Surrogacy

-chapter 21-

rated for language / adult themes

Quickly and quietly, she shuffled through the door of Ino's shared apartment with Haru and once the door closed she burst out into a fit of giggles, leaving Ino and Haru to stare at her like she was crazy. She threw her messenger bag off her shoulder and flumped onto the light blue couch with a grimace decorating her face.

"Thanks so much, Sadao." Sakura said to the same man she was just walking the streets with. He sat on the opposite couch with a smirk and nodded in her direction.

"No problem." He spoke just as Haru took a seat beside him and Ino took a seat beside Sakura. Sadao just so happened to be Haru's cousin and it worked out for Sakura perfectly. She never told them why in the world she needed to borrow about an hour of Sadao's time, she only said to trust why she needed him. "I just don't understand why we had to do that."

"It was a test." Sakura informed them, watching as Ino immediately appeared to have her interest piqued. "It wasn't on you guys, I promise."

"Then who." Ino probed and shook her friends arm, wanting all the details. Sakura knew never to leave Ino without information so she got right to the point of her experiment.

"I've had this gut feeling this... guy... has feelings for me. When he saw me with the guy you set me up with, Ino, he absolutely was not happy." It really got her thinking after the ultrasound meeting she had with him and everything came to her. All of the weird vibes she got from him at times were now hard to miss when she was specifically looking for them. He'd acted such a strange way and at first she wasn't sure if it was because he was emotional over seeing his baby for the first time but she stayed up all night nitpicking the details she'd noticed. Ever since then the signs were everywhere, written in yellow and orange like big glittery neon advertisements.

"WHO IS IITTT?" Ino had screeched, jumping up onto her knees and getting up in Sakura's face with big curious and glittery eyes. "BILLBOARD BROW HAS FINALLY GOT A MAN!?"

"That I'm not telling you, Ino. I need to make sure my assumptions are right before I go around telling people."

Ino looked like something finally dawned on her. "I know who it is." She said in a monotone voice, staring into Sakura's very being with her piercing blue eyes. "It's Sasuke."

"What?! How did you know? Is he that easy to read, other people can notice it too?!"

She vigorously shook her head. "Duh. All men are horrible at pretending they don't care. I would have said something but I didn't want to put ideas in your head."

"Oh my." Sakura grinned and laughed to herself. "Well then I have to really make sure."

"Really, really make sure?" Ino gasped dramatically. "And how will you do that?"

She looked over guiltily to Sadao, her face sheepish. "Well, I'll still need your help, Sadao, if you don't mind." Haru 'psh'd' and waved her hand around in the air to emphasize what she was going to say.

"He owes me for not telling my uncle about this huge party he had at their place. If you need his assistance, he's all yours. Plus I wanna see the outcome."

"Thanks so much.."

"Kay, what's the plan." Both Haru and Ino said in unison as they leaned in close with conniving faces.

"Alright, well, tomorrow is when it will all go down. I checked the schedule earlier today for missions and he isn't listed so he should be here in the village. I'll have Naruto coax Sasuke out of the house while me and Sadao will be going out on the town."

"I know where this is going." Ino snickered and laid back. "You're gonna have this moron make a move on you in front of Sasuke."

"Genius!"

"Heh. That's the plan."

"I wonder how he'll react. Boom, boom! He'll knock your ass out Sadao!"

"Why am I doing this then...?"

"Because it's funny."

"I didn't actually volunteer for this..."

"I promise he wont hurt you." Sakura lightly chuckled. "He'll be more mad at me than anything."

...

It was the day.

Sakura stalked her way over to Haru and Ino's apartment early in the morning before she knew Sasuke would venture out with Naruto and plopped herself down upon the couch. She was lucky enough to have the now regular morning sickness just pass as she made her way out of her door, so when Ino looked curiously out of her bedroom door, Sakura laughed.

"Shouldn't you be sick or something? Plus how early is it?" She struggled to drag her feet out of her room, pulling her housecoat closer to her body, and craning her neck to get a glance at the clock above the kitchen archway. "Whyyy?"

"I didn't want to risk Sasuke being awake and seeing me so I got here when I woke up." She confessed and stood up from the couch. "I hope you don't mind." Ino shrugged and laid down on the couch with her eyes glued to the ceiling. Sakura paced into the kitchen and rifled through the cabinets, pulling out a white porcelain plate. She undid the tie of the multi-grain bread bag and pulled out two fresh slices, immediately popping them into the toaster. She waited a couple of minutes, tapping her foot in the process until her break appeared at the top with a loud pop. The fridge door opened by her hand and out of it came a small tub of cream cheese, something Sakura normally never ate because she never enjoyed the consistency.

