Japanese words Translated at the end.
Chapter 8: WHAT?
"Na-ru-to…," Sakura's tone was ominous.
"Oh, heh heh, *konbawa Sakura-chan," Naruto chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"You disobeyed me," she continued, her voice dark.
"*G-gomen, Sakura-chan but we weren't getting any information even with you being the kids' teacher," Naruto gulped.
"So I suppose you have some useful information," a vein popped out of Sakura's head.
'"She can't know",' Sasuke's voice echoed in Naruto's mind.
"No, not rea-YAH!" Naruto jumped away and Sakura landed a punch on the ground, leaving a deep crater, as well as a crack in the ground.
"Then why the hell were you talking with Sasuke-kun?" Sakura demanded.
"Well, I tried to ask him who the mother was, but you know how secretive *teme can be," Naruto replied.
Sakura lowered her head admitting defeat and Naruto grinned and help up a peace sign. "Ne, Sakura-chan why don't you rest for the night?" Naruto suggested.
She glared at him before replying, "Fine."
Sakura headed back to the dorm, she was starting to get sick of having to wait around to find an answer to her questions, one month, one whole month of spying and getting the kids to like her enough to talk a lot about her. She was very tired, and still very, very, angry, so she decided to sleep.
~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~
"What did you call this again?" Itachi asked, as he ate the beige colored mixture before him.
"Humus."
"Wait, do you mean the soil?" Itachi asked disgusted.
"Heck no! It's a thing they ate somewhere foreign, tastes good huh?" Akemi asked as she scooped a small amount of humus into a piece of pita bread.
"Oh, okay."
"Come on Itachi-*nii-sama! I'm not that crazy!" Akemi complained.
"True. You do have extremely picky taste buds," Sasuke told her.
"It's not my fault you didn't know how to cook very well," Akemi smirked, "it's either that or I've just gotten used to the taste of your cooking."
Sasuke punched Akemi sending her flying into the near by wall, "You're sleeping on the couch tonight."
"YES!" Akemi cheered.
The Uchiha brothers stared at her. Although their faces were blank, you could tell they were confused. "Okay, fine I'll tell you," Akemi sighed in defeat, "most of the time in the morning when I'm walking down, well I don't walk down the stairs, I trip at the top and tumble down, so I would prefer sleeping down here, so that I don't trip and fall down the stairs."
The Uchihas continued to stare at her thinking, 'how the hell am I related to this woman?'
The two Uchihas and there cousin had to admit the food was good so they ate the whole okay-sized jar, now they would have to face the consequences.
~X~X~X~X~X~X~
While everyone was sleeping a dark figure made its way to the house and climbed up Sasuke's open window. The figure loomed above his pale. peaceful moonlit figure. "Sasuke-kun," it sighed dreamily, "why did you choose another woman over me? Where is she now?"
~X~X~X~X~X~X~
Sasuke awoke and found the world's freakiest sight, well for him anyway, and it didn't help that he had a full bladder either. His eyes widened momentarily before he cursed his older brother. For before him lay the sleeping figure of his former female criminal teammate, Karin. He slowly got out of bed and walked down the stairs to Akemi who was peacefully sleeping on the sofa she loved. He still remembered when she first came. Akemi had inspected the whole house, and her favorite thing in it was the sofa. Sakura had picked out the sofa, so he liked it too. It was extremely comfortable, it was a deep blood red, but he still liked it.
"Akemi, Akemi," he shook her, sadly it didn't work.
He rolled his eyes and pinched her, hard. "Ow, ow, jeez!" Akemi complained. "Oh Sasuke-*nii-san."
"What did you do to that food we ate yesterday? Did you spike it?" Sasuke asked.
Sasuke was a very light sleeper, being a ninja made him so. How the hell could someone climb in bed without him waking up? No wait, how could someone breathe in his room without him waking up?
"Why would I spike it if I was gonna eat it?" Akemi asked clearly irritated.
