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Sumire
It started with her sitting at her desk at School. Her pen swiped in the name space. Sumire K. otsutsuki.
Her eyes stared at it.
When picked her up that day. The departure over seer stopped her from Joining Mikoto Shikadai and Kawaki.
" your only suppose to carpool Uchiha,Uzumaki and Nara. "
"Oh I know it's just she's my ex husbands steps daughter. She's my sons sister."
Kawaki frowned and step up to him. "Yeah she's my sister!"
"Is this true?" He asked her
"Yes" she said with a red face.
"I'll have to check school records"
...
"I'm sorry for the inconvenience" was all he said as she was able to get into the car.
The drive towards the brownstone she looks out the window in silence while her friends and and Kawaki laugh about the food fight today.
The door opens and her mother greets her.
"Sumire welcome home"
"Thanks " she says low as her little brother and sister are playing in the parlor. They come up to her Borutos two tone eyes, and Himawari blue ones like dad. She notices they both house four whiskers on each cheek. She looks back at Kawaki standing next to his mom. His birthmark was under his eye.
She suck her lips in and began to make her way up stairs.
She had her own room here. Looking in her mirror she stared at her spotless cheek. Frowning she began to walk towards her mother's room. She saw the small vanity there and grabbed the eyeliner. She drew four lines on her cheeks and looked at herself. Biting her cheek she walks over to her parents dresser. There sat the the Christmas card.
"Merry Christmas from the Uzumaki family"
She flipped it open
Naruto Uzumaki
Hinata Uzumaki
Kawaki Uzumaki
Sumire otsutsuki
Boruto Uzuamki
Himawari Uzumaki
Flipping the card back over she stared at her family all of their traits. She's the only one who's different.
"Sumire" her fathers deep voice rattles her. She blushed and tried to hide her face from him while rushing past him but he grabs her.
"What's wrong?" Naruto asked her
"Oh my god dad stop!" He's not suppose to be here yet. Damn it.
He moves her arms from her face and releases her in a bout of shock.
Sumire ran back to her bathroom grabbing the towel and washing her face until it hurt.
Knock knock.
"Sumire" he says
"Gooo away!" She cries.
"No not until you let me in"
She gave up and twisted the door knob.
He stood there tall, blonde and blue eyed. His marks on his face reminds her of herself being caught in the act.
She turns around and walks to her bed taking a seat.
"I'm sorry I should've never been in your room"
He laughs at her. "This is your home silly"
She pouted. Is it?
He shuffles in his pocket and she sees he has a wallet that's green and shaped like a frog. She stifled a chuckle at how silly her dad could be"
"Look here"
He shows her a picture of himself and her. She's was a baby at a home that seems familiar.
"Your not my real dad right?"She tells him.
"That's a question you have to ask yourself." He says
What?
" I taught you how poop in the toilet" he tells her
"Dad!" She groans embarrassed and face red.
"You had real stinky ones too. That's as real as it gets!"
She covers her face mortified.
"Am I'm your real dad to you?"
She moves her hands and stare at him. She saw a hint of hurt in his eyes and she couldn't stop herself from crying and nodding.
"Yes ".
" Your my real daughter to me. all that matters for me"
She sniffs. "I just wanted you guys to say It"
"Biology I'm not Sumire but in my heart I am "
Her face wince because he was the best dad ever. She's sobbing and he hugs her sideways. "It's just why doesn't he want me?" She cried.
Naruto held her tighter and brought her on his lap.
"Dad I'm too big!"
"No your not"
"I want you, right here with us"
Sumire cried more and he held her. Her only dad she knows. Her only dad she loves.
Naruto sat in his bed as Hinata, Sumire and Himawari did the dishes downstairs. He heard when the girls came up for bed but Hinata must be in the basement doing laundry.
When she did come up she dressed herself in a night dress before getting in bed next to him putting on her glasses and grabbing the book by her night stand.
How to cope with a child who's deaf.
That still hurt them both deeply. Himawari would be getting her hearing aid soon. This past year Himawari had been the child they paid extra attention too even her siblings all did what they could and showered her in love.
"I think we cope fine together"
"Her speech teacher says her voice could be disoriented. She's not speaking or learning words like she should" Hinata says while turning the page.
