Hey, so I'm back again with the next installment of Akatsuki Mother. I know it's been a while since I've updated, but I'll try to do more updates this time around. I'm in college now, sophomore year, and I'm pretty busy. But I've learned that during winter and summer break there is so much free time on my hands even with my job, so expect some updates now and a lot more during late May to August.

Anyway, I also have a few more fics in the works including a Naruto/Deathnote crossover (still working on that), another one titles Barista Chick, and another one which will either be called Growing Pains or Bruises, plus a few others with no current titles. I'll put mini descriptions at the end of the chapter. Tell me which one sounds the most appealing and I'll put that one up first.

BTW, if you haven't read my previous author's note, I suggest you do. I had answered a lot of questions in some of your reviews and I think reading it will be to your benefit.

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"Sakura, marry me." Sasuke whispered to her as they lay together inside their tent at Team Hebi's campsite. He wound his arms around her waist and pulled her against him, resting his head on top of hers. Sakura merely sighed but didn't bother to attempt pulling out of his hold; she was too damn tired and at this point she wasn't up to fighting.

"We've been over this. You know that I have no plans on marrying anytime soon, or possibly ever for that matter." Sasuke just let out a 'hn' as his hands began to wonder down her back and grasped onto her derriere, pushing their lower halves together. The pinkette could feel his hardening manhood and sighed again; every time they met he wanted to have sex. Just because of the incident five years ago, he thought that he had exclusive access to her and no one else.

She no longer had any form of romantic feelings for him, that had all ended after the birth of her children, but being at the age of eighteen at the time and had only had sex once… she supposed that even she needed some form of sexual release than that of the toy lovers that Ino had given her over the years. Even if their first time together hadn't exactly been consensual on her part, she had to admit that Sasuke Uchiha was a pretty good lover… Well, perhaps not a lover; it was more along the lines of enemies with benefits.

"I want you." He growled into her ear, slowly grinding his erection against her womanhood. She admitted that if he kept this up, there was a high chance they would end up having sex tonight, probably more than once if Sasuke had his way. But she just wasn't up for it, not when she had so much on her mind.

"Not tonight. I just want to sleep for now, Sasuke." She said softly, rolling over to face away from him.

"Come on, Sakura. It's been months since we last had sex; I've missed being inside of you." He whispered huskily into her ear. For some reason or another, during their numerous amounts of trysts, Sasuke had gotten the idea that Sakura enjoyed it when he talked dirty to her. She admitted, at times, it did arouse her quite a bit.

As of late though, she wanted a bit more than just dirty words and sex. Perhaps she was getting towards the point in her life where she wanted to find that one person to spend the rest of her life with. After all, every single one of her friends were already married and had at least one kid, most of them with another on the way.

Sakura had gotten a lot of marriage offers over the years, from shinobi and civilian alike. At one point, she had come close to actually getting married, but the man who she thought she would be together with backed out, stating that although he had tried, he just couldn't accept Sakura having eight children that weren't his own. She had understood that, and the two had still remained close friends.

Now that she thought about it, even if she did find some one that could be considered the one, Sasuke would give her, not to mention the man she was seeing, absolute hell. He had nearly combusted when he had discovered that she wasn't a virgin when they had first had sex, and continued to demand she tell him who had taken her before him. Sakura had never told him who it was, lest he start a war that would get everyone killed in the process. Sometimes, it had sucked that she had attracted such a man of power; Kami knows that after they had had sex he had become even more… how could she put it… clingy to her… Even when he wasn't even supposed to be around in the first place.

"No, Sasuke. Another time, alright?"

"I'm holding you to that."

"I'm sure you will." Sakura sighed; it was going to be a long night.

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Tsunade didn't know who had been more surprised, the Akatsuki members who had just discovered that they were fathers, or the villagers that had watched said fathers chasing their children around the village in an attempt to further inspect these newly found off springs.

She only knew one thing at the moment: Sakura was going to be down right pissed off once she saw the damage that had been done to her house during the family's first meeting.

The girl had looked all over the village to find the perfect place to raise her children while still having enough room for her gardens and an area for her medical research. When she had finally found the house while going over some real estate as a favor for one of her civilian friends, the kunoichi had run straight to the bank and came damn close to demanding the deed to the land and house that rested there. And when the bankers seemed to be close to refusing her request, knowing fully well how destructive eight seven year old boys could be (especially her boys), it only took one glare to make them change their minds.

Tsunade had yet to find someone who had refused Sakura after looking into those murderous eyes. A small shiver ran down the lady Hokage's back at the thought of having one of those directed at her again. It only took a moment for her to think back to how long Naruto had been in the hospital due to his ignorance of what the glare had meant.

She supposed that this form of intimidation was extremely useful during missions, and Morino's Interrogation Unit had never had such a high quota of successful interrogations since Ibiki had taken Sakura under his wing at the age of fourteen. Tsunade had to admit; the girl had a talent for getting the information that she wanted, by any means necessary. And if that meant the prisoners having a nervous break down every time they saw the color pink, so be it.

