I Do Not Own Naruto
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Eager Sproutings
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Sakura was shocked when Sasuke came to her the evening after the plan was formed with a ring and slipped it onto her finger. It was a simple silver ring with rubies and diamonds embedded in it, it was beautiful, and she actually liked it.
After telling Ino about the situation the night of the engagement, then bashing Kiba with her she found she felt alright about the situation she found herself in with Sasuke. Sakura couldn't explain why she felt alright about this other than it felt… right.
Isobu was excited about her wedding saying he wanted to play with the babies when they came and that had had Sakura nearly fainting into Sasuke's arms.
However, that didn't stop her from feeling nervous about the wedding or the Harunos being around, she really didn't like Haruki. And she didn't even know why!
Just everything in her screamed run whenever she saw Haruno Haruki, in fact it was so bad, that the other day when she had left Ino's shop and literally ran into him she was up a telephone pole and running on the wires towards the Uchiha compound where she barricaded herself in Sasuke's room and held his sword in her hands until he came home and was furious to find himself barricaded out of his own room. He had scolded her for being afraid of a civilian when she was one of the most feared Kunoichi of their generation, but it couldn't be helped.
Everything in her wanted to run whenever she saw Haruki and run she did.
Even Isobu didn't like Haruno Haruki and if Isobu didn't like someone she'd trust Isobu and stay away from them. But other than the stress of her impending wedding and the Haruno family trying to demand time with her, everything was fine. No, it was better than fine, she was really happy; like stupid, giddy happy; the kind girls claimed to get when the boy they liked asked them out, but hers was twenty times for infectious.
Hatake Sakura was getting married to Uchiha Sasuke and she was unbelievably happy about it. Even as she stood there in the shop with her bridesmaids; Ino, Hinata, and Tenten being fitted for the wedding.
She had managed to finagle a more modern wedding out of the Fourth Hokage with Kushina on her side. It was simpler being a little more modern, a little less traditional, but she had conceded on a few things so her wedding was a mix of modern and traditional. Which was fine with her, as she stood there being fitted in light silk for her dress.
"Only two weeks to go before the big day, excited Sakura?" Ino giggled.
"Yeah, I think so," Sakura smiled then as she held still for the tailor, a kind elderly lady who hadn't pricked her at all with a single pin. Though Sakura had a feeling the woman wanted to as they stood there.
"Neji asked me to go to the wedding with him!" Tenten blurted out.
"He did! That's great!" Ino declared.
"Who are you going with?" Tenten demanded and Sakura saw her expectant look in the mirror as she looked to Hinata and Ino.
"Sakura!" Hinata panicked.
"Don't look at me, I'm arriving with Kakashi and going home with Sasuke," Sakura said which had the girls giggling. "Naruto asked you didn't he?"
Hinata nodded shyly.
"Go for it Hinata!" Sakura encouraged.
"Yeah, you two would be really sweet!" Ino declared.
"Ino?"
"Oh… um,' Ino was turning pink and Sakura lifted her brows. "Sai asked me out," she admitted.
"That's great!" Sakura declared.
"I said I'd go with him, but I don't know if he knows if this would be a date," Ino huffed as her head fell back then. "It's too confusing with Sai. I like him and everything, but it's really hard to… figure out, what's going on with him."
Sakura didn't bother to say it was the same with all guys because then Ino would have another rant. The door chimed and Sakura paled when she saw the blonde she actively avoided and her four pinkettes following in tow. Tenten frowned at them, Hinata glared a little and Ino showed her dislike immediately with her next words.
"Can we come back later to finish the dress?" Ino asked the tailor.
"Certainly," the old woman said.
"Great, Sakura and I have some training to attend to," Ino said pointedly and Sakura was grateful to the older girl for giving her a reason to leave as she was helped out of the dress, pulled on her clothes then ran out of the shop before the Haruno family could speak to her.
Aside from her unknown fear of Haruki, she just didn't like the other Harunos because they had just waltzed into her life and then demanded she go with them.
And there had been a huge fight about it on her end when they had shown up at Kakashi's and said the shinobi were brainwashing her and then proceeded to try to take her with them. She was screaming bloody murder by the time Naruto and Sasuke got there with Itachi a step behind them. Sasuke had been the one to drag Naruto away before there could be a fight, and he had carried her away while Itachi dealt with the Haruno family.
Sakura could not make it any clearer to those civilians if she tried.
Her name was not Haruno Misaki, she was Hatake Sakura and that was the only fucking name she had until she was married to Sasuke and would then be Uchiha Sakura, with Kakashi still as her only family. She would not let herself be dragged away from her family.
"So what training are we doing?" Sakura asked Ino as they walked through the Leaf.
"Oh, we don't have training, I just cannot stand those girls, the nerve of them just taking you!" Ino snapped indignantly which had Sakura smiling a bit as she walked with Ino to a training field.
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Sasuke found that the closer the wedding drew the calmer he was. About the only thing in his life to change at this point was that he was moving to a different house on the Uchiah compound; he had chosen his favorite one; the one closest to the edge of the Uchiha property and shared a fence with the Hatake property. It made Sakura visiting Kakashi or Kakashi visiting Sakura easier, also, it was making the move surprisingly easy with Sai's and Naruto's help.
The only other really huge change in his life was Sakura's irrational fears of the Haruno family.
Oh, he was certain that if someone were to dig into her mind that her fears of the Haruno family would make sense but he wasn't going to pry. Not even Kakashi knew what that fear was about, other than maybe Sakura didn't want another family, and Sasuke and Kakashi both didn't think it was that. She was too loving not to want more family, she had adopted Gaara and Temari after all, just look at how that worked with them as the ambassadors from Suna to visit her.
Even Kisame liked the girl and had been adopted into the family in a way. That was saying something in Sasuke's mind because aside from maybe him, Kisame was the only person he knew to actually hate everyone equally and had fewer friends than Sasuke did.
But still, he was prying.
He was annoyed though with everything the Fourth Hokage was piling on him for what was expected of this marriage of his and Sakura's.
"Wait, what?" he shook his head as he read over the next demand of the Haruno family.
"Yeah," Minato huffed out. "And the council says they want it too, saying that if they have to pretend to have accepted this arrangement years ago they need this to happen.
"You do know we're not like that, right?" he asked a man who was practically his uncle.
"I don't like it!" Kakahsi declared, but he was biased being her father; even Sasuke knew this.
"Well, your opinion does not count, Kakashi. And if you you want to sell this arrangement of her and Sasuke being engaged for years and have the Haruno family stay here where we can monitor them then this will happen either way. Or the Haruno family is likely to go to the Cloud for sanctuary and end up paying the Cloud to kidnap Sakura; which scenario do you perfer?" Minato asked as he read over other contracts.
"But this… this is enough to have her knock my ass to Suna and back for kicks," Sasuke grumbled.
"It's not too much," Minato said.
"Then you tell her," Sasuke snapped as he folded the demand up and tossed it to the Hokage then.
"I wasn't going to! You're her fiancé! And Kakashi you're her guardian!" Minato informed them.
"And we like living, if you're demanding that, you tell her," Kakashi snapped.
"Tell me what?" they all looked over to Sakura who walked into his house then. He paled and knew Kakashi was paling, Minato just held up the neatly folded up demand to her.
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Blooming in Darkness! =)
