~ItaSaku~ Underneath ch.4

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Please do not kill me for late updates! I am a senior this year and we have to do this project throughout the year called a Capstone project and it's taking up ALL of my free time I used to use for writing. So I am trying to update at least one of my stories once every week or two. On holidays I will try to update even more. As an extra whammy to time dedicated to these fics, November is National Novel Writing Month and I'm doing that as well, but I will not be neglecting these stories any longer! So please, be patient with me.

Revamped version. This story is based off of the song Underneath by JoJo. Like always, please enjoy.

The Next Day

Normal POV

Sakura opened one eye groaning at the harsh attack of the sunlight invading the room. She turned her back against it to defend herself against the harshness of it, but ended up face to face with her beloved husband. He laughed at her and hugged her closer to his body kissing the crown of her head.

"Good morning sleeping beauty." Itachi mumbled in her pink hair. Sakura groaned again snuggling deeper into his chest.

"Leave me alone Itachi. I want to sleep…" Sakura grumbled wanting so badly to fall prey to sleep again. Unfortunately for her, Itachi wasn't allowing her to do so.

"I'm sorry beautiful, but you have to get up now. My mother wanted all of us to go downstairs for breakfast." Itachi gently pulled her off his chest and kissed her closed eyelids. She groaned again, but reluctantly moved to a sitting position.

"Where's Daisuke?" Sakura mumbled rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Itachi smiled lightly at her before sitting up wrapping his arms around her waist. He placed his head in the crook of her neck and breathed in her scent feverishly.

"He's downstairs with my mother. I think after what happened yesterday, she needed to spend some time with him to take her mind off of everything." He sighed, the irritation at his father and grief for his mother was clear in his voice.

"Hn." Sakura grunted pulling out of his hold and rising off the bed. She walked to the bathroom purposefully leaving the door open as to allow Itachi access if he chose to join her. Obviously, he went in after her just moments as the water started to go in the shower.

Later

Itachi had to leave after their shower. Apparently, his father wanted to have a word with him, but he knew coming to the house would be the same as signing his own death wish. So he called Itachi to meet him at the hotel he is staying at until further notice. Now, it's just Sakura, Mikoto, Daisuke, Sasuke, and four of the latter's friends left in the giant mansion.

So, with not having anything to do since she didn't want to interfere with Mikoto's alone time with her beloved grandson, Sakura decided to explore the massive mansion. Throwing on a form fitting long sleeve white shirt that showed off the baby bump she was forming, and a pair of black sweatpants, Sakura left the room.

She walked in the opposite direction of the stairs and towards what seemed like the back of the house. She passed many doors- some of which were opened slightly so she could see inside. She saw Fugaku's office, Sasuke's room, Mikoto's and Fugaku's room, four separate bathrooms, two closets, and a spare bedroom before she came to a room with the sounds of male laughter and videogames coming from it. With narrowed eyes of curiosity, Sakura pushed opened the door and walked in.

What greeted her was a massive media room. Sasuke was seated on one of the six reclining chairs of the very soft looking black couch that was positioned in front of the 80 inch T.V screen. His other four friends – one with golden blonde hair, another with long brown hair, the next with pineapple shaped brown hair, the one after him with messy brown hair and the last with sleeked down black hair- sat beside him while a shooting game was displayed on the screen.

As she closed the door, all heads turned towards her with curious looks.

"Sakura, what are you doing in here?" Sasuke asked with a raised eyebrow. Sakura shrugged pushing her hands into the pockets of her pants.

"Itachi isn't here and Mikoto-san is having bonding time with Daisuke. I was just exploring when I stumbled across you guys in here." Sakura smoothly explained. The blonde haired boy snapped his head in the direction of Sasuke with a questioning look.

"This is your brother's wife?!" Sasuke sent him a glare.

"Who did you think she was idiot?"

"What did you expect from Naruto? His whole reputation in high school was based off of his abnormal levels of idiocy." The one with long brown hair explained turning back around in his seat to look at the paused screen.

"Shut up Neji!" Naruto shouted back at him.

"Well," Sasuke started with a sigh, "Since you're here, I guess I'll introduce you to these guys. The idiot sitting next to me is Naruto, the guy next to him is Neji, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Sai." Sasuke motioned towards Sakura before turning back around. "That, is my brother's wife, Sakura Uchiha. She's the mother of the boy you saw downstairs with my mother."

