Here we go again!
Chapter 2
Returning
I sat there for most of the night, I sat in the silence of the night as the clock ticked by. I starred at Kakashi's unmoving face I remember the days I held his face in my hands, so warm and gentle. The moment he came into the room I shut my eyes, Sasuke was a smart kid.
"It's you isn't it." His voice was a whisper of shock, disbelief and I believe hurt.
"I thought he killed you." I replied; I thought he killed everyone.
"Hn, they told me you had died too. They said I was the only one." The fucking Hn it still annoys me.
"The Hokage was smart; he knew I would have stayed if I knew about you. He also couldn't risk you leaving after me." That old man thinks years ahead.
"Mikoto is…" I finally turned to him, our eyes connected. Mine were red from the tears I had cried to Kakashi and his were watering.
"Yes she is his daughter." I did something that I knew he yearned for. I hugged him. It took him a second or so before he grasped onto my clothes, his hands clinging to my body as if I was about to vanish.
Sasuke sobbed as he mumbled out small words and clung to me for his life; how long had he been alone? How long had he bottled this up? It was then that I knew I was leaving I would go home to the leaf and I would not leave Sasuke; I would not lose my family again. Sasuke eventually fell asleep in my arms, we were lying on the floor of a medical room. Kakashi asleep on a bench, the moons light drifting in through the window and for the first time in a long time I felt happy. I fell asleep with a smile.
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It was early morning when Kakashi decided to get up and move, he sat up and looked to the floor, Sasuke and his old lover laid asleep. A small smile appeared under his mask, he had been tempted all night to wake up. To sit up and hug her, to talk to her but he had kept his eyes closed and his heart sheltered as he just listened. Finally he saw her. She had grown so much. Her hair was long now, it must be almost at her hips, her face wasn't as babyish as before, it was defined and flawless. He couldn't help the small blush as he took note that her body had matured as well and she had stayed in peak form. Kakashi sighed; he missed her so much and would not leave her behind here. The Hokage hadn't sent him here by coincidence. It was not by chance that he had sent both him and Sasuke to a town with her in it. No that old man had planned it all.
"Naruto. Sakura. Get up." Kakashi barked at his students who looked at him in sleepy shock.
"Sensei!" Sakura was the first to react.
"Keep it quiet, others are asleep." It was then she noticed her beloved was missing
"Where is Sasuke?" She scanned the room in horror
"He is fine, we all have to talk." His students gathered around.
"You know about the Uchiha mascara, that only Sasuke survived." Of course they knew, everyone knew.
"Duh! That's why he's so amazing!" Sakura would have fawned more but Kakashi shot her a deadly look
"Well that was not the full case; there is now more to the story. You would be too young to know about it but before Itachi killed his family he had been put into an arranged marriage, he was meant to get married the day after his attack. Some people believe that could have been a trigger for him, that he hated his family for the marriage so much he killed them all, including his fiancé." Sakura sat in horror, she had never known about this and she had done her research/stalking of the Uchiha's. Naruto just kept quiet, he knew that wasn't the end of the story. "I know for a fact Itachi was happy with his fiancé." Kakashi chocked as all the feelings he had came rushing back. From the moment the Hokage had told Kakashi the news he had spent weeks in denial, months in sorrow and years of regret.
"Only he didn't kill her." Everyone in the room spun around to the woman standing in the door way. "She fought him and should have died but didn't, she went into hiding to protect her unborn child. She never knew about her brother in laws survival and was told everyone was dead." She looked down at the floor; she could not meet Kakashi's eyes.
"Wait so where is she?" For a smart girl Sakura was very dumb
"My names Amaya Uchiha, pleasure to meet you all." She finally looked up and had a cheesy smile on her face.
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It had been a week. A week since she had returned the leaf, moved into the house her murdering fiancé brought her. A week of having an entire village crowd around her and love her. A week of being ignored by the two people she actually cared about.
"Sasuke-kun! How are you?" Sakura's high pitched voice made everyone wince as the Uchiha just ignored her
"I'm good Sakura!" Naruto offered a response to a question he never got.
