Hello. Who's on an updating roll? I AM! lol. It's cause it's summer and i'm trying my hardest to push them out. I have to go get registered for school again on the 20th and then school with start again soon after in the beginning of September. So i will try to get as many chapters out before school starts.

So this chapter is dedicated to two people: fdty and . Cause they are cool. Now, you may ask 'what can i do to be cool and get the chapter dedicated to me?' Well there's a smiple way to do that. Ready, this is a really big secret and i'm only going to share it with some very speical people, so listen up. You can be cool and and a dedication by. . . . .(drumroll, please.) . . . . leaving a review with a band name. i would like a wide variety to choose from and right now i have five possiblites.

Well, thank you to all that reviewed. I hope you enjoy this.


When Mr. Haruno regained consciousness, he was completely alone in the living, or so he thought. After taking a moment to recollect himself, he heard something from behind his view on the couch. Quickly jumped to his feet, he whirled around only to see Sasuke pulled something out of a cabinet. It was a book of some sort and this fact made him relax slightly.

Sasuke looked at him and then calmly closed the little cabinet. "How are you feeling?" he asked.

"Why do you care?" Mr. Haruno asked in a gruff tone that caught Sasuke off guard.

It was quiet for a long time, as Sasuke stared at the photo album in his hand that the women had sent him in here to get. "Just trying to be nice. . ." Sasuke trailed off after a moment.

"Well I don't want you to be nice to me. I don't even want you near me or my family." Mr. Haruno said, sitting back down and rubbing his head.

Sasuke stared at him for a long moment. "You don't like me." he stated causing the other man to snort.

"No kidding." he said, staring at the ceiling. "You are a criminal with two kids when you are only eighteen. Now you impregnated my baby, my pride and joy, and now are getting married to her. Yes, I don't like you." he said.

Sasuke stared at the ground and gripped the book tighter in his hand. "They're not technically mine."

The older man looked at him strangely. "What?"

"They are technically my niece and nephew and not my kids. I took them in at a young age when my brother was unable to and his woman was too selfish to do so."

Mr. Haruno stared at him in disbelief. "They're not yours?"

"Not exactly. But I took in Seto when he was one and I took in Mikoto when she was two months. They know me as their father and I see them as my kids."

Mr. Haruno just stared, his face carefully blank. Sasuke smirked bitterly. "So yes, I do have two children at a young age. And most people do view me as a criminal and well, maybe I am. I've made some dumbass moves in my life, but I don't regret them now. Because they got me where I am today so I don't really care what people think of me.

"And yes, Sakura is pregnant with my child and we are getting married. Most people will not like this, but again, I don't care. I'm happy, Sakura's happy, and my family is happy. If someone doesn't like that, then they are just going to have to deal with that. I want to be selfish and , just once, have things go my way and not end up disastrously. I've found what can make that happen and I don't want to let go." he said, not looking at the man that would soon be his father-in-law. After a moment, he finally looked up, his face betraying nothing. "I hope you feel better soon." he said and walked into the kitchen, leaving a speechless man behind.

Everyone turned towards Sasuke when he entered and Ino looked at him impatiently. "Geez, what took you so long? Did you get lost?" she asked.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "The book wasn't in the spot I thought it was in." he lied and then handed it to Mrs. Haruno. He walked behind Sakura and planted a kiss on her forehead before turned and heading over to Seto and Naruto by the counter. They were just trying to stay out of girl time.

The women had pictures spread out everywhere on the table, and were going through them looking for pictures of Sasuke's parents' wedding. The task was rather daunting to do because it turned out that Grandma Mikoto loved to take pictures. There was pictures of Sasuke and Itachi growing up, when her and Fugaku were newlyweds, when they were dating, when they were both little, many family members and a lot of scenery pictures.

Another thing about Grandma Mikoto was that she had no organization skills when it came to grouping the pictures. They were not divided into years, or even my subject of picture. They were all thrown in a box that Sasuke had pulled out in piles of random pictures.

Sasuke watched as they 'oo'ed and 'aw'ed at the many pictures and just sighed. He also noticed that Mrs. Haruno was piling up pictures that she liked. Though he didn't see which one's she piled them up and at the end of the night, rubber band them together and walked out the door with them. When Sasuke asked Sakura about them later, she just said that her mom wanted to make something with them and that he would get them back later.

