"I'm sorry." They hadn't meant to listen in, but at the words that came out of Sasuke's mouth they were glad to be there. Sakura had just confessed to their son, and the idiot turned her down. They could hear Sakura's steps as she ran away. Fugaku would have gladly pretended not to have heard, his wife however, was not of the same sentiment.
"How could you?!" Sasuke's eyes widened in shock, his face was turning red, but his mother kept going, "why would you turn her down? You've liked her since you were eight!"
Deciding to interfere, Fugaku spoke in his son's defense, " if Sasuke has yet to realize his feeling for her, we need to let him come to them himself."
"I don't like her that way, she is just my friend!"
"If you say so."
"I really don't."
"And I believe you, now your mother and I apologize for eavesdropping." Fugaku felt like the conversation was done, Mikoto however had one last thing to say.
"Fine, then. You are grounded for leading her on."
"I never led her on." He looked to his father, hoping that he might help him on this.
"You walk her home everyday." Fugaku stated, "you were also jealous when Sakura was tutoring Naruto."
"I wasn't jealous. She just kept cancelling plans. It was irritating."
Mikoto was quick to say,"really now? You were cursing Naruto like never before, not to mention you invite her over a lot. You got her those flowers. You flirt with her, if you don't like her, then you were leading her on."
"Mikoto, if he hasn't figured out his feelings for her, I say we leave it alone."
"But by the time he realizes she'll have found someone much smarter! And look at him," she said pointing at Sasuke, " it surely won't take long. I'll just go and tell her to wait for him a little bit longer, she can't be too far away." Mikoto was about to go, when Fugaku pulled her towards him, "but he is an idiot, and she is lovely! Imagine her as the mother of our grandchildren!" When his hold on her didn't budge she added, " and when will another Sakura come along? When will another girl like that ever like our son? Her standards are amazingly low we need to take advantage." His hold loosened, "if your mother helped you, why can't I help him?" Fugaku let go.
Mikoto ran after Sakura, looking at his mother's back Sasuke asked, "why didn't you stop her?"
"She had valid points. You could never do better than Sakura." At Sasuke's offended scoff he added, "really now? What girl is better than Sakura?" Sasuke thought hard about it, what girl out there was better than Sakura? Sasuke's silence was answer enough for Fugaku, " now think of why no one comes to mind."
"That's easy we've been friends for so long."
"You are telling me when you think of Naruto, you feel the same way as when you think of Sakura? Do we need to have a family meeting?"
While Sasuke appreciated his father's concern he couldn't hide his disgust as he said, "no! That idiot is just that, an idiot. Sakura is..." amazing, beautiful, sweet, intelligent, headstrong. Sakura made him feel warm and happy, not that he would ever say that out loud but his father's all knowing smirk told him he didn't have to say it out loud for him to fill in the blanks. "Its different with her, but it's..." always been that way. That's when Sasuke realized that he is in love with Sakura Haruno, "why didn't anybody tell me before now?"
"Dont worry too much, knowing your mother she'll come back with a wedding date set."
A/N: I was planning on having this be three parts, but I lost so much interest in this that I decided to just have it be about Sasuke realizing his feelings, and Fugaku is definitely out of character, one of the reasons I lost interest in this AU...