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The Uchiha Sister
Chapter 21
Tukiko felt that she had been alseep forever. That's what it seemed like when she felt a warm sensation go through her body. It seemed very comforting to her and for some reason, familiar to her. After a while, her body gained back the energy to open her eyes. Her eyes drifted open to stare at a white ceiling. Her vision was a bit blurred but it focused a bit to see a woman with blond hair in pigtails hovering over her. A scowl was on the woman's face and Tukio blinked. She knew who this woman was.
"T-Tsunade-sama?" Tukiko was a bit surprised that her voice was a bit hoarse. Her throat felt like sandpaper and she couldn't speak. She pulled her body up and she was even more surprised to see that she was lying in a hospital bed. Her head pounded a bit but it was bareable. Her eyes glanced over to Tsunade, blinking.
Tsunade tsked at her, shaking her head in disappointment. "I'm ashamed of you, brat. I thought that you would be able to handle yourself but I see that you couldn't even stay awake long enough to try to defeat your brother!"
Tukiko frowned. "I-I'm sorry. It's just...that form of Sharingan..." She had never seen that type of attack of the Sharingan before. It was strange to see it. But why did it affect her? She wasn't even hit by the attack head-on. Sasuke was the one that was fighting Itachi at the time. So how did she get into that world? Was it some sort of mental attack? She shook her head and stared up at Tsunade. "So Tsunade-sama, what are you doing in Konoha?"
"You're not gonna believe it but Baa-chan is the new Hokage!" Naruto exclaimed as he appeared by her bedside. He was grinning really wide. "I went out and brought her back to the village so that she could heal you, the teme, Kakashi-sensei, and Bushy brow!"
"New Hokage?" She stared up at the woman who was grinning embarssingly. "I thought that you didn't even want to be in Konoha, much less the Fire Country."
"Yeah, well, someone convinced me to come back," she said with a small shrug.
Tukiko blinked, raising an eyebrow. She glanced over to Naruto who was still grinning. "Naruto convinced you, didn't he?"
"You bet I did! I even learned a cool new technique during the month we were away!"
Her eyes widened. "I've been out for a month!?"
"Yes by what the nurses say." Tsunade sat on her bed near her. "And by what Jiraiya told me, you were fighting Itachi and he used a technique on Sasuke. He checked to see that your brother sustained mental damage and when he checked you when you were knocked out, you sustained the same damage. Mind telling me how?"
"Well...ah..." Tukiko fidgeted with the bed sheets. She wasn't sure if she should tell her that she and Sasuke had a mind connection. By what she remembered of Tsunade, when she met her when she was just eight years old, she could remember very clearly that she was always curious about some medical stuff. Since their mind connection was something of the brain, she would definitely get curious. So she shook her head. "I-I don't know. I can't remember."
Tsunade raised an eyebrow, easily seeing that she was lying. She was about to accuse the girl of that when Tukiko's eyes flickered over to the bed that was next to her. She let out a relieved sigh when seeing Sasuke awake, as she was, and Sakura hugging the boy. Tsunade stopped short when seeing Tukiko frown and look down at the bedsheets. Tsunade frowned herself. She would ask Tukiko about what she was hiding but would handle that later. But for now, she would have to see the other people that Naruto was pestering to her about healing.
Tukiko saw Tsunade stand to her feet and saw her stern expression. "Well, you should be fine in just an hour or soon so that you can leave."
"What about Sasuke?" Tukiko glanced over to her brother who still seemed out of it.
"I'm afraid he'll have to stay longer."
She frowned but nodded. "Alright."
With a curt nod, Tsunade left the room with Naruto trailing behind her. Naruto gave her a big smile before he left, leaving Sasuke, Sakura and Tukiko alone in their room.
Sakura finished hugging Sasuke and noticed that Tukiko was up. She smiled and walked over to her bed. "I'm so glad that you're okay, Tukiko-chan," she said happily. "I was really worried that you were hurt."
"Don't worry. I'm fine!" Tukiko gave a big grin to show Sakura that she was feeling fine. Her body may have felt fine but her heart wasn't. She was still upset over what happened when she met Itachi again. She shook her head of that thought. No. She wasn't going to think about Itachi until later on. Tukiko glanced over to Sasuke again. "So...Is Sasuke all right?"
Sakura peeked at Sasuke at the corner of her eyes and nodded. "He should be fine like you."
She let out a sigh of relief. "That's good."
