Hi sorry for not updating for so long…part of that was because of school with homework and concentrating on grad, and the other bit was just from dealing with work and trying to rest to make sure I didn't collapse in the hallway to die by stomping. And right when I was able to post…the fucking internet was out…gah I was mad! So yes…here is the next chapter of Konoha's Blossom (I keep wanting to type Akatsuki's flower…)
Bold is Inner Kari as usual…
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, and I do not make any profit from writing this.
Unlike most women of the time, Kari was perfectly happy with sleeping on the couch. After putting the twins in a bassinet beside her, that was where she stayed. The couch was leather and very long and soft, very rarely did she ever get a 'Leather Sweat.' and if she did it didn't bother her too much. Kari would have been stoked if they could replace the bed with the couch, but Itachi had to be uppity and say no. The couch was Kari's haven so when the others came home that was where they found her. The guys didn't fear much but they didn't want to chance waking her up.
Kari stared at the ceiling all night, mulling over the fight.
'Okay…I will admit I was a little over the top, but since when did it become a crime to have fun with friends? It wasn't like I dressed like a prostitute and went down to the cop shop to annoy him!' Kari thought angrily to herself.
'Remember that course we took that taught us how to feel what it's like in someone else's shoes?' Inner Kari asked.
'Yeah! It was annoying! Not to mention stupid and pointless…'
Inner Kari heaved a sigh, 'That's not the point!'
'Then what's the point?'
'The point is to try and look at things through Itachi's eyes.'
'Yeah, I guess he's got a lot to deal with…and I don't help things…'
'Good, glad we straightened that out. I'm going to sleep…'
The next morning Kari woke to the sounds of male chatter and dishes clinking. She tried rolling over to block the sun from her eyes. After 15 minutes, she gave up and went to the kitchen.
"Morning." Kari stretched.
Sasuke flashed a cocky grin, Good afternoon more like." He answered.
As Kari popped a few toaster strudels in the toaster Naruto made his noisy appearance, Sakura appeared hot on his heels.
"Sasuke-teme! Kakashi-sensei's late again so we decided to stay at your joint for a few moments!" Naruto shouted, Sakura was quick to give him a sharp blow to the head.
"Naruto! Lower your voice, the babies could be napping!" Sakura scolded him.
Naruto sweatdropped, "Whoops…my bad."
"S'alright, Taro seems to be getting better. Itachi, where are they?" Kari internally braced herself for the numerous awful situations that formed in her mind.
"In the nursery sleeping." He answered normally.
"I'll come back later then! Sakura chirped, "Guys we better get going before Kakashi decides to show up and gets PMSy…"
The dynamic trio teleported out of there.
Kari busied herself by putting icing on the strudels.
"I'm sorry." Itachi said as he put an arm around her.
"It's okay. I'm sorry also, I know things aren't like what they used to be…I'm still having trouble adjusting…" Kari admitted.
"Neither of us asked to be in this situation, and we definitely are blessed, but this whole police and head clan business is getting to me as well."
Kari giggled, "Life definitely wasn't as complicated when we were in the Akatsuki…" Kari trailed off, after Itachi gave her a look, "Kinda." She added. They made it to the nursery and picked up the twins. They then went to the living room and watched TV.
"You know…I'm thinking we should have a baby shower." Kari suggested.
"It wouldn't be a bad thing…I guess…"
Kari sighed, "Your Uchiha antisocial genes acting up again!?" she teased.
"Maybe."
"It won't be so bad. We get presents and see everyone!" Kari prodded.
"Fine."
"Yay!" Kari cheered, "There's quite a lot of stationary in the cupboard so I'll get started on invitations!" Kari went to grab them then quickly came back and went to work on them. The twins were playing in the playpen happily until Taro took away a toy Meiyou was playing with, thus she began to whimper, which only made Taro whimper louder. Kari got up with another toy to try and soothe Meiyou. In the end she was able to exchange her toy with Taro and gave it back to Meiyou. "Your son is going to be a troublemaker."
Itachi smirked, "Of course he is."
"As long as he doesn't get arrested, and or becomes a missing nin, and especially isn't mean to girls, then I don't care…"
Kari continued invitations after Itachi left for the police corp. A few hours later Sasuke came home.
