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"It's about time you got out, come on!" Sakura sighed, grabbing Sasuke's arm and pulling him along the curved hallway of the tower.

"Sakura? What are you doing?" Sasuke asked in confusion. He had just finished up his daily check-in meeting and emerged to find Sakura waiting outside for him in her medical uniform.

"I have a surprise for you," Sakura told him excitedly dragging him farther.

"Does it involve you and this uniform?" Sasuke asked suggestively- twisting his arm so that it was now he who held her wrist- and pulled her body close to his.

"I'm on the clock," Sakura objected, inwardly cursing at her body's instantaneous response to his actions.

"That's fine with me," Sasuke said lowly and brought their lips together. The sound of footsteps surfaced and a warning cough was heard as one of the jonin shinobi made her way through the hall. Sakura and Sasuke broke apart- Sakura drawing her lips in to bite down on the smile forming and Sasuke scratching his jaw to hide the amused look that had formed on his face. The jonin walked on with a stern expression, silently shaking her head. She lowered her head, but despite her attempts both Sakura and Sasuke could see the fond smile on her face towards the couple. Once she had cleared from vision, Sakura lightly slapped Sasuke's arm and began laughing quietly. Sasuke chuckled back as well and pulled her into an apologetic hug.

"Just come on," Sakura laughed, once again pulling Sasuke behind her. She led them to the Hokage's office, and Sasuke looked at her in confusion as she knocked on the door. She just smiled back and pushed the door open when Tsunade told them to enter.

"Ah Sakura, Sasuke, you're here," Tsunade nodded, already aware that the two would be coming. Shunsuke and Shizune stood looking out of the window, and the child turned when he heard Tsunade call out their names. He ran for them, hugging both of them briefly, lingering with his arm around Sasuke's leg.

"Is everything ok?" Sasuke asked with his hand in Shunsuke's hair and his eyes worriedly on Sakura. She nodded back quickly while Tsunade began rifling through her desk drawer and Sasuke and Sakura stood before her, with Sakura squeezing Sasuke's hand excitedly.

Tsunade pulled out an unmarked manila envelope and began opening it. She spread the papers out on her desk and Sasuke's eyes widened when he saw them.

Change of name forms.

Sasuke looked at Sakura in shock and she smiled back. "I've been thinking about it and you're right; I really want Shunsuke to have your last name. I've already talked to him about it, and he's pretty excited himself."

Sasuke's unblinking eyes moved slowly down to Shunsuke who grinned up at him.

Sasuke's shook his head without purpose and remained silent for a while. "Sakura…thank you." He finally breathed and she leaned up to kiss his cheek lovingly.

"Well so are we going to get this over with?" Tsunade asked with a smile. Sasuke nodded eagerly and the trio walked up to the table so that the adults could sign the forms. Sakura went first, having already looked over the papers, she immediately picked up the brush and signed her name. Sasuke walked up next and immediately picked up the brush.

"Aren't you going to read over it?" Tsunade asked in amusement at Sasuke's eagerness.

"No," he shook his head and sure enough he immediately signed his name onto the document. As the brush wrote out the characters of his name, he felt each stroke was energized with a surge of elation and eagerness. When he was finally finished, he was overwhelmed with satiated sensation that caused the palpitations of his heartbeats to feel so strangely filled that they were painful.

"So I'm Uchiha Shunsuke now?" Shunsuke asked, looking between the adults.

"That's right," Sakura grinned down at him and the child grinned back.

"Cool!"

"Thank you, Sakura," Sasuke repeated in elated shock as everything sunk in. Sakura's nose wrinkled as she smiled back.

"Oh oh, say cheese!" Shizune beamed as she pulled out a camera. Sakura sat down crisscrossed on the floor and Shunsuke went over to sit in her lap.

"Come on Papa!" Shunsuke waved Sasuke over and the older Uchiha knelt behind them. His cheek was against Sakura's and Shunsuke's head popped up below their chins. Shizune snapped the picture. Their first family picture.

"Can we go get somethin' to eat?" Shunsuke asked.

"Nooooo," Sakura shook her head immediately. "You have to go back to school and I have to go back to work."

"Just a snack?" Shunsuke pleaded.

"Look Shunsuke, it was hard enough to get Hisashi to let you go for this- you're lucky you've been doing well in his class. Now it's time for you to go back." Tsunade stated firmly, ignoring her partiality for the young child.