So Ino was surprised when Sakura sat down next to her with a plate with two pieces of toast lathered in thick cream cheese. Especially when she took a large chomp out of it without even wincing. Normally even Ino didn't eat her toast with THAT much cream cheese but Sakura was just scarfing it down.

Ino continued to just sit there with her housecoat pulled closely to her body, not minding that her best friend was pigging out.

About fifteen minutes later Haru woke up to the noise of her friends laughing in the living room, trying to quiet themselves, so she left her room to join the fun.

An hour after that Sadao showed his face to the apartment looking somewhat hung over and Sakura grimaced. The more crappy he looked the more Sasuke would react and that's exactly what she wanted. The three females greeted him over their shoulders as he drug his feet into the kitchen and pulled out the white and red carton of milk.

When he took a seat, Ino pulled out her cell phone and handed it to Sakura, all the girls nodding in silent support as the phone began to dial up Naruto's house phone.

"Muuugh... Ino? Why're you calling me?" Naruto whined quietly into the receiver of his home phone, sounding exactly like he just crawled out from his blankets.

"Naruto, it's me, Sakura! I thought you were going to hang out with Sasuke today? It is the anniversary of..." Sakura panicked because whatever excuse she had in her head slipped away from her worry. "...The anniversary of.. Sasuke's court trial decision!" Naruto would never put two and two together so she hoped her string of lies worked.

"Whaaaa-?" He murmured and sounded like he fell out of the bed.

"Naruto! You said you'd hang out with him today because I was going to try and make it with you guys..!" The panic returned when Naruto sounded like he didn't want to do it anymore.

"Yeah yeah I'll grab him soon.. Waaah, I could still be sleeping right now."

"Okay, sorry, bye Naruto!" She quickly shut the phone and handed it back to Ino. "We just have to spy around the streets, make sure Sasuke is with Naruto, then me and Sadao take to the streets."

Ino giggled rather maniacally. "This is evil. Soo evil, but I love it."

...

Waiting behind the corner of an alleyway, Sakura's big brilliant green eyes sparkled dramatically. "There, they're right there, walking!" She pointed her finger around the corner when she saw the head of black and the head of blonde hair walk among the crowd. Ino, Haru, and Sadao's head popped around the corner to get a good look and all nodded to each other. "We need to get in front of them, let's go through the alley way."

All four quickly shuffled through the alley ways, their eyes on the narrow exit in front of them, the sunlight pouring in through the crack above them, creating a streak of light running across their faces. Sakura dusted herself off, grabbed Sadao's hand, and proudly left the alleyway with the man in tow, just for her former team mates to see her emerge from the dirty alley.

In the distance, she could hear Naruto say something to Sasuke along the lines of: "I wonder what they were doing in there, ehehe." Even though Naruto had no idea what she was doing, his help was appreciated - especially when he said things like that to rile Sasuke up.

Sakura was pretending like she was innocent with the guy Sasuke deemed as 'not the one,' holding his hand, giggling at whatever he said, regardless of if it was funny or not. She wanted to know the truth so bad - if Sasuke was being an over-reacting over-bearing daddy to be or if her emotions were manifesting in her brain and making up fake things she saw or if he truly did harbor feelings for her.

They sat down underneath a large awning of a little cafe as a waitress saw them and immediately brought them glasses of ice water. Out of the corner of her eye, after the waitress left, she could see a giggly looking Naruto and a steaming Uchiha. Maybe my acting isn't as bad as I thought it was. She giggled to herself and brought the glass of water to her mouth, taking a small sip. She witnessed them taking seats outside of a tea house across the street for reasons she could only guess. Either Sasuke demanded they stay there or Naruto was in the spying mood - either one she was getting thrilled over.

She and Sadao idly chit-chatted over random topics, both attentions were somewhat off, Sakura was still glancing over to Sasuke and Naruto, while Sadao looked unusually quiet and somewhat distraught after he saw Sasuke sitting across the street. When their food arrived she happily chowed down on her Chazuke like never before while her male date was poking at his Kayu like he lost his appetite.

Her eyes flashed and she stared right into his eyes. "Sadao." She whispered, weary of her team mates presence. "I think he's riled up enough, we need to do the finale soon." He nodded to her words and she noticed how pale he began looking. "No need to be scared."

They paid the bill and stood up, acting like they had never laid eyes upon Sasuke or Naruto. They exchanged a few words, had Sadao wrap his arm around her waist, and were off into the streets.

