SUMMARY:
They have to decide. They need to decide soon. They need to choose who will give it all away for the other. With Kurenai constantly reliant on Shikamaru to raise her son, and Temari constantly busy with her position in Suna, the pair realise the decision will not be easy. To have a happy life with each other, one of them will have to sacrifice so much... But who will be willing to do it? Or better yet, who will ask the other to do it for them?
Author's Note: YO GUYS I am so sorry this has taken so long to upload, I've had lots of exams recently and conventions to prepare for as well so I've neglected my stories DX I am so so so so sorry! I hope this chapter makes up for it! It's very establishing storyline again... Some sweet moments thrown in, some bad ones too~
If you'd like to know more about Mikoto and the relationship of Itachi and Naegi check out the first chapter here:
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WARNINGS
NaruHina- Pretty damn obvious in this chapter.
NejiTen- Not mentioned, after my dosage of sadness from the previous chapter I didn't feel it wise to depress everyone again
SasuSaku- Yay they're back in the story~ Which will be quite important to be honest
Again, I am so so sorry for the lateness of this chapter! I hope you forgive me for it!
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"Send my team as support."
"No."
"Naruto Uzumaki, send my team as support!"
"I can't! Hinata you know I can't send you!" Naruto yelled, his hoarse voice tinged with desperation. Couldn't she see? He was so terrible at expressing himself but surely she could understand that he couldn't, no he wouldn't lose her too. The married couple had returned to their room to get ready, however now they sat on their bed in a cold silence before the arguments had broke out.
"You can send me, there was no mention of me in the conditions and any way I just want to be there as a backup group... Kiba, Shino and I are perfect for tracking..."
"Hinata..." Naruto sighed as he saw her become more frustrated. He could hear Kurama laughing in the back of his mind and it only further angered him.
"And Shikamaru said we need the Hyuga and Inuzuka clans for tracking, Kiba and I are perfect for this!"
She wasn't listening to him. Naruto growled as he raked his hands though his hair as his wife looked at him with her perfect pallid eyes defiantly. She was suited up in her usual purple outfit, which she had not deterred from since their youth. She stood up sharply and looked down at him across the bed. He stood up slower than she had, and gradually raised his head to look at her.
"You are not going." He uttered. "As your husband I cannot allow it."
"Why not?" She spat, this was a different side to her, a side that unfortunately only came out when they were arguing alone. She walked towards the door quickly and he moved quicker as to cut her off. He gripped her wrist as she went to open the door.
"I can't lose you too." He croaked, her defiant eyes softened a little, but she made no move to show him she had changed her mind.
"We can't lose Shina... Naruto she's everything to us... And-..." Her voice was softer now, stained with a desperation that killed Naruto to hear.
"And?" He uttered, stroking a strand of hair from her face as he tugged her closer.
"We're going to- T-To have another baby..."
"Shikamaru!" Ino yelled through Yoshino Nara's sleepy house. Kankuro had already been through and taken his stuff from the tired Nara. Now Yoshino Nara was watching as her son and future daughter-in-law packed their things whilst the Akimichi and Yamanaka youths hollered through her tidy home.
"Ino, what have I told you about the volume of your voice when in my home?" Yoshino groaned, though her energy was depleting rapidly. She wasn't cut out for this anymore... She hadn't been up at an hour like this since back in her own mission days with Shikaku... Oh those were the days...
"Sorry Yoshino," Ino frowned. "I just want to get going quickly, this has been my first mission in months and-..."
"I get it... Just tone it down." Yoshino grumbled, pulling her dressing gown more tightly around her.
"Sorry Yoshino..." The blonde audibly cringed.
"Yoshi, could you tell my folks bye from me? I didn't want to wake them." The Akimichi leader bellowed with his deepened voice through the exhausted Nara's home.
"Of course I will dear... Of course... Just the pair of your stop shouting..." She yawned, facing her son. "I could kill you for this... Do you even know what time it is?"
