DIVORCE OR NOT DIVORCE!
Summary: How did two people that were married for 16 years and had 5 children end up hating each other? He was cold and uncaring; she cheated and told the entire world! Add two lawyers that also hate each other and you will get ultimate chaos... Is there any hope for this couple?
Rate: M for cursing and later lemons
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters except the children
STUPIDITY MUST RUN IN THE FAMILY
"Can you now explain why we had to skip school and come in the park when it's freezing here?" Obito was walking up and down in front of the bench Minori was sitting on to warm up his legs. They couldn't hear a single voice around them; there was nobody outside in the cold this early in the morning. That was Minori's plan when she told him to meet her there. She knew that there wouldn't be anyone to listen to their conversation.
"Obi, I'm pregnant." His jaw dropped and the cold was immediately forgotten. Obito had known her since they were toddlers and he had been in contact with her every day ever since. He never thought of her as a woman; Minori was one of his buddies and she never cared for men and relationships like normal girls. Her body helped him since she had no breasts or butt, no womanly curves and she liked sports, cars and arcade like the boys. She had never told him that there was someone she was dating.
Obito remembered her weird behavior for the last month and came to the conclusion that he was an idiot. He was so stuck to the idea that she was one of the boys that he had missed all the classic symptoms of her first crush. And she had had sex with him, too. How was that possible? She hadn't even kissed anyone a month ago.
"Have you heard me?" He raised his eyes and her face was inches away from his. He saw her dark eyes, silky black hair and red lips and it was like he saw her for the first time. He felt a weird anger for that unknown man who had seen her as a woman and made her his while he was seeing her as his best buddy. What was he thinking all this time?
"Yes, I heard you. How did this happen?" Minori heard something like anger in his voice and pulled her face away from him. It was like Obito was accusing her of something and she couldn't understand why. They were sixteen and he had been with his fair share of women before.
"How do you think it happened?"
Obito couldn't laugh. "I know how these things happen, but you... I thought you didn't care for sex... I mean you never..." It was her turn to stand up. She was so mad that she couldn't keep her voice down.
"Really? Well, I've got news for you! Of course I wanted to have a man in my life! Just because you haven't noticed that I was a woman, it doesn't mean that I don't want what every woman wants!" She turned her back to him, but he caught her. He was feeling guilty for his selfish behaviour and since Minori had asked for his help, he had to be more sensitive. He had to remind himself that the problem was that Minori was pregnant, not that she had a boyfriend.
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry! Don't go! I want to help! Have you told him?" Suddenly Minori turned again to face him and there was something like despair in her eyes. Obito finally started to realize that something must have been really wrong with that relationship and probably Minori was over with that guy. She was only sixteen years old and her father wasn't known for his sensitivity not to mention that her mother was pregnant herself.
"Minori, who is he?" The girl decided that it was time to talk. That was the reason she had called him in the first place.
"He is... James White." It took him a while to remember the name and realize what she had just told him.
"The model that impregnated your mum?" Obito still had a slight hope that there was someone else named James White, but he could see the truth in Minori's eyes. "How is that even possible?"
"I went to find him myself. I wanted to know if he had really slept with mum after his interview and he... kissed me. And then... I went there again and again until..." Could she really tell him? She had been stupid, but did she want Obito to know?
"You slept with him?" He couldn't believe it.
"Obi, he told me that he hadn't slept with mum! He was so nice and I thought he was in love with me! I was stupid! The night my mum and dad were looking for me I went there and I was drunk... and I don't even remember what happened! I woke up in the morning and he was gone." It seemed so stupid when she said aloud that she wanted to hide her face.
"You were drunk? Did that bastard rape you?" He started walking up and down and he felt the urge to hit someone. Finally he let out a scream and started punching and kicking an old tree making the brown leaves to fall on Minori. She stood up and grabbed his hands to keep him from hurting himself. Obito calmed down as her cold skin touched him and he put her small white hands into his bigger ones to warm them up. The girl had suffered enough.
"He didn't rape me. I wanted to sleep with him!" He couldn't accept it. She was so little and innocent, that molester had taken advantage of her! There was no way she could have wanted it.
"How can you protect him? You were drunk! You don't remember the first time you ever had sex! Girls always think that the first time is a big deal!"
"But that isn't the problem!" I'm pregnant!" He had almost forgotten that. "And he is in America not answering my calls!"
"That asshole!" His anger didn't matter anymore. There was a desperate girl in front of him and he was the only one who could help her. She seemed so small and weak that he couldn't relate her with the independent aggressive person she used to be. He came to the conclusion that he was so angry because he always felt protective of her like a little sister and he stopped thinking about himself. "What are you going to do now?"
"I have no idea! Do you imagine me telling my parents that I'm pregnant from the same person as my mother? But I have to tell them! I need their help to decide what's going to happen. I have to go to a doctor..."
"You still haven't gone to a doctor? Have you done a pregnancy test?"
"No!"
"Then how do you know that you are pregnant?"
"I have all the symptoms..."
"Are you stupid?" Obito wasn't angry, but relieved. There was still a chance that Minori was safe. "You can have the same symptoms with the flu! We have to go to a doctor!"
"I don't have a gynecologist! And I don't believe you know one either."
"Of course I do and she is super cool! You know her."
"Oh, not her!"
