A/N: Guess who's in this chapter ;)
Her eyes were wide with shock. She was pregnant.
Chapter Two: First Missions Never Go So Well
Sakura sat there in the bathroom, back against the wall. She held a pregnancy test in her hand and just stared. This had to be a dream. She pinched her arm for the seventh time now, leaving little red pinch marks. Obviously, it was not a dream. Maybe I'm hallucinating? She questioned herself. If she was, she'd be seeing pink elephants, so she crossed that out. We used protection! She thought. It probably broke. She hadn't felt him come inside her, so she didn't know what to think.
Maybe they were wrong? God she hoped so, but three false positives were kind of pushing it. Sakura was sure that they were right, but wanted to deny it. There was no way in hell that she could be having his kid.
She looked at all of the pregnancy signs she had been having. Number one, sore breasts. They had gotten slightly bigger. Okay, not exactly slightly, but to the point where her nipples continued to try to escape her bra. Two, she had missed her period. She had never missed a period. It came the exact time every month. Three, she started to feel very tired. If I am pregnant…that would be from the raised progesterone. Or I could just be wearing myself out with everything at the hospital. She countered herself. Four, she had been slightly more moody. Like the other day, she went off on a patient who had a sprained ankle. He was crying like a baby and he was like, what, twenty something? Now that she'd thought about it, she kind of felt bad, but you shouldn't cry about something like that. And then, the most recent symptom she had, number five, morning sickness.
Right then the door to the bathroom flew open with Naruto chanting, "Gottah pee, Gottah pee!" He stopped in his tracks when he'd seen Sakura sitting, back against the wall, knees to her chest, holding a little tab thing.
"I'm sorry Sakura! Don't hit me! I didn't know you where in here, honest!"
She nodded, "It's okay Naruto." He was about to walk out before she changed her mind till he saw what was in her hand.
"Sakura…what's that?" She looked up at him and raised her hand that had the stick of pee and said
"Oh this? It's nothing, don't worry." He nodded and quickly walked out before she changed her mind. She put a hand on her stomach, rubbed it, and left it there.
She'd thought about abortion. She hated it, thought it was absolutely horrible, but now that she was in the situation, she understood. Sakura sat there and decided that she'd keep it until she was absolutely sure about keeping it or not. She absolutely would not tell anyone unless she was keeping it. This means definitely no more alcohol till then, or not, depending on her decision. Suddenly, she got scared. She had been drinking this past three weeks. Would this affect the baby? What if it has birth defects? Will it come out okay? She began to ask herself all of these questions, but then asked herself another one. Why do I care? It's Sasuke's child. He probably doesn't even want to deal with a kid and when the kid was born, it would ask why it didn't have a father. She began to cry silently, for some reason she couldn't even find.
She was scared about having a kid. Getting up, she picked up the pregnancy tests, wrapped them in tissue and threw them in the trash. Washing her face, she walked into the living room to find an ANBU member standing in the living room. Their mask was a bird, at the look of it.
"Sakura, I have been requested to tell you to go to Hokage-sama's office, right now." It was a woman.
She stared. "What for?"
The ANBU member cleared their throat as Naruto walked in, "She told me not to say anything as of now, and she wants to tell you herself." With that, she disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Wonder what that was about" Naruto asked.
"I'll be back in a few, Naruto, I have to report to Tsunade-sama's office." He 'mmm'ed' and she left. It was around one o' clock, she guessed. Why would she send an ANBU for me?
On Sakura's walk there, she'd seen a pregnant lady. She looked around seven months pregnant. Her hand was being held by another, by who appeared to be her husband. A pang of jealousy rose. Why couldn't that be her?
When she got to the tower, she took her time climbing up the stairs. She made slow loud knocks on her door.
"Come in!" She did as said. "Tsunade-sama" She bowed.
"Sakura! Stop that. Now, come up here." She walked up to Tsunade's desk. "I have a question for you." Her voice was dark.
"Y-yes?" She laughed, "Don't be so easily intimidated!" Sakura could tell she had already started drinking.
