Meet The Uchiha

By: Lafine

Day 1: Welcome to The Uchiha's home

Uchiha Sasuke was not happy.

Understandable, really. Imagine this. He just went back from an exhausting ANBU mission, being away from home for almost a month. All he wanted to do was to spend a quiet weekend with his family, training with his youngest son, chatting with his daughter or window-shopping with his wife. Okay, so the last idea wasn't his idea of quiet weekend since Sakura tend to ask Hinata to go with her. And if Hinata was going then Uzumaki Naruto was definitely would be there too. And knowing Naruto for almost 30 years, he knew that his best friend (Sasuke shuddered at this) was NOT someone who enjoys silence.

But Uzumaki Naruto was not the victim of Sasuke's killing thought right now. No, it was someone else. Someone who happened to sit in front of him, beside his daughter on the white sofa and chatting with his wife. He kept throwing murderous glare at that someone and was rewarded with sick pleasure when that someone sweated and stuttered.

HOW DARE A WIMP LIKE HIM PROPOSE TO MY ONLY DAUGHTER!

Sasuke's eyebrows were almost making a V at that thought. He tapped his fingers impatiently at the glass table, ignoring the warning looks Sakura, his wife, sent him.

"So you're going to spend the weekend here?" Sakura asked happily, being a good host and mother while pretending not to notice her husband disapproval.

Katsuma almost squeaked when Sasuke's glare became even more prominent. "Yes." Ayame squish his hand for a moment to comfort his sizzling nerves and silently urged him to continue. "Ayame thinks it's a good way for us to know each other better as a family."

Screw 'not happy'. Uchiha Sasuke was F-U-R-I-O-U-S.

"And why do you think we will welcome you as a family?" Sasuke's ever monotone voice poured ice, snow and water over the trembling male. Then he added as an after thought. "After all you're just a Chuunin."

"Sasuke!" Sakura gasped at her husband's impolite boldness. "No dinner for you tonight."

"Father!" Ayame gasped at her father's sheer dislike for her fiancée. "Katsuma might be a Chuunin, but he is a good shinobi."

Sasuke scowled when the Uchiha females defended Katsuma who sweat like crazy. Che, a wimp.

Sakura turned to Katsuma, trying to ease the obviously troubled lad. "Don't worry about him, Katsuma-kun. He's only testing you to see if you're suitable to be Ayame's husband."

"Yes, Katsu. Don't worry, father is all bark and no bite." Ayame added. Sasuke looked affronted at his daughter's sentence.

Hah! Watch him kicks the wimp's butt out of Konoha.

"Ayame, show him the room he's going to sleep in. I already prepared it." Sakura said, smiling, though her eyes spoke different sentence to her daughter: Out. Now. Before your father chew him.

Ayame caught the code easily. She stood and almost dragged her poor fiancée from the main house's guest room. "Yes, come on, Katsu. You're gonna like that room."

Katsuma stuttered an, "O, okay. Eh, uh, bye, U, Uchiha-san." that made Sakura wondered if Katsuma was related to Hinata, before letting himself being dragged away by Ayame.

With the kids gone, Sakura turned to her husband, giving him a disapproving glare. "Why do you say that to Katsuma-kun, Sasuke? He's a nice boy."

"He's a Chuunin and a wimp to boot." Sasuke snorted. "Ayame deserves a better man than that wimp."

"Sasuke." Sakura frowned. "Katsuma-kun is not a wimp. And what's wrong with being a Chuunin?"

"Sakura. Ayame is a Jounin! On her way to ANBU!" Sasuke protested. "Surely she can find a better man than that guy!"

"Sasuke, you rejected the Hyuuga's proposal last year! And Raito-kun was and still is the ANBU captain." Sakura lifted her eyebrow. "What's your excuse for that, hm?"

"He was too old for her." Sasuke continued his feeble protest.

"By a year!" Sakura almost wished she can pummel her thick-headed husband into the floor. Well, she could pummel him into the floor but one look at his bedraggled ANBU uniform and tired look she resisted the temptation. She sighed. "Just give Katsuma-kun a chance, okay? It's for our daughter's happiness."

Sasuke knew when a battle was lost so he kept quiet, averting his face to scowl at the wall. Sakura accepted the grudging silence as a yes and smiled brilliantly at her husband. "Now, take a bath and I'll prepare lunch. You must be starving, right?"

Sasuke grumbled and trudged to the stairs while Sakura picked his forgotten bag. He stopped at the middle of the climb, turning around to give his wife a questioning glance. "Does that mean I get dinner tonight?"

"If you play nice." Was Sakura's vague answer.

Sasuke scowled again and shoved his hand to his pants, planning to call Naruto for ramen tonight.

"Sorry about that, Katsu." Ayame gave an apologetic look after her shoulder to her fiancée. "Father is really overprotective."

"It's fine, Ayame. I'm more worried about his view of me." Katsuma sighed before he moaned, rubbing the bridge of his nose. "I stuttered back then! I'm sure your father called me wimp inside his head."

"Of course not, Katsu." Little did Ayame know that her father was planning her fiancée's demise in the shower at the same time she said that. "He likes you."

Katsuma didn't bother to say, 'How do you know?' and just gave her a look.

Ayame, being the genius kunoichi she is, amended her sentence. "Oh fine, he WILL like you."

"I wonder about that." Katsuma mumbled.

"Don't worry, Katsu. Even if my plan goes wrong, we still have one trump card."

Katsuma quirked an eyebrow. "And that is?"

"My mother's tears." Ayame grinned. "Father always falls for that one."

Deep down in his heart, Katsuma knew that that might work but it won't save him from the Uchiha leader's wrath. Next thing he knew he might go MIA before his wedding.

And though it was a warm spring day, Katsuma couldn't help but shiver at the thought.

End chap 1

AN: MIA Missing In Action )