longer fully there. "Otou-san?" she questioned inclining her head down so that he was forced to make eye contact. "Sorry." he said quickly snapping out of his thoughts and straightening up. "Wha-Where were we?"
"I was telling you about the apartment I wanted to put the offer on." she said playing absentmindedly with her chopsticks.
"Hai, hai." he said trying to pay attention and not to drift off into thought once more. His efforts failed.
"…and Ichido-san said that-"
"Forget it, Sekai. He's gone." her mother said trying to giggle to lighten her mood, it annoyed her at how he would suddenly drift of lately but she couldn't help that and had to keep a smile for her children. Especially Sai, he couldn't know his parents feared who he could turn out to be. Sasuke had broken the cycle but that wouldn't stop the possibility of it happening again.
Sorry its short but I couldn't really find much else to put into this that fit! Lol! Hope you liked it...however pointlessly vague it was! Lemme know what you thought anyway! R&R xxxx