I hope you like this chapter. I've been working in my spare time which has been very little. I'm sure you're tired of hearing my ramble on, so on with the story.
Sakura's thoughts
Disclaimer: Woe to me. I will never own Naruto or the characters in it. I do own my little characters though. That makes the pain of not owning Naruto slightly more tolerable.
After the party Ako was so tired she fell asleep on the couch while looking at the presents she had received.
"Looks like Ako had a fun filled day." Sasuke said laughing as one of the cards she had got slipped out of her hand.
"And she did wear the dress." Sakura smiled. "I just don't get how you were able to get her to wear it when I couldn't."
"I made her a deal." Sasuke picked his daughter up after taking the cards from her hand and setting them on the table next to them.
"Not again Sasuke. What did you promise her this time?" Sakura followed him up the stairs and into their daughter's room.
"I didn't promise her anything."
"That's not much of a deal."
"She didn't give me time to promise her anything. She heard Taro's name and nearly tackled me. She's just like you." He laid Ako down on her bed and pulled the covers up over her.
"I didn't tackle people upon hearing your name."
"That's not what I heard." Sasuke said kissing his daughter on the forehead before walking out. Sakura followed suite and turned the light off when she left the room.
"Whatever. I'm going to go clean up."
"Have fun with that. I'll wash the dishes in the morning. I'm going to bed."
"Good night then." Sakura said kissing Sasuke on the cheek.
The next morning Sakura woke up to find that Sasuke wasn't in bed. He's probably washing the dishes. She looked at his side of the bed to find a note on his pillow. What's with the note? He normally doesn't leave notes for trivial things. She picked it up and read it over to find that he had been called to the Hokage's office and had to go on a mission. He would be back in about a week. Great, that means he probably didn't wash the dishes. Sakura sat up and walked out of her room and down the stairs to find Ako sitting on the couch playing with one of her new toys.
"Have you had breakfast Ako?" Sakura asked her daughter.
"Yep, Daddy fixed it before he left." Ako replied. "He set your breakfast on the table."
"Okay. When did he leave?"
"A few minutes ago."
"Okay." Sakura replied as she heard a knock on the door. "I wonder who that could be this early in the morning." She walked over and opened the door to see Hinata still in her nightgown and a robe. "Good morning Hinata. Come in." Sakura said stepping out of the way.
"Thank you Sakura. I hope I didn't wake you up." Hinata said walking in and taking off her shoes.
"Actually I woke up a few minutes ago." Sakura said walking into the kitchen followed by Hinata.
"I was afraid I would wake you up. I'm glad I didn't." Hinata then notice the plate of food. "Oh, am I disrupting your breakfast?"
"No, I'm not real hungry and Sasuke fixed it before he left." Sakura said setting the plate in the refrigerator. "I swear he still hasn't figured out that I don't eat as much as he does."
"I know the feeling." Hinata laughed sitting in one of the chairs at the table. "So Sasuke was called out for the mission too?"
"Yep, I take it Naruto was as well."
"Yes."
"Do you want some tea?" Sakura asked filling a kettle with water. She put the lid back on and set it on the stove after lighting the fire.
"Sure." Hinata replied as Sakura got out two tea cups. "Say Sakura I wanted to ask you what you were doing this afternoon."
"Absolutely nothing, why?"
"I wanted to know if would come shopping with me. I've been meaning to buy me some new dishes and I haven't had time." Please don't remind me of buying new dishes.
"Sure I'll go with you." Sakura smiled as the kettle whistled. "Sounds like the tea is done." She walked over to the stove and filled the two cups. She turned the fire off before she set the kettle back down on the stove. "Do you want any sugar?"
"No thank you." Hinata replied. Sakura picked the two cups up and set them down and the table. "Thanks."
"No problem. Hey where is Taro? He didn't go with Naruto did he?"
"No, he is with my father. If you want to take Ako over there I'm sure he wouldn't mind watching her as well and I'm sure Taro wouldn't mind having one of his friends over."
"That would be great." Sakura replied with a sigh. "I was starting to think I would have to take Ako over to Ino's again."
"What happened at Ino's?"
"You don't wanna know."
"Did Ino smack Ako?"
"Well, let's just say that Ino doesn't want to watch 'that little monster' anymore."
"Oh so Ako smacked Ino."
"Ako did more than smacking. She nearly beat her senseless." Sakura said laughing.
"Oh." Hinata said joining in Sakura's laughing.
That afternoon Hinata went back over to Sakura's house to see if she was ready. She was about to knock on the door when it opened.
"Oh I take it that you are ready." Hinata said.
"Well, I am." Sakura turned around. "Hey Ako come on!" She called to her daughter.
"Coming!" Ako replied running down the stairs. She walked out the door after her mother. Sakura locked the door after Ako was out.
"Okay let's go." Sakura smiled.
"Mother where are we going?"
"You are going to see Taro at his grandfather's house."
"Then where are you going?"
"I'm going shopping with Hinata."
"Why can't I go?"
"Ako you don't want Taro to be lonely do you?"
"Not really."
"Then you won't ask questions and besides you don't need any dishes."
"Oh." Ako replied. Hinata laughed quietly at the girl who didn't look too thrilled about going shopping if it was just for dishes.
They walked the rest of the way to Hiashi's house in almost complete silence. The two girls left Ako with Hiashi and Taro before walking off to go get new dishes.
"Hey Ako, I didn't know you were coming over." Taro said in excitement.
"Well, I didn't really want to buy any dishes." Ako replied with a laugh.
"You arrived just in time. We were just getting ready to go out to eat." Hiashi said pulling his coat on.
"We're going to eat ramen!" Taro cried joyfully. Ako smiled at her friend as he pulled his jacket over his head.
"You two ready?" Hiashi asked them as he opened the door for the two.
"Yep." Taro and Ako replied and smiled at the same time before walking out the door and to the ramen shop.