I Do Not Own Naruto
Uchiha
He, the mago of Uchiha Madara, musuko of Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto, and otōto of Uchiha Itachi, was to marry the enemy. At least that was how it was explained to him as he sat in the room with his sofu and otōsan telling him that this was how peace was being bought between the traitorous Senju and the Uchiha.
"I will not marry the enemy!" he snapped to both his sofu and otōsan.
The Senju and the Uchiha had once had an alliance between them, and built a wonderful village known as Konohagakure, but then the Senju betrayed them, exiling the Uchiha from Konohagakure. The Senju had killed his obāsan when she had refused the advances from Senju Tobirama. Of course, the ignorant Senju had not believed the Uchiha and banished his clan for slander of the Hokage's brother. The war had resumed at the insult, and even though he was a child he knew he was going to fight all the Senju until they were all dead.
"Sasuke!" Madara snapped. "You will do this for the good of the clan, just as your nīsan will marry Senju Ino. We can afford no more losses."
"But she's a Senju!" he snapped.
"Sasuke!" his otōsan barked and he is again silent as he glares at the tatami mats beneath his feet. Slowly he stood though, bowed his head in submission because he will not win this argument. His okāsan comes into the room then and he knows he has lost this battle before he could even fight it. Taking his place beside his okāsan they wait ten minutes in silence for the Senju to come.
His itoko, Uchiha Izumi escorts in a girl smaller than himself, about his age with pink hair. Sasuke glares at her, he does not like this girl, even as her large, scared green eyes look to him, and his sofu.
"Senju Sakura, for the next ten years you will live with us, work with us, train with us, and when you turn sixteen you will marry the youngest of my line, Uchiha Sasuke to bring peace in this land. Do you understand?" his sofu demands.
The pinkette nods her head and is shaking where she stands. Pathetic, Sasuke sneers as he glares at her in disdain.
"Such unusual hair color for a Senju," his okāsan comments. Sasuke refrains from saying she looks like a target for target practice with that hair color.
"My otōsan's hair is pink," she whispered nervously. There was something in him that didn't like her nerves any more than he liked her.
"It is a most unusual color, very beautiful though," his okāsan says, and Sasuke rolls his eyes, his okāsan gives him a warning glare. "Come child, you must be famished." His okāsan says as she offers Sakura a hand, Sasuke receives a warning glare to come and be polite so he does so.
The pinkette is a nervous girl, he doesn't like her, but he doesn't feel like tormenting her as he has the other children who try to torment him. In fact he spends most of his time ignoring the pinkette, though; it's not as if she needs his company.
Over the next year Sasuke spends most of his time focusing on his studies. He is now the heir to the Uchiha Clan, and he has to learn all he can, unlocking his Sharingan, keeping up with itoko Shisui; who is eight years his senior, and proving himself not to be inadequate to being the Clan heir. His sofu is watching him closely and Sasuke has no choise but to excel.
His mentor, an honorary Uchiha who had saved his oji, Obito, and his oba, Rin, is Hatake Kakashi. A lazy man of exceptional shinobi skill, who possess his oji's left eye as his own and can successfully yield the Sharingan. Sasuke likes his mentor a lot and learns swiftly about control his chakra, and how to be a shinobi.
Learning fire jutsu is his primary goal at six. But he is quickly mastering them. His okāsan tries to teach Sakura to use fire jutsu, but he is not surprised that she cannot do them. It appears that he is to marry the useless Senju, which irritates him as he continues to immerse himself in his studies.
Sakura joins their studies, but he ignores her as he learns bukijutsu, wielding a shuiren and kunai, and chukotō. He is quick to master them, hoping for his otōsan, but he finds it ever elusive. Though his sofu takes great pride in his abilities, Sasuke finds himself drifting closer to Madara than his otōsan for advice and information on the way of the shinobi.
His sofu has much to teach him, and by the time he is seven Sasuke is considered a worthy heir. He is pleased with this, though he is frustrated with his lack of a Sharingan. Still, he is determined to keep up with Shisui. Sasuke will not permit his itoko to take claim to the Uchiha Clan. Apparently his otōsan seeks for his Sofu to claim Shisui as his heir.
The information only pushes Sasuke harder as he tries to learn everything he he can and tries to force his eyes to eveolve. He must have the Sharingan to remain heir of his Clan because even with Sofu's favor it will not do him much good to lead the Uchiha if he does not have his Sharingan.
