Centre of His World.

By Xox Bra's Unrequited Romancexox

For Tishni.

Sakura sat at home. Sakura sat at home with the youngest Uchiha next to her, his arm hung around her waist loosely.

Sakura sighed an exhausted sigh.

"What?" Sasuke inquired curiously, tipping his head sideways a little.

"Sasuke… Do you really like me?" Sakura asked, looking down and playing with the beautiful silver ring Sasuke had given her for their engagement.

"Of course," He replied, the question shaking him a little.

"You don't mean that," Sakura said monotone, no emotion what so ever in her voice.

Sakura got up and left in a huff, leaving Sasuke confused. Why would she ask him that? Why would she ask him if he liked her…? He had said he did.

But… really, he didn't think he did like her…

"Naruto!" Sakura called to her fox demon friend who was inhaling ramen at unknown speeds.

"Sakura-Chan, Sasuke-Teme!" He called back, acknowledging the couple who were walking hand in hand.

"Hey Dobe," Sasuke greeted.

Sakura only hummed.

"Oh, Sakura-Chan what's wrong?" Naruto bet his head down to look at the shorter females emerald eyes, but Sakura turned her head away in shame.

"Oh. Okay, look. Hey Sasuke-teme wanna go train 'cos Hinata's out on a…"

"Fine, Sakura?" Sasuke turned his head, but found that his wife wasn't by his side anymore.

He gave Naruto a quizzical look.

"Heh. Females," He shrugged and pulled Sasuke to the teams training grounds.

"H-How could he say he doesn't love me? Why did he ask me to marry him…? Why did he lie to me all these years?"

Sakura couldn't control the tears that flooded down her face. Damn, what was with her emotions all of a sudden?! At one time she would be laughing until she passed out from lack of oxygen and another time she would be bawling her eyes out like tomorrow would never come. Her emotions were up the wall and she blamed it on the long shifts at the hospital and not spending enough time with her Uchiha.

Hell that was probably why he didn't love her anym-.

"Come on Teme, give it to me! You're so weak!" Naruto called out across the vast plain of their training ground.

Sasuke smirked light heartedly and sent a warm wave of fire his way. The fire died out before it reached Naruto and the warm gas barely brushed the fox demon boy.

"Aw no! Come on what's wrong?" Naruto ran up to his friend/ rival, putting his hand on the mans shoulder.

Sasuke only turned around and sighed heavily.

"Is it about Sakura?" Naruto asked. He didn't actually know if it was Sakura, but he had this strange suspicion...

"Hn," Sasuke sighed again, then started to walk back to the village, his head down and his stride depressed and slow.

Naruto knew his place, and it wasn't to pry into other peoples business. That was what Ino was sent to this world to do.

Sasuke rounded a corner, leading to the main square of Konoha. A small trickle of water ran down his nose and the genius came to the conclusion that it had started raining.

He also noticed that there were a lot of people in the main square today.

Being the curious little Uchiha he was he went to go see what the fuss was. It had to be something big, why else would there be heavily armed ANBU in the square?

"What's going on?" He asked as coolly as he could when he saw Neji, Hinata and her littler sibling activate their byakugan and start searching. Wait, what were they searching for?

"We can't find-" The captain of the ANBU team stuttered, as if he really didn't want to tell Sasuke. His name was Hiroshi 'Hero' Janicha and he was as his nickname suggested a hero. Hell Sasuke was sure he would save a kitten from an S class criminal, let alone a tree. Yep, that was Hero, willing to sacrifice his own life for others.

"Status report," The large man asked one of his men. The man looked nervous.

"Er, sir…" His eyes darted over to Sasuke for a brief moment before returning to Hero, "There's no trace of her… Like she vanished… But, sir… There were traces of blood. A lot of blood. Were having DNA done now."

Hero turned to leave. Sasuke stopped him.

"Wait, what are you looking for, who's gone missing?" Sasuke asked, although for some reason his heart dropped at the very question.

"Haruno Sakura, she was reported missing three hours ago. We have yet to find her… And we fear the worst has happened," Hero's blue eyes looked back to Sasuke sadly.

"Hero sir," Another man came up to his captain and held out a piece of paper. Hero read the paper carefully then ran his gloved hand through his cropped blonde tipped hair and sighed heavily.

