[Contains spoilers for some]
Sasuke and Suigetsu had split up in hopes to find Itachi Uchiha. He had gotten word that Itachi was seen near the forest off to the west, so that's where he was headed. For a while now he had been near the forest and he started to go deeper into the forest. He came across an area with no trees or shrubs what so ever. He looked around until he saw a figure at the edge of the area.
"Who's there?" Sasuke asked sternly, narrowing his eyes at the figure that was now approaching him. The figure appeared large, or maybe it was just the clothes it was wearing, he couldn't tell.
Itachi drew closer to his little brother inch by inch. Sasuke was holding his daughter, his niece. Itachi stopped in front of Sasuke and chuckled.
"Sasuke..."He chuckled looking his brother right in the eyes.
He watched Sasuke tense up, obviously ready to fight.
"Is this my niece I've heard about?" Itachi asked as he looked down at the girl. She was cute, he had to admit. She was like a carbon copy of her father, black hair and black eyes.
Sasuke looked at the man, Itachi. His brother who had slaughtered their entire clan, their family.
"Itachi..." Sasuke spat Itachi's name like it was poison. He could feel himself shudder with anger, was this it? Was he finally able to kill his brother for good? He heard the little girl in his arms whimper and he realized he must have been tightening his grip on her. He preformed the hand signs to make that special clone. Once it was done he placed his daughter in the clones' hands and it disappeared.
Sasuke activated his sharingan; he knew this was it for Itachi.
"What? Do you plan on fighting me?" Itachi grinned as he asked his little brother. Itachi didn't see a point for Sasuke to fight him, seeing as how he would win.
"I plan on killing you, here and now." At that point Sasuke lunged at him.
xx (I can't write battle scenes sorry)
Itachi lay on the ground appearing he had been defeated. Sasuke stood above him.
'That reaction...This must be...' He thought but at that moment it spoke.
"Meet me at the Uchiha hideout tomorrow by yourself." He said before his body was turned into crows that instantly flew away.
'Knew it...' Sasuke thought angrily and he put his sword back in its sheath. He straightened himself out and realized his clothes were ruined beyond repair.
Before Sasuke met back up with Suigetsu and his clone he had gotten some new clothes, the same thing but his shirt was a dark grey and still revealed his chest and arms.
Later on in the day he had summoned his clone back to him and retrieved his daughter back and Suigetsu had found him.
"Come on, we're leaving." Sasuke said, turning towards the Uchiha hideout. They found themselves in a forest with a dead end.
"Uhh Sasuke, where the hell are we going?" Suigetsu asked, crossing his arms as he did. Sasuke used a release jutsu and a nearby rock was moved. (A/N: I just finished Naruto Shippuden Ninja storm 2 and that's fresh in my mind, so it's going to be different from what happened in the anime)
'Heh,I guess only somebody with Uchiha blood could have seen that.' Suigetsu thought out load as he followed behind Sasuke intensely.
"Sorry I can't let anyone but Sasuke though." A male voice said, stepping out of the bush. He had an akatsuki cloak just like Itachi's and had a sword wrapped in bandages. Sasuke used the jutsu to make the clone and handed Mikoto over to it. It suddenly vanished and he kept walking.
"Wait hold up, are you Kisame Hoshigaki?" Suigetsu's eyes widened. "One of the seven swordsmen?" Kisame chuckled.
"Yes I am. Why?" He asked, his little fishy eyes were just creepy.
"Well I've always wanted to fight one of the seven swordsmen; you wouldn't mind if we had at it would you?" Suigetsu asked, grabbing the handle to his sword.
"Sure why not. And isn't that Zabuza's sword? The executioner?"
"Yeah it is. I searched long and hard for this baby." Suigetsu grinned playfully.
xx
Sasuke made it to a cliff that over looked a great amount of land and in-between that land, surrounded by trees and thick brush was the Uchiha hideout.
'There it is' He thought as he jumped off the cliff.
xx
He walked quietly though the abandoned hallways of the hideout, he had been anticipating this moment for a very long time. He could sense his brothers' chakra in a large room so that's where he went. And soon enough he was in a very large room in front of a throne that his older brother was lounging on.
They exchanged a couple words and their battle begun.
