Chapter 53: You Wouldn't Lie…Right?

"Dad, has Suki been here?" Emiko asked, as she walked out of her room, wearing her usual clothing; her green chunin vest covering the top part of her purple outfit, and her fan attached to the back of her vest. "She and I are suppose to go train later today. And I wanted to see if she wanted to leave early?"

Shikamaru looked up from the mission report he had to write, an eyebrow raised, "You think she's going to want to train early?" He asked, a slight chuckle in the lazy mans voice.

Emiko sighed, crossing her arms, "has she or hasn't she?" She asked, now slightly annoyed with her father.

"Your sister already left Em." Temari answered as she walked out of her bedroom, "She left a little while ago." The blond Konoichi said as she sat down on the couch, looking up at her daughter, "I'm sure she'll be home soon"

"Where'd she go?" Emiko asked, obviously wanting to find her sister, so the two teens could train.

"Out the door." Shikamaru smirked, sitting at the kitchen table, now taking a sip of his tea.

The Nara girl gave her father a very annoyed glare, "Obviously…but where?"

Not being able to help himself, Shikamaru replied with, "The front door."

Letting out a very loud, drawn out sigh, Emiko placed a hand on her fan, "Dad, I don't want to play mind games. Where outside did she-" The girl stopped, as she saw the smile on her fathers face grow. She rolled her emerald eyes and looked at her mother, whom found all this quiet entertaining being that she had been stuck in her room for quiet some time, "Mom, a little help please."

"Sorry Em, but I'm not sure where Suki went." Temari answered truthfully. She was in bed when her daughter decided to leave the house.

"What a pain." She muttered under her breath as she turned back around to face her father. "Isn't it too troublesome to play mind games with-" She raised an eyebrow, "Suki told you to do this didn't she? She wanted to ditch me so we…ARG!" Emiko spun around and quickly left the Nara residence to search for her lazy sister.

Once Emiko was gone, both adults let out a few giggles, receiving a very confused look from the blonde boy, whom had just entered the main room. Shaking his head, "I'm not even gonna ask." He walked to the kitchen, grabbed a few snacks, then began towards his room again. That was until his body froze in mid-step.

"Daichi" His fathers voice called, standing and walking towards the boy, causing the 4 year old to face his father.

"Y-Yea?" He answered nervously, avoiding eye contact with both his parents.

"Is there a reason you have enough food for two?" Temari asked, an eyebrow slightly raised.

"Uh…well I'm uh…really hungry?" he replied, more as a question as to if his parents would believe him or not.

Temari and Shikamaru looked at each other then back at their son, "Mieko, you can come out now. We both know your back there." Not even 5 minutes had passed until the young Inuzuka girl walks out of Daichi's room. Her hands in front of her body as she poked her index fingers together, looking down, also avoiding eye contact with the adults.


"Kimiko why would you let them go? Did you forget that they were trying to kill Em and myself?!" Suki asked, quickly standing. She placed two fingers on the bridge of her nose, closing her eyes, "Aw man, Kimiko please tell me his is one of your not-so-funny pranks that Yukio talked you into." The blonde girl shook her head, not wanting to say anything else to her, already, disappointed friend, "Damn it Kimi…you know what I've got to do." She sighed, looking at her friend, "I don't want to, but-"

"Then don't!" Kimiko pleaded, her green eyes tearing up slightly as she explained what had happened the night she allowed the twin boys escape, "Suki, if you say anything, they could lose their mom. Then they'd have nothing, I wouldn't of let them go if I knew they were gonna try anything."

Suki shook her head, "You were there when their FATHER attacked us! You've seen the scar on Em's arm from when she was stabbed by Tamasine! If I don't tell anyone, I could lose my mom, my whole family could be attacked again!"

Kimiko flinched as Suki shouted at her. She knew her friend was extremely pissed, because the girl wouldn't shout so much if she truly wasn't mad. "Suki, they swore that they wouldn't come here anymore. Tamasine promised me that he'd leave you guys alone."

"Yea, and Sasuke swore he wouldn't betray Kohona when he was younger. But we all know how that ended." Suki pointed out, rolling her eyes.

Kimiko took a few steps towards her friend, "Please Suki, if they do come back, then I'll personally take care of them. But until then done say anything." Her green eyes having a soft look to them, she placed her hands on Suki's shoulders, "I'm asking you as a friends, to do me this one thing. I'll do anything, just please don't say anything to anyone."

