Title: Accidents Do Happen
Author: Nyaaan
Pairing: Itachi/Sakura/LovePolygons
Genres: Romance/Comedy/Family/Lemon-ish?/SliceofLife/Drama
Note: Well, exams can wait. Must. Post. This. Heee ~ How are you guys? Chapter 4 is here! Oh yeah! I won't disturb you anymore—oh wait but before that, I just want you to know that Author-san here is not that fluent with English (English is not my first language) so if you spot some wrong grammars there just let me know. That would be all people. Ciao.
Disclaimers:I own Naruto… What? I don't? *sigh* Fine. I want to make Itachi mine though. Notice me Itachi-senpai~ :D
Chapter Four: Mood Swings
Sakura barely avoided tripping over her giant teddy bear as she got out of bed in the morning. In addition to everything else, it seemed she'd acquired a part-time pet.
Yep.
That part-time pet is a sleek black cat with eerie yellowish eyes. The cat suddenly appeared three nights ago and she's taking care of it. She's not really a cat-person but that's what solitary life will give you.
Love for animals.
It always disappears during the day but it always return at night time. How and where it got in is a mystery, she should check her apartment if it's safe.
She'd fallen asleep last night counting and recounting the days since her last period. It's been two weeks since it happened and her three-week' sick leave is almost over. She's worried, scared. Her period is already a week overdue. The pregnancy kits Ino brought her are still on her table … untouched.
Her body seems fine, like always.
She "should" be safe, but "should" was far from a guarantee. For all she knew, she could right now be incubating the first grandchild of Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha. She feels strange and giddy for some strange reasons she can't name.
Is she happy that she finally got what she wanted?
She's happy alright. She wanted it right? But the fact that Uchiha Itachi, his best friend's brother would be the father is just … awkward, scary, daunting, blood-curling and more. So if she's indeed pregnant … if that happened …well …
She'll cross the bridge when she gets there.
Sakura was about to head on the bathroom when she heard a loud crash in the kitchen area. She thought maybe she's just hearing things but she heard a loud crash again.
Is someone invading her apartment?
'Thief?'
Sakura grabbed the nearest means of self-defense in the room.
An umbrella.
She treads softly to the direction of the kitchen, as quite as a mouse, not making any noise. As she's getting close she can hear people chatting - more like whispering.
'Three? No. Two.' She deduced.
She's not going down without a fight. She didn't learn aikido and judo for nothing. What's with the umbrella? Her fist is too lethal, umbrella would minimize the damage. Armed with a pointed-umbrella she screamed, from the top of her lungs…
"Freeze!"
Instead of some suspicious looking people, she found a blonde-guy choking from his cup of noodles and a dark-haired guy holding a frying pan and staring back at her with a bored look on his face.
"Naruto! Sasuke-kun?" she finally let go of the umbrella with a relieved sigh. "What are you doing here – stop eating my cup noodles Naruto! Spit it out!" Naruto just give her a toothy-grin.
"You were prepared to defend yourself with that?" Sasuke asked.
"What's wrong with an umbrella?" poking the umbrella with her foot. "We ninjas have to use whatever's on hand." Sakura replied knowingly while adjusting her glasses.
"Ninja my ass."
"Ass? Seriously Uchiha? You could've used 'butt'. Ass is way too crude… and never ever use the word 'ninja' and 'ass' in one sentence." She always addresses him using his last name whenever she's upset or just plain annoyed.
Sasuke just 'hn-ed' which she translates as 'whatever.'
"Pfft. Says the one who curse like a sailor when drunk." Naruto sniggers.
He remembered the time after his wedding with Hinata when Sakura drunk herself to madness saying stuffs like she'll be alone now since Sasuke's an ass and he finally got some balls to get married. That and many more colorful words…
Oh those happy times.
"Remind me why both of you are here again?" Her glance shifts from the blonde's noodles-stuffed-face to her messy kitchen.
"Why is my kitchen a mess?!" Flours and eggshells are all over the table, spilled-milk flowing from the table down to the floor and other black unidentified objects on the sink.
And is that a pancake on her ceiling?
Sakura glared daggers at a certain blonde idiot. She's super certain who's at fault here.
"It's not me, Sakura-chan! I swear! It's Sasuke err—making something for breakfast."
"Both of you …give me back my spare keys. Sakura mutters in a low voice. Naruto was about to speak more nonsense when Sakura once again glared at him. It is the silent way of saying 'I'll-castrate-you-if-you-speak-more' and judging from Naruto's facial expression she's pretty sure she passed the message clearly.
"But Sakura-chan…" Naruto said in a slightly whiny voice that's slowly getting in her nerves." you said you don't mind us crashing here if we like."
