Oh my gosh! I'm sooooo sorry this is out so late! Basically, life punched me in the face what with house-mate drama, my anxiety acting up, Christmas drama, anxiety, Exams, running out of medication, anxiety being worse because of lack of medicine, a friend deciding that evedently I wasn't coping and 'bitch, we're going on holiday' and then coming back and having to face all the things that I had been running away from in the first place. Oh, and being broke from having to pay my rent. And my dissertation.

Thanks to all the people that have reviewed and followed this story. I'm going to try to have things back and running smoothly again before summer but be warned that 3rd year of Uni is a selfish cow and if she want's my undivided attention, she'll get it, one way or another.. ¬¬

Guest review replies:

Hey Guest! Thanks for commenting on my fic! I'm glad you like it! :3 I'm not really planning on taking on any other fics until I get this one done. Then I have a one shot I wanna mess around with... But I do think that the concept of Sasuke being reborn as Naruto's son is an interesting one. I don't think I'll be able to write one exactly like how you seem to want but you have given me food for thought for this fic in particular! :) Of course Sasuke doesn't see Naruto as his father but from Naruto's point of view (in this fic), he has been helping raise Sasuke since he was little. There's gotta be at least a little bit of paternal instinct there... :')

-Tamagoyakihime

Anyhoo, This chapter is unbetad. If you spot any mind-numbingly horrifying spelling or grammar mistakes (take note I use UK English), please let me know! Thanks for reading and please leave a review! As ever, I don't own Naruto! :'(

Chapter 12

Sasuke passed by the gates that signified the beginning of the Uchiha clan grounds, unfazed by how quiet the street was or by the fact that the street he was on hadn't existed in years, he walked towards his house. The black haired man stooped down to enter the front door of his old house and was greeted by the lifeless eyes and blood soaked body of his mother-

A teenaged Sasuke woke abruptly from his sleep. He had been dreaming the same dream every night since the meal at Naruto's. At that moment, he was glad he didn't live with his family and that Naruto had been snowed under with work- he didn't think he could see their lifeless bodies and that person standing, smiling, after just having killed the Hokage every night in his dreams and interact with them like normal in the day…. Furthermore, with no one around him, he could further his investigation on the person trying to kill his best friend.

Well, there was almost no one around him, Akihiro had been making a point of visiting him at Naruto's house and had an uncanny ability to find him when he was out in the village. This all wasn't bad as Akihiro reminded Sasuke of his brother in his previous life and his daughter, who often tagged along with him in an attempt to guilt him into training her, reminded him of a less annoying, cuter version of Naruto at that age- bad temper included.

Sasuke groaned as he stretched and opened his bedroom door, the smell of freshly cooked rice and miso soup drifting towards him as he walked to the bathroom. It seemed that that morning Emi had accompanied her husband and daughter and had cooked them breakfast. She had come a few times since she got back from her family but had never came two days in a row before. Sasuke thought her sudden attentiveness strange, annoying and peculiarly… warm.

Either way, he cancelled all his plans to go looking for information that day, Akihiro still didn't know he suspected a member of their family and he wanted to keep it that way; at least until he had solid evidence.

As soon as he made it to the bottom of the stairs, Sasuke found himself being nearly ran over by his niece.

"Sasu-ji! Hurry up! We're all waiting for you to come and eat so Daddy and Naruto-jiji can go to work!"

The little girl held her arms up to the teenager and pouted, silently demanding to be carried to the kitchen on her uncle's shoulders. Sasuke relented and knelt down to allow her to clamber on and make sure she had a good (read: painful) grip before setting off to get his breakfast.

Sure enough Naruto was sitting at the table, talking amicably with Akihiro and Emi but his attention switched to the two incomers moments after they entered the room.

"Sasuke!" Naruto called, smiling just like every morning since the boy moved in- like his very day had been brightened by his presence.

Sasuke made his way to sit beside the Hokage. He muttered a quick 'Itadakimasu' before tucking into the food before him. Naruto and his brother made an effort to get him involved in their conversation but eventually gave up as it was all too obvious that Momo was vying for his attention too and it was too early in the morning for them to deal with one of her tantrums.

Understanding this, Sasuke kept one ear on the adult's conversation about what the independent police investigation conducted by Itachi's team on Naruto's assailant and the other ear on Momo's chatter about whether the other kids in the academy would be mean to her because she was going later than them.