"So?" Kari asked, "How did it go?"
"Just stupid guard duty." Sasuke answered.
"It's still important."
"I understand that, but it's still boring. I want to do a mission like the one to the land of waves." Sasuke answered.
"Be careful what you wish for…" Kari sighed, "You could be deported to the land of snow…"
"Pfft! What are the chances of that happening?" Sasuke asked in his cocky voice.
"You never know." Kari answered. There was a knock at the door, "Come in!" Sakura came in quickly followed by Naruto. Sakura ran over to the play pen and Naruto ran over to annoy Sasuke.
"We were curious if you guys wanted to see the new princess Gail movie that just came out today." Sakura asked with a smile on her face.
"Well…I'd love to but, the twins plus a movie equals a lot of pissed off people so…I'll have to pass…but you guys can videotape it for me…" Kari grinned.
"Kari-chan that's illegal!" Sakura cried.
"Itachi doesn't need to know…" Kari giggled.
"Fine…" Sasuke sighed as he grabbed their video camera.
"Hope you don't mind if it's upside down. Cause we are going to break in because we have no money." Naruto chirped.
"Fine…" Kari sighed, "I can always try and fix it on the super computer." The gang made for the door, "And don't get arrested! Cause I don't want to have to explain to Itachi and his whole big holy unrighteousness on why you were upside down in the theatre bootlegging movies."
"Kay!" Naruto pumped his fist, "We won't get arrested! Believe it!" and he shut the door.
"Now what do I do?" Kari sighed. She decided to go for a walk. Itachi wouldn't be back until late and there was nothing else to do, she quickly gathered up the twins and put them in the stroller and off they went 'Sasuke needs a girlfriend! But who to choose…and would he go for it? At least it would be something to do in spare time…' Kari thought to herself. She walked a little longer then came home to sleep after unpacking the stroller and putting the twins to bed.
The next day Kari was woken up by a 'trying to hide his excitement' Sasuke, "I'm going on a mission to the land of snow."
"I told you!" Kari grinned, "Pack warm clothes!" Kari got out of bed and began to make it. "How long are you gone for?"
"Until the actress who plays princess Gail is done shooting in the land of snow."
"Ahh…an escort mission."
"She isn't too happy with it."
"Then she should suck it up and quit being a whiny little bitch!"
"So violent…"
"I'll show you violent when I choke you with your Hitai-ate."
Sasuke chuckled as he left. Kari quickly got ready and went to the kitchen, she was greeted by the sight of Itachi, Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura and of course Sasuke.
Kari decided she would start the day off right by saying, "Wow! You guys are really digging to the bottom of the shit barrel when it comes to missions…"
Kakashi just sighed, "Tell me about it…"
"Okay-"
"It was a rhetorical statement…"
"Yeah I know…I wanted to answer it though…" Kari pouted.
"How long do you think this mission will take?" Itachi asked.
"Hopefully not much longer than two months at the latest…" Kakashi answered.
"YES! One less mouth to feed!" Kari began to eat a bowl of cereal. Sasuke rolled his eyes, "What!? It saves money that will probably go to you anyway." Kari dug into her wallet and handed Sasuke some Ryo.
"Aww…I want some Ryo!" Naruto whined.
Sakura immediately hit him on the head, "You don't just ask other people for money like its candy!"
"Oww…" Naruto rubbed his head where a nice little bump formed; Kari was pulling a few bills out for Naruto.
"I'm giving this to you on one condition…you are NOT to spend it ALL on Ramen!" She gave Naruto the money, she also gave Sakura some Ryo too.
"I don't need any." Kakashi quickly said.
"Good cause I wasn't giving you any." Kari stuck her tongue out at him.
"We should go now." Kakashi sat up, the three genin followed.
"AWW! I'm sorry!" Kari pouted.
"It's not you. We just got paged by the higher ups to get a move on, they're leaving Konoha in an hour."
After goodbyes were said, they were out the door.
Kari breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally! I thought they'd never leave…"
Itachi snorted, "In about an hour you'll be crying and saying you miss him."
Kari scoffed, "Haha! Yeah right! We'll just see about that!"
An hour later…
Itachi walked into the living room to see Kari holding Mika, her golden lab, bawling her eyes out.
