Disclaimer: I didn't own Naruto when I first wrote this story and I certainly don't now either.
Dedication: To everyone who read, reviewed and suffered through the horrible spell-check-less story this once was.
Category: PG-13, Sasunaru
I hated this feeling of waiting. Waiting and wondering whether or not you were going to really come to me or not. Had you given up and decided that it wasn't worth it all in the end? You have no reason to trust me. All our lives together I've hurt and betrayed you so why should you believe any of that would change now? Why have faith in one person who's caused you nothing in your life but pain?
"Because you were also the one who made me feel the opposing emotion - love."
"Naruto?"
"Hai, gomen that is took me so long. I was having those same thought I know you're thinking. Those doubts. But then I remembered for all the pain you have put me through, it is also only you who has ever made me feel accepted, feel loved. And even when I didn't know it, my heart yearned for your approval more and beyond everybody else's. Because I needed to know that I was good enough for you. I grew up Sasuke but that need never changed. I needed to know that beyond everyone else was that you cared for me.
"It was the same for me you know." I replied, ignoring the look of shock in your eyes.
"Most people think that when I went to Orochimaru, it was because I wanted the power to kill me brother - it was really because I needed to remember who I was. You had become bigger, better, stronger then me Naruto. My head was telling me to flee, and I ignored my heart and went with it."
"What a pair we are. Always trying to prove to the other that we were good enough for them when all along we should have known the truth - all we needed was each other. When you went after your brother, I tried to fool myself into thinking that I didn't love you. Fool myself into thinking that maybe I could live life as normal as a demon-boy could. But all I ended up doing was spend a few miserable years and cause my daughter to be forced to spend her life going between two families. So much hurt could've been prevented if we had just spoken up. But Hinata-san is right Sasuke. And so is my nosey little daughter Tsuki. I do love you, and I have all these years. And maybe now you and I can have a little peace."
"A little peace?"
"Yes, peace. The war between our hearts and minds can stop and we can just be us Sasuke. Us, Together."
"And now what?"
"Now? Now we live life. But this isn't a fair tale, and I know it won't be happily ever after, but we will live it. And we will do it together."
OWARI
POST OWARI GLIMPSES INTO THEIR FUTURE!
"NARUTO! I'm tired of eating ramen for dinner every single night of the week!"
"It wasn't every night, just last night we ate at Sakura's! And you know she hates ramen!"
"That was a week ago you baka! And I've been living off of that particular meal for a week!"
"Hey Sasuke?"
"Yes?"
"Do the letters c. o. u. c. and h form any particular words to you?"
'C.o.u.c.h. Ohhh. Couch. COUCH?'
"Ramen for dinner it is!"
(Naruto cracking a whip can be heard in the distance.)
"But I don't want to go to Iuka's tonight. I'm tired, and hungry."
"We're going to Iruka's FOR dinner you pea-brained baka!"
"I am NOT a baka! And why can't we just eat in for dinner tonight?"
"Because I-We've been planning this for weeks Naruto. It's important to m-Iruka."
"Iruka-sensei wouldn't mind at all, he'll probably be too "busy" with Kakashi-sensei anyway."
"NARUTO WILL YOU JUST GET YOUR ASS TO IRUKA'S?"
"Calm down you sharingan freak! I'm the reincarnation of the demon fox that destroyed half a village, not you! And why's it so big a deal, it's like today is like the 10 year anniversary of when we first kissed and you're proposing to me or anything - oh my kami-sama, IT IS ISN'T IT? SASUKE ARE YOU GOING TO PROPOSE?"
"EVEN IF I AM, I CAN'T IF YOU ARE A DOBE AS USUAL AND I CAN'T!"
"Sasuke, did you inadvertently just ask me to marry you?"
"Yes-No! JUST GO TO IRUKA'S DAMMIT NARUTO!"
"FINE! BUT MAYBE I'LL SAY NO! SO NER! AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION - I AM NOT GOING TO BE THE UKE!"
"WELL I'M NOT THE ONE WHO MASTERED THE SEXY NO JUSTU AT TWELVE!"
"PEOPLE DON'T DESCRIBE ME AS PRETTY!"
"Oh Kami-sama, NARUTO JUST GO TO IRUKA'S SO I CAN PROPOSE AND GET THIS OVER WITH!"
"Fine! You don't need to yell at it. Jeesh. Baka over-bearing boyfriends who force you to go to teachers houses on anniversaries just so they can propose…humph."
"On the contrary Naruto, I think you look very good in a wedding dress."
"Shut up! I'm only doing this because you said you'd well - YOU KNOW - for a week."
"Revenge is sweet, isn't it?"
"Not when it involves me WEARING A DRESS."
"Just think of it this way Naruto, you'll never forget your wedding day."
"Uncle Sasuke, why is Daddy wearing a dress?"
"Oh Tsuki-chan, that's because your Daddy is going to marry me as a gi-"
"Corrupt my daughter and you can never imagine how long you'll be meeting Mr. Couch."
"Naruto let me remind you something - TSUKI CHAN WAS TRAINED BY KAKASI-SENSEI AND JIRAIYA."
"Oh…true."
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"NO!"
"YES! NARUTO YOU CANNOT STOP YOUR DAUGHTER FROM GETTING MARRIED!"
"SHE'S MY DAUGHTER! I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT!"
"But Daddy, I love Houshi. Can't I marry him please?" Tsuki looked at Naruto using those eyes.
"Of course you can hunny. And I'll pay for everything of course. When did you want to marry him again?"
"You are such a sucker for that look you pathetic baka! … Tsuki-chan will you teach me that look?"
"Of course Uncle Sasuke!"