His mother walked into his home, slamming the door behind her, he could see fire in her eyes, one he hadn't seen since he and Sakura eloped. There was an apology at the tip of his tongue, then he remembered his mother was in the wrong, old habits die hard. "to quote your husband, what bills do you pay to be slamming doors?"
"I gave you life, and this is how you repay me!?" He had no idea what she was talking about, but was glad Sakura and Sarada were having a girl's day out, no need to scare his five year old, he could hear his front door open again, but before he could go and look, his mother continued, "I changed your diapers! I stayed up late when you were sick. Is this really how you want to go about it?! You already eloped, I didn't get to see you get married! Was that not bad enough! You want to kill your own mother!?"
"Besides the melodramatics, I have to agree with your mother." Sasuke was still dumbfounded, now his father was here too. Naturally he should have assumed his father would not be far behind, but his mother had only been this furious about his elopement, he really had no idea what was going on. His father continued, "look, I don't know what you and Sakura were thinking, but you will change it immediately. It is unacceptable, foolish even."
Maybe, Sasuke thought, his confusion was not evident. Taking the silence as his chance to talk, Sasuke finally asked, "what?"
"Don't play dumb with me you ungrateful ass! I was in labor for twelve hours, only to give birth to you." Whatever it is that he and Sakura had done, must have been horrible, he tried to recall what it could have been, but nothing immediately came to mind.
Before he could ask what was going on, his father spoke, "Itachi told us that in case of yours and Sakura's demise, he would receive full custody of Sarada. He was under the assumption that we were already aware of this."
"So, you came to convince me to change that?"
"Of course, we did. We will not let our only grandchild be braught up by that thing we call a son."
"Father that's a little uncalled for." It was Itachi who spoke, before being questioned, he said, "I came here to warn you that I accidentally let it slip." Sasuke didn't believe it was an accident, it was likely he was saving his own ass for something.
Having had enough, Sasuke finally had the strength to defend himself, and Sakura. "Everyone, sit and listen. I have a confession to make, we've made some adjustments to that arrangement, Itachi you have since been removed as her possible custodian. It was about two years ago actually." His mother audibly sighed, and even his father looked relieved, Itachi looked shocked. "We keep meaning to tell you, we just never know how to bring it up." The next part he needed to add needed to be said with care, and with an exit plan, finding it, he spoke, "the updated version has Sakura's parents as her guardians." By the time he finished speaking he was already leaving his home, he could hear his family's outrage at the admission, could hear them yelling at him to come back. There was no way in hell he would go back now.
