AN: Alright, because the only reviews I got said they wanted to know how the rest fell in love, that's what's gonna happen! Thanks for reading! And I know about you guys… the ones lurking in the shadows and not reviewing… I appreciate you guys reading the story though! And besides, reviewing isn't mandatory! It's wanted! Hehehe Enjoy. By the by… there will be NO LEMONS. Because literature lemons are repulsing. I personally like that fruit. Thank you.
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Previously on Sasuke's Change:
"Just what happened that night?" The three girls asked at once, directing their question at the Uchiha.
"Aren't you guys supposed to record today's date as the first time Neji-san and Sasuke-kun agreed to something?"
Chapter 17: The meeting
"Oh yeah that's right!" Tenten said suddenly. "Hinata…"
Hinata disappeared and less than a minute later she reappeared and handed the utensils needed for recording this incredible event down to Ino, who got to work immediately.
"Sakura, I understand that it will be painful to hear about the night Sasuke-san decided to take advantage of you," Hinata sighed, "but aren't you curious? You do have the right to know what happened you know that right?"
Sakura was very curious as to events and how they lead up to her becoming pregnant. And whenever she tried to think of what possibly happened, she recalled nothing. Absolutely nothing. So knowing that there was no better place to discuss this topic rather than here, in the safety of Naruto's home, with all their friends, who would either keep the secret or have it locked away in the deepest darkest parts of their minds. And since Hinata had gone through the trouble of asking her to hmm, persuade Sasuke using her own methods, she decided she would.
Sakura leaned against Sasuke and began twirling a lock of his hair around her index finger, causing Sasuke's posture to stiffen. "Ummm, Sasuke-kun," Sakura looked up at Sasuke her jade eyes big and innocent, "you had Akemi lock my memories away," Sakura batted her long lashes and looked down feigning bashfulness before looking back up at him, "I really wanna know what happened, since I can't remember a thing, can you tell me what happened, please?" Sakura finished with a tilt of her head.
"Akemi can return your memories to you," Sasuke made an inhuman effort to sound unaffected by Sakura's undeniable cuteness.
"Sorry Sasuke, Akemi's out," Kiba told him.
"You mean you don't wanna tell me, you don't want me to remember, even if it's just a little bit?" Sakura puffed out her bottom lip eyes glassy.
"Who would have thought Sasuke would live up to his ice-bastard title even with the woman he loves, wow," Naruto commented in an attempt to annoy Sasuke into telling them the story.
"Yeah, it seems he doesn't love Sakura enough to be able to do one teeny tiny little thing she asks of him," Ino sighed playing along.
"Please Sasuke-kun, please," Sakura begged absentmindedly drawing circles on the cloth covering his chest.
"You did that last time," Sasuke bit out.
"Did what?" Sakura looked at him eyes still big and innocent.
"Draw circles on my chest," Sasuke looked down at Sakura.
"Really?" Sakura tilted her head.
"Yeah."
~x~x~x~
Flashback:
Sasuke sat on a log before a fire and however unnerved he may be by his female teammate's advances he maintained a straight face. For this said red haired teammate was latched to his arm, and was begging for him to indulge in a little activity he had yet to attempt with her body. Who did she think he was, no scratch that, what kind of man did she think he is? Sasuke had dignity, pride, a stick pole up his bum! There was no way that he would indulge in such an activity with the likes of her. For, aside from the fact that she was not and never will be his beloved cherry blossom, there was a chance that she would get pregnant and the thought of having children with her was simply repulsing.
Uchiha, Sasuke was in love, yes in love. Although the two's relationship was still on a just friends/teammates, he viewed the idea of looking at another woman's figure in an inappropriate way to be cheating on his beloved. He just needed to get to Itachi, he just needed to kill him, he just needed to avenge his clan which was mercilessly slaughtered on whim, and then he would go bounding back to his cherry blossom, where he would, well he'd like to say claim her as his own, but that's just degrading since then he would be referring to her as an object, and Sakura was not an object, so instead, he would deem her unavailable to other men. Then, only after they get married start a family with her. Well if he didn't die first, but it's legal to dream, isn't it. Then again he was a missing nin so even if dreaming was illegal would still do it, but this is all beside the point!
As previously mentioned, Sasuke is a dignified man; and Sasuke's dignity would not allow him to harm a woman (outside of battle, a battle which the woman would engage). So he just sat there until his female teammate finally got the message that he was not interested in that activity if she was to be his partner. If it was his cherry blossom, it would be an entirely different story, in which he would coax her out of it, or the other way around, because he knows Sakura well enough to know that she wants maintain her chastity until after she is married. Little did he know that, that goal was not going to be achieved because of him.
