So yeah, I'm finally back on this story after lord knows how long. I want to go ahead and apologize for my absence from all of my Naruto stories. Life got busy and I was focusing on my Fairy Tail story, which is now complete, and just didn't have time to work on anything else. Now that my other story is complete, it's time to get back into this story and allow it to be my sole focus aside from maybe a stray chapter or two of a different one if inspiration hits me. Again, I apologize greatly for my absence and thank everyone that has taken the time to read this story so far, you guys rock!
Literally sat down and wrote this all in one sitting because you guys totally deserve this. I'll try to get my shit together so I can update more often. Sorry that this chapter isn't very long, but I still need to get back into the groove of working on this story, as I plan to have this story to be my main focus until its completion.
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S Lyubov'yu,
Casper
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Previously;
Once the four friends were covered up, he returned to his chair and got comfortable. He sent one last glance over to the teenagers gathered around his couch. He allowed himself a small smile at the picture. He had known the three boys for years and he had never seen any of them so content.
If anyone was going to make his boys truly happy, it was going to be the small, pink haired woman that was currently curled up on his couch.
Just as Kakazu was about to take sleep as his mistress, he heard a sound come from Deidara's mouth that could only be described as a walrus in heat. His eye twitched at the sound and shook his head before turning over and letting himself fall into unconsciousness.
'From clingy koala, to enraged rhino, to a horny walrus, the fuck is wrong with that kid...'
The first thought that came to Sakura's mind when she woke up the next morning was that her legs had gone completely numb at some point during the night. She groggily opened her eyes and glanced down at the sleeping forms of Deidara and Sasori. She couldn't help the smile that graced her lips as she watched them sleep comfortably next to each other, both of them still using her legs as a pillow. She was sure that their backs probably wouldn't feel the greatest when they finally woke up, but she hadn't had the heart to move them before her and Hidan had finally crashed for the night.
The pink haired woman raised a sculpted pink eyebrow in confusion when she noticed that both her and Hidan, along with Sasori and Deidara, had been covered with a blanket at some point during the night. When she realized that Kakazu must have woken up after they had all fallen asleep and had been kind enough to cover them up, she couldn't help but shoot a grateful smile at the still slumbering man.
While he had looked rather intimidating when she had first met him, she could tell that he was really just a big softy under all his stitched tattoos and his terrifying height. In her experience, huge men like him were usually total teddy bears when you got to know them. It seemed that Kakazu was no different in this case.
Finally, she stole a glace up at the sleeping form of her soul mate, Hidan. She felt her cheeks warm as she recalled their kiss from the night before and still couldn't believe that she had been so bold as to kiss him when they were in a room with all their friends. Sleeping or not, she hadn't expected herself to make the first move. Especially since she had no idea if any of them were going to wake up at any given moment. Either way, she didn't regret her decision to kiss Hidan.
Thinking of the silver haired man as her soul mate was still a totally new feeling to the young woman. She had never expected that she would be so lucky as to meet her soul mate right away on her eighteenth birthday. She had spent years researching the subject of soul mates that she had found out that finding them right away was nearly unheard of, not that she was complaining. By meeting Hidan on her birthday, she had saved herself a lot of sleepless nights of wondering when he'd drop into her life.
She lost herself in thoughts of what the future potentially held for them and couldn't help but smile. Her thoughts strayed to dates that they could possibly go on, if he was into that sort of thing. Sakura prided herself on not being a clingy and superficial person. She honestly didn't need the fancy dinners and expensive dates. As long as he remembered her birthday, she was totally fine with it. But it didn't hurt to think about the possibilities.
She silently wondered if Hidan had any dreams of children when he got older. While she had never really given the idea much thought, now that she'd found Hidan, the thought of kids didn't bother her at all. It wasn't a subject that she planned on bringing up for a quite some time, but again, thinking about the possibilities never hurt anybody. Before she would even consider children, she wanted to be completely sure that she was ready. She had goals for the future and wanted to achieve them before even considering expanding her family.
Hell, she wanted to focus on her relationship with Hidan for as long as she could before thinking about bringing anybody else into it. Having Sasori, Deidara, and now Kakazu in the picture didn't bother her one bit though. She loved having her blonde haired friend around and enjoyed Sasori's company and his thoughts surrounding art and the future. While she enjoyed talking to Deidara about art, she wasn't as big on explosions as he was, that was probably something that Hidan could probably get into though.
