Surrogacy

-chapter 7-

rated for language / adult themes


The following day the hospital called Sakura in for an emergency case at five thirty in the morning. Her pink colored pager lit up her whole room in a blinding flash of blue and the annoying chime of different tones rang through her ears, making the once peacefully sleeping Sakura sit up straight. She clutched it tightly between her fingers and read the simple code on it. It was a Code Orange which meant only one thing.

On the back of her I.D. tag there was a list of the different color codes and their meanings, which she memorized the day she began working at the hospital. Code Orange was a disaster or mass casualties which meant there was a lot of work to be done right at that moment. She threw herself out of the duvet covers and right into the kitchen where she quickly grabbed a granola bar and then practically flew to the front door where she pulled on her black sandals and pulled on a white cardigan over her pink pajama tank top. She grabbed her messenger bag off the hook and bounded out the door, her pager still blasting in her hand.

She bounded across the rooftops quickly and gently, mindful to the lucky people that were still fast asleep. "I've gotta get there, I've gotta get there." She repeated as the pager continued to blare off, being the only light in the entire village it seemed. She flew down and landed in front of the hospital double doors and ran in, her eyes alert and ready for the mass bodies.

"HARU!" She stormed over to the double doors that connected the emergency room to the corridor to the regular hospital, where Haru was currently standing chatting with a nurse. "What the hell is this?!" She shoved her pager into her friends face, still reading Code Orange.

"Oh yeah - there's still emergency cases, they're coming right now." She stated as she took a sip of her black coffee, her face smug.

A few minutes later the emergency double doors flung open and three people on stretchers were escorted in, all three partially covered in blood. "Haru, I'm pretty sure that doesn't count for a Code Orange! Review your I.D. tag!" Sakura half-playfully smacked the back of Haru's head and turned towards the three patients, ninja helping their bodies onto the tables.

"Tell me what happened." She probed while she quickly pulled on her yellow scrubs and pulled her white lab coat over her shoulders. She tied her hair back into a messy ponytail and took the clipboard from the nurse, reading the hastily written name.

"We don't know the full story but I'll give you what we got. Apparently these criminals, who are wanted by the police, have been experimenting with explosive tags, which we find it blatantly obvious with the other patient." He pointed to the third man that was wheeled in, both of his shins were blown to bits. "Blew up this entire apartment, set off a chain reaction with these boxes of explosive tags, entire place is gone. Him here, has glass embedded almost every where on his entire right side and about fifteen percent of his front body. This man, over here, sustained second degree burns on his entire front body, his face included, the last man over here, burns covering his entire body and unfortunately the explosion happened near his legs, resulting in this.."

"If it was an apartment, then wouldn't there be other tenants in the building where this happened? Wouldn't they be injured?" She inquired as she walked over to the last man who had his legs blown away, occasionally jotting down notes in her clipboard.

"Yes, they're fine, shaken up, but fine. We got the fire down almost immediately upon arrival."

"Ah, that's good. I'm going to get to work on this man here, he's loosing quite a lot of blood from his legs. If you could, grab that nurse over there." As she waited for the nurse to arrive, she quickly began working on his legs that were still spurting out blood, luckily, she's dealt with this before so she wasn't in the least bit nervous; however, he was in quite a predicament because she would usually preform a skin graft surgery but he didn't exactly have any skin to graft. "Alright, can you start removing the dead skin from his body, we don't have time to move him to an operating room so we'll just do it here. After that I'll ask you to start giving him Intravenous fluids, get his weight off the chart and do so accordingly. When that's done all I ask of you is to spread the ointment on all exposed parts of his body then help the other doctors on the other men."

"Alright Doctor Haruno! Your father just signed in." She gave Sakura a timid smile and began prepping the tools needing to extract the burnt skin away from his body.

Just like the nurse said, in walked her father looking tired as ever wearing his bed slippers. He had his dull-pink hair tied back, and she even spotted his white and blue striped pajama bottoms poking out from underneath his lab coat. She put all of her trust in her father with his medical work, so she knew those other men would survive without her. As she worked on the mans bloody stumps with her rejuvenating Mystical Palm Technique, her father lazily walked over to the man in the middle, catching a glance at his daughters work.

"Ah! Sakura! Look at that technique, you've gone so far!" He gushed over her in a friendly manner but he had a somewhat distraught look in his eyes which puzzled her. His man groaned yet he flipped the clipboard between his fingers, completely ignoring the pleas for help. "So - I heard some things around the hospital about my daughter..." She raised an eyebrow. "...THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET PREGNANT?!"

