FAVOURITE UNCLE?
Sakura held Sarada in her arms trying to placate her fussy 15-month-old baby. It wasn't often that Sarada would act like this.
"Sara-chan, calm down, baby. Mama is here."
"What happened to her, Sakura?" A deep voice said and Sakura turned around to see Sasuke looking at them curiously.
She sniffled and said wearily, "Sasuke-kun, Sarada is continuously crying."
Sasuke walked towards his wife and picked up his dark-haired daughter to see whether he could calm her down or not. Sarada continued crying for a few seconds before it turned to sniffles and then finally, she stopped crying. She gave a happy giggle on seeing her father and tried to tug a lock of his dark hair but failed when he moved out of her reach.
She gave him an unimpressed look and tried to glare at him which looked more like an angry pout. "Pa…Pa."
Sasuke glared at her playfully to which she let out another giggle.
Sakura looked at them from the background with jealousy and said with a clipped tone, "I was doing exactly the same thing but she kept on crying. Hmph."
Sasuke smirked at his pouting wife and was about to retort something sarcastic but stopped when he heard someone knocking the door. Sakura tried to get up from the rocking chair but Sasuke beat her to it.
He opened the door and found the other two members of Team 7 and his brother.
"OI TEME AND PRINCESS." Of course it would be Naruto who would yell so loudly.
Sasuke bonked his head none too gently and glared at him. "Don't curse in front of my daughter, Dobe."
"Itai, what did you call me?"
Sasuke smirked at his overdramatic friend. "Exactly what you heard."
"UNCA NAWUTO." An excited Sarada yelled out.
Naruto looked at her and grinned happily. "Oh, Sarada-chan~ My favourite Uchiha~ Come to your favourite uncle~"
Now, this offended the elder Uchiha brother in the room.
Itachi walked towards Naruto and said calmly, "Naruto-kun, I am Sarada-chan's favourite uncle."
"UNCA 'TACHI." an excited Sarada yelled out once again.
Itachi smiled at her and looked at Naruto again.
"What do ya mean, Itachi-san? Of course, I am Sarada's favourite uncle." Naruto asked him.
Itachi gritted his teeth and tried not to snap the blonde's neck. "You are wrong, Naruto-kun. She is my niece."
Naruto tried to level a glare equal to Itachi's and said, "That is true but she is Team 7's baby so obviously, I am her favourite, 'ttebayo."
"She is an Uchiha first and I repeat, my niece."
"But she is my best friends' daughter. And, I meet her every day." Naruto smirked smugly.
"She loves eating dango with me." Now, it was Itachi who subtly smirked.
"That doesn't mean anything. She loves to eat ramen with me too." Naruto went closer to Sarada and tickled her stomach making her laugh. "Isn't it, Sarada-chan?"
Itachi looked at Sasuke and asked him, "How can you let her eat ramen, otouto?"
The younger Uchiha brother shrugged his shoulders. "It's not like I can stop the Dobe." He narrowed his gaze on Itachi. "And she eats dango with you too."
Itachi flinched when he heard Sasuke speaking about his dango so bitterly. "But dango is dango. Ramen is harmful for her health."
"Oi Itachi-san, don't talk about my ramen like that, 'ttebayo." Naruto stated, offended that Itachi could even dare to Insult his favourite food.
"Whatever, Naruto-kun. Sarada-chan likes spending time with me more." Itachi said.
"No way. Sarada-chan called me first when I entered the room." Naruto argued.
"That's because she saw you first." Itachi concluded and tried to intimidate Naruto into submission by activating his sharingan.
Naruto's own eyes turned Kyuubi red in challenge. "You are a sore loser, Itachi-san."
The elder Uchiha narrowed his eyes into slits at his words. Nobody insulted him like that. "You are going on a very dangerous path, Naruto-kun."
"Bring it on." Naruto said confidently.
Sasuke looked at them from a distance with interest. It wasn't often that someone could make Itachi so angry. He looked down at his daughter and saw her playing with her green plush dinosaur on the couch. It seemed that Kakashi was excited to see Naruto and Itachi arguing too as his Icha Icha was left unattended on his lap while he combed his fingers through Sarada's dark hair.
