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Infernos

Chapter: 4

Hinata walked into the hospital lighter and boasting a permanent blush, ready for the meeting that Tsunade had called for. However she was coming in early to see Sakura first. She passed Ino who had the usual remarks about gossip and she passed TenTen who inquired about her blush.

"You doing okay, half-pint?" she had asked.

But Hinata was too far into la-la land to answer, so she just smiled and kept moving towards her destination.

"Sakura!" she sang as she opened the exam room door where the Uchiha was seated unmoving and said rosette was angrily scratching words onto her clipboard.

Witchy eyes rose from her paperwork and she smiled back. "Hey, how was your day off?"

"O-oh! M-my day off, well, um…you see, it w-was just l-lovely!" the Hyuuga stuttered.

Sasuke and Sakura just stared at her.

"Are you alright?" the rosette asked her and moved towards Hinata with her hand out. She quickly took the other woman's temperature and frowned. "You're normal. What happened? You haven't stuttered like this since…" her voice trailed off and an evil grin weaved it's way onto her face. "It's Naruto, isn't it?"

At the even darker blush, Sakura laughed aloud. "Hinata! Did he really─?"

"A-ah! Sakura, someone is still in here you know!"

Sakura looked over her shoulder to see Sasuke sitting still as stone and watching her. "Oh, right. Sorry Hinata. But anyway, I'm almost done here, so just wait for me in the break room, then we'll head over to hear Tsunade's announcement together."

"O-okay." The Hyuuga muttered and left the room.

Sakura turned back to Sasuke with the smirk of an accomplice. "Naruto got laid." She said easily.

"For being damn virgin you sure have the mouth of a─"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence." She said in a sing-song voice as she continued flushing healing chakra into his temples.

...

Kakashi sat with Naruto while they waited for Sasuke to return. The older man looked over to his companion and frowned at the silly grin on the blonde's face. Man, kids had it all these days; power, strength, and sex.

It sucked! Why did all the kids get to make love and whisper sweet nothings to each other? Well he didn't say anything sweet in bed, which was exactly how Anko liked it, but she had lost her sights for him since she'd been doing nothing but working for Tsunade. God he hated Akatsuki, they had fucking deprived him of sex with his longtime girlfriend! And she had snubbed him again to go to an announcement exclusively for women.

So he trained...with bonehead and emo brat...and the other emo brat who sat and painted the whole time.

Hatake sighed for the umpteenth time that day as Naruto suddenly jumped to his feet and scrambled up the tree, howling with delight. "I love Hinata!" he screamed at the top of his lungs over the forest, just as Sasuke materialized from the shadows of the trees to stand by their sempai.

"Kakashi," he said.

"Sasuke," the older man said, "Please go up there and tell him to shut the hell up."

"Give him a break, old man. He got laid for the first time ever." Sai said with a smile, pleased that he had incorporated his newly learned word 'laid' into a proper sentence.

Kakashi sighed once again. "Don't remind me."

"Missing out are you?" the Uchiha said with a nasty smirk.

"Well you're no better. You're just as celibate as me, and it's all because you don't want your little woman to get pissed if she heard about─"

A sword came slashing down suddenly, and Kakashi flipped into the air with a grin. "Finally!"

Naruto sat on the branch, relaxed now, as he looked toward the hospital that was trapping his lover. His lover…The words brought a silly smile to his face, but a sudden thrashing below his branch had him glaring down. The tree was suddenly Chidori'ed apart, and Naruto wailed as he came crashing down with it.

"Teme, Kakashi, what the hell?!" he screamed as his shaggy head came popping out of the leaves.

The swipe of duel Chidori's near his head had him leaping back with a flourish to watch his two friends attacking in unison, the chipping of birds deafening. Naruto grinned at the sight, and he was not about to be left out.

He would think about Hinata in a few hours when she got off of work…tee hee!

"Rasengan!"