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The orange Susano'o became weaker, was this the end? Sasuke quickly grabbed a kunai from his pouch that had a paper bomb attached and threw it, causing smoke to blow over everything and Sasuke could not see what had happened. But to his surprise the Susano'o had a large red shield covering Itachi who was having a hard time breathing and standing up.
Sasuke took a step back. 'What the?' He thought, he had already used up all of his chakra and this Susano'o was still here. All of a sudden Itachi took a step forward, then another and another.
'Damn' was all Sasuke could think as he stepped back. Itachi kept coming forward with all his might, he still had blood coming from his mouth. Sasuke was shocked, how come he was not down yet? He didn't know.
"Damn!" Sasuke yelled, throwing a kunai at his brother that had many paper bombs attached to the end but the Susano'o deflected it.
"They're my eyes...Mine..." Itachi murmed, looking at Sasuke with his left eye open and reaching out to Sasuke with one bloodied hand.
"Tch." Sasuke scoffed and grabbed his sword and jumped into the air. He brought the sword down onto the Susano'o but the Susano'o would not let it break though, the sword was flung high into the air and was long gone. And Sasuke was thrown across the field beside a large grey wall.
Sasuke managed to get up but by the time he did Itachi was right in front of him. Sasuke quickly shot up and tumbled backwards right against the wall as Itachi raised his arm. Sasuke looked upwards; the wall had a large Uchiha emblem on it. When Sasuke looked forwards again Itachi had him.
Itachi raised his arm and Sasuke's legs began to tremble. Itachi said something and smiled to his little brother then poked him in-between the eyes with his bloody index finger and middle finger and left them there for a couple seconds before letting his fingers slide down Sasuke's face, leaving a trail of blood.
Itachi fell forward, the Susano'o evaporated into the nothing and Itachi bashed his head against the wall and fell to the ground dead.
Sasuke breathed heavily and watched the rain above him before falling to ground beside his brother.
xx
The next thing Sasuke knew he was lying down in a mat in an unknown place. He tried to get up but he felt pain in his side, he looked down and saw his chest and stomach were bandaged. He was wondering what had happened but then thought about the clones and his daughter. He was about to panic and become angry until he realized the child was snuggled up to his other side.
He started to calm down and think about what happened. Itachi... He's dead...
"Ah, you're awake." A voice said and footsteps followed. Sasuke managed to sit up and look at the dark part of the room where the footsteps were coming from. A man with an orange mask walked into the room and crossed his arms.
"You killed him. You killed Itachi." He stated. Sasuke looked over at him but at the quick second his eye became the Mangekyou and automatically used Ameterasu. The masked man was engulfed with black flames and he started screaming and fell into the darkness of the room. It was all silent and Sasuke looked over at the black space.
'What the hell?' He thought. Seconds later the masked man walked back over to Sasuke.
"I thought he would do that." He said.
"..." Sasuke had nothing to say, he was still overwhelmed at the whole situation.
"Itachi planted the Amaterasu in your eye to kill me to protect you from the truth." He said, re-crossing his arms.
"P-protect?" Sasuke stuttered. Never would 'Itachi' and 'protect' be in the same sentance he thought. He looked up.
"Don't fool me!" Sasuke said angrily grasping the blanket covering his legs.
"Yes, he only did that to protect you, but I'm smarter than that."
xx
Sasuke stood in front of a cliff overlooking the ocean. He had to get a new set of clothes since he had destroyed his other set in his last battle. This one actually concealed his chest and had short sleeves and a large collar and a zipper. A large Uchiha emblem on the back.
He stood there looked at the ocean with tears pouring down his face, only because he had learned the truth about Itachi. Behind him were Madara Uchiha and Suigetsu.
"My new plan doesn't include you, Suigetsu, anymore. I will place myself back in Konoha and assassinate Danzo and the two elders." Sasuke said, opening his eyes with the newly acquired Mangekyou sharingan.
xx
The plan was to arrive in Konoha by morning and hopefully be taken in, but how could he not when every second Naruto is planning to bring him back. Sasuke would wait until the village gained his trust again and then go in for the kill. The elders including Danzo were the ones who pressured Itachi into killing his own clan and they must pay.
Sasuke was already traveling fast; he wanted to get there in Konoha by dawn. Soon enough he reached the boundaries of Konoha and the two gates were in sight.
