AN: Here it is people! The forth chapter, I've been holding this chapter from you for two weeks now! I'm sorry {covers face} It hurt me to do that, but as i said in the last chapter, reviews were {and still are} needed to get me to post further chapters. This chapter was originally longer, but i decided to break it up, dont be mad at me! I'm only thinking of your eyes {wouldnt want you to go blind from staring at the screen for too long} But, i digest.
TMR:{To my readers} To those who might think that the children may be behaving at an older age, you must remember {and i'll point out} that this story is placed several years back, during the renaissance times. Back then the children were required to grow up and fast, also they were considered men when they turned thirteen and often married by the time they turned eighteen. So please, keep this in mind when you read further on in the story! The children are all at the youngest nine years old, with the exception of a few siblings to be mentioned later on.
Note: Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae © Anna Uzumaki
Pairing(s): Naruto/Sasuke With: Neji/Gaara, Shika/Kiba, Sakura/Lee, Kakashi/Iruka, Hinata/Shino, Ino/Choji, Kankuro/Hana, Temari/Tenten, Jiraiya/Tsunade, Itachi/Deidara, Suigetsu/Sasori.
Warning(s): Yaoi, lemon(s), sexual content (Duh!), slight nuggets of OOC-ness (bear with me), adult language, blood/gore, angst, drama, slight child abuse & possible rape.
Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto
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Chapter 4
Flashback: Summer Festival!
N.P.O.V.
As I sat here with my closest friends, who were, like me, also royal heirs to their Kingdoms, I looked over for the… well to be honest I had lost count on how many times I had looked over at Sasuke, who was as pale as ever and his black hair resembled the backside of a duck to perfection. I tried to pay attention to the play that was going on in front of me, though I have no idea what it was about, since my eyes kept glancing over at a particular someone. I assumed, however, that the play was meant for children because there were too many bright colors, I may be five (and a half) but I am very mature for my age and therefore, things like this bore me to tears. Once again my eyes, which are a very beautiful blue or so I have been told, connected with deep onyx eyes. Crap, Sasuke caught me staring at him… again, and, as he usually did when he caught me staring, he smirked at me which always made my breath hitch in my throat.
"What are you looking at teme? I hissed. I often called him this when he began to call me…
"You, dobe." he mumbled and turned back to the play.
That, dobe, it always ticked me off when he called me that! Though since he was my best friend, I let it slide. As the play continued, I seriously wanted to break out and start crying like I had lost my mind, it was just that boring, but I knew I should not attempt that because my mother was right behind me and I knew she would string me up by my ankles at such an outburst. I know she loves me to death, but she is truly scary when she gets mad, she and my close friend Shikamaru's mother were the same in that scary way. Shika, as we call him, was a seriously smart boy with brunette hair that he always had pulled up in a pineapple shaped ponytail. But, man was he lazy! I bet if I looked over right now he would be… yep, he is asleep, as usual.
"Hey, teme, wake Shika." I leaned over and whispered to Sasuke.
"Kiba, wake Shika up before his mother see's him." Sasuke nudged our other close friend with red triangles tattooed on his cheeks, who currently had a little white ball of fur in his lap. That little fur ball, which was named Akamaru, was with him wherever he went and I mean that literally. He once brought him into the bath when we all had visited his castle one time, needless to say I was a little freaked out by that, but he simply said that he might as well clean him while he was in there and that somehow made sense to me, so I let it go and watched the little puppy paddle around the tub.
"Hey, Shika! Wake up man." Kiba whispered and shook him just hard enough to wake him up, I almost burst out laughing when Shika woke up and immediately glared at him.
"Cut it out kiba, this show is already such a drag. I do not need you to be as troublesome." Shikamaru said sleepily at Kiba, who only smirked at him.
"Asleep, as always." A familiar voice stated the obvious; I already knew who it was that said it before I leaned over further to look at him.
"That is obvious Shino." Another familiar voice narrated my thoughts.
