Wow, can you believe it? I'm BACK! yeah so I decided to just go ahead and post the story... I've only got a handful of chapters done but I feel really good that I can be somewhat consistent with updates so I will do my best. I might incorporate my policy of writing another chapter before I post a chapter but we will see. But hey just be glad i'm back its been waaaayyyyyy too long. But here is my next story.

What We Need

Summary: Sasuke and Sakura have been married for 5 years and have a little boy, but trouble arises and before long their marriage is in jeopardy. Will they fight to be together or will their marriage wilt like her name sake?

Rating - T for Teen (slight language, some innuendos, and suspense)

Categories: Romance, Mystery, Adventure, Comedy, and everything else in between.

Disclaimer:DNON, but i do own the plot, please don't steal :)

(btw this is AU so I do apologize if the characters have slightly different personalities, I don't think its too bad, but if it is let me know and i will work on it. Also I have gone back and edited, but I'm not perfect so don't snip please :) )))

Enjoy

Chapter 1

The moon shone above the roofs of the houses in the starlit sky. All the houses in the suburban area were dark except one that had a faint light spilling into the night from the back of the house. It wasn't uncommon for the lights to be on at this time of night, as they were regularly on.

The two story-house seemed relatively calm and quiet except for the two voices that seemed to rise and then fall on the first floor of the house. The voices would usually start off quiet before rising and then there would be a pause before they again began to talk repeating the quiet to loud cycle of the level of their voices.

The woman sat at the end of the rectangular dark wooden table head in hands with her fingers occasionally running through the rosette locks. Emerald eyes seemed tired and distressed at she quietly sat in the chair at the end of the table closest to him and the great room of their house, wearing her sweat pants and a tank top.

The man leaned against the granite bar of the kitchen. He watched the woman with folded arms that covered his deep gray shirt with the Uchiwa fan over the left breast pocket and black police pants. He seemed tired but in a different way. His foot was stooled on the lower rung of the bar chair next to him.

Silence engulfed them as the two stayed motionless. The man watched the woman with bored interest as the woman just looked down at the table before her, as if trying to memorize the oak patterns of the table. Sitting back against the back of the chair she ran a hand through her hair before propping her head on her hand, her elbow on the table, and her face facing him.

"What are we doing Sasuke?" She asked quietly and he just stared at her. "For the last few months you've never been around. You're always busy with work-"

"That's my job Sakura." he bit out at her and she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"But when your jobs take away from me and our son then it's a concern. He barely ever sees you because you leave so early in the morning and get home so late at night and sometimes into the early morning."

"He's a child Sakura, he doesn't know anything."

"I just don't want him growing with a father that's never around." she spoke quietly again trying to quench the anger that was beginning to rise within her.

"It's a busy time at Headquarters right now-"

"It's always a busy time!" she yelped at him. "There's always work to be done until one or two in the morning!" her anger was getting the better of her. "If I wasn't so loyal to you I would think you were having an affair with another woman." it was said out of rashness but it triggered his anger.

"And why would I go out and have an affair? We have a three year old son! You think I would just go cheat on you?"

"You're never here Sasuke! Always at the headquarters or out late at night, doing kami knows what. How is that supposed to make me feel? At least before you used to call to say you were going to be late. And now we always fight and do you know what's the worst?" she cradled her head in her hands. "And worst of all you hardly even know your son anymore and he barely even knows you."

"And what do you want me to do? Drop everything at seven and run home?" he scoffed.

"No, because then you would be forced to be here and you wouldn't like that." She turned to face him. "So guess what, you can just leave and don't come back until you're ready to start being the man I used to know."

"What the hell does that mean?" he snapped.

"It means I don't want you here, in this house, until you are ready to be here. No more obligations to me or to your son if you want. Just be the bachelor I know you want to be. Just go do whatever the heck you want to. Just don't come here until I say you can, and don't come near me, because I don't want your lies."

"Sakura-" his sentence went unfinished as the crying of a child broke the sentence. Sakura looked at him for a moment before she got out of her seat and after leaving the kitchen area went up the stairs to get the crying child.