"Hold up!" A male voice said and jumped in front of Sasuke with another man behind him. He held a kunai and raised an eyebrow. He was from the hidden leaf, the obvious headband gave that away.
"What business do you have with the hidden leaf village?" He inquired, ready for a fight but that's not what Sasuke needed.
"I'm coming back to Konoha." He put it simply. The men lowered their guards and sighed a sigh of relief.
"Well then. Follow behind us." He said turning around. What a bad mistake, if he wasn't actually coming back he could have killed the man there and then. But that's not what he was doing.
They arrived at the front gates and signed in at the traffic log and they were headed off to the Hokage's mansion. They walked up the stairs to her office and you should have seen the face of surprise she had.
"S-sasuke!" She stuttered, quickly standing to her feet. "What are you doing here?"
"I've come back for good." She scoffed at that.
"How do I know you aren't lying?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I came here to give my daughter a better life." That's what Madara had told him to say. Madara had told him everything to say, what had happened when he defeated Itachi and everything.
"Huh... Well, Sakura just went to fetch Naruto for a mission I wanted them to do so I guess you can wait until they get back." She said as she sat back down and ran her fingers though her hair.
"Hn."
A couple minutes later Naruto bounded through the door while yelling at Sakura for hitting him. Naruto quickly looked over at Tsunade and sighed.
"Not another lame delivery mission right?" He asked and Sakura stood beside him and gave him a dirty look.
'Same old Naruto...I suppose.' Sasuke thought sourly.
She looked over at the men beside Tsunade and looked over across the room and saw someone she did not expect.
"Sasuke?" She gasped, her green eyes were wide. Never would she think that Sasuke would be there, and not being forced anyway.
"What?" Naruto said lazily as he looked over at the shocked Sakura. She pointed to the other side of the room and Naruto looked over and saw Sasuke.
"What?" Naruto gasped. "What are you doing here?" His jaw nearly hit the floor.
"..." Sasuke didn't really feel like explaining again.
"He wanted to give his daughter a better life." Tsunade explained for him as she rested her chin on her folded hands. "Anyways, I'm sure Sasuke is tired from traveling over here so I'm going to let him go home. But only under the supervision of the Anbu black ops. And the Anbu black ops will also watch over his house at night to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid." All Naruto could grin at the situation and Sakura still awestruck.
"Please escort Sasuke back to his house." She instructed the two anbu black ops that had suddenly appeared by her side.
"Yes Lady Hokage." They said with a monotone voice. They walked towards Sasuke and the three left for Sasuke's house. Once they left the office Naruto grumpily grunted.
"What is it this time Naruto? I thought you would be happy." Tsunade chuckled at the boy.
'Not the reaction I was expecting...' She thought to herself as she watched Naruto.
"It's not that... I'm happy and all, but I wanted to be the one to bring him back." He grunted as he crossed his arms behind his head. Which was true, he had been so mesmerized over the fact of bringing Sasuke back. It was his goal, that and becoming Hokage.
"Well, he's back and that's that. I have work to do so please shoo. And don't bother Sasuke; leave him alone for a bit." Was all Tsunade had to say to the two as she ushered them out.
The Hokage sat back down at her desk and looked over at Shizune.
"Hey could you get Kakashi over here?" She asked, actually not asked, more like demanded. Shizune quickly nodded.
"Yes Lady Hokage." She waved after she scurried out of the office. Tsunade was finally able to let out a sigh of relief.
'Now Naruto won't blab to me anymore about getting Sasuke back.' She thought ignorantly as she leaned back in her chair.
x
Kakashi opened the door to Lady Hokage's office. What could she want with him this early in the morning? He stood lazily in front of her with his hands in his pockets.
"Kakashi..."She started. "I have some very...Interesting news." She opened her eyes and looked at him with all seriousness.
"Oh yes? And what would that be?" Kakashi asked mentally rolling his eyes. Did Naruto do something again?
"It seems Sasuke has returned not too long ago with his daughter."
"Really? Now that is some interesting information." He chuckled a little while playing a scene in his head. Why would Sasuke come here on his own? Were his intentions good?
"Yes..." She said looked out the window to the city. "I want you to train with him. Get to know his level of strength. It will be useful in the future if he turns on us."