"Neji, t-that is not nice." A shy voice chimed in, Hinata; she was Neji's youngest sister. Though technically I cannot really say youngest sister because their mother is currently pregnant with the third addition to their grey eyed family, so I have no idea yet as to whether there will be a younger brother or sister.
Thankfully, during my wandering thoughts, the play ended and I hastily got up before another one could begin. My friends got up with me as I hurried away from the outdoor theater, only to be caught by my waist and hoisted in the air. I let out a little scream as my father placed me on his shoulders.
"And where do you think you are running off too, Naruto?" My father asked, I could practically hear the smile, he undoubtedly had on his face, in voice.
"Away from that play father, it was so boring!" I whined into his yellow blonde hair which was the exact same color as mine, though, as others would always say, I was the spitting image of him. I always wondered why people thought I would spit on his image, until my mother had informed me that it simply meant that I looked just like him.
"Hahah, Now son, that's not a nice thing to say." He laughed warmly at my comment.
"Really naruto, considering all the hard work they put into it just for you and the other young heirs." My mother chided me; I looked over to see her deep violet eyes frowning at me, though from the smile on her face, I could tell that she was not angry with what I had said. She must've found it as boring as I did, but was adult enough not to say anything about it.
"I know Mother, Father." I sighed and put my head back on my father's soft hair, also being careful not to knock off his crown.
"Are you hungry Naruto?" My father asked me after a moment of silence.
"Yes!" I nearly shouted and leaned over to look him in the eye, did he honestly think I was not? It was already about 1pm and the last time I ate was at breakfast, which was right before we came here, though it took at least a day to get here from my kingdom to the annual summer festival!
"Well, what do you feel like eating for lunch sweetie?" My mother asked as she pulled her tomato red hair over her shoulder, I often wondered how I would've looked had I been born with her hair color.
"Ramen!" I shouted, I did not care about being loud anymore, I loved ramen and they knew it because as soon as I said it, we were in front of my favorite ramen vendor called Ichiraku. Which was run by an old man named Teuchi and his daughter Ayame, I literally swore by their ramen. I heard a 'Tsk' from below me and looked down to see Sasuke beside me, who was being carried on his older brother Itachi's back, who came to about my fathers' chest. The copycat. I simply stuck my tongue out at him not wanting to call him by his nickname in front of my mother, because I knew there would be a definite chance of me being snatched down from my fathers' shoulders by her.
As my father stepped up to place our order, I could see the old man's brain going to work as he saw my parents in front of him and me on my fathers' shoulders. He quickly bowed, along with his daughter, who looked at me and smile happily.
"Good evening Teuchi, we would like two adult orders of Miso Ramen with extra pork." My father said.
"Of course Lord Minato, will that be all?" He asked and looked at both me and my parents.
"Yes please." My mother told him.
"Right away, Lady Kushina." Teuchi said. Let me just say this, the only reason why he addressed my parents in such a familiar way, was because we come to his vendor every time we come to Konoha and not just for the summer festival, so my father thusly insisted that since we always came here he should just refer to him and my mother as Lord and Lady 'Given name'. My parents were not mean, but if anyone who was not given the okay to call them that got in trouble, what kind, I do not know.
"So, that'll be two Miso Pork Ramen, coming right up!" Ayame said and smiled at me again, I was use to people always smiling and looking at me, my mother once told me: 'People stare at you because you are so cute and precious!'. If she was correct, then everyone must think that because everyone I passed by stared at me and bowed.
"Alright, here are your orders Lady Kushina and Lord Minato." Ayame said handed the orders to my parents.
"Naruto?" My father said to me, which meant that I should give Teuchi the money for the ramen. I normally did this whenever I was on his shoulders, so I took out the wallet my dad had given me, counted out the exact change plus a tip and handed it to Ayame.
"Here you are, Miss Ayame." I said and placed it in her hands, that were not much bigger than mine though she was older than me by at least ten years, and smiled at her.
"Ah! Why thank you very much, young Master Naruto." She said, obviously ecstatic that I had handed her the money and had spoken to her. Now I will say this again, the only reason why she is able to call me by my given name was because my mother, not my father, said that she could do so. If anyone else ever addressed me in such a familiar way without my mothers' consent, she would go utterly ballistic. I know; I saw it happen before, I truly did feel sorry for the person but they should have know better.