He didn't press the subject.

The next morning, to Sasuke's surprise, there was a knock on the door early in the morning. And when he opened the door he was greeted with Mrs. Haruno, Hinata, and Tenten. He quickly invited them in; extremely aware of the fact the only thing on his upper body was an unzipped hoodie. They went straight to the kitchen, Tenten grabbing a cup of coffee while Hinata and the mother went to the table. Sasuke just looked at them in confusion, wondering why all these women were invading his house.

Sakura and Ino quickly bounded down the stairs, both already dressed. Ino grabbed a cup of coffee to go while Sakura greeted Sasuke. She smiled. "Good morning, Babe" she said, kissing him gently on lips. She went to walk away but Sasuke grabbed her and pulled her close again. Resting his forehead against hers, he kissed her one more time before questioning her.

"What's going on?"

She smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, I forgot to tell you yesterday. I'm going shopping with all the girls today." She said.

"A warning would have been nice." he said.

She shrugged her shoulders. "You were already down stairs when I woke up. If you had just stayed in bed for awhile longer I would have told you."

He made a face and then kissed her again before releasing her. She grabbed a bottle of orange juice and then grabbed her bag. "Okay, we are going to get going. Try not to over work yourself. Eat breakfast, don't drink more than two cups of coffee today and make sure Naruto doesn't break anything." She said, giving him a kiss as she headed for the door.

"Okay mom." he drawled.

Sakura stuck out her tongue at him and opened the door, only to be greeted by Akina. Just getting home, Akina looked at the line of women that walked past, all of them greeting her kindly on their way out. She took one look at the women walking away and then at Sasuke and frowned. "I don't even want to know." she muttered and pushed past Sasuke, forgetting her shoes again.

"Thanks for coming to dinner last night." Sasuke called sarcastically over his shoulder.

"Whatever." She called back before disappearing upstairs.

xOx

The girls spent most of the day out shopping. They had been in a variety of stores, from weapons to clothes to wedding stores. They took a brief break for lunch at a café and then they were shopping again. And although Sakura really didn't want to, they dragged her along anyways into a maternity shop.

"Don't drag your feet. You're going to be getting bigger and there's no way you will be able to fit your stomach into your skintight tank tops." Tenten mocked.

Sakura made a face, but went along anyways. She knew Tenten was right and she figured that it was best to get it over with as soon as she could. When they walked into the store it was completely empty except for the workers. This comforted her at bit, not wanting to deal with a ton of villagers in a maternity shop. It would only cause talk and right now, they all didn't need it.

They all started out in one large group but quickly dispersed around the store. Before long, they all met up again with at least three items each in their hands and insisted that Sakura try them on. Sakura shook her head. "They won't even fit right now." she said, but the girls weren't having it.

"That's what those fake strap-on bellies are for silly." Her mother said, before Ino pushed her into one of the dressing stalls. Ino stepped in as well, to help her. Sakura stripped herself of her shirt, so she was only in her bra and Ino helped her strap on the fake belly. Sakura looked at herself in the mirror.

"I look and feel ridiculous." she stated.

Ino giggled. "This is going to take some getting used to." she said, examining her friend with a big belly. "Hey, can you see your feet?"

Sakura glared at her. "Just shut up and hand me the stupid shirt."

Once dressed in a cute red shirt that fit nicely on the stomach, Sakura and Ino stepped out to show the rest of the girls. She all exclaimed how cute she looked, her mother even tearing up a bit. Sakura saw this and went to her side. "Oh, mom, don't cry." she said.

Mrs. Haruno sniffed. "I'm sorry, I just can't get over the fact that my baby is growing up and having a baby of her own."

"Oh, mom." Sakura said, pulling her mother into a hug and getting annoyed at the stomach was in the way. She grimaced and pulled away, muttering curse words as she tried to shift the belly into a more comfortable position. The girls laughed at her before pushing her back into the stall to change again.

But when Sakura stepped out again to show the girls, she noticed that middle-aged woman had stepped into the store and was now staring at her. Sakura tried to ignore her at first, but she felt her stare on her the entire time she was twirling in front of her friends. And right before went back into the stall to try on another one the women rushed out of the store.

