The Uchiha Family

By: Suka Uchiha

Chapter 4 – Too Late?

A/N: Hello! I'm very sorry for not updating for a long time. I was so caught up with work and school and bunch of other stuff but I will try to update more often okay. Hope you enjoy this chapter and please REVIEW!

Recap

Sakura looked at Itachi straight in the eye. " Itachi what do you want for an exchange of my daughter's life?" Sakura asked.

" Would you give up anything for this little one?" Itachi asked.

Sakura looked at her daughter's pleading eyes. " Anything."

Ch. 4 – Too Late?

Itachi smirked. " Anything huh?"

Sakura nodded. " Yes anything. Tell me what you want and I'll give it to you."

" Well then, what I want is you Sakura." Itachi said.

Sakura's eyes widened. " Me? Why do you want me?" Sakura asked.

" I have my personal reasons...Sakura."

Sakura looked at her two sons and then at her only daughter. She sighed. " Fine. Take me instead of my daughter."

" Mommy!" Satoru said, who had tears on his eyes. As well for his younger brother Jiro.

Sakura looked down at her children with sadness in her eyes. " Everything will be okay. I love you so much." the mother of the kids said as a tear rolled down on her cheek. She then looked back at Sasuke's older brother and said, " Let go of my daughter first."

Itachi shooked his head no. " No. You come here first." he ordered.

Sakura did what she was told. She was in Itachi's side when he quickly let go of Saiko and grab Sakura in the arm. Saiko was in the ground crying. She then quickly got up and went to go kick her so called uncle, but Itachi blocked her kick and pushed her hard where her brothers were.

" Don't dare come near me again, brat, or I'll change my mind on sparing your life." Itachi threatened.

" Saiko do as he says." Sakura ordered.

Saiko looked at her mother with wet eyes. " B-But..mommy.."

Sakura closed her eyes to prevent from crying." Saiko please go. Run away with your brothers."

Itachi had enough of this. He didn't had much time, so he knocked out Sasuke's wife unconscious, and picked her up bridal style, and then he looked at Sasuke's children.

" Tell your father that I left him a special letter right by his office."

With that said he left with Sakura through the open window.

" Mommy!" The three kids said at the same time as they looked out of the window. Jiro broke down crying.

" What are we gonna do now?" Saiko said sobbing.

" We need to get daddy and uncle Naruto." Satoru suggested.

Saiko nodded. " Yeah. Let's go! Hurry! Daddy can stop our cruel uncle!"

Sasuke, Naruto and the rest had just arrived at the uchiha campground. At once, Sasuke had this uneasy feeling that something was wrong.

I hope I'm not too late. The uchiha thought.

They were just headed toward the house, when Sasuke's three children came out crying. When they first see their father they quickly ran to him. Sasuke hugged them.

"What's wrong? Where's your mother?" Sasuke asked.

" He took her. Our uncle took mother away!" Satoru said.

Damn it... Sasuke thought.

Sasuke then looked at Naruto with angry eyes. " Naruto..."

Naruto nodded at what he knew what Sasuke wanted him to do. " Neji, Shikamaru go after Itachi now!" the Hokage ordered.

Neji and Shikamaru quickly vanished to go after Sasuke's older brother and Sasuke looked at his children. " What happened? Did he hurt you?"

Saiko explained everything to her father. Every detail that she told her father about, Sasuke grew more angry with his older brother. Sasuke had a strong desire to just go right now and haunt down Itachi, but he knew that he couldn't do that now. The uchiha couldn't just leave his kids all alone wondering what's going to happen.

As for his best friend, Naruto, he couldn't believe that Sakura has been taken away by Itachi again. He blamed himself for leaving her alone with her kids. The Hokage thought that he should had never took Sasuke with him, but he knew full well that he couldn't go back in time and fix his mistake.

Naruto sighed. I just hope Sasuke doesn't do anything crazy without my permission.

The blond head prays that Sakura is alright and that nothing bad would happen with her. Sakura is like a sister to him. He would break every bone in Itachi's body if he ever harm her in any way. Though Naruto will always let Sasuke finish the job by ending Itachi's life. No doubt about that.

" Oh, and he said that he left you a letter at your office daddy." Satoru said as he wiped his tears away.

Sasuke sighed. Of course, it's very like him to leave me a letter. He thought.

" Naruto can you take care of them for awhile?"

Naruto nodded. " Yeah sure, Sasuke"

Saiko hugged her father's right leg. " Where you going daddy?" Saiko asked.

Sasuke looked down at his little girl and put a hand on top of her head. " I'll be back. Don't worry. I'm just going to my office, okay."