"I wasn't asking you idiot!" she hit him and the bickering continued as Kakashi lead them to the academy. They were helping with some construction.
"Sasuke look it is your sister!" Sakura pointed to the lady who was laughing with Iruka
"Hn." was all he had to say
"We will wait here." Kakashi wouldn't let himself go near her as he tried to stop glaring at Iruka. Why was it that he hated the fact they were talking?
"Uncle Sasuke!" the little girl spotted him from the playground and went running to him, Amaya finally noticed them.
"Mikoto." she tried to stop the girl but she continued; she was almost at Sasuke when one of her tiny feet slipped. She stumbled to the ground at his feet.
"Are you ok?" Sakura fawned over the mini Sasuke
The girl looked up with water in her eyes and then she wailed, it was only a scratch to her knee but she cried as if she was dying.
"Baby girl." she was pulled into her mother's loving arms as her body shook from her sobs
"Team we have a mission." Kakashi's cold tone cut Amaya to the bone as they all left.
"We should help her!" Amaya was juggling a heavy bag, books and a crying child and Naruto didn't like Kakashi's or Sasuke's attitude.
"We have a mission." Kakashi didn't even look back
"Well so do I! To help and protect the people of this village. Come on Sasuke lets go." Surely Sasuke would go with him.
"She left me." Naruto glared at him before turning his back and running down the street.
"Hey!" Amaya almost dropped her books as the blonde appeared from nowhere
"Let me help" Naruto took the books before getting an answer
"Thank you Naruto" she smiled
"No worries, I can't turn my back on someone that needs me!"
"Wow it's so big." Naruto was amazed at the four bedroom house, his one roomed apartment fitting into the kitchen.
"Itachi brought it for me. He knew I wanted a big family." They had a moment of silence, both in their own thought.
"Mummy band aid!" the little girl whined from the kitchen counter
"Ok baby, Naruto do you like ramen?" from the newly formed drool puddle on her floor Amaya smiled as she applied a huge band aid to the small cut and then made three instant ramen cups.
"Why don't you just heal her?" Naruto noted the band aid
"Because otherwise she doesn't learn, she can't rely on me to heal every wound. The pain is a way to remember not to do it again; it's a way to learn." Amaya smiled, that's how she was raised.
"I'm sorry about Sasuke and Kakashi." Naruto angered as he mentioned them
"You have nothing to be sorry for."
"They are ignoring you, hurting you. That isn't right." Naruto was shaking now, he knew how alone and isolated Amaya felt and they were making it worse.
"They are confused, they don't know what to think or believe anymore and this makes them angry and if I'm the person they take that anger out on then I shall be that person." Amaya would break her own heart to help them heal
"So you will be their personal punching bag, why?" Naruto wondered how someone could do something like that to themselves
"Because I love them." they ate in silence after that.
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"Sasuke!" Naruto ran up to the boy who ignored him.
"Hn." he tossed a glare at the blonde boy now beside him
"Why don't you live with Amaya!?" he was angry "I know she asked you too!"
"She left." short and cold, true Uchiha style
"She thought you were dead!"
"Why do you care?" the Uchiha snapped back
"She is your sister, your family!"
"She was going to be my sister."
"Then the man she loved killed her family, the village she loved forced her out and she was left to raise a baby! Mikoto needs a male in her life; Amaya wants you to be that person." Naruto had spent the last month helping Amaya and Mikoto and had enough of Sasuke acting like they didn't exist.
"But-"
"But nothing. You lost your family once and have been given a second chance. Many people would kill to have that opportunity." Naruto sighed, he would wished he got this opportunity.
"Hn" the Uchiha walked off
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Mikoto went running to the door, she liked visitors and she was hoping it was Naruto. She liked Naruto, he played fun games. The girl fumbled with the handle as she swung the door wide open, a huge smile playing on her face. Amaya had been in the kitchen and was drying her hands when she heard her daughter open the door. He heart dropped as Mikoto's screams ran through the house.
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Who is it? Itachi? Sasuke? Kakashi?