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Chapter 22
A shuffle on the other side of her has her turning to watch Naruto blinking awake. His eyes take a second to adjust to the room before he starts looking around wildly.
When he finally notices her he relaxes again, only to immediately go tense right after.
“Mikoto auntie You gotta help Sasuke! That creepy guy with the bandages hurt him!”
Oh this sweet child, worrying for her boy before anything else.
“He’s ok Naruto, he’s right over here.” She tells the blonde, turning so Naruto can see Sasuke’s sleeping face.
It really shouldn’t surprise her that the next thing the blonde does is get out of bed like it’s on fire before crossing the room and reaching out to grab Sasuke’s hand. He stops short when he sees the bandages, tears gathering in his eyes as he looks over his best friend.
“Would you like to sit up beside him? The bed’s seems awfully big with Sasuke alone, and I’m sure he’d like some company.” She coacses gently.
Naruto wipes the tears away with his hospital sleeve then gives a single nod.
Mikoto lifts the boy up and sets him beside her son, the little blonde takes care to move around Sasuke gently and curl up next to his side.
“Is he gonna be ok Auntie?”
“Yes, right now he needs rest. The most pressing matter is chakra exhaustion.”
“Chakra? Like that stuff we’ve been reading about at the library?” ah she’d heard about those adventures from Itachi, her poor eldest had been given the scrolls and told to read them aloud because most of the words where to big for all the children to understand.
“Yes.”
“oh, is that what Sasuke used to breath fire?”
“…..what?”
“When that creepy guy started getting close to us Sasuke spit fire at him. It was really cool!...but the creepy guy just took off his clothes so the fire didn’t really hurt him.” Naruto ends with a pout.
Mikoto ….. Mikoto looks at her youngest again.
Since when did Sasuke know fire ball jutsu?
No wonder he was chakra exhausted! Her baby was preforming clan jutsu at three THREE!
She thought his passed out state was the result of the sharingan activation, but if he’d managed a fire ball before that …..it’s a wonder her little boy wasn’t dead.
And oh how that had been her biggest fear these last three days.
Her sweet Sasuke……dead, lifeless, cold.
The relief that came over her when she finally laid eyes on him lasted only until she’d seen the kunai poking out of his body. Then he’d glared up at her with tears and blood running down his face…..and Sharingan eyes full of fire.
Mikoto has a feeling that in a few years that glare may just become very deadly.
But that’s a thought for later, right now she need to keep Naruto from letting everyone know about Sasuke’s Fireball.
She’s seen the pressure put on Itachi for carrying the title of genius, she wont let it be put on Sasuke too.
She’ll burn the world herself if they try.