So I decided I did want to restart this.

I'm having a bit of writer's block on Tokubetsu Clan so hopefully with this I can clear all that up.

If you read Strength, Honor, and Love i'm sorry. That was a horrible run for me and I hope this one is a lot better. I plan on keeping the plot but not the plotline. So expect different ideas and scenes in this. I'm planning on hopefully making the chapters longer and more descriptive but please don't hold me to that because it'll take a lot.

If you haven't read Strength, Honor, and Love than enjoy and thank you for stopping by.

Slow updates as usual because I'm looking into college next year and yeah. I have a life.

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Name: Silent Bliss

Chapter Couples: SasuHina - naruhina

Chapter Genres: angst - family - friendship - hurt/comfort - mystery - romance - suspense

Chapter Rated: T

Status: In-Progress

Time: The Present.

Note: This is a different world, an AU. Everyone is OOC - Don't complain.

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Silent Bliss

Introduction

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Pale white eyes move along the frame of dark skin and ice for hair. "She's pretty," the woman decides, watching as the girl in question turns her head and looks in her general direction. A frown paints itself on her lips when the tall girl ends up heading back on her way once again after a moment and she a sigh leaves her lips, making it obvious that she is displeased with what had just occurred.

"Can't see past simple gen-justu, though." The blonde man beside her grunts and she crosses her arms, agreeing in her own, silent, way. "She could get killed by anyone with the mind and drive to do it." He continues, stating his displeasure. And making it obvious that he wants nothing more than to be back on their mountain.

"You're sure you have the right girl, Hime?" The man from her right murmurs, his voice light and it carries through the trees. "Someone from the Kurama Clan should have-"

"She should have seen past the gen-justu." The long haired woman agrees and her frown suddenly deepens. "But that is her; that is the daughter of Yakumo Kurama." She promises because it is.

"The daughter of Yakumo Kurama!" The blonde exclaims suddenly, like he had not been aware of this little piece of information, and looks at the woman as if she'd gone nuts. "Do you realize how crazy this is? That girl's mother-"

"It's fine, Naruto." She smiles at him, instantly calming him with waves of trust and contentedness. "I've spoken with Yakumo myself, she knows the dangers and believes her daughter is fit enough to stand up to the marks placed on her."

But Naruto fights back the waves of emotion she threw his way and turns to the other male in their three-man cell. "Sasuke," he starts, noting the man's silence on the topic at hand. "Please tell me you understand the dangers of this. That's not just a Kurama that's one of the Kurama." He hisses and throws his friend a hopeful look.

"Naruto," Sasuke murmurs evenly. "I do understand the dangers." He agrees finally and the blonde lets out a sigh of relief. "But," he intervened, making Naruto curse under his breath but he got comfortable too quickly. "We don't choose our charges. The Fates have decided Mayumi Kurama is one of us. And so the Fates choose the Chosen, and the Chosen before shall lavish in their power." He resides easily, making his companion roll his eyes. "If Hinata says Mayumi is her, than so be it."

Hinata kisses his cheek and Naruto groans.

"We're gonna regret this."

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"Oddball," Sasuke decides immediately, his eyes sharp and his annoyance quickly heightens in the matter of seconds. The short boy before them stumbles back as the three older boys continue to push and laugh at him, calling him crude names. A snap is heard and the three boys instantly take a step back as their victim cries out in sudden pain.

"Poor thing," Hinata breathes and even winces a bit when the bullies run away at the site of the boy's bleeding arm. It is twisted back and if not healed within time, he would probably have to have it broken again just so the medics could heal it in place. It reminds her of her own childhood of being bullied.

Sasuke, though, feels little to no pity towards the small boy. Sure, he is under weight and far too short to even be twelve years old but still. He should have stood up for himself. He is not only a ninja but he is a Rinha. He should have been able to fight off those lousy bullies and then healed himself without a second thought. It is in his blood to do so.

Naruto shakes his head, lulling it to the side to look at his adopted brother, obviously having read his mind all the easy. "Sasuke, don't feel so negative. You're the one that's supposed to teach him-"

"Teach him the ways of the Chosen. I know. He's just so small and it's not.. it's not right for him to him." Sasuke says, and if you didn't know him well enough you'd believe he was pouting, his lips set in the smallest of frowns and his eyes soft in remembrance.