She grit her teeth together. "Yeah and who the hell said that." She snarled and looked around the emergency, only a leg was visible to her from behind a light green plastic screen. A leg that was wearing orange pajamas...

"Well your friend Naruto of course. Sakura, you better tell me who..."

"Dad! You have a patient to tend to, please start with him and I might just tell you." Immediately the man began working on the injured fellow, treating his second degree burns as fast as he could, looking up at his daughter angrily occasionally. Shaking her head, she mumbled "you're ridiculous, all of you."

As the minutes flew by, Naruto decided to show his face, only wearing his orange pj pants, white t-shirt, and sleeping cap which looked like it was intended for a child. "Hey Sakura! You're so amazing at what you do!"

"Why are you even awake at this hour, Naruto."

"Well their apartment building is right beside mine so they woke me up with their explosion! I was like, one of the first to even get in there and drag their sorry butt's out of there. So naturally I can't go to sleep, Sakura, the adrenaline is rushin' through me!"

"Alright next question.. Why did you tell my father about me 'getting pregnant?' It's not 'me getting pregnant' and I already told you that."

"Ehhh, I'm sorry Sakura, I thought he'd know, since he is your dad and all."

"Ugh. You know, I was going to tell him on my own time, in my own way so he'd actually understand. Now he thinks I'm just going around getting pregnant" She growled and her chakra spiked, throwing her man into an awake, upright position.

"Ah-ah- AAHHHH! MY LEGS!" He screamed at the top of his lungs and began throwing his arms all around. "And my skin! MY SKIN! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ME?!"

Sakura groaned. "I don't want my morning to go like this. Alright, nurse, could you please put him under. And Naruto." She squinted at him angrily. "Just - go do your own thing. I need to work."

"I'm gonna pick you up later for ramen, kay?" He announced before he exited like she asked, leaving her with some sort of peace.

When she glanced over to her father, Sakura saw that her father was already done, and standing beside her with his arms crossed.

"Tell me now, Sakura, I'm curious. Just WHO are you getting pregnant by?" He crackled his knuckles menacingly but she never once faltered. "And does your MOTHER know! God only knows what that woman will say!"

"Alright, really all it is, is that I signed up to become a surrogate mother. That's all."

"Traditional or gestational?"

"Traditional, in this case."

"Oh God, so biologically I'll have grandchildren that I cannot even see? You're killing me." He drawled dramatically. "Please tell me you told your mom."

"Yes, actually, I have told her because she is an easier person to tell about such things."

He rolled his eyes and his face turned sour. "Thank you, Sakura."

She merely rolled her eyes and continued treating the man.

...

Later that day, when noon was just rolling in, she was finished with the men and was able to dodge her father through the halls. Her fingers looked and felt like prunes from the excessive scrubbing in the sinks to rid herself of the feeling of gloves and blood and she felt like passing out - she used way too much chakra. All three survived and when they regained consciousness they were greeted by the head of the Konoha police with handcuffs swinging around their fingers.

"Neh, Sakura, how're the men!" Naruto rounded from a corner dramatically in an attempt to scare her but it failed, she could see his orange pant leg from behind the corner.

"They'll live, but I'm not sure how they'll fair in prison." She smiled and he clapped his hands happily.

"That's great, I mean, they were criminals and could have seriously hurt someone! Anyways, I told you I'd treat you to ramen since you were working so hard! I bet you haven't even eaten."

"I had a granola bar earlier, and yes.." Her stomach growled. "I guess I am hungry."

"Hehe alright! Hope you don't mind, well I know you wont, but I invited Sasuke too! As team Kakashi get together, although I haven't seen that old man in a while.."

"Oh. That's.. Great. But don't you two have a mission together later?"

"Yeah, later. We have time to get a bowl of ramen and catch up with each other."

Well, Sakura already knew the big issues Sasuke had right now there wasn't much catching up to do between them, but for Naruto innocent sake, she'll pretend and she knows Sasuke will too.

They chatted as they walked down the streets together until they reached the ramen stand, Sasuke already standing there idly, looking off into the distance with his bag ready for the mission later on. It was awkward for Sakura walking up because judging by the surprised look on Sasuke face meant he didn't know Sakura was coming to their get together.

"You shoulda seen her Sasuke, she got these three guys all patched up after they blew up their entire apartment from experimenting with explosive tags! Crazy, amiright?" The three took seats beside each other inside of the stand with Sakura ending up in the middle of them respectively.

