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title: meeting the family
author: shinigami to tenshi/reviee
rating: T
prompt: #24: family
summary: SasuSaku. AU. Maybe she should have put on some clothes before meeting his family.
a/n: I HAVE SO MANY UNFINISHED DRAFTS! It's killing me I can't finish them. Isn't it an illness to not be able to finish what you started? Anyways, something lighthearted to divert myself from all the serious writing I've been doing.

Sasuke and I have been dating for almost two years. He's amazing. But he's never let me meet his parents. We're serious though. This is a committed relationship and we're going steady. So it doesn't mean anything that he's not letting me meet his parents. I'm not offended or anything. I'm going to meet them when we get married, so no worries.

Summer came and went. In two weeks, everyone was going to start university. The village only had one university: University of Konoha. Generally, everyone went there, unless you wanted to transfer to the nearest village and go to Suna University.

"LET'S CELEBRATE!" Ino yelled in my ear. "WE'RE GOING TO UNIVERSITY!"

"Ino, we celebrated that when we graduated," I told her, looking at my sparkly nails. "Or do you not remember because you were so drunk?"

She turned to me and scowled. "Don't be silly, Forehead. We celebrated ending high school. That's what graduation is." Her hand reached into her purse and pulled out her BlackBerry. "Now, we're going to celebrate becoming college students."

I wasn't excited. Ino always went over the top with her parties. "You know, if you wanted to get drunk, all you had to do was say so."

"Shut up!" she screeched, while she quickly typed on her phone. "You make it sound as if I'm an alcoholic. Okay, so I've invited everyone. I'm just going to have a pool party in a week. At four, so be there."

"Yeah, yeah," I mumbled. "I wouldn't miss it for the world, Pig."

"Great!" she grabbed her Java Chips Frappuccino and took a long sip. "Hey, I heard Sasuke's back in town. Should I invite him?"

I snorted. "As if Sasuke-kun's going to come, but go ahead," I took a sip of my Iced Caramel Macchiato.

Ino looked at me with big eyes. "Sakura," she started calmly. "He'll definitely come, one way or another. He always does."

I laughed. I usually brought him to parties. "Okay, okay. I know he'll come too."

"Well, alright. Look, I gotta go. See you later! Let's go shopping for hot new bathing suits, 'kay?"

"Text me," I said, taking another sip of my cold drink.

I shouldn't have gone shopping with Ino. I should have known she was going to make me look like a slut. She always does, after all.

This is the skimpiest bathing suit I have ever adorned. The top is a bralette-ish thing that zips in the front - not very practical if you ask me - and it's white. The bottom is just a regular drawstring bikini bottom. Over the bathing suit I have a cream mesh top and some jean high waisted shorts. For safety, I kept a cardigan in my bag.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto screamed when he saw me. "YOU LOOK GREAT!"

"Thanks," I gave him a hug. "Where's Ino?"

He pointed to the backyard. "We're all outside." I nodded, and Naruto went to the kitchen to presumably get another beer.

"FOREHEAD!" My best friend exclaimed when I walked onto the patio. "You look hot!" She grinned.

"I agree!" Kiba yelled from the side of the pool.

"Yo, Sasuke-teme isn't here!" Naruto came out behind me. "Someone get his ass down here!"

"Dude, you know he doesn't come to parties willingly." Suigetsu pointed out. "Sakura makes him come to all our parties."

"Sakuraaaaaaa!" I twitched. Ino pulled out her whining voice. She usually only did that to Shikamaru. "Can you go get Sasuke? Naruto will be so sad to be at a party without his best buddy! Who will take him home?"

"Why can't Naruto go get him then?" I retorted. I crossed my hands over my chest. I leaned closer to Ino and whispered, "What if he doesn't want me at his house? You know he doesn't want me to meet his parents and all that…"

"Relax!" she assured me, wrapping a slender arm around me. She laughed. "You'll be fine!"

"Why can't one of you go again?" I thought about it for a moment. "Why can't all of you come with me? Isn't ambushing him even better?"

Ino pushed me towards the door. "Forehead, just go! Work your magic and all that!" I rolled my eyes and headed for the door. I sighed.

"WORK IT!" I heard Ino and Tenten yell as I approached the front door. I sighed. This wasn't going to end well.

I pulled up in Sasuke's driveway. I've been there many times, but when his parents weren't home. His brother didn't live with his family. It was always only me and Sasuke. His house was so big. It never ceased to amaze me.

I rang his doorbell. After a few moments, his brother opened the door. They really looked alike. "Can I help you?" Holy shit, he even sounds like Sasuke! He raised an eyebrow at me.

"I'm looking for—"

I was cut off by a woman standing in back of his brother. That's his mom. I've only seen her a few times, like from far away. Good genes run through the family, I see. "Hi, sweetie!" she eyed me weirdly. "What are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Sasuke," I told her, giving her a nervous smile.

