Kyouka tachibana – Married and Mother of two girls. (A beautiful woman but an even more beautiful mother and wife. She will do anything for the future of her family.)
Yuika Tachibana – Older daughter of the Tachibanas. (Age: 17) (A bit of a tomboy girl but still is just as beautiful like her sister and mother. She has confusing feelings for Itachi.)
Koharu Tachibana – Younger daughter of the Tachibanas. (Age: 16) (The airheaded girl that seems to some issue with male but gradually getting better and also sometimes may act like a yandere when a certain black hair hero is included.)
Kaito Tachibana O.C – Married and Father of two girls. (He looks like (A quirky man that is quite reliable even with his dumb actions but most importantly a father and husband that loves his family.) (He looks like Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist)
Itachi Uchiha – The hero that needed a normal life. (Age: 13) (Age edited)
(New Addition) Fuyuko – A girl with a tragic future and past until Itachi intervenes. From the manga Songen kankin baby (Hentai manga) (Age: 16)
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Chapter-3
Itachi's P.O.V
I won't say that a missing right arm doesn't affect me, but I know what needs to be done. Though, the people around in this world seem to take it quite hard especially the one's around me.
Toto-san came rushing to the hospital when he heard about my situation. It took quite a while to calm him down but he eventually accepted it was an action I did knowing something like a severe injured would happened. Despite using the Sharingan, my body couldn't move like I wanted it too.
Still, no one died. That's something to be happy about. But I did not expect them to react so sad and Haru-san to cry for me.
When I said, "It's just an arm." No one was happy about it.
Both Haru-san's parent came, Kyouka-san and Kaito-san visited after I woke up in the hospital. They were also the one who brought me there when it happened.
They both came to thank me as well as apologize for saving Kaito-san's life and apologize for the incident. Replying with a calm and okay expression might not have been a good idea since they immediately apologetically bow at me again and again.
I asked them to settle down and explain that they had nothing to be guilty about because of that reason that, "I don't want to see someone die."
I don't know but the two adult gave me a sad but glad smiles. There was still the problem of Toto-san to not do anything to the Tachibanas since he knew I got hurt for saving Kaito-san, knowing his attitude, he probably might do something to put pressure on their finances.
"….." It's been a week since I've been admitted in the hospital due to the doctor's obsession on trying to find out why I was able to endure the pain, maybe I should've acted a boy my age. And the strangest thing was how Haru-san only came once while the others frequently came, I know her to be someone who overly worries.
"Yuika-san."
"Yes?" The eldest daughter of the Tachibana family unexpectedly frequently visited me. Maybe she had a softer spot for me than I thought.
"Haru-san."
"!?"
I knew something was strange the moment I said her little sister's name and her reaction immediately confirms it.
"W-What do you want to know?" Putting down the knife and apple she was peeling, Yuika-san looks elsewhere trying to hide her face.
"I haven't seen her since last week, how is she?" I'm not prying. I'm just worried about my friend.
"Oh…" She was relief at my question. I'll eventually find out what's really going on since I'm about to admitted out on my request to the doctor for my health getting better.
"Well… She's doing fine and…" I stop listening since I began to think to myself again.
This body I came to own after coming to this world is in a sense is better and in another way worse. Unlike my previous life, this body is not infected with an illness but unfortunately it has too many limitations.
Apart from my Sharingan and chakra, this body is too weak as well. At first, I wasn't worried due to the little action that needs to be taken in a world so peaceful but I was wrong, there are still dangers.
I as always, my needs are only second to the people I care about.
"Itachi?"
"Oh, sorry Yuika-san. I guess you really are warming up to me, calling me by my first name now." I spaced out a number of times here in this world. Why am I so troubled?
"T-That's stupid, I've always been calling you l-like that!"
While the younger sister is honest and calm, the older one is brass and overly reluctant to show her embarrassment. I wonder is this how Sasuke used to be when he was younger.
*grab* I grabbed the helm of her shirt.
"I-Itachi?"
"Thank you Yuika-san." I am thankful that I've gotten to meet the Tachibanas. They really are nice people.
"Itachi, are you okay? Maybe you should lie back down." Overly reacting to my sudden words, Yuika-san laid me back down and tried to make my pillow more comfortable.
Through all their ups and downs, they really are a good family. Maybe this is why Toto-san hasn't refuted about their large debts.
*slam!* Two people suddenly came in and one of them wore a happy grin.
"Excuse me but thi-!" Yuika-san was suddenly shoved in the face by the woman wearing a grin.
"Here kid, take this to your father. This is his new post."
