Part 5: The Child who is Heir
Sakura could not believe she was so jealous of Sasu-chan who was sitting in his uncle's lap looking attentively up at him. The small face was so like Sasuke's and it was so small too.
"Sasu-chan, why don't you play on the floor while I make lunch," Sasuke sounded so different with the little boy around him, it was almost as if he was truly happy. He walked into the kitchen and brought her some tea. "Sakura-chan, what is it?"
"I was...er....um...so you are really staying this time?" she finally asked looking up at him.
"Hai, hai," he nodded and looked at the little boy who was looking at some kunai. "Those aren't toys, why not go to the toybox in your room?"
Sasu-chan ran off toward a bedroom and came back a few moments latter with a stuffed bear under his right arm. "Play?" he brought the toy up to Sakura to see.
"He wants you to play with him," Sasuke knelt down and looked at Sakura differently from where he was.
This is it, I'm going to have to... Sakura knelt down and smiled, this was not fake at all, in fact she was having fun. Sasu-chan was very cute and very much happy living with his uncle.
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Sasuke pushed a bag of groceries onto a table and looked over at Sasu-chan who was walking in holding a smaller bag. Taking the bag from the child, he pulled out a small piece of chocolate and pat the child on the head as he ran off to his room. "Don't slam that..." the door quietly shut as Sasuke stood putting the groceries away, he had found he was becoming much more fussy over his nephew.
He was aware of things a little kid was not supposed to know about until they were older, it was clear that something was going on. Sasuke did not know the child's mother personally, but something inside him said that Sasu-chan was simple different.
"Someone died in there," Sasu-chan had pointed toward the old main house, he was standing there earlier that morning and was smiling as if someone was waving to him. He did not wave back but just smiled up at Sasuke who was stunned with the child saying such things.
Walking into his nephew's bedroom, Sasuke gazed at the boy sitting on the floor as he played with his bear. He looked up from time to time and smiled at something by the window. "Sasu-chan, what is it?"
"Uncle Sasuke, the man says to stop hating chichi," the little boy just seemed almost to say it off hand.
"Sasu-chan, what?" Sasuke knelt down and looked passed him. "There is no one here, but us."
"He's here," the little boy insisted and pointed toward a window, something in the room was making it colder. "Stop making it cold," the boy scolded the invisible thing.
All right, normally a child his age has an imaginary friend, so this is just a phase, Sasuke played this off pretty easily, he wasn't going to argue about it. He walked into his room and sat down on his bed, he lay back letting the weight of his day just seem to lift from his mind. That was when he felt someone nuzzling against his chest, he looked up and saw Sasu-chan curling up sleepily.
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"Are you sure that it is normal for him to have imaginary friends?" Sasuke finally asked Tsunade who was sitting up slowly as if thinking to herself about the situation.
She smiled and laughed, "you had one too when you were his age, so it isn't uncommon for a child who was isoliated to have imaginary friends, Sasuke-kun. Just let it him out grow it."
That was a simple enough answer to the whole thing, but when Sasuke found his nephew standing in front of the old main house the next morning. The imaginary friend theory became almost terrifying. "I don't want to," Sasu-chan was yelling, he was stomping his feet. "Uncle Sasuke says not to go in there."
"Sasu-chan, time to come in for your nap," Sasuke called in, he was ignoring the imaginary friend. "Is your imaginary friend trying to make you get in trouble? That isn't a good friend." Lifting Sasu-chan up, he brought the boy into his room and sat him down on the bed. "I just want you to take a nap, just until I call you for lunch, all right?"
Sasu-chan nodded as he slowly slipped into the covers and held onto his bear. "Uncle Sasuke, they're not imaginary."
Turning the light off, Sasuke noticed something was strange about the room, it made him feel a little scared. Within maybe twenty minutes, he heard a scream, rushing into the room, Sasu-chan was sitting up with scratches on his back. The red smear made a stain on the sheets. "Sasu-chan?" kneeling down, Sasuke held his nephew who was screaming and crying.
Something hit him, Sasuke looked around him using the Sharingan didn't help, all he saw was the dark room and using the Magekyo Sharingan only revealed the empty space. Something was here, but he couldn't see, his Sharingan couldn't see what Sasu-chan was able to see. "Sasu-chan?"
Sasu-chan's cries soon came in small whimpers, holding his nephew close, Sasuke took him into the bathroom and proceeded to clean off the cuts. "What happened?"
"The man gots angry," Sasu-chan finally whimpered out, his hands grasping his uncle's shirt sobbing as his scratches were clean and dressed.
Now that he could see them in the light, it looked like a wild cat had scratched the hell out of him, Sasuke thought. Bringing out a clean shirt, he put it over his nephew's head and then made sure the shirt didn't touch the bandages. "Who is this man?"
"He's really angry, really is mad at you," Sasu-chan's voice was soft and almost terrified. "He said he'd hurt you, if I don't do what he says."
"Sasu-chan, just ignore him," Sasuke thought out loud and knelt down holding him. "Just ignore him."
It was almost a week later that Sasuke had his own experience with the strange thing, he knew he had seen it before when he was little. He knew that his brother told him to ignore it too, but it wouldn't leave him alone. Lying on his bed, he saw Sasu-chan curled up next to him his head resting on a pillow. Looking about the room, Sasuke could feel something was there, something was watching him.
What should I do? How do I defend my nephew against something I can't even see, Sasuke thought as he pulled his blanket over his body. He shivered a little and realized it was the middle of June. He stood up slowly and glared around the room. "What do you want? If you want my nephew, you can't have him," he whispered into the darkened room.
In the distance, Sasuke could hear thunder, he heard the sound of something making the house creak. "You think you're so big picking on a small child!" he finally felt something slap him across the face. "That's it, isn't it? You think that you can..."
"STOP IT!" He looked up, just as he had said these words, he saw his brother standing at the door, his eyes bright red. "What the hell do you think you're doing challenging it!"
What is he doing here? Sasuke thought angrily.
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