"He's not here." his brother told me curtly. I thought his brother would be more pleasant. But I guess being straight-to-the-point runs in the Uchiha family too.

Just when I was about to leave, I noticed someone in back who looked exactly like Sasuke. And I could have sworn Sasuke's car was in the driveway too. I opened my mouth before they could close the door, "Excuse me, isn't that Sasuke right there?"

His brother didn't respond for a moment. "No. You can't come in." he finally said. I looked at his mom, who looked worried. His brother glared at me. No wonder Sasuke didn't want me to meet his family… they were mean.

"What? I'm sure that's Sasuke! Why won't you let me see him?" I demanded, now sort of angry, and confused.

I think Sasuke heard me whining to his brother, because he appeared behind Itachi. I could see his eyes widen. "Sakura," he acknowledged. "What are you doing here?"

His mom and his brother left, after eyeing me again. "Wanna come to a party? Naruto will be there!" I grinned at him and batted my eyelashes.

He looked at me up and down. I'm sure he was checking me out. "I'm going to take a shower first," he said finally, after an awkward silence.

"Great!" I exclaimed. That was way easier than I expected. "I'll wait for you in my car,"

I was about to turn around when Sasuke scoffed. "Don't be stupid, you'll melt," he said. "You can wait inside."

I froze. "Uh, Sasuke-kun," I started slowly, looking behind him. "I don't think your mom and your brother like me. Your brother told me you weren't home. And your mom looked at me like... Like I don't know. But yeah, so I think I'd rather waste some gas and just sit in my car with AC on. It's not that much money! And I don't want to intrude!" I laughed nervously.

He just stared at me. "You'll be fine." he calmly, grabbing my shoulder and pulling me inside. He closed the door behind me.

Sasuke walked me to the kitchen, where his mom and his brother were. His brother was eating a bowl of chips and his mom was cooking. "I'll be back." he stated, before walking off.

I sat down awkwardly opposite of Itachi. He smiled at me. It freaked me out. "Sorry about that. Sakura-san, was it?" Whoa, total character change.

"It's fine," I replied, smiling back at him.

His mother turned to me and smiled too. "Oh dear! Sakura-chan, aren't you cold? Our AC is quite strong. Fugaku likes it cold."

"I'm fine, Uchiha-san! It's alright!" I told her, laughing awkwardly. Oh no, I looked down at myself. I was meeting Sasuke's parents with barely any clothes on. Oh no, what if they think I'm a slut or something?

She laughed too. "Don't call me that! Call me Mikoto!"

I looked at her and Itachi. They both acted differently as soon as I talked to Sasuke. "If you don't mind me asking," I laced my hands together. "why didn't you want me to talk to Sasuke-kun?"

Mikoto answered, "To tell you the truth, Sakura-chan, we thought you were one of Sasuke's fan girls! Of course, they've been gone for about two years now but sometimes they come again. They bother Sasu-chan a lot." Oh.

"Plus the way you are dressed doesn't exactly say anything about how you're not a fan girl." Itachi added.

I turned red. "Oh, I'm sorry! I'm actually coming from a pool party to get Sasuke to come too." Oh no, now they probably think I'm some party animal that wears skimpy clothing.

"Oh, that's great! Sasuke should go out more often. He's always playing video games." Mikoto said while chopping some green onions. "So, Sakura-chan, do you have a boyfriend?"

Itachi looked up from his book. I played with my fingers nervously. "I, uh, don't have a boyfriend, uh, yeah." I finally said, gulping.

"Oh, you should definitely date Sasuke-chan! You guys would make a lovely couple! Plus, I've never really seen him bring any girls home do I'm kind of worried. I want grandchildren! Itachi-kun here doesn't seem like he wants to settle down so I'm crossing my fingers for Sasu-chan! He's not gay though, right?"

Well, this was awkward. I was just about to reassure her that he wasn't gay when Sasuke walked in. "That's enough, kaasan." he kissed her on the cheek. "I'll be back later. Don't wait up." he turned to me. "Ready?"

I nodded. "It was nice meeting you, Mikoto-san!"

"Your mom's nice," I remarked as we walked towards our cars. "I don't know why you never let me meet her."

He stopped walking. I turned around, confused. "Are you coming?"

"I thought she would scare you," he said. He was referring to his mom. I don't understand how she could ever scare me. "She talks a lot."

I laughed. "Sasuke-kun, I talk a lot too, you know." He didn't start walking. "Anyway, you didn't tell her I was your girlfriend."

He smirked at me. "Next time,"

I grabbed his hand. "I'm going to meet her again?" I grinned at him.

"Hn," he squeezed my hand. "Let's go."

a/n: it's 3am and this fic is a mess. LOL, I'm gonna fix it in the morning. I hope I didn't bore you to death with this incredibly long but boring fic. Ok, I was like at 1.8k of words and then I realized it was super boring. IM SORRY LOL