Asura sent a warming glare to Shintani-san, who quickly ran away towards his friends. In the few weeks that passed since the incident the two brothers have gotten close to each other and the younger one declared himself the elder´s bodyguard. For Indra it was a bit annoying, but he was happy. The abuse stopped, something that hasn´t happened before. And he was sleeping better as his brother practically moved to his room. Hagoromo, for his part, was amazed and worried. Suddenly his sons were best friends, there was no tension between them and apparently some people that were friends with Asura before now were in his black list.

"What happened?" he asked to his youngest son one day during dinner, while Indra was trying to put some calories on his body. For some time the teen didn´t eat the amount of food that was healthy, worrying his father about his health, but now he was trying to raise his ration. "Indra… the same question to you."

"Everything is alright" answered the older.

"But, nii-san, we should…"

"Everything is alright" he cut his brother, sending him a warming look that softened quickly. It was obvious that he was lying and the Rikkudo Sennin could tell that.

"You can tell me anything, you know?" he eyed each of them. One revolved in discomfort, as if he was really struggling against his will not to tell their father and the other glaring at his food as if it was the cause of all his wrongs. "Both of you"

"There is nothing to tell, father" they continue eating in silence. Once they were finished, the boys left the area and Hagoromo hid his chakra to follow them. In the middle of the way, he caught a conversation he didn´t like at all.

"… we should tell him, father can cut it for good" Asura was the one talking, trying to convince his brother to open his hearth to the eldest Ootsutsuki.

"He won´t believe us" answered Indra as if it was a fact. The father felt a little bit insulted, of course he believed in his sons! Maybe a little bit more in Asura than in Indra but that didn´t give him the right to talk like that.

"How are you so sure?"

"Believe me, otouto" since when did Indra talk to his brother like that? He didn´t even acknowledge Asura in his old life! "He believed his little followers more than us. And I can tell that because the first few times it happened I tried to tell him… he didn´t believe me and the punishment I got for talking…" he shuddered. "I just don´t want to be disappointed again."

"What?" the sage asked to himself as soon as he heard those words. When had he been neglectful with his family? Why did his own spawn think so little of him. Then again, maybe there were some little truths he didn´t believe. "You are a bully and an abusive, Indra, how can I trust you?"

For other part, Shintani reunited with the gang that always abused the least favorite son of the clan head. They were very nervous, they have never been this long without their whore and it was affecting them. Takashi was there too, trying to find out what they were planning and then warn Hagoromo. Maybe like that this could finally be over and he, even if he was killed by a very enraged sage, would feel less guilt.

"I propose we talk to Hagoromo first" said Yami, the leader of the group.

"Oh? And what exactly is what you are going to tell him?" asked another member, skeptic. "That we raped and mistreat his son for years?"

"No, we can… modify the history a little, so it can benefit us more" he smiled in a wicked way. "And not everything have to be a lie, we can make it more believable by saying Indra have problems with drugs."

"He hasn´t smoked in weeks, since Asura was there for him" commented Takashi, who has against the wall. Immediately after finding out the youngest Ootsutsuki´s discovery, he decided he was going to spill the truth to the Sennin, even if that costs his head and more, the chance of winning Asura´s love.

"It doesn´t matter, we can still prove it showing him the opium smoking machine he hasn´t thrown away" the bastard eyed him. "Besides… we can tell him Asura is being influenced by his brother, so the Lord will seal his chakra. Just think about it, we will have another whore just as beautiful, but more pure…"

"What are you saying?"

"I can already taste it. Can´t you see it? Yami, the man that stole the innocence of Rikkudo Sennin´s two sons…" he laughed and the others reciprocate.

"Don´t you dare! I won´t let you lay a finger on Asura-sama!" yelled one.

"Come on, Takashi" the leader rested importance to the issue. "I will let you have him once I finished with him."

"I don´t want that… I will not let you do anything to him! Let alone something so dirty" he got up and got to the door. "That´s it, I´m telling Hagoromo-sama what you have done and what you are planning. This way you will be stopped."

