Chapter 6: Looking at past memories
Irritated, Sasuke awoke from his fantasy. As he slowly opened his eyes, he found a pair of deep velvet purple ones in front of his. It was Akemi and she was smirking deviously. "Don't tell me you were reading my mind," he growled irritated.
"My eyes are proof aren't they?" Akemi giggled.
"I hate your sharingan defect," Sasuke said sitting up.
"I was just starting to like it," Akemi whimpered.
She was very sensitive when it came to her Murasugan. She had hated it at first, especially since it was the very reason her parents had left her and left Konoha, but she started to like it, since it came in handy, a lot really. It was a sharingan defect, she named it herself. It was defect because, she could still read peoples' minds, but instead of being red with black things in it, it was purple and it automatically read peoples' minds and, if she willed it to, it played with their memories.
"Don't tell me you're gonna cry now Akemi," Sasuke groaned, he just wasn't in the mood, not after she invaded his privacy.
Akemi turned away shaking her head, "J-just go, a-and wake up the kids," she struggled not to sob.
She ran out of the room and down the stairs into the kitchen. Sasuke got out of bed grumpily, and put a shirt on. It was a hot night, what was he expected to do? He walked out of bed and to Sora's room. He decided to be a little more creative about waking him up, so he left his room and went into Emi's. "Emiiiii," he called into her ear. But in her dreams she heard another voice.
'Emi was in the backyard with her father and Hiroko-sensei. Sora was hanging upside down from a tree acting like an idiot. Hiroko-sensei and her father were laughing. "Tou-san, do you like Hiroko-sensei?" Emi asked Sasuke.
Sasuke nodded smiling warmly at Emi. "Hiroko-sensei, can you be my Kaa-chan?" Emi asked her pink-haired teacher. Before she could reply, her brother called her, "Emiiiii!"
"What do you want Sora?" Emi asked annoyed.
She was talking in her sleep, Sakura would talk in her sleep too, Sasuke discovered that when she was still in hiding with him. What had surprised him was that Emi had asked Hiroko, an ordinary teacher, to be her mother. Sasuke tickled her tummy, trying to wake her up, he would investigate the Hiroko case later.
Emi tossed and turned giggling, then laughing before she finally woke up. The looked at her father with her big emerald orbs. "Do you wanna wake Sora up?" Sasuke asked her smirking.
She nodded smiling evilly. This was gonna be fun, since she wanted revenge on her brother. She still remembered how he had woke her up before, once he jumped on her, making her body sore for a whole week. Another time he had somehow managed to carry a large bowl full of water and dump it on her head, making her sick with snuffles for twelve long summer days. The last time he had tossed book after book on her until she woke up. It was her turn, to get payback.
Emi cheerfully jumped out of bed and walked down the hallway, with Sasuke following her with a video camera flashing red. She walked into the play room and up to a large plastic box that was known as the craft box, before opening it up. She sat down and thought for a while drawing on a piece of paper with a paper and pencil she had pulled out from the box, before an evil grin came to her face again, she looked adorable. Sasuke just stood there thinking about how cutely awkward his children were. Emi took out a long ball of thick yarn and cut off eighteen long pieces. After that she ran to the kitchen, with Sasuke tailing behind her, not missing a second of her ingenious plan. She asked Akemi for six pans, who handed them to her without questioning her. She then opened the fridge and took out a carton of eggs, before walking carefully up the stairs back into the play room.
Emi set down the carton of eggs and began to tie three strings to each pan and headed towards Sora's room. There Emi climbed up onto a special platform made only of monkey bars that stretched from one wall to the next, they were designed so that Sasuke could train them to be ninjas, but they still hadn't been used for their true purpose yet. Emi hung two pans in front of Sora's face, should he sit up, and two behind, and one to his right and one to his left. From Sasuke's point of view, they appeared to be hanging in space, which they were.
