Series: Bound

Pairing: KakaSaku, NaruIno, SasuTen, ItaHina


Previously with the Uchiha Clan:

Tenten clasped hands with Hinata idly chit chatting to alleviate any nervous feelings the younger girl may have had. She was rewarded with small smiles as she made a few cracks about some of the stuffy Uchiha Clan members at the 'meet the Hinata' event.

It wasn't long, though, before the incident that she had been dreading finally occurred.

"Good evening ladies." Tenten kept her eyes glued on Hinata and watched as her already impossibly large eyes grew wider. She felt Sasuke's hand rest on the small of her back and with a smile still on her face, she slowly reached behind her in an attempt to crush a few of Sasuke's fingers mercilessly. The tension between the two of them grew heavily and yet still Sasuke didn't budge and Tenten silently cursed Sakura because her continuous abuse on her teammates had rendered them immune. Hinata looked back and forth between the two of them obviously hoping to make an escape, but before she could Itachi Uchiha chose to make an appearance.

Heads turned at his presence much like they had when Hinata entered the room. Tenten wondered at that. Was it something about the Heir and Heiress to prestigious Clans that caught everyone's attention? Or was it the people themselves that just happened to be attention grabbers?

Itachi strode into the room—or more like stalked and his eyes scanned the room until they landed on Hinata. Then he headed in their direction. He moved like liquid sex and Tenten felt a small surge of jealousy. Why couldn't she have gotten that Uchiha?

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Sasuke looked down at Tenten's face as she watched Itachi approach with narrowed eyes. His first instinct was to do something to draw her attention back to him, but at the last minute decided not to. When Itachi finally reached them, he immediately looked at Sasuke and moved his fingers rapidly, causing Sasuke to almost groan aloud.

His father was going to be in rare form tonight. He glanced down at Tenten knowing that she would use anything to get out of marrying him and he couldn't allow that to happen. He locked eyes with Itachi and nodded slightly watching as Itachi slid his arm around Hinata's waist and led her to the dinner table. Sasuke, with great difficulty since the kunoichi was trying to break his hand, did the same.

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Ino would never admit to being impulsive. If she had her way people would believe that she thought deeply and carefully about every move she made. However, she didn't have her way. The deep thinker on her team was Shikamaru and if she thought about it she wouldn't change that.

She wasn't dumb, but she could be a bit reckless. That was okay though, because she couldn't think of one reckless decision that she had made in her life that she regretted.

"Hey, Naruto. Why don't we go ahead and get married now?"

It was a sound idea. They were getting along extremely well, they had to get married anyway, so what was the point of putting it off any further? They should just get married now.

Naruto looked at her and gave her this smile that she couldn't interpret. Was he happy at her suggestion? Did he think she was joking? A combination of the two?

"You don't really want to do that, do you Ino?" Ino flipped her hair and stiffened her back certain that she was being rejected. Her cheeks flushed red and she was seconds away from storming off in anger when he said, "If we just get married now none of your family or friends will be there."

Ino froze at his words.

"I don't know about you, but if Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi-sensei weren't able to attend our wedding I don't think I'd be too happy about that. Besides, I don't want you to look back at our...wedding day and regret what we could have had."

Ino frowned as something about his statement had a sense of permanence in them, but she couldn't place what it was. Since she couldn't figure out what it was she decided to focus on what she could.

"The Hokage is only going to marry us in her office anyway. I checked with her not too long ago. A grand wedding is probably going to be something that's beyond us. Besides, she told me that after the year is up if we decide to stay together, then we could get remarried then."

It was Naruto's turn to frown. "We don't need a grand wedding. Your family, our friends, and you. That's enough for me."

Ino wasn't aware that it was possible for someone's heart to literally melt, but she learned that day.