The Village

Chapter One

The sun was blazing, Sakura could hear the crickets in the distant chirping away complaining about the heat. Konoha was in the midst of a sweltering heat wave and everything in her sight at the training fields had been scorched and turned yellow, she hated that awful colour. She felt like a poached egg even as she waited under the shade of a large oak tree, the one of few that hasn't given up in the heat.

Though she knew the heat wasn't just why she wanted to lay down and do nothing and fry to death, at twenty years old Sakura had worked extremely hard to make the ranks of anbu after the war. Once peace came and her work at the hospital became stale, Sakura decided being an anbu medic was her next goal before she became too old or tied down to a family.

Pity, the thing growing in her abdomen had other plans for her.

Sakura sighed, it wasn't that she didn't want it and was on the grips of termination. She knows plenty of fellow female shinobi that find it so easy, and she wasn't totally against the idea. It was just she had spent months patching up children and entire families, she had seen so much death and destruction that Sakura was so morally conflicted that it was too late to take the easy pill way out. So at twenty, she had another six months to prepare herself and perhaps a few more weeks to break the news to her friends and her mother.

Tsunade knew already, of course, nothing gets past the Hokage easily. She had put Sakura on easier missions almost instantly, and prepared for the mountain of paperwork to come once Sakura signs off on her resignation papers for anbu. Sakura had to chuckle a little bit, Tsunade was the one to tell her that she was pregnant and there was not a single word spoken between them for almost a week. Tsunade was just in Sakura's living room one day, you could see the frustration on her face. Afterall, Sakura was so young and talented… never suited to being a full-time mother. But Tsunade never said anything unsupportive, or let Sakura know how disappointed she was in her. The War had destroyed nearly everything, what harm would a little baby, Sakura's baby do? none. Once the child was old enough for care, Sakura could return to active duty and not miss out on much. But there was no way in hell Tsunade would let Sakura do anything dangerous, she was going to be allowed on escort and medical missions only. So Tsunade kept the angry part of her who wanted the cut the balls of the man who did this and just accepted that she was going to be a grandmother.

Sakura had no idea why then Tsunade had forced her team members together on a day as hot as hell, for a training session. Naruto was always late as per usual, which Sakura couldn't blame him. Naruto and Hinata were now due to be married in two weeks and everything so far that could've gone wrong has, which has Hinata on a rampage and Naruto following her fixing up the damage. While Kakashi, he had no excuse to be late but will always be as late to the point they never thought he was turning up.

Sakura stood out in the middle of the field just hoping she would at least spot one of the boys coming, but nothing. Instead thanks to the recently found out little boy growing in her abdomen a wave of disgusting nausea hit Sakura out of the blue, whoever called it morning sickness needed to be shot she thought as for the past two months she had barely made it to a safe place to throw up whatever has offended her son. This time the corner of the oak tree would have to do.

"Sakura-chan! Are you ok?!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs as he looked down from the branches of the oak tree, he had only gotten here and Sakura looked like she needed to go home already. Maybe Sakura figured out that she was putting on weight? that was why she was being sick. "Me and Kakashi have barely noticed that you have put on weight" Naruto lied, the two of them were laughing about it over at the noodle bar the other week. Sakura chuckled a little bit, of course, he would notice the weight gain.

Naruto grew a little concerned that Sakura was being sick numerous times, normally when he was ill, he would simply be sick and feel better. "Kakashi-san, tell Sakura that she is beautiful no matter how fat she is!" Naruto had not been paying attention to how long Kakashi had been watching Sakura, perhaps he was here even before himself?

"Sakura, if youre sick you shouldn't be here" Kakashis obvious statement was meet with Sakura middle finger as she muttered something under her breath.

After have no contents in her stomach Sakura regained her composure and met the boys out on the field. The two of them playfully sparing without any shirts on, where was the fan club when it was called for? Sakura hid her smile, there were perks to being the only female on the team. Naruto wasn't truely handsome like Kakashi, and was Hinatas property so Sakura couldn't even bring herself to thinking about Narutos six pack even if she wanted to, it would be breaking a girl code. While Kakashi, he had no one and Sakura was still getting use to him without a mask on so he was an easy target. Though currently, Kakashi and Sakura barely spoke to each other.

Naruto won the spar easily, poor old Kakashi couldn't keep up with him this time. Usually it was a good fair fight as Sakura had noticed previously, but today Naruto beat the living daylights out of him within half hour.

