Home at Last
Night fell, and the ninja stopped to rest in a hotel, before awaking early the next morning and continuing to Konoha.
"FINALY!" Naruto exclaimed, happy to finally be able to see the village.
"Is that Konoha? Look! Look Sora it's so pretty!" Emi clapped.
"This is where Tou-san grew up right?" Sora beamed. "Naruto-ouji-san this is where… ummm…"
"Yeah Sora this is where my kids are, I think you guys will get along real well, you know like, as well as me and Sasuke get along?"
"YOSHA!" The twins cheered.
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As the ninja and children approached the village gates they decided it would be best if Sakura and Akemi went in with the children ahead of time since aside from Naruto, Sakura, Akemi, and the children everyone else was criminals. So the two girls carried the twins on their backs and approached the village gates where they were greeted by the gate guards. "Welcome back girls, and I thought you were on a vacation Akemi," one of the guards questioned.
"Well I kind of ran into Sakura meanwhile I was in my vacation place," Akemi replied.
The guards oh-ed and then they let the girls pass through. The girls then hurried to the Hokage mansion in order to report in to Tsunade. It was then that Naruto and the group of criminals walked through the gates. It was suspicious, but it just so happened that Naruto and Sakura were on a mission together, so it was a little less suspicious. The second the Uchiha brothers and Karin set foot into the village they had ninja on them binding them down. "It's okay they're with me, they come in peace," Naruto said.
"But-"
"No buts they're with me, and I will take them to Tsunade no-baa-chan."
The guards then released the three and they all began to walk to the Hokage mansion together.
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"A-are these, Uchiha, Sasuke's children?" Tsunade asked dumbfounded.
"Uchiha, Sasuke, that's Tou-san's name right Emi?" Sora looked at Emi.
"Naruto-ouji-san and Auntie kept on calling Tou-san, Sasuke, so yes," Emi nodded.
Tsunade looked at the twins an amused expression taking her features. "Hajimemashite, warewa, Uchiha Sora to Uchiha, Emi, yoroshku onegai ishimasu," the twins said in union. We are Sora Uchiha and Emi Uchiha, nice to meet you
"They're rather polite are you sure these are Uchiha, Sasuke's children?" Tsunade whispered to Sakura.
"Ah, hai! Sasuke had some help raising them though," Sakura replied a little nervous.
"Oh so that's the 'Auntie', hmmm?"
"Hai."
"Which reminds me, Akemi you were supposed to be on vacation," Tsunade said rather suspicious.
"Well you see I ran into Sakura-chan and Naruto-kun meanwhile I was on my vacation, so I decided to help them," Akemi smiled.
Just then the door barged open and Naruto, Sasuke, Itachi, and Karin walked in. Tsunade tried to look impassive when the supposedly last two living Uchiha stepped through the doors. "Tou-san!" The kids jumped up and down even though they had only been separated from their father for a mere matter of minutes. Sasuke smiled warmly at them. Yes, he smiled, which surprised Tsunade, especially since she had heard about how stoic the Uchiha was. Well people tended to change for the ones they loved, one could take Sakura as an example. She changed so much for this bastard who now stood before her and yet he still chose another woman over her…. Or did he?
Tsunade turned to look at Sakura, she looked okay, and she seemed to have gotten over the whole, "Sasuke has children" thing, her bright eyes hadn't lost their shine, which was good. Speaking of eyes Tsunade stared intently at Sora's eyes before looking back at Sakura's. The resemblance between the two was rather scary.
Tsunade quietly asked Shizune to summon Hinata. Shizune quickly excused herself before taking off. The reason why Tsunade required the young mother was unknown, but Tsunade-sama knew what she was doing. "Hey you with the red hair, what's your name?" Tsunade asked Karin.
Karin raised an eyebrow at the woman, she was supposed to be an old hag, yet she looked as young as a twenty year old. "I am not inclineeed-" Karin started, "my name's Karin, I'm a missing nin from Kusagakure."
