Title: The Magic Ribbon

Prompt: Inventions

Summary: How to make boys fall in love with you?

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Rating: T

"Mommy!"

A slight smile crosses her lips and she pauses in her task, glancing at the little girl behind her. "What is it, Sachiko?"

"I think I'm in love!"

She raises her eyebrows, turning back to her task, dutifully scrubbing away on the sink. "Oh really now?"

"Yeah! I think I love Kaito!"

Now she stops, the hand clutching the sponge stopping mid-scrub. She flips her hair backwards, flinging the bangs away from her face. Glancing back at the excited girl, she smiles in amusement. "Kaito? Kaito Yamanaka?"

"Yeah, yeah! He and I were partners for a project in the Academy today! He was so nice! He listened to everything I said, mommy!"

More like he didn't want to say anything himself, thought the mother as she resumed washing the dishes. She knew Kaito was every bit like his father, Sai. The emotionless boy would only speak when extremely necessary (which to him, was pretty much never), and could look like he was listening attentively to what you were saying when in reality he was thinking of what he'd eat for dinner.

She placed the last dish in the dryer and wiped her hands on the towel, turning her full attention to her daughter. "Well, Kaito is a very nice boy."

"That's what I told Auntie Ino!"

Her eyebrows shot straight up, and she pushed her pink bangs away from her face as she asked, "You…told Auntie Ino you liked Kaito?"

"Yep!"

"Sachiko…you do know…Auntie Ino is Kaito's mother don't you?"

"Yep! She said I could go to her house any time to see Kaito! Isn't that great?"

The pinkette inwardly sighs in exasperation. Leave it to her best friend to play matchmaker for a bunch of five year olds. "Well then, I guess if your Auntie says so…"

"But…mommy?"

"Yes?"

"What if…what if he doesn't like me?"

She turns to look at her daughter, whose dark green eyes are sparkling with something she herself felt so long ago. She remembered the insecurity that she herself had felt thinking about a certain onyx-eyed boy…

She walks across the room, undoing her daughter's pink hair from their pigtails. "You know what? I'll tell you a secret."

She almost laughs as her daughter's eyes widen in surprise. "Secret? Mom, what secret?"

Standing up, she walks upstairs and disappears, leaving the poor little girl confused. When she appears moments later, she has a red ribbon in her hands.

"What's that, mommy?"

"It's a magic ribbon. I invented it." She says, giving a knowing smile.

"A…magic ribbon?"

"Yep." She gently turns her daughter's head towards her, fashioning the red ribbon into a headband. "You want to know what it does?"

Her daughter's eyes light up, awe clouding her features. "What…what does it do?"

She smiles, and puts her head beside her daughter's ear. "It makes boys fall in love with you." Leaning forward some more, she softens her voice, saying, "It's how I got your father to fall in love with me."

Pulling back, she smiles. Her daughter is now smiling, gently touching the red ribbon in her hair. She leaps out of her chair, a huge smile on her face. The woman laughs as her daughter runs up the stairs, yelling, "Kaito is gonna be my boyfriend!"

"So, it's how you made me fall in love with you?"

A gasp escapes her lips as arms wrap around her waist from behind her and a chin rests on her shoulder.

"S-Sasuke!"

"Hn…I never thought it was the ribbon. The hair, I suspected. The eyes, maybe. The ribbon?"

"It's magic."

"Hn. But you never wore the ribbon when we were together. Not even in our genin team."

"It's not the point."

He puts his lips beside her ear, whispering, "So what is?"

"That ribbon…gave me confidence. Ino gave that to me so I would believe in myself. And that…that was made you fall in love with me."

His lips are still by her ear, touching, but just barely. She can feel his breath tickling her neck, and she can barely hold it together.

"I see."

Then he spins her around and smashes her lips against hers, his mouth possessive, demanding. She responds, moaning against his touch, threading her hands in his raven black hair. She will never get tired of him, and she knows he will never be tired of her.

When they break apart, her lips are swollen, and she is breathless. She looks into his eyes, the black pools of darkness that convey so much yet so little.

"Well…it worked."

Sakura Uchiha concluded that the magic ribbon was the best thing she ever invented.

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