"Sakura-chan, its been months since we last spared. Please Please Please Spar with me?" Naruto grinned, still barely tired from the spar with Kakashi or the blazing heat.

"Its too hot Naruto" Sakura said as she fanned herself with her hand, hopefully, Naruto would forgive her this time like the other thousand times he has asked her over the last two or more months.

"Perhaps youre becoming fat because you don't train" Kakashi said as he approached Sakura with a rather aggressive expression on his face. "Fat shinobi either die or get their teammates killed, so i suggest you do something about it"

Fat?! Sakura temper instantly flared at what had just come from Kakashi's own mouth. That conceded ass was just begging to be punched, but Tsunade would kill her if she dared put her unborn grandson in harms way.

"The fat is mostly going to your gut anyway" Kakashi said nonchalantly pointing to Sakura's uniform which had become a little snug in recent weeks.

Dead man walking, thats what Kakashi was. Before Kakashi knew what hit him he found himself on the other side of the training field winded and barely able to breathe. Well, his baiting worked but since when was Sakura that fast? He could hear Naruto laughing but couldn't spot where Sakura was…

A twig snapped behind him, and Sakura came out at him with her a cheeky kunai ready to slice him. But he was Kakashi Hatake, he could take Sakura down easily she was no match for his Sharingan. Though against rules in their spars, Kakashi quickly opened his eye and made a few sneaky hand signals.

So by the time Sakura was dead set on punching a hole through Kakashi, she found herself painfully pinned to the ground and in a tremendous amount of pain. That idiot had caught her off guard and yet still misjudged her movement, the kunai that she had was now impaled into her left kidney and Kakashis knee was keeping her pinned down pushing on her abdomen.

Sakura couldn't even scream or make any noise, her body was going into shock. She just kept looking at Kakashi who had yet to realise the extent of his misjudgment.

When Kakashi did a moment later, a wave of anguish hit him like a bus. His emotions had gotten in the way and now he had physically stabbed Sakura and pinned her to the ground in a manner that was more than the usual harmless spar.

Naruto spotted that there was trouble, calling his summons immediately as he noticed Sakura going into shock. Tsunade would be here soon, to fix whatever that idiot Kakashi had done to her. He raced over to Sakura, pushing Kakashi off her and grabbing hold of Sakuras hand.

Panic was written on her face Naruto noticed, and he noticed Sakuras usual healing abilities were not working. Something was wrong, even her Chakra seemed unusual he sensed.

"What the fuck did you do?" Tsunade and Shizune appeared in a cloud of smoke, she looked absolutely terrifying. Kakashi retreated back to a safe distance as Shizune brushed him aside. Everyone looked a bit dumbfounded as they were sure that this injury wasn't usually so volatile, Kakashi on many occasions had seen Sakura pull out the odd weapon from her body and heal herself. But now as Sakura really started to panic, he knew that this wasn't normal.

Tsunade tried to calm Sakura to the best of her ability before she nodded to Shizune to pull out the Kunai, Sakura's screams could be heard a mile off. It sent everyone into a panic, that shouldn't have hurt. Unless Tsunades brain worked into overtime as she watched Shizune heal Sakura…Unless her grandson's chakra was interfering with Sakura making her as close to as a civilian as possible.

Her Grandson! Tsunade hadn't even checked on him. In a hasty manner she ripped open Sakura's uniform to see her slightly swollen belly with a nasty red mark across it, Kakashi had struck a blow directly to Sakuras abdomen.

Naruto remained holding Sakuras hand, watching Shizune pump a dangerous amount of Chakra into the stab wound. While Kakashi was watching the Hokage, there was some bit of information missing. He watched as the Hokage pressed her fingers against Sakura fat belly, pumping small amounts of chakra.

"I dont hear his heart beating" The whole world just stopped, the anguish in Tsunades voice and the hitched breathing of Sakura just whirled around Naruto and Kakashi. Sakura wasn't fat, they had spent months mocking her and commenting on her slack training attitude when truthfully Sakura was pregnant.

"Sakura, I need to know right this second. What Chakra type is the father?! I need someone of the same Chakra to start his heart" Tsunade didn't care if half of Konoha could hear her scream at her former apprentice. If Sakura was earth type, then the father mustve been something incompatible.

