Chapter Thirty-Seven; Kira
I'm sorry that this chapter is a little short but the next one should be longer.
Sasuke dangled his cigarette out the window while he continued driving down the highway. "I really wish that you wouldn't smoke around our children. You're setting a bad example for them." Sakura told him but Sasuke just simply narrowed his eyebrows and ignored her.
"Hn." He replied before all of a sudden Sakura let out a rather large gasp of astonishment and placed both of her hands upon her cheeks as a doe raced out in front of them.
"Sasuke look out!" she cried as Sasuke widened his eyes and slammed on the brakes before the car came to a screeching stop. Then he quickly turned his head to look over his shoulder at both of the children that sat in the backseat.
"Is everybody alright?" he questioned them anxiously while he felt his heart continuing to pound against his chest.
"I think so, but I believe that Taki had an accident." Sasame replied while she looked down at the ground and pointed. Sure enough Taki sat up and started to whimper. "At least Chika has her litterbox in her carrier though." She told him before he took a deep breath and sighed.
"It's alright. It's getting late. I'll clean up the mess tomorrow. Right now I have to see if I can find that deer. I keep an emergency pistol with me wherever I go if I can take it just in case." He told her.
"Come on Papa you're not going to kill it are you?" Sasame asked him.
"Only if it looks like that it'll suffer." He told her before he put the car in park and taking his foot off the brake quickly removed his seatbelt and got out of the car slamming the door tightly shut behind him. Then he used his glow in the dark sharingan so that he could see as he rounded the corner. He expected to come face to face with the female deer, but instead he saw a little girl about seven years old with long black hair and wearing a white lacy dress. She appeared to have blue eyes and that she was injured since her leg appeared to be bleeding and her dress was torn up. The thing that most surprised him is that she was alone.
"Uh,.. hello." Sasuke began as the little girl stopped and stared widening her eyes at him and dropping her jaw while her tiny little body shook with fear. She looked like a scared jack rabbit or a deer caught in the headlights. "It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you. My name is Sasuke Uchiha what about yours?" he asked her but the little girl just simply bit her lip and glanced down at the ground.
"My mommy and daddy taught me that I shouldn't ever talk to strangers." She answered.
"I see. Well, where are your mommy and daddy?" he questioned her but she just simply shrugged and continued avoiding eye contact with him.
"Alright, well I want to help you but I can't do that if you don't tell me who you are." He told her before a few moments of silence passed between them.
"Kira." She responded.
"Alright Kira how old are you?" Sasuke asked her.
"Seven." She replied as Sasuke nodded. He had estimated her age correctly. "You know let me get my wife she's in the car and I'm sure that she would be able to help you feel better. Stay right here, I'll be right back." He told her as she nodded before he turned around and walked back around the corner and knocked upon Sakura's door signaling her to roll down her window and then he explained to her the situation before she climbed out of the car to comfort the child while Sasuke called the police.
"Hello Kira, I'm Sakura. My husband's calling the police so that they can try to find your parents for you. That's a very pretty name by the way." She told her.
"Thanks." She replied quietly.
"Do you remember where you were when you got lost?" Sakura asked her before the little girl nodded.
"Yes. My mommy and daddy were driving me to the hospital but then we had to pull over because we all had to use the bathroom." She told her.
"Alright. Well don't worry we're going to get you some help sweetie." Sakura reassured her soothingly.
"Alright, alright thanks. I'll let her know." Sasuke said with a nod while he came back around the corner. "Goodbye." He finished before he hung up the phone and glanced back down at the little girl. "Kira, the police want me to bring you to the station. I hope that's alright with you." He told her as she quietly nodded again. "Do you mind if you tell me your last name?" he inquired.
"Adachi." She replied quietly and shyly.
"Alright well come on, Sakura's a medical ninja so she can take care of you and bandage you up and then you can sit next to my son. I'm sure that you'll like him and he's not that much younger than you." He told her.
"What's his name?" Kira asked him.
"His name is Hiro." Sakura replied smiling warmly at her. "Come on, I'll introduce you to him." She told her as she offered the little girl her hand before she slowly reached out and took ahold of it and then followed her around the corner.
By the time that they had arrived at the police station Hiro and Kira were both fast asleep. Sakura climbed out of the car and opened the backseat gently shaking her awake. "Come on Kira, we're here now. The policemen are going to do their best to help you." She said before she gathered the child up inside her arms and carried her inside.