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This is the last chapter, everyone! The sequel will be out soon!

A year passed and Sakura had given birth to a girl with the same pink hair as she with dark eyes, who she named Mikoto, after her husband's mother. Tsunade, who had realized Ryo's absence, ordered for search teams to go find him, but after so long, even she gave up, and the two seeming widows mourned for their husband.

Sakura held her cute four-month-old daughter on her hip, while Ino's one-year-old held her first two fingers as she toddled alongside her mother. The pair was out shopping to finish re-decorating one of the homes in the Uchiha compound, since, by marriage, it now belonged to them save if Ryo were to return.

"Hey Ino, you think that Nii-chan killed Ryo?" the emerald-eyed young woman asked.

Ino shook her head. "If that was so, Nii-chan would be rampaging. If you ask me, if Ryo's dead, then he took Sasuke out with him. The jerk deserved to die for everything he did."

"It's been one month since the anniversary of Ani-ue's death, and we're not sure when Nii-chan died, but—"

A crimson-haired young woman bumped into Sakura, very pregnant. She squeaked and tried to bow, her glasses falling off her nose to the ground. "I—I'm so sorry, ma'am! I'm new here and I've lost track of my husband!"

Ino bent down and picked up the spectacles, dusting them off before placing them back on the flustered woman's face. "It's okay. My name's Ino, and this is Sakura. Could you describe your husband to us?"

"He's a little taller than me, dark hair down to his middle back tied to the base of his skull, red eyes, pale skin, wears all black."

All three stiffened as a man's arm came around the nameless woman's shoulders and a deep voice murmured, "Sorry for worrying you Karin, I just had to run an errand."

Both Sakura and Ino jerked at the voice and their eyes widened when the young man stepped out from behind her. Karin hugged him and squealed, "You frightened me when your chakra disappeared like that, Ryo!"

Quite a bit of the right side of his body was covered with burn scars, his Sharingan active and uncovered. Some of his hair was missing so the hairline was higher than on the right side. His smile was a little twisted on that side, so he looked a little strange. "I see you've met the rest of the family inadvertently."

Both Ino and Sakura grabbed hold of their husband and held him tight, sobbing waterfalls on his shoulders. He held each of them gently, kissing their faces and stroking his newest daughter's head in greeting. Karin was confused by the suddenness of their movements, slow because of being heavy with child.

"Um, of what relation are they? Former relationships before marrying me?"

Ino and Sakura froze at the jealous tone that laced the newest addition to their ranks. He had picked up a conceited woman to be the third wife?

Ryo let go of his two other wives and shook his head. "No, I did explain to you that being the sole male left of the Uchiha Clan, I would have to marry multiple wives to begin repopulating the Uchiha compound. What I didn't tell you that you're my third wife. You're not the first."

Karin speared eye daggers at the pair and hissed, "But Ryo, we've been married for eleven months, and I've had you all to myself. Why would you have two sluts be your first two wives?"

Both the other Uchiha women popped veins and were about to beat up their newest companion when Ryo placed a hand on her head, frowning at her condescendingly. "Karin, I told you that you're not allowed to be jealous of the other wives I have. Am I going to have to forcibly calm you down again?"

Karin squeaked, shaking her head. "No, Ryo! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I won't do it again!"

"Besides, I saw how friendly you were with them. They're both very nice and won't treat you like an inferior. But they will tell me if you're acting like this behind my back to them or their children. I didn't marry you so you could order me or my first or second wife around. Don't make me divorce you after our child is born."

"No! No! I promise to be good and not let the green monster take hold of me!"

"Thank you, I'll hold you to that. I'll keep my promise if you step out of line even the slightest. Ino is my first wife and formerly of the Yamanaka Clan, and mother to my first child, Rin. Sakura is my second wife, but she has no clan and has mothered my second child—"

"—Mikoto," Sakura supplied.

Ryo smiled and kissed Mikoto's cheek. "I'm so sorry I couldn't keep my promise to you Sakura, I was still healing from these fierce burn scars when it happened."

"Where did you get them from?"

"I was accidentally hit by my own Amaterasu."

Ino and Sakura both winced, but Karin lowered her head and murmured, "I tried my best to heal you, Ryo."

The blonde kunoichi asked, "Karin-san's a medical ninja?"

Ryo snorted lightly. "She is in a special way. To be healed, you have to bite her and suck out her chakra. But because she was so low on chakra for a while, I was already scarring by the time she could heal me properly. I don't blame you, Karin. Then again, you only found me because you thought I was Sasuke."

Karin pouted. "I was almost disappointed that you weren't Sasuke-kun."

"What did I say about calling him that?"

"Sorry! I mean, Nii-chan!"

"Thank you."