He knows this and struggles to figure out a way to unlock it that will not require him to kill his Clan or worse, track his nīsan down and attempt to kill him. Sasuke does not even like the thought of fighting Itachi, so he seeks to train harder. He will unlock his Sharingan, even if it is the last thing he does!
It is shortly after his eighth birthday that he unlocks his Sharingan, it takes a sparring session where Shisui was ordered to kill him for him to obtain a three tomoe Sharingan. It is baffling to his clansmen since Sharingans evolve from one tomoe, to two, to three, and yet he has a three tomoe, functioning Sharingan in both his eyes, he is very proud of himself for this feat.
He is still avoiding Sakura but even now he can admit that she is not that bad, even if she is a Senju.
Still, there's something in him which always makes him enjoy his solitude, enjoy the freedom of being alone, and it's not even that he dislikes company that drives him to seek his solitude. He does not enjoy most children his age, however his sofu makes him run simple missions with Sakura.
He does not need her company, or help for these missions, however he does understand the importance of teamwork because of his sensei Kakashi so he learns. Sasuke learns to work with another inferior person, and find Sakura; while vastly below his level of skill, is useful in her own way with her healing abilities.
Still, his indifference rules him as he studies to be the next Clan heir. It is a challenging thing to learn, but Sasuke is certain he can master it. Even as he learns etiquette with Sakura, and is forced to acknowledge his betrothed when introducing the family.
It is shortly before he turns nine that they travel to Konohagakure.
He does not want to go, he does not like the Senju; he tolerates Sakura because she is to be his, but he does not like the Senju. Still, he silently travels with his family, his black eyes roaming over the fertile land before them. It is beautiful here, even he can see that as he cannot acknowledge the beauty around him.
His greatest weapon is his indifference, and though he is a child he expresses nothing.
Glancing at the pinkette who walks beside him, he wonders if she is pleased to be returning home. If she is still a traitorous Senju at heart of if she is a proper Uchiha. It is that thought which had him watching the girl closely. Sakura looks around yearningly but she stays near him, he is pleased with such a turn of events that he cannot express anything about it.
They are escorted through the village, he hides his amusement at the people's fears of them. But he openly frowns when people point at the pinkette and whisper she's a sacrifice. That is a confusing thought to him since Sakura has been given all the freedoms of an Uchiha child. He dismisses the worry as irrelivent though as they walk to the Senju compound and he stares blankly at all the Senju.
They are greeted by Senju Hashirama, a large man with a massive smile. Sasuke thinks he looks utterly ridiculous grinning like an idiot. There is Hashirama's wife, Senju Mito, then there is Tobirama. There is a busty blonde older than his mother, that is Senju Tsunade. The younger woman, a woman younger than his mother with Sakura's green eyes and blonde hair is Haruno Mebuki, and her pink haired husband is beside her, with blue eyes; Haruno Kizashi. Standing beside them is a curvy blonde with blue eyes, that is Haruno Ino and beside her is his nīsan, Uchiha Itachi; smiling.
Sasuke frowns at his brother's smile, but does not dwell on it.
He sees Sakura dart forward and the way she hugs her ōnesan. Sasuke glares at his brother when Itachi came over to him to hug him; he refused to be involved with such ridiculous displays of affection.
Madara orders him to walk with his brother, and to keep an eye on Sakura as Sakura is again folded into the ranks of the Senju. He does not like how she is so quickly enveloped in the Senju Clan again as he walks with his nīsan. Small talk is not something Sasuke knows how to do and he just listens to his brother as they look around the Senju gardens.
It was quite beautiful here, he can see why his nīsan is happy here. But Sasuke does not like it, the air is musty, filthy even with dust from the lively village. The people here worship the Senju, but fear the Uchiha, and he finds it taxing that the games here he is excluded, even when his nīsan invites him to join the games. No, the first day here is not a good one for Sasuke, he seeks out the comfort of a person who does not scorn him.
Sakura might not like him, and he might not like her, however, neither of them expressed disgust in the other's presence anymore.
He finds her as they ready for bed, he is furious that there is a servant trying to put her in her old quarters as if she belongs to the Senju again. Sasuke tells the servant that Sakura will stay with the Uchiha and walks off, hearing her following him. That night he eats with his family and silently curses being in this land, he has other things to do other than be indifferent to the scorning.
