Hi! Here is the second chapter to shattered secrets. Hope you enjoy.
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Ding dong.
It feels like forever since I've slept in. And boy does it feel good, I thought to myself as I stretched out my aching limbs and felt every one of them pop and crack back into place.
Wait was that the bell I just heard?
Getting up I look to my right-hand side, and as usual, Sasuke wasn't in bed.
"Mamma!" Came a knock on my bedroom door.
"Someone's here to see you." Sarada said. I guess she was the one who let the guest in.
"Ok. I'm coming." I told her. It only took a moment to get cleaned up and dressed seeing as how everything is super, freaky organized ever since Sasuke's return. That man is more organized than Lady Tsunade's liquor cabinet.
I chuckled to myself remembering my old teacher's obsession with keeping her alcohol in order while forgetting everything else.
As I left my bedroom and went into the living room I saw two men dressed up in suits looking around the house.
"Hello." I greeted them.
"Hello, Mrs. Uchiha. We are from the village's storage company. We are here in regards of your parent's assets." The older gentleman said.
"Oh? Did they leave anything behind?" I asked curious to know what my parents had hidden away. But then it occurred to me what has happened in the past forty-eight hours. Who knows what they had stashed away. I realize now that I don't really know who my parents were.
"Yes. There was one small item that was requested to be passed down to you in the eventuality that they passed on." He continued "Here."
The man handed me some sort of envelope. As I was about to open it he stopped me and told me that whatever was inside was for my eyes only and was confidential.
So, with their business done they bowed, gave their condolences and left as quickly and unexpectedly as they came.
'Hmm well that certainly was strange' I thought to myself.
"Sarada?" I called out wondering where she was. "Are you here?"
'Hmm, maybe she left to get some training in." I guessed, and sure enough, there was a note on the fridge in my daughter's handwriting that said she was meeting up with her team for some training exercises. That and she wanted to make sure that I eat before I start my day. I swear sometimes I forget who's the parent here. I sighed.
After heating up some left-overs from the night before and making myself some tea, I headed into the dining room to peruse the envelope and eat before I do anything else.
When my parents died, I was told to or more like ordered to take the month off to get my parents estate in order, and while I miss the hospital, ever since I found out about my heritage, going back to work before I figured this all out was the last thing on my mind.
When I opened the envelope, an old note slipped out.
The first thing that I noticed about the letter was that it wasn't either one of my parent's handwriting although it did look familiar.
The note read:
Dear Sakura,
By now if you are reading this, then I figure both myself and the Harunos are gone. I send you my deepest condolences for your loss.
I'm sure by now you know more than I'd hoped so I wrote this letter as a backup in case you went searching for the truth.
In regards to your parent's identity, they are former shinobi from our village who have made significant sacrifices for the good of our people. One of those sacrifices was you.
I must implore you to not search for the truth, for it will only open wounds and secrets that were never meant to be shared.
For your safety, and the safety of those you hold dear, keep living as you are now. There are people who will wish you harm if word got out that you were alive.
I cannot stress this enough. Do not go looking for the truth!
I wish you all the very best.
Minato Namikaze.
Yondaime Hokage.
This isn't real, right? This is some kind of joke. I thought as I finished reading the note that Naruto's father, the fourth Hokage wrote to try and persuade me from finding out the truth about my heritage.
"This is insane," I said out loud.
"What's insane Sakura?"
"Jesus!" I yelled jumping out of my seat not expecting someone to reply back.
"Sasuke?" I asked looking behind me. And sure, enough there stood my husband with a pleasant smirk on his face. Quite satisfied that he got one up on his wife.
"Hn. I decided to come home early after Sarada told me that we had a visit from two men dressed up in business attire." He said coming to sit across from me at the dinner table.
"So, what did they want?" He asked.
"Nothing," I told him. "They just came to drop this off," I said handing him the letter I had been reading over and over again trying to make sense out of, to see if there was anything that made it stand out as fake. But seeing as how it had the fourth's seal it seemed as legit as it could be.
"Hn?" Sasuke grunted as he took the letter from my hand.
After about a good ten minutes of him looking over the paper, turning it back and forth, holding it up to the light and even checking it over with his Sharingan he looked back at me and said that as far as he could tell it was not fake.
I could've told him that. What I want to know is what to make of it.
"So, what do you make of this?" I asked him a little impatiently.
"It seems as though the circumstances around your birth are very hush, hush and might be the subject of a conspiracy. Especially if the fourth is involved." He replied.
"A conspiracy?!" I asked. "But why me and why now?" I questioned looking at him as if he had all the answers.
"I don't know Sakura. But I will look into this. I'm going to look through the Uchiha archives and see if there's anything there. Like I said we'll figure it out. But the fourth is right." He said.
"Right about what exactly?" I could feel myself getting more and more agitated by the minute.
"All I mean is that we can think of this letter as a warning, either to forget everything and go on with life as usual or be careful because of who else is out there that knows. If we continue, we need to watch our backs and keep this between the two of us." He told me as he got up from his seat leaving no option for me to disagree with him on this.
And besides, he's right. The letter did warn us that there were people out there who wanted to harm me and seeing as how I am a mother I cannot risk anything happening to Sarada. We need to be careful going forwards.
"I'm going over there now. Why don't you look through the rest of your parent's files and see if there's anything there that has to do with the fourth." He said grabbing his cloak and heading for the door.
Before he got to open it, I grabbed on to his remaining arm and told him to be careful which he responded saying 'always.'
Here is the second chapter for Shattered Secrets. I wanted to thank everyone who has already reviewed, followed or favorited my story. I means a lot. :D I know It might be too early for anyone to guess but does anyone want to take a gamble as to who Sakura's parents are?
Chao,