I looked around me. The forest was once again green with life and bright with the daylight. Birds chirped and dust turned in the wind. It was a normal sand sliced threw the clay bird that Deidara had sent at me. I smiled.
"You've gotten stronger, Uchiha," the blond grunted.
"Hn. Father and I trained while you were on your extended mission."
He smirked," I've been working on a new technic too, Ryouko."
A million little birds flew around me and their wings sliced my skin. The sands slapped each one of them away at my command, but the wings had some kind of poison on them, and it slowed me down. Deidara laughed.
"Alright, boys, that's enough," my mother said from the back door with a glass of something in her hands.
She walked over to me and gave me the drink.
"Drink it all."
As I drank the antidote to the poison, I examined my mother. She was 25 years old and had been with the Akatsuki since she was 12. You'd never guess she was my mother, because she looked younger then she was. 21, maybe22. Her pink hair was pulled up in a bum with a few strands pushed behind her ears. Her green eyes were still bright with young most mothers didn't have.
I handed her the glass back and she smiled.
"Go wash up before dinner. Your father wants to talk to you."
"Yes, ma'am," I said as I walked to mt bathroom.
I washed my hands and face as my mother had told me and wondered what my father had to say. I hadn't seen him in almost a week as he'd been on a special mission with Leader. He'd returned early this morning and had gone to sleep as soon as he was out of the shower. I sighed and went to help my mother and my baby sisters with setting the table.
The pink haired Faye had been born only six years ago, not long after my parent's first anniversary. Why they waited until after they here married to have sex again, I would never know. Faye's black eyes looked up at me. She smiled.
"Good evening, big brother."
I smiled and picked her up.
"How is my favorite little sister?"
She giggled," I'm your only little sister."
"Not for long," father said as he entered the room.
"Hu?" she asked.
"Your mother is having another baby, isn't that right?"
Sakura smiled," yes, but I don't know if it's a boy or girl yet. By I hope it's a boy."
A black head of hair came around the corner.
"Is it dinner time yet, Mama?" Nana asked, then yawned.
(A/N: Nana is adopted.)
"In a minute."
"Mommy's having another baby!" Faye squealed.
"What?" she asked.
Mother picked up the youngest of her children and smiled.
"Let's go get you cleaned up for dinner."
"How was your mission?" Mother asked Father.
He sighed and set his fork down.
"Leader called a meeting of the base captains. We agreed that it's time for Ryouko to go to the ninja academy and become an official ninja," Father announced.