A Walk in the Park-

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Chapter Thirty-

Wedding Preparations

Time moved by so quickly. Before I knew it another month had passed by. I'd gone back to work, though I'd cut my hours back considerably. I only went in two or three days a week. It was okay since they'd hired even more nurses since the whole Sasori ordeal and even Hinata was able to work less days.

This was good for both of us, Hinata had a wedding fast approaching that she'd asked me to help plan. I was beyond excited that she wanted my help and glad to give it to her. Lately, I'd been spending a lot of my days off with her. I missed Sasuke on those days, even though we still went to the park with Luna in the mornings and I still slept in his bed every night.

All my things had been moved out of my apartment and after lots of thinking, I'd decided to give up my lease. I had no plans to go back to living on my own, and if I did I wasn't sure I could ever stay in that place again after what happened.

My parents had eventually figured out the fact that I was living with Sasuke and Itachi on their own. My mom was basically obsessed with Itachi and I knew they talked pretty regularly, so as far as I knew, he could have spilled the beans on that one himself. I didn't really mind either way. My parents' didn't give me a hard time about it. They didn't seem disappointed in me and for that I was thankful.

Though I was grown, an adult, and I could do just what I pleased, I didn't want my parents to think bad of me for living a way they hadn't expected me to. Not that it would have made a difference if they did act some type a way about it. I would have never left Sasuke. I loved him too much. We never really talked about it, but I planned to marry him one day. I wanted us to be our own family, have our own kids- and if my parents couldn't respect that then I just didn't know what to tell them.

Luckily, I never had to worry about any of that. Life was passing by smoothly. We were happy. For every moment I was with Hinata, Sasuke was off with Naruto and while most of the time they were at the shop, I really had no idea what those two were up to.

Today Hinata and I were both off. I was visiting her at her home where we were going over more plans. She'd already decided on a place and we'd gone and looked at it and booked the date which was only a few more months away, but we still had to decide on a theme. Decorations. Music. Guest list. Food. Until I'd actually taken this time to help her plan, I had no idea all the thought that went into preparing for a wedding.

But it was still and exciting and happy time.

"Are there certain colors you'd like to have?" I asked as we looked over the different themes I'd found online and printed off to bring to her.

"Well, lavender is my favorite color… but I'd like to incorporate Naruto's favorite color too." She told me, blushing lightly.

"Orange?" I giggled. "That shouldn't be a problem. Look at this here, it's white and lavender, but we could easily add in some orange wherever we want."

I showed her the page and she nodded, smiling brightly. "This is really nice and I can just see the orange mixed in. I think it's perfect."

"Great." I grinned right back at her.

"Thanks for this, Sakura." She told me softly and I laid my hand on her shoulder.

"Thanks for asking me to help."

…

We continued with the wedding planning for weeks. Hinata was able to decide on most things easily, but some things caused her to think a little more. With the two of us working together and moving things along smoothly, we never got stressed and that's just what I was trying to prevent. I didn't want this time to be hard on Hinata, when it was supposed to be the happiest time of her life.

She was marrying the love of her life, nothing was more important right now and she shouldn't stress about nonsensical or minor things. I was here to make sure that never happened. It was sooner than we anticipated by the time we'd finished the majority of our planning. The only thing left was to put everything in motion. We'd even done our shopping. We found the caterer, the flourist. The guestlist was complete. The music had been chosen and we'd done almost all of the shopping we had to do.

Now, it was time for the dresses. Hinata had picked out mine and I loved it, never would've dreamed of complaining about it. I was way more enthralled by her wedding dress. Watching her try them on. It was dazzling, she was beautiful and when she finally found the one, I almost teared up at the sight of her in it.

I was so giddy, so excited that before I could stop myself, I was planning a bachelorette party. Sasuke had mentioned that Naruto would probably be having a bachelor party, so I felt it was only right for Hinata to have some parties of her own. She was embarrassed when I mentioned it to her, claiming she didn't need anything like that, but I promised her it was all for good fun and eventually, she agreed.

I had a lot to think about since I'd be the one planning the bachelorette party. I'd never planned anything like that, but I'd never helped plan a wedding either and that wasn't so bad. So, if I could do that I was sure I could plan this party. I wanted it to be soon so that night once I got home, I brought it up to Sasuke.

