Meeting Mikoto and Itachi! II

Entering the shop, Kazutora looked around, and he saw various clothes hung around in different designs.

He saw Kurenai going towards the shopkeeper, and Kazutora decided to look around the clothes and see if he liked any design.

'No! No! Not this!' Kazutora thought in his mind as he looked at the designs of clothes one by one, and in between, his eyes fell on the door. From the door, a woman entered while holding a baby in one hand, and holding the hand of the other boy.

He didn't why but Kazutora felt that he had seen them before, and maybe because he stared a bit hard, Mikoto turned to look in his direction.

Their eyes met, and Kazutora jolted from his thoughts. He gave a smile to the woman while waving his hand, and Kazutora saw the woman waving her hand back.

Nodding at her, he turned around and started to look for his clothes.

Mikoto chuckled as she looked at the white-haired boy turning around to look at his clothes, and she looked at Itachi, who was staring at the kid.

"Hmm! It isn't a good habit to stare at someone. Also, Itachi, why didn't you greet him back?" Mikoto said with a light hum, and Itachi moved his eyes from the boy to his mother.

"I didn't know that he was greeting me," Itachi said in a plain voice, and Mikoto rubbed her head at his words. She didn't what to say to him, or how to talk to him as Itachi kept a plain face every day just like Fugaku.

"Come with me, we will be choosing your clothes too."

Itachi nodded at her words, and he followed Mikoto obediently.

Kazutora, who was looking around the clothes, sensed someone walking in his direction and he turned around. Seeing that it was Kurenai, Kazutora smiled and walked to her with two long coats in his hand, and Kurenai looked at them with a curious look on her face.

"Do you like them?" She asked as she crouched and put the coat around Kazutora, ignoring his protest about this matter, and then she looked at Kazutora.

"It looks good," Kurenai heard a voice and she turned to the side. She saw someone familiar, and after the identities came into her mind, her expression changed to a slight frown, and then she controlled herself.

But, Mikoto noticed the change in Kurenai's expression. Though she didn't say anything and kept a smile on her face, inwardly Mikoto sighed at her reaction, and she knew that this wasn't the end.

"Mikoto-Sama," Kurenai said, and Mikoto waved her hand.

"You can just call me Mikoto-San or sister Mikoto. I am here to buy clothes for these two, not as someone from Uchiha clan." Mikoto said with a slightly sad smile on her face, and Kurenai froze at her words.

She understood that Mikoto had noticed her discomfort, and saw her leaving after giving a last glance to Kazutora and nodding at him.

"Mikoto-San, do you want to buy the clothes together?" Kurenai said before Mikoto could leave, and a surprised expression appeared on Mikoto's face.

"Are you sure, Yuhi-San?" Mikoto asked and Kurenai nodded at the words.

"You can just call me Kurenai since I am younger than you," Kurenai said, and even though Mikoto knew that she talked about being an Elder, Mikoto was a bit annoyed at being called older.

Kazutora heard the words exchanged between the two, and he understood that the person in front of him was Mikoto Uchiha.

Then, he looked at the little baby in her hand and he understood that the baby was Sasuke Uchiha. His eyes fell on the little boy beside Mikoto, and Kazutora looked at Itachi Uchiha for the first time, and he murmured in his heart.

'Not cute as me, and his eyes seem dead. The plain look on his face must be because he can't express himself, and he doesn't know what to do at the moment.'

"Hey! I am Kazutora, Big sister Kurenai's little brother," Kazutora introduced himself to Mikoto with a light bow, and Mikoto smiled at his words.

She looked at Itachi staring at the boy, and gave a light smack to his head.

"I am Mikoto Uchiha, nice to meet you, little Kazutora. You can call me sister Mikoto or Aunt Mikoto." Mikoto said, and Kurenai's eye twitched at the words. She knew that no woman liked to get called older woman, and she understood why Mikoto seemed a bit annoyed.

"Okay, Sister Mikoto!" Kazutora nodded at her words, and his words made Mikoto smile. Then he looked at Itachi and asked, "What about you?"

"I am Itachi Uchiha, Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, Itachi-San."

"Is he your youngest?" Kurenai said appearing beside Mikoto and looking at sleeping Sasuke in her hand.