Sakura came out from the master bedroom when she heard Naruto and her brother-in-law arguing. She saw her husband looking at them and... Wait, were his eyes shining with amusement?
Sakura walked towards Sasuke and touched his arm. "Anata, why are they arguing?"
Sasuke looked at her with a smirk. "It seems like everyone wants to be our peanut's favourite uncle."
She looked at the Itachi and Naruto and she was herself shocked when she heard the topic of their arguing.
"Itachi-san, you aren't understanding. I am her favourite uncle, though you are a very close second." Naruto lifted up a fist in air, trying to convince him.
Itachi crossed his arms over his chest and said petulantly, "Not at all."
A black blur entered the room and yelled out, "Sasu-chan! Itachi-chan! Saku-chan! And my little princess, Sara-chan!"
The black blur was revealed to be one Shisui Uchiha.
Sasuke glared at him for the nickname and asked him, "How did you come inside?"
Shisui slapped his back playfully. "Tch tch, Sasu-chan. Is this how you treat your favourite cousin? To answer you, I am not called Shunshin No Shisui for nothing."
"Back off, asshole."
Shisui shrugged his shoulders and sat beside Kakashi on the couch. He noticed the palpable tension in the room between Itachi and Naruto. "Anyway, why are they arguing?"
Kakashi side-glanced at him and said, "Just listen. You will understand."
"But I am the strongest and the next Hokage." Naruto yelled out.
"And your point is? I became an ANBU captain when I was 13 while you were still a useless genin at that time." Itachi gloated.
Shisui understood what they were arguing about and rubbed his hands in excitement. "Ooohhhh this is interesting."
"She is my future daughter-in-law, 'ttebayo." Naruto said and glared at him for the previous insult.
"No way in hell is she marrying your idiot son!" Itachi, Shisui and Sasuke exclaimed at the same time.
"HEY! Don't talk about my little Boruto like that!" Naruto pouted.
A light bulb struck Naruto's mind and he looked at Itachi. "Hey Itachi-san, why don't we ask Sarada-chan herself?"
Itachi nodded his head sagely, agreeing to what Naruto said. They went near Sarada and bent to her level to look at her.
Naruto grinned at her and she looked at him with a smile of her own. "Ne Sarada-chan~ Tell us who is your favourite uncle?"
Everyone looked at the youngest Uchiha with anticipation in their eyes. They wanted to know her answer as well.
Sarada looked at her parents first, then Naruto, Itachi and finally at Kakashi and Shisui.
She was still indecisive but after a few seconds, she lifted her hands in the air and exclaimed, "UNCA 'KASHI. UNCA 'SUI"
Kakashi held her hand and squeezed it while grinning under his mask. "Mah Sarada-chan, you make this old man so happy."
On the other side, Shisui held his hand to his chest with literal stars in his eyes. "Oh, Sara-chan~ You are so cuteeee."
Sarada giggled at the said "old man" and climbed up on his lap to look at Shisui. Both her 'favourite uncles' were still unaware of the murderous aura that was around Naruto and Itachi. Meanwhile, Sasuke and Sakura cringed at them and subtly moved away from them.
"Kakashi-sensei. Shisui-baka" "Hatake-senpai. Shisui."
Both Naruto and Itachi said at the same time with identical clipped tones.
Sakura looked at the two people sitting on the couch and whispered, "Run."
If someone looked at Kakashi and Shisui from a close distance, they could see their forehead sweating with fear.
Kakashi looked at the clock 'casually' and said, "Oh well, it's time to water my plants now." With that, he disappeared with a "poof" and Shisui shunshined his way out of the house immediately.
Naruto looked at Itachi who was gritting his teeth in anger. "Itachi-san."
Itachi looked at the blonde and understood what he was trying to say. "Yes, Naruto-kun. Look for Hatake-senpai."
They left the Uchiha house in hopes of finding the two 'favourite' uncles.
Sasuke looked at Sarada and said playfully, "Well, it seems like they are fighting over you, peanut."
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura admonished him and shook her head at his words. She prayed that they wouldn't hurt Kakashi and Shisui…much.
END.