Ino tapped her foot, impatiently. "Sakura, you done in there?" She called through the grimy bathroom door. "Come on, it's been more than seven minutes now! Show me!"
Slowly, the door opened and out came a pale faced Sakura. Ino gave her an expectant look. "Well?"
With a shaking hand, Sakura showed her the white stick. Nervously, Ino took the stick and stared open-mouthed at the two blue lines that showed on the small screen. When she looked up, Sakura's eyes filled with unshed tears.
"I'm pregnant."
"H-Holy shit," Ino exclaimed staring wide-eyed at Sakura. "What're you going to do?"
Looking at Sakura, Ino did not know what to do. Ino and Sakura had always had a complicated relationship but they were still friends. Ino was as stubborn as Sakura and refused to admit that Sakura was her closest friend and that she admired her a lot. Sakura was one of the most strong and hard-working kunoichi that Ino had ever met. However, at this very moment Sakura was crying into her hands with her shoulders hunched over and not at all resembling the stubborn and hot-tempered woman that she was. Not knowing what to do, Ino pulled a sobbing Sakura into her arms and rubbed her back in a soothing motion hoping that it was at least making some sort of difference.
"W-what do I do, Ino?" Sakura sniffed, her voice muffled. "How could I have betrayed Konoha like this?"
"Hey, hey it's going to be ok, Sakura." Ino reassured, but her eyes reflected the fear she really felt, after all her friend was pregnant by one of Konoha's top enemies. His face was in every bingo book she had ever even glimpsed at and the fact he was in that damn organisation the akat-
The loud banging of the cubicles door cut off Ino's thoughts and the loud, shrill voice of one of the older nurses filled the small room. "Are you done crying in there? Some of us older ladies really need to use the bathroom!"
Stifling a laugh Ino gave Sakura one more gentle squeeze of reassurance before ushering her out of the cubicle and walking around the pissed off looking nurse before leading Sakura into her office.
Sitting down Ino turned towards Sakura. "Well on the positive side, at least you know who the father is," Ino said cheerfully, without thinking. A choking noise came out of Sakura's mouth as she began to cry one again.
"Oh Kami! What am I going to do?" Sakura wailed. "I-if Tsunade finds out who the baby's father is she'll kill me!"
"Well um… well you could have an abort-"Ino was cut off by Sakura's glare "Or not! You could just…leave."
"Leave?" Sakura asked, not understanding what Ino meant.
"Yeah, I mean it'd be horrible since you would become a missing-nin and truthfully I would miss you a lot, but if this protects you and your baby then I believe it's necessary." Ino stated, becoming uncomfortable under Sakura's gaze.
After a few more agonizing seconds, Sakura nodded. "I can't believe I'm saying this but for once I agree with what you're saying," Sakura looked over at Ino then reached over and gave her a quick hug. "If I do this you promise you'll never tell anyone where I've gone or why I've left?"
"I promise, Sakura." Ino said, her eyes becoming moist.
That night Sakura walked the long way home taking in the now quiet streets of Konoha, memories from the past flickering in her mind. The air was surprisingly humid for a night in mid-September, which was odd, but not as much as the fact she was pregnant!
Unknowingly, Sakura's hand had trailed down to caress her stomach were with her medical chakra could feel the presence of the baby's chakra. I wonder if it is a boy or a girl, whether it will look like me o-or him.
Shaking the personal thoughts Sakura looked up to realise she had come to stop by her apartment building. It was a tall building made out of grey concrete with a slanted red tiled roof and had five floors each with three apartments on it.
Walking over to the stairs, Sakura walked until she reached floor four. Opening her front door she walked into her neutral coloured living room and looked around at how bare it looked. She had hardly any knick-knacks or personal items but it would be easier this way.
Walking over to the large mahogany cupboard stationed opposite her bed, she opened the doors and removed the piece of wood hiding the secret compartment. In the secret compartment was a backpack, which was filled with necessary things she would need in case of emergency and frankly this was one. Pulling it out she quickly gave it a shake to get the dust off then looked down to see and old, crumpled photo lay at the bottom. Pulling it out Sakura turned it over to see it was an old team seven photo, Kakashi with his hands atop Naruto and Sasuke's heads, their expressions far from happy and herself in the middle a cheesy smile adorned her younger self's face. Sakura's lips trembled and she sniffed loudly trying to keep the tears at bay, her leaving would destroy Naruto especially since Sasuke still hadn't returned to the village and Sakura was in fact bridesmaid at his and Hinata's wedding.
I'm so selfish, but I just can't kill this baby. He or she deserves a life as well.
Kakashi would probably be extremely hurt also, although Sai had joined Team 7 and was a good friend, he still wasn't an original and still couldn't fill the void that Sasuke had made when he'd left all those years ago. And it showed on Kakashi's face every time they went on a mission that Sai wasn't good enough for 'his team'.
Folding the picture over Sakura tucked it into a small pocket of the backpack and then replaced the wood over the secret compartment. Picking up the backpack Sakura packed it full with clothing, money, a small medical kit and food and water.
Sakura quickly took one last shower before towel drying her hair and then getting into bed naked and setting the alarm for 2:45am so she could get a few hours ahead in her journey before anyone realised she was gone.
Closing her eyes Sakura kept the pain of what tomorrow would bring at the back of her mind before drifting off to a restless sleep.