"She knew words before, she still says them like before"
"She prefers sign Naruto. We don't know if she'll ever speak. She'll never get to tell us how she's feels what she wants. We'll never hear, her" she says holding back a sob.
"Even if she doesn't. Her left ear will hear us! and she will tell us with her hands"
"You have to stop blaming yourself Hinata!"
"It was my fault one minute she's in my arms and the next the next "
He wanted to hug her, he did but with his work schedule l, he's lacks on his promise he could always be here with her a little more. Naruto would take the wheel for her like he always does.
"Himawari will be okay Hinata" it kills him on the inside but his daughter will pull through and be the best Himawari she can be.
"Boruto teachers want a conference with me. He acts out at school" Hinata tells him.
"When I'll be there?"
"Honey I can handle it okay" she takes a deep breath. "I promised I would take care of things while your working and I meant that"
Her burst of optimism makes him smile. When it got hard they could always balance it out. Taking the weight off.
"I have to tell you something. Prepare yourself"
She takes a few moments. "Okay"
"Sumire is asking questions"
"What kind of questions?"
"About her father"
"What did you say?"
"I told her if she feels I'm her real father then I am but she's my real daughter "
He looked at her and he could see her fall in love with him all over again.
"I caught her drawing birthmarks on her face"
Hinata face fell, then she looks away"
"It's been a year since the lake accident. How long has she felt this way?"
He knows this pattern too well. When she's down he's there for her but when she up he didn't have to worry she took care of everything.
He reached for her body and hugged her. "Your a strong mother" he tells. He only wished she didn't put herself down so much
Sumire
She waved goodbye to her grandpa, brother and sister. Kawaki was at his moms and Dad had been at work. Her mother surprised her when she told her only Boruto and Hima would be staying at grand pops.
They drove off in silence as she stared at the road.
"How do you feel?" Her mom asked her.
"I'm hungry"
"What do you want to eat?"
"Burgers"
Her mother laughed.
Sumire turned to her amusement on her face. "What?"
"You know you had your first burger with your dad and I on our old annual trips"
"Oh"Sumire said but she actually remembered that.
They sat in a diner eating together.
"So I know your wondering why we're doing this and I know I've been spending more time with Hima. She's the youngest and then her accident. Boruto clings to me twenty four seven"
Sumire laughed at this so does Hinata.
"Me and Dad calls him our Karma but we wouldn't want him any other way then the way he is. That goes for all of you. It's just us two for the day"
Sumire eats a French fry. She was happy to spend time with her mom alone but she couldn't say it. She could feel her mother stares as she's in thought.
"What?" She asked
"Your so pretty"
She brought a hand to her forehead. "Mom stop no I'm not!"
"Yes yes you are! Your grows like a Yamanakas and your bangs are naturally fringe your eyes are gorgeous!"
Sumire was embarrassed but she took in her mother's eyes and hair. Boruto eyes were two different colors but they were stunning to look at sometimes their unreal. Himawari eyes were just like dads and Kawaki had grey eyes. Mom eyes weren't as dark as hers either.
"Your father has the recessive mutation it's makes his eyes blue and I have a dominant mutation that makes mines purple. When you were born the doctors all gushed about your eyes at the Suna general hospital" she tells her.
Sumire then realized Dad told mom everything omg. Well her mother knew about the eyeliner incident but hearing where she's from washes all her embarrassment away. This information vindicates a part of her. "Suna I'm from Suna?" She whispered.
Hinata nodded.
"Hinata Uzumaki?" They heard a low voice ask.
Sumire looked over and saw the red haired man standing there and lowered her eyes to see the boy with the red marks on his face. Gasping she blushed and quickly looked away.
"Gaara Shinki ha what are you doing here? " Moms voice asked as he walked over.
"I'm meeting with the prime minister of Konoha. This one was hungry on the way"
"Hello Mrs. Uzumaki, Sumire"
She peeked over at him. His green eyes on her. "Hi Shinki " she smiled.
"You guys are driving?" Hinata asked while looking outside to see lines of black cars and the Suna flag on them.
"Yes, there's an airline ration our biggest oil rigging companies had spills back to back"
"Oh my. Bless Suna" Her mother says.
"Where's the senator? The boys and little Himawari?"
