Disclaimer: I don't own any Naruto characters just the plot.
Summary: What would have happened if Gaara had saved her before Sakura had given up hope and joined the Akatsuki? Would Akira and Taku still be born, and what about Kisho? A what if story from the blooming of the cherry blossom.
Chapter 11: Your My Cousin?!?!
The next morning Sakura awoke to find Gaara already gone, she walked over to akira's room and soon found her gone to. Sakura began to worry and ran over to Taku's room and sighed in relief when she saw him still in his bed sleeping. Sakura looked out the window to her backyard and was surprised to see Akira and Gaara in the back yard practicing, she thought that they wouldn't be speaking for weeks after last nights episode. When Sakura walked down the stairs and into the back yard it caused both of them to stop training and look at her.
"Well this is a nice surprise." Sakura said with a small smile.
"Morning mom."
"Good Morning Kiki, Gaara sweetie can i talk to you for a second." Sakura said and Gaara just nodded and followed Sakura into the house.
"So what happened? I know you two just didn't get up and say hey lets just forget about last night and go train." Sakura said with her hands on her hips.
"Well when i awoke i found Kiki already awake in the kitchen eating so I sat down at first she wouldn't talk to me and eventually she did after I apologized to her.
"Wait you actually apologized?" Sakura said incredulously.
"don't act so surprised I can be play the nice father at times." Gaara said while wrapping his arms around her small waist. He then bend down and chastely placed a kiss on Sakura's lips.
"You never cease to surprise me." Sakura said while kissing him back.
"Are you two just gonna stand there and swap spit all day or is dad going to help me train." Akira said from the door way making two stop kissing.
"How about we both train you, think you can handle it?" Sakura said.
"Psh mom, I already know i can beat you its dad I'm worried about." Akira said while walking out to their training field.
"Oh is that so Missy, how about we have a quick one on one spar, and i wont be holding back." Sakura said with an evil smirk.
"Fine I could use a warm up before going against dad." Akira said, she had defiantly inherited her fathers attitude. Sakura walked out after Akira when Gaara stopped her.
"Careful with her Sakura, we both know she doesn't know how strong you are don't hurt her to bad." Gaara whispered into her ear.
"Don't worry I'm medic nin if something does happen ill be able to fix her right up and you know that i would never hurt my daughter to badly." Sakura said with a smile and then continued on her way to the training field.
Once they were both on the training field they got into their sparing positions.
"Ok Kiki, lets see what all your father has taught you." Sakura said with a small smile. Kiki then sent the first attack which Sakura easily avoided. Akira was about to attack her again when she disappeared she looked up down right left and didn't see her. That means that she had to be coming from the ground so when she saw the ground breaking from under her she quickly dodged a punch and send sand fly at her mother knocking her mom across the field into a tree. Akira thought she had won when she saw her mother poof.
"What it was a clone jutsu." Akira said and then saw her mother coming at her at full speed kunai in hand, Akira sent sand flying at her but Sakura disappeared and all the was left were cherry blossom petals. Then Sakura appeared behind Akira and using her strength fit Akira from behind and immobilizing her for a few minutes. Sakura took this opportunity to hold a kunai about her head, Akira's eyes widened in shock.
"Looks like i win." Sakura said and got off of her daughter.
"Sakura i told you to go easy on her, now she wont be able to practice all day." Gaara said in a slightly annoyed tone.
"Well maybe if you trained her better i wouldn't have had to be so rough with her." Sakura said while fixing up her daughter injuries.
" Now your insulting my training techniques, you have a lot of nerve woman." Gaara said making Sakura walk up to him and poke him in the chest rather hardly and it would most likely bruise.
"Your still the stubborn little emotional boy that i met at the Chuunin exams oh so long ago aren't you." Sakura said and then gave him a kiss on the lips.
"Your lucky your my wife and that i love you." Gaara said with a small smile.
"Wow mom, i never knew that you were that strong and that good of a nin." Akira said while trying to stand but was having trouble.
"Kiki, sweetie i trained under the fifth Hokage and i was on the sixth Hokage's team growing up did you really expect me to be weak." Sakura said while walking over to her to finish healing her.
