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The guards were scouting the terrain this entire time and Sasuke was unable to pass through unnoticed. The Uchiha shinobi bend down even more and held his breath, when one of the enemy nins looked suspiciously at his direction. "Damn…", he shouldn't have rushed here without thinking but now it was already too late to go back. In addition if he retreated now they'd notice him and Danzo would change his hideout. Sasuke looked around him. The bushes were hiding him pretty well but at some point he had to leave his spot. The Konoha shinobi knew that in order to survive he had to think soberly but the anger inside him was burning fiercely. It was about time to kill this bastard and avenge his brother's death. After he found out about Shisui the entire world started to shine in a different glitter. He spent months in the library, checking out old reports and missions he had never heard of.
After revealing the truth behind his clan's massacre, he felt as if until now he was dreaming, and now that he woke up he saw the real world around him. World of betrayal, power hunger and avidity for blood. And all thanks to the Elders. He'll avenge his brother, his parents and his clan. And the first one to begin with was Danzo.
Sasuke activated his sharingan and prepared kunai in his hand…
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Sakura handed the wet plate to Shisui, who wiped off the water and put it on the table. When Sakura went to the kitchen to do the dishes, the Uchiha boy offered his help and now she was smiling at him, warmly.
"I'm glad, everything is ok now.", the pink-haired kunoichi sighed as she shook off her hands to dry them from the water after she handed the last plate to Shisui.
"Yeah. I still can't believe it, tho.", the young man smiled foolishly.
"Why?"
"Well, everything went better than expected with Kakashi-senpai.", Shisui laughed, "Actually I was prepared for either running for my life or defending myself."
"I think you should thank Yuki. If she hadn't stood up for you, you might have been right about the blood bath.", Sakura chuckled.
"Why, Sakura-san?", Shisui stared at her seriously. The woman shot him an non-comprehending look and he explained, "Why were you supporting me about Yuki from the beginning. I think you were the only one who was on our side."
"Ah, you mean why I didn't mind you two being together?", she smiled slightly as he nodded, "Well, Shisui, I've been in love with your uncle for 12 years. I loved him when he was the top student in the academy, I loved him when he was the cool genin that saved my life on our first mission outside the village. I loved him when he left me and Naruto and chose the path of darkness before us. And I loved him the most when he came back home. If there's something that I know about the men of the Uchiha is that they're prideful, strong and loyal to their beliefs.", Sakura sighed, "You're Itachi's son, and he's the shinobi who sacrificed the most for Konoha's sake but still he spared his little brother because his love for Sasuke was greater than the absolute order of the Elders. There's no reason for me, not to be thankful to God that decide to bless Yuki with your feelings. That is the greatest gift that anyone could give me, because I know that you'll protect her with your everything, which you already had proven."
Shisui blushed and mumbled, "Thank you."
Sakura stood up on her tip toes and reached to ruffle his black hair, "I wonder why when I look at you I see Sasuke."
Before Shisui had the chance to answer a piercing cry echoed in their ears.
"Oh God…I had forgotten that she could scream like that…", Sakura sighed and rubbed her ears, "Wonder what happened now…"
Shisui's eyes were wide open. It took him a while to assimilate that that was Yuki's voice. He definitely thought that some of his thinnest blood vessels in his brain were damaged by her scream. "Damn, that girl…", he walked into the living room, where Yuki was gaping at her father with fierce look in her green eyes.
"Go upstairs.", Kakashi's voice was cold and barely restrained, "You're grounded. You're not allowed to leave the house without my permission till I say otherwise."
"Make me!", Yuki growled at him.
Kakashi frowned; she looked just like her mother.
"C'mon, honey. Don't talk back to your father. You know that he only wishes the best for you.", Sakura tried to stroke her arm but the girl slapped her hand.
"Don't pretend that you agree with him. If it depended on you, you'd be long gone to where Sasuke-senpai is! I know you, mum! It's eating you from the inside that daddy didn't let you to go and help him."
