The Uchiha Boy
Chapter 4

A week of academy school and training had passed by. Everyday would be the same routine, wake up, school, home, eat, train, wash up, and then sleep. Today however was going to be different, it was finally a weekend! Tetsumari has been worn out from academy school and was overwhelmed that she finally had a break.

"What a week!" Tetsumari said tiredly. Granny walked by her room and laughed.

"Tired of academy school already? It has only been a week!" she teased while Tetsumari smiled at her.

"No, it's just been a long week." She said back.

"Okay then, go rest," Granny walked to her room. Tetsumari closed her eyes and just as she was about to fall asleep, someone knocked at her door. She got up annoyed and walked over to open the door.

"Hey," It was an ANBU to Tetsumari's surprise.

"Oh hi," Tetsumari replied politely. She had learned about ANBU rank ninja in academy school during the week, but didn't expect to see one so suddenly.

"Is Granny home at the moment?"

"Oh yes, follow me," Tetsumari led the ANBU to the front of Granny's room.

"Granny, there's someone here to see you," She said while knocking on her door lightly.

"Coming right out," she replied and opened the door. When Granny came out, she was also surprised with the ANBU's presence.

"You are needed for a mission from the Kazekage," the ANBU stated to Granny.

"Hm, has been awhile since he called me for a mission," Granny said back.

"Yeah, I'll escort you to him safely."

"Alright, but would it be okay if I take Tetsumari here with me, I don't want to leave her here alone."

"I'm sure it wouldn't hurt."

"Okay, thanks. Let me go grab my stuff," The ANBU and Tetsumari waited as Granny changed and picked up her medical supplies. When she was finished, they set off to the Kazekage right away.

Tetsumari has never seen the Kazekage before so this was going to be the first time. When they came by a building, they slowed down to walk in some hall than turned into a room. A man was sitting in a seat that looked pretty mean. Tetsumari realized this must have been the Kazekage. He had brown spiky hair and was wearing a long, white coat.

"Kazekage, she's here," the ANBU announced and stepped away to the side.

"Thanks," the Kazekage looked at Tetsumari than Granny and began talking about the mission, "It seems that Fugaku of the Uchiha Clan in Konoha had came down with an unknown sickness. The medical-nin at Konoha wasn't able to figure out what it was. They called for a request here, at the Hidden Sand Village, and asked if any medical-nin could come and help cure him. Would you like anyone else to come for help?"

"No, it's okay. I'll just be taking along Tetsumari if that's fine with you." The Kazekage looked at Tetsumari again. The way he looked at her made her feel uneasy so she stepped back a little.

"Okay then, the ANBU that came to get you before will be assisting you to Konoha for this mission."

"Alright, thank you," Granny turned around and walked out the door with Tetsumari and the ANBU following along.

"Aw man, I just got out of school a couple hours ago and didn't even get to rest yet! I hope it's not a long way from here," Tetsumari thought, "Oh well, I'll take this chance to observe new things. Besides, Konoha sounds like an interesting place."

Right after Tetsumari, Granny, and the ANBU left the Kazekage's office; they headed to Konoha. With a lot of help from the ANBU, they got there by nightfall. They all arrived at the Konoha gates, the shinobi guard came to check them and read the scroll which had their mission assigned on it.

The guard showed them to where the Uchiha Clan was held and where they could find Fugaku Uchiha. When his job was done, the guard left the three of them knocking on the door. Their house looked really big and nice, Tetsumari looked around happy to see something other than sand and a whole lot of wind. The weather at Konoha felt just perfect even at night. As they waited, they heard a women coming to the door, they were soon greeted by a beautiful young woman.

"Oh hey come in, we were expecting you, my husband's in the other room." It was a lady who went by the name of Mikoto Uchiha. Mikoto greeted the three and led them into her house. The ANBU disappeared somewhere so it was just Granny and Tetsumari. Mikoto made some drinks and snacks for her guest. Granny began checking on Fugaku while Tetsumari sat watching Granny and trying to learn a couple new things. After awhile, Tetsumari heard a voice of a little boy. She turned around to get a look at him.

"Mom, I'm home! Big brother is too!" It was obviously that it was the young woman's son. He had dark blue hair with cute looking eyes. He was also wearing a shirt with a fan on the back that represented his clan. His brother was standing next to him; they looked fairly similar.

"Hey you two! I made you some snacks. Oh and by the way, we have some guests over in the next room. Why don't you two go greet them?"

"Okay," they both said respectively to their mother. Tetsumari turned around quickly when she saw that they were walking towards the room she was in. The little boy walked right up to Tetsumari while she turned bright red.

