Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Time of Renewal ❯ An Uchiha's Secret ( Chapter 4 )

A Time of Renewal   An Uchiha’s Secret                  Sasuke lay on his bed relaxing after a very hot shower that helped to cool his body down after his witnessing not only a naked Sakura, but figuring out that she had a symbiotic entity inside of her.  Of course it was the full shot that nearly did him in.  He would have to be more careful with himself.  He could ruin everything if he moved to soon.  His young mind kept drifting back to Sakura and no matter how hard to try to shift it to training or the information hidden in the meeting place he could get her out of his mind.  He wished he could go out and train to work off the unrest, but Sakura would likely come as swiftly as he had asked her to.  And as if called by the thought in his head a buzz came from the front door.  Luckily for Sasuke a trip out of his room and down some stairs to open up the common door to his apartments worked off his embarrassing show of arousal.  He open the door and quickly ushered Sakura in and up into his apartment.           &nbs p; Sakura was more than a little confused over the note Sasuke had left in her room and memories of her inner self’s words creped into her mind, but she could never bring herself to actually ask him when he had left the note.  If he had been there she would feel mortified and thoughts of self loathing floated through her mind.  She perked her self up with a light slap to her cheeks and pressed the buzzer to his apartment.  She waited for what seemed like eternity before the boy she loved opened the door with a serious look on his face.  A face she could see was a little flush for some reason, but his hair was damp so maybe it was just the shower and not the lewd thoughts that her inner self were whispering deviously in her head.  He ushered her in with a wave and led her up some stairs to his apartment.  It was a small three room apartment with a small kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom for basic needs and it was clean and very Spartan.  He led her into his room much to her embarrassment and more lewd comments from Inner Sakura.             “Sakura,” Sasuke began in a serious voice, “what I’m about to ask of you can never leave your mouth even if it kills you.”           &nb sp; Sakura was completely stunned to hear those words coming from his mouth.  Sasuke was going to ask her to do something so important to him that she would never tell anyone even if it meant she would die.  “I promise you that I will never allow what I see or hear to leave my mouth even if I must die to protect it.”  Her words held her feelings for Sasuke in them.  If she succeeded in this task she would most certainly grow closer to him.  Inner Sakura made more comments on how close they could get before Sakura shut her out of her conscious mind.             Sasuke nodded before going on.  “I’ll need you to meet me at the Uchiha shrine located inside this scroll.”  Sasuke pull a scroll from his desk and handed it to Sakura.  “You will head home first before veering off towards the markets.  Purchase items that will be needed to help you keep a sharp mind and feed both of us for extended periods of time.  I would suggest non-perishable food items and water as well as coffee or tea.”    Sasuke could feel her closing in on him at a steady and completely normal pace.  She shouldn’t attract any attention to herself as long as she seemed to be going somewhere with purpose.  He stood up as her chakra signature neared the building he was in and walked over to open the door.  He smirked as he opened the door just before she could put a bag down to knock. “Come in,” he said as he grabbed a bag from her hand. And led her over to the hidden entrance, “Always remember to make sure no one has followed you when you come here.” Sakura nodded and followed him to an opening in the floor, “I’ll go in first and turn the lamps on.  There is no electricity here and only a small air hole to keep the air from getting to stale.” Sakura followed Sasuke down the dark stairs and into a place that no one outside of the Uchiha clan had ever seen.  She was almost shaking with anticipation as she descended into a large room with two smaller rooms on each side.  She followed Sasuke left and into a room that had three long tables forming a squared “U”.  On the tables were boxes with folders, papers, and scrolls.  There were so much that the tables seem to be buckling under the weight of the information. “Sakura,” Sakura turned her attention to Sasuke and a small area he had obviously put in place not long ago.  There was a small fridge that was obviously run from electricity that he had brought down in order to power it.  He had also installed some open shelves and a counter top to make food on.  Sakura walked over and placed her load next to Sasuke’s bag. Sakura turned around to look at the tables full of documents and looked questioningly at Sasuke.  Sasuke walked over to a light fixture on the ceiling and pulled a string.  The light brightened up the room considerably.  “I thought you said there was only lamp light here and what is all this stuff?” Sasuke snorted lightly before answering her questions.  “I put this light in to assist in my research and this stuff is literally all the history of the Uchiha clan.  I brought you here to organize the information so that I can gather a better picture of the truth behind what led up to the night of my family’s death.” Understanding dawned on Sakura as she listened to his explanation of what he needed from her.  “So you chose me because of my organization skills and the fact that you could trust that I wouldn’t betray any secrets I found here.” Sasuke nodded at Sakura, “Yes that is exactly why I chose you, but it isn’t the only reason however that is for another time.  What I need is for you to figure out the best way to sort out the vast amounts of information so that we can go sort through it without getting mixed up.” Sakura nodded, “I think the best way would to be to separate them into generalized groups.  We can do a sort of timeline, but I don’t know how old your clan is.  Though we can separate it down into three or four major section we can maybe do more.  If it’s purely information we should then try and piece together information by chronological order regardless of family.” “Yes, but making a family tree may help keep information gained into perspective as well as help shed light on any information that doesn’t tie to someone directly.” Sakura nodded then frowned.  “We really need more people to do this.  Maybe after we get everything sorted we can convince Naruto to help write down the information chronologically.  His handwriting may be a bit sloppy, but the time we would save with his clones doing the simple stuff would aid us drastically.” Sasuke nodded to Sakura, “That didn’t even occur to me.  When we reach that point we will asses the risk of bring Naruto into here.  I think a good idea would be to separate the information from pre Konoha and then do one from the reign of the 3rd and 4th and another one that is after the Kyubi’s attack.” “You think that something may have changed after the attack?” “Of course things changed.  You’ll notice that after the attack they moved the Uchiha’s compound further away from the village center.  The reason for this will become apparent as we figure things out.  At least that is what I hope.” “Well then when are we going to start?” “Right now if you don’t have to be anywhere, but make sure you make yourself see through out the day.  So when ever you need a break let me know.” “Ok well then let’s get to sorting some Uchiha history!”   Sakura was out almost as soon as her head hit the pillow in her room.  The day had been exhausting and the amount information that she gained was positively mind numbing.  Sasuke had told her about his brother and his last moments before he left.  When she had scoffed at the idea that his brother had killed the whole clan she thought that Sasuke was going to kill her right there and none would ever know.  However he had almost fallen to his knees in realization that it was highly unlikely that he could have done it not even the 4th would have been able to kill off his entire clan in a night without attracting the attention of the anbu. Who was strong enough to do something on that level?  In all the history that Sakura could remember from school there only seemed to be a few ninja who matched that.  She had told Sasuke those names and one of them was an Uchiha.  Uchiha Madara was the co-founder of Konoha who had allegedly had been powerful enough to fight toe to toe with the first Hokage who himself was rumored to be able to control the tailed demons.  The current Hokage was also one along with all three of his students as well as the 4th.  Of all those people only Madara had a grudge against the Uchiha as a whole, but he was long dead and if not he’d be over a hundred years old.             A least tomorrow would be a break since team 7 had to Kakashi at the normal spot.  As her mind drifted into a deep sleep dreams of a man with long spiky black hair filled her mind.  Visions of death haunted her night and would continue to.