Sakura placed her free hand on her hip. "She sure has to follow a lot of rules with you, Ryo."

"She's rather untamed when it comes to being a wife and she did have a large crush on Sasuke while she was on Team Hebi and Team Taka with him. She was used to being in charge and would only follow him, not even listening to her teammates. I can't have her being too free or she'll rule over the Uchiha Clan. I am the new head of the clan, after all. Whichever of you has a boy first, he will be named heir."

Karin cradled her stomach and had a soft look in her eyes as she cooed, "I'll give you a son first off, in fact, I'll give you two sons, Ryo. Sama."

"Karin, enough. With the luck I've had so far, I'll have to marry a fourth and fifth wife to have a boy."

All three of his wives turned ashen at the mention that Ryo would be marrying again, if not twice more, if they kept having girls. Sure the girls might have Sharingan, but only a boy could become heir to the Uchiha Clan, as per tradition. And because of the rules of repopulating a clan, the wife that had the first boy would become clan matriarch. If Karin had the first boy, (Ino and Sakura inwardly shuddered at the thought) she would have plenty of fun ordering everyone around, even if Ryo told her not to. That would be a nightmare.

"Um…Ryo…" Ino murmured.

"Yes?"

"Um…how many girls can we have until you have to marry again?"

"Two for each of you. Karin's carrying twins, so if she has both girls, then she won't be able to have any more children until the both of you have another child. And if you all have girls, I'll marry a fourth wife, and if she has a pair of girls, a fifth will have to join the ranks as well. And if she has two girls—"

"NO! YOU CAN'T MARRY A SIXTH WOMAN!" the trio of wives insisted.

He sweat-dropped, before rubbing the back of his head. "I was going to say that I would start back at Ino again and go down the line, since a sixth wife would be a little too much." He sighed. "I never planned being a polygamist, I was only going to marry one, since I thought Sasuke would be around to do it for me."

Sakura placed her hands on his scarred arm and asked, "Are you going to get your skin restored?"

"Yes, since I doubt anyone would want to cuddle up with this."

"I did, Ryo!" Karin cried.

"Yes, but you were used to it. Ino and Sakura haven't seen the extent of my injuries and I don't plan on ever showing them. I don't need any of you coddling me because of these scars, so I need to get going to Hokage-sama so she can start the surgery."

He walked with his three wives and two daughters to the hospital, where he was taken into an operating room to have the procedure done. After several hours, Ryo was rolled out, bandages covering the places where the scars had been. Tsunade smiled as she placed a hand on her two pupils' shoulders. "Ino, Sakura, the operation was a success and he should be healed in a week with daily healing treatment by either of you. Karin-san, I've accepted your papers as a wife of the Uchiha Clan and a resident of Konohagakure no Sato. You're going to deliver any day now, am I correct?"

The crimson-eyed young woman nodded. "Yes, Hokage-sama."

"I should watch you so that I can assist you delivering, since Ryo wouldn't have it any other way."

"Thank you, Hokage-sama."

Tsunade patted her head and gave a tender smile. "You'll become an excellent mother and wonderful friend to my two apprentices here. Let's just hope one of the next three deliveries yields a boy."

Ino and Sakura nodded vigorously. Karin smiled dreamily at the thought of giving Ryo twin boys.

Ryo awoke a few hours later, eyes barely opening as Sakura was healing him. His dark eyes gazed up at her, and he smiled faintly. "Sakura…"

She smiled brightly at her husband. "You're awake. Shishou said the surgery was a success and you'll have to stay still for a week until the skin seals right. Ino and I will take care of you, since Karin is so close to delivering and can't spare any chakra."

He lifted his left hand and touched her cheek. It almost felt like a feather brushing her skin, for it had no strength behind it at all. "My eyes…seem to be sealed…"

"Shishou thought it better for all your chakra to be untapped while you're healing, just to make your body rest for the first time in five years."

"I've been looking through the Sharingan that long…now it feels like my normal eyesight in comparison is stunted, flat…there seems to be almost no perception at all…"

"Maybe the constant strain on your eyes is making your vision go bad."

"No…my eyesight is just fine…I just said 'in comparison'…the clarity of the Sharingan almost seems like my normal vision…my Sharingan has been constantly active since it first appeared with three tomoes already in place when I was twelve…almost thirteen…I've almost forgotten what normal vision looks like…"

She made a small smile at that and stroked his cheek, her fingers twitching when Karin's voice cried, "I feel Ryo's awake! I want to see him!"

"Sakura's spending some one-on-one time with him right now! You don't have to spend every second with him! Even I know when it's inappropriate to butt in!"

"She's your best friend and you've known each other longer! Of course you two know each other better, since I've only been with you for less than a day! I want to see if Ryo's all right!"