"…." Yuika-san seem to be getting a sudden call, I hope there's no more trouble.
"…"
"Yes mom?"
"Now?"
"Okay."
"Itachi, it's a bit late to say but we're going on a trip. We were also hoping to invite you and Ishigawa-san but…"
"It's okay." I would love to go with them but I can't ignore this injuries. "Hope you enjoy." I said my goodbyes since one of the two people standing before the bed I was lying on looks quite impatient.
"Bye, Itachi."
The moment Yuika-san left, the two people made themselves comfortable with the woman who grin and sat on the chair beside the bed while the other woman sat on the other chair available. (A.N: The names of these two characters weren't shown in the manga but they were the two police who caught the three molester and rapist of the story.)
"You like older girls?" The woman sitting closest to me immediately asked with a seductive smile which didn't faze me.
"Please, no smoking here." I handed her a small plastic box I found under the bed for her to put the smoke out.
"Oh?" She immediate sticks out her tongue and put the cigarette out. "My bad."
"Now, let's get down to business." Putting down a few photos of me fighting the robbers, the woman eye smiled. This was going to be long.
Normal P.O.V
Itachi sigh as he watch both female officer exiting the room, the woman with the red hair was very annoying as he could still recall how thick headed at the offer she tried to pushed on him. Of course he didn't take the offer, the reason were numerous enough to not accept it.
*knock*
*knock*
"Itachi, can I come in?"
"Fuyuko-san?"
"Hey…"
"…." Itachi smile gently not for show but to calm the still nerve wreck person as the familiar face of a cute, long hair, tan color girl shyly peeking from the door. Like he remembered she was awkward as very with her shaky pace and her glasses looking as if they would fall off if she wasn't careful. Itachi had a small thought of why most of the girls he befriended were physically well endowed as the girl entering the room was also quite endowed.
"I know it's a bit late for visiting b-but I wanted to see how you were doing." The girl sat down on one of the chairs available while trying her best to hide her blushing face at the boy who had saved her. She was literally in love with the boy but was oblivious to the boy.
The girl also went to the same school as Itachi and Koharu.
"Either way, I'm happy that you came."
His words were that of appreciation but the girl overreacts and her face red up steam from thinking too much. "O-Of course."
"And how are you settling in? Having trouble?"
"No! No!" The girl panic since she felt she had been unappreciative for his kind actions, "I'm doing great. Thanks to you and Ishigawa-san… I would've… I would've…" Still, she wasn't fully cured of her anxieties caused due to terrible experience in school before he and Koharu came into her life..
*pat*
*pat*
Feeling the younger boy's patting softly on her head, the girl who was still having trouble but knowing he was there made things a whole lot better. She just felt a little better and a little saner.
"It's alright now and even if I hadn't taken action. Someone would've at least lent a hand." Though the boy did not know how untrue his words were due to how extreme it can be in the high school life.
Itachi was happy at how the older girl grew from her hellish and solemn days to being more confident and not taking others thoughts about herself anymore.
"No… Itachi, no one did but I'm really glad you did."
The girl didn't care she was being comforted by a senior student younger than her. She could've never found a better person than Itachi who with a few words could calm her down. She owed him so much and she planned to repay him some day.
"Since I'm about to be release, how about we go home together?"
Itachi felt it would be nice to go home together since she was already here at the day of his release from the hospital.
"…" The girl stayed silent for a second making Itachi confused.
"Itachi, I have to tell you something."
The girl then explained that her grandparents were extremely ill and needed her to come take of her since her mother the reason of her living in the Ishigawa residence was still a wreck and wasn't even replying to their messages.
"I understand."
"Itachi…" Her eyes hesitantly look at the boy for something.
"When you want to come back, our doors are always open to you Fuyuko-san."
"…." Her eyes widen as tears fell down again.
The girl hugged the boy to her endowed bosom not carrying for any restrained as she was really happy for his words.
While being hugging the boy, Fuyuko, the girl with so much emotion to express reminisce on how she had been saved by the boy.
...
A few months ago (The school both Itachi and the Tachibana sisters currently attends)
During classes a few seats were empty but it didn't really affect the classes. The teacher had no idea but the students were a bit tense and had ideas of what was going on.
"Fuyu…ko-chan."
And inside the school's restroom, one girl was crying but didn't let out any scream due to fear. She could only whimper with tears falling down her tan skin.
*drip*
*drip*
She was tied up in a proactive manner on a toilet seat, her uniform now barely covering her body as she was strip harshly, as well as the things done to her naked body. She felt extremely hurt, physically and mentally.
