Author: K
Rating: MA
Disclaimer: I own only my story.
''How about her?'' asked her grey haired ex-boyfriend. Her red eyes peered over at the file in his hands after reading a couple stats off of hers. She took one look, rolled her eyes, and looked back at her file. Suigetsu grimaced and narrowed his lavender eyes. ''What's wrong with this one?''
Karin switched manila folders and began searching every aspect with her eyes. She stayed quiet for a moment more before replying. ''That one has dark purple spiky hair, the brown of her eyes remind me of dirt, and looking at her sex history, she looks and seems like a kinky BDSM freak.'' she stated nonchalantly with her eyes focused on the file in her hands.
Suigetsu sighed and slid the file at the end of the table with the twenty other rejects. ''Why can't you make this easier on me? Why did you even call me to do this for you? You have a fiancé whose gonna to be exchanging genes with her, not me.''
A chuckle spilled through her lips. ''I picked you because you'd pick all the slutty or horrible girls first.''
It was Suigetsu's turn to chuckle. ''That explains why I dated you.''
Karin slammed the file on the table and looked at her joking ex with a glare. ''You better shut it Suigetsu and that was a phase, get over it.''
''Hm, that's what you think.'' he muttered.
''Shut it or I'll kick your ass out.'' she stated.
He rolled his eyes and folded his arms. ''Not that it would matter.''
''Suigetsu.'' she said warningly.
''Fine, fine, I'll shut up,'' he started before grabbing another file, ''how many more of these do we have to go through?''
Karin kept her head down, still looking at her file. She looked up at him and pointed to the corner where there was another box of files. ''There's only twenty more left.''
He couldn't help but roll his eyes. ''I hate you so much.''
''I love you too.'' she replied while reaching for another two files. She slapped one down in front of him and opened one for herself. ''Get to work.''
He looked at her with narrowed eyes and began to open his file. ''You owe me.''
''Yeah, sure, whatever,'' she mumbled while focusing on the file.
He sighed and looked down on his file. ''This is gonna be a long day.''
''Stop acting so nervous. You have nothing to worry about.'' the blonde mumbled while looking down at the game console in their hands.
Her green eyes narrowed. ''I have a lot to be worried about.''
''I'm pretty sure you don't. You turned your file in and they called to let you know that someone has it in their hands.''
''So? That doesn't mean anything. They just have my file, it doesn't mean they're actually gonna choose me.''
''You never… fuck! This is why I don't play video games.'' Ino shouted as she threw the game console on the bed.
Sakura rolled her eyes and huffed. ''Ino, you're really not helping me right now.''
She ignored her friends actions and picked up a piece of her long blond hair. She began looking at the spilt ends in her palm. ''I'm trying to help you, but you're obviously not listening to me… damn, I need to get my hair done.''
''Godamnit Ino,'' she mumbled while she face palmed.
She let her blonde hair slip through her fingers before looking back up at her friend with a smile. ''You know I'm playing with you right? But I seriously need to get my hair done. It's getting all choppy and gross like yours.''
Sakura rolled her eyes and sat down on the floor. ''My hair is fine, your hair is fine, the only thing that isn't fine is my nerves.''
Ino sighed after she got up to join her friend on the floor. ''Stop thinking so damn much. Everything is gonna go well.''
''That's what you think.'' she retorted while keeping her green eyes on the wooden floor.
''It's not what I think, it's what I know. I swear to you Sakura, you're gonna get picked your first time around. You're file isn't gonna sit there for years on end before someone chooses you.''
''Hm.'' She grunted in response.
''Don't go all Gaara on me because you know it's true. How can somebody deny somebody as amazing as you?'' she said to the moping girl while poking her in the cheek.
Sakura swatted her hand away and brushed a couple of pink hair strands out of her face. ''Whatever, I'm gonna go take a shower.''
''No, don't leave me.'' Ino whined with her arms already wrapped around her best friend.
She smiled, but shook the blonde off. ''Sorry. A shower is the only thing that can keep me sane for the while being.''
Ino frowned. ''But Sakura…,'' she paused listening to the air, ''your phone is ringing.''
She gave her friend a skeptical look. ''I don't hear my phone ring–.'' she started before she heard the slight buzz of her phone vibrating. She turned around on her friend and gave her another look. ''Did you plan this?'' she asked sarcastically before heading over to her phone.
''Friendship is on my side.'' she shouted to Sakura in the bathroom.