"Well Ive never seen you fight except when your training Taku and you always go really easy on him."
"Yeah i really don't get that many Anbu missions anymore, having two children is a lot of work." Sakura said with a small smile.
"Wow mom you were on the Anbu team? Thats so cool! Haha Akira i knew that i made the right decision in training with mom and not dad!" Taku said making his first appearance of the day.
"Hey now, i was better than Anbu, i was the Kazekage of Suna that like the Hokage only cooler." Gaara said while ruffling his sons hair.
The family then went in and Sakura made breakfast for everyone and after eating Sakura realized what time it was.
"Oh my gosh I'm going to be late I'm supposed to be over at that old mans house to take care of his kid today." Sakura said while getting up from the table and running around the house.
"Kiki, since you cant train today would you mind coming with me and helping me out." Sakura yelled from the other room.
"Yeah sure mom let me just get changed."
"What about me can i come to." Taku said from his chair.
"Taku how about since your father cant train Kiki today you work with him on your sand techniques, After all the finals for the Chuunin exams start tomorrow." Sakura yelled again from the other room.
"Ok mom, come on dad lets start now." Taku said while grabbing Gaara's hand and dragging him from the house back out onto the training field.
About ten minutes later both girls were ready and were walking down the village. They stopped when they reached a small house and knocked on the door. They were greeted by a familiar face, Miko.
"Hello and welcome thank you for coming, this your daughter i presume." Miko said and let them into his house.
"Its our pleasure to be hear and this is my daughter Akira shes going to help me out today, I hope thats ok." Sakura said with a small smile.
"Thats fine, ill never have to tell my stepson to keep his paws to himself if you know what i mean." Miko said while laughing and making Akira blush. "Speaking of my stepson id like you to meet him. Kisho could you come down here please!" Miko yelled up the stairs. All color left Akira's face upon hearing his name. It cant be him, I'm sure there are plenty of Kisho's around and besides Kisho's from Suna why would he live here in Konoha. Akira was pulled from her thoughts when she heard him coming down the stairs. When there eyes met all of their eyes including Sakura's widened.
"Akira what are you doing here." Kisho said while walking towards her.
"Ah good it seems like the kids already know each other, I must be leaving now Kisho please help these nice ladies with anything they need they will be babysitting Kami." Miko said as he walked out of the house leaving them in an awkward silence. Sakura was the first to talk.
"YOU!" Sakura yelled and pointed a finger at him.
"Mom isn't this funny now you get to meet kisho. You remember him from the other night. Mom kisho kisho my mom Sakura." Akira said trying to get her mom to calm down. Sakura stared at him for a while and then realized that he looked a lot like Gaara only with brown hair.
"hmm i already don't like you kid you better treat Akira good if you don't want to be severely beaten by me and then by her father." Sakura said. Kisho just gulped and looked at Akira.
"Nice of you to tell me that your father was the old Kazekage of Suna." Kisho said with a small smile making Akira laugh.
"well when people find that out about him they usually try to stay away from me."Akira said
Kisho then showed the girls where Kami was taking his usual nap.
"Well then since hes sleeping i guess we can go sit down and talk." Sakura said. The group then went down into the small kitchen.
"So Kiki tells me your from Suna, and as you know her father was Kazekage. We haven't been able to visit there lately how is it there?"
"Every things going good there nothing special has happened to wars or anything, but our amount of shinobi have increased dramatically." Kisho said
"Thats good, so what about the Kazekage as of now is it Kankuro or Temari."Sakura asked.
"Temari is the Kazekage the first female Kazekage we have ever had."
"And what about Kankuro how is he doing?" Sakura asked.
"Well i haven't talked to him lately we have never gotten along very well." Kisho said
"So your close with Kankuro besides the fact that you two don't get a long very well?"
"Well yeah hes my-" Kisho started but was interrupted by the sound of Kami throwing something upstairs, it appears that he had woken up. Sakura then went upstairs and left the two down at the kitchen.
A couple of hours later Miko came home and Sakura and Akira left back for their own small home. When they arrived they saw Taku and Gaara in the back training. They both appeared to have been training for a couple of hours by the conditions of their clothes.
