-1Disclaimer: I do not own these characters they belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Rumiko Takahashi.
It was still early into the morning, he could tell. The sun had not yet peeked over the horizon and shadows danced in the light of the moon. Why was he awake? What had woken him? Something creaked.
Alert now, he cracked his eyes open slightly and listened intently for another sound. When the thing creaked, again-it must have been the door-he moved too swiftly for the intruder to see.
As his eyes became better adapted to the light, he could faintly make out the silhouette of a small person standing in the doorway. Irritated, he activated his sharingan. He squinted slightly, and then lowered the kunai grasped in his hand. "Sukayu? You should know better than to sneak up on people while they are sleeping. I could have hurt you!"
Sukayu squeaked, surprised. "I'm sorry, I was just checking in on you."
"Checking in on me?" Sasuke squatted so that he was level with the child.
"Yes, like mommy does for me." The black haired hanyou peered up at him innocently.
"I see." Sasuke sighed, "I suppose I can't blame you then, but how on earth could you see to find my room without bumping into things?"
Sukayu beamed up at him. "Mommy says it's because I have special eyes. She says 'You have eyes like your father.'"
'Eyes like me?' Sasuke jerked then told Sukayu to look up at him.
Sure enough, the first stage of the sharingan-accented by three tri-comma marks ringed around an onyx pupil- was peering up from his three-year-old child's eyes.
'But how? He is so young….' Sasuke thought, but even though he was astonished, he could also feel the swell of pride that was bubbling up within him. His son had to be brilliant for such a thing to happen.
"Sukayu, how long have you had special eyes?" He asked carefully.
"Since I turned three years old, Daddy." The little boy grinned, the tri-commas in his eyes spinning quickly.
"Do you remember what happened when you got them?" He stood and lifted his son up into his arms.
"Yeah…" Sukayu mumbled, glancing away. "I remember 'cause it was so scary. I was walking with Mommy through the woods and then all these people came. Mommy told me later that they were people like her, people like me."
'Demons?' Sasuke wondered. "Then what happened?"
"Mommy started arguing with one of them. They kept shouting at each other. A man said horrible things to Mommy."
"What do you mean by 'horrible things'?"
"Mommy told me to never say what I heard and told me that they were very bad words." Sukayu explained, "Then, a lady came over to me. She told me that I needed to come with her or Mommy would be in trouble and I didn't want Mommy to get in trouble, so I followed her." Sukayu squirmed from his father's arms and sat down on the bed.
"I grabbed the lady's hand and then Mommy noticed. She told the lady to let go of me, that she had no right to touch me at all. That's when the lady got really mad. She called Mommy a disgrace for being with a human. She said…" Sukayu trailed off.
"Said what?" Sasuke urged, interested.
"She said that I was a monster 'cause I had a human Daddy." Sukayu looked up at him, his eyes wet with tears. "She said that I should die 'cause I shouldn't have been born."
'I'll fucking kill the bitch!' Sasuke's own sharingan flared and the tri-commas swirled. "What happened then?"
"Mommy got really mad. She moved really fast and started hitting the lady." Sukayu looked down.
"Then the lady started fighting back and the man started to help her. They were ganging up on Mommy! It made me really mad. Then, I started to see things I couldn't before and everything seemed slower. I screamed at the man and lady and told them to stop hitting my Mommy! They looked over at me and they ran away. They screamed at Mommy and told her that they would be back to 'finish it'." He continued, clenching his small fists.
"Mommy says it's 'cause of my eyes that they ran away. She says that when I get really mad that they look like hers too and that it scared them."
Sasuke stared at his son, his mind spinning with new information. Then, he stood up and picked up Sukayu. "It's gotten really late. I think it's time for a certain boy to get back to bed, don't you?" He smirked at his son and carried him to his room.
Sukayu whined, but obeyed when his father told him to climb into bed. Sasuke paused for a moment then put his hand on his son's head "Sukayu?"
"Yes, Daddy?" Sukayu cuddled into the blankets on his bed.
"I'm proud of you." He said, his heart swelling at the widening of his son's eyes and the grin that appeared on his small face. Then, he turned and went back into his own room. Tomorrow he would have to have quite a chat with Kagome.