Sasuke's POV

This was a bad idea. The worst one I've ever had. What was I thinking bringing Hinata to have lunch with my family?

At the moment my mom was desperately trying to find an album with my baby pictures to show to Hinata. It was irritating how my mom kept talking to Hinata and taking her around the apartment as if it was only them two. The first hour after I brought Hinata, my mom started talking to her nonstop, asking her about herself and her past, leaving Itachi and me out of the conversation. I could sense some awkwardness between Itachi and Hinata, but I waved it off since they just met, but then when mom needed something from the store, Itachi immediately volunteered. Now it was just me who was being ignored by the two women in my apartment.

Slowly, I started taking interest in what they were talking. It was true that I knew Hinata for almost a year now, but I still didn't know much about her and her past. Thinking about it now, Hinata doesn't know much about my past and me either.

"So how long have you two been together?" Mikoto asked as she glanced at both of us with a smile.

"Uh…" Hinata blushed.

"I don't really…" I was at a loss of words. What do I say? Looking over at Hinata, I knew that she was trying to figure what to say as well. We have already kissed. So does that mean that we're…I bit the inside of cheek thinking about the implications were if we decided to be together. We both had bad experiences in our previous relationships, and even though it has been a while since then, does it mean that we're ready? Looking over at Hinata, I felt something constrict within my chest. No matter what happened, there was one thing I knew for sure. I never wanted to be separated from Hinata. I don't know when or how it happened, but her presence became like a fixture in my life whether it be in person or just her voice. I can't imagine what it would be like if she wasn't in my life anymore, of if she decided to be with someone else.

"We're…we're not really…togeth –"

"We're not?" I asked Hinata in confusion while cutting her off. I don't know why I was so confused when I just thought through this in my head right now, but just hearing say it made me want it to not be true.

"I-I mean…" Hinata faltered. She turned towards me pleading with her eyes for confirmation.

With wide eyes and an interested look on her face, Mikoto looked at the two people in front of her. This was like a movie scene for her. All she needed was some popcorn.

"What do you want?" I asked forgetting that we had my mother as an audience.

"I…" Hinata bit her lip before taking a deep breath. "I want to b-be…" even without finishing her sentence I could see what she was trying to say in her eyes.

"Me too," I said with a smile which Hinata returned with one of her own.

"Oh my god," my mom gaped. "Sasuke, you're smiling." Way to ruin the moment. I rolled my eyes.

"One minute," I said as I looked at my mom.

"What?"

"Hinata and I have been together for exactly one minute now." I looked at the clock.

"Wait…so you weren't proposing to her right now?"

"No." Why does this woman always exaggerate things?

"You guys just got together…right now?" She asked in disbelief.

"Oh…um" Hinata lowered her head to hide her blush and the smile that still played on her lips.

"Yes. Just right now." I answered with indifference but on the inside my heart was doing flips.

"But then –"

"Oh look, Itachi's here," I cut her off when I saw Itachi entering through the front door and head towards us with the stuff my mom asked for.

I knew what my mom was going to ask and I didn't think Hinata wanted to discuss the circumstances around our wedding ceremony. It wasn't supposed to be real and in the end it never happened, but for my mom it was real because she didn't know why her son was doing something like this. She wouldn't understand because she's always seen me have contempt for love for all these years.

"Wait, Sasuke," my mom spoke once she saw me get up after grabbing Hinata's hand.

"I'm going to take her to the roof to show her something," I said as I walked towards the front door with Hinata right behind me. "We'll be back in a few minutes before you start lunch, so don't worry about us." With that I closed the door before my mom could say anything. Itachi had a confused expression but didn't question me.

I pulled Hinata along as we took the stairs up to the roof. We were both quiet but with a glance I could see that she was still smiling.

"What did you want to show me?" She asked as she looked around the empty area.

"Nothing. I just needed an excuse to get you away." I grabbed her waist and pulled her towards me before capturing her soft lips with mine. "Are you sure about this?" I asked when I pulled a way no more than an inch.

