Chapter 2: She knows now, Off to apply for that job

"Huh, where am I?" The mother of the twin Uchihas snapped open into a sitting position to notice that she was in the middle of that fake battle, but in a hospital bed, with her friend Akemi next to her.

"It's ok relax Sakura-chan, you were in a coma for 7 months," Akemi said to the mother.

"Oh," she said, "wait 7 MONTHS?" 'Typical Akemi always being so calm when something major happens." Sakura thought. The last thing she remembered was not being kissed by the father of her children, but watching a bloody figure drop in front of her.

"Can you walk?" Akemi asked.

"Yes, why?" Sakura replied.

"Ino's coming to pick you up and take you back to Konoha."

"Why can't you take me back?"

"Because I have some work to do here, besides-,"

"Wait, how did you know I was gonna wake up today?" Sakura asked suspiciously.

"I didn't!" Akemi exclaimed, "we were gonna, what were we gonna do?" A bead of sweat dropped on the backside of Sakura's head.

"Oh yeah! We were gonna take you back to Konoha!" Akemi said hitting her fist.

"Oh okay, so she'll be here?" Sakura asked.

"Tomorrow, now I'll call them to bring you food, ok, see ya!"

… 5 years later…

"You have all been called here for an urgent reason, being," Tsunade's voice said to 24 year old Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki. "Sasuke Uchiha's team has had a lot of crazy activity throughout the years, but,"

"But what?" Naruto asked.

"But, Sasuke Uchiha has not had any activity for the past five years, although Akemi has claimed to have spotted him last year, he has had no ninja activity whatsoever, it is like he has been wiped clean off of the face of the earth," Tsunade continued, clearly annoyed.

"No," Sakura gasped taking a step back.

"Oh. I don't think he's dead, but anyway, that's for you to find out, your mission is to find him and find out what he's up to," Tsunade continued, "now, you will be giving me reports and reviews through these communicators."

She handed them headsets with a mouthpiece.

"Arigatou," Naruto and Sakura said.

"Now pack up and ready yourselves, this meeting is dismissed," Tsunade said dismissing them.

Naruto and Sakura both headed their own ways. Naruto went home to his wife and three children. He had gotten married to Hinata Hyuuga five years ago, and since then, they have had two boy twins, neither had Byakugan eyes, instead they both had their father's ocean blue eyes and his hair-do, but one had black hair and the other had blonde. The blonde's name was Minato, named after the legend that was Naruto's father. and the black hair's was Hikaru, since Hinata said he was like her light (Minato was too). They had one girl who also had a Byakugan; she looked like a miniature of her mother, except a four year old version. The mini Hinata's name was Hana. Naruto told her about the mission, and she left to pack his bags meanwhile he played with the kids.

Sakura walked down to her little apartment near the hospital. She felt tears stream down her face, just thinking of him was painful to her. She couldn't take it. She had been trying to get over him for a long time, but she just couldn't, this is exactly why she needed a therapist, she could trust Akemi the village's therapist, but she didn't know. She just packed up everything she would need for a while, a towel, underwear, clothes, a tent, match boxes, medical scrolls, and etc.

She met Naruto at the gates of Konoha, and just as they was about to set out, Tsunade showed up. "Wait a minute," she said.

"Nani Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked.

"Listen I have gotten information that he is somewhere in the Country of Fire," she informed the two, "You should check the small town of Flame."

"But why would Sasuke-teme be there?" Naruto asked.

"Who knows?" Tsuande shrugged, "it's your job to figure that out if he is there."

Sakura and Naruto arrived at the small town of Flame eight hours later at 9:00 PM. They stopped concealed within the sanctuary of the forest in front of a large clearing with a large traditional Japanese house with screen doors and two floors, along with two large Cherry blossom trees behind the house. The odd thing was that the house was in the middle of the clearing. They set up camp and Sakura took out some of her healthy snacks, and made a small dinner. She and Naruto had dinner before tucking into their sleeping bags. "Hey, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.

"Hmm?" Sakura replied.

"Why do you think Sasuke hasn't come back to Konoha after being quiet for five years?" He asked.