"He's back at the office. regularly now. He's been with us while we adjust to our new life"
Sumire hears this and instantly thinks about her sisters ear. Dad had been home more then what they were use too. He's always so tired. Yet she been a brat for asking him those questions so much so he told mom.
"In any case give him and the children my regards"
"We will" Her mother says gracefully with a closed eyes smile and her head tilted.
"Later Sumire"
Sumire slips spread her lips closed her eyes and tilted her head to the side. "Bye Shinki, "
When she opened her eyes they were retreating turning back to her mother she blushed as her mom glanced back the father son then her.
Sumire slid down in the booth. "Mom stop looking!"
"I- Just"
"Stop!" She whispers while blushing.
Her mother laughs caused her more anxiety but she relaxed once their out of earshot.
"The cost is clear " Hinata told her and she finally sat back up.
"You get your shyness from me" Hinata says fondly. "Are you done?"
Sumire looks down at her plate and reached for a few more French fries
Their back on the road
"Are we staying at in Mito?" She asked.
"We're going a little past it"
She nodded. "Back to to grandpas?"
"Nope"
She frowned but her eyes. Just her and mama.
When she woke up the morning had ended and the afternoon beamed. She saw her mother looking out the window and noticed they stopped.
Ahead of them is a small white building with a blue dome.
"Mom? Where are we?"
"That's where me and your siblings dad married"
Sumire looked at the building and for a second she has a million questions but decided against it letting her mother just be and tell her what she wants. She has to admit she likes the alone time with her it just feels right. Likes it been that way before.
"What's that's like?"
"Marrying the man of your dreams? It's hard to explain. I was pregnant with Your brother and we just lost uncle."
A faint memory of her uncle passed her mind.
Starting the car her mother drove away. Sumire looked back at the building before turning to her mother.
They drive for miles until they reached a check in and their at the Suna boarder.
Sumire watches her mother open her purse, then wallet handing over two documents to the check point worker before being allowed through. When they passed something is tossed in her lap.
It's a picture of a purple haired child mid cry with a few band aids on her face. Reading the name Sumire Kushina Otsutsuki.
"Why am I'm crying?"
"You missed me, Aunt Hanabi were watching you for me"
"When I took this picture?"
"Yes, I needed your travel book before I could take you to Konoha, oh look that's the hospital were you where born"
Looking up she pushed her face towards the window and took in the medical center wide eyed. They eventually make it to a neighborhood and she sees it's fancy and modern littered with fancy cars they stopped in front of one.
It was big and familiar to her. The garage.
"This is our house!" She yells. "It's beautiful" she breathed and she doesn't know why but a few tears ran out the corner of her eyes.
"You think so, the one across from it always seem to the best to me"
Summer turned and looked across. She just didn't have that memory of it.
"One more stop " her mother tells her.
Walking side by side on the concrete in between the units Sumire felt emotional overwhelmed she remembers that house.
Her mother pushes a key into the lock of a medium one. "Give me a hand"
Sumire is by bedside her lifting the door. A wave of nostalgia hits her as soon as she sees the white tufted couches holding plastic storage bins.
"Mom" she asks no longer being able enough to be quiet anymore.
Her mom dig through the bins.
"Just a second"
Sumire stood there. Her eyes glued to her mom by that couch.
"Ah here it is" he mother says standing up turning around with a sterling sliver oversized book.
"This is for you"
Sumire her heart stopped as she saw the picture motion blurred of her mom and a pale tall man.
Mr.& Mrs Otsutsuki.
Her heart began to beat rapidly as she saw her mother's hair braided with bangs the same hair style she taught Sumire how to do. Her knees buckled before she melted on the concrete floor Opening the book.
She's never seen her mother like this. In such a fancy dress . Pictures of her mom with the man before an alters, kissing, cutting a cake, dancing with Aunt Ino, and Hanabi. A picture of Her mom holding a green eyed dark haired child. She smiled at her best friend before her eyes took in the man with the white hair. He was. She couldn't describe it but she felt a pull to him.
"We don't allow you guys on the internet on the family computer but Your old enough now. I don't keep pictures of him in our house but if you want you can take that home"
"This is my dad?"
"Yes"
"Him?" Sumire asked just to be sure while looking up at her mom.
"yes"
Sumire looks back down turning a page to see her mother and biological father on a beach.
"Your father wasn't home much"
"Like dad? " she interrupted.
