Akemi POV

Sasuke Uchiha.

He stared at me with his coal black eyes and I felt a shiver down my back.

What now..?

"I wonder when he got back." Katsu muttered beside me. Then he looked at me and saw the fear in my eyes.

"Don't worry. He won't hurt you." The raven promised. I wasn't convinced, but nodded anyway.

As we walked toward Katsu's father I could see Rei walking up to her husband from behind. I could hear her speak now that we'd gotten closer.

"Oh yeah, this is Akemi. She's from Konoha. Katsu saved her from a couple of ninjas a few days ago and she's been staying here ever since."

"Is that so?"

His voice was deeper than Katsu's, but it was still smooth and somehow it had a dangerous clang.

We walked up the steps and Katsu nodded at his father. "Hey dad, when did you get back?" He asked.

"Just now." Sasuke answered his son, without taking his eyes off me. Katsu noticed it.

"Well, dad this is Akemi. Akemi, Sasuke."

"Nice to meet you." I said and bowed. My voice sounded surprisingly calm and I mentally thanked god.

"The pleasure is mine." The Uchiha replied.

"Well, I'm going to prepare dinner. See you guys later!" Rei said and smiled before giving Sasuke a quick kiss and walk into the big house.

An akward silence occured. I glanced at Katsu and saw him narrow his eyes.

"So, you're from Konoha?" Sasuke asked playfully.

I didn't like the tone of his voice. I had a feeling he was going to trick me somehow.

"Yes, sir." I answered.

The older Uchiha smirked and continued: "How old are you?"

"Sixteen."

"Just like Katsu then. What's your lastname?"

Damn it.

Damn it, damn it, DAMN it!

"Namikaze." I kept my fingers crossed that he didn't know about the fact that the fourth hokage was Naruto Uzumaki's father. He narrowed his eyes and I couldn't tell if he believed me or not.

"So you are related to the fourth hokage?"

"Yes." That wasn't a lie. From the corner of my eye I could see Katsu stare at me. Right, I never told him that much.

Surprisingly Sasuke didn't ask more about that. Instead he started to ask me how everything was going in Konoha, and I started to relax a bit.

"And how's Naruto doing?" The man asked. I tried to act surprised.

"Naru... Oh, Naruto Uzumaki? He's fine... I think." I added.

"I wasn't surprised when I heard that he finally became hokage. But i'ts funny how a dobe like him have gotten such a high rank."

He watched me closely. If I ever needed a pokerface, it was now. I calmly met his gaze and tried not to show the anger I felt inside.

'How dare he call dad something like that?' I thought, but then I realized I'd heard it before.

"Just wearing a forehead protector doesn't make you a ninja. It's your skills that counts, dobe."

I winced when I remembered what Katsu had said when he thought I was unconscious a few days ago. I glared to my left at Katsu who were still watching his dad.

"Well, I'm going to rest before dinner, it was nice talking to you Akemi." Sasuke said with a small smile. Then he turned around and walked inside. I could hear him walk up the stairs and then Katsu and I were alone again.

Naruto POV

"NARUTO YOU BAKA!" Sakura shouted. I felt her fist punch my cheek and then I flew back a couple of meters.

"W-what have I done now Sakura-chan?" I stuttered.

We were already pretty far away from the village at the fire country boarder, and I'd just told them why we were going back to Konoha.

Shikamaru and Kiba were just staring at me like I was the biggest idiot that had ever walked on this planet while Hana and Ryuu glanced at each other. They seemed to be hesitating and were obviously pretty confused too.

"It's pretty obvious who really rules in Konoha. God, she has the strenght of a monster!" Ryuu whispered and grinned, only to be kicked in his stomach by my angry wife.

"Excuse me?" Sakura said furiously and leaned over the boy who now were lying on the ground, terrified.

"Nothing! I didn't say anything at all Sakura-san!" He quickly said and held up his hands with fear in his eyes.

"Good." Sakura replied and straightened up. Ryuu sat up and looked surprised. I guess he hadn't expected to be alive.

"Naruto I agree with Sakura, even though you are the hokage, you really are an idiot." Kiba said. He'd never been much smarter than me, but obviously he knew something that I didn't know about, and it was pretty annoying.

"I still don't get it." I muttered. "Why can't you just explain?"

Shikamaru sighed. "Naruto, you are so troublesome. Anyways-" He stopped and picked out a cigarette from his pocket. "-you were right on one point."

I waited eagerly for the brown haired man to continue while he lightened the small, white paper roll. From the corner of my eye I could see Hana helping Ryuu up.

"The sharingan is involved, but it's probably not Kakashi's." Shikamaru said. "Naruto, I think there are more Uchihas out there."

Silence.

Silence.

Even more silence.

"WHAT?"

I was shocked. "But... Sasuke, Itachi and Madara were the last Uchihas! And they all died..."

"I know." Shikamaru interrupted. "But Naruto, think again. Obviously Kyuubi have already figured everything out, and according to him the sharingan is involved. And since the fortune teller talked in plural that's the only thing I can think of."

"I'm not buying that." I growled. "If any of them were alive we should've known. And who says that this fortune teller didn't make it all up?"