She came down the stairs five minutes later with a small boy wrapped up in her arms. She stared at Sasuke for a moment before gesturing with her head that he should leave. He paused for a moment and looked as if he was going to say something.

"No Sasuke, just go." she told him quietly, before turning her attention back to the small boy in her arms. He walked up to her and placed a small kiss on her forehead, causing her to stiffen before leaving the house.

Soon she heard the roar of the engine before it starting to take off. She held her son close to her chest. He was her little boy. She had been there for him whenever he needed her. He held more priority over Sasuke right now and if Sasuke wasn't careful, it would not just now but for a long time.

Finally getting the little boy back to sleep she looked at the clock. It read two fifteen in the morning. She inwardly groaned, but thought of the fact that she could sleep in if her little boy didn't decide to wake her up early in the morning.

She laid on her side facing Sasuke's side of the side of the large king sized bed. Letting a tear drip out of her eye she tried to keep her tears under control. She desperately wanted to know what had gone wrong between them.

They had been married for five years and after her finally getting pregnant they had a beautiful little boy. But lately he had seemed off, he stayed at the Headquarters building longer into the night than he ever had. He claimed it was because the workload had gotten heavier, but if she wasn't mistaken they had taken on new recruits only months ago.

His family owned and operated the Konoha Police Department. The Uchiha clan had founded it years ago, starting with Sasuke's great-great grandfather and it had stayed in the family ever since. The Uchiha were a prestigious clan that held their heads high and never wavered and the Department was renowned for their excellence, due to the family's hard work.

But why after five years would something have changed? The Department was always busy especially the headquarters but that wasn't an excuse for him not to pay attention to his wife and son. Just a few months ago he started not calling telling her was coming home late and it made her worry and then he wasn't at home a lot anymore and she knew it wasn't the headquarters that was always causing him to come home late. Her and Sasuke's mother, Mikoto, had often talked, and never once did she say that things had gotten busier in fact she had said that things were actually slowing down.

Another tear escaped her. What was wrong with her? Was she just not good enough for Sasuke anymore? And if that was the case why hadn't he just said something to her, instead of making her worry about him being out late at night?She continued to question herself and him for a while longer before sleep claimed her.

Thankfully he had slept in a little and hadn't woken her at his usual six in the morning, but still she grumbled when she felt the weight of her little boy get on top of her. It was his normal routine in the morning to come and pounce on his tired parents, who never seemed to mind, save for Sasuke the past few months, if he was actually at home.

Deeply sighing she pushed back the covers of the large bed to let the little boy enter into the warm cocoon of his mother's bed and snuggled right up against her belly. Pulling the covers back over them she wrapped her arms around the boy and ran her slim fingers through his deep inky black locks.

When Sasuke had first found out that she was pregnant, he was ecstatic in his own way, being more tender towards her and helping her around the house more. It was nice when he was around to help her out. They had even painted and decorated the baby room together.

And then they had their little boy and a few years passed and soon something changed in him. He was gone even later into the nights, coming home at one or two in the morning, him coming to bed right when their little boy began to cry needing to be taken care of because of a nightmare but he always woke her up to go take care of him.

She loved her little boy, but if he was what caused his father's behavior maybe they should have rethought becoming parents, but now it was three years too late. She cuddled him closer, if it was possible and he giggled slightly. She decided that today they would go see her parents, his grandparents.

Gently placing him in the car seat and buckling his small body in she got into the driver's seat of the Honda CRV. Backing out of the garage and driveway she set her course out of the suburb area and towards the gated community about thirty minutes away where her parents lived.

The buttons clicked as she pressed each one individually to get into the gated area. The gate slowly opened and she drove the car through the steel gates. After turning and going down several streets she pulled up in the driveway of her parent's house.

It was a large modern house. Two stories, with all the bedrooms upstairs and then all the formal rooms downstairs as well as the kitchen and dining areas. She would remember as a teen when her parents were away on business for a weekend she would throw parties at the large house. Picking the boy up as well his blanket and bag, she proceeded to go up to the front door and enter it.

