Okay this is the last chapter I have to redo and then I'll start posting new chapters! Oh and I had changed Neji's rank from ANBU to Jounin. Don't ask why I just did it for no real reason. Anyways, ENJOY!
Cut Off Her Hair
The first week after Sasuke returned went off to a…good?…start. The first couple of nights, Suigetsu kept making Akamaru bark, keeping the neighbors and Kiba up. That just led the two boys arguing all night and tired during the day. On Shino's end, he found it almost difficult to keep Juugo calm. It wasn't until the sixth day that Shino found a way to calm the boy. It surprised Juugo how much bugs could calm him. As for Sakura and Karin, those two kept clashing with one another. It was worse than Sakura and Ino fighting over Sasuke when they were younger. Sakura had demanded that the Hokage assign someone else to deal with the "annoying pain in the ass bitch". Neji was the only one who wasn't having problem with his target. However, if questioned he would say that silence is NOT bliss! He would have most likely lost his state of mind from all the silence if Sakura didn't show up with Karin to check on Sasuke with Kaine dragging along because Naruko has a mission.
Neji liked Kaine. He was his favorite student, even if the boy is wild, hyperactive, and a prankster like his mother. Speaking of Naruko, she's actually done a good job raising Kaine by herself. However, the single-mother couldn't train the boy as much as she wants to, thanks to an evil thing called money. Moreover, to receive that much needed evil, Naruko had to do missions, which equaled out to her not spending as much time with Kaine like she wants to which also means, someone has to watch the hyperactive demon.
Sakura usually has to watch Kaine while Naruko left to do a mission with her team. The pinkette liked watching Kaine; he was like a nephew to her. Despite rumor, Kaine wasn't all that bad of a kid. Sure, he was hyperactive and curious than ever but he was smart and knew what not to do at a certain time. However, like his mother when she was little, he pulled pranks on people who messed with him. Like when someone called his mommy a monster and a bucket of paste along with some feathers that appeared out of nowhere fell on to the guy's head. That's another thing about the boy, don't ever say anything bad about his mommy or pay the consequences!
Karin, Kaine, and Sakura were currently at Sakura's house watching TV. It was Kaine's favorite suspense movie 'Panic Room'. Sakura didn't want her nephew watching such a thing but no one can escape the power of the Uzumaki Puppy-Eyes! The red haired woman wouldn't shut up during it and kept saying how stupid it was. The raven-haired Uzumaki sat quietly during the movie which half-scared Sakura. She knew he was plotting revenge on the evil redhead. Just because it was her job to keep Karin safe, doesn't mean she wouldn't allow Kaine to punish the woman for talking during his movie.
Half way through the movie, Kaine left to use the restroom. After twenty minutes of being gone, Sakura starts to worry. Karin had passed out from watching the movie she believed to be stupid so it was okay to leave her for just a second. The pinkette walked up to the bathroom door and knocked, calling the boy's name. There was no answer from the other side. Worried, Sakura opened the door a little, only to find it was empty. Where in the world did Kaine go?
"AHHHH!" Karin screamed.
Sakura ran towards the scream and almost laughed her guts out when she saw that Kaine had kindly given Karin a haircut. The once red hair that went to Karin's lower back now reached either mid-back or shoulders. Kaine was rolling on the floor laughing at his 'masterpiece'. The only person who didn't think it was funny was glaring at the boy and giving off a killer sense. The chibi stopped laughing. "I'm. Going to. KILL YOU!" and the chase was on. Kaine was running from the scary Karin who was being chanced by Sakura to stop her from killing the troublemaker.
There was a knock on the door but the trio ignored it and continued to run around. They were too busy either trying to run from a crazy lady or trying to kill the demonic boy or trying to stop the crazy lady from killing the demonic boy.
"Stay away from me, you evil woman!" Kaine cried as he ran around the kitchen for the fifth time.
"'Evil'? You're the evil brat who defiled my hair!" Karin yelled back as she neared her target. But Sakura tackled her to the ground, making Kaine slip through her fingers. "Bitch let me go!"
"You're the bitch who's trying to kill Kaine!" Sakura yelled back, sitting on top of the girl.
Karin glared at the girl on top of her. The pinkette had Karin's arms pinned down so the girl wouldn't get away. She was a few inches from her face. They were breathing hard from running so much. If someone had just walked in right now, they would have believed the two women to be doing something inappropriate. This is exactly how Naruko took it when she walked in.