"Naruto!" the two other males yelled as the wind attack destroyed their concentrations, the chirping dissipating.

"Let's fight!" the blonde shouted and a wild sparring match ensued.

…

Naruto took the water skin from Kakashi, and he drank deeply, allowing the cooling water to ease the dryness of his throat. "Hey," the blonde began, "Why doesn't Sakura join us anymore?"

"Cause dickhead pissed her off."

Sasuke took the offered water with a frown, as their sempai decided to answer the question. "Well, she's very busy right now. A lot of people still need healing."

"Yeah? Well I heard she hangs out with the girls now." Naruto said.

"Really? I heard you hang out with girls too." Kakashi countered and Uzumaki's stupid grin came back, causing annoyed shouts to ensue.

…

Ino sighed as she walked down the hospital corridor, pulling the flowers she'd brought for Choji closer to her chest. He had made much progress and she wanted to ask him a serious question.

After the announcement that Tsunade had made, it forced her to deal with a very important decision. No one was immune from it. All of them had stood together in a cluster during the meeting; Sakura, Hinata, TenTen, herself, and even Temari had been asked to come. I was only to act as ambassador, but the woman seemed to have been really thinking.

When Ino had looked over to her fellow women, she'd seen a decision in each of their eyes. They had all chosen.

But Ino…she was scared. How could she do this? She wasn't obliged to, she was not being forced. Tsunade had told them it was nothing binding, that they did not have to have a child and stay with the man, but she encouraged them to choose a man who they wouldn't regret lying with. How could she do this? She was so young!

"Choose a man whose child you could see yourself carrying in your womb and holding in your arms."

When Ino had closed her eyes, she saw nothing…until an image of Choji appeared. She'd flashed open her baby blues and stared in shock before Sakura's worried eyes.

"Ino, are you alright?"

"I-I'm fine." She had answered.

"You don't have to do this." The rosette had said.

"But you are…"

Ino looked up as she came to Choji's door. He had grown up, and so had she, but when did she develop feelings for him? When did he make her fall so that she would conjure up an image of him and a little baby with red hair?

Steeling herself, she thought of her friends. They were all going to have children with the men they cared for. Ino was not a virgin, and she was always the first to make a dirty joke, but Choji…how could she lay with the same man she'd grown up with?

She opened the door, holding the wild flowers closer as she came in. He was awake, and looking out the window. It still amazed her at how fast everyone had pulled together and rebuilt such a solid building.

"Choji," she said softly and he looked over, smiling.

"Ino! God, it's good to see you. They said they are going to release me tomorrow and I was wondering if you would help me?"

The woman nodded and she moved to sit on the side of his bed. "Choji, I have an important question to ask you."

"Anything, Ino. I will do anything. You've been here for me whenever I seemed to need someone. You make me feel like myself again."

Ino smiled genuinely and she began to get a bit of her bite back. "Hey, what do you say to helping me with an important mission?"

"Absolutely." He said as she set the flowers on the table nearby and scooted closer.

"Have a baby with me, Choji."

…

Kakashi stepped into the small, recently built home that he shared with Anko, even though he never saw her, and plopped down on the nearest chair to remove his shoes. Done with the task, he moved into the bathroom to get undressed. The shower was ready by the time he was naked, and he stepped into the steaming water.

"Shit, hot!" he yelped and lowered the heat a tad. "Aw…"

He was rubbing himself with soap when soft arms came around his waist. His eyes shot open when he felt small, feminine palms run down his abdomen. "Anko,"

"Hey there, stud. Miss me?"

"Only a little," He growled and spun around to pin her to the wall. "But I think this is long overdue."

She cried out loudly when he pierced her, moaning as he took her fast and hard. "Kakashi, more!"

He groaned when he heard her pleas in his ear and he increased his pace even more. "I missed you, Anko."

His words pleased her and she rewarded him with a slash of nails down his back. "Mm…you're really something today." She moaned and nibbled lightly on his ear. "And you know I will take any opportunity I can to see your mask off."

