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Post-Post Traumatic: 10 Years Later, Happily Ever After 5-6

Post-Post Traumatic [fanfiction] NaruSasu (in progress)

A series of “drabbles” following the events of Post Traumatic.

Previous Parts

10 Years Later, Happily Ever After

Parts 1-2

Parts 3-4

Parts 5-6 under the cut

- 5 -

The plan was carried out with mathematical precision. Sakura and Chouji were the decoys. Shikamaru caught Getsuko’s shadow long enough for Naruto and I to perform a modified seal, binding her to the earth. Ino performed her Mind Body Switch Technique, her body trapped in Shikamaru’s jutsu as Getsuko awoke in it.

“Getsuko,” Hanabi said.

Ino’s head tilted to the side as she stared at her, unspeaking.

“Come on,” I said, pulling Naruto away.

He looked confused.

“Leave this to Hyuuga,” I said, taking him to Getsuko’s body.

“I don’t know how long I can stay in here,” Ino said, voice strained. “This chakra…”

“Hold on, baby,” Sakura said gently, taking her hand through the twisting tree roots that held her to the earth.

The sun was slowly making its way to the top of the sky. The battle had already been going for a day, and everyone was exhausted.

“I should go over there-” Naruto tried to say, watching the exchange between Hanabi and Getsuko.

“Leave it to Hyuuga,” I repeated, pulling him close and forcing him to rest. I pushed chakra into his back, rubbing it in with soothing strokes.

He kissed my collarbone, his own chakra tingling through my skin. “Do you think Getsuko will be okay?”

“Of course,” I lied.

I felt his body relax into mine, going into that sleep-like state he had mastered that helped him rest but also let him leap back into action at a moment’s notice.

Sakura cast me a nervous look. I could see Ino struggling beside her, her face covered in perspiration. “If this goes wrong…” Sakura said softly.

We enveloped Sakura between us while Naruto reached to pile his hand on top of Sakura’s and Ino’s.

“She’s coming back!” Chouji shouted, which was all the notice we got before Ino’s body shook violently and seemed to collapse despite the roots supporting her.

Sakura and Naruto kept holding her hand.

“Getsuko?” Naruto said.

Getsuko slowly opened her eyes. She looked at each one of us carefully, then closed her eyes again. “She’s here, too,” she said, a voice straining through the vocal cords that weren’t her own.

Hanabi and Kakashi were approaching.

Getsuko sighed, shrugging off the roots holding her shackled.

The three of us drew up, ready for a fight.

“We’ve reached a truce!” Hanabi called, still at a distance.

Getsuko shrugged.

“Damn, Naruto, Hanabi outtalked you,” Sakura said.

I let out an exhale of air.

Naruto elbowed me.

“But you’re not Getsuko,” Sakura said, watching as the girl brushed the sand from her clothes.

“I told you, she is also here.”

The three of us exchanged looks. This Getsuko/Kaguya hybrid was creepy as fuck.

“So you’ll hold to the terms that we agreed on?” Hanabi asked as she glided up beside us.

Getsuko shrugged.

“How’s Ino?” Sakura murmured to Kakashi.

“Fine,” he said. “Chouji and Shikamaru are with her.”

Sakura nodded.

“What were the terms?” I asked.

“She’ll stop fighting us if we stop fighting her,” Hanabi said.

“Does she want to take over the world again?” Naruto asked, eyeing her suspiciously.

“I never wanted to take over the world, I just wanted to make it right,” Getsuko said. “Anyway, I’ve enjoyed the last twenty years watching the world through this girl’s eyes. I’d like to continue watching.”

“Can we talk to Getsuko?” Naruto asked.

“Maybe someday.”

“I’ll be taking responsibility for her,” Hanabi said. “She’ll continue living in the Hyuuga compound.”

No one felt resolved as Hanabi and Kakashi took Getsuko back to Konoha.

“What did this battle even mean?” Naruto asked quietly.

“Hanabi has a plan to seal Kaguya’s consciousness into Getsuko like a jinchuuriki seal,” I said.

“What?! When did this happen?!” Naruto cried.