"Yes mother I-..."
"Of course you do, you Nara men think you know everything!" Yoshino hissed, pausing for another yawn. "So Naruto's daughter along with Sakkaku Inuzuka, and two of Temari's team have been kidnapped by some unknown nin? How dreadful... But why must it be you two who have to retrieve them? Surely they could pick two other nin who aren't planning their wedding after so long of waiting?"
Temari chuckled at this response as she strapped her fan to her back... She did love Yoshino, and if she could imagine her mother still being alive she would hope that she was a little like Yoshino, as Temari found herself a lot like her future mother-in-law.
"Though Shikamaru and a few of the others are Jounin now Naruto would be stupid to ignore that the only ones who made Jounin in our first Chunin exams were Neji, Kankuro, Gaara and I. Since Neji didn't make it this far and Gaara is the Kazekage that only leaves Kankuro and I, whom happen to be in the village at the time of the attack. Kankuro has gone to inform Gaara of the attack which only leaves me. I have to be in the team also as two of them are my students and one is even posing as my daughter."
"Hmm... If I didn't adore you so much Temari I wouldn't let you take that tone with me..." Yoshino murmured. "And why must my lazy son go as well?"
"Because-..." Shikamaru began exhaustedly but Temari silenced him with a finger.
"Because he is now a Jounin and despite his laziness he is a genius. He will be able to predict the enemy's move before the enemy has even made it... Also who else will carry my bags?" The sandy haired nin laughed, draping her arms across her fiancé's shoulders and kissing his cheek lightly.
"Hmph... Regardless of the facts they could have-... Who am I kidding?" Yoshino tutted. "Don't let the selfish desires of an old woman get in the way of your duty as shinobi... Come here." She ordered and the two complied. The elderly Nara took her son's fiancé into a bone crushing hug as her son held onto both of them from behind. The family took a deep breath before releasing each other. Temari walked to Shikamaru and took his hand softly in her own.
"Yoshino, we have something to ask you..." The sand nin said gently, that simple sentence woke Yoshino up enough so that the couple had her full attention. She signed with her hands for Temari to continue. "I'm not too fussed about the wedding details, and we both know that Shikamaru isn't either... So we were wondering if-..." She trailed off and looked at her partner hintingly.
"If you'd busy yourself and make all the preparations for us, so that when we come back we can get married." Shikamaru smiled at his, currently speechless, mother who had tears in her eyes.
"You two better get going before you see me cry... Of course I'll help you both... Don't be stupid now go! Ino and Choji are waiting for you!"
"What do you mean we're having a baby?" Naruto gasped, it was like her telling him about Shina all over again. He suddenly forgot how to breathe and at that that moment he would have happily fought the ten tails all over again. How could she be pregnant he had barely even been near her in the last few-...
Oh.
The time she came by the office three months ago to help with work... Oh Kami he was stupid.
"I-I'm pregnant again..." She muttered, looking away from her husband's gaze. "And what kind of mother would I be if I let my first born daughter be kidnapped whilst I stay at home and wait?"
"Hina..."
"I have to go save my daughter..." Hinata uttered quietly, as her husband pulled her into an embrace.
"If you won't listen to me as your husband... I'll order you as a Hokage... I wish I could go save Shina too... But we can't... They specified for me and you have another life to be considering... You are not going. I cannot allow it."
"You are not going. I cannot allow it." Sasuke ordered. The dark haired Uchiha looked down on his wife as packed away some medical supplies. He crossed his arms as she busied herself. He had ventured into Takigakure to ask about sign posts towards the village and what he had found was horrendous. Someone had poisoned a well at the lower end of Taki, and hundreds of villagers were taken ill and in need of a medic... When this had been relayed to Sakura, which was a momentary lapse of judgement on Sasuke's part, she had declared that she would go to the village and personally nurture each citizen to health.
