Title: Accidents Do Happen
Author: Nyaaan
Pairing: Itachi/Sakura/LovePolygons
Genres: Romance/Comedy/Family/Lemon-ish?/SliceofLife
A/N: Hello! This is a fanfic I hope you'll enjoy. This is still the beginning but I assure you the rest will be entertaining. Don't get me wrong, I like Sasu/Saku too but I think Itachi is smexy as hell. Anyways, reviews will be appreciated. I did edit some stuff here to improve the story.
Note:
Italic – sometimes I use this for flashbacks, emphasis and inner thoughts.
Chapter One: That 'Something'
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Sakura is staying up late...
Again.
A lot of paperwork is waiting for her on her coffee table. The paperwork from last week and this week are all on that table forming a messy stack. She hates disorder but her life is not well-organize at the moment either. She's twenty-five for Pete's sake and here she is, making more money with no time for herself.
The silence throbbed in her ears.
Sakura stares at the small black smudge on her perfectly white ceiling … her long pink hair dangling behind her swivel chair. She's at a loss of what to do and is currently facing a dilemma.
How will she face the world after a few realizations?
She's been running full-speed ahead of her…
Not looking around or taking a break from her so called 'race-of-life'. Distraction is a luxury she can't afford. Once she decided on something it'll be difficult to deter her on any point. That's what made her so successful.
And probably so utterly blind.
She assured herself that what she's sure of what she's doing but that was shattered by a dream –more of a nightmare actually.
Sakura rarely takes a nap in her office and at that rare point a nightmare of her being all-wrinkly and lonely with nothing but a big empty house as a company haunted her. It might be a silly dream but it was a wake-up call to the coward in her.
What ifs flooded her system breaking that strong facade.
What if there's no one for her in this world?
One of the greatest fears of humanity is after all … isolation.
She stared at her reflection on the glass window. Sea foam green eyes stared back at her. She's petite with a round face and her hair is pink.
Pink.
Pink is her natural hair color. Albinism is probably much better than looking-like a demented flamingo. She tried dyeing it with a more natural color like black or brown but it just doesn't suit her. She finally gave up when she woke up with loads of hair fall on her pillow.
Her forehead is humongous too. She's not in the gorgeous/voluptuous category more of the cute/kawaii class.
'What is cute again?'
Right.
Small and ugly.
She also has this 'ancient-like' fashion sense and what she means by ancient-like is that, she only wear white, black and grey. That's what her job requires and it even influenced her taste for casual clothes. Sakura has this idea that her charms can never ensnare a man and to add insult to the injury, we have more women than men so there's a big possibility she'll get left behind.
As you can see she's a pessimist. That's what happens when you have these friends who call you 'ugly' and 'annoying' for most of your life. Sakura knows it's not really the truth but sometimes if you're too exposed with falseness, it became the truth.
If there is God, He surely made this world too big.
This is troublesome for a lesser, fearful human like her. For the entire world's incalculability, we can't measure the distance between ourselves to the others. There are seven billion of us, yet still, everyone... somehow feels alone.
'Alone…'
Sakura unconsciously hugs herself as if to guard herself from whatever fear she's facing.
That is why we are all desperately searching for that one person we need no distance from… and who won't distance themselves.
A blurry image of a dark-haired boy suddenly popped up in her mind followed by a stinging sensation that wraps her being.
'At least it doesn't hurt that much anymore.'
She's not scared of being alone; being alone is actually comfortable since she treasures her personal space more than anything but being lonely because you're alone?
It's a different issue.
"Man, I'm supposed to be all happy and sparkles!" she punched some letters on her keyboard.
She's wasting her precious time again.
Precious, yes, since time equals money. She needs 'something' and she wants that 'something' but first she needs to know what that 'something' is.
"How. To. Be. A. Happy. Woman." she then pressed 'Enter' with a little too much force than necessary. Yep, she's that kind of person. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed in terms of complex emotions but she's proud to say that at least she knows much than that stupid Naruto or that emotionally-constipated Sasuke.
Like who cares, Google knows everything right?
"Be rich blah blah. Have a love life ... come on who needs a guy ... Tour the world, duh. With my sense of direction that is almost non-existent I highly doubt that." Sakura keeps on scrolling down. Nothing is being helpful; more articles about achieving the dream, finding the love of their life, shit like this, shit like that.
She wants something more than those simple answers, something that will touch her heart and sou—
Her brain went to a complete halt.
She blinked.
She's at a zone where logic, rules and intellect wielded no power.
"A baby..." she muttered.
Sakura tilts her head as if what she just read is ridiculous, crazy stupid and just plain bullsh -poop. She clicked it and it stated how awakening the mother's extinct in us cure the empty voids in our heart. It will chase away the loneliness…
That's exactly what she wants to hear!
There are moments in our lives where we arrive to some rash decisions. You know … those decisions that don't make any sense but still we have to give it a shot because that's what our unreasonable brain cells demands us to do.
And we are powerless over that.
After what she thinks a few hours of thinking she finally arrived to a conclusion.
She clutches the fabric of her white shirt that is close to her heart as if she just had this enlightenment-Eureka-gotcha-gotcha-moment. With a sports-like dive to the nearest phone beside her she punch a certain someone's number.
After the third ring, that someone picked up the phone on the other side.
"Hello, you have reached Ino Yamanaka. How may I help you?" The loud cherry voice said, practically making Sakura knock the stack of papers out of surprise.
"Ino-pig, it's me, Sakura."
