The Agreement

For those of you who may or may not know, I’m currently visiting fellow author lL0tus. She’s currently letting me borrow her computer so I can update my story. Enjoy!

The Agreement

Chapter 18: Breaking Point


It was the first time in a long while that both Sakura and Naruto had come over together to see the quads. Naruto was over at Sasuke and Hinata's just about every day, but Sakura only stopped by every now and then to see Tenpi, Seiryuu, Kitsu, and Muchuu. In fact, most of the times that she had stopped by were to quickly get Naruto before leaving. However, she had graciously agreed to come with Naruto to Sasuke and Hinata’s for dinner, as Naruto had told her that Sasuke had invited them.

Sasuke idly wondered if Naruto had had trouble convincing Sakura that he had invited them instead of Hinata. He had a feeling Sakura might not have agreed if she thought the idea had been Hinata’s.

Sakura smiled and nodded her head to both Hinata and Sasuke as they welcomed Naruto and Sakura into their home for dinner. Muchuu crawled right over to see Naruto. Seiryuu, being more daring, got to her feet, and began to make her way over to Naruto on her feet before she lost her balance and toppled forward. Even before Hinata, Sasuke, and even Naruto, tried to help her up, she had ignored the fact that she had fallen. As she was now on her hands and knees, she decided to crawl most of the way to greet Naruto before she once again stood up, making the final few steps toward Naruto on her feet. Naruto picked up both Muchuu and Seiryuu and gave them both kisses as they snuggled into his shoulder. Sakura stiffened slightly as she watched Naruto act so affectionately with the children.

"Walking!" Seiryuu said happily. Her cute face shone proudly of with accomplishment, and she clearly expected to be held as a reward for her good "walking."

"Naato!" Tenpi gurgled from where he played with Kitsu. Kitsu looked around, and waved at "Naato" before the two of them continued to (sort of) build with the blocks before them.

"Hello Kitsu," Sakura said to the baby boy on Naruto's shoulder. He looked at her with wide eyes before burying his face protectively in Naruto's shoulder.

"Er, that's Muchuu," Naruto corrected Sakura.

"Ah," Sakura said, seeming hurt that the little boy had shied away from her.

"Don't worry," Hinata said kindly. "They do that to a lot of people. Even my father. They even do that to Sasuke sometimes," Hinata said, trying to make Sakura feel more at ease.

"Muchuu did do that to me," Sasuke admitted.

"You smelled gross though," Naruto said. Sasuke could have smacked him. Didn't Naruto see that they were trying to make his wife feel more at ease? With a look to Sakura's face, Naruto did seem to realize that, and he added hastily, "but you really should see the quads with Hiashi. Sometimes it's like they're terrified of him," Naruto said, shaking his head. Hinata laughed a little nervously, and Sasuke just shook his head. Hiashi could be quite terrifying. Sasuke glanced at Hinata who still seemed terrified of her father at times. Sasuke got the distinct feeling that the comment hadn't made Sakura feel any better either as she too seemed to realize that Hiashi wasn't always the most heart-warming person.

Hinata broke the awkward silence by offering Naruto and Sakura drinks. Naruto asked for some tea, and Sakura said she would have the same.

Sasuke watched as Sakura offered to help Hinata make the tea, the two women leaving the room. Naruto grinned widely at Sasuke as Naruto walked toward the middle of the living room, and sat down close to where Tenpi and Kitsu were playing with the blocks. Naruto set Seiryuu and Muchuu down and began to help build a big block tower for them to knock down. Sasuke smirked, always amused and amazed by how Naruto seemed to bask in his children's presence. Sitting down next to Naruto, Sasuke's smirk turned into a true smile as he enjoyed watching Naruto and Naruto's children – and his children – acting like a family.

"That's a horrible Hokage Monument, dobe," Sasuke said as he looked at the pile of blocks Naruto had dubbed to the children as the Hokage Monument, explaining to the children (who probably couldn't understand most of what he said) about the five Hokages of Konoha.

