Sasuke is annoyed. Why is her team taking her home? Naruto ran off who-knows-where, and Kakashi sensei cancelled the afternoon training, even though there was no need to. Sasuke cannot escape their attempts to take her home to go looking for Naruto. Stupid wheelchair.
Naruto appears in front of the Team. "Hey guys!" he says, grinning. "I've just been to the Hokage Tower, and Mr. Nice Hokage says we can go there and look at the Sacred Scroll, 'tebayo."
"Let's go!" says Sasuke eagerly. "These guys are trying to take me home, and Eizo is there!"
"Did Lord Fifth really say that we could go and look at the scrolls?" asks Kakashi sensei sternly.
"Yes he did," says Naruto, nodding once. "He even wants us to stay for a while to see if we can help figure out who Indra's reincarnation is, 'tebayo."
"Alright, let's go then," says Kakashi sensei, and leads Team Seven to the Hokage Tower. When they arrive, Kakashi sensei leads them in through the window, in true Kakashi sensei fashion.
Since Sasuke has not quite got the hang of going up walls in a wheelchair, Naruto and Kakashi carry her and her wheelchair. Once they are inside, Naruto and Kakashi sensei reunite Sasuke with her wheelchair and head over to the table with the scrolls on it. Madoka wheels Sasuke over to the table and parks her carefully between two chairs.
"Watch this, this is so cool, dattebayo," says Naruto, slapping his hand down on of the testing seals. Sasuke thinks that it is the Indra one. "This is what the test does if you are not the right person." The scroll turns red and makes a sound like a buzzer. "And this is what it does when you are," he says, switching his hand to the other test seal. A backdrop falls down behind Naruto, a noisy, messy, annoying backdrop.
"Make it stop," says Sasuke, glaring at Naruto.
Iruka, Wind, Rain and Fugaku sit in a booth at Yakiniku Q eating their barbeque pork. In an attempt to turn the conversation away from the sacred scrolls, Fugaku asks, "So Iruka, how's Namiko doing?"
"Now that she knows where I work, she keeps dropping in on my class and joining in," says Iruka, grinning. "And when I say 'joining in' I really mean 'pulling pranks'. I should stop her, but it's just so cute to see about 21 eight year olds running around in panic because a five year old is throwing peas at them or something equally stupid." He laughs and shakes his head.
"Yes, you probably should do something about that behaviour before it gets out of hand," agrees, Fugaku, smiling in amusement.
"How's Itachi doing?" asks Iruka.
"She's only got a month left before she's due," says Fugaku, poking at a piece of meat. "She has everything ready, and I think if Itachi does not have the baby soon, she is going to go on a killing spree. She's just so aggravated by how restricted her movement is and how sick she gets sometimes. She's been sick an awful lot, but the doctors say there's nothing wrong with her or the baby - it's all normal."
"Um…" says Rain, sounding a little unsure. "Itachi's having a boy, right?"
"Yes, why?"
"That baby might be our missing reincarnation."
Fugaku didn't think of that. "Oh," he says. "We'll have to test him once he's born to make sure. But if he is, we are going to have to wait years before we can seal away Zetsu, and we need to seal him now."
"I wonder if there is a way to test the unborn," muses Wind. "We tested Eizo and the other Uchiha babies by amplifying their chakra with our own. Maybe if we can get Itachi to channel her baby's chakra to the seal in even a small amount, it might work."
"Shall we test Itachi's baby after we've finished eating?" asks Rain. "We might as well try now, and if the test doesn't work, we keep looking."
The others agree, and once they are finished their meal, the four of them head back to the Hokage Tower. When they arrive they hear the unmistakable sound of Naruto and Sasuke arguing.
"WELL YOU HAVE POO FOR BRAINS!" Sasuke's voice carries easily through the Hokage Tower.
"NO I DON'T!" Naruto's voice shouts even louder. "AND YOUR STUPID FACE MAKES LITTLE BABIES CRY!"
Wind, Rain, Fugaku and Iruka all turn to look at each other in shock.
"Since when was Sasuke capable of being that loud?" wonders Iruka.
"WELL YOU'RE A...A...A...A BAD FUDGE CAKE!" Sasuke yells back, struggling a little to find an insult.
