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I DONT OWN NARUTO OR THE PARENT TRAP OT ITACHI OR SAKURA OR GREENHOUSES AND MARRIAGE. BUT I DO OWN SAITO AND KAITO

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Discussions of the Past

Sakura was going nuts as she began unpacking her cloths into the hotel wardrobe, while trying to find a nice dress.

"Sakura, I haven't seen you this freaked out since...well forever" her friend said from the bed as she watched Sakura rushing around.

Ino was a tall busty blond who had been friends with Sakura since their collage days and had known her since way before. She had been living in Florida with her husband, a director, for the past few years but had flown in for Sakura's wedding.

She was now sitting cross-legged on the bed as Sakura went ballistic unpacking. "I don't get it" she said "so your ex-husband is here. Big deal, I didn't freak out this much when my ex-boyfriend came to meet my husband. All we did was argue for a little, cuss a bit and then he flew back to whatever skunk-hole he crawled out of. And Itachi's no differen..."

"Ino! Don't talk about him like that. Anyway, the situation's completely different. It's just that...OHHH, you don't understand!" she cried.

Ino shrugged "In what way is it different, explain to me."

Sakura stopped "because...because when you met you boyfriend again that day, you still despised each other, right?"

"Right" Ino said.

"But for me...it's just that...Ok, I've always thought that when I see Itachi again, I would still be as furious as before. In fact, that was what I had hoped, but instead. I was actually exited to see him. my heart even skipped!"

"No!" Ino gasped.

"Because...when we divorced, Itachi and I, it wasn't because of lack of love. It was because the love we had wasn't enough. I mean, if it weren't for all the fighting and the fact that he drove me crazy I'd still be married to the man! And so now..."

"Now you're afraid that perhaps you might still be in love with him!" Ino finished.

"Yes...wait, NO! I'm sure I love Michael. He's kind, he's affectionate he's...Ino why are you scowling like that?"

Ino sighed "Sakura, want my honest opinion honey? I'm actually kinda glad Itachi's here."

Sakura raised her brow "I thought you hated Itachi, you always argued in the past."

"That is true, and I still think he's too gloomy for you. But out of him and Michael, there's no big surprise. At least Itachi let you have a mind of your own and actually cared what you thought. The guy planned your whole wedding around your tastes. While Michael..."

"Michael lets me have my own mind!" Sakura protested.

Ino scoffed"oh please. He say's jump, you jump. He says change into this, you change into this, he says we're having the wedding here, you meekly nod your head and go on your merry way. It's sickening."

"You're just being paranoid; when you met Itachi for the first time you tried to flirt with him! And when he didn't react you go angry and began to hate him. How do I know it's not because of another silly reason you hate Michael?"

"I would never flirt with someone like that!" Ino protested this time. "That ex of yours might be gloomy and depressing, but at least he was a looker. Michael just makes me wanna barf. He tries too hard. Not like my Shika" she said thinking of her husband back in America.

Sakura smiled at the memory "yeah, he always was quite the looker. All the girls would go crazy. Then he would scare them off with one glare and walk off with me. It made me feel like I was winning or something" she laughed, then stopped herself when she realised what she was doing. "but is doesn't matter, I'm marrying Michael and there's nothing that will ch..." Sakura trailed off when she put away the last of her clothing and found that she still hadn't decided on anything to wear.

After convincing Michael that despite the fact that her ex-husband was here, everything was fine, her and Itachi had arranged to meet for dinner to discuss the twins. Since now that they had met, it was impossible to keep them apart for ever, and it was cruel.

"Sakura, are you still freaking out over you date?"Ino called out, breaking Sakura from her train of thought as she called out "It's not a date! It's two adult going for a meal to calmly and maturely discuss the futute of their children." She said.

Ino rolled her eyes and stood. Stretching she said "Date/Smate. You need a killer dress to knock that arse-hole's sock's off. Trust me, showing up looking gorgeous dose wonders for your self-confidence, I think the best part of meeting my ex-boyfriend that day was having him see me look a million dollars. The look on his face, I wish I had bough camera, he looked like his mouth was about to drop off."

"Ino" Sakura sighed "Your point?"

"My point is that, why don't you go shopping for some cloths, my treat" she said holding out her credit card "think of it was a wedding present."