Sakura bit her lip in frustration, trying to hold back the tears that threatened to come out, "I don't know, but anyway, even if he came back, it doesn't matter, he'll still have his all-great Uchiha ego."

Naruto and Sakura both laughed at this. Sakura was happy she was doing this mission with Naruto, he knew how to make her happy at times, or at least help her get over Sasuke. Sakura decided that if Sasuke ever came back to Konoha with them, she would treat him like he treated her when they were a team. She wouldn't ignore him entirely, but she wouldn't show him any affection. That was it.

Little did she know that her beloved one had changed, and changed for better. Little did she know that that was his house there in that clearing, and that those were his and her children. The next morning she woke up and found Naruto was awake and was training, so she decided to put her iPod ear buds into her ears and started to sing quietly to herself meanwhile keeping an eye on that house. When she looked down at her watch 2 hours later she noticed that she had gotten up extremely late. It was 2:30 in the afternoon, so she and Naruto had some of the many instant ramens Naruto had brought with him. Halfway through there lunch they saw two children run across the clearing and stop in front of the house and turn around to face the other way. That when they heard an all too familiar, "Arrghhhh!" It sounded playful and joyful; the thing that shocked them most was the source of the sound. She quickly masked their chakras as the handsome figure of a male with raven hair and pale white skin, you guessed it, that handsome male figure was Uchiha, Sasuke. He ran towards them a playful smile on his face his arms spread out, he wasn't going at his battle speed, he was going slower than that. With him reducing his normal speed, he was giving the children enough time to escape him, each one going in a different direction. Naruto saw streams of tears escape Sakura's eyes onto her emotionless face.

The children, there was a boy and a girl, Sakura didn't know there names but she knew that they were Sasuke's children, because the boy was a spitting image of his father, but his eyes, Sakura couldn't make out if they were blue or green from were she was sitting, all she knew was that he must have a had a beautiful wife. If only she knew that she was there mother. The girl had black hair with strands of lighter hair, they looked like blonde strands, but they were pink, her hair was that same light color at the hair's roots, she also had those light colored eyes. 'I can't believe it, that's the reason that, that teme hasn't had any activity for five years, he had kids!' Naruto thought extremely curious. "Hey Sakura-chan do you want see who the mother is?" Naruto asked.

"That's not necessary Naruto," Sakura replied silently.

"Oh on the contrary Sakura-chan," Naruto smirked. Sakura turned to face him. "It is our job to gather as much information about Sasuke-teme as possible, so this is a part of the mission," Naruto said putting a finger up in an explanatory manner.

"Oh let me contact Tsunade!" Sakura whispered loudly.

"Mushi mushi?" Tsunade said as she answered Sakura and Naruto's call.

""Mushi mushi Tsunade-sama," Sakura replied calmly, even though she still had tear stains on her cheeks, "we have located Sasuke Uchiha in the small town of Flame."

"Good, now you must capture him and interrogate him and then-," Tsunade was cut off with Naruto saying, "but Sasuke-teme had two kids."

"NANI?" Tsunade burst out. "He- he can't have! No, find out more about his spouse!"

"We," Sakura replied choking on her tears, "we will," she finally managed to whisper.

"Sakura-chan, are you okay?" Naruto asked her.

She clearly wasn't alright; her cheeks had tears streaming down them. 'No I don't I won't I can't love him, no I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't!' Sakura thought bending down and holding her head tightly and pulling on her hair, and forming clenched fists with her hair in between, she shook her head furiously. Sakura had flashbacks of all the horrible things he did that caused her to be pain, and to suffer, and her sadness, anguish, and depression was replaced with determination, hatred, and anger. When she looked up, her eyes were full of determination to complete her mission. She locked up every single little feeling in a safe in the deepest bowls of her mind and heart, locking them up and throwing the key away, because she still loved him, she just wasn't going to let him know, and she was going try to forget. "Sakura-chan?" Naruto looked at Sakura inquiringly, to see a smile tug her lips upward; she had a determined look on her face. "Come on Naruto, were going to use the cloaking jitsu to hide ourselves and spy on Sasuke-kun," she said with that smile of determination, that very smile was one of the many things that had made Sasuke fall for her, but not admit it.