Shunsuke's tongue hung out the side of his mouth and he exhaled dejectedly but nodded. "Fiine."

Sakura had to return to work, so Sasuke walked Shunsuke back to the Academy.

"You excited Papa?" Shunsuke asked as he and his father walked hand and hand back to Shunsuke's school.

"You have no idea," Sasuke nodded holding the precious envelope containing his copy of the paperwork.

"So now we're halfway there to bein' the Uchiha family!"

"Halfway?" Sasuke asked before he could catch himself. He drew his lips immediately inward, but Shunsuke had already heard him.

"Mama," the young child stated simply.

"Ah, yeah…that." Sasuke nodded back in response.

"So have you thought about it more?" Shunsuke asked.

"Yeah."

"So what'd you decide?" Shunsuke asked excitedly.

"I have to talk to your mother about it first." Sasuke explained, and Shunsuke sighed, but nodded-relieved that Sasuke had reached a decision.

"Shunsuke talked to me about us getting married again today," Sasuke called out to Sakura as he leaned against Shunsuke's doorframe, watching the young child sleep. Sasuke had just finished bathing his son and almost instantaneously, Shunuke fell asleep when Sasuke began reading to him. On the nightstand of Shunsuke's bed, Shunsuke had already framed photo that the he and his parents had taken, and propped it up next to his picture with Sakura.

Sakura groaned from inside of the kitchen where she was cleaning up the remnants of dinner. "What'd you say?" She called back. The water turned off and Sakura heard her footsteps approaching as he replied.

"I told him I'd have to talk to about it. You and I."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, coming up behind him and wrapping her arm around his waist and laying her head in chest. He wrapped one of his arms around her and they both watched as Shunsuke slept.

"Well it's something I think we can mutually agree on," Sasuke shrugged, rubbing his arm up and down against Sakura and now looking at her.

"What's that?" Sakura asked. Outwardly she seemed composed, but inwardly it felt as if everything within her had been unanchored and was now swirling around in a whirlwind of chaos.

"Well it's…it's kind of a proposal for a proposal." Sasuke started hesitantly and explained when he saw the puzzled look on Sakura's face. "You know more than anything I want to marry you and spend the rest of our lives together raising Shunsuke and the additional children we'll have together. I know we can make it there, but I feel we need to invest a little more time in ourselves and our relationship before we get into marriage, not because we feel pressured into it for whatever reason. We owe it to ourselves and Shunsuke and any future children we may have together."

Sakura smiled slowly and nodded back. "I understand where you're coming from-you're right."

"Don't get rid of those wedding plans you told me about though," Sasuke added jokingly. "You'll need them later."

Sakura rolled her eyes and laughed and Sasuke turned her body so that her back was in the open way. With his hands gripping her hips, Sasuke pulled her lower body tightly against his and lowered his head to connect their lips passionately with one another's.

"Sleep over tonight?" Sakura panted as the two broke apart to stabilize their breathing. Sasuke smirked and dipped back down to kiss her.

"Do you even have to ask?"

"Fireball jutsu!….Fireball jutsu!…Fireball jutsu!"

"Did I ever thank you for teaching Shunsuke that?" Sakura deadpanned sarcastically as she and Sasuke sat on a fleece blanket spread across the prickly grass.

"Did I ever ask you where the hell he got all his chakra from?" Sasuke responded as he stared at Shunsuke with wide eyes. Sakura took another sip of her drink as Shunsuke released another fireball. The three were having a picnic in the forest and they'd just finished eating when Shunsuke had gone off near a lake to practice his jutsu. Instead of growing weaker as more and more of his chakra was used up, Shunsuke's fireballs seemed to be getting stronger, and now both Sakura and Sasuke sat on the blanket with flushed skin, slightly clammy from the heat of the fireballs.

"Shunsuke," Sakura called as her son released probably his twelfth fireball since he'd started. "Why don't you come sit down for a little while."

Sasuke had a paper fan in his hand which he used to fan both himself and Sakura. Despite the heat, they were both content with her reclining against him as he rested against the trunk of a shady tree.

"What's wrong? You guys don't like my jutsu?" Shunsuke asked sarcastically, aiming the comment more joking towards Sasuke.

"We love seeing you train, you know that." Sakura shook her head. "I think it's just time for a break, it's getting hot."