"Shibuki needs my help. He told you they're desperate, Sasuke, he's agreed to not tell anyone that we're here in return for us policing the area, this is the least we can do for him." She snapped, packing more bandages, she had no idea what the condition was... What the poision was and better yet who did it? "You can remain here with Itashi, I'll only be gone a few days." Sakura sighed as she finished pulling her bag up onto her shoulder.
"Sakura." He growled, removing some of the supplies from her bag for her to stonily put them back in. "Sakura." He repeated sternly. gripping her wrist to halt her movements. He stared down at her, he was useless in communicating what he thought, his mouth just wouldn't operate when it came to things like feelings, he just hoped that the gaze her cast upon her expressed why he couldn't let her go. Why he couldn't risk losing her, especially now... Especially since Itashi was the same age Sasuke had been when his own mother had died... He couldn't wish that on Itashi... He wouldn't wish that on anyone.
"I'm going." She growled, he had forgotten about her damn stubbornness. They had been in relative marital bliss for most of Itashi's life with a few minor arguments... She usually caved by now... But this time she hadn't. This time he was certain that she was going to give him trouble before she even thought of giving in.
"Sakura we can't risk it." He insisted.
"We can't risk anyone in Takigakure becoming hurt. We need to go help them."
"Sakura..." He groaned, he knew he'd lose this argument... He simply didn't have the energy or the coldness to argue with her at his current age. She had made him soft, yet she hadn't changed at all. He leaned in towards her and rested his forehead against hers. "Just be safe... I can't escort you since I have duties... Please be safe."
"I'm always safe, especially since I have you and Itashi to come back to." She smiled, before giving her husband a gentle kiss on his soft lips. "Don't worry about me... Worry about our crime fighting son!"
Shina and Taiyō were forced into a room within the travelling home. Sakkaku and Akarui were trapped outside, though both were trapped in a deep slumber. The room they were forced into was well lit by a few gas lanterns, and was coated in a crimson, cushion like material. It contained an arm chair, which looked so inviting to the exhausted kunouchi, and curled up by the side of it was a raven haired girl. She looked slightly older than Taiyō but was curled into a ball and therefore any indication of her face.
"Ladies, may I introduce you to the last of two extinct clans, Mikoto Uchiha-Bara. Child of the last of the Bara clan and the slaughterer and one of the last Uchiha clan." Kai introduced the girl theatrically, as he prodded Taiyō closer to the girl who was now stirring, lifting up her head of long dark hair, which looked as if it had never been cut. The girl raised her head to reveal a pair of glassy aquamarine eyes which, with a blink of her dark lashes, changed into an activated Sharingan. Mikoto glared at her company, something that was intensified by her clear, prominent tear-troughs, that identified her as her father's daughter."You should get better acquainted, Shina... After all you're both two rare specimens... Miss Taiyō, I'd ask you to follow me to the next room, however you've not got a choice. Therefore I suggest you comply."
Taiyō nodded solemnly, keeping her head down as Shina, nervously, walked towards Mikoto who glared that the Uzumaki with sheer hatred.
"You-... You're not... You're not Uncle Sasuke's daughter are you?" Shina murmured once the door on the opposite side to which she had entered slammed shut.
"You're not Uchiha... So I doubt your 'Uncle Sasuke' is really an uncle to you. I am his niece. Daughter of Naegi Bara and Itachi Uchiha."
"But Itachi is dead."
"So is my mother... Do you want to rub it in further?" The girl snapped, Shina was taken aback before grinning nervously. "Stop smiling like that... I've heard of you. You and your parents... The model family for all Shinobi... You've known nothing but peace and happiness, so don't smile at me like that... Like you know me..."
"You really won't shut up will you?" Shina said pleasantly, taking a seat on the soft floor. The Uzumaki's response had silence the Uchiha girl who had curled back into a ball.
"The only reason I've not killed you yet is because it'd be a waste of my time." Mikoto grumbled.
"It's funny you should say that... Since your uncle once said the same sort of thing to my father..."