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LAST NIGHT I HAD A HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE THAT I WROTE A BOOK AND NO ONE READ IT AND SAID IT WAS TERRIBLE AND I WOKE UP SO DEPRESSED. THEN I READ YOUR REVEIWS AND THOUGHT. IM A DAMN GOOD WRIGHTER. I MAY NOT BE ANY J.K ROWLING, BUT IM NOT BAD EITHER AND IF I WRIGHT A BOOK, PRETTY GOOD CHANCED THERE WILL BE AT LEAST ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO WILL READ IT AND NOT USE IT TO START A FIRE.
SO DEPRESSION GONE, I STARTED ON THE NXT CHAPTER
I DONT OWN NARUTO OR THE PARENT TRAP
BY THE WAY, I DONT PARTICULARY KNOW WHAT SAKI IS MADE OUT OF SINCE I'VE NEVER BOTHERED TO REASEARCH AND MY INTERNET PROTECTION IS DOWN TO A MINIMUM. SO LETS JSUT PRETENT IT'S MADE FROM GRAPES FOR MY SAKE, OK? DONT ALL COME FLAMING AT ME BECAUSE I DONT KNOW!
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AGAIN I'D LIKE TO METION THAT ANY PHONE CONVERSATION ON SAITO'S SIDE WILL BE DONE IN BOLD, LIKE SO: BOLD
CHAPTER 11
TELLING THE TRUTH HAS IT'S BENIFITS
Shisui watched with morbid fascination as a piece of paper began to print out of the fax machine. It was a little well drawn cartoon of a border-collie dog and it looked as if it had been drawn by Saito. That boy always did really like art. Only this dog was barking a speech bubble with the numbers '911' inside.
Shisui picked it up, the paper still warm from the fax machine and held it behind his back, thinking it was probably a letter from Saito's friend Eustace.
He walked into the dining room to find the rare occasion that Itachi had actually been dragged out of his dojo to eat breakfast with his son and brother. Although he didn't look to happy about it. Saito was as normal as possible, well, counting out is suddenly expanded appetite. Really, that kid used to be able to go his on way with a bite of toast and a swig of milk. Now he was eating three bowls of rice, two fish and some fried eggs every morning and inhaling the food as if it would disappear the next moment. Honestly, which brought him to another concept.
Saito used to eat things so delicately that Shisui could have sworn he had been a girl Hime in another life. But now he ate...well like a regular boy with enough self control when Itachi was around not to get him suspicious.
But Shisui left that all down to coming home from camp feeling better. Perhaps that Eustace fellow had a better influence on him, Saito had looked really happy to hear from him. But Sasuke of coarse thought differently. Paranoid bastard. He thought something was wrong...well actually Shisui thought so too. But at least he was more discrete about it, not frowning like mad at everything like Sasuke was doing!
Shisui sat at his place and poured the sake for himself and Itachi. "You have some great Sai by the way cousin; I thought you hated this stuff though. What?" he winked "old habits die hard?"
Itachi glared and took a sip.
Sasuke raised an eyebrow "why are you even drinking Saki at breakfast?"
Itachi shrugged "it's like Shisui said unfortunately, old habits die hard."
Kaito watched with interest and wondered what he meant. Then he suddenly remembered how much his mother loved Saki, it was something she had inherited from her mother and grandmother and had a habit of drinking a small cup everyday at breakfast. Could that be the old habit he was stuck in. Kaito sure hoped so!
"May I have a sip?" Kaito asked innocently. Itachi looked unsure at first before shrugging and handing him the cup "I don't think you'll like it, your mo..." he trailed off "someone I used to know was the only one beside Shisui who liked this particular kind."
He watched with interest as Saito swirled it around as if he were testing wine and took a sip, a little like how Sakura used to do it. she felt it was a more fun way of drinking wine. "well if you ask me" Saito said suddenly "it's a little too sweet at first but then it turns sour and burns your stomach which makes me believe that it was created by crushing rather that squeezing the southern Californian grape."
Shisui laughed "since when do you know so much about Saki and grapes" he said as Saito handed the up back to Itachi "wait, don't tell me, you learned it at camp?"
