Chapter 9: Day 300

When February 15th came along, Sasuke was basically forced to leave Sanosuke with his brother and sister-in-law. Once again, Naruto had forgotten that Sakura was busy when he decided to send Sasuke on a mission. Instead of Sakura being on a mission, she was working at the hospital and was unable to get away to watch Sanosuke. The second he showed up at his brother's place, Asuna, without even asking Itachi, said they would be glad to watch him until Sakura got off work.

"He'll be fine! He loves it here! And with the new baby, he's going to love it even more!" Asuna took a hold of Sanosuke, who just cooed and hugged her.

Sasuke, however, was very skeptical. He had completely forgotten Asuna and Itachi had a newborn daughter, and hoped everything would end well.

"All right… if you need Sakura, she's at the hospital, but she has a surgery to deal with in about an hour, and she said it would take a while."

Asuna nodded, while Sanosuke looked at Sasuke. "Dada?"

"I'll be back soon, I promise."


"Reyke, Sanosuke! Let's have lunch!"

"Coming!" Reyke ran down the hall, with Sanosuke toddling after him. The two had been in Reyke's room, playing with the various toys and stuffed animals he had, when Asuna called them for lunch. Reyke climbed into one of the chairs, while Asuna picked up Sanosuke and set him in the highchair. Sanosuke didn't mind, honestly. At least he was taller than Reyke for a bit.

The second they finished lunch, the two were off and playing again. Reyke showed Sanosuke his absolutely favorite plush toy, which was a fuzzy purple monster his mother bought him for Christmas. Sanosuke, wanting to show off his blue dog plush Sasuke had gotten him for Christmas, ran for the bag Sasuke packed him, searching through, but coming up with nothing.

When he realized his favorite toy wasn't there, he ended up crying loud enough to alert both Itachi and Asuna, believing something was very wrong.

"Sanosuke, what's wrong?!" Asuna entered Reyke's room first, Itachi following after with a worried look on his face.

"What happened?"

"I have no idea!"

Reyke titled his head in confusion, before figuring out what the problem was. He wasn't able to say anything about it before Itachi picked up Sanosuke, who ended up wailing even louder than he had been. Reyke, hoping to calm his younger cousin, pulled on Asuna's skirt, only for her to tell him to hold a moment. He pouted, before grabbing his monster plush and going to Itachi, holding the plush up the second his father looked at him.

"…do you want me to give it to Sanosuke?"

Reyke nodded as Itachi took the plush, handing it to Sanosuke who accepted it and calmed a little bit.

"Here let me see him." Asuna took hold of Sanosuke, starting to calm him even more, until Emiko started crying, startling Sanosuke a bit. Reyke just watched as Itachi left to take care of the crying twenty-day-old baby, and his mother calmed Sanosuke. It didn't take long for Sanosuke to fall asleep, making Asuna smile. "See, you're fine. Your mama will be here to pick you up soon, I promise."

Sanosuke slept until Sakura came to get him. Once they were home, he went and found his plush dog, hugging it tightly. He never left the plush home again after that.

END CHAPTER 9


Author's Note: Tomorrow, I will be rocking my Shippuden Sasuke T-shirt, my jeans, and my sneakers in my classes. /awyeah
I am, currently, trying to write in advanced so I can update tomorrow through Thursday without having to write and interrupt my studies, because I have a midterm in History this weekend.
Let's pray I do well. ^^;