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Ben's wife

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Sakura's P.O.V

I ran through the streets of Konoha with Sakurako in my arms. I was heading towards the Uchiha compound, towards that man I hoped I had outgrown but found out differently. The emotions running through me were amazing. It's strange but I know if he had given me that letter the day he came home I would have gone back to him right there and then. To know that deep down he has had feelings for me all along and only done the things that hurt me to protect me is great. Just thinking about it makes me smile so much. I'm so angry with myself for not letting him explain, if I had we could have been together long ago, and Sakurako wouldn't have had to sneak behind my back to see her father.

I look over towards Sakurako and the confusion on her face almost makes me die of laughter. I hadn't told her where we were going when we left the house, I had just picked her up and left, actually come to think of it I may have left the front door open. Ah well, nobody would dare steal anything, I hope.

"Sakurako, are you alright?" I ask my daughter. She looks at me with a frown on her beautiful face.

"Where are we going?" she asks me.

"To see your daddy" I tell her. She instantly looks worried and I havee a pretty good idea why.

"It was my fault we saw each other mummy. I went to him. Please don't hurt him. Please!" She begs me.

"Don't worry hunny, I'm not going to. I forgive you both for that. I suppose it was partially my fault anyway." I say to her.

"Then why are we going?" she asked again with a confused expression spread over her face.

"When your daddy came earlier he wrote me another letter, he told me exactly why he had hurt me every time he had and explained your meetings in a sense and I realised he wasn't lying. I know that he truly wants to be with me and make our family complete. You, me and him. I know now he won't hurt either of us again and honestly I'm tired of trying to pretend I don't love him back. I do and now I know he feels the same way I'm not going to waste any more time." I tell her.

"I knew you loved daddy all along. I could see it the first time you saw him." Sakurako murmured probably so I couldn't hear. I giggled at her. The girl is way too smart for her age. "So what's the plan?"

"Well I was planning on finding him and apologizing and hoping he's not as stubborn as me and forgives me straight away." I say.

"That so boring but if it works I'm happy with it." Sakurako says with a smile.

I look up and notice we've reached the compound. I open the gate and go through running straight for the mansion. Once I get there I knock on the door frantically but to no avail as after 5 minutes still nobody had come to answer it, so I did the first thing that came into my mind, I knocked it down. Once open I frantically searched the whole of the house but he was nowhere to be seen. After the failed search of the mansion I searched the rest of the complex and checked the mansion once more before running to the training grounds that I'm sad to say he still wasn't at.

"Where the fuck is he?" I yell in frustration. I then look at Sakurako who has her eyes wide in shock. Oops. "Ignore what I just said and completely forget it." I tell her and she nods. I sit down on a near by tree stump tired from the running around and with no idea where to head next.

"Why don't we uncle Naruto's and Aunty Hinata's house?" Sakurako suggested.

Brilliant, why hadn't I thought of that? Naruto's his best friend after all. I stand up grab Sakurako once more and somehow manage to run full speed to Naruto's house. Upon arrival I knock on his door repeatedly until he answers it with an annoyed face. If I weren't in such a rush to find Sasuke-kun I would have gone into a laughing fit then and there.

"Why are you knocking on my door like a mad-woman." Naruto almost shouted at me. Ha, Naruto shouting at me, today is an interesting day indeed.

"Have you seen Sasuke/daddy" Both Sakurako and I shouted at him.

"Nope, even if I had why would I tell you, you're about ready to murder him." Naruto said as he looked at me suspiciously.

"Because I also want to murder you for not telling me. I'm willing to spare your life for his." I tell him, in actual fact nobody is going to die but hey, Naruto doesn't have to know that.

"Why didn't you say so in the first place. He'll be wither at his home, the training grounds or that place in the forest where he used to train with his brother. He's been going there a lot since he came back. When Sakurako has been at school of course." Naruto tells me.

I waste no time in running towards the forest, I can faintly hear Naruto shouting at me in the distance, something about not hurting Sasuke too much, and not telling Sasuke that he had told me where he was. I got to the spot where Sasuke used to train with his brother with hope which was crushed in seconds when I realised he was not there. I put Sakurako down before turning and punching a tree so hard it fell down.

"mummy don't worry we'll find him, we just have to think. Daddy probably went somewhere to think, and since he saw you last as far as we know he probably went somewhere that held some importance to either both of you or just you." Sakurako said to me. That's when it clicked. I was sure I knew where he was. I once again picked up Sakurako and ran for what I hoped to be my final destination.

I approached my destination and as I did I could see a figure sitting there. As it was now dark it was hard to tell exactly who it was, but I had an idea. I put Sakurako down for what I hoped to be the last time tonight.

"Stay here until I say you can come over ok hunny?" I ask.

"Why?" she asks me.

"I just want to speak to your daddy on my own for a moment." I tell her. She nods at me and I smile before giving her a peck on the cheek and walking towards the figure.

As I get closer I notice that it is in fact Sasuke, I can tell that he's thinking and is probably in his own little world right now so I decide to just sit next to him, he obviously recognises a presence next to him as he holds up his hand as a sign of greeting. I guess from the gesture that he's not paying attention to who's next to him and therefore has not realised it's not me and I do not really wish on letting him know just yet.

"What brings a handsome young man like yourself out here at this time of night?" I ask in a voice that resembles that of an old woman.

"Long story." He says back.

"Ah, fair enough. Looking at your expression I'm going to guess it's a woman." I say to him.

"Hn" Sasuke replies.

"I take that as a yes." I pause a moment thinking carefully of my next words. "There's a story that goes with this bench your sat on you know. It's rather a sad story. Do you want to hear it?"

