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"Kyo! Please come inside now, it's getting dark!" Sakura called out the window. 'Hmmm…I wonder where Sasuke went off to….' She began to wonder. '….probably taking a nap or something…he did have a long day after all…' After about a half hour, Saiyuki had trotted downstairs and offered to watch the babies in her room for a while, apologizing for not taking them in the first place.
She was about to search the large house for him when the front door opened and the bright eyed Kyo bounded in.
"Hi miss Sakuwa!" He smiled.
"Hey there Kyo! Did you have fun out on the swings?"
"Yeah! Where'd you go before?"
"Well, let's just say Sasuke was in need of some assistance….." Explained Sakura grinning widely. 'CHYAH, HE NEEDED MY HELP! HELL YEAH!'
"Oh, okay!" Kyo looked around like he lost something and then looked back up at Sakura. "Can I color in my colorwing book?"
"Yeah, of course! Um, please sit at the table so there isn't a big mess all over the floor, 'kay?"
"Kay!" With that, the child hopped off in search of his crayons and coloring book, quickly returning with the items and setting himself in a chair at the table, happily humming to himself and coloring in a picture of a nekokoneko.
'HOW FREAKIN CUTE!'
"I'm just gonna go and find Sasuke, so just sit tight, okay Kyo?" He nodded in response, completely engrossed in what he was doing, and Sakura began her quest for Sasuke.
'Cripes….hope I don't get lost in this huge place…' She gulped loudly as she reached a hallway. 'I wonder what their parents do that they can afford this much money….'
Sakura passed multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, even a few training rooms! Training rooms inside houses! That was something she'd never seen before.
'JEEZ, THEY'RE LOADED!' She slowly and silently entered the room, peeking around curiously.
"Sasuke? Are you in here?" She whispered looking around. She nearly jumped when she heard muffled noises coming from the couch, and turned to face it where she came face to face with a napping Uchiha boy. She fought back the urge to squeal at the sight of Sasuke sleeping, all curled up on a couch like a little boy. His face still looked a little stressed out, though clearly not as much as before. She watched in much amusement as the boy began mumbling something she couldn't understand and then proceeded to chew on the pillow his head was resting on. She could barely contain the giggles that were already threatening to spill out of her, but she silenced them as best she could. She stopped when she heard his stomach growl loudly, and his face contorted into a grimace, but he continued sleeping.
'Ah ha! I'll make him dinner!'
'CHEYAH, CUZ I ROCK AT COOKING!'
Sakura made her way back to the kitchen and looked through the fridge for something she could make him. Suddenly remembering he must still be achy from his first experience with babies, she decided to first make him a cup of herbal tea, which would soothe his muscles, and um….anything else that was in need of a little couldn't stop the smirk that formed on her lips. "He's gonna love this!" She sang happily to herself as she put the water in the tea kettle.
A spicy, apple-like aroma had made it's lazy trail to the tv room, and had slowly wafted towards the couch currently occupied by the napping Sasuke, making his nose twitch. His eyelids fluttered open slowly at the scent that was around him.
"What…is that?" He asked himself looking around. He ran a hand through his messy raven hair and smacked his lips together, trying to wake himself up a little more. He groaned when he sat up because he was still sore from earlier events that he'd never talk about in the entirety of the rest of his life…..never again……..
'Now where the hell is the smell coming from?' He asked himself, getting up slowly from the blue corduroy couch. He let out a muffled sound of discomfort again, holding one hand on his back looking very much like an old man who hasn't been moved in weeks….(A/N-ha ha, thoooose old people…good times…..)
"Oh….Your awake already…." Sasuke turned his head around to see a pouting Sakura holding a mug in both her hands, the familiar apple smell permeating from it.
"I wanted to surprise you Sasuke…Oh well, surprise!" She smiled brightly, extending her arms for Sasuke to take the mug, which he did slowly, almost suspiciously, and sniffed the contents.
"Go on and drink it Sasuke! I made it for you…it's um, this herbal tea Tsunade taught me how to make a while back, it should ease some of them aches of yours!" She continued babbling on about what it was made out of and how great it worked, but Sasuke wasn't listening to her. (as usual) He eyeballed the drink like it could kill him if he even brought it to his lips.
'And…what the HELL is your problem?'
'What?'
'It's not gonna fuckin bite you. Believe it or not, not every living or non-living thing wants to….'
'Yeah, sure.'
