Chapter 122 - 113 (1/2)
At the park near the shinobi academy, parents watched as their children played with each other. Temari, Tenten, Sakura, and Hinata sat at the nearby stone table.
Temari has been married to Shikamaru now for over 4 years, just after Hikaru and Azumi and Hinata's wedding day. Since then, she's been nothing but a housewife. She wants to be a shinobi again, but she has to take care of two lazy people, her husband and her daughter. She hates how Shikanori takes after her father's lazy personality. Shikanori would do anything just to get away from things that require a bit of stamina, but even then she's just 3 and half years old, maybe she'll change?
Temari was bored at home, so she brought her child to play with other children at the park.
Meanwhile, after the war, Tenten decided to marry Rock Lee after he proposed to her in the middle of it. She and Temari are the polar opposite when it comes to their husband and daughter. While the sister of Kazekage has a lazy husband, Tenten has Rock Lee, who is really enthusiastic about exercise and many other physical things, like lifting a 3 tons dumbbell. Temari has Shikanori, who is just as lazy as her father, meanwhile Tenten has Rock Mio, who is just like her father, except that she inherited her looks from her mother.
Tenten decided that Mio, her daughter, needed something else entirely other than exercising her young body to death, so she brought her to the park to play with other children her age.
Sakura was on vacation from her job, so she decided to bring her son here so that she could chat with her fellow mothers. Besides, her husband and her brother-in-law are too busy sparring with each other. God, she wonders when Itachi will have a wife, all he focuses on are shinobi jobs and he is too awkward when it comes to romance, since it's been years since he had a lover, and he, um, for a lack of a better word, killed her.
It seems like Itachi has no plans to start a family of his own, yet. But that's good for Sakura, since, most of the time, he leaves Senichi to her brother-in-law everytime she goes to her job. But Senichi tends to copy Itachi. He's like a mini-Itachi, who dresses like him, combs his hair like his uncle, and sometimes would speak like Itachi, though in a cute way. Even then, Senichi can never be like his uncle.
Hinata always brings her children to the park, but only Emiyo and Taiyou. Riko and Rina are too shy to go to the park with children their age, which saddens Hinata a little. But they were smart, since all they do is read books all day, and sometimes would annoy their father to play with them.
Sakura sighed and spoke, ”Work's been too busy lately, I only have three days in my vacation. For some reason, many shinobi, especially the Jounins, have been getting severely injured while on the job. They say that the last thing they saw were blood red eyes with a slit in the middle. Sasuke has been investigating it, but he came out with no results. Then, just after bringing in some Jounins, one of them started to bloat before exploding. Thankfully, no one was hurt but since then we've been careful of receiving too many patients, or we just separate them.”
Stress was evident on Sakura's face as she said all of that.
”That's rather shocking, for someone to attack the strongest village in the elemental nation.” Hinata said, ”It's obvious that they are trying to injure a lot of our shinobi and when the hospital gets too flooded with patients, then they will strike.”
Sakura nodded, and said, ”So you think so, too, huh? But what is their objective? Just to hurt a lot of patients? No, there must be something more, something more important than something like this. They could've just flooded the entire hospital with many patients with those time bombs, but they didn't.”
”Maybe they have a specific target?” Temari asked, ”For example, who was taking care of the patient that exploded? Wasn't it you? Maybe you're their target?'
Sakura vehemently shook her head, and replied, ”No, that's impossible. There is no one who would seek to harm me, especially because I made no enemies when I was an active shinobi.”
Hinata thought about it, and suddenly gained an idea, then she suggested, ”Maybe it's because of your husband's clan? You know, the Uchiha Clan made many enemies since the first, second, and third shinobi war. It's no secret that many extinct clans out there are all the Uchiha Clan's fault. A survivor of a dead dojutsu clan, maybe?”
”Yeah, you have a point. I'll tell all of this to Itachi-san later.” Sakura muttered.
Unknown to them, a pigeon landed on a tree. Its eyes, sharper than any humans around it. It was watching Sakura, her every movement, the twitches on her face, and the way she talks. A shiny glint appeared in the watchful eyes of the bird, before it briefly disappeared.
(WIth Hikaru, A Few Hours Later)
In their living room, heavy tension filled the air. Hinata and Azumi looked quite angry at him, while his children were crying.
”So you're leaving again?” Azumi asked, her voice filled with a sickening sweet tone.
”Y-Yes, but not forever! I'll be returning in about a decade or so.”' Hikaru said, nervous that his wife might just erupt. Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click /book/traveling-to-the-world-of-anime-with-the-dark-souls-system_17253890906198605/chapter-113_51000928274268966 for visiting.
And sure enough, Azumi erupted like a hot and flaming volcano, ”A DECADE!? Now, listen here, mister! You'll be missing a lot of our children's birthdays! They'll be growing up most of their lives without a father, and you just want to leave!? For what!?”
Hikaru was sweating, he needed a good reason right now! His wife might just murder him, as much as that sounds ridiculous. He really needs to beat the olden god, Chaortos, since Deus has been pressuring him to do it. The disembodied voice seems agitated, as if he was waiting for something from him. Besides, it's just a decade. He'll be back before they know it.