Sasuke-Sempai

Summary: The Haruno family had a miscarriage the first time they were to have a child, and when Saki Haruno becomes pregnant two years later, she gives birth to a baby girl with petal pink hair and bottle green eyes, Sakura Haruno. How does age change the Naruto time-line? How does the loss of one child, change the way one daughter is raised? Or how the little girl turns out?

Anime: Naruto

Pairing: Sasuke/Sakura

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Rating: M

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My Dearest Child

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The skies trembled with thunder and flashed with bright bolts of lightning. Rain ambushed anyone unlucky enough to be outside. Tearing at the night were cries of anguish and a broken heart. A woman lay outside the gates of the village hidden in the leaves, next to a man who held her close, grieving for his and the woman's loss as he tried to stop the bleeding from the brokenhearted woman's midriff.

"Saki, hang in there!" He cried out over the thundering skies, rain fell heavily against them, mud splashed them where it did, rain stung at the revealed flesh of the man and woman. "...hang in there..."

Saki, the woman lying broken in his arms cried out her hurt, drawing the attention of passing guards to her and the young man.

"Do you need any help!"

The man looked up to see a woman with fang marks on her cheeks, hair soaked against her face and neck, clothes and ninja gear clinging to her.

"My wife needs help! We were attacked and they got her with a kunai in the gut...she thinks─"

"MY BABY!" The woman cried out, tears staining her flushed cheeks, "Oh god it hurts! My baby~!"

The man stared helplessly at his wife, "Please...please help her!" He begged the woman who stared at him momentarily before picking the woman up and jumping off towards the village. He ran after her, not keeping up, but running in the general direction that led him straight to an entrance to the village.

"Identification and village authorization!"

He stared at a man who was leaning against the entrance, a pineapple styled ponytail in black that was dripping with rain, two scars running along his face. He was obviously not thrilled about working in the rain. "I-Me and my wife only have Identification, we lived on the outskirts of the Fire Nation since childhood, so we grew up in no village! Please, a woman with red markings on her cheeks brought my wife inside this village, I need to find her! She's hurt and with child!"

The man looked at him, and then looked up, "What do you think, Inoichi?"

The man looked up to see another man, brooding with his bangs soaked against his forehead and his long hair, a shade of blonde, messy with the wind and rain fall. "I think we should look up Tsume and see about this wife. So how about it?"

"How about what?"

"Come on Shikaku! You babysit the man; I wanna go see Ino,"

"What, you act like you are the only parent in this storm," His voice came out bored, but the look he gave was one of equal agitation to his friend. "I wouldn't mind seeing Yoshino right now either, or Shikamaru, but as you can clearly see, we are still on duty." He turned to the man who was growing weary, looking week and becoming impatient. "This way." He glanced up and his brown eyes met Inoichi's blue eyes, conveying the message between them without use of words. The message? (You too! Bothersome...)

He followed the two men until they were at a house, two stories with a larger compound next to it. He saw the woman walk inside the larger compound with another woman, this one wearing a nursemaid outfit. "...SAKI!"

The two men watched him run towards the woman, Tsume, as they called her. "That sounds like he's screaming for alcohol!" Inoichi yelled over a loud blast of thunder.

That night, a life was lost and a family mourned.

Two eyes never to see.

Two feet never to walk.

Two hands never to feel.

One mouth never to speak.

One heart...never to beat again.

That night, a woman...lost her first born child.

It was a sad and dreary night in the Village Hidden in the Leaves...that night, the young couple, Saki and Hayato Haruno, became residents of Konoha, to be protected and watched over till this nightmare no longer haunted them.

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(1 Year, 5 Months Later)

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Saki sat against the wall in her bathroom, a washcloth in hand as she wiped her mouth. Her face pale from the painful retching she'd just been put through. Her pink hair tied up and out of her face, a sickly pale lined her brown eyes as she tried not thinking about what had happened, instead, she tried breathing techniques to calm her stomach.

~KNOCK~KNOCK~KNOCK~

Her eyes glanced to her side, the bathroom door was open, which obviously meant it was her front door, but moving meant upsetting her stomach again. "C-coming!" She stumbled to her feet, arms over her stomach as she forced the gagging feeling down and concentrated on the front door. She placed her frail hand on the doorknob, but before she could answer the door, a wave of nausea rushed over her and a dizzy spell forced her to release the door as she fell to the floor. Her eye sight blurred before darkness took her to oblivion.

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(An Hour Later)

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Saki's eyes fluttered open, she groaned and shut her eyes immediately soon after. The blinding light above her made her only too aware of her surroundings.

"Saki, you're awake!"

"Y-yeah...could you...dim the light?"

"Ah, right!"

