Anthology

By Laura-chan

Pairing: Sasuke/Sakura

Rating: K+

Disclaimer: Of course everything related to Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto-sensei, praise his genius! OOC characters and plot do belong to me.

Warning: Sasuke CUTENESS!
I am Italian, English is not my first language, please forgive my mistakes.

XXV.

TO LIKE SOMEONE

"Okaa-san?"

Uchiha Mikoto stopped washing the dishes and turned her head, looking at her younger son, who was pensively eating a big, red tomato.

"Yes Sasuke-chan?" she asked gently, smiling. Her little Sasuke was simply too cute when he was thoughtful.

"What do people do when they like someone?"

"Eh?" The Uchiha matriarch was startled by the un-Sasuke-ness of the question and turned around completely to face him.

"I mean." Her seven year old son quickly explained. "When do you want to show Otou-sama that you like him, what do you do?"

At this, Mikoto smiled slyly. "Why Sasuke-chan, do you like someone?"

The youngest Uchiha blushed furiously and stood up on his chair. "NO, that's not it Okaa-san! I-I… I just want to know, ok?"

Mikoto continued to grin at her son's uneasiness, but kept down her amusement and decided to answer him. "Well, when you like someone you give them gifts, you tell them you like them… you kiss them."

It was too funny to watch the repulsion on Sasuke's face when she said 'telling them you like them': Mikoto knew too well that, unfortunately, Uchiha men weren't too good at expressing their feelings, and preferred actions to words. In fact, while Fugaku wasn't too gentle with Sasuke, when he looked at his younger son there was something akin to pride shining in his eyes.

"Gifts?" Sasuke mumbled, catching her attention. "Kiss?" He tilted his head and looked confusely at her: he seemed a lost puppy and looked absolutely adorable. "Like when Aniki kisses me?"

Mikoto laughed. "No, not a kiss on the cheek: of course, you can kiss the person you like there, but if you want to show her you like her very, very much, you should kiss her on the lips."

Sasuke's eyes widened and for a second he looked horrified. "On the lips? HERE?" he almost screeched, pointing to his own lips. "But girls have… COOTIES!"

The Uchiha matriarch was trying very hard not to hug her very young son, who was too cute for words. "Girls at seven years old don't have cooties, Sasuke-chan."

"Really?" he didn't seem very convinced.

"Mom's word." She promised, smiling.

Sasuke returned to his tomato, mumbling, and she turned back to washing the dishes.

"Mom, what kind of gifts girls like?"

Mikoto watched atonished her son: this was a very strange and un-Sasuke's behaviour! "Sasuke-chan, really, why are you asking me all these questions about girls?"

Her son blushed but stubbornly refused to answer.
She sighed and shook her head.

"Girls like flowers." She said simply, smiling when she heard a chair being moved back and the sound of little steps running away.

Her son was growing up too fast for her liking.

§

Uchiha Mikoto, matriarch of the most famous clan in the entire Fire Land, was getting very irritated with her younger son.
It was the third day she had found Sasuke ripping through her bushes of gardenias, roses and lilies from the garden and happily skipping away with a bunch of 'stolen' (or so she felt) flowers.
She was (in a way) happy that her son was actually paying attention to the female population (her older one was twelve already and seemed interested only in the ANBU exams), but that didn't mean that he had to ruin her pretty bushes! She had worked hard on them!

But curiosity is female, and so one day Mikoto decided to follow her son after he had pillaged through her garden, wondering who was this girl who had managed to capture his attention.

She followed Sasuke until he arrived at a bench along the road that brought to the Great Doors and out of the village. There sat a young, short-haired girl: Mikoto hid a gasp behind her hand as she noticed the beautiful pink colour of the girl's hair.

"Sakura-chan!" her son called. The girl, who obviously was called Sakura, raised her head and waved happily at him, standing up from the bench and running to him.

Sasuke stopped before her and, blushing, offered her the bunch of flowers that he had hidden behind his back.
Sakura squealed excitedly, before taking the flowers, smelling them and beaming at him. Sasuke lowered his head, but Mikoto could see that he was blushing furiously.

Then, he suddenly snapped his head up and grasped the girl's shoulders: she tilted her head and asked "Sasuke-kun…?"

The boy opened and closed his mouth three times, before he shook his head and exclaimed "Sakura-chan! I-I… I-I… I like you!" and with that he leaned forward to kiss her.

Mikoto watched stupified as Sasuke, in his rush, crashed his lips hard against Sakura's, making her lose her balance: with her fell also Sasuke, so the two children found themselves on the ground in a very awkward position, Sakura on her back, Sasuke over her, their lips still glued together.

Ten seconds passed before the boy moved himself from her, licking his lips nervously. Then he smiled at the girl, who had sat up and was gaping at him, two fingers touching her lips.

"Okaa-san was right: girls don't have cooties!"

Anthology XXV – End

Author's Note: Aw, little Sasuke melts my heart! Hope you liked this short but sweet one-shot!
I have a cold and still have to write Fangirling's chapt. 11, so I don't know when I'll update both stories… Be patient please, I also have to study for a test at the end of October…

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