'Just drink it you fag! It smells good!'
'Fine….maybe it will shut her up or something…'
'Yeah, but she's so cute when she thinks she has our attention and gets all smart and shit!'
For once, Sasuke could argue with those facts. With a little hesitation, he took a small sip of the beverage, and the girl shut up immediately, and stared at him hopefully.
"Do you like it Sasuke?" She asked eagerly awaiting for his hopefully positive answer.
Sasuke nodded and took another small gulp, and then looked back up at her. "Thank you Sakura….it's very good." He answered curtly. Her already glowing face seemed to go up in brightness another ten watts, and her grin stretched to her ears. Upon seeing this, Sasuke began to blush. Not wanting her to see his pink face, he quickly turned his head down to look at the drink.
"Great! I was kinda worried you wouldn't like it or something, cuz I wasn't sure if you like apples…ya know, I wasn't sure after that whole thing at the hospital way back when and all that…and-"
"Sakura…your being very annoying." He announced in the same polite tone he used to compliment her brew. He smirked when he saw her eyebrows momentarily knit up, and how she tried to hide the annoyance that was trying to show through her features. He looked around the room and noticed the t.v. was still on. He sighed, and motioned to the television with his head, heading to the couch.
"Sit down I guess…" He offered. She looked surprised now. Did Sasuke Uchiha really just invite her to sit on the same couch as him? Sasuke stared at her, almost challengingly at her hesitance, raising an eye brow. She had to accept. She WAS Sakura Haruno after all, and it wasn't physically or biologically possible for her to turn down such a request as this coming from Sasuke Uchiha. Dumbfounded, she sat down on the couch next to Sasuke, staring at the screen, or the wall…anywhere but at the prodigy in the close proximity to her.
"So…." She began strumming her fingers on her thighs. "What are you watching?"
He grunted something that sounded like 'I don't freakin' know' and resumed to watching it. Sakura sighed.
'Damn, trying to make small talk with him is like even thinking about straightening his hair…..I wonder if he'd let me do that?' She wondered to herself.
"….Sakura?" Sasuke was staring at the spaced out kunoichi with a cocked eyebrow.
Sakura didn't hear him at first because she was too busy fantasizing Sasuke with his hair all let down in his face. (A/N-drool…he'd look like Trent Reznor with straight hair…)
Sasuke shrugged and continued watching the show he left on. He wasn't quite sure of what it was called, but he guessed it was some kind of soap opera.
'Just what the hell is she thinking about? She's starting to drool….'
'Yeah….some weird shit right there…poke her or something, maybe she stopped breathing….'
"Sakura?" He said more firmly. The pink haired girl seemed to snap out of some trance she was in and blushed, returning Sasuke's suspicious gaze.
"W-what?" She stuttered.
"Here…." He slowly handed her a napkin, which she stared at in confusion. He motioned a 'wipe your mouth' to her, making Sakura blush in utter embarrassment and bury her face in the napkin, furiously scrubbing at her mouth.
"Um…sometimes…I uh…..my meds kick in….." She lied, her voice muffled by the cloth.
"….Your on medication?"
"…..No….." She replied slowly. "But sometimes it's like I am…"
Sasuke shook his head in uncertainty and somewhat embarrassment for her, returning his eyes to the television screen.
'What the fuck is this shit?'
'How the hell should I know…it's a soap opera I guess…'
'What's goin on then?'
'Well, first Roderick was all…hey wait…if your me why the hell do you need me to tell you what you missed?'
'Don't question me or I'll make you say something stupid…not that you'd need much help….'
'Shut your noise tube.' He snapped back paying more attention to the show. So far, Roderick had just admitted to Annette that it was his evil twin Derrik who cheated on her for Roxanne…..then there was some unnecessary camera angle changes and zoom in's and out's. Sasuke sighed in boredom from the show. He moved the mug in a gentle circle, swirling the apple-like contents in it lightly before bringing it to his lips again and sipping quietly.
'So…say something!'
'Huh? Oh, I thought you died or just decided to be nice and fuckin leave me alone for once….' He internally sighed wistfully.
Inner Sasuke scoffed. 'Uh huh….ya may wanna check the sky for pigs before that happens….'
Sasuke smacked his forehead, hearing his inner self yelp in pain, and grinning at the sweet sound of it.
"Oh, does your head hurt Sasuke?" He heard Sakura ask him. Crap. She must have seen him hit himself like a damn freak. Could this day get anymore awkward!