Saito only smiled and looked down. it was then Shisui noticed he had seen the letter on his lap with the dog barking '911' but he ended up leaning out of his seat too much and fell to the ground with a clutter.
"Saito" Itachi said in his levelled voice "are you alright" Kaito sat up quickly and smiled "yes, yes, just got a tad woozy. That's all. I guess I had too much Saki."
He stood up and went for the door in forced even steps "I'll just step out for some fresh air." And with that he ran down the hall way.
Sasuke watched with a frown "Woozy?"
Kaito ran down the streets of the district of Tokyo they lived in searching frantically for a pay phone until finally he found one.
Rushing inside he searched his cloths for spare money and found luck was on his side when there was the right mount on yen hidden in his shoes. He began to dial and when he heard the ringtone he thought frantically 'DONT BE MOM, DONT BE MOM, DONT BE MOM!"
Luckily it wasn't his mother as a male voice answered the phone. A voice that sounded identical to his own.
"Kaito?" his voice sounded tired and distressed.
"What's up Saito, what's with the '911'?"
"Kaito I'm desperate!" he groaned
"What could be so desperate you would actually risk sending a fax message where Shisui, Sasuke or even worse, dad might see?"
"hold on to you shoes Little brother. Mom's getting married!"
Kaito nearly dropped the phone "what do mean 'getting married?'" he asked carefully.
"I mean, black tie, white gown, the whole enchilada."
This time he really did drop the phone "WHAT!" he cried and hurried to pick up the phone again.
"And that Michael is even worse than I thought, I mean I thought he was controlling, but I didn't think a mama's boy blue-blood like him could be abusive too!"
"Abusive! Nii-chan, what did he do?"
"When I tried to talk to him, tell him I wasn't having it, he grabbed my arm so tight it bruised, then told me to keep it 'out little secret' so as not to upset mother!"
"That little..." Kaito didn't even finish his sentence "how dare him, no one can do that to any brother of mine, and no way can he marry our mother!"
"Well the wedding is in two weeks and so if there's any hope of getting them back together then we've got to do it fast. Mom seems like she's hopelessly in love with this guy, but whenever she talks about father she gets this expression that's so warm it melts you, but it's a little painful too. So I bet she still has feelings for him. She just needs t see him again for her heart to be swayed, I'm sure of it!"
"Yeah, and I'll bet my right foot and left ear that dad is still in love with mom too. I don't care what some divorce papers say, there's got to be another reason why they broke up because you do not love someone like that one minute and then not the next!"
"But Kaito, when I say fast, I mean REALLY fast. Before mom becomes too entangled in this mess!"
"ok, Dad and I are going out to see a Kabuki play, something one of his students gave him as a present. Ill drop the bombshell on him, when we're both so bored to tears he's be happy over anything the slightest bit interesting."
"Ok. And Kaito...HURRY!"
Hearing his brothers frantic voice on the other side suddenly made Kaito feel just as frantic, perhaps it was a twin thing "Ok, I will. Hang in there Saito, we can do this. After all, we got England and japans two most devious male minds. There's no way we can fail." He put the phone down and groaned.
Pushing the door to the phone box open, it banged on someone standing outside. "Oh sorry" Kaito said in English.
But he gasped when he saw who it really was.
"Sasuke!" he gasped and his raven haired Uchiha uncle. "Uh oh!"
"Uh oh is right, Saito" he said with a frown. But he didn't look angry, instead he had a small smile, like the cat who got it's cream and was allowed to eat it too. "How about a walk in the park" he said nodding to the entrance nearby "since you have a lot of explaining to do."
Kaito gulped "how long have you been standing there?"
"From 'what's up Saito, what's with the '911'' so if Saito's there, who are you?"
Twenty minutes later of walking in the park Sasuke had found out many things.
"So let me get this straight. You are Saito's twin brother Kaito, the two of you met at camp and decided to switch places and get my brother and your mother back together. But now Sakura's getting married to an abusive, controlling blue-blood with fancy hair and you two are panicking?" he asked.
