The White Snake with Red Eyes

Chapter 12

     An: Reader is now identifying as someone with a non-straight sexuality. Also, let me point out a couple things. In Japan age of consent is 13. In the Naruto verse, young shinobi are pretty much adults once they hit chunin.

     You looked up from the book you were reading to the yellow eyes of the man above you. He was holding out an apple. You took it. "Thanks." He went back to his lab table and kept working on whatever experiment it was he was doing now.

     You worked in companionable silence. You studying to build new jutsu and your father studying a way to use the higher level ocular jutsu without losing use of your Sharingan.

     It was quiet and peaceful. Once you had explained everything to the village, The Third had let him come back, provided he keep mostly to himself.

     It was a small price to pay to have your father back and mostly out in the open with his identity. Even better...he was proud of you. You dozed, eventually, book on your lap as you sat in the window. You woke to a warm meal on the table beside you. If the plate next to your dad's work bench was any indication he had eaten and gone back to work already.

     As you dug in, he whispered to you, looking up briefly. "You're my legacy. My daughter."

     Your browser furrowed. It was an odd sentence. He continued. "Please wake up. I want you to come back to me of your own accord." The world seemed to blur at the edges and something prickled at the back of your mind.

     "This isn't real..." As you considered how you knew that, the feeling left and clarity returned to the edges of your vision. You forgot. "Did you say something?" You asked your father.

     "Nothing, my dear. Just that I'm proud of you."

X

     It didn't take "Danzo" that long to catch up to the Akatsuki carrying his daughter. He followed them for nearly two weeks before finding a good opportunity to step in. One where the only shinobi would be the three of them.

     As soon as he approached them outside the inn, any civilians outside dropped whatever they were doing and went inside. They all knew what this had the potential to become. "Return the child to me and I might let you go in peace instead of in pieces."

     While Deidara was putting the pieces about who "Danzo" was together, Sasori had it all figured out. "What is she to you, Orochimaru? An escaped experiment?"

     "The child is so much more than that... She's my legacy. I spent countless weeks perfecting her. My daughter. I repeat...peace or in pieces."

     Sasori backed off. "Let's go, Deidara. This is a job for Kisame or maybe Pain."

     Deidara shot his companion a disapproving look. "It's just one old man. We can take him. I told you those puppets needed more balls cause look at you now, hmm?"

     "Danzo" grinned real wide. "Oh you mean the puppets Kabuto helped him make? Kabuto has certainly proven a useful spy. New intel all the time."

     This time Sasori grabbed Deidara and began to walk away. "We don't know what this form of that snake bastard is capable of. Let's go and report."

     Alone with his child, "Danzo" looked down at her. "Come on. I don't want to force you awake. It would be great if you...woke up of your own free will." He began to head back with her.