Sasuke thought about it for a second and realized it couldn't be spiked. "Listen *aniki, there is a side effect to humus is that it makes you a heavier sleeper if you eat it and go straight to bed," Akemi explained, "is that why you were worried about it being spiked?"
"Hn." Sasuke grunted.
Akemi looked at the clock on the wall and noticed that Sasuke had woken up earlier than usual, that was odd. "You're up earlier than usual, what's wrong?" Akemi asked sleepily.
Just then Sasuke remembered that he needed to use the restroom and headed to the guest bathroom without another word. Akemi just fell asleep again. When Sasuke emerged from the bathroom again and walked up the stairs to the room Akemi usually slept in. He was his brother and walked over to wake him up.
"Itachi, Uchiha, Itachi," Sasuke said lightly shaking him.
Itachi's eyes instantly snapped open. "Oh it's just you Sasuke," he said sitting up.
"Did you tell the whole Akatsuki where I was?" Sasuke folded his arms in front of his bare chest in frustration.
"No. It was Kisame that found you, and he was the one who told me where you were," Itachi replied coolly.
"I bet Kisame spread the news then," Sasuke suggested.
"Hn?"
"Karin snuck into my bed, what the hell should I do with her?"
If Itachi was not an Uchiha he would burst out laughing, however he was an Uchiha, and Uchihas don't make fools of them selves. "To think she would still be obsessed with you, I'm surprised she didn't commit suicide," Itachi shook his head, "to think that so many women would be obsessed with my little brother."
"You seem proud," Sasuke noted noticing his voice tone.
"Hn," Itachi grunted, "let's wake up Akemi, she'll have a good idea as to what to do with her, because I could only think of one thing, kill her."
"Same here."
~X~X~X~X~X~X~
"Oi Akemi wake up," Sasuke whispered.
"*Nani, nani?" Akemi snapped awake. "Are the kids okay? Where are they?"
Sasuke stared at her blankly, she did this at least once in a while where she'd have a nightmare and wake up worried. She relaxed noticing Sasuke's expression. "Can I help you guys with anything?" Akemi asked.
"Yes, you can, come here," Sasuke grabbed her arm and forcefully dragged her up the stairs.
"What the hell is she doing there?" Akemi whisper shouted pointing at Karin's still sleeping figure.
"I want an answer to that as well, what should we do with her?" Sasuke asked.
In response Akemi walked out the room, dashed down the stairs and came back up with a frying pan. She walked up to Karin and gave her a hard whack on the head, knocking her out. She then ran all the way down the stairs, opened the door revealing the basement stairs and grabbed the rope she had stored there before dashing back up the stairs and tossing an end of the rope to Sasuke, who instantly understood and helped her tie up the unconscious Karin.
"Now what?" Sasuke asked.
"Hmmm," Akemi hummed, "we tie her to a tree and leave somebody on watch."
"I can stay on watch," Itachi surprised everyone by offering.
"No that won't do, we need you in the plan, in fact we are all needed in the plan in that case," Akemi said.
Akemi whistled and something scattered up the steps and into the room. "Wait that wasn't a stuffed animal?" Sasuke asked.
"Nope, hey Rusty, how've ya been?" Akemi patted the head of the small red panda that stood before her.
"Good," the red panda squeaked.
"I need you to watch this red headed hag just for today, okay?" Akemi said pointing her thumb over her shoulder.
"Okay," Rusty said hurriedly and scurried over to the bed and started to watch the tied up figure, "she's very ugly."
Akemi giggled and the Uchiha brothers, merely smirked.
"No, she won't be here, she'll be outside," Sasuke informed.
"Okay," Rusty squeaked again.
So they all moved her and hung her on a high branch so that, when she woke up, he would see her feet suspended in air. Rusty the red panda then took watch and all of the adults went back to wake the kids up and make breakfast, today was going to be quite the day.
