When Mikoto called him at the station telling him to come home immediately, he felt his body ache, when he asked her for information, she said, "I can't on the phone, just come home now." Mikoto had never called him at the station, his mind immediately went to Itachi, he had been on a mission these last two day, did something happen?
His home had never felt further from the station, even as he took to the roofs to get their faster, he felt too slow. When he arrived home he half expected to see his wife in tears, instead she looked the opposite of shaken up, Mikoto, looked happy. "Dear, you look so pale, what happened?"
"You called me to come home immediately, of course I would be worried. I thought I told you to only call me at work for an emergency."
Mikoto folded her arms and with one eyebrow raised asked, "who said it wasn't?" Before he had the chance to question her further, he heard footsteps, they were much too small to be Sasuke's, let alone Itachi's. When he raised a questioning eyebrow at her she began to explain, "when I dropped Sasuke off at the academy, I decided to go for a walk. You know the area by the river?"
"There are many areas by the river, but I think I know where you mean."
"Okay, well when I was walking there I found the cutest little girl, I looked for her parents and found no one, so I brought her home."
"YOU KIDNAPPED SOMEONE?!" His wife saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. "I'll take her to the station, her parents are probably there looking for her, Mikoto this is not like you. If you want more kids let me know we'll work on it, but kidnapping? That's unacceptable."
"Fugaku, dear, listen to me." Taking a deep breath, she said, "the girl is clearly an Uchiha, and she had the scroll."
"The scroll?"
"Yes, the scroll."
"Are you absolutely certain it is the scroll?" She nodded.
She reached for something behind her and showed him, "see? I couldn't believe it when I saw it."
Fugaku activated his sharingan, but he didn't need it, it looked slightly older, but the writing was the same as the one he kept hidden away. The scroll was a time travel scroll, but it was very limited in how far back it would go. It was very also very protected, only a few knew of it's existence, often only the clan head knew of it's existence. "so Itachi is the father?"
"I think Sasuke, she said her mother has pink hair, and there is a girl Sasuke's age with pink hair." Mikoto turned to Fugaku with a smile, and said, "it doesn't matter who the father is, she is our granddaughter! And she is absolutely beautiful! You need to go see her! Her name is Sarada she told me she is three, almost four." Fugaku did just that, with Mikoto following closely behind him, at first he just peeked from the doorway, her back was to him.
"My wife tells me your name is Sarada, it is a beautiful name." She jumped a little clearly not expecting someone to be there, when she turned around his heart filled with warmth, he knew then that even without the scroll he would be able to identify her as one of his own.
"My mama said my papa picked it out. What's your name?" Her question surprised him, surely, he wouldn't have changed that much for his own granddaughter to not recognize him.
"Fugaku."
She almost jumped in excitement as she said, "just like my grandfather!"
"He must be a handsome man," Mikoto's words surprised him, he had almost forgotten she was behind him, so in awe of his granddaughter. "Now dear, to send you back home, we need to ask you a few questions." Sarada nodded, "the scroll you gave me, has a partner, did you have that too when you grabbed the scroll and showed up here?" She nodded no, Mikoto looked to Fugaku, then but they both knew that without the scroll they had no way of sending her back. "Was there another scroll near this one?" Again Sarada nodded no, "do you remember seeing another scroll that looks like this?" She asked showing her the scroll.
"No, my papa doesn't let me in his study, you aren't going to tell him, are you?" She looked genuinely worried about it.
Mikoto leaned down to Sarada's level, "honey, I think your papa knows by now, but don't worry we won't let you get in trouble." Mikoto stood up, looked to Fugaku and said, "the moment we figure out which one is her father he is grounded. How could he be so irresponsible?"
A/N: I have a few time travel ideas, besides Timely, this one with Sarada with her grandparents... one where Sarada accidentally bring her grandparents to the future, toddler Sarada with Uncle Itachi… you get the point...