"I guess you could say that but I know where Naruto is"
What? She didn't know where her own husbands was at?
"When he was with me after our wedding I'm grateful because you came along then." She says nodding towards the book.
"Everything here belongs to you if you want it"
Sumire closed the book.
They went through a few bins together and Sumire found a few shirts of her mother's, pictures, and a lamp she liked. She also saw her baby clothes. Her mother only took a a yellow folder.
She slept the whole ride back to Konoha city. Her mother softly shook her awake. They were at her parents office downtown.
Going inside she sat at a desk in as her mom stood at at painting taking it off the wall to reveal a safe. Sumire eyes widen at the stacks of cash in there before she closed it and came to sit by across from her in the desk.
Opening the folder from the storage she gave the the paper to Sumire
Hey little lady,
I'm sorry if I could do it over I would. I want you and Sumire in my life. I do whatever it takes. What we had was real and you still feel it. That guy has broke your heart and you'll never be what he wants. I want you. I'm the only one who knows you well. Please stop this. Don't leave me when I'm down. We can go to consoling. I can get help. My mom is looking forward to seeing her.
I love you angle.
Sumire looked from the letter then her mother. She remembers grandma she passed away years ago. She sometimes would go there. She also knew her mother mom was no longer alive.
"What happen between you too?"
Her mom opens the envelope from the safe and slides out a ring. She picks it up and hands it to Sumire.
"That's yours when your old enough."
Sumire picked it up and couldn't fathom her mother owning such huge ring. "Is it real?"
Hinata laughed. "Of course, your father proposed to me with that, in Paris. He returned it to me by mail"
Her parents were normal for the most part. She doesn't see them with much jewels. They did have a few vehicles between their apartment in Konoha and their house at Mito. Her step dads the senator. Her mom write books and had a TV show a long time ago from what she's told but she hadn't noticed if her family was rich. Now that she thinks about it her grandfather is Rich. Her dad job is very serious and her mom writes. From the sound of it her mother's first husband was loaded too give her mother a ring like that.
Her mother twisted off her gold band and held it out to her. "Very different huh?"
She looks at the ring her mother wears everyday. Plain and gold. "Yeah" she states.
"Do you hate him? My dad?" Sumire ask
"I don't really think about it anymore. I'm happy where I'm at but" her mother pauses. "I hate when he tries to take you from me"
So he wanted her. Her heart sank. "He wants me? Why did he abandon me?"
"I forced his hand to abandon you because I left him"
Sumire frowns at this. "Why did you leave?"
"I guess I never really loved him. The right way. When the opportunity presented itself to go. I", "took it"
Her mother wouldn't do something like that? She loved Kawaki and she got along with his mother. Why would she do the opposite for her. There has to be something else she's not telling her. "That's not it is it?" She asked.
"His name is Toneri Otsutsuki" she told her daughter before stand up kissing her forehead.
"Let's go home"
Sumire sat in the living room. Her grandpa left after dropping off Boruto and Himawari. Hima played with her toys. Dad bought her dolls with different disabilities. One was in a wheel chair another had an hearing aid and so on. The scar on her ear has heeled but That day at the lake a about a year ago was the scare of their lives. Reaching for her five year old sister she grabbed her and held her close. If mom never left her first husband, who is her biology dad. Boruto and Hima wouldn't be here.
"Why don't you go downstairs Sumire. Use the desktop for home work"
This surprises her further. Kawaki was just allowed to start using the desktop and got a cellphone! She was so jealous and argued with her parents for weeks. She almost got Daddy to crack but mom stopped that. Standing up she released Himawari and began to walk downstairs not before snatching the home phone of the receiver and ran upstairs.
She used a computer in school but never at home. Mom and Dad said we could when we're older. Kawaki was now allowed. Now she is. Then Boruto. Last would be Hima.
She dialed the sped number 2.
Mikoto: Hello
Sumire: Mikoto
Mikoto: Sumire
Sumire: Can you come here?
Mikoto: My dad is sleeping
Sumire: your mom?
Mikoto: she's been paged
Sumire grimaced
Sumire: I need you
Mikoto: What's wrong?
Sumire: I think I want to meet my real Dad.
Mikoto: Just wait here I come. I'm going to get tons in trouble.
Sumire: Okay throw a rock at my window.
