Understanding You

Chapter 6

Tsunade looked at the medics around her,

"I want Hinata in here NOW!"

She screamed as the medics ran out of the room Shizune stared in shock at Sakura.

"W-What was that?"

"Orochimaru."

Both Tsunade and Shizune looked at Sasuke as he limped in never taking his eyes off Sakura's unconscious body.

"I've never seen anything like that though. It might be something new."

Sasuke stated in a monotone voice, his fists held tightly at his sides.

"Lady Tsunade you sent for me!?"

Hinata scrambled into the room almost tripping over herself and into Sasuke.

"Use your Byakugan on Sakura, tell me what you see."

Hinata nodded and turned her attention to Sakura.

"Byakugan!"

Hinata looked over Sakura's body instead of seeing the usual blue color of chakra or even pink, it was a dark purple almost black. As her eyes traced down to Sakura's core or stomach she gasped.

"What do you see?"

"I-its like one dark snake. A large chakra snake had wrapped itself around Sakura's core chakra. Its horrible, right now it seems to be devouring her own chakra while making dark chakra flow through her instead. Her heart its picking up pace!"

Hinata exclaimed at Sakura's chest started to move rapidly.

"Its looking at me, the snake sees me! And-"

Before anything else could come out of Hinata's mouth she was shot back into a wall, unconscious. The large snake was out of Sakura's body and was hissing at everyone, before it went back into Sakura's body it slithered around her body and tightened its grasp making her lose her breath. Tsunade was about to run and attack but Sasuke held her back. The snake then went into Sakura's body.

"Why did you-"

"It just threatened us."

Tsunade stared at Sasuke and she folded her arms.

"What threat exactly?"

"It said that if you ever do something like that again I'll squeeze the life out of her."

"Y-you can hear it?"

Shizune timidly asked while Sasuke's expression had grown darker.

"Yes I can."

Her body felt weak and her ears felt like they were ringing. She took her time opening her eyes, and when she felt she was strong enough to pick herself up to be in a sitting position a hand was grasped around hers.

Sakura looked down to see Sasuke's head rested against her bed both his hands grasping her right hand. His eyes were closed and she smiled at the sight of Sasuke sleeping. He was in a horrible chair resting in a position that Sakura knew would make him feel sore later, and he was in that position waiting for her to wake up. She felt herself without even thinking brush his bangs out of his eyes and instantly his grip on her hand tightened.

"Why didn't you tell me about Ash?"

Sasuke's words were crystal clear and a moment later he opened his eyes. Damn it, Sakura thought as she cringed slightly. She thought he was sleeping. Sasuke seemed to be waiting for Sakura to answer and she looked away and tried to pull her hand away. But Sasuke didn't let go and she sighed.

"No one was supposed to know. It was only for me and Tsunade to know who the father was."

"Why?"

"Why do you think?!"

Sakura snapped glaring at Sasuke who hadn't lifted his head from the bed.

"If everyone knew that my son was Itachi's child…"

She closed her eyes tightly and grinded her teeth.

"If…if they knew they would treat him horribly. What Itachi did, they wouldn't even wait for the explanation of how he became the father. They would just think he's the son of a murderer. And that's not what he is! Ash is his own person just like Naruto. Naruto isn't the boy holding the demon inside him, Naruto is going to be the next Hokage that's what he is. Just like Ash is going to be some day…the next Hokage."

Sakura smiled and opened her eyes that now had a glossy shine. Sasuke straightened up and stared intently at Sakura.

"How is Itachi the father?"

Sasuke stayed quiet as he watched Sakura shake her head from side to side. The tears spilling from her eyes.

"One thing at a time…I-I promise to tell you. Just not now, p-please not now."

Sasuke let go of Sakura's hand and watched as she started to sob into her hands.

After awhile Sakura felt herself get control of herself. She looked up at Sasuke and smiled weakly.

"Sorry about that. So how long have I been asleep?"

"Mom!"

Sasuke opened his mouth but Ash's yell cut him off as he ran into the room and jumped onto his mother. He instantly started crying, sobbing as he asked for forgiveness at getting mad at her the same night she was hurt.

"Ash dear its alright."

Sasuke watched as Sakura rocked Ash slightly back and forth comforting her son. It brought another memory of his mother and him in his head and he looked away from the scene until Ash happened to ask…

"Mom what happened?"

Sasuke cringed and brought his attention back to Sakura who had tensed up.

She stared at Sasuke who was staring at her before she looked down at her son.

"I was very clumsy, Ash and I fell down the stairs. Sasuke here saved me."

Sakura brought her attention back to Sasuke and smiled at him as she patted his hand lightly. Ash stared at his uncle, and nodded seriously at Sasuke.

"Thank you."

Sasuke winced on the inside from Ash's words. He shouldn't be thanked, especially when Sasuke had put his mother in that bed. But when he looked up at Sakura he could see in her eyes that he was supposed to play along.

"Hey Ash, shouldn't you be with your team?"

Sakura asked sternly at Ash who was now sheepishly smiling at her.

"No worries Sakura, were all here."

