Chapter 10 We Are Going To Be Late

Sasuke POV

"Sasuke comes on you have to go." I could hear my father voice he was soft and gentle but there was something about it that was pushing me. I didn't want to I knew where we were going and I don't think that I could do this. I watched as he passed back and forth against the ground fixing his suit and tie as I sat on the couch looking at my legs. I couldn't no I won't do this.

I can't just go to the funeral. The whole village is going to be watching and I don't think that I can handle any of that. Not without breaking down I don't think that I could ever face the graves of them of any of them let alone my own mother. I sat there staring at my feet and my dad looked at me. Getting on both of his knees so that he was looking me in the eyes. His cold black stored filled with anger and a little worried.

"Sasuke you can not go. Your mother is buried, your aunt Riza and uncle Asuma don't you want to see him. Make him feel better while also making yourself heal slowly." I looked at him and sighed I knew that I had to see him but there was a reason that he wanted me to go other than me. I glared and looked back at him he was trying to guilt me into going.

"I'll go but afterward I don't want to have to handle this." I looked at my father I was afraid to meet his gaze at first that I felt a shift in his body as he lifted me up off the couch and balanced me in his arms. I could feel his warm lips on his temple and this small sad smile on his face. "Alright, then that is what we will do."

"You have got to be kidding me I have been pounding on the door for the past 20 minutes would the three of you get up." I groaned and opened my eyes to see my dad was laying on the couch and me and my mom were leaning up on the couch. Her head as titled back on the black fabric and I had a blanket on the lower half of my body and my head was laying on my mother's lap.

I blink my eyes a few time and sat upright looking towards where the noise was coming from. I looked at Asuma his brown eyes ticked off and frustrated. They were shifting between me and my parents. "Get up we are going to be late" I moaned and place a hand on my head I sleep great but Asuma was giving me a headache. I stood up and crack my bones before looking at my parent they were both still asleep.

I slumped over to Asuma my legs feeling jelly as my heart slowly thud in my chest I'm too exhausted for this shit. I simply grunted and nodded my head towards the kitchen. "Just pour water on them dad didn't stop drinking last night so he is in a drunken stupor at the moment." He nodded head had and look at me "You look like hell kid."I smiled at him and stumbled up the stair and into my room. I switched out of my clothes quickly and ran into the bathing brushing my teeth.

The dream kept replaying in my head what made me think about that day. The day that my world came crashing down and was destroyed all things happy and sunny. I just don't know why it came crashing into my mind today of all days. I tried to shake it out of my head as I sat down on the bed for a month and sighed heavily as my shoulders dropped. I laid my head own for only a second but I ended up passing out

"We should wake him up I mean the tower is right there." I knew the voice it was Asuma "Yeah I suppose but I just can't bring myself to do it" He laughed at my father who had just said that. "Then I will do it. Hey, the kid wakes up we are here." I felt someone pushing my shoulder and woke up slowly. My eyes slid open and I looked to see I was on my fathers back and Asuma was smiling down at me.

"You fell asleep while getting ready jeez kid you should go to bed early." I laughed harshly before looking around "I did go to bed early you dumb ass." I was not a morning person "Watch your mouth" I groaned a little bit and growl at him "I'm tired and I don't want to" I laid my head back on his shoulder and look at the sun that as presently blinding me.

"I appreciate that fact but you will not curse and you will not be rude." I groaned and covered my eyes with the crook of his neck. "Yeah well, then you shouldn't have made me stay up to wait for mom." He shook the head and stopped walking "Come on jump off we are here. " I whined a bit but jumped off of his back causing my legs to crack. I shook them gently and walked into the tower with the other two.

Only to find a grumpy old man looking at us. But it was more like leering when he turned to look at me "You are an hour" I groaned a bit and cracked my neck before looking at him "Mom fell down a flight of stairs we had to make sure that she was okay before leaving the know some of us care about her well being"

He looked straight for a moment and sighed "Well I hope that she is okay now let's go the three of you are not exempt from work." I nodded my head and started to climb the stairs the Hokage didn't bother to follow us we knew where the filing room is. He just made sure that we couldn't leave by standing guard on the exit. I sigh heavily and looked at him before clearing the first set of stairs.

The filing room was on the 6 floor so when my father thought that we walked out of hearing distance he pulled in my ear. "Why would you tell him that." "Ouch would you stop please" Like thing couldn't get worse Asuma grabbed my other ear and yanked on it. "If he finds out you lied we all go down for not speaking up,"

I whine a little bit and they both twisted my ears a little more. "Don't worry about it mom goes along with the lie, it's my excuse for whenever I am late. She goes along with, she was the one that came up with it." I rubbed both of my ears as they let me go.