"Yes," she nodded and closed the gap between us once again with a kiss.

She brought her arms around my neck and stood on her toes to reach even closer when we kissed. Then, before parting, I placed a few more soft kisses on her lips as she brought her hands down to my chest..

"I think w-we should go back." She bit her lip and lightly pushed on my chest when I tried moving closer to her again. "Sasuke, we h-have to go back," she said, but with a smile and a blush on her face.

"Okay." I gave her a kiss on the forehead before entwining my hand with hers and heading down the stairs. I had a hard time trying to control the smile on my face before we went inside my apartment.

The rest of the lunch went quite peacefully. I was expecting my mom to pester Hinata, or me but she had just gone back to Hinata asking her about her life before meeting me. It was interesting to hear how Hinata was in the time that I didn't know about her. It was weird knowing that we had been living in Konoha for so long yet our paths never crossed until I decided to get on a random train. Imagine if I had gone into any of the other trains that were waiting in the station while I was there. I would have never met Hinata.

We ended up spending the entire time at my apartment with my family. My mom somehow found my photo album and showed Hinata every possible embarrassing photo of me.

"Who are they?" Hinata asked as she pointed at a picture of me with two other people when I was younger.

"Oh, this is from a field trip in middle school that Sasuke took with his friends. These are Naruto and Sakura. They practically grew up together." Hinata kept staring at the picture for a little longer before my mom flipped to another page.

Hinata knew about Sakura and Naruto from what I told her so far, which was minimal, but seeing their faces and finding out just how long we knew each other for would make her see them in a whole new way. As much as I liked the time that I spent with my friends in the past, except for the breakup, I did not want Hinata to know these people, especially Sakura. I don't know why but it always worries me when I think about the circumstances around our breakup. It felt like I was being superstitious as if Hinata meeting Sakura would cause her to leave me as well.

"Well I guess it's time for me to leave as well," my mom spoke as Hinata and her finished going through the album.

I hadn't realized that so much time had passed already. I was so lost in thought that I don't remember Itachi leaving almost an hour ago.

"It was nice to meet you Ms. Uchiha." Hinata smiled at her as she got up to gather her stuff.

"Oh, please. Call me Mikoto." She looked at Hinata with a sly look. "And maybe you can call me mom soon." She winked and then laughed at Hinata's cherry red face as she stammered out a response while I just glared at my mother, ignoring my own blush. "I hope to see you more often." She went up to hug Hinata who responded to the warm embrace with a smile despite the blush she was sporting. Then my mom walked towards me to give me a hug before she left. "I like her," she whispered as she hugged me.

"Hn," was my response but I knew that I was glad my mother liked Hinata.

"Don't keep her all to yourself," she warned me mockingly before waving at Hinata. "Goodbye Hinata!" and after that she was gone.

"I should be h-heading back too," Hinata nervously said as the awkward silence between us grew. She was still nervous over my mom had implied before she left and I knew why. It was all pretend back then when her family thought we ran away together, but after chasing a guy for a false idea of a happy married life she was reluctant to think about something like that again. She didn't want to create a false hope, especially since she wasn't sure what I thought about it. We just barely decided to start something together.

"I'll take you back." I went to grab my car keys.

"Thank you," she said before we went down to my car. For next few minutes she didn't say anything until we got to her apartment.

"Thank you for inviting me for lunch and i-introducing me to your family, Sasuke. I really liked them." She smiled as she spoke after I parked my car on the street in front of her apartment building.

I nodded in response. "I guess I'll see you…"

"I have work tomorrow," she said a little disappointedly.

"I thought you didn't work on the weekend."

"I had to take up a shift for someone who was taking the weekend off. It's just tomorrow."

"Hn...I'll call you then."

"Okay." She smiled. "Goodbye Sasuke," she said after giving me a soft kiss on the cheek and got out of my car to head to her apartment.

I know this is a short chapter even after posting it so so late and I'm sorry. Please forgive me :'(