Chapter 5
Sorry! sob lack of creativity and crazy working hours drove me nuts
Short chapter to make up for it! a tender moment between Hiahi and Emiko! woohoo
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Sakura thought nervously as she approached with Haku to her usual training ground.This was the D-day so far before mission...a certain addition to the their group could make already precarious cup of boiling tempers to blow out.
"Well Haku here it is...we should wait till others come or they are already here."
Haku looked around, then added silently.
"They are already here."
"What..oh."
Sakura became silent as Neji landed silently in front of them and immediatly glared at Haku.
"I didn't know we had a new team member."
His voice was a little harsh and non welcome.
"Hyuga, Neji..you shouldn't.."
"He doesn't have to welcome him." Cold voice of Sasuke as he softly landed back down on grassy area of the meeting place.
"Sasuke-kun please! he's my distant relative!"
Sakura pleaded first, she was ready to defend Haku but she could understand Sasuke's reaction to Haku.
"How are you sure?" The intensity of the glare from Sasuke would have killed Haku if Haku was a normal person.
"He's been binded by special jutsu from Hokage -sama if he turns against the village or us." Sakura carefully answered, deliberating to make sure both Neji and Sasuke heard it.
Sakura stood in front of Haku but Sasuke was not giving in easily as usual but Neji couldn't mistrust someone totally..when he didn't know their history.But if this guy can rile up Uchiha like this, it must have been some sort of violent confrontation.He will ask Haruno later about this supposed relative of hers.
Neji coughed to to break up the staring contest between Sakura and Sasuke.
"I think we should start our training, if he .."
"Haku" Sakura quipped as she glared back at Sasuke.
"Ummm yes, if he is going to harmonise with us...if possible should start the training right now." Neji have already disappeared. Sasuke stood there, glaring at Haku seeing what he will do.To his frustration, Haku smiled then nodded and leaped to his left.That left Sakura and Sasuke alone.No one spoke and the silence insured.
"Why?" Sasuke finally broke the silence with a simple one word question.
Sakura jerked her head up, breaking up from her train of thoughts.
"Because...he is virtually the only relative I have left in the world?" Sakura answered, never mind that it sounded weak.
"But you know what he was..."
Sakura didn't answer straight away,instead turned around from him.
"He promised something to me and I know if he has gone through this much trouble and time to find us..surely he meant something.I mean he was willing to die for that missing nin Zabuza.He might have known what he was doing was wrong but he loved Zabuza like a father figure.To him that was enough protect him."
Sasuke's eyes widened at her answer for a second or so.
"I will let him hang around but if I see that he is abusing that generous trust you are giving him...I won't hold back next time."
Sakura beamed her best smile at him and leapt to his right and Sasuke went after her, one more day and their mission was to start.
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flash back
"Fugaku Momito Uchiha!" Kouro waved his hand in front of his friends face and grinned as the Uchiha jerked awake.
"What Kouro!" Momito scowled, much to his annoyance.
"You shouldn't have that sort of face in front of Mikoto-san, you need to impress her not scare her."
Momito's face reddened as he realized his friend must have noticed his open staring at Katamiya Mikoto.
"Hey what about you and Emiko?"
Kouro's grin died at he mention of his team mate.
"I ..I don't think she will think of me in that way." Kouro sighed as he sat on the tree branch of the training ground.
"She is head over heals in love with Hizashi."
Momito glanced at his friend who seemed to be going into faraway look of memory lane.
"But in the end sometimes the underdog gets the princess and live happily after."
Momito commented, seeing how down Kouro got.
Kouro smiled at Momito,
"You are right! I will be the one to marry Emiko-chan!"
Both laughed, and separated to go their own way.
end of flash back
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Hiashi studied the scrolls over and over, it wasn't so simple a seal after all.He was in mental torture after performing that ceremony many years ago.The door to his study opened quietly and a servent announced arrival of Emiko.
Emiko came in, her lovely petal colored hair neatly pinned and wearing a dark red kimono to match.
"Hello Emiko."
Emiko just nodded in return, looking more unsettled then the last time he met her privately.
"I was wondering if you found a solution after studying those scrolls." Emiko simply said as t o why she came.
"A greeting in return would have been nice."
Hiashi tried to lighten up the mood, but failed to as Emiko glared at him in return.
"Alright, here is what I have found...The Blood Moon seal can be resealed but will need almost impossible amount of chakra if it should performed on someone who's seal is breaking.Only a demon can have that much amount of chakra."
Emiko knew what Hiashi was hinting at but she would not ask her daughter to use her former team mate Naruto to help with that.
"Any other?"
Hiashi shook his head in reply and watched the pink haired woman in front of him.
"I will not think about the possible solution.This has to be done in secrecy to the village much as possible." Emiko's hand was lightly trembling at the consequences that will come later.She knew it had to be done through...she could not just sacrifice her daughter's best friend for the sake of it.But...maybe it was fate that...Sakura's true heritage was going to be revealed.
Hiashi nodded, his pearly eyes glazed over with unreadable emotions.This beautiful woman in front of him...still made his heart tremble.He had to endure forced marriage from another prominent family.Not that he didn't respect his deceased wife but he could not love her like he did Emiko.The woman he was forced to marry wasn't strong willed like Emiko and often would retreat into his shadow.He sometimes cursed the day he was born into Hyuga clan.
"Hiashi, what will you do when it happens?" Emiko quietly asked.
"I will take it all in and the responsibilities that will come with it...for the all the things I owe to Kouro and Hizashi."
Hiashi carefully leaned in, to caressing her face but Emiko flinched.Hiashi tried again but this time Emiko didn't flinch, rather she wrapped her hand around his.Streaks of tears slipped down from her intense emerald eyes.Hiashi's own eyes clouded over in pain as he heard her next words.
"Hiashi, why...did they leave us behind?love hurts so much...yet gave so much also."
Hiashi couldn't respond himself to that.She was right...they said emotions made a shinobi weak in the old days but in truth it made you stronger.They passed the time like that for another half an hour until Emiko announced she had to go home.
"Emiko." Hiashi said as she was about to exit the room.
"Yes?" Emiko answered but didn't turn around.
"Sometimes love is very strong...so strong it never dies."
Emiko didn't reply but left the private family quarter of the mansion.
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Neji was impressed with this Haku as his skill waas definitly one step ahead of him.Sasuke had also been considered his worthy rival but this Haku had years of experience etched into his body and mind.Sakura also seems to remember the skills of a prodigy hunter nin boy.
"Okay that is it for today!" Sakura said as she dropped near Haku who was a only a little worn.Sasuke was still growling in attitude on seeing Haku.
"Sasuke-kun lighten up! you are scaring me that you are back to your old Mr.anti social mode."
Sasuke looked Sakura with his eyebrow raised in question.
"Pointing out some facts." Sakura merely shrugged her shoulders.
Neji looked at his soon to be team mate for the upcoming mission, this pink haired girl..one his uncle commanded him to protect at all cost.What secret did she hide..or rather did his uncle have to hide?Did her mother know about this? He had many questions but as usual he would not rather know.His pearly eyes twitched a little as the stting sun set a scarlet halo to her hair.A red halo...he thought, definitly something was going on between his uncle and Haruno family.
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Sorry about the format before --...They out all the indicators automatically.
