Everyone's a child
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This has been beta’d by Ankaa Sage! Thank-you so much!
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Sasuke was, once again, very confused. The Uchiha had been feeling like that very often since becoming a genin and no matter how many times the feeling encased him, he refused to embrace it. He looked to his friend, jonin instructor and his cousin. His cousin who had committed suicide five years prior, leaving his fiancé in tremendous grief that no one could take her out of. Till this day, she mourned the love she would never have. Yet here he was, in front of all of them, as if nothing had changed.
Anger coursed through his veins as he remembered Naruto screaming, pushing Itachi away when he announced Shisui's death, the betrayal in her eyes as she yelled at Sasuke for saying such a thing, the anger she felt when his mother tried to console her, and the tribulation in her body as his father and the sandaime had told her there was nothing to be done, what was done could not be undone.
When Shisui activated his Sharingan, a strange pattern appeared. The mangekyo sharingan. He had only seen Itachi's and had simply assumed his brother was the only one with it. That was apparently not the case. A second after those eyes appeared, Kakashi's body sagged slightly from exhaustion, making him wonder what his cousin had made him see. Itachi had made him watch the massacre of his clan over and over again. So many times he had lost count.
However Naruto was unaffected, not surprising, she seemed nearly impervious to many things these days, it was fractionally frightening. His body moved out of his control, as if someone were pulling him to move, and punched Shisui in the stomach. He grunted in response yet did nothing to stop him nor retaliate.
Deciding he was in this position, he may as well get on with it, "Do you know how much pain you've put her through?! How much she loved you and mourned you, yet here you are, in front of her as if you were on a mission and just came home! She cried, she yelled, she kicked, she screamed! She was inconsolable! Yet when the clan died, despite her grief she comforted me! Where were you all that time?! Where were you when Itachi murdered our family?!" he yelled, he had faced years alone, with only Naruto at his side. Yet she had had no family to start with, she did not understand his pain, not fully, even if she was loved by his clan. It would never be the same.
When he received no answer he went to strike again yet a gentle and soft hand encased his wrist. Looking to the side, he was Naruto smiling sadly at him, and in that one smile, all the anger and frustration drained out of him. Never had he felt like this, not even when Itachi had murdered everyone. The righteous fury within him was and an unyielding thing that he would only release for the sister he could not have, and the clan who was all dead.
She leaned forward and planted a soft kiss on his cheek, the same as she always did when they were younger and spent time in the compound. His breathing became irregular and when he looked at the others, Shisui was sheepish, Kakashi still dazed and looked to be on the verge of vomiting and Sakura looked as if she were about to cry with her hands clasped over her mouth and nose.
"I can't explain what happened but I can say I did jump in the River and should have died, I have no knowledge of how I am here today." He could not tell whether Shisui was lying or not. The older Uchiha was a jonin after all so it shouldn't have been very surprising, but that did not stop Sasuke from gritting his teeth in annoyance.
He could feel his anger rising again but fought against it. It would do no good to allow Naruto and Sakura to see him like that, they would needlessly worry and forget about their own woes. He turned around, walking till he stood shoulder to shoulder with Sakura, glare pointed to his cousin.
This was not how Sasuke had ever imagined meeting a member of his clan, minus Itachi, again. He had dreamed of events like this, where his mother, father, neighbor or just anyone from the Uchiha meeting him. In those dreams, he was overcome with happiness yet showed very little. Here, he felt the opposite.
If he was this hostile to Shisui, he wondered what he would be like with his brother.
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Naruto had suggested they all make their way back to their residence after reapplying her henge. They walked there in an awkward silence, out loud anyway. In Naruto's head, there was a very annoying conversation going on.
"Naruto's favorite is miso ramen with cow meat instead of pork."
"No, it's ramen with fish and sashimi dipping sauce."
"Naruto likes any form of ramen."
"Can we not talk as if I'm not here, boys?" Yet she was ignored, as the males in her head carried on bickering like a bunch of school kids.
"Well, I've known Naruto the longest."
"Technically, you've been dead for five years and I knew her when she was still a fetus.
"I've known her for the same time as the Hatake."
"I knew she was a girl long before you did."
"You're engaged to her, it's only expected."
"Can you please act civil?"
"What's Naruto's weapon of choice?"
"She prefers a katana or tonto."
"Nope, she uses kunai and shuriken as well as many jutsu and her fists."
