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For Her Sake

"Thank you for the food." The Uchiha family says in unison. It was Sasuke's first day as a genin, and Mikoto decided to cook all of Sasuke's favorite foods - sliced tomatoes, tomato curry, onigiri, and omusubi with okaka.

"How did your first day go ototo (little brother)?" Itachi asks out of the blue.

"Hn. He gave us a bell test, and the test wasn't to actually go after the bells, he was testing us on…" he pauses momentarily and says, "teamwork."

"Oh?" Fugaku's interest peaks at this. "And just how did you contribute son?"

He slightly blushes at remembering him and Sakura basically doing most of the teamwork while Naruto was keep on putting them at risk with his confrontational attitude, to which Mikoto couldn't help but laugh at hearing that.

"Just like his mother." Mikoto solemnly says, eyes downcast at her bowl of rice.

Sasuke then sees his father rub her back as if to soothe her from remembering a painful memory. Even Itachi's eyes go somber.

"You knew his mother?" Sasuke asks out of curiosity.

"Hai, she and I were very close friends. The last conversation I had with her was us both hoping that you and Naruto would become friends." She tearfully smiles at him.

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Right after dinner was over Itachi leaves because he said he had some "business" with Shisui, while Fugaku left to go finish some police department paperwork.

"I can clean the dishes for you mom, and you can just sweep for tonight ." Sasuke insisted because he could tell that his mom was still sad from the conversation they had at dinner.

After 20 minutes of meticulously cleaning the dishes, Sasuke takes a seat next to his mother on the couch and gulps before saying, "I'll try to get along with him better." Sasuke promises her, even though he was wincing on the inside.

At saying that he sees her onyx eyes full of elation.

"You are the cutest." She grabs both his cheeks and plants butterfly kisses all over his face.

"Okay, okay, I get it." His face red, and he couldn't help but think back to today's bell test when Sakura kept on trying to hug him right after she woke up from fainting at just seeing his head while the rest of his body was trapped underneath the ground.

Wait a minute… Did he just compare his mother to Sakura? He was now officially loosing his mind.

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