~x~x~x~
"Coax her out of it? COAX HER OUT OF IT?! BULLSHIT!" Ino raged. "You coaxed her into it! BASTARD!"
Shikamaru had to hold his soon-to-be-wife to be down, or else she would jump onto Sasuke and kill him.
Sasuke took in the insult with a smirk. "Actually it was the other way around," Sakura looked at him bewildered, "she seduced me."
"WHAT? DON'T GIMME THAT SHIT UCHI-"
~x~x~x~
Flashback
Unfortunately, on that very night long before his teammate had chosen to finally stop clinging to him, he had already began to imagine what it would have been like had Sakura been in her position. Then again there was no way Sakura would ever do that. Not cute, bashful, innocent little Sakura. No, if anything, after they got married (yes Sasuke had planned that far ahead) Sasuke would probably have to convince her to engage in a known activity in order for him to have his heirs.(Please note heirs not heir.) Though before his mind could fully drift off into what technique he would use to convince Sakura, his shark-toothed teammate began to enthusiastically talk about a bar that sold alcoholic beverages to underage individuals.
"I'm serious! I got totally wasted one time! Unlike all the other bar tenders in the land of fire this guy barely looked at me and he gave me a glass vodka! A vodka!" Suigetsu (the beloved missing-nin from the mist with shark teeth) said waving his arms around excitedly.
"Oi Sasuke! You should go there some time and down a cup or two! You forget all about the world and your troubles," Suigetsu smiled cheekily before drawing a rainbow in the air with his hands and saying, "if anything after you drink enough cups the world will become all rainbows and unicorns."
"GOD! Shut up!" Karin (the beloved redhead) unlatched herself from Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun would never go drinking, he's way too cool for it."
"Listen here grizzly, I know about Sasuke's backstory, courtesy of Orochimaru," Suigetsu added quickly, "and if anything, the guy has all the reason to drink, he hasn't been happy since he was eight! Eight!"
"Well fishface that means that Sasuke-kun doesn't want an alcoholic illusion!" Karin roared. "He needs real happiness," she latched herself back on his arm and looked up at his coals for eyes before purring, "and I will help him find it."
"Damn Karin, you're so ugly, even the world's most revered molester would run away at the sight of you!" The mist swordsman laughed.
"WHAT?!" Karin shrieked practically causing Sasuke's eardrum to burst.
Oh how he missed Team 7 now.
~x~x~x~
"If you had a girl who was so willingly offering herself to you so you could finally get rid of the horns atop your head, please explain to me why the hell you went for my poor, innocent, adorable, and innocent little forehead?" Ino glared.
"Ino you said innocent twice," Shikamaru pointed out.
"That's the point!"
"B-because it wouldn't be fair that Sakura m-maintained ch-chastity waiting for S-Sasuke-san and he d-didn't do the s-same," Hinata answered, clearly understanding how Sasuke felt.
"Fair? BASTARD YOU COULD HAVE STAINED HER REPUTATION!" Ino tried to kill Sasuke yet again.
"I protected it didn't I?" Sasuke growled shooting Ino a deadly glare.
Frightened by the intensity of the glare Ino merely nodded. "Oi Uchiha, don't go picking on my fiancée," Shikamaru glared back at Sasuke.
"Hn."
~x~x~x~
Flashback
Suigetsu had purposely taken the hit from Karin so he could drench her in water. As Suigetsu was reforming, he explained to Sasuke exactly how to get to the bar and exactly where it was, he knew how badly the stuck up male wanted to go. It was in a forest area on a path that strays from the main road. Sasuke took the details into mind and memorized them. Team Hebi was going tospending the next month or so within the borders of the fire country, so he might as well head over there once or twice. No he was not that miserable. This was merely training so he could learn to handle his alcohol.
In the end Sasuke ended up going there a number of times. He'd learned to handle his alcohol quite well. And aside from that it was dangerously addicting and the dreams he had while he was drunk were well worth the hangover the next morning. Now on his God-knows-what visit to the bar, where he had become a recognizable customer, he had only just sat down and ordered a drink when he heard a very familiar giggle. Sasuke's eyes widened a millimeter, which was a lot considering who he was.