~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~
"Listen Sora, Emi, today your uncle will be picking you up from school okay?" Sasuke told his kids as he walked them to school.
"*Hai!" The twins chirped as they continued their walk to school.
"*Tou-san, I'm afraid I might say something wrong in front of Hiro-Sakura-sensei," Emi complained.
"Yeah me too," Sora looked down.
"Don't worry, just pretend you never knew she was your mother," Sasuke winked at his kids.
Sasuke was an entirelydifferent person with his kids. He watched them run off and he looked forward to the unfolding of the plan. Itachi had a nice plan set up, he was excited to put it to action.
"Alright phase *ichi, engaged!" Akemi cheered back at the Uchiha household.
It was time for the plan Itachi had thought up within a minute. Akemi was quite pleased with herself, her whack had really knocked out Karin. Sasuke, Itachi, and Akemi walked out the house making sure to lock it. Itachi quickly performed a *henge no jutsu and turned into a second version of his brother who dove into the tree and followed them through the trees that surrounded the whole city of Flame. Akemi was trying her best not to crack up, but she was letting out an occasional giggle of excitement. That made Itachi pretended not to know her.
At last, all three reached the school and took their positions, remembering what Itachi had planned out the night before.
-Flash Back-
"Ooh! Care to share Itachi?" Akemi asked.
"First of all has either one of you been around the whole school building? We need to know the exact details of the school before we discuss my plan," Itachi told them.
Sasuke instantly walked into the house and came out with a huge paper, pencil, ruler and eraser; he then instantly got to work drawing out the floor where Sora and Emi went to school in. He didn't find it necessary to draw out anymore, especially since he hadn't been to the top floor.
A half an hour later he was done drawing out the layout, it was quite precise. He then explained everything and labeled the rooms as he explained the location of each one.
"And this Sakura is the music teacher?" Itachi asked.
Sasuke nodded in response. "Okay in that case, Sasuke will stand there," Itachi pointed to an area of the drawing, "and I'll come pick up the kids from here, and you will get Sakura-san out of the room."
"My name is Akemi," Akemi huffed.
"Ah yes, Akemi, please find a way to get Sakura-san out of the music room with her back to Sasuke, okay?"
"Hai," Akemi answered unenthusiastically.
"So let me guess, I have to surprise her?" Sasuke lifted his eyebrow.
"Hn."
"Well then, let's have something to eat and get some sleep," Akemi yawned.
-End of Flash Back-
"*Sionarra Sakura-sensei!" The twin's farewell was the cue.
The kids ran out the door, down the hall and took a left, bumping into Itachi who looked like Sasuke at the moment. Akemi then quickly ran up into the hall way and put her hands on her knees panting.
"Akemi? Are you all right?" Sakura dashed out of the classroom, her back to Sasuke.
Akemi took Sakura's hands into her own and was about to open her mouth when a sword went right through her! Poof! Akemi's replication disappeared.
Sakura felt chills run through her whole entire body. She felt something behind her and saw a *katana in front of her. She grimaced as she saw the reflection in the sword, the face of Uchiha, Sasuke. He knew, he knew she was here, in the flame. He must have found out and captured Naruto. Sakura's head was spinning with theories as to how he came to know she was here in the Flame.
Sakura turned around carefully; she didn't want to rip her clothes. Poor Sakura was too sort for his 5.512 foot frame and had to tilt her head slightly backwards in order to be able to look him straight in the eyes. She noticed his facial muscles twist into a mischievous smirk. 'Why is he smirking?' Sakura's brows furrowed as she stared at him confused. Then Sasuke lowered his sword and closed the teeny, tiny distance between them with a hug. 'I missed you little Cherry Blossom,' Sasuke thought.
Calling Sakura's cheeks red was an understatement. She was the deepest shade of crimson, and her eyes went wide. Her right eye started twitching, causing the people watching the show, well causing one of the two watching the show to burst into maniacal silent laughter. "Hn. I never knew my brother would be this romantic," Itachi commented.