"So, since you guys are having a bachelor party, I've decided Hinata should have a bachelorette party. What do you think?" I asked him as we laid in bed together, curious for his opinion.

"It's only fair. The bridesmaids should get together and celebrate as well." He agreed. "The bachelor party won't be until next month but I have no idea what I'm going to do. What were you thinking for the bachelorette party?"

"That information is for girls only." I teased, grinning to myself as I stared up at the ceiling.

"Is that so? Well, I don't mind as long as it doesn't get too crazy." He told me. "I won't hesitate to kick someone's ass."

Like I didn't already know that… "It won't be crazy, Sasuke… goodness. I really don't know what I'm going to plan yet, but it's going to be fun for sure."

"In that case, do you have any tips?" He asked and moved to lean over me. "To be honest, I'm not a fun person to be around so I'm not sure how to go about entertaining someone as fun loving as Naruto."

I laughed at that and looked over at him. "Well, I'm sure the guys will want to get wasted and more than likely get more crazy than the girls. If you're planning it yourself, I'd say you should just do something here. Get some drinks and just have a guy's night. However… there's a possibility that the guys will want to go out."

It wasn't like I knew much about bachelor parties, but I knew that guys liked to go out for those sorts of things. I knew my Sasuke though and he wouldn't be into that scene. If he was doing the planning he'd want to do it where he was most comfortable.

He looked at me thoughtfully for a moment before smiling. "That's true, but I have a good idea now. What would I do without you?"

"I have no idea." I giggled jokingly.

A part of me wished I could go to the bachelor party just to see how it went, but I supposed I'd just have to settle for talking to Sasuke about it after the fact.

Over the next week, every day I had off from work I spent thinking about the upcoming bachelorette party. I made the date for the following Saturday and Hinata wanted to invite some of the coworkers she'd gotten close to, who wouldn't be working that night. There were a couple other girls she kept in contact with from college who she wanted to invite as well, but overall it would be a small get together.

The day came soon enough, and we used Hinata's place as our party house. Before any guests arrived, I had set up a variety of finger foods and some non alcoholic beverages, though we'd be playing a drinking game at some point and would definitely be dabbling in the alcohol. Hinata had even offered to be the drink maker, even though it was her party and I was excited about the whole event.

Right on time, the guests started arriving. Ino and Rin, two of our coworkers were the first to arrived. They came bearing gifts, since I'd taken it upon myself to speak with everyone directly about the types of gifts to bring. I busied myself greeting everyone at the door when they arrived. Being the host, I explained where to leave the gifts and where they could find anything they'd need, including Hinata who was sitting in the living room.

Temari and Tenten were the next to show up. They'd gone to school with us. I found out Temari was currently dating Shikamaru so Hinata had seen her more regularly than Tenten, but everyone we invited were happy to show up. A few other guests arrived, including the surgeon we'd been working under for years. Tsunade had a thing for drinking on her off time and Hinata and I were both close to her so we invited her without a second thought.

Even though the party guests were kept to a minimum, the gift table was loaded down and everyone was in a good mood, happy to be celebrating with the bride to be. As soon as everyone was settled, I thanked them for coming and we all got into the event. For a while we just mingled together, conversing over snacks and wine. I was glad to see Hinata in such high spirits.

I wasn't really concerned about my drinking. Sasuke dropped me off and I was to call him when I needed to be picked up later tonight. All I had to do was enjoy this night with the girls. By the time we started to play some games, I was already feeling the effects of the alcohol. A few hours had passed by before it came time for the main game of the night.

While everyone was sitting around in the living room, I went back to the game table. Right next to it was the poster I had printed of Naruto. It was a full body picture of him that Hinata had given me to use, though she didn't know why at the time. I pulled away the sheet covering it to reveal the picture to everyone before turning around to face them.

"I'm sure you've all heard of pin the tail on the donkey. Well, this version is pin the panty on the groom. Everyone will get a turn, you'll be blindfolded and given a pair of panties I bought for Hinata to use later on with a pin in them."

"How do you win?" Tsunade asked eagerly, already knowing there would be a prize.

"Whoever gets the panties closest to here." I explained, pointing directly below Naruto's belt.

The girls erupted in laughter. "The bride to be will go last, so we'll start on this end and work our way around." I said, pointing to my left side where Temari was closest to me.