Emi jumped down, landing lightly on the ground. She dashed down the stairs with Sasuke struggling to manage the camera and move quickly behind her. She placed a stool in front of the fridge before she opened the freezer and took out an ice tray. Emi had formulated this plan a long while ago, now she was finally able to put it in action, that's why it was so accurate, and well planned. She place ice cubes under Sora's slippers and next to his bed, just in case he didn't wear his slippers. She dashed into the play room grabbed the eggs and walked carefully back into Sora's room. She got close enough for her to be able to accurately hit him and… SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!
Sora awoke to the feeling of hard eggs breaking on his head, and one on his face, he sat up only to hit his forehead with a "BANG!" on one of the frying pans Emi had set in up. He fell backwards only to hit his head on another pan. Annoyed and in pain, Sora wiped the sticky yolk of the egg off his face using his fingers. He didn't open his eyes yet though. Instead he slowly sat up avoiding banging his head on another frying pan before turning so that his legs drooped off the bed, and then, BANG! Poor Sora hit his forehead on another frying pan. Sora was going to start crying out loud, but he held back, invisible tears streaming down his cheeks. He took a step out bed, but when he took his second step he put his foot down on one of the "just-in-case" ice cubes Emi had placed on the floor, slipping and falling onto his tush with a hard thud. With that he started to cry out loud, so Sasuke being the good father he was, only recorded a shot of Emi laughing at Sora, and just as he was about to put the camera on stand by, Emi walked up to Sora carefully. Grabbing a tissue from his nightstand table she took one and wiped her brother's face. "Gomenasai Sora, I just wanted revenge because of all the times you hurt me," Emi said in a guilty tone looking down onto the floor.
"You're evil! It's not okay for you to hurt me so much!" Sora screamed at his sister angrily, hot tears streaming his face.
With that Emi burst out crying and Sasuke turned the camera off and walked towards the two. "Come on Sora, you need to wash up before you can go to school," Sasuke told his look-a-like son.
"I know Tou-san," Sora huffed irritably.
"Emi just wanted you to know how she felt when you would throw books on her, or jump on her, it hurts right?" Sasuke lectured.
Sora nodded looking down, "Gomen Emi, it's okay."
Sora would have hugged Emi, but he was covered with egg, so he just walked out of the room with his father. Emi walked across the hall, straight to her room, and got dressed in a white t-shirt with a black jean dress with thick straps that went back and formed an "X" shape in the back. It had a small pentagon shaped pocket and an Uchiha crest stitched in on the top right corner of her dress, like it was some kind of logo. Finally she put on a white pantyhose and brushed her hair before putting on her special white bandana, the one with all of the fancy bandana designs on it.
She walked down the stairs following the sweet scent of the pancakes her auntie had made. She sat down and received a plate with a small stack of chocolate chip pancakes. "Arigatou Auntie!" She chirped. "Itadakemasu!"
Emi dug into her pancakes. She finished her plate and sat around for a while. It was about half an hour later before the two male Uchihas joined them. Sora and Sasuke received plates three boiled eggs and a plate full of tomatoes. When Sasuke looked at Akemi, he noticed that her face was stained with tears. He felt bad for her, it was hard when your parents died, but when your parents abandon you and they're still alive, well one is at least, then it must be even more painful, at least his parents loved him, her's didn't care.
The two males finished their breakfasts and then all three Uchihas rose. "Bye Auntie!" They chirped jumping out the front door.
"Bye!" Akemi waved.
When they were no longer in sight she headed towards Naruto's camp. She walked through a few trees before she found him, Sakura was there too, thank god. "Ohayo!" Akemi greeted them warmly.
"Ohayo!" They said in union.
"So, how's your progress?" Akemi asked.
"We're not really progressing much," Sakura sighed, "Did you get here this morning?"
"Yeah, not much progress here either, you guys know it's hard for me to make progress when I'm in Konoha most of the time," Akemi stated.
"Yeah, you know, I think I'll get going now," Sakura said as she turned to leave.
When she was gone, Akemi asked the most ridiculous question, "Did you figure out who the mother is yet?"
"Uh-um," Naruto stuttered.
