Chapter 6: The twins meet again.
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Ikuto watched the raven man warily. "You mean you're going to die even though Sasuke isn't after you anymore?"
"Fate works in mysterious ways Ikuto...and she's a harsh mistress."
"So that just mean you're sick right? I'm sure one of our healers can do something." Itachi shook his head.
"Some things cannot be healed." Ikuto sighed and saw the sun was setting.
"Well I have to be heading home...I'm sure our guests have arrived by now." Itachi nodded.
Hikaru felt herself being lifted and she no longer felt the warmth of Itachi. Since she was disturbed she scrunched her face up and whined a little opening her eyes to see why she had been disturbed. There was Itachi now standing and looking like he was about to leave when he heard an out cry.
He saw Hikaru looking very young and ... almost broken. Only then did Itachi realize how he had knocked down the fragile barriers she placed over the span of a few years that had helped her get through the days without him and within only a few minutes he had knocked them down.
Itachi had pressed his lips into a very hard line and bent down to kiss Hikaru's temple gently. When he did so he felt his little sister relax and fall back to sleep.
"You can't stay Itachi...and I have to go home." Ikuto's worry was very prominent.
The elder boy gave a deep sigh. "I suppose your right..." Gently Itachi shook the small girl and she woke with little difficulty. "Hm...?"
With a gentle voice Itachi spoke, "I have to leave Hikaru...you have to promise not to tell anyone about you seeing me, and you can't cry."
Hikaru looked scared for a single moment, but nodded. She struggled a little in Ikuto's grip and the boy let her down. Hikaru looked her age as she should, but smiled warily. "Will you be coming back?"
Itachi nodded and ruffled the soft hair so familiar to his touch. She hugged him and buried her face in the cloth of the black cloak inhaling her brothers scent.
The young man waited for her to let go and it as a few minutes. Hikaru smiled and took a few steps back, so her brother could leave.
Only moments later was he obscured by the forest as he walked away to return to the Akatsuki.
Sighing Hikaru frowned, a little sad that her brother was now gone and they hadn't even had a proper conversation.
"Let's go Hikaru...it's getting dark."
Hikaru nodded stiffly and turned away from the forest. A breeze went by and a shiver rose from her base of her spine to her neck.
Something was going to happen, she could feel it.
Maieko's house:
Sasuke and Naruto had been roomed together and pretty much Naruto was about to earn a smack on the head.
"I wonder if Hikaru has changed any ya know?" The Dobe had been going on, and on about how sweet his so called 'sister' was. If she was as sweet as Naruto made this girl out to be why was it that he couldn't remember her?
Why could he only remember the name?
Or maybe you do and you just don't WANT to remember her... That thought made better sense to Sasuke and he continued to look out the window to see Two figures approaching the house. It was too dark to tell who it was so Sasuke moved away and went to the door.
Naruto was right behind him and they began to walk downstairs.
Sasuke was prepared for anything.
The two figures he had seen turned out to be Hikaru and Ikuto. Something stirred in Sasuke...anger? No...
But was he saw in Hikaru's eyes was curiosity. She looked so small, but she wasn't much shorter than him.
"Sasuke..." She lifted her hand to touch his shoulder, but Sasuke flinched away. How could someone like her be his sister?
Hikaru deflated a little and she took her hand back. "I'm sorry..."
"Why are you sorry?"
This Hikaru lowered her head for a moment, then raised it. She was trying to smile. "I didn't know yoy didn't want to be touched brother."
"Brother?"
"Yes...you remember me...don't you?" Sasuke glared at this kid and he tried to contain his impulsive actions.
"No. I don't have a sister." His voice was risen slightly and Hikaru widened her eyes then lowered them to the ground.
Quietly she walked past Sasuke and he thought he saw a glint of tears down her cheek. Sasuke scoffed. She obviously could NEVER be his sister.
Naruto watched him in shock. "Sasuke! What the hell? You only just saw her and you act like she's the plague."
Sasuke felt eyes on him and there was a boy taller and older glaring at him with an expression of pure dislike...and that was an understatement.
Ikuto never spoke a word and simply turned to his mother and asked if he could go to comfort Hikaru. But instead of using the young girls name he used the term 'sister'. Maiekio nodded and watched her son leave.
Maieko soon turned to look at Sasuke with a grim smile. "I don't know what happened between two...but please. I want you two to make up. Hikaru truly loves you. She only wants your attention.
This made Sasuke's blood boil. How could Hikaru love him when they obviously never met? Hikaru even had the nerve to cry so easily!
Naruto was visibly shocked by Sasuke's outburst. "Can I have a word with you Teme?" Naruto didn't give the raven a chance to respond and grabbed his wrist and pulled him to their shared room.
"What the Hell is wrong with you?" Naruto clenched his fists looking as though he were going to punch him and Sasuke returned the glance with a steady glare. "What are you talking about?"
"The way you treated your sister!"
"She's not my sister."
"How can you say that? She looks just like you!"
"Looks have nothing to do with genetics."
"Were you not listening to the story Maieko was so kind in telling us?"
"I was."
"RED Kekai Genkai! How does that not prove your relation to her?" Naruto was trying so hard not to yell so his voice was slightly hoarse.
"That proves nothing Usuratonkachi." Naruto just stared at him.
Out of no where Sasuke was on the floor with Naruto on top of him.
Sasuke soon rebounded and there was a struggling Naruto beneath Sasuke which made a strange feeling bubble in Sasuke's chest which disturbed him a little.
"Teme! Let me go!"
"Not until you explain to me why you're acting like this."
Naruto's face turned red and there was something that seemed to make Sasuke think the Dobe was going to cry.