Uchiha Sasuke sat with his children under the Sakura trees in his background. He had picked this house because of these trees, because they would remind of the one woman who snatched his heart, whom he had to keep a huge secret from for her own good. He loved her, more than anything else, except for the kids, their kids. He smiled at them looking at Emi, the female twin looked like black haired version of her mother, however she had streaks of pink hair, they were natural highlights. "Oi Tou-san, can you tell us a story about Kaa-chan?" The female twin asked.

"What do you want to know about her?" Sasuke asked looking at the gorgeous emerald orbs that she had inherited from her mother.

"Tell us what Kaa-chan looked like!" Sora the male twin ordered. He too inherited Sakura's gorgeous emerald orbs. Those orbs that made him feel at peace with the world.

"Your mother, she is beautiful, and will always be beautiful," Sasuke said in a dreamy tone, "I'm glad you guys got her eyes." Sasuke could see a transparent image of Sakura with her hair blowing in the wind smiling at him, he could practically feel her warm touch and hear her musical voice, at least in was musical to him. He could smell the sweet cherry blossom scent of her hair; she was a cherry blossom, his sweet blossom.

"You look the most like your brother Emi," Sasuke said looking at his daughter; she was one of the few pieces of Sakura he had left. He could just imagine her in her mother's clothes when she was turned twelve. 'Emi' Sakura thought. 'I had always wanted to name my daughter Emi, that's an odd coincidence.'

"Then who do I look like dad?" the boy asked.

Sasuke chuckled. 'Wait the cold, serious, never smiling or laughing Sasuke Uchiha chuckled?' Sakura and Naruto thought their right eyes twitching, 'Sasuke-kun sure changed.' Sakura thought.

"Hey what's so funny?" The boy asked again an annoyed look like the one Sasuke would give Itachi when Itachi wouldn't help Sasuke with shuriken practice.

With that expression the boy looked just like Sasuke, but a Sasuke with green eyes. Sasuke continued to chuckle as he ruffled his son's hair, "Nothing, it's just that you look like me."

"COOL! HA! I look like Tou-san!" The boy yelled pointing an accusing finger at his twin sister.

"No big deal Sora! I look like more like Kaa-chan!" The girl burst.

'Sora? That is my number two choice for a boy's name after Daichi' Sakura thought. There was something extremely odd about what was going on. But Sakura believed that it was just a coincidence. Sakura also assumed that Sasuke's wife had either passed away or left him, but she had definitely left him because he said is when he was describing her beauty. Sakura was wrong again, but not about the mother being alive, but about why she wasn't with him the moment.

"Ne, daddy? When's Auntie coming to visit?" Sora asked looking at his dad innocently.

"She should be coming today or tomorrow Sora," Sasuke replied. He had to ask about the mother, he needed to make sure she was safe. Sasuke's greatest concern was how he should tell the kids about Sakura.

"YAY! AUNTIE'S COMING, AUNTIE'S COMING!" The twins started to cheer and hop in circles. Their aunt always had a nice story to tell them, about something that had happened in the past, that and she always took them to the toy store or book store, and spoiled them with sweets. 'Auntie?' Naruto thought in head. He had to make sure not to make a sound, but he was dying to ask who the auntie might be.

"So how was school?" Sasuke asked.

"It was awesome! But the music teacher had to leave, I heard she qit, q-q-qu-qui-qui-qui-qui-quit, yeah that's it quit!" Sora answered.

"Hey Tou-san did you ever hear Kaa-chan sing?" Emi asked.

Sasuke furrowed his brows and got a depressed and angered expression, he had never heard Sakura sing, but he heard that she had the most beautiful voice, he could already tell from how beautifully soft and musical Sakura's voice was. "No sadly, I have never heard her sing, but I know she has an angelic voice, she had the most beautiful voice ever," Sasuke sighed.

Sakura knew that the easiest way to find out more information was to get the kids to like her, and drive him nuts saying today ummm, she couldn't use Sakura as a name so she would go with, hmmmm, aha! She would be Hiroko-sensei. She would be extremely nice to all the kids and give the candies and sweets and prizes, to make them like her. She left gave Naruto two tugs on his sleeve indicating that she was leaving the family scene, and that he would have to gather the rest of the information.