They threw away her glasses away, write stuff like 'Disgusting nipples' and 'Congrats on popping your cherry' on her breast and around her neither region. And by the things done to her, the girl was obviously rape.
*drip*
*drip* She felt her everything sullen, as if she wasn't human to anyone anymore.
"*hick* *hick*" The girl could do nothing but whimper at the pain from her neither region as a pole was stick in it after the boys left.
"You know how every human has at least one redeeming feature?" There was a girl with a delinquent looks taking pictures of her with a smartphone. There were also other girls looking down at the tied up girl.
"Like stupid but has good looks..."
"Fat but has good grades..."
"But you Fuyuko-chan…" The girl kept continuing as if it was natural to bully the girl to this point.
"You're terrible at sports, stupid, no special skills…" With every words the girl said, the tied up girl name Fuyuko felt her whole being stripped off word after word.
"You're not interesting and your parent is a nobody."
The girl then pulls her hair as if she was looking down at a disgusting thing.
"Dim-witted, ugly hand-writing, has no friends…"
"If I were you, I would wanna kill myself, see?"
Fuyuko really want to just drop down and never wake up, she couldn't think straight from the humiliation, the pain she was being inflected on.
She always had been enduring the pranks, the harassments, the bullies and above all the loneliness was pressured to. No one wanted to befriend her, and for as long as she could remember, she hardly had any friends.
She endured through them, hoping high school would've been different but it wasn't. She had her hopes high only to be torn down by reality.
The worst part was how her mother would never comfort her or help her like a parent should be doing. She knew her mother hated her for some reason every since she was a child but she just kept hoping for her mother's help or atleast anyone.
"Why are you even alive?" The girl then took one last picture with a bored expression.
"W-Why…?"
"W-Why…?" The girl with tears cries started mumbling the same word after another.
She was not asking the others around, no, she was asking the world why her life was so unfair.
She asked why she always has to endure without any rewards at the end.
She asked why unfair she was treated and why no one loves or wants her.
She just wants to be fit in, to have a life and to live.
But no one heard her pleads. The other students who weren't bullying her were afraid of the main girl bullying her as the bully was a really awful person as well as her mother was the president in the PTA committee. Teachers did nothing but gave her few advices while some teachers enjoy seeing the endowed teen girl suffer.
No one was going to help her…
"Face it. No one's going to hel-"
"Excuse me." A familiar male voice enters the restroom.
"huh? You want a turn?"
Fuyuko would've heard the new voice coming in but she wasn't listening anymore. She was just too far out of reach to get her attention.
"Go ahead, the cherry popper here is a bit damp but she still useable."
"….."
Fuyuko just waited with a dull expression now as she could not even cry anymore with the pain in herself and the broken doll she now was.
*grab*
"?"
"H-Hey, where are going?!"
They were all surprised except Fuyuko who thought she was being carried to another secluded place for their enjoyment.
They angrily glare at the young boy who was carrying the broken girl in a bridal style towards the exit.
They thought the boy who had entered was just another male student coming for a quickie but they were all surprised when the boy pulls out the stick from Fuyuko's neither region as well as gently untying her from the toilet seat before carrying her away from the place.
"To the infirmary." The boy turned to them and answered as if it was the most obvious answer.
"Wha-!" One of the bullies and punks was about to retort but the main bully girl stop them as she was being careful at the boy she heard rumors of being really strong.
"You're Itachi Uchiha aren't you? You're making a big mistake here. Trying to play hero here, put her down and get. I might just let this slide if you do."
The girl was obviously furious at the sudden entrance of someone not fearing her.
Fuyuko on the other hand was surprised at the one who was carrying her as well said he was taking her to the infarmary, she might not have friends but she hear gossips and rumors of a genius young pretty boy entering the school but she would never expect the same person to be carrying her.
"….." Itachi, the boy who was currently carrying Fuyuko was unaffected by the bully's threat. "And?"
"h-huh?"
Some of the girls and boys who were around the bossy girl were surprised at his bland answer. They knew the last person who had gone against the bossy girl was almost killed due to unfortunate accident the bossy girl had planted.
"I can make your life miserable! I can do so many things! My mom is the PTA president! I…" The bossy was really pissed and started giving the boy more death threats.
*grip* In her fear, Fuyuko gripped harder on the boy's arm.
Fuyuko who had heard everything felt the last remaining hope disappearing and guessed the boy to be giving in to the threats.
"And the boys here need their cum dump. So give up this stupid act, maybe I might just give you some relief."
"…."
Itachi saw the male students around the bossy girl moving towards him with fists drawn out.