"Are you sure? Remember that you have done the same to…"

"I don´t care anymore. Maybe I will lose my head, but I won´t let you continue abusing someone just for your sick enjoyment"

"Oh, really? Well, then we should avoid that" he cracked his knuckles and all his friends got up. He tried to fight them, but he ended up beaten and thrown into a tiny cell nobody used since the time of Kaguya. The man tried to escape with all his strength… it was useless. He tried to scream for help… another useless thing.

-In another time-

"This is getting to nowhere" commented Sasuke, sitting down in Orochimaru´s lair. For sometime now the Sannin have been sick and only allowed Kabuto to see him. That means there was no training for the Uchiha, who was inpatient. He came here to learn how to defeat his brother, not to deal with some old man´s sickness. Suddenly, Yakushi came out of the room with a frown and the raven rushed to his side to ask him about his teacher´s health. "Is he recovering yet?"

"No, but… we are making progress" that was the only thing he could say. The first time he came to his sensei about the illness, he thought the man was delusional, but now… let´s just say that when he joined the snake after he was forced to kill his mother was to help the guy through pregnancy and birth. Come on… he is a man! But after some exams and check ups he could tell Orochimaru was indeed expecting a baby. And that brought serious complications to his health. "I will tell you when he is cured."

"I want you to tell me now! What is so bad that he can´t train me?! I need to get stronger to defeat Itachi!"

"Throwing a tantrum is not going to help"

"What have you said?!"

"Nothing" answered the medic and sighed. He have already dealt with the snake´s mood swings all morning while he did the exam and have no intension of dealing with the Uchiha´s too.

"It´s been already three months! What the hell does he has?!"

"You better don´t know" and he retired before Sasuke could come up with a very creative string of curses. The youngster huhned, leaving for the training grounds. If Orochimaru wasn´t helping him, then he had some work to do. He got to the place, full with trees and tried his new chidori. Then he felt something…

"I´m not stupid, I know you are there" he said, eyeing with the Sharingan the strange chakra he felt. He was surprised when he saw an identical pair of eyes staring at him, then morphing into the Mangekyo… but not Itachi´s Mangekyo. It was more like a flower than a shurikan. Where there more Uchihas he didn´t knew about? "Who are you?"

"So you could see through my illusion, interesting" a girl a little bit older than him got down from a branch. He opened his eyes even more.

"I… Itachi?"

"No, but close"

"WHO are you?!"

"I´m Itachi´s daughter, Tsubaki" this threw Sasuke out of balance. His brother… had a daughter? Let alone one older than himself? That was impossible, the older Uchiha must have been six or seven when she was born. She smiled "I think you are surprised and don´t want to believe me. Well, I will only tell you that there is nothing a time travel jutsu couldn´t fix, specially the death of a person"

"Time travel jutsu? That is…" the girl looked so much like Itachi, it made sense she was his daughter. And that kind of jutsu was the only way for her to be here. Then this Tsubaki must be a baby or just a fetus in Itachi´s poor girlfriend´s womb in this time… but then again, why would his brother have kids? He exterminate his own clan, why revive it? "You are…"

"I knew you wouldn´t have the brain to understand it… uncle" Sasuke frowned. His brother´s daughter or not, he didn´t want to be called like that by the child of the man that killed his family, less to be called an idiot. He quickly moved and put his blade on Tsubaki´s throat.

"Too bad you came here… niece" he smiled in a wicked way. "You did this to save Itachi, no? To not be alone in the world" he laughed. "It´s so good to know I´m going to kill him some day… but first why not make him feel what I felt? Why not kill something important for him? Namely… his only and precious heiress."

"You are…" she dispelled her genjutsu and appeared behind him with a kunai. "too sloppy to kill me. Anyway, I´m just here to tell you to thank Orochimaru for letting my sister steal his jutsu. It has been such an important piece of our plan…"

"Wait, steal a jutsu? Your sister? Wait!"

"We are deeply grateful" and she left. Sasuke went of a fit and dashed to his sensei´s room, opening the door so hard that it was taken out of it´s hinges. "Orochimaru! What was that about a jutsu you let Itachi´s daughter have?!"