Naruto did not like where this was going, Akemi's eyes were slowly changing from gold to deep purple, he couldn't lie, that was a fact. He nodded. "Oh then you're gonna like this!" Akemi giggled. "But before that, who is she?"
"Sakura-chan, you knew didn't you?" Naruto replied.
Akemi merely nodded, "this morning Sasuke had a dream about him proposing to her, it was ridiculously funny, you wanna see?"
Naruto nodded and looked deep into Akemi's eyes as she performed a number of seals, and then he entered the world of the dream.
Naruto landed gracefully on the ground with Akemi materializing next to him as they watched the dream play out. As it cam to the ending Naruto burst out laughing, he clutched his stomach and rolled on the ground, with Akemi doing the same, but they instantly quieted down, they couldn't afford to be heard, because what ever they did in the memory of the dream, they did in real life. As they returned Naruto asked, "Wow teme really loves Sakura, do you if he liked her while she was on Team 7?"
"Ummm, I don't know, really," Akemi smiled nervously, "how come Sakura-chan didn't figure it out?"
"Well, Akemi-chan I figured it out and asked teme just to be sure," Naruto told her.
Akemi looked at him with wide eyes, as he told her about his trip to the hot springs. When he was done, she nodded as she approved of his intelligent yet crazy plan. When she saw Sasuke, she had to excuse her self, in order to pretend hat she was training. She jumped up high and threw a kunai at Sasuke just for fun. He barely dodged it, "What was that for?"
"Fun," Akemi smirked.
"Hn."
"Hn."
"Akemi be more mature."
"Sasuke go back to Konoha," Akemi blurted out.
"Is that what you want me to do?" Sasuke asked venomously.
Akemi would normally shrink before the Uchiha, but after Naruto made sure to speak sense into her-again, she decided to stand tall and reply, "Yes."
"You know that isn't possible," Sasuke pointed out.
"Who said so?" Akemi snapped.
"I did!"
"Yeah, well you can't keep the children away from their mother for long!" An evil grin spread on Akemi's face. "And what you're hiding from Sakura-chan, may not remain hidden for long."
"You wouldn't."
"I would, just try me!"
"Oh come on Akemi, you would always remain loyal to me."
"But you treat me like a slave! Do you ever think about how I feel?"
Sasuke remained quiet for a while, noting that Akemi was pointing out true, "Well, how else do you expect me to treat you?"
"Never mind stay here, I don't want poor Sakura-chan to have to live with a man that will treat her like his slave!"
"And what makes you think I would treat her that way?" Sasuke asked his tone ominous.
"Because of the way you order me around!" Akemi snapped back at him.
"Akemi why are you getting so emotional lately?" Sasuke asked irritated. "Is it because I said I hate your defect?"
"Don't call it that!" Akemi defended. "It's not a defect, it's my special ability, that will die with me."
"Fine! I don't care!" Sasuke yelled back.
"See! You obviously could care less if Sakura-chan was crying! You're failing my test! I don't trust you anymore!"
"URUSAI! WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HOW I FEEL TOWARDS HER?" Sasuke was getting angry now.
"If you had truly cared, why didn't you raise the children with her? Huh?" Akemi questioned.
"It wasn't possible Akemi!"
"It was you could have left her in hiding with you, and then I'm 100 percent sure that Naruto would come looking for you two! At least that way, your life wouldn't suck as much!"
BAM! That last statement earned Akemi a punch to the cheek. Naruto stared at the two cousins wide-eyed, Akemi had never, never ever, been so disobedient to anyone before or ever been so seriously angry. "Kussama!" Akemi swore at Sasuke.
"I've already been damned," he said his tone venomous.
Sasuke stared at Akemi his eyes filled with anger and hate, she had never been like this. BAM! Sasuke got kicked from the back by a replication Akemi had made. "You dare to challenge me?" Sasuke asked. "Fine, but you're committing suicide and I won't even need my sharingan."
"Don't underestimate me!" Akemi yelled throwing punches, and missing a number of times before landing a chakra filled blow.
