Birthright

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I'm glad that everyone seems to have liked the Battle Chapter. For anyone keeping track: Arashi and Aiya are 12, the triplets are 9, Kenji is 8, Hoshi & Shisui are 6. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the Revenge of the Parents Chapter.

CHAPTER WARNING: Itachi, Sasuke, and Hinata aren't going to go easy on them. I will put warnings up before and after their Revenge Scene. It is not for the faint-hearted. So if you are particularly squeamish skip it because the plot will not be altered, if you do.

Chapter Notation: One could make the argument that Hinata is somewhat OOC here, but I'm of the opinion that even the sweetest person can become quite vicious when someone threatens their children. Momma Grizzlies can be just as ferocious as Angry Papa Bears. For those of you who do decide to read that scene, happy reading.

Chapter 25

A few hours later, Hiashi just shakes his head at his grandchildren. Well most of his grandchildren. Thank goodness, they hadn't been foolish enough to take Hiruzen with them!

"We're in big trouble, aren't we?" Hoshi sighs.

That was an understatement. At the moment, Hiashi was in the Uchiha District and watching his grandchildren. His ridiculously brave and foolish grandchildren.

He honestly didn't know whether to be proud of them or be furious. It was a strange feeling. One emotion or impulse blended almost seamlessly into the other. It would be poetic in a bizarre way, if the little demons hadn't almost given him a heart attack!

He nods in agreement. "That's true." The Hyuga man shakes his head. "You're all in big trouble. Don't you ever do anything that foolish and reckless again or you'll all be grounded until you're old enough to have grandchildren of your own!"

"How is it possible to be grounded and still have children and grandchildren?" Aiya blinks in confusion.

"Yeah, grandfather." Arashi tilts his head in bewilderment as well. "That doesn't make any sense."

Hiashi twitches! These children! They were so technical. As much as he adored his grandchildren with every fiber of his being, eight out of nine of them were Uchihas! And Uchihas had no respect for their elders it seemed!

"It doesn't have to make sense!" He glares at the children.

He knew that he shouldn't glare at them. This was especially the case with Aiya and Arashi. They had been kidnapped. Surprisingly, it was the younger grandchildren who had caused the most mischief.

It was a miracle that they were all alive and according to Aoda, it got worse. He couldn't believe that snake! The Summon was actually trying to come to their defense.

"How many hatchlings do you know that could honestly defeat that many fully grown adults?" Aoda peeks his head cheerfully through a rather large window.

The window had been specially installed for the gigantic snake Summons to peak into. Hiashi supposed in some strange way, it was probably the Uchiha Version of a dog door. They couldn't be normal and just get a Ninja Dog!

Oh no! Sasuke just had to give his children massive pet snakes that were capable of crushing entire villages! Oh and did he mention the hawk that could swoop down from the sky and kill fully grown men, if he wanted with those terrifying talons? That was their "pet" bird?!

He gives the snake a dirty look. "That is not the point!" Honestly, did Aoda not fully understand the amount of danger the "hatchlings" had put themselves in?!

"We're sorry that we scared all of you." Kenji sighs and looks down at his sandals. "But we just wanted to save our big brother and big sister."

Oh no he didn't! Hiashi wasn't going to fall for this! Not the kicked puppy eyes. He was a grandfather and had experience dealing with this tactic!

"Yes and saving your siblings was and is a noble goal." Hiashi sighs. Wonderful. Now he felt like a heel. "But you should have done so by telling me or your parents what was going on. You shouldn't have endangered yourselves like that!"

Miya looks up at him with the Bubble Eyes of Doom. "But a ninja should expect the unexpected!" She smiles at him. "No one would expect children to go after the kidnappers. So we had the element of surprise on our side."

Dear God, the middle triplet was going to be the death of him. While he admired her spirit, she just had a penchant for getting into all sorts of trouble! He could only try to draw strength from his ancestors in a few years when she was old enough to begin dating!

"That may be true, but it was still incredibly reckless!" He sighs and shakes his head. "Don't do it again."

