Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Pseudo adopted
When waking up the next day, Satsuki should have seen it coming…but then again, who is she? Shikamaru?
She barely sobered up from the mess of last night as everything, the Kimono, the hairpins, the empty pack of cigarette was still scattered all over the floor of her bedroom when she vaguely felt two powerful distinct chakra signatures at her gate.
Minato Namikaza and Kushina Uzumaki.
The lone Uchiha really consider going back to sleep but then she thinks about the historical significant of the estate gate and got out of bed.
Unlocking the gate as she stepped to aside, bowing respectfully, “Hokage-sama. First Lady.” Her voice raspy.
Minato was the first to speak, “Leaving early last night and avoiding Naruto today… how are you doing?” His voice as calm as ever.
Satsuki gripped on the sleeve of her robe, but her face remained as cold as the snow, “I don’t know what are you talking about.”
“Don’t play dumb Suki.” That nickname again. “It doesn’t suit you.” Kushina scoffed.
Satsuki sighed, “…Why are you here?”
“Because you were not the one standing at the altar.” Kushina answer bluntly.
Wow…they didn’t even hold her hands first. Satsuki visibly flinched.
Being call out by the Hokage’s first laday himself is…really something.
Kushina, never being the one to dance around things, stepped forward. “We all thought it’d be you. Hell, the entire village thought it’d be you.” She said, with an empathy that only a mother can have, “And don’t you dare being a brat and deny it.”
“He made his choice.” Satsuki forcing herself to met Kushina’s gentle eyes.
“Because you never gave him a choice! You always do that thing…” Kushina threw her hands up.
“…the thing where you always decided for other people. It’s destructive.” Minato finished the kill.
Satsuki clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms, “What was I supposed to do? Crash the wedding? What kind of person would that make me?” As if Satsuki’s reputation isn’t already bad enough, she doesn’t need to add homewrecker.
Kushina’s voice softened, but it does not mean she was any less harsh, “What kind of person does it make you to just stand there and accept it?”
Speechless was what Satsuki was.
Minato sighed, “We are not here to make you feel bad, Suki.”
“But?” Satsuki arched her eyebrows.
“Was this really what you wanted?” The Hokage stepped closer.
Satsuki feel her throat swallowing up. “Doesn’t matter what I want.”
Kushina shook her head, tiredly exclaimed, “You Uchiha are so damn stubborn.”
Satsuki smiles bitterly, “It’s really take one to know one.”
“Do you regret it?” Minato asked, still watching her carefully.
Satsuki didn’t answer right the way. She look at anywhere but his eyes…blue, like…no. No… She can’t regret it.
She can’t afford to regret over the unsaid, the things that Satsuki herself choose to left unsaid. It’s pathetic, even for her.
She thought about Hinata, kind, soft spoken girl, who had always loved Naruto. Who had been there when Satsuki was the one actively pushing him away, tearing him down.
Does she regret it?
She doesn’t know, “No.” She said coldly.
Again, Minato’s eyes filled with disappointment as Kushina tried to maintain her anger.
“We’ll be leaving now…” Kushina said, the hint of bitterness did not goes unnoticed.
Minato stopped right in front of the gate, “Suki, I hope, one day, you will figure it out.”
Kushina sighed, placing a firm hand on Satsuki’s shoulder, “Just…don’t disappear on him or us, ok?” The gentle motherly side of her cause Satsuki’s stomach to sink a bit.
“You don’t have to tell him everything but at least don’t leave him.”
Satsuki looked down at her feet for a long second before nodding.
Kushina squeezed her shoulder once more before stepping out of the gate, “Good! I need some breakfast. It’s too damn soon for talk like this!”
Minato chuckled as he followed his wife, “Honey, you were the one who insist we come.”
Leaving Satsuki, once again with the haunting peaceful quietness of the Uchiha estate. All by herself, now only accompanied by her thoughts…“So much for rehabilitation.” Satsuki exhaled as she shut the gate once more.