Chapter 14: The Scroll

Sasuke tossed and turned in his bed as he dreamed more things from his past.

In the dram everything was hazy, and the colors blended together, but Sasuke somehow knew that it was a gray day and he was walking with Hikaru on the way home, Hikaru was bruised on the face and she looked down at the ground. Sasuke frowned and patted her head. "It's alright Hikaru...you'll do better next time."

She smiled "Thanks Sasuke." Sasuke smiled at his sister and Itachi was waiting for them on the porch.

"Itach-Nii-san!" Hikaru called and ran to him, tackling him to the ground. Itachi chuckled and kissed her temple, since that was the inly thing he could reach on her face.

"Did you not have a good day at training?" She shook her head and Sasuke sighed. Itachi always favored her...

"Sasuke...Hikaru, are you home?" Sasuke perked up and he ran to hug his mother. "Mother!" Mikoto laughed a little and patted him on the head. "Well aren't you just a glutton for love...jealous of Hikaru...?" Sasuke puffed his cheeks. 'it's not like I ask for it...'

Mikoto laughed. "I fixed you something for you two to eat. Come on." Hikaru and Sasuke jumped up at the offering of food and they laughed as they raced each other to the kitchen.

Sasuke got there first and he began to eat and Hikaru followed closely. She was always close and that pleased Sasuke. He smiled. Since he was older than her by a full half hour that made him clearly the one to take care of his younger twin. He would protect her anyway he could.

Hikaru got her snack and sat down happily content. Everything inside the house was relativley the same as things went on. Their father was at his job, bragging about Itachi, not even acknowledging his five year old twins.

That night it was raining, and thundering. Sasuke stared up at the ceiling, out of the corner of his eye, he saw his sister beside him rubbing her eyes.

Sasuke smiled scooted over for Hikaru to crawl in. When the weather got like this her nightmares always got worse. He looked up at the ceiling as it flashed the silver blue of the lighting, smiling lightly at the closeness of his twin, trying to sleep.

Something was bugging him and he could feel it...but it was late, and the sleepiness in his eyes caused them to close into a dark slumber.

A rustling woke Sasuke up, and he opened his eyes just in time to see a dark figure exiting his room's window, with Something...no someone on his shoulder. "HIKARU!"

Sasuke untangled himself from the covers and went to attack the person holding his sister. He threw a spare shuriken the man's way, but the man chuckled and deflected the attack there was a glint of metal, and Sasuke knew he had to get his Sister out of that mans clutches.

Sasuke went to punch him, but he was thrown onto the bed. When Sasuke struggled to sit up, he saw the man held a bag filled with clothes, and belongings.

He was surprised that Hikaru hadn't woken up.

"You'll see her again when she's reaches her true power." And then he was gone.

Sasuke ran through the house wake his father and mother.

That was the last time he saw his sister...three years went by, and no one had been the same. Without Hikaru's happy face, things weren't as bright...then even his family was gone...

Sasuke opened his eyes from this dream...the nightmare. He was sure something was a miss...but what was it?

Sasuke sat up and covered his eyes. He didn't need anymore proof...no more dreams... He would go insane with with dark feeling stirred inside him.

He felt something was going to go wrong...like that night when Hikaru slept with him, in bed to scare away the nightmares, instead of going to Itachi, or mother and father...

Sasuke got up and looked out his window knowing someone was there. Something was out there, he activated his Sharingan and he looked around. Out the window. He searched with his eyes, finding nothing.

"Cowards..." Sasuke muttered and he deactivated his Sharingan.

Kakashi made his way to the roof, and yes indeed there was a person emanating large amounts of chakra.

"Who are you...?" Kakashi demanded, and the figure made itself know. It was a woman.

"Hello." Her voice held a smile and her hair was pink and held in a sort of pony tail bun mix. She wore green clothing that showed off the better parts of her body...not that Kakashi was looking...cough cough...

"My name is Talula. It's nice to finally meet you Kakashi Hatake."

Kakashi stepped foreward lifting an eyebrow a little intrigued on how she knew his name. "How do-"

"I have a message for you to give Hikaru." She had one had on her hip, and there was an air of arrogance around her.