“She and I worked everything out.”

“But are you sure that will even work?” Sakura asked.

“No.”

Naruto flailed around.

“Anyway, she’s not fighting us for now,” I said.

“I should go back to Konoha,” Naruto said, shaking his head.

“Leave it to Hanabi.”

“Why do you keep saying that?!”

“It’s good practice for her.”

“Practice for what?!”

“She’ll make a good hokage.”

“Oh HO!” Naruto declared. “So that’s what this has all been about.”

Naruto didn’t get his chance to complain as all the other ninjas started gathering around, and explanations had to be given. Gaara arranged for a kage summit in Suna, so Sakura and Ino decided to temporarily stay with us until the meeting was over.

“Is your mom okay with the kids?” Naruto murmured as we walked back.

“Yeah, of course,” Sakura said. “They miss you.”

“I miss them, too.”

I sent word ahead to Taka that they could come back home from the Kazekage’s where they’d been waiting out the disaster. We still beat them to the house.

“Where are we going to put all these people?” I muttered, moving through the bedrooms.

We ended up moving the little kids into our room, so Ino and Sakura could sleep downstairs, and Naruto begged and pleaded with Ao to share a room with Mari so Suigetsu and Karin had a place to sleep. Then B and the brats showed up, which took more negotiation.

Naruto and I ended up with four kids in our bed. Naruto was content to be pig-piled, while I longed for personal space.

“Why are there so damn many Y-chromosomes in my house?” I complained as I went down the stairs the next morning.

“Misogynist pig,” Ino said, giving me a good-natured smile.

“Glad to see you’re in the kitchen where you belong.”

Ino flipped me off while flipping pancakes.

“Good morning, love, you’re up early,” Naruto said, looping his arm around my waist and kissing my cheek.

“Hard to sleep,” I muttered.

“Poor baby.”

“Shut up and die.”

“You still talk to Naruto like that?” Kurumi asked, clucking her tongue.

“All the time,” Mari informed her.

“He knows that I mostly don’t mean it,” I said, glowering at them as I sat down.

“He does mean it,” Naruto said glumly.

“Say something nice to him, ya jerk,” Ino said.

“Yeah,” Sakura agreed.

“Yeah,” all the other girls agreed.

“Y-chromosomes,” I muttered.

I got kicked for that one, and I didn’t even know who it was.

“Say something nice to your partner,” Sakura said. The ‘or else’ was implied.

I caught Naruto’s arm, pulling him down to eye-level. I leaned in and whispered in his ear.

His lips slowly rose in a smile. He turned to face me, touching our foreheads together before moving over to the coffee maker.

Sakura, Ino, and Mari all looked like they’d just seen two baby animals hugging or something equally ridiculous.

“What’d you say?!” Ao demanded.

“None of your business,” I said. If I was going to say something nice, it was for Naruto’s ears only.

“What’d he say?!” she said, turning to Naruto.

“Something nice,” he said, and went back to humming while he fixed the coffee.

“Damn, Sasuke, you’re smooth,” Ino said with a snort.

“You should try it sometime, Ino-pig,” Sakura said.

Naruto made the most hilarious ‘I can’t believe she just said that but I love it’ face.

I gave him a half-smile, and he smiled back.

“Tch,” Ino said, turning off the stove. “Where is everyone supposed to eat?” she asked, eyeing the crowded table where the kids were already chowing down on pancakes. Most of B’s team had yet to make an appearance, nor had Karin and Suigetsu, and Sakura was sitting in Naruto’s chair.

“We can share,” Kanon said, grinning at Ino and scooting over in her chair.

“Thank you,” Ino said, clearly getting sucked in by Kanon’s charm.

“What about me?” Naruto asked, passing out coffees.

“Oh, dear,” Kanon said, looking around the table. All the other kids were too busy stuffing their faces to stop and think about their teacher. She turned to me and stage whispered, “Naruto-sensei’s gonna feel bad if you don’t let him sit with you.”

“We’re too big to share a chair,” I replied.

“But you like sittin’ on his lap!” she said.

“Since when?” I tried to protest.

“You do like that,” Naruto said, grinning.

