The man showed up in a flash of purple light, there was a split second where he recognized the man in front of him, as the son he had left eating breakfast that morning. He threw that thought to the side, for how could it be Sasuke? He saw recognition flash in the man's eyes, saw the shock, the sadness, but more than anything he saw longing. He watched as the man in the dark cloak opened his mouth to speak only to immediately close it. The man proceeded to look around him, as if processing his location, it was as the man studied his surroundings that Fugaku saw something he probably shouldn't have. Something that should have caused Fugaku to be afraid, to be wary, yet he could not find it in himself to be fear the man before him, even knowing the man possessed the rinnegan.

The more Fugaku stared at the man standing before him the more he could no longer deny who he was. As ridiculous as it was to him, he could see his own features on the man in front of him, with a confidence and a sense of denial, Fugaku broke the silence, "Sasuke you should not be here."

He watched as Sasuke's eyes widened probably surprised that he would recognize him. "You know who I am?"

"You are my son after all." Fugaku proceeded to walk ahead, "come, I know where we can talk in private."

"Father forgive me," Fugaku pretended not to hear the pain in Sasuke's voice as he said father, he ignored the hesitation, as if the word was something he was unaccustomed to using. "I don't have time to go the shrine, my daughter is missing and I could only think of you to help me."

"Sasuke explain."

"I recently found an Uchiha scroll that was hidden and protected by countless genjutsu. I had yet to look at it, my daughter went into my study she was playing with it, and somehow triggered it, she has been missing for two days now. My wife she is looking for any record of the scroll, but she can't find any." Fugaku could hear the desperation in Sasuke's voice, "please, help me find my daughter!"

"The fact the you think you would have to plead!" He couldn't help the anger in his voice, Sasuke seemed relieved though."Where did you find the scroll?"

"About a day's travel from Konoha, in the direction of Suna."

Fugaku paused at his words, something not being right, "well your wife will not find any answers. It is a scroll that belongs to the Uchiha, and only the Uchiha. You said one scroll? There was not another one?"

"There was only one scroll."

"Are you sure?" Sasuke nodded, "that scroll has a twin, without it the only chance of getting her back is with your eye. The scroll is for time travel, useless time travel, it is limited in how far back it can take you and even then it is unpredictable as to when. Sometimes the damn thing doesn't work. Some believed that the older you are, the less far back you can go. Regardless the limit seems to be thirty years." Sasuke looked like he was punched in the face, "it will be difficult to find her, but the good news is wherever she landed the scroll will drop her off, near the closest relative in the vicinity, and by blood."

"So the scroll drops her off by determining the closest blood relative in the equivalent location?"

"Yes, let's say she used the scroll in this exact same spot 20 years from now, and you and I were both one hundred meters from here, the scroll would bring her closer to you than to me. As her father, you are closer by blood, though it would be hard to determine how close she would initially appear." Fugaku studied his son, "she can only appear so far from the initial travel location, if I had to guess, she would have shown up still within the Village."

"Is there a way to determine where she would be?"

"There might be one way, the scrolls like I said are very limited, the current scrolls will not be able to be used since they are in use within thirty years." Fugaku couldn't help but sigh as he added, "little is truly known about the scrolls, but the scrolls are connected, and not just those two, if another pair exists within the time frame, the one that was not used are rumored to display a date." Fugaku recognized the look in his sons face as one of determination, and calculation. Without putting much thought into it, Fugaku summoned a crow, watching Sasuke's surprise, Fugaku explained, "I taught your brother, I only use the crows for messaging your mother though."

"I have a specific hawk for messages to my wife." There was hint of red at his admittance, but a bit of awe in there too.

"Great minds think alike." Then he began writing the message, once he sent the crow on its way, he looked to his son, "let's go." The confusion was evident, "you think are going to go to the scrolls alone?" The silence was all the confirmation Fugaku needed, "don't be foolish. Even with the rinnegan you would not be able to leave the scrolls as I had. I might do something stupid if I discover the traps not as I laid them. However, if you change my memories there instead of now, it will be easier for me to believe that I changed the traps."

"It might be too dangerous, Danzo must already keep a close eye on you."

"He does, but if you think that Danzo would keep me from helping you find my granddaughter, then you will make me doubt you as my son. This of course means we would have to fight."

There was a hint of humor in his tone, one that Sasuke did not miss there was a small on Sasuke's face as he said, "let's go then."

A/N: if anybody is reading Beginnings the title and premise should be familiar. While this starts on a more serious note for the most part the rest should stay relatively the same. That said this is a short little story, I should be able to finish this fast, and is mostly for the sake of getting me back into writing. If I do take too long to update this, feel free to check it out in Beginnings it is on chapters 28 and 29... it is not much but you get a feel for what the story should be like and get to decide if it is worth your time or not... however, I do mean short story I don't want this to even reach 5 chapters...

For those waiting on an update on Timely a million and one apologies, I have horrible writer's block but I am hoping this story will help me overcome that.

Please let me know any mistakes you find so that I can fix them...