Chapter 5: Parent Teacher Conferences

"Bye Hiroko-sensei!" The two twins cheered as they ran down the hallway. They had been learning how to play their favorite instruments. That's when Hideo, the headmaster, and owner of the school walked up to Sakura, "We have parent teacher conferences soon."

"We do?" Sakura asked. 'Oh, Kami-sama! I saw this coming, and I believe I should be able to deal with this,' Sakura panicked.

"Hai, I have sent out notices, they will be on Friday, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM," he answered formerly.

"Arigato," Sakura thanked Hideo, "I will be going home now, have a nice day."

"Sionara, Hiyashi-san."

"Sionara, Hideo-sama."

'Oh what should I wear?' Sakura thought, she would have worn her kimono, but she had left in Konoha, she didn't think she would need it. She looked outside and decided that it would be wise to check up on Naruto, he was really annoyed with this mission, he was losing patience, saying that he should just go after Sasuke in his sleep. Sakura begged him to stay calm and patient, she had snuck him into the dorm every once in a while. Tsunade was hoping that they would be able to get some good information, but the only information they had been able to get about the mother was that she was still alive, she was pretty, she had green eyes, and that Sasuke had met her more than once, so Naruto and Sakura suspected that he had met her during his criminal days. WRONG! Sasuke, was to his luck, failing to give anymore hints that the twin's mother was Sakura.

'Man, this is soo boring! I wish I could just go ahead and meet up with teme and talk to him, but Sakura-chan wont let me,' Naruto though irritated. 'Then again she doesn't have to know anything,' Naruto smirked evilly at this thought.

Naruto remembered clearly that Akemi had told Sasuke that they were on a mission, he could pretend that on his way back to Konoha he felt tired and decided to stop by for a break and Sakura had gone straight back to Konoha. The plan was slowly falling into place in his head. He would go to the hot springs in the early morning, and then be sure to find a way to spot Sasuke. This was Sakura would still be at school and Naruto would have enough time to talk, and discuss things with Sasuke.

"Okay, I think that's enough for today," Sakura said cheerfully.

"Mou ikkai! Onegai Hiroko-sensei mou ikkai!" Emi begged.

"Hai, hai, Mou ikkai!" Sakura said enthusiastically, clapping her hands.

She was proud of the twins, they had learned so much, and had even started to make their own song together, but sometimes Sakura was in a rush to go and check in with Naruto. "Sionarra, Hiroko-sensei!" The twins cheered, waving good bye and running down the hall. That was when Sakura sensed chakra, Sasuke's chakra. "Tou-san! Why are you in the building?" Emi asked curiously.

"Is there anything wrong with coming into the building?" Sasuke asked her calmly.

"N-no, of course not Tou-san," Emi stuttered.

"Listen Baa-chan's outside waiting for you, remember she said she wanted to teach you how to write calligraphy?" Sasuke informed them.

"Henge no jitsu," Sakura whispered. She once again changed into a woman with brunette hair and pale blue eyes.

"Ah, h-hai!" Emi said, grabbing Sora by the hand running out of the building.

"I can run on my own thanks!" Sora complained as they ran down the halls.

'Uchiha-san,not Sasuke-kun, Uchiha-san, Uchiha-san,' Sakura reminded herself.

"Koneichiwa, Uchiha-san," Sakura said appearing from behind the screen door of the music room.

"Koneichiwa, are you the Hiroko-sensei my children keep on talking about?" Sasuke asked raising his delicate eyebrow.

"Hai, they talk about me?" Sakura said acting like she didn't know.

"Yes they do, a lot really," Sasuke replied calmly. His tone wasn't cold, it was normal with an edge of boredom in it.

"They are sweet children, why don't you come in, there's a lot I wish to tell you about them," Sakura beckoned Sasuke into her room.

"No, that won't be necessary, I'll come during the parent teacher conferences, I do believe that you are tired and wish to go home," Sasuke rejected her offer.

'Just like when we were young, he rejects my offer,' Sakura thought sadly.

"Yoroshku, Uchiha-san," Sakura said.

"Hn, sionara," Sasuke replied.

"Sionara, Uchiha-san."

