So, i'm back with the next chapter. Yes you can all rejoice. Lol. J/k. So i'm like really hungry. i've been up for hours and i haven't eaten anything yet. So after i post this chapter i think i'm not to go and get something to eat. Cause my stomach his going grrrr and i'm like 'stop yelling at me' and then my sister looks at me funny cause she doesn't know i'm talking to my stomach and probably thinks i'm insane or something. But whatever. Maybe i am.
So a few things i would like to talk about. Think I'll start with the random stuff and then go onto the special mentions. Otay, first off, i would like to say that you guys should check out my profile. I often just go through and update it and it gives you an idea of where i am at. I often have polls up on something and i often write about something wher ei deeply need you opinion. Like, i'm thinking of dropping two stories. Don't worry, this one is completely safe. But i need you opinion as to which ones. I have already give one up and given it to someone else (but you will get father info in a later time) and i need your help with other other one. So, just check out my profile every once and awhile.
Second, speaking of my profile. Please do not steal anything from it. I have put a lot of trust into you guys by putting up a special section for stories that i have been throwing around in my head. Please do not steal it. I wouldn't have even mentioned this, for i usually just trust you all not to for it is common sense, but i had an incident recently where i'm just kind of shaky on everything. You may ask what this incident was? Well i noticed that one of my reviewers, who i will not name, had went through my profile and copied all of my copy and paste things. Now, that didn't bug me, because that's what they are there for, but i also noticed that said reviewer went through my actual about me section and copied bits into their profile. I understand that profiles are all public, but i never thought someone would take my words and use it as their own in their profile. It bugs me to say the least. So please reviewer, i hope you know who you are, take it down. Tradionally you are only supposed to copy the extra stuff and says 'copy and paste'. Please take it down, or i might just have to call you out on it and i really dont want to do that.
otay, moving on. I had some one say that the little mistakes bug them. Sorry, it is human error and i take all responsiblity. I also had someone say they disappointed to hear that i will not be getting a beta. If you go back and read my last authors note, i said that i would look into it for the sake of the story. I don't want to disappoint you by being stubborn. Sorry.
So i think that's it for the random stuff so i will move on to the honorable mentions. First like to mention my friend XxXMiss'TeaseXxX cause she makes me smile really big! So shout out to you my darling tinky-z. Next i will mention 2plus2is4 because not only is their user name fucking awesome, their review made me smile. Well, i'm sorry that i captured your attention in my Sunshine drama and then just stopped mentioning him to you. It's summer vacation now so i don't see him anymore, since he pretty much as been ignoring me since he got his new girlfriend. And while it still bugs me, i just perfer not to think about it. Which is the reason i have stopped mentioning him. But, nothing has gotten better on that front except that i dont like him nearly as much. He doesn't deserve my affection. I didn't quite tell you all the whole story, and i don't think i will cause i really don't want to get into it and if i did, you would be sitting here for awhile. But trust me, and i'm pretty sure XxXMiss'TeaseXxX could support me because she knows the whole story, when i say that he doesn't deserve everything i have done for him. He's just been a jerk. Now, into the story part of your review. the reason the beginning seems rushed is because this is my first story and i believe i have matured slightly during this time, and my writing style shows this. When i finish this story, i plan on going back and rewriting the first few chapters. Moving on, next we have an anonymous reviewer that went by the name of a french canadian fan. I would like to thank you for your praise and i am glad that was able to pull you into the Sakura fan world even the slightest. Yes, i did add Itachi into the story as a good guy because even when the manga wasnt very far along, i always believed he was good. So that's just my opinion getting in the way of my writing. Lol. Oh, and yes, in chapter 24, my numbering was off. I did skip 4 but i was hoping no one would notice. I was hoping they would get on a roll and just forget about it. Wishful thinking on my part.
Well thank you to all that reviewed. This chapter is in first place for most reviews so far by one review. So Thank you all.
