"Hey Sasuke-san," I smile as I run up to him.
"Hi Hiraki-chan," Sasuke smiles as he turns to face me while still holding his older brother's hand.
"Hello Itachi-sama," I say tilting my head to the side a little with a smaller smile then the one earlier I gave to Sasuke.
"Hello Hiroko," Itachi says giving me a small smile in return as he nods his head.
"Hiraki-chan guess what."
"What," I ask back.
"My parents said you can come over to play with me and have dinner tonight!"
"Really?" Sasuke and I shared a smile so large that even Itachi cracked a smile. I giggle out of joy and hug Sasuke excited about this. I was going to be able to hang out with Sasuke today and meet one of Mom's old friends. It was so exciting.
I step back still grinning and as I open my closed eyes a see a light blush creeped its way across Sasuke's cheeks. I giggled again.
"You're really cute when you blush Sasuke-san." This caused Sasuke to blush even more.
"I'm not blushing," he says stubbornly and turns his head away from me which causes me to giggle again and Itachi to chuckle lightly. Sasuke looks at me from the corner of his eyes.
"Come on we have class." He suddenly grabs my hand and drags me in which stops my giggling instantly.
"Owe," I ask looking at him a bit confused. He seemed determined and as tough as steel as he pulled me through the classroom. I let a small smile creep up at the corner of my lips and allow him to drag me to the side of one of the isles.
"What is she doing with Sasuke," I hear a couple of the girls hiss as they give me death glares.
"Are you going to sit down," Sasuke asks looking up at me from his seat. I nod my head smiling and take the seat next to him.
Most of the girls in the academy don't like me for some reason and I think it has to do with me always hanging out with Sasuke. They really like him and don't like that I'm so close to him, but I always offer for them to play with us. Sasuke doesn't seem to like them though he says they're scary because they usually chasing him and scream his name. I have to admit that is really scary actually.
"How was your day you two," Itachi asks as we exit the academy.
"Good," Sasuke and I say together causing Itachi to smile with a slight laugh.
"Are you two looking forward to dinner?"
"Yeah, I can't wait to meet one of Mommy's old friends!" My eyes were glowing with joy. I was so excited. I'd finally get to meet one of Mommy's friends from her childhood. Who knows maybe I'll even meet Kushina Uzumaki!
"It'll be fun," Sasuke says grinning at me as I grin back at him.
On our way to the Uchiha compound we kept talking about anything that came up. Itachi would chuckle at us every now and again, but for the most part he just kept smiling at us. He seemed really happy to see Sasuke and me together.
"Wow," I say as I stop to look up at the walls that enclosed the Uchiha compound. It was huge with the Uchiha clan symbol painted on it. The walls were even a little imposing.
"You ok Hikari," Sasuke asks sounding a bit concerned.
"It's so big."
"What's your clan's compound like back home?" Itachi asks and I look down a sad feeling filling my heart and I begin crying a little.
"Nii-san you made her cry," Sasuke says then wraps his arms around. "It's ok Hikari-chan."
"I'll be fine," I say as I force the tears down and lift my head up with a smile on my face though a few tears still fall.
"We-we didn't really have a hu-huge wall or anything. We were part of the village n-not sectioned off." I hitched when I talked causing my words to be broken off almost like the stutter that I have when I'm really shy around a person. I hate my stutter, but there isn't much I can really do about it.
"I'll make you a promise Hikari," Itach says squatting down so that he was at my level and looking me in the eyes. I stare back at him wondering what his promise was. "Everyone here at this village will accept you with open arms and treat you like one of their own. They won't know what to think of you at first and some will be a bit distant, but everyone here will love you." I look at Itachi for a bit more before smiling a little.
"You really think so Itachi-san? He nods his head and takes Sasuke's and my hand and led us into the compound.
A couple of the people look at me weird. Others seemed to smile and nod towards me and a couple people also asked who I was, but it seemed as if what Itachi said was true. They seemed to accept the fact that I was here, not all of them seemed to like it completely but they accepted it.
"We're home," Itachi says as we take off our shoes and I follow him and Sasuke into the kitchen where a person looking a lot like Sasuke and Itachi stood prepping for cooking.