Sasuke turned around and left her there. He wasn't surprised about how she called his children sweet. All the teachers said they were amazing. Many said that his daughter was a genius and many said his son was very sharp. But that was beside the point, what was important was what made her so amazing that his children spoke a lot about her. He exited the building and walked past the hot springs, he decided he would take a dip after he took his children to school the next day. When he arrived at his house, he walked straight up to the cherry blossoms and placed a hand on one of them, "Sakura," he whispered longingly. She was all he wanted right now.

Somewhere in the shadows, a figure hid. "Uchiha, Sasuke?" The figure's eyes widened at the sight. 'Of all place he would be, he's in Flame?' The figure thought angrily. He stayed in his place and continued to observe the peaceful Uchiha.

But he wasn't the only one who was keeping his eyes on Sasuke, a pair of deep ocean blue eyes were also boring a hole into the Uchiha's form. Naruto was observing him carefully as well and was continuing to make up his plan on how to make a coincidental meeting. He reviewed the steps;

'1-Tell Sakura-chan that I'm going back to Konoha for a day.

2-Grab my stuff.

3- Go to the hotsprings.

4- Pretend to hear about Sasuke, or see him.

5-Follow him to his house.

6-WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE SASUKE-TEME?'

The plan seemed perfect, he knew that it was full of flaws, but it would have to do. Naruto smirked evilly rubbing his hands at his success and chuckling darkly. "So any new news Naruto?" Sakura asked eagerly.

"Nope," Naruto responded quickly.

"He looks so sad," Sakura said sympathetically. Yes, she was looking at Sasuke sitting in a cherry blossom.

"I wonder why he likes to sit in that tree so much," Sakura wondered aloud.

"Maybe because he likes trees," Naruto suggested laughing quietly.

Sakura laughed with him too, but this only made her sad. She wished Sasuke had been there to hear Naruto make fun of him. But now even if he came back to Konoha, he had children, meaning he was married, meaning she wouldn't have him. That was depressing, but it didn't matter, just having him back would be fine.

"TOU-SAN!" Emi voice burst out energetically.

Her hands were covered with black ink, since she had been doing calligraphy, which was drying right about now. Sora came behind her, he was just as full of energy, but wasn't in the mood to talk, let alone shout. Sora's thumbs were sore from playing all that guitar, since he was stubborn enough to refuse using a pick, and his fingers were also inky. He hated calligraphy, his sister was much better at it than he was. Sasuke jumped down from the tree and greeted them with a hug, He enveloped them in his warm, strong, safe arms.

'HE HAS CHILDREN?' The figure in the dark thought his eyes widening with shock. No doubt those were his kids, the boy was like a miniature of his father, and the female had the same black hair, with pink streaking it. 'Itachi-san will want to know about this,' the dark figure thought before taking off.

"Tou-san! We want to know more about Kaa-san!" Emi said out of nowhere.

That was their cue, Naruto and Sakura cloaked themselves and got closer. They needed to get as much information about the mother as possible, they needed to know who she was. "What do you want to know about your mother?" Sasuke asked them.

"What was she like?" Sora asked jumping up and down.

"How did you meet her?" Emi asked excited to hear more about her mother.

"Slow down, one question at a time," Sasuke chuckled.

"What was she like?" Sora asked again.

"Your mother was kind," Saskue began. 'To me anyway,' Sasuke added in his head. "She was caring, she was sensitive, and she could be annoying too," Sasuke continued.

"Any ideas?" Sakura asked Naruto. Poor girl didn't know that he was describing her.

Naruto had one idea, but he shook his head, he hated lying to her, but it didn't make any sense. He was extremely eager to meet Sasuke the next day. 'Teme, I'm pretty sure everything you've said about their mother has hurt Sakura-chan, she always tried her best to be everything you'd want in a woman, because even though she didn't realize it, she loved you, it was more than a crush,' Naruto thought. He knew Sakura very well, she was his best friend and he had loved her before, but that's before Hinata though. He felt that Hinata was the right one for him, and when Sasuke wasn't in Konoha their relationship had bloomed.

"Kaa-san was annoying?" Emi asked shocked out of her wits.

"She sounds a lot like Emi," Sora muttered under his breath, but that was loud enough for Sasuke to hear. Sasuke chuckled, 'Nice one Sora, that's a good point.' Sora looked up at his dad, he knew his dad heard that.