"D-do you need another cup of tea? Cuz, I could whip up another brew or whatev-"
"I'm fine Sakura. Don't worry about me, okay?" He inwardly cringed when he saw her green eyes momentarily flash with sadness at his words and cold tone of voice. He sighed heavily and stared back at the television.
"So…where'd you learn how to make this stuff?" He asked in a voice that sounded like it was killing him to speak more than two syllables. Her face lit up a little at the sound of his sudden interest, or his version of interest. Hey, it was still something.
"Well, Tsunade taught me how to make it, ya know, cuz I'm training under her to be a medic-nin." She explained as though that was news to him. "I was really surprised that they had the ingredients here! Maybe one of them is a medic…Anyways…" She happily babbled on about something that Sasuke was now blocking out, but pretending to listen to.
'Just let her talk….look how cute she looks when she thinks your listening…'
'Oh shut up.'
'Your just saying that because you didn't even look yet! Look at her!'
'No!'
'Fuckin prick, LOOK. AT. HER!'
'FINE!' Sasuke darted his aggravated eyes towards his companion. Well, his annoying inner self hadn't been lying after all…Her jade eyes were most definitely sparkling as she spoke to him. Her voice was upbeat and carefree, as usual, and she seemed to glow brighter by the second with a warm light whenever he nodded blankly for her to continue with her story.
"…And that's what happened the first time I saw Bambi!" She concluded happily. Sasuke briefly shook himself from the daze he'd been in and nodded at her. Sakura giggled and proceeded to watch the soap opera.
"Ah! Love behind the corner, I love this show!" She squealed. "I used to watch it before we started training under Kakashi-sensei!"
"….what kind of young child watches soap operas?"
"What kinda kid carries spare tomatoes in his back pocket?"
Sasuke choked and sputtered on his drink, nearly dropping the mug.
"W-What tomato?"
Sakura grinned evilly. "Remember our first year in ninja academy….and the monkey bars?"
Sasuke twitched as he remembered that day at recess….
FLASHBACK……..
"HEY CHICKEN HEAD!"
A seven year old Sasuke turned around to find the big mouth Naruto standing over him with his chubby arms crossed. Sasuke didn't bother to stand up from the sandbox, and continued to add more sand to the castle he was making.
"Whaddya want idiot?"
Naruto's eyes went big. "YOU SAID A BAD WORD!"
"What? Idiot isn't a bad word you idiot!" Sasuke squeaked.
"Is too, believe it!"
"Is not!"
"IS TOO!"
"IS NOT!" "IS TOO!" "Ahhhh, what the heck did you even want from me anyways? Can't you see I'm busy with important stuff here?" The uchiha huffed, patting down the sand.
"Oh yeah!" Naruto exclaimed, as if just remembering what he came here for. "I wanna challenge you at something!"
Sasuke snorted. "Why, so I can beat you at that too?"
"Yeah right jerk face! You and me, monkey bar race!"
"…..No."
"HUH! WHY NOT!" "Cuz that's stupid. Why would I waste my time with a loser like you on the monkey bars?" "Hmmm…maybe your right meanie….I mean, if you don't mind the other guys callin you a girl for makin sand castles every recess all by yourself!" "W-what!" Sasuke's round face grew pink. "What's mankin sand castles hafta do with bein girly?"
Naruto pointed around to a group of girls making a sand castle, using it as a doll house for their dolls.
"That pretty girl Sakura and her friends always make sand castles. Just like you, you girl! Believe it!" Naruto smirked when Sasuke sprang up to his feet angrily. "And if you don't race me, you're a girl too!" He announced.
"Fine! But your gonna lose and then your gonna cry and I'm gonna laugh at you!" Sasuke snapped. The two boys quickly strode to the monkey bars.
"First one to the other side gets to call the loser whatever they want for um…..um….a million years! Yeah, believe it!"
"Get used to the name loser then. Believe it!" Sasuke mocked in a high pitched voice, trying to imitate Naruto's voice. "Yeah, well, you can just get used to teme!" "Now who's sayin bad words!" Sasuke snorted.
"OKAY, GO!"
With that said, the two boys flung themselves on to a bar, coincidentally they picked the same one, and scrambled to the ones ahead, side to side and growling at each other the whole way.
"Hey, what's Sasuke doin?" Ino's voice rang out as she lead the girls to the area where the two boys were racing vigorously.