"Missing nin?" Tsunade furrowed her brows, surprised at how she suddenly spewed out the information without hesitation. "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to have someone escort you to the waiting room until I'm done with Uchiha, Sasuke's case."
Karin's eyes widened, waiting room, evidently meant a jail cell, "I re- okay."
'Why the hell am I agreeing and giving out info? I feel like I am being possessed and controlled!' Karin thought furiously.
It was only after two ANBU came and picked up Karin that Tsunade noticed the pair of apple green eyes that were staring at her in awe. Looking down to meet Emi's gaze Tsunade saw that her mouth hung slightly open. Tsunade then took this as an opportunity to scrutinize Emi's appearance. Now Sora looked just like the younger Uchiha outlaw, but Emi looked very familiar with her somewhat above average forehead, and porcelain face. She looked like someone Tsunade knew very, very well. "Wow, you're really, really, really, pretty," Emi breathed out in total awe.
Tsunade smiled down at the little girl, and it was then that she remembered the last time she had seen that expression, and it had been when Tsunade was displaying her super strength while teaching Sakura how to do the same thing. Tsunade's eyes snapped back and forth between Emi , Sora, and Sakura, and could only hope that her assumption was wrong. Should it be proven true, Tsunade glared dangerously in the Uchiha father's direction, should he have touched her precious little "daughter", he was soooo going to get it.
It was after Tsunade spent the next two or so minutes denying her assumption and telling herself that it was physically impossible for Sakura to have been able to hide a swelling stomach or the birth of twins from her, that Hinata made her appearance. "Ah Hinata," Tsunade greeted as the door swung open to reveal Shizune and Hinata.
"H-Hello Tsu-Tsunade-sa-sama," Hinata panted, "I heard that you are in need of my assistance."
"Ah yes, you see I would like it if y-" Tsunade was cut off by Naruto usual greeting to Hinata.
"Hi Hinata! I'm back!" Naruto sang out merrily.
Hinata gave her husband a very warm smile, "Welcome back, I'm glad you came back in one piece, especially since your mission required-" Hinata stopped talking as she noticed the two Uchihas who were sitting on the couches, a new addition to Tsunade's office.
"What do you mean? Are you saying you were worried that I would die?" Naruto asked.
"N-no! Of course not, but you usually come back kind of…" Hinata trailed off, "depressed."
"Anyway!" Tsunade said taking the spotlight once again, "Hinata, since you are already very experienced with children considering you have three kids already, I was hoping you would be able to take care of these two," Tsuande gestured towards Sora and Emi.
It was then that Hinata noticed the two. Emi instantly walked up to Hinata, Sora following suit and then they introduced themselves to Hinata, who thought it was a rather cute sight to see, but did not forget to take notice of their last name. "Wow, you're so prettyyyyy," Emi turned to Naruto, "Naruto-ojii-san, is this your wife who you said is the prettiest woman on the planet?" Emi tilted her head cutely.
Sora who had his hands behind his head mumbled, "I still think Kaa-chan is prettier."
Although the entire room heard it including Hinata, no one made a move to scold Sora except for Emi, who was about to slap him when Naruto's voice stopped her, "Yes, Emi-chan."
And so, Hinata took the twins, who were bombarding her with questions, home with her. Tsunade then decided that it was time to get to business. "Now which one of you plans on telling me the whole story?" Tsunade glared at everyone.
It was at that moment that everyone's eyes snapped to Akemi. Who was… asleep? Itachi's eyes then widened a milimeter when it dawned on him. "Little Akemi here, was controlling that red-head, that's why she was so obedient," he thought aloud.
"Well then teme, since I don't know all of the details, it looks like you'll have to be the one to explain this situation yourself," Naruto shrugged.
"Hn."
A few moments of expectant silence passed, and Tsunade, being as impatient as she was, growled, "Well hurry up and get on with the story!"
"Hn."
"Don't you 'hn' me Uchiha, start talking."
"Well, based on the way you were glaring at me previously, I do believe that you have some kind of guess for who Sora and Emi's mother must be," Sasuke said in a monotone.
