A/N: Yay! I finally get to update peoples, but I felt really bad when I didn't get the amount of reviews I asked for when another fifteen people added this story to their favorites without reviewing. Ahh….sigh…I'm just so glad finals are over even if I did horrible on all of them! This chapter will be shorter than the past chapters because I didn't get the amount of reviews I wanted so…read, be kind, and leave a review!

PMYM

Chapter 9:

Father?

"Everything you can imagine is real."

-Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Recap:

"Oh, you're so cute," Naruto came over to Kin and flicked her lightly on the nose making her laugh. "What's your name?"

"My name's Kin," Kin whispered out embarrassed by all the attention Naruto was giving her, so she buried her head in Sakura's neck yet again.

"Is she your sister?" Naruto asked a smile on his face. You could tell that Kin had already enchanted Naruto, while Sasuke watched the child, showing no emotion at all…

End of Recap:

Part 1: Sakura

Sakura answered, "Umm…." Sakura was confused. What should she do?

The way Sasuke was staring at her with eyes that held guilt turned her more away from the lies she was about to tell them. Somehow, Sakura just felt guilty for even thinking up a lie about her daughter. Sakura was scared for her daughter and herself. She didn't know how far Sasuke or Naruto would go to use this against her or would they use it against her at all? They were her friends; but just how far does this friendship last? How much could they hurt her-to much?!

Sakura finally came to terms with herself. She finally bridged the barrier in her mind that wanted her to lie. She had finally become stable and confident with the here and the now and what she would say to them.

Naruto was looking at her curiously, "She's my daughter." The words were out of her mouth before she could take them back.

It seemed to Sakura, by the look on Sasuke's passive face, that he felt nothing wrong towards her about what she had just come out and told Naruto and him.

"Ahh…Kin, I'm Naruto," Naruto had gotten over the shock quickly, because you could definitely see the striking resemblance between mother and daughter and he could see that it was taking Sakura a lot to come out and say this to them.

Naruto was just thankful that she hadn't lied to them about who Kin really was because being Sakura's child made her special- it automatically made her apart of the gang and family in Naruto's world. Kin would always be accepted by Naruto, because she is Sakura's cute little, adorable daughter!

"Can I call you uncle Naruto?" Kin asked excited about extending her family from mother and aunts to an uncle or two too.

"Sure thing kid," Naruto smiled and ruffled her hair until she had pouted her lower lip at him, which Naruto laughed at.

Sakura was embarrassed by the attention Naruto was giving to Kin, a little girl he had just met.

"Put me down, put me down," Kin chanted until Sakura had obliged and Kin skipped over to the apathetic man standing in the middle of her living room.

"Who are you," Kin said looking up to Sasuke who stared back down at her, "are you my daddy?"

Sakura blushed crimson red and almost fainted but gaped instead. Naruto burst out laughing so bad he fell down on the floor crying. Sasuke's mouth opened but it seemed as though he couldn't form a response before Kin spoke again.

"Mommy always said that daddy was a mysterious person; you're mysterious so you must be him," Kin said happily. Maybe this was her father that her mother didn't like to talk about. Maybe after all these years her father wanted to be with her and her mother. Maybe her family would finally be complete!

"Kin," Sakura tried to speak…she didn't understand that Kin had wanted a father, wanted another parent. This stung Sakura like a poisoned blade slicing through her body, splitting her into two separate, yet identical bodies. Sakura had always tried to cover up for Kin not having a father. She had always tried to be both a mother like anf fatehr like figure. Maybe, Sakura thought, I was not there enough for Kin when she needed me. Maybe this is what I get for being a bad parent.

"Sorry kid," Sasuke said kneeling down to Kin, "I'm not your father."

Part 2: Sasuke

Kin just looked at Sasuke and then started to cry. Sasuke just stood their dumbfounded at the crying girl. He looked to Sakura for help but she too looked pained…he didn't know why…maybe it had something to do with thinking of whoever the real father is? He tried to look to Naruto but he was to busy laughing his butt off on the ground. The idiot was always being an idiot when people needed him (Naruto) the most!

Sasuke looked back down to the crying girl and realized this was the reason why he hated children and the reason why he made sure to have 'safe sex.' Sasuke was panicking and before he could think of anything else, he picked the girl up so that he was holding her in his arms.

Kin just looked at him in a way any innocent would do to the person they hated most.