"Like you could do better with just blocks!" Naruto said, flashing a challenging grin at Sasuke. Sasuke merely raised his eyebrow before stretching out on the floor and lazily told the quads to knock down the tower. They all squealed happily and did so. Naruto all but scowled at Sasuke as Sasuke began to start building something of his own from the pile of knocked down blocks from Naruto's Hokage Monument.

Sasuke rebuilt his own version of the Hokage Monument with six Hokage faces in his "mountain."

"And this sixth one here is Naato," Sasuke said, pointing to the farthest pile of blocks on the end where the Rokudaime Hokage's face was sure to be carved in Konoha's own mountain. Naruto looked surprised at Sasuke's comment. Naruto made eye contact with Sasuke, neither of them moving from where they sat as the quads happily and noisily knocked down the blocks.

"Sasuke," Naruto murmured, before rubbing the back of his head slightly embarrassed, but mostly appreciatively. Sasuke was still always amazed at how often he seemed to be able to take Naruto by surprise with his comments. Naruto had always struck him as being extremely confident about his ambitions, never one to leave anyone in any doubt that he would become strong or that he would become Hokage.

The fact that Naruto seemed to cherish whenever Sasuke took the time to praise him, that Naruto truly cared what Sasuke thought, helped support Sasuke's theory that he and he alone affected Naruto in ways that no one else could. Naruto weighed Sasuke's opinion higher than anyone else's. Sasuke was also sure that Naruto cherished his compliments more than anyone else's.

Yelling from the kitchen made Sasuke and Naruto break their eye contact.

"You have been sleeping with my husband, and those little brats are proof!" Sakura yelled as Hinata backed out of the kitchen. Sakura held the tray of tea and teacups as Hinata carried out a tray of food.

"S-Sakura-chan, I-"

"Don't you call me Sakura-chan like you were my friend!" Sakura yelled angrily throwing the tea tray to the floor, the ceramics shattering. The noise made the quads jump, and Kitsu began to cry at the noise. Sasuke put his hand on his son’s shoulder and rubbed his back, soothing him from the shock of the noise.

"Sakura!" Naruto said sharply from where he was. He sat up, his face both angry and disbelieving. Sakura didn't bother to turn to look at Naruto.

Sasuke slowly propped himself up to a sitting position too as he stared angrily at Sakura.

"I-I've n-never s-slept with N-Naruto-ku-"

"Liar!" Sakura yelled as she back handed Hinata across the face. Hinata cried out as she fell to the floor, landing heavily. Monstrous strength had been put behind the blow, obvious by the heavy sound of the thud as Hinata had landed. Hinata didn't bother to move as she laid on the floor, not looking at Sakura who stared down at her in rage. Sasuke was off the floor in a flash, and gripped Sakura's wrist so hard that he knew he would have snapped it if she weren't a shinobi. He was beyond outraged at Sakura’s action, and he knew that poor, sweet Hinata probably felt like she had deserved it since the children really were Naruto’s. He wasn’t going to let Sakura treat Hinata like that though. Everything was Sasuke’s doing, and a part of him wanted to fight with Sakura.

"How dare you?" Sasuke hissed out, his sharingan glowing red. He had lost any inch of respect or sympathy he might have once had for Sakura.

"What the hell is your problem Sasuke? Can't you see that those kids are Naruto's and Hinata's and not yours? They're sleeping together, and you stand there like nothing-"

"I said how dare you, bitch!" Sasuke said as a feral rage filled him, his fist coming back ready to slam into Sakura's face.

"Don't," Hinata said meekly from the ground, as tears filled her eyes, and Sasuke's fist stopped mid punch. He wanted so badly to smack Sakura to her senses, but Hinata had asked him not to, and he also became aware of the fact that if Naruto saw him hit his wife, Naruto would not look kindly upon it.

"Hinata," Naruto said worriedly, having scooted over from playing with the kids to help Hinata get back to her feet. He grasped her waist and helped her to stand up. "Are you okay?" Naruto asked, looking at Hinata's face, thankful that Sakura had merely grazed her, but anyone could tell that Sakura had put her monstrous strength behind the gesture; Hinata's face was already swollen terribly.

