I Do Not Own Naruto
Uchiha
Uchiha Sasuke had a really good thing going in his life, and he worked really hard not to fuck it up.
Really fucking hard not to fuck it up.
He had the most amazing woman in the world loving him, and he meant she was fucking amazing. Haruno Sakura, nay, Uchiha Sakura, was the most compassionate, focused, determined, strong, brave, idiotic, maddening, loving, empathetic, understanding, loyal woman he had ever met. Despite her atrocious temper; which had pretty much everyone in the village diving for cover, and enemies running for the hills; and her occasional bouts of extreme poor judgement (she was married to after all, and that stood as proof enough to him that she had the worst judgement ever), she was amazing. He didn't know how he'd get through his life without her loving him and being there to prop him up.
He wasn't trying to be a sap, but his wife was really fucking amazing and she was the center of his world.
Aside from being amazing though, she amazed him, constantly, she astounded him, confused him and amazed him. Sakura was a pro in terms of being the best partner for a person to have, and he was still working his ass off to be an equal partner for her. They weren't perfect at it, they had fights which had broken houses and waged wars with each other which had him sleeping on the couch or in the backyard or had her locked out of the house. But this didn't stop them from working as partners, they were low maintenance; the both of them, and thank Kami for it because he knew he could never keep up with a high maintenance woman.
And because they worked so hard at being friends, partners and lovers they had three beautiful children.
Their eldest Sarada was a huge help with her young siblings, she was only sixteen and she was their babysitter, their tutor and their guardian; she was a great big sister. They had feared about the thirteen year age gap between Sarada and the second child, but he was seeing now that they had worried for nothing. Sarada was a great sister at sixteen and she loved playing with her little brother and watching her baby sister. Thank Kami because he and Sakura were exhausted.
Their first son and second child was named for his brother, at Sakura's insistence because he had wanted to name their son anything else but Itachi. He did not want the village to look down on his son because he was named for uncle rather than something else. However, Sakura had stood firm on that decision and he had lost the fight with her when Sarada had tossed in her opinion in naming her brother.
However, he won in naming Sayuri when she was born last year. Sakura had asked him why that and he had never told her his reasoning, other than he liked the name. The story behind Sayuri's name came from Mebuki, who had given him the name, but he wasn't telling Sakura that. It had really helped him in winning that battle when Mebuki and Sarada had stood with him on naming his second daughter.
Then there was the matter of their jobs.
He was still an elite member of the ANBU and was called away to do missions for months on end, he didn't mind because at least now he got to come home. And coming home was the best part of his job.
Sarada was a jonin at sixteen, she worked in Kakashi's squad; thank Kami, and she was a medic in training under her mother's supervision, along with Shizune and Tsunade, and she was Naruto's favorite apprientice. Though Konohomaru was still in line to be the Eighth Hokage, it was hopeful Sarada would be the Ninth; at least that was her hope.
And Sakura ran the hospital and the medic division of the Leaf's shinobi forces. It was honestly amazing they had any time for their family or themselves for that matter, but he didn't question things that worked and he and Sakura worked. They had been working since he had been nineteen years old and asked her to marry her. That had been so long ago now that he though back on it, it was amazing she hadn't made it harder on him when he left her for the first year of their marriage and then the other eight years he missed because he was on that mission. And the other year and a half it had taken to complete after the little interruption his daughter and the false Uchiha had created.
But no matter, he and Sakura worked. It was that simple and why he actually loved her. Yes, it had taken a while for him to figure out he loved her but he had figured it out and he did love her. He loved her a great deal, even when she was infuriating him; which was often unsurprisingly. However, it worked for them and they kept going, and their kids were happy and healthy and their life was pretty good.
He was thankful for that.
Thankful to her for providing that to him when he did not deserve it after all their little wars and all the damage they had done to one another. Which was why he was content today as he lay on the sofa with Sayuri sleeping on his chest and reading a book while Itachi was sleeping on the floor of their recently rebuilt home as he waited for Sarada and Sakura to come home so he could take the afternoon off to continue his responsibility of training dobe jr.
But for right now he was content and probably the closest to happy he could be as he read his book and enjoyed the company of his youngest two children.
The loud pounding on the door had him internally groaning as Itachi bolted up and Sayuri started crying at having her nap disturbed and Itachi joined in his sister's crying then as he grabbed Sasuke's leg and screamed.
Dobe jr. was dead. He decided as he shut his book, held his daughter in his arm and maneuvered himself with Itachi clinging to his ankle to get the door. He managed to get it; don't ask how because he couldn't tell you, and looked at the grinning, idiotic, spitting image of dobe sr. standing on his porch which had his eyes narrowing. Dobe jr. had rudely awoken his sleeping kids, and neither Sarada nor Sakura were home for him to leave the babies here to train the blonde moron who had just ruined the peaceful moment he'd been enjoying.
"What?" he snapped as he tried to sooth Sayuri and Itachi but it was difficult.
"I have a cool new jutsu!" Boruto declared loudly. "And why are they crying?"
Sasuke scowled as he finally detangled his leg from Itachi's grasp and put the now sniffling Sayuri in the toddler's arms as he spun around to try to attack the idiot who had woken up his kids only to find Sarada there.
"Hey dad! Hi Itachi and Sayuri!" Sarada greeted as she scooped up her siblings.
"Sarada," Sasuke greeted.
"Did someone be rudely woken from their nap, stupid Boruto," Sarada chided as she walked away with the babies and Sasuke returned his full wrath on the dobe jr. there was no reason for him to throttle the brat now, all he was going to be doing was killing him with training.
"I didn't wake them up! They were crying when Uncle opened the door!" Boruto shouted and Sasuke snatched his cloak and sword before stalking out of his home with the dobe jr. jogging beside him.
"Come on don't you want to know what the jutsu is!?" Boruto pestered.
"No."
"Come on! It's a really cool forbidden jutsu!" Boruto insisted which had Sasuke stopping as his eye twitched and he turned his glare on the mini dobe then who was now looking a little nervous.
"Give me that jutsu now," Sasuke ordered. The boy produced the scroll then and he snatched it away from dobe jr. before stalking towards the Uchiha compound. He had Boruto doing shuriken when they got there, mostly because the young blonde epically sucked at them still, even after four years to improve under his supervision. He guessed Boruto just wasn't one for shuriken.
"Aren't you the least bit curious about that jutsu?" Boruto whined.
"No," Sasuke snapped.
"Come on!" Dobe jr. huffed as he gave up his shuriken to glare at him. Sasuke's eyes narrowed on the idiot before him.
"No," Sasuke repeated. He didn't care about what the jutsu was, there was a reason this jutsu was probably forbidden and he didn't want to find out why this was. But it appeared that dobe jr. was going to need another lesson to learn the hard way.
"But it's a time jutsu!" Boruto whined which had Sasuke's eye twitching again in annoyance. Now he was really going to let dobe jr. learn this the hard way. Fucking with time was very dangerous, it was not something to be tampered with. He had told those morons at the Science Division that they were fucking with things beyond their understanding and he wasn't going to be involved in it. He just wasn't.
Besides, he had worked hard to get to where he was, why the fuck would he want to go back in time?
However, he'd accept that dobe jr. was like dobe sr. and had a morbid sense of curiosity which only permitted them to learn things the hard way. Which was why Sasuke was contemplating on giving dobe jr. the scroll back and letting him figure out how to fix whatever he was about to do. After all, there was the common sense way, which was the easy way, and then there was the hard way, which was the dobe jr. and sr. way.
"No," Sasuke repeated then tossed it to Boruto in his frustration. "Return it to the Hokage when training is complete," Sasuke said.