"Yes I understand. I was just thinking of doing the same thing." He said. It was true, he did want to see what level of strength Sasuke was at, now that he had defeated Orochimaru. But also Tsunade's idea.
"Do you even think he would try anything now that he has to look after his daughter?" He questioned, raising his hands.
"It's a possibility... I just don't know." She replied and closed her eyes, thinking about something.
"Is that all?" He asked, really wanting to go back home and read. She nodded.
"Yes, please begin training this week." He nodded and walked out the door. He walked through the streets of the buzzing town and spotted Sakura and Naruto running his way.
"Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto screamed from down the street while waving his hands frantically. The two heaved for air while trying to speak.
"Sasuke's back!" Sakura beamed, she always did have a bright smile when she was happy.
"Yes I heard." He chuckled; they looked so funny when they were tuckered out.
"Do you think we can be a team again?" Naruto asked, his face was serious, not playful at all. Sakura turned to him and agreed with him.
"I don't think it's that easy guys. He has to get settled back in and we have to get his punishment sorted out. We also have to see what we can do about his daughter if we do become a team again." The two let out a sad sigh and hung their heads low.
"Yeah I guess so. Now I have time to train to become the Hokage!" Naruto grinned happily while giving his Sensei a thumbs up. Kakashi smiled at him and Sakura.
x
The two anbu black ops stopped as they reached their destination in the Uchiha district. They turned around and looked at Sasuke.
"We are here. Feel free to go home but do know that you are under supervision twenty four seven so please don't do anything stupid. Also Lady Tsunade wants to meet with you tomorrow for your punishments." They said before they poofed into nothing with a cloud of smoke.
Sasuke began to walk to the front door of his house, it was the same house he used to live in with his family, he hadn't lived there since he was eight. He slid open the wooden door and took a step inside and a dusty musky air greeted him. It's been so long that dust had piled up on everything in the house. It made Sasuke glad that nobody had been in there cleaning or snooping around or anything around those lines.
He walked inside the living room, it wasn't anything fancy. Just a couple beige couches and a small T.V. and he wasn't even sure if it worked anymore.
He set Mikoto on the floor in front of the couch and sat down on it, the layer of dust flew up and made Mikoto sneeze like crazy, which made Sasuke let out a small chuckle.
He had to go shopping later, obviously they both had to eat and he knew there was no food in the fridge. He should clean up too, he could feel his eyes being clogged up with dust and made them water.
Sasuke sighed and closed his eyes, he could finally rest now, He didn't have Orochimaru sneaking up on him while he was trying to train, or he didn't have to worry about not being strong enough to beat Itachi. Now he could just kick back and relax for a little while, but also training to kill the elders.
xx
"Are you sure you had to knock out that woman?" A certain black and white man asked a man with an orange mask while raising an eyebrow.
"Hmm? Which woman would that be?" Madara questioned, crossing his arms and facing the plant man.
"The one that mothered the Uchiha's baby."
"Ahh. Well, to me it was useful. She would have just gotten in the way and she wouldn't have let Sasuke take that child. Me 'knocking her out was in Sasuke's best interest, and it all works out for my plan. She was a jinchuriki, we needed her. Anyways, I've got to go." He explained before teleporting away to an unknown destination.
"Heh. Sneaky."
xx
"Sasuke." Madara said as teleported into Sasuke's living room. He saw the child sitting on the floor in front of him sucking on her pacifier and looked up to him with big black eyes. He smirked and looked back to Sasuke who was also looking at him with his black eyes, but there was a big difference with their eyes.
"What do you want?" Sasuke asked, his eyes were cold and hard. Hers were soft and loving.
"I had a tracking device planted in the Hokage's office. They do not trust you, work hard on that. Stay longer in this village and gain their trust." He demanded.
"Hn." Sasuke grunted. He did not like taking orders from anyone, especially him. At that moment Madara had teleported away.
Sasuke got up and scooped the child up off the floor and walked towards the door. He was getting hungry, he hadn't eaten since yesterday. He closed the door behind him and walked through the abandoned Uchiha district. He didn't really have much money on him, but it would be enough for a couple days before hopefully he could do missions and earn money.