"Okay, now it's time for you guys to wash up and have dinner, so into the house," Sasuke commanded.

The twins whined but went into the house, Sakura instantly left, Naruto understood that she couldn't be away for the dorm for too long. "Demo Tou-san," Emi started.

"Yes Emi?" Sasuke asked her.

"You didn't tell me how you met her."

"I don't remember too well because I was only eight years old when that happened, but I can tell you where I met her," Sasuke answered.

"Where?" Emi asked eagerly.

"In Konoha village, remember I told you about it," Sasuke answered her smiling.

Naruto's eyes opened wide as he tried to digest the information he had just taken in. 'No,- no, no, no, no, Sakura-chan cannot be the mother! If she was she would know that they were her children!' Naruto thought. He couldn't tell her, but he didn't know why, he couldn't tell her without making sure first.

He headed back to camp and lied down in his sleeping bag, this had left him with many questions that needed answers.

~X~X~X~X~X~

Naruto woke up the next morning and left Sakura a message that said that he was going to go back to Konoha to check up on his family and come back the next day, or really late at night. 'I hope Sakura-chan doesn't get angry at me, but she needs to understand I have to do this,' Naruto thought putting his bag on his back and walking towards the hot springs inn. He checked in at the front counter and went into the hot springs. It felt so good, now he would just sit there and wait.

~X~X~X~X~X~

"Come on lets go Emi," Sora whined.

"Wait a second!" She snapped back at him.

She finished brushing her hair and put a black bow on her head. It surprised Sora how long it took his sister to brush her short hair. Or course since his hair was always spiked up, he never bothered to brush it. They ran down the stairs and out the front door, their father following behind them. He closed the door and locked it. They headed to school. There Sasuke, dropped them off and headed to the hot springs. Bad idea Sasuke. He paid and went in. Naruto noticed the outline of his former team mate behind the screen door and quickly submerged himself under the hot water. Thankfully Sasuke didn't notice him, not until he breathed out a bunch of air bubbles. Sasuke looked at the area where Naruto was. Naruto could no longer hold his breath and came out from under the hot water, his face tomato red. "Naruto?" Sasuke asked forgetting his emotionless mask for a moment.

"Sasuke-teme?" Naruto asked pretending to be surprised.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Sasuke asked regaining his composure, still surprised that his former team mate was there, in Flame, where he was hiding.

"I should be the one asking you that!" Naruto replied. "Shouldn't you be out there trying to get your so called revenge, we all know that Itachi isn't dead."

"Shouldn't you be in Konoha," Sasuke retorted.

"Well, I just finished this mission and felt tired, I heard that this was the only stop left before Konoha and decided to come in and take a nice soak to relax," Naruto made the story up. "Now what are you doing here?"

"None of your business," Sasuke responded.

"Oh yeah, I bet you're hiding from somebody, you coward," Naruto taunted, he knew what Sasuke was doing here, but he had to pretend that he didn't.

"Like I said it's none off your business," Sasuke said in a cold tone. That's when he remembered. "Where's Sakura?"

"Huh?" Naruto asked shocked.

"I asked you where Sakura was, I heard both you and her were on a mission," Sasuke repeated.

"Why? do you miss her?" Naruto asked deviously.

"No," Sasuke lied.

"Then why is it so important that you need to know if she's with me?" Naruto asked suspiciously. "And how did you know we were on a mission?"

"I have my sources, and I was just curious," Sasuke replied calmly.

They sat in silence for a while, until, "Hey teme, I heard you had kids, who's the unlucky girl?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto wide-eyed, "where did you hear that?"

"I heard it here in Flame when I was walking around the markets looking for the hot springs," Naruto lied.

"Hn. Yes I do have kids," Sasuke said annoyed.

"Oooh! Who's the mom? Who's the mom?" Naruto asked excitedly.

"I can't tell you that."

"Why not?" Naruto whined.

"Because if I do, you'll tell her," Sasuke mumbled looking away.

"Do I know her?" Naruto asked deviously.

"Yes," Sasuke decided he would tell Naruto since, his gut feeling urged him to.

"But If you want to know who she is, you must promise me you won't tell her."