*!* Fuyuko eyes widen, she now felt her world crumbling as what she had thought to be her last hope also abandoning her by putting her down.
"Stay here." But his next words surprise her as she did not know what was going to happen next but the small ensuring smile he gave her made her feel a little better but also scared for what was going to happen next.
"…."
"…."
"….."
"…"
"….." The bossy girl and her goons' eyes widen at the young boy single handedly beating up all the boys who she knew were the strongest in the school. The most surprising thing was how he did not even raise a fist to fight back.
"…." They watch the boy leaving with the distress girl who had a shock expression while slowly drifting to sleep on the boy's arm.
"You'll regret this!" The bossy girl was still angry even after the overwhelming power the boy had shown.
….
A few hours after
"Why….?"
The same girl that had been bullied, raped and at last minute saved by the end of the day was walking sluggishly down the deeper part of a city near the town she goes to school.
Things did not go well as no happy ending did not happen for the girl.
"Why… was I born?" She was a mess, crying nonstop and extremely hurt inside.
She was indeed taken to the infirmary after Itachi had saved her from her daily bullies but after she had woken up inside one of the beds, the boy who had saved her was gone and made things really difficult.
She thought he had been just a dream as she woke up alone again in the infirmary, she convinced herself that someone might have just taken her to the infirmary when she lost consciousness somewhere. Feeling deeply fooled and pathetic she left for home.
"I…I… *hic* just want to belong…"
She did not care that her attire was quite revealing, she did not care about the lewd gazes that had been on her for the last few minutes. As the words her mother said to her still disturbed more than anything.
Yes, the fact that she was born due to someone raping her mother made the finally crack on her already broken self.
"Oh! Isn't it Fuyuko-chan?"
"…?"
Her dull expression could not care less anymore as someone called out to her. An over-weight middle age man stood a few steps away with money on his hand as he grin at the high school girl.
The fat man was one of the people that had forcefully taken her virginity as well as paid her money for her schooling fees in exchange for her services. It was a life she was force upon when her mother stop giving her tuitions fee.
"Are you available?" The fat man grins disgustingly.
"…." The girl thought about her life being just too messed up to be called normal. She now thought that she was never going to have any future so now she believed it was time to stop hoping for any good things that might come to her.
"O-!"
"Fuyu…ko-san? Is it? Why are you still outside after school?"
A voice she thought she only heard in her dreams was suddenly spoken out behind her.
"Y-You…" She stuttered at the young boy, the only person to ever stand up for her and saved her from her daily painful life.
Seeing the change in look at the girl, the middle age fat man felt annoyed and jealous.
*grab* "Hey! Fuyuko-chan! What are you waiting for!? Let's go and I'll give you extra!" The fat man grabs on Fuyuko and pulls the girl away.
The girl while being pulled watched Itachi as she was being pulled further and further away. She knew resisting was not possible anymore since she could not let him get into any trouble for her disgusting life. She now felt at least one piece of a good memory before she could be finally broken to pieces.
"I'm sorry for intruding but could you let go of my school mate?"
A slender hand of the young boy stopped the fat man to stop and in turned made Fuyuko stare at the boy with uncertainty.
"What's it to you brat? You want her too is it?" The fat man suspiciously looks at the young boy.
"!?" Fuyuko eyes widen a bit and thoughts came to her wondering if the young boy only helped because he too was like all the same as the men who did so many bad things to her.
"….." Itachi did not answer and just look between the fat man and the distress but silent girl. "No." His answer was firm and held no lie.
The fat man was not convinced either way he just didn't care and want to relief his stress on the girl he was grabbing on.
"…I…" Fuyuko immediately believed the young boy's word as she couldn't help but see the boy who had helped her to be the same kind of man most men are.
*grab*
The fat man grabs the helm of Itachi's shirt and lifts him making Fuyuko fear for the boy's safety.
"Look here brat, I don't care if you're her classmate or friend! I'm tired from a whole day's work and I need some relief, I'm even paying for it. So buzz off!"
"!" Both middle age man and girl were surprised at the boy being able to land safely after being thrown off easily.
"I believe you misunderstood my words." His words made it clear on the two heads that he was not joking. "I did not come here to disturb whatever business you have with Fuyuko-san…"
Itachi explained as he was unfazed by the situation.
Fuyuko on the other was a bit shocked and made her hopes drown again. "…" She turned away from the boy and let her dull emotions take over again. She expected it but it still hurt her badly inside.
"Okay then…" The fat man was now confused but was not going to wait any longer.
But before the two could leave to their own accord, Itachi still had something to say, "But I did come here to ask Fuyuko-san to have a study session for tomorrow's test."