Sakura just looked with shock. Ino was a complete shopaholic, she loved to buy things. And she was giving away money!

"What's the catch?" Sakura said sceptically.

"No catch!" Ino said "just...bring my back one of those cure Paddington bears. It'll look cute on my desk."

Ino worked as an assistant to her husband Shikamaru Nara, the director.

Suddenly there came a sound from outside Sakura's room and a cry as two identical boys came tumbling in after a healthy serving of eavesdropping.

Sakura put her hands on her hips and smirked "look at what we have here." She said "out for a little stroll?"

Saito and Kaito looked up and grinned "Sorry Mama" they said in union.

From the back of the room Ino squealed and clapped her hands together. "Ohhhhh, I thought Kaito was super cute on his own. But when Saito and Kaito are together they're even cuter! Here..." she said offering the credit card again "buy them a toy or something while you're shopping."

"Shopping!" Kaito gasped

"Can we come?" Saito asked.

Sakura raised a brow. "ok, firstly, Ino are you sure you want to give me our card? And secondly, since when are you interested in shopping Kaito?"

"I'm not" Kaito said "but I want to show Saito Nii-chan around London and shopping is a really good way to do it."

"Pleeeeeeese Mama" Saito begged.

"But you've already seen London ,while you were staying with me for the past two weeks."

"Yes, but not with you and Kaito. Plus, I never got to really see them, because we went to places so fast. And I want to practice my English."

Ino sighed "Oh come on Sakura, you need a break from all this stress. What with Michael and the wedding and Itachi and your long lost twins, you need a break. Plus, I can spoil my god-sons as much as I want to" she said stuffing the card into Sakura's hands.

Sakura sighed. "Alright boys, let's go shopping."

Itachi was going though similar problems while unpacking his suitcase. But then again, great minds did think alike.

Shisui was watching with great amusement as he unpacked. Itachi was sporting one of the most confused yet absolutely annoyed expressions his Uchiha cousin had even seen.

Shisui felt like torturing him "wow, did you see that guy Sakura's marrying? The guy treats Sakura like one of those weird marionette things Kankuro used to play with. You remember Kankuro right? Brown hair, purple face paint, has a really awesome yet slightly scary little brother Gaara? Ah good times. Anyways, getting back to the point. Sakura. She's acting as if she has no brain, he says sit, she si..."

He didn't get to finish that sentence as Itachi turned around and glared "don't talk about her like that. Whomever she has picked is no business of ours and should not be talked about."

Shisui held up his hands in a defeated pose "man, chill out. Just because you jealous, doesn't mean that..."

"I'm not jealous!" Itachi said, a little too quickly "I'm only concerned about her and our son. There's a difference. After all, he will be Sakura's new...spouse, sooner or later."

They guy couldn't even say the word husband.

Shisui watched his cousins fists curl into an angry grip and smiled. He was so jealous.

Sakura decided that for the first time, Ino had been right. She had needed a well deserved break.

She had the boys had been going from shop to shop. And not just cloths shops for women, but shops for boys too. Toy shops, book shops , a prank shop for Kaito (though they didn't buy anything from there) and much more. They ate lunch at a typical English Pup like Saito wanted and had Ice cream like Kaito wanted and a hot dog like Sakura wanted.

In the end however they really didn't find the right dress.

"Mom" Saito said suddenly as the tree walked along the bank of the themes "tell us about you and dad when you were younger."

Sakura sighed "ohh, that's a tough question. I wouldn't know where to start."

"Tell us how you met!" Kaito suggested "was it love at first sight?"

Sakura laughed "Ha! That man wouldn't know love at first sight if it came and bit him on the arse. No. Actually, the first time Itachi and I met was in high school. You see, I had back then been completely and madly in love with his younger brother Sasuke."

"Sasuke!" Saito exclaimed "you were in love with Sasuke!" but when ever Sasuke talked about her, he would talk as if he were talking about a sister.

"yes" Sakura, smiled at the memories. "Because Sasuke was really popular back then I was too shy to tell him my feelings. But you know, I always came to his matches. Back in high school, he played Kendo; he was the best for our year. Be it rain, storm or snow, even when it was practice I would wait till he went home. It was the only thing I could do to show my feelings. But one day, I was told that I was going to move to another art of Tokyo. So I thought I would confess my feelings To him. if he accepted them I would convince my mom to stay. If not I would go with them willingly."

