Chapter Two: The Big Surprise
"Big brother!" Keiko exclaimed excitedly while she raced towards Sasuke with her arms held open wide. Sasuke chuckled as he bent down and embraced her tightly before hoisting her up inside of his own arms.
"Hey there." He began with a grin before planting a kiss on her cheek. "How are you? I missed you." He told her.
"I missed you too big brother." She said.
"And I see that you're wearing that locket that I gave you." He pointed out.
"Of course! I've been wearing it every day since you gave it to me." She told him while smiling warmly at him.
"Well now that we're back Sakura and I have a big surprise for you." He told her with a huge grin.
"Really? What is it?" she questioned him eagerly before he turned over to look at Sakura.
"Do you want to tell her or should I?" he wondered.
"I'll tell her." Sakura began. "Keiko, how would you like to become an aunt?" she inquired with a grin.
"Are you kidding me!? I'd love to! Are you and Sasuke-Kun going to have a baby?" she questioned.
"Close." Sasuke began while continuing to grin at her. "We decided to become foster parents. And we're going to go pick up our new baby girl tomorrow while you're at school." He explained.
"Really!? I can't wait to meet her!" Keiko exclaimed excitedly.
"We can't either." Sakura began. "And we were wondering if you would like to help pick out some stuff for the nursery." She said.
"Of course!" Keiko cried before she turned her head back over to look up at her mother. "Mom you're going to be a grandmother and I'm going to be Auntie Keiko!" she exclaimed excitedly before all three of them laughed and her mother nodded and smiled at her.
"That's right honey, and I'm sure that you'll be a great one." She told her before they all turned around and headed outside the airport. Sasuke planted another kiss on Keiko's cheek while he carried her outside.
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November 12, 2018
Dear Journal,
Guess what!? Sasuke and Sakura are back now and they're going to be picking up their new foster child today. That means I'm going to be an aunt! I'm going to meet her for the first time after school today and I literally can't wait!
Love, Keiko
While Keiko closed up her journal and continued to wait for class to start she turned her head back over to look at Saki and told her the whole entire story.
"Wow, that sounds really exciting Keiko, I love babies!" she whispered before all of a sudden Iruka-Sensei walked into the room and started writing something up on the chalkboard. "What do you think today's assignment is?" she wondered.
"I don't know." Keiko replied truthfully with a shrug before Iruka turned around to face the class and then set his piece of chalk down inside the tray afterwards.
"Alright class, today I have a very interesting homework assignment for you before we get started on today's lesson." He began. "Since there are many honorable shinobi in the hidden leaf village, I want you to pick somebody that you know and love and write about them and why you respect them." He explained as Saki suddenly gasped with excitement.
"I'm going to write about you Keiko since you're my best friend in the whole entire world." She explained as Keiko smiled at her.
"Aww,.. thanks Saki you're so sweet." She told her.
"You're welcome, but who are you going to write about?" Saki wondered but before Keiko could answer her Iruka silenced them.
"Alright girls, that's enough talking for now because we have a guest speaker today." He told them before he turned over to look towards the door and a few seconds later Sasuke entered the classroom.
"Big brother!" Keiko squealed excitedly. "What are you doing here? I thought that you were going to go pick up Ami." She said as Sasuke turned around and grinned at her.
"Sakura's doing that right now. Don't worry, you'll get to see her later on. For now, I'm here to introduce today's assignment. Since part of living in the hidden leaf village means taking care of it, today we will be taking care of nature by growing our own flowers and taking care of them as a class project. You will be broken off into pairs so go ahead and pick your partners." He explained.
"That's no contest there, I'm picking you Saki." Keiko told her.
"Thanks Keiko." Saki began. "And do you want to sit with me at lunch later on?" she wondered.
"Of course!" Keiko exclaimed excitedly. "And we can play together at recess too." She told her.
"That's wonderful but you still didn't tell me who you were going to write about." Saki pointed out.
"That's obviously no contest either." Keiko began. "My big brother Sasuke Uchiha." She told her.
"Alright now once you all have your partners go ahead and come up here and get your pots." Iruka instructed as everybody started pushing out their chairs and going up to the front of the room at once to line up.
"Pst!" the same boy who laughed at Keiko from the day before began in a whisper while he looked at Saki. "You do realize that you only have a partner because otherwise that freak wouldn't have one either chubby!" he snapped as Saki sadly hung her head and felt tears silently rolling down her cheeks while Keiko clenched her teeth and fists together while trying to control her temper and felt her eyes starting to turn red again.
"Uh oh." Sasuke said to himself as he suddenly saw what was happening. That's when suddenly she quickly spun her head back around at him.
"Shut up!" she snapped inside that same whisper. "Shut up or otherwise you'll be sorry!" she warned. "You don't want to mess with me when I get mad otherwise I wouldn't be able to control myself!" she snapped as the boy gulped and Saki tapped her on the shoulder.
"Thanks Keiko." She told her as Keiko grinned at her while her eyes quickly changed back to blue. "No problem Saki." She said while Iruka simply just smiled at them as soon as it was their turn.
"Here you go girls." He told them.
"Thanks Iruka-Sensei." Saki said before she turned around and followed Keiko back to their desks.