"Actually, the Uchiha is correct. In our own time, Naruto was very well versed in the art of the katana and tonto, yet here she doesn't have the body strength to use either with her style."
Naruto could feel Shisui sticking his tongue out like the immature jonin he was, causing her to smile. She couldn't care less how he acted, he could be a big jerk but she would still be overjoyed for him being alive. She finally allowed the current predicament to enter her mindfully, causing her to pale slightly, which led to Shisui looking at her. He stopped when she smiled and shook her head at him, allowing him to return to his bickering. Her fiancé was alive and well as was her sort of lover, she had no idea what she was going to do.
She had loved Shisui since she was a child and that hadn't ever changed. Future Kakashi was fine with that, never allowing it to bother him. He had once said to her that despite not being one to share, he would share her with the Uchiha. He had most likely said it to make her happy but that didn't matter.
She doubted any of them deserved that sort of life. But she couldn't just lead them on. Shisui loved her but was proclaimed dead. Kakashi saw her as a valued student and precious person but did not see her in a romantic light. She contemplated whether or not she should simply not have a love life. It was highly doubtful she would find love elsewhere, it had after all taken her nine years to move on from Shisui, and even then, that wasn't completely over him.
"You shouldn't worry yourself Hime. Everything'll be fine."
"I hope you're right, anata."
He returned to his bickering with Kakashi causing her to sigh. Why couldn't two elite jonin act their age? She placed a block in her find from this three-way conversation causing the two of them to look at her, startled. They couldn't converse with each other since they didn't have matching seals.
"Ha, take that!"
"So childish. I was enjoying that brat."
She let out a sigh of relief when they finally made it to their residence, but once they made their way inside, things became awkward. "So Shisui-senpai? Where will you be staying?" asked Sakura when everyone sat down in the living area.
He raised a brow and the mischievous look returned before he looked right at Naruto, "With Naruto of course." Despite the mischievous look in his eyes, there was a silent threat in the air, daring anyone to deny him the right to stay beside her.
Of course said threat meant nothing if you were the Copy Ninja, "Absolutely not. I refuse to allow it."
The humor around Shisui vanished as he stared down with Kakashi, "You cannot tell me what to do or what not to do. She is my fiancé, as long as she doesn't mind me being with her, it should be no concern of yours."
Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto flinched at the KI that Shisui was releasing, the latter because she had never remembered him this angry, not even when she had been hurt. Actually, the difference between the two was very thin. Righteous fury was something Kakashi could do nothing about it. Nor could he do anything to truly stop Shisui from sleeping next to her, it was both of their rights. "Kakashi-sensei, I really don't mind him sharing a bed with me," she said. He heard her but did not look away from the Uchiha.
"I've been tasked with your protection Naruto. I can't allow someone who has been unaccounted for, for years be that close to you." Kakashi once again denied for Shisui to stay with her.
"You make it seem as if he's a criminal!" she yelled, anger in her eyes and voice. If Kakashi thought he could tell her who she could or couldn't interact with, he was sorely mistaken.
In her own time, he had told her to stop being so physical with her friends and had decided to mellow it down in order to make him happy. The next week he asked her to stop spending so much time with the boys and she had walked away, pretending she hadn't heard anything. She had instead taken to spending more time with the male members of the Konoha 11 and Sai, spending less time with Kakashi, causing him to apologize and ask her to stop avoiding him. He spoke of how it was a primal instinct for the Hatake and Inuzuka clans to be territorial of their lovers. Naruto was not the exception to this rule.
She had sighed and forgave him, under the condition he wouldn't try to take away her freedom. The freedom she had worked hard to gain in the first place. She sent that over to Kakashi and he paused before giving her another look she couldn't decipher. She could see partial fragments of pain but that was all she could see.
His sudden stop caused all heads to look in his direction before he finally spoke up, "Fine. The two of you can stay together, but I want the door open or at least ajar so you don't pull anything." His voice had deflated as he spoke.
At his comment Shisui gave him a flat look, "She's twelve. Even if she is legally an adult by shinobi laws. I'm not gonna try anything. Unless it's consensual." He looked at Naruto when he said the last comment, giving a wink and a flirtatious smile causing her to blush.