"Hey save the video commentary for later!" Akemi whispered to him.
Sakura took the chance when she felt he let his guard down to push herself away from him and take out a kunai from her pocket, "What do you want?" She spat at him.
"Don't ask questions you already know the answer of Sakura," Sasuke replied coolly, "now I know you have other questions to use while you interrogate me."
"Yeah and you're just gonna be a good little boy and let me ask you questions," Sakura rolled her eyes.
"Well, I wouldn't mind answering your questions if you came by my house," Sasuke folded his arms over his chest and leaned against the wall.
"Yeah, riiiiiight," Sakura replied sarcastically, "but I will see if you are going to do what you say."
"Well then let's go," Sasuke said walking past Sakura and gently grabbing her hand and dragging her behind him.
"To the house! Come on Itachi nii-sama! I need to film the rest of this!" Akemi said grabbing his arm and pulling him up, before grabbing the video camera and tripod stand and taking off.
~X~X~X~X~X~X~X~
Akemi arrived with Itachi and extended tons of cables up to the flat roof of the house and set up the camera, before dashing back downstairs and popping five bags of popcorn and grabbing six large one and a half liter pop bottles.
Itachi sat next to Akemi on the roof, "You sure have prepared for this."
"Yup!" Akemi smiled.
"Here they come," Itachi pointed to Sasuke and Sakura, and Akemi pressed record.
Sasuke walked Sakura around the house and right into the backyard. He walked up to a Cherry Blossom tree and looked at it with a dreamy gaze, "Do you know why I have two Sakura trees, Sakura?"
"No."
"Because if one failed to grow, then hopefully the other would hopefully grow instead of it."
"I still don't get why you like these trees so much," Sakura looked at him confused.
"I'm guessing you want me to tell you," Sasuke looked at her.
"Yep," Sakura sighed.
"They remind me of a certain person," Sasuke told her.
"Who?" Sakura asked. 'It can't be me. Can it?'
"I thought you were smart, or is it that you can't believe that I would want something to remember you with?" Sasuke interrogated her.
Sakura gave him an annoyed look, and got straight to the point, "You have kids. Sora is a miniature of you. He is living proof that you are his father, now who's his and Emi's mother?"
"I was expecting you to ask," Sasuke exhaled.
"Then answer me!"
"I'm surprised Naruto actually bit his tongue and didn't tell you," Sasuke smirked.
"Naruto?"
"Hn."
"Why that teme!" Naruto whispered next to Akemi and Itachi. He had joined them shortly after Sasuke and Sakura had arrived.
"Well Sakura, did you notice the color of certain strands of Emi's hair?" Sasuke began. "Did you notice what color their eyes were?"
"Yes," Sakura replied.
"Well, before you come to the conclusion of who the mother is, I don't fall for random females Sakura, only one," Sasuke began to walk towards Sakura, "I remember her well, an annoying fangirl, a smart annoying fangirl that always needed rescuing, but she wasn't like any of the others, no," Sasuke shook his head, "she had eyes that captured me, she had beauty, she was gentle, kind, and caring. She was willing to do anything for me. Leave the village, become a traitor, and even after I left she and that stubborn Naruto kept on trying to convince me to come back. Not a single one of the other fangirls came that night to stop me, only her. I'll tell you the truth Sakura, I wanted to come back to Konoha Sakura, just for her, but I made small mistake, get her pregnant. I was on my way to apologize, when she goes ahead and tells me that she was carrying my child-"
"So what did you do with me after that? I don't remember any of this! Stop making up things like me becoming pregnant! You don't even love me!" Sakura yelled at him.
"Ooooh! That's one hard hit!" Akemi said munching on some of the popcorn that she, Itachi, and Naruto were sharing.
Itachi and Naruto nodded. "That teme!" Naruto clenched his fists. "How could he do that to Sakura-chan?"
