Full Summary: A drunken night can lead to many things, pregnancy was one of them. She had always loved him but he was an eternal playboy with his clan pushing for him to find a suitable Uchiha wife, so their clan would stay pure. So what was she to do but run and hide to save him from a future he and the elders would never accept? Her only wish for his was to be happy, and this? This wouldn't make him happy at all. Non-mass AU.
With Sakura
Soft pink locks flew gently in the breezy room as she kissed the top of his head. The window was opened during the night and had let in a cool draft this morning, a welcome change from the usual hot weather. Dark maroon hair stuck up in every direction and held curls so bouncy the young boy looked like he had a cloud on top of his head.
The pink haired woman hummed a tune she knew from her old life, a life she could no longer live, in a village where she was no longer welcome, from a time when she was young and naive and thought she was in love. And here she is now, in a new life, in a comforting village, where she is wiser and careful all the same.
"Momma?" came a soft voice from underneath her chest, as she was hugging him tightly to wake him up. It was their usual morning routine, she would waltz into the young boy's room making loud noises as if she didn't know he was in bed, plop down onto the mattress and put some weight on top of his body and kiss his curly head to let him know that it was her. Of course, who else would burst into his room knocking on walls and scuffling across the floor and opening and closing drawers loudly? "You're squishing me!" he half shouted at her silly antics. The mother put more weight on him, pretending he wasn't there until he finally began wiggling his way out of underneath her and begin to get dressed for the daycare he loved.
"Oh?" her sweet voice called, "is someone in here?" She sat up and stripped the covers off of his small body and pretended to be surprised and gasped, "there you are! I've been looking all over for you!" She began to tickle him until he laughed so hard his eyes began to water.
"I'm up, I'm up!" he laughed. The young boy jumped out of his bed and began to get dressed for school. He was just beginning daycare at 2 and a half years old and he loved his mother to no extent.
Sakura giggled and watched him attempt to pull his shirt over his head, which was then noted that the garment was inside out, and she adjusted his shirt for attempt number 2. "Are you ready for school today?"
"Yes mommy!" he replied cheekily. He may be young, but he was quite intelligent for his age. She had been reminded of him every day and saw him in her young son more and more each day.
Sakura knew that her son loved studying, he was so much like her in that sense. And in other senses, he was just like his father… Sakura still had yet to unveil any information about his father but knew that the day would soon the time arise and that the truth was going to have to come out.
It was a day she never looked forward to and secretly hoped would never come. He had never come looking for her, she had never tried to make contact with him after his rejection of her either, but she knew that she would be safe here. She had the Kazekage and his family on her side and knew that they would have her back no matter what.
Suna was lovely and beautiful and had starry nights that would take your breath away. It was incredibly hot at times, yes, but it was far away from him and his devilish clan, and that's all she concerned herself with. Sakura was a Konoha nin at heart, but after given an escape route, she became Suna's top medic and was in charge of their whole hospital system. She would be forever grateful for the opportunity to get away when she did.
Gaara has originally sent for a top-rated medic nin to boost his medical staff's skills, it didn't have to be someone irreplaceable and it didn't have to be ongoing. Yet, Sakura arrived, all the same, she had even sent correspondences beforehand and they had shared letters back and forth when she had volunteered for this mission. Gaara may be a little dense, but he knew that his dear friend was in trouble and needed to get out of the village as quickly as possible without worrying anyone.
He knew of her struggles and had offered his home to her when she had arrived. He continued to care for her as if she were his younger sister, something that thrilled in the fact that he would no longer be the youngest in the family. So, she became family to the Kazekage and his siblings and they had cherished her in every way possible. She was grateful for that too.
Sakura would forever be thankful for her pseudo-family and how they took care of her in her toughest moments. They had taken her in knowing full well what they were in store for. They knew that she was pregnant, never by whom, and were sworn to never give her up to anyone from Konoha who came looking for her. It's not as if she had run away, per se, but she did not want to be found by anyone in that damned clan, her own teammate included.
