Dun. Dun. Dun!

Can it be? Who is Suiren?

Lets find out

I was sprawled on the floor. My head was still pounding. I kind of wished that Sakura was here to give me some of her medical magic. I needed the relief. The doctor had said that I was straining very hard during my training. I told him about pumping chakra to my eyes and he said that could be the reason my head was in so much pain. I knew better. I had eaten dinner with Kakashi but I wasn't really in the mood. I had no appetite and I just wanted to lie down. I knew he was worried about me but I just put on a smile and pushed through.

I thought back to earlier in the day. Looking at him, his chakra I could see it. Only in wisps of cloud like color surrounding his core but I could see it. I didn't have an explanation. My hand covering my face twitched a bit. Those hand signs were not mine but thinking back on them now I could probably pull off the justu flawlessly if I had the chakra. It didn't make any sense. My fingers parted a bit and my eyes opened. I looked up at the boy standing above me. I felt him this time. I had seen his chakra it would be really stupid not to feel it. I wonder why it took me so long to get used to him popping in and out like he did.

"Hey." I mumbled. I didn't want to get up. The coolness from the hardwood floors where doing something for my head. He looked at me. Traced my face with his onyx orbs and I let him. Only for a moment though before I pushed myself up and leaned my back on my bed. He quickly moved around me and sat on my bed with on foot under his thigh. "So are you going to talk or just sit here all mysterious and annoying like?" I figured I would get down to it.

He ran his fingers through his hair. I narrowed my eyes. Was he nervous? I was in shock because this was not an emotion I thought the kid possessed. I didn't want to feel any more awkward so I took my attention off of him and grabbed the end of my braid. I pulled out the hair tie and slowly started to take it out. He would talk. In time. He had to, it was the reason he was here.

"I'm sorry about before." He said and I nodded, still not making eye contact with the male. "I just need to know." Shaking the top part of my hair out I looked over to him, "Needed to know what?" He refused to look at me and I was starting to get irritated. I was about to open my mouth again till I felt a tug on one of my locks. His hand traced circle on my head before unknotting a few small ones. The act was soothing and my heads pounding started to slow down.

I couldn't help but bring my knees to my chest and maneuver slightly in front of him. I was a sucker when it came to people touching my hair. Sakura knew first hand. I'm sure the smart Sasuke Uchiha noticed it himself. Maybe he figured this was a good way to calm me down. He was right. I sighed softly. My head was finding some relief. "I was trying to figure out your kekkei genkai." I tensed a bit. He didn't stop running his finger through my curls. "I tried to force it out of you and I hurt you." I knew that was another apology. He didn't have to sorry again for me to know it.

"It's fine. I want to know just as much as you." I felt him tenses behind me. He wrapped one my tresses around his finger. I felt like he had more to say but he wouldn't come right out and say it. I didn't want to push it. This was hard enough for him as it is. I knew it. He was a man of few words but he had to speak for me to understand and that had to be bothering his to some extent.

"Well did you see anything?" I whispered. I knew I had felt something but I didn't know exactly what it was. I didn't know much about blood line traits. I started going through some of them like the byakugan and I came across ice release like Haku used on the bridge that fateful day. I had also found just a mention of the Shikotsumyaku which had something to do with the manipulating bones with chakra but it was becoming increasingly difficult to find much on anything. They were guarded secrets. "What are you thinking?" I let my cheek rest against my knee. I wondered if he was trying to ignore my previous questions. "I think I have a dojustu kekkei genkai." I noticed he stopped playing with my hair a moment. "Why?" I sighed.

"Something during our spar. I just can't get it out of my head." I rubbed my face. I wanted to face him to see his face as I talked but I didn't have it in me. "I could see your chakra. Like physically see it Sasuke. Like if I reached out it would feel like thin clouds." I thought back at it again. The wisps. It was driving me crazy. "And the Justu. I mean come on you know I don't know that Justu. I never learned it." I finally turned around, his face stoic but emotionless. His jaw was tight.

He knew something and wasn't telling me. I was starting to get angry. "I think I know what it is but ... It's just not possible." He mumbled the last part and got up walking to the balcony door. So help me god if he leaves like this. "What happened to your family?" His back was to me and I stumbled to my feet. I hadn't told anyone what the Hokage said to me that day. He knew my family was dead but that was all. "T-they are dead. Gone, killed." I was starting to stutter a bit. I couldn't help it. I could feel the intensity coming off of his body. "Your clan what about your clan?" He turned around and grabbed my shoulders.