"I told you not to let Sasuke-kun 10-meter-radius near my kitchen!" She roared. Sasuke doesn't seem to care; he's still trying to flip the burnt pancakes that are sticking like glue on the pan.
Sakura swing the cabinet's door open. "How many cup noodles did you eat?!" Her face is getting red now.
'Oh boy, she's really mad now.' Naruto squirm on his seat looking grim.
He's just hungry that's all and after his business trip from England he book the very first plane to Japan since a certain someone assumed that maybe someone killed their friend in her apartment since she won't answer his calls. And that someone—
…is currently flipping pancakes at a time of crisis.
"Oh God, I hate myself for giving you the spare keys, and I hate both of you!"
That caught Sasuke's attention.
What is she so mad about? She should be flattered, it's not every day he'll cook someone a pancake. She should feel special. She should be flowers and sparkles but as Sasuke sees it she's doing some kind of a weird demon dance as she walks around the room…
Flapping her elbows.
Stomping her foot.
And swearing like a boss.
After a moment of pondering, Sasuke finally spoke. "Is it the time of the month?"
Naruto angrily mouthed "Do you want to die?!" while Sakura finally stops moving and seems frozen solid on the ground. If it is a silence before an explosion or what, he silently hopes their face will still be recognizable after whatever Sakura will do to them.
Sakura is shaking…
'This is it. I hope Hinata still finds me desirable after this.'
To their surprise, the loud wail of their female best friend proved them wrong.
"O-Oi, I'm just kidding." Sasuke mutters helplessly looking slightly uncomfortable.
"If it's the kitchen, we'll clean it for you. Hell, we'll clean the whole house right, Sasuke?" Naruto who's a lot taller than Sakura pats her shoulder reassuringly.
The lesson he learned the hard way today? One: Never ever trust Sasuke Uchiha when he says he wants to surprise someone with a breakfast in bed.
"Clean it yourself, dobe."
And Two: Don't expect him to clean.
Sakura inhaled blinking the tears away. "I want my period now!"
"Ask something attainable. If it's meant for you it'll come at the right time."
"Teme, that's why I told you stop reading shoujo manga.. You're already weird enough." Naruto garbled. Yeah. A lame action he ended up doing in order to understand the female population more.
"I'm scared, what if I'm pregnant?" Fresh tears flow from Sakura's eyes. "That's why I want my peri -"
"What did you just say?" The two males shouted at the same time.
"Oh God."
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"Try this one next." Naruto said while pounding the bathroom door.
"Just leave me alone already! I can do this." Sakura yelled.
"It says in the instruction…" reading the PT kit manual. " 'Taking a home pregnancy can be a nerve-wracking experience, particularly when you're anxiously hoping for one result or the other. Take the test privately and give yourself as much time as you need, or have your partner or a close friend stand outside the bathroom door to talk you –'"
"Shut up Naruto, you're annoying." Sasuke is clearly annoyed. Annoyed is probably the greatest understatement for his mood today. He's incredibly pissed.
One, she's suddenly pregnant…
Two, she doesn't know who's the father since she's too drunk to remember.
Like seriously, everything is so wrong!
Naruto nervously watch Sasuke. He's currently staring at the PT kits like it's the most hideous thing in the world wearing that face akin to a yokai.
Even he can't believe something like this happened to their Sakura-chan. After Sakura break the news about her pregnancy, Sasuke and him decided they need to smoke at least one stick of cigarette.
That's a lot to process.
Sasuke immediately masked his displeasure and went outside to probably vent his anger while Naruto being the good friend cheers her up. They came because they're worried that she's sick , turned out they have to worry about something more than that.
"Teme, stop venting your anger on those PT kits…It's just an object, it won't fight back."
"I'm not angry."
"You're not fooling me."
"She's hiding something. She tends to twiddle her thumbs when she lies." Sasuke said a matter-of-factly.
"What do you mean? She's not pregnant?" Naruto asked.
"Nope, she's very pregnant. That twentieth kit and the rest of it said so. I think she knows who the father is but she's keeping us from knowing."
"Why would she do that?" He can't believe Sakura-chan would keep something like that a secret. They're friends right? That's depressing that she doesn't trust them enough.
"Why? Let me ask you. If you know the identity of that bastard who got her pregnant, what would you do?"
"I'll beat him up of course, since it's illegal to kill someone. I'll just beat him half to death."
"Exactly why she won't tell us, she's protecting him." Sasuke grumble in a sinister way. He didn't become a lawyer for nothing. He'll make that son-of-a-bitch regret he was born. He'll make sure of it.
He'll find him.
No one touches his best friend without paying the price.
An arm or two will do.
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"I'm sorry but the clerk that used to work here resigned last week."
"Can I at least know where she lives or how I can contact her?"
