LEGACY

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Chapter 27

Fumiko was sitting on her bed with Hiroto on her lap, sucking greedily on the milk she was giving. Haruma was sleeping soundly on his tiny futon beside Hiroto's empty one. Even though the twins were not born like normal babies would, they sure acted like one. They would cry every time they felt it, and once one twin calmed down, the other twin cried. Thankfully, Sai was there with her.

"When did you come home?" Fumiko asked when she realized Neji was leaning on the door.

"Just sometime ago." He smiled. "You look good with kids, Fumiko-sama."

The girl looked away, not sure on how she was supposed to feel about it. Heat crept on her face, but obviously the girl tried to ignore it. Noticing it, Neji chuckled and sat in front of Haruma. He caressed Haruma's tiny face before pecking his forehead. He then came closer to Fumiko, basically embracing her from the front while looking down at Hiroto. The brownish raven haired baby was already looking at Neji with his curious innocent eyes.

"Hey, baby boy." He cooed. "Have you been good to mommy?"

Hiroto opened his mouth, trying to baby talk but with milk on his mouth, the baby coughed then cried. He was upset that the stupid milk made him choked. Both Fumiko and Neji chuckled before the man took Hiroto in his arms and rocked him gently.

"How's the mission?" Fumiko asked as she fixed Haruma's blanket.

"We came too late," Neji answered, "and the Kazekage was already dead. But then one of HiddenSand's ninjas did this jutsu and he came back to life."

"Casualties?"

"That Sand ninja and also a member of Akatsuki. His name's Sasori."

Fumiko froze hearing one of the Uchiha babies' creator names being called, but luckily Neji did not notice. "You must feel tired. Go clean yourself up while I'm putting Hiroto to sleep, then we can have dinner together."

"Your cooking?"

"Em." Fumiko nodded. "I've prepared some food in case you're back today."

"Alright." Neji kissed Hiroto before handing him to Fumiko. He then went to give his lover a kiss on her mouth before leaving to take a bath.

Within an hour, the young couple were sitting in the dining table while enjoying their dinner. Fumiko then decided to tell Neji the event with Tsunade. However, as she opened her mouth, the knock on the door shut her up. Both lovers' eyebrows scrunched. Who was coming this late?

"You continue to eat, I'll check it out." Fumiko told Neji before getting up and opened the door.

To her surprise, it was Ibiki. The stern faced man took out an envelope and shoved it in front of Fumiko's face. The girl ripped the letter open and read the content.

"So basically you want to arrest me." Fumiko blinked stoically.

Ibiki sighed, knowing that this was a suicidal mission given by the higher ups. "No, we're just going to investigate you about the Uchiha massacre."

"Are you sure you're going to do this, Morino-san? The order's not given by Senju. Does she even know you're coming here late at night just to arrest me?"

Ibiki narrowed his eyes dangerously. "Just follow me."

Fumiko shrugged and put her hands on her hips. "Fu."

A masked ANBU landed on the ground behind Ibiki, kneeling. "Please give this to the Hogake so she'd know about me being investigated. You're in charge as usual as I'd be occupied by our investigator here."

Fu took the envelope in silence as Neji came out from the house. Noticing how tense both his fiancé and the Investigator ninja were, the teenager frowned. "Ibiki-san?"

"Neji-kun," Fumiko's stern tone made Neji froze. "Somehow Konoha's higher ups are re-investigating the Uchiha massacre and Morino-san here is going to bring me to his headquarter. So, you need to take care of the children for me."

"Why would they need to re-investigate it?" Neji wrapped his hands around Fumiko's torso protectively. "The massacre happened years ago and all evident are no longer here. And it's you yourself who made the official statement that Uchiha Itachi's the one who massacred everyone."

"A little birdie told the higherups that there's something political behind Uchiha massacre." Ibiki answered sternly. "Hence, we re-investigate it. Now come along, Uchiha. I don't want to waste any more time."

Fumiko tightened her embrace on Neji before pecking him on the lips. She met up with Neji's cold eyes. "Ibiki-san, you sure know that the Hyuuga won't keep quiet on this situation, right?"

Ibiki knew well about it, goddamnit. He knew that the ROOT won't keep quiet about this either. Nor the Nara family. Fumiko smartly made friends more than she made enemies with other clans. However, orders were orders.

"Now come along, Uchiha."

Fumiko casted a final glance towards Neji before she followed Ibiki away. After a few minutes standing in silence, Fu snapped his hand. Another familiar ROOT came down from the roof.

"You know what to do." Fu nodded at Sai as the younger male nodded and vanished.

Fu then addressed Neji. "For the babies' safety, I hope you'll stay with them."

"Just... let my uncle know about this situation." Neji sighed.

Fu nodded and went away.

As Neji went inside and stayed with the twins, Sai ran as fast as he could to the place he was nearly killed. Luckily, his objective was not that far as he was on the move. The teenager stopped abruptly in front of the duo Akatsuki, panting.

The shark-like man took out his Samehada and was about to swing it when Sai opened his mouth. "Fumiko-sama's in trouble!" He blurted.

The boy closed his eyes, waiting for either of the Akatsuki to attack him. Yet nothing happened. Sai looked up, only to meet Itachi's furious and worried eyes.

"What happened?"