Sakura was brought out of her wandering thoughts when she heard a grunt and felt an arm tighten around her shoulders. She shook her head of her thoughts and turned her attention back to Hidan, instantly locking her eyes with his. She shot him a small smile and greeted him into the world of the living with a chaste kiss.
"Morning, sleepy head.", Sakura whispered, careful not to wake up anyone else in the room. She knew that Sasori and Deidara slept like the dead, but she didn't want to risk waking Kakazu.
"Morning, Pinky.", Hidan grunted around a yawn.
Sakura couldn't help but snicker quietly at his sleepy display and stole another quick kiss from the half-awake man. When she pulled away, she didn't even attempt to hide her smirk when she saw his cheeks flush with a small blush. He was just too cute when he was caught off guard.
Hidan's mind whirled as her lips touched his, never in his life did he think that he'd enjoy being brought out of his slumber in such a way. It made his insides churn in a way that made him feel like a giddy teenage girl. He could tell that his cheeks had tinted a pale shade of red and prayed to the Fates that none of the guys in the room would choose that moment to wake their happy asses up. That was just what he needed right away in the morning, some shit about how he was totally in love and that he was a sap.
"What time even is it?", Sakura asked with a small yawn of her own. She would never understand why whenever someone would yawn near her, she couldn't help but follow suit with a yawn of her own.
Hidan rummaged around in his pocket for a moment and after struggling for a moment due to their position on the couch, finally claimed his prize. He hit the power button on the side of the device and couldn't stop the small wince the wracked his body when the harsh light from the phone screen assaulted his eyes. After blinking away the blurriness in his eyes, he glanced back at the screen to check the time.
"It's already nine, I'm surprised old man Kakazu is still asleep, he's usually up at the ass crack of dawn.", the silver haired man muttered.
"Diabetic coma?", Sakura couldn't help but ask around a small giggle.
"I wouldn't be surprised, to be honest.", Hidan replied with a small shrug of his shoulders.
"Do you think we should get everyone up? I think there's still enough baked goods from yesterday for us to have for breakfast and I don't know about you, but I'm hungry as hell.", Sakura asked.
"Probably a good idea. How should we go about waking up the boys currently using my legs as a backrest and pillow?", the pink haired woman asked with a smirk.
"You could always moan really loud.", Hidan suggested with a perverted wink.
"Dude, they'd probably wake up and immediately try to murder your ass, and I doubt Kakazu wants you blood all over his couch.", Sakura pointed out with a sigh.
"Then I'm fresh out of ideas.", he replied with a shrug of his shoulders.
"I got this, push me into a sitting position. I can't feel the lower half of my body so there's no way I can do this by myself.", Sakura snickered.
And so, after a few grunts and countless curses, Sakura was finally able to be pushed into a sitting position on the couch. She took a moment to stretch her upper body as best she could in her current position before turning her attention to the sleeping boys on the floor in front of her. She slowly leaned forward until her head was positioned between theirs. She quickly shot Hidan a devilish smirk before lowering her lips towards Sasori's ear.
"I'm never baking for you or Deidara ever again.", she whispered sweetly into the slumbering red heads ear.
As soon as the words left her lips, Sasori's eyes shot straight open in a panic. Sensing that he was about to swing his head around to face her, Sakura quickly lifted herself out of the way of the impending headbutt heading her way. She couldn't help the small flinch that traveled through her body as Sasori's head connected full force with his boyfriend's. With a startled yelp of pain, Deidara was brought out of his peaceful slumber. Sasori didn't even seem to notice the fact that he'd assaulted his soul mate's head with his own as he whipped his head around to face Sakura.
"You wouldn't really stop feeding us, would you?!", the panic ridden man cried uncharacteristically. His normally calm, brown eyes were filled with dread and terror at the thought of living the rest of his life without Sakura's cooking. He hadn't known her for very long, but her food was his main source of nutrition at this point and he didn't want to risk losing it.
Hearing his boyfriend's panic filled words, Deidara immediately whipped his head around to face Sakura as well.
Sasori didn't even notice when the blonde's messy hair smacked him right in the face. There were more important things to worry about at that moment.
"You're not going to feed us anymore, yeah?! What'd we do to piss you off?! We'll make it up to you! I don't think I can live without your food, yeah!", Deidara wailed in a panic.
