A/N: Sorry for the delay by the way, my grandma passed away two weeks ago and it was hectic in my house, also I didn't have the state of mind to write more than what I already had, since I told you I'll try to have two chapter when I update and actually I want to respect that self-rule I have to postponed the date of updating. Anyway I hope that you enjoy this chapter.
Second Leaf: Uchiha's Clan.
Sarada didn't know what to feel about her father, he left the village when she was a toddler so she didn't remember him clearly, just some snaps that she wasn't so sure about them not being dreams.
Her mother always tried to comfort her and told her that he didn't leave her because he wanted and he loved her. Yet, Sarada wasn't so sure about that; even if in each birthday and important day a Hawk's summon flied towards her with a package.
Hawks and snakes were her father's summons, the packages were presents bought in another lands, and she didn't see anything like that sold in the village and around it.
Nevertheless she had always preferred that her dad were there with her instead of that expensive gifts.
. .
The Academy was so painfully easy, when she was bored and Himawari couldn't play with her she took some of her mother's books and read them, they were not so complicated and her mother often answered when she had a question and she didn't have to go to the Hospital for work.
She learned a lot about chakra control from her and her taijutsu style was the same that Tsunade-sama and her mom used.
"When Papa returns he himself will teach you a Katon's jutsu, I'm sure" her mother told her when she asked her to teach her a jutsu.
"But it will be too late"
Sarada was skilled but she didn't know any technique from the Uchiha clan, and as time passed she begun to think that she would never learn any of them.
. .
"How is your Dada Sarada-chan?" Himawari asked.
Both girls were sitting near Konoha's lake trying valiantly to fight the hate with popsicles and cold sodas.
"He is strong and a war hero" that was what her mother told her, "and very handsome" that was what her mother and a lot of females of the village said.
"Oh! Was he stronger than my dada?"
"He is an Uchiha"
That was something that she herself believed. She was an Uchiha too, so she had to be the strongest if she wanted to protect her precious people.
Himawari was totally different from her older brother and that was something that Sarada thanked profusely.
When she was around the other girls she felt in peace, Himawari's chakra was so warm and calming, she couldn't be mad at her for a lot of time – if ever. Also when the youngest Uzumaki smiled she forgot about what it was trouble her.
She wondered if she had a little sibling, she would feel the same or more. Sarada could imagine herself protecting her baby sibling with all her power, did whatever was in her hands to prevent they suffering.
Maybe someday if Dad returned.
. .
She didn't like Boruto, though she found him interesting and contradictory. She had heard him saying that he hated the Hokage, yet he also said that he wanted to be one.
Sarada saw the same loneliness in his eyes that his little sister and her had too, but for the life of her she couldn't stand being in his presence more than five minutes without the urge to punch him. Though, she followed him after school seeing him playing pranks and laughing without feeling it when his father sent another Shinobi to clean the mess instead of himself.
She observed quietly as Boruto struggled trying to bury his pain and that was some of the reason she always accepted his stupid challenges.
"I will win the next taijutsu practice, just wait!"
"Hn"
Sarada understood him but that didn't mean that he liked the loudmouthed fool, so imagine her surprise when she was assigned in the same team as the dobe.
"Baka-Boruto the Hokage will be I, shannaro!"
She was an Uchiha and if she was the Hokage it would mean she was powerful enough to protect her family.
To make dad stay with her and mama.
. .
Their sensei told them that tomorrow they would have another test, she didn't understand why they needed to do a second test, they could just make the graduation's one more difficult. Such a hassle, she had to ask her mother about it.
She entered to her house and it was peculiarly quiet, mother told her that today she would be in the morning shift in the hospital so by noon she would be there to hear about her first day as a genin. She must had an emergency, her mother usually welcomed her home.
"Mom?" Sarada said after hearing some murmurs coming from the kitchen.
She walked quietly and reach for a kunai from her pouch, the security in the village was good and it was in peace with the others shinobi's villages, nevertheless a shinobi had to always be aware of their surroundings. She opened the door with caution and peeked through the aperture, she honestly did not expected the view she did encounter.
There, beside her mother in the kitchen counter, was a man that she only remembered thank to photos, with his hips casually leaning against it and his head inclined towards her mom seeing what she was doing in the stove. And her mother with a smile that Sarada had never seen before and blush in her cheeks that the girl didn't know if it was because the heat of the stove or the presence of the man next to her.
