Tender Sea

Chapter 12

Miyu tensed as the man continued to look at her with disdain. It brought up bad memories. Kurama noticed her reaction, and lowered his stance, growling a soft warning. He caught the father's attention and was rewarded with a look of disgust. His growling increased as the man carelessly angered the demon.

"Can I ask you to repeat that?" Miyu asked, remaining politely.

"What? The fact you are Fugaku's daughter?" Ichirou looked at his father strangely, having never seen him behave this way before. "Or the fact that you are an unwanted bastard child?" The younger girl sighed heavily, in the end she had already expected something like this from the prideful clan.

''Now, the question is where you would like to stand in their hierarchy,'' Kurama commented, ''at the moment I would not be so against a position at the top. If only to prevent fools like this one from acting so conceited.'' The fox mentally ranted about foolish humans while Miyu took the time to calm herself.

"What's wrong? Does it hurt to hear the truth?" The man commented offhandedly when she hadn't responded, "Finally it looks like Fugaku slipped up. Good, it will be easier to bring him down this way." He mumbled to himself. It should have been inaudible for humans, but the fox easily picked it up, and anything the animal heard was of course passed onto his partner. Maybe it would be easier to prevent the massacre than she thought.

"I'm sorry," She began, her tone even, "It was just that, from my knowledge, isn't the Sharingan well sought-after? I don't quite understand how I could be unwanted if I carried it in my blood."

"As if a mongrel like you could ever manifest it," The man stated, "It would have been better to kill you then let you tarnish the family name."

"I have been nothing but civil towards you so far, your threats and insults are unwarranted," Miyu grit out, beginning to lose her temper, "But if you're determined to continue I'll have to prove just how wrong you are."

"I'll speak to you however I want." He replied uncooperatively, "Its better you learn your place now if you hope to survive." He ended with an open-ended threat to her life.

Kurama growled with his hackles raised, they didn't have to take his hostility, but he didn't think a dead body would help ease Miyu into their clan.

"I think you're the one who needs to learn their place," Miyu snarled. This man rubbed her the wrong way and brought up memories she would rather forget. She felt the chakra in her body surge with her emotions and made no move to restrain them, even when her eyes were dyed red. Ichirou gaped with his mouth hanging wide open, his father choking in surprise. "I am Uchiha Namikaze Uzumaki Miyu, I don't care if you accept me or not, but next the time you threaten or insult me will be the last." She turned abruptly, with a final glare over her shoulder, and left with her fox stalking behind her.

''For a second I thought you might have become the instigator of another Uchiha Massacre,'' Kurama commented offhandedly.

"Almost," She muttered, trying to calm down as she walked, "Are these the kind of people Sasuke grew up with?"

''They are more similar to the Hyuga then they would like to admit.'' The fox voiced her own opinions before she had a chance to. It seemed like it wasn't all rainbows and sunshine with the Uchiha. She brought a hand to her forehead and closed her eyes, deactivating them, while trying to ease an oncoming headache.

"Yip!" Kurama barked out a warning but Miyu was too distracted, bumping into the unknown object.

"Ouch!" She winced and rubbed her backside which had fallen on the cruel unforgiving floor. Across from her was another child who looked a few years younger than her. Her gaze travelled upwards from the plain brown shorts and black t-shirt, decorated with the signature red and white fan. Slightly chubby cheeks from excess baby fat and short black hair framing his pale face, she would never forget those dark piercing eyes.