Chapter Fourteen: It Makes Sense Now!

I DON'T OWN NARUTO! MASASHI KISHIMOTO DOES! YOU CAN'T SUE ME!

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Itachi frowned as his younger brother paced their living room. "What is bothering you Sasuke?" He finally asked. Sasuke started, having forgotten Itachi was in the room. "I'm trying to figure out the best way to approach Shisui." He replied. "Why?" Itachi asked, curious about his brother's motives. "I have a few questions about uncle." Sasuke replied vaguely. Itachi frowned a little more and sent a text message to his college age cousin. "He'll be here momentarily." Itachi said. Sasuke continued to pace, much to Itachi's growing annoyance. "If you're going to continue to pace, do so elsewhere. I am expecting company soon and don't want to greet them rudely." He finally said coolly. Sasuke sat down reluctantly and glared at the floor. Itachi didn't care as long as he wasn't pacing.

Sakura smiled as she looked around her. "Your home is beautiful Itachi. I bet your mother is very proud of it." She said. Itachi smiled slightly. "Thank you. And she is." He replied. Sakura ignored Sasuke but couldn't help but be creeped out by the way he stared at her and followed her every move. "Your brother's being super creepy tonight." Sakura shuddered. "He is. I can't fathom what his problem is. Sasuke was pacing most annoyingly before your arrival." Itachi frowned as he spoke. His frown eased when his favorite cousin Shisui appeared. "What's up Itachi-chan?" He asked. Sakura was startled to see he shared her chin and cheekbones. Her eyes widened as she stared at the dark haired man. "Shisui this is Sakura. She's a friend from school." Itachi made introductions. Sakura was slightly mollified to see that he was staring just as much. "Shisui did Uncle date other than Auntie?" Sasuke demanded. "Yes I would think so. He didn't marry mother until I was much older." Shisui replied. Sasuke was interrupted by the doorbell so he didn't get to continue his interrogation. Naruto and Ino breezed in and both blonds looked determined. "Sasuke-kun Naruto did some more digging like you wanted and we got some interesting results for you." Ino said without preamble.

"Well? What is it?" Sasuke demanded. "Yes. I would like to know as well since Sasuke has started interrogating me about my father's past." Shisui agreed mildly. Ino balked in the presence of the older Uchiha so Naruto smoothly took over. "It's not exactly a big secret that Teme here would use whatever means at his disposal to ruin Sakura's life out of anger and hatred. But I did some digging for him at Teme's request and found out that Sakura's mother nearly married into the Uchiha Clan. The engagement was broken off because the Uchiha she was going to marry tried to kill her. Of course Sakura's mother never filed charges. She was too afraid. A few months before Sakura was born, her mother married Haruno Hitsuko. Hitsuko-san didn't think twice about claiming Sakura as his own and so she was given the Haruno last name." He said. "What are you trying to say Naruto?" Sai demanded. "What I'm trying to say is that based on the timeline of Sakura's mother's death, how old Sakura was, her nearly instant connection with you and Itachi and Madara, and the fact that her mother was well into her pregnancy before marrying Hitsuko-san, that Sakura's father was none other than Uchiha Katashi!" Naruto replied.

Stunned silence met the declaration and this time Naruto balked. "What Naruto is saying is that because Sasuke-kun was trying to find some dirt to use against Sakura in his never-ending campaign to ruin her as Naruto has said, he had Naruto do a background check on her to see if her past could be used to help him. This is what Naruto found. At first we were skeptical as well so Naruto did some more digging and found out that Katashi-san went into some kind of anger management class or something of that nature before he married your mother Shisui-san and it was just after Sakura's mother left him and married Hitsuko-san. But we couldn't one hundred percent prove it until the DNA test results that Naruto hacked into the clinic that Sakura took a few days ago came back." Ino took over after screwing up her courage. "And those results cinched it then?" Shisui asked calmly. Ino nodded. "Yeah. It was determined that there was a 99.9% chance that Uchiha Katashi is in fact Sakura's father. I have the results if you two want to see them." She replied.

Shisui took the results from the blonde and looked over them keenly. "She's not lying. These results are indeed accurate and completely legitimate." He said after a few minutes. Sakura's head swam with the news she had just received. Her father wasn't her father. The man that tormented her for most of her life wasn't her father. The man that tried to kill her wasn't her father. 'The man that nearly ruined my life isn't my father.' Sakura thought blankly. The pink haired teen couldn't think straight. Her whole life had been one big fat lie. "How many people know about this?" Itachi asked. "Just us now. And the clinic people of course. Oh and Sakura's tormentor and her dead mother." Ino replied. Sasuke sighed dramatically. "Well looks like I have to give up my goal of making you my bitch Sakura." He said snidely. Sakura lunged for him then froze as her back seized suddenly and violently. Itachi and Sai quickly grabbed her arms in a show of what everyone else thought was restraint. "Is she ok? She's looking kinda pale there." Ino asked. "She's fine. Just really angry is all." Sai lied cheerfully. "Lower me slowly toward the floor please. And I mean slowly. You'll have to follow me down so it's completely smooth." Sakura said through her teeth. "Is it really that bad then?" Sai asked curiously. Sakura nodded shortly. "The worst one yet. Worse than the beach." She replied curtly. "Then you shouldn't be on the floor." Sai protested. "Anything softer than the floor will make it flare again. Just put me on the floor." Sakura retorted. Tenten shouldered Sai out of the way and nodded. "Ready?" She asked. "Wait! Your height difference!" Sakura protested too late. Her back seized again and the pinkette flailed, her fist catching Tenten under the jaw, making her let go in shocked pain and causing Sakura and Itachi to land on the floor in an undignified heap. Tenten chuckled ruefully. "I haven't had a punch like that in years. Sorry Sakura." She said. "It's ok!" Sakura gasped. "You really look retarded." Shisui snorted. "Itachi! Get your stupid leg from around my chest! I can't breathe!" Sakura demanded. "I can't! My foot's stuck in your hair." Itachi retorted. "Tenten cut it off." Sakura demanded. "You will do no such thing!" Itachi countered immediately.

Naruto and Ino sighed. "Sasuke I think we should go." The blonde girl said. "No way. This is the best day ever. My cool older brother looks like a complete moron." Sasuke laughed. A woman calmly waded through the bodies and untangled Itachi's foot from Sakura's hair and helped the two up. "Hello there dear. I'm Mikoto." The woman smiled.

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