"Gees you two, there's a little five year old boy standing right here watching, honestly," Naruko said with a hint of sarcasm. She knew that it wasn't what it looked like but it was still funny to pretend, especially at the faces Sakura and Karin made. Kaine was also laughing at their faces while he was hiding behind his mother's leg. "You know Karin, Ino could fix your hair up to make it look good, just ask Sakura. She cuts her hair every four months, right Sakura?"
The pinkette nodded her head as she stood up and stepped away from the girl that was once under her. Karin stood up too and glared at Sakura with a blush on her face. Naruko was about to take her leave with Kaine when Sakura stopped her. "Do you want to come with us to see Sasuke?"
Naruko's entire body turned in to a statue. In pure honesty, she wanted to see that arrogant bastard, but at the same time, she wanted to stay the hell away from him. Ok let's run all the scenarios through. If she were to go see Sasuke, she may: A) punch the living shit out of him, B) cry her eyes out and beat the living shit out of him, C) remember what the sun of a bitch did to her and start crying, or D) all of the above. But if she didn't go: A) Sakura would tell her she needs to forget about the past, B) Kaine would whine because seeing Sasuke means seeing Neji, or C) all of the above. Damn it was a lose-lose situation.
The blonde looked down at her son to see what would be the best choice. "I want to see Neji-sensei!" was the only thing she could read from the boy's eyes. Why, oh why, did Naruko let Neji train her son and let said son be so attached to the Hyuuga? "I guess it wouldn't hurt," Naruko finally said, giving in.
At the Uchiha manor, Neji and Sasuke were sitting on the porch, drinking tea. Well, Neji was the one drinking; Sasuke had yet to lift the cup in his hands to his mouth. The Hyuuga hadn't said a word since he awoke this morning and neither had Sasuke. Now the boy knew why Naruko hated silent people. It was more annoying than someone who doesn't shut up.
"Neji-sensei!" a voice cried out. The longhaired Jounin looked to see Kaine running over to him. A slight frown came across his face when he saw the boy's mother behind him. It's not that he doesn't want to see Naruko, it's just he doesn't want to see her around the Uchiha which is who has to be around him, no matter what. Stupid, evil Hokage!
"Good afternoon, Kaine," Neji greeted once the hyper raven haired was standing next to him.
"Hey, Neji-sensei! Hi Mister Sasuke!" Kaine cheered. "Guess what I did to the evil witch?"
Neji raised an eyebrow. 'Evil witch'? Who's the evil witch this time?
"I cut off her hair," Kaine cheered. It was around that time that Neji saw what he was talking about. Karin's hair was about as short as Sakura's but maybe a bit longer. Luckily, they had stopped by Ino's to get it fixed. The Hyuuga chuckled at Kaine's 'masterpiece'. "She wouldn't shut up when I was watching 'Panic Room' so I chopped her hair off!" All the while, Karin was glaring at the boy.
"Anything new?" Sakura asked the longhaired male, referring to Sasuke. Neji shook his head side-to-side.
"If anything, it looks like he's getting worse," Neji commented.
"I see."
"Hey Neji-sensei, you're almost out of food!" Kaine yelled from the kitchen. How he slipped by them to the kitchen, is beyond them.
The Hyuuga knew they were running out of food before Kaine pointed it out. It wasn't that he and Sasuke ate a lot of the food. It was the people with those with bottomless pits for stomachs that kept coming over to check up on Sasuke and him. Those people being Choji, Kiba, Lee, and Suigetsu. Damn moochers!
Karin offered to go grocery shopping with him and Sasuke. The boy accepted the offer. And wherever Neji went, Kaine wanted to go. So in the end, Karin, Sakura, Sasuke, Neji, Kaine, and Naruko went to town to buy food for the two older males. Naruko kept her distance from the Uchiha with Neji and Kaine between the two.
During the walk, there were four fangirl attacks. Four! Don't these girls have a life to deal with? But like the first attack, Sasuke kicked all the girls far away from him, before they could even touch him. When they reached the market place, Sakura and Karin went to go look at some clothes while Naruko took it upon herself to also do some food shopping. She let Kaine stay by Neji, so long as the boy didn't case any trouble.
Sasuke's POV It feels like forever since I've done this.