She knew how well it would have shamed him and his family to know that she had gotten knocked up by his playboy of a cousin when he knew damn well that his clan elders were trying to find an Uchiha wife would be able to bear healthy and strong Uchiha babies for his brother's best friend. She also knew that her knucklehead teammate would not be able to keep his mouth shut if he knew, so telling him was out of the question as well. So who would that leave her?
As it stood, from her team, only Kakashi and Yamato knew where she was hiding and knew that she would only come back in her terms, if ever. They knew where she was coming from, they both had worked very closely with the clan and knew right away what trouble she would be in if the Uchiha elders had found out everything. So they hid her secret well, even when confronted by their students when they questioned everyone about where she was.
Ino has known the second she had stepped into the flower shop to say her goodbyes why she had left, that sly girl was the best at figuring out and putting two and two together. Hell, she had even come to help deliver her best friend's beautiful son and only then found out who the father was. Ino, God love her, tried to convince Sakura to come back home and tried to explain how everything would work out but she came up empty-handed when she returned home to Konoha a week later. It still was a mystery if Ino's long-term boyfriend had known or figured it out as well. Ino had a terrible gossip-queen side to her that was well-known in Konoha, but Sakura knew that she held her secret safe from the majority of her friend circle.
And to her adoptive mother, Tsunade, bless her soul, she and Shizune had given her the green-light to leave and knew how much their beloved pink haired medic nin's heart broke with each step she took towards her new home in Suna. Neither of them wanted to but to the extent that they truly wished, knowing full well that the pink haired medic-nin would not appreciate it. They always had her back and Tsunade had to be physically held back when she heard the news. No one would mess with her daughter if she had a say in it. Even Shizune offered to poison her baby daddy to get him to listen to Sakura and reason with her.
It hurt like hell to leave everyone she knew, everywhere she called home, everything she loved about her village. He rejected her, his clan disapproved of her, and she would forever be broken by the choices that were made. She tried her best to hide how she felt, and most times she would succeed, but every so often the Kazekage and his siblings would catch a glint of remorse and pain in her eyes that would yank on their heartstrings. Still, they did everything they could to comfort her, she was and will always be family, but they all knew that they could replace him.
Once or twice Temari had offered to "put his ass in place" and to "get him to see the light" when she visited Konoha to see her fiancé. Sakura would laugh out loud at these statements but would cry herself to sleep those nights when no one was looking or listening. Nothing hurt more than what he had done to her, and nothing would hurt more than if she saw him again. She still loved him with all of her heart, Sakura knew that that was a bad habit of hers, to love unconditionally, but she just couldn't stop her feelings towards him.
But everything hurt when she thought about him. She remembered that day so well when her heart broke into such tiny pieces that she couldn't even sweep them all to be put back together again. She could remember his voice, his carefree laugh, and then she would remember the meeting where he turned on her and blamed her for his problems. She would remember the disgruntled looks she received from clans members when she was having dinner at the main house. She would remember the snickers of other girls in the bars who would drop hints at how he was probably out with another woman that night or how he had visited them late at night from the week before. And then, worst of all, she would remember his look of disgust when he looked at her when she went to speak with him one last time, to try and let him know of her, no, their situation.
It would all be out of pity, she would remind herself. If she went back to Konoha and brought her bundle of joy with her, they would pity her. They would call her a disgrace, a whore, disgusting, a gold-digger, and worst of all, pathetic and weak. She never wanted to be known as weak again, so she would always leave that at that.
Welp! That was the first chapter of this delicious story that I've been dreaming about writing for MONTHS. I'm not sure how people will take this story, but I love it to no extent. This crack pairing was always my guilty pleasure and I'm excited to finally be writing about it! Yay! I know that this is different than my usual pairings of GaaSaku, but take a ride with me to this different AU.
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