She got up, smirking on her way over to me. We were all giggling and enjoying ourselves as we started the game, everyone pinning panties to Naruto in a variety of places. The deeper into the game we got, the more amusing it became. Once everyone had a turn, it was finally Hinata's go.

She was less timid with a bit of alcohol in her system, but her cheeks were still red as I tied the blindfold in place. I handed her the pin with the panties dangling from it and she took a deep breath once I had her in position.

We were all holding our breath as she made her move. Currently, no one had even come close to the winning area and yet, Hinata obviously knew right where she wanted to go. My mouth fell open as I watched her hand aim straight for his crotch and pin those panties right on the mark.

The room erupted into yells and laughter and Hinata pulled away the blindfold, taking in the place she'd pinned only for her whole body to flame in embarrassment.

"Oh my!" She squeaked, hands going to her hot cheeks.

"Well it's obvious Hinata is the only one who can get close to that area!" I teased and she squirmed.

"S-stop!" Hinata pleaded, rocking from side to side as she fought off her shyness.

We all laughed before starting on heavier drinks and moving to the gift openings. All the gifts were some type of sexy lingerie and Hinata's face got redder and redder with every gift she opened. She was so embarrassed, but I knew she would make good use of those outfits. I'd acquired a few myself and had definitely been getting some use out of them. But, I supposed I was less timid than Hinata was. I couldn't help feeling that she wasn't this shy when it was just she and Naruto though.

Once we made it through the gifts, we all sat around the floor, playing drinking games and talking until it got late and one by one the guests started to leave, some of them ended up crashing here at Hinata's because they were too drunk to drive. I texted Sasuke, rolling my eyes when I noticed the typos I made only after I sent it. Oh well.

While I waited for him I spent time cleaning up so I wouldn't leave Hinata with a mess to deal with on her own. I had everything straight by the time Naruto came barreling inside, followed by Sasuke whose eyes met mine immediately. I swerved a bit as I waved at him, a goofy grin on my face.

"Hey." I cooed, giggling a bit as he made his way to my side.

"Hey you." He greeted with a smile. "You and the girls have fun?"

"Lots." I laughed, beyond intoxicated by this point.

"Damn, you both are totally wasted." Naruto commented as he held a drunk Hinata. "Nice."

"Totally wasted." I nodded drunkenly in agreement, clinging tightly to Sasuke to prevent myself from falling over, even though his arms were around me and I was sure he wouldn't let me hit the floor.

"I'm going to take her home." Sasuke directed towards Naruto. "I'll see you later."

"Yeah, okay. Bye Sakura!" Naruto yelled with a grin.

"Bye guys!" I laughed until a hiccup interrupted me as Sasuke ushered me away. "Sasuke, slow down I'm gonna-" I stumbled then and yelped before he hoisted me up over his shoulder. "What the-"

"Time to go, kitten." He stated and I could practically feel his smirk.

"Ooh, meow."

Sasuke laughed before playing along. "Woof."

I squirmed over his shoulder, all too excited to get in his car and then home with him. "Faster, Sasuke! I'm ready to go." I said, smacking him right on his sweet ass.

"Yes ma'am." He chuckled as we finally made it to the car.

I was still laughing as he set me down to my feet before opening the door for me and helping me inside, even going so far as to buckle my seatbelt. "I'm not helpless you know!" I chided him, puffing out my cheeks.

"Oh, I'm well aware of how dangerous you can be."

"Shut it." I grumbled, ignoring him after that but he only laughed as he closed my door and went around to get in the driver's side. When he was settled I did look back at him, grinning once more at how sexy he was and the fact that he was all mine. "Hey," I said, daringly reaching over towards him.

He raised a brow in answer, smiling. "Can I help you?"

"The question is, will you help me." I grumbled, reaching farther to lay my hand over his lap and feel around for his member.

"I think you're handling it pretty well enough on your own." He said, voice dropping lower.

"Well," I sighed. "You know I don't mind helping myself…"

"It's only fair considering I help myself all the time." He pointed out, having no shame. "Can you really blame me? I do have a thing for you . . . and your legs."

"Oh, I don't blame you at all… I quite like your legs as well." I said, trailing my hand down his leg to emphasize my words.

"I should hope so." He smirked, tossing a wink in my direction.

I almost couldn't stand how much I loved him. I wanted him like crazy right now, just like I always did… but, I would be good and wait until we were home. Once we were there though, I was going to thoroughly enjoy him and I just couldn't wait.

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