"Mom." she called closing the front door. "Mom are you here?" she called walking more into the foyer of the house. Soon she could hear footsteps coming down the stairs.

"Sakura, is that you dear?" she heard her mom's voice call.

"Yes mom." she called shifting the small boy on her hip and soon her mother came into view her dark red hair up in a ponytail her vibrant brown eyes gleaming at the sight of her daughter and grand baby.

"What are you two doing here and where is that Sasuke at?" her mom said giving her a hug mindful of the little boy.

"Sasukes not here with us." she shifted her feet, "that's also why I'm here." and her mother gave her a wry look.

"What has the boy done now? But come sit down and then we'll talk. Want something to drink?"

"Just water." her mother left for a moment as she made herself and the little boy comfortable on the couch.

She placed the small boy on the couch and watched as he soon scooted off of it to go explore the room and only looking back at her once in a while with his onyx eyes looking at her with expectations of him being able to do something and she just chuckled at the little boys antics, when her mother reappeared in the room with a glass full of ice water and a glass of ice tea, presumably for herself.

Her mother sat on the other end of the couch looking at Sakura and then her grand baby that really wasn't a baby anymore. The older woman passed the ice water to the younger one, while the younger one gladly took it immediately taking a large drink of it.

"So where is Sasuke?"

"At work I guess."

"You guess? Didn't he come home last night?"

"Yeah at one thirty in the morning. I even waited up for him."

"What is it with you two lately? You seemed so happy only six months ago and now there's a tension between the two of you that someone could cut with a thin dulled knife."

"I honestly don't know." Sakura sighed. "I thought everything was going well too and then he starts coming home late, without telling me, and at first I didn't worry about it but then it became more frequent and more frequent and then when he would get home I would be waiting up for him and then we would fight about why he was home so late and then go to bed angry at each other and when I would be woken up by little monster over there Sasuke would be gone."

"That man sounds like he is having a few issues in his life."

"A few mom? That man is having serious issues and I don't know what they are. He never talks to me anymore. All he does is caveman grunts, hns and moans and if he does miraculously talks its to get mad at me."

"Sakura, that boy has never talked like a normal human being, but just giving off caveman noises is quite disturbing. Have you two tried counseling? Maybe there are a few marital problems."

"Mom, he's never home. He wouldn't have the time to go to a counselor for help and even if we did he would just use the excuse 'we could have worked it out on our own. We don't need a doctor to tell us somethings wrong'."

"Have you talked to him about it?"

"Even when I do he practically ignores me and then we start fighting. Last night was the worst. He came home and starting getting angry at me for waiting up and then it escalated and finally after me trying to get to the problem, again, I snapped and kicked him out of the house."

"You kicked him out of the house?" She asked incredulously.

"Yep. The whole 'I don't want you here, go live your bachelor life because you seem to want it so badly' blah, blah, blah. And then Seto there, started crying from another nightmare and of course he remained a statue so I went and got him before again telling him to leave."

"So, besides kicking him out what are you going to do now? You really have nothing to do besides being a mother."

"I have enough money in the bank to live off of for many years, and I thought maybe you and daddy could help out every once in a while with Seto. I might as well go and try to get a job somewhere."

"Good girl, don't let this put you in the gutter. Besides we'll be happy to look over Seto for you. I love my grand baby."

"He's not a baby."

"He is to me." she snapped in a friendly but possessive manner.

"Okay, whatever. Could you watch him today. I need to go meet with some friends for lunch and usually I take him with me but not this time."

"Perfectly alright." She smiled opening her arms up to the small boy running to her after hearing he would be spending time with his grandma.

"Be good okay Seto?" the boy nodded. Sakura gave a half smile before kissing the boy goodbye, saying goodbye to her mother and then walking out to the car to meet up with her friends.

He placed his hand on his temple and muttered curses about drinking too much and how he should never do it to that extreme ever again. Upon hearing the door to his office being thrown open he gave off a huge groan and leaned back in his chair face in his elbow.

"Teme, what has gotten you so cranky?" a close friend said to him.

"Dobe, leave me alone." he half groaned, half grounded out.