"But… this… come on! Aren't you even the tiniest bit curios?" Boruto pleaded.
"No," he repeated it.
"Is that your favorite word or something?" dobe jr. demanded.
"No, shuriken, now," Sasuke repeated to the whiny sixteen year old and the blonde scowled.
"If there was one thing you could say to someone of your past what would that be?" Boruto asked him as he tried bending his shuriken again.
Sasuke didn't answer dobe jr. verbally though he thought of one person to thank.
The girl with long pink hair, an innocent smile, and happy green eyes as she proclaimed her love for him. He'd thank her for enduring everything he had done to her, thank her for genuinely forgiving him and thank her for always being what he needed rather than what he wanted. Though now she was everything he needed and wanted. But that was something he had only worked out after the false Uchiha debacle, however, he didn't need to thank the girl.
He could thank the woman.
Which was why he didn't say anything to dobe jr. as they continued through their training afternoon. They parted ways at the evening because he had an anniversary dinner with Sakura while Sarada would watch Itachi and Sayuri for the evening which was his daughter's plan for them.
And that was fine with him as he walked home to get a shower and ready for the evening.
Sakura came running into the house just moments after he had finished his shower. She was ready to go in ten minutes and they walked side by side to the restaurant, Sakura's hand brushed his as she still hesitated to hold his hand after all these years. So he slipped his hand in hers' and she entwined their fingers. He listened to her as she chattered aimless as they ate and enjoyed the evening.
They came stumbling into the house hours after dinner, his mouth slammed onto hers' and she tangled her fingers in his hair as he hoisted her up and they made it to their room. She laughed when they landed on the bed then and he kissed her neck and her pulse and enjoyed the rest of the night with his wife.
He was the luckiest bastard ever born in his mind as he kissed her again and settle between her legs and pulled her close. She groaned when he slid into her and he felt himself moan as they spent the rest of the night in their fluid motions on the sheets.
Exhaustion overcame them and he held her close to him as he fell into a deep peaceful sleep together. yes, he had worked his ass off to get all of this, he wouldn't trade any of it for the world or to change his past. He just wouldn't.
"Dad! Sayuri's hungry!" he heard Sarada call through the door and he grunted as he turned to tell Sakura to get out of the bed and then he stiffened. The weight in the bed…
It was small, slowly he sat up and looked at the small form in his bed. Sasuke looked at the door then at the lump in his bed.
He looked at the door again and frowned, Sakura was clearly not in his bed, as he reached over and yanked the covers back.
"Fuck!" he hissed as he scrambled out of his bed.
"Umph!" he hit the ground with a thud then as he pulled himself up to look at his bed again where he saw… it again.
"Dad!"
"I'll take care of Sayuri," he said as he grabbed sweats, pulled the covers back up on his bed as he hurried to the door, cracking it open he took his second daughter then.
"Alright," Sarada said and he shut the door on her as he held the fussy baby and looked back over to the bed as he then looked around frantically. He put Sayuri in the dresser where she glared at him as he pulled out a shirt and picked Sayuri up again as he hurried down the stairs to call for Mebuki to take the kids today.
He had a slight problem in his bed, which was why he was running to the toddler's room and nudging Itachi awake as he set Sayuri down and snatched up his phone as he dialed Mebuki's number.
"Hey Sasuke!" Mebuki greeted him cheerfully.
"I need you to take the kids today," Sasuke hissed as he hurried down the stairs to get Sayuri breakfast.
"Um…"
"It's an emergency Mebuki," Sasuke hissed into the receiver as he shouldered the phone and grabbed a bottle for Sayuri and heated it up as he grabbed the apple slices for Itachi to eat as well.
"Alright, when do you need me to pick them up?" Mebuki asked him.
"Now," he answered as he hurried up the stairs again. He stopped at his room, poked his head in there again, no movement. Good. He hurried back to the nursery to feed his baby and the waking toddler.
"Alright, I'll be there in ten," she replied.
"Five, emergency," he whispered as he carefull tested the bottle for Sayuri and handed Itachi his apple slices.
"Alright, I'll be there," Mebuki huffed.
"Thank you," he said as he ended the call and finished feeding the baby then rolled her onto her stomach and burped her before scooping her up and herding Itachi down the stairs to the door just as Mebuki knocked. He opened the door.
"Sorry, emergency," he huffed out.
"So you've said. Care to tell me what's going on?" Mebuki huffed.
"No, thank you," he said as he completed the hand off and shut the door on his mother-in-law as he spun around and stared up the stairs to where his problem was. Quietly he walked up the stairs and stopped at the door.
His palm felt sweaty as his fingers twitched and he cracked the door open and looked at the lump on his bed, his eyes narrowed and he quietly slipped into the room to his bed again. He blinked his Sharingan awake then as he stared at the lump.
Taking a heavy breath he yanked the cover away again and stared at the invader, prepared to kill the intruder when he saw that her chakra was the exact same as years ago which had him just standing there staring at her.
What. The. Fuck.
Sasuke found himself staring at a child in his bed.
Not just any child but one with pink hair.
The girl in his bed had long pink hair, her limbs were gangly and her body was that of a preteen as he stared her over. He felt his fingers twitched then as he looked her chakra patterns over and felt his eye twitch again as he watched her. The girl shifted and rolled over, he knew her face as he felt his Sharingan retracted and he stared at the young, less mature face of the girl.
Seriously?
What the fuck had happened and where the hell was his wife?
The girl was obviously Sakura, that was obvious, he could see that, but she was twelve! What the fuck had happened.
The girl grumbled and he thought to dive out of the room and track down dobe jr. to kill him for whatever the hell had happened because it was obviously dobe jr.'s fault. He didn't know how he didn't know but he knew for a fact that dobe jr. was somehow in the middle of this because the dobe had outgrown these antics.
He froze when the girl's face scruntched up and he watched as her green eyes struggled to open.
Green met black.
For a moment everything was silent as they stared at one another.
Then there was the earth shattering scream from the girl as she dove over the other side of the bed and he dodged a thrown lamp. He didn't bother to catch it as it shattered against the door. She grabbed something else and threw it at him. he evaded it as he leapt across the bed and grabbed the girl.
His hand covered her screaming mouth. He yelped though as he yanked away from her and she scrambled over the bed and grabbed his bedside lamp and held it threateningly
"You bit me!" he snapped at her.
"You're a pervert!" the girl screeched, he glared at her.
"You're invading my bed," he retorted.
"This is my room!" she shouted and he ducked another lamp at his head as he glared at the twelve year old version of his wife. The girl snatched up a pillow then and he evaded again as it was chucked for his head. Her aim had definitely improved over the years, he thought as he lunged for the twelve year old.
There was a scream as they slammed into the ground. Onyx glared at emerald as he pinned the girl
"This is my room, now what the hell are you doing here?" he hissed. He ignored the girl's punk rock night shirt; he was certain his wife had it in the back of their closet somewhere. The girl kicked his stomach, he grunted at the impact, it wasn't as strong as Sakura's were now but he hadn't expected it as the girl scrambled away from him and snatched up a picture off of the dresser and prepared to throw it at his head.
"Who are you!?" she shouted.
"Fuck Sakura," he hissed as he caught the family photo she chucked at him then.
"Get out of my room you pervert! I'm warning you my boyfriend won't like this!" she screamed.
"Boyfriend?" he lifted a brow at the girl then.
"Yeah! I have a boyfriend!" she promptly declared arrogantly which had his eyes narrowing on her as she planted her fists on her hips and puffed out her chest.