"I'm not your real daddy," Sasuke whispered trying to sound soothing, "but if you want I will be."

Kin looked as surprised as Sakura, who was watching them, and Naruto who by now had stopped laughing.

"Really," Kin hiccupped, the tears starting to slowly recede.

"Yes," Sasuke said and kissed the girl lightly on the forehead.

The only reason he had said that to Kin was to get her to stop crying. First, Sakura and her tears and then her daughter's, he couldn't take it and he knew by the end of the day he would have to call a therapist. To Sasuke, this was a bad day, which was turning out to be against him.

"Yeah, daddy…" Kin started to say but realized that she didn't know her 'father's' real name.

"My name's Sasuke," Sasuke said slowly smiling at the girl's antics.

"Daddy Sasuke, daddy Sasuke," Kin began to chant and swung her arms around his neck looking into his dark, onyx orbs.

"Sasuke…" Sasuke heard Sakura calling him so he turned around and found that she was a foot away from him.

Sasuke watched her face and saw her mouth the words, 'thank you.'

"Come on Kin," Sakura said taking Kin from his arms. "You should take a nap, so when your aunties come over later tonight you won't fall asleep early."

"Kay," Kin said happily, as if she was never sad and crying just a few minutes ago.

Sasuke watched as Sakura said, "I'll be back in ten minutes," and carried Kin off into what he thought was Kin's bedroom.

Sasuke fell down onto the couch, his face in his hands. Naruto came over and placed his hand on his back briefly.

"Sasuke what you did was…well…it was really kind of you," Naruto said and Sasuke still sat there, not knowing what to do next for the second time that day.

Realization just struck him that Sakura really did have a daughter who now looked to him as the father. Sakura hated him he thought or extremely disliked him, now how would she feel towards him? What were his feelings towards her? It was all to confusing…

Another thought struck him! What about the bet? He had forgotten all about it and right now, he felt like he should have nothing to do with that stupid bet. Right now, he was wishing that maybe he should have never met Sakura, who has only complicated his simple life. Was this the god's way of trying to play some sick joke on him?

Sasuke needed out of this, he didn't know what else to do, what else to think. He was loosing himself. Sasuke just wanted to run; run away from all the stupid problems that were now complicating his simple life. He wanted something to make it stop.

"Sasuke, man," Naruto had finally broken through his imaginative façade.

"What," Sasuke sounded tired to Naruto who couldn't figure out why. Was it for the simple reason that Sasuke was taken aback by Sakura's child's preference to him or something else?

"You want to talk about it?" Naruto said and now made Sasuke look into his eyes.

"Are you coming on to me," Sasuke said bluntly, his eyes narrowing at the gawking Naruto who was trying not to get worked up by what Sasuke said and his ways for trying to change the subject.

"I'm not gay," Naruto narrowed his eyes at Sasuke.

"Sure you're not and cows don't moo," Sasuke continued on antagonizing Naruto, just for the fact that it was something other to do then thinking about his own miserable sorry life.

"Grrr…." Naruto growled and tried to punch Sasuke who pinned his hands to the couch.

"Oh My Holy Mother, no doing it on the couch," Sakura rather screamed out and both Sasuke and Naruto freaked and jumped away from each other.

"It wasn't…" They both began but were cut off…

"I'm going to have to tell Hinata about this and Sasuke I may have to tell those fan girls why you always break up with them!"

Sasuke could see that Sakura was trying to be humorous. He could also see that same line of pain written into her eyes maybe even her heart, if Sasuke were to look quite that far.

"You guys want to hear the whole story, right?" Sakura said to Sasuke and Naruto, who watched her as she stared at her feet, not making eye contact with them.

"You don't have to tell us," Naruto said rushing to Sakura who looked too depressed; life wasn't meant for being depressed.

"Yeah, I think I do," Sakura said leaning her head on Naruto's shoulder for a minute.

Sasuke noticed Sakura take a seat on the couch, next to him, and Naruto. (Aka, she sat in between the two of them.)

Naruto held onto her hand as he watched Sakura close her eyes and open them, explaining her story from the very beginning to the very end, when Sakura was left orphaned with Kin and had to go live with her aunt who neither liked nor disliked her.

Sasuke absorbed the story thinking back to his own childhood where he too felt orphaned but completely alone with a brother who only ever really took advantage of him when it was to his brother's benefit.