Sakura shook her head and answered her phone. ''Hello. Yes I am…. Sure, I would love to. Thank you… you too. Bye.'' Once she hung up, she allowed her feelings to spill out. She calmly set her phone down and watched as her hands started shaking.
Ino walked in after the atmosphere became too quiet. ''Who was that?''
She looked up from her shaking hands into her friends aqua eyes. ''You were right. You didn't think, you knew.'' she whispered before hugging her friend.
Her blonde friend smiled and squeezed her back just as hard. ''I'm so happy for you! When do you get to meet them?''
''Later on tonight. Oh God, what am I gonna wear.'' she asked while cutting the hug short.
Ino gave her a cheshire grin. ''You know me and fashion. Get your ass in the shower. We're going to the mall.''
Sakura watched as her friend headed to the other bathroom. She had feeling that she let out a monster.
''So who'd she choose? Is she hot?'' the blonde asked eagerly while reaching for the file in the Uchiha's hand.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and continued to hold the file over his head. ''I don't know. I haven't even looked at the file yet.''
Naruto stopped and let his jaw drop. ''How could you not look at it? This file practically contains your life.''
''Yeah. Sure, my life.'' he muttered while pushing the blonde back into the couch.
He rolled his eyes and tsked. ''I don't see why Karin is marrying you. Your such a man bitch.''
''At least I don't whine like a bitch.'' he retorted.
Naruto glared. ''Since I'm a good friend, I'll brush that off. Anyway, open the file and let's see who she chose.''
Sasuke took a look at the file in his hands. His thumb touched the first piece of paper and he paused. He removed his finger and shot the file in Naruto's direction. ''You open it.''
''Why? You nervous?'' He asked with a flick of his tongue at the Uchiha.
He glared. ''No. I'm sure you're more excited than me. I couldn't care less if this file was ever opened.''
''You're such a great liar.'' he muttered while beginning to open the file.
''Whatever, what do you think about her?'' Sasuke asked when he noticed his friend's eyes widened slightly.
He closed the file and handed back over to the Uchiha. "She's my cousin.'' he replied solemnly with his head down.
His face fell. "I was hoping that you were gonna say just kidding, but obviously you're not."
"That would actually but a great just kidding moment," he started while crossing his arms, "but no. You have nothing to worry about. My cousin is nothing like me. Actually she's kinda way different than me. We basically act like brother and sister.''
Sasuke nodded with a thick swallow. ''Then what is she like?''
He shrugged in an attempt to find the right words. ''Well if you're on her good side, she'll be nice, but if you piss her off like I usually do, she won't hesitate to knock your mother fucking block off.''
He nodded once more and fingered the corner of the folder. He still wasn't ready to see the picture of his future. "Well at least she'll help me keep your stupidity in check."
The blonde made a face. ''Whatever. Can you just open the fucking file and tell me what you think about her so far?''
Sasuke glared at his friend before finally flipping open the file. She definitely looked attractive. Her pink hair was an issue with his tastes, but he would get over it eventually. Her eyes were okay. A common color green, but a bright green at that. And her skin tone wasn't pale like his own, but it wasn't tan like Naruto's. Her over all appearance wasn't bad and she didn't even look related to Naruto. That was the plus side.
"She seems good I guess." He mumbled while flipping through her stats.
He rolled his eyes. ''I'll tell just tell you what you need to know. Sakura is beautifully hot. She's also smart and well rounded. I'm sure you'll enjoy her.''
Sasuke looked at the file in his hands a moment before speaking. ''I'm sure I will.''
His dark eyes continued to watch his fiancé while she did work on her Mac desktop. He was watching her for a while now. A while being ever since Naruto left two hours ago. It was just that he couldn't stop staring at her. Her emotions were kinda masked like his own, so he couldn't guess why she did it, but he couldn't just sit there and not ask.
''What do you want Sasuke? You've been staring at me like a lost puppy for the longest.'' she commented nonchalantly while typing.
Sasuke couldn't help the small smirk that graced his lips. ''I wanted to ask you something.''
''What did you wanna ask?'' she questioned while finally looking away from the desktop.
His folded his arms before asking. ''Why did you pick Sakura?''
A small smile made it's way to her lips. She loved it when he actually asked questions. ''Why? You don't like her?''
He shook his head. ''No. I just wanted to know why you picked her. You picked her out of the other forty nine people, so she has to be special in some way or form.''