"Why not, I have nothing better to do." He said.

"Well it all started around 10 years ago with 2 children. A young girl and a young boy. You see this young girl had this sort of love for the young boy but he never really showed any feelings back. The girl of course was heart broken by this but none the less tried her hardest to make the boy return her feelings. She asked him out on dates all the time but was only ever replied with a no or the boy walking away. One night the two had gone out for a celebration with the rest of their team, oh I forgot to mention that part, these 2 people were on the same team. Anyway they boy had left early and nobody know for sure what had happened when he had left but something had given this boy the stupid idea that he had to leave, so he had packed his bag and gone towards the exit of the village. The young girl was travelling back from the celebration when she suddenly had a strange feeling in her heart. She knew something was wrong and she ran, she had no idea where she was running, she just let her feet lead the way. After a while she stopped, just a few meters away from this bench and moments later the boy walked towards her. She noticed the bag he was holding and instantly knew where he as heading. She attempted to stop him from leaving, told him she loved him, offered him happiness, everything she could think of. It didn't work though, so she did the first thing that came to mind. She told him she would scream if he left. So what he did was he knocked her out but before he did he said 1 small word, arigato." I tell him.

I stare at his face and I can see he's listening to the story with sad eyes as he remembers that night. Yet he does not speak a word and so I carry on.

"This is where the bench comes into it. After he had knocked her out he laid her down on this bench. Nobody at all knows what he did after that up to the moment of course when he got out of that barrel thing and fought his teammate. The young girl however she awoke to the sound of 2 ANBU men. The first thing she said as she awoke was his name. Sasuke-kun. After that day she trained as hard as she could to become strong for him, even trained under the Hokage. She never did give up hope that he'd come back though, she visited this bench often just to remember that night and him. A few years later her wishes came true and he did return but for only one night. A night she never did and probably never will forget. She assumed wrong though. The girl was foolish, and stupid. Since the pregnancy of her first child she has only wanted to protect that child and did anything she could so her daughter did not get hurt. Thing is in the process she ended up hurting her child and herself. You see that young foolish girl had not listened to that young boy when he returned the second time. With a letter though all became clear and she now hopes more than anything that the boy will forgive her for not listening," I watch as his yes grow wide, he now knows that it's me but still does not look at me. "She wants him to know that even though she shunned him and pretended to hate him she had actually loved him. She couldn't help but love him. To her he is the only one she could ever love. She was just looking out for her child. Now she knows she does not need to when it comes to the boy."

"I'm sure the boy would be more than happy to hear that. If he did he's probably say there's no need to be sorry, he would understand why the girl did what she did. He would tell her that it was him that should apologise because, if he had not been so cruel when they were younger then she would have known all along of his feeling." Sasuke said to me. I smiled.

"Maybe but the boy did all he could to protect the girl. I'm sure she knows as well as he knew that if she had known she would have made certain that he had not left for the second time, knowing the risks and all." I tell him.

"She always was so foolish." He says as he looks at me.

"And annoying." I tell him, he smiles.

"Yep, especially that." He replies as he leans in closer to my face and lets ourlips connect.

The second our lips touch I feel that magic I felt the first time. That feeling that made the kiss seem so right. Like his lips were the only lips I was supposed to kiss. A kiss that showed all his emotions at once and unlocked his heart to me. Showing me his true self. In simple words it was pure bliss. We were about to deepen it when suddenly there was a tiny cough, we separated and looked towards the source of the sound. Sakurako was stood there looking at us hopefully.

"It's cold and I'm tired. Can WE go home?" she asked. I smiled and as I looked towards Sasuke I saw the smile on his face too. I picked her up and sat her on my knee giving her a kiss on the cheek and Sasuke mimicked my action giving her a kiss on the opposite cheek.

"Of course we can hunny." I tell her. Then I look towards Sasuke. "Yours or mine?"

"Sakurako-Chan, what would you like?" Sasuke asked

"Daddy's, I love his house. Not that I don't love yours too mummy." Sakurako said.

"Fine by me." I tell her.

We all stand up together and walk hand in hand with Sakurako in the middle towards the Uchiha compound once more. No, we walked towards our home. Halfway there I remembered something important.

"erm Sasuke-kun?" I said

"Hai?" he asked.

"I may have kind of broke down your door when I was looking for you." I tell him. His reaction I was not expecting at all. He laughed.

"I've been wanting a new door anyway, I'm just glad to know you wanted to find me so much." He said.

I stuck out my tongue out at him and he grinned at me. I looked down at Sakurako who as half smiling while also falling asleep, it was after all quiet past her bed time. Sasuke also looked down at her and with no thought what so ever picked her up bridal style with her head against his shoulder and she fell asleep in seconds. I smiled at him as 1 thought ran through my mind. He was going to be a great father. Upon arrival to the mansion Sasuke took Sakurako into a room next to his and lay her down on a bed while I half fixed the door I broke. He then came back down to me and led me to our room. After changing into 1 of Sasuke's way too large for me shirts, I climbed into his, well our bed, next to him and lay down, I closed my eyes and moments later felt his arm around my waist. I thought that night we had slept together I had had the best sleep ever but I was wrong, so wrong because the sleep I had that night was by far the best. Dreams filled my head of Sasuke and me together, and I'm almost certain I must have slept with a smile upon my face. I was just so happy to finally be with the love of my life.


AN: hope u enjoyed it, if not then meh, w/e you opinion rlly. Anyway please review and if u skipped right down to this AN cause your odd like that then read as well :D. For now bye bye xxx