"What's his name?" he snarled threateningly as he came to loom over his twelve year old wife. "Uzumaki?" he demanded remembering how close she and Naruto were; even now.
"No," she retorted as she folded her arms.
"Then who?" he growled out, she glared up at him.
"None of your business, but he won't like you being in my room!" she shouted. he hissed when she slammed her foot on his instep, he hissed as he hopped back; he hadn't pulled on his shoes in his rush to get rid of the kids this morning before she woke. Now she ran out the door, he ran after her before she could run into the village. He lunged for the twelve year old, a part of him told him that this was child abuse but as he slammed into her and thye rolled into his living room he didn't care.
"Get off me!" she screeched as he firmly hauled her up against him and he stood up as she struggled vainly. He scowled as he dragged her with him and then tossed her in the pantry as he locked it and blocked it off with the broom as he sat on the table and glared at it as he rubbed his now throbbing foot.
Fuck him.
"Let me out of here!" the girl screeched. He forgot how loud she had been, he thought absently as he finally examined his only hand which she had bit and shook it. That hurt like a son of a bitch.
"My parents will come home and kill you!" she screeched.
"What about the boyfriend?" he snapped at the door and shook his head at the ridiculousness of asking his twelve year old version of his wife about a boyfriend he knew she didn't have.
"What boyfriend?" she asked innocently, he rolled his eyes. She really hadn't changed all that much. Sasuke rubbed his brow and tried to figure out what to do now. He'd have to have Sarada, Itachi and Sayuri stay away for a bit, he'd need to call Sakura in as sick and call himself in as on leave for the ANBU and somehow keep everyone away from here until he could figure out how to undo whatever dobe jr. had done.
He didn't need twelve year old Sakura know about her future.
"You are really annoying," he sighed.
"Yeah, I know," the twelve year old snapped indignantly.
"Hn," he grunted and pinched the bridge of his nose then as he tried to think of this mess.
"You know, you are sounding really familiar," Sakura shouted through the pantry door.
"Aa," he nodded, remembering his twelve year old self.
"Can you let me out of the pantry now?"
"Are you going to bite me again? Sakura?" he asked her as he said each sylobol of her name carefully. He could sense stiffening then.
"Sasuke?" she squeaked.
Now he reluctantly opened the door to see her armed with cereal.
"Aa," he nodded. They stared at one another for a long moment, he caught her when she pitched forward though and struggled with the twelve year old's limp body as he dragged her up the stairs back into the room she had just trashed. Not that it mattered as he flopped her unceremoniously on the bed and glared at her unconscious form then.
Now what the hell was he supposed to do with the girl?
Sasuke walked into the nursery and grabbed the rocker as he walked back to their room to watch her before she could run off and really freak out when she ran into Sarada or Itachi or Sayuri, or she met one of her friends. Once they had talked; and hopefully she was willing to be reasonable, then he'd track dobe jr. and figure out what the hell had happened to have the twelve year old here and then he'd go about finding out where the hell his wife had gone and how to exchange the twelve year old out for his wife again.
For now he'd watch over her though so she didn't do something stupid.
He also hid all the family photos of their kids and her before she could freak out over seeing them and then he took his seat to watch her sleep.
He fell asleep at some point but his eyes snapped open when he heard her mumbling.
"This was all a weird dream. Sasuke is not a weird pervet adult. I'm going to wake in my room, and everything is fine," he heard her murmur as he now watched her, she rolled over and groaned at the sight of him, he frowned at her.
"I'm not thrilled to see you either," he informed the twelve year old. Mostly because he liked sex, with his adult wife, and looking at the twelve year old version of Sakura was… it was just weird.
"Sasuke?" she asked uncertainly as she sat up and hugged a pillow then.
"Aa," he nodded solemnly as he stared at the scared girl.
"Um… you're old," she muttered.
"No, you're young," he retorted as he stood up then.
"What happened?" Sakura asked him as she looked at him from around her pillow.
"That is a good question," he admitted. He was not telling the girl what had happened in the past, it had taken them years to accept it, but he didn't need her to know this as they stared at one another.
"Why are you here, in my room?" she asked him.
"It's my room," he corrected and now the girl looked around then and then she started trembling. He forgot how much of a fainter and a trembler she was at the beginning. Now she never fainted or faltered or even wavered. However, he remembered when she had been a genin and fainted over everything. She tried, and she had grown in the short time before he had left but at the same time she had still been… well, weak.
"Why am I in your room? And why are you old?" she whimpered.
"I don't know, yet, and I'm not old." He glared dangerously at her as he sat there staring at the girl. She stared back at him with large green eyes "I'm not here to hurt you, and we're going to have a little talk before I leave my house to figure out what the hell happened to you."
"To me!? What about you!?" she argued then. He scowled.
"I'm fine, you're… wrong," he decided.
"Wrong?" she tilted her head.
"Aa, you're not supposed to be here," he said as he glared at the girl. She frowned as she threw the pillow at his head. He didn't even bother to evade the toss as the pillow bounced off his head aimlessly.
"You're a jerk Sasuke!" the girl pouted with her arms folded.
"And you're annoying," he retorted. The girl scowled, her forehead was hugely pronounced with that move and he stood up as he walked over to her. "But you need to listen," he said as he poked her bow to get her to fall back on the bed.
"Oophf!" she humphed as she landed on her back and on the bed.
"Where am I?" she demanded.
"A far time from your home," he replied carefully. The girl just blinked at him as she sat on the bed and then looked down.
"So… this is the future?" the girl guessed. He reluctantly nodded and she started looking around.
"You are staying in this house," he snapped when she got that look Sarada used to get when she was about to do something she wasn't supposed to do; at least he now knew where that look had come from. It wasn't much of a relief at this moment but it did help his minimal sanity at the moment.
"If this is the future are you married?" Sakura demanded. He hid his smirk internally at the fuming look the twelve year old was giving him as he didn't answer her question but rather stood to walk away from her and get dressed to go track dobe jr. down after he placed seals to keep Sakura here.
"Come on! Please answer me!" she whined and he looked down when his left sleeve was being tugged by her as she batted her lashes. "Oh, and what happened to your arm?"
"Yes, long story," he answered as he pulled the sleeve from her gasp.
"You are married!?" she shrieked.
"Aa," he said as he left her on the bed as he went to the bathroom to change then. He was quick as he kept an ear tuned to the girl in the other room so she didn't get a chance to go bolting out of the house to explore.
"To who?" she shouted through the door and he finished changing and walking out then. The girl was sitting there with an expectant look on her pouty face. He just poked her brow as an answer as he left her behind.
"Come on! Tell me!" Sakura pestered as she raced out of the room after him. he was silently casting quiet genjutsus all over the house photos; which were few and rare thankfully, so she didn't notice just who was in these photos. Uchihas weren't really the photogenic family, it wasn't because of their looks, it was more of there were other things to do in life than take pictures of one's self.
"Is it Ino!" Sakura gasped, he frowned at her and shook his head as grabbed his cloak and looked down on the girl.
"No."
She sagged with relief as he pulled on his cloak.
"Hey! You're being awefully nice for Sasuke… did you hit your head or something?" she asked him.
"No," he answered.
"Where are you going?" she demanded.
"I am going to go and figure out how to undo whatever was done so you return home," he said. And so he got his none twelve year old wife back.
"Can I go!?" she demanded eagerly.
"No," he answered and he prepared to seal her in this house until he returned with the answers he needed. Until then, he had ways to ensure the twelve year old stayed where he put her. Sasuke did have years of handling Sakura on his side when it came to dealing with this girl, and she was blissfully unaware of it.