We walked up to the filing room and I started to get this sense of dread as I looked at the door. It was closed so you really couldn't tell what the hell is going on in there, my father took that moment to gently tug me on the arm and to look me in the eyes. "You will behave understand no fighting no arguing, no matter how much he baits 't brings shame to your clan by buying into all of that Uchiha pride bull shit."

I yawned a little bit and look at him as little tears welled in my eyes from exhaustion"Don't worry dad I worked it out of my system I won't do it again you don't need to worry about me." I looked into his eyes but the worry didn't lessen if anything he got worse. "Alright let's go." I nodded my head as he put his hand on the knob and turned it gingerly. When the door did open Iruka was standing there his arms folded as he sat in a chair in the corner of the room.

He had a good line of sight of Naruto as he filed the reports. "The Hokage wants you to do the books over there. Oh and all three of you are late." I glared at him but walked over to the shelf and looked at the cart that was littered with all types of books.I could hear my father and uncle talking to Iruka.

"Last time I checked I'm a higher level ninja then you and your not my boss," I could hear my father irritated and exasperated voice. He was just as tired as I was if not more plus he was hung over. I keep my face impassive as I listened to them, "Would the both of you stop this there is no point of holding the grudge if the boys can make peace then the two of you should as well." I heard Asuma voice to anyone else it would seem normal but I could hear the strain when he talked about playing nice with a dick like Iruka.

I could hear Iruka scoff at the both of them as I felt eyes on my back "Please you as the son of the Hokage should have acted better." Oh no Asuma hated it when people made it seem like he was above it all because of who his father is. "Whatever doesn't put that baggage on me I'm not my father." "Hey"

I blinked my eyes rapidly for a moment and looked up to see that Naruto was smiling wide at me before turning back to look at the two jonin and the one chunin. "What don't you say that we put all of this behind us. I didn't know everything about the massacre and I'm sorry that I brought up Itachi." I glared daggers at him as my body stiffens from the very mention of his filled me with such anger and recently with fear after that nightmare the others came in drove it was a never-ending cycle of waking up.

Freaking out and going back to sleep so the very mention of his name freaked me out. I guess that the others must have noticed the change in my demeanor as well because their mumbling had stopped. I breathed in slowly and looked at him "Yeah I thought that we already agreed upon that yesterday." His smile grew even wider if that was possible. "Yeah well, I didn't really mean this time I do. Sorry, let's move on okay?"

I look at him and turned to look at the ninja they were pretending like they weren't listing but it was so obvious that they were. "Sure just get back to work I'm not going to get yelled at because of you." I walked away from him putting the books on their proper shelf by alphabetical order. I sighed heavily letting my temper still before continuing to put the books on the shelf.

I worked for about 5 hours when someone strolled into the room and glanced at the two of us and then at the ninja that was sitting in the corner watching us. I think that my father was resting. I sighed heavily and turned to look at the man. "Its break time you got an hour." I sighed heavily and trudged out of the room pushing past him and walking to the break room. I'm sure Anko is there and I really needed to talk to her. I walked down the dank hallway when I heard second footsteps behind me. "What do you want?" I turned to see that Iruka was standing there glaring at me.

"What do you want don't make me repeat myself I have someone I need to talk to and I don't have time to chat with you." I stared at him and he glared at me before turning around and walking away about to tell dad about my sudden outburst.

I sigh and walked into the break room to see Anko and Guy sitting there. Guy looked up at me his eyebrows wiggling and this large smile plastered on his face but you could see the frustration in his eyes no matter how hard he tried to hide it. "Hey Guy"

I look at him and him simply wide at me before looking past my shoulder. "Dads in the filing room if you are looking for another competition." He nodded his head and this blue fire appeared around him and he ran out of the room leaving me with Anko.

There was this implied tension in the room that almost made it unbearable to even be in here. "Anko would you please talk to me I was being a dumbass I get that but you are only punishing yourself by being pissed at me." I looked at her but she simply turned her head away. I walked over to her and took up the seat that guy was in. When she tried to walk away I grabbed her arm forcing her to stumble and sit back down.

She tied to avoid my line of sight but that wasn't going to happen.I grabbed her chin as gently as I could while being firm and tie to look in her eyes but she simply closed them. "Anko please I feel terrible just tell me what to do and I will do it I don't want to see you so sad, so distraught over something that I did. Baby please."

