Red Eyes and Tears Ch.1

A/N- This is all modern day Naruto, chakra still exists and bloodlines. Some plots are the same. I really hope you enjoy! ^_^ I decided since I stopped For Your Arrival I'd pull a story out of my stash of Fanfic's because I've actually finished this story.

Oji means Uncle.

Kaa-san/tou-san means mother and father

itoko means cousin

Uchiwa means paper fan a.k.a Uchiha sign


He couldn't sleep, he tossed and turned himself into a state of unease and anxiety.

Sasuke Uchiha lounged on the sofa in his one room apartment with a bottle of Jack Daniels, the bottle half empty but he felt completely unaffected by the alcohol, nothing did it for him these day's. He capped his guilty sin and hid it in a fold of the chair until he could figure out what to do with it.

Outside the sky groaned and lightening disrupted the obstinate sway of the clouds, the walls of the apartment felt paper thin as if one good eruption of lightening would cause everything to crumble and implode like a house of cards.

I probably should should get my ass to work...I can't fake a hang over another day...headquarters had to be catching on to my bullshit by now and if they hadn't it was only a matter of time before they would...

He thought to himself, turning over his wrist to peer at his water resistant watch. The raven haired shinobi let out a throaty groan and shuffled back his damp inky hair from his forehead, he stared at his living room which actually did look like an eruption took place, one that involved dismembered toy's and scattered plastic carcasses. It was an eruption that, for once, he wasn't the cause of.

"Tou-san...I'm...scared."

Sasuke found the small slightly pudgy feet of a child in the shadows of the hall, who's face was illuminated by the dim night light Sasuke had recently installed in the hallway. Sasuke was amazed how much the boy resembled him as a child with his lustrous black hair and his innocent features, he was even more amazed that he wasn't dreaming that it was him. His eyes however were a distinctive attribute that differed from his fathers. His eyes were a mirrored image of his mothers, the curiosity in them was just as innate.

The boy stumbled forward, a blanket draped too big around his small pint size body and his dark eyes appraised his father for a brief second before he flew out of his snug comfort just as the thunder collapsed in the distance. The chandeliers in the living room trembled and fussed, the small child clutched his fathers arm and struggled to stow himself under his armpit.

"Senshi, its s'not scary at all...remember when I showed you Chidori, you weren't scared of that, lightening is a lot like that...right?"

Sasuke knew he shouldn't spoil the kid but he couldn't help but holding him protectively and ruffling his inky spikes. He wanted to keep him calm and as much out of trouble as he could and he had been taking care of his son long enough to know that he went off his demeanor. If Sasuke was angry or impatient, Senshi behaved like a spawn of Satin merciless and wild. He usually kept to himself but these day's he was just the same as Sasuke.

Nothing did it for either of them these day's.

Senshi nodded beneath his fathers heavy hand, his silky bang tickled his small nose and the boy opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue. He turned his head to stare up at his father.

"NE...CHIDORI IS AWESOME...AND-AND...can I say the Bad A word?"

Sasuke chuckled fondly of his little boy and shook his head.

"Hn, your mom would squash me with a rock if you slipped up around her."

The boy's wide eyes closed and then he sighed with disappointment.

"...but she's not aroun...can we...visit her too-day, I made presents!" the boy pouted up at his father and Sasuke's brows raised just before he sighed.

"Hn, we'll see...if your good at school today, your oji tells me that you've been harassing your itoko, Minoto...was that true?"

The boy quickly hung his head down to stare at his toes. He scowled at the thought of being scolded by his father because of that idiot whiner Minoto Uzumaki had tattled to his oji and Tou-san.

"He's an idiot...who wont shut his mouth, everyone wanted him to shut up...but nobody would tell him not even Iruka-sensei would...so..."

Sasuke sighed.

"You took the liberty of telling him to shut the fuck up."

"Ne!" he cheered like it was an accomplishment. "Just like you tell oji to shut up...I like oji but he talks a lot too...a whole lot and every time I spend the night over there we always eat stinkin ramen, that stuff is gross...looks like wet worms."

The boy retched mockingly and then twisted around in Sasuke's hold to get on his knee's in the velvety sofa. He pulled down the afghan blanket on the back of the chair that used to be Sasuke's but Senshi had taken a liking to the blanket. It had the red and white uchiwa embedded in the intricate yarn work.

"Tou-san..."

"Hn?"

"I miss Kaa..."

"I know you tell me every chance you get but she'll get better and then you'll be back at home with her."

"...I don't wanna go back home Tou-san...then I will miss you...and I won't have a dad anymore, I'll be a bastard...Minoto said I was."

The child nuzzled his nose into his fathers rib and cuddled up in the afghan. The dark emerald in his eyes were solemn and Sasuke could tell he meant every word.

Sasuke was overwhelmed, he would be lying if he said that he had gotten used to having a son in the past six weeks. He had no idea that Senshi existed six weeks ago and when he found out a series of unfortunate events occurred which lead to his ex-wife fighting for her life in the hospital.

He didn't mean for things to get out of control but with the two of them things always got out of control and now..

Senshi was suffering...because I don't know the first thing about taking care of him and he really misses Sakura.

Sasuke remembered the first night Senshi had became his responsibility. The boy cried the entire day and didn't listen to a thing Sasuke had to say. He shrilled mercilessly tossed things around simply to be a living hell, Sasuke almost joined in but thanks to the nifty sounds of his Chidori, he was able to contain the irrational outburst of his child. Naturally, Senshi took a liking to the screeching of a thousand birds and was excited to see the current of light. Since then Senshi has been cooperating with him in hopes that Sasuke would take him under his tutelage when he gets old enough to be in the Ninja Academy.

Sasuke never blamed him. Hell, if he were a kid who had been pried away from his mothers side and forced to live with his father he would have thrown a maniac tantrum too.

"You...will always be my son Senshi whether we're together or not, my blood runs through your veins, hnnk?"

The boy nodded slowly.

"Your blood...what about Kaa's blood where does her blood run?"

"Hn, it's in you too...she will always be your mother."

The small boy yawned and his lashes were longer than any male eyelashes should be, he rubbed at his eye with his tiny fist.

"Tou-san...I'm glad your my dad...your the strongest most powerfullest Shinobi in Konoha!"

Sasuke couldn't help himself, it brought a small grin to his hard face to hear that Senshi appreciated him and he was highly opinionated but he didn't deserve that title. It all belonged to Naruto, he had brought him back after all, in time to show him what he would be missing if he followed through with his plan of revenge. They would have destroyed one another and Sasuke would have died...without ever meeting his child, his small seed to replenish his clan.

"Hn, where did you hear that from?"

The child thought about it for a moment and then looked up at his father, he placed his index finger on his lips and 'shussshed' his father and then, after discreetly looking both ways as if someone lurked in the dark house he whispered.

"Kaa-san."