"I promise."

"She has pink hair, and green eyes, and she lives in Konoha," Sasuke hinted.

'I WAS RIGHT!' "SAKURA-CHAN?" Naruto guessed loudly, but not too loudly, only loud enough for everyone in the inn to hear, that's all.

"Yes dobe, now shut up!" Sasuke hit Naruto on the head.

"Then how come she doesn't know?" Naruto asked Sasuke rubbing his head.

"I had Akemi perform her bloodline limit on her, okay?" Sasuke whispered quickly.

"And she listened to you?" Naruto asked pretending to be shocked.

"No, I kind of had to convince her first, it was easy, I made her feel some pain and she gave in," Sasuke said.

"Mental or physical?"

"Mental of course dobe, I told her Sakura's reputation was on the line, so she kind of listened."

"Wait teme, you love Sakura-chan?"

"Ummm, yes."

"Sakura-chan will be so happy!"

"I told you she can't know."

"Aww man!" Naruto whined. "Hey teme, can I meet your kids?"

"No."

"Why not?" Naruto whined, "I promise I'll be serious, maybe I can even bring my kids to play with yours!"

"Oh Hell No!" Sasuke said.

Naruto sighed and laid back, he couldn't share this piece of information with anyone, he had done enough lying for one day. 'Poor Sakura-chan, she can't know,' Naruto thought sympathetically. The two then sat there in silence, Sasuke felt slightly relieved that he had told Naruto, he hoped that he could trust him.

~X~X~X~X~

Later that day, Sasuke got ready to go to the parent teacher conference, he would visit the music teacher last, he wanted some private time to talk to her about what she was doing with his children. He headed out to the school, he went in and talked to all of the teachers. He got the same comments, your children are little angels. They are the sharpest among all of the students. Finally it was time to go and talk to Hiroko-snesei, that was when he heard the most beautiful voice ever. He followed the sound all the way to the music room, where Sakura had been waiting expectantly for him. She had talked to all of the parents but him, so she was already in her "disguise". She had started to sing out of boredom. Sasuke arrived at her door and went in. She noticed and stopped singing at once. "Konbawa, Uchiha-san," she said sweetly.

"Konbawa," he replied.

"I just wanted to tell you that they are the most amazing students ever! They are extremely bright and are extremely fast learners," Sakura told Sasuke. He nodded.

"I wanted to ask you, what are you doing with my children? They keep on going Hiroko-sensei, and Hiroko-sensei, I never understood why though," Sasuke told her in a curious tone, smirking at her taking a seat in the chair across her desk.

Sakura felt a light blush creep onto her cheeks, "Well, I've been teacher them how to play guitar and violin, I've also been teaching them, well Emi mainly how to sing."

"They're such sweet kids, there's only one thing I regret saying to them though," Sakura continued.

"And what would that be?" Sasuke asked inquiringly.

"I asked them to invite their mother over so that they could present for her and then, I discovered about their mother," Sakura said in a sympathetic and sad tone, "I'm sorry for your loss."

"It's okay you didn't know," he said calmly, "but she's not dead, she just had a little incident and forgot about them."

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that," Sakura said sympathetically, placing a hand on Sasuke's and giving him a sad look.

Sasuke looked at her ominously, and she instantly removed her hand from his, "G-gomenasai, Uchiha-san."

"Well, that's all, I think I'll be going now," Sasuke rose from his seat.

"Osumenasai, Uchiha-san," Sakura said.

"Osumenasai," Sasuke responded leaving her room. He headed towards his house. There was something suspicious about meeting Naruto and telling him, who the mother was, and now meeting up with this teacher, who was new and having her ask questions about Sakura.

That night, Sasuke had a dream, a sweet dream.

' He would be standing in a beautiful meadow with his sweet cherry blossom.

"Sasuke-kun?"

"Sakura, I-I love you,"

"I-I-I love you t-too, Sasuke-kun?"

Sasuke then kneeled before her, "Will you marry me?"

She would stare at the ring, with her eyes wide open, "y-yes."

Sasuke would then place the ring on her finger, and stand up. He would then bend down and kiss her. That's when he would pick her up and she'd start giggling. It would be just him and her in that perfect meadow, in that perfect world. They would be together, forever.'