A/N: One truth begins to leak while a glimpse of a journey yet to be made begins. Enjoy.

8: The Truth Calculation

"Cooper…" Barry made his weekly entrance to my office with his ever increasing displeasure.

"What's up Barry?"

"Hey, concern. I know its wrong of me to bring this up now just after you and Amy won the Nobel but can I borrow her?"

"What?"

"The first month after you guys broke up, she made this promise to me to immediately help me get a Nobel after she got hers. I don't know why she was laughing the whole time while she made the vow but here we are."

"Barry that's my wife I'm not about to let her spend some considerable…"

"Though that month is very interesting considering what I saw you doing?"

Now I stopped in my train of thought. "What I was doing?"

"Oh yeah, you had another assistant, very young at the time too. Somehow you guys were acting very much like you and Amy are now, happily spending time together. Laughing closely. All the makings of a couple."

Now I was completely dumbfounded.

"How could I have had a relationship with a 13 year old girl that just…"

"A scandal that can not only strip you of your Nobel but Amy's as well. Well now you see the pickle I find myself in at the moment."

Blackmail, and old but cautious form of intimidation.

"You have no…"

"And boom…" His phone immediately popped up a screen capture of a security camera in this very office showing me and a girl in glasses making out openly.

"This can't be…"

"Well it is, and the security guard happened to get a very nice sum to give me this and then delete it. Now once again Cooper, Amy or Scandal?"

That whole initial month after Amy had dumped me, somehow that month was completely gone from our lives. I now know why she mentioned it the other night but even this seems a little too farfetched. But he is right though, this would not only sink me, and Amy. She could even…

"All right I'll do it, I just have to mention this to Amy myself."

"Perfect…"

He left and that gave me the rare and poigninat moment of the obligatory looking at the wife's photo in your office moment of the day.

"That girl…"

Right after Amy and I had gotten back together and gave her the first of our annual birthday bang zone as Penny so aptly puts it, now I wonder how did I get so good. I was sure my own first time was with Amy. With all this though, now I do wonder how I was able to be so good with her our first time out.

"Who are you?"

6 Days Later Griffith Park.

My eyes suddenly opened up for some reason I know that the last time I fell right through the stones. It was nuts. Now

"Sarada…"

The voice of Boruto now glows through the night until I could feel myself getting helped up.

"Are You OK?"

Mistuki now was by my side as we got to our feet. Unlike the previous trip at least I knew what to do once I Crossed over. But Boruto on the other hand…

"Guys…"

Mistuki chuckled and now I could see him and Sayuri as she was limp as can be but still holding him up.

"You may want to grab him…"

We did as she took a breather, but we did get clear of the open area to a more secluded part of the park. However, as we came upon it my mind now flashed back.

"Wait…"

Yep, this is where I came last time…Alone and helpless…

"I was here…" As Bouto and Mitsuki checked on Sayuri to make sure she could still walk ok I went over to that very spot I had now come to recall.

"I had come out wandered and there were two people watching me…"

If that was the case then that would also entail…

"Sarada…"

Yep I know that voice I could see him in running gear coming right up by me. Déjà vu nearly 4 years later.

"Mr. Siebert…"

A/N: We see how they arrive in Pasadena in Chapter 9. To Ransom a Girls Spirit. As Always Subscribe for more.