Hi y'all. (Why do I say that I am not from the South? I think I have been watching too much Paula Deen for my own darn good Picture me saying hi, normally in my plain Minnesotan accent (meaning not excatrated like Fargo, evil movie).) Anywho, heres the next part of the story. (it's longer).
but anyway here is something for the reviewers can look at:
Animeangelgotherwings: Thanks
Vaish27: Trust me, I think I know the reason why I write short chapters. One reason is that I like have clean breaks, in this story you'll see that, I'll usually break when there is a change in POV, and sometimes this causes short chapters (Besides when I posted chapter 1, I didn't have chapter 2 all the way finished). One of these future chapters will have two POVs in it because, one was just too short even for me to have it deserve its own little chapter. The second reason for my bad habit is that I was raised in a family that implanted on me that 'don't beat around the bush when you can come straight to the point.' In other words, if you can say it in less words, good. It doesn't make for great story writing but its how I was raised. Besides, they get longer from here. (you want to see a short chapter see my first story, Missed, it's a Stargate Atlantis story (not my proudest story but it was my first). The prologue is only 250 words and that with a little intro and ending notes to it.)
Anyway, here we get to see Naruto's POV. To those who wanted the story to actually speed up and direction here's something for your happy brain.
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6 months later… (Naruto's POV)
It had been months since the Chunnin exam and nothing much had happen since then. Sasuke had gone back to Oto to rule over that land. I must say I am impressed by his rulership. Under Orochimaru, it was very much like a dictatorship. Under Sasuke, people are freer to choose what they want and it is less a government of fear. He has made his adopted village more prosperous and thus has become a hero to many in the sound village. It is much easier, I have learned, to rule over a village that has known freedom and prosperity for most of the peoples' lives then it is to rule over where the people have not know this luxury.
I am going over papers when a guard comes and a very, very frantic Sakura. I look at her and realize something is up.
"What is it, Sakura-chan?" I said getting up and going over to her.
"It's, it's Satsuki. She's been kidnapped. I was sleeping and woke up to check on her. She was gone and there was a note," she said on the verge of crying while handing me the letter. "They took her. They took my baby," she said collapsing.
I look at her, sympathetically. I unfold the note and read it:
To whom it may concern,
We have taken the girl. In exchange for her life, we wish to speak and meet with her father, the Nidaime Otokage otherwise known as Sasuke Uchiha. Yes, we do know who her father is. If he doesn't come alone, we will kill her.
We are the group known as the Snake's Head. Tell the traitorous Uchiha to meet us alone at the place where the sound began. He'll know where it is, on February 17th 4 pm.
It was February 10th, that left a week to get to Oto and convince Sasuke of the importance of this kidnapping. Sakura had and still maintained that Sasuke did not need to know of his daughter's existence. I grumble inside my head, this was going to be hard. The teme was stubborn and thick-headed on some topics.
Sasuke was lucky, he had a kid. Hinata and I had been trying for years to have one of our own but it never came. We went to the hospital to find out why. We found that it wasn't Hinata who couldn't have kids but it was me. I was the one shooting blanks. It seemed that my tenant had cause some after effects on my body after all beside the trademark whisker marks. It's not fair. Hinata and I always talked about having kids when we first started getting serious. There were fertility treatments we could take that could maybe end with Hinata being pregnant but I didn't want to see her hurt in that way just so that we could have a kid together. We had semi-resigned to be the aunt and uncle of the group. Hinata's problem of having an heir for the Hyuuga clan was resolved when her younger sister, Hanabi, had stepped up and said that if Hinata could not have any kids that her first born child could be the heir. Neji also offered his and Tenten's child but the time still has not come to where the heir must be choosen. It is a problem we will, however, have to face soon enough.
But Sasuke is lucky, he had a daughter. But the Teme didn't even know that she was existed.
I look at Sakura. She was looking at me with dull olive green eyes. I knew that look. She was defeated. She had no hope. There was some hope in Sasuke but she didn't want to go there. I could tell. That would mean revealing the truth that she so closely held to her heart. That would mean sharing the only thing in her life that she could always call her own. Her baby, her daughter.
"You knew this day was going to come eventually Sakura-chan. You have to tell him. Do you think you are up to going to Oto?" She weakly nods yes. I nod to the guard who came in with her. I quietly tell him to take Sakura over to my house. Hinata will be there for Sakura to cry on.
I look at who was currently free and decide from there who would go on this mission. I looked at the names and smiled because I saw 2 names on it that would be perfect to escort Sakura.
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Now before any of you complain that Satsuki is a ninja (pretty decent level at that), why would she get kidnapped with out making so much as a noise that would wake up Sakura? These are higher level ninjas that kidnapped her and they knew what to do as not to disturb Sakura. Satsuki did make some noise but not loud enough to wake up Sakura. But then again it could all be for plot purposes that Sakura didn't wake up. You can decide. (I'm not telling you who the next POV is going to be ).
Whatelse before I leave, umm, oh yeah, Sasuke and Naruto actually do get along. There is still some rivalry between the 2 but its less then it was. If you didn't pick up on it, Naruto is actually jealous of Sasuke because the teme has a kid, (a realitively good kid, not an Itachi "psycho genius who wants to murder their clan" kid) while Naruto and Hinata can't have kids normally. Yes, I do think that when they get older that they would actually still refer to each other as 'dobe' (dead-last) and 'teme' (out of wedlock child (bastard)).