"…." It stopped both the fat man and the girl.
"While you little-ah!" Itachi did not want to take any hit and quickly immobilized the middle age man on the ground with ease.
"I-Itachi…." The girl now was again crying as she could never the words he said the words that might be not much but the words that actually came to save her.
"Well?"
"….." She was feeling a lot of things but the only thing that matter at the moment was how she could now really trust the boy's word.
Seeing the hand held out to her, Fuyuko with an expression of happiness along with a flush face and tears slowly took it. "H-Hai! I'd love to join."
From then on the girl now became more alive as she got to meet many more kind and accepting people, it was all she had ever wanted. School life was also a little better with Itachi and the Tachibana sisters standing up for her and helping her stand up for herself. The only thing she wanted left was to be better and help the boy who had saved her.
Present- time (Ishigawa's resident) (Itachi P.O.V)
I was finally able to go home when the doctors release me with a good health result. Forgetting those two female policemen that came with their bizarre offer, my time in the hospital was rather dull. Though, Fuyuko-san sudden trip to her grandparents was also surprising news.
"Itachi-kun… are you sure you still want to attend your classes tomorrow? You did… just got out the other day."
As always the old man Ishigawa overly worries for the only other occupant in his household. The old man really sees the Uchiha boy as a grandson.
"It's alright Toto-san. I find it better to be active as I can." The boy, now with a missing right arm joy gave a positive smile to ensure the old man to not worry so much.
"Still, it's amazing how you recover so fast…" The oldman was still determined to not let any other person he cares about out of his hand again, "….. but it doesn't mean you can be rash. I'll call the school for passes on your P.E classes."
"Are you sure we have to go that far?" Itachi sweat dropped at the old man trying to find his cell phone so frantically.
"Itachi-kun, you have a disability now. I'm worried this might stunt your future."
He was right about it, after staying in this world for years, I know now that people with disability have a lesser chance in society.
"I'll be fine Toto-san, my futures not all that bleak." The boy wanted to reassure the old man that even with such a disadvantage he will be fine.
"*sigh* Itachi-kun, this old heart of mine is still worried you know."
"And you worry too much, I'll prepare dinner." It was already late and I was also a bit hungry from only eating food prepared by the hospital.
"Then let this old bones help you."
The boy was having fun doing normal things without any of the danger of his old world and family problem he was used to in the past. He felt really lucky for finding such a nice person to take him in.
But all things don't exactly go as planned. Despite under wonderful moments anything could happen.
*thud*
"Toto-san!" The young boy who had just gotten out of the hospital now was again face with another unavoidable problem.
Our young raven hair boy immediately took the old man to the hospital but things did not turn well even after a thoroughly examined by the medical expertise.
"Toto-san…"
"*cough* I was hoping it didn't come so soon…" Old man Ishigawa Toto laid on one of the hospital beds with a tired expression as well as an I-v attached to his arm.
Itachi stayed by his side even with the day turning into night.
*grab* the old man holds on Itachi's hand and smiled.
"*sigh* It'll be fine Itachi. I've live a life… without any regrets, thanks to you."
The old man had always been feeling depressed after his wife and child died. Years gone by, he started being resentful to the others around but all that change when Itachi came into his life
"….."
"….." The boy knew and fully understands it but it was still hard to accept those close to him vanishing.
"Toto-san, could you…" Stopping himself, the boy could not give out false hope and suddenly had second thoughts at his next choice of word, "…tell me about your wife and child?"
The boy knew not what to say but asked the same question he always asked when the old man before him was feeling sad or depressed.
"…. Of course…" The old man always did love reminisce about his family. He love talking about his wife wakes me up for a good morning meal while his daughter runs around talking with her mouth which he founds very endearing.
As the old man goes on and on, the light in his eyes slowly and dimly lost its luster but it did not stop the old man to stop talking about his family even after his sight began to blur. He was happy as he did not even care about the intense pain his body was feeling.
Itachi listens carefully to the dying old man's words. He listens and chuckle at times with the old man but time was running out.
"Itachi-kun…"
"!" A doctor and nurse came rushing in after being alerted of the old man's vitals weakening. They quickly acted to secure the old man's life.
Still the old man did not stop talking about his family even with the people around and the boy did not stop listening. The old man also told the boy how happy he was again after he had came into his life, Itachi too felt the same and it only made the old man happier.
Even with the doctors asking not to talk out of losing his energy, the old man did not stop until he looks up with a tired sigh.
"Thank you… Itachi-kun."