"Don't play head games with me Uchiha, Sasuke," Tsunade spat.
"I was merely asking you to state your candidate for my children's mother," Sasuke explained.
Tsunade threw a very fierce glare in Sasuke's direction, before she sighed in exasperation, and looked down at her desk her hand gripping on tightly to one another as she peered up at Sakura. "Based on the children's appearances, I came up with the theory that," Tsunade grit her teeth before taking a breath, "Haruno, Sakura could possibly be their mother," Tsuande finished looking back down.
"You are correct."
Tsunade's head snapped back up, "What?" She asked her voice filled with venomous anger.
"It's very simple really," Sasuke stated impassively, "I got Sakura pregnant, used Akemi to wipe her mind, and well here we are today."
Tsunade's eyebrow twitched as her body went rigid with anger. Anger was seeping out from her pores. When Tsunade looked up at the unfazed Uchiha she snapped.
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Kakashi had just returned from another tiring S-Rank mission, and was walking up the stairs in order to give Tsunade his results. He had his nose stuck in one of his usual perverted books, and was calmly approaching the door when he heard a smash and a cry of "Tsunade-sama!" that signalled that Tsunade's office door had been smashed to bits once again. When he arrived there moments later, he absolutely, could not believe the sight in front of him; as, sitting right there before him in a mess of wood and concrete was Uchiha, Sasuke. Kakashi rubbed his one visible eye to check if he was dreaming. It turned out he wasn't. He couldn't help but notice the smirk that tugged at the corner of Sasuke's lips. He then saw Tsunade marching out the door, before she grabbed his collar, or some part of his shirt or whatever and pulled him out of the rubble. "You do all of that to her and then you go about saying it like she was nothing but a little toy you played with?" Tsunade hissed.
Sasuke's smirk disappeared instantaneously, and he shot Tsunade a glare. "We had a small accident, when I heard what had happened I instantly took her into hiding, which is why you never saw her stomach grow, and which is why her reputation is still clean," He growled.
Kakashi could not believe his ears, had Sasuke, Uchiha, Sasuke just said he was protecting a female? Did that mean, Kakashi's visible eye widened, Uchiha, Sasuke had fallen in love? No, that was impossible, this Sasuke was an imposter. "Eehhh," Kakashi drawled getting the two's attention, "are you sure that this isn't an imposter Sasuke? I mean he seems to be talking very passionately about some kind of woman, which I find odd… since Sasuke, well there was no news of him being in love or anything."
"Actually, this is Sasuke-kun, Kakashi-sensei," Sakura said walking out of the office in order to prove to her sensei that this Sasuke was no imposter.
"REALLY?" Kakashi asked his frown evident through his mask. "But, come on Sasuke seemed to be a really cold and distant-"
"Bastard," Naruto chimed in.
"Aa," Kakashi agreed.
Tsunade had let Sasuke's words sink into her mind, it seemed as if genuinely cared for Sakura, but, that doesn't mean she forgives him for what he did. Then it dawned on her, Sakura was involved in this, she had been associated with a criminal.
"Don't blame anything on her, she was really drunk after drinking a lot of sake, I take full responsibility for my actions." Sasuke said as though reading Tsunade's mind.
Tsunade shot a glare at him and let go, allowing him to sink back to a sitting position. Sasuke tried not to wince in pain. However Sakura noticed the freaking purple, yellow, black, blue spot at the side of his torso. "And I thought you were fast," Sakura mocked as she went over to him to heal him.
"Hn."
Sakura smiled at Sasuke warmly. Sasuke smirked back. And Kakashi's eye widened to an inhuman extent. "If I may ask, but just what the hell is going on here?" Kakashi asked Tsunade.
Tsunade sighed and decided that since Kakashi had heard more than he should have, and since he was their former team leader that he had a right to know what was going on. "Uchiha, Sasuke here," her eyebrow twitched and her hands fisted as she continued, "has children, very cute, and polite children."