“Sit on the floor,” I told him.

“Booooo,” Sakura said.

“So mean,” Mari complained.

“Spousal abuse,” Ino contributed.

“When are you leaving again?” I asked.

“Well, the tsuchikage won’t be here until tomorrow, so…” Ino informed me.

“Thanks for the grub,” Jaga and Tokibi chorused, standing up suddenly and dashing off.

“Problem solved,” Naruto said, taking one of the empty chairs. “Don’t be too disappointed that you don’t get to sit on my lap like you love so much, Sasuke.”

I thought about threatening him, but I didn’t want to get yelled at by the girls anymore. It was annoying. I let out a sniff of disdain instead and drank my coffee.

“Hey, save any for his?” Ginnan asked, leading his team into the kitchen.

“I made a mountain,” Ino said, gesturing towards said mountain.

“Where were you guys?” Naruto asked.

“We went for some morning training and rapping,” Goma said, taking a seat as Sanma got up.

“Best way to start the day,” B said. He proceeded to bust out a rhyme.

The house was in chaos. There were people everywhere, and they were all insistent on talking. Why couldn’t people just sit quietly without needing constant verbal confirmation of their existence?

“You look tired, love,” Naruto commented, straddling my lap and pulling off my glasses.

“I was reading,” I informed him irritably.

“Get some rest, I want you at the kage meeting tomorrow,” he said, kissing the corners of my eyes.

“Oh, am I invited?” I asked. Gaara allowed me into meetings, but the raikage and the tsuchikage usually refused.

“We need to hear about your progress on the Kuromotos, and about Hanabi’s plan,” he said, shifting and leaning against the headboard next to me, trying not to disturb the kids.

Riki, Kanon, Mikio, and Gobo were all pretending to be asleep.

“And only I am uniquely qualified to speak on those topics?”

“Mm-hm.”

“Fine, whatever.”

“Thank you, darling,” Naruto hummed, kissing my cheek. “Let’s get some sleep?”

The bed felt very narrow despite its large size. I really was looking forward to all of our house guests leaving, no matter that I actually was glad that they were here.

Naruto’s steady breathing seemed to lull me and the fake-sleeping kids all off to sleep.

I woke up in a state of terror. I was trapped, and there was his face, and something about my brother stabbing me, and Kaguya killing Naruto, and everything just jumbled up and I was screaming and panicked and trying to escape.

“Shhh,” Naruto said, rocking me back and forth as I tried to fight out of his arms. “Sasuke, it’s me, it’s Naruto, okay? Shhhh.”

I slowly came back into myself. “Naruto,” I whimpered into his neck.

“I’m here,” he said, rubbing my back. “I’m right here.”

I took a deep breath and relaxed.

It was about then that I realized that someone else was crying, and there were little whispers of, “it’s okay,” and “don’t be scared anymore.”

“Fuck,” I muttered.

Naruto patted my head. “I’m gonna let that foul language slip on account of what you’ve just been through. You okay, sweetie? You haven’t had a bad one like that in forever.”

“I’m fine,” I said, trying to push away from him.

He held me securely to his chest.

Mikio stopped crying, and I could see him eyeing me suspiciously from the corner of my eye.

“See, Sasuke-sensei’s okay now,” Riki said, mimicking Naruto and petting Mikio on the head.

“He just had a bad dream,” Kanon said.

Mikio nodded his head slowly.

Naruto had pulled him out of an abusive situation with his clan elders, and it made me feel like shit to see the fear in his eyes again.

“I’m sorry I scared you,” I said, my throat still raw, making my voice crack.

Mikio emerged from his little huddle of friends and hugged me.

I was confused.

“Let’s all go back to sleep, okay?” Naruto said, grinning for everyone.

I didn’t really want to go back to sleep, and stayed seated on Naruto’s lap.

“I knew you liked sitting there,” Kanon said knowingly as she wiggled under the blankets.

Naruto cracked up, squeezing me in a hug until I smacked him.

“Sensei, we’re trying to sleep,” Riki complained.

“Yep, I know, sorry,” Naruto said, pulling me back into bed with him. “Good night, guys.”