"You're mean again," she grumbled as she folded her arms and stood there looking somewhat crossed and pouty which had him poking her too large forehead again before he left her and placed a seal on his house and stalked off to find out what the hell was going on before he had a rebellious twelve year old wife on his hand.
Dealing with one teenager was enough!
And even if Sarada was an excellent example of what every parent dreamed of in a teen, she was a handful. At least she wasn't interested in boys! Thank Kami for that, he thought as he stalked through the Leaf and located dobe jr.
Sasuke was unsurprised when the young Byakugan user was at the hot springs using his Byakugan for inappropriate uses; again. Sasuke just stalked into the spring then and straight to the brat who had ruined his good morning.
"Boruto," he snapped.
Dobe jr. cringed then and Sasuke grabbed his pupil's ear as he dragged the brat out of the water, at the announcement of Boruto's name there were screams on the other side of the springs and the splashing of water. Sasuke said nothing as he grabbed dobe jr.'s clothes and dragged his ass into the changing rooms.
"Get dressed," Sasuke snapped as the teen protested and whined about his throbbing ear but Sasuke didn't let the teen finish as he lifted a brow. The blonde was fast to get dressed then and Sasuke stalked out of the hot springs with the brat jogging after him.
"What'd I do now?" Boruto whined. Sasuke was not going to touch the topic of the boy's inherent spying on naked women's trait; something Sakura had reported Naruto to do before he had married Hinata.
"Did you return the forbidden jutsu?" Sasuke snapped once they were at the Uchiha training grounds; mostly so he didn't have to drag the body through the village.
"Uh…"
"Boruto!" he snapped.
"NO! Sorry! I just… I wanted to see if it even worked, it didn't so…" Boruto trailed off. Sasuke's eyes narrowed on the brat then.
"And what exactly did you do?" he snarled out softly which had the blonde paling drastically as Sasuke's hand rested on the hilt of his sword.
"Uh… well… I was going to test it out mom and dad, see… and well… they said what they'd change and it was boring. After training when I ran into Aunt Sakura I asked her and she said… well, she'd try to change your path," Boruto stammered out. Sasuke felt his eyebrow twitch at this moment because he could see his idiotic wife saying that in a hurry. "Well… I tried it, nothing happened; obviously, and I burned the jutsu like it was going to be burned anyway."
"You. Moron." Sasuke snarled through clenched teeth.
"What? It didn't work, Sarada said that her mom was at the hospital and you were off on an emergency mission, so I mean obviously it didn't work," Boruto defended and Sasuke took a deep breath then as he glared at the brat before him and tried not to kill the brat in the thirty thousand different ways which were running through his mind at this moment as he thought of the twelve year old in his house at the moment.
"Boruto. You sent my wife to the past," he snapped.
"Huh?"
"You brought her up from the past too; you moron!" he roared and the boy yelped to run but it was too late for him as Sasuke grabbed the brat's ear and dragged him along to the Hokage's office then. It was let Naruto deal with the idiot or kill him and since Sasuke didn't want to be tried for the murder of the Hokage's son; and his best friend's brat, he was dragging him along.
"Dobe jr. has lost my wife," Sasuke snapped when they barged into the Hokage's office. Shikamaru, Sai and Naruto were all there and all three heads snapped up.
"WHAT!?" was the collective shout from four people as he tossed dobe jr. in front of him and kicked the door shut before summoning Susanoo to lock it as he held his blade on dobe jr. who had tried to run at the announcement.
"Yes, the idiot here tampered with a time jutsu and switched Sakura," Sasuke hissed.
"What?" Naruto and Sai asked dumbly. Shikamaru on the other hand was rubbing his brow muttering about what a drag this was. Sasuke didn't care about them though, they weren't the ones who had woken up this morning with a twelve year old version of their wife in their bed after a night of sex. It really made him feel like a pedophile or something having that happen to him, and dobe jr. was to blame.
"Yes," Sasuke snarled as his eyes narrowed on dobe jr. as dobe sr. and Sai both turned their glares on him as well. The teen gulped nervously as he backed up until he hit the wall.
"You said switched Sakura, what do you mean?" Shikamaru asked him.
"Switched, as in I woke up with a twelve year old Sakura rather than the current Sakura," he snapped. Her age was a taboo subject once she had hit thirty apparently. And he was not being knocked to Suna and back because he had mentioned her age; even if she was his age.
"What'd you do with the twelve year old version of Sakura!?" Narut sputtered out.
"She's locked in the house," he snapped. He saw the look pass between Sai and Naruto and Susanoo grabbed the idiots before they leapt out the window to investigate this on their own.
"Twelve?" Shikamaru snickered and Sasuke turned his red glare on the lazy genius then. He didn't care if Shikamaru's daughter Hitomi was Itachi's only playmate, he'd kill the genius if he didn't shut his mouth right now and fix this disaster which dobe jr. had gotten him into. Once he had the right Sakura back he'd let Boruto know his wife's wrath; that was something he was looking forward to right now.
"I've never seen Ugly as a child!" Sai huffed out when he stopped trying to escape Susanoo.
"I wanna see mini Sakura," Naruto pouted and Sasuke turned his wrath back onto the teen who had created this current mess.
"Boruto, what did you do?" Shikamaru demanded then. Clearly someone other than him had to be the adult here.
"Uh…" Boruto shot him a nervous look.
"Sasuke, maybe you should go check on mini Sakura while we sort this out and keep her… out of sight?" Shikamaru decided. Sasuke said nothing as he sheathed his blade and glared at the two idiots Susanoo's hand was holding to keep them from doing something stupid.
"Man; what a drag," he heard behind him as he darted out of the window and raced to Kakashi's locker room to have Kakashi keep Sarada there for a while without having to explain the situation to the older man. Then again… Kakashi might be a good person to have around twelve year old Sakura, she'd know him and trust him. Sasuke pondered this as he darted into the building and made his way up to Kakashi's office.
The silver haired man was there, alone thankfully.
"Sasuke!" Kakashi blinked at him.
"I need you to keep Sarada… here… away… gone for a few days," he decided as he couldn't decide how to phrase this to a man who had come to be family to him and Sakura. Kakashi was the honorary grandfather of their children, he had given Sakura away on their wedding, and he had saved Sakura's life more than once. Sasuke held tramendious respect for his former mentor but at the same time… he didn't want to explain the situation again to Kakashi.
"What's going on Sasuke?" his mentor inquired.
"Dobe jr." Sasuke answered flatly. Understanding was reflected in Kakashi's dark eyes.
"What did he do now?"
"He lost my wife," Sasuke answered flatly then as he scowled again.
"WHAT!?"
"I have the twelve year old Sakura at home, excuse me," Sasuke answered.
"I'll meet you at the house in an hour," Kakashi shouted, and Sasuke didn't respond knowing that he now had three hours to straighten this out with the pinkette girl in his house. He ran for the Haruno Bakery then and barged in to see Itachi sucking on a batter covered spoon in the restaurant area, as Kizashi sang to Sayuri as he dealt with their customers and Mebuki tried to bake. Sasuke scooped up his son, spoon and all and hurried to the kitchen where he motioned for Mebuki to come with him.
The blonde was reluctant to follow him but complied.
"I need you to watch Itachi and Sayuri for a few days, I'll bring their things by tonight," Sasuke said.
"Sasuke, what's going on?" Mebuki huffed as she took Itachi from him.