My parents thanked them and headed to our private tent, where some of my friends families where already seated with their vendor food. This was the only time where we didn't wait for everyone to be present to begin eating, only because vendor food did not stay hot for long. My mother helped me down from my fathers' shoulders once they had both put the ramen down, as soon as my mother placed me on the bench I grabbed the bowl of steaming ramen, only to have my mother snatch it back away from me. I nearly cried, but I did not because I knew why she did it, I could not necessarily eat it myself, I tried once and let's just say ramen is extremely hot!
As my father sat down beside me I saw my other close friend shoveling down tons of different foods, 'Man, why does Choji have to be such a fatty?' I thought, but I would never in a million years say that to him aloud. I made the mistake of doing that a few months ago and ended up getting chased all around his castle yard, thankfully Ino was there to stop him or else I might have been seriously hurt. Ino is another one of my close friends, she's pretty I guess, she has blonde hair which is way paler than mine and blue eyes that are paler than mine as well. She was sitting across from Choji eating a salad with strawberries; she was pretty easy to get along with, except when it came to her best friend Sakura.
Who just so happened to walk in the tent and sit next to Ino, Sakura had light pink hair and sea foam green eyes. She was another one of my close friends, she and Ino are best friends, though they do not act like it when their parents aren't around. Let's just say they argue worse than Sasuke and I, they had nicknames for each other as well, Ino-pig and Billboard brow, ouch. Those two are crazy in the extreme. They make me want to never ever like a girl, if all girls were to behave like them that is.
I stopped looking around long enough to notice that my mother was staring at me, possibly wondering why I was not practically pulling on her long red hair to help me eat. My father would've been done had he not been talking, to whom I did not know or really, care at this point; all I wanted was my ramen which I shared with my mother.
"Naruto, are you feeling well?" She asked me, obviously because I was not eating…yet.
"I'm fine mother, I was just waiting for it to cool down a bit." I lied, which was actually kind of true now that I thought about it. She took a portion of it then and ate it, twice,before saying, "It is fine now sweetie, here." She told me and scooped up a smaller helping and fed it to me, it was so delicious! This was hands down my favorite food ever.
As my mother and I continued to eat, the rest of my close friends and their families came into the tent. I then noticed who my father was talking to; it was Shika's parents, Shikaku-sama and Lady Yoshino. Shikamaru sat on the other side of them and as usual he was half asleep, I wandered idly if he was missing some gene that helped him stay awake or if he was just really lazy. Neji's family was one of the one's that had just entered the tent, Hinata was beside him and his parents were behind them, their mother was huge to say the least, it looked as though it might hurt to walk, her stomach was its own planet.
As they sat at one of the tables, I felt someone sit really close beside me. I turned around to see nothing but eerie blood red hair, I already knew who it was before they turned to face me.
"Hi, Naruto." Gaara said to me, he was another close friend of mine. He had teal green eyes, weird blood red hair, and permanent black make-up around his eyes and no eyebrows, which I always thought was strange. I had not noticed his family was already in the tent when I came in; I looked around to see them on the other side of the tent with another close friend of mine's family. Tenten, was another girl, she was easier to be around than Sakura and Ino, only because she didn't argue like those two did. She had two spiky brunette pigtails and deep brown eyes.
"Hey Gaara!" I said happily, turning back to him, he only smiled and turned to eat his… actually I don't know what it was, it was deep fried something.
Finally Sasuke, Kiba and my last good friend Lee came into the tent, Lee was a very, better yet, an overly excited boy with seriously bushy eyebrows, which he hands down got from his father Guy-sama. Sasuke came to sit in front of me with his family and Kiba', with his older sister Hana, who was a bit scary if you ask me, but hey that's just me, went to sit beside Shika and as always a little white ball of fur followed close beside Kiba.
