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Road to Parenthood: Like Father Like Daughter.
Naruto usually accompanied Kakashi in his Hokage endeavors as a preparation to take over in a couple of years. After which Naruto would give Sasuke the rundown of the said endeavor. While Shikamaru would be Naruto's personal advisor when he will officially takes over the title, Sasuke will always be Naruto's right hand, ironic considering Naruto lost his right hand while fighting Sasuke.
Sasuke walked slowly towards his house, it had been a long tiring day. Naruto is not the best when it comes to explaining his endeavors, so although the day wasn't physically exhausting, listening patiently to Naruto ramble on for hours without actually getting to the point drained Sasuke out mentally. He needed some time away from that blonde ball of hyper activeness.
Sasuke was steps away from his door. A smile filled his face, he could just feel his bed calling out to him. He opened the door and let himself in and shut the door gently behind him "I'm home" he said to no one in particular.
He removed his shoes and called out to his daughter "Sarada I got your favorite, tangy potato chips." He said as he held out the plastic containing the food.
"YATA!" a familiar voice screamed out as he snatched the plastic from Sasuke's hand and ran past him.
"Thank you Sasuke oji-san!"
Sasuke stood there. The blonde ball has rolled over his successor straight to his house, who is bouncing straight to…SARADA'S ROOM!
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked as she slightly leaned her head from the kitchen so she could see who was at the door.
"You are home early." She said.
Sasuke didn't respond, he was marching straight to Sarada's room. As he walked past Sakura, she held his arm which made him turn over.
"Sasuke-kun…Why is your Sharigan activated?" Sakura asked a little curious.
"What is he doing here?!" Sasuke asked, deactivating his Sharingan. Whenever he sensed danger, it tends to activate on its own.
"Who? Bolt?" Sakura asked rhetorically.
"Yes Bolt."
Sakura let out a sigh.
"Not this again Sasuke-kun." She said and dragged him inside the kitchen. She didn't want to take the chance of the kids listening to the conversation.
Sakura let go of his arm and continued to prepare dinner.
"I'm waiting." Sasuke said, impatiently.
"Naruto and Hinata needed the house to themselves. They are celebrating their anniversary today." Sakura said and smiled as she stirred the sauce with a wooden spoon.
"That doesn't answer my question."
Sakura looked at Sasuke. Did she really have to break it down to him. "So they need some privacy?"
"What for?"
"So they could play games Bolt shouldn't be witnessing." Sakura said giving out a laugh.
"What?" Sasuke asked, confused.
Sakura looked at him from over her shoulders with a raised eyebrow, he can't seriously not get this. "Didn't Naruto tell you about this, Hinata said Naruto would tell you since you were with him the whole day."
Sasuke closed his eyes and gave out a sigh. He finally spoke "He must have mentioned it" He ran his fingers through his hair in exasperation "Not that I was listening."
He pulled over his poncho from over his head and placed it on the top rail of the chair. He leant back and placed his left hand on the lower cabinet for support placing his weight on them. He used his right hand fingers to massage his temples in an attempt to avoid an inevitable headache.
"But why does the kid have to be here though."
"Where else would he be?" Sakura asked as she collected some sauce in the spoon. She blew some air to cool it down and ran her finger over the spoon leaving a trail behind and tasted it. She frowned, not completely satisfied.
"Kakashi?"
"Seriously? Would any responsible parent leave their kid with a man who reads porn so freely on the street? God alone knows what not he must be doing at home." Sakura said chills running through her spine just at the thought of it.
"What about Iruka–sensei? He is pretty sane."
On hearing that Sakura placed the wooden spoon on the table with force, making Sasuke stand upright.
"And so are we!" Sakura said as she turned around and made her way towards the refrigerator. She bent down, her emerald eyes scanned around in hope of finding the missing ingredient in her sauce.
"For the love of God Sasuke-kun, you need to stop this already. We have this conversation every time Bolt comes over." She finally spotted the bottle of the missing ingredient and reached out for it. She grabbed a few more items and held them out for Sasuke to hold. He quietly complied.
"And yet he comes back every time." Sasuke complained.
Sakura took a final glance and stood up and closed the door. She took back the items from his hand. "You are his Godfather for God's sake! Why did you agree to it if you have such a big problem with him?"
"As if I really had a choice." Sasuke said matter of factly.
"Yeah well so these are the consequences you must endure." Sakura said as she randomly added ingredients to the sauce.
"Yeah well the duties of a Godfather only commence if the said Father and Mother were no more. And knowing Naruto he isn't going to die anytime soon."
"If it were upto you he would have long ago." Sakura said as she amusingly looked at Sasuke. "Quite a few times actually."
"Cheap shot." Sasuke said with a straight face.
