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Yamora;

Why hello beautiful! I missed you! But I'm back and here to be insightful.

Hades; I wanted him as go with the flow as possible. I modeled him after Kakashi's manga/anime character in that respect.

See, that's why you virtually knew nothing of Sasuke in the first few chapters, I'm lazy and don't want you guys to have to go back and remind yourselves about him. So much work.

Well without further ado, chapter 14

"Ereshkigal, we must converse."

"You sound like an old fool with such words."

"We must speak regardless. Come."

Ranginui was much taller than she. She stood just shy of his shoulder in her true form, even towering over Zeus or Odin. But in his mere human form, she was about his height. Stark white hair always meticulously pulled together for a low ponytail, round spectacles pushed up the bridge of his sharp nos. His arrogance would make Poseidon sick as it was practically shoved down any God in a ten-mile radius.

Ereshkigal held the greatest adoration to the God of the Maori. Apart from his slick smirk and calculating eyes, he maintained an uncommunicative personality. Rarely would you hear the God speak. He never needed to. All rules were bent to him. Nothing was off limits to the powerful deity; not even Ereshkigal.

"I know of your second son." He started, unsure of how to measure his words to his once upon a time lover.

"I do not hide him." Her tone was even, never fearing the God; another thing he found intriguing about her.

"Yet you do not tell me."

"It is of none of your fretfulness. Just as my first is not of Uranus's."

"I wish to have something to do with him."

A pink eyebrow shot up, viridian eyes narrowing. "Oh?"

"He'll make a fine asset to me."

"He will be no such thing." Her walking ceased. Slender arms had crossed over her chest.

"But he is a Maori God. He is not yours to rule."

"He is mine to rule. You did not birth him."

"But I am his father."

"And I'm his mother. Be gone. He shalt have a thing to do with your war."

Ranginui nodded, faint smile caressing thin lips. "If that is what you choose my dear."

She should've known it would never be that easy.

As she watched her second child grow, the less his wanted him apart of any war.

The love and happiness shined to brightly in his eyes.

The Goddess would never trade her second son for the world.

Anaru was a trickster. His favorite person to pull pranks on was Zeus. For an old king, Zeus was awfully gullible. Anaru had gotten a bucket of water to fall on the God when he entered their cottage. It earned him some time-out time, but to his seven year-old mind it was worth four minutes in a corner.

Alic was a quiet child with a calculating mind. Anaru could never quite catch him as victim to a trap. Whenever the young God tried, Alic would reverse the prank full-force on his brother. That left Anaru wet, on fire, or without hair in the most mild of tricks.

Ereshkigal often warned her second child of pulling the same tricks with her. He had tried it once. Just to be shot down and tickled near to death. He had planned to scare her when she turned a corner in the house, but alas. He giggled much too loud to merit any surprise.

He hadn't changed from the loving young soul when Ezraeil was conceived. If at all, Anaru became even more caring. He watched over his younger brother, sometimes batting away his mother, brother, Zeus, and Poseidon. Ezraeil had followed his brother around for nearly a year after his third year of life. It stopped when he was six.

Anaru was devastated when his little brother lost his ability of speech, blaming his mother for it all.

Ereshkigal knew her middle child blamed her. If she had been more careful on taking out the Greek God, Ezraeil would speak. She knew it to be true. But in Anaru's eyes, she left and abandoned the boys, no longer being a mother to him.

But her last child held no malevolence towards her. Often his violet irises expressed great love towards the old Goddess his smile never once failing in her presence.

But it was all different now.

Sasuke

She sat crossed legged in the still grass. Sasuke tentatively attended to her wounds. Whomever she saw was none too thrilled to see her.

Burns made up seventy-six percent of her body. A gash to her left side just under her ribs soaked her shirt in purple. Sakura could only manage labored breaths, hands hanging limply at her sides. Fresh tears ran down her face, clearing dry indigo around the corners of her peach lips. The only untouched part of her was the coral flames sprouting from her head, whipping at her tattered clothing and battered face.

Fortunately, Sasuke kept a first aide kit in his truck at all times. But all three adults swore she did not require such treatment. Sasuke glared at them, mouthing off as he forced Sakura to sit through his help.

"Zeus. Pray tell why my nephew is patching up this Goddess." Madara's head tilted while scratching at his long charcoal spikes. A look of pure agitation rested in his dark eyes, twitching false smile on his pale lips.

"Well he is a med student..." Kakashi shrugged, lazily looking to his star player. "Sasuke looks focused, why bother him with asking such stupid questions?"

"I am asking you, not him." Madara's patience wore thinner as Kakashi's demeanor slackened.

"Well, Poseidon, brother of mine. It appears they are having a secret affair no one seems to be aware of that is so secret not I know for it is a secret only known to them."

"If you say secret one more damn time I will take that book and shove it up your sarcastic ass."

"I wouldn't want anyone else to do me the way you do, Seidon."

"Would you two shut up? I'm sorta busy over here. Take your weird innuendos elsewhere." Sasuke snapped, pushing the burn cream soaked towel into the Goddesses arm. She did not flinch nor whine. That worried Sasuke much more than her actual injuries.