Sakura looked up at Sasuke dreamily, but also with determination burning in her eyes.
"You can do it Sasuke!" She cheered. Both Naruto and Sasuke froze at the sound of the cherry blossom girl. Naruto blushed when he saw her, and waved, smiling goofily.
"Hi there Sakura!" He giggled dumbly. Sasuke took this as an advantage and poked Naruto in the ribs, very gently, causing the blonde to let out a laugh, being that he was ticklish. Naruto yelped as he felt the bar slip from his grasp as he fell to the ground and flat on his face.
"Mmmmpphh…." He mumbled in pain as he sat up to spit out sand from his mouth.
"Heh! Loser!" Sasuke sneered.
"Yay Sasuke, I knew you'd win!" Sasuke glanced at Sakura and his face grew almost into the same goofy boy grin, and he blushed furiously. Suddenly, his fingers slipped as well and he began to fall, landing on Naruto, who let out another shriek of pain. Everybody clamed up when they heard a splat noise.
"What was that?" Ten Ten asked loudly. Sakura walked over to the dazed boys (Who had the kenshin oro face!) and investigated. Her nose crinkled when she found out what made the squishing noise.
"…Sasuke….why is there a tomato in your pants?"
All the children in the circle of bystanders broke out in laughter at this.
"Sasuke Uchiha has tomatoes in his pants!" Kiba cackled holding his stomach. Choji's belly began to rumble at this.
"I'd still eat that…."
"Ew Choji…" Shikamaru replied sticking his tongue out.
Sasuke's face reddened further and he snarled at the blonde fox boy he was stitting on.
"Yeah, well, who the heck carries tomatoes in their pockets teme!"
"This is all your fault loser!"
FLASHBACK OVER………
"I cant seem to remember such an incident." Sasuke huffed, shaking himself of that memory.
"You do too!" Laughed Sakura. "Come on, it was so funny!"
Sakura's laughing decreased a little when she saw the pink faced boy begin to stand up and she quickly put her hand over his arm, trying to get him to stay.
"Oh, don't go Sasuke, I'm sorry! I was just kidding! Please don't leave, I'll stop laughing!" She pleaded, although she in fact was still giggling. When she saw him snort at this, she pouted and gave him puppy eyes. Sasuke rolled his own black eyes and sat back down, sighing in great annoyance.
"Hn."
The two ninjas quietly, almost awkwardly, watched the show together. Just then, something happened that both of them were dreading. Of course it was inevitable that something like this would happen in a drama such as this, and it was of course….a sex scene…..
"Oh Roderick!"
'OH NO!' Sasuke screamed in his mind and blushed madly. He didn't dare glance at the pink haired kunoichi, but he hoped she was as red in the face as he was so he wasn't the only one. He shifted uncomfortably on the cushion and began tugging at random loose threads coming from the couch.
"….Oh my…." Sakura mumbled as nervous as a high school student on a test day.
"Um, um….um…." She stuttered desperately trying to make the situation better.
'Damn it! I watch this show all the time! I shoulda known there'd be sex scenes in it!'
'YOUR SO STUPID, CHEYAH!'
'I gotta do something…or say something intelligent!'
'Or you could wait for him to take the hint and let him make the first move…'
'…..' Sakura blushed at that even more than she was already blushing before. She heard Sasuke curse rather loudly under his breath.
"Wh-where's the fucking remote?" His voice cracked as he said this, desperately searching for the missing remote control. If the poor boy's hormones weren't working over time, he would have seen the item he was in search of, which was sitting on the floor next to his right foot.
"Uh, it was right there a second ago!" Sakura replied just as shakily, trying to be of assistance.
"Maybe it landed under the couch!" He mumbled.
"Right!"
At a high speed, the two frantic teenagers dove down, only to bump foreheads roughly with each other, recoiling back and falling off the couch together. Sakura, thinking quickly, grabbed a hold of the closest thing she could find to prevent herself from crashing to the wooden floor, which happened to be Sasuke's shirt, and resulted in her falling directly on top of him. The two laid there in shock and pain at first, well, Sasuke was in more pain since he was used as the landing pillow.
"Ugh…" He groaned.
