A/N: I am uploading another one in under a week. Amazing, huh! I hope everyone is enjoying this story.
Our Love: Got a lot more complicated
He couldn't feel his fingers, or his fingertips. The ropes were enhanced with chakra and he blew through his nose forcefully trying to calm himself. So many things were circling around in his head, so much information. In hindsight it was probably foolish to break into the hospital record room, but he was at his wits end.
He was worried; he had tried for three or more months to get into contact with Sakura. He wasn't sleeping, wasn't able to go on missions without second guessing himself and that just wouldn't work. He talked to Tsunade countless times trying to get information, but she wouldn't say anything. Her mouth was zipped closed. She kept saying that it was none of his business. So in all honesty he knew there was some kind of information for him to find out.
A secret about Sakura's health, something scary and worrying. It brought back so many emotions he had tried telling himself he didn't have. There was guilt, something he tried not to feel any longer. When she had left months ago, sobbing, he had felt his gut rip out. He tried telling himself that they weren't together any longer and he shouldn't matter what happened to her. But they had been together their whole lives.
There was love there, something that confused the shit out of him. He got a divorce because he wanted her free so that she could find her own love. But, that emotion was still there. When he was sleeping alone at night, remembering the feel of someone next to him.
He thought that had been the issue, that he just needed someone next to him. So, he tried it out. After Hinata's wedding, where he drank to much and pretended to much, he took Hanabi home with him. It was not honorable by any means. It was difficult, opening the door with a fumbling hand while kissing Hanabi with a wet mouth. She tasted of gin, a hearty alcohol choice.
"Naruto," her voice was soft, docile. She was rubbing her hands against his chest, feeling the play of muscles beneath. "Open the door so we can..." she breathed on his ear, a raspy sound. "continue."
It made him jerk, in more than one place, and he tried to bring himself back under control.
"Hold on," He dug in his pocket, the one filled with his wallet and keys, his keys bobbed out and he stabbed them into the lock. Hanabi continued to kiss his neck, leaving wet patches against his skin. While moving down to meet her lips, his wallet fell from his pocket, making a heavy thud on his porch. Glancing down, he found his eyes catching on the photo.
It was Sakura, when they had first moved into their apartment, her eyes were laughing as they stared back into his. He had given her a pink copy of the key, one that matched her hair. It had made her laugh and he had snapped the picture of her.
"I love it, Naruto," she laughed, smiling through her joyful tears.
He stilled against Hanabi, she tried to get him to come closer to her. Her hand reaching back for the handle of the now opened door. Naruto gripped her hand on top of the handle, stopping her.
"I can't do this," he whispered against her forehead, placing a farewell kiss there. "I'm sorry." He pushed her aside and went inside and closed the door. He heard the sob and the knocking but didn't open the door. Merely, closed his eyes and leaned his head back.
This was love? This emotion that clawed at you from the inside? It burned, it brought back painful memories.
He was going to find out what was going on. Sakura was avoiding him at any cost. She no longer went out with their friends, and he was shocked when she didn't go to the wedding. Even more shocked when he had drowned himself in liquor because of it.
He tried the easy way first, he talked to Tsunade about it. Went out of his way to approach her parents, who smiled but didn't say a word. He was stuck.
So he did what any man would do when he has had enough. He went to the medical room, found the records, and only had to restrain a few people to get there.
Than he found it. Going through the records and finding her name. And oh, God. So many tests, and when he read it, on the top: PREGNANT.
He shook his head, his heart falling hard. She was pregnant? Why didn't she tell him?
Then it came together, Tsunade not talking, Sakura was avoiding him, and she never got to finish telling him what she wanted that day at the apartment. Tsunade knew, had lied to him countless times about Sakura's health. Yes, it wasn't life threatening. But, it was his child, he had no doubt about that.
Rage clouded his view, so much anger. He crumbled the foldered in his fist and got up and headed to Tsunade, he pounded on the door. The hospital seemed more crowded than usual and he had to stop himself from pushing people back. Mable, a young nurse who was a mutual friend of Sakura's came up to him.
"Naruto, are you okay?" She stopped in front of him.
"Mable, move." Her mouth dropped open and a shocked noise came out. He simply moved around her. His footsteps were heavy as he approached the Hokage tower. This place was so familiar to him; it was a place he grew up. He would gather here with his friends for missions, for things that involved life and death.
It was a place he wanted to be in years' time. He still wanted to become Hokage, but with the marriage he wanted to be there for Sakura. And the job of Hokage took up time and patience. Just the thought of not going home to Sakura made him want to weep. But with the divorce he was able to put his dream back on course.
Now the tower looked like a prison, a place that was hiding his life. He pounded on the door, the sound echoing in the large room. The ornate wood was starting to splinter from the force of his blows.
She opened it, yelling at him for pounding on his door.
"She's pregnant!" She snapped around as he was waving the folders in her face. "She is pregnant with my child, my family!" He stormed to her, his face inches from hers as he yelled.
"Settle down now. You do not come into my office and yell at me. It was none of your concern and I was told to not tell you."
"That's my wife!"
"Your ex-wife." Tsunade corrected him. His eyes were enraged and for the first time Tsunade was unsure about Naruto. In a quick instance she pushed him back into the chair and knocked him in the side of the neck. He went limp against the chair and she sighed and called for some rope.
And that's why he was tied up with no feeling in his fingertips. She had made sure he couldn't move a muscle. She had moved him in front of her desk, where she propped her legs up on the corner and crossed one over the other with simple grace.
"Naruto, we are going to talk about this." He simply glared back at her with a certain about of disdain. "I sent Ino to get Sakura at her home, she will be here soon. You will not yell at her, and you will not hurt her."
Naruto was shocked, he would never hurt Sakura. This was his family. A child he helped create. A child, oh God. His clenched his eyes shut, shame and guilt filling him up. A woman that he had loved alone, by herself pregnant. She had been taking care of herself...this whole time. He felt like a downright bastard.
"She's four months along, Naruto. She has no health problems and she's on a light work schedule. I have denied her going on mission even with her wanting to go."
He was scared, he could have lost her at any time. Did she know before the divorce? Did she know the night he came home and told her they were getting a divorce?
The thought made his gut clench. She was pregnant when they had gotten a divorce, when he had told her that he didn't want to be married any longer. Eh, the pain, the guilt, it burned and hurt at the same time.
The door opened and his head whipped around. His first thought was that she had put on a bit of weight and looked magnificently healthy. She shuffled in the door, and Ino and Tsunade went out and slowly closed it, leaving them alone.
"Sakura..." He looked down at her stomach, which was showing the signs of pregnancy.