"Sakura? As in, "the Sakura"… flower of that jungle of a firm?" Ino exclaimed making Sakura's eyebrow twitch.
Ino Yamanaka is her best friend since forever. They can be the polar opposite but they get along just fine. She's the person she trust the most in this world.
Oh, and why is she a flower in a jungle?
It's because she's the very first and only female lawyer hired in that famous Emperor's Firm. It's a great honor working in that famous firm and the reason why she always keeps her tough image is because she wants to prove her weigh is worth in gold.
Emperor's Firm is a firm that only hires the smartest and the toughest lawyers in Japan. The most complicated cases, they always handle them.
The high-paid, high-stakes and high-profile cases…
Actually, she's still a rookie, a small-fry so she's still a long way to the top but she can feel, not a paranoia-feeling but a good natural feeling that promotion is on its way.
The lawyers there consider themselves as the eyes of justice.
She got hired two years ago with Shikamaru, Neji, Sai and Sasuke. Unlike them, Sakura is not a genius nor did she come from a rich or influential family hence she has to work her butt off to be on where she is now.
God knows how it took her everything she's got to prove her worth. Sleepless nights, bucket of tears and more. She spaced out for a bit when a loud voice from her phone brought her back to reality.
"Don't tell me you're prank calling me!"
"No. No. Ino, listen. I want you to go somewhere private." she said. She heard a 'hold-a-sec' then Ino hanged up. Sakura doesn't need to worry a thing. The office is sound proof and what they'll be talking about is confidential.
After a few minutes Ino is back, "What's with the serious tone, Forehead?"
"I want a baby, Ino." Sakura blurts out wincing a bit as she waits for her friend's response.
"And I want to be a virgin again. Come on, Sakura. Be serious, I'm ditching my post and here you are trying to be funny." Sakura heard her stifle a laugh. A comical angry vein appears on Sakura's her forehead.
"I'll bet my job on it." Sakura answered shortly.
A generous silence …
"Woah. Hold it right there. You're serious?" said Ino, much quieter this time. "What do you want me to do then? I can't give you babies, Forehead. I don't have that thingy down there."
Sakura pretended she didn't hear a thing.
"I need your help Ino, you know a lot of people I'm sure you can help me. I just need a man to get me pregnant, that's all. All will be pure business plus sex and money is a nice payment. My identity should be kept as confidential though. You understand me right, Ino? You're the only person I can trust."
Sakura then sighed trying to mask how desperate she is. She may sound irrational – it is indeed irrational but her mind is already set on this. Living a monotonous lonely life? She doesn't want that.
She's tired of that.
"Don't talk big you virgin." Ino snorts.
She's aware that Sakura is lonely for so long. She has no parents and as her best friend she's really busy with her life. After all, she's a soon-to-be Mrs. Nara. Shikamaru just have to grow some balls to ask her for marriage, her tummy isn't getting smaller.
"I am capable of helping you if your mind is really all set on that already. As a good friend, I can't do anything but be supportive." The worry in her voice is eminent. "You're a grown up woman now don't give me a reason to regret this okay?"
Babies can indeed be the provider of happiness. Ino is the living testimony of that, now that she's pregnant everything in her world change. It's now brighter and something in her indeed changed for the better.
Maybe that's her Forehead needs.
She's sure she'll be a good mom too. Unlike her, Sakura adores children. Ino? Well, she find kids annoying but if its hers and Shika it's a completely different story.
Ino seems contented with her life now too. Maybe, just maybe ... her Forehead needs that kind of contentment as well.
"Why to a stranger though?"
There's a silence on the next line before Sakura speaks again.
"No commitments. Less drama. No strings attached." The urge to laugh at her hypocrite self is strong. She's speaking like a veteran in the field when in fact her V-card is still intact.
"You can ask the guys from the Emperor's Firm you know." Ino suggests.
All the hair from head-to-toe must've stood from her body.
Sai?
Nope. You can't trust that poker face of his plus he always calls her ugly so she's probably undesirable.
Neji?
She'll die first. He's good-looking but also a human ice cube plus he's in a relationship with TenTen so he's off-limits.
Sasuke?
Oh please it's already a no. She finally got over him a long time ago and sleeping with him will be like sleeping with Naruto. Ah, and if Neji is an ice cube then he's a block of ice.
It'll be tough to ask her friends that. They'll probably send her to some mental institution.
Sakura is not blind, they're all hot and bishies but who would like to be on the same bed with her? Blame the circumstances for her 0% confidence.
"You're on Lalaland again, Forehead. Why not use another method like adoption or artifi—"
"I have considered that but it's too time consuming and I can't risk my identity. Plus it's expensive. I just paid a year worth of rent and my very big flat screen t.v."
Ino let out a hearty laugh. "I can't believe we're having this conversation, Forehead. Fine, I'll support you on this one. I'll e-mail you the photos of the male candidates I have in mind. Only the best for you, Forehead. I'll make sure your first will be fun."
Insert her pig-like squeal.
Ino wants to get her laid but her busy schedule didn't allow her plus she has issues with male population too so her busy schedule was more of like an excuse to lock herself in her office.
She wants to be more than just a lawyer. She wants to belong to the elite members of the Emperor's but that can wait.
After a few more exchange of time and date of the said mission Sakura then killed the conversation.
She hopes, from the bottom of her heart that everything will be well.
After those long sleepless nights, she can finally sleep in peace.
End of Chapter 1
A/N: I hope you enjoyed that. So how's the story so far?