Chapter 4

The chapters are slowly building up to my first major plot idea! People who have read my stories know how this works, I build up to a really big plot, which leads to an even bigger plot which leads to an explosion of twists and plots and shocking stuff! I'll calm down now, you never know, I might change it mwahaha!

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"So you went there-but did nothing?" An oto-nin in the crowd exclaimed. "What good is that?"

The hooded figure chuckled at the man's temper. "Nonsense...I left the Uchiha a little parting gift to get his mind going-it should shake things up a bit..."

"We want his head, not to toy with his mind!" The man protested once again.

Within seconds, a kunai was at his throat and the hooded man was up against his face, wearing a frown. "You have upset me. My ways are special to me...and you have upset them. Tell me you're sorry."

The man stuttered for his words. "I'm...ssorry..."

"Hm...clearly you do not understand-where are those ways you used to know so much about? Playing games with the mind-it lasts longer than a simple beheading and it's fun to watch...in fact, I believe there is more to this Uchiha than meets the eye-he seems to be hiding something...that silly hokage didn't allow me to see what...sad...I wonder what's been happening while I've been away..."

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Soukai went through the filing cabinets in excitement, digging out papers and looking through them.

"Dis place is scawy," Harino commented, looking around him. "The head's office..."

Soukai nodded. "Yup-this is where all the secret files are kept! Look, I have a profile list of all the Uchihas in the ANBU squad from now till 15 years back!" He looked at the current date and frowned. "There aren't any..."

Harino gazed at the book Soukai was looking at. "No Uchis? Well, you've never seen any other than your dad, right?"

Soukai nodded. "Yeah...but, I thought-there was..." He went back to the very first page. There were many profiles-all Uchihas. "They were skilled!"

Harino stared at it in awe. "Wow, what a cool clan."

"Look at this!" Soukai shouted, pointing at the profile on the first right-hand page. "It's..."

"Your treasure," Harino finished for him. "Horsee lookalike."

Soukai gazed at the information. "I...tachi...Uchiha. Damn! I wish I could read properly! Then I'd know what all of this says!" He pointed to the information below. "That word says...fam...family..." Soukai caught his father's name written under the word in bold letters, along with two others he had not heard of. "This guy is my father's brother!"

"Why does horsee hate Itachi?" Harino wondered. "He looks kind." Soukai shut the book as he took a deep breath. "We have to know."

Harino nodded in agreement as he went to the draws in the desk and began searching through them. "Hey! I found a bingo book!"

Soukai highly doubted that. "No way! ANBU would have cleaned this place out long ago-they wouldn't leave a bingo book lying around!"

"Daddy says they use this place for historical storage so they can trace back to anything imporant...teme!" Harino said smugly, sticking out his tongue.

"I'm not a teme! You're a...dobe..." Soukai protested. "What's in that bingo book?"

"People who need to die, duh," Harino drawled as he flicked through the pages.

"People who need to be assasinated actually," Soukai corrected him, snatching the book from Harino's grasp.

"Why would Itachi need to be assasinated?" Harino asked suspiciously.

Soukai spun round to face his friend. "What are you talking about?"

Harino pointed to the book. "He's in that too."

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Sakura ran through the village. "Soukai!" She called out in desperation. "Where are you?" She ran straight into the old police department the moment she detected his chakra. "Uchiha Soukai show yourself right now!"

"Mummy...?" Soukai stood in the doorway of the old chief's office. "What are you doing here?"

Sakura rushed to him and knelt in front of him. "What happened? Are you hurt?"

Soukai shook his head. "Me and Harino were playing..." he lied.

"Harino is here?" Sakura exclaimed.

"Birdie!" Harino screamed excitedly, running to Sakura and hugging her waist.

"Kuh...okay Harino...stop squeezing..." Sakura gasped. "You two can't run off, you're only 3 and 4 years old, it's ridiculous!"

Soukai nodded. "We're sorry."

"You're not leaving the house and Harino! I'm going to tell your mother you ran off again!" Sakura yelled, taking their hands and dragging them out of the police department.

"But...my mum let me go to the park with someone watching me!" Harino protested.

"Who was watching you?" Sakura demanded.

"Konohamaru..." Harino grinned.

