Chapter 25: Shisui's Secret

It had been two months since she left. It felt so strange to be alone still. Summer was now starting and it was getting warm. If she had been around we would have been swimming on our days off. I pictured picnics by the falls and nights watching the stars but that had all been halted by her training mission.

Missions for myself had started back up s well. I rarely got a day off as Tsunade had been running all of us ragged. Though the village was fixed our ranks had taken a hit but we need to keep a prescence at all our stations. If another village saw our weakness they could take the opertunity to attack.

Today was one of my rare days off. When I did get them off I would pick up Shisui for the day. Without Naru he seemed lonely at times. Today was off to he Uzumaki esate for a swim in the falls. Even the twins joined us untill they had to leave for guard duty. When we went to eat in the house though I could see something was on his mind.

"Whats on your mind?" I asked as he just played with his food.

"Is my dad Sasuke Uchiha?" he asked causing me to choke on my drink.

"Why would you think that," I said when I finally recovered.

"Cause I heard people saying they want to collect his seman to impregnate women," he said as if it was normal for a 4 year old to understand. "My birthday is January 1st so it wouldn't be so unthinkable they did it just after the massacure. Sasuke is also the only Uchiha I know of also,"

"I can assure you that he isn't," I said "Your mother was pregnant before that idea was ever thought of. What even made you think that he was your father?"

He finally looked up and his black eyes where gone. In there place was a familar crimsom eye. Each eye had a ring surronding the pupil with a tomoe on it. I had only seen these eyes on one person in my life but that was because he was the only survivor.

"When did this happen?" I asked trying to comprehend it.

"I was doing a dilivery for the shop when Naru came back from the retrieval mission," he said holding back tears.

"It awakened. Does your mother know?" he shook his head. "Ok let me get an outter and we will send one to get your mom,"

Thankfully the otters were a common sight in the esate. I was able to get one quickly who was willing to help me out. Well we waited I brought him into the living room and he explained a little more. He had been tasked with dilivering to the gate and was headed back when Kakashi and Naru entered. He couldn't hear what they said but he started seeing alot of blood on Naru and when she collapsed he got really scared.

He ran home and went stright to his rooms. The whole way his eyes were burning so he looked in the mirror. He didn't tell his mom only because he didn't know if she knew anything about it. Ayame finally arrived and went right to hugging the boy.

"Why didn't you tell me?" she asked after I explained.

"I was scared," he said "They just showed up and aunty Naru had to leave so soon after,"

"Oh sweety,"

"So," he sniffed "am I right? Is Sasuke my father?"

"Oh Kami no," Ayame said with a sad laugh. "Shisui you have to promise not to tell anyone who your father is. That goes for everything I tell you about why he is away. Both of you need to promise,"

"I have an inkling of an idea but go ahead," I said

"Very well," she said "Shisui your father is Itachi Uchiha. He did not go crazy and kill his clan. It was an order to stop Konoha from falling into a civil war. The clan was planning a coup,"

"Why the secret then?" Shisui asked "About the coup and me,"

"I can take this one," I said. "For the coup if the public found out after the fact they would lose faith in the village. We only were getting back to things before the Kyubi attack and even then we weren't fully recovered from the third war at the time. The coup news would have the villagers doubt our status.

"As for you it was due to how clans run," I said "clans and major clans incan be complicated when it comes to marriage and children. The Uchiha were notorious for their arranged marriages within and out of the clan. Having the heir sire a child outside a marriage would be unthinkable to the Clan head. You were initially kept a secret I could guess until there was nothing that they could do about it but after it was for your own safty,"

"Yes Naru thought it would be for the best," Ayame said "If it was known who your father was there would be a few different reactions. They could have treated you as the did Sasuke which would not have been any good for you. They also could have tried to harm you at who your father was. Lastly they could have pushed you to hard and to soon. It was safer and healthier for you to not be known,"

"What does that mean for the Uchiha clan?"

"Your father has said you have more rights by Uchiha law," she said "I can't enter the clan section of the library as I never finished the academy. Naru has assured me that she has read the laws in full and when the time comes you will be placed as heir,"

"So no one knew about me in the clan?"

"He told his best friend Shisui and his mother," Ayame said

"So his mother didnt accept me," he said sadly

"No she did and even talked with me the day before," she said "she was excited to have a grandchild but from what Naru found and your father said he wasnt the one to kill her."

"Fugaku killed her didn't he," I said to which I got a nod.

"Your father love you so much," she said "He didn't want to leave us but he had to do what was best for the village."

"I understand," he said whipping his nose and holding a familar pendants. "What about my eyes though? I can't control them,"

"Kakashi-sensei," I said looking at them. "He has a fully evolved Sharingan. WE can trust him and he can teach Shisui when he gets back from his mission,"

"But where?" Ayame said. "We can't make it public and go to normal training field,"

"Here," I said "I can write Naru and double check but I am sure she won't object. The house has a private ground just for her so we won't need to worry about the twins. Until Kakashi comes back we hide your eyes. You can wear sunglasses and until it is undercontrol you can avoid triggers as best as you can,"

"So we wait,"

"We wait,"

"Thank you Shikamaru," she said before giving me a hug and leaving. With them gone i got to work on writing my letter.

*Naru*

"Letter for you," said a messaner otter. I got up from medditating and went to reading. It was quiet long for Shikamaru but was serious. At four and half Shisui had awakened his bloodline.

"Something wrong kid," Jiraiya said.

"Shisui awakened his bloodline," Jiraiya was a bit stunned but let me continue. "Apparently he saw me return and saw me collapse before Kakashi rushed me off,"

"Whats the plan?"

"Kakashi," I said "He is on a big mission right now but he can start training when he returns. He will be on leave for a bit but for now he has one big mission to end it off."

"Leave for what?"

"The baby you perv," I said "Tsunade already accepeted a 6 month leave for after Tsukiko gives birth and small missions after this one. He will only be assigned big things if shit hits the fan,"

"Fine," he said "You write back quick and get to training. I will send our friend a message about the little crow,"

I waved him off and started on my letter back. It was back to training after that and I knew I had to go hard at it. I had the village and more to protect now. I had to protect my family from all the threats inside and out. It was not a perfect family and far from normal but it was my family.

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So its a short return chapter but I am back. I am looking to have a few chapters when Naru is away. I have a few written down but I have a few more ideas that I want to add I am not sure where to place them though.

I am using LibreOffice which is great except for one thing. There is no auto spell check so I am watching what I write but there is no guarantee that I will catch everything. I am using my phone to check when I can't think of it. Also no auto cap at the start of a scentence or when I just type i so you may see it lowercase. Also no auto punctuations when it comes to ' so I will try to catch everything but can't always catch things.

Until the waves meet the their end,

~ Covley Hatake