Akina sighed, sitting on the couch with Sasuke sitting on the other end, silently lapsing into sleep. She looked around the room, completely bored. Sakura was at the hospital for work, Seto was at daycare, Sasuke was falling asleep and failing to entertain her while that Ino girl had taken Mikoto out with her for shopping.
It was May now, three weeks since Akina had arrived in Konoha. It had been rather uneventful three weeks for all of them. True to her word, Akina had been behaving herself. She hadn't spend much time with the kids at all, so she had no trouble with confusing them. Like Sasuke had said, there had been many people coming in and out of the house but Akina behaved herself for the most part.
Akina usually spent her time by herself or with Sasuke. But when Sasuke wasn't available and she was in the mood for company, she went and hung out with Sakura, who was usually accompanied by Ino and sometimes Hinata. She was mostly quiet during these times, joining in every once and awhile. But other then being quiet, she wasn't that bad to have around.
Sakura seemed to be wary of her at first, but as the days past, she was able to relax around her. She also didn't seem to stress about Akina spending most of her time with Sasuke. Although, even if she had been stressing about it, Akina wouldn't have stopped hanging out with Sasuke. Sasuke was the only person that Akina really knew and liked in this village and she will be damned if she let a jealous girlfriend get in her way. Plus, the more time she spent with Sasuke, the more he will relax and she might be able to work her charm on him.
Akina looked at Sasuke at the other end of the couch. He was leaning, resting his chin in his hand and propping his head up. His eyes would close and then flutter open in an effort to stay awake, only to slowly close again. Akina found the sight rather comically and watched for a good twenty minutes before getting bored. Sasuke currently had his eyes close and she decided to help him stay awake.
She pulled her legs out of the cross-legged position she was sitting in and stretched her legs out, causing her feet to rest in Sasuke's lap. As soon as she made contact with him, his eyes snapped open and his hands snatched her feet in a tight grip, crushing her toes in his hand. She let out a whimper and he whipped his head around to face her, greeting the sheepish grin she forced onto her face through the pain.
Once realizing that it was just Akina that had awoken him and not any danger of any sort, he released his death grip on her feet. "Sorry. You startled me." he said.
"Oh, no prob. I understand." She said in return and she stretched out her toes, wiggling them around to try to get the blood flowing in them again. Her feet still rested in his lap and he stared down at them, watching them wiggle, but he made no move to push them away. She smirked at this fact.
Sasuke noticed a bruise already forming on her foot and gently poked it, glancing at her to see if it hurt her. She showed no pain so he gently lifted her foot up slightly. She watched him curiously as he gently started to rub her feet, giving her a massage. She smiled, loving the feeling and sunk down deeper in the couch, pushing her feet toward him more in the process.
"Oh, that feels nice." She said.
He smirked slightly and then froze. She looked at him questionable as he turned his attention to the clock. He stared at it for all of two seconds before he jumped up, pushing her feet off his lap and startling her in the process. "Damn it. That was supposed to be a five minute break!" he cursed, running into the kitchen.
Akina sighed and rolled her eyes. She noticed that in the three weeks that she has been living there that Sasuke was always busy. He was always running around doing something. She's watched him train, cook, clean, go grocery shopping, play with Seto and Mikoto, deal with his blonde friend Naruto and his crazy antics, etc. He was always running around the house doing things for the kids, like doing the laundry and making sure that Seto has a variety of clean clothes to choose from even though he already had plenty, always checking to see that Seto's backpack is stocked with needed things, always making sure that Mikoto was comfortable as she can be for the whole teething process. It looked exhausting.
Not to mention, the growing need to be at Sakura's every beck and call. Its like with every day that passes, he begins to hover more and more. Like when she starts cooking, he will coming in and gently push her away, completely taking over in such a way that she doesn't even notice that he just kicked her out of the kitchen. Or when she reaches for a book or something in a high shelf, he just appears out of nowhere before she can get a chair. She drops something, he picks it up. She's carrying something and he takes it and carries it for her. He acts as if she was incapable of doing it herself.