Sakura heaved a sigh of relief that the extra audience member was gone and she pulled on another shirt. When she stepped out through, she noticed that the woman was now coming in again. . . . but with a friend. Sakura ignored this and tried to focus on her friends, but the piercing stares of the two women felt like it was burning holes threw her whole body. She gratefully retreated back into the stall.

But when she stepped back out, another had joined the two women and they were all staring at her. Sakura immediately directed her eyes away from the group and looked down at her shirt. She listened to her friends thoughts about it and then quickly ran back into the stall.

It happened again and again. Each time she came out, there were more. Some had the decency to at least pretend they weren't staring and we actually shopping while others just stood in the back ground, full on staring. She tried to ignore it, tried not to notice how they gossiped, and tired not to seem affected by them. But when her and Ino retreated into the stall, she broke down.

A rush of emotions hit her, and she cursed her hormones as she sat down on the chair inside the stall and tried to hide her tears. But Ino, her best friend, noticed and bent down in front of her. "Sakura, what's wrong?" she asked, rubbing her back in a supporting manner.

Sakura didn't answer back right away, her tears making her unable to. But after a few minutes of the nonstop waterworks, they began to slow enough to speak. "All those people out there. They are all staring and talking and I hate it! Why can't they just leave me and my family alone!?" Sakura said, suddenly angry. She wiped her tear away, though more came, and angrily shifted the stomach again. "And this thing is uncomfortable! I don't think I want to be pregnant if this is how it is going to feel!"

Ino snorted at the last part and hugged her. "Well, you kind of don't have a choice." she said.

Sakura pouted and was quiet for a long moment before fussing with the stomach again. "And it itches. What the hell is this thing make out of? Couldn't they make it out of a better fabric?" she aid, trying to itch her skin underneath.

Ino smiled at her. "I don't think your stomach will itch like this one. So I think you will be fine."

Sakura sniffed, her tears finally stopping. "Whatever."

Ino stood up and smiled at her. "I'll be back." she said, before disappearing. Moments later, Sakura heard Ino yelling at the many people that were watching. Sakura smiled and laughed as she grabbed a tissue out of Ino's bag and wiped her face. She loved Ino so much.

xOx

Sasuke and Naruto sat around the kitchen table, waiting for Neji to get there. Sasuke and Neji had to go over more plans for the police department and Naruto wanted to see what they had planned. Naruto thought it was a great idea and wanted to help in any way he could. So, Sasuke grudgingly allowed him to stay for the meeting as long as he promised not to ruin anything.

Sasuke looked down by his chair at Seto. He was sitting on the ground playing with his hamster. His daycare had a pet hamster named Bobo and Seto had wanted to take him home. So with the permission of Sasuke, Sakura and the ladies of the daycare, Seto brought Bobo home for the weekend.

Seto now sat with Bobo in his hands and Bobo's open cage sitting next him. Sasuke watched him carefully. "Be careful, Buddy. Make sure Bobo doesn't get away, okay?" he said.

Seto smiled back at him. "I will. I'm very careful with him." he said before turning to look at Naruto. "Do you want to hold him, Uncle Naruto?" he said after he notice how Naruto was looking at the small rodent. Naruto nodded and then slowly reached for the animal. Seto smiled and handed him over gently.

Sasuke watched Naruto play with the animal for a moment before turning to Seto. "Buddy, now that your hands are free, go pick up the toys you left in the living." he said and Seto nodded, running off.

It was silent for a moment until there was a small crash and Sasuke bolted from his seat and into the living, Naruto following after a moment. Seto stood in the living room and Sasuke rushed to his side. "What happened?" he asked calmly as he looked around.

"I knocked over the clock on accident." Seto explained just as Sasuke noticed the fallen clock.

Sasuke grabbed it and examined it. It was unbroken, still ticking. The time was a off by two minutes but that is how it had been for awhile. Sasuke breathed a sigh of relieve that Seto wasn't hurt and put the clock back on the shelf and patted Seto on the head.

He glanced at Naruto, his hands now empty. "Where's the hamster?"

Naruto shrugged. "I put him in the cage before I came out here."

