I Do Not Own Naruto

Uchiha

Life for Sarada had always revolved around her single mother. Mom was the one who came to the rescue, mom made the brownies for school functions, mom cleaned the house, mom worked for the money, mom got the groceries, mom took care of her, mom helped her with her homework, and mom loved her. Her mom was special, and dangerous, and lonely. But tonight she had decided to do something for her single mom with her absentee father because he was back tonight. Still tonight was mostly for her mom rather than anyone else; it was to make her lonely mom happy.

Sarada noticed how lonely her mom would be some nights. Those were the nights that Sarada concealed her chakra and saw her mom sitting alone on the porch with tears in her eyes. Sarada was four when she first remembered seeing her mom cry, and she didn't know why her mom was crying. Promptly she had run out into the night and hugged her mom saying she loved her and didn't want her mom to be sad. Her mom had hugged her and said she wasn't sad, then her mom had tucked her into bed again, kissed her brow and left her to sleep. Sarada remembered that night like it had happened yesterday.

And for years she noticed that about her mom, her mom never cried unless she thought she was alone, and Sarada had never revealed that she knew her mom was crying. In that respect she had a very different view of parents. Though all her friends complained about their parents and complained about being pestered Sarada knew parents hurt too so she didn't complain about her mom. Instead, from the time she was really small to now she always helped her mom out in every way she thought possible, cleaning the house (though she had to learn sweeping the dirt under the rug didn't make it clean), to buying groceries (usually she was short on money and the shopkeepers loved her so they let her take what she needed and pay with her allowance, her mom would still go back and pay for the food though), and even cooking (ramen was good). Her mom let her help, and Sarada would always feel happy about this.

Her mom was also different from her friends' parents because her mom was a single parent. Sarada hadn't understood when she was younger that her father was merely absent because he was off saving the world, she had only known that her mom was alone. When she was about six she started asking about her absent father, she had noticed at that age that she didn't have a father and all of her friends did. Her mom had smiled and poked her forehead affectionately with an 'I'll-tell-you-when-you're-a-little-older'. It was code for 'it-hurts-to-talk-about' for her mom; and yes she noticed that now but when she had been six she hadn't. Nothing could hurt her mom when she had been six, because her mom had a monsterous strength, superb chakra control, and was the best medic-nin in the history of shinobi; even surpassing her Grandma Tsunade.

Though she only had one parent Sarada had a lot of adoptive aunts and uncles and grandparents. She had Grandma Tsunade and Aunt Shizune who were funny; Aunt Shizuno was a worry wart and Grandma Tsunade let her do as she pleased, which usually involved learning a bit about chakra and medical ninjutsu. She had Uncle Kakashi; though her mom would threaten him with death if he read any Icha Icha books around her; she wondered what Icha Icha was; but Uncle Kakashi was fun to be around. He told her stories about her mom when her mom had been little and they were so funny sometimes she would die laughing; she couldn't imagine her mom being so love struck that she would be that weak.

Uncle Naruto and Aunt Hinata were always busy, they had Boruto and Himawari to take care of but she was always welcomed in their loud home. Uncle Shikamaru and Aunt Temari were fun too, though she hated playing shōgi because she always lost after hours of planning and executing; Shikamaru said she was a challenging opponent though. Her Aunt Ino and Uncle Sai were so strange it was like she was on a different planet when she landed with them there. Aunt Ino was loud, bossy, demanding and nosy; Uncle Sai, while having good intentions; was just weird but she still liked being around them and Inojin wasn't bad company when she desired company.

For the most part though, Sarada would rather be alone than with her friends, and she thought it odd. Chōchō said that was just because she was cool, but Sarada didn't care. All she cared about; even now was her mom and her dad and keeping her few friends safe. It was because of her minimal affections for others that had led her to doing this tonight; well this and a devious plan which would probably scar both Chōchō and Boruto for life but they deserved what was coming to them! Anyways, back to her harebrained scheme she had enlisted the help of Shikadai for that tonight and now both she and Nara were watching from the shadows to see if her plan was working.

Her mom was smiling with joy, her dad was irritatingly indifferent but at least her parents were here and her plan was working as she happily bit her bottom lip to keep herself from cheering at the sight. The Nara boy sighed about this being troublesome but she ignored his attitude because he had offered to help her; and why he had been willing to help her when this was so 'troublesome' was beyond her.

"Shush, they'll hear us!" she hissed, he lifted a brow and looked at her with blank green eyes. She frowned then peeked as her father seated her mom in the restaurant. Sarada smiled with glee then grabbed Shikadai's arm to drag him after her as they slipped stealthily through the shadows. For her climbing the tree with chakra was no problem, she had to drag Shikadai up after her as they sat on the branch watching the date she had arranged for her parents.

"Why are you doing this?" Shikadai asked as he got comfortable on the branch. She looked at her long time, lazy friend and sighed.