"I found ya!" Emiko shouted as she ran up the hill towards her sister, "Kimi? What are you doing here?" She raised an eyebrow at both her sister and her friend, "What were you two talking about?" She asked, obviously knowing something was wrong between the two teens.

Suki looked at Kimiko in the eyes for a few minutes, then sighed and looked at her twin sister, "Troublesome girl wanted to train with us." She lied. The dark haired girl wasn't sure why she did it. She knew it was gonna come back and hit her ten fold later on down the line.

"She did?" Emiko looked at Kimiko, "You did?"

Kimiko smiled, nodding, "Yea, I did."


Tamasine sighed as the wind blew through his long dark hair, "Why? Why was she crying for me?" he asked himself as the image of Kimiko shedding tears for him replayed in his head like a slideshow of the same thing over and over again. Tamasine looked up at the sky, sitting on top of the roof of his new home.

"B-Big brother?" A young girls voice came from behind Tamasine. He turned to see a girl around the age of 10 years old. She has long raven colored hair, that reminded him so much of his fathers hair, and bright yellow eyes, "Are you okay?" she asked, walking towards her brother, sitting next to him, "I thought I heard you talking. Was someone up here with you?"

Tamasine shook his head, "I'm fine Sada." He looked back in front of him, "Was there something you wanted?" he asked as another small gust of wind blew by.

Sada began fidgeting, "W-Well…I was wondering if-if you could tell me about…tell me what he was like?"

"He?" the teen thought for a minute, then realized who 'he' was. Tamasine turned and looked at his younger sibling, "Didn't she-mom tell you anything about him already?" Sada shook her head, "Well, what do you want to know about him?" he asked, still looking at the girl.

Sada smiled, "What was he like? Was he strong? Handsome? Nice? Did he have any siblings? What'd they look like? What'd he look like? And well what was his name?" she asked, taking a deep breath, looking up at her big brother a smiled still on her face.

Tamasine blinked a few times, she didn't know anything about her own father. What the hell was his 'mother' telling this poor girl? Sighing Tamasine began from the beginning, or at least what he thought to be the beginning, "His name was Uchiha Sasuke. To me…he seemed like a hero, the person a boy could look up to." He could see the girls eye twinkle as he continued explaining about his father. Tamasine could only imagine what Sada was picturing in her head, "He had hair your color, but shaped liked Toshi's. Dad was an extremely strong person. He did have a brother-"

"Really? What was he like?" Sada asked, interrupting the teen.

"I don't know." Tamasine answered looking at the girl. He then noticed her smile faded slightly. Scratching the back of his head, he added, "But dad told me he looked up to his brother. That they were very close." He lied. Sada smile returned and for some reason Tamasine began to smile at the girl. He then continued telling his sister about their father, leaving out any negative things. He didn't think the 10 year old should have to deal with that kind of stuff yet…when she gets older she'll have her own problems to deal with. Right now, all Tamasine wanted to do was see Sada smile, and be happy, like a normal 10 year old girl should be.


The three girls had been training for a while, The sun had gone down and the girls laid on the grass, each panting heavy with a few newly acquired scraps on their bodies from training so hard.

"Well…" Emiko stood up, "We should head him. If we're late mom'll yell at us…and that would be a great pain." She sighed, placing back behind her, attaching it to her vest.

The other two girls also stood, then said their good-byes, and when their separate ways. Emiko looked at her sister, "Hey Suki…you wouldn't lie to me, would you?"

Suki looked at her sister, blinked a few times, then shook her head, "Heh, don't be stupid Em. Lying would be way to troublesome. Why do you ask?" She asked, slightly nervous, hoping that her sister would believe her answer.

Emiko shook her head, smiling, "Just wondering, but your right, stupid question."

The two girls walked the rest of the way home in silence. Suki looked up at the star filled sky, 'I wouldn't usually lie to you Em, but something's telling me that this is one thing that you cant know.'

-End of chappy! Okay, voting is over so no more voting, I'll post the winner later on. Hope you guys liked the chapter. I thought it was kinda drawn out…but oh well. Tell me what you think. Also what you think Temari and Shikamaru's next kid should be. I'm slightly debating on whether or not I should make them have yet another set of twins, this time one girl and one boy…well, tell me what you think. And also name ideas…cause I'm running out. Anyways, until next time. Oh and if your wondering Sada means Pure one. -