Shisui stared at them confused, "What about uncle?"
The three of them silenced and looked at him. Yuki talked first, "Sasuke-senpai went to kill Danzo! On his own!"
"He's not alone! Naruto sent the best back up party he could assemble on so short notice after him.", Kakashi growled at his daughter. They have never had any argues and now he couldn't believe that his little girl was disobeying his orders.
"You and mama are the best back up party that Naruto could have sent, but you didn't let mama go.", Yuki put her hands on her hips, "She's the best medical kunoichi and you know it!"
"First of all, show some respect! It's Hokage-san now, not Naruto! And second, I don't want her to go because I don't want her to get hurt. Don't you care about her?", Kakashi raised his voice.
Shisui was standing speechless in the middle of the living room, staring at the red triangles, on the carpet.
Yuki growled and stood up before his father, confidently glaring at his masked face, "I will go upstairs. But mark my words! If Sasuke-senpai dies because of your jealousy and because of your doubting in my mother, I will leave this house and I'll never come back. Because right in this moment, you're not the same dad that I loved to brag about. Right now I'm embarrassed to say that I'm the Copy nin's daughter. Because you're nothing more than a jealous brat… ", the girl couldn't finish her sentence because Kakashi slapped her through her face.
Sakura screamed and rushed to her daughter, putting her arms around her shoulders, Yuki's eyes were burning and she brushed the light blood trickle from her torn lower lip. Shisui froze in alerted position, prepared to interfere if thing went out of control. The silver-haired girl straightened her back and turned around with a slight victorious smile, leaving her mother and father behind speechless.
Sakura frowned looked at Kakashi, "I warned you. And you didn't listen. I may be patient with your immature behaviors but I told you that one day Yuki won't be as understanding as me.", she turned and faced the silent boy, "Shisui-kun, are you ok?"
The Uchiha shinobi lifted his glance and whispered, "Do you mind me going after my uncle?"
Kakashi sighed, "I'd rather you stay with Yuki because I'm afraid that she might do something stupid."
Shisui bit his lip, "I guess you're right.", the boy bowed at Sakura and Kakashi, "I'll go upstairs if you don't mind."
"The first door on the left.", Sakura smiled fakery and then glared at her husband, "I need a word with you."
Shisui left them and climbed the stairs. It was his first time coming at her house; there were a lot of photographs hanging on the walls, he could recognize her on all of them in instant. She practically grew up in front of him. When he stood up before her door, the boy sighed and knocked. There was no answer.
"Yuki…", he knocked again, "It's me, open the door, please.", the boy pressed the handle but it was locked, "C'mon, sweetie, open the door. I know you're pissed but I need a hug so…, please…", Shisui placed his ear on the door and held his breath in attempt to hear something. Complete silence. Only the quiet whiff of the wind tale told that the window was open. But she never kept her window open. He had only seen her opening the window to go out through it.
"Damn!", Shisui sent a chakra in the lock and opened the door rapidly. The bed was untouched; the bathroom door was swinging open as well as the window.
The boy ran out of the room and rushed to the first floor. Kakashi and Sakura startled stared at him with a questioning look.
"She's gone.", Shisui whispered.
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Sasuke almost ran out of chakra and Danzo was standing there unscratched in front of him. Every time his Susano'o aimed a shot at him, the arrow just went through his body. Sasuke knew it wasn't a genjutsu because he had his sharingan activated since the beginning. The multiple eyes on his right arm were half closed except for one of them. It was fully open. Then a thought raised in the Uchiha's mind. What if somehow Danzo's activated mangekyo sharingan and its ability was to send the attack to another dimension but considering the number of eyes and the way that after a considering amount of time each one was closing, Sasuke could guess that Danzo had only about thirty second left before the jutsu expired.
