Who: Mikoto Uchiha & [ left intentionally blank ]
Where: Entrance Hall
When: Night 003
What: Mikoto finds herself in a house that is seriously not the one she was just finishing up chores in. She then examines the flowers.
Warnings: PG/PG 13-for language, perhaps? Mental language? Will adjust as needed.
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She stood, dish in hand, and felt herself confronted with the sudden shock of being somewhere than where she expected to be... )
That was, of course, until they'd found that boy.
Something had been wrong with his legs, his face. And he'd moved so fast, crawling towards them with a tiny, gaping mouth and making horrible sounds that set Sasuke's hair on end. He hadn't even had time to think--he simply froze, and then ran as fast as he could ( ... )
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"Sasuke?" Not that her legs weren't smarting from the unexpected reintroduction to him, but concern over her child who was running in such blind panic as to be barreling head-first into his mother's knees (or any strangers, he hadn't expected it to be hers) had her even further on alter. She pitched her voice reassuring and steady, frowning as she looked back the way he had come. "It's all right, you're okay. What's scared you so badly?"
Her hand fell to his head, a gentle pressure to keep him close. Everything was looking increasingly dire, if she admitted (privately, lips thinning as she tensed and then told herself to relax, for Sasuke's sake) she still didn't have enough information to know how dire dire really was.
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"There are monsters. Nii-san and Shisui-kun are here. Shisui-kun and I--" He broke off for a moment, guilt written all over his face as he temporarily stared down at his bare feet. "...Shisui-kun and I got attacked. ...I ran away." Like a coward.
That was why he was tugging a little insistently at his mother's hand, now. "I have to go back for him! I have to make sure he's okay!"
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Itachi would kill him if something happened to the kid.
"Sasuke!" He came around the corner fast, nearly Shunshin, skidding to the stop as he automatically reached for the child. It took him a moment to realize realized just who it was holding him. His brain froze, hand still half extended to take the child.
Itachi killed you.
Notyetnotyetnotyet. It's over and done for Itachi but it's not done yet.
His single eye spun, body frozen as he tried to process what her presence meant for his plans. He swallowed several times before he managed to speak, body folding in a bow. "Mikoto-sama. I apologize, I did not realize it was you. Sasuke-kun slipped away from me for a moment and I was attempting to assure his safety."
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Yet he spoke in present tense.
Brow furrowing, Mikoto regarded the direction her youngest shin-knocker had come from with intense suspicion. If something really was there...
Her dish flew through the air at Shisui's torso with what might have been deadly accuracy if its edge had been sharpened to a point. Seeing dead people was more of a nighttime dream activity and reflection over tombstones than an actuality in Mikoto's experience. She liked to think it was fairly extensive experience, if she was open to always learning more. Fire knew the kids were always teaching her something or another, if "how to flood things when there's no faucet in the area" still confounded her. Just a little.At the same time, she moved to pull Sasuke to her side, placing herself ( ... )
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