And it bothered Akina. She sees all the things that he is constantly doing and how much of a toll it is taking on him. She sees the dark bruises underneath his eyes from lack of sleep and how much energy he uses everyday with everything he does. And yet, he pushes himself to do things for Sakura that she could do herself. He spoils her and she doesn't even seem to notice. She doesn't seem to notice how much he does and how tired he is.
"Well that was the longest five minutes in my life. It felt just like a half hour to me, how strange." Akina shouted to Sasuke, mocking him slightly.
"Shut up! Why didn't you wake me up?" he shouted back as he walked back into the living room to glare at her.
"Well if you recall, I did wake you up and you crushed my toes." She said very off-handedly.
Sasuke's glare deepened. "Why didn't you wake me up on time?"
Akina shrugged her shoulders. "You never told me to wake you up. Plus, you need to take a break. Your running yourself ragged." she said, but Sasuke ignored the comment, going back into the kitchen muttering something about cleaning. Akina glanced around, not understanding why you would clean something that was already clean.
It wasn't five minutes later that there was a knock on the door and Sasuke was rushing to it. Akina stayed in her sitting position and listened, hearing Sasuke greet a male by the name of Neji. They chatted idly at the door for a moment, the weather being mentioned, before Sasuke suggested they moved to the kitchen.
Akina smirked, jumping up and leaned over the side of the couch to catch a view of this Neji person, hoping he was cute. Sasuke led them, his back to her the entire time while this Neji had glanced at her questionably as he passed. She realized after a moment that it must have looked weird to him. She was wearing a small gray tank top and a light blue pair of booty shorts, and was leaning awkwardly over the side of the couch staring at him.
She sat back down, slightly embarrassed when she heard Neji ask about her.
"Um, who was the strange woman leaning off the side of the couch staring at us?" he asked.
Sasuke grunted something along the lines of 'it's a long story. Don't worry about her.'
She sat on the couch for a half hour after that, listening to their quiet muttering. She couldn't make out what they were talking about and it was really starting to bug her. Quickly making up her mind, she pulled on the blue and gray knee-high socks she had discarded awhile ago but completed her outfit, and got up.
When she walked into the kitchen the two males where seated at the table with papers sprawled out between them. They were focusing rather intently on them, completely ignoring her presence. She innocently grabbed a glass of water, making as much noise as possible in order to draw their attention, but failed as they continued to ignore her.
She wandered over, standing behind Sasuke's chair and sipped her water. But they continued to ignore her as the very handsome Neji searched through the papers for something while Sasuke was looking over another paper. She stepped up and draped herself over Sasuke's shoulder, wrapping her arms around him. "What's that your looking at, darling?" She asked, capturing the attention of both the males.
Sasuke froze, his entire body tense while Neji froze as well, his one hand holding a collection of papers while his other was frozen in midair. Akina ignored this and pulled at the shorter hairs at the base of Sasuke's neck, playing with them. When she got no responds from the two frozen males, she decided to push her luck. Bringing her lips up to gently brush against Sasuke's neck, she felt him shiver slightly at her touch. She trailed her lips up, barely touching his skin, until she reached his ear, where she playfully nipped at it. But this seemed to be enough.
Sasuke jumped up, springing over the entire kitchen table and landing gracefully on the other side. He glared at her. "Damn it, Akina! What the fuck is wrong with you!?"
Akina pouted at his crude language. "Language, Sasuke. What would your mother think of you using such words?"
Sasuke's whole aura darkened. In one moment he was on the other side of the table, the next he was directly in front of her, in her face. "Don't ever mention my mother." he snarled.
Akina backed up, knowing she pushed it to far and hit a sensitive subject. Itachi was the same way, for some reason. "Damn, you Uchiha boys are way too sensitive about that subject." she muttered to herself, though she doubted that both of them didn't hear.
Neji must have sensed Sasuke's frustration with her, because he choose this moment to stand up. Quickly he reached over and placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder, keeping him in line. Sasuke took a deep breath and backed away, going back to his seat. "Akina, go away. We are trying to work." He instructed with his back to her.
