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So for all of you here's chapter 7:
A day had passed since the incident happened. Sakurako hadn't come out of her room once not for dinner, or breakfast, or lunch. Se hadn't eaten anything Sakura had brought up to her and when she did go up she was shunned terribly. She had expected that this time it would have been no different and she was right, but this time Sakura didn't just leave her room instead she tried to reach for her daughter. To make her understand why it is she is keeping her from her father.
"Sakurako-Chan, you have to understand. I'm doing this for your protection. I know you may love him but in time he will only break your heart. That's the way Sasuke is. That's why I didn't want you to know he was father. I care for you too much for you to get hurt by him. I know your angry Sakurako but please at least try to understand why I'm doing this. I know you're a smart girl and I'm sure in time you will understand." Sakura said to her. She placed down a plate full of pancakes before leaving the room with a last few words. "Eat up you haven't eaten in a day. You must be starving. I love you darling."
She retreated outside and closed the door after her. She waited a few moments and to her relief heard the scraping of a knife on a plate signalling hat Sakurako was actually eating this time. Happy with this Sakura went back down into the living room and sat down on the settee, thinking over and over about the past days events. No longer than 15 minutes passed by before she was broke out of her chain of thought my the familiar voice of her daughter.
"Mummy?" she asked. Sakura looked at her letting her know she was listening. "I'm sorry for the way I acted and for not telling you about daddy and for upsetting you. I didn't mean it mummy. I just didn't want to loose daddy. I know I've only known him for a short time but I love him mummy. He's the daddy I always wanted. That's why I didn't tell you I was meeting with him. I knew you'd take me away from him and prevent us from seeing each other again and I don't want to loose him."
Tears began flooding from her eyes, she knew that if she wasn't able to convince her mother that Sasuke really did want to be there for both herself and her mum then she'd never see him again. The thought alone hurt her.
"Sakurako, you don't know him like I do. I loved him for years and he rejected me. Every ounce of effort he looked down upon. I even tried to get him to stay here and he knocked me out and put me on a bench leaving me with only a thank you. Then he came back 3 years later made me think he loved me and then used me. Trust me hunny when I tell you that he's untrustworthy. He's going to hurt you and I can't bare to see you like I was." Sakura said to her.
"Mummy, I know he was bad when he was younger, he told me so himself but he's changed, I know he has. He was only bad when he was younger so he could protect you from uncle Itachi. He didn't want Itachi finding out he was in love with you cause he knew Itachi would come and kill you. He told me so himself when we first met. Also when he came back, he wasn't using you; he was trying to let you know he loved you before he went off to fight Itachi. He knew he might die and he didn't want to die without you knowing he loved you. Please mummy don't be mad with him for loving you." Sakurako pleaded.
"That's just what he told you hunny. It's part of his lies. If you knew what he did then you'd know it must be a lie. What he did was not out of love. He did it because he wanted a bit of fun and knew I'd fall for his stupid trap, because I loved him. If he had loved me he wouldn't have done that, he would have told me, treated me with respect, and he definitely wouldn't have left with not even a goodbye." Sakura said back.
"Well maybe it hurt him too much to say goodbye because he knew there was a chance he may never come back. I know I wouldn't be able to say goodbye to someone with that thought in my mind." Sakurako said
"Sakurako I know you want to believe there is some good in him but there isn't. No matter how much you believe it to be true, no matter how much faith you have in it, his words will never be true. Please Sakurako, just try to forget him, he's not worth the pain." Sakura said back.
"Your wrong mummy, you know your wrong. If he wasn't worth the pain then why did you let him do the bad thing to you when he came back? He had obviously caused pain to you before that." Sakurako argued.
"Your right I let him do what he did to me but I was young and foolish and I let my love for him overtake the memories of all the pain he put me through. Your not as foolish as me though, I know you can look past your love and see the wrong in him."
"Your right mummy I can, and I see no wrong in him. He really does love us. Why can't you see that?" Sakurako asked.
Sakura was about to reply when there was a sudden knock at the door breaking them out of their conversation. Sakura got up and opened the door to see the one person she wanted she didn't want to see; she was going to shut the door on him when a sudden thought popped into her head.
"Your not allowed to be here. Tsunade-sama clearly stated that you weren't allowed anywhere near me. Now leave before I'm forced to get her." Sakura said to the raven haired, onyx eyed father of her child.
