||Ten: Papa is actually very handsome
Note: I shall upload the second part of promise me, the previous chapter, sometime later. Until then, I hope you all enjoy this instead.
Papa is a very strict person.
I realized this when I saw him with my own two eyes and met him—physically. Although he was very similar to the clone that Mama had turned into one day. Papa looked older than the clone, maybe because she had a memory of him from ten years ago?
I think I shouldn't think too much about it, not that everything has been sorted out. Papa assured me that I was thinking wrong about the relationship between him and Mama. He just has to live away because of his very important mission.
My memory of Papa is very different from the clone that Mama showed me. Mama's version of Papa was very calm and gentle, Papa, on the other hand, didn't smile as much. In fact, he seemed to be a very strict man.
He told me that if I had any plans of becoming a ninja one day, I should learn to abandon personal feelings during missions.
How cruel, Tch.
He was always impassive, if not, then always angry. His glares were scary and even the Shins that we encountered that day seemed to flinch when he had walked towards them.
Papa's Sharingan was also very different than mine, it had more intricate patterns; his other eye, which was purple, was a Rinnegan, the most powerful ocular prowess, according to the book I've read.
Truth be told, Papa was a little bit intimidating, more than anyone I have ever met in my life. Nanadaime-sama seems so gentle compared to him.
Mama told me they're best friends.
I wonder how that ever worked out. Papa doesn't seem one to interact with people unless he finds it necessary, Nanadaime-sama on the other hand…
I still think Nanadaime is cooler though! He's so fun to be around!
N-No, I don't have a crush on the Hokage! I just want to be like him someday.
The summary of this diary entry is that Papa is a very strict man.
I wonder how he and Mama fell in love. Surely, Mama has a very bright personality, but Papa is so serious all the time. Does he ever laugh?
I found all of my answers one afternoon when I and Cho-Cho were heading back after our classes. When I got home, I saw another set of ninja sandals.
They belonged to Papa.
When I got inside, announcing my return, I found Papa sitting on the sofa set while Mama stood near him. She got startled when she saw me and flashed me a big smile, her cheeks were red and Papa merely sipped his tea.
Tch, she's too happy for his return.
I greeted him cheerfully and all he said was, "Ah." It seems like Papa doesn't like to talk a lot. I remembered the tap of his fingers on my forehead from the last time. It is the most affectionate memory that I hold with Papa. But it seems like he's not that affectionate all the time, perhaps that is the most affectionate that he can ever be. I saw him activate his Sharingan and go through the newspaper as Mama busied herself in making something for me.
He doesn't like to waste time on trivial things as well.
I saw him scoff when he set the newspaper aside, Mama looked up, "What is it, Anata?"
"Nothing." He said as he picked up the empty tea cup and stood up, I backed off, feeling intimidated for no reason, it's not like he was going to point his katana at me again.
But still…
He hadn't seemed to notice that though, he just reached the sink and placed the tea cup there, "The newspaper is filled with the dobe's face", He said.
Dobe?
"Naruto is quite popular in the village," Mama told him as she took out some snacks for me.
Papa calls Hokage-sama as "Dobe?" I find myself gaping at him, and merely look away. Does he not like the Hokage? I thought they were good friends?
"He's annoying," Papa says with a small curl of his lips as if he remembers some fond memory of him and the dobe—
I-I mean the H-Hokage!
"Anata," Mama says with her gentle chiding voice, "Be mature, he's the Hokage now. One whom our Sarada adores." Mama says with a wink and looks at me, I feel my cheeks heat up.
"I told you I don't like him!" I said with protest but she just smiled. Papa looked at me for a moment and I swear I felt my heart race. It was the moment when I realized that he wasn't wearing his usual black cape, but a simple lavender shirt in which he looked…
Like a normal man.
He turned his attention towards Mama though, "You're still as annoying as ever, Sakura." He told Mama and smiled.
He smiled!
I felt my face heat up as he tapped Mama's forehead with another smile, Mama seemed to have frozen in the spot! She turned as red like Papa's favourite tomatoes!
"A-Anat—" She stuttered as Papa got back to where he had been sitting.
I didn't realize this before. But when he smiled, it seemed so gentle and pure that my heart seemed to ache. It was as if his smile had a gravity to itself that held the people close to him together. I saw Mama, who tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear, still smiling.
My father didn't seem to be the same strict man I had met outside of the village. He seemed so young, so youthful, so gentle, so calm…
So handsome.
I ran out of the room making excuses. I couldn't bear to be standing in his aura for so long. I felt my heart race, not with fear, but with adoration.
I know I said that Hokage-Sama was the coolest, but I guess Papa is the handsomest!
Meanwhile, in another room, Sasuke looked up when Sarada ran to her room. Unfazed and unknowing, he asked Sakura, "What happened to her?" He said impassively.
"It seems like she just got infatuated with you, Sasuke-Kun," Sakura said fondly as she sat down next to Sasuke.
"I can't have two fan girls living with me," Sasuke said seriously, but he broke out into an arrogant smirk as he pulled Sakura into his chest and sighed as the smell of her hair invaded his senses.
"I told you, I'm not your fangirl!" came a frustrated remark from Uchiha no Tsuma, Sasuke could only smirk again,
"Hn."
~~ MISS KIREI UCHIHA ~~