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Summary: She was just about to drift off when a familiar voice from under her curtains. "Going to sleep already ?And without me?" Hinata jumped up and sat in her bed, eyes wide. The voice revealed itself as none other than Sasuke. He came closer and closer...
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-Iincho-sama (just call me Cho-chan, it's less formal)
"Happy Ever After? ~Kiss!"
"You did what!?" Hiashi gave Mikoto his bug-eyed face and Mikoto had to do all she could not to laugh at a time like this. "Yes," She answered calmly. "I moved the wedding date to next month." Hiashi felt like wringing her neck. His friend was really stepping on his toes, first, by dropping the engagement bomb, and now choosing the closest wedding date possible. "But you can't do that, Hinata hasn't even graduated from college yet. She was going to take her masters in music after." Mikoto eyed him coldly. "Well frankly neither has Itachi, and he was going to take a degree in fine arts music, a lot of pianists have already offered to make him their protégé and he's still going through with it. He even –"
"That's enough Mikoto!" Hiashi cut her off quickly. "My daughter is not going through with your son, especially not this way, with you, controlling it!" He gritted his teeth, finding it incredibly difficult to keep his cool. "And if she chooses to do so, she will wait until she is ready, which I know will be her decision. My daughter is not going through this at this age and alone at that." He spat at her. "You probably thought a little girl without a mother would be easy prey, but any second now, Hinata will show you how strong she is." Mikoto was taken aback and exploded in all her fury. She gave a "humph" turned on her heel and stomped away from her oldest friend, maybe because no one could put up with that for long.
Luckily, Hiashi was not disappointed, but it was unknowing to Hinata and Sasuke that Hiashi was expecting rebellion, and nothing could quench the butterflies in their stomachs, but as they made their way to the dining hall, they were as one. Being that one body, they were totally in sync mind and heart, which was why and shared the same look of horror with each other as they could only hear silence on the other side. "It looks like they've been preparing for the final act with us." Sasuke joked and gave a hollow laugh as he opened the door for the both of them. "Not the end Sasuke-kun," Hinata took his hand. "The new beginning," They smiled as the words left her lips.
Hiashi stood abruptly as they entered and Neji raised his eyebrow as he noted their locked hands. Hinata took her usual seat on her father's right and Sasuke sat beside her next to his brother and sadly across Neji. Mikoto sat on Itachi's other side and cursed herself for not thinking of the seating sooner, she should have expected Hinata to sit there so that Itachi would be next to her instead of Sasuke…
Now, Hinata was whispering something to her father and Neji, and Sasuke looked like he was hearing everything, she would have to ask him about all of it later. Hiashi looked shocked but pleased and gave Sasuke a hearty pat on the back, suddenly Gaara who was sitting next to Neji perked up and actually looked like he cared enough to join the conversation. Neji was angry as hell and gave Sasuke a death glare, but before the Akatsuki boys could join in Hiashi silenced all of their musings and began the meal. Think Mikoto think, you have the smartest brain here, how do you get Hinata closer to Itachi? She tapped Sasuke on the shoulder but he was too busy talking with Hinata, Itachi inserting side comments here and there.
Thunder sounded and everyone jumped as it crackled throughout the hall. Itachi excused himself to go to the washroom. "He's actually texting his new girlfriend." Sasuke whispered to Hinata. "I thought he had a new one every week." Sasuke smirked and imitated Itachi's expressionless voice and exaggerating his blank face by drawing back his lips. "This one's different from the others." Both of them laughed conspiratorially as Neji gave them a questioning look. When they collected themselves again and began to eat uneasily Itachi came back as the rainfall grew stronger remarking: "And to think we didn't even notice the storm coming."
"Or the fact that there aren't any cars or passersby," Neji added. "That's right," Gaara joined in, "You'd have to be totally insane to go out in a storm like this." Everyone jumped again as there was an urgent knock and the ringing of the doorbell on the main door. As the maid escorted whoever was crazy enough to come out in the storm one could hear the sound that could only be shoes soaked to the core on carpet.
The maid opened the door, revealing the unexpected visitor as Sakura. She was dripping wet and her hair was leaving puddles on the ground. She was wearing a pink overcoat over her green and pink striped long-sleeved shirt and wore jeans now wet as if fresh from the wash. Her umbrella was broken and bent in all the wrong places but she greeted them with a smile. "Konichiwa Hyuuga-san,"
Well, safe to say they were all speechless.