A small rumbling noise broke out right after she said that and she blushed. Sakura let out a little giggle.
"You must be hungry after being asleep for a month."
Tukiko blushed and nodded. "I guess I am."
"Would you like some apples then?"
She eagerly nodded. She needed food so badly and felt like chewing on something.
Sakura went ahead to get some apples she brought along with her and started to peel the skin off of them as she sat by Sasuke's bedside. Tukiko didn't mind because she just stared out the window. A small smile lingered on her face as she saw kids playing down in the streets below. It was kind of peaceful to see kids playing around like there was nothing in the world to bother them. It was a cute sight to see that kids didn't have to worry about anything at all except for growing up and getting strong. Kind of like the genins were doing.
I kind of wish that I could have had a childhood like those kids though, she thought with a sigh. For the past six years I've been traveling to get stronger like no one has seen before. But I ended up neglecting my childhood even if I did have fun learning all kinds of stuff and meeting all sorts of people. I wonder what my life would have been like if I had stayed...
Tukiko stopped her thoughts right there. If she had stayed in Konoha, she wouldn't even have a childhood either because of the noble training and housewife stuff she would be forced to learn. What was the point of staying in Konoha for her childhood when she wouldn't have it either way?
She was wondering about all of the people she had met over the years and was too caught up to hear Sasuke's thoughts about his hatred to their brother. However she did hear the clatter of a plate breaking on the tiled floor. Tukiko glanced over to the bed beside hers and was confused to see Sakura on her feet. Her eyes connected to Sasuke's glaring eyes. It shook her up a bit and her body froze.
"S-Sasuke...?" Tukiko stepped out of bed and walked over to her brother. She sat on the bed, tilting her head to stare at him. She frowned when seeing him act like this. Grabbing his hand, she whispered, "Sasuke-chan, what's wrong?"
"Hey, what's going on?" Naruto asked when he entered the room. He was staring at Sasuke's back and at Tukiko's worrying expression. Sasuke heard Naruto enter and turned around to glare feircely at him, courtesy of the Uchiha death glare. Tukiko let out a silent gasp. Naruto was his friend and yet he was glaring their death glare at him? What was going on with Sasuke? Naruto blinked. "Why are you glaring at me like that?"
"Hey, Naruto..." Sasuke muttered, hanging his head to stare at the bed sheets.
"Wh-What?" he asked hesitantly.
"Fight me..now."
"What? No!" Tukiko exclaimed. She tugged at his hand. "You're still recovering, you idiot! Do you want to get hurt?"
"Yeah, you should listen to your sister, Sasuke," Naruto agreed.
"Shut up and fight me now!" he demanded admantly. His Sharingan spun wildly in rage. Sasuke started to get out of bed but Tukiko stopped him.
"Sasuke, don't fight Naruto right no-"
"Shut up! Stop always getting in the way!" Sasuke turned his angry gaze to her now. "I was doing fine before you ever came back so stop telling me what to do! You should have never came back to the village!"
Tukiko's grip on Sasuke's hand grew slack, her eyes wide with devastation. Sakura and Naruto gasped at them. How could Sasuke say something like that to his own sister? Tukiko's eye started to tear up. She abruptly stood to her feet and raced out of the room, leaving behind a trail of tears. Sakura looked between the two boys, feeling a bit teary herself but raced out of the room to follow Tukiko.
"Hey, apologize to her, teme!" Naruto was outraged. Weren't he and Tukiko siblings? Didn't he miss Tukiko when she was gone for six years?! "She's only worried about you getting hurt!"
"Does it look like I care? You can't make me forgive her ever for when she left!" Sasuke stood face to face with Naruto. "So are you going to fight me or what?"
Naruto gave it a quick thought. He did want to fight Sasuke but after what happened...He smirked at him. "Fine! I'll fight you but you have to apologize to Tukiko-chan for what you said."
"Don't get so cocky." He gestured his head to the door. "Follow me." He walked out the door with Naruto right behind him.
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When Tukiko had raced out of the room, she didn't know what to think about what Sasuke said. Tears had blinded her vision as her feet raced up the set of stairs that led to the roof. She burst through the door that exited to the roof and collasped on the side. She began to sob as she curled into a ball, hiding her face in her lap, not caring her tears were wetting her clothes. Her whole frame shook as she sobbed.