With his final words, the old man close his eyes forever but he wore a small smile suggesting his life was fulfilled.
"…" His vitals finally stopped. The doctor and nurse didn't stop trying to help get the old man back but Itachi knew it was not possible anymore.
"It should be me thanking you."
*drip* with a single drop of his tears, Itachi said his goodbyes to his step-grandfather.
Ishigawa's residence
Three days had already passed since the passing of the old man Toto Ishigawa. The old man died leaving a boy to his own occurred and his will.
The boy was the closet the old man had as a relative despite not being related by blood.
"That boy…"
"I know… how can a child young as him not even lose a single drop of tears?"
"I thought he was quite close to the old man."
"Maybe the boy is more cunning than we thought?"
"I see…"
On the day of the service held for the old man Toto Ishigawa, a number of people came but Itachi the boy who sat and hold the old man's photo knew that all of them came to gain something.
"….." Of course, Itachi did not care since Toto's will contain that all his possession and assets were now under his name and he was to handed under the guardian ship of their house/land rented neighbor, the Tachibana family.
"…" But Itachi did not care for such things instead he stood and be as polite as he can to the visitors.
The boy unconsciously skip the last two days of school even when his teacher came, the boy explained and would be taking a few day of absence due to reasons his teachers completely understands.
"….." Itachi wondered how the house he had been staying with the old man became so suddenly big. A lot of things had been lounging his mind.
One of those thoughts that had invaded his head was how he reacted to the death of the old man.
"…." Now he spent the third day after old man Toto's death silently watching afar from the corridor of his huge house.
*!* He wasn't even listening to the door of his home opening forcefully.
*step!*
*step!* Even the loud foot step closing in did not attract his attention.
*hug*
"!?" While watching the scene of his well tended garden he shared with the old man, Itachi felt two arms embracing him gently and warmly.
"Itachi-kun, *huff* you should've called us earlier…"
Itachi recognized the voice as the mother of the Tachibana residence and the mother of his friend.
"…sorry…" Itachi loosen his guard down while under the woman's embrace.
"….." The woman was out of breath and tired from rushing back from her vacation with her family. The moment she heard news of her landlord passing, the woman immediately made some calls to be certain until she got the information that he had indeed passed two days ago after they went to their vacation.
She had her family pack their bags to go home immediately and none of them complaint due to the situation they heard as well as in fear for the condition of the young boy left alone. The youngest of the Tachibana was especially heart ache about the news but still was in a hesitative condition about her lingering guilt.
"…." While escorting the young boy to her house, Kyouko Tachibana felt the boy to be really light for his age. She wondered how on earth a boy like Itachi gotten to such a state.
She wondered if the boy was since after losing an arm saving her husband's life and also losing a grandparent figure.
"How about you stay with us for the night? Haru can also wipe up dinner for you too."
"…Thank you, Kyouka-san…" The boy then felt his consciousness sleeping away.
"!?" The woman was surprise but understand while looking at the sleeping boy on her arms.
She wondered if the boy had not gotten enough sleep or food by the tired expression on his face. The passing of Toto Ishigawa must have put a lot of pressure on the boy was what the woman thought.
Seeing such a good boy falling asleep on her arms, the woman then vows at the point to help and protect the boy who had done so much for her family.
A few years later
"*yawn~* 6:00 AM?" A young man woke up from his bed before properly folding his bed sheet.
The boy name Itachi Uchiha stood calmly as he brushes his teeth in front of the bathroom mirror. Looking at the mirror anyone would and not deny the fact that the boy was a total good looking pretty boy but appearances was not an important subject to the young man.
"…" Opening the door of the house he now inherited from his grandfather figure, the boy got out and went to his neighbor's house with a house key they gave him. They had wanted him to stay but the boy refused as he was already happy with the coming to their house from time to time.
"….." Now we can see him in a kitchen cooking up the morning breakfast for the others that were momentarily waking up from their slumber.
"…" Feeling a familiar arm on his shoulder the boy still did not look away from the frying pan he was currently using.
"Itachi, are you making breakfast again?" A female voice came from the one who was hanging her arms on his shoulder and also the boy got his attention.
"Good morning Yuika-san." The boy Itachi smiles gently at the older girl who had been there for him and had become a good older sister like figure for me through the few years though with some bumps on the way. "Toast?"
The girl name was Yuika Tachibana, the elder daughter of the family.
When she at first met the boy, the girl was not exactly in any kind of good terms due to how clingy her little sister was to the boy but now things change.
"Itachi…" The girl now fully grown and had the stature of a beautiful woman solemnly looks at the younger boy. She was a few older than the boy and after what the boy did for them, she could never want to see hurt again.