"You arrogant brats, you always brag about how great the Uchiha were, now look at yourself…Panting before me…", the older man's voice was chuckling and annoying, "Give me your last shot, kiddo…"
Sasuke only smirked slightly and pointed at him with his finger, "You're a dead man, Danzo."
The man only laughed loudly and Sasuke noticed how his eye flicked and checked his last eye. The Uchiha successor put a vicious grin on his face and Susano'o shot the arrow. As the bolt pierced the man through his chest his eyes widened in confusion. He slowly lowered his glance and choked as he saw the closed eye on his arm, "But how…? It was open...", then the moment when Sasuke pointed at him with his finger ran in his mind, "So it was then when you casted the genjutsu…"
"In a battle of eyes…Don't mess with the Uchiha…", Sasuke smirked and turned around, enjoying the sound of the dying man behind him. Soon even they stopped and the Uchiha knew that everything was all over, "Time to go home…"
A sudden whoosh made him duck down, a kunai with implanted explosion tag stuck in the ground next to him.
"Fuck…", Sasuke jumped back to avoid the blast. He was out of chakra and his eyes were hurting. The Root platoon surrounded him and he slowly stood up. He had multiple wounds from the fight with Danzo and to think that now he had to deal with Root.
Without a warning the attacked him, he managed to kick away two of them and deflected some of the thrown kunai but a couple of shuriken stabbed him in the leg. He kneeled on the ground panting, holding the torpid leg in his hands. He saw two of the enemy ninjas to aim at him, he didn't have time to avoid the clash. Sasuke closed his eyes in acceptance. But the pain never came. A small silver-haired girl was standing before him, protecting him from the attacks.
"Yuki…", Sasuke whispered and started crawling away from the battlefield, knowing that he was only standing in her way.
The girl shot him a quick smiled and he heard chirping, that same familiar chirping as his Chidori's. Of course she'd know it, she was Kakashi's daughter after all. In a matter of minutes the Root agents were defeated. When the last one of them dropped his weapon and the last breath escaped his lungs, the silver-haired kunoichi rushed towards barely conscious Sasuke.
Her hands were already glowing in green when she asked him, "What happened?"
"Danzo is dead.", his voice was weak but victorious, "What are you doing here? Where are the others?"
"What am I doing here?", Yuki chuckled nervously, "I called my daddy a jealous brat, got slapped through my face by him for that, then I was grounded but I decided that I need to get some fresh air…so I escaped through the window and now everybody is probably sickly worried about me doing something stupid."
"I see. So I didn't miss much…", Sasuke tried to laugh but he choked on the blood in his lungs.
"Shh, quiet. You need to stay still so I can heal you and teleport us back to Konoha."
"Yuki-chan…", Sasuke smiled at her, "Thank you."
"Don't thank me. Thank my mum when we get home, because I'm simply doing what she wanted to do herself.", Yuki returned the smile and moved her hands over the wounded leg, she drew a kunai and tore the trousers before continuing her healing.
"So, why did you call Kakashi-sensei a jealous brat?"
"Because he'd rather let you die than let my mother to come here and save you.", Yuki frowned.
"Well, I can understand how he feels. If the roles were switched, I think I'd do the same thing.", Sasuke murmured.
"Sasuke-senpai…", Yuki sat on the ground and glared at the man before her, "You still love her, don't you?"
Sasuke blushed and his eyes fell.
"Just as I thought.", Yuki smiled slightly, "Well, she loves you too."
Sasuke put a pained expression on his face, "But she loves your father more and that's the way it should be."
Yuki sighed and hugged him tightly, "Well, sorry to disappoint you but if mammy loves you and daddy at the same time, that means it's ok for me to love you as my daddy as well right. That way I'll have another daddy."
"Let's say friend, not daddy, ok?", Sasuke laughed nervously at her unsuccessful attempt to make him feel better, "Wouldn't it be weird if you dated Shisui then?"
