Chapter 9
Shisui really hated his life right now. It would seem that lady luck just didn’t like him recently, what with hid mission and his current predicament.
He was poisoned.
He was injured from his last mission.
He was stabbed.
He was hungry.
He was tired.
He was outnumbered by fucking Root.
And there was a wrinkly old man that was trying to shove his fingers in his eye sockets.
Itachi was supposed to meet him tonight but apparently his stupid father needed him for one of those stupid meetings and damn it. Was Fugaku in on this? No he couldn’t condone Danzo’s plan to steal his eyes. He would never want a non-Uchiha to have the Sharingan. (He had tried to take back Obito’s eye from Kakashi. He has a scar to show him of his efforts.)
“This is for the village!” Danzo boomed. “Sacrifice yourself if you love this village!”
“Suck my dick you asshole!” he yelled, spitting out flames before shinshunning away to the others side of the field, breathing hard as he faced down the Root members.
Kami damn it all, he was tired.
He spiked his chakra wildly, flashing from one place to another, narrowly missing Danzo’s grab for his eyes on more than one grab.
“Shishi-chan?”
Fuck his life.
He cursed as he missed a blade, shunshining in front of his favorite sunshine child who had the worsetiming. “What are you doing here?” he hissed, swinging the child away from grabbing hands for both Naruto-kun and his eyes now. What the hell did Danzo want with Naruto-kun? His fellow ANBU unit all knew Danzo was watching the kid, but they didn’t know the why. (They had theories. He wanted power. He wanted to ‘protect the village.’ He wanted the kyuubi for himself. Shisui thought it was all of those and more.)
“I felt you were panicking and I wanted to help and-are you okay?”
“We will be,” Shisui said, straining a smile, blocking a kunai and shunshinning as far as he could go.
“Do I need to Scream?”
Shisui paused, looking down. If he Screamed, Kakashi and Satoshi and all of them would come and kill anyone that was attacking him. They all did it with those robbers a while back. “Yeah,” Shisui said, tanto blade held in front of them protectively. He pushed chakra in his ears to protect his hearing. He grinned savagely as Naruto-kun Screamed — many Uchiha would die for a set of lungs like that — signaling their demise.
“Say bye to the moon,” Shisui smiled at Danzo. “It’s your last time seeing it.”
He watched as Kakashi-senpai flashed down, tanto in hand and moving. Shisui sat down heavily, letting out a breath as fatigue took over him. He felt Anko at his back, “Yo, Anko-chan. Have any antidotes to Aburame poison on you?” he asked. He yelped as something was stabbed in his arm, more out of surprise then actual pain. “Ow, abuse me more why dontcha?” he whined.
“You look rough, Shisui-chan,” Anko chimed, ignoring his whining. “Danzo?”
“My eyes,” Shisui said, sobering up even as he rubbed the place the shot went in. “Ambushed me after a long ass mission.”
“And Naru-chan?” she chimed lightly. “Last I checked, he was with Kakashi.” Oh, that was dangerous. Anko always used nicknames, and when she didn’t, no one should get in the way between her and her prey.
He shivered, “I was fighting then he showed up.” He shrugged, looking down at Naru-kun in his lap. He was looking awfully innocent. “Want to answer that?” he inquired, poking his side.
“I learned the shadow clone jutsu!” Naru-kun said, beaming. “So I used it to trick Kashi-nii when I felt bad people around you and went to help!”
“You felt me?” Shisui asked, glancing up at Anko. He had a feeling Naru-kun was a sensor, but this advanced? He was all the way on the outskirts of the village.
“Uh-yeah?” Naru-kun said. “Doesn’t everyone?” he asked, smile faltering and that shouldn’t happen.
“No,” Shisui admitted. “But there’s a special few who do. Itachi is a sensor!” he added quickly when Naru-kun was starting to lose his smile completely.
“Really?” Naru-kun asked, eyes lighting up even as blood splattered near their group. (Kami, Naru-kun really is desensitized to this if he didn’t even glance at it.)
“Yeah!” Shisui beamed. “We can totally grab Itachi and have him teach you! Sensors are super amazing and no one can sneak up them. They are valued amongst shinobi,” Shisui explained.
“Woah!” Naruto’s eyes shined in the dark and his smile was blinding.
Anko-chan grinned, rubbing Naru-kun’s hair, “Well, stay here and protect Shisui-chan, Naru-kun!”
“Os!” Naru-kun saluted Anko-chan and beamed up at her.
She gave him a thumbs up before turning around, nailing a bunch of Root agents with poisoned senbon, “Save a few for me, ya bastards!”
“That’s not how you speak to you’re superiors,” Kakashi-senpai said lightly.
“Oh shut up!”
*****
The Ugly Guy with the Ugly Chakra escaped. But Naruto didn’t really care. As long as he was gone. (His chakra made the creepy crawly feeling come back a lot more than just the ugly chakra masked people. He hated it. He liked Kashi-nii’s chakra and Satoshi-nii’s chakra. Even Genma-nee had good feeling chakra!)
“Naru-chan.”
Naruto ducked behind Anko-nee-chan, hugging her leg to hide from Kashi-nii. “To be fair,” Naruto started. “I was a good shinobi to trick you.”
“He’s got a point, Kashi-chan,” Anko chimed. “You can’t get mad at the kid for tricking you with a jutsu you taught him.”
Kashi-nii sighed and Naruto grinned victoriously. “If you’re going to go into a potentially dangerous situation. Take someone.”
“You got it, Kashi-nii!” Naruto grinned. He wasn’t in trouble! He beamed at Kashi-nii.
•••••
Shisui liked these morning. The mornings, that he used to hate, after a mission and he just crashed at the ANBU barracks. He always woke up to a small form curled up next to him, sometimes suffocating him, but that was neither here not there.
Then there was the yelling. (He really shouldn’t be surprised. It was rare there was any peace in the barracks, even before Naru-kun joined them. Shisui swore that the ANBU were the most expressive group of ninja there were. Or maybe it was just squad.)
Shisui sighed, peering at the snickering form of the sunshine child next to him. “What did you do this time?” he asked, rubbing his eyes.
“Genma-nee and Raido-san were being loud,” Naru-kun said. “So I set up a series of traps.”
Shisui didn’t think he liked how Naru-kun already knew about sex(at least the basics). But what could he do.
Shisui turned over in his bed, “Well then I’m going back to sleep.”
“‘Kay!”
Naru-kun was just too precious. A precious terror gremlin.