Summary: Sakura gaped as she looked at the sign before doing a double take. Yup, she wasn't dreaming. There on the sign in front of the mansion, was stating that Uchiha Sasuke needed a wife. And it was her lucky day that she became the hired wife.
Disclaimer: Sighs... must I really say it?
CHAPTER 8
She shyly looked at him, "But really… you don't even love me so what's the point…?" this time, he didn't answer her, but simply took her to the parking lot. Sakura felt slightly hurt but tried to cover up her question by asking, "Where are going now?!" she asked, looking up at him. He looked down at her and smirked before looking back to the road in front of them.
"We're going to arrange our wedding plans,"
Sakura widened her eyes, 'Wedding… plans?' she never thought they'd have a REAL wedding…
Sasuke took the smallest of glimpses at Sakura before a thought entered his mind.
'I couldn't really be… falling for her, could I?'
This was just an act, he was just faking everything…
Right?
"NARUTO!"
Sasuke shouted in anguish as he landed a punch to the man in front of him. The man that was supposed to be his best friend.
"YOU KNOW I LOVED HER!"
Naruto groaned as he fell to the floor, clutching his stomach. He glared at Sasuke, his own eyes turning crimson.
"YOU NEVER CHERISHED HER SO I'M ONLY DOING WHAT YOU DIDN'T DO!"
Sasuke growled as he kicked Naruto in the shin. Naruto spat out some blood as he breathed heavily.
"WHY WON'T YOU FIGHT BACK?!"
Naruto chuckled, but didn't respond.
"I WAS WILLING TO GIVE HER THE WORLD!"
"YOU WERE ONLY ACTING EVERYTHING YOU DID!"
Sakura widened her eyes as she sat up in her bed. Sweat dripped from her forehead as she replayed the dream over and over in her head. "Sasuke-kun?" she blushed as she remembered in the dream that she had a baby. "Naruto? A-Acting…?" Sakura whispered to confirm her dream she just had.
She was interrupted as she heard someone talk, "Naruto? Saku-nee-chan, are you ok? Sleep well? Do you need anything?" Shina asked as she peered her head into Sakura's room. Sakura looked up at her in surprise, Shina smiled slightly before walking into her room, in her arms was Sachi. Sakura smiled as she saw the little boy.
Shina sat down beside Sakura on the bed as she laid Sachi gently on it as well, "I never noticed but… Sachi-kun looks exactly like Sasuke-kun now that I look at him… they have the same hair and eye color, but…" she saved the last part as a thought to herself. 'Sachi holds the innocence that Sasuke doesn't have…'
Shina smiled as she tucked away a loose strand of hair behind Sachi's ear, "Hai… Sachi-chan is an Uchiha child so it's only common he receives our traits. Sakura-chan, you have to remember, that Sachi is your kid now. He's your baby boy and he loves you so please, don't leave him… or his father… no matter what happens," Shina furrowed her eyebrows as she looked into Sakura's eyes.
Sakura widened her own eyes as she looked at the girl that was always grinning and joking and now she's… begging? "Shina, what do you mean? What could Sasuke possibly do to make me hate him more than I already have?" Sakura kidded as her voice held a sense of humor in it. Shina, for once, didn't laugh at her weak try of breaking the uncomfortable atmosphere.
Shina took Sakura's hand in hers before looking deeply into Sakura's jade green orbs, "You have to promise me, no matter what happens, you'll stick together with Sasuke-onii-chan. You have to promise me no matter what, you'll take Sachi in as your own baby boy, as your own child and raise him up to be your kid. Sasu-nii has his moments where he's incredibly stupid, but really… he doesn't know what love is," Shina smiled bitterly.
Sakura blinked, wow. It was hard to think that this girl in front of her was only a 12 year old. Sakura smiled before hugging Shina tightly, "I promise you, yakusoku, no matter what, I'll love them," Shina breathed before smiling. Sakura brought Sachi into her arms and planted a kiss on his forehead, "After all, no mother could watch their child live in pain," Sakura smiled.
Her eyebrows furrowed though, as she remembered her dream.
'What did he mean by Sasuke acting?'
Aijou smiled at the girl in front of her as the two had tea together. The girl had long waist length bleach blonde hair that was slightly curvy along with bangs cut straight across and beautiful deep cerulean eyes. She was, in one word, cute. Aijou looked at her as she spoke, "So you are his sister, correct, Aijou-chan?"
Aijou used a soft tone considering how outspoken 'Aijou' seemed, the girl looked to be about 13 or 12. Other Aijou nodded as she spoke in a small voice, "Naruto-nii-chama…" she whispered softly. The err… first Aijou looked at the other Aijou and smiled as she placed a hand on the second Aijou's head.
"Domo, Aijou-chan, for letting me borrow your identity, but it's time I go back to France," fake Aijou said before standing up. Real Aijou looked at her before smiling slightly, "Rosette-san… good luck, in finding him, your own brother…" Aijou smiled at her. Rosette smiled at Aijou before patting her head affectionately.
"Looks like I'm back to Rosette now, tell Naruto-onii-san that… he was a great older brother, ne, Aijou-chan?" Rosette asked quietly. Aijou smiled and nodded as she planted a peck on Rosette's cheek. "Hai, Rosette-chan, sayonara," Rosette smiled, saying the same to her before white wings spread out behind her as she disappeared, leaving a single feather on the chair.
Aijou looked at her empty spot.
'Rosette-chan…'
(I know most of you are confused so when you're done reading the chapter, just read my notes at the end and I'll explain, ok?)