Sumire hung up the phone and sat on her bed as the minutes turned into an hour before she heard the pebble against the glass.
She rushed towards her window.
Mikoto stood their next to her bike. Running downstairs passing up the kitchen. She saw pots steaming on the stove but her mother must be in her room.
Opening the back door. She let the taller girl in they hugged then she grabbed her wrist and rushed her downstairs to the basement. They passed the laundry room the went inside the room down there. Passing the bed and Furniture going to the Desk where the desktop sat.
"How do I find someone?"
"It's the same as our tech class at school. Instead of the programs though you type and click on a browsers. Pressed the earth right there"
Sumire sat down and clicked the earth.
"Your PC is already connected to a search engine, all you have to do is go to the bar, type what you want and search"
Sumire nodding
Toneri Otsut-
"What's that? " she asked reading
Toneri Otsutsuki
Toneri Otsutsuki wife
Toneri Otsutsuki the last
Toneri Otsutsuki Senator
Toneri Otsutsuki Hinata Hyuga
Toneri Otsutsuki vice mayor
Toneri Otsutsuki daughter
Toneri Otsutsuki Otsutsuki Publishing Co
Toneri Otsutsuki Otsutsuki Construction
"It's the auto search" Mikoto the too make eye contact. "Pick one"
Her heavy hand moved the mouse and picked the first one.
She remembers this man. This man she met him before. She ran behind her mother after he hugged her at that place a long time ago.
A few articles saying he remarried came first and then one with her mother name is their. There was video.
Mikoto held her hand as their confusion quickly turned to dread.
"Hey hey it's okay" Mikoto held the crying girl. She was still spooked by what they discovered. Seeing Sumire,Her mom, Uncle and Kawaki crying by his mother. Why hadn't he ever told her about this? Did her mother know? She frowned and looked down at her friend. Poor Sumire.
"No one explains anything to me" Sumire cried.
Mikoto knows that feeling her father sometimes seemed distance but her mother eased her worry for him plenty of times and it became natural for her dad be messed up sometimes. "My moms sometimes the past can hurt the present"
Sumire sniffed and sat up. "Thanks for coming here"
"It's nothing" Mikoto whispers.
"You should get back before your parents notices"
Sumire snuck Mikoto out the side door then walked back to the kitchen to see her mother standing before a pot. Himawari on the island and Boruto at the went to the back door and saw her friend petaling away.
She slowly walked forward and hugged her from behind.
Her mother leaned into the hug.
"You need any help?"
"If you like to set the table. Your dad will be home tonight"
"Okay"
When her Dad came home he's a bit disoriented he wipes his blue eyes and smiles at her as he took off his shoes and slid on slippers.
"Welcome home" She greeted.
He smiled at her. "Smells good in here your mother put her foot in something" he says before taking a seat in a recliner in the corner by the window.
"Yeah it's really good, I'll warm your plate" she skipped towards the stove. Her mother kept the pots on low their fathers dinnerware still set on the table. He hadn't been home when they expected and Boruto couldn't wait much longer before he began eating. When her mother called him, she hung up and told us we could eat and Dad would be late.
"Naruto kun?" She hears her mother and she rushes back to the parlor. She catches a kiss between then and smiled at them. Her mother sat in the arm of the chair as they noticed her presence.
It's quiet and she looks at her mother. The image of her holding Sumire running for her life she then looked at her step father.
Tears watered out her eyes and she was crying uncontrollably.
"Hey hey come here" Her dad soothe her she walks towards him and sat on his knee like use to. Her head was down and she laid on his shoulders.
"Sumire?" Her mother question.
"I'm sorry I ask stupid questions sometimes". She breathed out before taking a deep breath.
"It's okay" Her mother hold her and she felt an hand on her shoulder.
"It's not", "and I'm sorry if those questions like hurt you sometimes and I don't ever want to leave you mama, or Kawaki Boruto Himawari or you dad I want to stay here with you for forever " by now she was crying and wrapped her arms around her dads shoulders.
"What makes you think we ever give you away Sumire. Your our daughter. Our first daughter"
Sumire face deepen in his shoulder.
This was her dad. Her only dad that mattered. The only dad she loved. The only person she could ever envision as her Dad. The only dad in her heart. Her dad that knows her. Taught her how to ride a bike. Her real dad.