The apartment was significantly smaller than the last one, but it looked way bigger without five children in it. Neji was happy for Sakura, but she clearly wasn't as she served him coffee and emptied her cup in an instant only to immediately refill it. She wasn't enjoying her loneliness.
"Are you supposed to drink so much coffee?"
"What do you want, Neji?" What did he want? He had ditched his newest date to bring Sakura dinner and he had invited himself in her apartment while she clearly showed him that he wasn't welcome there. It couldn't be more obvious. He knew the truth and didn't want to keep it a secret. Sakura wasn't a natural liar and she was ashamed that she wasn't telling Sasuke something that important. And Neji's judgemental look wasn't helping.
"I wanted to check if you're alright. You are alone in here and pregnant..."
"I have enough people caring for me already. All the girls come here all the time and Naruto calls me a hundred times a day. I'm fine!"
"You don't look fine. You seem weak, pale and tired." and sad. "And I'm worried."
"I told you I'm ok! I'm just having a difficult pregnancy! You can now tell the real reason you're here!"
"I think you should tell Sasuke the truth."
"No."
"I know that this is impossible for a woman, but can you imagine how it's like to have a child and not know it? Can't you see how unfair this is for Sasuke? And your child?" He knew Sakura very well. He didn't have the slightest doubt that she was still deeply in love with Sasuke and she wanted him back. And he was pretty sure that Sasuke felt the same way. The baby was the ticket for Sasuke's heart.
"And it's fair for me to lose that baby, too? Is it fair?"
"No, but Sasuke..."
"Sasuke hates me and you know it. He has the money he needs to get this baby away from me the moment it will be born. He can and will do it! You promised Tennie that you wouldn't tell him..."
"I didn't promise anything! She blackmailed me!" Sakura chuckled and mentally noted to thank Tenten for that. Neji wasn't going to tell anything. She was safe and she finally calmed down.
"What have you done that you don't want people to know?" Thankfully the doorbell rang and he found an excuse to end the conversation. With a relieved smile still on his face he opened the door and found himself face to face with an angrily confused Sasuke who wasn't expecting to see that particular person opening Sakura's door. Neji's smile slipped away together with Sakura's cup that fell on the floor and broke into hundreds little pieces of glass.
Neji just stood there as Sasuke entered the apartment and closed the door behind him. Sakura couldn't go anywhere; the floor beneath her chair was full of shattered glass and she wasn't wearing any shoes. The two men kept looking at each other. Neji hadn't visited Sasuke since he learned about Sakura's pregnancy because he couldn't look at him in the eyes and lie to him. But Sasuke had found out from someone else.
Sakura wasn't so puzzled. Minori had told him that she was pregnant. She was expecting Sasuke sooner or later. It was Neji that she was afraid of. He didn't seem able to lie to Sasuke.
Sasuke noticed her situation at last. He reached her with a few big steps and put one hand behind her back and the other beneath her knees. Without any effort he took her in his hands and softly put her one her small couch. She had lost weight and that confused him. Aren't pregnant women supposed to gain weight?
Neji was in pain. Sasuke should be the first one to know about Sakura's pregnancy and he now he should be making plans for his new baby, but instead he believed that he wasn't the father. He wanted to tell him the truth so much, but Tenten's words stopped him. It took him a while to realize that Sasuke was looking at him and wondering what the hell he was doing there.
"I... I came to see if Sakura's alright..."
"Why don't you clean all the broken glass? She's barefoot." Neji couldn't oppose to that and he was better not making Sasuke any more angry. Sakura was gathering all her courage to talk with Sasuke and seem completely normal, and he himself was having trouble finding the right words.
"Minori told me you're pregnant." There was just a nod of her head as an answer. Sakura continued looking him in the eyes, but she could feel Neji's eyes stuck on her back. Sasuke looked calm, but a little anxious. "How long?"
"A couple months." It was seven weeks really, but that was exactly the time they had been together in his car and she didn't want him to get suspicious. Nor that Sasuke would ever believe that Sakura would lie to him about that. These things only happen in television. Sakura saw an image in his head of an old Sasuke telling a younger version of himself that he is his father and his mother had been lying to him since he was born. She had a hard time not running away.
"And what are you going to do?" The question he really wanted to do was how the hell she had returned to him after Sasuke had payed him to make her a laughing-stock of the whole world. But with Neji vacuuming behind them he could really tell what he wanted to say.
"I'm keeping the baby! I'm perfectly capable of raising it by myself and I will. And maybe I will meet someone and make a new family with him." Her face was a mask. She was trying to show him that she was happy with the situation, that she didn't miss him at all and she had already moved on. Sasuke, who still hoped that she would come back to him, had to save his dignity.
"I only meant to ask when are you going to speak with the younger children? Only Minori knows it and she didn't take it well!" Neji was about to hit his head on the counter. Sakura immediately stood up and went to the kitchen, as far from Sasuke as possible and the man who still didn't know that he was going to be a father again knew that he had done something wrong. Sakura and Neji exchanged looks of perfect understanding and Neji grabbed his coat.
"Let's go, Sasuke! It's late and we have to work in the morning." Sakura didn't even waved goodbye as they closed the door behind them. Neji waited until the were far from her door to speak. "Well done, Sasuke!"
"What? She is the one who is pregnant from another man!"
"And you are the idiot who just lost a perfect opportunity. You will regret it, Sasuke. Very much."
Don't you all hate me? Trust me, I want them together as much as you do but what's the point of this story if everything is good?
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