The Future Uchihas
Chapter Three
"Nnnn..." He rubbed his head. Feeling a major headache coming on. His vision was blurry from the impact he took last night.
He rised from the floor, and stumbled to his feet.
Taking a small step forward, he felt a cold substance beneath his feet.
He looked down lazily.
...Blood...
His head shot up.
Bodies littered the floor... From left to right.
He fell to his knees and gripped his dark locks.
Memories came rushing to his head. The more the memories came, the more his headache sharpened. It felt like a hundred needle piercing his brain, he gripped his hair tighter and tighter. Hoping it would at least bring him back to his senses.
"Mana...?" He whispered. Sasuke stumbled back up. "Mana."
He began his search for any speck of life in the Uchiha household. "Mana!"
"... Daisuke!"
He paused waiting for the children to come out.
"Itachi...!" He walked out of the room and into the next. Searching in every little hiding spot he could think of.
"Neji...?!"
"Mikoto?" He slid the shoji door rather harshly. Nearly breaking it. "Mikoto...?"
"... Nnngh..."
His sharingan flared wildly as he quickly rushed towards the moaning.
The cloud nin rised from the piled bodies.
"Uh..." She grunted. Pushing aside another dead comrade.
Her breath hitched.
She found herself staring into red bloody eyes.
"..."
"..." She cowered back into the dead bodies.
His gaze bore into her. Black tomoes spinning. Around and around. Her own eyes betrayed her and followed the pattern of the tomoes. She found it hard to look at. They were hypnotizing to look at.
The sharingan user's hand shot towards her slim neck. Bringing their distance closer. She shook uncontrollable like a leaf.
"Ack!"
"Your still here?"
"..."
"Answer my questions. Or do I have to use genjutsu on you?" His sharingan glinted dangerously.
"..." She shook her head.
"Where are they...?"
"...W-Who?"
He lifted the cloud nin, whom was now dangling from the ground.
He cupped his hand behind his ear.
"Hn...?"
"I-I don't know... I blacked out during the b-blast!"
"Tell me." His voice dripped with poison.
His thumb pressed to the base of her throat.
"Ack! S-stop..." She whimpered.
"Was it your Raikage who sent you?"
Her mouth was agape to answer. But to only find she couldn't. What only managed to slip from her mouth was her whimpering.
"Is your village that worthless that you have to take our eyes?"
The grip around her neck grew tighter and tighter.
She shook her head.
"Answer me!"
"Sasuke stop!"
The children whined when he snatched his hands away.
"Tch!" He crossed his arms, looking away to the side.
"Bratty kids..."
Daisuke smiled to the side from the small scene. He placed his hand over Mana's forehead.
He was burning up.
Sweat appeared on every inch of his face, and his dark locks sticking to his forehead could prove it. His breathing was rapid. Cheeks flushed red. Almost as similar to their mother's blush.
It was clear that he had gotten a fever...
The byakugan user sighed.
Mana's peaceful face twisted into a pain struck face. The boy gritted his teeth, and clutched to the sides of the futon.
"Hold on just a bit longer, nii-san." He whispered, wiping the remaining sweat from the sleeping boy.
"Porridge... I need to make some porridge. There should be a willow tree near the compound. I could use the bark to make tea. The willow should reduce his fever. Now... The only problem left is the wound..."
He glanced to the future father to be in three years. He looked to be pretty occupied with the twins and Mikoto.
"I'm sure he won't allow me to leave the compound now that he is aware of our situation... I need to think of a distraction..."
The twins seemed to be pretty much occupying him already. They looked to be quite a handful for the ex avenger. But what Daisuke needed was a back up.
His white eyes trailed Mikoto whom was quietly tugging the cheeks of her stuffed lion.
"Miko-chan."
She looked at him from her stuffed animal.
"What's up, nii-chan?"
"Come." He rised from the floor. "I need your help around the kitchen."
He cracked the last egg into the bowl. The bluenette handed the bowl to the other. She whisked the eggs quietly, while the byakugan user pinched some salt in.
"Do you understand the plan." He said, removing his apron.
"Yep." She nods.
"Just keep Sasuke-san out of the kitchen for now. The twins should already be distracting him." He placed a cap on. "And I shouldn't be out for too long. Give me fifteen minutes."
He managed to snag a cap from Sasuke's closet. And get a hold of a basket with a few small jars in it.