"Well Sasuke, you never told us your sister-in-law was so hot!" Kiba shouted letting out a whistle. Sakura rolled her eyes and walked towards the couch to stand behind it while looking at the screen.

"What are you guys playing anyway?"

"Call of Duty."

"Really?" Sakura leaned over the couch between Naruto and Sasuke's heads not noticing the light blush that dusted the blonde's cheeks. "Do you guys mind if I play a round?"

"You can play?" Kiba asked in bewilderment dramatically whipping his head around to stare at her. Sakura rolled her eyes as she walked around the couch and squeezed in-between Sasuke and Naruto causing the latter to blush even harder.

"Of course I can. Do you think I can't just because I'm a girl?"

"Aniki won't like the sound of that." Sasuke absently threw out while grabbing a controller. Kiba's face turned beat red as he tried very hard to hide his fear of the infamous walking ice brick.

"I-I-I-I didn't mean anything like that!" He sputtered out trying to defend himself from a possible thrashing. "Aren't you, like a, doctor or something like that?"

"Yes I am." Sakura answered with a small smile on her lips.

"So, shouldn't you never have time to learn how to play?" Kiba concluded with a little less fear in his voice. With an amused smile on her face, Sakura titled her head up in thought.

"Before I met Itachi I didn't, but then he taught me how to play." She turned back to him with her tongue stuck out teasingly. "Now I can beat him." Sweat appeared on all of their faces. Did she just say she can beat Itachi Uchiha? The Itachi Uchiha? The guy who can terminate the creator of any game? No- no way that's possible!

"Well-"

"I wanna see Sakura-chan beat the hell out of Sasuke-teme!" Naruto hollered throwing his arms up above his head in enthusiasm. Kiba growled silently at the blonde (not to mention Sasuke's cold death glare) which the boisterous young man ignored before passing his controller on to Sakura. "You can take my place. I lost last round anyway." He ended with a wide goofy grin that contagiously placed a smile on Sakura's as she took the controller from his hands.

"Thank you, Naruto-kun." She replied before turning to the screen waiting patiently for Sasuke to set the game up. Naruto rubbed the back of his head as a soft blush took over his cheeks once again before the smile left his face and a serious frown took over his features.

"Hey, Sakura-chan?" Sakura turned her head to him with a questioning look on her face.

"What is it?" She asked patiently.

"Why are you so fat?"

"I'm not fat, Naruto-kun."

"But you are!"

"No, I am not."

"But your stomach is so big!"

"That's because there is a baby inside of it." Sakura nearly gritted out from between her teeth. Sensing the killing intent directed at him, Naruto decided to leave it at that for now and just wait till the deadly aura passed.

Luckily for him, it did very quickly. Who knew Sakura was so damn good at this?

Out of their group, Sasuke and Neji are the best players with Sai coming in a close second. So, how did Sakura end up annihilating both of them? Seriously this is just ridiculous and downright scary! How in the hell did she know exactly where everyone would respond after she killed them and, damn it, how is she moving around the map so fast?!

"You're cheating!" Kiba exclaimed getting to his feet in outrage. Sakura merely smiled as the game came to an end. With her as the victor. Again. For the eleventh time. In the past two hours.

"I told you already, I'm just really good." She smirked as she waited for a brooding Sasuke to set up another match. Kiba glared dangerously at her.

"Then since you're so good, how about a team death match- all of us against you."

"That's not fair to me." Sakura pouted. "You have some really good players on your team. Plus, you're just teaming up against me."

"Who's teaming up against you?" and like that, Kiba nearly wet his pants as he stared into the eyes of the beast otherwise known as Itachi Uchiha. Sakura turned her head towards him and smiled happily.

"Welcome back Itachi!" He returned her greeting before turning his eyes to the screen walking in the room and shutting the door.

"So, you've been losing to my wife in a shooting game and now you think the only way of beating her is to team up against her in an unfair team death match." It wasn't a question. He was stating a painfully obvious fact from anyone's view point. Kiba blanched attempting to formulate a plausible answer but his mind seemed to shut down in fear of the man before him.

"Itachi," Sakura stated seriously sending a soft glare to her husband. "You're scaring him." Itachi took his eyes off of the obviously terrified boy in front of him and to his wife. He grunted softly walking towards her and holding out a hand to her.