"YOUR BREATH SMELLS LIKE MOULDY CARROTS!" Naruto returns without missing a beat.
"YOURS SMELLS LIKE ROTTEN EGGS!" yells Sasuke.
"They sound awfully sure about what each other's breath smells like," Fugaku notices aloud, feeling a little concerned. He starts heading up to the scroll room, intending to stop the argument before it results in violence.
"YOU HAVE AN UGLY BUTT!" Naruto yells.
"YOUR BUTT IS UGLIER!"
Fugaku opens the door to see Sasuke and Naruto glaring right into each other's eyes. Naruto is bending down to better glare at Sasuke, while Sasuke is craning her neck to better stare down Naruto.
"You know what?" says Naruto, lowering his volume to a gloating, much quieter shout. "I bet you're just jealous because you're a girl so they didn't test you!"
"I am not!" snaps Sasuke, pushing Naruto away from herself. "Like I'd want to be the reincarnation of some stupid, smelly man!"
"MEN ARE NOT SMELLY!"
"YOU ARE SMELLY!"
"I HAVE A BATH EVERY DAY!"
"SO DO I!"
"I DARE YOU TO TAKE THE TEST!" yells Naruto, out of the blue.
"FINE, I WILL!" Sasuke snaps. "BUT I'M NOT TAKING YOUR TEST!" She slams her hand down on the Indra test seal and activates her chakra.
No red buzzer blares at Sasuke. A gold backdrop appears behind her, complete with trumpets, confetti and balloons.
"SASUKE IS INDRA?" Fugaku yells in surprise. "BUT SASUKE'S A GIRL!"
"DAD!" Sasuke turns to Fugaku with angry tears in her eyes, and her sharingan flashing, with all three tomoe spinning around and around. "I don't want to be the reincarnation of some smelly old man! I'm a LADY!"
Fugaku pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs exasperatedly. "As the reincarnation of Indra, you have enormous potential and power," he says, trying to comfort his hysterical daughter. "Let's try to look on the bright side."
"But I already have those things, because I'm an Uchiha!" snaps Sasuke, glaring at Fugaku in a way that would normally get her extra chores.
"That's not necessarily a guarantee of power," says Rain.
"Yes, you never met Obito," says Fugaku, stroking his mustache. "But he was a good example of an Uchiha who was not very strong or powerful. I'd say you have lots of potential because you're my daughter."
"Obito?" says Naruto, cocking his head to one side. "You mean that dippy-looking kid in the stupid goggles that was on Kakashi sensei's gening team?"
Wind starts laughing, holding her hand over her masked face to smother her giggles.
"Naruto, you used to wear goggles," says Kakashi a hint of sadness in his voice. "You can't make fun of someone else who does."
"I do it all the time," shrugs Naruto. "After all, I grew out of it, 'tebayo."
"Dad, why couldn't Itachi or Eizo be Indra?" demands Sasuke, interrupting the conversation about Obito's goggles. "Or even Shisui. They're the geniuses! I mean, Eizo is two and he can sense chakra signatures."
Fugaku has not heard that one before. "What?" he says. "Since when?"
"That's how he found me at the forest of death," says Sasuke sulkily. "He followed a trail of my chakra signature."
"How did you work that out?" says Fugaku, unsure if he should believe it.
Sasuke pouts and tosses her (still green) hair. "Oh, come on! It's obvious. I asked Eizo how he found me, and he said he followed my Thingy. He obviously means chakra signature." If Sasuke's left arm was not in a sling she would have her arms crossed indignantly.
"How long have you known this without mentioning it?" asks Fugaku, crossing his arms indignantly.
"Like, a month," says Sasuke, sticking her chin out and trying to cross her arms indignantly, but failing because she cannot bend her left arm the right way.
Fugaku sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose again. "Dammit, Sasuke!" he says. "You should have told us that as soon as you found out. That's important!"
"Hmph!" Sasuke tosses her head.
"Okay," says Wind calmly. "We have Indra and Ashura. Let's send a message to Nagato and start teaching these two kids the Seal to Seal away Zetsu. Let's hope Sasuke has learned enough fuuinjutsu to understand the jutsu."
"I will go send a message to Nagato," says Rain. He turns and leaves the room, closing the door behind him.