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My updating game is strong this week! Short chapters, but the story's moving~
track 10.
To say that Uchiha Mikoto was caught off guard when she saw a girl sitting in the living room was an understatement.
Elfin features, short stature and cherry blossom hair. The matriarch thought her son had captured a fairy, and brought it home to show off to his older brother. Who - bless him, Mikoto thought - still had yet to bring home a girl.
She also muses that the two children still haven't noticed her presence.
A rare feat. Considering both her sons have opted to inherit their father's paranoid persona instead of her own trusting turn of mind.
Moving closer to the girl, green eyes curiously glance up to her, silently acknowledging. The loss of the girl's focus on him causes her son to finally realize she was there, and he stands up to greet her as aloofly as possible. Though a mother's instinct told her that he was perhaps just ever so slightly embarrassed.
Sensing from his mother's hand over her unabashedly loosely gaping mouth that he should explain, Sasuke quickly inserted himself between the two. Prompting Sakura to stand and bow as he introduced her. "Okaa-san, this is Haruno Sakura. She's a classmate. We did the group presentation together with Naruto."
"You only had to tell me her name, Sasuke-kun. Sakura-chan could've told me about herself."
But of course, she knew that when Sasuke was nervous and felt the need to defend himself he tended to over elaborate.
No need to embarrass him in front of his pretty friend though.
Giggling, Sakura offered a hand. A little forward - she was, but to be able to break through his brick walls and become friends with her son, weren't they all a little? "We've met before, Mikoto-san! You may remember me from Sarutobi-sensei's dojo?"
Haruno Sakura-chan...
It did ring a bell, and her voice was familiar. Not to mention, pink hair was hard to forget.
But the only memory she recalled had been a knee-height Sasuke complaining about 'how annoying' she was. It couldn't possibly-?
"You're the girl that gave Sasuke-chan his first nosebleed!"
Sasuke choked.
"Okaa-san!"