"Okay, onto the question…What would you say…if I ask you to join ANBU?" Her eyes widened. Is she asking me to join ANBU? "Hey! I asked a question."
She blinked. "I-I would say yes!"
"Well, you're in! Congratulations! Come on, let's have a drink!" She shook her head at the women.
"No thanks Tsunade-sama, I still have many things to do today. Thank you so much!" She ran over to the women and hugged her.
"The official ceremony will be in two months Sakura, be ready. And here's a scroll, it tells you when and where it is at, what will happen, yada yada." She nodded, walking out with a little skip in her step. As Sakura walked out, Tsunade was smiling, but she got this weird feeling. She had seen a different source of chakra in Sakura. Like…what happens when women get pregnant. Tsunade shook it off, thinking it was just the alcohol playing tricks on her again.
Sakura was happy. ANBU was not something you just easily made. Fiddling with the scroll, she had her hand unconsciously on her stomach as she walked down the street. That's when she bumped into someone, knocking herself back, but catching herself back on balance before falling.
"Excuse me, I wasn't looking-" She stopped when she saw who it was. Staring at the persons eyes briefly, she became mad. Extremely mad.
An ugly frown formed upon her features and that's when he asked, "Miss me?" with that fucking smug smirk of his.
She thought about what she was going to do for a second. Summoning her chakra to her right hand, she raised her hand as if to scratch her head, and then punch him before he could even react. He went flying, busting into a few wooden fences before he stopped. "Who the hell would miss you, asshole." She felt her pregnancy rage fuming through her blood along with her hot headed self. A pregnant Sakura was not a good thing.
She walked off, raging. Many people moved out of her way on the streets seeing as she looked as if she would rip your head off. Walking into Naruto's apartment, she sat down on the couch and threw her head back. Boy, she wished she could chug down some alcohol.
By the time Naruto came home it was around seven. "Hey Sakura!" he greeted, walking through his door.
"I was just looking for you. You ready to go and train with team seven?" he saw her pissed off look. "Whas wrong Sakura?" Leaving off the t in 'what's'.
She looked at him. "Oh nothing, actually, I feel kind of good." She wickedly smirked at him and he shivered. "I punched Sasuke in the face today. Pretty sure I broke his nose and busted his lip." She laughed.
Naruto got a weird feeling. She jumped off the couch, "Naruto! Oh my gosh! I got promoted to ANBU today!" Naruto's eyes widened at the sudden change of moods, but seeing how this was probably a good day for her, he was happy. "That's great Sakura! After training, we'll celebrate!"
"Oh, uh… Naruto, I'm not going to be drinking anymore- Hey! Don't give me that look, it's just for a little while. I'm trying out something new right now, okay?"
He gave her a weird look. "Well, we'll go out to eat, team seven. Including Yamato and Kakashi-sensei!" she smiled, thinking that was a good idea.
"Sounds great!" He hugged her. "Now, let's go! We got to go training" he urged.
"Yeah." She said, putting on her ninja boots.
When they got to the training ground, Sai and Yamato were already there.
"Hey guys!" Naruto yelled. "Guess what happened today!" A muffled huh was heard from Yamato, as he was drinking some water.
"Sakura's part of ANBU now!" Yamato spit out the water he was drinking in surprise. Sakura held a shy blush on her face.
"Good job, Ugly." Sai remarked. She punched him in the arm, enough for him to wince.
Yamato patted her head, "Great job kiddo! Now, let's test those ANBU skills out! It will be Sai against Sakura and Myself against Naruto. Sai, go full out on Sakura, and Sakura, don't hold back. Rules: You can't use anything but your body and chakra. No kunai, scrolls, nothing. Just fists and legs." Everyone nodded.
There was Sakura and Sai, large strides apart, waiting for Yamato to let them start.
"Ready…Set…GO!"