"Hey, I'm Sasuke Uchiha," he introduced himself, "And this is my older brother, Itachi Uchiha."

Sasuke pointed to the guy next to him.

"Hey, I'm Tetsumari Tora." She gave them a shy smile, "Nice to meet you two."

"You too," Itachi said. He seemed like a serious guy, but sounded nice to her. Itachi and Sasuke went over to Granny and greeted them with a polite bow.

"Well, I'm a bit tired. I'll be in my room Sasuke and again, nice to meet you Tetsumari." Itachi walked over to his room while Tetsumari and Sasuke talked.

"So Tetsumari," Sasuke started out, "How are you?"

"Oh, I'm fine," she had a better look at Sasuke now since he was sitting across from her now, "But you look tired!"

"Yeah, my older brother and I were training, well more like him teaching me new things."

"That sounds cool; I'd like to watch sometimes."

"Maybe you can watch tomorrow."

"I'll try if Granny lets me."

"Okay" Sasuke and Tetsumari spend the rest of the night talking about random things and being shinobi's. Soon it was getting late; Mikoto invited Granny and Tetsumari to stay in the guest room.

"You can stay here until you get the job done so you won't have to stay at those smelly old hotels," she joked.

"Thank you," Granny replied. Granny and Tetsumari walked into the room and laid down on their futon. Both being so exhausted quickly fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Tetsumari was awakened by a soft knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Tetsumari said yawning.

"It's Sasuke," he whispered, trying not to be rude and wake Granny up.

"Oh, I'll be right out," Tetsumari got up and stepped outside. She closed the door quietly behind her so it wouldn't disturb Granny.

"Hey Sasuke," she said excitedly.

"Hey remember how you wanted to go watch my brother while he trained?"

"Yes?"

"Well, I asked him if you could come along he was okay with it."

"Really?!"

"Yeah go get changed, we're going to be leaving right now."

"Oh okay hold on; I'm going to leave a note for Granny too." Tetsumari walked back in slowly and changed. Before she left, she wrote a note to Granny and left it on her futon.

"Okay! Ready!" Tetsumari came back out. Mikoto was already awake and made snacks for all three of them; Itachi, Sasuke, and Tetsumari, to take onto the walk. The walk was going to be a half an hour walk, but it went by fast. All of them, especially Sasuke and Tetsumari, were talking the whole time. Before they knew it, they all had finally reached their destination. Itachi went straight to training for awhile as Sasuke and Tetsumari watched in amazement.

"Wow, that's so amazing!" Tetsumari awed.

"Yeah! Can you teach us big brother!" Sasuke said next.

"Maybe next time, I have a big mission today, sorry."

"Aww," Sasuke and Itachi talked a bit and said bye. Sasuke wanted to stay back and practice with Tetsumari.

"Be careful you two and come home on time!" Itachi made sure they had heard him or his mother was going to scowl him for leaving them there alone."

"Okay," Tetsumari and Sasuke said in unison. They both trained together until they got tired and sat down to eat the snack Mikoto packed for them.

"You and your brother… remind me of how my brother and I use to be…" Tetsumari said it with a sign.

"Huh? How?" Sasuke was confused.

"He use to always take me out to train now and then and teach me new things… we were really close." She sighed again, "I miss him…"

"What happened to him?"

"He died... along with my whole clan," Tetsumari was shedding a few tears, "That's why I live with Granny now."

Sasuke came over and gave her a hug.

"Don't worry, I'll always be here if you need me," he smiled at her. Tetsumari felt better and changed the subject to something happier to talk about. As it was getting late, they began to walk back to Sasuke's house while talking some more. When they arrived, Sasuke's father was there to greet them.

"Father, you got better!" Sasuke said.

"Yeah," he smiled. They walked inside the house and saw Mikoto and Granny.
"Thanks a lot for curing my husband," Mikoto said to Granny, "You're truly amazing."

"No problem," They all settled down for a small dinner together and talked.

"Well we got to be going now," Granny said when everyone was done eating.

"Okay be sure to come visit sometimes," it was Fugaku speaking.

"Okay, we will." Before Granny and Tetsumari left, Sasuke gave Tetsumari a hug while the elders smiled. They both broke the hug with a blush.

"Bye Tetsumari, I'll miss you!"

"Bye, I will too!" Just then, the ANBU arrive just on time and then they were off. Tetsumari waved one last time to Sasuke and his family. She knew one day he would become a great shinobi and hope she'll see him again.