“Night,” they chorused, all still huddled around Mikio, trying to make him feel safe.

“This okay?” Naruto murmured, lying on his side and cuddling me into his chest. He was like a wall between me and the kids.

I nodded my head.

“Okay,” he said, working his magic fingers into my neck and pushing some chakra in.

I woke up to Mikio worming his way in between us, cuddling into my arms.

- 6 -

I woke up the second time that morning to sun streaming through the window.

“Mornin’,” Naruto said, kissing my eyelids.

“What are you still doing in bed?” I asked, scrunching my nose as I opened my eyes.

It was too early in the morning for that look of pure adoration coming from my partner.

I squinted at him.

“I didn’t want you to wake up alone,” he said, giving me a closed-mouth kiss. “Besides, the kids finally got bored and went away, so I have you all to myself.”

“Fuck me,” I muttered, digging the heel of my hand into my eye.

“Is that a request or are you still regretting last night?”

I leveled him with a stare.

He kissed my cheek. “Don’t be embarrassed.”

“Who said anything about being embarrassed?”

“Because I know you, and I know that look, and I’m telling you that you don’t have to be embarrassed.”

“I’m not,” I muttered, hiding my face in his chest.

Naruto hummed to me while he stroked my hair.

“I’m not a child,” I finally said.

“I know,” Naruto said, continuing to baby me.

I held onto him for a little longer. Then I started to get suspicious. “Why has no one busted down the door to wake us up?”

“Well, that’s the great thing about having a house full of guests,” Naruto said. “They cook and clean and child rear.”

I looked up at him. He looked more relaxed than usual, but his eyes were full of worry and stress.

“Hey, why don’t we go to see Maiko today?” Naruto suggested.

“Because you have a kage meeting?”

“Oh, right. That. Well we can go before. Or after. Or during recess.”

“I thought you’d be more fixated on Getsuko.”

“I am freaking out,” he informed me. “But you don’t need me piling that on you.”

“I’m fine.”

“Sas’, you’re not fine. We just fought a very long battle against someone who could actually kick our asses, and then instead of coming home to our usual routine we’ve got a house full of guests and four little kids in our bed, and I know that kind of stuff puts you on edge.”

“Thank you for your analysis, Dr. Maekawa.”

“I do pay attention during therapy. Sometimes.”

“I’ll even out after they leave,” I said.

“Yeah,” Naruto said, pushing my bangs off of my forehead. “You have the best bedhead right now. You look so stupid.”

“Excuse you.”

He grinned.

“Naruto?”

“Mm?”

“Nothing,” I mumbled, burying my face in his chest.

He sang to me quietly.

“I love you,” I finally said.

“I love you, too, Sasuke,” Naruto said, kissing the top of my head.

“Then stop your awful caterwauling.”

“You like my singing,” Naruto said, affronted.

I did like it. I pinched his gut.

“Hey!”

“You’ve really been letting yourself go lately,” I said.

“Even if that was true, which it is not, I am still damn sexy.”

“You are,” I agreed, and promptly found myself flat on my back under him. “Did I say that you could do that?”

“I don’t need permission,” Naruto said, grasping my chin as he pressed his lips to mine.

I allowed it. Then I more than allowed it, opening my mouth and pulling him in greedily. I just wanted, until a singular thought brought me back to reality. “Your breath is terrible.”

“Yours isn’t any better!”

We glared at each other, then both turned to the nightstand. I sat up, Naruto already opening the bottle of mouthwash that I kept in the drawer. He took a swig, then passed it to me.

“Let me never shame you and your obsessive compulsive ways again,” he said after he spit into the cup I left on the dresser.

We gravitated into one another again, exchanging slow kisses. I loved the shape of his mouth against mine, the slide of his tongue, his soft sighs. I grasped his face with both of my hands, trying to tell him how precious he was to me without having to say it.

“I know,” he murmured into my mouth. He kissed me again. “I know.”

After I had gotten that out of my system, I let Naruto lay his head on my chest while I stroked his hair.

“I can’t believe no one has come in here to bother us,” I finally said. “Don’t you need to be at an important meeting?”