Tsunade paused waiting for Kakashi to absorb the information. The sad thing was, Kakashi couldn't believe what he was being told, as his mind absolutely refused to register what Tsunade had just said and decided to laugh amusedly at this joke. "Oh really?" Kakashi laughed. "What are going to say next, that Sakura's the mother?" Kakashi continued to chuckle whole heartedly.
Tsunade looked exasperated, "yes," she said slowly.
Kakashi blinked. Then he tilted his head. Then he rubbed his chin. AND then it hit him; as if he hadn't undergone enough shock as it was already. Kakashi had no idea how to feel, angry, furious, and wanting to kill Sasuke, or ridiculously happy for Sakura, when it dawned on him how it could have been a fling, but then again, Sasuke had, from what Kakashi had heard, taken the blame for everything and somehow protected her reputation, and he seemed to enjoy her company from what he could see. Then another thing hit him… Tsunade had said children, not child. "Hokage-sama," Tsunade turned to face Kakashi signalling that he now had her attention, "you said children."
"Twins. Who knew we would have two children right off the bat huh?" Sakura smiled at Kakashi, who assumed she had somehow managed to deal with the knowledge that she was in fact a mother and had been for some time.
Sakura was almost done healing Sasuke, when Sasuke sat up and told her that she had done enough, and that he would be fine now, and that she needed to save her chakra. Sakura would have pushed him down had it not been that there were still the light remains of bruises on a few areas of his torso. Kakashi rubbed his chin with his cheeky and cocky grin obvious even though he was wearing a mask. Tsunade gave the flame-haired man a curious glance, as though demanding an explanation. "Well, you see, when they were kids," Kakashi started, gaining everyone's attention, "Sakura was a fangirl, so her love for little Sasuke was very obvious, even though it was much deeper than it appeared, however, Sasuke, he-he." Kakashi chuckled blushing his "I just read something perverted" blush.
Sasuke suddenly became much, much more interested in the conversation. Tsunade looked at Kakashi skeptically. "Let's continue this discussion inside my office," Tsunade frowned.
And so the reconciled Team 7 and the Hokage walked back into the office, where Itachi and his cousin awaited. "EH? ITACHI'S BACK TOO?" Kakashi jumped in surprise.
"Hn," came the calm reply.
"Please carry on from where you left off," Tsunade said taking a seat behind her desk.
"Well you see," Kakashi grinned evilly at his ex-student, "Sasuke-kun always had a soft spot for Sakura, although she always failed to notice it, I didn't-"
"That's saying a lot, Kakashi-sensei only can use one eye all the time!" Naruto interrupted.
"Why thank you very much…" Sakura twitched.
"No, no Naruto, Sakura was just fairly depressed each time he turned her down, the boy was twisted and overly obsessed with revenge."
"I'll say."
"Well now that we understand that I had goals, unlike you dobe, why don't we cut this short and-"
"A-ah-ah Sasuke, I still haven't even started telling my story," Kakashi waved his finger in a disapproving manner.
"Please do go on Kakashi-san, although I already approve of Sasuke's choice in women, I wish to know more about how he came to choose," Itachi urged Kakashi to continue.
"Wow, I didn't know you had to approve of me Itachi-san," Sakura pouted.
"Aaaaaaanyyyyy-way!" Kaka-chan stole the spotlight again, "You see Sasuke had this soft look in his eyes whenever he spoke to Sakura aaaand-"
"Not when he called me annoying though," Sakura interjected.
"Will you guys please stop cutting me off?" Kakashi's right eyebrow twitched. "Also, I caught him staring at her butt numerous times."
"I was checking her weapon supply by judging the size of her weapons pack," Sasuke denied.
"Like we'll buy that bull," Naruto scoffed.
"Wow, Sasuke, they always said that Uchihas grew up and matured faster than average humans, but that is a bit faster than expected," Itachi said monotonously.
"I knew it!" Sakura exclaimed earning everyone's attention. "You really are a pervert!"
"So that's what Kakashi-sensei meant by 'Sasuke is like me'!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Ah, no that's not what I meant," Kakashi chuckled nervously.