"I do. I hid it when we were younger, I didn't l know what it was back then, and I rejected the fact, trying to focus on my revenge," Sasuke told her, "anyway, to answer your question I took you in hiding here in this very house. I didn't want you to lose your respect, honor, and be seen as a traitor. When Emi and Sora were born, which, Akemi by the way gave birth to them, we were nineteen. I had her wipe all of your memories, no wait, lock all of your memories. She then sent you back to Konoha thinking you had been in a seven month coma."
"Akemi, Akemi, she agreed to do something like that?" Sakura looked shocked.
Both of the boys turned their heads towards Akemi, Naruto growled menacingly at her and Itachi just blinked at how betraying she was. "What? Look, Sasuke nii-san, well, he-he, he convinced me to do it," Akemi's eyes welled.
"But I know you're making this all up! You don't love me! I know you don't! I can feel it, you don't, you don't, you don't!"
"If I don't love you," Sasuke grit his teeth, Sakura was making this hard for him, since this was nothing like what he expected, "then why didn't I leave you, why didn't I just forget and not go back to apologize? I could have instantly left you there, to lose all the respect the village had for you!"
Sasuke had a good point, but she couldn't believe it. Yes, she had joked about being the mother of his children when she was young and stupid, but she hadn't meant it literally. 'The last thing, the last thing you told her Sasuke nii-san! It will unlock her memories! What did you tell her before I performed my justu?' Akemi's voice echoed inside Sasuke's mind.
He closed his eyes and thought hard trying to remember, '"I love you, and anything I do is only to protect you, don't you forget that."'
"Saku-" Sasuke started before he got a hard hit to the face.
"You bastard! How dare you put me through all of what you just told me and then cast me away, I wouldn't have minded living with you here in hiding, but nooo! What did you do? Wipe my memory clean and send me back to Konoha, where I would continue suffering, continue beating myself up for letting you become one of Orochimaru's subordinates!" Sakura yelled. "You-you, I can't stand you. You made me miss the first five years of their lives Sasuke-kun! How can they accept me now? And can you even imagine how I felt when I saw you had kids? I was heart broken! I still find it hard to believe you love me, you could have done all of those things just because you cared about me, not loved me!"
"Calm down Sakura!" Sasuke ordered.
"This is getting real good!" Naruto and Akemi munched faster on the popcorn.
Sakura was not going to calm down, she was fuming, and now she needed to release her anger, she started throwing punches at Sasuke, who managed to dodge most of them, but got hit at least once every four hits. So the ratio was more or less 1:4 hits. In other words, out of every four hits one would be successful.
"So how do you want to bury him?" Naruto asked Itachi.
Itachi gave Naruto an annoyed look, but then Sasuke dodged a punch and it landed on the ground, sending huge chunks or earth flying into the air.
"Well at least that gives me less digging to do when I start to make the pool," Akemi commented.
"I'm thinking six feet under soil," Itachi agreed with Naruto.
"With crimson and black flowers in the design of a sharingan, and some in the design of the Uchiha clan fan logo!" Akemi suggested.
"That sounds nice," Naruto nodded.
"You are quite the creative one," Itachi ruffled Akemi's hair messing it up.
POW! BAM! Sakura landed to very hard hits on Sasuke; leaving purple marks on his cheek, arm, and chest.
" GYAAAAH! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING TO MY SASUKE-KUN!" A shrill cry was heard from the side lines.
On that happy note, Akemi appeared next to Karin, owner of the shrill cry.
"Listen ugly if I miss anything more you are dead," Akemi threatened her tone deadly enough to send chills through Karin's body.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! With one final whack Akemi calmed down and returned up to the roof.
"Mental Note: Never give Akemi a frying pan," Naruto told Itachi with wide circle eyes.
Itachi nodded in agreement.
"Why?" Akemi looked at Naruto funny.
"Because," he pointed to the blood on the pan, sweat dropping.
