Do It Secretly Like a Ninja

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Rating ranges from K to T. T for safety.

Flashback Chapter One:

Sakura's First Word Sasuke

My First Distinct Memory…

The Day…

…We first met…

And that the first thing I learned to say…

Was his name.

It was a bright and sunny day in Konoha when-

No, no. That's not how I want to explain the story. Hmm…Oh, I've got it!

Thy red string that tied Team 7 together…Will now be in effect.

Thy Uchiha's mother smiled down at her current son, the one that is a missing nin. The one that is Orochimaru's apprentice. The one that is-

No. Her son. The one that was always the same no matter how he'd appear.

The one that would hug her or ask her to make some dishes that contained many of those tomatoes he liked. The one that cared so much for…

…Haruno Sakura…

Eh. I guess that's good.

Thump. Tap. Thump.

Sakura moved the doll up and down as she stared blankly at it. She frowned disapprovingly and threw it against the wall, a part that the actual human body certainly needed popped off of it.

Her father winced as he looked down at the doll's head that 'coincidently' rolled over to him. He certainly knows who she inherited from.

His wife.

"Come on, hime, you know very well that your mother wants to go out today." The Haruno man knew how much she hated going out. I guess she inherited that from him.

"Dear! Sakura-chan! Come on! We're going to be late!"

Mr. Sano Haruno sighed as he scratched the back of his head. 'I think it'd be better that way.'

A few minutes later, he was tugging Sakura who was refusing to get off the floor.

"MIKOTO-CHAN!"

"SAKI-CHAN!"

They hugged each other as if they haven't seen each other for decades. As if a wall had been separating them and they were finally able to see each other. But none of that happened. They could've freely done it whenever. But noooo, the whole family had to be there-

Oh, hey. Both husbands had the same thoughts.

Communicating through their eyes they had agreed to go off somewhere to have coffee or something. Their wives giggled and said something along the lines of, "Man to man talking".

Mikoto, the Uchiha matriarch, bent down to Sakura. She squealed, despite her age, and pinched the pink haired girl's cheeks. "Is this your daughter, Saki-chan? She's so adorable!"

Sakura said nothing, but to show discomfort, her right eye was twitching. "Uhn…"

Itachi sweat dropped in the background as he watched his mother do the 'usual treatment' that she would usually do to him or Sasuke. With the squeals and the pinching of the cheeks and the…Yeah. At the same time, Sasuke raised an eyebrow as he watched his mother hug the girl who still said nothing in reply.

"My, the quiet type, isn't she?" Mikoto commented as she put both hands on her cheeks and tilted her head to the side. "Quite the opposite of you, ne, Saki-chan?"

The said woman smiled in reply. But let's not leave out the part that it wasn't a happy one.

"She's…been like that." The Uchiha woman did not like that pause. It was very unlike Haruno Saki, her best friend.

"Hm. Okay. Well, let's talk and leave the children to play." After she goaded Saki to turn around and walk towards a kitchen, she sent a wink to her sons. The sly woman turned around then mouthed,

Go. In. The. Garden. And. Get. Her. To. Walk? Is that what she said?…Oh. Talk. Okay.

Sometimes, the Uchiha siblings wondered how they can read their mother's lips. Maybe it was a sign that they surely had Sharingan in them. Maybe it was because they were so smart and- Okay, you guys, give yourself a pat on the back and stop bragging.

The three children- Well, two children and one preteen were left alone by their parents. Itachi, being the oldest, was very uncomfortable by the uneasy silence.

Especially that blank staring that…What was her name again? Oh yeah. Sakura. Yeah, the blank staring Sakura was doing.

It was…breaking him into spilling everything out.

'So this was the famous Haruno thing Okaa-san was talking about.' Itachi thought as he shivered. 'The thing with their weird staring into telling you things you don't want to say.' He definitely didn't want his secret of hiding a stuffed dog named Daisy under his pillow that he always hugs before a mission- Crap. Well, at least he didn't say it out loud. What would his little brother think of him then?

"Uh. Would you like to see the koi fish?" The older Uchiha covered up as he watched the girl's emerald eyes widen. He inwardly let out a sigh of relief and took this as a yes.

And so the three children- I mean, the two children and one preteen sat around the pond and stared at the water in another uncomfortable silence.

"So, Sakura…" The older Uchiha tried to attempt a conversation but saw that he failed miserably when she didn't even look up. He sighed and glanced at his younger brother for some back up.

"Uhm…Uh…" He waved his hands. "Uhh…So…Do you like fish?"

The girl stopped sticking her finger in the water and nodded. But she still didn't look at him. Itachi raised an eyebrow. 'Keep going, Sasuke…'

"Uh…Uhm…" Sasuke looked at Itachi. "Y-you wanna play ball?"

Sakura's eyebrows shot up and she nodded vigorously, earning a smirk from Itachi and a sigh of relief from Sasuke. And thus began a long game of uh…catch, they guessed. And also a quite long, but funny, argument between the brothers.

"Aniki, stop throwing the ball so hard!"

"I'm not throwing it hard. You're just weak."

"I am not! You're throwing it too hard!"

"I am not."

"I think you're cheating."

"Just because you keep missing the ball doesn't mean I'm cheating."

"Yeah, well, I think you are." The younger one 'hmphed' as he crossed his arms.

"Yes, well, I think you think wrong." The older one retorted as he crossed his arms and conjured up a glare that matched his brothers. He quietly thought if the sentence he just replied with even made sense.

"I bet you don't even think!"

Oh, that's it. His little brother just 'dissed' him...Payback time, now, foolish little brother.

"Well, if that's the case, I'm guessing you are just trying to impress Sakura-chan over here."

"ANIKI!" The younger one hissed as his face turned a bright red. Itachi decided to push him a little more. So, he teased him by saying:

"Is Sasuke-chan embarrassed?"

"ANIKI-"

Quiet giggling soon started, causing the two to stop they're little arguing.

"Eh?" Sasuke gasped as girl hugged him and squealed,

"Sasuke-kun!"

Itachi's mouth went into an 'o' and was about to say something until suddenly…

"DID I HERE MY BABY JUST UTTER HER FIRST WOOOOOORD?!"

Her pink haired mother burst through the shoji screen door like one of those super heroes that come out of nowhere. Itachi sweat dropped when he saw his mother still sitting on a cushion sipping tea in the room Sakura's mother had come from.. She then looked at him and grinned.

"I'll get the camera."

Snap!

And so this memory is kept in both the Haruno and Uchiha household's photo book. A picture of smiling Sakura hugging a blushing Sasuke, a sweat drop from Itachi, an Inner Saki coming out, and a giggling Mikoto. And both have the same thing written on the bottom of the picture.

Sakura's First Word- Sasuke-kun

And which also began, what the two women both thought, a beautiful relationship.

Hm. But where were the father's?

They both sneezed simultaneously. Fugaku sighed and shook his head. "Where's a maid when you need someone to do dusting?"

Author's Note: Soo? What do you think? It's rather short but I promise the other chapters will be a little longer. You can think of this as an anthology or a regular story. This is not an AU story. More chapters to come! Here's the preview of the next chapter:

Sasuke's Piggy Bank

"Saving money to buy Sakura a birthday gift, eh?" Itachi said as he sighed. "Nice thought, but I wonder if he realizes that Sakura's birthday is still 3 months away."