What a weird sight to wake up to! I lay motionless in bed watching my boyfriend popping my contraceptive pills one by one from their protective foil and dropping them into the kitchen sink.
"What are you doing?" I groaned, rubbing sleep away from my groggy eyes. Usually I don't mind when he wakes me up but that's because it's normally his hard cock digging into my back that does it!
He glanced over at me quickly and continued his strange little job.
"You don't need these anymore." he breezed, a proud smile shining brighter than the rising sun streaming through the curtains we had forgotten to close. The village was loud and bustling outside, I bet nobody else had started their day like this. I shrugged. It was too early to argue, it was too early for me to even comprehend exactly what was going on. I pulled on my robe and plodded into the bathroom debating whether or not to get ready for work, if Sasuke was going to stick around he wouldn't want me gone for half the day.
A barrage of knocks sent me hurtling back into the room, yesterday's nightmare wasn't over! Sasuke wasn't impressed by my cowardly behaviour, to him it was simple- bad guys dead, move on.
"Would you like me to get that?" he sighed.
"What if it's Shinji or his men?" I knew it was ridiculous but I had images of angry skeletons on the other side of the door running through my head.
"Don't you remember what happened? You know, right before you puked everywhere?" I hopped off his lap defiantly. I was the girlfriend of a ninja, I had to be brave…or at least pretend to be!
Before I chickened out I clicked the lock and flung the door open, peering from behind the door I was pleasantly surprised to see a familiar little old woman snarling up at me.
"Oh, Grandma-"
"I though you were dead and you've been lazing around in bed all this time?!" Heavy black bags stretched her bloodshot eyes into a look of pure horror. She must not have slept all night. I had totally forgotten!
"Grandma I-"
"Don't try to…make…exuses….wow." Her jaw practically dropped open, her eyes popped out of her head. She had spotted Sasuke perched on our messy bed, topless and reading a book. I tried to invite her in but she was frozen solid by Sasuke's sexiness. So I did what any rational person would do and left her in the open doorway to recover.
"Sasuke, please put a top on before you kill my Grandmother." I giggled, putting the kettle on to boil. He chuckled, flicking through another intriguing page. I made three cups of tea and sat them between us on the coffee table. Grandma shuffled over and collapsed into the sofa, looking excitedly between Sasuke and me. A half naked guy on my bed needed no explanation but last night did.
"Why did you do that to me?" My strained voice reflected my inner conflict, I wanted to prevent her from hearing the resentment I felt because she was old and I loved her but my anger ran deep. I had been hurt beyond words at how easily she had handed me over to that lunatic when I had spent years cooking for her, caring and cleaning up her sick after regular binges.
The tea was far too hot but she picked it up and took a big throat scalding sip with pursed lips.
"I don't want you wasting your life in this tiny village to look after me. A life with Shinji wouldn't have been great but it would have been better than rotting away here, slowly making your way through the men of the village." I felt my face flush a raw lobster red, a brave sideways glance showed Sasuke's eyebrows were raised but otherwise expressionless. I dreaded to think about the kind of thoughts filling his mind.
Grandma must have noticed because she made a useless attempt to take it back.
"That was an over exaggeration, really! There's only been enough men to half fill a room!" Oh, why had I opened the door?
"A pretty big room by the sound of it." I couldn't sink low enough into the sofa to escape Sasuke's little comment, he didn't sound serious but it was still humiliating. He reached out and claimed my exposed upper thigh the robe hadn't quite covered, a reassurance I really needed and Grandma handed me my tea.
"I'm so sorry. I thought it was for the best…I didn't realise what a monster he was. It was him, one of the dead, wasn't it?" Tears welled in her eyes, last night had been traumatic for her too, she had led a crowd of villagers after me, following a horrifying trail of bodies leading to unrecognisable charred remains that she had no way to tell didn't belong to me. I nodded solemnly. I hated the guy but I certainly didn't take pleasure in his death. Besides, I didn't know of Sasuke would want to take credit for all of the people he had killed for my sake, we hadn't even spoken about it yet.
"It must have been those Sound Ninja that have been hanging around the village recently. I didn't want them around at first but thank God they were here or you might…" I moved to comfort my sobbing Grandma but Sasuke tightened his hold on my leg.
"Actually, they were the second group of Sound Nin I'd placed here. Someone killed the first lot off which is why, luckily, I was here last night. Emi's ex-gangster boyfriend was behind it." He made no secret that he was pissed. Elderly or not, anyone that put me in danger infuriated him. She didn't notice though, she was laughing.
"I never thought I'd see the day when you would actually let someone call you by the nickname your father used to call you! Especially a ninja!" Emi was my father's name for me and after he died I wouldn't let anyone else use it…until Sasuke. He was special, after all.
"But Grandma, how did you know that Sasuke is a ninja?" I cocked a suspicious eyebrow. We certainly hadn't mentioned his profession.
She pointed to the messy bedroom floor, littered with underwear, dirty clothes and ninja tools. Recalling last night's episodes of passion I remembered that it was me that had flung Sasuke's holster across the room, I hadn't even noticed the sharp projectiles on the floor this morning.
Now that she knew she was guaranteed not to approve. Would it even matter to me? If it was any other man in the world I think it would have meant the end of our relationship but not with Sasuke. I'd preffer to be shunned by everyone else rather than give him up.
I watched her struggle to her feet. She could leave. Sasuke was all I needed. But she didn't hobble towards the door, she waddled towards us like a drunk penguin and when she was close enough she put her arms around Sasuke, giving him an emotional hug. Since the murder of my parents she had hated all ninja but he had saved my life, a life she had put in danger and I was happy, she could tell, blissfully happy. She had nothing but gratitude for such a man.
"Thank you, from the bottom of my heart for saving Emiko."