Sakura walked into town removing the cloaking jitsu as she entered the small town. She met a small little kid that seemed to be the same age as the two children, and asked were the academy was, he just pointed in the direction behind him. In the distance Sakura saw a little school, it, like all of the other buildings here had sliding screen doors. When she entered she took it that the woman behind the computer was the receptionist. "I would like to apply for a job as a teacher here," Sakura said sweetly putting on a sweet smile. The woman looked up and gave her the job application form to be the music teacher. "Thank you," Sakura said taking the papers. The receptionist nodded in response.

Once Sakura had finished filling in the job application form, she took it up to the receptionist who directed her to the door behind her. The woman was really busy, so she couldn't talk that day.

Sakura knocked on the screen door she was directed to. "Come in," a gruff, old voice said.

"Hello sir, I am Hiyashi, Hiroko,I would like to be the school's new music teacher," Sakura told the old man that sat in front of her. He had a very nice office, with two leather chairs in front of his desk, behind his desk she saw a large bookshelf and a row of 3 filing cabinets. The man was not plump, but he was not skinny either, no he was between plump and medium. "Alright Hiyashi-san you may give me your paperwork and then sing a professional song, then sing a song that you will teach to the kids, then I have more questions to ask," he said, he was extremely calm and patient, proves to show, he was an old man.

Sakura instantly began to sing.

"Oh splendid, you are just marvelous my dear!" The man said applauding the female, "you can have the job, you seem much too sweet to be a mean teacher, no you are an incredible woman, you start work tomorrow, alright?"

"Hai," Sakura replied bowing before she left. She headed back to the camp she and Naruto had set up and found Naruto giving all of the information they had gathered. "Oh hi Sakura-chan!" Naruto said loudly. But then remembered how that he ha to be quiet and then asked, "Where did you go?"

"I'm gonna be the children's music teacher, I need to go out and get sweets and new clothes in order to be their new teacher," Sakura said hurrying to cover Naruto's mouth before he exploded.

"My name will be Hiroko, okay?" She said angrily to Naruto.

"Oh ok," Naruto said quietly. This was a difficult for him, having to control how active he was.

"So what else did he say?" Sakura asked.

"He didn't say much after you left really," Naruto said looking down, "just talked about school with his kids, and they're twins by the way."

"Twins? Did you find out who their auntie was?"

"Nope, but I have a hunch, it just might be-,"

"Akemi," Sakura cut Naruto off, "That made sense why she would leave at the end of each month, and she never told us a thing."

"She was keeping an eye on the kids the whole time, and she didn't tell us," Naruto said in furious awe.

"If she did she would have been considered a traitor," Sakura replied.

That was it for the conversation, Sakura left to buy her 'teacher' clothes which consisted of basic shirts and pants, jeans that came just bellow her knees, and jackets, and lastly a pair of sandals. She went to find a river which was near by and told him that she was going to bathe, and that he would have to bathe right after her. She grabbed the soap and shampoo she had brought with her and went to take a shower in the cold shallow river, she would have two minutes, no more no less, she hated taking long showers, and besides she had showered before she had left Konoha. When she walked back she got into the tent and hanged back into her alternate clothes that she had packed knowing something like this would happen. Naruto walked to the river and bathed, he just couldn't stop thinking about how Akemi, the girl he was so close to, not romantically, no they were just best friends, they were personality twins, except she was smarter, that was probably it, well of course they had many things that were different in their personality, but she could trust him couldn't she, or at she could trust Hinata. He was really angry with Akemi, and she was getting a fist in the face the next time he saw her. He staggered back to camp and got dressed in the spares that Hinata had packed him. Sakura and Naruto had more ramen for dinner, she said she would get food for them the next day, since they were low on ramen. Sakura went to wash all the clothes and came back an hour later and hung them on the tree branches, leaving them to dry, she then tucked in for the night, and she said an alarm to wake her up the next day, but only she would hear it, since she put the ear buds into her ears and went to sleep. The next day was going to be a long one.