"I'm sorry sir but we don't reveal such information to just anyone."
Itachi's not in a good mood today. Another dead end. The nagging curiosity in his mind won't stop. He needs answers but it seems he needs to do more than what he's doing.
One of the things he hates is unanswered questions. This day sucks.
"Itachi, did you lost something here?' A red-haired man asked.
"Yeah, and I want it back."
"Interesting. It must've cost a lot for you to be on hunting mode."
"You have no idea." Itachi mysteriously replied.
A funny growling noise was heard. Itachi tilts his head to gaze at Sasori who seems unperturbed even when another growl erupted from his stomach.
"You're hungry."
Sasori just nod.
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"What would be nice? Hm. Tempura? Sashimi? Ah! Sushi is nice. Oh? They have lobsters and crabs too. Let's have that." Naruto blabbered. Sasuke seems calm now and Sakura seems down but it seems she finally embraced the fact that she's pregnant.
Naruto might not want to admit it but he's a little happy that he'll be an uncle soon. Not that he'll say it out loud. But he really is happy.
He hopes the baby won't have her temper...
...or her forehead.
Naruto lets out a loud cackle.
"What's so funny Naruto?" Sakura asked while her eyes didn't stray from the menu.
"Just thinking how you'll start having cravings and mood swings from now on."
Cravings?
So maybe that's why she wanted to eat variety of foods these days. She still can't believe she's pregnant but somehow it doesn't seem so bad now that they know. She's glad that Naruto became supportive. She expected him to react more intensely but it seems – her gaze shifted to the still sulking Uchiha.
It seems she got it all wrong.
A grand platter of crabs and lobsters is served up on their table.
Weird.
She loves seafoods but it seems she's not in the mood to eat those at the moment.
"I don't like it."
"What?" Sasuke can't believe what he's hearing. The person who loves crabs more than anything in this world is declining the delicacy.
"It's annoying. I don't like it." Sakura feels kind of sick at the moment. The smell of spices is bothering her.
"But teme already paid for it. It'd be a waste if you don't eat it Sakura-chan."
"It's one of the most annoying thing ever. You have to break the shells just to eat the meat and it's really troublesome. They should've made the shells edible. How come they didn't do anything about those shells during the course of evolution? It's stupid. They're stupid." Sakura is poking the crabs with a disgusted-look on her face.
Sasuke and Naruto is speechless.
Did she just declare her hatred for crabs?
Sasuke did read that cravings start at the earliest stage of pregnancy but witnessing something like this is just … he doesn't know what to say.
"They don't undergo evolution under the sea just for the sake of your stomach, you stupid glutton. So shut up and eat it already."
"I told you, I don't want it." She's scowling now.
Will she be like this from now on? A walking and talking abnormality?
He somehow understands now, why some men are afraid of marriages and with all his patience, Sasuke puffs out loudly. "What do you want then?"
"A happy meal. I saw that penguin freebie, I want it." Sakura answered while beaming.
Flicking his credit card across the table Sasuke stares at Naruto with a tired expression on his face. "Dobe, buy her a happy meal."
"Me? Why me?"
"Because you're the good Uncle, so do your job."
Naruto seems satisfied with that. He grabs the card while whistling as he's on his way to Mcdonalds.
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"I'm sorry sir, but it's the only penguin freebie left."
"I'll take it." Naruto yelled while jumping up and down. The fast-food crew giggled at Naruto's cuteness.
"No, I got here first. I'll be the one taking it." Sasori is not your happy camper. He finally found Pogo, the last penguin to complete the set and here's some idiot interfering with his victory.
Heads will roll.
"I'll double the payment Miss, just hand me that penguin." Naruto is arguing desperately. He'll have it no matter what because he's a good uncle and a good best friend. He'll triple the payment if he has to.
"But sir –"
"I can sue you for not following the first come, first serve policy. I'm pretty serious here." Sasori said waving his license on the already scared fast-food crew. That should work. That's how serious he is with his Pogo. It's a limited edition and probably the last product he can find.
Take that blondie.
"Please Miss, just give it to me. I'm giving it to my nephew! Her mom will castrate me with a dull spoon if I can't have it." Imagining the face of Sasuke is not helping too. And he's not really lying; he'll be an uncle soon right? And a nephew would be cool.
'Anything for you nephew.'
"Since when did you have a nephew, Naruto?" A familiar voice asked behind him.
Naruto turn around to see a confused- looking Itachi.
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End of Chapter 4
A/N: I'm working on the Chapter 5 now. Hopefully I can update it this week. It's long so it'll be worth the wait.
Special Thanks to: Dear U. x .U, silverwolfigther00, Consuelo, Paradise Kiss, Sakura Hatsu..
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