"Yes, grandfather." The other two triplets sigh in unison.

It still amazed Hiashi that Hinata had had two twin pregnancies, one triplet pregnancy, and one single birth. His daughter must be the most fertile woman on the planet or something! That or those damn deviant Uchihas were just exceptional at siring children quickly!

"We're sorry, grandfather." Shisui sighs.

He shakes his head. "Not as sorry as your going to be when your parents punish you for your foolishness." Grandchildren. After everything that he had been through, it was likely going to be his grandchildren who gave him a heart attack!

Meanwhile Itachi, Hinata, and Sasuke were inside the cave with Sagara. They had sent the children back to their home and Hiashi was watching them. The other members of Team Seven and Eight were being looked at by Tsunade in the hospital. And finally, the Kazekage Family (and Akeno) were now in the Hokage's Office, briefing Naruto and Sakura on what had just happened only hours before.

"Let me go, you damn demons!" Sagara spits at them.

Itachi raises an eyebrow. "Your audacity knows no bounds it seems." He glances at his brother and wife. "He kidnaps our children and then has the unmitigated gall to bark orders at us?"

Sasuke's Sharingan and Rinnegan were both whirling madly at the red head. "I think that it's time that we teach him some humility." Itachi couldn't disagree.

"You kidnapped two teams of Hidden Leaf Ninjas and even worse, you kidnapped two of our children." Hinata's Byakugan was fully activated. "As Itachi says, you're in no position to make demands. I'm sure that my husbands have plans in place to ensure that you die screaming."

Itachi was honestly stunned. He'd never heard his wife speak with such venom before. It reminded him far too much of the way that Sasuke used to speak to him before he knew the truth.

This was perhaps the one time that he would ever see the more vengeful side of their wife. He didn't know whether to be morbidly curious or terrified. He settled mostly on the latter, with just a splash of the former though.

Sagara glares at Hinata. "It was nothing personal!" The man clearly didn't know when to quit. "Anyone would have done it for that kind of money and they only wanted me to ensure the children never learned the Gentle Fist Style!"

Hinata's hand goes flying before either of them had any chance to react. SMACK! CRUNCH! Their wife had just struck the kidnapper hard enough across the face to crush his cheekbones.

"That is our decision whether or not we wish to teach them that." Her eyes narrow at him. "Ours and no one else's!"

Ice water. "And you just forfeited your life for a pair of corpses that are cold in the ground." That's what Itachi felt like as he hears Sasuke address the kidnapper. "Don't worry though. You can explain to your employers why you failed soon enough. I imagine you'll be seated right next to them, in Hell."

Itachi glances at Hinata. He loved their wife dearly and the Uchiha Patriarch was not particularly eager to subject her to this. To the brutality that he knew was impending.

"Hinata, perhaps you should go back with the children." He kisses her cheek.

Hinata shakes her head. "My not seeing it, doesn't change what's about to happen." She sighs and crosses her arms determinedly. "That doesn't just apply to this piece of trash either. It also applies to Raiden."

Sasuke's eyes and Itachi's eyes widen at that and at that moment, Hinata knew the truth. They had done it. Somehow her husbands had killed the Daimyo years ago and made it look like he'd died of a heart attack.

They'd probably done it with a Genjutsu. Most likely Itachi's Tsukuyomi. All these years, she had tried to deny it, but Hinata supposed that she had always known the truth. They killed him.

"You killed the Daimyo?!" Raiden grits through the pain of his broken cheeks to scream at them.

SMACK! "Quiet!" Sasuke glares at him. "We're trying to have a conversation here."

Itaachi sighs as he looks at Hinata forlornly. "How long have you known?" A reasonable question.

"I've always suspected." The bluenette sighs. "I had hoped that I was wrong, but he's long since dead and buried now." She kisses their foreheads. "It might be selfish, but I'm not willing to lose the two of you to avenge a corpse that was trying to manipulate our family." She sighs sadly, tears threatening to well up in her eyes. "And our children need you both too much to turn you in."

