Marry me…!
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Summary:When Sakura's ideal couple, Naruto and Hinata, have a baby she can't wait to see them…When Naruto drops his new born in Sasuke's arms and Sakura is the only one who can make the baby stop crying, the weirdest thing happens "…Marry me!"
Rating: T for the use of Teme/Bastard and suggestive themes.
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"My husband and I have never considered divorce...murder sometimes, but never divorce."
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Chapter 13 – Sakura's mother: Kana-san
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I decided to call my mother after my last shift at the hospital was over to tell her that I would be visiting her later today. The phone rang in my ear and I felt nervous. I knew I wasn't telling my mother that I was engaged over the phone, but there was an uncomfortable pit in my stomach none the less.
"Moshi-moshi?" My mom answered.
"Hi mama." I smiled brightly after hearing my mother's voice over the phone. It made me realize that I haven't talked to her in a while.
"Sakura!" My mom squealed excitedly.
"I was wondering If I could stop by today?" I asked her as I walked out of the hospital and over to my car standing in the parking lot.
"Of course you can, I haven't seen you in quite a while." My mother stated. "When you will you arrive?"
"Sometime later around 16:30. I have something to tell you." I told her as I climbed into my car and sat there in the driver's seat.
"Something to tell me?" she repeated over the phone.
"Yeah, it's pretty important." I replied easily.
"Okay then." My mother said in a more serious tone. "I'll see you later."
We hung up and I quickly drove out the lot and made my way home. "Sasuke meeting my mom." I thought. "He'll be affectionate soon enough if she has anything to say about it."
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Sasuke parked his car and walked into his house at around 15:00. The sun was slowly starting to make its descend. He walked straight to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and enjoyed the feel of the cold liquid running down his dry throat.
"I wonder if Sakura takes after her mother or father?" he thought absently. "Probably her mother, Sakura looks too feminine to have any of her father's outer qualities."
Sasuke blanched at his turn of thought as he headed upstairs to take a quick shower to rid his body of sweat. "Feminine? That woman is so childish I wonder how I could even think to describe her as feminine." He thought easily.
Sasuke merely stood in the shower as the warm water ran over his body. His mind suddenly thought of something Naruto had mention before.
"It was around that time that Sakura's father died in a car crash."
Sasuke climbed out of the shower and forgot about his musings when he heard a faint humming in the room. He easily pulled a beige towel around his waist before opening the bathroom door only to find Sakura rummaging through the drawers.
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"You might want to take a jacket it'll probably get colder later on." I said as I heard Sasuke open the door to the bathroom. I looked at the long-sleeved green sweater I pulled from the drawer and decided to take it with me, not really in the mood to look for something a little warmer.
I turned around when I heard no reply from Sasuke and my eyes widened in surprise as I stared at his naked chest. I tried not to ogle Sasuke and his well-built muscles, but I couldn't find the will to look away from him. My face flamed red. To keep myself from staring any further I shut my eyes tightly.
"Put some clothes on would yah!" I exclaimed, embarrassed that he probably caught me staring. I could see in my mind's eye the instant smirk that most certainly framed his face.
"You can't see anything besides you seem to waltz naked around the house all the time." He replied sounding amused.
I groaned. "I knew I was never going to hear the end of that incident." I thought.
"I wasn't expecting you to walk into the house when I ran downstairs to answer my cell!" I defended.
"And I wasn't expecting you to be in the room when I got out of the shower." He retorted easily.
"Oh, just get dressed." I told him and opened my eyes to make sure I didn't walk into the wall on my way out of the room. I glanced at Sasuke for only a second before looking away, not wanting to be caught staring once again.
I fumed as I walked my way down the stairs and entered the kitchen to get myself a class of milk. "That jerk!" I exclaimed, almost hoping that he'd hear me. I pulled my green sweater over my head before taking my now full glass of milk from the counter and finishing it off in a few angry gulps.
"Damn, I am living and sleeping next to the hottest man to ever have existed on this planet." I thought. I shook my head, hoping to forget Sasuke's taunt muscles and incredibly handsome physique. Putting the glass in the sink I turned around and came face to face with a fully dressed Sasuke.
It was hard to imagine that he was hiding all that sexiness under a mere shirt. "So I called my mom." I began. "I told her I'd be coming over soon."
He nodded. We walked to the front door and I easily grabbed for Sasuke's car keys before he could. He raised a questioning eyebrow. "I'll be driving." I stated.
"Oh no, you're not." He said frowning.
"Don't complain, besides, you don't know where my mother lives anyway." I told him, waking out the door only to hear a grumbled of annoyance behind me.
I climbed into Sasuke's car and started the engine after he got into the passenger's seat unwillingly. I squealed, which took him a bit of guard. "I've always wanted to drive one of these." I admitted. I secretly loved Sasuke's car ever since I saw it, but merely kept the information for myself.