Sai dashed to his right and jumped up, throwing his left leg up to kick her side. Sakura lifted her left arm and blocked it, grabbing his leg with her right hand. She pulled his leg, taking his body with it, and throwing him into a tree. He twisted his body to where his feet landed on the tree and pushed himself off going at her. She punched the ground with a chakra coated hand, breaking the ground like an earth quake. He jumped into the air and she jumped back considerably, but still, he landed right behind her. He landed a hit on her left bicep. She winced from the hard hit.
The fight went on for awhile like this until she went to punch him in which he blocked and went to hit her in her open area. Her stomach. She saw this last second and yelped, bringing her leg up in a way she didn't know was possible. She kicked his abdomen with chakra gathered in her foot getting a direct hit. He grunted in pain. She felt way too protective and there wasn't even the cute little baby bump yet.
Rage engulfed her as she went after him. Quickly, he got up, disappearing. She looked around and caught him in her right peripheral vision. She threw her arm out to hit him, but he grabbed it swiftly and pinning it behind her back. She twisted her arm back around and threw her leg around meaning to trip him, but missed. He tried a direct frontal attack in which Sakura dodged and disappeared behind him, grabbing both of his arms as she had her foot on his back. She had him on the ground, and if she just yanked back-
"Good job Sakura! Tsunade definitely did not mistake putting you into ANBU. You've improved greatly!" Yamato clapped.
"Now it's mine and Naruto's turn. You ready?" He looked over at Naruto.
"Duh" he said.
"There's some water in that bag over there. Drink up." Yamato told waving his hand in the direction.
Sakura let go of Sai and walked over to the tree trunks taking a seat. Wiping the sweat off her forehead she grabbed a bottle of water drinking over half. Sai sat on the stump next to her, grabbing a water for himself. They both watched the fight until Sai decided to interact.
"You did…good." She looked over at him, and smiled. "Thanks, you did too."
A few minutes passed as the fight between Naruto and Yamato seemed consistent in this; kick, block, punch, block, jump, run, kick, block, and so on.
"You seemed a bit…off. When I tried to hit your stomach. Is something wrong ugly?" He put on a fake smile. Her heart skipped a beat. He doesn't think or know that you're pregnant Sakura, he's just wondering. Sakura told herself.
"Oh, nothing at all. I just got sick this morning and I didn't want to puke all over you, you know?" He didn't respond.
Yamato and Naruto's fight ended as it came to a draw, both panting and sweaty. Naruto grinned, "Now let's go get Kakashi and head to Ichiraku and get some food!"
It had been around ten when they made it to Ichiraku with everyone and Kakashi. When Kakashi had learned about Sakura's ANBU status, he practically had the same response as Yamato did, accept his words were I'm proud of you! Which made Sakura bust into a wide grin. Kakashi had become like a father figure, after hers had been KIA, as Tsunade was her mother figure.
They all sat on the stools, eating and happily chatting. Sakura's hand kept lingering on her stomach until she would catch herself. She would reprimand herself, saying that would make it obvious. All of a sudden, a wave of nausea came over her. She jumped up, running out of Ichiraku and puked her brains out by the side of the restaurant. Naruto walked out and asked if she was okay. She had let him know that she'd be back in a few minutes. He nodded and walked back into Ichiraku. Damn morning sickness.
When she had returned, Sai had already left and everyone was already done. Besides Naruto of course.
"So Sakura, you excited?" Kakashi asked.
She nodded, "Very! I didn't know I could ever make that status."
He nodded, a little eye crinkle apparent. "Well, I'm not surprised one bit. You've raised yourself up over the years and have done a great job." Smiling, she thanked him. After everything was said and done, everyone started to head to their own homes.
It had been a long and exhausting day for Sakura. After her and Naruto had taken a shower, they both lay in his bed. "Hey Naruto?"
"Hmmm…?" he sighed.
"I'm sorry I've been here for way too long, I'll be-" she was interrupted, "Sakura, you're fine. Don't worry about it, really. I don't mind."
Quietly, she smiled. "Thank you" She guessed he had already fallen asleep as he did not answer her. She had been thinking to herself that night and she decided. She decided that she was going to keep the child.