Sasuke sighs and holds her. "It's alright." He kisses the top of her head. "We're not going anywhere." The younger Uchiha Brother smiles at her reassuringly.

Sagara glares at them. "I'd ask what your name is, but I believe you do deserve to die nameless. What do you think, My Queen?" Itachi looks at her.

Hinata pauses and nods. It was something of a courtesy to at least get your opponent's name. Not doing so was quite the insult. It dehumanized them in a way.

"He deserves to die nameless." Hinata rests her head on Sasuke's shoulder as she holds Itachi's hand. "I doubt anyone is going to mourn him anyway."

Itachi nods in agreement. "Very well. Tsukuyomi!" And with that Sagara's nightmare truly began.

Warning Revenge Scene

"Not again!" His screams were both beautiful and painful on Sasuke's ears.

Of course, he was happy to hear the scum who had kidnapped his children scream. "Gag him." Though he couldn't lie. It did hurt his ears.

Hinata nods and rips off her sleeve, quickly wrapping it around the man's mouth. Sasuke couldn't help, but smile at their wife. She was such a helpful person. That was likely one of the reasons why she was a medic.

"I believe twenty-four cuts would be a most appropriate beginning to his punishment." Itachi smiles coldly. "One for each year of Arashi's and Aiya's life."

Sasuke smirks. "Make it twenty-six. Hinata did carry them for almost nine months." That was essentially a year.

Hinata seems more than agreeable to that. "I think that I'll start with this one then." She smiles. "I believe it's more fitting to use the Gentle Fist on him for the beginning. Since that is what he was seeking to deny our children."

Sasuke nods. That made sense. Oh well. They'd start off slow. He wanted to make sure that this man suffered. Even more than the Daimyo had!

"Go ahead, My Love." Itachi smiles at her. "After all, a gentleman allows his Queen to go first."

Hinata didn't waste any time. SMACK! BAM! CRUNCH! CRACK! Each strike was aimed with a ruthless precision and each strike made Sagara cry out in pain.

"D-DEMONS!" It was a good thing that they had gagged the man. "D-DEMONS!" Otherwise his cries of agony might actually have been deafening.

His wife might have the same brute strength of Sakura, but she did have the ironically named Gentle Fist on her side. It was apparently, anything but gentle.

"That may very well be true." Itachi smiles pleasantly as Hinata gets in the 14th strike. "But you are the one who is going to Hell. Please do tell Kira and Kaiden we sent you!" And the 15th.

Blood now coated the rag. The force of Hinata's punches would have made him cough up blood, if the gag didn't stop it. Their wife was relentless. Sasuke had never been so proud.

"I'm thinking that burning him alive would be the best punishment." Sasuke smirks. "The same Jutsu that father taught us. That would be poetic." He looks at Itachi.

Itachi smiles and pokes his forehead. "True enough, but we don't to skip straight to desert." Enough time had passed that Sasuke vaguely hears Hinata call out the number twenty-five as his brother smiles at him.

"That's true." He smiles at their wife. "Hinata, do make the last strike count."

And Hinata did. "GENTLE FIST!" The Uchiha Matriarch channels her power into one final strike to an area that no man wanted to be hit!

It was enough to make both Itachi and Sasuke wince. Though the man certainly deserved it. He had kidnapped a bunch of innocent kids to make some "easy money."

"Remind me, never to earn your ire." Itachi chuckles. "Alright, Sasuke. I believe that it is our turn. I believe that we should do eight strikes each. One for all of our children." Itachi pauses if considering something. "Actually, make that fourteen. We may as well add a strike for each member of Team Seven and Eight in the interest of fairness."

Sagara struggles and tries to free himself from the post he was tied to. "LET GO OF ME!" It was no use though. Itachi controlled every aspect of this world.

"Did you know that I control everything here?" He smiles coldly. "What it looks like? How time flows? Even the perception of pain?"