"If Hinata and Naruto say that they haven't slept together, shouldn't that be enough for you?" Sasuke demanded as Sakura wrenched her wrist free from his crushing grip. Sakura took in the scene before her as she saw Sasuke glaring at her, with Naruto standing next to Hinata as he tended to her face. She looked at them in disgust.

"Look Sasuke, he's helping her right now!" Sakura choked out. Naruto's head snapped around to look at Sakura, confusion and hurt etched into his beautiful face, and Sasuke half wanted to step between them so that Naruto wouldn't have to look at the woman causing him needless pain.

"Sakura, Hinata and I never did anything like that. Hinata was telling you the truth. I would never cheat on you Sakura, and Hinata would never cheat on Sasuke. You know that," Naruto said as a single tear rolled down his face, clearly not understanding why Sakura was so mad at all of them.

"Bitch!" Seiryuu squealed happily, pointing her cute baby finger at Sakura in delight, her blue eyes sparkling as always, extremely proud of herself for being able to repeat her father's word from earlier. Sakura's face contorted in fury as she raised her fist in anger -

- but she never got the chance to even move a millimeter as a punch to her face knocked her clear across the room.

Sakura skidded across the floor, looking mortified at the owner of the fist that had slammed into her, her eyes wide and astonished. Naruto stood above her, his face contorted into fury at Sakura's actions, his hand balled into a fist.

"A baby, Sakura. A baby. A baby that doesn't even realize what she's saying," Naruto hissed, clenching the fist that he had hit Sakura with into a tighter ball, his body shaking in rage. "What's gotten into you?" Naruto demanded, searching Sakura's eyes as he picked up Seiryuu and held her close. Sasuke and Hinata stared at Naruto in utter shock. Sasuke had been prepared to move, but Naruto had beaten him to it. Never would Sasuke have ever thought that Naruto would hit Sakura for any reason.

Sakura looked somewhat regretful, though when Naruto picked up Seiryuu, something inside Sakura seemed to snap her out of her momentary shock and remorse.

"Not a baby Naruto. Yours and Hinata's bastard child," Sakura said through clenched teeth as she picked herself off the floor and stormed out of the Hyuuga complex. Naruto stood there, holding Seiryuu close to him as Seiryuu giggled and gurgled happily in his arms, completely unaware of the tension in the room. The other three tykes began to scoot across the floor towards Naruto, holding their arms out for hugs too. Naruto sat down on the floor, placing Seiryuu on his lap, allowing Muchuu, Tenpi, and Kitsu all to climb on him.

Sasuke just glanced over at Hinata, who stood openmouthed. Sasuke turned his face back towards Naruto, both of them just staring at him, and Sasuke noticed how lost Naruto looked as he held Seiryuu close to him.

"I could have stopped Sakura without hitting her," Naruto said quietly as though talking to himself and not to the other two people staring at him in the room. Naruto tenderly kissed the top of Seiryuu's head. "I was just so mad at her. How could she take her anger out on one of these little angels?" Naruto asked, tickling one of Tenpi's feet affectionately. "I'm sorry for my wife's actions," Naruto said quietly after a full three minutes of silence, Hinata and Sasuke just watching Naruto as he played with the children. He began to slowly disentangle them from him, encouraging them to play with each other as he stood up.

"Naruto-" Sasuke began.

"I need to go," Naruto said, cutting him off. "I shouldn't have hit her," Naruto said as he rushed out of the Hyuuga complex after Sakura. Sasuke felt lost at what had just taken place.

"We should put the kids to bed," Hinata said quietly, not looking at Sasuke.

"Hn, and after that I'll take a look at your face," Sasuke murmured. Hinata gave him a strange look before realizing that he was talking about Sakura hitting her. Her dazed look proved that Sasuke wasn't the only one who's entire mind had gone blank when Naruto hit Sakura. Sasuke picked up Tenpi and Muchuu as Hinata picked up Kitsu and Seiryuu, both of them heading upstairs to tuck the quadruplets in for the night.


Next Chapter: The Truth At Last


I wrote this scene well over a year ago. It feels so good to finally post it. Much love! ~ Jelp