"Well there you have it, I'm hiding nothing from either of you," Sakura was finally able to say this, after the story was over, trying to get rid of the building silence.

"Who else knows," Naruto was curious.

"The girls," Sakura said and Sasuke raised an eyebrow, that explains a lot, he thought to himself.

"So…Neji was right all along, you were hiding something from us." Naruto said and all too late realized the meaning of the words he just said.

"I didn't mean it like that," Naruto said after he saw Sakura's head fall a little bit so that she was staring at her hands that were now tightly bound together in her lap.

"I know you didn't," Sasuke heard Sakura say, but somehow he knew that she had taken the words to heart. He knew that Sakura took what everybody said literally.

So suddenly did Sakura turn to him, that Sasuke didn't notice and when he did, she was talking to him.

Part 3: Sakura

"Sasuke, thank you for saying that you were…her…father," Sakura whispered to him and saw him nod in response.

Somehow, Sakura knew that if Sasuke had to go back in time that he wouldn't change his mind. She had seen the way that he had reacted to her when she was telling her story, almost as if he could know what the pain she went through felt like. Did he go through something like her? Could he honestly tell her that this pain inside her heart could one day subside into the miraculous oblivion or did the pain that she carries have no true cure?

Sakura needed answers, but she knew that she would not find them in this moment of time. Sasuke seemed to have a glazed look on his face, and sort of just as a thank you, Sakura decided, that she could stop her hatred for a few minutes.

Sakura did the only thing that she could actually remember to do as the best way to tell a person thank you…she kissed Sasuke on the cheek.

She watched as Sasuke moved back a little and stared at her with his sad onyx eyes.

"Truly, thank you," Sakura said. She laughed a little bit not believing Sasuke's surprised face which was immediately taken over by a more composed face.

Naruto was thinking to himself something along the lines of…one day they will make a perfect husband and wife.

"Maybe, you two will have a happy ending together," Naruto said aloud, not realizing that he had said those words out loud.

"What the heck are you saying," Sasuke and Sakura said at the same time and pummeled Naruto to the ground.

The serious atmosphere turned lighter as the minutes passed and the friends humbly talked to each other about trivial things and when the clothes were dry, the guys changed into them but did not leave.

An hour after the clothes were dry, Sakura found that the electricity was working correctly, and the guys finally left…but Sakura didn't get peace for too long because the girls showed up at her doorstep grinning from ear to ear ready for the weekend that lay ahead.

Once inside, Sakura explained the days events to the girls, who were first shocked by what had occurred and then happy that they didn't have to lie to Sasuke and Naruto anymore, about knowing the truth and were willing to accept her for it.

"You know," Ino said and stretched her body like a cat, "I think you will find a happy ending in Konoha!"

Thus the sleepover/weekend house tidying started. Sakura, Kin and the girls had lots of fun decorating the house. They even managed to paint Kin's bedroom a light shade of red to match her hair color and when the girls needed help moving furniture around the house the would call Sasuke and Naruto and almost threaten them with their lives to force them help with the tedious jobs. All in all, the weekend was fun and nobody wanted it to end becasue as Kin said, "Everything is always more fun when you have a mama and aunties running about like crazed chickens."

The girls were shocked when the heard heard Kin say this but all the same the laughed at what she said and slyly made a come back like, "well it beats being the kid who can't reach the cookie jar."

Well, now the were just palying around but to all of the girls, Sakura, and Kin it was one of the funniest two and a half days of their lives that ended way to soon. When the girls left Sunday night to go do their homework that they had procrastinated on, Sakura was sort of happy that the chaos was over but she wasn't happy that she would have to get up early the next day to go to school...

Kin on the other hand, couldn't wait to go to school to tell her friends that she now has a daddy!

End of Chapter 9

A/N: Well that was the shortest chapter I've ever done for this story, and please forgive me, but as I stated earlier, I didn't get all the reviews I wanted so I made it shorter. I hope the chapter pleased all of you and I would like your input!

Honestly…I have no idea when I can next update, hopefully next weekend or the following weekend, but only if I get 27 reviews. I'm telling you this now, I'm not asking for much, just a review.

Even if you don't really want to review, please do, because I want you all to answer the question: Out of all the characters I have portrayed in the story thus far, who is your favorite character?

Thanks, moonlesslife