
Flashes of light
βOne... two... three... four...
It's been four years since Itachi and Shisui decided to start their own family, away from the shackles of their own.
βAre you sure you can count them all, Nakano? -Itachi put his hand on the little boy's head, in the other he brought a tray with cookies and sweets.
"Home camping night" in English because it sounds more interesting; it's their favorite nighttime activity. Every weekend they usually sit on the terrace of their house watching the stars while they eat sweets, read a story or their parents sing them a song.
Or all at the same time, it is also possible.
It is clear that they have had inconveniences as in all their lives, but they can never deny that the good times have always been there for both of them, especially when the awaited detail of their "little sparks", as Shisui calls them, arrived.
And yes, "sparks" in plural because they are twins.
The surprise came when they realized that they would not only have one little body running, but two, and at the same time.
βTwelve... thirteen... fourteen... umm...
βFifteen βThe one with the curls helped him.
βYes, fifteen... βsmiled the boy. βHeiwa, remind me that it's fifteen, from that one over there. βHe turned to look at the girl, who already had a mouthful of candy, then pointed to the star, and she nodded. βOf course! the stroms fram.... not sorry," he quickly corrected. βThe stars! From here there are very few, βHe answered his father's question. He laughed in embarrassment at having mixed up the words and continued. βBut you can see many more in Konoha's Nakano Park.
He illustrated them all by waving his hands as a sign that there were many, too many, countless.
βIt's as if they were erased, βThe girl spoke, mispronouncing the "R" as she had been heard to do since she learned to speak.
βExactly! βNakano jumped up excitedly, but lost her balance and fell on Shisui's chest, who was earlier fixing Heiwa's unruly curl, knocking the wind out of him. Nakano ignored him, got up and continued with his questions. No force can stop him when he has a doubt βWhy does it happen?, do they really erase them?, and if they really erase them, who?, but, what if they don't erase them?, and if they don't, what makes them disappear? Wow, that's a lot of questions!
Heiwa picked him up with a pout and put a cookie in his mouth to shut him up.
The three of them laughed. They had to accept that it wasn't an easy road when they made the decision to fly out of their nest of nightmares, but still, they applied their intellectual gifts well and made it through little by little, together.
And like everything else, they have learned that despite the inconveniences, they are happy and want to see their children grow as a new light for their souls.