"Mikoto, have you tried out this Miso pork from ichiraku? It is simply delicious!" My mother exasperated to Sasuke's mother. Time to tune them out, their conversations were even more boring than that play we saw earlier. Ugh.
As I sat there, having finished the ramen, I thought about what time it was. I looked over to a clock that was set in the middle of the tent and groaned quietly, it was only 3pm, and we still had a lot of time before the firework show, which signaled the end of the festival.
"What is wrong Naruto?" Gaara asked quietly.
"I was just thinking about how much more time we are going to be here, I am getting sleepy." I told him and yawned, nicely proving my point.
"It is not that bad Naruto; that show was the first event we have gone to since we got here." Sasuke said, I looked across to him and saw that stupid smirk on his face. Though, as usual, by breathing faltered slightly.
"Do not remind me." I sighed at his statement.
While I sat there waiting for my parents to finish their conversations with the other parents, I heard my mother still talking to Sasuke's mother. So, with nothing better to do, I listened in on their ramblings.
"Mikoto, what do you think we should take the children to do next?" Mother asked Sasuke's mother, who he resembled a lot considering that he was a boy.
"Well, how about we break up into groups firstly? I know that some children do not want to see the same things as others." Lady Mikoto asked then giggled.
"That is a great idea! Now let us see…" Mother said then looked around the tent, "How about two groups of eight or so?" She continued and faced back to Lady Mikoto.
"Sounds good, how will we divide them though?" She asked my mother.
"Hmm, Minato?" My mother called for my fathers' attention, who was still talking to Shikaku-sama. I leaned over to see that Shika was actually awake and was talking to Kiba, who was grinning so hard it looked almost painful.
"Pardon me Shikaku," My father said, which bought my attention back to the previous conversation, "Yes Kushina?" Father continued and turned to mother.
"Mikoto and I where just discussing on splitting up into two groups of eight children for the remainder of the festival, do you have any take on how we should make-up each group?" Mother asked him.
"Hmm, well how about just like this?" Father said and motioned with his right hand, which drew or better yet made a cutting motion across half of the tent. I was a little confused, until I saw that how he motioned his hand equally divided the tent up into two groups of eight 'children'.
"That sounds good." Lady Mikoto agreed, "Fugaku, would you like to make the announcement, on the groups?" She continued and turned to Sasuke's Father, who always seemed to look a little mean.
"You women came up with the idea, so why must I be the one to announce it?" Fugaku-sama asked and looked like he was sulking, I had to put my hand over my mouth to keep from giggling. Though Lady Mikoto, and my parents laughed loudly at him.
"Now Fugaku, you should have been prepared for them to drag you into this after they asked my opinion." Father said to him and chuckled again.
"I suppose you are right Minato, what would you do without me?" Fugaku-sama agreed with father, then turned to his wife and, to my disbelief, actually smirked. Which made Lady Mikoto giggle and blush slightly; he then stood up and cleared his throat.
"Ahem, attention everyone," He called everyone's attention and paused while they quieted their previous conversations, then continued, "The ladies here have come up with an idea, which is to break-up into two groups of eight, counting children only. The point of this is to allow the young ones a chance to see what they would like at the festival, Minato has already suggested a possible way to divide the groups." Fugaku-sama said and then motioned for father to speak.
"Yes, as Fugaku said, I have decided that we split into groups right down the middle," Father said and made the same hand motion as before, indicating each half of the tent as a group. "This seemed like the easiest way to quickly make the two groups, though if anyone has any other suggestions we'll take it into consideration." Father said and looked around the tent. I already knew no one would have any objections to this because whenever my father made a suggestion, everyone went along with what he said. Father once told me people agreed with him due to the respect they had for him and because his ideas were always agreeable.
"I have no objects to this plan." Lady Karura said and tucked a strand of sandy-brown hair behind her ear; she was Gaara, Kankuro and Temari's mother. Kankuro and Temari were Gaara's older siblings. Kankuro had brunette hair and his face was accented with purple make-up on his chin, cheeks forehead and around his eye's, which I thought was kind of freaky. Temari on the other hand, had four short spiky blonde ponytails and bangs, she always looked so strict.