Sakura smiled sadly "let's just say, Sasuke wasn't the nicest person back then. He was rude and arrogant and only cared about beating his brother in Kendo and school related activities. So when I confessed, he rejected me harshly. He didn't make fun of me or anything, but he wasn't nice either. I managed to hold in my tears until later when I cried behind the school's green house."

She smiled "that was when I met your father for the first time. You see. Sasuke may have been the best Kendo star of our year, but Itachi was the best in the school. He was on his way to a kendo match when he heard me crying. He came to investigate of pure curiosity. When I saw him, I guess I was so sad, and his voice was so gently, I ended up crying all over his uniform. He was so surprised that he simply patted the top of my head like I was some dog or something. After crying I don't really remember what happened then."

"So then did you fall in love?" Kaito asked eagerly.

Sakura shook her head "no, actually I moved away. But then in college, I went to Tokyo University. I was studying Medicine. One day I was wheeling the AV cart when it went wrong and I nearly ran over this man. He jumped out of the way of course, but his arm was bleeding. So I patched him up, you know. It turned out that Itachi was also going to Tokyo University."

"So dad was the one you nearly ran over?" Saito asked.

Sakura nodded "yes. So after patching him up I invited him for coffee. He accepted. I didn't recognise him at first, I didn't know he was Sasuke's brother. Anyway, while at coffee, I don't know, I liked him. and it felt like he liked me.

"And then he asked me out to dinner and a movie Friday night and I said yes. It wasn't until later that I found out he was a recently graduated senior and now a junior lecturer in the business coarse, sort of like the Teacher. He had studied business for his father's company.

"Because Itachi's family, the Uchiha family, ran this really important company. To this day I still don't know what it's for but Itachi was the heir to this company. He was doing the lecturing for experience in the field. So I went up to him and asked if he was okay with going on a date with a student. He said that our personal lives had nothing to do with our work. And that we weren't even in the same building.

"So we went to dinner and thing sort of moved on, you know. One date lead to another, another date lead to another and soon became a real couple. He was really sweet when he wanted to be. But he wasn't too good wit expressing himself, he didn't like to be too affectionate either. That used to make me feel really insecure since he was five years older than me. But we fell in love and when I was nineteen he proposed to me."

Sakura laughed "the way he proposed was really funny and well...just so him. We were at a fireworks festival and this couple commented on what a cute couple we were and asked how long we were married. Then when the fireworks started he said to me how being married to me would be an enjoyable thing. So I asked him if that was a proposal. Then he slipped this ring into my hand and asked me to marry him. And we sort of got engaged after that. We married in this beautiful green house. He had it all set up like how we first met, b then I had figured out his being Sasuke's older brother. He even had this amazing cherry blossom tree planted just for me.

"It was one of the best days of my entire life, the perfect wedding. And it was amazing he had done it all for me. It was one of those moments were all the insecurities and problems seem meaningless because you feel that it's all worth it in the end. I really loved him, and he loved me, I know he did then."

"So what happened?" Saito said "if you were so in love, where did it all go wrong?"

Sakura' happy smile fell and she sighed "sometimes things just happened. There were...complications. we fought too much, and I think I wanted to leave him a long time, but I stayed because of you two. I had gotten pregnant while we were still getting along. But we just...didn't suit each other anymore. We weren't compatible. So we divorced."

Saito frowned "but from the story you told us, you said it was all worth it. I don't understand."

Sakura sighed "back then, I didn't understand too."

"Ohh, Mama Look!" Kaito suddenly cried.

Saito and Sakura stopped short to see in a shop window. They had gotten of the themes bank a while ago and were now wondering the shops. In the window was a beautiful blue dress. It hugged the mannequin's curves beautifully and had sequins all long the straps. It ended just above her knees and was sleeveless with a sweet hear neckline.

"Mama, this dress is perfect!" Saito said with a smile.

Sakura looked at it and smiled back "you know, I think it is."

Itachi stood by the clack car with Saito waiting for Kaito and Sakura to come down.

