Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, I am sure I would completely change Sakura's character. Also, I would hurry up the speed of the manga currently xP
P.S Someone asked me if Sasuke's and Sakura's marriage is a happy one. It is but Sasuke doesn't show it often.
Chapter 4: The Enemy Appears
-Sasuke's POV-
I was just randomly looking around Naruto's desk and I just happened to pick the results of the ANBU captain testing. And it just happens the daughter who I thought was super weak happens to be near the top of the list, passing with flying colors. Of course, I thought that was some type of mistake. But it happens that Sayuri's profile is right underneath. So being the curious person I am, I just happened to pick it up.
And I just was hit with the biggest surprise ever since I learned the truth about Itachi and when Sakura first told me she was pregnant. I mean after all these years am I really supposed to believe this from her profile:
-Name: Sayuri Uchiha
-DOB: June 12 (Age 15)
-Parents: Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Uchiha
-Rank: ANBU (has not done any missions under ANBU), Jounin
-Team: Konohamaru Sarutobi (Jounin), Kenji Uzumaki (Chunin), Arata Hygua (Chunin)
-Missions completed: 29 D-rank, 24 C-rank, 42 B-rank, 19 A-rank, 2 S-rank
-Nature Elements: Fire, Lightning, Water (Secondary)
-Other Notes: Proficient in using Sharingan and Mangekyou Sharingan; Can use medical ninjutsu; High intelligence; Prefers ninjutsu but skilled in genjutsu and taijutsu and weapons
I quickly glanced at the various missions and notes Naruto made. The more I read, the angrier and more confused I got. This all did not make any sense. Finally, Naruto came inside and I held up these papers and said two words in a very stern voice, "Dobe, explain."
Naruto's face was in obvious shock. Even a five year old know what he is going to say next is a lie. And sure enough, "I don't know what you are talking about Teme. Probably some joke. Wanna go get some ramen?"
"Uzumaki."
"Sorry Teme but,"
"I'll take to Ichiraku's. Let's go. My treat." One thing you should know with Naruto – always bribe him with ramen. You get exactly what you want after his third bowl.
I waited until Naruto was on his fourth bowl of Ramen. I asked him one more time, "Dobe, explain."
He slurped some more and replied, "Well not much to explain is there Teme? I mean it is as you see it. Sayuri is a very gifted child. She just chose not to share it with you."
I was silent for a little bit. There was no reason why she wouldn't tell she about this. That would explain yesterday's behavior somewhat. But that doesn't explain why she never said she was strong or why she pretended she didn't have the Sharingan. I flipped some more pages and found what I was looking for.
"Dobe, does she really have the Mangkeyou Sharingan?"
"Yup!" Naruto was now on his fifth bowl now. "I was shocked at first. I think she was ten, eleven. Kakashi-sensei taught her how to control and use it. Last time I checked she can use Amaterasu pretty well, and her Susanoo is just a little weaker when I fought you."
I stared at Naruto and looked back at her profile. "Why Naruto? Why did she never tell Sakura or I? You and Kakashi know…."
"Ask Sayuri. I never wanted to be the person telling you all of this. I always wanted to see the day when Sayuri tells you. You should ask her when she gets back from Sound."
"What? YOU SENT MY DAUGHTER TO SOUND! DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS IT IS FOR HER? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
"Sorry, but she bribed me with Ramen. Hey….just like you. Did I ever tell you how similar the both of you are?"
That got me completely off guard. "What are you talking about?"
"You and Sayuri. I always told Sayuri that she was a female version of yourself."
I didn't say anything.
"Well I am not going to tell anything more. For two reasons. One, Sayuri would hate me forever and two I have a meeting with the elders."
Naruto finished and left me with the bill. I payed and headed back home. Naruto is completely unreliable. How did the fool even become hokage? But the fact that Sayuri was in Sound right now bothered me. I had half a mind to chase her and bring her back home. She doesn't know how dangerous it is for her.
-Uchiha Household-
"Sasuke-kun, are you home?" Sakura was in the kitchen.
"Hn."
"Did you find Sayuri?"
Instead of answering I gave Sakura Sayuri's profile. While Sakura was reading through it, I saw tears start to swell in her eyes. Ten minutes later, she placed the papers on the countertop.
"I can't believe this. I mean to hide all of this. What was she thinking?"
"Hn. I thought you would know."
"This explains so much though. Just yesterday she had this horrible wound on her arm. It looked poisoned and Sayuri said someone took it out and healed it. I guess she healed it herself. And there have been so many times when Sayuri got these cuts and bruises with strange explanations. Do you know where she is?"