"So that's the real reason you wanted to drive." Sasuke deduced easily. I stuck my tongue out at him and giggled playfully. I revved the car before reversing out of the driveway and onto the road.
"Tell me, am I going to die today?" His tone sounded serious, but he was merely joking.
"You might." I stated with a laugh. Sasuke glanced at me and awaited an explanation. "My mother is very affectionate so prepare to be tackled." Sasuke's left eye twitched.
"You're not serious?" he asked, hoping I was making a joke.
"Of course I am. In time, when she gets to know you better, she'll probably squeeze you to death." I laughed at his uneasy expression and hoped my mother made him uncomfortable with her affection if only to see the look on his face.
I felt my phone vibrate against me before it started to ring. "Could you get that?" I asked him, keeping my eyes on the road.
"Sure, where is_" I cut him off knowing the questioned.
"Left pocket." I said, answering his unfinished question. Sasuke stared at me. "Well, are you going to take it out or not?" I growled out. Ever since my father's car accident I have always driven with safety and refused to answer my phone while I was driving.
My cell stopped ringing and Sasuke gave a quiet sigh of relief. "No need to take it out now." He stated. I huffed. The phone started ringing again. My eye twitched.
"Just take out the damn phone!" I exclaimed.
"Okay, okay." Sasuke gave a defeated sigh and reached to awkwardly pull my cell from my pocket. His hands fumbled awkwardly to get my phone as he tried not to touch me. "Why did you have to wear jeans today?" he asked, not expecting an answer, as he still struggled to take it from my pocket.
I tried not to feel awkward, but it was hard not to blush when he placed his calloused hand on my thigh. "Well, Kiba picked it out when we went shopping the other day, so I decided to wear it." I admitted.
He was finally able to pull the phone from my pocket and easily answered it, putting it on speaker phone for me to hear the other end of the conversation. "Hn." Sasuke grunted in answer.
"Hey teme!" I grimaced at Naruto's loud voice shouting over the phone. I swear that he was the closest thing to a banshee on this earth. "Where's Sakura-chan?"
"Right here, Naruto." I quickly answered, still keeping my eyes on the road ahead.
"Are you two on your way to Kana-san's house?" he asked.
"Yeah, and I have this gut feeling that Sasuke isn't coming out alive." I replied, noticing the penetrating glare Sasuke sent me.
"I had that feeling too!" Naruto exclaimed.
"I pick the spork." I suddenly said, making Sasuke look at me weirdly.
Naruto whined loudly. "But I wanted to pick the spork." Sasuke's confused expression, clearly said he wanted to know what we were talking about. "I was just checking in. Anyway, I wish you luck Sasuke!"
Naruto said goodbye and hung up the phone. "What was that about?" Sasuke wanted to know.
"You mean about the spork?" I figured.
"Hn." My eye twitched at that irritating grunt.
"This one time my mother said I should invite my boyfriend over for dinner. She was busy making a dish in the kitchen and I left him with her unattended. He said something that pissed her off and in her moment of protectiveness she pulled the first thing out of the drawer that she set her hand on. It just so happened to be a spork. She chased him out of the house with the thing." I laughed at the memory.
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I walked down the stairs when I heard my mother's loud angry voice and witnessed her chasing after my boyfriend with a spork in her right hand. "And don't you ever come back!"
She closed the door behind her and leaned her back against it. She noticed me as I stepped off the last step. My mouth slightly opened in surprise. She straightened herself after pushing off against the door as she walked to me.
"Did you just run my boyfriend out of the house with a spork?" I asked.
She glanced at the spork in her hand before looking back at me. "I could have sworn this was a butcher knife." She replied.
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"Sounds dangerous." Sasuke replied sarcastically.
"No, maybe just embarrassing, but the time she chased my college boyfriend away she was outside gardening and held a pitchfork in her hands." I told him.
Sasuke eyed me, wondering if he should in fact believe me. He remembered Naruto mentioning a pitchfork but was quite certain that he had been lying. "She actually chased a guy with a pitchfork?" He raised a brow. I gave a curt nod as a slow smile made its way onto my lips.
"My mother has been very protective of me ever since I can remember."
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We eventually pulled up onto my mother's driveway. The sun had nearly set. I switched off the car and climbed out just as Sasuke did. As we both walked to the front door Sasuke held out his hand to me nonchalantly. I blinked.
"My keys." He simply said.
I pulled his keys from my pocket and handed them to him. "It wasn't like I was going to leave you here." I told him. I thought about what I said for a second. "Actually, maybe I should leave you here; it might just do you some good."
Sasuke frowned unhappily. I giggled at his irritation. I raised my hand to knock, but instead the door swung open and I met my mother's bright smile. "Sakura!" she exclaimed happily and threw her arms around my in a big hug. "I thought I heard you outside."
