Hey!

I'm properly settled into my new room now and all my new house mates seem quite nice! :3

I'll update every 2 or so days for the rest of this week (it's freshers week) but after that, I think I'm going to have to update once a week. :') I'm in my 3rd year now and have a dissertation to write too and won't be able to spend as much time on this as I would like. :')

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Chapter 6

Sasuke paced back and forth outside of the waiting area of the operating theatre. Naruto had been in there for hours and hours and the young Uchiha was getting more and more impatient; he was actually getting nervous waiting to hear of the Hokage's state. His father was sat on one of the chairs across from the door. A more severe than usual frown marred the elder Uchiha's face and his body was more ridged than typical. He had more than once told his son to stop moving around so much, that it was unbecoming of a ninja, let alone an Uchiha.

Sasuke refrained from mentioning that, as a man who had not only abhorred the ninja way but had all but disowned Sasuke from the Uchiha clan, he could stick what 'was becoming of an Uchiha' up his arse. He chose to ignore his company.

Aside from his father, there was hardly anyone else in the area. Sasuke knew that only close friends and family were allowed near the theatre but surely the Hokage had more than a boy he lived with and an adopted son whom opposed him more often than supported him. Many of the Rock family were surely in the room with Naruto- trying to save his life, so their absence was explained and his own family would be at the station, ensuring peace was maintained while their leader was hospitalised….

But where were the rest? Didn't Naruto, the bubbliest, friendliest man Sasuke knew have more than two people who were close enough to him to warrant being in the room with him and his father?

Sasuke found himself almost expecting to see a bob of pink hair or hear the crunching of snacks- a flash white eyes on noble features or a range of gravity-defying hairstyles….

Sasuke couldn't help but remember the last time he had been in this room;

Sasuke found himself pacing back and forth in the waiting area outside the operating theatre. Although he had been forced under clan and village laws to have… relationships… with the woman inside, he was somewhat amiable to her. More importantly, though, was the child she was baring him.

The pregnancy had been going well until old enemies had heard of Sasuke's unborn child. The mother had been unable to defend herself properly and now both she and the child were in critical state. The only thing that had saved them had been that Yuuki-kun had been planning to visit and chased after when she realised something wasn't right.

Eventually. Eventually, the surgeon came out and signalled for Sasuke to come to another room. He explained that village law states that if a clanless woman baring a clan child has complications in her pregnancy, all measures must be taken to save the child's life, regardless of the mother's life. As such, while the woman had died during the procedure, they had been able to save Sasuke's son.

Relief spread through the dark haired man as the surgeon continued to explain that the child would have to be observed for some time before he could be released but it looked like he was on the home straight to recovery.

The surgeon gestured to a small incubator with seals placed around it. Inside it was Sasuke's son. He reached forward to touch the boy's little hands and desperately tried to hold back tears. He heard the door to the room quietly open and close and felt three, very familiar chakara signals enter the room from behind him. He looked over when a small, feminine hand touched the side of the incubator to see Naruto's daughter smiling down at the new born child.

"Well, I've only ever seen one Uchiha in real life before but he looks like an Uchiha, Sasuke-ji!" the girl said happily.

At that, the grown Uchiha grasped the girl at his side and clung to her, frantically thanking her and swearing eternal gratitude- all the while tears streaking down his face. The two other people in the room had seen Sasuke at his worst so their seeing his tears was not a big deal.

"So, Sasuke, what are you gonna call him-dattebayo?"

"Hn. What do you think, Yuuki-kun?"

The raven haired teenager pulled back and grinned, "You should call him Ita-"

Sasuke shook his head as he turned to walk the length of the room again. That hadn't happened he had never been in this waiting area before and he had certainly never been there as the previous Sasuke Uchiha; it was simply impossible!

Or was it? He could remember-

NO! He remembered nothing! Only that he was Sasuke Uchiha, born on the 23rd of July, the son of Fugaku-Itachi and Mikoto-Ame Uchiha he was an ex-rogue-nin- a jounin of the hidden leaf-

Sasuke's head was splitting and he cursed as he tried again;

He was Sasuke Uchiha, he was born on the 23rd of July, He was a 36 year old man. NO! He was only 15! A rogue-nin turned elite ANBU. Jounin! He was a jounin loyal to Konoha! He grew up an orphan with Naruto. He had been raised, in part, by Naruto. Fuugaku and Mikoto! No! Itachi and Ame! Itachi… brother…. NO- FATHER! Dead. Alive! Sasuke Uchiha. Sasuke Uchiha.

What the hell was going on? This had to be some kind of genju-

KAI!

His surroundings did not dissolve around him, nor did the new images, memories, leave his head. He was in reality. He clung to the only thing that he knew was right, he was Sasuke Uchiha.

He was both the grown man who had died in arms that smelled of ramen and summer and he was the teenager who had been born many years later and had been held by arms that had had that very same smell.

He was Sasuke Uchiha.

He lost consciousness and crumpled to the floor upon that revelation.

So a short chapter this time around, guys...

I feel really bad for Itachi II's mother... In my mind, she was just a random woman selected to bear Sasuke's child and raise him. Sasuke could never bring himself to love her and she never loved him. As we all know, some of Konaha's decisions are messed up especially when it comes to the clans- *cough* letting the Uchiha massacre slide *cough* Allowing the Hyuuga to to do their thing *cough*- I don't think it is too far fetched to think that there might be a rule of that elk for clan children of clanless mothers (especially as in some countries, the child is prioritised over the mother in cases where only one can be saved).

Basically the awakening of Sasuke's mangekyou has done something funny with Sasuke's head/mind. :')

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