"Sakura ple…"
"daddy, I'm so happy to see you." both parents turned around to look at the child who was now standing behind Sakura looking at Sasuke through the door.
"Sakurako. I'm happy to see you too darling, but as much as I would love to talk to you I'm actually here to see your mother. Would you mind giving us some privacy please?" Sasuke asked. Sakura looked at him shocked to see THE Uchiha Sasuke being nice.
"Ok daddy." Sakurako said kind of disappointed but still she turned and went up to her room hoping to be able to listen to their conversation through her window.
"I don't want to talk to you Sasuke, just leave." Sakura said as soon as Sakurako was out of sight.
"Sakura, please just listen and then I'll go." Sasuke said.
"No, I told you before I don't care for your words anymore, why won't you just leave me and MY daughter alone?" Sakura asked going into hysterics.
"Our daughter Sakura." Sasuke said with a sigh at the end. "I can see your not going to listen to me, so please just read this." Sasuke said handing over a letter he got out of his pocket, much like the one's she had received before when she hadn't known it was him.
"If you leave right now then I'll consider it." Sakura said grabbing the letter off of him.
"Oh and one more thing." Sasuke moved his arm that had been behind is back all the time he was at the door revealing a teddy bear. "Please give this to Sakurako, she might get lonely without him. She really loves that bear."
Sakura looked at his pleading eyes and before she melted into them gorgeous onyx eyes she grabbed the teddy, walked back into the house and shut the door. She could tell he had walked away and as soon as she could no longer feel his chakra signals she opened the letter and began to read.
Sakura-Chan, my cherry blossom,
I kind of guessed you wouldn't listen to me which is why I wrote this letter. God this was so much easier with Sakurako's help. I'm really not good at this romantic stuff, though I did mean every word I wrote in the past letters. I know you hate me Sakura but please don't stop reading this letter. At least give me the chance to explain my stupid past mistakes. So for If you do carry on reading this then let me start at the beginning.
Back when we were put on the same team I really was quiet annoyed at the fact. I thought of you as only some annoying fan-girl with a stupid crush that you would get over quickly. I also sort of thought you bribed your way onto the team. Stupid but I did. After working with you for a while though on all those stupid D-rank missions I started to feel more of you though. I began to feel protective of you. I didn't want to see you get hurt. I thought back then that it was just because you were my teammate, I was wrong though. I carried on to shun you for the reason that even though I knew I cared for you I still thought of you as that fan-girl and I didn't want to give you the wrong idea. I was so dumb back then, too caught up in my revenge to care for anyone properly. It was only really when I left for the first time that I realised my true feelings for you, when I realised that you were not just some fan-girl but the real thing. You tried to prevent me from going, poured out your feelings to me and I knew they were true, I also knew that I couldn't stay though. I wanted to get stronger so could my brother and finally live a happy life, so I went. That thank you though that I gave you back then was to thank you for actually loving me, for offering me the happiness I hoped one day I would actually have with you. No happiness could come until Itachi was dead though.
Throughout my years at sound I didn't once stop thinking about you. it was the thought of being with you one day that made me stronger. The sooner I got stronger the sooner we could be together. 3 years on and I surpassed Orochimaru. No longer did I need him to help me kill Itachi and so I killed him and set off on my journey to find my brother.
On my way though I realised that even though I had surpassed Orochimaru I may still not be as strong as my brother and I realised I might die in my fight with him and so I travelled here to Konoha to see you and tell you how I really feel. I got here and went straight to your home, however when I got there I realised that your room was obviously not being used by you anymore form the boxes stacked in there and after a long search I finally found your apartment. I knocked on the door ready to tell you but then I got scared. I'd never been so scared in fact. I thought that maybe you'd hate me now so I ran but as I got outside of the building I realised I couldn't just run away incase I never got the chance again. So I took I different route into your house. I ran up the wall and went through your window. I heard your front door close and hid, scared of facing you again. Then I saw you and you took of your dressing gown leaving you in your underwear and I guess my hormones got the best of me because somehow I ended up kissing your neck, I realised what I was doing and was going to stop but I realised you weren't objecting and so I carried on and I went out of control. Then when you did try to stop me my stupid pride got in the way and my hormones were raging and I guess it made me sound like a proper jerk to you. I'm sorry for that. I know you think that I was just using you that night but I promise you I wasn't. When we were kissing and… other stuff I just ran out of all my words. I couldn't say a thing to you. Then when I woke up the next morning I told myself I was going to tell you before I left to kill Itachi, but you looked so beautiful lying there and in a sense my heart turned to mush. I knew you'd object to my leaving and start crying, and I knew I'd probably stay then and I had to kill Itachi or he'd have killed you to get at me. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I he did kill you either. So I left hoping so much that what we had done was enough to tell you of my love. Obviously I was wrong. I never meant to make you feel used or like a whore. I don't regret having made love to you though, I loved every second of it and I know you did to. I do regret not even writing a note to you to let you know that I loved you though. I also regret not being there to help you in your pregnancy or for the past 6 years in which you had to raise Sakurako alone. I gotta say though you did well. She such a strong, smart and beautiful young girl, just like you.