Yuki thought for a second and then nodded excitedly, "Best friend!"
"Best friend…", Sasuke repeated and ruffled her hair, "Let's go home and fix the mess you created with your disappearance."
"Hai!", the girl shouted.
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"But you've no idea if she'd left to help Sasuke or she just decided to rebel against your actions. I can't just send you off. She's a jonin for God's sake. Be patient a little. She can take care of herself.", Naruto scolded the three shinobi standing in front of his desk in the Hokage's office.
"But we're talking about Yuki here…", Shisui continued, "Last time she went missing was because she was kidnapped!"
"I don't care. Go home and make some herbal tea to calm yourself. Kakashi you should repent for your actions. It's mostly your fault that she left.", the Jinchuuriki stood up from his chair and pointed at the door, "You're dismissed. Leave."
Sakura's blank expression suddenly twitched and burst out in fury at Kakashi, "Why did you have to hit her? Now she's just trying to punish you in the only way she knows. Yuki's sixteen, she doesn't need to be logical or reasonable. Now it's her time to make mistakes, to live! Just because she's skilled shinobi that doesn't mean that she's not a teenager anymore!", the pink-haired kunoichi bumped her fists at Kakashi's chest, "If you'd only let me go to assist Sasuke, this would have never happened in the first place. Sometimes I think that you're as immature as Naruto, when he was twelve."
The Hokage shot her a bloody look and cleared his throat.
"Sakura…", Kakashi caught her hands, "I know that he means a lot to you, I know that he's a important part of your life. He was your first love, he was your first man, he was next to you when you needed me and I wasn't there for you…", the Copy nin's eyes fell, "I just can't compare to that."
The kunoichi sighed, "Kakashi, why do you have to compare yourself to him when you already have me?"
The silver-haired man closed his eye and pulled her in a tight embrace, "I just don't want to lose you."
"Never.", Sakura whispered.
"Now that you managed to state the obvious, get out!", Naruto growled with widened eyes.
Shisui turned around to leave the office but then the door opened. At the doorstep Yuki and Sasuke were grinning foolishly. Sakura pulled back and wiped the tears in her eyes, she raised her eyes at Kakashi waiting, the man sighed and nodded. The pink-haired kunoichi rushed and threw herself at Sasuke. The Uchiha moaned in pain but returned the embrace. Sakura was crying once again.
"I thought you were dead – ", the kunoichi hiccupped, "I'm so happy – "
"Believe me I'm happier – ", Sasuke buried his face in her hair.
Yuki stepped cautiously in the office, looking at her father. She looked little scared, tho.
"I knew the team that Naruto-senpai…um… I mean Hokage sent were just doomed to fail. They were expected to go against Root platoon.", the silver-haired girl coughed, "Of course, they were no match for me…"
Kakashi raised his eyebrow at her arrogance.
"After all I'm the Copy nin's daughter.", Yuki blushed and smiled apologetically.
The older jonin let the air out from his lungs and opened his arms. The girl sniffed and rushed in her father's embrace.
Naruto and Shisui smirked and the Hokage disappeared in a dim smoke. The young Uchiha was standing there watching the happy reunion. His thoughts traveled to his father's last moments spent with him, after all this time he was still hearing his last words to him, "Go to Konoha. I hope that leaves there will shower you with their love." Back then he didn't understand the true meaning behind those wise words.
When Yuki came to him and they kissed, Shisui was positive that she was his personal tree that was strewing him with her love. With every kiss, every touch he felt even more alive and the world they lived in was getting brighter. It was true that he may not make it up to his forties or she might like someone else in future, but he was absolutely sure that his feelings would remain the same, year after year, decade after decade. Secretly, Shisui hoped that Yuki's love for him would be as strong and lasting as her mother's for Kakashi and Sasuke. Then the young Uchiha shinobi smiled and a reassuring thought crossed his mind, "After all the cherry doesn't fall away from the tree..."
The End