"….Ow…There's the remote…" Sakura muttered glancing to her side. The object was at level with her eyes at this point. They didn't seem to realize the position they were in for a few minutes, as they remained there, rubbing their foreheads, which now sported red marks on them. Sasuke's eyes shifted over to meet the half-lidded jade gaze of the girl on top of him. Both sets of eyes instantly widened to the size of dinner plates when they realized their close proximity. Things only got worse when the moaning coming from the television could be heard…yes, rather bad for Sasuke when the blood rushed to other places instead of his nose like it usually did. His face reddened and he prayed to whatever holy being out there that Sakura's innocent mind would prevent her from discovering this new, er, growth…(AN-jeez, I just can't give Sasuke a break…)
'OH MY GOD, THIS IS SOOO NOT GOOD!'
'Well, actually….this could be the opportune moment for that clan resurrecting you have in mind….'
'WHAT! THERE'S NO WAY I'D DO THAT RIGHT HERE WITH CHILDREN THAT WILL WALK IN!' His face grew even more freaked out at a sudden thought. 'KYO COULD WALK IN RIGHT NOW!'
Inner Sasuke laughed at him. 'Well then Casanova, you better do something fast!'
Sasuke rapidly, almost violently, pushed the flustered girl off of him and rolled so that his back would face her, resting on his side and holding his stomach. (wonder why…)
"Ugh…pain…." She muttered. She quickly reached up and manually turned off the television. Sakura turned her head slowly to look at him, her face screwing up in a worried expression when she saw him holding his abdomen, curled up tightly.
"Oh no, did I hurt you Sasuke?"
"H-huh?" He wheezed, not daring to turn his head even slightly.
"Well, you look like you have a stomach ache or something! Did I jab you with my elbow or something?" She began to crawl over to the overwhelmed boy. He immediately heard her shuffling over to him and tensed even more than he had been. When he felt her hand touch his shoulder, he jumped and squirmed away like a worm.
"D-don't! I'm fine Sakura, j-just don't touch me!" He barked harshly, causing her to pull back her hand as if she was just burned.
"O…kaaaaayyy….sorry Sasuke…" She replied slowly, quirking an eyebrow.
'Ya know….maybe I'm goin' crazy but…what was pressing on my stomach…' Sakura thought suspiciously to herself. Her narrowed eyes darted stealthy over to the Uchiha who was still in the same position.
'Damn, I can't see his other side!' She stretched her neck a little farther to get a better angle. She wasn't as innocent and naïve as everyone suspected…she had a damn good idea of what was poking her in the stomach, and it sure as hell weren't his arms which were above his head!
Meanwhile, the discombobulated prodigy was panicking….on the inside…
'God, I'm so uncomfortable! This has to be the worst one I've ever had!'
Inner Sasuke was finding this rather entertaining however. He chortled and crossed his arms. 'Just excuse yourself to the bathroom dumbfuck!'
'…..'
'What?'
'I don't know where the bathroom is….' He mentally muttered quickly.
'HAHAHAHAH! THIS IS FUCKIN PRICELESS!'
'SHUT YOUR FILTHY CLAM YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE OF A COMICAL DISPLAY OF MY INNER MOST THOUGHTS!'
'…woah…get off the meds boy….those are some serious ass mood swings problems ya got there…'
'Shut up. Besides, there's no way in hell I'm about to wander around a huge house with little kids in it, searing for a bathroom in hopes to 'relieve' myself.'
'Yeah, your right…I mean, you could get in trouble for hiding a left over Nazi and all….'
'………..' (A/N- ok, think about that for a minute and you'll understand…)
'…..'
'….you sick bastard….'
'Hey! I'm just stating some basic facts here! And I was agreeing with you!'
Against his better judgment, which he was sure he had lost by this point, he shakily stood up and collected himself, making sure to keep his back towards Sakura.
"I'll be right back." He announced as if nothing was wrong. Sakura, who was back on the couch and had the tv on again, (the scene finally over) looked in his direction.
"Huh? Where are you going Sasuke?"
"To the bathroom, just stay here." He replied, cool as a cucumber, quickly walking out in search of the room.
The kunoichi stared after him with a quirked brow due to her suspicions. She then whipped her head around to face the television and thought about what just happened, wondering if her theory was correct.
"……Nah…." She shook her head and continued watching.
FINALLY DONE WITH THIS CHAPTER! I'm SOOOOOOOOOO sorry it took so long for me to update. I've been having a creative block for the past 2 months, especially in my art…ugh…its been a long winter….but at least springs here! Okay, shout out time!
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