CHAPTER FOUR

"Talking"

'Thinking'

~Parsletongue~

Demons speaking

*Jutsu*

Written words

recap of chapter three

"I understand how you feel, Sasuke, I know you're upset and I'm sorry I wasn't able to be here for you. Truthfully I didn't know a damn thing about my Uchiha heritage until just yesterday, the moment I found out I set up everything to make my way here, to you." he assured, grabbing Sasuke's shoulder and smiling softly. "I won't be able to replace the rest of our family, I might not even come close...but i'm here now and i'm staying."

Sasuke was quiet as he digested all he'd been told, unsure of how to respond yet so he just turned to his food and began to eat, Hadrian followed right after.

The meal passed in a more comfortable silence that was only interrupted when they two Uchiha argued over who would pay until finally Hadrian gave in. They headed home with smiles.


Once Hadrian and Sasuke arrived home it was later so they simply said their 'good night's and headed to bed. Each had a hard time falling asleep, Hadrian due to excitement and Sasuke from a mixture of excitement and nerves.

By the time they both fell asleep it was well on to midnight.

Hadrian was never one to sleep in and it showed since he was up shortly after the crack of dawn. It took him a minute to recognize his surrounding and remember his eventful day he'd had. With a smile he rolled out of bed, thankful he'd done some cleaning charms before getting to sleep last night, and headed for the shower.

While cleaning up he pondered on the notion of making breakfast, dismissing ti quickly since he didn't know what was available or what Sasuke liked. With that in mind he decided to go shopping today after setting up things with gringotts and Konoha so the goblins could transfer some of his money into the Uchiha bank account and he didn't have to worry about using up Sasuke's money.

Shower over, and dried off, he dressed in his usual muggle attire and decided to go clothes shopping as well while he was out today. Since he didn't actually know when Sasuke got up in the morning or if he had academy things today he knocked on his cousin's door and chuckled when a sleepy grumbled was his reply.

A minute later the door opened and a grumpy looking Sasuke with, more than usual, mussed up hair huffed up at him and glared. Hadrian was used to worse ones from Snape so he just flashed a beaming smile. "Mornin, sunshine~ Wasn't sure what you had going on today so I thought I'd let you know I planned on visiting the Hokage real fast and then going shopping for groceries!~" he chirped out, smirking when his chipper tone had the angsty preteen groaning in annoyance.

"Hn."

Taking that as a simple grunt of understanding he ruffled Sasuke's hair and fled before the grumpy kid could lash out. He was all ready for the day he just headed off for the Hokage tower. Since it was a clear shot from the Uchiha estate there wasn't really anyone to run into.

Hadrian chatted with the secretary, and a few stray ninja in the building, until he was cleared to see the old man. Once in his office it was quick work figuring out financial things and Hadrian went ahead and let the Hokage inform his higher up stationed ninja of the return of an Uchiha to the village. He was sure, with how good ninja were with information gathering, that the whole village would know by lunch time.

"I hope you don't mind me asking, but how did Sasuke react to you?" Hadrian had been about to leave when the Hokage had sprung the question him.

"Ah, I don't mind." he hummed and sat back down with a small smile. "He was surprised, obviously, but I think he took it well overall. He did have questions and i'm sure he has more still but I plan to explain everything tonight after dinner."

"Everything? So even your magic?"

"Mmhmm, magic and all." he sighed. "With how similar magic can be to chakra I know he won't really care." the wizard shrugged. "Also we decided to classify my magic as a uh...Ke- kekkei genkai?" he hoped he said that right.

Sarutobi nodded and laughed softly, "Yes a kekkei Genkai of sorts, as such you don't have to explain anything to anyone who might see you perform some kind of magical feat, just tell them it's a clan bloodline and you don't want to share any more about it." he assured the teen.

"Ah good, I might tell some people later if I get close to them, but right now I only want Sasuke knowing."

"I understand."

"Well it's that's all I better get going so I have time to prepare dinner after cleaning, the place is a mess."

The hokage laughed and shooed Hadrian out of his office after getting a promise for the wizard to visit him every now and then. Hadrian was alright with that since the man reminded him of Dumbledore at times and that was a welcome familiarity.