The following weeks pass swiftly for him, Sasuke stays with his sofu for the most part to continue his learning as he keeps an 'eye' on Sakura. Sakura is fine here, she is Senju, and the children do not scorn her.
The day of the wedding he is wrangled into the preparing of the groom. It is a dull task as he helps his nīsan with the robes, and listens to the hushed murmurs of his otōsan of advice, and his okāsan saying how proud she is of Itachi. Sasuke says nothing, but when his brother taps his center brow he understands. They are still brothers.
The wedding is a boisterous affair on the summer solstice. Sakura stands with her Senju family and it dawns on him that one day he was going to have to marry her. The thought is not overly pleasing, nor is it revolting.
The after party with the Senju is a loud affair with lots of drinking, Sasuke does not like the noise and has notice his charge has disappeared which leads him to hunting the pinkette down. Sasuke rounds the corner hearing laughter, and splashing.
He reacts quickly, his eye catching sight of a redheaded boy with odd silver, ringed eyes before Sasuke dives into the water. He had to slice Sakura out of the silks that were drowning her and slice himself of his own as he pulled her out of the water shouting for his okāsan. Dragging the half drowned pinkette out of the water he sat with her.
His okāsan takes over her, Sasuke sits guard, as his family also guard the surrounding area of the guest quarters; keeping all Senju away from Sakura.
When Sakura is well enough to travel, they return for their homelands. Being escorted through Konohagakure his hand is grabbed by Sakura again, he senses her fear as she presses herself close to him and he glances over to what scared her to see the redhaired boy. Frowning he pulled her along and vowed to speak to his Sofu about this matter.
Once they have returned to their home Sasuke resumes his lessons, and takes them even more seriously since he has to make certain that no one ever again thinks to harm the property of the Uchiha.
He turns nine before the end of the summer and he finds even more responsibility thrusted upon him as he sits with his Sofu listening to the going ons of the clan and the problems. They are beseeched by a daimyo who wishes to hire them as his protection and Sasuke is digusted at the mere idea. As is his Sofu who turns the man away.
By the time he is ten he is tall, but irritated that Sakura is taller than he is. Still, there is much studying to be done, and he finds his world revolving around learning all he needs to, to obtain his Mangekyō Sharingan. Of course his life couldn't be simple.
No.
Sasuke was tested, every move he made was judged, was watched, ever expression which slipped his control was noted, and every word he spoke was remembered. He now lived in a careful time, and it was nearly shot to hell when he found out his fiancé had gotten in a fight with a boy; a friend of his, over something and his otōsan pulls him aside saying he has to reign in the pinkette or he will not be the head of the Clan.
Sasuke is furious that he is being threatened, and what's worse is that he cares.
Infuriated he stays away from Sakura for a few weeks to collect his temper. It will reflect poorly if Sakura manages to provoke his temper and his Sofu finds out. No, Sasuke waits. In fact, he does not care as he continues to train diligently with Shisui, and Obito. He will obtain his Mangekyō Sharingan, and nothing is going to throw him off course. Not even an unruly Senju. There is too much at stake in his coming life.
Eventually though Sasuke did confront Sasuke, but it really only provoked a fight. The annoying girl was intending to dye her hair black; the mere thought is infuriating for some reason; he rations that it is because her pink hair makes her easy to find and easy to follow, making his life easier. She persists on the matter and he vows he will shave her head if she dyes her hair, Sakura's in near tears at that point and it bothers him, but not nearly as much as her dying her hair.
He breaks the bottle of dye before she stormed away.
Sasuke only hopes to Kami for patience, the pinkette is maddening!
When he is eleven he is sent on team missions with Haruno Sakura and Hatake Kakashi. His sofu pulls him aside and threatens him with dishonor if anything happens to Sakura.
There are times that Sasuke thinks his sofu is soft for the pinkette, but he only nods his head in understanding. This is a dangerous mission after all, and it is to go to the Land of Waves to take care of crime boss. It is not his first assassination; but it is an important one for his future. This mission will prove his ability to work with others, not his itoko or oji, but rather his sensei and his betrothed. The thought is insulting, but Sasuke knows the stakes of this mission.
