"How long?" They were in her father's study, door closed behind her. Her father looked angry, sad, and tired, "Sarada, I asked you a question."
"That was the first time." She couldn't do it, she couldn't tell him the truth. How as long as she could remember, being his daughter had been looked at as a curse by others. How when her mother was around, the same people that mocked, avoided, and bullied her, would smile without warmth at her. She couldn't do it, she couldn't bring him that pain, she wasn't ashamed of her heritage, but sometimes she wishes she could hide it.
Her father was unconvinced, "both you and your mother are horrible liars. Tell me the truth." By the look he was giving her, he knew the truth, he was hoping to be wrong.
She looked down at her feet, trying to avoid his gaze, she felt her resolve weaken, felt the tears threatening to fall. Her voice broke when she answered, "since I can remember. When mama isn't around, they say those things, but..."
"When she is they smile politely," He finished for her. "And why haven't you said anything?"
"Because, my blood isn't dirty, I am not cursed. I know the truth, you and mama love me, so their words are nothing." Even as she spoke, her tears were falling, her voice was shaking, but her resolve was strong, "I am gonna be Hokage one day, I will prove them all wrong."
Sasuke could feel his anger escalate, but also his shame rise, his daughter was paying for his sins. Suffering in silence, because of his blood, he knew that many were still unhappy, angry even at the idea of the sharingan still being part of this world, especially with him being one of its holders. However, taking their anger, their fear, out on a little girl? That was cruel, and unfortunately unsurprising. He walked towards Sarada, and hugged her as she cried.
After a few minutes, she asked him not to tell Sakura what was going on, telling him, "she might refuse to heal them if they are ever sick."
That night, as he and Sakura laid together, he told her, "our daughter is strong."
"And brave." She quickly added, that's when he knew that she was not ignorant of what was going on. " I try you know, but she won't tell me, and I can't know exactly if she doesn't, but I try."
"I know."