Chapter Four: A Wedding

"Wow, I've never seen you so nervous before Sasuke." Naruto told me as he helped me tie a sash around my waist on my black kimono.

"Hn." I said, loosely tucking the sash into my black pants with one slightly shaking hand. Today, me and Sakura, are getting married.
After that night that we were finally reunited together, I confessed my love to her and I decided to stay for a few more weeks. During that time, we got even more closer than we had when I had spent time in the hospital recovering from my battle with Naruto. I even met her parents, who were at first hesitant that their daughter was with the former traitor of Konoha, an Uchiha, but did help save their daughter and aid in the war, after some talking, I eventually managed to talk them into letting us be together.

When those last few weeks were just about up, I left Konoha again, but not before proposing to her. When I did, she screamed with excitement and tackled me, wrapping me into an embrace. Her screams, though did alert just about the entire village that they all came out to see what was going on and they found her on top of me, while I was trying to support both myself and her with my one hand. Our classmates and her parents were amongst the villagers. It was a little embarrassing.

"Finally!" exclaimed Naruto who was holding Hinata's hand. "You two are now together and it looks like you can't even keep your hands off each other! I should expect children here in a little while." He grinned, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, but I glared at him.

"Naruto, you idiot!" I said to myself. I looked at her parents and I could see her dad's eye twitching and the veins on his forehead looked like they were getting ready to pop out any second. I wanted to tell him that it's not what it looks like. Well, maybe it is.

When Sakura saw her father's facial expression, she quickly jumped off of me and ran towards him, showing him and her mom the ring I had just now proposed to her with. Now the ring was one that had been passed down in my clan for generations and it had belonged to my mother before she passed. The ring had a big diamond right in the center with four other small diamonds encrusted around it. The band, instead of being gold, was red and white, the Uchiha colors.

Her mother and all of the village women huddled around her to get a closer look at it and all of them cried out in delight, complementing the ring on her finger. Her dad peeked at it for about a second and began making his way towards me. I managed to try to keep a calm composure. He stood in front of me and I swore, I thought he was going kill me! Instead, he reached a hand out to help me up and once I was standing upright, he gave me a big bear hug and said "Welcome to the family!"

I stayed for a few extra days so me and Sakura could talk with our teammates and her parents about the wedding which we decided to schedule for Spring which was only four months away. During my stay, we got the invitations ready and to be sent out a month before the wedding. We got the decorations ordered, the bouquet was ordered at the Yamanaka Flower Shop, and we got fitted for our kimonos. After my few days were up, I got ready to leave on my next journey. I left the house and walked hand in hand with Sakura towards the gates.

When we got there, Naruto and Hinata were waiting there as well. Before I bid farewell to them, Naruto was a little upset that I wasn't going to be able to attend his wedding, which was next week, as his best man.

"I'm sorry Naruto, but how about you become my best man for mine and Sakura's wedding?" I said to him, which he happily agreed to. I turned to Sakura, cupped her chin in my hand, and kissed her lips.

"I'll be back for you soon. I promise." I said, tapping her on the forehead.

Now those months flew by fast and before I knew it, here I was standing inside of the renovated Uchiha house, which Kakashi and Naruto helped fix up, along with the entire village, while I was gone. After my kimono was finally put on and I had put my black sandals on my feet, we walked out of my house and began to make our way to the Hokage Tower.

Once we were there, I looked around at the wedding decorations. Instead of having the wedding inside, me and Sakura settled for having it outside. Now, the wedding decorations were amazing and had great detail to it.

The entire Hokage Tower, with Kakashi's permission, had a long green vine going around it, and from that vine, there were many different types of flowers hanging and blooming from it. There was orchids, sunflowers, lilies, roses, cherry blossoms, etc.
"Wow, Ino really out did herself this year." I thought to myself.

"Hey Sasuke!" I heard Ino shout out as she and Sai made their way towards us, waving something in her hand. "I got something for you." She then pinned whatever was in her hand to my kimono. I looked down at it and noticed that she had pinned a cherry blossom to my breast pocket, right next to the handstitched Uchiha crest.

