I Do Not Own Naruto
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Lights and Shadows
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Sakura found herself a little nervous about her pregnancy, but she shoved those worries aside as she dressed for a wedding. Tomorrow she had an ultrasound appointment with Tsunade and a Seal check with Minato. Isobu was grumbling about his seal being tightened but Sakura wanted there to be no chance of her beloved three-tails hurting her baby. It was with that in mind that she had trumped Isobu's wants. Sakura scowled when her dress didn't go on like it was supposed to.
"Damn it!" she hissed, she felt like a bloated pig or something, nothing was fitting right anymore.
"Shush," Sasuke ordered as he appeared behind her and helped her with the dress.
"I'm getting fat," she griped as the dress tightened around her not very large midsection. She was swelling, she could feel it. Nothing was fitting right anymore and it was annoying the hell out of her as she stood there leaning on her husband for a moment.
"We can't be late," Sasuke said and she grumbled as her stomach snarled in hunger. He quirked a brow and she sighed.
"I ate twenty minutes ago," she mumbled as her face heated up. He just shook his head in exasperation and he pulled her along. They walked together through the Leaf and towards the park where the small wedding was to be held at Hinata's wish. Sakura wanted to curl into his side but they weren't like that and an Uchiha did not do public displays of affection, ever which was why she was refraining as they walked together.
Chatting with him as thye walked she filled him in on all she knew about pregnancies and what they could expect. He listened intently and she knew this as his fingers tightened on her hand a few times.
They arrived at the wedding and she smiled as she watched her best friend marry the girl he loved. Naruto enthusiastically kissed Hinata when he could, despite the glare he was receiving from Neji and she laughed in joy as she watched Naruto fluster Hinata. They were so in love that it was something to envy in her mind as she watched them.
There was a stab of jealousy in her knowing how much Naruto obviously loved Hianta, but she was quick to discard it. Sasuke didn't know she loved him, and she didn't know if he would ever love her; and that was alright. They were a solid match, they would be fine together in the coming years. And who knew, perhaps love would blossom for them. Well, for Sasuke, but she didn't get her hopes up on that thought as she cheered her friend and smiled at their wedding.
Naruto moved to shove Sasuke between him and an angry Neji but her husband sidestepped and Naruto was slugged. Sakura took it as meaning that Neji knew about Hinata's pregnancy and wasn't happy that someone had knocked up his 'little sister'. She just chuckled as Naruto swore at Sasuke, and Sasuke smirked.
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Sakura's laughter captured his attention as he stood there listening to the fallen Naruto swearing at him for not taking one for the team. He couldn't look away from her for a long moment as she laughed without knowing he was watching her. The warmth spreading in his chest had him softening a little as he watched her.
That was his woman.
That was his child in her.
And that was all his.
The feeling of content pride filled him where he normally felt nothing because of his job and he decided this wasn't all bad as he kicked Naruto for trying to trip him. The blonde declared war then and he ducked as his friend leapt for his head and he politely congratulated Uzumaki Hinata on her pregnancy and gave his condolences for possibly needing to kill her new husband for the insults. She just laughed and he spun on the furious Naruto and evaded another punch for his head. The spar was all in good nature and eventually he won.
Naruto only lost because Hyūga Neji distracted him with a promis of a painful death if he didn't take good care of Hinata. That was when Sasuke got in his lucky punch and walked away. He quickly gathered his wife and they walked through the village again. She was giggling and he just savored having her attention all to himself. Everything was great for him, and he was savoring it. At least it was all good until this moment, Sakura stiffened beside him and he wrapped an arm around her lower back then.
"Ah! Sakura! We were coming for the family get together!" Haruno Tsubaki declared and he saw Sakura paling as she pressed herself closer into his side.
"Uh… alright, do you mind coming with me?" she asked him in her steadiest of voices. He could hear the strain of her voice and he remembered the nightmare she had recounted to him. Whatever her fear was, it was a legitimate fear and he wouldn't have her straining herself when she was pregnant with his child.
"Certainly," he said coldly and she relaxed a little against him and they walked with Tsubaki. He made a mental not that his wife was a little less tense around the Haruno women, she only seemed to be petrified terrified when Haruki was around.
The tea with Mebuki, Tsubaki, Yuri, Rina, and Hana was a quiet affair and he didn't like it. The looks the women were giving him were enough to have him tempted to Amaterasu them. However he didn't as he endured the tea.
"So, Sasuke, what do you do for a living besides be a shinobi?" Mebuki asked him.
He quirked a brow at her.
"I'm a shinobi," he answered blandly and he watched as the blonde woman faltered for a moment and he sipped his tea in silence.
"Yes, but after Sakura has a baby surely you don't intend to keep being a shinobi!" Mebuki gasped.
"And why wouldn't he continue being a shinobi?" Sakura asked in a dangerous tone.
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Sakura had been absently listening to Mebuki and Sasuke as she tried to figure out how she was going to use her pregnancy to her advantage for a change and get out of this meeting. She didn't like being around all these pinkettes, it made her uneasy. And she really didn't like how they all watched her as if she were some insane thing that needed monitoring. Sakura refrained from pointing out that she wasn't insane and she actually liked being a kunoichi.
But when she had heard Mebuki's words to Sasuke she had stiffened on his behalf as she turned her glare upon the woman who was her biological mother and set the challenge.
"Well, because… parenting is more important!" Mebuki sputtered. "And it's dangerous work which could get him killed leaving you a widow with his child."
"What do you think shinobi are!? Foolhardy idiots who die at will?" Sakura challenged as the room fell silent.
"That wasn't what I was…" Mebuki started but Sasuke; who rarely spoke to others in complete sentences; cut her off.
"I have been training to be a Leaf's shinobi since I was a child, your daughter trained with me. At five we were practicing jutsu, at seven we were diffusing paper bombs and playing with kunai and shuriken, at twelve we were put on a quad with our best friend. At thirteen your daughter was forced to become a jinchūriki. At fifteen we were all in the jonin ranks and since then we have numerous missions without fail or flaws. We work hard at what we do Haruno Mebuki, it's who we are and to expect either of us to stop is insulting.
"Come on Sakura, the tea here is stale," Sasuke said and offered her a hand. She took it as she followed him dumbfounded by everything he had just said and silently followed him. smiling a bit she rested her head on his shoulder.
"Thank you," she murmured.
"There is no need to thank me, you are an excellent kunoichi and our child will be proud of you," he said icily. She just looked at him and felt a pang in her heart.
If only she could tell him that she loved him to his conscious face, but she couldn't and she wouldn't. Sasuke wouldn't know what to do with her if he knew she loved him so she was going to keep it to herself.
"They'll be proud members of the Uchiha clan," she decided as they walked.
"Hn," he grunted and she closed her eyes as she savored this again and let him lead her towards their home. Tomorrow they had an appointment with Tsunade and they would see their baby. She smiled a little as her hand absently rubbed her slightly bloated stomach.
They made it home when Sasuke spun her around, she gasped as he hoisted her up, his mouth on hers'. Sakura only wrapped her legs securely around his hips and her arms around his shoulders as she kissed him back with everything she had.
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Blooming in Darkness! =)
