Shisui immediately stared at Hana with a look that was equal parts horror and wonder. "Daddy…?" He barely was able to whisper. Hana stared back at Shisui for a moment realizing this was moment she never knew would get to have. Right now, her child's father was here. However, her motherly instinct kicked into high gear rapidly as she stared down her impudent children.
"What in god's name are you two doing here?" Hana's voice was the scariest the twins had ever heard it. Itachi and Kakashi even recoiled at the tone.
Kimi was the first to recover from the rage in her mother's voice as she rubbed the back of her head. "Well, you know Riku. He thought it would be a good idea to come help and well now here we are. Who knew so much of my chakra was in you? Heh…heh…" Riky simply stared at his sister in horror as he shook his head.
Shisui still in awe turned back to them and the resemblance was uncanny. Looking at Riku, which was apparently his son's name, was like looking at an old picture of himself. Hell, one where he had straight purple hair, but an old picture nonetheless. His daughter, he hadn't caught her name yet, looked identical to her mother, but she certainly got his hair. Poor girl. "You know, you two seem to give your mother an awfully hard time."
Hana shot Shisui a look he knew all too well. You have no idea, the look said. Hana crossed her arms and stood in front of their father and pointed in front of her. "Here. Now." The twins lowered their heads and obliged. "Who in god's name taught you how to sneak out of the village, bound through trees, and suppress your chakra to the point where even I had no idea you were in the area?"
The two immediately began talking over each other and rambling. Something about training with Itachi, or was it Sasuke? And Sakura had expressed chakra control importance. And Harumi always made them climb trees. And Kakashi insisted them had to be stealthy if they were going to be accomplished in anything. And it certainly wasn't the academy that taught them anything because apparently, they should graduate already and just train with their god parents and aunts and uncles because they were better anyway and- Hana shot Shisui a look as the twins rambled and eventually ended up arguing with each other about minute details of the situations they were descriving. Shisui snaked an arm around Hana's waist and rested his head on hers. "They're perfect…" he whispered softly.
"What I'm hearing is that you need to stop training with your aunt and uncles and find friends," Hana sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose. The twin's social life had not been a concern for her before. Sure, they didn't seem to have any friends their own age, but they had each other and were relatively friendly and not complete menaces to society all the time. Clearly, she had misjudged the situation.
"But mommmmm," Kimi whined. "Itachi and Kakashi were chunin by our age and we know a lot more than the other kids, even sensei says we should graduate."
"Honestly we destroy their self-esteem. It's in poor taste for us to continue our education there. Things like this wouldn't happen if we were busy on other missions," Riku added.
Shisui rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Prodigies, eh?"
"No," Itachi and Hana growled in unison.
Kakashi shrugged, never having been particularly bothered by being a genius. "That's what I've been trying to say for years." The white-haired man was left with a stink eye by his two teammates. Shisui chuckled for a moment before he looked down at the children before him who had finally turned their attention back to him.
"Ah, I'm Shisui. Uh, your dad. Sorry to meet on-"There were suddenly two children buried in his chest and he gasped before enveloping them. He could feel their tears on his neck as she stroked their backs. "Sorry I couldn't be there for you guys growing up. But I love you."
Riku was the first to part and as he wiped his tears he smiled. "I guess I do look like you. And I like lemons like you." Shisui cackled out loud at the train of thought his son had.
Kimi suddenly picked her head up immediately. "Well, I got your hair and the sharingan," she spat more toward her brother than her father.
Shisui ruffled her hair. "And you sure have your mother's attitude, don't you?" Hana shrugged sheepishly as Shisui raised a brow at her. The three continued to hug and talk softly with each other for a moment.
Itachi sighed. "We have to keep tracking Kabuto." Hana and Kakashi nodded, however Hana looked down at her children with a pensive gaze. She couldn't just leave them on the battlefield unprotected.
"I can watch the kids if you would like? It's the least I can do for leaving you single for so long," Shisui suggested, lighthearted as ever. The twins seemed to nearly jump for joy at the idea.
Hana nodded and smiled softly. She knew by the time she came back the reanimation would be undone. She threw her arms around her late husband and hugged him tightly. They parted with a short kiss. She went to speak, but no words came out. There was nothing to describe what she felt or how thankful she was that even under cursed circumstances, her children got to meet their father. He nodded knowingly as they parted, no words needed to be said.
Kakashi and Hana took off first, Itachi stayed back for a moment. His eyes lingered on his best friend. Shisui patted him on the arm. "Has she found someone?" Itachi nodded, smiling. "Thank god," Shisui sighed. "And did you finally marry Izumi?"
Itachi actually laughed lightly and swore he could feel his chest tighten. "Ah," was all he could mutter in agreement or else his emotions would betray him. Shisui rubbed his cousins arm gently and smiled. "Go do what you have to do, Itachi."
Itachi felt a genuine smile fall to his lips and nodded. "Thank you." And with a flurry, Itachi was gone after his teammates.
Shisui smiled softly and rubbed the back of his head as she looked at the kids sitting before him. "So, uh, guys…tell me more." Without having to pry at all, the two kids in front of him began babbling and telling him everything and anything he could ever want to know.