"Itachi-kun, did you make breakfast again?" Another woman came into the kitchen and this time it was the mother of the house and her name was Kyouka Tachibana. Despite her age, the woman looks as beautiful as her daughter and she too was worried about the boy's actions. "You really don't have to, you know?"
*…* Setting down the plates calmly with only one hand, the boy just gently did his work on the kitchen table without much reaction to their worries.
"You've helped me when I needed comfort as well as given me so much… like a family, the least I could do is help out inside the house."
Itachi wasn't financially trouble with the amount and properties the old man Toto Ishigawa left for him but it didn't mean he was lonely and hurt in more than one way. He would've been fine without them but it didn't mean that he won't reach out for comfort.
"It-kun…." Another girl came in and this was the youngest in the house apart from Itachi and her name was Koharu Tachibana. Her long light blond hair was already neatly comb and she was also beautiful just like her older sister and mother. Like her older sister, she too had grown and now was also even wearing glasses as she was still studying after finishing High School.
The young woman stares at the boy longingly but push her urges down as she knew and saw how much the boy had suffered because of her action.
"…" Both Kyouka and Yuika let out relief breathes as if they had been holding their breath the moment they saw him calmly doing the kitchen work with his disability, a missing arm.
"Good morning everyone!"
*smack!*
*thud!*
A man with glasses and a tall stature came in hardly and without any warning smacks the boy's back making him dropped the plate of dining wears.
Itachi still was no normal boy, even with a handicapped of a missing arm he quickly dives down and skillfully caught all the kitchen wears before they hit the floor with the plate.
"Oh… Did I do that?" The man of the house just look at the disapproving faces of his wife and daughters. He felt the sweats falling of his face, "Sorry?"
*smack!*
*pow!*
*crack!*
"Idiot husband…"
"….." Itachi made a small smale watching how a real family acts and how it was not always smiles and laughter but showing each other how they care and how they feel about each other.
"Everyone, how about we settle down and eat?"
"…." They all eventually sat down on the kitchen table with the girls going about their daily lives while the man of the house with bumps and bruises talk to Itachi about how the boy was more loved then he was.
"….." Itachi didn't say much during their meal but he was happy nonetheless as he felt being a part of something normal and something great. Also, for some reason, he always felt a kind of nice warmth during the pass years he had come to spent with them. He came to love them even more; even the idiotic man of the house became a sort of a reliable step father to him.
…..
"Haru?"
"!?"
"Were you staring at him again?"
"Nee-chan…"
"You know, he forgave you a long time ago right?"
"But look at him…"
Both girls watch the handicapped boy working on his daily routine happily as if the missing arm was not even a bother.
"…how can he still smile after all that happened to him?"
"And people say you were the more mature one."
"Nee-chan…"
"Sorry, sorry."
The youngest of the Tachibana got caught watching our young Uchiha doing the choirs in the house effectively with only one hand.
"Nee-chan… back then, he did really saved me and dad right?"
The young woman had so many doubts and how her life was affected from almost getting rape at a young age only to be saved by someone who was not afraid to get hurt to protect her and her family. Her doubts of how she had to be so helpless and how more will he had to lose caused her to shy away from him at times.
"Yes, yes he did."
"He's my hero right?"
"I guess…"
"I-I think…" With a deep breath, the girl finally let out her inner desire, "I love him." Haru had finally said what was inside her that she was so afraid to letting out due to how much she had cause him pain.
"O-Oh…." Yuika was surprise at how her little sister said it so affectionally. She knew her sister had a crush on the young man but she never thought her little sister would put into the word 'love'. There was a huge difference between crush and love after all.
"I-I see…." The older girl glances between the love sick yet insecure girl and the boy who was tending to his garden at his household.
She also felt a pang of something annoyed when she heard her sister confess how she fell for the boy that had done so much for them.
"But… I don't deserve him…" Koharu slowly sat down on the floor and not even paying attention to the couch she could've easily sat on. "I mean… coming into his life, I can only ever see It-kun suffering… I just… I just…"
"Haru…" Yuika couldn't see this going anymore and sat down beside her little sister and embrace her, "It'll be fine… I'll make sure of it."
"Oi! Kid."
"hm?"
While tending to his garden Itachi heard someone calling from his front lawn. "Officers?"
Two familiar police officer ladies casually enter his backyard through the front lawn and he had a sinking feeling of why they were here. And also he didn't really remember their names when they had visited him back when he was hospitalize when he got his arm blown off. Still, the stare the one with the wavy red hair gave him insecurities.