Kaito nodded and Sasuke finally let everything sink in.
Kaito was here, Kaito was here.
He could remember them, how for the first time he had seen his brother smile like that when they were born. He had never seen the man that happy before. And then how he was when he had to leave his youngest and his wife in England because of all he interference from the clan. he had been so angry with them that he cut off all ties from the Uchiha family.
And now that son was here, and the woman he was absolutely sure his brother still loved was getting married to what sounded like the biggest prick in London!
"You aren't going to hug me are you?" Kaito said with a grimace "because I would like to say, I'm not a hugger, the only one I can hug normally is Nii-chan. To everyone else, I'm allergic to hugs!"
Now that Kaito was showing his true personality Sasuke could see the twins were like polar opposites. Saito was moody and sensitive. Kaito was energetic and hyper.
Saito was a hugger. Kaito was not.
In that sense, Saito took after Sakura and Kaito after Itachi.
But if Kaito was anything to go on, the brothers already had developed a strong bond. The expression of pure anger on Kaito's face when he had heard something bad had happened to Saito, that was something that could not be faked. It was obvious how much they cared about one another even though they had only known each other for five weeks.
"you're not against us getting mom and dad back together, are you?"
Sasuke ginned "are you kidding, I'm all for it!"
"Really!" Kaito gasped.
"Yeah, I'm starting to get annoyed with Itachi moping around because he lost her. I don't care what that idiot says, the daimyo of Japan could see with one second of knowing the man that he was miserable and still in love with his ex-wife.
"You see, those two were really happy. No one expected them to get a divorce. In fact, sometimes the love was so strong it was nauseating to non-love believers. But then all of a sudden they started arguing, and then came the eventful day when Sakura packed up and took you guys to England. Itachi went out and for the first time in his life, got drunk. A week later the divorce papers came in and Sakura flew back to Japan. The only problem was they both wanted you two. So Itachi took Saito and Sakura took Kaito. It broke the two of them to see you two separated, but it was all they could do.
"But after that, Itachi was obviously miserable. He had loved her, as much as he denies it and as hard as he tried to hide it, ht really loved her. He was willing to defy the Clan for her that's how much he loved her. That was the reason why he cut himself off from the clan, because they ruined his marriage. He really wanted for it to work out, to have a normal family with her.
"That's why Shisui is always setting him up on those blind date's even though I tell him it's pointes. Itachi has a bad habit that once he finds something he likes, nothing else will do. The same goes for Sakura, he keeps comparing all his dates to her and when they don't make the cut, leaves. That's one of the main reason Charlene got the job"
"Because of her eyes?" Kaito asked fascinated
"Because of her eyes. But it was her situation that got her to keep her job in the end. So yeah, I'm all for this plan, if it will get my brother to finally come out of his depression even though he will furiously deny it, then hell yes, go for it. And if there's a way I can help, then ask away. But I have one condition."
"What's that?"
"Don't tell him the truth during a kabuki show, the guy deserves more than that. Tell his at a time he can actually process the information."
So they waited till the next day. Kaito found him practicing some kendo movements with his sword; he wasn't dressed in the full uniform, just the sword.
Kaito felt is heart speed up with nerves as he held a kendo mask in his hand.
He felt Sasuke's warm hand on his back pushing him gently forward "go on Kaito, it's now or never."
"And besides, what's the worst that could happen, he go ballistic because you've been lying to hi all this time" a fully informed Shisui said with a smile. Kaito and Sasuke glared at him.
"Nice going idiot" Sasuke groaned. "Ignore him" he said, a little gentler, to the small ten years old boy before him "just tell him the truth, sometimes telling the truth has its benefits."
Kaito nodded and took in a deep breath. He stepped inside and watched as Itachi turned at the sound of the paper door being slid open.
"Saito" he said with a small smile "hang on, I'll be done soon, then you and I can practice some normal katana swings. Your back should be ok for that?"
Kaito cam and stood before him with his head down. Itachi noticed something was wrong instantly "Saito, is something wr..."
"I'm sorry Father, I can't practice with you, since I will be out of town for a few days."