Sasuke casually turned his head to see dirty old men, women who don't know the difference between cloth and actual decent clothes as well as pink hair somewhere in the distance. He saw the female bartender return to her post behind the counter. Evidently Sakura had told her a joke as she had a smile of her face. Sasuke got up and made his way to the adorable pink haired kuniochi. From what Sasuke could tell, Sakura had yet to drink her first shot, or so he thought. He gripped her elbow and pulled her to her feet to make her notice him, he had snuck up behind her you see. Her eyes widened in shock and before she had the chance to blink, he had dragged her out of the bar, she used her free hand to land a punch on him, but he merely caught it. Sasuke dragged her behind one of the trees that surrounded the front of the bar. Sakura struggled to get away from him, but he tightened his grip on her and pinned her against the side of the bar. Her wrists were both held in a tight, but not hurtful grip, by only one of his rather large hands.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Sasuke hissed, unhappy that his blossom had to come to a bar filled with sleazy men.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Sakura retorted harshly. "Drinking away the pain Itachi caused you?"
"What I am doing here is none of your concern," Sasuke answered monotonously.
"None of my concern?" Sakura laughed sourly.
Sasukemerely stood there and looked at her as though she was insane.
"Oh yes you're right Sasuke-kun," Sakura glared, "it is none of my concern, please excuse me for worrying about you and your mental state."
"Why are you worried about me?" Sasuke asked, tone cold and clipped.
"B-Because I care about you!" Sakura yelled. "Even though I shouldn't…"
"You care about me?" Sasuke's sword found the petite pinkette's neck as he placed his mouth right next to her ear. "Last time I was in Konoha, you said you loved me. Seems that was something you merely said in hopes of having me stay, rather than a sincere confession."
"Well then since you already knew the answer to why I cared about you, then why the hell did you ask?" Sakura choked. "To psychologically torment me you sick bastard?"
"Things change over time Sakura."
"I can see that," she retorted harshly, "but some things stay the same."
"Like what?"
"You only ever remember things you find important to you," Sakura smirked, "meaning that just because you seem like a rock, doesn't mean you are one."
Taken aback, Sasuke resumed threatening Sakura with his sword, "Answer me, what the hell are you doing here?"
~x~x~x~
"And you say you love her pshhh, you were threatening her with a sword! Where's the love there?" Ino mocked.
"Ino think about it," Tenten sighed, rather annoyed with Ino's constant interruptions, "although Sasuke's methods aren't the best, he needed to get information on whether or not this was a mission to capture him and bring him back to Konoha."
Ino pouted while she thought about it.
~x~x~x~
Flashback
Sakura didn't gasp or look shocked, instead she stood there chin up proudly. "Go ahead kill me," she grit as tears continued cascading down her cheeks.
Sasuke continued to coldly look her in the eyes, while mentally scolding himself for making her cry. His mental curses (which were directed towards himself) began to die down as he began to admire the luminosity of the viridian orbs yet again. He then began absently studying the rest of her face. Sakura's face burned up once she noticed the intensity of Sasuke's stare.
"S-Sasuke-kun?"
"Hn." Sasuke answered, completely lost in thought.
"A-are you drunk Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked suddenly, snapping Sasuke out of his daze.
"Hn?"
"ANSWER ME WITH SOMETHING OTHER THAN A GRUNT DAMMIT!"
"No," Sasuke answered.
"No? Oh you're not drunk?" Sakura realized. "Well then, why the hell are you staring at me like that?"
"Why do you refuse to answer my question?" Sasuke asked as he leaned closer to Sakura.
"Because it's none of your business!" Sakura snapped. "And why do you care anyway?"
"There are molesters in there you know that?" Sasuke raised a brow.
"I noticed, but I'm a big girl now Sasuke-kun and I can take care of myself thank you!" Sakura replied mockingly.
Sasuke glared at her. "And why the hell do you care if I get raped or whatever?" Sakura glared back.
"Why don't you care?" Sasuke shot back.
"I do care. Now answer my question!" Sakura glared. "Why do you care? Huh? You sure didn't care what happened to me when you left me on that bench! There are scum in Konoha too you know!"
Sakura's breath became ragged and her eyes became glassy. Attempting to avoid crying as the rush of emotions came in, Sakura blinked causing a lone tear to escape from her eye. Sasuke's eyes followed the little salty droplet of water, up until it reached her parted lips. Sakura was panting. It only made sense, since she had been yelling so much. "What the hell are you l-looking a-at?" Sakura snapped aware of where he was looking.
"Hn." Sasuke smirked.
Sakura brought her heel down on Sasuke's exposed toes (just without the chakra, because if she had, then we all know what would have happened to poor Sasuke's toes) causing him to hiss. "I thought I told you to answer me with something other than a grunt," Sakura grit, lips shifting into a pout, "and your shirt makes you look like you have a humongous tummy by the way."
Sasuke maintained a straight face, "and why were you looking at my shirt?"