They strolled along, not without a direction, but the plan was to walk to her own apartment, have Sadao place his hands on her body where Sasuke would NOT want to see them and watch the show. Whenever they rounded a corner she'd see that head of black hair and her smirk would widen across her face. She didn't like toying with people but this was a new side to Sasuke! She was just too damned curious and couldn't let this opportunity slip from her fingers.

Her apartment complex was in view with the steps that led up to her large red door. She turned her head to Sadao and gave him a small nod. "It's time, that's my apartment, number four. That's where we'll do the.." Her face grew red. "Yeah, you know what we discussed."

He gave her a nod and a nervous smirk. "Here goes nothing." They continued down the street until they reached the bottom of the stairs leading up to her door. When she could see Sasuke, and only Sasuke, she guessed he had ditched the blonde in the crowds.

She made eye contact with Sadao which initiated the final act of their plan: Put the moves on Sakura.

His arm was already around her waist and his hand was naturally resting on the top of her hip, but Sakura didn't think that was enough to work up Sasuke. She took a step forward into his arms and his sneaky hands found her way to her bottom - the first step. She motioned her head to the right, toward the door, and he nodded to her.

They began to quickly walk up the steps insinuating they were going to hook up when they were so rudely interrupted.

Like Haru, Sadao was never enrolled into the academy. Their family weren't known clans, they didn't have any kekkei genkai nor affinity to one of the elements. He was just a regular man that had a job as a waiter, so he was was not light on his feet nor swift. So naturally he didn't step away when the much taller man appeared, towering over their bodies and pushing him away from herself.

"Sasuke!" Sakura screeched as she threw her hands up between them, Sadao stumbling back with a surprised face. She took a cautionary step in between the men and snapped her head toward Sasuke. "What the hell was that?" She only half expected Sasuke to physically get involved but she decided to hide it with an angered facade.

He merely looked at her with a flustered angry face and his eyes read 'what the hell is he doing back here with you?' He looked back to the obviously scared Sadao and Sakura began to tug on his rolled up black sleeves and used her monster strength to push him through the door she quickly opened and slammed it closed.

"Thanks so much, but in your best interest you need to leave." She held her hands to the door forcibly with a smile. "Thanks again."

In a flash, she opened the door and slid in through the crack, immediately closing it behind her. Sasuke stood in the middle of the living room visibly fuming with his arms crossed over his chest his face all screwed up.

"What the heck was that, Sasuke?"

"You were doing all this to get on my nerves!"

She tapped her foot against the carpet flooring. "I was doing it because he called me back and I would have felt rude to say no." He shook his head at her and angrily paced around until he reached the kitchen.

"No, you make up ridiculous excuses when you don't want to do something, don't act dumb." She tailed right behind him.

"Sasuke!" She whined dramatically as she leaned against one side of her kitchen counter while Sasuke leaned against the parallel countered wall. "What has gotten you so worked up? You never open to anyone."

"Since you know me so well and you're so smart I thought you'd have figured it out."

"You are so frustrating! Why can't I have a social life?! Am I not aloud to be happy? You have a wife!-"

She always had different plans worked out in her head and what the consequences would be and/or the problems that could happen. She was a doctor after all, so expecting different outcomes is something she always had on her mind. When she signed those papers to be a surrogate she expected the outcome to be one of three things. 1) She hands a healthy baby over to Sasuke. 2) She hands over a baby born with a defect and never be forgiven. 3) She doesn't get to hand over a baby because it never got the chance to live. She never expected the fourth outcome; however, because when Sasuke left her back in their younger years she thought it was impossible. That fourth possibility turned out to be discovering Sasuke's true feelings and rediscovering her own buried ones.

She knew the fourth possibility was the one that was going into effect when the considerable distance between their lips was closed in a flash.

They both pulled away on impulse, Sakura looking down at the tiles beneath her feet for a moment before staring back up into his obsidian eyes. Acting on more impulse they dove back into each others arms with such teenage giddy, they both didn't have the time to even think about what they were doing. They were at each others mouths again, making up for all of the kisses that could have been shared through the years.

The fact that this man had a wife didn't even factor in when they shared their passionate kisses, in fact, it was embedded somewhere deep in a locked box never to be found again.

So when they tore at each others clothing articles she felt no remorse whatsoever, only long since forgotten passion. She ran her fingers through his locks and he picked her up gently and sat her bottom onto the counter, still connected to each other.

Naturally they did whatever couple's did to show their love to each other.

-whispers- they did it.

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