Stepping into the fresh air Hadrian took in a deep breath and chuckled as he exhaled, it'd been a long time since he'd felt relaxed enough to go outside without some kind of disguise. He was loving the new freedoms of not being a celebrity.

He strolled along the dirt roads and leisurely made his way to the market so he could first go clothes shopping, then he'd focus on foods and cleaning supplies, he didn't do all cleaning by magic.

He loved seeing such variety and colour everywhere he went and wondered if something more practical would be called for, or if he should even try to get some kimono to wear every now and then. He didn't really know much about proper kimono etiquette and didn't want to end up offending someone by doing things completely backwards. He decided he'd put off getting anything like that until he had Sasuke around to help him out.

This cut down his shopping time, for clothing at least.

He was very much enjoying himself as he wandered around the stores and picked out anything that caught his eye, he'd never been able to do this before and he was sure he seemed like an excitable child in a candy store with how overjoyed he was at doing his own shopping with no one trying to attack him and avenge their master or anyone trying to cling onto him and demand he marry them or sign something for them.

As he went along he chatted with a few of the shop owners or workers to get help deciding what to wear since for the first half of his life he wore nothing but cast aways and after that the school he went to has a uniform so he'd never really coordinated an outfit for himself.

They were happy to help and seemed to find his chirppy disposition amusing and cute, he couldn't count the number of girls and older woman who would just sigh and cuddle up onto him, he found that for some reason he didn't mind since he knew they weren't trying to feel him up or trap him in a marriage contract.

A few stores later and a good number of bags of clothes he was wore out and hungry. He stepped out of the shop he'd been in and looked around to see if he could find a place to grab some food. He hadn't been paying enough attention to what was right around him since he stepped onto the road and almost immediately crashed right into someone and fell back onto his ass with a gasp and a groan.

He was gathering his bags when a hand was thrust out towards him as the person he'd bumped into offered to help him up, "O-Oh thank you, haha i'm not normally so clumsy." he assured as he dusted himself off and smiled brightly at the helpful stranger.


Author notes!~~~

I'm sorry this one is so short as well, gah I keep saying they'll be longer but then I just frick it up because I decide to change something and I need to post something quicker to get my author notes out quick because I hate it when an author note is the whole chapter and nothing else is posted, so please forgive me. SO!~ Who should our dear little Hadrian have bumped right into?

So the poll is going well but I am sadly going to have to cut Itachi from the poll, I know a lot, A LOT, of people have voted for him but after some talking with a few friends and figuring things out Itachi just wouldn't be a good choice for Hadrian in the long run. This isn't because I don't like the pairing, I LOVE THE PAIRING, just not for this particular story, not for what I have in mind so I'm very sorry for those who voted Itachi, I feel pretty bad for not figuring this out earlier.

Going along with that I also must cut Kakashi and Iruka from the poll as well, i'm sure this will also make people upset so I apologize again for not having realized sooner what I wanted to do with Hadrian and what kind of partner I wanted him to have. I know a lot of people have already voted for them and I will allow them to change their votes. I apologize again but this is how it will be since I now have different plans for Itachi, Kakashi, and Iruka.

Also, hopefully you're still reading and don't hate me for the above statement, some people have reviewed saying they want Hadrian with someone who in the anime/manga is female. This is a SLASH story, Hadrian is homosexual and will be in a homosexual relationship.

So the poll now reads, again I apologize for having to cut Itachi, Kakashi, and Iruka, as thus

Genma: III

Ibiki: III

Zabuza: III

Kisame: I

OMC: II

Shibi: I

Inoichi: I

Asuma: I

Izumo&Kotetsu: I

Yes threesomes are a thing that is allowed

Mpreg: IIIII IIII

Magical Adoption: III

Now for ages since some people have asked. The ages for people, as of right now

Hadrian: 18

Itachi: 16

Kakashi: 25

Iruka: 21

Ibiki: 26

Zabuza: 25

Genma: 28

Kisame: 28

Shibi: 38

Inoichi: 37

Asuma: 26

Izumo: 23

Kotetsu: 23

Sasuke: 11