A/N: I do not own naruto or any of its characters. Just Kaisha. Sorry for the short chapter but when I wrote it, it did not seem like it needed anything else. R&R

Chapter IV

Sasuke often escaped to the waterfall to meditate. Orochimaru and Kabuto very rarely bothered him here. He had been sent to obtain information from a small village a few days ago and had ran into Itachi. Sasuke had already completed his mission, finding out his blonde best friend had given birth to an heir to the clan. All his rage and jealousy was let out upon seeing his older brother. Naruto was supposed to be his not Itachi's. Sasuke could careless about the agreement the village had obtained with his family. That did not matter. In Sasuke's eyes, Itachi forfeited that agreement upon leaving the village. Naruto was supposed to be handed down to him, though Sasuke could not think of his best friend in that way. When faced with Sasuke's accusation and demands for the truth, Itachi not once denied that he and Naruto had a child. As far as her name was concerned he would not say and refused to give it. Kabuto and Orochimaru had intervened at that point. Trying their hardest to capture Itachi, which ended in failure. Itachi escaped and Sasuke was frustrated and pissed off. He still was. From what he gathered about both Naruto and Itachi, they has returned to konoha. Itachi had returned before Naruto who was finishing up his training. Sasuke needed to meditate to clear his mind as to how he was going to slip into the village without being noticed. He striped down to only have his pants on as he slipped his shoes off. He got into position within the waterfall and closed his eyes.

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Kaisha could not be any happier. Her daddy was feeling a whole lot better. He was feeling better to the point where he suggested to her mommy to take her out to the little playground by the academy to play, just to get her out of the house. She was more than ecstatic when she heard her momma say yes to the idea. Now here they were at the playground and Itachi was pushing her on the swing set. Her laughter was non-stop making both her parents smile at her pure happiness. She squeaked when she felt Itachi wrap his arms around her from behind and lift her effortlessly off the swing when she had swung back for another push. She laughed harder as he tickled her, her feet kicking in the air until he placed her back on the ground. As soon as her feet touched the worn dirt floor she took off running. Calling back to her father as he chased after her. Naruto sat next to Sakura on one of the benches near the playground and laughed. Loving the sight of Itachi and Kaisha running around.

Unknown to them, successfully hiding in a tree, not far from the playground was Sasuke. He watched as Itachi caught Kaisha and started another attack of tickling which resulted in Kaisha shrieking in surprise before bursting out into laughter again that Sasuke thought the girl was going to pass out from lack of oxygen. He saw Naruto and Sakura not far away laughing at the scene before them. Sasuke heard Kaisha cheer and turned his attention back to his older brother and his...niece. Itachi had her held above his head, her arms spread out and her legs together and straight like she was flying. He smiled a little before shaking his head and resuming his gloomy appearance. He looked the little girl over. She had flowing raven black hair like his brothers but her eyes were like her mothers, the clearest sapphire blue. Her skin a mixture of Naruto's tan and Itachi's pale white. Her cheerfulness and tendency to make anyone smile obviously came from Naruto. In her eyes Sasuke could tell that she was smart for a toddler. He could see she understood and knew things that even a kid graduating from the academy had yet to comprehend. He had to admit, she was cute. And contagious. From just watching her he had already gotten very attached and when she ran from Itachi, probably to start another chasing round, she tripped and fell. He saw both her knees connect to the ground and he saw blood staining the dirt before he saw the large scrape wounds on both knees. He had his sharingan activated so he saw the bone of her knees. It took all of Sasuke's self control to not jump from his hiding place to her side. He watched as Itachi picked her up and walk towards where Naruto was. She cried hard and Sasuke could not blame her. It looked like it hurt pretty bad. Naruto met them halfway, a small first aid kit in his hands. Sasuke watched as Naruto cleaned her knees as she shrieked in pain and cried even harder. Itachi was trying his best to calm her down but Sasuke knew, and he knew Itachi knew as well, that the alcohol wipes hurt like hell on something like that.

Sasuke felt his heart wrench as she screamed more as Naruto got closer to the worse part of it and he had not even moved on to the other knee yet. At that moment he felt like someone was staring at him. All he did was turn his head towards Itachi and their eyes locked. The elder tensed slightly but relaxed immediately as Kaisha screamed louder, but their eyes did not leave each other. Sasuke knew he could see him gritting his teeth and trying his hardest not to jump from where he hid. Itachi broke away from their staring contest to glance down at Kaisha who was all but sobbing into his chest before looking back up at Sasuke. He jerked his head in a gesture for Sasuke to come over. Sasuke hesitated but when Kaisha started shrieking anew all hesitation flew out the window. He was out of the tree and by Itachi's side before anyone else could blink. Naruto and Sakura gasped but Sasuke payed them no mind. He had come alone and had no intention of going back to Orochimaru. That decision was made from when he was watching Kaisha play and laugh. He had gotten very attached. His sack was strapped over one shoulder and Sasuke slipped it off. Rummaging through it for something he picked up on his way back to the village. Naruto resumed cleaning her knees when he noticed Kaisha was preoccupied with watching Sasuke. Sasuke gave a small quiet cheer to himself when he found what he was looking for. He pulled out a bear. It was soft, plush, nice chestnut brown fur, and had a beautiful purple ribbon tied around its neck. In it's arms, which were sewn together, it held a small sewn together grey cat with a smaller version of the bears purple ribbon but within the bow the cat had was a small bell. Sasuke closed up his travel sack, looking up to see Naruto and Sakura mending his little nieces knees.

They healed her to where the bone did not show anymore they bandaged up her knees letting her body do the rest of the healing, the skin had to form by itself over the rest of the wounds. When they were done Sasuke handed her the bear he had bought. She looked at it then looked at Sasuke who had walked a little closer. Without a word she took the bear and hugged it close. Still sniffing and hiccing before lunging out of Itachi's arms to throw her little arms around Sasuke's neck, one hand clutching the bear tightly and the other clutching onto his shirt.

"Thank you." Was the small quiet reply he got as she buried her head in his chest. Her wrapped his arms around her taking her fully from Itachi and holding her close.

"You're welcome" was his reply, at that point Sasuke realized, she already had him wrapped around her little finger. Kaisha pulled away, wiping tears from her eyes but Sasuke could see the tear stains.

"Who you be?" Sasuke smiled, she was still a child. A sudden realization hit him and he realized why things had been kept so secret even from him. Orochimaru. If the bastard got hold of her...Sasuke closed his eyes and kept himself from shaking his head. Instead he forced the images out of his mind before looking back into curious blue eyes.

"He would be your Uncle Sasuke." The sudden loud cheer was something none of them but Kaisha was expecting. Though being held by Sasuke did not stop her from knocking his balance off, causing him to be unable to catch himself before he fell due to the surprise. Though he did feel her version of a bear hug, it felt like a stuffed toy was hugging him.

"I really wish you stop that Kaisha, it's not very nice to knock people down. I understand you are happy but try to express it in a less...harmful manner." Sasuke glanced up at Naruto who was staring back him. His blue eyes apologized a thousand times over for Kaisha half tackling him to the ground.

"It's fine Naruto. At least we know that she's going to be a very strong ninja. Teaching her how to take down will not be hard at all." It was as if Sasuke had flipped the switch that set Naruto off.

"UGH! What AM I going to do with you two! What is it with you Uchiha and thinking that bad habit is a good thing!" Sasuke raised his head slightly off the ground and looked at Itachi mouthing 'You said it too?' and getting a mouth 'Yeah. Same reaction but different rant.' Sasuke chuckled. He was glad something's did not change.