Karin looked at him for a second before she pushed her glasses up the bride of her nose. ''Well her history, her smarts, her personality, her interests, her health, and her traits.''
He quirked a dark eyebrow. ''Her traits? Karin, she has pink hair.''
''Yes, she has pink hair, but I couldn't find anybody with traits closest to mine. I don't want a kid whose traits don't even look close to mine. Her eyes are light as well as mine. And her hair is a couple shades from being my color. In fact if you mixed her hair color and your hair color, you could get my hair color. I want some similarities in our child Sasuke.'' she said while keeping eye contact.
Sasuke's eyes drifted after her speech, but he nodded. ''Fine. I was just wondering.''
She smiled. ''Good. Any other questions?''
''No, but I thought I'd inform you that Sakura is Naruto's cousin.'' he said blankly. Karin usually didn't like Naruto. She found him too immature, too noisy, too bright, too unhealthy, too horny, too stupid, just about everything Sasuke knew was true but didn't care about.
Her smile quickly faltered. ''Well it's a good thing she's going to come over soon."
He gave her a questioning look. ''Why is she coming over?''
''I want her to see the house. Especially I want to get to know her. I pray that she's nothing like Naruto. And most importantly, I wanna talk to her about her position and what I expect out of her during our nine months together.'' she answered with a small excited smile.
''Hm. Fine. Let me know when she gets here so I can leave.'' He mumbled while deciding to leave the library.
She gave a blank look at his retreating form. ''Why can't you just leave now?''
''She's gonna be having my kid, I have the responsibility to meet her right?'' he spoke calmly.
She shrugged before gluing her eyes back to the computer screen. ''Touché.''
''I can't believe I'm this freakin' nervous.'' Sakura mumbled to herself with her head in her hands.
She's been freaking out since she got back from the mall with Ino. She couldn't believe that she was gonna meet her first client. She couldn't believe that she was going to accomplish something. She couldn't believe that she was gonna give something else life. She couldn't believe that she was about to make someone's life happier.
She constantly reminded herself that when she questioned herself about becoming a surrogate mother. She never really knew why she decided to become one. Well she knew when she felt bad for one of her aunts who couldn't have children. She noticed the obvious pain that was evident in every little thing she did that came to children. Not to mention that children are everywhere and anywhere, so her aunt was in constant depressed mode, and she felt really bad for her. She couldn't help her at all and it kinda hurt.
So she made a decision. Her decision was to help other mothers as best as she could by having their child for them. Sure it sounded crazy, but it was something she wanted to do. She saw how heart broken her aunt was and she didn't want any other women to go through that. Sure there were other surrogate mothers to choose from, but she at least wanted her name in there just incase they ever ran out.
Sakura knew no one was gonna run out, but she felt like giving back to the community in anyway possible. And she couldn't forget the amount of money involved in it. Her jaw nearly dropped when she had first Googled it. The pay ranged obviously but, it was still a lot. The most common price was ten thousand dollars through twenty thousand. She didn't know what Karin was going to pay her, but she knew it wasn't anywhere near below ten thousand.
The money alone was a good enough reminder that she needed to do this. Sure her mother and father were there for her, but she needed more. Especially if she wanted to get into the medical college Tsunade recommended. It pleased her that her parents let her move out the day after she turned eighteen to do her own thing. If they found out that she was going to have a child and just give away to the mother, they would flip out. They'd mostly flip out if they found out that their baby was having a baby. Whose parents wouldn't?
Sakura shook off the thoughts about her parents and everything else on her mind. The talk about her parents was making her feel bad. Making her feel kind of like a bad girl for going off on her own to have a child that she wasn't gonna be able to keep. She wasn't gonna be able to keep it. What was she gonna do if she wanted it? What if she looks into it's sparkling baby eyes and it's cute, chubby baby face and she just can't give it up? What is she to do?
Her flowing pink haired swayed as she shook her head back in forth to permanently get rid of the thoughts. She looked at the clock in her car and she sighed. Forty minutes to spare. It sucks to be eighteen, because right now it'd be the perfect time for a drink.
Her eyes gazed over the young girl in front of her. She was definitely well dressed. Her attire didn't make her seem like she was the teenager she apparently was, but at the same time it seemed classy. She also seems well mannered by the ways she's introducing herself with her nicely manicured hand out ready for a hand shake. Karin took one look at the hand before pulling out her own and returning the hand shake. She could feel the girl's muscles loosen in the hand grip, as well as her shoulders slumped a little lower. It was obvious that she was nervous. It would be a miracle if the girl didn't have an anxiety attack before the end of the night.