Sasuke was sent flying back. He looked back to see Akemi's eyes no longer had pupils, but slits and golden dots going in a circular design, what was this? Akemi performed a number of seals extremely quickly and did a back flip landing on the air as though it was solid ground. Sasuke looked at her confused, he'd never seen this jutsu before.
"Like it? I made it my self!" Akemi said proudly, before tossing a kunai at Sasuke's feet.
He easily dodged it. He regretted leaving his sharingan off. Akemi threw a kunai with an explosive seal on it near the tree Sasuke was looking at, in the two seconds he was staring at it, she changed her position and landed a punch on him. When he turned his face towards her again, she saw crimson. 'Good his sharingan is on,' Akemi smirked, she was gonna make him feel pain, and admit that he was still quite arrogant around people he knew. She blinked and her eyes turned a deep purple, she stared deep into Sasuke eyes and before he could turn to look away, she entered his mind. 'Hmmm, what should I do to torture him?' Akemi thought, walking through the hall of memories his brain contained. She pulled one out, one that he would hate to see and remember.
-Flash Back-
Sasuke approached the gates of Konoha before changing form. He entered the gates unnoticed and headed towards the house Sakura lived in. He snuck up to her bedroom window, not wanting to enter through the front door and be interrogated. She was there in her room, and before she could scream, he covered her mouth, removing his disguise with a poof. "S-Sasuke-k-kun? W-what are you-you doing h-here?" She asked removing his hand from her mouth
"I came to apologize Sakura, for that time," he said looking down, feeling guilty.
"Ummm, S-Sasuke-kun?"
"Hn?"
"W-When w-we were young you said y-you wanted t-to restore t-the U-Uchiha c-clan,"
His eyes widened as he realized what she was trying to say, "Pack your bags Sakura."
"W-why?"
"I don't want people to think of you as a traitor," he said calmly, "have you told anyone?"
She shook her head.
"How long have you known?"
"three months."
"I'm taking you with me, to a place where no one can find us, I promise, no one will ever know."
"S-Sasuke-kun."
"Just hurry up and pack, Sakura."
-End of Flash Back-
"AKEMI!" Sasuke yelled infuriated, he didn't want to remember any of this.
'One more,' Akemi thought running through the halls of his brain. She came across the Uchiha massacre, but she wasn't that evil, so she went to see his memories of his days in team seven, 'you're annoying, Sakura get off, Sakura you're heavy, Akemi go fetch, wake up, make breakfast, what does this mean? How do you do this?' "STOP!" This was too much for Sasuke.
He didn't want to remember how poorly he treated Sakura, he didn't want to see how bossy he was either. Akemi was searching for another memory when an image of Sasuke materialized before her. She knew how to deal with this, most great ninjas had mental defenses, but they were all weak in comparison to her's. She punched his stomach and kicked his chin, sending him flying up. Mental defenses, were never as strong as the ninja themselves of course. She heard the sound of metal, and realized that Sasuke had his katana with him, she took out a kunai and they fought. Blade clashing against blade, since his blade lost his ability while in his mind. Next Sasuke slashed at her and she used a kunai to stop him, but he kept on pressing, she thought hard for another kunai, and hit materialized in her free hand, she stabbed him, and tried to run deeper into the hall of memories, but he stopped her and looked into her eyes. Sasuke had a strong mental defense as well, but Akemi had fought defenses these strong before. He looked into her eyes, and unwillingly it unlocked a memory of hers.
-Flash Back-
"Tou-san! Kaa-san!" A young and cheerful 4 year old Akemi ran into the house.
A gasp were the reply she got. "What's wrong kaa-san?"
"Akemi your eyes, they, what are they?" Her mother a black-haired woman with black eyes stared at her daughter.
"Nani? What's wrong with my eyes? Akemi asked walking up to a mirror.
What she saw were not her usual abnormal gold eyes, but a pair of deep velvet eyes, with small dots of gold in them surrounding black diamonds for pupils.
"Kaa-san," Akemi whimpered, "what's wrong with my eyes?"
