Reviewers;
Duh Bomb: You are the Hachibi Jinchuriki is what you are with your raps and all. Yeah!
Clank2662: It's funny actually. I had thought about adding Ino in as another lover, and she and Sakura would be closer than friends growing up, but then I had the idea that Sakura's personality with Naruto around had to morph from Sakura's childhood and therefore had Ino's hair color. The fact that Eve is a third and another side of Sakura I found let me sum Sakura up as one person who, as she is vastly intelligent in my story, is able to think clearly through three minds.
7th Demon: WHY?! Why would you do that to a poor defenseless puppy? I know being in the land of mirages impairs your vision, but not the PUPPY!
Czar Ryno: Thanks, it was probably an issue when I was writing it, though I have seen a number of stories where others refer to Kakashi-Sempai.
Logan Locke: ...She read the post...she liked it...enough about that ;) My personal life is not on a public storyboard. Anyways, I have never gotten those cutie days myself, I have usually been surrounded by girls my entire time growing up, and I based Naruto off of what I did as a gentlemen as well, just not the hand holding. Only during scary movies ;)
Sakura indeed sees the strain that it put on them for those intense months together, but now they are more relieved but other things must be talked about and this chapter explains some of that. What I have seen with the police is that there are always drug rings trying to make a profit all the time in cities. The truth is, there aren't a lot of undercover cops these days. Pictures are everywhere and information is found easily. So they have to be ready to leave and switch when other major players try to push their way inside.
AN: I'm just going to say this...short and sweet...let's get started since I know most of you don't read the AN anyways...or do you?
Mob Rule
Chapter 14: The Old and New Family
Naruto and Sakura walked out of the police station and made their way to Naruto's car, leaving the brown bricked building directly behind them. Naruto opened the door for Sakura who smiled before he himself got in...before just sitting there; just thinking hard on the conversation that had to be said and yet neither wanted to start the hard process that had to be done. Naruto had no protection in a city where if you didn't, you were open season for all, so what could he really do?
"...Sakura, how can I go back to the mob?"
"Naruto, you don't need to go back. I can tell the Don that…"
"Tell him what Sakura?!" Naruto glared at her, his eyes moving haphazardly for the first time that Sakura had ever seen before. "That I'm scared that he'll kill me?!"
"Naruto! Calm down." Sakura helped naruto breath in and out before a spark filled the inside of her brain. "We can figure this out. I think I have a plan."
"Y-you have a plan?"
Sakura smiled like a Cheshire cat. "I have a plan."
Naruto pulled his car up to the parlor doors and turned off his engine. They both put on sad faces, which wasn't too hard when they thought of the possibility of what could have happened today. Naruto opened his door and walked around the car, holding the door open for Sakura, who smiled gratefully, that even so long into this relationship, that Naruto was still ever the gentleman to everyone, but most of all, to her.
They walked together into the parlor, Sakura leading the way and straight over to the Don who was alone after finishing his work for the day.
"Sakura, I thought you were off today." Fugaku called out as he hugged his daughter.
"I was, Don-Sama, but Naruto has had a problem and needs your help."
"Does he now?" The Don looked at Naruto, and Naruto looked away. That look in his eyes, it was like he knew who he really was, coming to steal his daughter away from him.
"Naruto, tell him." Sakura urged, elbowing him in the ribcage.
"Alright." Naruto sighed. "There were some rumors spread around to all of my clients about my ethics being a cheat, and a scammer. I just lost all of my clients over the last few days."
"I am sorry, Naruto. That is truly a deep loss, and that rumor cannot be true. I have seen your ethics. The entire western sector has seen your ethics for that matter."
"…My business is ruined."
"Naruto, businesses rise and fall like the sun and moon. It was simply your time to end it. But, you made arrangements, did you not?"
"I did?"
"You still have family...right here." Fugaku smiled warmly as he wrapped an arm around his daughter and then him. "You have my daughter, and you have the mob."
"I-I guess I do."
"...The only thing I ask is that with all of your work here, why not move into the neighborhood?"
"Well…I guess I will."
An hour later, Naruto and Sakura were back to sitting in the car, remembering the Don's words of encouragement and the lovely late lunch that they'd just had was appreciated and full of laughter. But now, they were both back to thinking of what they'd do now.
"Well…I suppose that I can get an apartment in the western district." Naruto whispered in thought, before feeling his girlfriend's feet kick his shin! Dam she kicks hard! "Ow! What the heck Sakura-Chan?"
"What do you mean get an apartment, Naruto-Kun?"
"Well, what are you thinking?"
"Move in with me!" Sakura yelled before they both widened their eyes. Sakura hadn't thought about her words, just that Naruto would be further away from her, and she had said it.
…..
…...
"Wow." Naruto breathed as he leaned back in his seat.
"..Well, you stay over every night, you haven't even been to your house in two weeks. You basically live with me already. Naruto, I want you in my house, to officially move in with me."
"Well, will there be enough room?"
"What does that mean?"
"I have a bigger house than you."
"Really?" Sakura asked with a pause in between. "You know, after all this time, you've never taken me to your house."
"Well, how would you like to help me pack for the rest of today?"
Sakura smiled and curled her head into the crook of Naruto's shoulder. "Naruto-Kun, I would Love to help you pack. Show me the way."
"As my angel commands." Naruto bowed from he started the car and made his way to the neutral zone.
As Naruto made his way into the neutral zone, Sakura realized that she had never truly heard the story of how Naruto's parents died, or many stories about his parents for that matter. Every day, it seemed like there was less and less that they didn't know about the other, and Sakura smiled as Naruto opened up to her more and more.