Those years away from you were the worst of my life. I missed you so much and I feared that you would meet someone else and not love me anymore. Then when I finally defeated Itachi relief passed through me because I knew I could finally go home and be with you. I wanted to see you do much that even though I was in an unfit state to even move I ran for Konoha. Unfortunately I blacked out from Chakra loss after no more than 5 minutes. Somebody found me though and took me to there village to be healed. I was there 5 months in a coma. When I finally awoke I wasted no time in coming here. I found my clothes, exchanged them for my hospital gown and then came straight here. I had wanted to see you first but I knew the Hokage wouldn't be happy if I did so I went to her. Then I saw Sakurako and I couldn't help but smile. I knew instantly that she was mine and when Tsunade told me she was not I still knew she was though I then had to find proof. Then you came in and I was so happy to see you, but I remembered what Tsunade had told me, about you being in hysterics thinking I used you and it broke my heart to know you thought that. After me and Sakurako had established that we were in fact father and daughter she asked me why I hurt you. I told her part of what I told you in this letter, but not quiet as much detail. I had wanted to tell you first but I knew I couldn't and then Sakurako came up with the idea to write letters from a secret admirer. We both hoped you'd fall in love with me not knowing it was me and when you found out you wouldn't mind so much because you'd realise all I wrote was the truth. We didn't mean to hurt you with our secret meetings Sakura. We just didn't want you stopping us room seeing each other and we both hoped that when you did find out you and I would be a stage where we'd get together and all of us could be a happy family. That way you wouldn't be as upset as you were. I realise what Sakurako said about wanting to be with me probably made you think she was choosing me over you. I know she wasn't though. Her words just came out wrong. She loves you so much and only wants your happiness. I know because you're the source of most of our talks. Please don't be mad at her for any of this, it's my fault completely and I'll understand If you never forgive me. I just want you to know though that I love you, I always have and I always will. I hope you take this seriously after all I know you don't care for my words as you've told me so many times but they are true I promise you that.
Now before I end this letter, here's my attempt at romantic. I wrote this poem for you. My feelings wrote down. I hope you like it:
Your face, your voice, your touch, your kiss, and all of our memories haunt me.
A song, a show, a movie.
Everywhere I look, Everywhere I go, Everything I do, I just can't get rid of you.
These are the things I cannot tell you.
For I wish you only knew, that my heart will never stop beating for you.
Sometimes I wish it wasn't true because I know you have started your life anew.
Even so my heart will never stop beating for you. I just can't get rid of you.
Love your not so secret admirer Sasuke Uchiha
Tears dropped onto the paper smudging the ink. Not tears of sadness though these were tears of joy. All the things Sakura had wanted to hear from Sasuke when she was young were wrote in this letter and she knew they were true. As much as he had hurt her in the past he hadn't wanted to. She should have listened you him and then maybe they could have been together for the past 2 months. She was going to make it right though. Finally Sakurako would have a proper family as she obviously wants. Sakura was sure of this. She kissed the letter before calling Sakurako down and leaving the house with her to find Sasuke-kun.
AN: Another chapter done and I think I may be really proud of it. It only took me about 7 hours. Trying to perfect this chapter was not easy. However if you think it's crap do tell lol. I think I will actually laugh if it is. Anyway please review. Oh and before I forget I can't take credit for the poem, I found it on a website and thought it fit perfectly. It's called You Haunt me by somebody called Melanie. I only have a 1st name though so ye :S anyway Tyvm. Sayonara xoxoxox