Saki opened her eyes again and looked to see Hayato standing by her side with a relieved smile on his lips. She assumed he'd been the one to bring her there, though why he would knock...she didn't know, or care really.

"I was so surprised to hear you'd passed out."

"Hear? Who brought me here?"

"Oh, don't you know? It was─" He was going to continue when Tsume walked in dressed in a white long lab coat.

"Out," She told Hayato, "I need to talk with Saki alone."

"Ah...uh, right." He kissed Saki against the cheek before leaving the two ladies alone.

"..."

"Tsume, is there a problem?"

"...Mmm, no, well...not yet. You are with child."

"AH! How!"

"Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much and lay─"

"NOT WHAT I MEANT!"

Tsume held her hands up in defense, laughing at her friends flushed face. "I know, I know."

"Tsume, you told me that─"

"That the chances of you ever giving birth again, with the injury you received that night...was slim to none. None obviously departed the building a few weeks ago."

Tears formed in Saki's eyes. "You mean it...I'm really..."

"Mmhm," Saki's hands rose to her stomach and she felt tears fall against her cheeks. Tsume moved to her sighed and placed her own hand on Saki's. "You're going to be a mom."

Saki laughed her tears away and hugged the older woman.

At twenty she lost her first child to a miscarriage due to an attack on her and her husband; now, once more at twenty-one, she was pregnant, and if luck was on her side, she'd give birth to a healthy baby somewhere after she turned twenty-two. All she had to do was tell Hayato.

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(7 Months Later)

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Inoichi stood outside the birthing room in the hospital, watching his friend pace back and forth down the hall. Shikaku had fallen asleep sitting against the wall with his son, Shikamaru, in his lap and Inoichi's daughter, Ino, sat next to a large dog, pulling on its ears. Chouza, another friend with porcupine like hair in red spiked down his back, a heavy set fellow with an even bigger heart, had his son in his lap; Chouji was the boys' name. The trio was only two years old, each having taken an immediate liking towards one or the other. Ino liked Shikamaru, Shikamaru liked Chouji and Chouji liked Ino. Yet...well...yeah...

Hayato glanced as another friend walked in, this one the youngest of the group, being only nineteen years old, Kakashi walked up to him and grinned.

"You're late."

"I was on my way here and got lost on the road of life."

Hayato withheld the urge to strangle his young friend. "THE ONLY ROAD OF LIFE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKING WAS THE ONE THAT LED YOU HERE!"

"...right, how is she?"

"Still in labor,"

"See, so I haven't missed anything since you all got here three hours ago."

"Grr..."

"Sure you did." Inoichi grinned, "See those marks on the floor? You missed three hours of Hayato pacing."

"The climax of the night."

~AHHHHHHHH~

Every head snapped up at the cry; Kakashi was first to the door, with Hayato next to him. Inoichi, Chouza and Shikaku who'd been woken by the loud cry of pain, were left to watch their kids.

"What happened?"

"Ah, the initial birth of the child." Tsume smiled, "She's beautiful," She handed the baby to Saki, pink faced and wrapped in a white blanket after being cleaned by one of the nursemaids.

"She's beautiful Hayato!" Saki smiled, sweat left a sheen across her brow, bangs and pink strands of hair clung to her heated, sweaty cheeks.

"..." Hayato moved beside her and smiled at the baby she held. A fuzzy head of light candy pink hair and a small child held in the woman he loved arms. This child was a premature baby, being born a month early, so she was small, but she was beautiful.

Saki looked up and smiled, "Kakashi, come look."

"..." He didn't move, "I shouldn't."

"Silly, why not. Hayato and I had already discussed this, but if anything happens to us...we want you to take care of her. You've always been there, you know..." She handed the baby to Hayato who grinned, walking to Kakashi before holding the baby girl out.

Kakashi stared hesitantly before who took the baby and held her carefully in his arms. "Next I'll be babysitting her."

"Hehe, it won't be that bad." Saki smiled; he stared before smiling himself.

"No, I guess it won't be."

It was too soon for the family to celebrate, for only three weeks later, Hayato Haruno died on a mission to the Hidden Village in the Sand. He left his wife and newborn daughter, in the hands of Tsume, Kakashi, Shikaku, Inoichi, Chouza and the rest of the Village residents, wishing only for their happiness as life left him.

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Me: Hope you all enjoy this chapter, Ill update soon!

NEXT CHAPTER!

"KIBA! My Kiba! My Kiba!"

"She's so little; I just don't know...four years old...seems too young."

"Sakura! Be careful!"

"Is she alright?"

"She won't train for such things! I won't let her!"

"Sakura, you'll get hurt playing with those!"

"I will be Ninja too! Kiba be Ninja, Papa be Ninja and 'Sume be Ninja!"

"My little girl..."

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NEXT TIME

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I WILL BE NINJA!

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