Damn, I was hoping she would stay with us. She really has changed over the years. I guess all the childish acts went into her son. Speaking of him, how come I never see a male call him his son? Does he have a father or was I correct about me being the one who fathered him? Maybe I could ask Neji…
I look up to see the longhaired male explaining something to the small boy who looks at him with intent eyes. Neji sure does act somewhat like a father to him. But I know that he can't be because Kaine calls him 'Neji-sensei' and not 'dad' so therefore, Neji isn't Kaine's dad. I can feel a smile tugging at my lips but I know on the outside, I'm not moving an inch.
I don't know why but I'm glad that Neji isn't the father of Naruko's kid. But what would I do if he was? What if Neji really was Kaine's father? No, I probably shouldn't think of that. There's no point in thinking about 'what if's, they're useless acts of thinking.
"SASUKE-KUN!" Dear fucking God. Why must you torment me with these annoying bimbos? A blue haired woman runs toward me and like the other thousand that try to touch me, I kick the tramp the hell away from me into a bunch of stacked cans.
"You really don't like people touching you, do you?" that voice. Could it be…? I look up just enough to see my blonde haired blue-eyed angel. I think my ears are deceiving me because I could have sworn I heard a hint of humor in that angelic voice. Not only are my ears deceiving but my eyes are saying that she's kind of smiling at me. But I know all this has to be a lie. This is definitely a delusion.
"You know what, I have an idea," Naruko said. To add to my delusion, Naruko takes me by the wrist and drags me over to the checkout counter, and then asked for a pen and paper. She scratches something on the paper and tapes it to the front of my shirt. Written on it is "Don't Touch, Tends to Kick". Why on earth would she write that? Naruko does the same to another piece of paper but puts that one on my back. "There, now no one can say they haven't been warned." A smile is planted across her face. Why must my delusion torment me?
"Mommy! Mister Sasuke!" a voice sounding like Kaine's called out. He and Neji appear next to the two of us.
"There you two are," Neji said. "I almost thought he ran away again." I can sense a hint of anger in his voice.
"Sorry about that, Neji." You shouldn't have to apologize, Naruko. You did nothing wrong. I'm the one who's done wrong.
Neji then notices the sign on my shirt. "Why did you write that?" he questions.
"It's for those poor, stupid fangirls," Naruko said in her defense.
Neji smiled softly at her. How dare he smile at what's mine! Okay, maybe she's not mine anymore, but she was once and that should be enough to keep him away from her! While I ramble on and on in my head about why Neji should stay away from my Naruko, we walk out of the store, caring bags of food.
The pink baboon and the red ape showed up soon after we left. Those two are such pains in the ass. But I have to admit, Sakura did get better, she's not latching on to me every chance she gets and Karin hasn't tried to seduce me for months. All of this is a good thing.
Normal POV
Naruko was about to part ways with them when Sakura told her about the get-together they were going to have tomorrow. Apparently, everyone from the old rookie twelve were going to be in Konoha for the first time in a long time, and this didn't even include Sasuke in the group. The blonde woman said she'll try to be there, if she could find someone to watch Kaine.
At the disappearance of Naruko and Kaine, Karin asked Sakura a question about Naruko. "How can she take care of a wild thing like that and still look good?"
Sakura shrugged. "I asked her the same thing and she said that it's called 'natural beauty.'"
"Tsk my ass, there's no way," Karin said and Sakura agreed. This moment went down in record that Karin and Sakura actually agreed on something. "But there's something else I want to know. Naruko is an independent woman and decent at that so why is she a single parent? Heck, what man would want to leave a fine woman like that?"
Sakura didn't say anything for a second. "Well, I'm not sure who it is. She went out on a mission five years ago and was missing for two or three days; a few weeks after she was found, she turned up pregnant. I asked her who was the father but she wouldn't say." the pinkette looked sideways at Sasuke but no one saw it.
"Okay, one more question, she seems to have her life wrapped around her devil of a son, so my question is, does she have a relationship with anyone?" God Karin was a nosy thing.
Sakura thought for a second. "Well I'm not sure. A long time ago, I thought her and Neji were together." The longhaired boy glared at the pink devil. "But they're more like friends, not lovers. But now I think her and Gaara have a thing." Karin questioned the girl on who Gaara was. "He's the Kazekage of Suna. When he visits Konoha, he gives Kaine a ride on his sand. Naruko and Kaine always make sure to see him off when he leaves."
"He's doing the smart thing when it comes to a baby momma," Karin commented. Sakura rose an eyebrow. "To get the momma, get close to the kid."
Sakura nodded her head in understanding. Neji rolled his eyes at such information while Sasuke took it into consideration.
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