Tukiko didn't mean to run out like that but after what Sasuke said just devastated her. It hurt her so deep like he just drove a kunai into her heart. It hurt because everything he said might have been true. If Tukiko hadn't returned to the village, maybe all of this stuff that was happening might have never happened. She should have just returned to the village when she was seventeen like she had planned to long ago. Sasuke would have been better off without her. He didn't need her always getting in the way so why did she bother to return at all?
The door opened beside her but Tukiko didn't care. She just kept crying. Then she felt a presence beside her and a hand touch her bare arm.
"Tukiko-chan, are you all right?" It was Sakura. She sounded really concerned about her.
Tukiko didn't say anything, just continuing to cry.
"Please, Tukiko, I'm sure that Sasuke-kun didn't mean to say any of that stuff," she reassured her. But it was all in vain.
"He did mean all of that stuff," Tukiko muttered through her tears. "Sasuke always says things that he usually means."
Sakura opened her mouth to say otherwise but she knew that she was right. Sasuke did always say what he usually meant. So there was no way to tell Tukiko that he didn't mean to say all of that stuff. She sighed, wishing that she could help out her friend. Her friend was hurting all because of what Sasuke, her brother, said to her. What should she say to help her out?
The door opened again but this time, it was Sasuke and Naruto who passed through. Sakura gasped and watched as the two boys move farther away, facing each other as if they were about to fight. She gasped again, standing to her feet.
"What are you two doing? Don't fight!" She pleaded to them. But they ignored her as usual.
Tukiko lifted up her head and wiped away her tears to see Naruto and Sasuke getting ready to fight each other. She gasped, seeing that both of them were serious, and looking like they were about to kill each other. They weren't, were they?
Naruto let out a laugh and Sasuke glared at him.
"What's so funny?"
"Funny? No," said Naruto. "I'm just excited is all. To think that I can finally beat you."
"What did you say? Stop talking nonsense."
"I'm not going to be a loser after today, am I? I've changed from that guy you once knew me as!"
"Dobe, what are you full of yourself, huh?!"
The two continued to taunt at each other back and forth like a tennis match. Sakura and Tukiko worried that one of them would reach their breaking point and attack the other. It did reach the breaking point but out of the person they least expected it to be: Sasuke. The two boys lunged at each other and all the girls could do was watch.
Tukiko didn't want these two fight all because of some stupid thing. Weren't they like the best of friends? Although Sasuke had never admitted it, Naruto was his best friend! He was the first person he ever felt bonded to after the massacre and before she had arrived back in the village. They couldn't fight each other! Not like this. She couldn't bare to watch this. Each hit the boys landed on the other, she flinched and winced. It was painful to see that they were actually serious about all of this. They were using all the attacks they knew as if they were trying to kill the other person. Sakura was gripping at her hands, holding her breath as the battle continued. She felt the same as Tukiko.
As the girls watched Sasuke jump into the air, they watched as a clone of Naruto's started to use it's hands to rotate something in the real Naruto's hands. It was like a swirling sphere of chakra. Tukiko guessed that was the jutsu Jiraiya had taught Naruto. Tukiko looked up in the sky to see Sasuke using the Chidori and flew down at Naruto. Her and Sakura's eyes widened widely when seeing that the two were using their jutsus on each other! They were trying to kill each other!
"No!" Sakura started to run into the fray to put herself in between the two. Tukiko jumped to her feet. She was going to get herself killed!
"Sakura, no!"
Sakura had just put herself in between the boys who drew ever closer to her. She squeezed her eyes shut, ready to take the impact but was surprised as her body hit the hard ground. There was a loud explosion and metal screeching. Sakura opened her eyes to see Tukiko on top of her, breathing hard. (Not like that, you pervs!) Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw Kakashi standing there next to them.
"T-Tukiko!"
"You idiot, you could have died!" Tukiko breathed. She had tackled Sakura to the ground before she could get hurt. She didn't need to though because Kakashi had appeared right on time to redirect the direction of the boys' jutsus. Tears were on the corner of Tukiko's eyes. She was really worried that she would have lost another friend when she saw Sakura put herself between the boys.
Tukiko got off of Sakura and helped her up to her feet. They turned to Kakashi who was staring at the two boys. They were on the top of the roof where there were water tanks situated there.
"Th-Thanks for stopping them Kakashi," Tukiko said, bowing in thanks to her sensei.
"No problem." He gave a smile to her through his mask before turning to the two boys. "Just what were you two doing? That was a bit intense for just a simple sparring match?"