"Dude, you sound horrible, you smell horrible, and you look horrible and that all adds up to you are a horrible person."

"Don't remind me."

"Remind you that you are a horrible person, because you really are. I mean Shikamaru told me about last night, at the bar, with way too many shots and beers all because you are a horrible person for neglecting Sakura and your son. Tsk. Tsk."

"Naruto, you have three seconds to remove yourself before I do."

"Sasuke, it would take you three hours to get out of that chair, so I have nothing to worry about, but you my friend do. Because you stink like you didn't have a shower this morning. You know I should probably get a picture with you like this because I don't think I have ever seen you in the same clothes that are the same clothes two days in a row, which means you have to go back to that house and get some clothes, because honestly, you reek." Sasuke heard him plop his body into the other cushioned chair in the office.

"Dobe?"

"Yeah."

"Get. Out. Now!" Sasuke barked at the blond man seated across from him raising his head and saying it. The blond took the message and jumped out of the chair and exited the room.

Sasuke leaned back in the chair his face going back to being in his elbow. It was true, he probably was a horrible person, but it wasn't him who kicked him out of the house and it was true he did have to go back to the house to get his clothes and other things and then go get an apartment, because there was no way he would live with his parents and there was absolutely no way he would live with his bachelor brother. His creepy friends came over too often for his liking.

He was sure it would be easy to get an apartment that was decent for a good price for a little while until him and Sakura worked things out which right now didn't look to promising as she had just kicked him out of their house, that he paid for monthly. She should be more grateful, because he was the one that provided for them.

But at the same time he shouldn't get to cocky about it because he did want Sakura to quit her part-time job when she got pregnant not that she needed a job. Her parents were just as filthy rich as his were, seeing how her father was a big shot law attorney that made thousands with each case and her mother had been...a model, was it? He couldn't remember but they both made megabucks and then his parents with the Police Department. She didn't have to work so, her being nice and granting his wish took leave of her job and became a full-time mother, which that just backfired on him.

His office door creaked open again and he was about to again yell at the person to get out when all he heard was a deep chuckle. He would kill Naruto now. Knowing that loser he probably told his older brother unless it was the lazy one that just so happened to be at the same bar that he went to to get thoroughly drunk.

"Foolish little brother." a chuckle again.

"What Itachi?"

"What I can't come make fun of you for getting kicked out of your home?"

"Its none of your business." the comfy chair in the room made a noise indicating someone was sitting down.

"Where are you going to live?"

"Getting an apartment, until I can move back in."

"Better move back in soon. Are you telling mom and dad?"

"Probably not. I don't want mom to go crazy with worry."

"True, true. What about Sakura? Why have you two been arguing?"

"Because I'm out late instead of home early."

"Why are you out so late?"

"Sasuke?!" Itachi warned.

"It's nothing."

"Have you been cheating on her." Silence reigned.

"Oh kami you have."

"Only once." Sasuke snapped.

"You have a son, you idiot!" Itachi hissed at his younger brother.

"I know that. I was drunk ok."

"And why were you drunk?"

"We got into an argument and I left."

"To get drunk and the go do some girl."

"Do you know who it was?"

"Aa."

"Who?"

"Karin."

"Excuse me! You slept with your secretary?!" Itachi hissed again.

"It was an accident."

"Better pray Sakura doesn't come in here, or else you will be out of a house for good and a wife and son. Why are you two fighting?"

"I don't know. I don't feel like going home after work so I go out and get home late and then we fight and go to bed angry."

"Is that why you slept with Karin, because you couldn't get any from Sakura?"

"Shut up and no." Sasuke snapped. "Just get out, I don't want to deal with you right now and don't tell mom and dad."

"I won't but you better get this figured out soon or else you are royally screwed for life." Itachi said getting out of the chair and heading towards the

door. "You might want to apologize to Sakura though and tell her about Ms. Secretary while you're at it."

Sasuke groaned loudly. He really was screwed right now.

So there you have it! the first chapter of my new story! Did y'all like it?

please say yes! and then review please! I've been missing them :)

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