I was started to panic a bit. I didn't like this, the questions, his face. "Suiren tell me." I could feel his fingers trembling. "Dead. Everyone is dead." My voice was soft. So soft I almost didn't hear myself. "I'm the last one." His brows furred together. Like he didn't understand what I was saying. My heart was in my throat. I had to get it all out now or I was going to faint. "My parents sealed my Kekkei Genkai. They gave me to my uncle when I was born. To save me. They thought something bad was going to happen to the clan and they wanted to protect the blood line. It is passed down through the females and I'm the last. The Hokage says I'm the last one."

I could feel the tears even though I wasn't actually crying. Saying I was alone hurt just as much as the day he told me. I had pushed it down my throat all the way down to my core where I didn't have to deal with it and he was making me bring it out. Like word vomit I could stop till it was all out. My knees buckled but he didn't let go; only bent to the floor with me. My face looked up at my name, "Suiren you're not alone." It was my turn to furrow my brows. What was he talking about? "You might be the last female but you are far from alone." His eyes flickers to red and my breathing instantly began to calm down.

"My clan was killed, every last one of them. Slaughtered by the person I once called family. My brother killed them all." My breath was caught in my throat. His head hung low. I could see it pained him, like it pained me but it was worse for him and I suddenly felt guilty. Guilty for thinking I had it so bad, I didn't even know my family but he knew his, loved his and trusted his. Instinctively I grabbed his face in my hands. I felt protective over him. I didn't want him to hurt. "I am so sorry Sasuke. I didn't know," I whispered and his red eyes met mine. "You did know. You know Suiren. Our clans. They didn't share the same fate. They were the same. You're an Uchiha."

My hands slipped from his face. My head started to spin. I heard Sasuke, Sharingan. It's a blood line trait, a kekkei genkai that allows the user to see and learn any taijustu, ninjustu, or genjustu. I heard the Hokage, the kekkei genkai of your clan runs through the females and, as so luck would have it. You are the last. I thought my heart was going to stop, "and the scroll?" It was all coming together. Like the pieces of a warped puzzle. "You can only read it if you possess the Sharingan."

"Well damn." Was all I could mutter. I sat back on my legs. I didn't know what to say. I don't think he knew what to say. This had to be why he was being too weird, why the spar was so intense. The answer to such big question about myself only brought up even more question. "So are we related?" I squinted my eyes a bit as he laughed. "No. No we are not."

"How do you know?" He sat back finally and shook his head. "I talked to the Hokage. I had my head so far up my ass. No wonder I didn't get the answer I wanted." I was confused but he continued. "I stormed up there with Kakashi demanding he tell me who you were. He said no but would answer question if I had. I told him I thought you possessed the Sharingan. Asked if it was possible we were related and he said No Sasuke Im sorry but you aren't related." I pinched the bridge of my nose but before I could talk he kept going. "There is no way a child goes missing from my family with no one asking questions." I glanced over at him, "I should have asked if you were an Uchiha."

Duh. I finally got it. My brain clicked. Just because we were from the same clan didn't mean we were from the same family branch. Sometimes you have to ask the right question to get the answers you were looking for. My head swam with even more question and if wasn't the middle of the night I wanted to march right to the Hokage and ask him myself. "Are you sure?" After all this we had to be sure.

"Yes, No." I sighed ready to punch him. "Then what the hell. What if you are wrong?" He shrugged his shoulders and I flicked him right in the head. "We need to sure about something like this baka." He rolled his eyes. "We can talk to the Hokage tomorrow. Bring him the evidence. He has to tell you, it's your right to know." I nibbled my lip. We were silent for a while but I could feel the amount of thinking the both of us were doing. It was plausible, very plausible. It was almost impossible for it to be wrong but we had to know for sure. We had to confront the Hokage. I had to get him to tell me, had to make him tell me.

I wasn't sure how I was going to make him do anything but I was going to cross that bridge when I got there.

I hope you all enjoyed.

I tried not to leave a crazy cliffhanger.

So much more to come.