"I suppose I should be asking what has occurred to put you all in such a state, but judging from what I've seen from my window, I can already assume I know how." She stated while looking at the seventeen occupants of her office… she really should get an addition added on to this place. The men seemed to have gone to separate parts of the room with their children not far from their sides.

Pein simply sat in the chair with Kane on his lap, the boy poking and prodding at his father's piercings. The Akatsuki leader didn't seem to mind much; after he got done with the boy, he would have his own piercings to study.

Itachi leaned against one of the walls with Ryuu at his side, an arm wrapped around the boy's shoulders. The two seemed to be having some form of silent communication through their eyes, as if they had known each other for more than just a few hours. And Ryuu, who rarely let anyone but Sakura touch him, didn't even seem to care that he was connected to his father's hip at the moment.

Deidara sat on the floor molding clay in his hands while Daichi watched in fascination, amazing that someone could mold clay so quickly. That and he had never met someone else with mouths on their hands. Well, possibly having mouths on his hands, according to what Deidara had told the boy.

Takumi and Sasori seemed to be in their own little world as they controlled a puppet that Tsunade had no idea where it had come from. Apparently the tower security was lacking, most likely due to the truce that all the nations seemed to be under at the moment.

When her eyes stopped Hidan and Takeru, her eye began to twitch slightly. Hidan had one arm wrapped around his son's neck as Takeru bit into it while attempting to reach for a nearby chair. The Lady Hokage swore if they caused any form of damage to her office, she was going throw them into the deepest pit she could find. She already had enough bills to pay when Sakura went on one of her occasional rampages; the extra debt was not needed.

Kisame and Yukio weren't really doing much; the older taking sips for a bottle of sake and the younger daydreaming (most likely thinking about swimming in the lake again).

Yuuta was currently engaged in a starin- glaring match with Kakuzu, a pile of yen between them. Made sense to Tsunade; it was a common known fact that both of them were money grubbers, of course they would be having a silent battle for who would be getting that meager pile. She hoped that Yuuta wouldn't be learning his father's techniques or she was going to have a lot more pic-pocketing reports on her hands.

It was when her eyes landed on Tobi and Akira; she had to hold in a laugh at the sight. Tobi was circling quickly around Akira chatting away in that hyper voice of his while simultaneously pissing of the young boy; said boy seemed to be string away from snapping and just strangling the man.

She had so many doubts that the boy was Tobi's child. There was a much higher chance that Akira belonged to Itachi than the lollipop mask wearing shinobi. But Sakura had assured her that each Akatsuki member, excluding Zetsu, had only one offspring. And after the news that Sakura had brought to her a few years back about who Tobi really was, she really didn't have much reason to doubt the relation between the two.

"I believe that we are owed an explanation as to how we are now father's of children of who must be at least the age of six." Stated Pein.

"We're seven." Said Kane absent mindedly as he continued to poke at his father's face.

"Not to mention who the mothers are." Remarked Sasori as he repositioned Takumi's fingers to further the boy's control on the puppet they were working with at the moment.

"Ah, well, their mother isn't in the village right now. And, according to the message I just received from her, she won't be for a few more days." Answered Tsunade, pulling out a bottle of sake from her desk. She had a feeling that the next few minutes of this conversation would be best dealt with if she wasn't stone cold sober.

"Wait a minute, are you saying that these boys all have the same mother? I'm pretty sure we would have remembered having sex with the same woman, un. And if they're all the same age, which I assume they are, then they can't all be from the same woman, un." Deidara reasoned.

"Sexual intercourse was not a factor in these boy's creation. If you are not already aware, there is a new method of pregnancy that utilizes the discovery of an artificial womb. Your boys were the product of said artificial womb during the testing period, not as if I would ever put it that way if Sakura was here." Answered Tsunade, the last part of the statement mainly for herself though. If Sakura knew that Tsunade had referred to her boys as 'products of a testing period'… well, let's just say that the young female's reaction was not something she wanted to deal with at the moment.

"Wait, wait, wait! Are you saying that the pink bitch is the mother of these fucking brats?! When the fuck did that happen?!" Demanded Hidan. Takeru promptly punched him in the face for insulting his mother, and more than just one kunai was thrown his way from other occupants in the room.

"I believe what she means is that Sakura was the one responsible for the procedure and raising the children," Began Sasori, "But that she is not biologically their moth-"

"Actually, she is their biological mother. You see, the procedure for this only creates a womb for the baby to grow in. The baby itself comes from the sperm of the male parent, which is used to inseminate the egg taken from the female parent, thus forming a zygote.

After the zygote has been created, it is placed into the artificial womb where it will remain for the regular nine months of pregnancy while it develops* into an infant. A chakra umbilical is attached to the baby, which is used to siphon in nutrients during said development period, enabling the child to grow into a proper human. In fact, this method is actually healthier for an embryo due to the fact that it will not be placed in possibly dangerous situations, and no harmful forms of food will be absorbed into it.

At the time Sakura theorized this method she was lacking two vital ingredients for the procedure: sperm and an egg. Fortunately for her, she was kidnapped by your organization to preform physicals and the such. I'm sure you all remember that."