This man had to suffer. It was as simple as that. While the Daimyo had been trying to "give" their children something, this man was trying to take something away from them. One of their birthrights.

That was imply unacceptable. "Just kill me and be done with it!" He would have to suffer.

"Oh we're going to kill you." Sasuke smirks at him. "Eventually." He circles Sagara and drags his blade across his broken cheek. "These things take time though. You've stalked our family for years. It's only fitting that we make sure you are fully compensated for all the time you've put into this mission."

Itachi watches in morbid fascination as Sasuke makes the first cut. To his cheek. A thin red line of blood welling up when the lethal weapon had sliced into his vulnerable flesh.

"That makes one." Itachi Summons some of his crows and has them peck at the man.

Bite marks could be seen forming along his skin. They didn't bleed that much, but they were painful. He wanted this to be drawn out as long as possible.

"He should lose one of his eyes." Hinata tilts her head thoughtfully.

Sasuke and Itachi both gape at their wife. Neither of them had seen that coming. Though perhaps they should have. Hinata was very protective of their children.

"That's quiet clever. That way he can still see his own demise and since he was attempting to deny them half of their heritage, rather poetic." Sasuke smiles as he proceeds to do exactly that while Itachi covers Hinata's eyes.

His wife was not happy about that, but he hoped she got some satisfaction out of his cries of anguish. "AHHHH! YOU BASTARD! YOU'LL BURN FOR THIS!" Because he knew that he was and Sasuke was definitely enjoying himself.

Itachi knew that he should be concerned by how much his foolish little brother was enjoying himself, but this scum deserved it. He deserved this and anything else that the three of them could come up with.

"You're comrades were lucky." Itachi smiles conversationally. "They were either killed quickly or only disabled. Some of them might even survive this." He twirls a kunai in his hand before stabbing Sagara in the arm with it. "They'll go to prison for the rest of their lives naturally, but they're only hired thugs. You're the one who is going to suffer most."

"DAMN YOU!" Sagara tries to spit at him, but the gag made that difficult.

The gag was so blood at this point that Itachi half wondered, if it might actually fall out. Oh well. If that was the case, another of them could sacrifice a sleeve. He didn't want to go deaf from hearing this bastard's cry, but he did enjoy the muffled version.

Sasuke would have liked to have Aoda and Garuda have a go at this filth, but he wasn't sure how Summons worked here. Had Itachi's crows only been allowed to enter because they were his?

It mattered not he supposed as he made a shallow slash to the man's throat with a kunai. Itachi stabs him in the leg. Each attack meant to elicit pain and blood, but not enough to kill him.

"AHHH!" Over and over Sagara cried out. His torture only muffled by the gag, but never ceased." Sasuke was going to make sure this man suffered for what he did to their children.

"My chakra nature is actually Fire and Lightning." Hinata smiles. "I just don't use Ninjutsu that much." And with that, she blows a great fireball at him.

Hinata suspected that it was fitting. He should "die" by fire. She knew that the man wouldn't bare any of these marks on his body when the Genjutsu was released, but that was fine with her. He'd die either way .

"Very good, Hinata." Itachi watches as Sagara's body grows still. "Release!" And just like that, they were back in the cave.

Sagara's body was convulsing, but not for long. "Chidori!" Sasuke fires up a Chidori.

Itachi shakes his head as he watches. "Well I would say that I hoped you learned your lesson." He smiles. "That no amount of money is worth kidnapping children, especially Uchiha Children." The Uchiha Patriarch shakes his head. "Though I suppose it's a moot point as my brother is about to make you feel what we felt when you took them from us."

There was true. He was going to suffer for what he did. Hinata knew exactly what Sasuke was about to do and though it disturbed her on some level, she wasn't going to protest.

"What are you going to do to me?!" He convulses more, trying to flee.

"Rip your heart out, just as you did ours." Hinata glares at him.

It seemed to happen in almost slow motion. Though she knew in reality it had only taken a few seconds. Sasuke's fist slams into Sagara's chest. "AHHHH!" His screams of excruciating agony rang throughout the forest as Sasuke yanks his heart out.