What was it with females and getting ready? "Don't worry, Father" Saito said "you look great."

"I'm not worried" Itachi argued "just impatient. Why is she taking so long?"

She hadn't decided not to come had she? No, the Sakura he knew was never that irresponsible. But then, she wasn't his Sakura anymore. She was Michael's, eight years changed a person. What if she changed too?

But then he remembered her when they were at the pool and smiled to himself 'she hasn't changed a bit' she was still his Sakura.

Suddenly Saito turned around to look at the doors to the hotel "there they are" he said.

Itachi turned and froze.

She was standing with Kaito beside her. Kaito was dressed similar to Saito; it seemed both their tastes in clothing matched. But Sakura herself was dressed in a dark blue dress that hugged her curves and showed off her milky white legs. Her hair was out but two strand had been tied back to keep the hair out of her eyes and twisted into an elegant bun. She wore little make up. Just some lip gloss and mascara. But then again, Sakura never really needed makeup. She had always had a natural beauty.

She looked stunning.

Sakura looked up and gave him a brilliant smile, "shall we go?"

Itachi blinked and nodded "yes." he allowed Sakura and the boys to climb into the cab first then slipped in to join them. "I don't know where we're going" Sakura said "Kaito and Saito planned the whole thing."

They drove for what seemed like an hour's when in fact, after checking his watch, it was only twenty minutes. Finally the car stopped and they got out. Itachi blinked once, he blinked twice, but the illusion had not disappeared.

Where on earth had those boys found such a large green house?

"Don't worry" Kaito said happily "It's ours for the night"

Beside him, Sakura laughed "so I see, that's why you were so interested in the past." And to a slightly confused Itachi she said "I told them about how we got married in a greenhouse and met by the school green house, they're trying to recreate those moments."

Itachi smirked, "and where did you get the money to pay for all of this?"

"Don't worry" came a sudden voice from behind them Itachi and Sakura turned to find Shisui and Shizune grinning at them while dressed in waiter and waitress uniforms "consider it a wedding present to you Sakura, I got money to spare since my last movie, might as well spent it on something useful."

"And Lady Tsunade wanted to come herself, but she was busy. I came instead." Shizune added.

Sakura smiled "so you all planned this?" as Shisui and Shizune lead them inside the greenhouse. Deeper among the plants was a table set for two with candles and everything. "But wait, what about you two" Sakura said confused as she looked at the twins.

They grinned sheepishly "well that's the thing; we won't be joining you tonight."

"So have a pleasant night" and then they shut the door and went out of sight.

Itachi turned to the table, it had already been set up with the first course. A strange kind of green soup. Sakura sighed "look, they went through all this trouble, how about we sit down, eat and discuss things like we intended to?"

Itachi nodded in agreement.

He pulled out the chair for her as she as she sat down and then seated himself. Sakura looked uncertainly at the dish before her "do I even want to know what this is?"

Itachi shrugged "as long as it wasn't prepared by you it should be edible."

Sakura looked up "Hey!"

"It's the truth; you can only cook Japanese food. You can't even cook spicy chicken without messing it up horribly."

Sakura bowed her head in defeat. "I know"

They tasted their soup, which actually wasn't too bad, and went on to the discussion

When Shizune and Shisui came in to give them the second course they were talking about privileges of when they see the twins.

"Well why don't you have Saito stay with me for one year and with you another?"

Itachi shook his head "no, Saito needs to stay in school. He had a scholarship."

Sakura looked up "impressive. So how about in summer holidays?"

"Which days?"

"All summer"

"That is unacceptable"

Sakura sighed "this is giving me a headache."

Itachi agreed.

"why are we even having this conversation anyway" Sakura thought out loud "I thought he whole point of you taking Saito and me taking Kaito was so that we would never have to see each other again."

Itachi looked up with confusion "I never knew that" he murmured.

Sakura looked down at something Shisui had placed on the table and gasped in delight "Sake!"

She grinned "I can't believe it, where did you get this stuff, oh how I miss it" she took a sip of the liquid and felt the alcohol burn her throat "Mmmm, god I love sake!"

Itachi smirked. This was like the dinners they would have in the past. She would always have a glass of Saki every meal. One glass. Sakura had very good self-control. Unlike her grandmother.