Which in turn caused Kakashi to glower, Sasuke to look astonished and Sakura to giggle behind her hand. It wasn't long after that everyone one by one made their way to their rooms, Naruto and Shisui going after Sakura left. She had thought there would be an awkwardness as they went to bed but there was none. As always, being in his presence calmed her. The lights had been turned off when he spoke, "So what's been happening since I last saw you. This timeline and your own, Hime."
She turned to face him and giggled, "Must you call me Hime at the end all the time?"
"Would you prefer I did so at the beginning?" he tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear as he smiled softly.
"That's not what I meant and you know it." When she received no reply she answered his question, "Well Yugao was made my ANBU operative after your suicide, Itachi murdered the Uchiha, Sasuke became a revenge-obsessed emo, during our first chunin exams we faced off with Orochimaru and Sasuke got one of his cursed hickies, he then learnt the Chidori where I signed the toad contract and learnt the Rasengan. I met the jinchuriki for Shukaku, Gaara, during that as well, not long after the chunin exams Sasuke defected and I spent two years training away from Konoha to bring him back. Sasuke killed Orochimaru, kinda, and after he killed Itachi he killed Danzo. When he killed Itachi, Jiraiya, who had done the two-year training trip with me, also died when he went to Ame. I became a gama sannin after he died, it took me a month." Naruto inhaled a deep breath brefore coninuing on with the life she had endured without him.
"Konoha was destroyed and we rebuilt it, a fourth war started; the allied shinobi war, with all the five nations against Madara and Obito. We won that war with me and Sasuke gaining part of the sage of six paths power. The two of us had an epic battle and he saw reason and came home. When he came home I was named rokudaime hokage and he was named my ANBU captain focused solely on my protection. As if the hero of the five nations needs someone to babysit her right? We united the five nations as well. I also met all nine bijuu, and their jinchuriki. They all have like meetings in my head all the god damn time."
She stopped when Shisui took hold of her necklace, Shisui looking at it as she looked into his eyes, "And when did you start your relationship with Kakashi?"
His hand went up to her face and as he was about to withdraw it, she took a hold of it and kept it to her face, loving the warmth it provided and the security his chakra gave her, "It was on and off when I turned sixteen, not long after I came back to Konoha from my training trip. I was twenty when I came here."
"He had you for four years, I had you for the same length, do you remember?"
"You make it seem as if you're easy to forget. Every chakra signature was compared to yours, every food I ate was compared to yours. When I saw people sparing or fighting I compared them to you. When looking at the plants you gave me, the koi fish in our pond-"
"You said our." He grabbed a hold of her and hoisted her over his stomach, smiling at her causing a blush to appear. Despite how dark the room was, he could clearly see it.
"You did give me the key to move in with you. I wanted to move the pond to my residence but couldn't during my training trip I had Sakura and the rest of the Konoha 11 go into the district and look after them they did an amazing job." His hand was running up and down her arm as she moved to lay half on and half off him. They didn't say anything else, and after an hour of listening to his heartbeat did she allow herself to fall asleep, reminding herself that she had to fix Gaara's seal the next day.
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Shisui listened to Naruto's heartbeat as she fell asleep. He hadn't been away from her for more than three months (A/N that's roughly how long Naruto has been back) and he had missed her more than he could have ever imagined. When he had awoken he hadn't known what was going on. The last memory he had was giving Itachi his other eye and jumping into Naka River, and then all of a sudden he wakes up and in an environment that didn't feel familiar.
Not even two minutes after he had awoken, the rikudou sennin appeared and explained he had been revived for a purpose. The specifics had not been given, merely that Naruto would need his help with whatever it is she was doing.
A few minutes after the sage left Itachi had found him, shocked beyond comprehension. Shisui liked to believe his eyes had pooped out but knew it wasn't the case. Shisui then said to Itachi what the sage had said to him and gave him the eye he had given to the boy who was now the same age as him, both making their way to Konoha under henge seals, undetectable by the Sharingan and Byakugan. When they got there, they went straight to where they knew ROOT was and lured Danzo out.
When the old war hawk had gotten there, Itachi had used the Tsukuyomi on him and Shisui had taken back his other eye. He had then taken to hiding his presence when he felt Naruto return to the village. (A/N He took his eye back around the time of the mission to wave.)
He had followed her, in a non-stalker way, in order to see how she went about her day. She trained, did missions, hung out with her friends, sat against a tree near where he jumped and sat atop her father's head. All in all, she lived a rather happy life yet even from the distance he was at, he could see the lingering edge of sadness in her eyes.