“Ugh,” Naruto said. “Can I just stay here? I miss morning cuddles.”

“When the hell did we ever have morning cuddles?”

“When we first got married,” Naruto said, and I could feel his cheek moving in a smile. “When we had the apartment.”

I found myself smiling, too, much to my chagrin. Life seemed so much easier back then. Root had been extracted from the ANBU, and there were no longer assassins from Konoha hunting me down and trying to kill me. In fact, there weren’t any crises at all.

Gaara helped us find an apartment in Suna with two vacancies, one for us and the kids and one for Taka. It was a little run-down, but it worked for us while Naruto built the house. He was taking frequent trips to Konoha, trying to work out the transfer of power and the semantics of two hokages. I was the breadwinner of the family, taking on mercenary jobs with Taka. I felt like a human being again after being so useless for so long.

When we were both home, we were together and we were stupidly happy. I was on a good balance of medications, and hadn’t started having all the physical problems that came with being so medicated for so long. We really did have morning cuddles, now that I thought about, and afternoon cuddles and evening cuddles. We were in our honeymoon phase, even though we didn’t get married on paper until almost a year later, right before Naruto and Sakura’s inauguration.

Naruto becoming Hokage changed everything. He became overworked. He was always fighting to make people’s lives better, and he was being criticized and attacked for it. It took its toll.

I kissed the moon tattooed on his palm. Palms were a terrible place for a tattoo, and we had to keep going to get them touched up, but I liked the pain of the needle in my hand, branding me, branding Naruto, tying us together.

“Sas’?”

“Hm?”

“I want to quit,” he said quietly. “I do. But-”

“I don’t want to have this argument again.”

“Babe, come on. Like with everything that’s just happened with Getsuko? And we still haven’t found the Kuromotos and found out what they’re up to. I can’t just abandon Konoha now.”

“There’s always going to be something,” I said, frustrated with having to repeat myself for the millionth time. “The best thing that you can do right now is train up the next generation.”

“I know, but I think I need to give it time, you know? At least get this thing with Getsuko taken care of. I mean, this could be it. The end of the world as we know it. It’s freakin’ Kaguya. For me to just up and quit now of all times…”

“It’s the perfect time for a new leader to come up.”

“In the middle of this crisis?”

“Yes. And also, if the world is going to end, then why are you going to waste the rest of the time that you have left fucking miserable?”

“I’m not miserable,” he said, not very convincingly.

“I will give you morning cuddles,” I said flatly.

“Are you trying to bribe me into quitting?”

“Yes. I will also wear those godawful lacey panties you love so much anytime you ask.”

“You are lying to me right now,” Naruto said, but he was peeking up at me in clear interest.

“I just want you to be you again,” I said, ignoring the tightening in my throat.

“Oh, baby, come on,” he said, taking my face in his hands. “I’m always me, I’m just kinda, you know, me light right now.”

I half-smiled at that.

“I’ll think about it,” he said, kissing my nose. “I’ll really th-”

“God, enough already,” Sakura said, throwing the door open.

I stared at her.

Her eyes narrowed in suspicion. “Are you two doing things?”

“What kinda things?” Naruto asked, turning his neck so he could waggle his eyebrows at her.

“No,” I said.

She seemed to find that answer acceptable. She closed the door and sat on the bed. “Look, we need to go to Suna. Like now. Important kage meeting.”

“Let’s be late and say we were rescuing an old lady’s cat from a tree,” Naruto said, pulling Sakura into a Naruto and Sasuke sandwich.

“There are no trees in the desert,” I muttered.

“No imagination,” Sakura said. “Why am I in bed with you two?”

“It’s like old times,” Naruto said, cuddling her. I might have been jealous if it wasn’t Sakura. Somehow she just seemed to fit in between us.

“Are you going to step down?” I asked her.

“Haven’t decided,” she said, running her fingers through my hair. “Ino and I are still talking about what the best option is for us.”

“Sas’ and I are doing the same,” Naruto said.

“Oh, no, Naruto, you should quit immediately,” Sakura said.

I smirked.

