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Wow I'm really sorry for taking so long to update =} I've had a ruff past few weeks =/

I've been over the top with school work (I don't do home work, but I do study), and then my grandma died on Friday… then my family stresses me out with how much they get in my face about how busy they are whenever I ask for anything.

Example:

Me: hey mom can I have a bowl of cereal?

Mom: do you know how busy I am trying to finance your grandma's taxes?!?! She hasn't paid them in YEARS!!! And to make it worse the IRS is already starting to collect her property to compensate!!!! ARGGGHHHH!!!!!

One question….. Followed by a lecture for an answer…. Life SO isn't fair!!!

Anyways… I hope this chapter makes up for the wait!!! Please R&R guys!!!! ^_^

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Ashiteru 3

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Sasuke woke up, rubbed his eyes, then stood up from his cot on the floor. When he was about to walk out of the room he heard a loud moan, and turned around to see Sakura lying on the floor in a nest of sheets and blankets.

Sasuke pinched the skin between his eyes then asked "why the hell are you on the floor?"

Sakura didn't answer, but just let out another loud "uuuugggGGGGHHHH!!"

Sasuke was becoming irritated and just lifted her up onto the bed not caring to pick up the blankets or sheets and drowsily trudged out of the room. He was making coffee in the kitchen when he heard the shuffling of feet. A few moments later the shower came on.

"At least she's not puking…" he thought.

Sasuke had made a half pot of coffee and went outside to get the newspaper out of the delivery bin at the bottom of the apartments. He was still dressed in his navy blue pajama pants and black t-shirt when he went down. He didn't have any shoes on either, but still managed to pull off the whole 'I just woke up' look. When he got down to the bottom a couple of blushing giggling girls were gawking at him from the side. Sasuke twitched in irritation, grabbed the newspaper and the mail, and then went back up to the apartment to see Sakura drinking a cup of coffee and making breakfast.

He raised an eyebrow and said "you didn't have to do that you know?"

Sakura looked over at Sasuke, peered his hands, smirked, then snidely replied "and you didn't have to do that either" pointing at his hand clutching the mail and news paper.

Sasuke shrugged then said "I wanted to read the news paper, and the mail was there too, so it didn't matter to me."

Sakura rolled her eyes and mumbled "suuuuurrreeee…"

"So what are you cooking?"

"Why does it smell nice?!"

"uhhh… sure…"

Sakura scowled at Sasuke's vagueness and unenthusiastic personality… but that's just who he was. Sasuke wasn't intending to be rude. He was still thinking about that flashback he'd had about his mom tell him how love worked in strange ways. Whenever he thought about it long enough he'd always catch himself staring at Sakura, who noticed and raised a brow as if asking 'what?! Is there something on my face?!'. Sasuke was bugged about it, but he had to get ready for his Anbu mission, he'd worry about Sakura later.

Sasuke got up then said "I'm taking a shower. You need to get ready for work too."

Sakura rolled her eyes then said "I know! I can't take care of myself!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes as said from inside the bathroom "right, that's why you were bent over puking all over the toilet last night and almost passed out… you can totally take care of yourself…"

Sakura ignored Sasuke's rude comments and continued making breakfast. She had some eggs cooking in one pan, they were scrambled and she had condiments in little bowls on the counter off the side. She was making omelets. Sasuke stepped out of the shower and the smells from the kitchen were wafting into the bathroom overpowering the smell of water vapor.

Sasuke stepped out in nothing but a towel and said "you can leave mine on the counter. I'll eat it in a minute."

Sakura looked over to the half naked Sasuke and blushed then turned away yelling "GET SOME CLOTHS ON DAMNIT!!!!"

Sasuke smirked in amusement then said "it's not like you haven't seen it before Sakura, grow up."

Sakura twitched at the last part. She thought that Sasuke was the one not acting like an adult walking around in nothing but a bath towel… although he looked good in it, it was still totally uncalled for and unnecessary.

