Cast:
Sakura Haruno: Jocelyn Fray
Sarada Haruno (there is a reason it isn't Uchiha for this): Clary Fray
Sasuke Uchiha/ Sasuke Uchihara : Lucian Graymark/ Luke Garroway
Pein: Valentine Morgenstern
Boruto Uzumaki: Jace Herondale
Himawari Uzumaki: Jace's younger sister (that I invented so that Himawari could exist)
Naruto Uzumaki: Stephen Herondale
Hinata Uzumaki: Celine Herondale
Shikadai Nara: Alec Lightwood
Temari Nara: Maryse Lightwood
Shikamaru Nara: Robert Lightwood
Inojin Yamanaka: Simon Lewis
Metal Lee: Eric (member of Simon's band)
Yahiko : Hodge Starkweather
Kimimaro: Raphael Santiago
Karin: Camille Belcourt
Orochimaru: Magnus Bane
Log and Mitsuki: High Warlock's sons.
Tsunade Senju: Iron sister
Jiraiya: Brother Jeremiah
Iruka: Brother Zachariah
Kurenai: Madame Dorothea
Sage of Six Paths: Raziel
Hashirama Senju: Jonathan Shadowhunter
Chap 3:
Boruto spent the train ride in dead silence. He was deep in thought about something but didn't feel like speaking up about it. Sarada didn't mind the silence, she was too busy reliving the conversation she had with Sasuke. She noticed two girls giggling and staring not so discreetly at Boruto. She had to admit he was pretty cute, with his sunshine blonde hair, his whisker-like marks and his beautiful blue eyes that. . . were staring directly back at her.
"Yes? Do you need something?"
"Uh. . . those girls were looking at you." Sarada quickly replied.
"Of course they are, I am quite attractive Dattebasa." He replied cooley.
"How come they can see you?"
"Eh, it's too much work to put a glamour up. Does it bother you that they can see me?" Boruto teased.
"No. . . but I was going to say sorry about smacking you, though now I'm not so sure."
"Cheeky. Just be happy you hit me and not Shikadai. He would've hit you back."
The two got out of the subway and walked down the street towards Sarada's apartment.
"What did he call you? Para. . .sol?"
"Parabatai. It is a pair of warriors that fight together and are closer than brothers. Shikadai is closer than just my best friend. My father had a parabatai, according to the Nara's. I'm sure Temari and Shikamaru would be if they weren't married, but that's a different story. Why I figure this I'm not disclosing, but they are my adoptive family Dattebasa ."
Sarada thought for a moment.
"Your name isn't Nara though. . ."
"No." Sarada was going to ask him what his last name was, but they had arrived at the base of the apartment building. The two carefully climbed the stairs. She carefully opened the door with her keys.
"I'll go in first." Boruto said quietly.
Boruto slipped by her and she carefully followed behind. Her hands felt clammy as she walked through.
The kitchen was strangely empty and the microwave was missing.
"What would demons want with my microwave?" She voiced out loud.
"Not sure. I'm not sensing any demonic presence. You done now?"
"I want to see my room."
"Fine." Boruto replied, clearly annoyed.
The room door suddenly blew open and Boruto was smashed against a wall, a massive shape pushing tightly against him.
He used his seraph blade to push the thing off of him and grabbed Sarada's hand pulling her with him down the hallway. After a bit of back and forth with what Boruto had said was a giant, he buried his Seraph blade in its shoulder. The giant swayed and fell. Boruto unluckily couldn't step out of the way in time because he fell with the giant down the steps.
Sarada hastily ran after to see if he was ok. She knelt down next to his very still body.
"Boruto?"
His eyes slowly opened.
Is it dead?"
"Uh. . . Almost."
"Fuck."
"Here, let me help you."
Sarada slipped her hands under his shoulders and pulled him from out under the giant.
Boruto staggered to his feet clutching his arm.
"Is. . . Is your arm alright?"
"No Dattebasa. . . it's broken. Can you reach into the the pocket on the right inside of my jacket?"
"Uh. . . I can try." Sarada gingerly slipped her hand inside and closed on a tube-like object.
"Here." she said handing him the object.
"Thanks. . . you might want to look away."
He lifted it over his head before killing the giant. Sarada was surprised it didn't vanish.
"Aren't demons supposed to vanish?"
"That wasn't a demon."
Boruto took out an object from his belt.
"This is a stele."
He touched it to his skin and began to draw a tattoo-like mark. Once he finished, the mark sank into his skin and faded leaving a scar-like whisp on his skin. A image rose up inside Sarada's mind. It was of her mother in a swimsuit top not fully covering her back, poking through were a bunch of wispy scars that were barely visible.
Boruto's face relaxed showing that he wasn't in pain anymore and he lifted his arm.
"How. . . How did you do that?"