The mission is a shame, they were being tested, and he figured they were fed false intel on purpose. This screams his otōsan behind it, no doubt if he fails his otōsan will have a coup and his sofu will die, then the treaty of peace with the Senju will perish. Sasuke wonders if Itachi is involved with the affairs of their otōsan, or if his nīsan is truly ignorant of all this.
Running into the Demon of the Mist is shocking, but more infuriating is the ice yielder, Sasuke has an icy fury pulsing through his veins as he and Sakura fought the being toying with them to escape. Kakashi is nearly killed by the time a massive punch and release of chakra from Sakura has the ice shattering and both of them running to Kakashi's side. Sasuke leaves Kakashi in Sakura's care before charging after Zabuza and Haku.
Tracking them was simple, it was easy; too easy, and he should have known it was a trap.
He killed Zabuza first, perhaps that was his mistake, and perhaps thinking he could wield the Kubikiribōchō, or perhaps it was thinking Haku to be the lesser opponent. No matter, Sasuke fought like a demon, one wrong move from Haku had the young man impaled on the blade and cleaved in half, Sasuke only remembered smirking and saying 'you lose' before stumbling back to Sakura.
It was hard to entrust her with the final part of their mission, she had never killed a person and was proving to be a healer by nature, however, since he is hardly breathing and barely able to move he must entrust his mission to her. She had to kill Gato.
And she did.
When they return to the Uchiha compound he has come to the conclusion that Senju or not, Haruno Sakura is of the few he can trust exclusively and leaves her be. He reports to Madara and Fugaku that the Demon of the Mist, Haku, and Gato are all dead. His otōsan is very surprised by the news, and Sasuke smirks saying his is going to obasan Rin.
Making it there he collapses and is in the care of Rin and Sakura with Kakashi beside him.
These two are the two he can trust no matter what is coming.
At twelve they return to Konohagakure to congratulate Itachi, his nīsan has produced a child with his wife. Sasuke does not know if he is pleased about this or not, he still can't help but wonder what role Itachi is playing in their otōsan's games, if any.
They walk to the Senju compound and again he walks with Sakura but notices this time she is walking with pride; as she should. Sasuke glared at the people who whispered about him and glared threateningly at him. It is not as if he was unaccustomed to hostility; he is an Uchiah and being an Uchiha means he is generally either feared or hated, and Sasuke does not care either way. Upon arriving at the Senju home he senses Sakura's distress when she grabs his hand again, he sees a boy with red hair and odd eyes again, just then a blond blur comes barreling into him, and Sakura.
Sakura lands in the mud, and he atop her, still, he is furious at the insult as he tries to strangle the blonde dobe. Itachi is the one to break up the fight, not that it helps any; Sasuke will kill the dobe for the dobe does not shut up!
He is forced to endure a bath with the dobe, who will not stop talking about how pretty Sakura (the pink girl) was, and Sasuke feels like killing the dobe. If only for a moment of silence. When Sakura is returned to the Uchiha he only feels relieved seeing her unharmed. After the last trip here he does not trust the Senju anymore.
They are presented to Itachi's son, his oi has black hair, and black eyes as is expected of any Uchiha. But the babe looks a lot like a Senju in the face, the babe's name is Inojin, and he is annoying.
Sasuke takes the time to catch up with his overly proud nīsan and while they chat and he feels like he has a brother again Sasuke analyzes. He analyzes everything his nīsan says, every nuance of an expression on his nīsan's face, and every move Itachi makes. It all says something to Sasuke, and it hurts a great deal as a crippling blow is landed on him.
His nīsan's loyalty belongs to their otōsan.
Sasuke says nothing of the discovery, but keeps it silent and decides to watch where the pieces would fall. In the end Madara is Head of the Clan, and Madara will decide what is best.
The following year upon their return to the Uchiha compound had him striving to get to know Sakura, he needs one solid ally and finds her to be… his. The girl is kind of heart, fierce in temper, and loyal to a fault, she has given her loyalty to him and he wonders if he would need it one day. They are not friends, but they are companions and Sasuke feels that it is a start; to what end he does not know, but she is an outsider and likely unaware of all the inner workings going on around her.
No matter, he has a true ally who has her loyalty in him, not the Senju or Uchiha, but him.
The day of this thirteenth birthday is a large celebration, he is officially considered an heir to the Uchiha Clan and recognized as the heir of his sofu, Madara.