Sasuke nodded in response and headed back into the kitchen. By mean chance, he glanced at the cage and froze. The cage stood in the same spot on the floor as before, but the cage door was wide open and there was no hamster in sight. Sasuke just stared at it, hoping that he was imagining it.

Naruto walked into the kitchen calmly and stared at Sasuke questioningly. "What are you doing?"

"Please- please, please, please- say that you closed the cage door before you walked out and I'm imagining that there is no rodent in there."

Naruto stared at the source of Sasuke's panic and frowned. "Um. . .about that. . ." he finally said after a long moment.

Sasuke whirled and smacked Naruto in the head and then was quickly looking around for the small stupid animal. Naruto rubbed his head and got down on his hands and knees, scouring the floor. "Here, Gerbil, Gerbil." He chanted over and over again.

"It's a hamster, moron." Sasuke said, looking by the table.

Naruto rolled his eyes. "I know but gerbil has a better ring to it. I can't say hamster as easily as I can say gerbil." he explained before continuing his chanting.

Sasuke growled under his breath. "Naruto, he isn't going to come out because you call him." he snapped, getting annoyed.

Naruto looked up at him. "Geez, what's got your panties in a bunch?" He said and Sasuke snapped his head in his direction, his eyes bleeding red. Naruto gulped and went back to searching for Bobo, chanting again.

There was a knock on the door and Sasuke jumped up, remembering that Neji was coming over. He quickly rushed to the door and opened it. He merely glanced at the brown haired man before him quickly before grabbing him by the shirt color and pulling him in roughly. He slammed the door closed quickly, not wanting the hamster to get out, and then whirled around and looked at the ground in the hallway. "Naruto let Seto's daycare pet lose and now we have no clue where the stupid rodent is." Sasuke explained to the man behind him.

"AH! I FOUND HIM!" They heard Naruto shout suddenly before a crash sound was heard a moment later and the sound of glass breaking. Sasuke cursed and rushed to the kitchen.

Naruto was lying on the ground, holding his face. There was a knocked over chair on the ground and a broken vase with glass shattered all over the kitchen but no hamster. Sasuke sighed, standing in the doorway. "Where's the hamster?" he asked.

Naruto groaned. "He's a tricky beast! He dove under the chair before I could get him and then escaped when I was down! This is an evil gerbil!" He exclaimed, it coming out muffled because he still held his face in his hands.

Sasuke sighed and looked at the mess of glass. Carefully, he stepped into the kitchen. When the vase fell, it shattered in such a way that some pieces were launched across the room while others lay where the vase had fell. Sasuke had to be very mindful not to step on any of the glass.

"I thought you said it was a hamster." someone said and Sasuke turned toward the kitchen doorway. Instead of Neji standing there, Mr. Haruno stood there instead, staring at the mess of the kitchen.

Sasuke mentally slapped himself, wondering how he confused Mr. Haruno with Neji. "It is a hamster but Naruto likes the word gerbil more than hamster." Sasuke explained quietly. Mr. Haruno nodded absentmindedly.

"Daddy! I put away my toys!" Seto screamed as he came running, about to enter the kitchen.

Sasuke stuck his hand up, though he was nowhere near the doorway and wouldn't be able to stop Seto from entering in time. "NO!" he shouted.

Luckily, Mr. Haruno stuck his hand in front of Seto and stopped him before he could enter the kitchen and hurt himself. Sasuke breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly very thankful that the older man was there. A first time for everything, right?

"Don't come into the kitchen. Naruto broke some glass and it's all over the kitchen. Let Daddy clean it up before you come back in here." Sasuke said to Seto, who nodded and ran upstairs.

Sasuke glanced back at the older man. "Thank you." he said, turning and momentarily forgetting about the glass and taking a step. He realized what he had just done about three seconds too late and he heard a crunch under his bare foot and felt something dug into his skin.

"Shit!" He cursed and jumped up, and quickly limped out of the kitchen. He jumped over to the couch and sat down and examined his foot. There was one large piece and three smaller ones imbedded in his foot and some much smaller pieces that only stuck to his skin but didn't go in. Losing patience, Sasuke ripped them out instead of going and getting the first aid kit first and then got up to go clean the cuts. But when he was limping out of the living room, there was another knock on the door and Sasuke redirected himself to the door.

