Little Sister AU

viii

Summary: In which Kyoya is still possessive with things (or people) he called his.

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8.

When Uchiha Shisui died, it wasn't that Kyoya didn't feel anything.

After all, Shisui was his.

His pet. No matter how derogatory that title may sound, Kyoya was attached to the kid that was carrying too much burden for someone who didn't even have his hairs fully grown yet.

But, Kyoya was Kyoya was after all and as much as he wanted to feel something, he still couldn't quite get it right even if he tried hard to understand.

He couldn't quite get the grief that everyone thought he was feeling when it was announced that the boy was dead and how-

How one Uchiha Itachi killed him.

Kyoya, however, even if he couldn't get grief as much as the other person, felt rage much more than the average population, and his anger-

It runs cold as it tries to unravel the whole picture bit by bit until he sees who's the one at fault exactly and bite that particular one to death.

So when Uchiha Shisui died and Uchiha Itachi left, the first thing that he did was to watch over Uchiha Sasuke.

Kyoya had his priorities straight and his pet cared of Uchiha Itachi's younger brother very much even when it seemed like the other Uchiha disdained him at every turn in Shisui's stories.

Shisui would say that he disliked the Sasuke in reciprocation, complaining about two brothers incessantly - his voice washing over Shikari as he went on and on with a barely-concealed fondness for the two.

(Kyoya liked hearing Shisui's voice. It was slow, gentle, and kind. Kyoya could tolerate it to a certain extent since, in exchange for listening to some of the Uchiha's worries, Kyoya got a good spar, dango, and a spot where the sunlight hits just right that Shisui had a good knack in finding, in return.)

Once he was sure that the child could function pretty well on his own and wouldn't be hurtling himself to death anytime soon, Shikari, then, went on to skulk around the village in an attempt to investigate what happened.

Since the village seemed eager on pinning all the blame to a pacifistic genius gone insane and would rather brush over the reasons why in hell didn't the ANBU and other high-ranking shinobis discover what happened until it was too late, Shikari decided to take it upon herself to chip away at the truth the whole village supposedly knew.

He sneaked around the village for several weeks, his small form a plus in keeping unwanted attention away as he tried to dig around for anything that might connect to the massacre.

(Kyoya got nothing out of it but whispers of a coup whispered by a particularly bitter old genin who got scolded for badmouthing the dead and the fact that some of the kids orphaned by war were being smuggled into an organization within the village as they trained them into brainwashed soldiers loyal to Konohagakure and to the master who has their neck in a leash.)

(The ones who survived to get back were different from usual ninjas. Some were not as polished or as good as the ones in ANBU, but they were colder - with tattoos imprinted in the back of their tongues for a reason Kyoya couldn't pinpoint at the moment.)

(It was almost ridiculous actually, how little people could see especially in a village lauded as the strongest, as these same kids were smuggled back in the village as agents used to influence public opinion. It was somewhat understandable since the ones who could have discovered these people didn't have the luxury to pay attention to the fodder beneath their notice during these trying times.)

(It was likely that if they did, they either were probably in on it or weren't strong enough to fight back. After all, the ones who owned these dogs were smart. The ones who were smuggled out to be civilians weren't particularly strong - hiding under the veneer of being weak to avoid pinging any radars and took advantage of the chaos to execute orders according to their master's whims.)

However, as good as he was, even Kyoya made mistakes.

Especially now since he was in the body of a toddler - operating in a world with a different set of rules and different standards for power.

(His father kept putting chakra training off and it was all Kyoya could do to hide his presence - trying to emulate Reborn's knack for hiding his presence.)

(He still couldn't quite get it right.)

(Operating in a body he couldn't quite control made him have a higher appreciation for the Arcobaleno in his previous life. How they managed to live like toddlers for years and still be strong enough in spite of it, was beyond him and truly worthy of respect.)

So he wasn't surprised when after he tried to follow one of these smuggled kids in the organization's hideout and got back home, he got faced with a stern-faced man with bandages around his head and eyes - smiling at him in warning.

Shimura Danzo.

Well.

Kyoya tilted his head as he stared at the man beneath his eyelashes.

Interesting.