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Sasuke stepped out of the room to find Sakura already gone. He shrugged then saw that his plate was on the counter like he'd asked, but what he didn't ask for was a note that was left next to it. He opened the note and read it to himself.

Sasuke,

I know you're busy, and I will be too, and if you're going to stay here like you think you 'have' to… there's a spare key I keep under the welcome mat in a chakra sealed barrier in a little dent in the cement. Use that to get in if you need to. I already left for work if you didn't already guess and I might not be back until late. The last mission we went on ran over my shift hours so I have to make up for it. Anyway, I hope you put your dishes in the sink. I don't need to clean up another mess.

-Sakura

"Well she's never out of words…" Sasuke grumbled to himself as he set the wordy note to the side and gobbled down his breakfast.

He stopped for a moment and looked down then said "hn, she put tomatoes in it…"

After he'd eaten his breakfast and gotten dressed in the rest of his Anbu armor he set the dish in the sink and took off from roof-top to roof-top to his mission briefing.

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"Good morning Lady Tsunade!" Sakura chirped as she walked into the hospital to begin her shift of work.

Lady Tsunade stopped her and said "you don't have work today."

Sakura twitched then said "why the hell not?!"

Tsunade scowled then said "don't you use that tone with me!", Sakura took a deep breath before Tsunade added, "You don't have work because you're pregnant, and it's too risky. Remember, this baby could revive the Uchiha clan."

Sakura rolled her eyes mimicking what Tsunade said irritably, then said "I can't just work in the radiology department, or the terminal illness ward. I can patch up wounds, do surgical procedures, and anything else that doesn't involve extreme light ray exposure or sickness?"

Tsunade rolled her eyes then said "good luck avoiding getting sick in a hospital, the place where people go when they're sick."

Sakura rolled her eyes then said "fine… have it your way…" and walked out of the hospital.

She was rather tired of this nonsense. She couldn't do missions, couldn't train, couldn't do her job, couldn't do squat!

"I HATE BEING PREGNANT!!!!" she yelled frustrated as she kicked a trash can walking down a street with few pedestrians.

"Because it makes you have monstrous mood swings?" a sarcastic voice mocked from behind her.

She turned around to become face to face with the youngest Uchiha and sneered "no! Because everyone's treating me like if I lift a finger I'll die!!! I'll die of BOREDOM before I die of working!!!!"

Sasuke smirked then said "that's just how it is. Go hang out with friends or something."

Sakura rolled her eyes then retorted "you think I haven't tried that already?! They're all constantly being sent on missions!!"

Sasuke just shook his head at her. He was dressed in his Anbu armor and he said "well I have to go on one now. That's why I wanted to find you."

Sakura raised a brow then asked "are you asking me to give you permission or something?"

Sasuke shook his head then said "no, because I wanted to tell you so you don't freak out trying to look for me or hear it from someone else that I'm gone."

Sakura looked around thinking then asked "for how lon-"

She was cut off mid question when Sasuke dryly said "two months…"

Sakura's eyes widened as she asked "are you serious?! What the hell?!"

Sasuke smirked then asked "you gunna miss me?"

Sakura turned her back to him then scoffed "you wish aho! (idiot)"

Sasuke came up from behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist surprising her.

He bent down and whispered in her ear "well I'm going to miss you."

When Sakura turned around all there was behind her was a cloud of smoke where Sasuke had been standing. He had left her.

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"Why the long face Sakura?!" Choji asked walking alongside Sakura down the street when he had seen her, and detected her pessimistic aura.

Sakura shrugged then said "Sasuke's leaving… for two months…"

Choji smiled innocently trying to cheer her up asked "gunna miss him, eh?"

Sakura shrugged again and said "I honestly don't know what to think… he seems to like me… but then he just says he'll miss me and vanishes in a puff of smoke before I can say anything back to him… it's kind of annoying…"

Choji chuckled then said "well he got you pregnant? Doesn't that obviously mean you guys like each other?"