The next day, she looked into the scroll. It showed which building the ceremony would be held. She would get a tattoo on her right arm, signifying that she was a girl. It was a swirl with a curve beside the swirly part, the original ANBU mark. It was less than thirty days away. She was excited. She got to learn how to wield a katana, something she'd always wanted to learn.
The day passed by fast. After training, she and Naruto headed home. Tonight, she decided she was going to tell Naruto that she was pregnant.
When they made it home, Naruto made some ramen for them. They sat at his table, and she spoke up.
"Hey Naruto. I can tell you anything, right?" he made a face, "Of course you can!" she barely understood what he said as he had noodles in his mouth.
"Well, you can't tell anyone, okay?" The baby bump would start to show within the next two months or so. It would barely be even noticeable, but it would have that tiny curve. He nodded. He was paying attention now, focusing only on her.
"I'm pregnant" She decided not to beat around the bush. With that, Naruto fell to the ground unconscious.
She panicked. "Naruto! Are you okay? Naruto, Wake up…Wake up!" She lightly slapped his face.
"Woah, Sakura. I just had a totally weird dream! Me and you were eating ramen and you told me you were pregnant!"
She frowned. "That wasn't a dream Naruto" He fainted again. She sighed. When he was awake she had him back in the chair and she explained. He had gotten angry but she told him not to. It was her fault too after all.
"It's not your fault Sakura, don't even put any bit of blame on yourself." A sudden wave a tears came upon her. Naruto soothed her and she had told him it was just the hormones.
One Month Later
Just about every day she trained. Only Naruto knew about her pregnancy, so when they would spar, he would go easy. This would piss her off. She had finally moved into her apartment, with the help of Naruto thankfully. She read and memorized the rules of ANBU black ops. Cringing at one of them, she read it, if she were to be mortally wounded, she was to destroy herself to keep information from getting into the wrong hands. She really did not want to get into that predicament.
Sakura was a week away from being two months pregnant. She figured that she would go ahead and start buying maternity clothing, needing to go out for some fresh air anyways. Naruto was at her apartment, helping her repaint it.
"Hey Naruto? Want to go out shopping with me?" He made a face until she was halfway through making a deal. "I'll buy you some ramen-" he interrupted "Let's go!"
She laughed. Today, she had been craving some ramen. Ramen and Shrimp…and chicken…and cherry pie. Hell, she was hungry for everything, just as long as it smelt good to her. She and Naruto went to a random shop that no one knew about, so word wouldn't get out. She had bought a lot of different sized clothes for the different sizes she would turn.
Afterwards she treated him to ramen. She was so hungry, she hadn't eaten since yesterday afternoon.
On her third bowl, Naruto looked at her. "I think this is as much as I've ever seen you eat. Ever."
She looked at him with noodles sticking out of her mouth. "I'm feeding two people here Naruto."
He laughed, "True, true."
The day of the ceremony, she had been eleven weeks pregnant. The only sign showing was a little unnoticeable baby bump. She had to say, she was growing attached to the little thing.
At the ceremony she had to undergo many questions and promise that she would follow all of the rules and stuff of the sort. She'd gotten the standard ANBU tattoo by a weird jutsu and she thought it was cool as shit. Her official ANBU mask was of a wolf. She received the standard ANBU attire and was given a plain small katana.
The process of the ceremony took quite awhile and she began to grow tired. Most of the people down here, if they didn't have their masks on, looked so serious. Tsunade was there too, and she was just smiling her ass off, like the black sheep of the group in here.
Sakura was glad to be home. It had been a long and very, very tiring day. The ceremony had taken a lot out of her. She had to keep turning Tsunade down from drinking alcohol, but then she would just offer some again until Shizune told her she had some paper work to take care of. She mouthed a 'thanks' to her and she just winked knowingly. What that woman had to endure with Tsunade, she kind of felt bad.
She plopped onto her bed, fresh from taking a shower. Looking down at her belly, she rubbed it than started to talk to it.
"What should I name you little one? I wonder if you're a boy or girl…hmm." She laid her head back down and slowly fell asleep thinking about her baby that would be here in a few months.