"Please do carry on," Tsuande said running out of patience.
"Yes also, he was once jealous of Naruto beca-"
"Oh Teme~ you finally realize that I am more attractive and stronger than you are?" Naruto wriggled his eyebrows.
"You wish dobe."
"Actually it was after Naruto kicked Gaara's bum and we discovered that Orochimaru was manipulating the sand. He was jealous that Naruto had succeeding in protecting Sakura, and that all he could do was catch her before she fell to the forest floor," Kakashi said with a smile.
"You have a sharp eye," Sasuke glared, not denying it, "Kakashi."
"Speaking of which Sasuke tended to catch Sakura a lot," Kakashi rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Well carrying on, he seemed to be annoyed that Sakura and Naruto were complaining as one, and agreeing with each other, also he seemed to hate the fact that Sakura gave Naruto any attention, poor Naruto."
"Oh so teme did see me as a threat," Naruto smirked smugly.
"Hn."
"Hn to you too."
"Is that all?" Tsunade asked.
"Nope!" Kakashi answered cheerfully. "One time I was taking a midnight stroll and I saw him sitting on Sakura's window sill, and he was staring rather intently. Also there were reports that while in the forest of death during the chunin exams, when Sasuke fainted onto Sakura."
Sakura turned red at the memory. Sasuke continued to glare at the copy-nin, he knew way too much. "I think it would be important to add, that when Sasuke first regained consciousness, I heard that the first thing he said was something along the lines of, 'who hurt you? or who did this to you?'" Kakashi looked up at the ceiling, "oh and Sakura."
"Hai?"
"It was when you hugged him that he restrained himself from attacking the other members of the sound team right?"
"Y-yeah," Sakura blushed at the memory.
"If I remember clearly Sasuke, you and Sakura also had a little moment while waiting in the lines listening the Sandaime Hokage-sama right?" Kakshi questioned.
"THEY DID?" Naruto asked.
"Hn."
"Sakura-chan, why did you fall for this ice-cold emotionless bastard?"
"I have no idea."
Sasuke seemed annoyed at Sakura's answer.
Sakura then stared at the ceiling and put a finger on her chin in a thinking manner, "I think it was because he was handsome, cool, strong, mysterious, and caring though even at a young age he had quite the stick shoved up his ass," Sakura said thoughtfully.
And to everyone's surprise Itachi began to chuckle, Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, Shizune, and even Tsunade joined in soon afterward. Sasuke scowled. Tsunade's laughter was cut short, "Oi Uchiha."
Two heads turned in her direction. "You said you 'wiped her memory' can you explain that?"
"I had my relative help me."
"Relative?" Tsuande's eyes narrowed as she tried to think up any other relatives other than Itachi, wait there was that Auntie.
"Would that be the Auntie that the twins were talking about?"
"Hn."
"Could you provide me with a name?"
"Kizuma, Akemi."
"What?"
TUNE IN NEXT TIME! OOC Sasu-chan I know! Sorryyyyy. Sorry it took so long, it's kinda like writers block. I hope to start updating faster! Sorry it took so long! The, "I got Sakura pregnant, used Akemi to wipe her mind, and well here we are today." Part is by A. Rose. Love, who is like this totally awesome writer! Thanks a ton for your help! Oh yeah, about that whole Sasuke looking at Saki's bum, it was in a youtube video where they have you pay closer attention to where Sasuke was looking in the anime. Next chapter Preview:
Meeting "Daddy"
"You Uchiha, Sasuke, will have to fight three rounds of elite-jounin and survive in order to become a jounin level shinobi and be reaccepted as a Konoha shinobi."
"We shall keep the fact that you are the mother a secret from everyone, only those who already know, will be the ones to know…."
"You honestly expect me to hand over my precious little daughter over to the likes of you?"
"Besides, she has already been engaged to Kaito of the prestigious and wealthy Nami clan."
"We will be married, I'll make sure of it, I'll become one of Konoha's most precious weapons, and then your father will have to accept me."