"On what?" She inquired, stepping behind him again so that she could look over his shoulder. She eyed a paper on the table in front of them, noticing the words "Uchiha-Hyuga Police Department" occurred a lot in it. After, closer examination, most of the papers that them on it too.
"Akina, go away." Sasuke grunted as she pouted, going over to the counter to sulk. Neji took one look at her before he continued his earlier search, while Sasuke just chose to ignore her all together, getting back to work.
A half hour later, all them in the same position, they heard the door open, and loud angry ranting and they all turned to the kitchen door expectantly. Sakura and Ino walked through the door a few moments later, Ino lagging behind as she intently listened to her friend while Sakura angrily marched into the kitchen.
Sasuke got up to greet her, but she marched right passed him, going straight for her peanut butter. She angrily shoved a mouthful into her mouth. Sasuke studied her for a moment and went to her side. "What's wrong?" He asked, pushing some hair out of her face.
She scowled. "Men! I hate them all!" she shouted angrily and slammed the peanut butter jar down. "I need to take a shower to get this horrible day off of me!" she added and the stormed out of the kitchen, completely ignoring everyone.
Sasuke stood completely baffled for a moment before he turned to Ino, silently asking what was going on. Ino shrugged. "Don't worry about it. She's just tired from her long day and kind of hormonal, if you hadn't noticed." She said, pulling an apple out of the fridge and biting into it.
"But why does she hate men all of a sudden?" Sasuke asked.
Ino snorted, chewing and quickly swallowing. "Oh, she doesn't hate men." she said. You don't end up pregnant at eighteen being indifferent to men. She added in her head, laughing slightly. "She's just upset because her last patient of the day was a horny old man. And with her huge boobs of hers, she quite something for an old man to lust after. Especially when he obviously isn't getting any." she said, explaining Sakura's behavior.
Sasuke nodded, understanding her actions now and went to sit back down. Akina looked at him strangely. "Your kidding me, right?" She asked in disbelief.
Everyone turned their attention to her but she kept her focus on Sasuke. "Your just going to nod, understanding the way she just like yelled in your face and pushed you away?" she asked.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes. He suddenly was overwhelmed with the feeling that something bad was going to happen soon. Very soon. "Akina." He warned.
"No! It's not right! You are nothing but nice to her, even when you don't have to be. (-"Hey!" Sasuke shouted in return to her comment but she ignored him, not even stopping her spew.) You run yourself ragged all day, doing things for your family and keeping this house up and running. You barely have time for yourself, so you just completely ignore your own needs, like sleep for example. And then you slave after her as well, doing things for her that she is completely capable of doing herself, and she doesn't even notice." She shouted, jumping down from her seated position on the counter.
"Shut it, Akina. You don't know what you are talking about." Sasuke warned.
"But I do know! I see so many things in this house! You are on the brink of killing yourself and she doesn't even notice. She doesn't appreciate you! Just now was a prime example!" she shouted, stepping forward.
"Akina, what are you talking about? Shut up. You don't know a thing about what is going on." Sasuke said, getting frustrated with her, also standing up.
"She came home, obviously upset. You got up to greet her and she walked right passed you! And then when you go over to her and ask her what's wrong, like a good boyfriend, and she pushed you away! She storms out of the room yelling something about hating men! And what do you do? You nod and then just accept her behavior!"
"Akina, shut up!" Sasuke shouted back.
"If I was your girlfriend, I would never do that! I would appreciate every thing tha-" She started, but was interrupted when Sasuke grabbed her roughly by the arm.
"Is that what this is about!? Are you still upset that I'm dating someone and won't be your play thing!?"
"What!? No! I was just saying that if-" she started again but Sasuke roughly shook her, shutting her up.
"No if. There will never be anything between us, Akina! I'm with Sakura and you, last time I checked, were with my brother! Would you stop being such a slut and trying to get with me! It's not going to happen!" Sasuke shouted angrily.
Akina felt tears well up in her eyes. And with one blink of the eye, they were overflowing, running down her face. "Why!? Why are you with her and not with me!? I'm so much better than her! Why don't you care for me!?" she shouted desparately.