"Haruno-san?!" Sasuke blurted out. "Yo! Sasuke, I didn't know you were staying over the Hyuuga Manor." Sakura greeted everyone like it was totally natural to come in dripping into someone's home during a storm. Mikoto stood up afterwards and asked the question everyone was dying to ask. "So Sakura-chan, what are you doing here at a time like this?" Hiashi looked at his friend puzzled. "So you know her?" Mikoto cleared her throat.
"Yes of course, this is my Sasuke-chan's fiancée." Sasuke looked at his mother as if to say "what the hell? I thought you were really proud of me for getting rid of her?" But his mother looked unfazed. Hiashi looked at Sasuke even more puzzled than he was five sentences ago and Sasuke returned his look with a "my mom has totally lost it" look. Sakura exchanged a secret look with Itachi that reminded me of one of those I told you so looks. Sasuke then turned back to Sakura the same time as his mother. "You know Itachi-chan is engaged too now." She said proudly. Another Sakura-Itachi look. Sakura kept it polite. "How nice, and about my arrival, you see Hinata invited me over for a while, we were just going to talk for an hour or so, I didn't mean to interrupt your dinner. Isn't that right Hinata-chan?" Hinata might have looked shocked if not for the kick to the shin Itachi gave her and his look that said "just say yes and I won't kill you with another kick" Hinata managed to stammer out a 'yes' and they resumed their meal as Sakura dried off in the bathroom. Sometime near the end of dinner Sasuke managed to dodge his mother's scathing look and whisper to Hinata: "You have just met Itachi's different girlfriend." Hinata choked on her food and Sasuke laughed his head off as he tried to get her to spit it out.
"So you're the girl everyone's been fussing about." Sakura said cheerfully.
"I still don't get why you have to do all this is my room!" Sasori exclaimed from his bed, reading a manga at the same time lying down. "Nii-chan, I told you that if you kept doing that, you'd ruin your eyes!" Hinata grabbed the book from her brother as Itachi tried to get his hands on Sakura. She dodged him with a look of disgust. "Really Hinata, I don't know why we even put up with these Uchiha boys." She joked. Hinata joked back, "I guess it's because no one else will." This earned glares from the 'Uchiha boys'. "So you're not playing the clingy act anymore?" Sasuke asked, taking a seat on Sasori's puppet-making chair, where he made puppets for little kids during Christmas. "Hey! You can't sit there!" Sasori yelled but didn't move a muscle. "Nah," Sakura continued. "I'm not like that and you know it was just to get you to dump me, and it worked!" She giggled as Itachi nuzzled her neck. "And now she has me." He said darkly. "I said not here!" Sasori put the manga over his head and pretended to be asleep.
"So your father said yes, did he?" Sakura put a finger to her lips, "and what about Uchiha-san?" Sasuke shook his head. Sasori joined conversation, "I see." Sasori propped himself up with a pillow. "Well if your mother doesn't like it then I wonder what she'll say about her precious heir getting married to his brother's fiancée."
"And don't forget, Sasori." Hinata added, her voice turning dark like the Akatsuki trained to do. She bent down her head so they couldn't see her face. "We need to get her approval without resistance or else we will have to desist. We must cease this quickly or all chances of a fast counterstrike will be lost." She lifted her eyes again and saw everyone's shocked expression. "That's the way we taught her!" Pein hugged Hinata with tears in his eyes. "Leader-sama, what-where-when did you get here?!" Sasori turned on his bed and came face to face with Deidara. "YO DANNA, WHAT'S UP 'UN!" Sasori let out a shriek and fell off the bed. "That's payback Danna." Dei said evilly. Sasori gave him the finger and sat next to Itachi, who was talking avidly with Sakura.
"So this is what we do, is everyone clear?" Sakura said in army-general mode as everyone nodded terrified. "Good." She said sweetly as Itachi made her look the other way. Sakura squeaked as Itachi carried her bridal style and said he was leaving the room to go to his. (No not that!)
"Thank goodness she's my Sakura." Itachi smirked.
