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Holding onto what's dear
Chapter eight: Doing Something
The rest of Sakura's day with Itachi went surprisingly well considering the mood she was in. It was nightfall in the village and Sakura was outside admiring the true beauty of the stars, she hardly ever saw them, for in Konoha the night sky was always clear and voided of those twinkling stars.
Letting out a sigh Sakura pushed herself up from the ground that she was lying down upon and proceeded to walk back to her home, she was dreadfully trying to avoid her mother but she knew she had to face her some time. When she was five minutes from her house she walked by the bar glancing in it to see who were all there, she rolled her eyes when she spotted her mother in a skanky skin tight red dress with a low v neck and it left nothing to the imagination, Mrs. Haruno was making out with a man that looked to be in his early forties, the man had his hands up her dress, while another man was behind her groping her body.
"What a skank," Sakura whispered to no one as she turned around and decided to head back to the Uchiha estate, as she was less than three minutes away from the house she was heading to, she the proceeded to bump into Shisui.
"Sakura! My lovely little Cherry Blossom what are you doing here so late at night, last I heard about you is that you were heading home."
"Oh Shisui." Sakura said running into his arms and hugging him tightly refusing to let go. "I can't stand it anymore, Shisui, I just can't, I want to move out but I know I can't."
Wrapping his arms around her Shisui pulled her closer to his warm chest. Where she then proceeded to cry and collapse into him.
"Darlin' it's okay, I'm right here, you have me, you have me, just as much as you have Itachi." Shisui closed his eyes rocking Sakura back in forth and bringing his hands up to her face to wipe her tears away.
"I know I have you Shisui, I know, it's just I don't think I can do this anymore." Sakura said burying her face into the crook of Shisui's neck and crying even harder.
"Darlin it's okay, please it's okay." Standing up Shisui picked Sakura up bridal style and walked to his aunt and uncle's home, he opened the door and let himself in. Taking some stairs up to the upper level, he walked the hallways and took some turn and twist's a couple of times before he was right smack in front of the door to the room he wanted to be at. Moving Sakura a bit more comfortably in his arm he slowly opened the door.
Once in the room he looked over at the desk where is little cousin was sitting at reading a document. Not turning around to look at Shisui the man spoke,
"What is it, why have you come here this late in the night?"
"Itachi, it's Sakura, she needs you." Once the name Sakura was out of Shisui's lips Itachi left the desk and turned to look at Shisui holding a silently crying Sakura. He rushed over and took the crying girl out of his older cousin's arms.
"What has happened to her Shisui?" Questioned the younger Uchiha holding his beloved against his chest in a firm brace of protection.
"I don't know, she just pretty much bumped into me and the started crying, I think it has something to do with her mother though."
"I would not doubt that. The hatred between her and her mother has escalated to an alarming rate, sooner or later it will have to be stopped, I only hope it's sooner than later." Walking over to his bed Itachi laid down the now asleep Sakura and covered her with his duvet. He gently gave her a kiss on her forehead and turned around to look at Shisui.
"We're going to speak to the Hokage about this, she needs to know. Go get my mother she's in the kitchen cleaning." Listening to what Itachi said Shisui left Itachi alone and went to go find his aunt.
"Aunt Mikoto!"
"Shisui, my darling!"
"Itachi says to get you; we're going to speak with the Hokage." Turning around to look at her troublesome nephew, Mikoto stopped what she was doing and left the kitchen with Shisui behind her.
"Shisui, why exactly are we going to the Hokage?"
"Well I strongly believe it's about Sakura." They both reached Itachi's door and walked in. Mikoto looked at her eldest child dressed in his ANBU uniform and strapping his katana on his back.
"Good evening mother. How are you?" Itachi questioned his mother.
"I'm fine sweetheart, now what is this about, Shisui says it has something to do with Sakura."
Walking out of his room with his mother and Shisui behind him Itachi started explaining the whole situation with Sakura and her mother.
Tsunade sat at her desk with a bottle of Sake in one hand and paper work in the other, on the floor beside her she had a thick pile of paperwork that she had yet to finish. She was procrastinating so much that Shizune finally got fed up with her and said that if she didn't catch up with the five months of overdue paperwork that she'll have Naruto come and bug her. So Tsunade not wanting to be bugged by the annoying little fox brat decided to do her paperwork, though right now she was wishing that she took the latter.
Sighing to herself she closed her eyes and silently thought about her lover Jiraiya, he was out and about doing research for another one of his pervy books. A knock on her door interrupted her thoughts, recognizing the chakra signature she couldn't help but smirk.