Sakura face palmed herself and grumbled "not really…"

Choji raised an eye brow. Then Sakura pulled him by the arm into a side alley away from the street or where people could hear them.

"What's up?" Choji asked with a concerned raised brow.

Sakura took a deep breath then said "you have to promise not to tell anyone about this. There're only a few people who know about this and I'd rather it not get out at all."

Choji nodded saying "you know I can keep a secret."

Sakura nodded then said "the only reason I'm pregnant is because Kiba dared Sasuke to have sex with me on our last mission because the boys got 'bored'. And you know Sasuke… his ego gets the best of him and he didn't back down, so he went through with it, and I didn't know that my period was the following week… so that's why."

Choji raised a brow then said "and you still let him do that?"

Sakura face palmed herself again saying "I didn't know that Kiba had dared him until after he'd already had sex with me…"

Choji just made an "O" face not totally understanding why his comrades had interesting past times on missions.

Sakura just looked up with a sad expression and asked "now promise you'll keep this 'hush-hush' from all the others? The ones on the mission know Sasuke did it with me, but they think that the dare brought us together as a couple. Then the people who weren't there don't know about the dare at all. We're sort of pretending so people won't think much of us having a child… Sasuke said it's better that way…"

Choji looked concerned as he asked "and what about after the baby's born?"

Sakura shrugged then said "Sasuke said that he hadn't thought that far yet, he said he's just going to take responsibility for his stupid actions and help me get through this mess for now. He didn't decide if he was going to stay with me for good or not."

Choji shook his head then turned serious as he said "I promise I won't say anything to the others… but you can't let him do this to you. I'm serious. If you let him… then you're setting an example for other men that it's ok to things like that to a woman."

Sakura twitched then said "blame Kiba… not me… if I'd known it was a dare I'd never had let him in the first place."

Choji simply waved the subject and said "lets talk about something else… this is too touchy and I don't want to upset you or stress you out."

Sakura smiled and nodded. She could always count on Choji to be more sympathetic and less pushy then the others. He was like a giant teddy bear… that could crush things… by inflating into a rock hard ball… but still snugly as ever! He and Sakura chatted for a while about diets and such. Choji told her that she should eat carrots and tomatoes as much as possible to help develop the baby's eye sight. Sakura just told him that she wasn't really into special stuff like that. She just knew she wasn't going to drink any alcohol (she didn't drink anyway, so it wasn't much of a sacrifice), eat any junk food (besides ramen every now and then), and she wasn't going to over work herself (that was the most challenging one).

"Well Sakura, Asuma-sensei needs me for an important mission in about an hour. I told Shikamaru that I'd meet up with him at his place before we went, so I have to go. But take care!" Choji said happily as he bid her farewell.

Sakura was once again alone. It had been nice conversing with Choji, but now what? She didn't have much else to do besides lye around the apartment, and that wasn't what she felt like doing. She wanted to get out and train, and go on missions, but that was impossible. She finally gave up as she turned towards the apartment with a huff and grumbling of words.

"Sakura-chan!!" a familiar voice cooed from behind her.

Sakura turned around to see Naruto saying "hi…" in a 'I-didn't-expect-to-see-you' tone.

"What?" Naruto asked somewhat shocked and insulted.

"Nothing… it's just that Sasuke's on a mission so I thought for sure that you'd be going with him." Sakura said still looking at Naruto confused.

Naruto scratched the back of his head looking off into space before he said "well I heard there was an Anbu mission, it's a three man cell of top secret Anbus that are being sent to the rain village to take out some Akatsuki guy named 'pain'. They only selected the 'elite'… so I didn't get to go."

He said "elite" mockingly obviously bummed that Sasuke was picked and not him for the mission.

"So it's 'S' ranked?" Sakura asked somewhat sad and disappointed, with her voice dripped in worry.

Naruto noticed this and said "yea… but don't worry. It's Sasuke were talking about here. I mean… he took out Itachi! So this guys just going to be another piece of cake for him!"

"Right…" Sakura said under her breath trying to sound hopeful, but miserably failed in doing so.