"Oh, eheheheheheh," Akemi rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, "looks I can't use this to make scrambled eggs anymore."
Sakura then noticed Sasuke was off guard and punched him once, twice, then she dashed quickly behind him and elbowed him into the ground. Sasuke landed on the ground and slid all the way until his back hit one of the trees surrounding the clearing where his house was. He coughed out some blood, and winced, she could really punch. As Sakura approached him, he couldn't help but think about how strong she had gotten. With that in mind Sasuke smirked up at her. Sakura punched him, but Sasuke grabbed her arm and pulled her forwards onto his lap. When she landed, he squeezed her arms in a tight and binding hug. Yes, she was stuck in place.
"Gah! LET GO OF ME!" Sakura kicked and squirmed, but to no avail.
"Ooh, feisty, Sasuke sure knows how to pick his women," Itachi commented.
"Watch who you're calling feisty," Akemi held up the blood stained frying pan.
"Sasuke is really lucky that Lee isn't here, no wait, Lee is actually very, very, lucky he isn't here to discover that 'His Beautiful Youthful Cherry blossom' actually had children, and that the guy she used to love is finally telling her he loves her back," Naruto sighed, "sheesh teme why complicate your life so much?"
"Are you sure that is Sasuke?" Itachi whispered to Akemi.
"Yup! To think that he wanted to kill you not so long ago!" Akemi answered.
"Let me go! LET ME GO!" Sakura sobbed. "Please just let me go."
"Sakura listen to me," Sasuke whispered into her ear, "I never wanted this to happen, if you want details, listen, we both headed to the same bar, you had too much Saké and I had too many foreign alcoholic beverages."
"I still ca-can't believe Akemi would do such a thing," Sakura boiled, "LET GO OF ME! I WANNA HAVE A GO AT HER! SHE IS SO DEAD WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON HER!"
"Kyaa!" Akemi chocked on the soda she was drinking.
The two guys beside her snickered. BAM! BAM! "Et-t-t," Itachi and Naruto rubbed the back of their heads where a bump had formed.
"Hmph," Akemi puffed.
"I'll let you have a go at her, just let me talk to you Sakura," Sasuke struggled to hold her down, "listen I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, Sakura, why would I want to hurt you if I love you?"
Sakura snorted, signaling she didn't believe him, "Bullshit."
Naruto then choked on his soda, and spit it out onto Itachi. He then started laughing and coughing uncontrollably, "W-hay to g-oh, Saukura-ch-ch-an!"
Itachi who was disgusted with this sticky soda that soaked him started chasing Naruto on the roof of the house. Akemi looked up from the camera, and her right eye twitched. Well we all know what she did next. BAM! BAM! You just gotta love that frying pan, well not if you're Itachi, Naruto, or Karin.
"Shut up idiots, I wanna hear what he's gonna say!" Akemi scolded them.
They all sat back down, but this time Itachi took his Akatsuki coat off.
"Sakura, I don't want you to believe me, I need you to believe me," Sasuke told her.
"God teme sure is corny," Naruto noted.
"Has he been reading those stupid books Ino gave me, that I left here?" Akemi wondered aloud.
"It was embarrassing for me to admit to you how I truly felt when we were on the same team. Back then I had no idea what all these weird feelings and emotions towards you were. Until I had this crazy thought, 'cute.' After that I kept on rejecting the truth, and running away from it. When I was gonna leave, you just came up and told me you loved me, why did you have to do that?"
"To stop you from leaving, I knew it wouldn't matter to you, but I hoped-"
"It would work on me?" Sasuke interrupted her.
Sakura nodded.
"It did, but I ran away from my feelings, and they chased me. You were unconscious, so you don't know this, but I kissed your forehead when I set you down on that bench," Sasuke told her.
A blush crept on to Sakura's face. "Dang it! I can't hear anymore!" Naruto exclaimed.
"None of us can, just watch and see their expressions!" Akemi yelled and him.