Itachi smirked "I see, and where will you be going?"
It was then that Kaito slipped on the helmet and turned around.
"Saito?" Itachi said with concern.
"That's where I have to go, I have to go see Saito!"
"Okay then" Itachi said taking his houlders to turn him back around "and where will Saito be?" His son's next comment made him freeze.
"In London, England. With his mother Haruno Sakura."
His smirk disappeared and he slowly turned his son around, Itachi noticed that suddenly everything had gone quiet. He looked up for a moment at Shisui and Sasuke standing in the doorway without shocked expressions. Slowly Itachi took of the kendo helmet off the boy and looked into mismatched eyes and he crouched down to his level. He ran his hands over the boy's hair as he looked back at him with a small worried frown.
"You're not Saito" he said. Saito would never show an expression like that. "You're...Kaito?" he said, not even daring to hope.
The boy nodded once "that would be correct." Then he looked up frantically "please don't be angry, Saito and I met at the camp and decided to switch places. Please, I never met you and I always wanted to know what you were like. I'm sorry about lying to you but I hope one day you can forgive me." He said all at once. Tears were threatening to fall out of the young bys eyes.
Truthfully Itachi wasn't angry. He was somewhere between utter happiness and sock. He just kept seeing the little baby Sakura had put in his arms ten years ago, the one he had to say good bye to when they divorced.
"Kaito" he repeated numbly as he cupped the boy's cheek and smiled "I'm not angry" Kaito rested his face into his father hand with a hopeful smile. "I'm afraid I'm not much of a hugger, only Nii-chan and I can hug normally" he laughed.
Itachi smirked "don't worry, that's something you got from me, it used to drive your mother mad."
"So you don't hate me, you love me like you love Saito?" he said hopefully.
"I'd never hate my son" he said simply but that sentence was the world to Kaito. It was Itachi finally acknowledging him, Kaito, as his son.
A clapping noise came from the door way as they turned to a grinning Shisui pretending to wipe tears from his eyes "What a touching scene, a boy and his father reunited after eight years. Hey Kaito, you actually managed to render my little cousin speechless with only a few words. You have to teach me how to do that sometime."
"Out!" came Itachi's cut reply as Sasuke nodded and managed to drag their cousin out of the room and shut the paper door.
Kaito sniffed at his real tears and wiped his eyes "but I guess you have to switch us back now, huh?"
Itachi nodded solemnly "unfortunately. According to the divorce papers, you belong to Sakura and Saito belongs with me."
"No offence Dad, but this arrangement really sucks!"
Itachi smirked "I agree"
"Then I suggest we fly to England, see Mom and Saito and work this whole thing out."
See Sakura again! That wasn't something he had thought of. He was still processing the information that he had had his youngest son with him for the past few weeks without noticing anything. And now they were going to see his ex-wife.
But none of his distress showed on his face, "I think so. Don't worry son" he stood and ruffled his hair "we'll sort this thing out."
But in the end the simple matter of the fact was he was bloody panicking.
He hadn't seen Sakura in over eight years and eight years ago he had loved her more than...well anything. In fact...no, e was not even going there.
On the outside his face was clam as he packed, nut in the inside he was going nuts. Shisui and Sasuke watched from the door way as he packed.
"Should we be worried? I mean, he's about to see his ex-wife and he looks so calm!" Sasuke said.
But Shisui snorted with laughter "you call that calm. Please! Sasuke he may be you brother, but I've known this guy since we were kids, and believe me. He's panicking. Just look"
They watched as itachi mindlessly put a snow globe in his suitcase and didn't notice until he had placed another folded shirt over it and blinked in wonder over how the heck it had gotten in his suitcase.
Sasuke smirked "we really should help him out or something"
"Are you kidding!" Shisui gasped "this is the most fun I've had all summer, it's like a movie. We should document this moment and get popcorn!"
ANOTHER CHAPTER DONE. I HOPE IT WAS TO YOUR STANDARS, I THOUGHT THE WHOLE, ITACHI CALLING KAITO HIS SON THING WAS SO SWEEET, I WAS SMILING WHEN I WROTE THAT.
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