"A gardener huh? I can dig that." With a flirtatious grin the woman with the wavy red hair slowly walks to the young man and stood in front of the boy waiting for some kind of innocent reaction to the cleavage view she was giving him.
Unfortunately, Itachi was no normal bishounen innocent boy, he's a cool and calm bishounen boy who was wondering why the woman kept advancing at him.
"Can I help you?" Itachi blankly asked as he was put off by the woman's action.
"Well…"
Itachi knew now what the woman was about to do by the way her arm and leg adjusting to a quick angle for action.
*thud* But she wasn't quick enough as she felt the pain from underestimating Itachi.
"I did not expect that." With a surprise expression the woman was on the ground with Itachi still holding to her arm where she had intended to pin down the boy into submission.
"Chief, clearly your no match for him." The other woman who was also surprised watch but could not explained and just let it slide from the mystery that was the boy before her.
"If this is all, can you pleas-!"
"I'm not done yet!"
Itachi quickly hops back evading a surprisingly quick kick before starting his way backward evading the woman's coming assaults from multiple fists and as well as a volley of kicks.
"…." Seeing an opening, Itachi quickly dash forward surprising the advancing woman.
"…."
*thud!* the young man made the rushing woman tripped and made a point that it was the second time that she was no match for him.
Ignoring the pain from falling on her face, the woman was surprise and also glad at the strength the boy held. Still, she was a bit of a sore loser as she quickly got up for another round.
"Get away from him!"
A third person came in to the fray as the familiar blond long hair girl with glasses jumps with a clench fist at the police officer.
*!* Her fist though was block.
"That hurt…" The red hair woman felt the pain from blocking the young woman's fist before realizing the young woman was her friend's daughter. "You're… Kyoka's daughter?"
"I won't let you hurt It-kun!"
"I see you got your mother's strength."
The red hair woman was amused at her friend's daughter being so alike.
"Haru."
"!?"
The moment Itachi said her name, the girl jumps back and made the red hair woman put off balance. This was the right moment when Itachi dash in and swipe the woman off her feet before slamming his palm down on the woman's head to the ground.
*thud!*
With swirl in her eyes, the woman lost the fight. The other woman quickly moves to her with a surprised expression at her superiors defeat.
"Officer, are you my any chance still trying to recruit me?" Itachi was not letting his guard down even after the woman got defeated. He was a bit annoyed at the woman's persistence attitude. He was given a second chance in life and he wasn't going to waste it on fighting again.
"*cough* Sure am." The woman still had her grin as she slowly stood with the help of her friend. "*cough* I know when I see talent."
The woman spat out some blood from the hit Itachi gave her. She and her assistant were still surprised at how a child not even at his prime could move so fast and hit so quickly especially with a missing arm.
"Then my answer is still the same." Itachi was not in a good mood. Whenever he had to raise his hand, he always remembers the past and not the good ones.
"*sigh*" The woman let out a deep breath before letting her frustration of being easily beaten go, "Fine, we'll leave. But…"
She wasn't giving up and the look she gave the young man was an indication of a hungry predator after a tasty prey. "…. it doesn't mean I' giving up on you."
"…." Haru cheeks puff at the words the woman said and mistaken it for something else. She did not like the woman advances on her best friend.
"…"
Both officer left while Haru still was not please when the red hair woman her hand and gave Itachi a goodbye kiss from afar.
"Sorry Haru-san, you didn't get hurt right?"
The boy may not like fighting unnecessarily but it doesn't mean that he won't fight for the safety of his precious people. He was also impressed at how his best friend hit was so hard, he only did taught her a few self defense moves.
"It-kun…" The young woman looks carefully into the boy's eyes since he had grown up too but she was still taller due to genetic influence by her tall mother. She didn't mind since she knew how cute Itachi was with his height difference with her's.
*!*
Haru eyes widen at the gently flicker Itachi did to her forehead.
"I'm fine Haru-san." Itachi then move back to tending his garden while not noticing the beautiful girl's face turning red. "Mind helping me?"
"O-Okay…" The girl touches her forehead and felt the slight pain a nice feeling.
Koharu then stayed by his side helping him tend to his garden as well as imagine herself and older Itachi staying side by side making each other smile. She really fell in love with her best friend and hero.
From the other side of the backyard fence stood a happy but also jealous Yuika. She was happy yet at the same time wanting to stay by his side too.
And done!
This was supposed to help my cousin (Strong) get over his traumatic experience with reading the wrong kind of manga. But since he's all right even before I finish it, I kind of got lazy and didn't continue.
The next will be the last.