"I'm happy I left you, I was the reason you wouldn't train as much as you do now, the reason why you couldn't grow stronger. When I left, you well, look at house strong you are now," Sasuke showed her his bruised cheek.
Sasuke loosened his grip; and Sakura put her hand on it and it glowed green. When she removed it, his cheek was back to normal. "I can already tell I did a really good job at hiding my love for you, because no matter how many times I tell you I love you, you say I don't. Just accept it Sakura, I love yo- what are you doing?" Sasuke stared at her confused as she turned around to face him.
"I love the way you say my name," Sakura smiled up at him, "and I still love you."
She gave him a hug. That surprised Sasuke, but he quickly hugged her back. Cheers and w00ts! were heard from the spectators, Akemi, Itachi, and Naruto. Naruto was doing a dog whistle, "yeah teme! I always knew you had it in you!"
"That's why you were asking me how we should bury him," Itachi replied sarcastically.
"Why you!" Naruto was about to hit him, when he decided against it.
"W00T! W00T! Way to go Sasuke nii-san!" Akemi cheered.
Itachi just clapped and smirked proudly at his little brother. Sasuke would have rolled his eyes, but he had to maintain his Uchiha reputation. Akemi stared nervously at Sakura, who just smiled back at her. Naruto and Itachi walked down the stairs into the house and out. Akemi stayed behind to put away the camera and clean up the popcorn and drinks.
~X~X~X~X~X~X~
It was night time, and Akemi had picked the kids up from and old lady friend's house. "You're sleeping here with us," Sasuke told Sakura.
"Thank you, but do you even have room for me?" Sakura asked.
"Of course we do!" Akemi chirped from the kitchen where she was making a light salad for dinner.
Sasuke noticed the color of her eyes. She knew what he was thinking. "Akemi can you help me pack? We're heading back to Konoha tomorrow," Sasuke told her.
"W-What really?" Akemi stammered almost dropping the knife she was holding.
"That's awesome teme! Here, I'll take the kids with me really early in the morning," Naruto offered.
"It'll make it easier for us to pack then, and they'll be able to see more of Konoha and fit in faster," Akemi agreed.
"Fine," Sasuke gave in.
"YAY!" The kids dashed in. "We are going to go pack up right now!"
"Oh! What a second let me go get you some bags!" Akemi dropped the knife washed her hands and dashed down into the basement.
"Sakura-sensei, I'm so happy that you're our *Kaa-san," Emi dashed up to Sakura and gave her a hug.
"Me too!" Sora dashed to Sakura and gave her a hug along with his sister.
"And I'm happy that you're my children," Sakura smiled compassionately as she them a hug.
"Sora, Emi! I got your bags!" Akemi called to them.
"Tomorrow you get to see the place where Tou-san and me were born and grew up!" Sakura told them.
"Hai!" They called before running to get their bags from Akemi.
When they left a sniff could be heard from Sakura. "You see, they accepted you," Sasuke told her.
"Alright, I'm gonna go pack up my camp, and tomorrow, Sakura-chan will pack up what she has in the teacher's dorm, and we will finally head back to Konoha!" Naruto cheered.
Half an hour later, everyone was seated on the table and Akemi was serving them salad, they wanted to eat something light before bed. That's when Itachi noticed something on Akemi's right ring finger. "Akemi is that an engagement ring?" Itachi asked her.
"Wha-" Akemi looked at him with her jaw hanging open.
'How did he notice it?' Akemi wondered.
"NANI?" Everyone looked at Akemi, completely shocked.
"Akemi," Sasuke started.
"Explain," Sakura continued.
"Yourself," Naruto finished.
"I never knew Team 7 could communicate through telepathy," Akemi stated sarcastically.
"What's wrong if Auntie has a ring on?" Sora asked innocently.
"I think it means, she joined some sort of ninja group," Emi guessed.
