#sarachou

Sasuke: … so that’s the story. Your mother is my best friend, and I will always respect and love her, but, I’m not IN-love with her. I’m in love with Naruto.

Naruto: And I love your dad. I always have. So … we want to get married, dattebayo. 

Sarada: And mama understands this?

Sasuke: Yes. Now, we understand how difficult this might be to process, and we wanted to talk to you about it first before we talked to Boruto and Himawari. We … Sarada the thing is we …

Naruto: We kinda thought you might have, er, a crush on Boruto. And your dad and I, we would never want to go through with a marriage that would make you siblings with a boy that you —

Sarada: Boruto?? No; I’m in love with Chou-Chou!

Sasuke: … Chou-Chou? Choji’s daughter?

Sarada: Yeah. But it’s hard because all she thinks about is food. So when I’m around her I act as goofy as possible, so that she’ll notice me.

Sasuke: I —

Sarada: And if she ever left, I’m prepared to go on a journey to find her and bring her back to the village. Even if it took years.

Sakura: Sarada, what's wrong?

Sarada: Chouchou and I had a stupid fight... Now, I don't even know if we're still friends...

Sakura: That's fine, you don't need female friends anyways. They're really dramatic! In fact, I broke off my friendship with my first ever friend, Ino, even though she was the only person who had ever been nice to me after years of bullying. She just wasn't worth it after I assumed that she had a crush on the boy that I liked, your father.

Sarada: 👀 Mom, what the fu-

Sakura: And later, when she saved me during the Forest of Death stage of our chuunin exams, deliberately lost our match in our preliminary fighting round, and told me that I had blossomed into a beautiful flower, I never thanked her or apologized to her because I have always known what was important to me - your father's love.

Sarada: 👀

Orochimaru, sipping tea in the Uchiha house because he apparently gets invited to everyone's houses for tea now despite being a canonical child torturer: 👀

When Chouchou is six whole years old, she gets to spend a week with her Baba and Bibi in Kumo. She’s been there before, course, cause they’re Baba and Bibi! But this is the First Time she’s ever got to do it ALL by herself, no Mommy or Daddy with her, JUST her and it’s super cool.

She tells Sarada, who is her best friend and the coolest, and she expects Sarada to agree that it’s very cool.

Sarada does not agree that it’s very cool.

Sarada starts crying.

Chouchou stares, open mouth and shocked, cause Sarada doesn’t cry a lot. Chouchou falls and scrapes her knee and she kicks up a huge fuss and wails until someone comes and kisses it better. Sarada falls and scrapes her knee and she doesn’t even notice until ten minutes later when someone tells her she’s bleeding.

So, yeah, Chouchou is surprised!

She flails a little, wide-eyed. “Sarada! What’s wrong? Did I say something bad?” She has no idea what she could’ve said that’s bad but-

Sarada lunges forward and wraps her arms around her and Chouchou stops and then squeezes her back, tight and strong like how Daddy does it. “Actually,” Sarada says, and she sniffles. “I’m just... gonna miss you. And you’re gonna miss my birthday!”

Ohhhhhh. Yeah okay Chouchou would cry too if Sarada was gonna miss HER birthday. “I’ll bring you home a REALLY cool present,” Chouchou promises, already trying to figure out what she’s gonna get her.

Sarada draws back, wiping at her eyes. “Really?” she asks.