"Mama?" Sarada asked not sure yet that if she was imaging the man or it was a reality.
"Welcome home Sarada-chan" Sakura turned to greet her with a blinding smile.
The man gracefully straighten his position to see the new comer, Sarada could observe that the man was tall, taller than the men that she know, and had a dangerous aura around him; she could also see the same eyes that greet her each morning in the mirror in the man's face.
"Sarada" The man said stepping cautiously forward minding the kunai that the girl still had in her hand.
She didn't hear the noise of the kunai hitting the floor and she also didn't know how she moved so fast and reached the man; she could only observe the man in front of her with a clarity she hadn't seen before, Sarada could notice all the little things that at first glance couldn't be appreciated, like the little wrinkles around his eyes and mouth and the dust in his clothes. She knew that it hadn't nothing to be with her closeness to him, Sarada felt her chakra around her eyes flowing together with her tears.
"Papa?" She asked timidly not knowing if she could touch him without him disappearing.
"Hn"
The little grunt was all that Sarada had to hear to envelop her father in a hug for the first time in years, the man in question was staying so still for seconds before he awkwardly put his arm around the girl, touching with extremely care the ebony hair of his daughter.
"Congratulations Sarada" Sasuke said in a whisper, the girl lifted her head and saw him with confusion, "For graduating and for awakening your sharingan"
Sarada smiled like she had never done before, she forgot about all the years that she felt angry with her father and hugged him with more force. Maybe later she would be furious and demanded an explanation, but for now with in the arm of her father and her mother within reach she felt so happy and protected that she was invincible.
"Thank you and welcome home papa" Sarada mumbled.
. .
"You won't leave again, right?"
"No, I won't"
That was definitely the best present that her father could have given her.
. .
He almost didn't recognize his own daughter and it was fortunate that he left kusanagi far out reach, with his reflexes he could have hurt the girl. He observed with caution as his daughter dropped her kunai and ran towards him, he saw with pride that the girl was aware of her surroundings and took precautions like a good kunoichi.
Though something that he didn't expect was to see how Sarada's eyes turned from black to red in the distinctive kekkei genkai of his family.
Sasuke didn't know what to do when his daughter hugged him, he could almost see the mocking grin in Sakura's face at his back; he had never receive before a hug from someone so young (Sakura being the only exception), so he clumsily tried to reciprocate the gesture.
"Congratulations Sarada" Sasuke said in a whisper, the girl lifted her head and Sasuke could see the confusion in the girl's face, "For graduating and for awakening your sharingan" he explained.
He was grateful that his daughter had awoken her sharingan for another motive than hatred or pain, so apart from his own experience. Because of love and forgetting the curse of hate of his family. Sasuke would do whatever was in his hands for that to continue, that Sarada's sharingan mature from training and good experiences than desperation.
A new leaf in his family tree, a new legacy for the Uchiha family.
. .
It was hours after dinner in the Uzumaki's house when Naruto could finally escape of his responsibilities and returned home, he missed again dinner time with his children.
"Sorry Hinata-chan" Naruto said regretful, he had promised his wife that he would come today to dinner, it was an especial day and Hinata said that they must celebrate, "How was Boruto first day?" he would have preferred to hear it from the boy but by now he should be sleeping.
"He was a little angry, Sarada-chan was assigned as her teammate" Naruto cringed, those two didn't get along too well, just like him with Sasuke and Sakura in the beginning, "He also was not too happy to have Konohamaru-kun as his sensei"
If the pointed glance that his wife directed to him, she had to know that it was his doing, he did not regret the decision. He needed someone that he trust to watch out for his son, if Boruto was as wild as him as a child, he would need all the help that his father could give him; and Konohamaru was his kohai, heck he did taught the kid a lot of his own jutsus.
"He will be good for him"
"I know" Hinata said but she did know her son and sometimes the things good for one it wasn't necessary what they really need.
She knew that her husband was busy taking care of all the people in Konoha including his own family, and she also knew that Konohamaru-kun was an excellent shinobi and was kind of taught by her husband, but he could not replace Naruto. Boruto needed that his father taught him that jutsus not his apprentice.
She hopped that Naruto was not making a mistake.
"Sasuke returned today and the bastard didn't report" Naruto said angrily changing the topic.
"Sasuke-san must have been waiting to see his family first" Hinata said smiling, "He will see you tomorrow"
"Oh he better do it"
Naruto was still being the same man that she felt in love years ago.
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