She had the same dark black eyes as Sasuke and Itachi, but her hair was just a bit lighter than theirs. She was dressed in a simple faded purple dress and had a tan apron on that tied in the back. She wore a smile that seemed to light the room up.
"Is this your friend Sasuke?" Sasuke's mom turned and faced me with that brilliant smile of hers.
"Mhm, her name is Hikari."
"Hello Hikari, it's nice to meet one of Sasuke's friends."
"H-hi," I say blushing as my shyness gets the better of me.
"You resemble your parents very much. You have her eyes and bone structure and your father's pale skin and black hair. You style it just like Fumiko." Her smile seemed to be about something else as her eyes glaze over and her thoughts travel to the past.
"Are your parents here with you," she asks suddenly and I shake my head no.
"No made it out of my village except me," I whisper and I myself can barely hear what I'm saying.
"That was the Snow Village," Sasuke's mom says and for the first time since I've been here her smile drops and I see alarm in her dark black eye that hold a light of their own.
"Yeah," I say with my voice cracking.
"Hikari, why don't you and Sasuke go to the lake house and play for a bit? I'll be by to pick you guys up for dinner."
"Come on let's go Hikari-chan," Sasuke says after only a moments of hesitation before grabbing my hand and leading the way. I take a moment before I can pull myself away from his mom's sad eyes. I can see it in her eyes; she's just as broken inside about it as I am about their death. Even after all these years she still really cared about my mommy and she was going to morn over my mommy's death.
"So what do you want to do," I ask Sasuke as I now walk along side of him my hand still in his as we make our way towards the lake house.
"I don't know, maybe we can go swimming or play in the water?" Sasuke looks at me for my approval, but I shake my head.
"I don't have anything to change into afterwards."
"Dinner won't be for a few hours so if we get a little wet it won't be a problem."
"Ok," I agree seeing no problem with that if it I can dry off afterwards.
"Race you in," Sasuke challenges as he looks at me smiling at me. I look ahead and see the lake house and smile back at him before taking off towards the water. I laugh enjoying this as I'm in the lead, until I suddenly trip over my feet and land face first on the hard cold cement ground.
"Hikari-chan," Sasuke shouts as he stops in front of me and helps me up. "Are you ok?" Sasuke looks me over and sees the small cuts and big angry red marks on my knees. They hurt fairly badly and I was trying not to cry as I look at Sasuke who seemed worry.
"I'll take you back to my house," Sasuke says and as I take a step I feel a sharp pain in my ankle that pushed me to the point that the tears I was holding back fell as I landed on my butt.
"Hikari-chan," he shouts again.
"I don't think I can walk on it," I sniffle.
"I'll carry you then." It was there again, that fiery determined look that made him seem as tough as steal.
"Just get Itachi-sama and want you to get hurt as well," I say shaking my head. He didn't listen though and picked me up and began carrying me.
"Sa-Sasuke-kun," I say unsure why I stuttered.
"Yes Hikari-chan," Sasuke asks looking up at me.
"Nothing," I trail off as I relax my tense arms that were wrapped around his neck and lie my head on his shoulders.
"Sasuke, Hikari," Itachi says shocked as we come up to the door and Itachi opens the door to see Sasuke carrying me on his back.
"Hikari-chan fell and she can't walk on her ankle," Sasuke says sounding worried as he rushed through his sentence.
"Bring her in, I'll wrap her ankle for her and Mom can help heal it a bit so she can walk on it. We'll also bandage up her knees for her." Itachi held the door open for us and Sasuke brought me to the living room where he sat me down on the couch and sat by my side the whole time as Itachi and their mom patched me up.
"I'm sorry I caused you all so much trouble," I apologize as I bow my head unable to bow any deeper since I was still sitting down while Sasuke and Itachi's mom was healing my ankle with the very little medical jutsu she has.
"No it's fine. I have to do this for Sasuke all the time," she says looking up at me with that bright smile of hers, but her eyes don't shine quiet the same after finding out about my mommy's death.
"O-ok," I say still feeling bad about causing so much trouble for everyone.
AN: I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, but school has started up again so I can't update as often as I wish I could
