AN: I do not hold any rights to this Manga and any of its amazing cast of characters. That honor belongs to Kishimoto-sensei
"Wait…what?!"
Sasuke glared at the pinket before him. Over anything, he absolutely hated to repeat himself. Shoving his hands in his pockets, he continued on the walk through the forests surrounding the training field. Why he ever thought to ask her was beyond him now. The girl had been staring at him for the past half hour before he spoke and she chooses then to stop paying attention. "Annoying" he murmured so softly that it escaped the hearing of the girl falling behind him.
After the war, as part of his punishment, the Uchiha heir had to help repair the training grounds. "Think of it as therapy" smiled the hokage into her sake as she handed the D rank mission to his indifferent form him. He returned, as promised, at the end of the war determined to redeem his family name in honor of his late brother. Little did he expect the very bitter hokage to have a long list of chores waiting for them as her own sense of revenge for the suffering he had put her beloved apprentice through. 'Bitter Hag' he liked to call her if it would end up with her lengthen the list out of spite.
As he thought of the past couple months, the young apprentice stood up from planting the few practice logs in the small clearing they had chosen as a private training location within the dense woods. The location seemed to hold a simple meaning to Sasuke as he took care in making sure she placed the log near the remains of a long uprooted trunk of a tree before returning to planting the new trees in the forest. Sakura had at first assumed the man before had asked for her help in need of someone to quickly break up the ground for planting.
That is before the man spoke the bombshell demand that left the girl speechless as she watched his form retreat into the trees as if he spoke just about the weather.
"Marry me Sakura"
That is what he said and she will swear it on her parent's graves. 'This bastard would speak the most incredibly stupid things and think nothing of it.' She thinks harshly to herself. With an angry glare, the pinket easily caught up to the man that seemed to be walking slowly expecting her to catch up and join him.
Scoffing at his narcissism the pinket grabbed on the bastard's shoulder forcing him to stumble as she pushed him into a nearby tree. The poor newly planted tree did not stand a chance against the massive strength Sakura pushed into it as it tilled and half uprooted. Her angry green gazed was now able to stare directly into his tilted form.
Sasuke glared at her but refused to bend and say anything at the angry green-eyed monster before him. "tch"
"You.. you… how dare YOU ask no not ask but state for me to MARRY YOU after you haven't said a single word to me in months till today! Why on earth do you think I would ever marry –"
"Because you love me"
That stopped her in her tracks as she turned her head away. It was not every day that one, who was not a certain blonde headed idiot, heard more than three words in the same hour from the mute bastard. That plus he was a very correct bastard. She had not stopped loving him in the nineteen years they have lived on this planet. 'Not with the lack for trying.' She thinks sadly to herself before looking back at him.
"What, what does that-"
She stutters out loosening her grip on the male's shoulder as she shrinks back in clear embarrassment. After all, it is the worst kept secret after Hinata's affection for the blonde idiot of her own unending love for the redeeming traitor before her.
"You made me a promise four years ago if my memory serves correct." States the Uchiha taking advantage of her lessened grip and flash stepping out of her grip changing the tables on the situation backing her up into the poor tree. The cherry red girl had half crawled up the tree unconsciously in hopes to get away from the uncomfortably close man before her. Her hands clawing into its bark.
"I'm cashing in so … marry me. I need to rebuild the clan"
Sakura was about to mention another option, anyone but her hell even Karin, before he cut her off just as she opened her mouth speak again.
"I need someone I can trust who would never betray me. He then smirked "at least not twice that is"
She remembers the last time they were this close. It was when she planned to poison him during a failed attempt to put a stop to his plan to destroy the village. That was two years ago.
Sakura could not do anything but nod her head in acceptance. After all, she could never break a promise and she feared for the poor soul that her teammate would go to as his second choice .Even if it were someone as horrible as Karin. At least she knew from years of knowledge what to expect from the cold man before her.
"W-when." She whispers softly mentally preparing herself. The Uchiha smirk as is he knew the whole time that she would accept this proposition. After all, if she knew him enough to know what life was in her future he also knew that she would never back away from a promise. No matter how old and long ago it was. The bastard.
He says nothing, which was not very strange, and continues to walk deeper into the newly planted forest. The forest was almost complete and this was supposed to be final day of planting before his next project. This had been the first day that she had seen him sense it had been assigned to him weeks ago.
She follows behind as they soon approach in front a newly refurbished warehouse holding the male's clan sign on the structure's door. Pushing the door open he holds it open long enough for the pinket to step in and simply guides her into the temple.
Well this was unexpected… the room they stood in looked like any another ceremony meeting room of the clan except for one very important detail. It was filled with cats.
Your family summon is…
She starts to giggle to herself not able to help herself as she always assumed the clan had loyalties to a lion or any other large monstrous creature. Not something like the little kitten that rubbed past her leg in welcome.
She quickly gets a hold of herself after receiving a tired and annoyed glare from her teammate and soon husband.
'It must be a sign of an emotional breakdown' she sighs to herself before looking at him. "What are we doing here exactly? "
He just nods to a large book being held up by one of the larger cats in the temple and walks over to it. It was actually a book of seals as she glances at the pages within.
"This is the seal book in which certifies marriages in our clan", Sasuke supplies quickly standing next to her holding out for her hand. She could not help but note that he said "our" now.
'Of course, the king of solace would find a way to avoid a spectacle of a marriage ceremony' sakura could not help mentioning sadly to herself. 'Wonder how this would hold up in court if Tsunade-sama ever asks where she had been for the last ten hours. '
Holding her offered hand, Sasuke strikes a kunai across the palm before doing the same to his own. Holding both hands in a grasp over the opened blank page of the book. The seal appears and crawls up their arms and around their wrists. Sasuke lets go of her hand and the seal disappears. He thanks the cat who nods and closes the book and turns away.
Just like that in a manner of minutes, she was Uchiha Sakura.
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