"I thought that since the cherry blossoms were blooming beautifully this year, you and Sakura should each were something that has a cherry blossom on it." She explained to me.

"Thank you Ino." I said to her and she smiled at me. She then grabbed Sai's hand and led him to where her family was. They were both engaged now and they were to marry sometime this summer, which surprised me 'cause I never thought of those two being together.

Naruto and I both then made our way to the front of the aisle and waited for the rest of our guests to come. As the minutes flew by, more and more people arrived. Kakashi, who was going to wed Sakura and I, actually didn't arrive late this one time. As soon as all the guests were finally here, all we had to do was wait for Sakura to arrive. I looked down at my feet, slightly rocking back and forth on them, anxiously waiting for her arrival.

"She'll be here soon Sasuke." Naruto assured me, giving me a soft pat on the back.

"Hn." I replied, still looking down at my feet. I actually never thought I'd be this nervous in all my life.

"She's here!" I heard someone shout, and I quickly snapped my head back up, gazing around trying to find her. She was coming up the aisle with one of her arms wrapped around her father's. As she got closer, I felt like I had stopped breathing. She was dressed in a bright pink kimono that had the images of cherry blossoms stitched on it. Around her waist, she wore a white sash that had real cherry blossoms pinned to the side. And in her hair, she had a couple of cherry blossoms pinned behind one of her ears. Needless to say, she was beautiful. Breathtakingly beautiful.

Within just a few seconds, we were now standing right in front of each other at the end of the aisle and with Kakashi right next to us, reading our vows out to us. The time went by fast and before we both knew it, Kakashi pronounced us as husband and wife. I wrapped my hand around her waist and moved her closer to me, bending down to kiss her. Sakura must've been really excited that she was now my wife that she wrapped me in a tight embrace that I felt was going to break my back any second and planted a huge kiss on my lips. I heard the guests awe. She let go of me and punched one fist in the air and screamed "YES!" at the top of her lungs. (Author's Note: I think we'd all scream if we got to marry Sasuke Uchiha. ;)

I smirked at her, then quickly cupped her chin in my hand, tilted her head up towards me, and kissed her back. The guests awed again and I heard Naruto chuckling.
"Wow, you two have only been married for like five seconds and now you want to get busy!" We both heard him say but this time, we didn't say anything back to him. We just stood there in front of the aisle, holding and kissing each other.

The reception flew by fast and before we knew it, we were heading down to my house at the Uchiha compound, walking hand in hand. She leaned against my arm, a dreamy smile on her face. I smiled back down at her. Finally, after all this time, we were both together and married now. My family's faces flashed before me and I stopped in my tracks.

"Sasuke, what's wrong?" Sakura asked me with a concerned look on her face.

"Nothing." I said to her, kissing her on the forehead. "I just remembered, there is something I have to do." I then began leading her to the Uchiha cemetery. I was afraid she'd question why we were in a cemetery when it was already nightfall, but she didn't say anything.

We stopped in front of three tombstones that were in the very front and center of the cemetery. Those tombstones belonged to my mother, my father, and Itachi. Without a word, I unpinned the cherry blossom from my breast pocket and layed it in front of my mother's tombstone. Sakura did the same, unpinning two of her's from her hair and laying it in front of my father and Itachi's tombstones. I gave her a small smile and held her hand, our fingers entwining together.

"Hey mom.. dad.. Itachi," I slowly began saying, still holding on to Sakura's hand. "I got married today. I got married to Sakura Haruno. You probably don't know her dad, but mom and Itachi do. Itachi once saved her, and mother knew about her from when I was little. All I have to tell you about her is that she's very beautiful, brave, strong.. sometimes a little too strong." We both lightly laughed. "and, she can be a little bit annoying at times." I added.

"Hey!" she softly punched me in the arm with a pout on her face. I kissed her on the lips and her pout immediately disappeared and formed into a smile once again.

"But," I continued, "I love her. I love her so much." Sakura leaned on me once again and I did the same back.

"And mom, you were right. I did love once.. and I was able to love again once more. Thank you."