"I miss Sasuke!!"
Itachi gave her a blank stare, "Watch Harry Potter 4 and it will give you something new to cry about."
Kari glared but its effect was decreased significantly by the tears, "Shut up! You're such an ass! But…the goblet of fire sounds like a marvelous idea!"
2 hours later…
Kari was bawling her eyes out.
"I'm scared to see your reaction to Fred Weasly's death." Itachi commented.
"You shut your whore mouth, you are not worthy to speak his name!" Kari put on a mock angry voice.
"Okay then…?" Itachi got ready to leave for work and Kari tended to the twins.
"Be safe." Kari grinned at him.
"Don't need to be…" Itachi flashed the trademark Uchiha cocky grin, and then walked out the door.
Kari sighed, "Now what am I going to do?" Kari went through all the housework she already did. The roast of Joan Rivers was coming on so she decided to have the PVR record it. Kari suddenly got a bright idea. She picked up the phone and waited patiently for anyone to answer it.
"Hello?" She heard through the other line.
"Yo Hinata! Its Kari, I'm going to be by myself for a whole, want to come over and have a girls' night?"
"Yes! I-I was just t-thinking on phoning! My father is out of town so yeah my o-only problem is N-Neji-niisan…but he should be having a date with T-Tenten so…I'll be right over."
"Kay."
Hinata hung up. Kari patiently and by patiently I mean she wasn't doing a very good job by pacing the living room floor and eagerly looking out the window at the slightest noise. The only thing that was on TV was 'Are you smarter than a fifth grader'…and there's only so much of that show you can take before you think it's a complete hoax because they ask grade 12 questions that half the kids on that show don't know anyway. For what felt like an eternity, but was actually half an hour she waited until there was a knock on the door.
Kari opened the door after shoving Mika out of the way and ushered Hinata inside. They sat on the couch and immediately began to socialize.
"So Hinata…how do you feel about Naruto being gone for a long time?" Kari teased.
"He has to do what he has to do, and I realize now that Naruto is too in love with Sakura and that she is beginning to return his feelings. It's better to kill it off now before it destroys me." Hinata balefully sighed.
"Aww…I know how that is…" Kari nodded, "I bet there's someone out there that's way better, as mean as it sounds, I have a feeling that someone will soon change your life." Kari got up due to babies crying. Hinata followed and both quickly tended to the babies and went back to the couch. "They should sleep for a while now…" Kari sighed.
"Taro seems to be g-getting better." Hinata commented.
"Yeah thank goodness…" Kari answered, "Hey do you want some wine? There's nothing better than drinking your problems away…"
"You-You can't drink! And…And neither can I!"
"Well I know I can't. Besides what people don't know won't hurt them! Besides I got the sweet stuff, none of that dry crap that can burn the taste buds off your tongue.
"Just…Just one."
"Don't worry this is our secret." Kari went to the kitchen and came back with half a glass full for Hinata, "Besides, the best way to watch a roast is when you're a little tipsy anyway, the jokes always seem that much funnier."
During the show Kari pondered about who would be a good match for Hinata, and the only person that came to mind was Sasuke. She remembered Sasuke's crush on her when she was little, it was all a matter of awakening it again. Thus Kari vowed that her next big task was to bring Sasuke and Hinata together, not only because she thought they complemented eachother well but she was curious to see what kind of child could come out of a union between a Hyuga and an Uchiha, if things ever developed that far.
Kari smiled, yes, it was time to play matchmaker.
END
Personally, I love Hinata and Sasuke as a pairing. I know there are some out there who don't like it, as they believe it touches the waters of incest since I guess they are very distantly related. And I'm not changing my plans for this pairing in this story. And for those people who are wondering when I'm going to get to the loose ends I left in the first story, let me get there…I'm trying to build up the situation in this one first. I get the feeling people have no patience these days so I'm just saying all this now, cause my friend updated stuff and she instantly got bombarded with questions about how things should happen and why things happened that she was obviously going to answer in future chapters. I know not all people are like that but it seems like people are more often than not, but anyways I hope you liked this chapter, and that you'll review, if not add it to your favourites or alerts.
Sakura Sama 101 signing off.