"Yeah, yeah that's it, Akemi you should have told us before you did!" Sakura looked at her sternly.
"Off to bed," Sasuke told his children.
"Aww, but Tou-san," They whined.
"Come on you need your rest, we're going to get up extra early to get to Konoha at a good time!" Naruto smiled at them.
"*Osumenasai!" The kids chirped and dashed up the stairs.
"Alright, now you can explain to us who are you marrying?" Sakura faced Akemi.
"Ummmm, I'm not telling," Akemi crossed her arms and looked in the other direction.
"Yes you are," Naruto looked at his spiritual sister, "don't you trust us, aren't we like a family?"
"Shouldn't you tell your family everything?" Sasuke pressed.
'Who's crazy enough to want to marry her?' Sasuke thought.
"Well look who's talking," Akemi replied sarcastically.
"Akemi can't you just tell us who you're marrying?" Sakura asked clearly annoyed.
"No."
"Listen here you-" Sakura was about to punch Akemi.
"We'll find out when we go to the village anyway, so there's no point in interrogating her," Sasuke told Sakura.
Akemi nodded in agreement and Sasuke picked Sakura up bridal style. "Gah! Sasuke-kun! What do you think you're doing?" Sakura blushed.
"Carrying you," Sasuke sounded like he was stating the obvious, which he was.
"Put me down!"
"No."
"Sasuke-kun."
"I'm doing you a favor."
"It's embarrassing!"
"Well, I like it when you blush, how else will I get you to blush?"
Sakura gave up there and her cheeks flared red. Sakura rested her head on Sasuke's chest as he walked up the stairs. "You still haven't told me where I'll be sleeping," Sakura pointed out.
"Isn't it obvious?" Sasuke smirked deviously.
Sakura looked up at him with a confused look. "You still have some clothes here from before your stomach grew," Sasuke told her.
Sakura blushed crimson when he said "before your stomach grew." Sasuke entered her room and set her feet down on the ground and walked up to his closet. "Here," Sasuke handed her a satin pajama, it had a plain red t-shirt with black pants with red and white polka dots all over them.
"Arigato," Sakura headed towards, "umm where's the bathroom?"
Sasuke just walked out of the room and closed the door behind him in response. Sakura was slightly annoyed with him, but she changed into her pajamas and told Sasuke it was okay for him to come in. "So where will I be sleeping?" Sakura asked him.
Sasuke pointed to the bed behind him. "NANI?" Sakura exclaimed.
"Funny, you had no problem sleeping next to me six years ago," Sasuke said pulling his shirt of.
Sakura stared at him wide-eyed. She soon regretted staring at him and looked away, folding her arms across her chest trying her best to maintain her blush.
"I didn't keep my shirt on back then either," Sasuke noted, making Sakura blush a maroon color, "come on Sakura don't you want to go to sleep?"
"I can't sleep next to you!"
Sasuke gave her back an irritated look, "When we get married, which we will, you will be sleeping next to me on the same bed too."
Sakura couldn't believe what Sasuke was telling her, so she turned around. "Are you serious?" She asked astonished.
Sasuke nodded.
"Fine."
Sakura got into bed but she didn't dare face Sasuke.
"Osumenasai," Sasuke said.
"Osumenasai," Sakura replied before drifting off into the bliss of sleep.
HAHA! Finally it is finito! Now to all of you out there, thanks a million for all the review, and can you believe, I NEVER EVER WATCHED NARUTO SHIPPUDEN? Bye! Bye!
Japanese words:
Konbawa: Good Evening
Gomen: (Short for Gomenasai)
Teme: Bastard
Nii-sama: very respectful way of referring to a brother (or cousin in this case)
Nii-san: referral to a brother
Aniki: big brother
Nani: what
Hai: yes
Tou-san: father
Ichi: one
Henge no jutsu: transformation jutsu
Katana: sword
Kaa-san: Mother
Osumenasai: formal way of saying good night.