Kakashi walked in with the rest of Ash's team. Sasuke looked at all of them the kids almost reminded him of team seven except for the fact that Ash who looked like Sasuke acted like Naruto, and the boy that looked a little like Naruto acted like Sasuke had. Then there was the girl who looked nothing like Sakura but acted completely shy around both boys especially Ash.

"Hello Kakashi, I hope Ash isn't too much trouble."

"As much trouble as Naruto was."

Kakashi smiled behind his mask and ruffled Ash's hair who was none to happy with him doing that.

"Alright we need to leave Sakura alone, we aren't even supposed to be visiting. Now out all of you go."

Kakashi stated in a bored tone pulling out his porn book.

"Kakashi you shouldn't be reading that in front of the kids, especially my son I don't want him turning into a pervert."

Kakashi only yawned in response and walked out of the room giving a short wave to both Sasuke and Sakura.

"That was weird."

Sasuke stated and Sakura laughed lightly.

"Yeah they remind me of use though the two boys switched bodies don't you think? But Sasuke…what did Kakashi mean by no one is supposed to visit? Aren't you-"

"Im here because im the one keeping watch on you. And the reason because no one can see you is, that something is weird with your chakra right now."

"Could you explain that in better terms."

"Hn."

Sakura knew that meant no and she folded her arms over each other.

"I think I have a right to know."

Sasuke leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

"Not my problem."

Sakura waited a couple of minutes. She didn't like being in a room with Sasuke especially when he wasn't even awake, because she just started reverting back to her old self. The girl who loved to watch Sasuke-kun. Sakura slowly pulled herself out of bed and tiptoed to the door and was about to open it…

"Don't even think about it."

Sasuke smoothly spoke out never even opening his eyes while Sakura stomped her foot loudly.

"Will you stop acting like you're asleep!"

Sasuke smirked and opened one of his eyes.

"Why does it bother you?"

Sakura knew Sasuke was messing with her and she held up a fist.

"I don't care if you're my patient I will frickin beat the crap outta' you!"

In a blink of an eye Sasuke was leaning over Sakura, a smirk still fresh on his lips.

"Hn."

Sakura felt a blush come to her face at how close they were and once she figured out what just happened she punch Sasuke playfully in the face. His 'hn' to Sakura was actually saying 'really?' and she knew that.

"Yes really Sasuke."

Sakura walked away from Sasuke and laid down on her hospital bed her legs swinging off the edge and her head was off on the other side looking at everything from upside down. Sasuke walked back over to his chair and Sakura giggled at him.

"You look funny upside down."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Sakura and she stuck her tongue out at him.

"Very mature."

"Very mature."

Sakura mimicked and Sasuke rolled his eyes. Sakura smiled and stared at Sasuke.

"How long was I out?"

"Only a week."

"Did you have therapy sessions with anyone."

"Hn."

"If you didn't have sessions how are you expecting to get better."

"I've already been discharged."

Sasuke said holding his left hand up and moving it, curling his fingers to show Sakura he had perfect control over his new arm.

"Wow, you learned fast. So you taught yourself, yeah? Nice."

It stayed quiet for awhile and Sakura was now laying normally on the bed. Sasuke couldn't see Sakura's face her hair keeping him from getting a good view and he thought she had fallen asleep.

"I didn't have sex with Itachi you know."

Sakura stated staring up at the ceiling Sasuke just listened as he looked at Sakura's sad form. She curled up into a ball and stared at Sasuke.

"When I was fourteen I was still in love with you, but something happened. Im not even sure how it happened exactly, I've tried hard to forget t-that night. The mission itself I don't remember, I do remember I was with team seven and we had to spilt up for the night. Take posts at different places to watch that princess, I don't remember her that well either. That night…he um…he was there…"

Sakura took a long pause and Sasuke watched as Sakura tensed up and she closed her eyes.

"He had b-been passing through you know. I-Itachi remembered me when he saw me…I tried to fight him I really did. But it's a lot harder than it looks when you cant look at him directly. The fight wasn't long and I was really pathetic."

Sakura shook her head.

"I hadn't been paying attention, he cornered me to a tree. Grabbed me and forced me to look up, didn't even have time to scream for help."

Sakura felt tears in her eyes.

"I-I don't even know where I was when…when I woke up. And he was there just mocking me for awhile!"

The tears started to spill and she started to shake.

"It was really dark but I remember…I remember h-how he touched me, what he did to me. I can't…no matter how hard I try…I still remember it. He r-raped me. I never wanted to have sex with him, he raped me okay!"

Sakura cried into her hands and she didn't care if Sasuke was watching her or not. Sasuke just stared at her just tense.

Sakura felt Sasuke grab her hands and pull them away from her face. Sasuke had gotten out of his chair and was kneeling in front of Sakura. He held her face in his hands and wiped away her tears. Sasuke didn't even know why he was doing this but his body was just moving on its own it seemed.

"I-im…im sorry Sakura."

Sakura stared at Sasuke the pain that was twisting itself around her seemed to be lifted from Sasuke's words. She knew his sorry meant a lot of things. Sasuke leaned in and Sakura didn't move as his lips barely brushed against hers.

"I shouldn't have asked."

Sasuke whispered before slowly getting up and leaving the room.

CHA! This chapter is done! Hope you people like it and that you will review. And thanks to all the people who have reviewed loves you!!!

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