Naruto pulled into his driveway and Sakura smiled fondly at the house before her. It was a simple house, with a backyard and front yard as well. Naruto walked her to the door and opened it before explaining where everything was.
Sakura looked around and saw that the house was maybe twenty years old. It was grand and beautiful while maintaining a simplistic way of living, and Sakura smiled as her boyfriend was definitely someone who cared little for the material things in life. The house had three bedrooms and three baths, a good place to be with a family.
"This place is special to you, isn't it, Naruto-Kun?" Sakura asked as they packed up his things.
"It was a lasting asset from my parents." Naruto began as his thoughts drifted to the past. "You see, my father was a police officer and my mom was a fiery secretary who got things done. They saved all they could to buy this house, and when they had bought it, I was ten years old.
"But the neutral areas of Konoha are always changing and at that time, some gangsters made lewd comments and tried to touch my mother, and my father had them arrested for it. My father had the next week off and my mother took that time off to pack for the move. The gang at that time did a drive by shooting."
"Oh Naruto!"Sakura cooed and held him for a little bit.
"It's okay, but they were killed by the bullets. And to top it off, they set the previous house ablaze with a Molotov cocktail. I was at school, so I came home to the police and fire department looking and asking for my mother.
"So they placed me here, and I've had the guidance of my father's old police buddies and officers such as Kakashi ever since then. My parents had life insurance, so I was pretty set for the times growing up and I worked at sixteen so I didn't even need the money."
"How much of it do you have left?" Sakura asked, trying not to sound like a gold digger.
"Actually, I still have most of it and I replaced what I took out, so I have around five hundred thousand dollars, and when I signed up for the account, the bank was offering 6% interest annually, so I still get thirty thousand a year in that interest. It pays off the maintenance fees and property taxes."
"Naruto, you shouldn't sell the house then."
"Why not?"
"…Maybe you want to live here in the future?" Sakura asked honestly, and Naruto felt like this relationship was moving way past the short-term.
"I'll…I'll leave it open as an option for now I guess." Naruto shrugged. "But you know, maybe now I can buy things for you, Sakura-Chan. Would you like some jewelry or paintings or something?"
"Naruto, I'm fine without it, though…" Sakura whispered into his ear. "Maybe you could buy some toys for the bedroom." Sakura looked up at Naruto and saw the dreamy smile adorned on his face. By the time Naruto got back down to the present, Sakura was dragging Naruto towards his bedroom.
"Sakura-Chan, where are we going?"
"Well, if this is your last night here for a while, why don't we christen this bed of yours?"
"Your horny again already?"
"I'm always ready for you, my Fox."
Another dreamy smile filled Naruto's face and Sakura knew that after tonight, she'd be glowing like the evening sun.
The morning sun rose and Sakura woke up with it in utter bliss. Her body ached in wonderful soreness that was aching for more punishment. Sakura felt the mattress below her and made a note to talk to Naruto about switching this one with hers in her apartment.
Thinking of which, Sakura turned the other way and stared at the dopey face that her lover made in his sleep. She reached forward in her bliss and traced his smile that she had come to love with all her heart. He wouldn't be getting up any time soon, but Sakura was an early riser today and would at least explore the house a little more before they left.
Sakura left her clothes on the floor and wrapped the bed sheet, which she had stolen during the night, around her and walked around, through the other rooms and checked out the back yard. Sakura opened the screen door to the back yard and took a seat outside on the grass, the sheet her only modesty, but smiled as she saw the hedges protecting her from view. This truly was a wonderful house.
An older Sakura was sitting on the couch, reading from a magazine, with a little girl of about three on her lap, taking a short nap. From around the corner, there was a huge CRASH! And Sakura soon saw another girl of about ten rolling around the floor with a boy who almost matched her appearance.
"Kids, stop fighting!" Sakura called out without turning her head away from the magazine, but the kids separated and said that they were sorry and that the other one broke father's alarm clock. Sakura simply shook her head knowing that her husband's nightstand was the fifth broken thing this week.
The sound of the door opening woke the little girl in Sakura's lap, and Sakura let her and her other children go running towards the door and jumping up and down around their father who had come home early. Sakura stood up and just watched her husband greet their children before walking up herself and sharing a long lip lock with her husband Naruto Namikaze.
"EWW! I don't want another sister!" The oldest child cried out while the girls nodded their heads rapidly while pointing to their mother's bloated tummy, while Sakura and Naruto just smiled back at each other, waiting for the time to come this week to go to the hospital and deliver another life into the world
Sakura gasped as she leaned back, trying to process what she just imagined. Had that been a vision of her future? Or maybe a possible outcome? For Sakura to imagine kids and home together, with a happy face on all of them as their father and her husband came home, and finally with another child on the way; these all suggested one thing, marriage.
This idea of marriage with Naruto wasn't something that Sakura had actually thought about. Sure, she saw their relationship as an extremely long-term sexual and connection relationship, and she was willing to run away with him around the world after this ordeal was over. But the idea of being a fiancée and a wife to Naruto's beautiful children, that sounded nice...no.. in fact, it sounded…perfect.
Naruto woke up some time later, and they packed all the boxes that Naruto would need to sort out at Sakura's apartment into his car. After they were all packed up, they got in the car and made their way back 'home.' It felt nice to call it that, but Naruto couldn't stop looking at Sakura ever since he woke up.
"Sakura-Chan, why do you have a huge smile on your face?"
AN: Well? How is the story progressing? A good pace?