But Sasuke is not pouting, he is seething. He is angry that this child was his precious student, him. It isn't fair that Orochimaru got him and he is getting... "Ryou Rinha." He breathes, his eyes having long turned cold and he feels the anger bubble inside him so deep he doesn't want to even look at the kid any longer.

"Let's go find Naruto's kid. Hopefully he isn't such a disappointment like the child before me." Before they can really stop him, Sasuke is gone in the speed it takes lightning to hit the earth.

"He's angry." Hinata points out the obvious, and her friend looks at her, shaking his head, before he too is gone; floating away with the winds that blow through her thick tresses of hair.

Hinata was going to move as well, sink down into the soil and water the plants below them but she decides last minute to stay and watch the child again. He is sniffling and looking around, lost. She wants to help him, it is a maternal instinct, but she knows she can't. That isn't her job. Her job is elsewhere. She sighs and moves to leave but pauses. Oh.

The child has a smirk on his face, and he rolls his eyes as he heals the break in his arm with far too great of ease. It is then that Hinata realizes he did fight back against the bullies, he broke his own arm to run them off and then played the hurt boy until he thought he was alone. And suddenly she understands why this is Sasuke's job. His charge. His Chosen.

With a smile on her face she leaves, realizing they'll be just fine as mentors.

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"That's him?" Both Hinata and Sasuke ask, surprise evident in their voices. The child they are watching is tall and looked about fifteen instead of twelve. He is beautiful really with fire for hair and eyes the color of the brightest day in summer. His skin is sun kissed and the smile on his face is too genuine to fit is stature.

Naruto chuckles, obviously as surprised as his partners. "That's him. That's Kiyoshi Tsuchigumo." He nods and Sasuke makes an annoyed noise, clearly he is displeased with this arrangement and thinks if anything he deserves this child as his Chosen.

To be honest, they all did.

They watch the child walk the market, greeting everyone politely and bowing to the small girls that giggled and waved at him. Instantly the three of them think of Sasuke and the girls in their class when they were younger.

"Kiyoshi-kun!" A small girl that looks like the average twelve year old, probably in his classes, with long brown hair and familiar green eyes runs up to him, putting a hold to his shopping. Her face is red and she plays with the end on her soft blue dress. "Ano.. Hi, Kiyoshi-kun."

Kiyoshi, in turn, smiles kindly at her and waves. "I can not speak right now, Natsuka-chan, but we can converse at a later time, yes?"

Even his voice is beautiful, velvet soft and sweet to hear. Like a chime blowing through the wind from miles away but you can still hear the gentle whispered singing from it that the birds repeat oh so smoothly. And Hinata realizes that the boy was too perfect and there lies the flaw Naruto must fix before it becomes too late and he's lost to the shadows.

"He's perfect." Sasuke says, his voice even and his eyes somewhat soft. He is remembering.

"Too perfect." Naruto agrees and the two men turn to Hinata simultaneously, making her huff because she knows that means it is time to decide. It is time to play the games and it is all her decision.

"I just don't see why it's my choice when it's her life." Hinata says easily, her stutter gone with the years that'd left the scar too deep and the wound unable to close.

"Did she not choose well for you, my love?" Sasuke whispers and there is hurt evident in his eyes even though his voice is even and unbreaking. And she closes her eyes because it was and still is a sore spot to speak of her. Sasuke sighs and Naruto gives him a remorseful smile, soft and sad.

"I'll follow the kid. You two meet up when you can." He decides and kisses Hinata's cheek before leaving. And after all these years a small blush makes it's way to her cheeks.

"Sasuke." She whispers breathlessly after the silence in unbearable any longer but he shakes his head, not wanting to hear the words he knows she'll whisper to him.

"Please don't.

And once again it is Hinata that is left to realize that they will never be fully fixed. The chink in their armor is far too much and she grazes a hand over her flat stomach and the scar running down the left side.

"I'm sorry."