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"talking"
'thinking'
Chapter 4:
"Sasuke!" a voice yelled. "I'm home!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes as he walked down the stairs. "Sai."
"I've brought gifts!" Sai smiled. In his hands were several bags. He also had some on the floor.
Sasuke sighed. "I don't need anything."
"Who said they're for you?" Sai said. "I've heard about Kohaku." Sasuke flinched. "I got him some stuff, you know, for the future." He put down the bags. "Now, where is my dear second cousin?" He began to walk pass Sasuke, but the man grabbed his arm.
"He's sleeping," Sasuke said.
"Oh?" Sai said. "Then even more reason to see him!" He smiled as he got Sasuke to release him before he ran up the stairs. Sasuke cursed before going after him. Sai reached the door first and slammed it open. How he had known where Kohaku was, Sasuke would never know. "Oh my!"
Sasuke stopped just behind him and looked over his shoulder. Naruto was on the bed with Kohaku in his arms. But that was the only normal thing about it. The blond was only in a towel. Sasuke groaned. Sai was sure to jump to a ridiculous conclusion.
"Didn't know you had such a young lover," Sai said. "Must admit that he is cute though."
"He's fourteen," Sasuke said. "And he isn't my lover. He's Kohaku's caregiver."
"Still, he'd adorable," Sai said. Sasuke rolled his eyes before walking over to the blond and gently shaking him awake. "You should get dressed."
Naruto blinked as he woke up. Barely hearing Sasuke's words, he looked down and blushed. He jumped up and grabbedin a blanket covering himself more. "S-sorry. I m-must have fallen asleep."
"Hn," Sasuke nodded. He reaches down and picked up his son. "Get dressed and meet us in the dinning room. Lunch should be ready by now." He left, making sure to grab Sai so the blond had his privacy.
Once the door closed behind the three ravens, Naruto jumped up and got dressed. He sneezed as he put on an orange shirt. "Hopefully I didn't catch a cold."
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Sasuke sat at the table with his son in his arms trying to ignore Sai. He kept going on and on about Naruto and how Sasuke needed to find a new love. "Sai!" Sai looked at him. "Shut up!" Sai fell silent.
Naruto took his seat next to Sasuke and remained quiet. He couldn't look Sasuke in the eye. He glanced at Sai before looking down at his hands, suddenly finding them interesting.
"Hi Sai," Choji said as he put a plate in front of Naruto. "It's been awhile."
"Yes," Sai said. "I've been busy. One of my clients couldn't make up her mind on what kind of flowers she wanted. To make it worse, her husband didn't like the color of the floor." He shook his head. "I'm good but I'm not a magician."
"He's a wedding planner," Sasuke said, answering Naruto's confused look.
"A great one!" Sai said. "I did plan your wedding after all, not to mention Itachi's." Sasuke glared at Sai. "He's been dead for five years Sasuke."
"You would know that best," Sasuke said standing up. He headed out of the room without another word.
"He still blames me," Sai said.
"What happened?" Naruto asked.
"It's a long story," Sai said. "I'll give you the summarized version." He shifted forward. "Itachi was twenty-eight when he died. That was five years ago. Two months before his death, he came to me asking to plan his wedding. At the time, Sasuke was already married, for only a week mind you. Itachi wanted to get married as fast as possible. He didn't tell Sasuke or I why but I could guess. His marriage would save the Uchiha name. So I took the job." He sat back. "Itachi's wedding was held a week and a half later. He got married to Kurama Namikaze. She was the daughter of the Namikaze Empire. The marriage united the two families, a contract forming between them to better both companies. It worked, but things didn't go as planned. Itachi and Kurama were walking out of a restaurant when a car swerved and hit them. Itachi died instantly, for he took the brunt of the hit. Kurama went into a coma. She's been in the coma since then."
"I don't understand," Naruto said. "Why does Sasuke blame you?"
Sai smiled sadly. "I drove the car."
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Sasuke laid Kohaku down before he sat in a chair. His mind was going a hundred miles an hour. He knew his anger was getting the better of him. Itachi would want him to move on, but he was having a hard time doing that. Mizori had tried to get Sasuke to do that. When they first found out that Mizori was pregnant, it brightened Sasuke's life. When Kohaku was born, Sasuke was ready to create a great life for him, but catching Mizori with Sena had ruined that. The thought of not being Kohaku's father had damaged a part of Sasuke that had started getting over Itachi's death. The reason he had sent Kohaku with Mizori to the prison was because he didn't want to look at him. But he had to admit that there was a chance that he was Kohaku's father. It had been the discovery that Kurama had been pregnant with Itachi's child that made Sasuke get his son.
At the first mention of Kohaku's name, he found it perfect. Originally, Sasuke thought about naming his son after Itachi. In fact, while Mizori was pregnant, they came up with the name Itami for a girl and Itaku for a boy. In Sena's journal, there was a name he had chosen, Makoto. Seeing that name made Sasuke lose his sympathy towards Sena and Mizori. Sasuke wasn't sure if it was because it wasn't Makoto, but Kohaku that was his son's name or the fact that Naruto was the one that gave him the name. And that scared him.
Sasuke leaned back in the chair. He closed his eyes as thoughts of Itachi filled his mind. Once again, they mixed with thoughts of his son and Naruto. He sighed. It seemed he hadn't even started to move on. Another picture of Naruto holding Kohaku flashed through his mind as a smile appeared on his face. But maybe he could start now.