"Are you sure this'll work?" Hinata was shaking as Sasuke held her steady. School was cancelled due to the typhoon and they decided it was best to put their plan into action now. "Relax Hina-chan, Sakura-san told me this was foolproof." He stroked her cheek with his finger as he recalled what happened with Sakura.
"And that's what will happen." Sakura smiled as Sasuke was going to leave. The moment he turned around he felt Sakura's hand on his shoulder, hard. "And Sasuke," She said sweetly, though Sasuke knew that looking into her face now could possibly kill him. "If you ever do something stupid and hurt Hinata…" Tightening her grip on his shoulder was all he needed to know. Then, she let go. "Listen up buddy," She sighed. "If you hurt her, no one else is interested in an anti-social, self-absorbed creep like you, so since she's here, make it count." Sasuke mumbled his thanks then gave her the thumbs up and left.
"Just know that I'll always love you." Sasuke said hugging her and burying his face in her hair, now let loose so all its waves could be seen. "Me too," Hinata looked up at him and kissed his cheek, Sasuke was about to add something, but then:
"Itachi-chan, tell me where you're taking me. Sakura-chan, where are we going?" Mikoto's normally in-control voice was breaking with anxiety and tension. "I demand to know now." At the bottom of the stairs her eyes widened under the nervous stares of our lovebirds. "Sasuke-chan, Hinata-san, is something wrong?" She said politely, knowing well that Hinata could change her mind about Itachi any moment.
"A-ano, Uchiha-san, I, um, I can't m-marry Itachi." Hinata only just managed to stutter, much to the surprise of Sasuke, who was for the first time actually planning to follow the plan. Sakura and Itachi also expressed their shock at the mild mannered heiress' sudden offset of behavior. "Hinata-chan, it's really fine, I can deal with thi—"
"Sasuke, I can do this, I've got to stop hiding behind people," Hinata took a step forward. "Especially those that I love."
"Uchiha-san I cannot marry your son Itachi, I don't love him." She said boldly. "I cannot think of ever spending the rest of my life with him." Mikoto looked shocked but none the less she let her continue. "I don't love him because there is someone else for me, as there is always someone for everyone." It was then that she felt Sasuke's hands around her waist; she suddenly felt new strength and said the next sentence more strongly. "I love Sasuke, and nothing will make me change my mind." She looked over at her love and he smiled back. "That's right Kaa-san, I love Hinata and I will never leave her, I'd do anything for her to spend the rest of her life with me, even risk you." Mikoto was hurt that her sons thought of her as nothing but a selfish control-freak, but maybe that was what she let herself become these years without her dear Fugaku. She was about to interrupt Sasuke for ruining Itachi's shot at happiness when Itachi himself stepped forward. "Kaa-chan," His husky voice began. "It is in everyone's best regards that I announce my engagement with Haruno-san." He said formally, earning giggles from everyone except Mikoto, who looked like Itachi broke her favorite vase.
"I second that!" Sakura said, as Itachi gave her one sweet kiss. Mikoto was speechless; Hiashi came out of nowhere and applauded. "Look at it this way Miko, you can feed and love your children all their lives, change their diapers and help them do their homework, and by the end of it all you'll know what they think about this show, or what they want for breakfast, but you will never expect who they choose in life and I think that, that applies to everyone." He then looked at Hinata and Sasuke, seeing them as a couple for the first time. "Sasuke you little devil, you told me you were just seeing each other." He gave them the biggest smile ever. "You never told me you proposed to my dear daughter!" He was laughing as he messed up Hinata's hair, a habit he would never lose. Mikoto was handling things a little differently.
"Itachi-chan, are you absolutely sure about this? There's no way I can change your mind?" She asked tonelessly. "None mother." He replied in an equally toneless voice. "I am offended that you would force me to marry Sasuke and not Itachi, do you have any pride in your second son at all?" Sakura regarded her coldly. "How could you forsake your son's happiness to impress a few friends like that?" She turned away and faced Itachi. "You really don't mind marrying me instead of Hinata-chan?" Itachi smirked and took her in his arms. "If you weren't always acting so cute I would have decided on it a long time ago, even before I met Hinata." Sakura had the same sense of fun. "And what would that decision be? My Itachi, because you know I love you this way, you and your fickle mind." She looked up and kissed him softly. "Well Haruno Sakura, will you marry me?" Sakura laughed and showered him with more kisses. "I think that was decided a long time ago." She kissed him on the cheek and Itachi held her waist. "You know that's not the way I like it." Sakura laughed and kissed him, hard, on the lips, Itachi smiled and answered back with a kiss just as passionate.