"S-stay away you monster! Your eyes, they are proof!"
"Kaa-san!" Akemi cried.
"What's wrong Hanayo?" Akemi's father a man with chocolate eyes walked into the room.
He looked at his daughter, "Tou-san! What's wrong with my eyes?"
His eyes widened, "You are no daughter of mine, those eyes, they belong to the forever cursed spirit, stay away, get out of here! You monster! You only bring sadness and misery"
"Tou-san," Akemi stood there crying.
"I said get out! Monster!" Her father threw her out forcefully.
"Tou-saaaaaan!" Akemi cried.
It was dark out and she was afraid of the darkness. Akemi sat there crying, banging on the door begging for entrance. Her parents wouldn't grant that though. She ran to her bedroom window and climbed in. Akemi grabbed a pack and threw in her most prized possessions. A small stuffed animal red panda, a few bandanas, a cream fuzzy off-shoulder sweater, that was several sized too big, and her hair brush, along with her note pad and pen, climbing back out the window and running off into the darkness without knowing where to go.
-End of Flash Back-
Akemi was snapped back into her body, she stared at Sasuke, he was panting, and she was panting. The two had two deep internal wounds that would last forever. Sasuke's was the pain of losing his family, and casting the woman he loved in shadow. Akemi's was of being rejected by her family for having freaky eyes, and supposedly being possessed by a dangerous spirit, that hadn't been nonsense, it was true, she contained it, but she never let the spirit control her, and it wasn't as dangerous as the kyuubi, ichibi, etc.(What were those Tailed demons called again?)
Akemi plopped down to the floor hugging her knees to her chest and burying her head there, sobbing uncontrollably. Naruto who was watching from the sidelines wondered what had happened. Sasuke looked and her, he felt sympathetic towards her, her family rejected her, it was that bad. He was thankful that at least his father had acknowledged him once before he was killed, she was cast away, and literally thrown out of her house. He decided to be a big brother and walked up to her enveloping her in a brotherly hug. "Sasuke, can, can you-you be my a-a-n-niki-ki?" she asked him in between sobs.
"I already am," he told her softly.
"I'm s-sorr-ry f-for m-my b-beh-havior," she apologized.
"It's okay, we all crack at one point," Sasuke comforted her.
"I-I ta-take b-ba-ack a-all I-I s-s-said-said," she sniffed, pulling out of the hug, "y-you'd-d t-tr-treat h-her n-nicely."
"You were right though, I should have kept her in hiding with me if I truly cared," he admitted.
After that there was a silence and the two walked back into the house to clean up the mess left from Emi's revenge.
~X~X~X~X~X~
In a dark place a man with dark eyes and black hair sat down and sipped his tea peacefully. "Oh you're back, how did it go?" The dark man asked.
"Your brother, Uchiha, Sasuke, I found him," the dark man that had been spying on Sasuke the other week said.
"Well, it's about time, I thought he had killed you," the dark man said calmly, "what took you so long?"
"I found him a week ago, but I decided to check up on the rest of his team, they have been searching for a while as well, but still haven't managed to find him," the other dark man replied.
"So Kisame, where is he?" The first dark man asked.
"He is in- actually before I tell you that Itachi-san, there is something important you must know," the man known as Kisame said.
"What would that be?" The dark man known as Itachi asked.
"You are an uncle," Kizame replied.
Itachi choked on the tea was sipping, "uncle you say?"
Kisame nodded gruffly. "My brother has a child?"
"No he has children."
"Who is the mother?"
"I don not know Itachi-san, she does not live with Sasuke," Kisame replied.
"Where is he now?" Itachi asked.
"In the Flame," Kisame replied.
"Thank you, I will be departing, and I wish to confront my brother alone, thank you very much for your assistance Kisame, but I believe we split forces," Itachi said calmly.
"Yes, I believe so too, sionara Itachi-san," Kisame said in monotone.
"Sionara," Itachi replied walked away, before he started to jump on the trees of the forest that surrounded him.