Title: A Sparrow's Adventure
Summary: Where a little Sparrow gets in some trouble and it's up to his friends to help him.
What's Happening: Who is Sparrow's attacker?
Author's Note: Well, here's chapter one! Enjoy! :D
In mid-air Sparrow started performing the signs for a water bomb, but in the middle of his jutsu, he heard the Chidori spring to life. The attacker teleported behind him and locked Sparrow in a chokehold, while landing both of them neatly on a tree branch that faced both of them towards Hound and of his other two teammates, Beast and Mouse. "Move an inch and the bird dies." The enemy said calmly. "Also," he continued," do take off your mask, dear brother." Sparrow imagined Hound doing a double take behind his mask. "You must have me mistaken with someone else, I don't have a brother." Hound replied coolly. "Ah, but you are the one that is mistaken, now… take off your mask." Hound's apparent brother said irritably while meaningfully tightening his hold on Sparrow's neck. Hound did as he was told and took off the Anbu mask, revealing his face with only his regular mask on. "Good, good. Now off with the bird's and mine I guess, since it's only fair." Sparrow forced himself to wear an indifferent face, to pretend that all of his emotions weren't there as the man took off his mask and dropped it onto the ground at Kakashi's feet. "Now see? Kakashi, you wouldn't have gotten to see your precious lover's face one last time before your big brother whisked him away. What's his name? Iruka, I believe?" The man said with a smirk on his now unmasked face. Iruka couldn't look at Beast or Mouse, so far, the teacher had been able to keep the secret away from them. Now they knew that he and Kakashi were the famous, feared 'Sparrow Hound' team. It was a lame name, he knew, but it was easy to remember, so everyone just called them that. Iruka looked at Kakashi's so-called brother and almost gasped. They looked identical! Except for Kakashi's brother had bright purple eyes, which were nothing like Kakashi's deep navy blue ones. Iruka saw Kakashi's eye widen as well. "Okay, so you look like me, sound like me, but how come I haven't heard of you before if you are indeed my brother?" Kakashi questioned. "Well you see brother, it's like this…"
~Flashback~
"Daddy, let's go on a walk!" Karasu exclaimed. "Okay, okay. We can go but not for a long time, remember mommy's pregnant and needs us to be here." Sakumo said to his two-year-old son. "Aw, okay! Where are we gonna go?" Karasu exclaimed, his violet eyes sparkling with excitement. "How about we go to the Nara deer paths?" Sakumo suggested. Karasu bounced up and down energetically,"Yay! Let's go!" he exclaimed. "Now that we're here, what would you like to do, Karasu?" Sakumo asked curiously once they had reached a field that lay at the end of a secret deer path. Karasu quickly bounded away running as fast as his chubby little legs could carry him, yelling, "Catch me if you can!" Chuckling, Sakumo jogged slowly after him, not wanting to catch him too quickly. Then, he heard Karasu's terrified scream, panicking he teleported to where he could sense his son's chakra. "Karasu?" Sakumo questioned anxiously. That's when he heard someone laughing, he knew who that someone was instantly. Snapping his head up to look at the tree above him confirmed his fears. "Orochimaru put my son down." Sakumo ordered. "Why should I? Sakumo, you know I've been wanting a Hatake for years now, yet you won't let me have your unborn son. I figured should one of your sons be taken, you'd prefer it to be the one you haven't met yet." Orochimaru purred back in his annoyingly silky voice. Sakumo spat," No, I specifically told you that I'd rather not have any of my family taken, and that if you needed a Hatake so badly then to take me." Orochimaru laughed," Yes maybe I would've, but this one will live longer. So I guess you prefer it to be the boy in my hands that I take, rather than the unborn one?" Sakumo leapt at Orochimaru with his sword in hand. Orochimaru simply moved slightly to the left, letting Sakumo fly over the branch and land unceremoniously on the ground. Orochimaru laughed once again," Well, I'm short on time, so I best be going, see you." Sakumo whipped around getting ready to leap at him once more, but Orochimaru had disappeared.
~End of Flashback~
"So, Kakashi, when our mother died, father fell into a depression while you were just a baby. However he pulled himself out of it so that you could at least have one parent watching over you. Something I did not have as a child. Then when that mission went wrong and you stopped talking to him, he couldn't press through it. Which ultimately caused him to do what he did." Karasu said. Kakashi blinked and stated, "Yes, I was a child, and didn't know what my actions would cause. However you, you know what you are causing now, which does not justify your actions." What is this fool getting at? Iruka thought uneasily while wishing he didn't have Karasu's arm wrapped tightly around his neck. "Well, I know my actions aren't justified right now but I must say in my mind they are. You see, when I was a kid I had no family, I couldn't go outside to play, and I was forced to help Orochimaru with all of his little schemes by pointing out the weaknesses in his plans. While you got to be in the world and become somebody, and eventually," he said gesturing to Iruka," got to fall in love." Don't tell me he's going where I think he's about to go! Iruka thought, starting to panic a bit. "So I figured that if I could just have a little piece of something in your life, then I'd be happy. However I wanted the thing that made you the most happy, which would mean I'd have to watch you. Obviously, I couldn't go around looking just like you, so I used one of Orochimaru's jutsu that would let me control any person without being detected. I chose to control the person you know as Mizuki." Iruka's eyes widened at the statement, remembering everything that had happened between him and Mizuki. Kakashi obviously remembered too, which would explain why he was now glaring at Karasu. "Exactly when did you take over Mizuki?" Kakashi said dangerously. "Oh you know," Karasu said with a smirk," ever since he was born." Kakashi nearly lunged at his brother, but when Karasu cut off Iruka's air supply he stepped back, putting his hands up a bit, to show that he would stop. "I thought so." Karasu said, loosening his hold on Iruka's neck. Iruka couldn't help gasping for air when Karasu did, but afterwards he glared at the ground, since he couldn't see much of Karasu at the moment. "Well, anyway, I noticed that he made you the happiest once I took over a different person while Mizuki was doing his time in jail. Ever since then I've been planning this. However now I believe I'll be going. I've spent far too much time talking to you." Karasu said and before anyone could move to block his teleportation jutsu, he faded away from sight.
Sorry about the cliffhanger, I couldn't help myself. ^^"
Kakashi means scarecrow and Hatake means field. Which translates into Scarecrow in Field. Therefore, Karasu means crow and his last name is Hatake as well. So Karasu Hatake means Crow in Field. Scarecrows generally are used for keeping crows out of fields, so it kind of shows how while Kakashi got to stay in the family Karasu was kicked out. (I hope that doesn't confuse anyone, but if it does then just disregard it ^^")
Until next time! :D