Twelve weeks pregnant. Baby bump starting to show.
Sakura's first ANBU mission was today. It was to find out what all the mess was with Akatsuki around the fire boarders. There had been only one sighted.
This was a solo mission and she was pretty nervous. She had thought that on her first mission it would have been with a squad or something. Tsunade said she had faith in her since she had already defeated an Akatsuki member before, and she had excelled since then. This was supposedly to test out her skills. If the fight were to get out of her league, she was to escape. As she was traveling, her thoughts began to wonder. She was just about into her second trimester. Her morning sickness had stopped, along with her soar breasts and boy was she happy about it. The only thing that had been bothering her is a constant pain in her lower back. She figured she'd just pulled something.
What she was ecstatic about though, was earlier the week she learned how to use the katana properly from one of the ANBU captains. What made her happier is even Kakashi had a one on one spar with her, teaching her techniques to use through the sword. It was fun.
And here she was now, jumping off and on branches towards her destination. She had been running for over an hour or so, so it wouldn't be long till she would see the said Akatsuki.
When she'd come to a clearing, she stopped just before the tree line, looking for a trap. Instead, there was a blonde sitting on the ground, criss cross apple sauce. It kind of looked like a girl, but the body type was masculine. He was facing the opposite direction from her. Their hair looked complicated. Half was up, and sort of spiky, while the other half lay flatly on his neck. This person didn't look like they were a part of the Akatsuki. They were missing the robe, but he looked familiar, even if it was from behind.
Making sure her chakra was masked, she began to approach him as quietly as possible.
"I know you're there, yeah." She froze.
That impediment she recognized from somewhere. She just couldn't seem to put her finger on it. "Yeah? What about it?"
He started to stand, "You're here to take care of me, right?" He started to dust himself off, not facing her yet.
"I guess so." She replied, nonchalantly. His hands rested on his hips, sliding into his pockets. Then, he chose to face her. She recognized that face! He was the one sitting on Gaara when they were going to extract his bijuu. She clenched her hands.
"Hey, that's a pretty wicked mask you got there, yeah."
Venom in her voice, she replied a simple "Thanks." He then mumbled something which she made out as "Wonder what's under it"
She tried to keep her rage from clouding her judgment. "What are you doing here on fire territory?" He smiled, it was a crooked smiled. Her heart fluttered as she slightly blushed under her mask. She tried to refrain any thoughts from entering her head. "You know, just stuff, here and there, yeah."
She rolled her eyes, not that he could see them. "Care to elaborate?"
He shifted his stance and she tensed. "Not really."
She could tell he was the arrogant type. "Well…I need to take you back with me. Dead or alive. I would prefer alive. You know, no dead weight. But…it's your choice. So choose."
He thought for a second. "Well, how about I not go with you and still stay alive, yeah. That sounds good to me." Her eye twitched.
He was a smart ass alright. She quickly grabbed a kunai from her pouch and threw it at him. He caught it swiftly and threw it back.
Stepping aside, she dodged it. "That all you got?" He asked.
She smirked, "You want to find out?"
He laughed an attractive laugh, "Guess I do, yeah."
She went at him, adrenaline flowing through her veins. Gathering chakra in her right hand, she when to punch him. He swiftly moved, grabbing her wrist and throwing her over his shoulders. She landed on her feet just barely.
"Close range's not really my style, yeah. But I only have a little clay left, so I guess it can't be helped." He frowned. She took this opportunity of his rambling to try to trip him but he jumped up, evading it. His feet landed on her shoulders and jumped into a back flip, making her fall back.
He went at her quickly as she landed on the ground, she covered her stomach and vital organs when it looked like he was about to hit her, but instead he stopped. He pulled her mask off. Wide eyed, she looked at him.
"Heh, you're pretty cute if I say so myself, but you remind me of someone, yeah." Her eyes narrowed. She did not like being this close to the enemy.
"I killed your partner Sasori." His eyes widened, dropping the mask he jumped back. "That was you?" He sounded extremely surprised. "Shit. I thought I recognized that pink hair from somewhere. Wait…You're in ANBU, yeah? Damn, I really underestimated you."