''Hi, my name is Sakura–''
''Haruno. Yes I remember. I'm Karin Akai.'' she replied smoothly. Sakura slightly blushed, but nodded in response. Karin gave her a small smile before stepping aside and letting her in the door.
As Karin aspected, Sakura stopped in the middle of the vast living room and began eyeing every little detail. Karin knew her home was hot stuff. Everyone loved just about everything about the home. It was spacious, had many rooms: guest rooms, two master bedrooms, a library, a huge kitchen, had a great backyard with an outdoor kitchen along the pool and jacuzzi side, and a basement that could be an apartment. Sakura looked over at Karin smiling at her gaping. She closed her dropped jaw at the last room and returned the small smile.
Karin led the two of them to library where they could talk. As well as Sakura meeting Sasuke, who happened to be sitting at his desk while looking at the bright computer screen. He glanced at the two women for a second before looking back at the computer and began typing. Karin narrowed her eyes at his attitude, but brushed it off.
Sakura was quietly looking around. And by looking around, she was looking all around the room and looking at Sasuke mostly in between. She didn't want to full out stare at him while he was on the computer and from his face she could already tell he was a serious person. His face was what got her hooked. That pale even skin, the smoldering dark eyes, the spiky soft looking black hair, and his face was something that definitely you wouldn't find often.
His dark eyes looked at his fiancé before his eyes settled on Sakura. Without a doubt Naruto was right that she's good looking. Everything he said seemed to match up right. He met her gaze and their eyes didn't separate for a good moment, after Karin cleared her throat at Sasuke. Meaning to introduce himself and stop staring at the guest. He glanced at her before signing out his computer and heading towards the two girls.
Sakura's heart already began to pound as he approached. Internally she was already freaking out. Ice was spreading through her veins and stomach, she was turning anxious, her small hands were slightly shaking, she could hear the pounding in her ears. She cursed herself for always freaking out over very attractive men. ''I'm Sakura Haruno.'' she managed to say with confidence with an out stretched hand.
He looked at her hand before grasping it. ''Sasuke Uchiha.''
Tingles already began to shake her to the core and his hands were amazingly soft. ''Nice to meet you.''
''The feeling is mutual,'' he mumbled after letting go of her hand.
Karin looked at their loosened hands before looking at her fiancé. ''Are you off to your friend's now?''
''Yeah. He apparently just got in a couple of minutes ago. I'll see you later.'' he finished with a kiss to her lips. She was able to mumble a sure before the kiss.
Sakura watched their small display of affection and smiled. Karin met her eye after the kiss and let a small tint of red cross her cheeks. She led the two of them to the couch.
Karin looked at her manicured nails before beginning. ''As you know, you're gonna be the surrogate mother of my child. During our nine months together, I want you taken care of very well. Good nutrition, monthly check ups and when you're closer to your due date the check ups will be weekly, I'll make sure you get spa visits so your stress levels will be as low as possible, and if needed I'll provide you a therapist if anything is really bothering you. Does this sound good so far?'' she asked with her ruby eyes meeting Sakura's emeralds. She nodded and let her continue.
''Once your at the four month mark, I would like you to move in with me so I can keep a closer watch on you and your health. Also during our nine months together, I would like you to help me plan my marriage ceremony. Is this okay as well?''
Sakura smiled. ''Yes. All these plans sound amazing. I really don't want you to go through all this trouble though.''
''It's no problem. I want my child to be perfect when it comes out, but I want to you to be as comfortable as possible while your going through this. It's not easy to be an teenager whose life is gonna taken away for nine months. I should at least let you be pampered during it.'' she finished with a sincere smile.
She couldn't help but smile back once more. ''Thank you so much. It's an honor to be having your child. Speaking of that, when do we take a trip to the clinic to start?''
Karin's smile slowly faded and she looked out the tall windows near the book cases. ''About that, you're not going to have artificial insemination. I want you to get pregnant the old fashion way. I want you to have sex with my fiancé.''
Sakura's jaw dropped. Her heart rate must have been going off the charts, her breathing temporally stopped, and her face must have flushed within seconds. Sure it sounded amazing to conceive a baby with Sasuke Uchiha of all people, but conceiving meant trying numerous times. Her mind was on overload. So all she could respond with was a, ''Huh?''
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-k