I almost started hating myself for not visiting my mother more frequently. "I missed you so much." It told her.
"I missed you too." She replied as she pulled back to take a look at me. Suddenly her interests turned to Sasuke and I almost smirked at the way he slightly flinched.
"Good evening, Mrs Haruno." Sasuke greeted easily.
"Well, young man, you must be my daughter's new boyfriend." Kana said. "And by far the best looking one yet."
"Mother." I reprimanded, bitingly.
My mother smiled brightly. "Let's hope you make a better impression than the last one did." She sounded almost sweet, but I could easily detect the threat underlining her words.
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Sasuke watched the woman as she smiled. He had honestly thought that Sasuke would look like her mother, but he could not see the resemblance. He also noted that the Sakura's mother actually looked rather young compared to what her age should probably be.
"Mama, this is Sasuke Uchiha." He heard Sakura say. He noticed she bit her lip nervously. "He's my…fiancé."
Kana's eyes widened in surprised. Sasuke had no idea if it was devastating shock or a shock of happiness. "Fiancé? I had no clue that you were dating." Kana replied honestly. I smiled started to spread across her thin lips.
"It's sort of a long story." Sakura answered uneasily.
"Well then, why don't you come in and I'll get you something to drink." Kana said as she stepped aside for them to enter. "You better impress me while you're here, Sasuke-chan."
Sasuke passed her at the door and whispered with a frown. "Sasuke-chan." He decided that it sounded terrible on his own tongue.
"Make yourselves at home. I'll go get the drinks." Kana left them and headed to the kitchen.
Sasuke followed Sakura to the sitting area and they both took a seat next to each other. "Your mother seems nice." Sasuke commented.
"Yes, my mother is pretty amazing." Sakura replied smiling.
There was a complete silence until Kana walked into the room. She placed a tray on the table that had some steaming hot tea and a few biscuits placed on it. "There you go, enjoy." Kana smiled as she took a seat opposite them and looked between Sasuke and her daughter.
"So how long have you been engaged?" Kana wanted to know. She was rather curious about this new development in her daughter's life.
"It was made official last night." Her emerald-eyed daughter answered easily as she played with her hands, a little nervous.
"And just how long have you known each other?" Kana asked as she took a cup of tea and sipped from it before placing the warm cup to rest in her palm.
Sakura started to add some sugar to her tea to avoid looking directly at her mother. "Just over a week." She said, trying to make it sound like no big deal.
Kana first appeared to be a bit shocked, but recovered quickly. "Well, you know what they say about love at first sight." She provided easily, smiling sweetly at the idea.
Sasuke sat quietly in his seat as he watched the two in their conversation. He had also taken a cup of tea and drank it silently. "It didn't quite happen like that." Sakura answered honestly as she watched her mother's reactions. "It was more like 'Marry me' at first sight."
Sasuke's mind suddenly took him to the moment that he had asked Sakura to marry him.
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I decided to tell my mother the whole truth. "His father was forcing him to get married to Karin." I started. My mother listened intently. "Sasuke figured that if he was already attached then his father can't force him to marry, so he asked me, out of the blue and I agreed."
"I understand, but does that mean this marriage is just a ruse to fool his parents, it won't be real?" Kana almost started to look panicked at the prospect.
"We're getting married for real." Sasuke stated, finally talking. He placed his empty tea cup on the tray and turned his earnest onyx orbs to my mother. "I intend to marry Sakura for real. It's not fake or just for show."
"This engagement is basically just us dating to make sure that it's actually what we want." I added.
"Though I don't entirely approve of how the pace of the relationship is going, I can't make your decisions for you." Kana stated.
That felt like an approval to me and I grinned. "Thanks mom."
I decided to finish off my last mouthful of tea as my mother spoke. "And since this marriage isn't just for show it means I'll be getting grandkids soon."
I coughed after I nearly choked on my mouthful of tea. My cheeks heated up a pretty crimson from embarrassment. "Mama!" I scolded.
"How many children are you planning on having? Two, four or maybe more?" my mother continued as if she did not hear my protest.
"I'm not sure." Sasuke replied easily without any embarrassment.
"Isn't he fazed at all? Does nothing about sex embarrass him? He probably bedded lots of women." I thought easily.
My face remained red from my inner thoughts about Sasuke. "I was hoping on two, but we'll probably have more." A smirk easily appeared on his handsome face.
I swear my face turned so red from the insinuation that it would never turn to its original colour again. "You pervert." I bit out through clenched teeth. I just knew that Sasuke said that on purpose to make me blush.
"A pervert are you?" Kana repeated with a raised brow. I made myself watch Sasuke's reaction, but he didn't show any difference in his emotions. Kana suddenly smiled cheekily. "Well then, what would a man be without being a pervert?"