Naruto just raised a brow at her and crossed his arms. He hated seeing her like this. She was his friend, comrade, and teammate after all.

"Come on… I'll walk you home" he said in a low voice indicating he knew that she was sad.

Sakura just nodded and followed Naruto down the streets lined with streetlights that were just turning on. By the time they reached Sakura's apartment, it was already dark.

"Arigato Naruto-kun" she said smiling her best smile as she entered the apartment.

"Ja ne, Sakura-chan."

The door was closed behind her and she could hear Naruto jump off the door step onto the nearest rooftop, and hop away.

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Sakura couldn't believe it'd been a month and a half since Sasuke left. She was getting her coat on, getting ready to go out the door to Tsunade's to get her 3 month check up. She had almost forgotten about it if it weren't for Naruto loudly knocking on her door waking her up because he wanted to go too. Sakura stepped out onto the doorstep and locked her door as Naruto was rushing her to leave.

"Let's go Sakura-chan!!!!" he screeched.

"Hold on Naruto! Just relax!!! Tsunade will be there five minutes from now!!"

"We don't' have five minutes!!!"

Sakura finally bolted off of the doorstep and onto the nearest roof top. She sped forwards towards the hospital with graceful footing in order to ensure she didn't fall. When she arrived she was led into a room and Naruto was left to wait out in the hall.

"You're late" Tsunade remarked dryly as she squirted some jell on her hands.

Sakura lifted her orange maternity shirt up so that Tsunade could spread the cold jell all over her abdomen. Sakura winced from the cool sting of it but soon wasn't bothered by it. Tsunade then had green chakra resonating from her pointer finger and placed it right under Sakura's navel. Tsunade stayed like that for a few minutes scowling. Tsunade stopped the chakra flow in her finer and stepped back with a grim face.

She turned her back to Sakura heading towards the door with her gaze on the floor reaching for the door knob she said "I'm sorry… whatever heartbeat was there… isn't there anymore…"

Sakura's eyes started developing little pools on the side as she whispered "no…. trying again! That can't be right!"

Tsunade waved her hand and said "there's no mistake… the baby's dead…" and walked out of the room.

Sakura kept her shinobi façade on as she walked out of the door and saw Naruto. Naruto saw the depressing look on her face, and remained silent. After Naruto had walked her home Sakura placed her things on the counter and looked in the bathroom mirror. As she looked at her reflection she began to cry, she slowly undressed herself in order to take a shower. When she turned the water on she placed her hands on the shower wall to hold herself up, but as she cried harder and harder she slowly slid down until she was sitting on the cold tiled surface of the shower floor. She covered her face and wept as the water ran over her skin drenching her body in artificial tears. She felt that in some way… it was her fault the baby was dead. And when Sasuke got back, how was she going to tell him? Would he ignore her again like he had when he first came back to the village? Will he be mad at her for loosing his child?

Those questions haunted her thoughts as she let them out in tears.

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To Be Continued…

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Thank you all so much for the reviews!!!! I got four instead of one this time ;D WOOT!!!

Anyway, I replied to them below and I hope that you all reviews on this chapter as well!!!

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innocent blusher: well I know I made him a tad softer than normal, but what do you mean by 'productive'? o_0

C.A.M.E.O.1 and Only: I wish I could let him get hurt, but he never meant for all this crap to happen. Anyways, I'll try and find a way for him to get his 'just-desserts' if that's what you really want. If you don't mind try and give me some good ideas =)

Yamora Love n Friendship: thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it! I hope you put this on your story alerts list and keep reading it! If you like this one all my other stories are SasuSaku as well. So you might wana check them out too!

mellowkid9090: haha well I hope you keep reading thank you! And I'm not sure how I come up with so many good stories… *thinking pose* hmmmm… I just like writing, and I get these ideas and movies and stuff in my head and I just jot them down as I got. I never really use an 'outline' that I have to follow. So I have free range to take the story where ever I want =)))