14 A Child Full of Surprises (2/2)

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He sound like he's disappointed and… almost sad?

Why?

”You. Had. A. Chance.” He stopped at his every word as he stood up from his place, ”Yet you wasted it.”

My rather young body couldn't comprehend what on earth happened next. I could explain it as… ”painfully beautiful”—why? A soothing melody played and danced in my ears, sending me in a calm state. It was not long until I've realised that something was definitely going on.

I was snapped back into reality just in time to see the man, whom I've already decided to mentally call Shiro (though I actually regret that a bit because I had a dog named Shiro in my past life—and I love that pup) at this rightful moment, cast his last seal in a graceful way before a familiar transparent ray came out from his hands that I had once seen pierce through the crow.

I have no time to admire the darn sound wave manipulated to be a killer-weapon for now.

I need to fucking dodge that or I'm gonna be a goner for real.

Blasting a bit of my remaining chakra to my left foot, I launched sideward to my right, the ray of sound wave nicking my left arm. I tumbled and skidded onto the ground as I held my painful injury burning in my arm, refraining from shouting and gritting my teeth instead. Now, I look rather miserable; if I use any more chakra, I'd die out of draining my own life force rather than dying in Shiro's hands.

”A tough one, eh?” He smiled, taking something from his pockets. Of course, despite having injuries, I went on immediate guard, learning my lesson to never let it drop even by chance. I still kept my guard up as he took out white gloves, wearing them as carefully as he can. ”'He' did say you're quite resilient for your age. Now that I think about it, I think you're pretty similar to him...”

His loud mumble caught my attention. I narrowed my eyes.

”A body of a child yet a mind of an adult…” he pointed out. I didn't react and raised my kunai in my right hand. ”Of course no one would suspect that… you were born—no.” He paused, looking at me with an excited stare through his white mask. What he said next really caught me off guard.

”You were reborn as a Nara, after all.”

I froze, mind ready to shut down any given moment. 'Wha— Who— Just who is the guy behind this curious bastard?'

”Ah, I wonder what it's like to know what had happened in the past of your world… and to know what will happen in the future of this world…” He smiled. ”Well, as crazy as I might sound,” he started waving his hands, as if telling a tale to a kid, ”I might actually believe him that… both of you came from another world.” He snickered, shaking his head.

”Never mind—'he's' rather insane. Who would believe 'him', right?” He gave his stinging gaze at me, which I'm sure is paired with a sick smile behind his mask, ”You're just a genius from the Nara's, right?”

”Right?” He repeated.

I replied with a nod, still frozen in spot.

”Hah! Got that right, at least.” Shiro laughed, clapping his hands. ”Wait until I tell Gee-sama that! Pfft—huh? Come on. We're only starting. Don't drop down now.”

This small body couldn't do any more after all. I've exceeded this body's limit and it's giving up on me now. Black dots are appearing in the corner of my eyes… which is definitely not a good sign. I started swaying left and right, soon falling forwards, using my right side for support to not face plant completely on the ground.

To think that someone… knows that… I've been reborn. I do not know who Shiro's master is, but he sure does know a lot, which is very problematic.

I didn't even realise that Shiro's in front of me now. Everything became blurry. It's kind of nostalgic though; I became too used to seeing clearly without the use of glasses that I've forgotten how it's like to have blurry eyes.

Ah, shame. I think I forgot to give Shika-kun that book he wanted... Did I water the plants? Kaa-san's gonna be sad if the roses in her room wither…

Shiro approached closer, placing his foot onto my back, forcing me down on the ground.

I suddenly saw kaa-san's smile…

… tou-san's bicker with Shikaku-sama…

… Shika-kun's annoyed face…

I wonder what my sibling's gender is all of a sudden…

An imouto would definitely be nice…

Shiro crouched down and lifted me up by grabbing my hair before using his other to hold me by my neck.

I'm pathetic, aren't I? Dying at such young age… even bringing someone rather important down with me. Honestly, I want to live, I really do.

I trailed my eyes over to the splattered blood not far from me, seeing the bloodied face of the crow that had vowed to be by my side in order to protect me. He gave me a mixture of apologetic and reassuring smile, like he's saying that ”I'm sorry for making you go through this, you'll be all fine soon so just hang in there.”

He smiled again, firing off a loop of distress signal, wasting his already depleted chakra.

Niisan's smiling as he flared off his chakra away.