"Hn,' he shrugged; he didn't want to tell the Haruno matriarch dobe jr. had lost his wife and he was currently babysitting their twelve year old daughter in the house he and Sakura resided in as a married couple. He also didn't want to explain that this morning had been hell on him and he was now having to go back to his house to deal with that spit fire daughter of theirs. At twelve she was feisty and a fainter, and unbelievably weak.
No, he didn't want to tell Haruno Mebuki this.
"Shinobi business?" Mebuki guessed.
He nodded his head.
"Is Sakura alright?" Mebuki asked worriedly.
He pondered this briefly before carefully answering.
"In a manner of speaking, she's fine," he said carefully.
"Keep us apprised of her," Mebuki ordered.
He nodded again, tapped his toddler's brow. The boy grinned happily around his spoon and then Sasuke darted back towards the house as he took the rooftops. He landed outside of his house, which they had built on the edge of the village for personal reasons after discovering Sakura's pregnancy with Itachi. Hesitantly he unlocked the door and cracked it open, looking in with his Sharingan he stepped into the house and shut the door before locking it again, a quick scan of the house told him that twelve year old Sakura, or mini Sakura as the dobe had called her was in the nursery, which had him hurrying up there.
She was standing in the middle of the room holding a frame in her fingers, quietly he slipped up behind the small form of the girl and looked at the picture.
It was one of the rare ones, he was in the photo, it was the one Sakura had taken on Itachi's third birthday a few weeks ago.
He was holding Sayuri, Sarada was grinning as she helped blow out the cake candles and Itachi was grinning like a happy kid with a tomato in his hand.
That had been a good day, he mused and then he looked at mini Sakura who then looked up at him with large green eyes.
"Are they your kids?" she asked him.
"Aa," he nodded as he let her walk to the dresser that served as Sayuri's crib and put the photo back on the top of it.
"They're cute," she said wistfully and he said nothing as he looked the small pinkette over.
"Aa," he agreed. "We need to talk," he said firmly.
"You still don't like me do you," the twelve year old said solemnly.
He blinked in shock.
He had left her!
Sakura was outraged as she struggled with the door and found it wouldn't budge after Sasuke had poked her brow and disappeared out the front door. She had struggle vainly with the door before kicking it in her anger, then bouncing and hissing at having stubbed her toe before deciding she would snoop around. If he didn't want her to snoop he shouldn't have left her here.
That was her reasoning when she had limped into what was obviously a living area, there were kids stuffed animals strewed about on the floor, a few heavy text books open, she had read a few pages and recognized them as medical text and quickly lost interest. There was a basket of laundry on the couch too, but also there was a mug on the table, three bottles also on the table and cute baby socks.
Sakura was kind of shocked at the domestic look of the place, either Sasuke grew up to be a dad or a really big pervert with a thing for kids which had her trembling a bit.
She blinked in shock at a picture on the mantel that caught her eye, she had looked it over; she had taken this picture yesterday after Kakashi-sensei had declared her, Naruto, and Sasuke the passers of the bells test! She had literally just taken this photo yesterday, and she had plans to buy a pretty frame for it today when she went to the market for the groceries. Sakura paled, crap, she was missing this afternoon's training with Sasuke!
Shakily she returned the picture back to where it belonged before investigating the house a bit more.
The round kitchen was pretty, and she saw the sliding backdoor and grinned as she jogged to it. Tugging on it she tried to pull it open but found it wouldn't budge even with it being unlocked. She snarled as she stopped pulling on it and examining the backyard. There were shuriken about, there was laundry on the line, there was kunai on targets, there was a lake in the distance, and a garden in the corner with a few other kids toys scattered about the lawn. She was shocked at the bit of charring at the porch support beam but scowled as she huffed and folded her arms.
She was still trapped in the house.
Looking around the kitchen she saw a messy counter, a few more baby bottles, some more laundry. There were dishes neatly done and drying in a dry rack though by the sink, the pans hung neatly, the books were organized. There was a basket of fresh fruit and she decided to help herself to an apple as she looked around the kitchen. It was nice, but it was obviously not kid proofed, as she looked through the cabinets.
Finishing her apple she tossed it in an obvious rubbish bin before exploring the rest of the down stairs.
There was a large room, which seemed to be set up for sparring, and martial arts, it even appeared to open up to the porch she had seen from the kitchen but she couldn't get the doors to budge. She picked up a few kunai though just to be safe. There was an office across from that room, she saw floor to ceiling shelves of books with floor to ceiling windows between the shelves. All the books were about poisons, genetics, medicines, anatomy, chakra flow, martial arts, sword arts, weaponry, and a family book which appeared to have aa list of every Uchiha of the Uchiha Clan as she flipped through it.
On the small desk there appeared to be a few books on finances but it bored her quickly and didn't help in her quest in deciphering who this Sasuke was or who he was married to. He had said he was married, and he wasn't married to Ino and if this was the future she wanted to know who he had married.
Sakura poked her head out of the office then and looked in a few other rooms, another library though this one seemed more private than boorish, a bathroom, a closet filled with coats, kid coats and cloaks, travel cloaks, winter coats, women's coats and men's coats. She shut it and looked around before tiptoeing back up the stairs to the upper living areas.
The house was gorgeous, she thought as she stared at the mixture of old traditional and a bit of modern. She kind of liked it.
Shaking her head of these thoughts she reminded herself that this was creepy, old Sasuke's house and he didn't like her! thinking this she poked her head in the first room, the room she had woken up in.
There was a huge bed, two dressers, a few book shelves, and as she picked her way around the broken shards of something she had thrown she found the large bathroom. The tub looked like a swimming pool, and the shower looked awesome! She'd admit, Sasuke had good tastes when he grew up. Carefully she looked around the room for hints again, but there was nothing, the room was immaculate, but there were a few picture frames which caught her attention.
The faces were obscured for some reason, and it was a blob of color to her, but in others she could see him with his family. She was guessing that this one was of him, his brother, mother and father, he looked so little in the picture she grinned and wondered if he'd notice if she took it. Probably.
She put it back.
There was a picture of the old Sasuke standing with a girl with black hair, red glasses, dressed in red, with onyx eyes grinning lopsidedly as they both looked at the camera and the girl held up her chūnin certificate. Sakura wondered who the girl was, and felt a flash of envy at the girl for having Sasuke's obvious attentions.
She put the picture back and tiptoed back out of the room.
The next door she slid open revealed a girl's room, a kunoichi she was guessing from the look of the weapons neatly organized on the floor and in the corner. There were hundreds of books on the book cases here too, but Sakura found she wasn't interested in them. There were a few posters tacked to the wall, a few odds and ends, a few bits of clothing tossed about the room, but nothing spectacular as she exited the room.
She found the bathroom, it was clearly a kids bathroom and equipped as such, she had baby sat enough times to know where the kids bathroom was with all the goofy toys, the things, and odds and ends in the tub, on the sink, the child lock on the toilet and the potty-trainer in the corner there. She left it be as she then hurried to the end of the hall and slid the door open.
She looked around, it was a nursery, unsurprisingly, she was sure that the other doors on the hallway wall were rooms for when these kids were older.
There was no crib though, she looked around and stared at the open padded dresser drawer and the futon on the floor.
Really? She thought sourly as she walked into the toy infested room. After all the family stuff she had seen around this house she was appalled at seeing the dresser drawer as the crib and the futon on the floor. Babies should have cribs!
A glint caught her eye and she found herself carefully reaching up and picking it up.
It was a picture of this Sasuke.
He seemed to be smiling a bit as he held a baby she'd put at a few months old, as he stood behind a grinning toddler boy holding a tomato and an older version of the glasses girl blowing out the candles on the candles on the cake and everyone seemed happy.