"I guess." He stated dryly as Naruto began to give Teuchi his order, lazily poking at the napkin holder.

Once all three gave their orders a tension filled the air. "So, what's been up with everyone?"

"Nothing really. I've been.. Picking up a lot of shifts at the hospital."

Slurping was the only sound heard.

"Okay, well, Sasuke! Did you know Sakura's gonna get pregnant?"

Both Sakura and Sasuke choked on their noodles, their angry stares beaming right into his now frightened eyes.

"Is that so?" Sasuke questioned, shifting his eyes over to an overly embarrassed Sakura.

"Yeah it's so! Can you believe it! She wont even tell me who it is!" Naruto whimpered to himself. "I'm suuuper curious."

"Naruto I already told you why I can't tell you. I'm legally not aloud to say a word." She noticed a small grimace find it's way to Sasuke's face as he looked back down to his bowl of noodles. "Besides it wont be interesting to you anyway."

"But there's gonna be a little Sakura walkin' around here and I wanna protect it, yenno?"

"I'm sure the child will have all the protection in the world, Naruto. But that is cute." She giggled as Naruto looked actually upset over this, but hey, it was such a sweet thing he wants to do. It gives her assurance that one day when she will have children of her own, that they will have someone strong looking after them.

"Eh." Naruto shrugged and leaned in to look at Sasuke. "By the way, asshole, how's my cousin? You treating her right?"

"She's fine." Sasuke stated.

Again silence fell over the three, Sakura and Sasuke awkwardly sitting there, quietly eating while Naruto slurped up his second bowl.

"NARRUUTTOOOOO!" A teenage boy's voice shattered their eardrums and send ripples down their spines.

Yoink!

Right off his head, Naruto's headband was snatched right from his head. "Ahh! Hey, you lil' shit Konohamaru! I need that, I have a mission soon!" Naruto screeched and felt around his head, making sure his headband was actually gone before leaping to his feet. "I'M GOING TO BE RIGHT BACK, SASUKE, SAKURA."

He left the two by themselves. Sakura was not pleasantly surprised when Sasuke leaned in toward her. "Why aren't you taking my money?" He growled lowly, his menacing black orbs staring deep into her own.

"S-Sasuke, I don't know what you're talking about.." Well, she was never good at playing dumb.

"Ms. Nao called Karin to tell her that you weren't accepting the money so don't play this stupid game with me. Why."

"Well I never intended to do this for money, Sasuke, and you're my friend, I'm definitely not going to take your money." She stated as sweetly as possible but Sasuke was never one for sweets.

"Can you even comprehend how much money you'd get if you just accepted it? I'm not going to let you just do this whole thing for free." His cautious eyes constantly darted back and forth from Sakura and the counter to make sure Teuchi couldn't hear what they were saying.

She scoffed. "Well that's too bad, Sasuke, we already signed the papers and I don't want your damn money! I don't accept money from friends. I'm sorry if it's going to make you feel worse about this situation but there's no way I'm taking your money."

"Why are you so damn stubborn." Sasuke sighed heavily to himself before pushing off the counter and stepping off the bar stool. "Tell Naruto I left because I forgot something at home." He picked up his bag at his feet and was gone in a flash, leaving her by herself at the ramen stand.

"Dammit Sasuke!" Se threw her napkin on the table and promptly left the stand angrily, storming off down the street to go back home and rest.

When Naruto returned with his headband fastened around his head, he saw that his friends had disappeared.

"Dammit Konohamaru!"

...

When Sakura returned home, she pushed her door open to find a thick, bulging blank envelope. "What's this?" She curiously questioned herself as she carefully knelt down beside the mysterious envelope that would have had to have been forced through the tiny slot in her front door. She picked it up in her hands noticed it had great weight to it, which was something curious on it's own.

She looked around before closing the door behind her and making her way over to her living room. She slumped against the couch and pried open the glued shut envelope. She slightly regretted it because when it was opened tons and tons of bills came pouring out all over her face and body. "Ack!" She wiped the bills off her face and her eyes turned a dangerous dark green.

"He. Did. Not." She wiped all of the bills onto the ground and began her quest.

She counted. And counted... And counter some more.

"He did. A whole lot of two million, seven hundred and forty six thousand, two hundred and eighty ryo worth of 'he did!'"


Much bigger chapter for you guys, since the last one was pretty boring . Sorry about that. Thanks for the reviews! Keep em coming!

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