"Nor do I, Minato." Choza-sama second, he was Choji's father and simply put, he looked like an adult Choji. Size and all.
"Same here." Inoich-sama said he was Ino's father; they also looked exactly alike except that Ino was a girl.
"Agreed." Shibi-sama uttered, he was Shino father and boy were they both the same in giving weird answers to questions. He always wore a hooded cape and the same dark sun glasses as his son.
"That sounds like an incredible idea, we should make it into a race as well!" Guy-sama exclaimed he was Lee's father, he always took excitement to the highest extreme.
"I also have no objection to this." Hiashi-sama said, he was Neji and Hinata's father, though Neji looked just like him whereas Hinata looked just like her mother. So with his answer being said, it was decided that the groups would be made up as how father had mentioned.
"Alright, both groups may leave at any time and we shall regroup at the arena for the fireworks showing." Father informed everyone, who agreed and began discussing what they would see first.
"It looks like we are in the same group as teme." I whispered to Gaara and glared at Sasuke with a smug smirk on my face.
"Hahah" Gaara giggled quietly beside me.
"Whatever, dobe." Sasuke rolled his eyes at me.
Just then mother placed her hand on my shoulder, I immediately froze and saw Sasuke's mother place her hand on his shoulder to, he stiffened as well. Crap!
"What was that Naruto?" My mother asked me, I turned to look at her face, which was eerily smooth. Not good, I had to make up a lie and make it up fast or I was toast!
"I s-said 'belly' mother." I stuttered, but lied perfectly none the less.
"And what was that you said Sasuke?" His mother asked him with the same look on her face as my mother, when he looked at her his face was smooth and he smiled sweetly. Well he smiled stupidly if you ask me.
"I said 'don't be', as in 'don't be ridiculous', mother." Sasuke told her, he lied better than me, which was so unfair!
"Oh really now?" Both our mothers said in unison, which would have been funny during any other time, but right now, having accidentally called each other our nicknames in front of our mothers', it was just plain scary.
"S-so what event are we going to next mother?" I asked, trying to desperately change the subject, and succeeding.
"Hmm, well how about another play?" Mother said to me, I know she was just kidding with me from the smile I saw on her face, but I just couldn't stop my reaction.
"No!" I, Sasuke and even Gaara, said at the same time my mother asked this, at which she and Lady Mikoto laughed at our horrified reactions.
"Such horrified expressions', no more plays then, okay?" Lady Mikoto said through a giggle, I was so pleased to hear that they wouldn't make us suffer through another one of those sad excuses for entertainment.
"Well, Naruto sweetie, you look a little sleepy, so how about we take a short hay ride so you and the others can rest, while Mikoto and I think up of something else for the group to do?" My mother insisted, which I really had no objection to since I was actually pretty tired.
"Okay mother." I said to her.
Once that was decided, my mother and Lady Mikoto walked down to the rest of our group to inform them on the hay ride idea. I sat there glaring at Sasuke, who was glaring at me first so I had reason to glare back, the other children in our group then came to sit at our table.
"Man, all you two ever do is glare at each other!" Kiba mentioned and the proceeded to hit us both in the arm, it was not meant to hurt it was only meant to get us from staring at each other.
"You guys are so troublesome." Shikamaru mumbled.
"And you're always sleeping shika." I turned to stick my tongue at him, childish I know, but I am five years old after all. I can only act mature for so long before my childish ways get the better of me and my royal vocabulary starts to slip.
"Gaara, what was that you where eating?" Neji asked him and eyed the remaining pieces of his lunch.
"It was deep fried pork, I was good, and you should try it sometime." Gaara said.
"It is good is it not?" Shino repeated, stated, I am not sure, from the other side of Sasuke, who jumped slightly, I guess he did not realize he had sat beside him. Shino was a pro at sneaking up on people.
"Shino! Stop sneaking up of people like that!" Sasuke hissed and put his hand on his heart, yeah, he got scared.
"Hmm." Shino smirked and turned to Hinata, who was sitting on his other side.