She noticed immediately that all four people in the photo had Sasuke's coloring, the kids all had onyx eyes, and she thought them all to be rather pretty eyes, but other than that they didn't really look all that similar to Sasuke. A reflextion in the glass of this photo had her tensing as she saw the man in the photo looming over her shoulder and she trembled a little in fear at the sight of his fierce appearance but stealed herself.
This was Sasuke.
"Are they your kids?" she asked him.
"Aa," he nodded. She saw a flash of pride in his eyes before it was gone and she looked back to the picture and carefully turned around as she put it back on the dresser that appeared to be serving as a crib. She noticed the way he was watching her and tried to ignore it.
"They're cute," she admitted grudgingly. Whoever he had married had obviously been glorious, and pretty, and probably made him really happy if those photos were any hint. She wished it could be her who made him happy that way, but all she got was a glare, both from this Sasuke and the one she knew. The other day when it was announced they were teamed together he looked as if he had swallowed a bug. And he'd called her annoying, this Sasuke had also called her annoying.
"Aa. We need to talk," he said firmly.
"You still don't like me do you," the twelve year old said solemnly. He sounded like he didn't like her and she hadn't really done anything to deserve his dislike as she turned on him and glared with her arms folded.
He blinked.
"That's not what we need to talk about," he said promptly as he grabbed her and tugged her along unceremoniously. Sakura stumbled after him but found her feet soon enough when they climbed up a set of hidden stairs. Sasuke walked over to a trunk and kicked it open, she saw some old clothes.
"Get dressed, there's someone coming over and maybe we'll be able to send you back home," he said.
"Who's coming over?" she demanded and he looked at her.
"Kakashi," he answered.
She blinked and the quickly got dress. True Kakashi-sensei was a lazy sensei but she trusted him more than she trusted this sasukes, she thought as she pulled out black leggings, white shorts, and a red jumper which was a little too tight for her but she could live with it as she hurried back down the stairs with her favorite night shirt under her arm.
She slid to a stop at the bedrooms and didn't know where to go to brush her hair or teeth…
Right, she didn't have her headband! The thought had her pouting a bit when the Uchiha man appeared again and shoved three things in her hands.
"Here, use those," he said, she grinned at the toothbrush, toothpaste, and hairbrush in her hand and hurried into the kids' bathroom. She was quickly ready and excited to see Kakashi-sensei.
Skipping down the stairs she slipped, a scream escaped her lips as she started free falling when an arm grabbed her.
"Annoying," Sasuke grumbled as he set her on her feet she pouted.
"What do we need to talk about?" Sakura demanded as she followed him into the living area.
"The dobe and Sai will be coming over soon," he said then.
"Huh?" who was the dobe and who was Sai? Sasuke gave her a weird look and she just stared at him, he then sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose as if he was trying to keep his temper in check. Sakura thought he was a little scary, but he was definitely nicer than the one on Team 7, that was for sure!
"Uzumaki Naruto and Sai," he repeated.
"Why would Naruto come over? He's dumb!" she reminded Sasuke. "And who's Sai?"
Sasuke just took another deep controlled breath.
He didn't feel like trying to talk to her as he shoved a book in her hands, told her to be quiet and study. It had worked when Sarada would get on his nerves, and he didn't see any reason for it not to work now as he went about picking up the toys, gathering the baby bottles, picking up the folded laundry and looking around the living room. The pinkette was wisely being silent but he could feel her large eyes on his person with every move he made as he cleaned up the house a bit.
Walking into the kitchen he heard Sakura follow him, she was stitting at the bar, which was fine with him as he continued cleaning. He began preparing bottles for Sayuri's stay at the Haruno home for the next few days. Washing the bottles he had them drying out and the nipples for them all cleaned and drying as well as he then went about making a few snacks for Itachi. Just little things, he was going to be at a bakery for the next few days so he knew he didn't need to pack a lot for Itachi.
"Where are your kids?" Sakura's small voice broke their companionable silence and he looked over to the twelve year old again. Too weird, was all his mind screamed at him.
"With their grandparents," he answered honestly. She was their mother so she had a right to know where their kids were, even if she didn't know they were her kids just yet. Finishing the few apple slices he went about gathering an appropriate amount of outfits for Itachi and Sayuri, then he picked up the dipers. He had an entire bag made up for the kids before Kakashi got there, he left Sakura in the kitchen when he went around the house, summoned a hawk, slipped a note in the bird's satchel then sent the animal off with duffle of thigs for Kizashi and Mebuki before hurrying back inside and grabbing a book.
He and mini Sakura were in the main living area and he could feel her eyes on him as she sat there quietly assessing him.
Personally he remembered her being a little more talkative but figured thisw as probably because she had gone to sleep either about to be or just becoming, a genin and woken up in a jonin's bed. That would freak anyone out in his mind and when he hadn't been able to control his Rinnegan he had woken up in some strange places.
But that was all in the past. A knock on the door had him setting his book aside as he walked to the door and pulled it open for Kakashi to saunter in.
"Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura shouted as she came barreling at the jonin. Sasuke was afraid the older man was going to have a heart-attack when the girl tackle hugged him.
"You weren't lying!" Kakashi gasped as he was being strangled to death in the mini Sakura's hug.
"Aa," he agreed solemnly.
"Why are you old!?" Sakura demanded.
"Still hasn't sunk in?" KAakshi asked him. Sasuke shook his head, he didn't think it had sunk in at all for mini Sakura that this was her future. However, he didn't want her to know too much about her future. If he sent her back he didn't think his twelve year old self could handle a twelve year old Sakura knowing all about their shared future. He didn't want to tell her everything that was about to come.
"Alright Sakura," Kakashi huffed as he set her on the ground.
"But… but…" Sakura started.
"Where's the dobe and Sai?" Sasuke asked as he herded the twelve year old version of his wife into the living area again. The pinkette scowled as she was ignored but he was going to ignore her for the moment, there were more important things to discuss at this moment.
"They were speaking with Shikamaru about the… switch," Kakashi said, and Sakura perked up then. Sasuke lifted his brow at her then as she stared at him with her large eyes, he was happy when she got the message and remained silent.
"Solutions?" he demanded as he and Kakashi left Sakura in the living area and walked to the kitchen. Sasuke was very fond of his house, he, Sarada and Sakura had designed this house on the fringes of the Uchiha property so they had a safe place to stay, and it was a nice house. Especially after a particular incident with terrorist which had annihilated most of the original compound.
"So far, they're looking into it," Kakashi said.
"Kakashi-sensei, I have a question for you!" they both turned at the voice of his wife who was standing there looking a little cross at the moment.
"Yes Sakura?" Kakashi asked her.
"Two days ago you passed us after we failed your bells test, and I was wondering why you passed us, I heard some of the older genin say you failed everyone on that test. So why did we pass?" Sakura asked as she trotted over to the barstool. He had a hard time looking away from his mini wife. He was married to a twelve year… Kami did he ever feel weird with this situation. Damn Boruto, he thought sourly as he stared at the pinkette.
At least she wasn't throwing things at him.
Kakashi explained the test to her again and she sat there absorbing all of it with genuine interest. Sasuke finished cleaning Sayuri's bottles as he absently listened to them. They were having a very animated discussion, he knew Sakura had always been Kakashi's favorite when they had been younger. True Sasuke may have been his personal pupil but he, Naruto, and Sai all knew her to be Kakashi's favorite.
There was another knock on the door which had Sasuke leaving mini Sakura with Kakashi, opening the door he walked out on the porch.
"Not a word of my marriage, children or anything else. Don't give her hints," Sasuke hissed at Naruto.