"That was an iratze, or a healing rune. We are going to have to report this to Yahiko, he will freak Dattebasa."
After a bit of small talk Boruto decided to go up to look one more time before he was interrupted by a shrill and familiar voice.
"I wouldn't do that If I were you. There are more of them where the first one came from."
Boruto nearly at the top of the steps turned around.
"Madame Kurenai?"
The woman stood in her doorway in a rather unusual outfit.
"More what?" Sarada asked.
"More Forsaken." Kurenai replied with a strange cheerfulness.
"You. . . You know about . . ."
"Yes yes. And skip the whole 'you're mundane' speech. But my advice to you, dear Sarada, is to forget about your mother. She's gone."
The world seemed to stand still for Sarada.
"You mean she's dead?"
"No. For now she is alive"
"Then. . . Then I have to find her."
"I don't want to involve myself in Shadowhunter business."
"But. . . you knew my mother."
"I could always come with the Silent Brothers. . ." Boruto added.
"Fine. . . I will tell you what I can, but if you tell anyone I helped you , you will wake up tomorrow with an extra pair of arms."
"Hmm, another pair of arms could come in handy."
"Not if they are growing out of your neck." Kurenai replied pleasantly.
"Yikes Dattebasa. . ."
"Yikes is right Boruto Uzumaki."
Sarada looked at Boruto surprised.
"Uzumaki?"
"My last name, not really liking that she knows it though. . ."
Kurenai invited them inside and had them drink tea while she gave tarot readings. For Boruto, Kurenai found his card regarding his past worrisome, something about losing everything at a young age. Sarada's on the other hand didn't show much, more like it showed a blockage.
"Draw a card." Kurenai directed.
Sarada didn't question it at this point and drew the Ace of Cups.
"Hmm , a powerful card. What does it mean to you?"
Sarada looked closely at it.
"My mother painted it, didn't she?"
"Yes, she painted the entire pack. It was a gift for me."
"So then what do you know about Sarada's mother?" Boruto pushed.
Kurenai sat back in her chair.
"Let's just say that Sakura knew what I was . . . and I knew what she was. She asked me to keep an eye out for a name."
Boruto's face was a blank slate.
"What name?"
"Pein."
Sarada straightened in her seat.
"So that means. . ." Boruto started.
"Sakura was exactly what she said she was. But in her past, yes she was like you. One of the Clave. A Shadowhunter."
"No!" Sarada whispered.
Kurenai looked at Sarada with kind eyes. "I'm sorry child, but it's true. She chose to live in this apartment because."
"Because it's a sanctuary, your mother was a warlock. This space is protected by wards Dattebasa."
"Precisely."
"Are you going to tell me what this is?" Boruto angrily asked pointing at a door.
"Because you asked, it's a five-dimensional door."
"An escape hatch, so she could escape at a moments notice." Boruto interrupted.
"But… but why didn't …. Oh. . . because of me. . ." Sarada realized.
Tears built in her eyes and she walked to the door.
"I want to see where she would've gone."
"Sarada! No!"
Before anyone could stop her Sarada was sucked into the void, Boruto right after.
The two landed on the hard ground. Boruto landed on top of Sarada who elbowed him in surprise.
"Ouch that hurt Dattebasa!"
"Well you landed on me!"
"You didn't leave me any choice!"
"You didn't have to come after me!"
"Yes I did!"
Sarada froze. "I know where we are!"
Boruto stopped sputtering for a moment to reply "What?"
"This is Sasuke's house."
The two stood up in front of the drab building.
"Uchihara Books. Fine Used, New and Out-of-Print. Closed Saturdays."
"He lives in a bookstore?" Boruto asked.
"No, he lives behind it. How did we get here?"
"The portal, it takes you wherever you were thinking of. Anyway, shall we check it out?"
"Sasuke told me not to come here. . ."
"You taking that as an answer?"
"You aren't giving me a choice are you?"
"Probably not." Boruto replied. After approaching the house they climbed over the fence, but Boruto must've landed on a person as opposed to the ground since no piece of grass had ever called him a pretentious asshole before.
"Inojin? What are you doing hiding in Sasuke's bushes? Does he know you're here?"
"Of course he doesn't know. . . though I don't think he has a loose policy on teenagers lurking in your shrubbery."
"Well at least you are okay."
"That I am alright? Do you have any idea how worried I've been over the past few days! The last time I saw you. . . you ran out of Java Jones and didn't come back! Than Sasuke is telling me you are upstate visiting relatives."
"What could you possibly have done, I'm not angry at you Inojin."
"Well it doesn't seem that way when you hanging around with a weird dyed blonde dude. . ."
"I wasn't hooking up Idiot!" Sarada yelled out.
"And I'm naturally blonde for the record Dattebasa!" Boruto added.