"Sasuke," he started, his masculine voice going soft. Hero knew he was a strong ninja, and he was extremely intelligent, but he intelligent enough to figure out that he wasn't the strongest Nin in the village and there were a lot stronger and smarter than him. One of the biggest being the legendary Sasuke Uchiha, who was standing right in front of him, awaiting the news to come of his fiancée.

'Sasuke… Tests have confirmed… It was Sakura's blood, but- but a majority of the blood… Came from an Uchiha… To be more precise, we found Itachi Uchiha's blood at the scene."

Sasuke felt anger rise in him… And he went with it.

Sakura was struggling to stay awake. She had multiple wounds, bruises and a few broken bones. But other than that she was alive.

But for how long?

Sakura had to admit, she wasn't as bad as her captor. Itachi Uchiha had crept up on her, stabbed her in the back and knocked her out. Then the rest was a blur. But she could remember bashing the hell out of Sasuke's brother.

She knew he was probably in a worse state then she was, but then again he was an Uchiha and she knew from experience that you should never under estimate an Uchiha.

Slowly Sakura lifted her head to the grey sky and felt the beads of precipitation fall down onto her figure. It was soothing on her body and she let her mind wander under the numbness that the rain gave her.

Her mind wandered back to Sasuke, what was he doing right now? Was he looking for her? Or was he going to leave her to die, as Itachi did? Kami, why did she ask him if he loved her? She knew he did. The words of passion he whispered in her ear, even when out in plain view confirmed he was crazy about her. But… But it was her damn emotions, and Sasuke had been different the past few days. And- And she was stupid enough to believe that he didn't love her.

Kami, she'd do anything now to tell him that she loved him… And that… And that she was carrying his child…

Sasuke had Neji next to him, the cold duo jumped the moist canopy. Neji's byakugan was in play and Sasuke liked the feeling of his Sharingan being used after two years of his chakra stripped to be with Sakura.

Damn it! He knew how much Sakura meant to him… So how the hell did that happen? He wanted her now more than ever. And he wanted her now!

"Sasuke," Neji stated mono toned.

"Neji," He stated back, keeping the rivalry strong.

"I can see Sakura… She's about three kilometres ahead and I-"

Neji didn't get to finish his sentence before he was left in the dust by a very swift Uchiha.

"Sakura?" He called, dread heard clearly in his voice, "Sakura?!"

"Ur, Sasu…"

Sasuke's ears pricked up and his Sharingan swirled, searching for his fiancée.

And then, he felt the dread become stronger, which was fuelled with an even greater emotion. Fear. For seeing the sight in front of him, and his precious Cherry Blossom, battered and beaten, the Uchiha could safely say (though he'd never admit) that he was scared.

"Sakura…" He breathed leaning down and touching her arm gently, and wiping away small tears that pricked her eyes. Gently, his lips touched hers for a brief moment before he pulled away, but not before whispering, "Aishiteru, Sakura-Chan…"

"Sasu…kun… I have… to… tell you… something," Sakura stuttered out, Sasuke leaned in closer.

Sakura's delicate hand grasped his tee-shirt and she pulled him in, letting her lips rest on his ear for a brief moment before whispering, " Sasu-kun… I'm pregnant…"

For a moment Sasuke was speechless, flabbergasted, even winded. But just for a second. It took him all of five seconds to react.

He pressed his lips on hers and placed his finger tips on her hips gently. Slowly her wounded arms wrapped around his neck and having the support he needed, lifted her up in mid kiss.

He felt her wince but he made sure he was gentle and cradled her frail body in his arms.

Breaking away he smiled. It had taken him only three hours to figure out that if the centre of his world got lost; he would have been lost as well. And if she died, well.

"I'm glad to see this reunion is going well without the person who organised the reunion is forgotten about," Neji smirked, his body leaning on the trunk of the tree, his arms crossed.

"Hyuuga."

Neji's eyes narrowed, "Uchiha."

"Ah, hell to you guys, get me to a hospital! And get Tsunade-Hokage as well, you freaking morons!" Sakura yelled as best she could, she didn't even what the guys to start.

"Heh," Sasuke smirked while looking down at his fiancée, "Rightio."

The two men ascended to the canopy again. One being more careful in the other. For one had his whole world in his arms…

Hum. That was pretty cheesy wasn't it? Hey, sorry Tishni, I just had to put a spin on this… Other wise it might have been too long and get un-interesting. Hey, Merridaine, your installment is coming soon... When I decide on a painting… I like Monet… Lol.

Anyways, as per usual, please review and feel free to request.

-xoxBraxox