She smiled, "Bad move." She ran up to him and punched him in the face with a chakra laced hand. Hearing his jaw crack and seeing him fly a good distance made her smile in satisfactory. He yelled out a profanity. She then saw him do a hand sign, late to realize that there was a white spider crawling towards her.
"Shit!" She jumped back when she heard, "Katsu!" The blast sent her flying.
She tried to gain control mid-air but failed and crashed into a tree, hitting her head severely. Her arms covered her stomach in protection of her unborn child. Sakura's vision went black for a few seconds before she could see again, her head felt very dizzy. She felt warm liquid flow down her neck as she realized her head was bleeding. She lifted a hand, healing the wound enough to make it stop bleeding. Managing a sitting position against the tree, she looked in the Akatsuki's direction.
"Deidara-Sempai! We gotta go! Come on!" She heard an unfamiliar voice yell.
She turned and saw a masked man in an Akatsuki robe waving at who she now remembers as Deidara. So much for one Akatsuki member. She thought.
Her leg had twisted in a way that shouldn't be possible. She sat on the ground and watched him approach her. She laughed sarcastically, "Sempai? Looks like he likes you! 'Deidara-Sempai' " She mimicked, pissed for making her fly into a tree.
Deidara made a face at that, rolling his eyes. He was now only a foot away from her and bent down, face entering her personal bubble. "I hope I meet your cute self again, yeah. Then, maybe we can finish up this fight. But for now, I leave you with this" He grabbed the collar of her shirt and kissed her.
He was kissing her. An Akatsuki member nonetheless. It took her a couple of seconds to retaliate. She'd closed her eyes and melted into his soft lips. It felt like it lasted forever until he pulled back. "I was mad about you killing Sasori for awhile, but now I'm kind of glad, and I thank you for that, yeah. I hope to meet you again someday. So until then," He stood up, and turned around. A tiny clay bird of his expanded into a huge one, himself and his partner jumped on it and she watched them fly away.
She sat in awe. Did that really just happen? She put two fingers on her lips and blushed. Wow. She thought.
Snapping out of her daze, she got pissed.
"What the fuck!" She yelled into the sky, sure he heard her as she watched them fly away.
She could have sworn she heard his laugh in the wind.
Angrily, she began to heal her leg, wincing as she twisted it back into place.
She stretched it out, dryly saying, "Good as new." Walking over to her mask she picked it up and put it back on, heart still racing.
She told herself that it was the adrenalin and anger.
It had been around an hour that she had been traveling. She was rushing home until she began to get an enormous pain around her lower region. Immediately stopping, she hunched over grabbing her stomach. She had cried out in pain and looked at her thighs, there was blood. He eyes got big as saucers. This could not be happening.
She tried to ignore the pains as she began to head home, as fast as she could.
As she arrived at the gates, the guards panicked. They had called for help and she found herself being rushed to the hospital, getting excruciating pains that would come and go.
In the hospital, they found out about her pregnancy and asked her questions like, "Where does it hurt"
She spat back. "Where the fuck does it look like it hurts!"
The lady looked almost afraid, but continued her questioning. "H-Have you been having any cramps? Any mild bleeding?"
She thought for a minute. "My lower back has been hurting for awhile." The nurse wrote that down.
"Well, when did your pregnancy symptoms subside? Like morning sickness, sore breasts, peeing frequently."
"They went away very recently, within this-" She groaned as a sharp pain violated her lower area. "Past week." She finished.
After all the questions Tsunade had rushed down to her hospital room and began to take care of her.
"I knew you were pregnant! That's why you wouldn't drink anymore…How far along are you?"
She had to think, "Twelve weeks I think."
Tsunade place a hand on her stomach. Sakura watched as it glowed green, chakra slightly tingling her stomach.
"Sakura, what I am about to tell you might scare you, but I am sure you're having a miscarriage. This could have been caused by anything, stress, alcohol, the baby not growing normally, and well, you know. When you are around your second trimester and you are having a miscarriage, you bleed a lot and get pains that feel as if you're giving labor. You will feel like you're having contractions that should be five to twenty minutes within eachother." She took a long breath.