It took Sasuke maybe about half an hour to finally figure out what kind of food Mikoto would eat, but he managed. When he was done shopping he stepped out and saw Naruto with a grin on his face. Hopefully he hadn't seen him.
Sasuke quickly started to walk through the streets and out of sight of that orange wearing idiot; he would be one person he didn't want to see at that exact moment.
"Sasuke!" He heard Naruto yell from behind him.
'Damn.' Sasuke thought as he slowed down. He heard Naruto running down the street and stop beside him. Naruto just walked beside Sasuke staring at the child in Sasuke's arms.
"Wooow Sasuke! She looks just like you! A baby clone!" He laughed as he kept staring at the little girl. She reached out a small chubby arm and waved it in front of his face while giving him a big toothless grin, which made her pacifier fall to the ground.
"Aww I'll get that." Naruto chimed as he bent over and picked up the sucker. It was all dirty because of the gravel road. "Your daddy will clean that up for you!"
Naruto handed to pacifier back to Sasuke and continued walking beside him.
"So, are you going to be on team seven again?" He questioned, looking at Sasuke with his big blue eyes full of hope.
"I don't know." Sasuke kept walking with that fast pace of his. But Naruto was a persistent little bugger. Naruto jogged beside Sasuke to keep up, it was actually pretty funny.
'I don't think I'll get anywhere talking about this.' Naruto mentally sighed while keeping his pace beside Sasuke.
He looked back down at the child who was staring at him now.
'Wow, she really looks like him eh?' Naruto thought to himself. 'Wait, who the baby's mom?'
"Eh Sasuke... Who's the kids' mom?" Naruto asked his voice full of curiosity. He had to know, he didn't even know that Sasuke even liked girls, let alone have sex with one. And even end up having a baby.
"..." Sasuke said nothing. He felt ashamed he couldn't remember her name. She had written him a letter stating that she had a child and she signed the bottom, but he could not, for some unknown reason remember the woman's name. But her name was the least of his problems.
He heard Naruto give off a audible sigh and his posture slumped. Why Naruto wanted to know was what Sasuke wanted to know. Shouldn't Naruto be worrying about becoming the Hokage or something?
'Almost there...' Sasuke thought to himself as they entered the Uchiha district. 'Five more blocks and I'll be rid of that idiot.' Sasuke kept his pace fast, each time he would have to walk faster because Naruto kept talking to him and speeding up. But what could he expect? Naruto has been waiting this whole time to get him back, so Sasuke shouldn't complain that Naruto is too clingy and wanting to talk.
Sasuke stopped in front of his home and turned back to Naruto.
"You have to go now." Sasuke instructed to Naruto while Naruto sighed and suddenly looked depressed.
"Ok, but I have question. What really made you come back?"
"..." Sasuke turned around and walked towards the front door of his home and slid open the door, which was pretty hard considering he was holding a baby and a couple grocery bags.
'What's he getting at?' Sasuke thought as he put the bags onto the counter. He bought usual food that could last him at least a week and soap and hair products for the washroom. Once he got enough money he would have to buy a crib for Mikoto. He opened up the fridge and placed the cold food in there and the other food into the cupboards.
Sasuke decided that he better clean the house, seeing as how it was the dirtiest house he had ever seen. He started to wipe down the counters in the kitchen, sweep the floors, vacuum the cushions, replace the bed sheets and clean the bathroom.
After that Sasuke decided not to ever clean that hard again. But at least now the house was in living condition. By the time he was done with it all it was seven PM so he had better get started on dinner. He fed her a bottle of the apple sauce and he made himself a simple dinner in less than ten minutes.
Sasuke placed Mikoto on one side of the bed while he sat on the other. He pulled the switch on the lamp beside him and laid down, letting out an exhausted sigh as he did. He heard her whimper and kick her legs in frustration.
'What's her problem?' He thought as he turned his head towards his daughter. She was now sitting up and looking around curiously.
"Go to sleep." He said and kept his eyes on her. All she did was look back at him and look back to the wall. He snaked an arm around her and pulled her back down to the bed so she was lying down. She huffed angrily and got back up, ignoring her father completely. She had started to crawl away on the bed but Sasuke picked her back up and laid her down once more. He rested his arm on top of her back so she couldn't get away.
Mikoto finally dozed off and let Sasuke be.