Indeed the members did. It had been quite the interesting few weeks with the kunoichi in their presence. If they recalled correctly, there had first been ear piercing screams coming from the girl, not ones of terror, mind you, but cruelly thought out threats.

Then there had been the property damage… expensive property damage.

Then had come the attempts on their lives by poison.

Next were the randomly planned sneak attacks, which landed many of them in the med bay.

And, finally, were the surprisingly pleasant conversations that they had engaged in. Apparently the girl had quite the high level of intellect… when she wasn't planning their bloody demise.

"Yes, she was quite the… interesting girl…" Stated Pein.

"Interesting?! That girl was more than just fucking interesting! She was a fucking demon with pink hair!" Exclaimed Hidan, which queued another barrage of kunai to fly towards the scythe wielder.

"The base actually had a bit of a somber feeling when she left." Said Sasori.

"That was only because she wasn't trying to murder us every five seconds, un"

"Yes, well, that was how Sakura was able to obtain your sperm, which created these little hellions here."

And it was at that point in time when Hidan stated what was on all of the Akatsuki members' minds.

"Well fuck. What the fuck are we going to do now?"

"My suggestion, fix Sakura's house before she returns. She has a tendency to threaten castration, and trust me; she won't hesitate to go through with it,"

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Sakura woke up early the next morning and groaned at the stiffness in her back. Kami she hated sleeping on the ground. Give her a tree any day and she was happy. It took her a few minutes to unravel herself from Sasuke's arms but after a few soft words he had finally relented and gone back to sleep. Never let it be said that Uchiha Sasuke was a morning person.

The pinkette stepped out of the tent and stretched, enjoying the popping noise that came from her back. She would kill for her weekly yoga class right about now. It took her a second to notice that she wasn't the only one up early this morning.

"Good morning, Juugo-san. How are you feeling this morning?" She asked gently to the orange haired giant.

"I'm doing fine Sakura-san. I hope all is well with you and your boys." Sakura nodded and gave a smile. While Sasuke wasn't particularly pleased with her other children Juugo tended to ask her about them whenever they were together. He was surprisingly filled with interesting information on child development and they tended to have discussions on raising children. Apparently he spent a large amount of time reading while looked up in Orochimaru's lab.

"They're well."

"Kaito will be pleased that you are here. He's been asking about you quite a lot in the past few weeks." Sakura gave a sigh and sat down next to him, taking the water bottle that he offered her.

"I miss him too, more than I can even say. But I can't tell Sasuke that, he'll use it against me, and I can't afford it. I'm hoping that he'll just come back one day so that Kaito can have a normal upbringing. Kami knows that I'm worried sick about him being out here. I know that he's safe and that Sasuke won't let anything happen to him… but I'm Kaito's mother and it's my job to worry about him."

"You love him very much but I can understand your reasoning. A nomadic up bringing is no way to raise a child. But Sasuke-sama is adamant about returning to your village."

"Yeah, but I don't think that it would be for the best right now, especially now that Itachi is back in the village. Not to mention that he's there too. Just seems that everything is turning into a bit of a cluster-fuck as of late."

Juugo nodded and sat back to study the rosette. Sakura had always been a kind woman from the first time he had met her. There had been some hostility from her though, but considering the circumstances it was understandable. He always felt Sakura-san could help Sasuke-sama with the necessary healing that his damaged psyche so desperately need.

And for a time it had, until Kaito was born and he had tried to manipulate he into staying with him and abandoning her village. He had even gone far enough to attempt using his Sharingan on her. How she had managed to break and simultaneously put him into a week long coma still was a mystery. The only thing that he had learned at that time was, as Suigetsu so elequitly put it, "Do not try any Uchiha mind fuckery with Sakura or she'll break your mind in a second". He supposed having a Yamanaka for a best friend helped too, no matter how noisy the blonde was.

"Perhaps it would be best if you tried to talk with Sasuke aga-"

"Mama!"

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I have only one thing to say: I hate hospitals. What do you mean I can't have my laptop with me in my room? I have shit to do you know! And if you come near me with another one of those slop filled trays I swear I will sacrifice you to Jashin with a spork!

Ahem…

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the third chapter of Akatsuki Mother. I really appreciate all of the reviews that I have gotten and I will try to lengthen the upcoming chapters. And as I stated before here are a few ideas that I've started to work on, so let me know which one you would like me to start first.

Naruto/Deathnote crossover:

It's been over three hundred years since the time of the shinobi has passed and all have passed from this world. All except for one, Sakura Haruno. Now living in modern day Japan Sakura has quite a few secrets of her own and an irreversible link to the Shinigami world. Deciding to add a little variety to her otherwise boring life she decides to join the war between Kira and L. Question is, whose side will she choose?

Barista Chick:

Modern day Naruto. Sakura is a college student who works part time at Starbucks and has little interest in social interaction unless force. Unfortunately, declaring her major has brought on more problems than she was ready to deal with.

Bruises/ Growing Pains/ Remember Me/ Crimson Bow and Arrow:

She was from a civilian clan, and had been marked as a low level kunoichi. But Sakura had other ideas and decided that she wouldn't be forgotten, she wouldn't be written off as less than worthless. She would become the one who they all feared.