" With your symptoms, you are probably having an Inevitable or Incomplete miscarriage. There is a slight dilation of your cervix and a slight rupture of your membranes. If this does not complete than the bleeding and cramps will persist. We will give it a few days to let it take its course and then we will do a D&C to make sure all of the tissue has been removed to prevent infection. We will give you some pain medication for the cramps and if you lose too much blood, we will have to have a blood transfusion. You'll be okay, don't worry."
Tsunade squeezed her Sakura's hand that she held within her own. Sakura was having a hard time taking this all in. She became numb and started to cry. Even if she didn't want the damn thing at first, she had become attached to it. It had grown on her and she was ready to become a mother. Hell, she talked to it!
Tsunade hugged her and patted her back trying to soothe her sobs. Just when things had begun to get better, they had taken a turn for the worst. She hated Sasuke for this. He had played tricks on her for over a year, taken her virginity, impregnated her and now it was all gone. He had given her the false hope of giving birth to a child. She blamed him for all of this. Everything was perfect until he had come back to Konoha. Everything seemed perfect when they were together and then everything went downhill when she was stupid enough to give up her virginity to him.
She fell asleep crying in Tsunade's arms.
The Next Morning
Sakura couldn't wake up. She felt herself in the bed, just laying there not being able to move. Somebody's hand was holding hers and they were talking to her. Crying it sounded.
"Sakura, please wake up. Wake up Sakura." It didn't quite register to her who was saying this. But she could hear it as if they were all the way down a hallway, talking too quietly for the distance.
She tried talking and heard the stranger stop all of its noises. As much as she tried, all she could get out were struggled noises. She felt tears stream down her face.
Opening her eyes, she couldn't recognize the person next to her, holding her hand. It was as if they were there, but just an allusion. More struggled noises came out of her throat as she tried to talk again.
She was scared as her eyes closed again. Surrounded by nothing by darkness was terrible. It was like a nightmare where she had never opened her eyes in the first place.
She heard the sobs again.
Later That day
Sakura heard another voice. It was different from before. The hand was different then before and if she'd known better, she'd say it was a female's hand. She tried to squeeze whoever's hand it was because she felt bad for them.
They were crying too. Sakura could feel her arm was wet and hair lay on her bicep. She made no attempt in trying to talk, but she tried opening her eyes to get away from the darkness.
When she had opened her eyes, all she did see was darkness. She was scared and began to feel tears falling down her own face.
"Nurse, Is she crying!" She heard the voice that was just talking to her.
"That's just the natural watering of the eyes, don't worry about it."
The Following Day
She heard a lot of voices in the room. Clinks of metal, snaps of elastic, random noises.
Feeling a sharp prick in her arm, she wanted to say "Ow" or "What the hell was that for?" but she couldn't find herself to.
It was still all black.
Soon enough, she wasn't able to feel anything. Not when the doctor opened her legs to do a D&C, not when he accidently cut her thigh, not when her legs were closed back again.
One Day After the Operation
The only thing Sakura had seen since she'd taken her sleep was him. It was a nightmare. He was there, mocking her.
He kept repeating everything he said on that night over three months ago. It kept repeating on his lips as she stared at him in the darkness. Everything was black besides him.
His red eyes penetrated her faded green ones. She had begun to see illusions she thought to be real. She wanted to cry out, to scream as loud as she could, but couldn't. It was like her body was paralyzed.
Her eyes weren't able to close from the scene. He had raised his sword and began to slowly slide it down her abdomen, trailing down to her pelvic area. Keeping the sword still, she watched the blood slide down her side. Twisting the sword, the sharp tip dug into her skin.
She felt every cut and twist of his sword. His red eyes stared at her, an evil smirk plastered on his face. Jerking his arm forward, it pierced through her organs and she tried to scream out.
Sliding his sword out of her body, he looked at it. Blood dripped off, falling onto the black floor. She could feel tears running down her face as she was being tortured.
