Cherry blossoms

1

Sakura and naruto were both looking skeptically at sasuke.
He did look like sasuke, in every aspect.
Except for his arms.
"So, you apparently remember everything except you are married to hinata?" Sakura retorted.
"Yes...naruto and hinata are supposed to be married and they have boruto and Himawari" sasuke said.
"And you and i are married..and having sarada?" Sakura said
"Hm" sasuke nodded.
"So apparently, you are married to me, according to what you say..., so you technically love me there, right?" Sakura asked.
Sasuke rubbed his temple, after such question has taken him aback.
Sasuke decided to refrain from answering.
But why? Why was it hard to answer such question.
Is it denial? He never thought of such word 'love'.
Did he actually loved sakura? Or it was just...mere acquaintance.
Did he marry her out of love? Or just, to revive his clan and make naruto happy.
Naruto eyed sasuke who had his eyes closed.
"How is that suppose to happen, i mean...its.." naruto lost his words.
"Naruto, you remember you sent me to a mission to the land of mists, after you heard some of the otsutsuki are looking for me, so i left...for eleven years!" Sasuke said.
"Eleven years!!!!!" Naruto whined loudly.
"Sasuke, you never left for eleven years, the longest mission you went on was for three months, you missed the twins birth, and you were so upset, so you didn't want to miss this birth...and you made sure not to go on long missions anymore!" Naruto continued.
Sasuke's eyes widened.
The sasuke they are speaking of, never had his arms lost, never left home, is married to hinata.
His train of thoughts were cut when ino and shikamaru knocked and entered.
Ino checked his memory, and they were sitting discussing the event.

"Tadaimaaaaa" Himawari said as she entered her house.
"Okairi...Hima chan"  hinata greeted her daughter as she was giving the twins a shower.
"Oi, hinata san" boruto greeted.
Hinata was sitting on the bathtub edge, washing the children, himawari and boruto entered the bathroom.
Hinata turned around and leaned to kiss himawari and boruto.
"Hima..nee chan" Daisuke and Hiroto greeted their elder sister.
"Hima nee chan, see the new move i learned" Hiroto said as he held his breath, took a dive inside the bathtub and then came out.
Himawari clapped for him.
"Thats so great Hiroto..." boruto smiled and clapped as well.
"Hiroto is now such a big boy...ne..." hinata smiled at her son.
He had a special treatment.
"Daisuke nii san taught me..." Hiroto said as Daisuke hugged his brother.
"Oka-chan..." Himawari said as her mother washed off her children, wrapped them around a towel and held them up, to dress them.
"Hai..." she walked inside her room, and started drying them off.
"Oto san is back" himawari said as she was looking down.
Hinata tilted her head a little, and raised an eye brow.
"Oto chan wants to see you..hinata san" boruto said.
Hinata stood up. She slightly held her stomach as she felt her baby kicking her hard.
She held the pain wince.
"Is...is he okay..." hinata asked as she was scared to hear what was about to come.
Himawari looked at her distressed mother.
"No no oka  chan, he is fine...just..a little different!" Himawari said.
Hinata was puzzled.
"How is he different?" Hinata asked
"I guess you need to come and see for yourself...hinata san" boruto said.
"Okay..." hinata sighed.
"Take care of the twins..." hinata told the butler.
"Hai, uchiha dono" the butler answered.
Hinata took off.

Hinata entered  naruto's office.
Everyone head's turned towards the indigo haired girl.
Sasuke's eyes widened at the sight.
It was hinata, the same hinata, but her hair was so much longer.
Waist long, she was slightly chubby, she had a big bump, showing she was around seven or eight month pregnant.
Hinata looked at sasuke.
"Sit down hinata.." naruto said.
Hinata made her way to the couch and sat down.
"I guess himawari told you, right?" Naruto asked.
Hinata nodded, keeping an eye on the uchiha.
He was the same sasuke, in every aspect.
Except he had one arm, and he is insisting that he is not married to hinata.
"After interrogation  and ino checking his mind, we confirmed he is not an imposter...except of few things.." naruto said.
"I guess, this sasuke is from different timeline, our sasuke is yet to be found..." shikamaru retorted.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Hinata kept her gaze on sasuke.
A gaze sasuke felt somehow taken aback from.
He never encountered such gazing like this one.
Even sakura's gaze seemed to be different from hinata's.
Hinata's gaze made him slightly 'uncomfortable'.
In a good way or a bad way? It doesn't even matter.
For her gaze made him feel something.
A thing, that he never felt before.
An emotion, he never thought he had it now, or even before.
Even sarada's gaze and eyes when she sulked made him almost sad..but yet, he seemed to dismiss it as if it was nothing.
But her gaze...seemed hard to be dismissed.
It was longing...it was missing...it was confusion, but above all...love.
Sasuke felt his stomach turn.
Though he was hungry, yet, this inside feeling.
Sasuke held his tummy.
Hinata instantly knew, he was going to throw up.
In the end, she knows sasuke quiet well.
When he is confused or in pain, he throws up.
Hinata stood up quickly, she placed her hands over his mouth, and suddenly grabbed him, and pulled him inside the bathroom.
Sasuke was taken aback by such act.
Never ever sakura did so. Or even knew what he was going through, but this hinata did.
Sasuke remembers that he never interacted with the hyuga, the only thing he knew was she was so in love with his best friend, until he finally acknowledged her.
He also knew she tried to defeat pain for him, ended up being beaten to death.
He never ever gave an importance to her feelings.
But now he knew how hinata's love towards the blond was genuine.
If this hinata was able to understand sasuke...then hinata from his time did understand naruto.
A feeling he never encountered with sakura.
'Understanding'.
Sasuke was even more confused.
How such a small, mere act could send his mind to confusion.
However, he emptied his stomach, as hinata was patting his back, and holding his long bangs away from his face.
After sasuke finished vomiting.
Hinata got a piece of cloth, and started wiping his mouth with, gave him a cup of water and gargle.
Sasuke looked at her puzzled, but then she smiled at him, assuring that its fine.
Sasuke took the cup of water and drank.
Hinata placed her palms over sasuke's temple.
"I think you have the fever...as usual, this time of the year" she smiled.
She dug her hands inside her pocket, took out a pill, and gave it to him.
"I always keep that for you" she smiled and handed him the pill.
As she turned to wash the cloth.
Sasuke said.
"I am not him" he said, though his words seemed distant, yet sasuke said it with a sad tone.
Why was he sad? Is it because he pity the hyuga? Or he is sad that he, this sasuke is missing a whole lot of affection? Or does he envy the other sasuke he got someone who actually knows him quiet well and understands him like the back of his hands.
A feeling he never felt before.
Something wasn't he acquainted to.
And for some reasons, he felt guilty.
Guilty he had all these feelings, guilty as he felt that he wasn't suppose to feel that way towards hinata.
As hinata is naruto's wife...supposing, and he also had a wife and a daughter.
His train of thoughts were cut when she turned and looked down, smiled a broken one then she raised her eyes.
"I know..." she said as she turned back around.
"I can see the way you look at me" she said.
Sasuke, for the first time in his life...never thought that words could actually kill him.
And her words did.