"Remember to turn off the fire when I depart, okay?" He pointed to the running stove.
"Okay." She nods. He pats her head with gentle smile.
"Your only four, but you're very smart. I apologize for having you and the twins dragged into this."
She shook her head.
"Iie. I like to look at this... As an adventure!" She grinned. The older uchiha pinched her cheek.
"Dai-chan..." She said aggravated.
"I'll be on my way then." He walked towards the door.
"Stay out of sight."
"I will." He said and left.
"Be safe."
She opened the door, peaking from the outside.
The twins seemed to be handful on him. And Mana was still asleep.
She gave a sigh of relief.
She slided the shoji doors open. Entering the room with a bowl of cold water, along with a few rags. Daisuke had instructed her to continuously change the cold cloth for Mana's head. Daisuke said to stabilize Mana, by continuously changing his cold cloth on his forehead.
She sat near his bed side; Squeezing the water from the rag, then placed it on his forehead.
"Where's your brother?"
The simple question almost made her knocked over the bowl of water. She promptly remembered Daisuke to answer this:
"Nii-san is in the kitchen cooking porridge for Mana-nii." She covered the nervous tone with a meek smile.
"Ah..."
"..." She turned back to busy herself with nursing Mana.
"I should go assist him than."
"Wait!" Her outburst caught his attention.
"Oh dear... Now what..." She thought to herself.
"A-Ano... He told me to tell you that... To... Change Mana-nii's bandages." She pointed to the sleeping boy's wounded arm.
"Hn." He made his way by the boy's bed side. Mikoto watched as he removed the bandages from her brother's wounded arm. The relief was that the wound had stopped bleeding.
The bluenette place a hand over her heart and thanked Kami.
The future father of the five cleaned the wound with alcohol. He wrapped the wound with the gauze afterwards.
"So..."
"Otou-san! I want to show you this new trick I learned." She made hand signs with her eyes closed. She inhaled deeply and blew a puff of smoke.
"It's a working progress." She coughed up a puff of smoke.
"Ah-huh..." He raised an eyebrow.
"Please hurry brother!"
There were some parts of town that still looked familiar to the byakugan user.
He was currently passing through the market. There merchants were shouting there sales and goods to draw attention to shoppers.
The market was rather lively and entertaining as it usually was.
The smell of ramen entered his nostril.
Up ahead he spotted ichiraku.
While passing the ramen stand he spotted a certain boisterous blond. The bluenette grinned from behind to the future Hokage.
Before he knew it he stumbled back, and fell backwards.
"Ooff!"
"I-Itai." A voice whispered. "Gomenaisai. I wasn't looking where I was looking."
His eyes shot up to look at the figure.
His breath hitched.
She rubbed her bottom as she rises from the ground.
"Hinata-chan, anata wa daijobu?"
"Hai."
"You took quite a fall."
"... I'm fine Sakura-san." She looked to the boy in the cap. "Are you alright, little one?"
The cap casted a shadow over his eyes to prevent her from seeing his eyes. He nodded while picking up his things.
Jars and greens had spilled from his basket.
Sakura narrowed her jade eyes towards the boy.
He slowly backed away from the two woman.
"Woah! Are you alright?" The byakugan user turned to find the cheerful blond Nin.
"..." He nodded quickly before pulling himself away, disappearing into the crowd.
"How rude." The pink-haired kunochi crossed her arms. "Didn't even apologize for walking into you."
"It's alright, Sakura san." The indigo-haired heiress smiled meekly. "I'm sure he was just in a hurry. A-and I myself wasn't paying attention."
"Now that we're all here we should go pay teme a visit."
The three nodded.
"Ah."
"Eh? What is it Hinata-chan?"
The Hyuga plucked a small vile that she kicked.
"A vile? He must of dropped it when he bumped into you."
"I should go return it to him." She placed the palm sized bottle into her kunai pocket. "Please be on your way to Sasuke-dono."
"I thought we were walking there together... And what's with the honorific Sasuke-dono?"
"E-Eh?! Well, it's just that when we were..." She noticed the intense stare she was receiving from the couple. She blushed a shade deeper every time she blinked.
"... Please send Sasuke-dono my greatest regrets for I will be arriving late." She bowed and separated herself from the two.
"We'll meet you there, then?"