"Yeah, he is my youngest, Sasuke Uchiha," Mikoto said with a smile on her face, and she glanced at Itachi, who showed no reaction with slight annoyance in her heart.

'Damn Fugaku, he doesn't even know what to say to his peers and you brought him to the battlefield. Tsk! I should have fought him harder at that moment.'

Mikoto cursed in her heart as she felt a bit awkward, and hurt for Itachi.

"Then, let's walk around and look for Itachi, and little Kazutora's clothes first. They are of the same age, and their clothes will be in the same place." Mikoto said after thinking for a moment, and Kurenai nodded at her words. She didn't why she asked Mikoto to shop with her, but now that she talked with Mikoto, she didn't feel out of place.

'Mikoto-San is good at talking and taking care of people. She doesn't seem like the image I had in mind.'

Kurenai thought as she walked with Mikoto to the kid's clothes section, and the duo started to look for clothes. Mikoto had passed Sasuke to Itachi, and looking at Itachi, who was staring at Sasuke with an engrossed look on his face, Kazutora didn't know what to say.

He decided to ignore him for now, and he went to Mikoto and Kurenai to check his clothes as he didn't want them to choose girl's clothes for him. After all, he knew that women had a habit of making little boys wear girls' clothes, and he didn't want that to happen.

Mikoto sensed someone coming to her and she saw it was Kazutora who walked to her with a curious look on his face. She looked in Itachi's direction, and seeing that he was paying attention to Sasuke, Mikoto sighed, and she knew that Itachi didn't use this chance to become friends with Kazutora.

"Little Kazutora, which do you prefer?" Mikoto decided to ignore Itachi and his antics at the moment and she paid attention to the child in front of her.

Looking at those plump cheeks, she wanted to rub and pinch them, but Mikoto calmed herself and kept a sweet, and gentle smile on her face. Kurenai looked at the scene while feeling a bit funny in her heart. She glanced at Mikoto's actual son, who seemed to have been ignored by her and then looked at Kazutora, who was being paid attention by Mikoto like a good mother.

'Well, Mikoto-San's kid seems a bit strange. If Kazu was like this, then I wouldn't even know how to handle him.'

"What about this one?" Kurenai said walking to the duo, and Mikoto looked at the matching outfit in her hand and nodded at her with sparkle in her eyes.

"Yeah, it would look good on him. Little Kazutora, why don't you go and change these clothes?" Mikoto said and Kurenai agreed with her with a nod. Kazutora looked at the two women, and he felt like he had made a bad decision to join them.

He glanced at Itachi from the corner of his eyes, and then he felt that at least his decision was only bad, not worse.

Taking the outfit, Kazutora went to the changing room, leaving Mikoto and Kurenai together.

With Kazutora leaving, the duo felt like the atmosphere between them had changed and it had gotten slightly awkward.

"Mikoto-San, what about your son?" Kurenai said trying to ease the atmosphere, and she saw Mikoto sighing at the words.

"He, Sigh! I don't know what to say about him. Since Fugaku took Itachi to the battlefield at the age of 4, he has become a silent, and withdrawn kid."

"Hah? How could Fugaku-Sama do this? Taking a four-year-old kid to the battlefield?" Kurenai said in a surprised and slightly angry voice, and Mikoto looked at her with a surprised look on her face.

She didn't expect Kurenai to act like this, as as far as she knew, Kurenai was in the same class as Kakashi, who graduated at 5 years old and became Chunin at six.

But, she had heard about Kakashi's behaviour at that moment, and she understood that just like her son, Kakashi also suffered from trauma because of White Fang, Sakumo Hatake's death.

"It seems you understand my feelings. It must be because of him, isn't it? Even though I haven't met him for long, I can see that he is a good child, and I hope that Itachi can become like him and act at his age."

Mikoto said with a gentle smile on her face and she had to say that being with a child like Kazutora was refreshing.

Kurenai froze at Mikoto's words, and she just gave a nod and didn't say anything. The two became silent, and a few moments later, Mikoto pointed in a direction.

"That outfit would look good on him, right?"

Kurenai looked in the direction Mikoto pointed, and she looked at the outfit. A slight smile appeared on her face, and accepting Mikoto's gesture of changing the matter, Kurenai said, "I guess it will."

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