"So w-what are we doing f-first Naruto?" Hinata asked quietly and looked over at me, while hiding behind Shino slightly.
"My mother and Aunt Mikoto decided on a hay ride, they said we could use that opportunity to rest while they think of what to do after that." I told her and apparently the others, who had turned to listen in on my reply.
"Now that's something I am looking forward to." Shikamaru smiled, that boy was just too lazy and his vocabulary shifted at that fact.
"You are too lazy Shika!" Kiba repeated my thoughts.
Just then Kankuro and Hana came over to our group, as theirs got up to leave for whatever they had planned first.
"Hey Gaara, our group is going to play some mini game first. Father said he will be coming with us, so mother can go with your group and keep an eye on you." Kankuro said him, then looked over at me and smiled. With all the make-up on his face, he reminded me of a clown and clowns gave me the creeps. I just smiled back at him, because he was actually a pretty nice guy.
"Okay, onii-san." Gaara replied as Kankuro mussed up his hair.
"Same thing with our father Kiba, so you're stuck with mother." Hana laughed, like I have said before, Shika's mother is just about as scary as mine. So Hana laughed knowing she would be able to get away with more things, without getting in too much trouble.
"Oh man!" Kiba groaned and proceeded to sulk, which made Hana and everyone else, me included, laugh loudly at him. Kankuro and Hana then turned around to hurriedly catch up to their group. Just as they exited the tent my father and Fugaku-sama came over to us, I had not even noticed when they had gotten up when my mother did.
"Alright kids, are you ready to go?" My father asked us.
"Yes father." I answered him and for the rest of my friends, who I knew were just as ready to go as I was.
Once we all stepped out the tent, my parents grabbed each one of my hands so that I was between them. Sasuke's mother and Itachi did the same thing, as did Shika's mother and Shino's parents'. However, Shika looked like he was embarrassed by holding his mother's hand, but he knew better than to pull away or he would face the consequences. Hinata's mother held her hand as well, while Neji's father held his. Though Gaara was holding on to his mothers dress, she had her hand on his head, then there was kiba who had Akamaru on his head, while holding his mothers' hand like the rest of us. Then our group began to make its way toward the hay rides.
As we walked through the festival grounds, passing families said their greetings to us and bowed their respects. When we got closer to where the hay rides were, we heard someone say something that had everyone in the group whipping around in disbelief. Especially me, because I knew first hand at what would happen, should someone ever call out to a royal member with such familiarity.
"Karura, Gaara!" A man, with the same sandy-brown hair as Gaara's mother, called out to them and waved. I looked over to Gaara and his mother, who had happy looks on their faces.
"Uncle Yashamaru!" Gaara exclaimed and released his mothers dress to run to the man.
"Yashamaru, I thought you had business to attend to and therefore could not make it this year?" Lady Karura said to her younger brother.
"Ah yes, as it turns out I was able to finish said business earlier than expected. So, with that done, I decided to come to the festival. Where are my other nephew and niece?" Yashamaru explained then asked.
"We split into two groups in order to see more of the events here tonight; they are in the other group along with Akurei." Lady Karura told him and added Gaara's father on at the end even though he had not mentioned him.
"Hmm, is that so? Well, where, might I ask, are you all headed to?" He asked. I did not miss the uncomfortable look he had on his face at the mention of Akurei-sama. 'Did they not get along?' I thought to myself.
"We are headed to the hay rides, will you be joining us?" My mother asked.
"Why yes, that sounds like a great idea, I will join you." He said happily to my mother. Then we all turned and continued towards the area where the hay rides were.
When we finally got there, I was almost dead on my feet, I was just that tired. We all then loaded onto separate buggies, as we all could not possibly fit on one, Sasuke, Itachi and their mother got into the same as me and my parents. Fugaku-sama, along with Shibi-sama, Shikaku-sama and Hiashi-sama got onto a separate one, saying something about needing man time, which made my father laugh.