"Because it looks gay," Sakura answered without hesitation before her eyes widened in realization, "oh my God, you're gay! AH! All those rumors in Konoha about you being gay were true! GAH! LET ME-"
"Sakura," Sasuke's eye nearly twitched, "I'm not gay."
"Wha-?" Oh come on, you don't need to lie," Sakura smiled sweetly before her face turned one hundred percent serious, "just die. Die! For not telling my earlier so I could move on with my life and find somebody who was straight!"
"I'm not gay," Sasuke repeated.
"You are too!"
"I am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"No, you most definitely are," Sakura scoffed.
"I'm not gay."
"Who's your type?" Sakura asked ignoring him. "Naruto? Holy…" Sakura eyes widened and then she gave Sasuke a sympathetic look. "I'm sorry Sasuke-kun, Naruto's… Naruto's taken… and…and he's straight too," Sakura looked down, showing her complete sympathy.
Sasuke groaned loudly, causing Sakura's head to snap up. "I'm telling you I'm not gay Sakura!"
"And I'm telling you, you don't have to deny-"
"I'm not denying anything other than your false accusations!" Sasuke glared.
"Bu-" Sakura cut herself halfway, "prove it."
Sasuke raised his eyebrows as though challenging her.
"How many girls have you done?"
"None."
"Yup, you're gay," Sakura concluded.
"How can you conclude I'm gay from something like that?" Sasuke asked appalled.
"Oh come on, you're eighteen, you couldn't have possibly maintained abstinence for that long," Sakura snorted.
"You mean to say that you haven't maintained abstinence?"
"Wha-" Sakura's face went through all sorts of reds, "wh- where the hell… where the hell -hell'd you get that i-idea f-from?!"
"Well you said it yourself, 'you're eighteen there's no way you could have-"
"YOU'RE A GUY! I'M A GIRL! THERE'S A DIFFERENCE!" Sakura exclaimed.
"You still haven't denied it."
"I-I…WHAT TYPE OF GIRL DO YOU THINK I AM?" Sakura yelled in his face.
"The innocent, annoying type," Sasuke answered bluntly.
"Annoying, huh?" Sakura gave a sad smile, before switching to her evil bitter sweet smile. "But do you know what's even more annoying?"
"Hn?"
"First, your grunting," Sakura's smile grew wider, "second, having your hands pinned above your head."
"Hn, deal with it."
"I really feel like kicking you right now."
"Hn."
"Your 'hn's are sooooo gay," Sakura said attempting to irk Sasuke, "your fan club is so going to be crushed."
"…"
"You know what would crush them even more?" Sakura asked in a bored tone. "If they found out you had a kid with some random girl you happened to stumble upon while running away from authorities."
"If I had a kid with you they'd be even more crushed." Sasuke smirked. "Wouldn't they?"
"Go to hell Uchiha, you and I are not having kids," Sakura continued still bored, "you're too gay to have kids with a woman."
"Tch." Sasuke grit his teeth. "I'm not gay."
"We already went over the fact that you are in fact gay Sasuke-kun," Sakura rolled her eyes in exasperation.
"Give me a task to prove I'm straight," Sasuke gave in.
"Hmmm," Sakura hummed, "let's see…What can you do? What can you do? What can you doooo?" Sakura sang obnoxiously.
Groaning in frustration Sasuke decided, "I have a task in mind."
"Oh re-" Sakura was cut short of Sasuke's lips on her own.
He released her hands from his grip as his hands found her chin and her back and Sakura didn't waste a second in attempting to push him away.
"Wha-What was that?" Sakura gaped after the two broke apart.
"That, was a kiss Sakura," Sasuke explained slowly.
"I-I know what that was but! But! Why did you kiss me?" Sakura exclaimed a furious blush coloring her cheeks.
"To prove my orientation?" Sasuke teased.
"Sasuke-kun it's not nice to toy with a girl's feelings!" Sakura scolded.
"Hn," Sasuke grunted. "I'm not toying with a girl's feelings."
Sakura blinked once, twice. "CHAA! DIE YOU IDIOT! DIE!" Sakura lunged at Sasuke attempted to kill him.
Sasuke managed to catch her fists that he was slimly dodging a moment before. "Toying is when a guy is leading a girl on without really intending to take their relationship anywhere." Sakura stopped struggling.
Sasuke pulled her towards him and placed his forehead on hers, "I plan on having a lot of children with you. So I will be taking our relationship somewhere."
"P-p-p-PERVERT!" Sakura exclaimed. "Y-you just want me to be your baby-making machine! AND I ALREADY SAID WE ARE NOT HAVING KIDS TOGETHER!"