"Alright," Sai said as he walked past Sasuke but Sasuke didn't let Naruto pass him until the dobe understood that he was serious. The last thing he needed was a fangirl Sakura clinging to his twelve year old self saying they were going to get married. That was a very bad idea.
"Fine!" Naruto huffed as he walked into the house and Sasuke prayed for patience as he walked in.
"She's so tiny and cute!" Naruto shouted.
"Get off!" he heard Sakura shouted and Sasuke shut the front door as he rubbed his brow.
It took four hours for everyone to settle down, Sakura was sound asleep on the couch and he was sitting at the kitchen table watching the pinkette sleeping on the couch as he looked at girl then at the three men as Shikamaru walked in then. Sasuke motioned for silence then, and Shikamaru nodded as he silently shut the door before walking to the table. Sasuke sat there and looked at the four other men at his table now as he decided to keep an eye on the sleeping pinkette.
"How do we switch them back?" Sasuke hissed then.
"That's the tricky thing," Shikamaru admitted as Sasuke found the drinks and poured them all a bit of the sake and sochu he kept hidden about the house for the occasional night of drinking.
"What?" he snarled as he leaned back in his chair.
"The Science division says they were just studying the jutsu for an experiment and building a device. It appears that they have made a devise that you can you, return her and grab the other one," Shikamaru sighed and Sasuke felt like pounding his head against the wall.
"Dobe jr.?" Sasuke asked tiredly then.
"Boruto has been sent on a watching genin mission after Miria and Katsuo in the Land of Grass," Shikamaru said then with a sigh.
"Sarada?" he asked.
"Oh! I sent her on a message mission to the Land of Mist with Inojin and Shikadai," Naruto grinned.
"Sayuri and Itachi?" Sai asked him.
"Grandparents," Sasuke answered; names were being avoided so he could at least keep Sakura in the dark.
"That's good," Shikamaru sighed. "Temari and I will take them tomorrow, Hitomi wants to go to a zoo," he huffed out.
"Aa," Sasuke nodded, Mebuki and Kizashi were busy with their bakery and he knew it was an inconvenience for them to have to watch the children but he could not and would not keep them here right now. At least, not until he had this mess sorted out.
"Bring them there or here when we finish the day?" Shikamaru asked.
"There," Sasuke answered. "How soon is that machine going to be working?"
"They say it works now," Shikamaru sighed.
"Then first thing tomorrow morning, and I'll be taking Ino with me," Sasuke said then. He'd need someone to probably wipe Sakura's memory and help him find Sakura without causing a huge scene. Ino was also the best sensory type in the Intelligence ever. Even with his Sharingan and Rinnegan he was going to need someone to go into the village without causing a fuss. At that point in time Uchihas were either himself as a child, or criminal spies in disguise.
"I'll tell her and we'll talk about the situation…" Sai looked to Sakura then.
"Why Ino?" Naruto asked and Sasuke sighed.
"Sensory, and in the past, an Uchiha was never a good thing to see, even now we're now we're not welcomed," he hissed. "I can't go into the village back then, Ino can if that's where Sakura is and she can take this Sakura home," Sasuke said softly.
"And you'll clearly be watching the machine," Kakashi said.
"Aa," Sasuke agreed.
"Please don't break this one, they're expensive," Naruto sighed as he rubbed his temper.
"Have your son stop playing with the Science Division and forbidden jutsus and I won't have to keep breaking their toys," he snarled.
"I'll see what I can have him do," Naruto sighed.
"Wrong answer," Sasuke warned the dobe as they finished their drinks and he said goodbye to the men and locked his door again. Walking over to the couch he stared at the sleeping girl then hefted her up into his arm as he maneuvered her up the stairs then. The girl grumbled at being moved but she didn't fight him as he carefully took her to a room and slid the door open before trying to maneuver her onto the bed.
"This has been the weirdest day," the girl mumbled. He didn't disagree as he tucked her into the guest bed. Looking at her face he noticed her bleary eyes looking at him for a long moment he just stared at each other.
"Aa," he agreed softly with a nod before he stood up straight then.
"You said we were switched, who else was switched?" she asked her and he stared at her.
"Sakura from here," he answered.
"What's she like?" mini Sakura asked him.
"She's you," Sasuke said indifferently. Though he didn't tell the girl that she had grown up and changed; a lot, over the years.
"Oh, can you stay with me? I'm scared," she admitted and he sighed as he moved to sit beside her then and the girl curled up against his leg and he just sighed as he leant back against the wall to let her sleep.
"You're different from the other Sasuke," she muttered as she used his thigh as her pillow.
"People grow up," he informed her.
She smiled slightly.
"I like you better grown up," she muttered. He didn't say anything to her in response as his hand rested on her head; he liked being content with life.
However, this wasn't going to save dobe jr. from his wrath when it he got his wife back and put this Sakura back when she belonged. For now, they'd just sit together and relax.
Sasuke woke the next morning with a twelve year old clinging to his leg and his mind tell him to grab the kid, drag her to the Science Division and go find his wife.
Slowly he pulled away from the girl, stood and walked to his room for a shower. He didn't take long to get cleaned up as he then pulled on fresh garments and walked out to find Sakura pulling on Sarada's old training gear. The pinkette stared at him and he sighed.
"You are going to have to do exactly what I say," he informed her.
"Are you going to tell me how this happened?" Sakura asked as he walked into his closet to find the girl something to disguise herself with so no one in the village noticed her.
"Yes, a dobe fucked with a jutsu he shouldn't have and you and Sakura from this time switched places, however, we're taking you home," he said as he gave up looking for something to disguise her with as he walked down the stairs with her trailing after him. he pulled out his old travel cloak, it was black and it's work. Besides, he needed a new one.
"Who messed with time?" she asked him and he turned as he held the cloak and looked at the small girl.
"Naruto's son, Boruto," he answered as he looked at the cloak then at Sakura.
"Oh."
"Wear this," he said as he knelt to her level and draped the cloak around her small shoulders.
The girl's green eyes widened as he started securing the too large cloak around her person.
"Do you love her?" mini Sakura asked and he faultered doing up the buttons at the neck as he looked at the tiny girl. She was smiling shyly.
"Hn?" he grunted.
"Your wife," she clarified and he saw her turn a red as she asked him. he sat back on his heels and carefully thought his answer over, either way Ino would erase the girl's memory so perhaps he could just be honest with her for a change as he looked the young, blushing, trembling girl over.
"Aa," he answered as he grabbed the edge of the cloak she was clutching tightly then.
"Really?"
"I love my wife, Sakura," he assured the girl and he saw her bottom lip tremble at his answer but she was looking strong. "And since this is going to be forgotten, Haruno Sakura, thank you for loving me," he murmured as he finished buttoning up her cloak before tapping her brow and standing up tall as he found his Sakura's favorite bandana to hid her pink hair. He carefully pulled her hair up and hid every fair pink strand before he offered her his hand.
"You love me?" Sakura muttered in shock.
"Aa, Haruno Sakura, you," he assured the girl. "Just be patient," he said and took her hand as he pulled her along then. No one really paid him any attention, despite his title as a savior of the world he knew that he wasn't very well liked in any village and after years of having them hate him they ignored him now. Which was a good feeling as he scooped the genin up and leapt towards the village rooftops as he ran then. They met Ino at the science building then.
"Oh Kami! She's so cute!" Ino squealed as she snatched Sakura out of his arm then.
"Ino!?" Sakura gasped.
"And you didn't tell me immediately you had this adorable mini pink version of Sakura!" Ino snapped at him. he rolled his eyes as they walked into the science building and Sakura squirmed out of Ino's grasp as they walked through the Science Division.