Kakashi pressed her harder into the wall and she melted into the deep kiss he gave her, tongues mating and dominating. "Ah, I'm almost there already." He growled, and she began to pant.

"Ah, I'm right behind you." She whimpered and pulled him closer, her fingers keeping his hips close as the pressure built and built. Their climaxes were near and she threw her arms around his shoulders, holding him close as he supported her ass.

"Anko!" he snarled and kissed her again, thrusting more quickly into her welcoming core.

"Mmn…Kakashi!" she cried out as she finally caught her evasive orgasm. "More! I'm cumming!"

Fueled by his lover's frenzy, Kakashi pressed her hard into the wall again, this time as flush to her body as he could be. "Hold on baby, I'll give you another in just a moment."

She felt that her eyes were crossed as he ran gentle hands through her hair, pressed kisses to her neck. "W-what made you so…loving?" she dared to ask.

"You don' t like it?"

"No! No, please don't stop. I…I love it." She moaned and cried out as he wrapped his arms over her and gripped her ass.

"Ah, get ready Anko." He groaned and sped up some more.

"Ka-Kakashi! D-don't pull out this time."

Her words almost made him do just that before she whimpered and pulling him closer, sensing his resistance. "Please!" she pleaded and he gave in to her request.

"If you say so, honey." He said and growled as she nibbled his chin and kissed his cheek.

"Good boy." She snarled and he finally hit both of their spots, sending them into ruthless climaxes together.

Kakashi couldn't stand any longer, and he slumped down with her still in his lap, still joined. He sighed contentedly, and rested his forehead on her own as the water pounded upon their limp bodies.

"Why haven't we done that sooner?" he asked and she merely grinned, pleased with her newest self-appointed mission. It made both herself and her man happy, not to mention how much they had to learn together over the next nine months.

…

Sakura walked home slowly, knowing her friends had all made their choices. She knew some of them were fulfilling said choices that instant, like TenTen the sex-fiend. She was sure Neji would be pleased.

And Hinata…well, it was quite possible that the woman was already pregnant. But that didn't stop her from poofing away in a cloud of smoke to go make doubly sure. God how had she become such a sex-kitten like that?

And Temari! She had pulled Tsunade aside while Sakura was with her and asked the Hokage if she could volunteer to help. She said that Gaara would not mind and he'd be proud to have a sibling of the Leaf.

So yep, Temari and Shika were going at it too. She bet her life savings on it…

But that left Sakura.

She would wait. She would deliver every one of her friend's babies before giving birth to one of her own. That meant that she would wait a month or two.

The thought gave her some closure and she felt a little relieved. But that also left her painfully left out…and alone.

She didn't want to face her coming choice, but she would have to. She would not choose another; she would just have to deal with him when the time came.

With her sights set on the goal in mind, Sakura continued down the road to Tsunade's house. Maybe she wouldn't mind a drinking partner tonight, after all, none of her other friends would be willing to now that they would be preoccupied and pregnant.

God, she wanted some alcohol, and for that, she blamed her damned old sensei.

…

But Sakura wasn't the only lonely heart out there that night. Sasuke was lying on the roof of his new home, silently hoping for some peace. He just stared up at the starry night as he heard a few far off screams and cries.

He frowned when he heard a particularly high-pitched one.

Sasuke sat up, frustrated, and his eyes suddenly latched onto Sakura off in the distance. She was coming his way though! He stood and leaned against the chimney, watching her hips sway as she walked and the wind finger through her free hair.

But she turned suddenly, stepping onto the Hokage's steps and knocking. The door flung open to reveal Tsuande in a green robe and a bottle in her hand, and Sakura was instantly pulled through the door. Sasuke frowned instantly.

She wasn't going to choose him. If she had, she would have come to him that night.

With a frown, he returned to the interior of his home, alone and colder than he'd expected rejection to feel.

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