Sasuke opened it and faced Neji with a handful of files. He grabbed his collar and pulled him in roughly and slammed the door. "Stay out of the kitchen unless you want to cut your foot open." he growled out as he tried to limp to the bathroom without dripping blood everywhere. He failed miserably.

As he walked by the kitchen, a brown fur ball darted past him into the living room followed by Naruto clumsily behind it. Except Naruto wasn't counting Sasuke walking by at that moment and ended up tackling him to the ground. "Damn it, Teme! I almost had him!" Naruto shouted at Sasuke from above him. Sasuke unleashed the Uchiha death glare on him.

"Get off of me." Sasuke ground out through gritted teeth.

xOx

Sakura and the girls exited the maternity shop with bags of clothes. Once the Ino had scared away the crowd, the whole thing turned to be okay. Sakura even found that she started to have fun trying on all the clothes, even with the irritating belly. And as a joke, all of the girls tried on one of the bellies and some clothes and had one of the ladies that worked there take a picture.

They did a little more shopping after that, stopping at some baby stores-getting some baby items for Sakura and the baby- and another wedding shop and then more clothes. All in all, the girls made off with quite a lot of loot.

And as planned, they all went to go back to the Uchiha manor for dinner since Sasuke, Neji and Naruto were all supposed to be there. They waked and laughed the entire time and when they entered the house, they froze.

There were random blood stains on the ground and a broken lamp and the small table by the stairs was broken along with the vase of flowers and clock that had been resting on it in the hall. When they stepped forward and looked into the living room, they saw destruction in there. The couch had been flipped and the coffee table was now just broken wood and everything that was on it was scattered on the ground. Everything was out of place or broken and it looked like someone had broken in.

"Sasuke?" Sakura called nervously.

She reserved no answer and first so she called again, this time much louder. After a moment they heard footsteps from above them and before they knew it the boys were coming down the stairs, even Mr. Ahruno surprising them all by his presence. They girls just stared at the state they were in.

Both Sasuke, Neji and Naruto were covered in cuts and bruises. Sasuke had a bloody dishcloth wrapped around his foot and both Neji and Naruto had a lump on their heads. Mr. Haruno was the least damaged of them all, somehow managing to only get a few cuts on his hands.

"What happened?" Ino exclaimed as she looked at the state of the house and the boys. "Did you decide to train in the house?"

Neji shook his head. "No, Naruto let Seto's hamster lose and we spent the entire day looking for him." he explained.

"Well that explains the mess, but why are you all hurt?" Tenten asked.

The boys all exchanged a look but it was Mr. Haruno that spoke. "You wouldn't believe how graceful these guys can be when they are chasing after a hamster." he stated while all three boys glared at him.

The girls just stared at them questioningly, but he boys ignored them. "Hey, I'm very graceful. It's Naruto that ruined everything." Sasuke said, trying to defend himself.

"Hey!" Naruto shouted in protest.

Mr. Haruno chuckled. "You were all graceful today. My favorite part was when you feel down the stairs." he said, smiling.

The girls stared at them with blank expressions. "You feel down the stairs?" Mrs. Haruno drawled.

Her husband nodded. "We were upstairs and Naruto dove to catch Bobo but missed. He just happened to be too close to the stairs and started to go down, so he grabbed on to Sasuke's foot. When Sasuke started to go down, he grabbed onto Neji to steady them but he ended up going down with them both. They tumbled down the stirs and hit the table by the stairs and broke that, the vase and the clock on it. They were just a mess of broken wood, glass and limb at the bottom of the stairs. The funniest thing I've seen in years." he said, laughing again.

"It wasn't funny." Neji protested, glared at him.

Naruto chuckled a little. "Falling wasn't, but when the clock landed on your head it was hilarious." he said and then ducked when Neji swung at him.

Sakura sweat dropped. "Okay, okay. Enough you two. Geez, it sounds like you guys had quiet a day. Come on, let me get you all cleaned up." She said, sitting them down at the base of the stairs to heal them. "What am I going to do to with you all?"


So? Poop? Gold? She i continue or keep my day job? (LOL. . .J/K i wouldn't quit the story on you guys.) Tell me what you think.