Naruto stared at the mirror as he looked at himself in hatred. He was loving someone that he knew didn't belong to him. He knew she was getting married and yet, here he was, wanting to hurl himself at her. He hated himself so much right now. Just as he was about to raise a hand to slap himself across the cheek, a smaller hand stopped his.
The hand was soft and the nails were polished white, he looked down in surprise when he saw Aijou, "Aijou-chan?" Aijou looked at him sadly, knowing that he didn't remember Rosette since she erased all memory of herself as 'Aijou' from him. Now, the real Aijou looked up at him, standing in her 5'3'' stature while he at 5'11''.
She hugged his waist tightly as she closed her eyes, "Onii-chama… I missed you…" she whispered as tears wetted his shirt. Naruto widened his eyes before smiling softly and hugging her back, "Silly Imouto… you saw me just this morning, what are you talking about?" he obviously remembered his encounter with Rosette this morning as encountering Aijou.
Aijou didn't reply as she let a final, lone teardrop fall onto the ground. 'Rosette-chan is gone… Sakura and Sasuke needs to be warned of what will happen later on… they have to be… because of… him.'
Sasuke got a drink of water and walked back to his room when he saw that Shina and Sachi's rooms were empty. He widened his eyes and opened Sakura's room's door to check and quite a sight greeted his eyes, Sakura and Shina were sleeping quietly with Sachi in between them, curled up in the bed.
He smirked as he got out his cell phone and took a picture of them.
'Maybe… for once, I can feel like I have the family I wanted…'
He didn't know why, but his head started planning for a family day out tomorrow, just him, Shina, Sakura, and… his son, Sachi. He knew it was an act, but maybe he was just acting about acting. Maybe… he's really developing feelings for this… this bond between him and Sakura. For what purpose he's actually thinking of this for, he didn't really know.
But the fact that his blood boiled when he saw her with another man was a good enough reason for him to say that she's something in his heart. He didn't know what, but he knew she was slowly gaining a special place in an empty spot in his heart, and for this reason, he was slightly scared.
Scared of what he might do to her in the future.
Scared of the fact that he'll hurt her.
Sooner or later.
Fugaku looked at Mikoto as she stared at the ground guiltily, "I wasn't going to run away with him… you know that I love you and this family too much, far too much to leave to go anywhere… and I haven't even seen Sakura-chan yet so please don't expect me to be so heartless, Fugaku-kun," Mikoto whispered.
Fugaku didn't reply until a few minutes afterwards when tears started falling on the floor, "How could I trust you? This is nearly the 6th letter he's sent you with thoughts of eloping! Mikoto, my faith in you is dropping day by day, give me one good reason why I should put up with this anymore!" Fugaku's gaze was hard.
Mikoto shook her head as she looked up at him, her eyes shining brightly with the moon outside their window, "Fugaku… don't you get it? I love you… there's no one in this world that could replace you or this family, you all are my main priority, Sasuke, Shina, and Itachi are enough to prove it." Mikoto said quietly.
Fugaku stayed quiet.
-BANG!-
Mikoto and Fugaku widened their eyes as something shot passed their window, causing it to shatter in glass pieces until they saw what the cause of it was.
A bullet.
And what's worse, was that it had his initials on it.
O.O.
I know this chapter is very confusing so I'll clarify Rosette and Aijou's relationship with Naruto a bit below alright? I know this is random why I have so many OOC but Rosette is never coming back for a while and Aijou is going to play a crucial part in this story as sort of Naruto's guider and she might even help pull Sasuke and Sakura together.
Ok well, first of all, the Aijou in chapter 6 is actually Rosette, so in this chapter, the first Aijou printed in that scene is actually Rosette, alright? The girl I explained about in this chapter with her looks and stuff is the real Aijou, Naruto's sister. Rosette was just borrowing her identity for a reason you'll find out later.
I know it's quite a messy web but this chapter will lead up to some of the most important chapters in this story, ok? I really need these first few chapters to start up into the main part of this story. The genres of this story are labeled Romance/Drama up top but it's really three genres, Romance/Drama/and Action.
I wanted to tell you that Rosette is sort of like a holy character, a spirit mostly which makes this story even weirder by the minute in my dictionary. I'm sorry this was a messy and confusing chapter, let me know if you have any questions about this or if you're still confused, ok?
I want my readers to fully understand everything before I move on or else you guys will just be like, 'what' later on because it gets more knotty as the story continues. I'm planning on making this story really long to about 30 or 40 so chapters so be prepared and I hope all of my readers right now will stick with me and encourage me with your reviews, please.
I know that this isn't one of the better stories you've read and all, but I'm trying best what not with school going on and stuff. I want to give a big thank you to the people that have been sticking with me since chapter 1, I really appreciate it, and if you've reviewed since chapter 1 all to now, then very big thank yous because you guys have made a large support to me so I could update.
Yeah, yeah, you think this is getting boring and cheesy, but hey! Every author has their moments:P
Well, next chapter will be a short flick on Rosette, Aijou, and Naruto's relationship and past to better help you guys understand, it's gonna be labeled The Knot Between Them , not chapter 9 or whatever, so just wanted to let you know!!
Hope you review again and thank you for all the reviews you guys gave me last time, again, fantastic! Let's shoot for 20 more reviews, I only got 16 for the last chapter so let's try to make it 20 or more this time, ne:D (I'm hoping to get to/passed 200 by chapter 10!!)
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