A.N- Hey. Sorry I haven't 'dated for a while, I was just relaxing and reading. I finished 'Family Beasts' and I am liking the amount of people have read it. O.K, here ya go. Disclaimer: I own nothing but the story & characters I make up.
Akira woke up, feeling pretty good. But also determined. Today she was going to get some answers about her clan. And she wouldn't take no for an answer.
She passed her mother in the kitchen and, after a quick breakfast of eggs and toast, she headed to the training grounds. As she suspected, Sasuke was there. He noticed her chakra signature and turned around quickly. When he saw who it was, he scowled. He was not in the mood to talk to his niece. Not that he thought of her as such. As far as he was concerned, she was just some girl, the bastard daughter of his bastard brother.
He turned again and glared at her, as she had appeared on a tree branch in front of him. There was an annoyed expression on her face, as she figured he didn't want to talk to her. But there was also a determined glint in her eyes, if it took all day, all week, Akira would make him talk to her. She gazed at him for a moment, both of them sizing the other up, before finally saying,
"I answered your questions, now you owe me answers of my own." Sasuke's scowl increased. He most certainly did not want or intend to answer this girl's questions, nor did he intend to talk to her at all. Her questions were probably silly ones, but then he remembered when he first saw her, her eyes full of wisdom that did not match her age. Eyes full of curiosity and a strange sort of longing. Sasuke came to the conclusion that she wanted to know about their clan. Then he quickly discarded that thought. It was his clan, not hers. She may bare the name of Uchiha and had Sharingan, her father may be Itachi, but if there was never a clan when she was born, how could she belong? No, he just didn't want to believe this was real, he had someone related to him, actually related, not by the clan, and that she was now in his life. He wanted to stay the last Uchiha, let it die with him, he had done his duty to it, now he wanted to just let it be. He narrowed his eyes at the girl.
"You answered my questions because you're smart and selfish. You're smart because you knew I could kill you and so you did what I wanted. And you're selfish because you value your life more than the safety of this village. What if I were a rogue ninja and you spilled the beans as easily as you did when I interrogated you? Ever think of that?"
"What would a rogue ninja do with information regarding who my father was? Because he could blackmail Itachi? You?" She countered. "Besides, you deserved to know. And I would never, never put my life before the village. I took a pledge to defend this village with my life and I intend to do just that. Unless the kids are right, and I'll end up just like my father and uncle. I wonder who I'd join? Akatsuki or Orochimaru? Or maybe a new group or other person who wants to destroy Konoha? Who knows?" She added that last part to anger him. But there was that wise look in her eyes again. She didn't talk or act like a normal eight year old. She talked like she was twelve, like she had experience with this kind of things, like she was a trained Jounin that had witnessed countless deaths of both enemy and comrade instead of a newly graduated genin who hadn't so much as set foot out of Konoha gates. What was it about her that made him shrivel in front of her, as if he was the genin? Was it that look in her eyes? Was it because Itachi was her father? Sasuke shook his head to clear his thoughts. Why, oh why was he so attached, yet so detached at the same time to this girl? Uh. He didn't have time to play with her.
Akira suddenly gasped and then turned a dark shade of red. "Why, that %#$$**# son of a bitch!" Sasuke had been a clone. He didn't disappear yet, but did after her rather violent outburst. Akira felt so pathetic for not having figured it out sooner. Oh, when she found him... Let's just say Sasuke better watch his step.