The nightmares had continued off and on during her coma for the last two months. Each time she cried and from what everyone could see, she would start coughing.
In her nightmares, that's when she would begin to cough up blood. It's when Sasuke would look at her with his blood red eyes and tell her she was useless.
It's when she felt the most like dying.
Two months later
Sakura awoke in a hospital bed. Her back ached like she had slept for ages. To her left, she saw Naruto in a chair with his head resting on the edge of her bed and Sai in the corner of the room. Why was she in the hospital? She then recalled about last events before she fell asleep. A frown came upon her face as she felt crying. Naruto stirred in his sleep. Then one eye opened following the other. They both went wide. "Sakura! I'm so glad you're alive! I was so scared you weren't going to wake up!" He jumped out of his seat to hug her.
"Naruto, I've only been asleep for a day" Her throat was sore from misuse.
"No! You went into a coma for over two months Sakura! Grandma Tsunade said you went into a coma from head trauma. Everyone has visited you!" She looked to her right, to see a table full of flowers. "In fact, Ino just left this morning."
Memories went flying through her eyes. Her eyes widened as she broke down. "I was so scared Naruto. All I could see was darkness and I had nightmares." She held her face in her hands. "I remember people talking to me. I remember holding people's hands and wondering why it sounded like they were crying." She explained everything from her coma. She remember Naruto, Ino, Hinata, Kakashi, Tsunade, and so on that talked to her. It was several minutes before Naruto could get her to calm down.
Sai walked over to the bed, pulling up a chair. "Are you feeling alright? Physically?"
She nodded at Sai. "So now everyone knows about my-uh" She had to think for the term. "Miscarriage use to be pregnancy?" he nodded. She really didn't want to be around anyone right now, but was afraid of being alone. She laid back down. "I'll go get Grandma Tsunade!" Naruto ran out the room.
She saw Sai beginning to leave before she shouted at him. "Please don't go Sai!" What s he could tell as curiosity on his face, she continued. "I've been in the darkness for two months. I don't want to be alone." His face showed different than his usual apathetic look. Walking back to the bed, he sat back down.
Sakura stared blankly at the ceiling, hand on her now flat stomach. Two months? She thought. She was beyond depressed. Did this mean that Sasuke knows about everything?
It's not like it mattered anyways. He would have found out sooner or later since she was keeping the child.
The door busted in with a near running Tsunade, yanking Sakura off the bed and pulling her in a bone crushing hug. "I was so worried about you!" She let herself be shook around by Tsunade. This could have put her through a lot of stress she realized. Tsunade put her back down, sitting her on the bed. "How are you feeling?" Sakura let out a simple, "Fine" Tsunade gave her a skeptical look. "Well, I'm surprised you're able to even talk. Do you remember everything?" She nodded. "I guess I do."
"Well, before we release you, we're going to have to do a checkup. So open wide and say 'ahh'" She did as said. "Walk for me, in a straight line please." Doing this, she felt a little lightheaded and fell on her knees. "Don't get up so fast and that won't happen." Tsunade made her do several other things, writing stuff down on a clipboard.
"Alright, you're fine. Everything has been taken care of and you're good to go. You'll have two weeks off to get back on your feet. Now Sakura, there are some things that I need to fill you in on." She had gotten serious so quickly and that's when Sakura realized how awful Tsunade looked. She had deep purple circles under her eyes, as if she hadn't been able to sleep.
"What happened?" Tsunade looked at Sai, and he nodded taking his leave. "Sakura…A war is about to erupt against the five great nations."
"Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies"
-Stephen King
A/N: Well, how do you like the great cliffy-ish end? Readers, as much as I like my story being added to your favorites, I love hearing your feedback from reviews. I hope everyone enjoyed reading this as much as I am enjoying writing this. Don't forget to review, and check out my other story's while waiting for the third chapter (Which will be out very soon, don't worry). I have to thank my beta reader, they are so patient with me! If you have any questions about my story just PM me and I will try to answer them as best as I can. So until then!...
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