"Right. Hey. Ereshkigal dear, wake up. You are freaking Ezraeil out." Kakashi knelt putting her scared face gently into both of his hands, a small blue wisp of lightning invading her temple. Sakura snapped to her feet, growling at the four men.

If Sasuke felt danger, he never once showed it as he forced her to sit back down.

"Keep moving, go ahead. The stitches will come undone and you'll bleed again." He mumbled, running the needle through her bruised porcelain skin.

"God's don't die." Sakura insinuated, snarl still at her lips. "Unlike you humans, a cut would not lead to death."

Sasuke's eyes flashed red. "Then you wont mind if I..." He then slapped her hard enough on the head to rattle her a bit. "What the hell were you thinking?"

"Did you just hit me?"

"You could've gotten yourself killed! You fucking worried me."

Sakura snorted, glaring at her lover. "Hardly. Uranus tried once and-"

"I do not give a damn what some other God tried to do! You almost lost your life! What about your damn kid? What would he do if you went off and lost your life? You don't think, Sakura! You need to think of these things." Sasuke didn't realize he was on his feet screaming down at the woman. He was near tears of anger, shaking violently. All his excitement caught up in the form of an asthma attack. Madara was the one to help him. But the Uchiha boy was not finished.

"You're an idiot. Stop pushing me away, damn it! I want to help." Sasuke fell back to his knees, picking up the cloth to wipe at her again. The Goddess, for once, hadn't a thing to say. She just sat still hissing at the cream applied on her heated skin.

Kakashi stood in silence, deciding that his friend could use the lecture. He often told her she wasn't alone, but it often fell on deaf ears. He was surprised Sasuke, the most quiet child he had ever had the disappointment of meeting, was the one to get through to her.

"What do you say to that, Madara?" He chuckled, watching Sasuke tape up Ereshkigal's hand. "Your nephew had a secret affair and fell in love."

The older Uchiha smiled sincerely. He sure did.

"You two are not off the hook!" Sasuke's wrath was now directed to his uncle and teacher. "Zeus? Poseidon? Uncle what?"

Both were reluctant to speak first. Kakashi looked around innocently while whistling a tune. Madara cringed and turned like a scolded puppy in the opposite direction.

"This explains much more than I ever wanted detailed in my life. I'm dropping it for now." Sasuke was exhausted. Mush too tired to be irate with the old fools. He lay back in the grass, puffing air from his lungs.

Ezraeil sat closely to his mother, watching her with an anxiety-ridden face, She cooed in Hebrew all the words a child wanted to hear, smoothing his ponytail. Kakashi was prying answers for both he and Madara from Sakura. Content that they were in no emanate peril, the boy closed his eyes.

Sasuke craved stillness. Deep down in his gut, he knew. He knew that his world was going to be destroyed.

"A great evil is awoken, Zeus." The woman stuttered tears slipping from emerald eyes. Her lithe form was quaking again, cradling her son. She rocked him to sleep. More of a comfort to herself than to the child. "Poseidon. He lives. The council was right about my middle child becoming something much darker. Ranginui lives in my domain, coaching Anaru, feeding into his darkness. The burns are a message to the others of the God's return."

She spoke clear and fluent in Japanese, wanting him to know of the trauma she was currently undergoing. Her voice no longer held its power. Her demanding aura had dwindled, only a candles flame kept it burning. Ereshkigal was a shell of her former self.

It petrified him. Tormenting, teasing, laughing in his face. It was hard to get his dark gaze to lie on her for more than a second.

"He had the heads of Shiva, Saa and Minerva on stakes." Her voice broke once more, blowing out the candle. "He holds my sons. My babies in his grasp! And if he were to relinquish that hold? Then what? Their minds would have been frayed in fear of his plan being exposed. I do not wish that. Zeus, Poseidon, how do I fight him? It took the Earth to destroy him many centuries ago." Her fragmented eyes regarded on Sasuke.

"We shall do all that's in our power." Kakashi reassured. "Poseidon, call for every messenger we have. We must gather all Gods. We meet here. Ereshkigal. You should rest." He then laid a faded black glint to his student. "Take care of her." In rolling clouds of smoke, his coach was gone.

Her lackluster stare regarded him. She mouthed inaudibly to him. He moved closer to hear her meek 'run away.' Taken aback, his eye twitch. Confusion washed over him.

"To where, stupid?"

"With me. Bring your family. I shall protect you."

"There you go again with that being stupid thing. Shut up and actually listen." Sasuke's speaking dropped low, his lips grazing her forehead. "We will get through this. I promise."

"How? How?" Sakura repeated continually. Her tears wet his shirt as she pressed into him. She held her son tighter. If her hold had lessened, he'd fade away.

"We just will." And for the first time in his life...

...Sasuke believed himself.

I got to see Boruto. If I have any suggestions it is too see that particular movie.

If you go back, you'll notice the chapters, as well as their titles are a bit updated. Sorry, had to be done.

Cookie to the reader that guesses where the titles originate.

Always with love! XoXo