His fourteenth birthday comes with tests, far more tests than what he had dealt with in his past. He has unlocked his Mangekyō Sharingan, and it hurts his eyes immensely. His sofu proposes he and his itoko; Shisui, 'trade eyes' because it is the way of the Uchiha. The procedure is swift, and painful, but over quickly. He now has a stable Mangekyō Sharingan. But the day of a particularly bad mission had them evolving into Eternal Mangekyō Sharingans, and he is pleased with this development. Sakura has also unlocked a unique ability, she has unlocked her family's Byakugō; a difficult technique to achieve for the chakra control had to be precise. Sasuke is impressed; her monster strength and healing now make her invincible.
Disruption came at his fifteenth birthday when his ailing sofu speaks of brokering an alliance with the Hyūga. It is an odd request, the Hyūga are notoriously neutral, but never the less he agrees to travel with his sofu, otōsan, okāsan, oji, and Sakura to speak of this alliance. He summons Kakashi as well, to guard Sakura; not that she will need it but he will not chance something happening to her after that first trip to the Senju compound.
Traveling in silence and under the Uchiha banner they make their way to the Hyūga clan. Upon arrival Sasuke stood with his family and looked at the presented Hyūga.
Hyūga Hiashi presents his eldest son, Hyūga Neji, then is eldest daughter, Hyūga Hinata, and finally the child of the group; Hyūga Hanabi.
Sasuke cannot take his eyes away from Hinata, she is lovely, her lush figure is like a siren's call to him, and her basheful demeanor is pleasing. Sasuke is willing to walk with Hinata in the gardens, even as he watches Sakura walk off with Neji. He listens to what Hinata shyly says and finds her demeanor; after an afternoon in the gardens to be dull. That evening he plays a game of go with Sakura and truly relaxes.
The following days fell into a routine of sorts, he could marvel at Hyūga Hinata's true beauty, but he found he could not relax with her. It is only when he discovers in an afternoon that Madara and Hiashi are speaking of the alliance that he hears the interests in the alliance with both the Senju and the Uchiha from Hyūga Hiashi's lips, and the proposal that he marry Hinata and Sakura marry Neji.
He leaves for a training field and meditates to sooth his temper at the thought of his only ally being snatched from him.
That evening at supper he sits with Sakura. When Hiashi makes his proposal to the full envoy of the Uchiha Clan, Sasuke analyzes Sakura closely. There is not a look of shock in those green eyes, no, only sadness, and he wonders why. She says she does not feel well and asks to be excused to her room. His sofu has him escorting her there. Upon reaching her quarters she says she wants to be alone, he protests, but her arguments of her safety are undeniable, and she can protect herself. He shuts his mouth then, and she shuts the door.
For a long moment he just stared dumbly at that door before walking to his quarters.
There are another two weeks at the Hyūga compound and he finds himself growing bored with every passing moment. Hinata is not a dull girl, but aside from her figure he does not find her interesting; she also expects him to converse with her which is maddening. It is not that he does not have things to say, but he is not free to speak what is on his mind, and trying to speak of small things was a bore to him.
The day of the nightmare came on a day Sakura had slipped out of the compound, he did not sense it until there was a shockwave of her chakra, he leapt into action without thought. The Hyūga who tried to restrain him were met with extreme violence. Leaping into a fight he saw Sakura trying to desperately hold her own, he was quick to react and it evened the fight considerably. It was after he had ripped the blonde one apart that he turned to hear the shattering of wood and saw Sakura collapse on the ground with a sword in her gut, and she was bleeding excessively. Her seal was released and it wasn't healing her.
Reacting on instinct he grabbed her and reluctantly took her to the one place she would have a fighting chance.
He takes her to the Senju.
Her obāchan takes her in after throwing him dirty looks and locking him out of the room where Sakura is. He does not care as he sits guard outside her room and waits. He messages Madara where he took Sakura and what happened.
It is only when Itachi tries to comfort him that he snaps, the sparring nearly leveled the Konoha training fields, but he pins his nīsan down that he demands.
His otōsan hired out the Akatsuki to attack Madara while at the Hyūga compound, they were to kill him, Sakura, and Madara so Fugaku could be the Head of the Clan and Itachi would be reinstated as Clan heir.