Tukiko silently agreed. If they were just sparring, they would have never used those fatal jutsus on each other!
Sasuke had just pulled out his hand from the water tank and water burst through the open hole. Kakashi appeared on the top of the water tank.
"You know, you need to watch your superiority complex, Sasuke," he told him. "Tukiko doesn't have a problem with it so why do you?"
"Don't compare me to her!" Sasuke hissed at Kakashi. He glared his worst at his teacher. "I am sick and tired of people comparing the two of us. We are not the same!"
"Oh, so you think using the Chidori against your own comrade differs the both of you?" Kakashi retorted. "Were you trying to kill Naruto? Where did this behavior even come from?"
Sasuke glared at him one more time before he backflipped off of the building. Tukiko watched him with a heavy heart, not even trying to make a move to follow him. She didn't even feel like crying after hearing all of the things he said.
So Sasuke doesn't like how people compare us...
Tukiko bit her lip, her shoulders slumping. She should have known. Although the two of them were identical twins, they were not the same. They had the same habits, the same likes, the same face...He must have been tired of being compared to her at some point. Her, the good twin...She who would never do anything wrong and try to protect her friends...Even if they were the same, they were nothing alike. Right now, she was feeling the anger of her brother of being weak and helpless. Compared to her and Naruto, who had gone so far to be strong, he viewed himself as weak when next to them. This was one difference of them. Tukiko didn't care for power so long as she could protect her friends. Sasuke only wanted power so that he could kill their brother. They were far different from each other, she knew.
She sighed. "Kakashi-sensei, is it all right if I go home now?"
I'm tired of all of this drama, she added to herself.
Kakashi nodded. "All right. Go home and get some rest. And don't worry about Sasuke. I'll talk to him."
"Thanks." Tukiko gave him a tired smile and nod before she vanished from the building. At her top speed, she raced off of the hospital roof and leapt off of each building. She didn't care as her feet was treated roughly as she landed on each roof. She didn't care. All she wanted was to be alone. But as she reached one abandoned roof building, she stopped. Her feet landed on the ground of the roof, her eyes closing. "Okay, come on out. I know you're there."
"Heh. So you noticed." Four people appeared in front of Tukiko. She kept a neutral face as they smirked at her. There were three boys and one girl. They wore a strange outfit that Tukiko would know anywhere. The one with purplish hair stepped forward. "I would have never known that Orochimaru wanted us to bring back a girl who looks like a boy."
"What do you want?" Tukiko said coldly, ignoring that they just insulted her gender like everyone else. "Did Orochimaru send you to get me?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, he did," a guy with six arms said to her.
"Get lost." Tukiko opened her eyes to reveal her blazing Sharingan. She was in no mood to be pestered by Orochimaru's subordinates right now. "I won't go to that man no matter what you say."
"We aren't asking for you to come with us. We're demanding you to," said a girl with red hair. She smirked. "You have no choice in the matter, brat."
She sighed, tired of all of this. All she wanted to do was go home and rest but noooo! These people just wanted to make her day even more difficult. "Look, I really don't want to fight right now. I have no need to go to Orochimaru because I don't need that power he's offering. Go get my twin brother instead. He's the one who wants power to get revenge."
The four glanced at each other and the first guy smirked.
"Not a bad idea. We'll do just that."
Tukiko's eyes widened as she realized what she just said. Her hand was in front of her mouth in shock.
"No, wait! I didn't mean-"
But it was too late. The four Oto ninjas vanished from her sight to who knew where.
Tukiko stood there frozen as they left. She slid down to the ground on her knees as all energy seemed to leave her body. She groaned, putting her hands to her face in shame and regret. Those words didn't mean to leave her mouth. She didn't mean to say any of that! Now they were listening to her and would go after Sasuke instead. If they asked Sasuke to go with him, he would certainly listen to him. She shook her head, new tears slipping through her closed eyes.
Oh, no...What have I done?
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Uh-oh, trouble going on in Konoha lately. What's Tukiko to do now that Sasuke has the probably of leaving the village? If you guys want to know badly, you'll just have to review.
Please review! Oh, and you guys should know that Friday will probably be my new update day because school is starting on Monday for me! Ugh! I don't want to go to school! Summer had to go by so fast! This is sad. I know school's good for you but I'm transferring to a new school when I'm a sophmore and I'm scared! Did I mention it's a charter school too? Ugh! Wish me luck through your reviews! I'm going to need it.