"Fishy!" Kori whined, tugging on Kisame's cloak.
"What?" He looked down at the three year old.
"I'm bored." She said
"Go watch TV."
"No."
"Go draw."
" I don't feel like it."
"Go bother Sasori."
"...Ok!" A grin spread across the girls face as she turned and run off. She came to his door, poking her head in. "Whatcha doing!"
"Not now Kori." He said, sounding irritated.
Itachi saw her and sighed, picking her up. "Sorry Sasori." He looked at her. "What are you doing?"
"I'm bored!" She complained.
"Why don't you go watch TV?" Itachi suggested.
"Kis...um..."
"Kisame..." Itachi corrected, nodding.
"Kisame already told me that!" She pouted.
"What about Tobi?" Itachi sat her down on the couch.
"I don't...d-don't like Tobi." She said, crossing her arms.
Itachi couldn't help but laugh. "Why not?" He asked sitting down next to her.
"Tobi is...he is...he's weird." She answered, eyes averting to the TV.
Itachi laughed more, watching her, she went silent for a while then about five minutes later, she spoke in her three year old voice. "I have Dad…right?"
"Yes…" Itachi said cautiously, knowing exactly where she was going with this.
"What about Mom?"
Itachi had expected her to ask about her mother, of course. But not at this age!
"Well…" Itachi said calmly, he thought of something immediately. "…She's gone away…"
"She'll come back, right?"
Itachi felt mean, and cruel for what he was about to say to the child, but it was the truth, and the younger she found it, the sooner the wound would heal. He shook his head. "No…I'm afraid not Kori."
"N-Never….?" She said, tears threatened to fall.
"Never," Itachi said. Suddenly she hugged him, crying into his chest.
Deidara stood, back pressed against the kitchen wall between the two archways on either side of him, allowing entrance into the kitchen.
A feeling of guilt washed over him, a feeling that was horribly familiar.
What if someone was coming to get her? What if she still had family? He'd taken that from her…
Her misery now was his fault. Her misery later was his fault. He should have taken her to Konohagakure, and handed her over to the Hyuga clan, where she belonged. But he was selfish, he wanted to keep her, and raise her himself.
I still can….
He pushed away that thought, he wouldn't. His own selfishness took over again and he moved away, getting a drink and walking back to his room, forgetting the problem presenting itself in the living room as if it was never there.
Shame Dei! Shame!
Well, that was that chapter, thanks so much for reading. I hope everything is better than it was in the last one.
~Kuro-Kan and Shika