"So… it was Itachi´s daughter, eh?" said the snake, paler than usual and laying almost flat on the bed. Pregnancy was not making wonders to him, he had a bad case of morning sickness and an even worse case of weakness. It only took all to make him decide that pregnancy at his age was simply a bad idea. Even like that he wasn´t going to give up. "I was wondering who was the young girl that left me in this condition…"

"Wait, so your sickness is causes by injuries on a fight with her?" he smiled. "Really, Orochimaru? You are losing your touch after all"

"I won´t say it like that, it just was… that she discovered something about me that should have been kept secret"

"Which one was the jutsu she took?"

"Edo Tensei, unfortunately. But…" he made some gagging noises. "I still wonder why do they need that jutsu"

"Hum…"

-In another place-

Kazumi was searching for a grave in particular, remembering her sister´s words before she left the lair:

"If you dare to fail and bring that menace back to life I´m going to kill you!"

Particularly she didn´t want to deal with Sorato either. He would make things worst, after all he had a secret hate for the Uchihas. She looked at the graves once she arrived and investigate them. The oldest should be Izuna´s, but just to be sure she compared the sizes of the two mounds. Yes, it was definitely the shortest too. She quickly bent down and picked up some dirt from the grave, removing it until she found the bones. Then she made the jutsu.

"Kuchiyose Edo Tensei!" in front of her Izuna was materialized. He looked a bit disoriented for a few seconds, then he finally land his eyes on her.

"Are you the one that brought me back to life?" he asked.

"I need your help" the swordsman replied seriously. "My mother is from the same clan as yours and is very sick. Some sort of respiratory disease…"

"Wait, his respiratory system has been weak since he or she was young?"

"I don´t know, why?"

"Because there is a deathly illness running down in the Uchiha clan" he frowned. "It´s genetic, one has to be born with it. It begins as weakness and develops into respiratory deficiency… let´s just say the system itself degenerates. Usually it´s not diagnosed as our clan didn´t want to show any weakness, but it´s there…"

"Degenerative…" she trembled in fear. "Do you know how to threat it? Or at least how to stop it´s progress?"

"I´ve never seen it before" admitted the medic. "My mother told me about it, apparently it was the cause of death of one of his older brothers… as the sickness developed he was unable to stand the battle and was an easy prey. He tried to make then do diagnose since then but the clan never listened to him… I wonder if there is something to do."

"You mean you can´t…"

"I couldn´t say until I see the patient, but… your mother is probably going to need special therapy for the rest of his live"

"If he is save then I don´t mind, I will drag him every date to the doctor if needed" Izuna smiled at her. In the inside he didn´t feel that confident. Yes, probably he could stop the damage in the tissue, but he doubted there was another medical ninja good enough to deliver the treatment. If he wasn´t there then…

-In another time-

Hagoromo was looking in disappointment at his youngest after receiving a very serious report of Yami and his friends. Asura and Indra, that was there for moral support, were trying to say something, but weren´t listened by their father.

"This is inexcusable!" yelled the Sage, stopping both of his sons. "Bullying, both of you… I really expect something better from you, Asura."

"Father, listen to me, they are…"

"No more words!" he cut the young Ootsutsuki. "Doing drugs… what the hell were you thinking?! You have anything you want, why to hurt yourselves?!"

"Father, please!" cut in the oldest. "Asura didn´t have anything to do with that! It was my fault! I was the one smoking opium, he never touched it! And I was the one doing the… bullying too" blamed himself the Sharingan user. "Don´t punish Asura, punish me…"

"Even if you are the one to blame I have some testimonies of your brother doing the same as you" The Rikkudo Sennin shook his head. "Asura, come to me, I´m going to bind your chakra just like I did to your brother until you learn the lesson."

"NO! PLEASE!" exploded the older brother. "I did it! It was me! Please, PLEASE, DON´T DO THIS! DON´T DO THIS TO HIM!"

"You brought this on yourselves" were his last words before he did the jutsu and sealed his son´s chakra. Indra immediately went on a sobbing fit, how they were now going to protect themselves. Asura sent him a calming glance, even if he made himself the same question. In his corner, Yami smiled. Soon he will taste the innocent Asura and was going to be famous for initiating both sons of the Rikkudo Sennin. Life was indeed sweet.