✔︎ Sakura's Moronic Best Friends (1/2)

Chapter 3; Bastards

Mikoto was only too happy to have Sakura stay the night and had, in fact, encouraged her to stay for the whole week. And while Sakura appreciated the offer (A/N: It was a really, really pretty house.), she honest-to-god wasn't confident in her ability not to gouge out the eyes of at least one of the perverted males currently downstairs, still bickering about sleeping arrangements. And while Sakura didn't think Mikoto would particularly care even if she did such a thing so long as it wasn't one of her sons and Sakura didn't leave bloodstains on the new carpet, she still felt it would be best to be gone by tomorrow.

Sakura had asked where Mikoto's husband, Fugaku, was, but she'd waved her off and said something about a company meeting and how he'd be gone for a few more weeks. Meaning that he wasn't around to attempt to rein in his perverted brother, Madara, from trying to get in Sakura's pants.

While the Uchiha's were known for many different things, Fugaku was a CEO of some corporation or another (A/N: Sakura could never remember which; there were just too many Uchiha CEO's around), Mikoto took charge of some of the local resorts around the area. Sakura was pretty positive that it was Mikoto, in fact, who pushed Sasuke to take her to different spa's when he and Naruto decided to kidnap her, since many of those times Sakura would run in with Mikoto while she was in the salt baths or getting a facial. Sometimes Mikoto would even give her a massage.

Sakura was a little ashamed to admit that the most she'd ever thought about marrying into the family was when Mikoto so off-handedly made a comment about how the women of the Uchiha family gave each other back rubs whenever they wanted.

The woman knew Sakura's weak spot, unfortunately.

At first, Mikoto had tried to give Sakura a bedroom on the third floor, but she'd immediately refused - politely, of course. She knew for a fact that the third floor was where the Uchiha family lived, while the second floor was mostly for guest uses. It also somewhat alarmed Sakura that the room Mikoto wanted to give her was between Itachi's and Sasuke's.

Yeah, that's wasn't happening.

Sasuke would be one thing - hell, Sakura would gladly choose living with both Sasuke and Naruto if the situation demanded it - but next to Itachi? She wouldn't be able to sleep at night unless the door was bolted shut, and even then Sakura knew the conniving bastard would still find a way in if he wanted to. Though sleeping on the second floor where no doubt the Akatsuki would be wasn't much better.

When Sakura had first met Itachi back in high school, she'd had a nice conversation with him about a medical magazine they both liked to read. Sasuke had been in a particularly emo-ish mood that day and Naruto wouldn't shut up about some new ramen flavored gum that just came out, and, frankly, Sakura had needed a break before she killed them both. So she'd walked around the Uchiha mansion, purposely getting a little lost and turned around, when she'd run into Itachi.

Of course she'd known instantly who he was; Sasuke never shut up about him when they were all younger and he was in his older brother worship stage, but by the time they'd hit middle school, an intense rivalry began between the two of them and it became an unspoken rule that Itachi's name was never to be spoken among them if it could be helped. The weird thing was that even though Sasuke would silently sulk and stew if Itachi's name ever came up in a conversation, Sakura also knew that Sasuke admired Itachi for having the backbone to go against their father when the situation demanded it, something Sasuke had trouble doing.

There was also the intense, ferocious following of fangirls Itachi had collected over the years. Itachi was only a few years older than them, so by the time she, Sasuke, and Naruto hit high school, every girl still knew of and was in love with Itachi Uchiha. He'd graduated by then, but it hadn't stopped every female friend of Sakura's to lose their minds over the older Uchiha brother.