For a few grotesque seconds, his body still convulsed even without his heart, Eventually though. He stopped moving. He was dead.

End of Revenge of the Parents Scene

Hinata watches with detached horror as Sagara's body lay lifeless on the ground. Not that she had suspected anything less. After being tormented in Itachi's Genjutsu and having his heart ripped out by Sasuke, well no one could have survived that.

"It's okay." Sasuke looks at her reassuringly as he uses a Water Jutsu to wash his hands. "It's over now." He could wash away the blood, but that didn't erase what had just happened.

They had killed a man. Killed a man to defend their children. If he was willing to kidnap them, what else might he have been willing to do? Hinata knew what she should be horrified by their actions and to a certain degree, she was. But not as much as she should have been.

Itachi nods as he embraces Hinata. "He's right. I'll take the body to the hospital to be examined." A ninja's body was important, after all. It could carry many secrets. "And then meet you all back at the house."

Hinata nods at that as she returns the embrace. "Good. That sounds good." What else could she say really? The world was better off without him and they all knew that.

"Good." Itachi smiles at her as he picks up Sagara's remains and Flickers off.

Sasuke smiles and takes her hand in his own. The "innocent" hand though. Not the one that he had used to rip out a man's heart, only moments before. "Let's go home, My Queen." His smile only grows. "We still have a lot of very poorly behaved princes and princesses who are in serious need of discipline."

Despite everything, Hinata finds herself laughing at that. That was most assuredly the truth. She couldn't believe that her children, age six through nine had somehow tracked down their siblings and joined the battlefield like that.

"I don't know whether to be proud of them or to ground them until they're all grandparents." Hinata sighs.

Sasuke chuckles as they Flicker off. "I agree." As soon as their house comes into view, he smirks and leads her towards the front door. "I'm sure that we'll come up with something though."

If nothing else, Sasuke as confident that Itachi would. He had always been better at that sort of thing than Sasuke. He didn't have the heart to really discipline their children. Which was probably why they had all behaved so recklessly.

"I still can't believe they did that." Hinata shakes her head.

"I know." Well if nothing else, they knew that even as young as six, Uchiha Children were formidable. Though Sasuke knew the truth.

Their children were extremely lucky. Lucky that Sagara had hired petty thugs and not skilled ninjas. Had he hired professionals, their children might have been dead before they got there or they would have had to intervene. It was a terrifying though.

He shakes his head. "I'm leaning towards grounded until their grandparents myself." Sasuke sighs.

"I know, but you won't actually do it." Hinata giggles. "The Bubble Eyes Jutsu is far stronger than your willpower." She laughs as she opens the door.

To Sasuke's extreme satisfaction, all of their children looked like frightened rabbits at the moment. That was good, he thinks to himself with a smirk.

"When Itachi gets back, you will be informed the severity of your punishments." His eyes narrow. "Protesting these punishments will only increase the severity." His gaze softens somewhat as they all squeak.

"We're only doing this because we love you." Hinata smiles at them. "And we don't want to lose you. You can't run off like that."

Hiashi nods in agreement. Sasuke never thought he'd see the day w here Hiashi agreed with him on well anything, but he supposed miracles happened once in awhile.

The proud grandfather glances at his children. "You were all reckless and irresponsible." He sighs. "That being said, you all displayed impressive bravery and combat prowess and bring both sides of our family much honor."

Sasuke nods. "Of course." He smiles at them. "We love you more than anything and we're very proud of your abilities, but you're still going to be punished. We just haven't decided how yet."

"Oh man!" Kenji groans. "That means that we're probably not going to have ice cream for awhile."

Sasuke smirks. That was probably going to be the least of their children's concerns, when Itachi was through with them. "That's most likely going to be just one component of your punishment, but yes." His smirk grows. "That is accurate." After all, taking away a child's ice cream privileges was like taking away a father's training privileges. It was just hitting below the belt!