"Lightning" Sakura wheezed and gripped onto Narutos hand before Tsunade yelled at him to copy her hand signals and pump as much as chakra as he could into Sakuras abdomen. A definite saving grace of mastering all six elements, but only one tiny downfall. This was going to hurt like hell for Sakura, her chakra wont like the intrusion of lightning and for her it would feel like she's burning from the inside out.

Sakura cried and wailed as the minute that it took felt like an eternity…

"I hear him, he's alright" Tsunade sighed in relief, that was a risky part on her side. She had never in her years of being in charge of the hospital come across a pregnancy where the childs chakra was incompatible with the mothers. Tsunade had seen plenty of earth and lightning types mix before and never had this trouble, Sakura had been trouble from the get go and now she has no healing. This made Tsunade worry for Sakura, this did not bode at all well for anyone involved.

Sakura woke up with the ring and beeping of machines, she knew she was in hospital. A feeling of relief washed away as she opened her eyes to spot a fetal monitor making steady beeping noises, her son was ok. She was never going to lose her temper again and put him in harms way ever again.

But before she could call the nurses to get Tsunade, she noticed Kakashi in the corner looking at her with a horrifying hostile look on him. Sakura swallowed nervously, she had some explaining to do.

Kakashi was beyond furious, even looking at Sakura sitting up looking back at him made him clench his hands till his knuckles turned white. "You have some explaining to do" he growled.

"I didn't mean anything by it" Sakura needed to defend herself cautiously, she had never seen Kakashi looking this agitated. "It got complicated extremely quickly, I didn't know how you would handle it"

"You should've told me!" Kakashi yelled, not caring at the rather noisy nurses who had stopped to see the pair argue. "I would've given you something to get rid of it!"

Sakura looked away "I never wanted to get rid of it" she quietly said.

"You wouldn't have had a choice! that thing in there is not meant to live" Kakashi did his best not to yell. "The Hatake line dies with me! Did you not fully understand that from all the years you have known me!"

"I have spent months putting back children together, burying the ones who didn't make it in unmarked graves when i couldn't find their families. The war brought so much destruction, that I couldn't bring myself to do it, he's just a baby Kakashi" Sakura looked at him again, Kakashi still looked like he was about to go on some sort of homicidal spree.

"Your Moral Compass will kill you one day" Kakashi sat down on the chair he had spent the last week on waiting for Sakura to wake up. "Get rid of it now, go see Tsunade"

"No!" Sakura yelled at him "This is my child, just because you don't want him doesn't mean i don't"

"So be it! Do you want to tell him when he is older how he was conceived? While all his friends have loving doting parents, he will be told he was conceived on a mission out in the middle of no where and was an accident, even one who before he is born nearly gets his own mother killed" Kakashi gripped the arms of the chair, Sakura was frustrating beyond measure.

"He cannot be blamed for what happened on the training field, you goaded me into a spar. I am to blame, not your son-

"-he is not my son. He is an abomination" Kakashi interrupted, he needed to say it. This thing that was growing in Sakura was no cute baby, this was whatever that Village made him to be…

Three months ago, Sakura and Kakashi were sent to a Village out near the boarder after whispers of children going missing. After a few days and some very spooky and odd things occurring Kakashi found that the entire Village were in on it. They were sacrificing their own children, to a deity that didn't even exist for the sake of the village. Kakashi had found that every single family in the village had killed the eldest child, usually just after they were born and buried them out in the fields so that the deity would bestow a plentiful harvest. When Sakura found out, she set fire to the fields… only after finding hundreds of baby bones. When the elders were incarcerated, Sakura could barely comprehend how and why. A local girl, the surviving child of her family told them that the eldest child was always the most powerful, and its a tradition that any eldest child conceived within the village was doomed to die.

The superstitious villagers spooked Sakura and Kakashi to the point neither of them liked being on their own. Until one day, Kakashi woke up with his arms around the naked body of Sakura. Neither of them could remember how it happened, there wasn't even a single memory of it… until Kakashi came across food the same villager girl gave them the day the elders were taken away. It was laced with every kind of hormonal drug possible, and for shinobi not to know that was embarrassing.

So Sakura and Kakashi stopped talking…

Now here they were three months later, with Sakura already in hospital due to complications with their son. That village was cursed, and whatever child was growing in Sakura's stomach was doomed to die.

Again, not perfect literacy skills or advid Naruto die hard.

R&R x