Title: Rainy Days
Author: mitsuki0tennyo (Mitsukino Tennyo)
Fandom: Naruto (SasuSaku_month 2011, Prompt: Umbrella)
Pairing: SasuSaku (Uchiha Sasuke x Haruno Sakura)
Rating: K+
Genre(s): Romance, Family, Friendship, Humor
Word Count: 761
Summary: At the age 10, neither of them understood the significance when Itachi remarked they were a cute couple when they were sharing a umbrella. Years later and happily married, when Sasuke and Sakura pick up their daughter from her kendo class up they still did understand the significance although Hino does.
It all started with a comment his brother had made when Sasuke had come to pick up Sakura (and Itachi whom had invited himself because of the storm) from the hospital before picking up their daughter from kendo practice, but Sasuke and Sakura knew that statement would be enough to make their daughter curious. Hino was their daughter after all and they had been too curious for their own goods when they were seven. Sometimes Sasuke really hated it that Itachi left the emergency medicine for the disability and physical rehabilitation field. Itachi had switched specialties after the car accident, where Itachi and several other of his friends had come out relatively unharmed, Nagato though had lost the ability to use both legs. However the switching specialties meant that his brother… now worked in the very same hospital as his wife did. So when Sasuke and Sakura waited for Hino to come exit the dojo while sharing an umbrella, Itachi just had to make a comment on that before he got out of the car. So here there were waiting for their daughter to speak up as they drove home.
“Mom,” a small voice spoke up from the backseat of the car.
Ah there it was. “Hmm, yes sweetie?”
“What was uncle Tachi talking about?”
“That’s a story from when your father and I were your age, Hino.” Sakura turned in her seat, so she could see the girl. “About us and Kaeru-chan.”
“… Kaeru-chan?” Hino fell silent as mother began to weave her tale. About an umbrella that had changed their lives.
It rained more this week then it had in twenty years. Sasuke stared at Kaeru-chan, a green frog umbrella in his hands. Naruto had given him Kaeru-chan on his seventh birthday, it had been fun as a seven year old but as a ten year not so much. It just happened that Kaeru-chan was the only umbrella left in the Uchiha home. He sighed, grabbed the umbrella and went to the park.
Walking through the empty streets toward the park to pick up the person he had left there 15 minutes ago when he left to get another umbrella after older kids had stolen theirs.
“Sasuke-kun!”
From the entrance of the park, Sasuke saw the pinkette standing under a tree trying to stay dry but failing miserably. Haruno Sakura looked like a soaked cat.
He walked towards Sakura, who stared at the umbrella. “Sasuke-kun is that Kaeru-chan?”
“Ah,” Sasuke stared at his feet. “it was only umbrella left in the house.”
“I think you look cute, Sasuke-kun.”
They walked in a comfortable silence towards their street. When they reached Sakura’s front door they couldn’t help but stare at the other. Moving quickly Sakura, Sasuke pecked him on the cheek, whispering a quick ‘thank you‘ in his ear before disappearing inside. Sasuke didn’t know long he kept staring at nothing in particular, one of his hands rising to touch the spot Sakura had kissed, a million thoughts running through his head. What the two friends hadn’t realized was that certain person had seen the entire thing. Sasuke was shaken from his musing by familiar voice whispering in his ear.
“So ever since your father and I shared that umbrella, your uncle never fails to remind of us of the mystical green frog umbrella called Kaeru-chan.”
The car finally came to a stop and the family stepped out. Walking towards the car Hino asked the question she wanted to ask ever since the story started.
Sasuke moved towards the closet and grabbed something before presenting it to the purple haired girl.
“Is that…?” Hino stared the object on her father’s hands.
Sasuke nodded and a rare smile graced his face. “Yes it is.”
“Kaeru-chan.” Hino couldn’t help but blink, not believing the umbrella was really there.
Sakura took her place next to her husband, a smile on her face. “It’s for you.”
Hino stared at the umbrella her parents passed on to her. A large smile appearing on her face. “I’m gonna marry Yamanaka Takumi!”
Uchiha Hino ignored the cries of her parents when she ran out of the house so she could share an umbrella with Takumi-kun, hoping that Kaeru-chan would do the same for her as it did for her parents.
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