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"What?" The Fifth Hokage raged. "What are you talking about?" She jumped from her seat.
Sasuke slowly repeated himself, his eyes not on the Hokage, but instead on the two elders. Homaru's face was nearly purple with rage and Koharu looked as if she might be sick.
"And what obligation could you possibly have? Show me what could possibly so important!" Homaru spat, furious. What the hell was this boy thinking? There was no way they would ever allow him to leave Konoha!
Sasuke took a slow, deep breath as he tried to calm the anger the reared up inside of him. Homaru was grating on his very last nerve and Koharu was not very far behind. He needed to restrain himself if he wanted this to end well.
"Elder-san, my obligation is not a what, rather, a who." He spoke calmly, his face and voice void of any of the thousand emotions he was currently feeling. He hoped that this would be over soon. He missed Kagome and Sukayu. Besides, he'd promised his son that he would return as quickly as he could.
"A who?" Koharu asked, her wrinkled face ashen, as if she knew something. Sasuke nodded and looked over to the Hokage. Her face showed confusion, anger, and, if he wasn't mistaken, fear. Her lips were set into a thin line, her eyebrows were drawn together, and she appeared to be conflicted.
"Lady Hokage?" He said, approaching her desk. "Do you remember the mission to kill the assassin of the Tsuchikage?"
The blonde nodded, "Of course I do, brat." She opened and closed a few drawers in her desk, trying unsuccessfully to find a bottle of sake. 'Damn you, Shizune.' She cursed in her mind. Her fingers twitched with the urge to punch something. What was really going on here? "What does that have to do with anything?"
"It was on that mission that I found out about my son." He met her brown eyes with his obsidian, determination settling upon him. Koharu gasped from behind him and then began to cough. Homaru jumped from his seat with a yell of surprise. Lady Tsunade, however, showed only a small amount of surprise. Sasuke saw the marginally small widening of her chocolate eyes.
"Son?" She spoke calmly, but again it was her eyes that betrayed her. Emotions swirled within them, the most prominent being disbelief.
"Yes." Sasuke nodded, unwillingly breaking their eye contact for a single moment. He waited a moment, then sought her eyes again and continued. "His name is Uchiha Sukayu. He is three years old." Tsunade's eyes widened again, her brain calculating when he would have been conceived.
Sasuke stepped away from the desk and moved to the window. He looked out, searching over the varieties of buildings and stores, over the walls and gates, and beyond, where his lover and son resided. "He is quite smart and very talented." He faced the Hokage again and smirked with pride. "He has the potential to be strong and has already started to train somewhat."
"What is this nonsense!" Homaru cried in disbelief. "You claim that this boy is three years old, yet you also claim that you only just found out about him!"
"Indeed." Sasuke scowled at the elder. "It is the truth. My son was kept from me for three years." 'But no longer.' He finished in his mind, staring at the elder with cold, hate filled eyes.
Homaru scoffed and Koharu spoke up. "So you now claim that someone kept the boy from you? Who would do so?" She looked at him with a knowing gaze, which irked him, and spoke as if he was a small child who had done a bad deed.
He gritted his teeth and kept calm. "My son's mother, of course."
"And who might she be?" Koharu's eyes were wide and astonished, as if the very idea of a mother keeping a son from the father was an outrageous principle.
Sasuke ignored her and looked at the Hokage once more. "I believe you know the answer to that, Lady Hokage."
A loud CRACK filled the room. Tsunade's fist had slammed into her desk, breaking the massive piece of furniture in two. "What were you thinking? You stupid brat! She is dangerous, do you understand?" The Hokage snarled.
Sasuke was quick and barked his reply. "It does not matter! I didn't care then that she was dangerous and I do not care now! She is my equal, my other half, do you understand?"
Tsunade's eyes filled with anger and disappointment. "You are an utter fool, Uchiha Sasuke." She turned away. "Go then. You are hereby dismissed of your duties to Konoha. You are no longer an ANBU, no longer a Konoha ninja, and no longer bound to us."
"Now hold on just a minute!" Homaru screamed, "You have no authority, no right, to release a ninja of his duties without the approval of the Council!"
"The hell I don't!" The Fifth Hokage barked, "I am the Hokage, the leader of this village, not you! It is I who decides who will be a Konoha ninja, not you! Therefore, it is I that decides who will also be released!"
"Not true!" He roared, quickly turning purple in his fury. "You must still go through procedure! You must still follow rules! And those rules state that we, as the council, must approve!"
The blonde scoffed and rubbed her temples. "Fine, then. Do as you wish. Will you, the Council of Elders, release the ninja, Uchiha Sasuke, from his duties as a ninja of Konoha so that he may be with his son?"
Homaru smirked and leaned back, "We most certainly do not."
Tsunade took a deep breath and tried to remain calm. "And why is that?"
"Because I believe the Uchiha is lying." Homaru's smirk widened, though it was obscured slightly by the wrinkles on the edges of his mouth. "I want proof. Uchiha Sasuke, in order for you to be released of you duties as a Konoha ninja, you must bring forth your son and present him to us."