Sakura laughed at the response. "Why do you have such an issue with Bolt anyways?"
"Do you not see the resemblance?"
"That doesn't answer my question."
"Bolt is an exact replica of his father."
"Who is also your best friend."
Sasuke ignored that and continued, "And he is a boy. Sarada is our daughter, who is a girl and happens to be in the same room sharing tangy potato chips with him."
Sakura looked at him puzzled. "Sasuke-kun…they are five years old. Unless sharing chips now somehow secretly gets her pregnant in the future, I wouldn't be worried." She said and returned her attention to the persistent unperfected sauce.
"Kids now a days are not the same as we used to be Sakura!"
Sakura laughed at Sasuke childish possessive nature. Sasuke frowned at the mocking laugh.
"You know out of all the people you should understand this more. Didn't Naruto trouble you at that same age when he had a crush on you?"
"Yes but I didn't pay any heed to him remember? Just for argument sake, even if we were to consider your apprehension, you know as much as I do if Bolt is a replica of Naruto, Sarada is as much a replica of you. So you really need not worry."
Sasuke had to agree to that. If Sarada was anything like him, she would steer clear of his Godchild.
"Actually.." Sakura said with a tint of mischief in her voice. "If we were to go with that logic, if Bolt and Sarada are really anything like their fathers, a kiss is inevitable isn't it?" She slyly looked over at Sasuke from the corner of her eyes.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her, Sharingan activated.
Sakura gave out a nervous laugh, "Too soon?"
"There is never going to be a time for that to be funny." Sasuke said, deactivating his Sharingan. He continued, "Even though Sarada is a lot like me, that does not mean we encourage them by letting him stay here so often."
"It's just one night!"
"I'm really starting to question your decisions Sakura."
Sakura shot Sasuke a look, a look that could kill. She calmly lifted her right hand and pointed the ring finger at him. She put on a fake smile and pointed her left index finger towards her wedding ring and said "Trust me Sasuke-kun, I am questioning some of my decisions too right now."
Sasuke let out a small laugh at the gesture. Sakura let out a laugh in triumph too and got her attention back to the sauce. She repeated the procedure, she collected some sauce on her finger and licked and tasted the sauce again. She pouted getting close to admitting defeat.
Sasuke gets closer to her, dipped his finger into the pan of boiling sauce and tasted it.
"Sasuke-kun!" She said as she slapped his hand at the unhygienic gesture.
"Needs more salt." He said with a smirk as he licked his finger and strolled off sounding like an expert.
Sakura looked at him from over her shoulder "Needs some salt." She made a face and mimicked him. But she had to admit that was kind of hot.
Once Sakura sensed he had left the kitchen she quietly added some salt and tasted it. Perfect. She rolled her eyes. "Whatever."
They made themselves comfortable around the dining table as Sakura placed the dishes in front of them.
Bolt looked wide eyed with a huge smile on his face as each dish was placed on the table. With chopsticks one in each hand, ready to pounce. Sarada who sat next to him, waited patiently as she looked at the food with a straight face.
Sasuke sat on the opposite side of the table facing them. He examined both their behavior. They were poles apart.
Just as Sakura placed the platter with fried prawns Bolt gave out a gasp. "Sakura oba-chan! You are the best!"
Sakura smiled at him and ruffled his hair. Sakura walked over to the other side of the table and sat next to Sasuke-kun and faced the kids.
Sarada bent over to take in the smell of the sauce. The heat made her glasses foggy. Bolt looked over at Sarada and started laughing, "Your glasses are stupid!"
Sasuke frowned. Just as he was about to move forward to dip Bolt's head in the sauce Sakura stabbed her foot into Sasuke, to which he gave out a quite gasp. Her emerald eyes looked angrily at him as a warning. Before he could respond Sarada spoke, "So is your face usuratonkachi."
"Sarada!" Sakura said.
Sasuke gave out a laugh and smirked. Sakura looked at the father and daughter disapprovingly.
Sasuke didn't care. He had been worried unnecessarily. Sarada was a replica of him after all.
Everything was going to be just fine.
A.N : Hello again! A few translations.
Oji-san - uncle
Oba-chan - aunty
Usuratonkachi - Dobe. Sasuke would usually call Naruto that, I guess the dubbed version uses Dobe as a translation.
Also just wanted to mention since these are one shots I will be jumping from one timeline to another as and when an idea pops into my head. So if Sarada is 4 years old in this chapter she could be 2 year old in the next and 6 years old in the next to next. So please keep that in mind.
Other than that thank you all for the support. Did you like Sasuke's unreasonable possessiveness? Let me know through reviews!
Reminder : Story is marked as complete since these are one shots. Don't be fooled! Many more chapters to come!
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