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Rilo Kiley + Does he love you?
"I guess it's spring, I didn't know
It's always seventy-five with no melting snow
A married man, he visits me
I receive his letters in the mail twice a week"
"But now you love him
And your baby
At last you are complete
But he's distant and you found him
On the phone pleading, saying, 'baby I love you'
And I'll leave her and I'm coming out to California"
Oh god, it happened. When she was the prime age of twenty two, Sakura got pregnant. From a man who cheated on his wife with her. Not just any man but an Uchiha by the name of Madara. The pre med student did not know of his marriage until it was too late. (Thanks to his wife who bitterly approached her in luxurious clothing. Spitting words venomously about how she was a home wrecker.) Her friends at first were furious not at her, the simply relationship naïve girl but at the man who led her on to believe that he was single and very much interested in her. Ino was the friend that made all the difference in the problem (especially when the wife was verbally abusing Sakura, the blonde stepped in and callously remarked how the wife must have been an idiot for marrying a playboy.) Her best friend was the one who did things rather than talk about it.
A man by the name of Fugaku approached her another day looking very grim, most of the students were eagerly moving away from his cold persona. In his hands was a check book and he asked her how much money it would take to hush her up over the ordeal. 'I don't need your money. Just keep him away from me' the girl said and with that she spun on her heels and ran home. The man looked a little relieved but worried all the same. After all what was sadder than a single pregnant 22 year old girl? The man she knew was her friend's (Itachi) father, the same father that disowned him and cursed his name. To judge, the businessman was a jackass and Sakura felt it was true after the slanderous things she was told by her friend that his father said. Itachi wasn't a horrible person; he was just not interested in leading a puppeteered life. But it was known that the father was just hoping that the girl would be bought off by an inflated sum of money to keep her mouth shut. This dirt would make the paparazzi go insane as they would like to bring the Uchiha down in to the dirt like the other celebrities.
It didn't matter; Sakura was ashamed of the events of how she was a 'home wrecker' and a slut for becoming pregnant to a man who she loved. Her family knew and friend's knew and that was it, people who asked her who the father was she would simple respond 'he is dead, why does it matter?' Most dropped it at that. The pink haired girl began to eat healthier and adopt better habits, while attempting school. She did not need the man named Madara to come back and tempt her with marriage and lies of leaving his wife. She did not need his fame or his money. After a while Sakura knew that she also did not need his love to survive and to raise a child. The people who cared about her before then were all she needed.
Later she found that the Uchiha were not true to her request, her green eyes spotted him coming at her from far off. (Across the courtyard of the college). Being seven months pregnant at the time didn't help her speed away any faster. Her feet hurt, and were heavier than normal (along with hugging books to her inflated chest). He caught her by her upper arm, so much for avoiding the unavoidable and in public loudly asked why she was denying to see him. (Though it was painfully obvious why.) Sakura was afraid and someone shouted in the distance to let her go, with that people started to look a lot more. In a quick flash Madara was tackled by a blond, burly blur. Naruto. "GET AWAY FROM MY SISTER YOU FAG." Were the words that tore from his throat as she was powerless and left to all but to watch the two struggle on the concrete and planters. There were aimed punches and cursing then the police arrived. They pulled the two apart like a sticker from its plastic backing. Naruto looked better than Madara did, who sported a bloody nose and two black eyes. Both men where snarling at each other angrily, slinging curses all the way to the police station on the campus.
After they were gone she sent Hinata a text asking her to pick her fiancé up from the campus police station. The question of why appeared on her phone as she walked, and to sum it up she said her brother was protecting her from the bastard. On the way home, she sighed wishing that she could at least find someone who was truthful and wanting to be with her. A hand rubbed her belly thoughtfully, but she knew no man would really dare to tread in the territory of a single mother.
Today was the ultrasound.
It was the day she'd see them, the two twins in their full glory. The doctor whom she visited once a month for a checkup knew of her plight and clucked in dissatisfaction that men like him were not brought to justice. After all who hated cheaters more than divorced women, cheated with girls and the families they tear apart? As always they were healthy, in perfect alignment as if ready to escape at any time. A picture was given to her of the two fetuses, their gender a mystery as she wanted it to be. Secretly hoping they were a boy and girl pairing than a straight block of either gender. Luckily all the gifts she received from friends and family were gender neutral objects. They were of greens and yellows rather than stereotypical pink and blues that were bequeathed to babies to identify their gender. It would be a disaster if friends and family purchased straight pink object or straight blue things if the twins were boys (they might get pinks items) and girls (obtaining the blue). Also the fact that Blue was associated with him, and she blatantly asked them not to purchase it. Even if the only reason people thought was OH it's a gender indicator!
The girl received gifts from the Uchiha but from Itachi and his baby brother who were caring enough not to bring up their cousin or their familial attempts to shush up the 'problem'. She accepted them carefully, it wasn't clothing, or blankets or any sort of baby furniture but stuffed animals. A large sack of plush, all sorts of creatures from real animals made cute to little monsters that squeaked when squeezed. She noticed a littler, carefully enclosed in a small manila envelope with her name in slinky cursive on its front. Sakura recognized it and froze and timidly put it on her kitchen table, looking at it almost the whole night. As if the letter was going to bite her hand off, she dropped it multiple times when she thought to open it. The time she did open it was over a thing of coffee at midnight, inside was a news clipping with large bold words; DIVORCE, beneath it was a story on Madara's divorce to the actress who harassed her. So his pretty Louis vuitton toting wife was really an actress? Maybe she lied about caring and harassing her, maybe it was all on the sake that she needed his money to make herself popular.
Underlined one of the reasons of the fault was she was found cheating on him (just like he cheated on her) with another actor. The difference was this relationship was an ongoing thing since the beginning of the marriage, so the woman who made her feel bad about herself was a complete if not utter hypocrite. This clipping made the girl felt a little better but she was still torn up and angry at the man who was attempting feebly to win her back.
When she was 22 this all happened, everything was a blur; the sex, the conception, pregnancy and birth. When Sakura looked back on it she was happy. The pain produced an outcome that was more than spectacular. A boy and a girl were born; all round through their childhood were behaved but acted as normal kids did. They knew their father and that side of the family much to the unease of Sakura and her own cloister. And every time the twin's so called father came over, he lavished her in attention (and gifts). He tried though progress was really a snails pace.