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Arnoldstrife
granite69
hmr
Kazanoe
omnikaze
in no particular order other than alphabetically. (Unless you guys don't want to be dedicated to, lol, then uh... end segment)
Foreword: This is what happens when I got off a binge through all of Link and Luigi's Naruto Primer and the Lost Chapters as well :p
This one-shot deals with female Haruno's and their crushes. Not Sakura, silly! Her mother!
Grains of... Half-truths.
Oneshot Series x Spam
Ficlet One: Something About Sakura's Mom
Character: Sakura
Sakura had just woken and greeted the new day with a smile.
Today, she would go to Sasuke's house, he'll fall in love with her and they'd live happily ever after.
So she skipped down the stairs and over to the breakfast table, where her mother had just finished cooking and had just settled down at the table herself.
"You look quite content today, my dear daughter." Remarked her mother.
"Why yes! Yes, I am mother! We don't have training today, so I was thinking of trying to get Sasuke to go on a date with me!" Sakura's bright attitude couldn't be contained and she explained her plans for the day.
"Really, now? This is that Uchiha Sasuke, right?" Her mother raised an eyebrow, interested.
"The one and only!" Sakura confirmed.
"Oh, you're first crush... That's so cute..." Her mother lightly teased.
"Aaaaw... Mother!" Sakura went and blushed.
"I still remember my first crush..." The Haruno matriarch averted her eyes to a time long past.
"It wasn't dad?" Sakura asked. As far as she knew, her mother had dad and onlydad.
"No! I never considered your dad back then!" The reply was a little too hasty for Sakura, though she didn't voice it.
"So then..." Sakura sat up, folding her arms on the table so she could listen to her mother's tale. "What was your first crush like?" The little pink-haired girl was genuinely interested.
"Oh, you never forget your first crush..." Her mother sighed and tilted her head, her eyes becoming all dreamy-eyed.
Sakura had given her mother the moment to let her continue on her own time.
"He was really quiet... And very solemn..." The older female started.
Her daughter nodded her head, liking the idea already.
"He never spoke much, but he had the most alluring gaze..." Sakura's mother continued, speaking softly.
Sakura sighed. The visuals she was getting was starting to take after her beloved.
"He was so... so... intense! He had a strong will and was very much a lone wolf..." The memory brought a smile to her lips.
Oh yes... Sakura had considered that her mother had fallen for a boy much alike her own Sasuke.
"I had brought him lunch everyday and insisted he go out on dates with me... I always had an interest in ninjas, but I knew I didn't have what it takes to become one, so I always insisted that he'd become one!" Her mother had grinned.
"Yeah? And did he for the sake of love?" Sakura asked. Now she had thought of herself in her mother's place and Sasuke being at her side. She was now completely lost in the illusion.
"Why yes he did! In fact, the adminstration had to change the rules because he'd killed all the aspiring genins!" Her mother said.
Sakura paused. The day-dream halted. This sounded awfully familiar in a 'coming back to bite you in the ass' kind of way...
"Oh Zabuza... I always wonder what ever did happen to you, after I moved on out of the Mist..." Sakura's mother sighed and eased back into her chair, taking a sip of her coffee.
This jerked Sakura into shock. Her ideal fantasy of Sasuke in her arms suddenly turned into a tall, scarred and shirtless older man. And even though it was in Sakura's imagination, the missing mist ninja looked as shocked and awkward as she did about it.
"Momochi Zabuza?-! The Devil of the Mist?-!" She exclaimed, on the verge of shouting.
"Why yes! Momo-chan! Have you met him recently?" Her mother confirmed happily.
Sakura cringed at the pet-name her mother adopted for the undesirable man. And as much as she wanted to tell off her mother for remotely liking (much less a first crush) on the Devil of the Mist, she still would have felt bad about outrightly grounding her mother's first crush, if the bridge mission were to be thoroughly explained.
So the genin chose her words carefully.
"A corrupt businessman named Gatou was trying to take-over the country of the Wave so Zabuza killed him. But he didn't escape alive either..." Sakura explained.
"Oh, that's so like him. A lone wolf to the end..." Her mother said as her eyes dimmed a little. The news had dug into her, but she had fond memories of the dark man and had already moved on years ago. He wasn't in her jurisdiction anymore, so she accepted that he had met a fate that he dealt himself.
"Err... He also had a young boy, that dressed like a girl follow him around." Sakura felt she'd had to correct her mother about the lone wolf-thing.
"Oh. Zabuza was like that I'm afraid."
Sakura really didn't want to pursue that train of thought much further.
"Was there anyone else you liked?" Asked Sakura, intent on switching tracks before it got too weird. This had the effect of perking her mother right up.
"Why yes! I had two other crushes while I lived there. One had been my loyal shark at my heel and ready at my beck and call, and the other was my diligent knight in shining bone armour."
"Shark...? Bone armour...?" Sakura was really too afraid to ask, but curiousity got the one up on common sense.
"Why yes, dear! Good old Ki-chan. He was around my age (unlike Momo-chan who was my senior),but I was fond of him none the less." Sakura's mother smiled at the age-old memory. Which quickly turned into a grin.
"Kisame also had rows of sharp teeth like that of a shark," The Haruno female indicated to her own teeth, "but that made him look cute like a puppy in my books! And you should have seen him when he eats! It's like watching the Akimichi at a clan gathering!"
"Umm..." Sakura was at a loss. How in the world could someone liken a shark to a puppy?-!
"If he was your father, you'd have a healthy blue complexion!" Her mother couldn't help but add as an after-thought as well.
The Haruno Matriarch's daughter started sputtering.
"Oh and my young and brave Kimi-kun." Sakura's mother continued, completely neglecting Sakura's own uncomfortability at the subject. "He was always so thin and frail looking. He spent alot of time in bed because he was always so sick... But I always found time to vist him and bring him up to speed with my chicken soup. Oh, he was quite younger than me, but that wouldn't stop me! He had a nice cheek-bones. And speaking of bones... His bloodlimit allowed him to manipulate his own bones! Even allowing him to pull them out of his body!"
"Uhh..." That really wasn't appealing. That really, really wasn't an appealing thought at all.
"But there'd only be one bone I'd be interested in! Haha!" Her mother joked, she gripped Sakura's shoulder and gave it a friendly squeeze.
Sakura had enough at this point. The situation was far too awkward and unstable to even converse in. So she'd decided to leave as quick as she could.
"Ummm... Look mother," Sakura delicately lifted her mother's hand off her shoulder and stood. "I'm not feeling so hungry anymore... I'll be heading out now." And she proceeded to back up towards the exit.
"Take care dear!"
Sakura was out the door and trying to shake her mother's words out of her head, before it did any more permanent damage, when she found herself heading generally on the way to Sasuke's house to dote on the tragic avenger.
Then it so happened that Zabuza crossed her mind.
Then she changed directions to head down to Ino's flower shop.
Sasuke could probably live without her for today and they could fall madly in love some other time.
End.
Author's Notes:
And that's it for this one shot. Sorry for the 'Zabusa', mistakes as well as the varying ages of Sakura's mother's 'crushes'. It will not make sense if you try to work it out.
If you found it a little slow at the start, you'll have to see my Itachi one next. Not recommended for people who are devoted to him and think he's like an avatar of coolness or something.
Well, that's it for now!