Title: Accidents Do Happen
Author: Nyaaan
Pairing: Itachi/Sakura/LovePolygons
Genres: Romance/Comedy/Family/SliceofLife
Disclaimers: I don't own Naruto . But I want Itachi. He's smexy. Oh so smexy. I own nothing but my delusions lol.
Note: Chapter Eight is here! Congratulate me! The reviews made me happy. Thank you so much. My replies will be down there, Yes, down down down there,Thank you so much for adoring this story, I know it's weird since even I feel weird while writing this. I am busy but I assure you I have time for this. For those PM's screaming for updates, it's here so pipe down lmao. I don't even know if you're reading Author-san's note or just skipping it lol. Enjoy!
Chapter Eight: The Reveal
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"Sakura-chan!" The Uchiha matriarch exclaimed in a very happy voice. "It's been a long time. I missed you so much." Mikoto examines Sakura's body checking for changes.
Sasuke went straight to his room while Sakura is stuck with Mikoto.
"I'm glad you look rounder. I prefer you like this. You should spend the night here Sakura-chan, we have a lot of catching up to do." Mikoto pats her head fondly.
"I would love to Mikoto-sama but I have a lot of paperworks waiting for me at home."
"Paperworks? You really should settle down dear, so you'll have something to look forward to whenever you go home. Sasuke is still single." The matriarch whispered teasingly earning a giggle from Sakura.
"But I'm really worried about Itachi." She frowned. "He's not getting any younger and the clan wants him to have a family of his own already. He's seeing someone already so I really hope it work out fine this time."
"H-He's seeing someone?" Sakura hoped she heard it wrong.
"Mhm. It was his high school sweetheart. I think you might know her since she's a senior from your high school Sakura-chan. Anko. Mitarashi Anko." The matriarch smiled. "It's romantic don't you agree? It's like they're fated to be together once again."
Sakura just nod. Somehow, it's hard to smile. Is she being emotionally involved? She's not supposed to feel that way, specially now.
An accident is nothing compared to fate anyway.
'Wait. Why am I even concern about that?'
"Go hangout in Itachi's room for now Sakura-chan. The living room is under renovation and Sasuke's room is just ... well the stacks of papers are taking the space so Itachi's room is the most comfortable place I can offer you right now."
"I'll be with you in the kitchen Mikoto-sama, I want to hel—"
"Shush, I know you're tired. You can take a nap there, and there are a lot of books you might like. I'll come get you when the dinner is ready." Mikoto then disappeared leaving Sakura alone in front of Itachi's room.
'Now what?'
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She's been at Itachi's room before when she was a kid. It's her hiding place whenever they play hide-and-seek before. She didn't expect it would be this big now. Uchiha Itachi likes black and white so it's expected that most of the furnishings in his room have that color.
She explores the bathroom.
'How annoying, it's even bigger than my room.'
Nostalgia suddenly hits her.
Itachi is not a very open person so sometimes it's up to the people around him to get to know him better. You have to notice tiny details in his actions or on the things he has to have a clue on what's on his mind.
She used to fangirl over him so that's not really a mystery that she wants to figure him out.
His bookshelf is still on the same place except that the childish books are now replaced with boring stuffs like books about law, business and society. His bed is black and whites too even the carpet and the color of his wall.
A picture frame caught her eyes.
A family photo. All of them really looks good with air of sophistication in each of them. Only MIkoto is smiling on the photo, the rest of the male are ... how should she say this ... well being Uchiha-ish with that serious face.
"Pssh. Why so serious? Makes me want to know you better." She pokes his picture as if that would change his expression or something. She abandons the picture frame and starts evaluating the room. His room is nice, well compared to her room full of plushies and paperworks it's rather calming.
There are a few paintings on his walls, a dart board and a set of samurai-swords on the wall as decoration.
Sakura's eyes sparkles.
Maybe she's an old soul or something but she likes anything that has to do with ninjas, Edo period and samurai stuffs. She grab the longest samurai unsheathing it to examine the sword further.
'Woah! It's a real one! I wonder how much this cost.'
Probably a year worth of her paycheck since it looks like an antique.
"Yah!" she swings it in the air. She almost hit the lampshade so she moves a bit further. That's the advantage of having a super spacious room. You can do a lot of things. The sound of the sword slicing the air is music to her ears.
She can picture herself as a badass kunoichi fighting some rogue ninjas to protect her master. She starts striking different poses looking kinda lame at first but as she starts slashing the sword slicing invisible enemies, she finally learn the proper way of doing so.
She finally got tired; falling back first with a 'flop' on Itachi's bed. She wipes the sweat off her forehead while still holding the sword with her right hand. A drop of seat got in her eyes making her squint and drop her glasses.
After rubbing her eyes, she proceeds to look for her glasses but find it a bit hard to do so since she's like a blind mouse without it. She starts crawling of the flour to look for it hitting something on the process.
Loud rock music filled the room.
Sakura with a dreadful look on her face realized she just hit a remote. Panicking, she starts tapping the floor for any signs for her glasses and the remote. The black and white marble floor is not helping too since it helps camouflage it since the frames are black.