"Mother and Daisuke have made food for everyone. After that, we're going to the hospital."

"Why?" Sakura asked taking the hand he offered her. Gently, he pulled her to her feet and refused to let go until he was sure she was steady on her feet.

"My father and your brother have agreed to take a DNA test today. Depending on what it says, mother will decide if she will stay with my father." Itachi explained calmly as he placed a hand on her waist and led her out of the room.

"Brother." Itachi paused in the doorway looking over his shoulder to his baby brother who was giving him an eerily icy stare.

"What is it Sasuke?" though his voice was emotionless, Itachi felt an almost unbearable need to get his wife away from his brother, but why? Sasuke isn't a threat to her, is he?

"Did father ever find out more about that man that revealed all of this information during the banquet?"

"He is still looking in to it."

"It seems a little suspicious to me that it's taking him so long. He usually has everything he needs to know within an hour of starting his search."

"I don't know why it is taking so long, Sasuke."

"Don't you think that man wasn't just a drunk idiot conveniently spitting out sex scandals from the past?"

"Where is this coming from Sasuke?" Itachi finally asked narrowing his eyes into slits tightening his grip on Sakura's waist. Sakura bit her lip trying to keep herself from whimpering while placing a gentle hand on top of his.

"Itachi, I thought you said Mikoto-chan and Daisuke cooked for us. Shouldn't we go down to eat before it starts to get cold?" Itachi spared a glance to his wife before lossening his grip on her and turning back around.

"I will speak to you later." He blandly called over his shoulder before leaving the room with his wife.

"What was that all about Teme?" Naruto asked suspiciously raising a brow at his best friend glaring bloody murder at the closed door.

"Nothing, dope." Sasuke muttered as he began to walk towards the door as well.

"Sasuke." Said man paused and turned his attention to the quite Hyuga that called out to him.

"What?"

"Does this situation have anything to do with that man you used to be associated with?" Sasuke's eyes blazed with anger, his fist balling up so tight blood oozed between his fingers.

"I will not talk about this." He bit out before quickly swinging the door open and slamming it behind him. Sasuke scowled at the closed door, a dark shadow casting it's self across his face.

"Sasuke-"

"What?" Said male snapped whirling his head around to face the blonde haired man that spoke. Naruto narrowed his eyes into suspicious slits as he stood up from the couch staring his best friend down.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, idiot."

"Then what was all that just now with Itachi?"

"I said it was nothing. Leave it alone." Sasuke warned quickly making his way back to the couch with every intention to ignore the food offer downstairs and continue playing the game. However, Naruto had other plans as he blocked Sasuke's path to his seat with a stiff hand on his shoulder.

"Tell me what's going on. Now." Naruto said completely and utterly serious. There was no signs of his natural playful banter in his voice nor was there any joking vibe to it. He means business.

"What makes you think there's something wrong anyway, dobe?"

"I haven't seen you act that way towards your brother since the days you spent with that pedophile snake. So, unless you want me to beat it out of you, tell me what's going on." Both males stood stone still in a stare down that seemed to be on the verge of escalating at any second into something dangerous causing the other occupants to tense in anticipation. After what seemed like hours of neither male showing any signs of backing down, a soft knock was heard at the door.

"Uncle Sasuke! Grandma Mikoto said to bring your friends to eat! I promise it's good- I made some of it myself!" the sound of the child behind the door served to ease some of the tension.

"We'll be right there, Daisuke." Sasuke called back not taking his eyes off of Naruto's in a show of his defiance to give in to his demands. "You heard him dobe." Naruto's eyes narrowed further, but he held his tongue regardless. Sasuke smirked knowing that he was getting away with it as he turned his back and made his way to the door.

"If you are doing what that snake bastard says again," Sasuke's hand froze on the door knob as his eyes narrowed in suspicion at what Naruto's words could be. "I won't hesitate like last time." A smirk found its way to Sasuke's lips as he turned his head just enough for Naruto to see it.

"I would hope so, because if it does happen again, I won't hesitate to put a bullet in you either." And with that, Sasuke threw the door open causing a flood of cold air to wash over the room sending a chill down everyone's spine.

A few more chapters left. I hope it isn't confusing to anyone, but if you are confused, shoot me a message and I'll clear it up for you. I will try my best to update my other stories in the coming weeks. Don't forget to review, favorite, and follow. I hope you enjoyed!