“What the hell, Sakura?! I thought we were the greatest Hokage team to ever live!”

“You’re the only Hokage team,” I muttered.

“Of course we are,” Sakura said, patting him on the head like a dog. “But being the hokage is draining the life out of you.”

I gave him a meaningful look over Sakura’s buxom bosom.

Naruto pouted at me.

Sakura smiled at the exchange. “Ino and I have… It’s been tough.”

“You’ve been fighting?” Naruto asked with round eyes.

“You two don’t have the market cornered on fighting.”

“We try,” I said.

“We haven’t been fighting lately,” Naruto protested.

I stared at him.

“What, I mean we were fighting about Getsuko, and I guess you won that one,” he said, annoyance creeping into his tone. “Even though I still think we need to protect her, no matter if she’s housing the most powerful demon ninja to ever live. And then we fight about my job, which is barely even a fight.”

“Barely even a fight,” I agreed. “And we never say things against the other’s point of view just be contrary.”

“Yes?” Naruto said, trying to figure out if I was being sarcastic.

Of course I was being sarcastic.

“You two seem good,” Sakura said, ruffling our hair.

“Do we?” Naruto asked, still confused.

“I like being Hokage,” Sakura said quietly. “I’m good at it.”

“You are,” I agreed. “You don’t cause constant international incidents.”

“I have not… it’s been at least a year…” Naruto tried to protest.

“And you can do paperwork without crying,” I continued.

“I was cutting onions.”

“On your paperwork-?” I started, then just shook my head. “The point is, if you think this is what you want to keep on doing, then keep doing it,” I said. “Not you, Naruto. I’m obviously talking to Sakura.”

“I want to spend more time with the girls…” Sakura said.

“Hey, so I was thinking if I retired,” Naruto started, then glared at me. “That’s a big if, Uchiha, a big giant if. So anyway, if I decide to retire, I want to build an addition on the house, and then you and Ino and the girls can come anytime you want and have a nice place to stay.”

“So you started thinking this last night?” I asked.

“Yes, oh my god, why are there so many freaking people in our house?”

I reached over Sakura and poked him in his side.

“Hey!” he protested, his voice going higher.

“Don’t flirt across my body,” Sakura said, but she was smiling.

“Should I be concerned about finding two men in bed with my wife?” Ino asked, coming in.

“That sounds salacious!” Karin said, following in behind her.

“You’re all welcome to join us,” Naruto said, gesturing grandly.

“No, they’re not,” I muttered.

Karin and Ino both hopped onto the small bit of unoccupied bed.

“Are the hokages playing hooky?” Karin asked. “Ninja world in crisis and all.”

“It’s always in crisis,” Naruto muttered, curling himself around Sakura.

“It is, isn’t it?” Sakura agreed.

“Oh, my god, get your asses up,” Ino said, shoving Naruto, which pushed Sakura into me and had me almost falling off the mattress.

Good thing I was smooth as fuck. I filled my hands with chakra and attached myself to the mattress.

“You shouldn’t have done that,” Karin informed Ino.

“I need a cigarette,” I muttered, instead of getting mad.

“Grossss,” they all chorused at me.

“Why do none of you smoke?” I asked incredulously. I started fumbling for a cigarette and lighter in the nightstand.

“Naruto smokes,” Sakura said.

“Sakura!” he shrieked, flailing around and trying to dispel her words from our ears.

I smirked, sticking a cigarette between my lips.

“Ugh, don’t light that,” Ino complained.

“I already can’t smoke in my damn house, now I can’t smoke in my own room?”

“It’s gross,” Sakura said, moving away from me.

I snapped my finger with a fire jutsu and lit the cigarette with my fingertip. I breathed in, the smoke, holding it in before exhaling slowly away from the everyone.

“Goddamn it, are you smoking like that in front of the girls?” Sakura growled. “No more smoking in front of the girls! It’s a wonder every person in Suna isn’t smoker after being subjected to such displays.”

I shrugged.

“We’re quitting when I retire!” Naruto declared.

“Yeah, sure,” I said.

Then the yammering herd finally left me in peace to smoke my cigarette and start my day.

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