I looked at her, met her eyes and replied, "Sound with the mini dobe."
Sakura stared at me and repeated, "Sound? Why Sound? She doesn't know anything. She is in grave danger. Sasuke-kun, we need to go and stop her."
"It's too late Sakura. I will send some people to bring her back."
"We should go. Take Arashi and go. She might be strong but with only Kenji do you think she will be okay."
"If I go after her, it will only increase the chance of her being caught. I will send a the ANBU."
"Who knows about all of this Sasuke-kun? "
"Kakashi, Naruto and his family, Sayuri's team."
"I think Satoshi knows too.
"What?"
"Satoshi is the closest to Sayuri. He knows something. It would explain why he was so agitated this morning and his behavior last night."
I knew Sakura was right. But for now, I just needed to think.
I headed back to our bedroom and tried to do some work. I got nothing done. Yet I couldn't think much of Sayuri. I sent a few instructions for the ANBU to tail her, but for some strange reason flashbacks of what happened in Sound kept coming back to me.
-Sayuri and Kenji (Sayuri's POV)-
It is about 1:00 in the afternoon. We have been travelling nonstop at top seed for a few hours now. We are currently about a third of the way to Sound. I would have liked to keep on going, but I have to admit that we are both pretty tired. I haven't been in the best shape for the past few weeks and Kenji gets tired faster than I do. I just have more stamina.
We stopped for a few hours to take a small nap and eat breakfast. That was a bad mistake. I sensed ANBU tracking us. Uncle Naruto must have sent them. There was no other explanation.
"Are they still tailing us?" Kenji was looked pretty tired.
"Yeah, I sense it and it is getting stronger. We can't stop. We have to throw them off. Do you have that old, bloody shirt from a few days ago. Let's rip and use shadow clones."
"We're gonna waste a lot of charka."
"It's our only chance."
"Yeah."
Thankfully, our plan worked. We travelled some more. We reached the borders of Sound around nightfall. We travelled much faster in the afternoon due to the sunlight and lack of trees and other obstacles.
We pitched our tents and started eating the food we brought. It was quite for a while.
"Sayuri, you are going back home aren't you?"
"…"
"You can't keep the truth from your parents forever."
"…"
"I don't even get why you don't tell them. What do you gain? It just makes the tension between you and your dad even worse."
"Just drop it."
"No."
"My dad and I do not get along. He is all full of pride and conceited. If I tell him all of this, all of his attention will divert to me. He is still going to neglect Satoshi and everyone else. I want my dad to learn he has nine children. Not one and eight others."
"You know your dad doesn't think like that."
"Well, that is how he shows it."
"I think you are jealous."
"What?"
"I think you really want your father's attention."
"If I wanted it then I would have told them already."
"It's because you have too much pride."
"…"
"Just like your dad."
"I am nothing like my dad."
"You are a female version of your dad."
"Your confused. You are a clone of your dad, Kenji."
"I guess, but-"
Kenji did not get to finish that. We sensed five unknown scents. We had our backs face each other and our kunai out. My sharingan was activatedOne ninja attacked me. I neglected and threw my kunai at him. Then two other started to attack Kenji. The fourth came at me from my back.
"An Uchiha. How exciting."
I didn't have an answer. Instead I took out my sword and tried to stab one of them. I glanced at Kenji. He was doing well. It was very obvious that these were amateur ninjas despite their age. I took another lunge at stabbed on in the knee. He retreated. I stared at the other ninja and cast a genjutsu. I released it and he ran away. Kenji wounded his two as well.
"Kenji, there is a fifth one. His chakra is so..intense."
"Yeah, I sense it too."
And then a man with white hair in a ponytail and glasses appeared. His skin seemed to be like a snake's skin. He stared at me.
"An Uchiha? You must be Sasuke-kun's daughter. How interesting…………."
I remember in my last chapter I said my next update would be ASAP. I was really thinking I would update in about two weeks. I have been super busy. There were AP exams, studying for AP exams, speech and debate stuff, sports stuff, major projects, major tests, laziness, writer's block, school events, clubs. Now, my schedule has started to clear.
AP exams are over! So (hopefully) updates will be much more frequent. Maybe 1 or 2 chapters a week.
All right. I would really appreciate reviews. I wrote half of this chapter nearly a month ago. I hated it. I rewrote most of it, took out all the wordy stuff. All of this in exactly 43 minutes. So I don't think it is that great as the last chapter. Tell me what you think!