The selfish move exposed he promptly reports it to his sofu when Madara arrives before sitting outside of Sakura's room again.
This is the first time he acknowledges he has a friend, and it terrifies him as he glares threateningly at any Senju who tries to speak to him or move him. His friend, and betrothed took a poisoned blade meant for him with no regards to her own life, it is stupid but it has earned her his undying loyalty from now on. when Madara brings up the Hyūga marriage arrangement Sasuke flatly refuses, and says he will marry an onna he can trust without question, that was Haruno Sakura.
Madara surrenders.
Once Sakura is able to travel Sasuke escorts her to the Uchiha compound and fills her in on who attacked her; not why because the why of what happens does not matter to her. All that matters is that she heals.
The rest of his year was run in a similar fashion as the previous years, he runs missions for the Uchiha, his sixteenth year comes, and the day of his birth passes when he is pulled in again to prepare for his wedding.
His wedding is to happen on the day of the winter solstice.
The early arrival of the Senju relatives has him glaring at Itachi, there is no forgiving what his nīsan has done. However, a request from his nīsan to speak in private in the Uchiha gardens has him walking with Itachi again. It is in the gardens that his nīsan swears his loyalty to the peace between the Senju and the Uchiha, Sasuke pointed out that Itachi betrayed his musuko, and his wife. Itachi frowns but does not argue, it is now that Sasuke avows that he will strike Itachi down should Itachi ever again try to move against the peace of the Senju and Uchiha, too many young lives rely on the alliance.
Itachi concedes.
The day of his wedding Sasuke is dressed in his robes, he is given the same useless advice from his sofu, otōsan, and nīsan as what Itachi received on his wedding day. But this time it is his okāsan crying which has him realizing just how different this union was to his nīsan's.
This union, the union between him and Haruno Sakura was cold, it was built on mutual trust, and companionship, it was not a marriage built on love and it seems to be distraught his okāsan. No matter, he lets his okāsan give him a hug and then he goes to his arranged marriage.
The ceremony was quiet, it was stiff and formal. The after party is uneventful as well, until he takes Sakura away with him to the house they will be living in. For a talker she is unusually quiet as they walk into the cold house.
Sasuke makes it a point to be careful with her, from all the stories he's heard over the years this will be painful for her and Sasuke does not wish to break her trust in him. she mumbles an apology when the last layer hiding her body fell to the floor and he just looked at her. She was redder than blood, and he continues to move deliberately though he has no real idea what he's doing; this is his first time as well.
It is when he slides into her, she swears, and cries as she clawed at his back that he realized how people could get addicted to this. Eventually she stops being in pain, he makes her scream his name; but this only on the second round for him.
Come the break of dawn he is awake by instinct, quickly he gets up and lets routine fall into place. He glances at his new wife once more before leaving her behind to train.
That evening he is told Sakura is his official wife; which baffles him but when he sees her again he is quick to claim her again, Sakura is a happy participant in their activities which is addicting in his min.
Over the next years there are matters to attend to, missions to go on, and time with his wife to spend. He does not worry about children; he is young himself; as is his wife, and he is content with it just being the two of them. Having Sakura as his wife makes his life easier, she is an excellent kunoichi, she is strong, and he trusts her.
So it is when he is turning twenty that he hears the discontent with his clan's elders and his sofu about him not having an heir. It annoys him but he dismisses it as irrelevant. At least he did until his otōsan arranges an alliance with the Uzumaki Clan behind both Sasuke and Madara's backs.
It is infuriating when he is told the day of the Uzumaki arrival to be ready, his wife merely looks uninterested as they go to greet to Uzumaki.
He is introduced after his oba, and looks at the gathered Uzumaki. He glares at the blonde with whisker scars and remembers the dobe from his youth; Uzumaki Naruto. Sasuke still has the desire to strangle the dobe. The dobe's family also consists of 'The Yellow Flash, Minato, the feared redhead Kushina, and their daughter Karin. Sasuke wants to go the other direction when he notices the hearts in Karin's eyes when she looks at him; he is annoyed.