"Ugh! No wonder!" Sakura snapped, taking them into the house.

Sasuke hung up the phone as he breathed a sigh of relief. "I was calling everybody! What were you thinking Soukai?"

Soukai bit his lip as he tried not to say anything.

"Answer me-why do you keep running off?" Sasuke asked again.

"Who is Itachi?" Soukai asked finally, crossing his arms and folding his bottom lip.

Sakura went pale as she stiffened her hand on Soukai's arm.

Sasuke merely stood there in confusion. "How do you know about that name?"

"Because he's your brother!" Soukai yelled as Harino covered up his ears. "And he was an ANBU and he was in the bingo book and he's in my picture!"

Sasuke said nothing for several seconds. "He was my brother."

Sakura went to her husband and linked his arm. "You don't have to tell him if you don't want to..." She whispered.

"I guess it's too late now," Sasuke answered. "Where did you get this information from Soukai?"

"The police department," Sakura, Soukai and Harino said together, all in different tones of voices.

"You are grounded," Sasuke said.

Soukai glared at his father. "I hate you!"

"You're still grounded," Sasuke said patiently.

"Why? Because you won't tell me anything? I want to see Itachi!" Soukai demanded.

"You don't want to see him, trust me," Sasuke said, his voice rising.

"Itachi, Itachi, Itachi!" Soukai chanted, punching the cushion. "I want to see my uncle!"

"He's dead!" Sasuke shouted. "He is dead, just like the rest of the Uchiha clan, alright? Is that what you wanted to know Soukai?"

Soukai's lip began to tremble as Harino bit his fingernails nervously. "H...how?"

"Don't..." Sakura pleaded. "Don't tell him who did it."

Sasuke could feel his old emotions returning. The feeling of hate and vengeance that had poisoned his mind the day the Uchiha massacre had began. A snide voice of his younger self seemed to beg for him to tell his son who committed these crimes against their clan. Before he could stop himself he said his brother's name, with all the hate conjured in the word. "Itachi."

Sakura hung her head in disappointment as Soukai's eyes widened.

"Liar!" Soukai said suddenly without thinking. "Why would he kill his own clan?"

"To this day I still don't know why..." Sasuke said coldly, his eyes darkening. "But he did it."

Soukai wiped his eyes as tears fell down-unwilling to stop. "So he killed everybody then killed himself?" He screamed as Harino's eyes began to water.

Sakura hastily went over to the two boys and held onto both of them as Harino sobbed in her lap. "Sasuke, stop it right now."

"No Sakura, he needs to know the truth right? He wants to know, he has the right to know!" Sasuke argued. "I can't lie to you Soukai, but the truth hurts."

Soukai bit his lip.

"And Itachi didn't kill himself..." Sasuke ran his hand through his hair. "That's all you need to know." Images of his fight with Itachi came flooding back. It was brutal-bloody. It had turned Sasuke into something evil-bloodthirsty even. He never wanted to feel that again.

"I wish I was never an Uchiha..." Soukai mumbled as he shook off his mother's comforting hand and trudged to his room.

Sakura cradled Harino as he cried. "Harino doesn't like loud noises."

Sasuke nodded.

"What are we doing Sasuke?" She asked him. "Our son running off all the time...he hates being an Uchiha...what are we doing wrong? Are we messing up here?" She wiped her eyes with her free hand.

"We're not failures..." Sasuke began. "We're shinobis. It's harder for us because of our past."

"Well it needs to get sorted. I can't have Soukai feeling this way. I'm dropping Harino home." Sakura stood and left the house leaving Sasuke alone in the dim light.

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Soukai sat on his bed, slowly tearing up the picture of Itachi in tiny fragments. The ripping sound made his ears cringe.

"Soukai..."

Soukai looked to the doorway but no one was there. He frowned.

"Soukai..."

The young Uchiha jumped up fully on his bed and took his father's kunai from his pocket. "Who...who is there..."

"Look on the floor Soukai..."

He did and his heart froze. The picture he had torn up...was back together again as if it hadn't been touched. And Itachi was no longer smiling in it...he was smirking...

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O.O creeepy!!! Hope you liked it, things are starting to get interesting now, please review!