There were three buggies in all that our group occupied, mine included, of course Sasuke, Itachi and their mother, along with Neji, Gaara, his mother and uncle. The second one included the fathers' who, as they put it, needed 'man time'. Finally the third buggy included Shikamaru, Kiba, Hinata and Shino, along with their mothers as well. Then the buggies shifted forward and we were off.
As the buggies began down the planned path, I leaned over to put my head in my mothers' lap and was intent on going to sleep. Only when I put my head down, I looked over to see Sasuke looking at me with an amused smile.
"What?" I asked him.
"Come sit by me Naruto." He asked, no, ordered me. The nerve of that idiot! And, to my not so much surprise, my mother and Lady Mikoto 'Awed' his request.
"Isn't that sweet Kushina!" Lady Mikoto gushed at my mother, her vocabulary slipping slightly.
"They are so cute!" My mother replied and lifted my head from her lap before continuing, "Go on Naruto, go sit by him!" she told me and all but threw me over to sit beside him, she did not actually force me or anything but I was so tired that that is what it felt like. As I went to sit beside him Lady Mikoto offered her set to me and claimed my original seat by my mother, to talk no doubt.
"Naruto, you look exhausted." Itachi said. He had watched me slug my way over here, while the buggy was still moving, and plop beside Sasuke.
"I am not too tired; I could use a nap though." I told him, which was not exactly true. I was indeed tired, but now having come to sit next to Sasuke, I did not feel as tired as before.
"Sasuke said he was a bit tired as well, you two should rest while we are up here. As the adults had planned." Itachi chuckled and looked at his pale little brother.
"I am not tired onii-san!" Sasuke grumbled to him, but did not fool us because as soon as he said those words, he yawned quietly. Which made everyone in our buggy laugh; I honestly had not realized that they were listening. So nosey!
"Sure you aren't ototo that yawn just proved that you weren't." Itachi said through his laugh, which made Sasuke blush slightly.
"Itachi!" Sasuke hissed, which only made him laugh harder and hug him lightly.
"Okay okay, I will stop teasing you… for now." Itachi told him and added the last part in a whisper, I am sure Sasuke heard him, but Sasuke just smirked and turned back to me.
"So Naruto, do you have anything else, besides tutoring, planned this week?" Sasuke asked me, I had to fight against my sleepiness to answer him.
"Uh, I am not sure, though my weekend is finally free this time!" I told him and woke up a bit at remembering that I was given time off this weekend, due to the fact that I was doing so well with my other lessons.
"Really? You should ask aunt Kushina to bring you to my place." He suggested my mother was not really his aunt; it is just that our mothers have been the best of friends since they were our age. So, since we are best friends also, we call each other's mothers our aunts.
"Sounds good, it will be better than just running around my house doing nothing." I agreed with him and then yawned.
"You are really tired aren't you?" He asked me.
"I am just a little sleepy, really." I told him honestly.
"You can go to sleep if you want to…" He said before a yawn cut him off, "I am actually pretty sleepy to." He continued and smirked at me. As usual, my breath hitched in my throat. He could not have possibly noticed, but his smirk got at little bigger at my silent reaction.
I simply shook my head and leaned into him to go to sleep; he leaned back into me slightly and put his head on mine. Though, I am pretty sure, right before I fell asleep, I heard my mother and aunt Mikoto 'Aww' once again, I heard my father and Gaara's uncle laugh quietly. As I slept on Sasuke's shoulder I could faintly my mother and aunt Mikoto discuss the next possible events to take us to after this ride. I thought I heard something about a circus, but I sleepily hoped that I heard wrong, I was not really afraid of clowns, but they seriously gave me the creeps.
AN: I'll end this chapter here peoples! The flashback continues for a couple more chapters and something dark looms on the horizon for two of our littler princes {gulps} but of course you already know they wont die, as you've already seen them mentioned earlier in the story! {exhales} But, enought blabbing! Until next time my fellow readers and dont forget to please, please REVIEW.
Please note: Suna Akurei, Hyūga Hisae© are mine, well my versions of Neji, Hinata and Gaara's parents names. But mine none the less.
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- Anna Uzumaki