"Because Teme...you have a chance to have a family and you just...just throw it away like it's nothing!"
Naruto struggled more trying to cover his face from showing Sasuke that he was about to really cry, but unfortunately Sasuke had his arms pinned to either side of Naruto's body.
Sasuke sighed and released Naruto's hands and they automatically covered his eyes and Naruto whispered.
"Hikaru's really sweet ya know...? She kept you from leaving..."
Sasuke could only look at the crying Dobe. "Baka...don't cry."
"I'm not crying!"
Sasuke got off of Naruto and sat on the bed. "I just don't like her Dobe..."
Naruto was still on the floor, but now he was looking at the ceiling. "But why...? What happened?"
"I don't know...if I knew I would tell you."
The blond looked at Sasuke his face a little stained from the tears only moments ago that had been shed, with that un-Naruto seriousness.
"Then find the answer." Sasuke placed his hand on his forehead.
"And how on earth do I do that Dobe?"
Naruto sat up rubbing his eyes. "You talk to her. At least that's how I would do it." Naruto grinned at Sasuke shook his head and smirked.
"Somehow I don't think that will do the trick."
Naruto got up with a grunt and sat next to Sasuke. "You never know Sasuke."
Exasperated Sasuke sighed. Naruto laughed, but tried to hide it.
The raven boy looked at Naruto out of the corner of his eye. "What?"
"It's ... it's nothing~"
"Dobe! Tell me already."
Naruto grinned. "It almost seems to me that you're afraid of talking to Hikaru!" Then Naruto rolled around on the bed and Sasuke gritted his teeth together.
"I am NOT afraid."
"You are so!"
Sasuke pounced in the Dobe and Naruto gasped and looked up at the Uchiha.
There was something in Sasuke's eyes that Naruto didn't recognize, but it somewhat intrigued the blond.
"What do you plan on doing Sasuke? I thought you were wound up a little too tight to be a homo?"
Slowly Sasuke got closer to Naruto. "Is that a challenge Dobe...?"
Naruto looked away to the wall. "No...Not all." Then the blond looked up at Sasuke. "Unless you're chicken of course."
Sasuke scoffed and took that moment to capture Naruto's lips. Struggling ever so slightly Naruto tried to get away, but found the kiss to be strangely...exciting.
For the raven above Naruto it probably meant nothing, and the blond widened his eyes even more when he felt something somewhat slimy sliding across his lower lip.
They didn't even see who was at the door or even when it closed. Maieko grinned as she walked away to the kitchen to clean the dishes Shikamaru and Kakashi ate from.
"What were they doing?" Shikamaru asked bluntly.
Maieko chuckled and started the water. "Something very scandalous."
Kakashi laughed. "Is that so...?" No one said anything more.
Shikamaru looked out the window. "Is there anything more we need to know about Hikaru?"
Maieko thought about it, and sighed. She rubbed the back of her neck leaning against the wall next to the stairs leading up to the second floor.
"It was about four or five years ago...She seemed happy and very well liked. Hikaru made friends and always behaved very well. There were nights when she would have night terrors...screaming about 'I'm sorry' and begging not to left behind... this went on for months. One night they stopped and there was noises coming from her room. I went to check on her. The window was open and I knew that something had happened. Her room was trashed, and I just knew that there had been a struggle...that my ex-husband had taken her again..." Her voice cracked at the end.
Maieko covered her mouth sat sat in a chair trying to hold back her tears of anguish from that horrifying moment of her past. Kakashi placed a hand on the woman's shoulder as her long hair pooled around her face.
"You don't have to continue." Kakashi whispered sympathizing with the woman.
Shikamaru was looking at her with concern, leaning forward with his arms crossed.
Maieko took in a shaky breath. "It's...it's fine..." She rubbed her arms with her hands. "It was two whole weeks when she was gone. During that time I, and Ikuto were practically a wreck during that lapse... When she came back safe once more she was very vulnerable and her strange other personality walked in her shoes most of the time. Her other self...was somewhat violent...she had a short temper...but was morally sound."
"What do you mean 'had'? The other personality doesn't show herself anymore?"
Maieko nodded. "One year ago...Hikaru went on a trip. When she came back. Again...she was broken down and sad...but her other self never appeared. She wouldn't say anything about it. I'm not even sure Ikuto knows what went on..."
Shikamaru looked out the window with a looking that was thinking about something. "Did she ever tell you what happened when she was taken by your ex-husband?" Maieko shook her head her hair moving smoothly with her.
Hikaru's room:
Hikaru shook with tears and Ikuto held her. "All he did was raise his voice Hikaru..."
She nodded. "I-I...know..." She rubbed her eyes. "My brother just seemed so...angry at me...just a few more moments and it could've ended badly...he even rejected me being his sister..."
Ikuto sighed. "You have to make amends with him somehow."
"I don't know how...he said...he said..."
"I know what he said, but he was a little boy who had just watched his parents get murdered. You defended his only means of an outlet. He threw a tantrum."
"No... Sasuke meant every word he said back then...he meant it..." Hikaru looked out the window. What would tomorrow bring? How will she get through this? There was a thud beside her and she knew it was Naruto and Sasuke's room.
"What on earth...?" Ikuto questioned as he looked at their bedroom wall and Hikaru giggled.
"It seems as though Naruto and Sasuke are getting to know each other."
And that's all for this chapter~~ Hope you all like it ^-^ Sasuke and Naruto FINALLY have a special moment in my fanfic...I didn't rush it did I...? I certainly hope not...well if there were things you L-O-V-E-D or thing you H-a-t-e tell me! I want to get better at this! Remember: Read, Review, Recycle and Rainbows need Rain! That's a wrap for now! Until next time~