The moment she found her glasses she heard a loud beep followed by a deafening silence.
An unamused Itachi is standing in front of her with a remote on his hand.
'Gulp.'
His dark eyes travelled down to Sakura's right hand. He then yanks the sword from Sakura's hand staring at her sternly.
"This is a real sword." He said in a low voice making her Inner Sakura scream out of fear.
Sakura on the other hand tried her best to look respectable and professional even when she's just on barefoot and her hair is a mess.
"I know." is her short answer.
"Is this – " Itachi paused while pointing at her. " – who you really are?"
The moment Itachi entered his room the last thing he expects to see in a certain pinkette messing with his sword. He will be lying if he says it wasn't entertaining but he just can't figure out what's going on in that head of her.
"You act so quite, reserved and formal in front of people but when no one is around, you must be all sort of odd." There's just no consistency in her actions and he really wonder why. What he saw tonight reminds him of the kid he used to know but she's definitely not like that.
She's not like that now. She changed.
"What you did was out of character. Is this an act?
"I don't know what you're talking about." Sakura said in a slightly defensive tone that makes Itachi want to pry more.
"Do you hate me or something?" is Itachi's conclusion. He is staring at here with those imperial dark eyes and the sparks in his irises took her aback.
Sakura chose the wise choice of staying quite. She didn't expect him to be back early. He said he have some clients to handle so he might be late.
She mentally chokes herself.
She's supposed to be the epitome of a perfect career woman. Unshakable, refined, and most of all mature. She's not the same kid from his memory and she wants to prove him that.
Sakura saw him unbuckling his belt.
"W-What are you doing?!" she squeaked.
"I'm changing. The dinner is almost ready." He said a matter-of-factly.
"Go change somewhere else."
Itachi chuckled while unbuttoning his shirt. "This is my room. I'll be changing now, so if you want to remain here, be my guest."
'This is bad for my heart.' Sakura did not dare to look.
"You can go ahead and change. I'll be downstairs." She's walks past him, kind of annoyed when he suddenly blocks her way. Sakura is pressed against the wall and both his arms on each side trapping her.
"You said you wanted to get to know me better. Aren't you curious about my body?" His sexy collarbone peeking from his shirt, his pants hanging dangerously low and that husky voice reminds her of that fateful night.
Inner Sakura just died.
Cause of Death: Massive Nosebleed.
"If you even try to lay a finger on me. I'll hit you." She balled her fist ready to defend on what's left of her pride as a woman.
"You're not exactly my cup of tea." He seems really find it entertaining to reel her leash. "Just want to remind you that your sneakers are still here."
'Earth, swallow me whole.'
She pushes him with her might. This level of strength will already send Naruto flying but on Itachi's case, it's like pushing a wall. Itachi on the other hand is trying not to use strength since he's afraid he might squish her by accident.
"For one so small, you seem really strong." Itachi said mockingly while patting her head.
"I'm not small, you're just tall!" Sakura screech trying to kick him which he effortlessly dodges.
"You sure about this? I can see your undies, just saying.? "
'T-This bastard.'
"Pervert! Watch me. I'll shave your head while you're asleep!" is her futile attempt of shielding her embarrassment.
"Your true color is leaking." He smirked devilishly.
Sakura really wants to cry right now. He's still the same bully from before.
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Another normal day in the office.
Sasori is cosplaying as a penguin ranger while Deidara is taking a nap and ditching his paperworks again. At least Sasori is doing his job, he looks weird though. Somehow Sakura is getting used to this kind of scenario. It's already been a week since she's here and so far everything is under control and nothing troublesome is happening ... yet.
She's been giving Itachi the silent-treatment after that horrifying incident but that doesn't stop him from pushing her 'berserk-button' from time to time. And she thought he's her ally.
Sakura is about to collect Sasori's paperworks but what greets her made her eye twitch.
Sakura is greeted with the sight of Sasori straddling the swivel chair like a cowboy. Some important documents are on the floor with his penguins and some books stacked as a habitat or something akin to that.
She stared at the scattered papers then to Sasori. He shrugged...
"My penguins are bored." He said while pointing at his plushies and toy figures.
"You were bored! You didn't want to your job and this – " Sakura stomp her foot clearly annoyed. "is your way of procrastinating. Didn't I tell to not play during working hours?"
"Did you? I don't remember." is his innocent reply.
"I could argue with you about that the whole day but I'm too tired. Just finish those before Itachi arrives."
Sakura find it hard to believe that out of all the members of the Akatsuki, Sasori is the oldest.
"But I'm already done. I even include Deidara's since I was so bored."
"Hah. As if. It even took me three whole hours to finish mine." Sakura said quite proud of her feat.
"I could argue with you about that the whole day but I'm so bored." he replied copying Sakura's speech even her tone from awhile ago.
Sakura's about to start a verbal war with Sasori when the door from their office opened alerting them someone is there. A dark-haired sophisticated woman wearing a mink coat appeared. Sakura can't help but gawk at how gorgeous she is.
'She's somehow familiar.'
She removes her coat handing it to Sakura.
'She expects me to hang it for her?'