"No Sakura, I want you to be my wife and the mother of our future children." Sasuke explained slowly.
"W-w-why me?" Sakura looked at Sasuke astonished.
"Because I'm interested in you," Sasuke confessed without any hesitation what-so-ever.
"Interested?" Sakura glared.
"Hn. Like that kind of interest."
"Is this your lame way of saying you love me?" Sakura joked. "Because if it is, then you suck!"
Sasuke glared at Sakura.
"Naruto was much more romantic when it came to confessing to Hinata."
"So?"
"So, he's better than you," Sakura eyed him, "and besides you have to prove to me that you sincerely love me. That's you're not just using words to play with my mind."
Sasuke stayed quiet for a long while. "How?"
Sakura would have become nervous and doubtful had Sasuke not appeared to be thinking very hard. "You can uh, umm tell me about the Uchiha massacre? Maybe? If you don't I won't mind you know."
Sasuke gulped and began his long and dark tale about the past, the past he never told anyone about.
~x~x~x~
"When I told Sakura let's leave, she yelled at me for already paying for all that sake and that she sure as hell was gonna drink it all, or something like that," Sasuke grumbled annoyed.
"Well when you go to a bar, you don't pay them for no reason!" Sakura argued defensively.
"Hn."
~x~x~x~
Flashback
Sasuke sat next to Sakura and made sure nothing happened to her. Sakura had gotten three bottles of sake. Three. Her plans had been to get totally wasted, Sasuke decided. Anyway, Sakura got up and went to the bathroom a lot while she was drinking, and by the time she finished all of her sake, the sun was slowly sinking behind the horizon.
Sakura happened to be laughing and whining and complaining all at once. But sadly Sasuke was too focused on getting to this cabin rental area to really pay attention. He rented a cabin for him and his "teammate" or at least that's what the guy who gave him the keys doubted.
~x~x~x~
"So we went in, Sakura seduced me, we did it, the end," Sasuke listed.
"How?" Ino asked.
Sasuke lifted a brow. "How did she seduce you? I don't and won't believe you until you tell me how, because if you just combine random shit about how she seduced you, then I know that it's the other way around," Ino demanded.
"Piggy does have a point, I have a special way of seducing men," Sakura pointed out.
"You seduce men?" Sasuke asked.
"Ever heard of seduction missions?" Tenten asked.
"They sent you on those?" Sasuke asked Sakura.
"Only a few of them, when my dad found out…" Sakura dragged on.
"All hell let loose," Ino continued, "and it was right before Sakura was officially chosen to be the one to convince you to come home through seduction."
Sasuke remained silent. "Sasuke you're a guy, unless you were, hmm homosexual, as Sakura once believed, then such a method could be effective; and we chose Sakura knowing that since she was the girl you were closest too, it was likely you would feel something for her," Tenten rolled her eyes.
"Please, continue, I wanna know what I did next Sasuke-kun," Sakura pleaded.
Sasuke sighed and gave in. Seeing as Sakura was pleading him with her big innocent eyes yet again to continue with the story.
~x~x~x~
Sasuke then used a total of five sentence fragments that when put together proved that Sakura was in fact the person who unconsciously started everything.
~x~x~x~
"So she really did- and you- WHY DIDN'T YOU RESIST MORE?" Ino fumed.
"Ino, it's not like the same thing didn't happen with us," Shikamaru tried to calm down his raging wife-to-be.
"Our girls are really straight-forward aren't they?" Naruto asked.
"Na-Naruto!" Hinata blushed.
"Ooh! I really wanna hear about this, so just how did the lazy-ass and beautiful blonde fall in love?" Tenten asked excitedly.
"It's a long story," Shikamaru groaned, "it's too troublesome to tell."
"Oh come on Shikamaru don't be like that!" Kiba pat him on the back. "Even Sasuke managed to tell us a whole story! He probably spoke more words today than he did his whole life."
Sasuke glared at Kiba.
"I agree with Kiba!" Sakura supported. "Besides, your fiancée forced my hubby-to-be to tell you guys a story he wasn't keen on sharing, so you owe it to us to share how you guys came to be."
"The festival."
And that's a wrap! Sorry everyone, but if I throw in anymore it'll be way too long…so just expect another chapter to come up soon. I hope this is less confusion (Thank you A. Rose. Love for telling me about that weird thing that I'm too lazy to describe)
Also… any Fairy Tail fans?
Have a nice day.
-Akemi
(Feel free to leave me a review and encourage me to write more please… thank you.)