Sasuke looked at her for a moment before he sighed, letting her go and stepping away. But Akina just stepped forward, trying to look him in the eyes. "Why, Sasuke!? Explain to me why you can't be with me and yet you can be with her!"
Sasuke turned his head away, suddenly very afraid of hurting her. He may not like her in the way that she likes him, but he had come to care for her. In the past three weeks, he came to realize that she wasn't so bad a person when she wasn't being annoying. She could have been a good friend to him but he feared that if he was to hurt her, it would all go down the drain.
Akina reached up and grabbed his face, forcing him to look at her. "Sasuke! Please just tell me!"
Sasuke looked at her, both of them drawing to a tense silence. "I'm not going to sit here and justify why I love her. You may never truly understand it, but it's true and it's not going to change." he said and then reached up and pulled her hands way from his face, holding her small hands in his large ones. "Please, just stop. You are hurting no one but yourself by trying to get me to love you back." He said in a very calm manner.
She sniffed and stared down at the ground. Everything was still for a long moment before Akina pulled one of her hands out of Sasuke's grip and wiped her face. "I think I'm going to go and wash my face." she said quietly and then quickly left, leaving two speechless audience members and one extremely exhausted Sasuke.
As Akina ran up the stairs, she bumped into someone. Looking up, Sakura stared at her with real concern on her face. "Akina, what's wrong?" she asked, wiping some stray tears off her face.
Akina quickly looked away and pushed past her. "Nothing." She said, and then ran to the bathroom, slamming it close and collapsing against it, sobbing.
Sakura stared at the door and then quietly went over, gently knocking. "Akina, are you okay? Do you want to talk?" She asked.
Akina growled. "GO AWAY! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" she screamed, hitting the door angrily causing Sakura to jump from the other side.
"Fine, but if you need to talk, I'm here, okay?" she said and then waited for a moment before making her leave.
Akina sobbed, listening to the footsteps as they walked away. "Lucky Bitch." she muttered as another sob broke free from her.
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As soon as Akina walked out of the kitchen, Sasuke sighed and sat down where he stoos, him know sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor. He looked at both Ino and Neji, who had witnessed the whole thing and where now staring at him. The expression on their faces, they looked tense, awkward and just plain shocked, And while Ino openly showed her emotions, Sasuke could tell that Neji was even more shocked than Ino.
Ino was always in this house, partially living here, so she was often around for all the drama to unfold for her to see. She often witnessed many fights, whether they be between Sasuke and Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto, Sasuke and Mr. Haruno, Sakura and Mr. Haruno, Sasuke and Itachi, Sasuke and Akina, the list goes on. But Neji wasn't often at their household and this was the first fight that he witnessed, besides the one Sasuke and Sakura had at the restaurant. While the fight he witnessed before was tense, this one was just intense.
Sasuke closed his eyes and just fell backwards, his body hitting the floor with a thump. He laid there, just completely exhausted and desperately wishing he could take the whole fight back. Everything would just be easier if the fight never occurred. Sasuke snorted. When was his life ever easy?
Sakura walked into the kitchen, seeing Ino and Neji I a very shocked state and Sasuke laying on the ground with a bittersweet smirk on his face. Add this to her already confused mind about what was wrong with Akina and you get Sakura's current state. But at least she wasn't angry anymore. The shower had calmed her down immensely and now she was able to deal with this confusion very level-headedly.
"What's going on?'' she asked, glancing around the room for anyone to answer her question.
Sasuke chuckled, but in his tremendously tired state he had slipped in, he started to laugh uncontrollably. Everyone stared at him in confusion.
"Dude, I think he finally lost it." Ino said in a deadly serious voice before she glanced at Neji. He looked back at her in disbelief before looking back at Sasuke.
Sakura watched the two's interaction and then looking to Sasuke again. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?"
I don't like the ending. But tell me what you think. Please. I'm not afraid to beg. And if i had any cooking skills in the least i would bribe you with cookies for something. So review. And while you do that, i think i'm going to go and beg my sister to make me food. Wish me luck!