𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐄 | sasuke uchiha

55

"Good morning, Sakura. Hello there, Sarada! How are you?"

The next morning, Madara and Akinobu arrived unannounced on [Name] and Sasuke's doorstep, greeting a frowning Sakura as she answered the door with her daughter in tow.

"Oh, Madara-sama. Good morning." 

The pinkette bowed to the clan leader as Sarada hid behind her, clutching onto her mother's skirt and peering curiously at the two men before her. In the front yard behind the two leaders, lower ranked clan members were gathered around, waiting for the instructions to begin carting [Name]'s things off to Madara's house.

"[Name] and Sasuke must still be here, right?" asked Madara coyly, glancing over Sakura's shoulder to get a better look at the inside of their home.

"I-I am unsure, Madara-sama."

"Please, let us in."

Without hesitation, Madara slid the door fully open and then pushed past Sakura, headed straight towards the master bedroom.

"[Name]! We're here to collect your things!"

He heard the sound of scuffling as he approached the pair's bedroom, before the door was flung open and a very aggravated looking [Name] and Sasuke were revealed. Both were ready and dressed for their usual days of training, albeit much more frazzled and agitated than usual.

"[Name] is not leaving," spat the Uchiha, holding out an arm as if to shield his wife from Madara's clutches. "She's staying here, with me."

Madara sighed and shook his head, looking over his shoulder at Akinobu as he joined the leader's side.

"What's the hold up?" asked Akinobu, eyebrow raised as he stood beside Madara.

"Oji-sama, I told you! I am not deserting Sasuke in favour of marriage with Madara-sama!" exclaimed the hotheaded Kouhage furiously, glaring at Akinobu. "A marriage with another one of our girls would suffice if this whole alliance is something you want to continue! Junko! Ayaka! Tomomi! Any of them! Hell, why not even Mai? If my mother and father have adopted her as their own now, surely we have the same rank? Being married to Mai would be no different to being married to me?!"

"I have already explained this to you before, [Name]. I will not repeat myself."

"You can't seriously be expecting [Name] to abandon the life she made for herself here," said Sasuke, aghast at the logic of the two leaders before them. "No one is taking my wife away from me!"

Truth be told, Akinobu and Madara were the reason why [Name] and Sasuke had ended up married in the first place; now, quite fittingly, they were the reason why the couple were having to split up.

"I'm getting tired of your resistance," snapped Akinobu, glaring at Sasuke before turning back to Madara in irriation. "Either you see to it that this boy is punished, or you can consider this plan void!"

"Now, now, there's no need to-"

"Go ahead and cancel your idiotic plan!" yelled Sasuke angrily, shoving [Name] behind him as he defended her against the two leaders. "Go on! See if we care! Both of you can go to hell with your fucking plan!"

"Sasuke!" scolded Madara, shooting his nephew a warning look as the impatience on Akinobu's face grew more and more visible by the second. "How dare you speak to your elders like that!"

"Madara-san, if you don't get control of this boy, I'll-"

As Akinobu stepped forward to push past Sasuke and get to [Name], the raven deftly grabbed the Kouhage's hand and crushed it in his grip, before shoving the old man backwards as he howled in pain, clutching at his pained hand.