"That was close..." Daisuke panted. He clutched the basket tighter around his arms. "... I have to hurry. Kami knows how long Mikoto can stall."
"I shouldn't be too far from it now... It's just around this turn and..."
He adjusted his cap.
A view of a rushing river bank, along with a single willow tree just across the river. It's leaves swayed, following the rhythm of the wind.
"Yes, this is it." He activativated his byakugan. Analyzing the perimeters. "It should be safe. There's only a family of ducks occupying the area."
The family of seven settled themselves in the calmer streams of the river.
As the bluenette deactivated his byakugan, a path of rocks led to the other side of the river. He took each step with precaution, knowing full well he could slip and be carried with the currant.
With one last step he made it to land.
He picked up a stick and began stabbing the tree.
But to find no use of it.
He sighed.
"I wish I had my kunai." The bluenette approached the bank. He activated his kenkkai genkkai once more. He narrowed his eyes. "There should be some sharp rocks in there that could cut the bark."
He set the basket down and kneeled foreword.
"There I see it." He dipped a hand in the water leaving a ripple affect. "I can't get it..."
One hand in water while the other clutched on lush grass.
On the other side of the river, one duckling in particular went too far into the current and got carried away.
The grip Daisuke had around the grass snapped.
"Ah-"
"I got you!"
His savior pulled him in an embrace. With all the action happening around him. He didn't notice his cap had fallen off.
"Anata wa daijobudesuka?"
"... Ah... Hai..." He said trying to catch his breath.
She placed both her hands on the sides of his face.
"A-Ano... Turn this way please, you've gotten a small scratch."
His eyes slowly met her's. He didn't know why he turned. Maybe it was because his mother had told him to.
Meanwhile...
Since when do you have the keys for Sasuke's house?" Sakura raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms.
"I don't." He slides the shoji door with one swift motion. "See. They're always unlocked."
The two entered the Uchiha household.
"Where do you think he is? This place is just so big anyone might just get lost."
"He's usually in the training grounds." He made a turn for the west wing. "You turn this way and you..."
He paused.
Her face met his back.
"W-What?! Naruto!" She shook his shoulders. "...And you what, baka?"
"L-Look..." He pointed shaking at the figure.
Her emerald eyes showed her annoyance, before looking to what the blond was talking about.
The pink-haired kunochi gasped. She hid closer behind the Uzumaki.
"W-What is that...?" She whispered.
A figure or person... Two actually peeked from the walls of the hallways. They were cloaked in white sheets with masks on.
"I don't know."
The cloaked figures jumped from their spot and towards the couple.
"J-Jiangshi!" The Haruno screeched.
She pulled the Uzumaki, running from the jumping creatures.
One of the supposed 'Jiangshi' tripped on his cloth and fell on his bottom.
"Itai..." He rubbed his bottom.
The other stopped hopping and glanced behind.
"Neji okay?"
"Nnn..." He nods.
The two continued jumping around in a circle.
"Oi, what are you two doing playing with the laundry." The Uchiha uncloaked the two Jiangshi.
The two looked to the ravenette with a dumbstruck face, mouths shaped in triangles.
"Otou." The two said in unison.
They snatched the cloaks back with one swift motion and hopped off.
"Hey, wait, comeback." He chased after the two.
"Oh, your brother has gotten a fever."
"Yes, and I must attend to him shortly." He placed the willow bark in the basket. "Thank you again for keeping my identity along with my brother a secret."
She smiled meekly.
"I understand, Daichi."
"I must be going then, Hyuga-san."
"Oh wait, before you go." She shuffled inside her kunai pocket. "You dropped this."
He plucked the vile from her hands and nodded.
"Thank you again."
He continued his pace, towards the path of rocks.
"I..." She paused for a while. " I-I want to ask you something... It's a bit silly but."
"Not many people know this, but you... How do you know? How did you know that willow reduces fever? And that this is the only place you can find a willow tree."
He turned around, scratching his cheek in a sheepish manner.
"My mother told me."
By that response Hinata giggled.
"Eh?" She dragged the exclamation. "Is that so? My mother also told me."
Daisuke smiled sheepishly.
"Is that so?"
End of Chapter Three!
A/N: Sorry for the long wait. And thank you for all the adorable reviews. I just started school. The story is a bit cheesy but I hope it's still to your liking. I'm thinking about writing a fic for Mikoto (Sasuhina daughter). Should I?