"I can't believe how tiny she is!" Ino whispered to him as they walked.
"I'm right here! Pig!" Sakura bellowed.
"Ah! I love this mini Forehead! Are you certain we should exchange them?" Ino said.
"We're switching them back Ino," he informed her.
"Drat," Ino sighed as they walked into a lab then. He let Ino grab what they needed.
"Um… we're going to need the other eye Sasuke, you know, for the portal," Ino whispered as they walked together.
"Did you talk to anyone about this thing?" he said as he looked at the machine in Ino's hand.
"Yes, but they need the other eye, and since you're about as cooperative with the Science Division is as Sai and the dentist, I'm talking to you and asking," Ino said. Mini Sakura trotted up to him and hesitantly grabbed his hand. He entwined their fingers out of habit as they walked together. He'd still rather have his full grown wife's hand in his hand but for now he'd let the girl howl his hand as they walked.
"Fine, but then I'm destroy it," he warned.
"Fine by me, I just want Forehead back," the blonde admitted.
"We're not friends, Pig," Sakura hissed.
"Ah, she's too adorable!" Ino mused and then looked at him. "Are you sure we can't keep her?"
"Aa, she's going home Ino," he said it firmly as he walked between the women.
"Fine," Ino huffed out as they walked out of the building and he scooped the girl up as they ran into the forest where he'd open the portal so they didn't come falling in on the village of the past. That would not be good.
"Here?" Ino said.
"Aa," he agreed as he set the girl down and stepped back. Mini Sakura looked around confused when he grabbed her arm and held her still as his left eye whirled into life as six tomoe spun in his eyes as the energy collected.
"Ino?"
"Got the date, just after the bell examine, we should be good to go!" Ino said as she tampered with the machine and it whirled to life. He saw the blast of chakra and aimed the portal on it to tear through the fabrics of realities. He wasn't entirely certain that this was going to work however he was going to try because by Kami he wanted his wife back.
"Come on Forehead," Ino said as she grabbed the girl and the machine as they ran in first, he kept the portal open for a long moment and then he dove into the closing tear as he drew his sword, slammed it into the ground as an anchor as he rolled to his feet to watch the tear disappear.
"Good?" he asked then.
"Yeah, I got the machine and Forehead," Ino huffed as he looked forty paces away from where he had landed. He was so used to this form of travel he had forgotten that others who weren't used to it usually skidded and bounced around.
"Stop calling me that Pig!" Sakura screeched as she squirmed around of Ino's grasp.
"Ino," he called to her before they could forget an important part of their mission.
"I'm on it," Ino said indignantly. "Sorry Forehead, but you're Inner isn't scary to me anymore," Ino whispered and he saw her gently grab the startled Sakura before the twelve year old passed out and he stood took her.
"Where were you guys on three days after the bells examine?" Ino hissed.
"Team 7 training field, I'll take her," he said. "Find Sakura," he ordered as he gently bounced the sleeping girl and darted towards the field as Ino started looking for Sakura. Sasuke didn't slow as he landed on the field, on one of three posts then as he looked around.
"Come on teme!" he heard the younger version of the dobe whine.
"Go away loser," he heard his bored voice snap.
"Come on! Just help me out!" Naruto begged.
"No," younger Sasuke snapped and Sasuke set Sakura down on the grass as he snatched the bandana in her hair and darted back to the machine.
There he'd wait for Ino, he wasn't thrilled about it but he'd wait so the village didn't think it was under attack. He was relatively certain that the only reason they hadn't been attacked yet was because they had done the portal leap within the village boundaries. It was probably a factor, and honestly unless one possessed the Rinnegan as well then they weren't likely to have even sensed his incoming. He snached the machine as he leapt atop the tallest tree and let his Sharingan evolve as he scanned the village for his wife and Ino.
He found Ino, she was walking through the village, towards the Uchiha compound and he saw Sakura's chakra signature over there. He was watching them and waiting. Part of him was tempted to run to her now and grab her, then tell her that she was to never scare him like that again but he didn't as he watched the girls reunite and then he watched as their chakras came running towards his own.
However, he didn't release the breath he didn't know he had been holding until Sakura was in sight.
"Sasuke!" Sakura shouted when he landed out of the tree. He barely kept upright as she slammed into him and wrapped around him. Ino grabbed the machine as she toyed around with it then.
"We kind of gotta go, like now," Ino whispered as he saw the chakra signatures for several ANBU members coming towards them. He focused his chakra again and a smaller tear was formed as he shoved Ino and the machine in first, Sakura leapt in then, he snatched his blade as he dove into the tear just as the first kunai was chucked at where he had been and narrowly missed him as it buried into the tree before him as he rolled to his feet.
"What the hell was that?" Sasuke asked as he stood and looked at Sakura and Ino.
"Uh… I kind of… well, I saw my dad and he shouted for the ANBU to come for me," Ino sighed then. He sighed as he shook his head and then walked over to his wife who was dressed in one of his childhood shirts as he offered her a hand. Sakura took it as she was pulled to her feet.
"Can you explain this one to me?" she asked him then.
"Dobe jr."
"Do I want to know?" she asked him as he looked her over.
"No," he shook her head.
"Well, I woke up in a twelve year old's bed," she snapped as they thanked Ino and parted ways then because he and Sakura were going to have a serious talk about what had happened. Though he was secretly amused at hearing she had had the same experience as him upon waking up with a twelve year old in the bed who they didn't' happen to be the parent too.
"Where are my kids!?" Sakura suddenly grabbed his chest, he wrapped an arm around her waist then.
"Itachi and Sayuri are with your parents, and Sarada is on a mission with Shikadai and Inojin," he informed her. he understood the concern for their children, it was often times his first thought when he returned from a mission or had been told by an enemy that he was going to lose them all. The idea of losing his family was enough to have him panicking and going into over drive to track Sakura, Sarada, Itachi, and Sayuri down the moment he returned to the village before he ran to the Hokage for his debriefing and official 'go home' status. However there was a reason he was the only ANBU jonin shinobi who reported solely to the Hokage; Kakashi had started that when he had first been cleared to work as a shinobi again.
"Oh thank Kami," she huffed as her brow rested on his chest then.
"Can we go home now?" he said as he spun her around and shoved her towards their house. Sakura grumbled as she walked towards their house.
"Hey, was um… little me here?" Sakura asked as they walked into their house and he locked the door then.
"Aa," he nodded.
"And did you wake up naked in bed with her?" Sakura asked him. he paled but nodded. However, in his defense they had had sex that night.
"Alright, if you get a weird memory of a grown naked pink woman in your bed from your childhood know I clobbered you really hard over the head and bolted," she informed him and he smirked.
"If you get a memory of being locked in the pantry, know I wanted to keep you there all day," he informed her as he poked her brow. She laughed as they collapsed on the couch then.
"You know what, I don't want to know, I don't really want to know what happened," Sakura said.
"Dobe jr." he repeated then as they sat there staring at the ceiling.
"That's explanation enough," she informed him as they now sat in silence.
Sasuke felt her grab his hand then and he entwined their fingers again.
"That was a hell of an anniversary, and you should know you were a little git as a child," she informed him.
"Tch, annoying," he clicked his tongue to emphasize this.
"And yet we're still married," she giggled.
"Can't be helped," he said and there was a knock on the door.
"Please tell me that the twelve year old you isn't here," she whispered as they walked to the door and peeked out.
A Bit of a Joke Piece; Not tied to Until the Day I Die in any way.
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Uchiha! =)