Writer's tidbit: sasuke's in this one. Lol. Anyway, enjoy. The chapters are short, but this way, I can post more often.
It was raining when Cione arrived at Konoha's gates the next morning. He had bought a mule from a farming family on the way because damn, kids get heavier when they fall asleep. To his surprise, a dark-hair beauty waved at him as he neared the gate. Ick. Must be a tour guide looking for money. Do I have dumb tourist stamped on my head or something?
"Cione! Cione! Hey!"
Crazy tour guide who knows my name? Well, it has happened before...
The woman walked and took his reins, "I haven't seen you since Hitomi's wedding. Do you still remember me? We met at the reception. I'm Mikoto."
"Of course! How could I forget such a pretty lady?" Lady, I have no clue who you are. Maybe I'll get lucky. Maybe she won't ask…
"Haha, well, I'll take you to the house. Is this Hitomi's child? Faith, right?"
"Yeah. Cute kid." Not. Please don't ask….
"Just wait till they start kunai practice," the woman….Mi…something or other…said. "Nothing like a four feet tall kid running around with sharp, pointy objects and constantly trying to show off a 'new thing' by waving said pointy objects at you while simultaneously attempting to jump on you."
"…OO" I think I'll just drop her off at the Uchiba house. He sighed with relief, the Uchiba house is in sight. As Cione dismounted at the doorway, Faith wriggled and rubbed her eyes. Home free. The kid'll get all their attention, I'll just slip away…hehe…
"Aw, she's awake! Hi there, Faith. I'm Mikoto."
"Where's mama…" Faith mumbled, still drowsy.
Noooooo. No.no.no.noononononono. AHHH. She asked it…. Um.um. think fast. Save. "Faith, lookie at the houst! You're gonna be staying with the Uchiba family now, isn't that cool?" Mikoto shot Cione a side glance, laughed, and muttered something about "I didn't make it to Hitomi's wedding" and "lying."
From inside the house, a small boy peeked out at his guest sheepishly. He was still at the age when girls all had cooties. "Nii-chan, that girl's here!" For Sasuke, a new arrival was news of the century.
"Uh hun," Itachi spared a quick look at their guests. Maybe if she were twice as old, he would've watched longer. However, she's the same age as Sasuke, so Itachi took the liberty of giving the curious little spy a hard shove on the back.
Mikoto caught her chance to talk to Cione alone and shouted, "Sasuke! Come here! Take Faith to that guest room we prepared yesterday."
Sasuke, hoping there were another Sasuke within earshot, looked down but didn't move an inch and concentrated on activating his sharingan ability on his shoes.
"I'll take her, Mikoto," Itachi volunteer after a few seconds of dead silence. He took the sleepy girl from Cione's arms and headed off to the guest room with Sasuke trailing behind in an adapted 007 style only a toddler could pull off.
Mercilessly, Mikoto turned her attention to Cione, who was in the process of sneaking off. "What happened?"
"Ah…well…um…you see…the villagers kind of went a little teeny bit overboard and well…somewhat torchedthehouseinthemiddleofthenight," he laced the backed end of his sentence together, hoping the deciphering process would buy his enough time to mount his donkey and run for his life. Telling powerful ninja women that their best friend was just burned to death isn't usually good for one's health.
"I see. Thank you for bringing her."
"Hn. No problem. Goodbye."