"The fuck are those two freaking out about? And why is Sasori showing emotions this early in the morning?", Kakazu grunted as he peaked a sleepy eye open at the four teenagers in his living room.
"Sakura woke the idiots up by saying that she wasn't going to feed them anymore. Both are freaking out because her cooking is life.", Hidan shrugged, not even bothering to look over at the older man. This shit was way too entertaining to look away from. He wasn't about to risk missing even a single moment of this embarrassing display. Especially since Sasori looked more scared than Deidara at this point. Such displays of emotion from the red head were rare and he wanted to soak in as much of it as humanly possible.
"Clever. Her baked goods taste damn good, I can only imagine what kind of shit she can make for dinner.", the older man mused before turning his attention towards the scene that was unfolding in front of his couch. He could get used to entertainment like this, it was better than cable.
"Why do you want to stop cooking for us, Sakura? Have we upset you in some way?", Sasori asked with a pout.
'Pouts that cute shouldn't be legal for a man, dear Fates.', Sakura cried in her head.
"Please don't let me starve, Sakura!", Deidara cried, real tears threatening to spill.
Deciding that she'd scared them long enough, Sakura decided it was time to come clean to her boys. Seeing Deidara almost reduced to tears at the thought of her not wanting to cook for him and his boyfriend anymore oddly broke her heart. Or maybe it was just the fact that she didn't ever want to be the reason that Deidara shed a single tear. She silently promised to kick the shit out of anyone who so much as made a hurtful comment towards her blonde friend.
"I was only kidding you two, I didn't know how else to wake you two up. I didn't want to kick my legs out from under you and accidently hurt you, you know?", Sakura admitted with a sheepish smile. She had no idea that either of them were so dependant on her cooking. Hell, she didn't even know if either of them had the ability to cook.
"So you thought threatening us with certain death was the best course of action?!", Deidara wailed dramatically, his arm flailing out around him, narrowly missing his soul mates face.
"That's a bit dramatic, but I didn't know what else to do. I don't think I could have moved my legs away, even if I wanted to. The little bastards are completely numb.", Sakura muttered with a small smile.
"You could have woken us up before you went to sleep and asked us to move, you know.", Sasori pointed out, now having regained his composure.
"You two looked comfortable and just too damn cute for me to even consider moving you. I don't regret having numb legs. I can only imagine that your backs hurt a little though.", the pink haired woman shrugged, her smile still firmly in place.
"Just a little stiff, but I'm fine.", Deidara shrugged, "I'll live."
"Same with me, we'll feel better after a hot shower.", Sasori nodded in agreement.
Sakura sighed in relief before she started massaging the feeling back into her legs. Once she was convinced that she wouldn't land on her ass once she put weight on them, she lifted herself from the couch and gave her body a proper stretch. She let out a groan of approval when she felt her joints pop and shot Hidan a mock glare when she heard him shuffle uncomfortably behind her.
"Perverted ass soul mate.", she said with a roll of her eyes.
"Damn right, Pinky.", the silver haired man smirked.
Sakura just shook her head at his antics and turned towards the kitchen.
"I think there's plenty of baked goods for left from yesterday for breakfast. I don't know about you guys, but I don't really feel like cooking this morning.", Sakura announced as she entered the kitchen.
"I could always cook!", Hidan suggested.
"Hell no!", the remaining four occupants of the apartment shouted in unison.
"Haters.", Hidan pouted.
"I like living, thank you.", Sasori snorted as he rose from the living room floor.
"I still can't eat French Toast thanks to you, yeah.", Deidara complained.
"So much clogging...", Kakazu muttered with a cringe.
Somehow, Sakura really, really didn't want to know just how bad her soul mates skills in the kitchen were.
Breakfast with her boys passed without incident and for that, Sakura was grateful. It always seemed that every time her and her boys would sit down to eat, someone would make a comment that would end with someones face covered in half eaten food. While she loved her boys to the moon and back, half eaten food landing in her hair just wasn't something that she enjoyed. Even though they hadn't argued about anything during breakfast, that didn't stop her favorite boys from bickering while she wasn't in the room.
The pink haired woman couldn't help but smile as she listened to Deidara and Hidan argue in the living room while she did the dishes from their breakfast in the kitchen. The boys had all but begged her to allow them to take care of them later, but she wouldn't hear a word of it. Somehow taking care of them in the simplest ways gave her a sense of purpose. It brightened her day every time they smiled at her with nothing but love and adoration every time they thought she wasn't looking. She had a feeling that they knew that she was aware of their actions, but chose not to point that fact out to them. They were content with how things were and so was she. She wasn't about to try to change the little routine they had going on.