Shisui was smiling, embracing the touch of death brushing on him.

Shunshin no Shisui.

Body Flicker Shisui.

The Teleporter.

Whatever you call him.

He's fucking smiling.

Fear, anger, pity, helplessness… Is this how Cherry felt when I left her with a smile? A god darn smile?

If it weren't for me, he could've used the max of his ability to take down Shiro yet… he chose my safety over his.

How selfless.

A~h… I can't think straight now… Is this how one's life flash before his eyes?

I sighed. I'm just angry right now.

I gave my glare to the person holding me by my neck as an extremely cold feeling touched my left eye, blurring my right eye's vision. I gripped tighter on his hand, but Shiro seemed to have been frozen in place. Sadly, I can't see a thing clearly at the moment.

The only thing I know is that I'm desperate to live to save Shisui-nii… and all I can do now is to hope that I someone, somewhere, picked up his signal.

Fuck… I'm gradually losing my consciousness…

'Not now…'

”Get the fuck away from Orion.”

Well, that's a pleasant tone to hear…

”You're… late…”

Then everything went pitch black.

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Kakashi stared at the masked man in front of him with great fury as he slammed him into trees and finally, onto a hard boulder. ”Don't you dare hold my nephew with your bloodied hands.” He couldn't think straight for a moment, but he soon regained his stand back, tightly gripping onto the man's neck.

Then he paused. 'Why didn't he react?' Kakashi thought, waiting for the dust and particles to clear out for him to identify the reason. To be honest, he really wanted to kill the guy in one quick swing, but he thought otherwise: resorting to a more… painfully long death for him to give the man.

The dust cleared, and Kakashi found the reason why his enemy-turned-victim had not reacted from his attack. Through the masked man's eyes, he saw that fear and terror enveloped the eyes of his nephew and subordinate's attacker.

Just what on earth did the man saw to be this frozen in fear? What the hell is the reason for him to—

”You're…” Kakashi swung his head to hear his nephew's words, ”… late…”

Oh.

OH.

He froze as soon as he met Orion's fainting gaze. 'Dōjutsu?' He thought, completely enthralled by the golden glow his nephew's left eye gave before he closed his eyes and lost his consciousness. 'I've never seen such thing—'

”M-Monster…” He quickly looked back to the masked man who spoke chilling words, ”Gee-sama was right… humanity will end…” Kakashi pushed the man harder onto the hard surface of the boulder, but to his dismay, the man only chuckled, soon turning to laughter, ”I will kill him… don't worry, child. Just you wait…”

The masked man's voice echoed as he vanished, giving Kakashi no chance to even beat the daylight out of him.

”Double fuck. Make that triple.” Kakashi cussed, punching the boulder with all his might, 'He got away.'

Holding the self-inflicted wound on his fist, he turned back, quickly making his way to Orion and Karasu, or, well, Shisui. He stared down at his nephew as alerted shinobi's and anbu's made their way to them, already assisting the fallen anbu lying down on the ground, making him steal a gaze on the bleeding crow.

”You did your part, Shisui… I'm sorry…” Kakashi closed his eyes before looking back at his nephew, crouching down and inspecting the injury the young child had to endure. ”I'm sorry that I'm late… a rather boring meeting held uncle up…” He whispered at the unconscious child.

He could tell that the two fought hard to stall time and to survive, especially Shisui. Kakashi understands why the young Uchiha had taken a liking on his nephew. Orion's full of surprises after all. Heck, even in battle, the child doesn't cease to amaze them.

Dōjutsu? Really? He doesn't recall anything like the one in Orion's eye being told or had been recorded in any book—for now, anyways.

He sighed, picking up the young child and carrying him in his arms. Kaiya's gonna kill her for sure when she hears of this. Shikakuro too.

Oh, dear.

Oh-fucking-dear.

He can practically hear the woman scolding him and practically feel the sadistic man's torture. Well, being sadistic to fend off of another secretly horrible bastard is actually understandable. You could say Kakashi picked up his sadistic demeanor from him.

'Well, that's two things to worry about…'

Never judge a book by its cover—he learned that too from his brother-in-law. The man might look like he's the nicest and ”bestest” person ever to be born, but don't ever get to his bad side. One can never know how on earth he or she died.

Kakashi most definitely know the reason why Shikakuro was dubbed as ”that” name in the battlefields.

He sighed, rushing to the medics that have arrived at the scene.

'Shit.'