There were many times Hana was sure she was cursed. Fighting Kabuto right now, was one of them. The man seemed to be able to turn himself into water, which made her bloodline limit nearly useless. He also had taken to covering his head ina cloak and then permenantly closing his eyes, rendering Itachi's bloodline limit more than difficult to use. Kakashi was honestly the most useful in this fight. They now stood back to back as Hana swirled shuriken on her fingers, reading to infuse them with water and chakra. Itachi frowned and spoke quickly, "I have a plan, but you're not going to like it."
As the three now bounded through the woods being chased by the snake man, Hana couldn't help but channel some of her killing intent toward Itachi. The man was right, she didn't like the plan. However, Shisui was the only one who could influence Kabuto into releasing the jutsu. Alas, he was with her children and Kabuto wanted Kimi, who had awoken both of her bloodline limits, more than he wanted anything else. Using her children as bait, however, didn't sit well with her. Kakashi nodded toward her and signed, No one will lay a finger on them.
Hana didn't need to sign back as she redirected her murderous glare back at her oldest teammate. Hana directed more chakra at her feet as she could nearly feel the slimy enemy gaining on them. Gain on them he did, luckily not until they had already entered the clearing where Shisui and the kids were.
Shisui nodded as they arrived, having received Kakashi's summon as warning of the plan. The four circled the kids. Kimi went to open her mouth and talk but Riku slapped a hand over his sister's mouth knowing damn well his mother would kill him them if they messed anything up right now. "Ready to end this bastard?" Shisui asked, tactful as ever.
"You damn well know it," Hana smirked in response. The man had tortured her and her family. He could walk away alive over her cooling corpse. The two other team members nodded as well. Everything broke into a flurry before they knew it. Water was pelted down near them. Hana threw several infused shuriken in response. Kakashi attacked from behind, Itachi from the side. Team Erito continued their flurry of attacks as Shisui watched, calculating. They all rotated protecting the twins, who, despite the kunai they both held, were terrified.
Riku watched in awe as his family battled the man who had struck fear into him not so long ago. He had seen them train before, but he had never seem them fight and despite the circumstances, it was awesome. He had never truly understood what a jonin was capable of, but as he watched his father move to fast to trace, his mother dodge blows he didn't even know were coming and his uncles sling jutsus he had never even imagined could exist.
Kimi watched with equal awe, her sharingan activated. She wanted to take in everything and everything she did. Their chakra was unreal, the precision the control. She suddenly understood exactly why she'd be forced to do all those exercises. Suddenly, though, she saw chakra surge toward her father's eye and Kabuto came to a complete halt. Her mother and uncles stood around her as her father walked up to Kabuto. "You will release this jutsu," he ordered in a low, serious tone.
Kabuto arms moved into a few hand symbols, though he appeared to be in a trace. Once he stopped, Hana flung into him, but they saw no more as their uncles blocked view. "There is no reason for you to see your mother kill someone," Kakashi stated, solemnly and Itachi nodded in ready agreement. Hopefully, they would never share a battlefield again.
In a burst of light, Shisui began to feel himself deteriorate. He leaned down to ruffle his children's hair and then smiled his million-dollar smile. "One day, guys. I love you." Hana landed next to him and squeezed his hand and gave him a smile, while trying to avoid tears. "I love you too, Hana."
"Always, Shisui. I love you too," Hana sighed as he faded into the sky and she sighed a long breath and squatted to face her children, who were silently sniffling. She took them into her arms and shook her head. "You stupid, stupid, talented children. You're going to give me a heart attack. Don't ever do anything like this again."
Kakashi sighed as the moment ended. "Now, what are we going to do with them?"
Hana shook her head, groaning. Konoha was nearly a two-day trek at her speed, three at theirs. "I'm not sure." She glared at them, hoping they knew the gravity of the situation. "With the reanimations gone, we'll only be faced with the army of white things. And those are all far from here and away from Konoha. We only have to be concerned about bandits and mercenaries."
Kakashi immediately summoned a pack of dogs and nodded to them. "Think this will suffice?"
Hana wanted to say no, but realized it was truly their only option other than returning to Konoha with them. She squatted down to her children one more time. "You go straight home now. So help me god if you disobey me, I will know and neither of you will see daylight until you are thirty-five. Do you understand?" Eyes wide, her children were speechless and nodded aggressively. She smiled and hugged them. "Safe travels."
Turning back to her team she sighed. Itachi nodded to the rest of them. "Ready for the battlefield?" The other two nodded. This wasn't just a mission anymore, this was all out war.
A/N: Oh man, I'm sorry this took so long, and it's short, but I was struggling so hard with writing this chapter. However, I wrote another story using Hana (and Itachi) in a different AU, but using a lot of elements from this story. Hence, if you're interested in that I'll be posting that shortly after this so check it out. It'll likely be only 3 chapters, but it helped with my writing block for this story immensely. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed seeing Shisui, again. I felt like he deserved to meet his kids :)
Reviews are always appreciated, thanks for reading! :D