"He's probably just fine or Sakura would come out and tell us! Now come sit back down and be calm! Worrying yourself into a tizzy isn't good for you right now!"

Karin muttered something under her breath and Ino snorted.

"Takes one to know one, sweetheart. You do know that acting that way won't win you points in either Sakura's or my eyes and it wouldn't matter whether or not you're carrying one or two boys, you would be out of the clan if I told Ryo what you just said."

There was a silence before Karin shrieked, "YOU'RE SO CRUEL TO DO THAT! HANGING EVERY LITTLE THING I SAY OVER MY HEAD SO I WON'T MISBEHAVE!"

"We can't have a green-eyed possessive bitch as one of the sister-wives, can we? Even Tsunade-sensei said you have the potential of being a good person if you suppress the ugly side of you. Both Sakura and I have done that so we can co-exist with each other. We both acted just like you with Ryo while he was dating her. I can tell that he won't take any more of that because he got sick of the arguing and name-calling between his wives. You might think that just because you've had him all to yourself until today makes you his favorite, it doesn't. His favorite is and always will be Sakura. He might've not told you, but he was planning on marrying just her in the beginning."

"Then why did he marry you first?"

"He married me out of duty."

"What?! He was forced to marry you?!"

"I don't care to tell you about such things until you become friends with both Sakura and me. Until then, it will remain a secret. Now I would appreciate it if you shut your mouth and sat down. I want to have some quiet until Ryo requests my presence."

Karin grunted before everything went silent again.

Sakura sighed in relief and Ryo's unmarred side of his mouth quirked up into a smile.

"I could…divorce her because of that…but this is a learning experience for her."

"Yeah, I think between the two of us, we'll tame her. If not, she's gonna be in trouble with you when the both of us tell you about the things she might do."

She got up and walked to the door.

"Sakura, I love you."

"I love you too, Ryo. Rest, you'll need it."

He closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep.

Halfway through Ryo's recovery, Karin had her twins, and (to the joy of Ino and Sakura) they were both girls. They looked exactly like their mother. Karin decided to call them Miru and Moru (which made her sister-wives start snickering at the unoriginality in her pick of names).

"This isn't fair. Now I have to wait to have more children until you two have another kid," the exhausted mother complained.

Ryo was in the middle of a treatment by Ino (she and Sakura were trading off each day) and looked up at his first wife. "Ino? Would you like to try to have another child? Or would you want Sakura to be first this time?"

Ino looked to Sakura and smiled at her friend. "I got seven months with him, Sakura. You deserve to be with him for more than a month. I can wait."

The pink-haired young woman nodded and hugged her best friend in return. "Thanks, Ino."

Ryo was allowed home the same day Karin and the twins were released. The first thing he did when he got home (not his apartment, but the very home that "he" had grown up in), he went to Itachi's memorial and added Sasuke's picture, along with the date of his death. He placed incense and flowers, since neither of his brothers had a grave. He knelt in front of it and bowed his head, his hands pressed together.

Karin came over immediately, only to be intercepted by Ino. "Karin, don't disturb Ryo."

"And why not? He's not doing anything!"

"Yes he is, he's mourning for his brothers' deaths."

"Why would he be mourning Nii-chan? He killed him himself!"

"Shh! He's talking with them!"

"This 'Ani-ue' is Itachi, right?"

"Yes."

"I thought he massacred his own clan, which is why Nii-chan killed him. So why is Ryo mourning both of them?"

"Obviously you're in the dark about the truth about what really happened the night of the Uchiha Genocide. I'll fill you in if you leave Ryo alone for a while."

Karin took the bait and left her husband alone to follow Ino.

Sakura got pregnant just as easily as the first time, but Ino had to get some special injections so she could conceive. Ryo prayed for his second wife to bear his first son so she could become the matriarch of the clan, since she was his favorite. Yet things seemed to still be rather rough between her and Karin, although the glasses-wearing young woman seemed to get along with Ino much better.

He warmed up to all his children very well, and the four girls loved him just as much, although you could see the personality with each differed with each mother they were from: Rin was rather cautious and serious, Mikoto was soft-hearted with a bit of a temper, and Miru and Moru were very narcissistic and jealous of their half-sisters. With how different they were, he wondered what his first boy would be like if he were Sakura's child. He just hoped the boy wouldn't have her pink hair. And if Ino was to have a boy, he didn't care if he had Ino's blonde hair. A blonde Uchiha would be welcomed. If both of them had girls, he already had a fourth wife in mind, should she still be unattached.

All he could do now was wait for the outcome.

THE END!

I can't believe it's over so soon! Well, I'll have to work on my next story and post it next week!

Did any of you think I would pick Karin for Ryo's wife too? *snickers*

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