She opened her eyes they were filled with emotion. The most present one being dispaired but there was this burning anger too. But the more that she looked into my eyes the anger in her eyes subsides. "Just...Don't do it again I really can't deal with losing you." I smiled wide at her and nodded my head "Yeah of course." She smiles at me and I kissed her. But pulled away quickly when I heard people walking towards the door. I simply rested my head on the table to make it seem like I was taking a nap.

I waited for the door to open before I looked up to see my father and Asuma walked in. "Where is Guy he was looking for you." He sighed and looked at Anko nodding his head for a moment. He knew her from back in his Anbu days so he always took time to talk to her when he saw her around.

"Yeah, one look at me and he decided that today was not the best day to challenge me. You bothering Anko?" I snorted at him before turning to look at Anko who was laughing. "Are you kidding me Anko loves me." I looked at her and she smiled at me before shaking her head sadly and bursting out into laughter. "Is it a private joke I want to laugh." I turned to look at Asuma he has this cocky smile on his face and the knowing look in his eyes.

"It was nothing uncle." He smiled at me and sat across from me putting his feet up on the table and dad sat next to me this concerned look in his eyes before turning to look at Anko. "I heard you are on house duty tonight ." She glared and nodded her head before looking at me. "Well, Kurenai is cooking tonight sorry." She laughed and looked at me and then at dad. Don't get me, wrong mom is a good cook but dad is a thousand times better.

"I think that I can live through it." She laughed a little bit louder and the door to the breakroom open. I thought that it was Naruto so I instantly tensed up. I felt the smile drop from my face and my shoulder went back and if it was in command. But when the door open it was just my mother and Kiba. The wait was I seeing that right.

"Hey man" I hear a little bark and looked to see that Akamaru was with him. "We brought you guys lunch figured that you might be hungry." My mom walked over to dad and pulled his mask down before kissing him.I fake gag and he laughs at me before placing a kiss on the top of my head. She placed three lunch boxes on the table and looked at me for a moment before looking at Kiba.

I knew that was her subtle way of saying get lost. I grabbed a pair of chopsticks off of the table with my lunch box and walked out with him. I walked the path to the roof of the tower and took a seat. I glanced at Kiba and he was glaring at me. "What?" I knew that I couldn't have food on my face I hadn't even eaten yet." He looked at me narrowing his eyes and then Akamaru barked happily at me.

"You want to know about the other day after you guys left. I'm sure that the Hokage made you guys aware of the whole event." I sighed and looked at the two of them. "Basically he insulted my clan and I went I tried to kill him it wasn't so much the insults themselves but the fact that he tried to mock their deaths you know."

He nodded his head he lost three uncles to an enemy village he understood the pain of losing people that he loved. I sighed and looked out towards the village everyone else was so carefree and I was stuck here putting books on shelves and filing reports. I ate my lunch and sat in silence occasionally talking about the training Kiba did.

"So I got to ask what is it like having Iruka pisted at you, you were like the perfect student in school you could do no wrong." I rolled my eyes at him and sighed before standing up and stretching my legs. "Frankly he is a bit of a dick and by a bit, I mean that he is a super dick. But I gotta to go my break is up I will talk to you later." I waved to him and ran down the stairs and into the building.

I made it back to filing room and Iruka and my father were arguing again before he looked at me and snarled. "Where the hell do you think that you were." I sighed and started to organize the book I didn't bother to look at him but he wasn't letting up. "I was eating my lunch on the roof talking to Kiba if you are really that worried.

I thought the whole purpose of you being here was because you didn't trust me to be around Naruto I'm not around the kid and you flip and when I am near him you flip shit pick a one and stick with it." "Language " I growl under my breath and looked at my father his leering at me, I nodded my head and turned back to stacking the books.

Iruka was still glaring at me but his vision shifted I could feel it and then it went back to me. "Would you mind if I talk to the both of you real quick." I looked at them and then at my father who looked at me like he was a little worried. "Sasuke" I looked up at him and nodded my head "Try not to start a problem while we take time to talk outside." I nodded my head and went back to shelving the books but the moment that they left I walked over to the wall and listened to them. My eyes widen when I heard them talking.

I could hear them arguing about something I don't know what was going on, how the hell did she know none of this makes ones but I moved away from the door getting caught is not the best thing in the world right now. I walked back to the shelf moving the books from one spot on the other.

Ignoring the sound of Naruto humming to himself. I thought that I could deal that was until he had to say something that I could never forgive no matter what. "I would never be taken down like your clan, I'm, not weak and pathetic like most of them, that was why they died in the first place."

I don't know if it was because he was thinking out loud by accident or if it was something else but he snapped his head up and looked at me. I was doing my best not to yell to not lose my shit completely but he was making it hard. I felt the heat rise to my face as this killer look started to form on my face.