They made her feel happier than she had in years and she wanted to hold onto that happiness as long as humanly possible.
Just as Sakura was setting the last dish from breakfast on the dish rack to dry, she felt her phone vibrate in her pocket, signalling her that someone was trying to call her. She raised a sculpted pink eyebrow in confusion, people didn't usually try to call her unless it was Deidara these days. She quickly dried her hands and fished her phone out of her pocket. When she saw the Itachi's name lit up on her phone, her eyes widened. She had been wondering when he was going to call, but she was surprised that he was trying to contact her so early in the morning.
Brushing aside her confusion for the moment, she swiped her phone to right and lifted the phone to her ear.
"Good morning, Itachi, I wasn't expecting you to call me so early in the morning. It's rare that you're out of bed before noon.", Sakura greeted into her phone, a small smile plastered on her face. While the situation with the elder Uchiha's brother wasn't exactly ideal, she held Itachi dear to her heart.
"Good morning to you as well, Sakura. I regret to say that I have not slept yet and that is the reason that I am calling you this early in the morning.", Itachi's tired voice replied.
"Is everything alright?", the pink haired woman asked, her voice laced with concern for her usually stoic friend.
"I'm fine, Sakura. There is no need to worry about me. I will be getting some sleep once I have given you the information I have for you.", came his sleepy reply.
"Don't think I won't come to your apartment and knock you out myself if you don't go to sleep, Uchiha. What information did you have for me? Is it about your brother?", Sakura asked uneasily. While she wanted information about what was going on with the younger Uchiha sibling, the thought of him continuing to stalk her made her uneasy. She knew that Itachi would do everything in his power to keep her safe, but there was only so much he could do.
"I wouldn't expect you to do anything differently. But yes, it's about my brother. It would seem that the odds may actually be in your favor with his stalker like nature.", Itachi responded with a sigh.
"What do you mean by the odd might be in my favor? Forgive me if I don't quite understand what you mean.", Sakura asked, her voice laced with confusion.
She didn't even notice that Hidan, Kakazu, and the Baka Duo were all standing in the doorway of the kitchen, watching her intently.
It wasn't until a moment later that Hidan sprung towards his soul mate as she hung up her phone and dropped to her knees. He quickly dropped himself down to her level and scooped her into his arms, effectively wrapping her in a warm, loving embrace.
"What happened, Sakura?", the silver haired man whispered into her hair, just loud enough for the trembling woman in his arms to hear.
Sakura lifted her head from her soul mate's shoulder and looked into his eyes, her own eyes shimmering with tears.
"Itachi gave me some really, really good news.", she replied, her happy tears finally spilling over.
"Well, don't keep us waiting, babe! What he say, yeah?", Deidara asked, his blue eyes flashing with excitement.
"It would seem that Sasuke stalking me has nothing to do with him thinking he's my soul mate anymore. It's actually for something completely different.", Sakura explained.
"And what would that reason be, doll?", Sasori asked with a raised eyebrow.
"He's actually found his soul mate already and who it is is actually quite shocking but unsurprising at the same time.", Sakura replied with a giggle.
"Quit dragging with out, woman! Who the hell is the little bastards soul mate?!", Kakazu grunted.
"Fine, fine, you guys ready for this?", Sakura giggled.
"Please, just tell us!", Deidara wailed dramatically.
"His soul mate...", Sakura began slowly.
"Go on...", Sasori coaxed.
"Spit it out already!", Hidan frowned.
"Fine, fine. His soul mate is Naruto.", Sakura smirked.
"WHAT?!", Deidara, Sasori, and Hidan screeched in unison.
"I couldn't believe it at first either.", Sakura snickered.
The four friends began talking about the future of Sasuke and Naruto for a few minutes before switching over to Hidan and Sakura's own future together.
None of them even noticed the confused look on Kakazu's face.
"Who the fuck is Naruto and why is it such a big deal...?", the older man muttered to himself.
Phew, finally another chapter finished. Again, I am sooooo sorry that this took so long for me to get out. I'll try to update more often from now on. I hope that this chapter was worth the wait and that you guys can forgive me for disappearing for so long.
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