I huffed at my mother's reply, folding my arms across my chest. "Less of a pain in the ass."
My mother giggled lightly at my antics. She directed her attention back to Sasuke. "So, Karin?" my mother said in question.
"My father thought if I married her then her father would give weapons to the Uchiha Police Department for a smaller price. Karin's family owns a weapon company they create all the new kinds of weapons that surely would benefit the UPD. But I want nothing to do with her, or her family to be honest." Sasuke explained.
"It's pretty sad that your father would force you to marry someone like Karin, even if it is a benefit to your company." Kana commented.
"I agree." I added. "No one should be forced into getting married to her." My words almost sounded biting and angry. I noticed Sasuke glancing at me.
"You know Karin?" he finally asked, I knew the questioned would be coming.
I merely nodded. I didn't want to talk about her. He dropped the subject. Sasuke met gazes with my mother once again. "Naruto told me that Mr Haruno passed away." Sasuke mentioned. "I'm sorry you had to lose him."
I wondered briefly just what else Naruto tells Sasuke when I'm not around. I frowned sadly at the new subject, but also knew that Sasuke would learn about my father eventually. "Yes, my husband left us a few years ago. He was on his way home when a truck crashed into him. I was just happy to hear that he didn't suffer." Kana explained shortly in a melancholic tone.
I could tell that Sasuke felt sympathy for my mother from his facial expression. He also seemed saddened by her words. "Sakura must look like her father." He decided.
I looked at Sasuke and then to my mother. My mother her perfectly shaped cerulean eyes that always seemed to shine. Her hair was short and reached her shoulder blades, the colour was a beautiful black.
"I guess he noticed that I don't look like my mother." I thought easily.
"Not at all." Kana answered before standing up. "Excuse me for a second." She left the room and I hated to think that she might start to cry, but I also knew that she was strong.
"How old is your mother?" Sasuke suddenly asked me.
"She's 38." I replied, wondering what he was getting at.
"She was 17 when you were born?" He asked, almost a bit surprised.
"No." I started. "I was adopted when I was 5 years old by the Haruno's. My mother was 22 around the time."
Sasuke was silent for a moment and I guess he was taking a moment to process this new information. "Why didn't you tell me?" he finally questioned. He scooted a little in his seat.
I shrugged. "They might only be my adoptive parents, but to me they are my real parents." I smiled full-heartedly. Before we could get another word in my mother walked back into the room with a rather evil giggle. I wondered briefly what my mother was thinking.
"Sorry I took so long." Kana said before she placed a spork on the table and leaned a pitchfork against it. "So Sasuke-chan, if you disappoint me with what would you liked to be chased with?" Kana asked, like it was a normal question.
I sighed as I placed my face into my hands. "It doesn't really matter because even if you do chase me away, I'll still come back." Sasuke surprised me with his direct and serious answer to my mother question. For some reason my heartbeat started to beat just a little faster at Sasuke's words.
"S-Sasuke." I thought in a whisper.
My mother's expression was seemingly unreadable at the moment. "I really do wish to marry your daughter." Sasuke added.
My mother squealed loudly. "You are such a charmer!" she exclaimed.
I looked away to avoid looking at Sasuke's face. His words rang in my ears and they were making my heart beat faster at how sweet they sounded. "He's only a charmer when he wants to be, you should try living with him for a while." I told my mother.
"Hn." He grunted.
My eye twitched at the grunt I was hoping not to hear for a while. "We should probably get going." I said as I stood up to say goodbye.
"Really?" my mother whined sadly.
"We both have work tomorrow." I told her, also sad that we had to leave already, but knowing we had to go.
Sasuke stood and thanked my mother for the tea as she walked us to the front door to see us off. She hugged me tightly to her frame. "You should come again sometime."
"We will." I promised as we pulled back from the hug.
My mother turned to Sasuke and enveloped him into a hug. I wanted to start laughing at how awkward Sasuke looked as my mother hugged him. He didn't even know if he should hug her back.
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Sasuke felt very awkward with the hug Kana was giving him. "Take care of my girl, Sasuke-chan." Kana told him softly. His eyes softened at her concerned voice. He hugged the woman back. "I will."
Sasuke noticed Sakura's confused frown as he return her mother's hug. He swiftly pulled back from the bear hug as Kana did. She smiled at him and he was in that moment reminded of his own mother.
Sasuke headed back to the car with Sakura and they both hopped into their respective seats. Sakura waved goodbye to her mother as Sasuke turned on the car and reversed out of the lot before getting onto the road. There was silence between them for a moment.
"I just knew my mother would turn you into an affectionate fiancé." Sakura suddenly said.
"Hn." Sasuke grunted in reply.
I sighed heavily with a pout. "And you're back." I said folding my arms across my chest. "I should have left you there."
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Edited on 12 June 2014.