Dinner was going as it had before Sasuke fell in love four days ago. In fact it was the first time he had properly joined them and behaved as he normally did. That was until he placed his chopsticks to the side and quite seriously declared, "Itachi since you have no mission tomorrow, you are taking me to the park."
His mother who had been enjoying her meal, began to choke, Fugaku quickly rushed to her aid. "Are you alright?"
Taking a sip of her drink, she nodded to Fugaku but her attention was all on Sasuke, there was a hint of panic in her voice when she asked, "I thought you were mad at Itachi?"
"Well dad can't take me, and it's not like Itachi has anything better to do." When no one said more, "mom couldn't take me today, so my girlfriend and I have a lot of catching up to do." Itachi remained silent, though his exasperation was evident by his posture.
"Mom, you mentioned you wanted to talk to us about something?" There was a hidden message of help me.
Before Mikoto could say anything, though Sasuke asked, "is this one of those talks where I'm not supposed to listen in? Like when you had dad tell Itachi where babies come from but wouldn't tell me?"
Itachi and Fugaku both had a look of horror in their eyes at the memory, both looked to Mikoto hoping her answer would be no. To their relief she said, "well it's not like that, but this is something you are still to little for."
"Its okay. Now that I have a girlfriend, I know things I didn't before. I dont need these useless talks." Sasuke left to his room unaware of the pale faces he left behind.
"What do you think that means Mikoto?"
"I don't know! How should I know! You are going to ask him about that later!"
"Me!? Why me!? He is just as equally your son. If not more you carried him for nine months, I hardly did anything after the night he was-"
"Enough!" They both looked to Itachi, "if you are both too scared, I will speak to him." Itachi was almost offended of how relieved his parents looked, "now, what is this about?"
Mikoto checked for Sasuke, making sure she could hear him in his room, "we cant take him to the park."
"What did you do Mikoto?"
"I did nothing," when she noticed that even Itachi was staring at her in disbelief, "I swear it was not my fault." Sighing, "fine it was my fault."
"Mikoto, you have to tell us more."
"Well when I took him to the park on day two of his journey in being in love," Fugaku couldn't help but roll his eyes at her choice of words," I noticed something about dear little Sasuke. He is a scary little boy, he didn't mean to, but he made his little girlfriend cry- without talking to her I may add. She is scared of him."
"Can't say I blame her."
"Itachi, don't interrupt your mother, you are only aiding her in stalling."
"Yesterday, when I took him to the park again, I looked away for a few seconds, and suddenly our little boy was surrounded!" She raised her voice for effect," so I went and saved him."
"Mikoto, stop screwing around!" While Itachi would never express himself in the way his father was he couldn't help but agree with the sentiment behind the words.
"Fine, her parents and I got into an argument, because they think Sasuke is bullying their daughter. They said some really mean things, and how dare they accuse him of bullying her? He never even talked to her!"
"Was he ever surrounded?" The exhaustion in Fugaku's voice was hard to mask.
"No, I overheard them talking about how he is "some lousy brat, kick him where it hurts if he ever makes you cry again." How else was I supposed to react? Then they had the audacity to say they didn't want our son near their daughter! But he is in love, those jerks! They are the bullies!"
"Enlighten me, Mikoto, where was Sasuke in all of this?"
"In a daze, just staring at her. Which really didn't help my argument. The girl's father even told his wife that there was no helping the blind when they refused to see! At some point I may have even activated my sharingan." Taking a deep breathe to calm herself, "long story short Sasuke cannot go there again."
"It seems to me, that the one who cannot go there is you mother. Which means I will take him to the park tomorrow." Itachi sighed, already dreading the interactions to come. He was about to stand up to leave when Fugaku stood up.
"No need Itachi, I'll call off work tomorrow, I will explain to the girl's parents that it is just a misunderstanding."
Mikoto was pouting, "I don't think you should take him. Her parents are jerks."
"Well," Fugaku looked at Mikoto directly in the eyes, "I cant exactly blame them, if we had a daughter with her own little stalker I would tell her the same."
Mikoto couldn't disagree with the logic, "but I still don't like them."
"And you don't have to, they are Sasuke's in laws not ours. Regardless it is just a misunderstanding." Itachi wanted to bang his head against the wall, someone needed to bring Sasuke back down to earth, and apparantly neither of his parents would be it.
A/N: I've had this written for months but I wasn't happy with it... however I realized that this is where I want the story to go and accepted this...originally I wanted the fight to be present through Sakura's perspective, but I realized what would be scarier to a little Sakura than Fugaku and Sasuke??? Absolutely nothing.As always thank you for readin :)