"Weeeell if Papa taught me a new jutsu then-"

"It'd just be another fire release jutsu which wouldn't solve our problem at all," Sasuke laughed.

"Nu uhn, 'cause you taught me that Shadow Shuriken technique, remember? That's not a fire release."

Sakura groaned. "Shunsuke, the three of us kicked that ball around for like an hour, and since we stopped you've been doing nothing but train. Just relax, huh?" Sakura laughed as she leaned off of Sasuke and patted the space between them.

"You could teach me that chidori thing," Shunsuke suggested after taking two steps towards the adults, then stopping. "Kakashi-sensei said I ca' prob'ly be able to learn that by now and it's not fire."

"No, but nice try though. Now come sit." Shunsuke frowned at his father but agreed with a heavy sigh and plopped down happily between the two adults. Both sighed in relief, knowing that when it came to training, Shunsuke could be insatiable.

"Mama is there still some dessert left?" Shunsuke asked, sliding his finger under the lid of the basket.

"Go ahead Shunsuke," Sakura nodded, and immediately the young child's hand darted into the basket.

"Thanks Mama," he grinned as he pulled out one of the skewers stacked with sweet dumplings.

"Y'know Mama an' Papa, you guys are actually pretty fun t' hang out with." Shunsuke complimented.

"Oh gee, thanks," Sakura rolled her eyes and laughed, she lightly pushed Shunsuke so that he fell laughing into his father.

"By the way Shunsuke," Sasuke began, "I know you've been asking about what's next for Sakura and I. We've decided: we do plan on getting married, but in time. Right now, we're gonna focus on building our relationship with each other and with you as it is currently. We're going to stay together, but marriage isn't our top priority right now, ok?"

Shunsuke remained quiet for a moment but nodded. "Yeah, ok. That's fine. I'm just happy both you guys're here now." Shunsuke shrugged, examining his stick. "You guys'll still get married though."

Sasuke and Sakura laughed, and the older man put a gentle hand on his son's head. Shunsuke grinned down at his now empty stick. For a while, the three of them stared at the random shapes in the clouds, when suddenly Sakura sighed.

"Damn…" Sakura breathed below her breath. "We've come a long way."

Sasuke nodded. "And we've got an even longer way to go."

"Yeah, you up for that?" Sakura asked joking, resting her head on Sasuke's shoulder and looking her bright, green eyes upward to him.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Sasuke smiled back, kissing the top of her head. He jabbed a finger affectionately into Shunsuke's arm causing the young boy to look up and grin at him.

"Of course I'm ready!"

"You sure?" Sakura laughed. "It's gonna be a challenge."

Shunsuke raised his brow confidently and tilted his head slightly towards the two with a look that insinuated they were unwisely underestimating him.

"Uchiha Shunsuke," Sasuke announced formally with a joking air of official to his voice. The sound of his son's new name was still immeasurably pleasing to Sasuke. "Are you ready to accept your first S-ranked mission?"

Shunsuke laughed then jumped up mimic the formal air. "Yes sir!"

"Are you sure?" Sakura warned. "It's gonna be pretty difficult."

"Trust me, I'm ready all right. We're all gonna be teammates for it, right?"

Sakura and Sasuke smiled. "Right." Sakura confirmed.

"Right." Sasuke repeated. "We'll be fine, I'm sure of it." Sakura's head still rested against him and he began stroking her arm and gave Shunsuke an affectionate wink. Shunsuke spun around and pointed to a tree a few meters away.

"Ten outta ten says we can do it!" He beamed optimistically, quickly pulling out all of his kunai. This time neither Sasuke nor Sakura gave their usual expression of exasperation. Instead, as Shunsuke effortlessly sent the kunai flying, the two of them laughed and jovially counted along as ten dull, consecutive thuds sounded through the forest.

So that's it for this story! Once again thanks for all the support you guys have shown me. I know for sure that I'm gonna do some sort of continuation on this but I'm not sure if it's gonna be a little epilogue, one shot, or a sequel later on. I'm siding with the sequel, but it might not be the next fic I write- feel free to let me know which one you'd prefer.

Also I updated a SakuKiba oneshot that popped into my head for some reason. It's called "The Pursuit of the Prey," and it'd be awesome if you guys checked it out.

Review please and THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE!

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