And then Sasuke gave a big hug to all of his kids.

" Sasuke, I'll take them to my house so come right back there when your done."

Sasuke nodded to the Hokage, and then he quickly left to go to his office.

When he came to his office he noticed there was a small white envelope addressed to him in black ink on his desk. He quickly came to it and ripped it open.

The letter said:

Hello dear foolish little brother,

You must be wondering where is your beautiful wife and I have to say that she has gone more beautiful than ever since I last saw her. Remember when I took her last time? It was such a good game for me. Do you still like playing games little brother?

I hope you do. I remember when you where young and always asked me to play games with you. You remember that? Well enough of the past. I will actually tell you where we are but in one condition... You must come alone. If you bring any of your comrades I will guarantee that your blossom will be dead in the most painful way I assure you. I'm giving you a chance to fight me one on one. We are at the village hidden in the Sound. There is a river; follow up the river until you see a abandon building. There is where we are going to be. I promise you this isn't a trick, and I'm giving you four days to come.

If you don't come by then, then your precious wife will be dead. So I consider you to come as soon as possible.

Itachi

After Sasuke read the letter, he crushed the paper into a ball with his hand. "DAMN YOU ITACHI!" Sasuke slammed the paper ball on the table.

What the hell should I do? He thought.

The poor Uchiha was stressing out. He had tons of ideas flowing through his mind. He had so much rage that he felt like leaving the village right now and go after his older brother. Then at the same time he didn't want to leave his three loving kids behind.

Sasuke took a deep breathe and calmed down. He sat down on his leather chair and put both of his hands on his face to hide his despair. The desperation for rescuing his wife was killing him, but he knew that he had to go talk to Naruto about the letter. He would get his ass kicked by a furious Hokage if he ever left the village without his permission.

There is no other choice... he thought.

Sasuke got up from his chair and grab the crumpled letter and put it in his pocket. The young man was going to talk to his best friend and he hoped that his friend would support him of what he got planned.

Hinata gave her husband a questioning look when she looked at the sad faces of the three kids at his side. Naruto looked at the kids then at his wife. " Where is Nora?" he asked.

" She's outside playing." Hinata answered.

The Hokage nodded and looked down at the three kids that where at his side. " Why don't you three go outside and play with Nora for a while?"

The three uchihas nodded and left the room to go outside. When Naruto was sure that they were gone, he told his wife to sit down and he kneeled beside her and grabbed her hand.

Hinata looked at his sad eyes. " What happened? What's wrong?" she asked.

" Sakura has been taken away again by Sasuke's brother." he said.

Hinata then hugged her husband. " No it can't be...how did this happened?" she asked.

They broke off the hug and Naruto explained everything to his wife. When he finished explaining everything to her, there was a knock on the door.

Naruto opened the door and let Sasuke come in. Sasuke sat down and asked where is his kids. " Don't worry Sasuke. They are outside with Nora. Oh before I forget Neji and Shikamaru reported to me that they couldn't follow any trace of Itachi or Sakura. " Naruto said.

Sasuke nodded and pulled out the letter out of his pocket. He hand the letter to his best friend and mentioned him to go ahead an read it. The Hokage opened the letter and his wife was at his side and they began to read the letter. After they were done they looked up to see that Sasuke had covered his face with his hands.

Naruto came to him and laid his hand on his friends' shoulder. " Sasuke...there is no other choice...so I'm allowing you to go ahead and kill your brother and bring back Sakura."

Sasuke raised his head up to see the Hokage. " Naruto..thank you."

"Don't thank me. Just remember one thing I'm counting on you to come back with Sakura alive. You hear me?"

" Don't worry Naruto I will come back." Sasuke said.

" Good." The Hokage nodded.

Sasuke then looked at Hinata. " Please take good care of my kids."

Hinata nodded. " I will take good care of them, Sasuke."

Hinata then went outside to bring the kids. While she was doing that Sasuke told his best friend that he will be leaving as soon as he says goodbye to his kids. Hinata came in the room with Sasuke's kids and Nora.

Sasuke came to his three children and gave them a big hug. " I will miss you so much" he said to them.

" Where are you going daddy?" Saiko asked.

Sasuke looked at his little girl and then at his two sons. " I'm going to get your mom back."

" When will you be back with momma?" Satoru asked.

" Like a few days I promise you."

Saiko started to cry and gave another hug to her father. " I'll miss you daddy!"

Sasuke gave her a kiss on her forehead. " Don't worry I'll be back before you even realize it."

Saiko nodded and her father wiped her tears away. Sasuke gave his kids one more hug and then he was off to the village of the sound.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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