Upon closer inspection, she looks like Anko.
"Is Itachi here?" she asked. She's sitting on the couch like she owns the place and that annoys Sakura a bit. Now she's sure it's Anko but she seems different that before.
"He's not here at the moment. Itachi will be back late I'm afraid. He's meeting a client tod – "
Anko's eyes narrowed like a slit as she stared at the pink haired woman who looks pretty shabby with her so-last-season clothings. "Excuse me? Itachi?" she scoffed. "You'll address him as Uchiha-sama here. What are you? An assistant? He doesn't like it when people get cheeky with him."
Okay. That was kind of rude. Sakura knows this woman is important to Itachi but she's so done with people underestimating here.
"I—"
"She works here. She's a lawyer." Sasori spoke behind her. That startled Sakura a bit but she's somehow thankful for that.
"I see. Sorry about that." She utter with no sincerity at all.
Silence.
Since the men in the office are useless she decides to prepare a snack for the guest. No matter how bitchy she is so far, a guest is still a guest. She found some pastries on the fridge and some orange juice.
'That will do.'
Before she can even put the said food on the table Anko spoke.
"I don't eat something like that, you can have them."
Sakura bit her lips to stop herself from uttering colourful curses. Instead of putting it back to the fridge, she hand it to Sasori who seems really thankful for the service.
'Atleast someone appreciates what I do.'
Sakura inhaled a rather repulsive smell. Anko is smoking and smoking is a no-no for her! As polite as she can she decides to talk to their guest.
"Ma'am, we don't allow smoking here." Sakura said with a smile.
"What? Do you know who I am? I can smoke wherever I want and whenever I want. You can't tell me what to do."
'This b-b-bitc – rude lady!'
"It's bad for your health and you're polluting the air here." Sakura is no longer smiling. "When you're in Rome, do as the Romans do."
That seemed to tick off Anko, she stood up facing Sakura. She puffs the smoke in front of Sakura's face causing Sakura to cough. Anko's luscious red lips form a malicious smile.
"Listen Pinky, know your place. You're just a lawyer while I am the future wife of no other than Uchiha Itachi. You don't want to piss me off."
'You don't want to piss off a pregnant woman Anko.'
Before Sakura can retort, Sasori pulls her away from Anko. Anko seems shocked but decides to glare at the unperturbed Sasori.
"Lady, this is a non-smoking area." He points at 'NO SMOKING' sticker on the wall. "Your penalty is a hundred thousand yen."
"W-What?" Anko didn't seem to notice it. "Is this a joke?"
"We lawyers don't joke around. We take the law seriously. A hundred thousand yen." Sasori said opening his palm with a serious face.
Anko glared at both of them, slamming a check of one hundred thousand yen before storming out of the office.
Sakura can't help but laugh at Anko's fuming face then unconsciously ruffling Sasori's hair. He seems to stiffen from the gesture but ends up slightly smiling and Sakura's jaw drop. So this android can smile?!
"Sasori."
"Hm?" he tilts his head. His face is back to normal and by normal, that unreadable expression.
"Thank you." She said smiling sincerely. She seems to like him a bit now.
"I hate smoke. Bad for the baby."
Silence.
Sakura's smile is replaced with a scary face. He knows. He really knows she's pregnant!
"What baby?" Deidara ask in a sleepy voice.
'Fuck.'
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End of Chapter 8
A/N: Got you! April Fools dear readers hahaha. Not the reveal part yet XD I run out of idea on what's the title. Forgive me. Okay, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I wish you all a wonderful day and a good life. I'm working on the next chapter and it's really long I don't know where to cut it lol. Thank you for the wait.
My replies to the reviews:
Sweetsakshi3631: I am writing and will keep writing. Just curious, is 'sakshi' supposed to be Sakura and Kakashi? XD
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angel897: I know it's crazy. I have to be somehow crazy while writing this lol.
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beautiful-note2895: I don't know why I write Sasori like this but somehow I like him like this hahaha. And Deidara suits his character I guess, and I'm glad it had you laughing. It's hard to think of something funny so you, laughing and enjoying this is all worth it.
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JigokuShoujosRevenge: Well, we women tends to blame hormones on some situations, our Sakura is not an exception. :D
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Yukina.T: I can't tell you is that yet my dear. Glad you found that funny XD Thank you for supporting this Yukina-chii.
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Xx Onyx Pearl xX : Aww, that's so sweet. Here's chapter 8, I hope it'll make you happy. And yeas, poor Deidara but you must admit ... that punch was kind of funny lol.
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silverwolfighter00: I'm doing my best, multitasking to the point that I don't sleep much XD Yeah, long time no see but well, Tadah~ the update is finally here yay ~ 3 Keep supporting my story , good luck to both of us. School really sucks. :D
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maleisha54: Aww, he's adorable ain't he haha. I adore him too. His character will develop well, I assure you.
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Dear U. X .U: I'm afraid Anko is back. :D Well, we need a villain so we need Anko.
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To all who are not mentioned, THANK YOU SO MUCH for supporting this story. Author-san is really happy. I'll post the next chapter this weekend. Ciao~