Title: Laws of Love
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating: T
Pairing: Kakashi/Sakura
Note: Kakashi is about 3 to 4 years younger than in the manga/anime. (Putting him at about 25-26 years old, instead of early 30's);
Also, Sakura has made jounin just recently. (As in "past few months" recently.)
Summary: A new law comes into effect on Sakura's birthday. On that day, all suitors must ask for her hand and she must answer that same day. Sakura doesn't think that she will have any suitors so she doesn't leave the house. That is, until she's forced to by Ino. But what she doesn't know is that she does have suitors. Lots of them. Question is: will she fall for one of them or will she turn the tables on this new law? (KakaSaku)
Note2: This chapter has some seriousness/drama in it.
Note3: This IS NOT a complete chapter.
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Laws of Love
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Kakashi just looked at her with wide eyes. 'Parents? Why her parents? I don't . . . I don't do parents.' His exposed eye glanced around nervously as he tried to think of an escape plan. Was there no way out?
Smiling up at the light-haired male, now her fiancé, Sakura grabbed his right hand as she began to move toward the memorial stone.
"C'mon, Kakashi. It won't be that hard . . . ." she trailed off, her eyes meeting the ground as they continued to walk. Realization hit him like a bullet.
They were dead.
He felt bad. He felt horrible. How could he, why didn't he . . . how in the seven hells (not including purgatory) did he not notice her melancholy? Was he that bad of a sensei? Of a fiancé?
Damn, he thought, I wonder how many other people know? I wonder how many other people have noticed?
Suddenly they stopped, snapping Kakashi out of his gazing and pulling Sakura back to reality. She smiled up at the shinobi. Through her facade his saw sadness, but he didn't say anything, for nearly everytime he smiled sadness rang true on him as well.
Sakura turned to the memorial stone, throwing their hands toward it in gesture. "Meet my parents, 'Kashi-chan."
The couple stood there, the moonlight shining them, giving them both an ethereal glow. Kakashi looked down at Sakura out of the corner of his dark-gray eye, her normally happy facade dropped as a slow melancholy washed over her like a slow rainfall.
When Sakura spoke, her voice was quiet. Even though Kakashi was unusually close to her, he still struggled to hear what she said. When he caught what she was saying, he closed his eyes, trying to respect what she was doing.
"Mama. . . Papa. . . this is Kakashi. He's my fiancé. I think you'd like him. He's a bit older than what you would have liked," at this Sakura chuckled bitterly, "but you would like him nonetheless. I think. . . I think he's helped make me strong, who I am today. . . ."
Tears were now rolling silently down her cheeks. Kakashi wrapped his arm around her, trying to, in his own way, comfort her. Shushing her lightly and murmuring soft words of comfort as he tried to calm her.
"I. . . I think that, that even though I was forced into a marriage, to getting engaged, that I won't regret this," Sakura smiled up at Kakashi through her tears, "and that somehow this will end all right.
"All I ask for is your blessings, Mama. I ask for your blessings, Papa. If it is truly meant to be, if we can make it some way, some how, help us. . . through. . . it."
Sakura passed out in Kakashi's arms then. Looking up at the sky, he estimated that it was around three o'clock in the morning. Grabbing her gently, he picked her up and carried her back to the apartment that they now shared, at least, for the time being.
Oh the joys of being engaged.
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Author's Note:
Okay, first off:
THIS IS NOT A FULL CHAPTER!!!!!
Yeah, thought I'd get that out of my system. I figured that since I haven't updated in awhile, writer's block and all, that I would post what I have so far. It's not much, but I do have up!
I'm trying to work on this! I really am! But I'm in my last semester of high school and it's vicious! (I know, no excuse, right? I've had PLENTY of time!)
I'm trying my best, but I don't know when I'll be able to update THIS STORY in particular. Tell me what you think, though!!!
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Reviews, Flames, and Commentary are Appreciated!
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