"What have you been up to anyway, surely not nursing your great aunt back to health."
"Did Sasuke actually say that?"
"No. But he shooed me off the porch, and I snuck around the side and noticed he was packing a bag full of weapons, so I decided I should stick around. Are you going to say I was imagining it?"
"No, I'm not going to say that. . . Boruto are you going to stop me from telling the truth?"
"No, it only binds me from saying anything."
Sarada quickly summarized everything that happened in the past few days and all the stuff she hadn't known until a few days ago, leaving Inojin baffled.
After Inojin asked a load of questions, and Sarada was sure Boruto wasn't planning on strangling him to make him shut up, they snuck in through Sasuke's basement. Sarada went to the room she usually stayed in and changed into her own clothes and nearly knocking off her glasses at least six times that she kept there before exiting the room satisfied.
Inojin ran over his voice hushed.
"Guys! It's Sasuke. And he isn't by himself, there are two men with him."
The sound of footsteps became audible and the three quickly hid behind a rosewood screen.
The door swung open and the group entered Sasuke's office.
Sasuke turned around and gestured around. "Feel free to look around and amuse yourselves. Wonderful to be so popular."
One of the men had bright red hair and the other one had blonde hair in a ponytail.
"Those are warlocks?" Sarada whispered.
"No. . ." Boruto had gone as rigid as a plank of wood. "Shadowhunters with warlock robes."
"Consider this your friendly follow-up Uchiha," The redhead said.
Sarada was confused by the last name they referred to Sasuke by.
"There is absolutely nothing friendly about you Sasori." Sasuke replied sitting on his desk blocking the view of his duffle.
"So, did Pein send you?"
"Hmm sharp mind. Yes he did indeed. Thought there was a possibility you changed your mind."
"Hmm, sorry boys, But my answer remains the same. There isn't anything you can do to change my mind. Tell Pein that."
"Hmm pity. Do you remember the Uprising Sasuke? Remember how we trained together. You and Naruto actually, you two were close were you not?"
"The past is in the past, and don't bring Naruto into this conversation."
"Oh. I hit a sore spot didn't I? Oh that's right you and him were. . . Oh yes now I remember." Sasori grinned.
Boruto's breathing hardened and Sarada wondered what was getting him so worked up.
"Let's try a different direction shall we?" Sasori asked.
"Sakura. Yes the lovely Sakura. Pein is offering to trade her, for the cup. You two always had a special relationship, like Naruto and Hinata for instance."
"I don't have the cup, and don't see why Pein thinks I have it. Besides, didn't Pein destroy it?"
"See that is the thing. That period where a group of you decided to escape, that day when many of your friends died? Well the cup disappeared from Pein's grasp that day. At first Pein thought Naruto had it, but that is impossible since, well you know, so he thinks it was hidden by Sakura."
"And she hasn't revealed it yet?"
'No, she seems to be in a sort of coma."
This time Sarada felt her fists clench hearing her mother's name.
Could they be talking about my mother? Sarada thought.
"You know Sasuke, I'm surprised to see you looking so human." Sasori teased.
"Oh, and there was a child wasn't there. It was girl, there were pictures in the apartment."
Sasuke sighed.
"Yes, Sakura had a daughter. Sarada was her name. She fled from the scene, most likely dead. She has no knowledge of the shadow hunter world and holds no threat. Were you looking for her?"
"Us? No. But Pein is looking for her.
"Well get out of my house. You can tell Pein to scram, I won't take his bargain, I'm getting out of here. Not interested."
"You sure? Not for a chance to see your Parabatai again? Not for a chance to get Sakura back? And what about the Heiress he married. You do know she was pregnant around the time of the Uprising. All it takes if one word and you get to see both Uzumakis and Haruno again."
Sasuke stomped his foot down.
"Naruto and Hinata are dead! And you are trying to get your hand on a dangerous power. I don't know where the stupid cup is. Leave me alone and don't come back."
"Fine fine, very well. A good day to you Sasuke Uchiha."
Sarada was frozen in place. Boruto was worse off. He was actually shaking with fury, and there were actual tears in his eyes.
"What just happened?" Inojin whispered out. "Sarada are you okay?" He asked.
"Of course she isn't, but we know who sent the demon after her mother." Boruto hissed out.
"Sasuke seemed overly friendly with those guys. They think he knows something."
"Maybe they were just reluctant to kill him?" Sarada offered.
"No, I highly doubt that."
"What makes you so sure?"
"Because those men are part of the organization that killed my parents. Naruto and Hinata Uzumaki . . . are my parents."
Hey! I hope you guys are enjoying the story! Reviews are always appreciated since I know people want to see more. Also should I continue posting the cast list above each chap or should I simply put new characters at the top when they come up? Opinions are appreciated.
