𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔 //𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒊//

𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝

Apparently, a couple of Naruto's friends discovered that I was off work for a bit and decided that I would make a good chauffeur because none of them have cars.

That's why, Ino and Sakura are inside my house with a very displeased Sasuke that they dragged along with them to go to the mall.

Still, he looked too familiar. "Hey, what's your new friend's last name?" I asked Naruto, putting the final touches on my eyeliner.

"Oh him? It's Shiro, and Sasuke says that we aren't friends." Naruto said looking annoyed.

"Oh" I deadpanned as we both walked down the stairs back towards our unexpected guests.

We got in the car, Naruto was riding shotgun and and Sasuke was in the middle back seat with a bickering girl on either side of him. Honestly, it was hard not to feel bad for the kid.

Once we arrived at the mall I felt a little weird hanging out with a bunch of younger people, but at least I got to drag everyone into Sephora to squeal about makeup with Ino, so it wasn't that bad.

Soon enough, Sasuke said that his brother was coming to pick him up and both Sakura and Ino came up with an excuse to leave.

Just after Sakura and Ino left, Sasuke's brother shot him a text saying that he'd be 10 minutes late, so the three of us sat down at a bubble tea shop.

Everything was calm as we sipped our drinks and waited for Sasuke's brother to arrive.

"That's him." Sasuke said, standing up.

I looked up to see Itachi. fucking. Uchiha.

It felt like watching a car crash in slow motion when we met eyes and a look of recognition donned on his face.

"Naruto, we need to go now." I said with evident panic in my voice, getting up out of my seat and grabbing his hand.

"Wha- Why?" Naruto asked, confused about this entire situation.

"I know him from work." I said, walking right past Itachi and out of the shop. What was he going to do about it? Cause a public disturbance?

'That's why the kid was so recognizable, un. He was a fucking Uchiha!' I thought as we hurried through the busy mall.

Nowhere was safe. The mini Uchiha had already learned our identities and address. I needed to think, and now.

I made a sharp turn towards the subway exit with Naruto behind me. We usually never took the subways because they were always cramped and full of people, but right now that was exactly what I needed.

"I'm going to need you to do something for me, okay?" I asked Naruto as we went down the stone staircase leading to the subway.

"Yeah what is it?" He said, as we got our tickets at the station booth.

"The house isn't safe anymore. I'm going to need you to ride that train over there all the way out to Iruka sensei's house." I said, pointing at the train in front of us.

"Wait. You're not coming too?" Naruto asked, a look of growing fear spreading across his face.

"I promise to join you later but right now, I need to buy you some time." I said, the statement sounded more like a wish than a promise.

"See you later, I guess." Naruto said, putting on a stoic face. The subway train's doors opened with a hydraulic hiss.

I nodded and hugged him before Naruto got inside of the subway car along with many other people.

I turned around to see the two Uchihas coming closer.