"I want my mom to be happy," she murmured. And it was apparent that her parents were happy when they were together but she didn't know if her father was happy or not. Her dad was not the easiest of people to read.

"How do you think Boruto and Chōchō are doing on that blind date you set up?" Shikadai asked.

"Probably cursing, but they had it coming and I never said I was going on the date," she defended. Boruto hadn't been as easy to dupe into the date as Chōchō but she had been successful in her quest to get him to agree to the 'date' by saying she had been looking forward to it. The dobe had thought she had been asking him on a date, she had merely planned it to get back at his insufferable ungratefulness and Chōchō because she was being dramatic about her parent situation. Sarada thought it would be a fitting punishment for those two for being annoying. Still she like them both but lessons had to be taught and forcing them to endure each other's company for a prepaid night would be a good lesson for them. She smiled a bit as she activated her Sharingan to see better just how her parents' date was going. Shikadai used his shadow jutsu to keep her from falling.

Sakura smiled a bit, both from being happy and sensing her daughter's chakra. Sasuke smirked a bit.

"She's here," he murmured sounding amused.

"Of course she is, who do you think set this up?" Sakura asked him amused by her daughter's antics. Sarada had set this up obviously and she was going to see this date through though her father had wanted nothing more than to sit at home and relax. He was here merely because their daughter had demanded him to take her out; Sakura had had nothing to do with arranging this date.

"I didn't know she and the Nara kid were close," Sasuke said after they had been served dinner. Sakura smiled at the waiter who blushed the hurried away under Sasuke's glare.

"She's close to all the kids but she would rather be alone, I'm surprised Shikadai even bothered to come with her, he's so like his father it's amusing." Sakura ate her meal in a silent bliss. What her baby didn't know was that she was most used to this silence and indifferent behavior that Sasuke displayed; it was difficult to be mad at him for being himself. But it appeared that Sarada was determined for them to be on this date and Sasuke had caved and brought her here and now she was being spied on by her daughter and Shikadai. Though Shikadai helping with this was most surprising as she and Sasuke ate in a comfortable silence.

"Her Chūnin Selection Exams are coming up," Sakura said indifferently.

"Uh-huh," he replied. She smiled.

"So Boruto? Is he going to participate?"

"The dobe's son is just like him and determined so yes; besides I'll only teach him if he's willing to participate in the exam." Sasuke shrugged and Sakura laughed happily because that sounded just like Boruto and Naruto. Honestly the two were so similar that it made her laugh. And the funniest thing was Boruto tried to be as different from his father as possible; he was failing miserably at it because he was turning out to be exactly like Naruto in the long run.

"Remember when we were genin and Naruto was hell bent on being better than you in every way?" Sakura asked.

"Hn," he replied meaning yes.

"I think he did beat you in the long run," Sakura said happily. Sasuke's eyes narrowed then, she smiled. "He's Hokage after all, and he's in control of Kurama so I think he beat you in the long run."

"I got you," he pointed out, she smiled brilliantly and the sighed.

"Yes you did, and just think you and Naruto have children the exact same age on the same team who despise one another, oh the possibilities," she mused deviously. It was good for Sasuke to worry, though it was also good that aside from Chōchō, Sarada was surrounded by boys. Sasuke paled, she let her lips curve into a devious smile as she leaned forward on the table. "After all, you despised me when we started, and being hated by an Uchiha…"

She was silenced when he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her close to him.

"Sarada is not marrying anyone!" he hissed through clenched teeth, she laughed before he kissed her. She then just stared at him, he smirked and there was a loud crash outside.

"Lets go," he dragged her away then, she laughed.

The fastest way to shut Sakura up and to distract a daughter; kiss Sakura. He had seen his daughter and the Nara brat fall into the bushes and then he had grabbed Sakura to drag her off. It also got his wife off of the topic of his daughter growing up and getting married.

Come tomorrow though, that blonde idiot kid was going to have the fear of Kami installed in him because there was no way in hell his angel would ever marry that blonde dobe. He'd make that clear, but for tonight and right now he'd enjoy the pinkette he had stolen from the older blonde dobe when they had been children. And he'd leave his daughter to her own devices for the night. No doubt she'd try to follow them, she was like her mother in that aspect; and she was dragging the Nara brat along. For some reason her being with Shikadai did not bother him as much as her being with the other boys of her age group, Shikadai wasn't going to try anything because he was too much like Shikamaru.

Sasuke smiled a bit as he laced his fingers with Sakura's and they walked home in silence. He barely got her home before his mouth was on hers' again and she was shoved against the door. Sarada's date had worked better than she would ever know as Sasuke dragged Sakura to bed and smiled when she laughed.

I've had this for a bit and refound it so I thought to post it before George ate it, I'm still retrieving works off of George at this time so I'm finding all sorts of stuff.

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Uchiha! =)