Kakashi kept still and calm, trying to be civil. "I'm sure there are a lot of Hikaru's in this village. Mind to specify?"

Talula hardened her gaze, obviously loosing patience. "You know EXACTLY who I'm talking about. The little Uchiha girl. Tell her this: Give Father the Scroll. She'll know what your talking about."

Kakashi narrowed his eyes and folded his arms across his chest. "And if I don't?"

Talula gave a wicked, twisted grin at Kakashi's words. "Consequences."

Kakashi threw a Kunai at the girl, but it was deflected with ease. "Useless tools like Kunai have no place in a battle like this."

She lunged at Kakashi with great force. Her elegance was easy to track no matter how much speed she possessed, and Kakashi dodged each and everyone of her onslaughts.

Deflecting her moves, using her power against her so that he wouldn't hurt her since he still didn't understand her place in this situation.

Talula was on the edge of the building. Her chest heaved as she got her breath back."You're a good adversary Kakashi? Your Sensei taught you well."

Then she laughed and jumped off of the edge of the building and Kakashi shook his head, as he knew he wouldn't find the girl even if he tried.

The lights suddenly flashed on, and Kakashi went inside back inside the building and looked at everyone. "It's safe, but I suggest everyone go home."

The people began to file out, and a little boy looked up at Kakashi as he passed. Kakashi smiled behind the mask he wore. For now everything was okay.

People murmured and looked at the shinobi, some grateful, others with disdain.

Kakashi looked over at the twins. They both looked back and they nodded and began to help with the people. Naruto was slightly agitated that he didn't get to punch anyone...

Naruto looked around and the restaurant. There was no point in staying. They had to get home now...at least what was home for the moment.

"We better get going." Obito said. "We don't know what might happen if we stay here." Naruto watched him look at Hikaru with a worried expression. Naruto grinned and he took a deep breath. "Weeell of course we should! You, Obito, only want what's BEST for Hikaru! Almost as though you-"

Sakura rewarded Naruto's stupidity with a punch in the gut. "Knock it off Naruto."

The blond weezed, nodding. Hikaru tried not to laugh as she blushed, but Obito was sporting a good cheery red face at the moment.

"Troublesome.." Shikamaru said, he turned to the group. "It would be a good idea to go back to Maiko's house though...so we can rest and evaluate the situation better."

Everyone nodded and headed towards the road, as they walked Naruto looked up at the sky wondering what Sasuke was doing...if he was mad...

Naruto felt really bad about having to leave him behind...NO nonono...Naruto shook his head. Not now. Not on a mission. There were more important things to be worrying about.

Naruto was feeling restless...it was weird. There was this strange feeling in his stomach about was had happened. A thought inside of his mind said 'I have to make sure Sasuke is alright' But Naruto suppressed that thought immediately. Of course he was okay!

To Naruto it seemed like they couldn't get there fast enough, and on numerous occasions Sakura threatened him to put him out.

Hikaru smiled at Naruto and told him if he wanted to run ahead he could. Naruto laughed and shook his head waving her off.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!"

Naruto had this weird gut feeling that something was wrong...something inside him needed to know Sasuke was still at the house...to know if Sasuke was okay.

Meanwhile Sasuke paced back and forth in his room wonder what the Dobe was doing. The feeling in his stomach hadn't gone away and it was creeping him out.

Someone had been watching him...but he didn't know who. Things like this happened all the time. It was a normal in the world of a Shinobi so why should it bother him?

The door opened he turned, expecting to see Naruto, but where a teenage blond was supposed to be there was a man in the room and Sasuke's skin crawled with recognition.

But Sasuke knew it was better to be completely sure of the identity. "Who are you?" He got out a kunai and he took his stance, the Sharingan flaming awake, Sasuke quickly beginning to become impatient without the answer.

"You know who I am Sasuke. I'm the one who took your sister away. I've come back to retrieve something she stole from me."

Sasuke narrowed his eyes. "Hikaru might be a crybaby, but she doesn't steal."

His enemy scoffed. "You have to watch the so called innocent ones. They will stab you in the back if you're not careful."