However, he is feeling murderous when his otōsan orders him to take Karin to the gardens, and for Sakura to show Naruto around. The clingy redhead infuriates Sasuke because he spends more time struggling to keep Karin off of him than he does actually walking with her. Karin annoys him to no end. Sasuke actually looks forward to the evening, at least until a servant tells him his wife is unwell. Swiftly he returns to his home where the dobe said he had left Sakura and does not find her there. It more concerning to him where he finds his wife when he finally found her; he looks at the destroyed dummies and scoops up his near unconscious wife.
It is in the middle of the night when he sleeps with his wife that he is awoken to a problem by Kakashi. The meeting is swift, apparently his nīsan's eldest has been kidnapped. The Uchiha are going to go help, his sofu was sending him and Kakashi to aid in the rescue. Sasuke suggests that he takes Sakura with them should they need a medic, but he is told that no Senju is aware of the kidnapping which is disconcerting to him as he agrees to the mission.
Swiftly they leave to find Inojin.
The mission is long, it is hard and it is grueling; but in the end, he retrieves his oi, and returns Inojin to Itachi. Itachi is just thankful since his wife is a nervous wreck at this point.
Upon returning home he is informed by a servant who watches after his wife that she has been hacking apart training fields, Sasuke is concerned but dismisses the servant. When he sees his wife for the first time in a month he just craves touch as he makes her beg, makes her whisper his name and scream it as she clings to him. It is as they near sleep that he has to know if she is even happy, he cannot forget what the servant told him about her attitude.
"Have you always been unhappy here?" he asks.
"What do you mean?" she asks as she props herself up.
"You have destroyed many training fields since the Uzumaki family visited, I have not told sofu, but I just wonder," he says softly and sees fear and sadness in her eyes, and something else.
"No, I'm just frustrated. My Ōoji hates the Uchiha, but he let Sōsofu make a deal with Madara to bring about peace between our clans. I have belonged to the Uchiha since I was six Sasuke. The only time I was unhappy was when I realized I did not have a home anymore." She explains reluctantly.
"How do you not have a home?" he demands thinking the worst happened to her while he was away or that she was ostracized.
"I am not a Senju anymore, I am the property of the Uchiha, but if I cannot give you an heir then I have no purpose, and if I have no use to either the Senju or the Uchiha then I have no home Sasuke, and I do not want to leave you," she yawns. "I love you," she whispers against his chest as she sleeps.
He is thoroughly confused by what she is saying and wakes at dawn to speak to his sofu and otōsan about what is bothering Sakura.
He never got a chance to speak about the concerns of his wife, he was all but mauled by the redheaded Uzumaki who is squealing his name. Once Sasuke finally pries her off his person he is informed that she wishes to marry him in the coming autumn and suddenly everything his wife said the night before makes sense. Skipping out speaking with his sofu and otōsan, he returns home and waits for his wife to wake.
She wakes two hours after him, when she appears dressed nicely for the day he invites her to train with him. Once they were at the training field he hands her a blade and has decided to teach her the blade so she will stop hacking everything apart. Also, it keeps him away from Karin; all the more reason to spend time with a person he trusts and actually likes.
Finally, Uzumaki Karin leaves, it is a massive relief to him as he watches the Uzumaki envoy leave. Sasuke is prompt to inform his otōsan pointedly that two wives is fare too much work and he is not marrying again. His wife looks relieved, and stunned; while his sofu only laughs.
It is a quiet year for him, it is peaceful. He finds himself surprisingly fond of his wife; especially when he can manage to get her to admit she loves him. It's gotten to the point where he craves to hear the words from her lips.
It is late summer the following year that the news of Hashirama's death comes. His otōsan refuses to attend, but the Uchiha must appear, and his sofu is too ill to go. This brings Madara speaking to him in confidence saying that his otōsan will not be the next Head of the Clan, but him; and though he always fought to be an heir of the position Sasuke does not expect it to come his way so soon. He is twenty-one years old; a veteran shinobi for sure, but he is still young in the eyes of many and still growing. Madara assures him that Fugaku will not be a problem and to go to the funeral for Senju Hashirama, to pay respects to Madara's old friend.
Sasuke takes Sakura with him and his itoko, Shisui and oji, Obito. Their arrival at Konoha is greeted with hostility but Sasuke leads the small Uchiha envoy with pride as his wife walks beside him again.