"You may enter." She said, with that she watched Shisui, Itachi and Mikoto walk in. "Now what do I owe the pleasure of the Uchiha's coming to visit me at such a ghastly time of night?"
"Lady Tsunade my son and nephew would like to talk to you about Sakura and her mother; they wanted me to come along with them." Mikoto said bowing to her as well as Itachi and Shisui.
"Sakura? My apprentice, what is going on?" Tsunade questioned directing her gaze at Itachi but Shisui was the one who answered.
"Well I was on patrol at the estate when Sakura and I bumped into one another and she pretty much collapsed saying 'I don't think I can do this anymore', she said other things as well but it was all mostly about how she wanted to get out, she couldn't stand staying there at that house with her mother. Tsunade I believe that Sakura needs to be moved from that environment especially with both of her current conditions." Shisui said looking dead on right into Tsunade's eyes. Tsunade let out a gasp of shock.
"You know, but how do you know, and what are you meaning about two conditions I only know of one." Tsunade questioned looking at Shisui, ignoring the curious glances of Itachi and Mikoto.
"Well I found out about them both, she knows I know, you know what the first is, as for the second I don't think it's wise of me to tell you, Sakura should be the one to tell."
"Shisui I don't give a damn, I am ordering you as your Hokage to tell me about her second condition." Tsunade yelled at Shisui, slamming her fists on her desk which caused the desk to crack.
"Okay but I think Itachi and Aunt Mikoto need to sit down for this." Shisui in a very serious voice said.
"You two sit." Tsunade said gesturing for Itachi and Mikoto to sit at the desks in front of her desk. They obediently listened.
"Now Shisui as you can tell, they are sitting down." Shisui went to stand in front of Tsunade's desk making sure that he was blocking Itachi from her view.
"To put it simple, she's pregnant." With those words Mikoto squealed with joy, Itachi tensed up in shock and Tsunade just sat at her desk mouth agape with shock. Once she got over her shock she jumped up and literally shoved Shisui into the wall and grabbed Itachi slamming him against her wall.
"You Uchiha brat, you knocked up my apprentice, how could you do that, did you even use protection?" An enraged Tsunade spat in Itachi's face, Itachi calmly brought his hands up to Tsunade's arms and pulled her arms away from him and replied.
"Milady we did use protection, it just happened, I would apologize for this, but I am not because that would be saying that I'm sorry about the pregnancy which I am not, I love Sakura and I will do anything for her. I will be there for her. As to another matter of hand we came here to talk about Sakura and her mother, I firmly believe and I'm positive if you ask my mother and Shisui that it is best for Sakura to leave that environment, move out." Itachi calmly replied.
"Itachi I want more than anything to do that, but I don't have power to do that, she is still a minor after all. If that were to happen then we need a council meeting and her mother needs to be there, but I will tell you this, I can have her out of the house for a month but that's all I can do, until we have a council meeting. But as for where she will be staying I can be assured that she'll be staying with you?" Tsunade replied walking away.
"She will be staying with us Hokage, I'll have Shisui and Itachi get her stuff from her home right now." Mikoto replied, knowing Tsunade's question was directed towards her.
"Very well, you may leave." With one last bow to the Hokage the trio left her office. Tsunade sat down at her desk exhausted and buried her head in her hands.
"What is it that you want Kakashi?" Kakashi jumped into her office through the window.
"I'm worried, not just about Sakura but Itachi as well, the pregnancy will definitely take a toll on Sakura's body, but as for Itachi, he doesn't know that she's dying, I fear what his reaction will be when he does find out. Tsunade he needs to know, and if she's not going to tell him then I will; he needs to know, it'll break him when she dies, he'll feel worse if he doesn't know about it, and he needs to know so he can come to terms with it. Please have Sakura tell him." With those words Kakashi left her office through the window once more, leaving Tsunade to think about what to do. Either way she looked at it Itachi was going to find out, whether it be from his lover or Kakashi, she also wouldn't put it past Shisui to tell him if Sakura herself doesn't. Tsunade sighed to herself pulling Sakura's medical document out of her desk and studying it to see if she could find a cure.
AN: I am sorry for the lateness, I had this done like three times and then I didn't like it so I rewrote it, also I have been sick and looking at a computer screen was giving me such a headache, though I should update sooner, also PM me or write in your review what you would like to see in here, please give me ideas. I would like to dedicate this chapter to DarkBlueLynx, if y'all have not read her FanFic then I suggest you read it and review it. Also my fellow Fanfic writer ItachiISsmexilicious is writing an ItaSaku story called Itachi and Sakura, I suggest you guys read it and review; also I would like you to read xmxoxoxnxy fanfictions as well. Well here is my super long authors note.
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