Sasuke looked at the man with anger, and deep hatred in his eyes, but he spoke calmly. "Get. out."

The man grinned, "I don't think I will."

He also began to get into a fighting stance when he tensed up and relaxed slowly letting out his breath with a hiss, standing straight up. "Talula just can't do as she's told can she?" He sighed, and he gave a charming smile. We'll have to do this some other time Sasuke." With that, he disappeared.

Sasuke ground his teeth together, but then Naruto came running up, with a silly grin on his face. "Sasuke! They know about me here! They do! Even though my name was never spoken...it...it's like they RESPECT me..." There was a different emotion than flattery in Naruto's gaze.

Sasuke sighed looked over at the Dobe. "If they never spoke you're name, how do you know that they were talking about you?"

Naruto threw Sasuke the butter knife glare, and Sasuke scoffed. Naruto opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out and Sasuke shook head a hint of a smile on his lips.

"Dobe...practice your glares."

Sasuke knew that Naruto needed to be teased, he needed the reassurance.

For a moment, Sasuke couldn't see Naruto's eyes, but when his face lifted there was that stupid big grin of his.

"Hehe...probably should huh?"

Sasuke was taken aback a little bit, but he composed himself quickly.

Sasuke passed him, and that's when he saw Hikaru. He looked at her with somehow new eyes. Instead of a stupid crybaby, he saw a scared, helpless girl who only wanted his help.

Sasuke shook himself out of that thought.

Hikaru noticed there was something different about him, for she smiled brightly. "Sasuke...you alright? It's almost like you saw a ghost."

Sasuke looked at her carefully and he pressed his lips into a hard line. "Kinda...I had a very strange dream."

Hikaru looked a little perplexed. "What was the dream about?"

Sasuke frowned. "Just something I thought I had forgotten." She nodded and Hikaru turned to her room and closed the door behind her.

"Sasuke?" Naruto asked, it wasn't loud or annoying as he expected. Sasuke turned around. "Yeah?"

He looked a little worried. "Your dream...what...was it?"

Sasuke sighed, placed hand on Naruto's head then ruffled his hair. "It's fine. It doesn't concern you so don't worry about it."

Naruto frowned and groaned with his mouth shut. When Sasuke moved his hand away Naruto looked almost disappointed.

"What an odd expression." Naruto blushed, then turned around and stomped off. "Fascinating..." Sasuke mumbled. He looked at himself in the hallway mirror to see himself blushing and he covered his face.

Hikaru closed the door behind her and she gave a shuddering breath...she needed to talk to Kurai.

She locked her door and went to her vanity.

Hikaru took a key out of her music box, and she went to her closet. She opened it and took out a box, unlocked it and looked at the parchment scroll inside.

She unrolled it carefully and laid it out on the floor. She looked over the symbols, seals, ect.

HIkaru placed her hands on the scroll, she closed her eyes, concentrating her chakra to place her concious in the scroll.

There was fog and soon Hikaru could sense there was major activity, "Kurai?" She heard Sasuke call out a justu and there were flashes of light.

"Kinda busy Hikaru!" A flash of purple countered the blue.

"He's awake?" Hikaru whispered. She knew Kurai could hear here, even over the battle calls as the two battled.

"You know full well on how this guy takes a while to put back to sleep!" Hikaru sighed. Kurai was doomed to spend for all eternity to battle against Sasuke's hatred and need for revenge cultured by Oorochimaru's curse mark.

Hikaru had used a jutsu that split those aspects of Sasuke so that he wouldn't travel down the dark road he already was ..but in order for this part of Sasuke to remain there Hikaru needed to seal a part herself...and since...that man already split Hikru to where Kurai existed...that was the only option...

"Hikaru, get out of here! I can't focus on him AND you." Hikaru sighed and smiled a little to herself.

"Alright...I'll be back..." Hikaru inhaled deeply, and concentrated. She let it out and opened her eyes to see her room.

She placed the scroll back and locked the box, and placed the key where it belonged.

So what do you guys think? Was I to brief on any explanations? Or to quick with important parts? Any grammar mistakes...? Any who...I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. ;)