Itachi raised his glass "here's to..."

"Our Son's" Sakura finished.

"Our Sons" he repeated and the clinked glasses and drank.

Sakura glanced to the side and smiled. Itachi also looked and also smiled at Kaito's bad attempt to be sneaky as he peaked from the car. "Now I know how a goldfish feels" Itachi murmured and Sakura broke out in pearls of laughed "why I do believe, that was a joke" she said. "Never thought I'd see the day, you developed a sense of humour these last eight years."

"Soo" Sakura began "you've done fantastically well for yourself, your dream of owning your own Dojo" Sakura smiled "very impressive. I told you that business wasn't for you. Didn't I tell you? I said how you loved teaching and you should own a Dojo"

He nodded "You did. And after all those medicine courses, you finally became a well respected doctor."

"Yes, be both finally got where we wanted to go" Sakura said softly.

"You remember the day you packed" Itachi suddenly said.

Sakura looked up "you mean the day I packed my bags up and left. Yes I remember that part perfectly." She smiled "I remember a lot of shouting."

"Mostly by you"

They laughed. Itachi smirked, when was the last time he had laughed like this? Since...well...eight years. She had been the only person he could laugh with. His smirk fell and he looked up at her with a serious expression.

"Sakura" Itachi began "I will probably never again get a chance to talk to you like this, it all happened so fast. So I want to ask you one thing that had me confused. Why did you do it?"

Sakura smiled "You mean why did I pack? Oh, we were so young. We thought we could go against your clan, even though we knew they hated me. When we started arguing, everything got difficult. You went to more and more family meetings. I saw you less and less and became really insecure. We argued. Remember the day we had that huge argument?"

Itachi nodded.

"That very day, I got into a car crash."

Itachi froze 'What!'

"And I was in hospital" Sakura continued. "You didn't come home for a month; you were at another family business meeting. That's why Naruto and Sai were so angry with you when you came back."

"Sakura I...I didn't know" he said "why didn't you call my ph..."

"I did" Sakura protested with hurt shining in her eyes. The hurt was cutting though him, he had only seen this expression when they fought, he hated this expression the most. "I did call you" she said "I know it was selfish, you were trying but...give me some credit. I was in the hospital, I was scared, I needed my husband! I sent you fourteen calls and twenty-five messages. But you never returned any of them. I'll bet you turned off your phone. I'm always telling you not to do that, but you were always so stubborn you never listened"

"Sakura..." Itachi began "I never got any calls or text messages, and my phone was on that day. I was sorry; I was hoping you would call so I could talk to you. I never got any call's,, I...I didn't know!"

Sakura smiled "it's ok, it happened a long time ago. I'm over t now. Anyway, after you came back, I packed my bags and left and well..." she shrugged "...you didn't come after me."

"What?"

"I always felt insecure, but the day you didn't come to the hospital. I felt as if 'if he didn't even come for this just because of one little argument, then he obviously doesn't love you anymore or love you enough'. Especially with the way your father used to taunt me"

"Father? what did he do?" Cecilia had spoken to Sakura. When, he hadn't heard about this.

"Doesn't matter anymore" Sakura insisted "So I packed and I stayed with Tsunade. You knew I would go there; it was the only home I had left. I waited a whole week with the twins. But you never came after me. So I got on a flight to England and well...the rest you know."

Itachi frowned "I didn't know you wanted me to." what had he been doing that night. Getting drunk, being angry over her leaving. He didn't think of going after her, he had been so...angry with her. And now he couldn't even remember what they had argued about in the first place. But he hoped it had been something important. That argument cost him his wife and youngest son.

"Well" Sakura said simply "it really doesn't matter anymore. That was a long time ago, and now I have Michael, so I'm fine. I don't feel insecure with him" she smiled "so I'm happy so let's just put on a good face for the boys and try to sort something out. Ok?" she smiled painfully and took another sip of her Saki.

Itachi felt a pang of sudden pain go though his chest at the mention of her fiancée.

He had realised something's important that night.

He didn't really want to 'put on a good face and sort something out'

He didn't want to watch her marry another, no more than how he had wanted to watch he walk out of his life eight years ago and have that divorce.

Because he was still in love with Sakura.

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