"And what about us, my dear?" Sasuke and Hinata were watching the whole thing and Hinata was getting very scared of the Uchiha style of romance. She looked at her father who gave her the thumbs-up "You two go on ahead and have some fun, the wedding can wait, now is more important right?" He smiled in his way that made people feel warm inside. Suddenly she was ready for love, for her boyfriend, or maybe her husband-to-be. "Sasuke, how about going out, I wanna see the flowers?" Sasuke was already eagerly dragging her into the garden for a make-out session she would never forget.
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Hinata got up in bed. Next to her was the sleeping figure of her husband, Sasuke. Both were quite busy now that they were managing the company. As planned Itachi and Sakura got Sharingan Corps, but Byakugan Enterprises was more successful anyway. Sasuke had a busy time organizing everything so that they still had time for their children, and Hinata was in charge of the main company with him. He must be completely exhausted after today's meeting. Especially since he never had training, thinking that Itachi would inherit everything after all those years.
She could see how peaceful he was when he slept, but that wasn't the reason she woke up. There was something odd about tonight, maybe it was that the moon was unusually bright, or maybe, it was the lump sleeping in their bed, no, it wasn't sleeping, it was crawling this way. "Kaa-chan, I had a nightmare." The little voice could only have been their three year-old daughter Yui, and where Yui was, her twin brother Yue could not be far behind. "Kaa-chan, Yui was talking in her sleep again!" Hinata quickly hushed the two of them. "Yue that isn't nice to say when your sister just had a bad dream, and keep your voices down, your father is tired tonight." Both toddlers hung their heads low. "Sorry Kaa-chan." Yue hugged his mother. "I had a nightmare too." He said quietly. She sighed and took them both by the hand, one on each side as she accompanied them to their room down the hall. "Do you feel better now?" She said as she tucked them both in their separate beds. "Hai, Kaa-chan," They both said, Hinata smiled at her children, not just hers, they were Sasuke's children too. She had to hand it to Sasuke, he made beautiful children. (Imagine Sasuke's smug face)
"Kaa-chan, arigatou gozaimasu!" Yui said from under the covers and Hinata gave her a kiss on the forehead.
"Oyasuminasai, Kaa-chan!" Yue said before his mother kissed him too.
"And where's my kiss?" A voice was heard from the doorway. "Otoo-san!" Both kids jumped out of their beds and ran to hug their father, who they didn't get to play with today. "Kaa-chan said you were too tired to play with us." Yue whined. "Kaa-chan said you were asleep." Yui added. Sasuke knelt down until he was face to face with them. "What did I tell you about whining?" His voice was stern but there was an amused sparkle in his eyes. "Gomenasai, Otoo-san," Sasuke laughed and carried both his children to their beds. Hinata sighed. "It was hard enough to get them to go to sleep the first time."
Sasuke laughed as they left the room. Tomorrow morning they would be introducing the twins to music, lucky guess what their instruments would be—the violin and piano. "Just like how we do it," Sasuke said the day before. They got back into their room and Hinata felt herself fall into the bed with Sasuke on top of her. "I love you." Sasuke huskily whispered into her ear. Hinata breathed his scent and knew it was true, before, now and forever. "I love you too." She smiled and nuzzled his neck. Her head was on his chest and they were both lying down now. She was just there, holding him, being held, feeling nothing but love. "I love you Sasuke." She said again. "I always will, I'll never ever regret standing up to your mother that day." Sasuke kissed her forehead and traced around her face with his hand. "And I'll never regret asking your hand from your father, it was the scariest moment of my life." They laughed a bit. "I thought the scariest moment of your life was the day I gave birth?" Hinata joked. "Don't remind me," Sasuke gently pushed her down, Hinata grabbed him by the neck and whispered into his face. "Goodnight, my love." She kissed Sasuke on the forehead and tangled her hands in his hair. "The morning comes too soon." Sasuke let his breath linger on her ear and kissed her cheek, suddenly remembering.
"Now about that kiss…"
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