"Naruto-sama, I'm sure she didn't." Hana cut in. "She knew about Akemi and what kind of answers we wanted! She wasn't faking!"

I sighed.

"But... How?" I said in a low voice.

Sakura sighed. "I'ts possible that they are relatives to members of the clan that left the village a long time ago, but that's probably not the case since the Uchihas... Well... They just weren't the type of people that abandoned the village."

"I have to agree on that." Shikamaru said and nodded. "If there by any chance had been any other Uchihas alive after the Uchiha massacre I'm sure that the council, the hokage or Madara would've tracked them down."

"Then how can you say that there are any sharingan users alive?" I asked angrily. I didn't want to talk about the Uchiha clan. The subject brought back too many memories of Sasuke.

"It is possible that Sasuke thought about the future of his clan before he went to the battlefield and made sure to produce a heir before that. And we don't know much about Itachi's personal life either. I'm just saying that it's possible."

Was the son or daughter of my former best friend actually out there?

I took a deep breath and asked: "So... What now?"

Katsu POV

I quietly walked down the stairs and yawned. It was dark in the big house and I fought my instincts to attack every shadow.

When I got out on the veranda he was already there. He was sitting on the boards with a couple of paper pieces in his right hand.

"Why can't we talk tomorrow instead?" I asked with an irritated look on my face.

"Because we can't talk when your mother or Akemi is around." My father answered without looking at me. "Get over here."

I sighed and walked up to him. He held out one of the papers and I realized he wore a glove on his right hand to make sure his skin didn't touch them at all.

I grabbed the paper and stared at it for a moment. Suddenly the bottom started to wrinkle and at the same time the top of it started to turn into ash. My eyes widened. I looked up at dad who didn't seem surprised.

"Fire and lightning." He said and nodded to himself. "Just as I thought."

"So, was that one of those 'chakra-papers'?" I asked. Dad looked at me and smirked.

"You've heard about them before?"

I snorted. "Of course. I'm not stupid."

He just laughed and said: "Just as expected then."

"You just called me out here to find that out?" I asked, annoyed. I dropped the chakra-paper and crossed my arms. Dad sat down and I did the same. I knew what was coming, I'd figured it out at the same time my father had met Akemi.

Not only dad was acting different. Akemi had also seemed pretty tensed and nervous ever since they saw each other for the first time.

"There's a few things I want to ask you." My father said with a serious look on his face.

"About..?" Not that it wasn't obvious.

"Akemi 'Namikaze'." He pronounced her lastname with a tint of sarcasm.

"Go ahead."

"You saved her, why?"

I stared at him, confused.

"Because you've taught me to be loyal to Konoha."

He shook his head and said "Yes, but I also taught you to remain hidden from people. Especially people from Konoha. That includes other ninjas."

"Would you have prefered that I'd let them kill or kidnap her?" I asked dryly. "She was almost unconscious and had been poisoned. I saw the forehead protector and made a quick decision."

"I'm not blaming you, I just wondered. Why were they after her?"

"Their boss wanted to speak to her or something."

Dad looked up in the dark sky without saying anything.

"At first I thought she was useless since she was a jounin and still couldn't protect herself from a couple of amateur ninjas, but she is pretty strong." 'Hell, she almost killed me!' I added in my mind.

"And what made you change your mind?" My father asked.

"She got tired of me thinking she was trash and challenged me."

Something made my dad laugh. I stared at him. He never, never, NEVER laughed. "And who won?" He asked amused.

I didn't answer.

"I didn't use sharingan, and she surprised me. She created two shadow clones that sneaked up on me from behind and held me still, then she used a jutsu called 'Rasengan'. But instead of punching it right through my chest she made the clones push me out of the way. To be honest, I thought she was going to kill me."

"Rasengan, huh?" My father muttered. It was silent for awhile, then I heard him say "You know what, Katsu? I think it's time you learn a certain jutsu, a pretty powerful one."

My eyes widened in shock. "Do you mean... That you are finally going to teach me chidori?"

Dad nodded before he got up. "We'll start training tomorrow."

I can't say I felt butterflies in my stomach, that just wasn't how an Uchiha expressed himself. But I felt that slight eager feeling and I could've sworn my heart started to beat faster.

"Oh, and one more thing, son." My dad turned around to face me. "Don't tell Akemi about this training or this jutsu."

I lifted my eyebrows and asked "Why?"

He didn't answer. Instead he went back inside and left me under the dark sky. I sighed and leaned back against a wooden pole.

It was silent. Absolutely no sounds at all. I closed my eyes and felt how the wind made my black bangs dance in the wind. No, not dance. That wasn't how an Uchiha expressed himself.

'I wonder why dad keeps everything away from me. Doesn't he trust me?' I thought bitterly. 'And why did Akemi tell dad her lastname when she more or less refused to tell me?'

I turned my head slightly to the right and leaned my cheek against the wooden pole.

Before I went back inside I made two promises to myself.

I would find out Akemi's secret, and I would train hard and get stronger, so that dad would entrust me with the secrets of our clan and aknowledge me as a Uchiha.

Sooo... I know this was a pretty short chapter, but I really wanted to post one as a small gift (or if you prefer curse ;) ) for christmas. :) So merry christmas guys! :D And if you feel like giving me a gift, then please review! :D