The funeral for Hashirama is a loud affair, the Senju openly grieve their loss, and Sasuke remains collected. At least until he sees his wife pulled aside by Senju Tobirama. Quietly he listens to the conversation, he is furious that Tobirma is trying to turn Sakura, to bring her back to the fold of the Senju. He is vastly pleased when Sakura says she is property of the Uchiha. He will correct her later in the matter of her not being property as she is his wife now, but he is pleased her loyalty it still his.
Sasuke quickly silences Tobirama's demands for a dissolved treaty with the promise of war to retrieve his nīsan's children and raise them as proper Uchiha. This is a war everyone knows he will win, and it is Senju Tsunade who is the voice of reason.
In the end the treaty is left to stand, and Sasuke returns with Sakura.
The coming winter has summoned him away as he goes to the Uzumaki clan to speak of a treaty that does not involve his marriage to Karin. The Uzumaki Clan has suffered many losses in their fight against the Kaze Clan, and the Uchiha are willing to offer assistance; but not at the price of his marriage.
He corresponds with his wife infrequently, and does not worry about her with the Uchiha.
That winter he grows accustomed to the boisterous open ways of the Uzumaki family, he has a toddler always grabbing his leg trying to entice a game from him but Sasuke refrains. Minato is grateful to the alliance they form when it is finally agreed that his ikoto Shisui would be a good match for Karin, the wedding would happen on the summer solstice. He smirks at Karin's disappointment of his refusal to marry her.
It is a morning shortly after his wife's twenty-second birthday that a rider comes up to the Uzumaki compound swiftly, it is an Uchiha rider.
The news is that Sakura has fallen ill, she was in immense pain. Sasuke is swift to say his apologies for leaving but leaves Shisui in charge of the rest of the talks as he rides back to the Uchiha compound swiftly with the messenger. Arriving at the Uchiha compound he is greeted by his okāsan.
"Sasuke, she has had a baby," his okāsan says. Sasuke blinks at the news. "None of us knew, she never looked as if she were with child, or even acted as if she were. There was no chakra signature in her."
"Where is she?" Sasuke asks.
"Resting, you have a daughter," his okāsan says as they walk into her home. He is promptly handed a small bundle by a servant and is shocked at the small bundle in his arms.
"Daughter?" he manages.
"Aa," his okāsan smiles softly and Sasuke just stares at a baby with black hair, probably black eyes, and a sleeping face. It is tiny, he remembers Inojin and all of Itachi's other spawn being hefty babies, but Sasuke stares at the tiny thing in his arms.
"Sakura?" he demands.
"Asleep," his okāsan says. He nods as he walks up to where he senses her chakra with the sleeping bundle in his arms. Settling in for the night he looks at the pinkette and at his daughter before wondering what the hell he was supposed to do now.
The next morning he is roused hearing Sakura stir, and their baby opened onyx eyes at him as well and he looked at his wife staring at him.
"Sasuke… I thought you were negotiating with the Uzumaki," she mumbled.
"My okāsan messaged me yesterday morning saying to come home," he replied. He watches as the pinkette moves slowly to sit up.
"It was real," she whispered when she reaches over to their baby.
"Uchiha Sakura, meet our daughter," he said as he transfers the baby into her arms.
"Daughter?"
"Aa," he nods as he quickly slips behind her so her back is on his chest when he sees her sway.
"She's so pretty," Sakura murmured. "But how?"
"She has no chakra signature," he says and kisses her pulse because he hasn't seen her since autumn when he left for the Uzumaki. "She has a great deal of chakra though, but it appears her chakra was concealed and she did not grow out like she was supposed to."
"She's so tiny," Sakura muses and he knows she is not listening to him.
"Aa," he agreed because their daughter is a very tiny babe.
"What are we going to call her?"
"What do you want to call her, she's and Uchiha though," he warned her because he would not have her thinking that she had given him less than Uchiha.
Uchiha Sarada was born an early spring day without a sound. She was raised as an Uchiha, and her okāsan took great pleasure in teaching her the Senju healing. Her otōsan took immense pride in her, and truly enjoyed teaching her all of the Uchiha ways. Sarada grew up loved by all Uchiha and was the first of three other children to her family name.
Okay Fine! Now this experiment is concluded, I did not think I needed to write this until I was up 'till four in the morning writing it rather that UtDID, UtDIS & Never Be the Same so I could work on other things today.
Anyways, no joke this time, last piece here for a while...
Check back at X-Mas...
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Uchiha! =)