Sasuke snorted when he heard Akihiro say that Itachi was taking on an inordinate amount of work on Naruto's case and that he wasn't resting as well as he should. Still, he thought it might be useful to have a look to see what 'evidence' his father had gotten his hands on.

He frowned as he felt his arm being tugged by his niece. If he wanted to have a look at the police files about the case, it would be best to do it when the twins were taking Itachi over food. He had been keeping an eye on the station before that point so he already knew their routine. Of course, if he wanted to make use of that window he would have to blow off whatever plans, his sister-in-law and niece had planned for him and should make his escape before Naruto and Akihiro had the chance to leave.

Making his excuses, he slipped away from the table having eaten very little- he was too distracted by his thoughts. The raven haired adolescent made his way to his room, then out the window and on to the station his family used to run.

Sasuke was fairly surprised to feel a not so well hidden presence in his father's office while the man was out. He was even more surprised to look behind the desk to find his brother, Seiji.

"God's Sasuke! It's only you!" Sasuke's second eldest brother gasped, "I was so worried that father had come back early. You do know that you two have this kind of looming, brooding intensity about you that makes us ordinary human beings want to shit their pants?"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow but was otherwise unfazed by his brother's reaction to him. Next to Yuriko, Seiji was typically quiet and let her have all the attention but on his own, he couldn't be farther from the typical Uchiha demeanour.

"That's the look!" The elder teen pointed and laughed, "Seriously, how can two people that dislike each other as they do be so similar? Though I suppose we can blame it on genetics this time…"

Sasuke cut in before Seiji could continue and waste more of his time, "Seiji. What are you doing here?"

"I could ask the same of you, brother-mine… and since we're doing the whole pretending to have sticks up our arses and I'm the elder brother here, you should tell me what you're doing here!"

Sasuke glowered and fought against releasing killing intent against the room's other occupant lest every semi competent ninja, including his father, sense them in that room. "I want to look at what Father has found on the Hokage's attack."

"What a coincidence! So am I!" His brother exclaimed, "To be perfectly honest, I don't think it was you and I don't like this whole feud within the family that's going on so I thought that if I had a look at what our old man was doing, I might be able to help him so he can get 'round to sorting things out with Mother…"

Seiji looked down at the desk next to him and Sasuke sighed, "That's not why I'm here… I just want to get the bastard who did that to Naruto and make them pay. I have my suspicions about who it might be…"

"Who?"

Sasuke shook his head, "No. I don't want to get you involved with this."

Seiji gestured around himself, "To be honest, Sasuke, I don't think I count as being uninvolved anymore. Come on, I'll help you look and you can fill me in…. I might not look it, but I did train all those years to be in the police- how else do you think I managed to get in here?"

'Pure dumb luck?' Sasuke thought to himself, "Hn. I'm not going to tell you anything that could get you in danger but I suppose you could read through this stuff and see if you can find anything interesting. We have about half an hour before Father returns."

Sasuke settled himself down by the desk and started to sort through the files before him. He sighed as he realised this was going to take more than just one visit to read over all the material. Thankfully he had his brother to help him. If there was one thing he had learned from his last life, it was that sometimes it was better working with a team.

Sasuke didn't bother taking off his shoes as he made his way along the corridor before stopping at bloody shoji to his left. Fugaku's study. He carefully slid the door open to see his eldest brother's family laying lifelessly on the floor. The blood seeping from their wounds not yet dry. Bloody tears trailed down Sasuke's face as he saw that Akihiro had been trying to protect his wife and child before he was slaughtered. Emi was slumped over Momo, their empty, glassy eyes staring through him accusingly. Unable to take anymore, Sasuke slid the door shut and continued down the hall. The Name sounding all around him in harsh whispers….

Let it be known that I am crap at writing children. I'm not the greatest fan of them and therefore have never really taken any interest in what level of development they tend to be in when they are five... Hence Momo is basically a hyper, attention seeking, talkative adult in a child's body. For this I apologise. I shall try to do better if ever she appears again... (it is likely! D: ).

I'm thinking of spitting this whole thing in my head into, like, 2 or 3 fics. As it stands, this could end up being a fairly long project but it's never going to keep up momentum if I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere. I think that if, in a few weeks/months I am able to mark this as complete, I'll feel better about myself and will be able to have where I want this thing to go clearer in my mind. I would, of course, provide the details of the next portion of fic when it becomes available after this one is done. Let me know what you think! :3

Again, sorry for the long wait! :')

Thanks for reading.