"Ok my two favorite boys come on in now i think you two have trained long enough." Sakura called from the back door. Taku came in first and his adrenaline was still pumping from the training.
"So Taku are you excited for the Chuunin exam tomorrow." Akira asked when he got inside.
"You betcha Kiki, I'm going against some kid from the village hidden in the mist. But i can take him. After all i have been training with mom for a while and today i tried for almost the whole day with dad. Throw anything at me I'm ready." Taku said while punching the air. Akira took the statement literally though and took a kunai from her pocket and chucked it at his head. Before it could hit Taku Gaara blocked it with him sand.
"I didn't mean literally!" Taku yelled.
"Kiki please don't throw kunai at the table." Sakura said while bringing dinner over.
After dinner they all decided to get to bed early tomorrow would be an important day after all. When the kids were in bed Sakura and Gaara stayed up and were talking in bed.
"Hey Gaara have you talked to your brother Kankuro lately?" Sakura asked.
"No not really why."
"Well i talked to kisho, Akira's boyfriend today. He is actually rather close to Kankuro you know. Its funny and he looks just like you except kisho has brown hair. Kankuro doesn't have any children does he?"
"Are suggesting the Akira is dating her cousin?" Gaara said while laughing. "I knew he had a wife but I'm pretty sure they separated a while ago but i never heard about him having a kid."
"Ok just making sure." Sakura said before falling asleep.
The next morning Sakura was up extra early because Temari and Kankuro would be coming for the finals so she had to make sure the house was extra clean. At around 9 o clock they heard a knock on the door and Akira answered it. She was happy to see kisho there.
"Hey kisho what are you doing here." Akira said while letting him in.
"Well actually your mom send me a note this morning said that Temari was going to be here so i should be here to." Kisho said he seemed a bit puzzled as well.
Around an hour later, there was another knock on the door. This time everyone excluding Taku who was already at the stadium went to the door to answer it.
"GAARA!" Temari yelled from the door and threw her arms around him in a hug. Both kisho and Akira were both confused as to who this woman was to Gaara maybe an ex lover they thought.
"Hey Tem, Kankuro nice to see you again." Gaara said while trying to pry his sister off of him.
"So introduce me to your daughter!" Temari yelled again.
"Maybe if you stop yelling." Gaara said. Sakura just rolled her eyes.
"As you can tell he hasn't changed at all." Sakura said with a small smile. "Anyways this is Akira and this is her boyfriend Kisho." Sakura said with a big smile this time. Temari hearing this lost color to her face and Kankuro hearing this busted out laughing.
"Whats so funny dad." Kisho said from behind Akira. Sakura liked Temari lost color in her face and Gaara who was like Kankuro started laughing.
"This is to great. Maybe if you weren't such a distant son and weren't mad at me for divorcing your mom you would know who your uncle is, or should i say your cousin." Kankuro said while laughing harder.
"What are you talking about?" Kisho asked but then everything click Akira was his cousin and Gaara was his uncle. Kisho then backed away from Akira.
"Wait wait wait. So i was dating my cousin?!?!" Akira yelled and then shuddered and backed away from kisho even more making Gaara and Kankuro to laugh even harder.
"Why didn't you tell me i had an uncle?" Kisho yelled at his dad.
"Yeah that would have been nice to know" Akira yelled at her dad.
"Well you see the thing is, you never asked." Kankuro said.
"So is Temari my aunt or something is that why shes here?" Akira asked looking at Gaara.
"Yeah Tems my sister and kankuros my brother." Gaara replied.
"Any other sibling or cousins i should know about?" Akira asked this time looking at Sakura.
"No I'm an only child and your father only has two siblings." Sakura said
"Well i know this is a funny or more so awkward moment, but i really need to get to the stadium as does everyone else the finals are about to start and Taku is the first round." Temari said while walking down towards the stadium. Every one then followed her out. Kisho and Akira were quiet the whole walk there both thinking that this day couldn't get any worse.
A/N: So thats chapter 11...hehe kinda weird and i hope unexpected twist! Review Please
-Fuzzie