Chapter 3~~! Yosh!
Holy hell! So sorry, everyone!
Reviews is luff! Or maybe you don't luff me? ;_;
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A little randomness before I start this chapter:
Have any of you noticed how...utterly SMART Yuffie is in Crisis Core, despite only being 9? Now she acts like a little kid on crack and she's...what? almost twenty? Over twenty? I can never keep the ages straight _ Cait Sith kinda gets on my nerves...he's barely useful for the love of god. I like Red better ^^ -saying this despite being the a Emo King fangirl. Lulz. Try to figure out who I mean by Emo King. Hint: It's not a SHM. Or Cloud. Cloud's just overly-angsty. god he sucked in Kingdom Hearts. I mean, what the hell? Then you got Mr. Repetition, Sephiroth. Well, Cloud keeps kinda repeating himself too, but at least its short and clipped, instead of using the same taunt over and over and over and over. "You will never let go of the darkness." Okay, yeah, we heard you the first time, bishi-dude. Fuck.
Okay, I'm done rambling. Enjoy the chapter!
"How's he doing?"
Naruto turned at the voice, but sighed and walked over to his desk at seeing it was only the female Uchiha.
The blonde groaned and sat back, his head hanging over the top of the chair.
"This sucks!" He exploded after a silent moment, the ravenette following the young Hokage to stand in front of his desk.
"Obviously he has to do some time for the murders he committed at the outpost...if I just let him go with just a slap on the wrist, everyone in the village, shinobi and villager alike will cause an uproar!"
"Well...at least he's home again." Kira pointed out when silence engulfed them once more. "I'll deal with the victims' families. You just worry about what he deserves, though I seriously suggest chakra suspension."
"Chakra suspension?" Naruto repeated, his head peeking up as he looked up at the grave ravenette.
"Yeah, some kind of thing fanfiction writers invented to move plots along, I guess." Kira shrugged. "But in our case, it should work fine, yes?"
"Yes?" Naruto repeated, unsure.
"Alright. I'll go get that set then." Kira turned and put one hand on the handle before Naruto jumped up from his seat, shocked at the simple trick.
"WAIT! I never agreed!"
Kira looked back at the blonde Hokage...(Jeez, what's with the sudden streak of blonde Hokage's? Minato, Tsunade, and now the knucklehead that we all know and love)
"Lord Hokage, I heard you quite clearly. You said 'Yes.'" She smirked. Naruto grabbed his head in frustration.
"You damn Uchihas are gonna be the death of me!" He lamented.
"You know you love us, Naru-chibi." Kira grinned and disappeared.
"WAIT! OH, DAMMIT!" Naruto smacked his head on his desk, realizing he never straight up gave the order to leave Sasuke as he is now.
"Butterfly-dono." A random chuunin stood at attention at the appearance of the high-grade ANBU.
"I'm here to see Uchiha." Kira told him, her voice muffled beyond recognition by the mask.
The jounin looked at her in shock before looking over at his partner for help.
"I'm sorry, Butterfly-dono...but the prisoner in question is in max security solitary confinement, as per the order of Ibiki-dono...we can't let anyone see him..." His partner stood.
"I have the permission of Lord Hokage himself. And last time I checked, he outranks Ibiki-san. Do you two really wanna go against the wishes of Lord Hokage...?"
"NO! Of course not, Butterfly-dono! Forgive us, if we knew it was on behalf of Lord Hokage..." The first chuunin sweatdropped and twiddled his thumbs in embarrassment. "Right this way, please..." Kira followed the chuunin down into the lower levels, past the basements. It was getting colder and darker...
Finally they stepped into a stone-paved dirt corridor, lit by a single torch at its mouth. The chuunin guide took ahold of the torch and took her down the corridor. It seemed to go on for at least a mile before they finally reached a door. A double steel enforced, huge and heavy door, locked by at least five different key and chain locks. The chuunin slid open the small observation door installed in the door.
"Uchiha! You have a visitor!"
Kira detected a slight shift in movement in the dark space.
"Leave." She commanded the chuunin, and took the torch.
"But, ma'am...if he gets out of control..."
"And you think you can survive a single trip in his Tsukiyomi, you fool? I can take care of myself." She growled out, taking the keys for Sasuke's prison door before allowing the chuunin to run off.
key lock...
chain lock...
chain lock...
key lock...
"Sasuke..." Kira called out softly as she pulled open the door.
"Who is it?" He muttered, not even looking up from where his head rested on his knees.
"If you looked, you would know, you idiot." Kira retorted, waiting for him to retract his face and looked towards her. Kira gasped at the steel blindfold covering his upper face, locked on the side that was thrown in shadow from the torch when it was placed in a holder on the wall.
"What the hell?"
"No good to tell who you are if I can't see..." Sasuke chuckled weakly.
"Hold on...give me a sec..." Kira told him, his head twitching slightly as he heard the jingle of keys next to his ear, and then sweet relief. Sasuke blinked a few times to clear the blurriness from his sight, looking up to see the ornately, but kinda plain painted butterfly mask of the ANBU before him. He reached up cautiously, shackles on his wrist clanging slightly as he untied the mask slowly, meeting no resistance, and pulled the mask away. Kira blinked and smiled softly.
"Nee-san...?" Sasuke asked. Kira nodded, and suddenly found herself with an armful of Sasuke.
"Sasu-chan...I missed you so much." Kira nuzzled the side of his head as she drew him closer. The final two Uchihas, reunited.
"Nee-san, where were you for so long...? Where were you when Itachi and Madara slaughtered the clan...?"
"You were so young, Sasu-chan...I'm so sorry." Kira told him, her voice creaking a little bit. "I will say nothing to tarnish what good memory you have of our parents. I will just say, I decided to leave, for entirely selfish reasons. When I returned...when I saw the compound wasn't there...I asked about yours and Itachi-kun's whereabouts. Nobody would say anything. I thought you all...were gone forever."
"I'm sorry too, Kira...I wasn't here when you came back. I left the village too. I joined with an evil man. I killed Itachi..."
"I know, Sasu-chan. Shush, now." She cooed to the sobbing boy, no longer caring about appearances. The two happy to pretend they were no longer a 25 and 22 year old sister-jailor and brother-prisoner, but when they last held each other. As 10 and 7 year old siblings, part of a large clan, instead of being the final two. Before Kira left, and the clan massacre just a year later. Before Sasuke was alone in the world, and Kira was trying to find a path where their father didn't hinder her thoughts at every corner.
"You'll be free soon, little brother. I've talked to Naruto. We're throwing around the idea of chakra suspension. Obviously you have to be kept away for the senseless murdering of the shinobi a few nights anyway. But we're gonna go for the lightest sentence we can without a riot breaking out."
"What's chakra suspension?" Sasuke asked, leaning his head against Kira's shoulder as she broke away and leaned against the wall beside him.
"Basically, you'll be wrapped in seals, and it won't let you summon no more chakra than what you need to get by day to day. Reduced to the level of a non-shinobi villager. Think you can handle it?"
Sasuke was silent. "I...can try, at least." He said finally, after more than a minute's silence.
Gawd, another short chapter. *sigh* Especially since its been forever since the last time I posted a chapter! Well, I for one blame school. Yes, school. College, baby! I'ma gonna be a history teacher *grins* oh gawd, I feel bad for my future students. Their gonna have a nutcase for a teacher, and be forced into taking up hippie names like mine in class. "Good morning Ms. Nitedream~!" Lulz. Do teachers need to go through a psych evaluation before teaching? o_o
I want some chocolate milk...Mmm...OH SHIT! MY COOKIES ARE BURNING!