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Chapter 8


FIGURING PARTS OUT


Morning found Sasuke in his office at the Department going over the paperwork that had been set on his desk since that morning. He looked over the documents and signed a few, but didn't get any farther than that. His mind was thinking of the child he had seen the night before, wandering the halls with Naruto. Sasuke knew that he needed to get back to the hospital to check back up on his father, but that child was also there as well.

He couldn't deny that there was a resemblance between him and the child, but it was only a newborn. There was probably a good chance that the kid wasn't even his, but just had features that looked like his. Sighing he knew he would have to do a little investigating after he saw his father at the hospital. Maybe he could just catch a glance at the mother, it would tell him all he needed to know. Naruto had asked him though why Sasuke would have a kid in the hospital though and it made Sasuke groan.

He hadn't openly shared his evening with anyone other than Itachi. His officers and friends really didn't need to know of his own personal libido and how sometimes, he had needs as well. Naruto was married to Hinata, Neji was apparently dating Tenten, the weapons' specialist at the Department, and Shikamaru had an annoying blond barbie. And well that left him with no one, making his own frustrations gather up and then they would have to be released. It just so happened that a night of alcohol and a very feminine looking female just made his libido take off, and maybe too much.

Setting down the pen and neatly organizing the papers neatly near the side of his desk, he stood, grabbed his jacket and left the office, fully intending to visit his father and then find out about this baby that sort of looked like him. He knew he was probably being ridiculous but he might as well make sure before something came up later.


Waking up that morning Sakura just wished she could have just gone back to sleep. Pain rippled through her lower regions and she knew that she would probably be sore down there for a while and that prospect wasn't the least bit welcome. But regardless of the pain that she felt she wanted her baby boy. It has been hours since she had seen the boy and right now she really wanted to just hold him and get to know him, though he was a newborn.

Eri was still in the room and asleep on the couch with a pillow and a blanket to make things a bit more comfortable for the woman. She knew Ino would be by later to see her and she couldn't wait to have her friend around her again, and at least time she would be a little more lively and so would the baby. As if someone had read her thoughts the door of the room opened and a nurse rolled a plastic bassinet in, and within it, a form of a baby. The nurse rolled it to the base of the bed before gently picking the child up and bringing him to Sakura.

Sakura willingly and gladly took the child into her arms and again she was stunned by the features of the child. The aristocratic nose, definitely not hers, his raven colored hair that was bunched at the top of his head. The nurse showed her how to breast feed him when he would undoubtedly wake up and demand to be fed. It was only a few moments after the nurse left that Eri woke up.

The dark haired woman rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and then got the aches out of her back from sleeping on the couch before coming over and sitting on the bed and watching the baby start to wake up. The bundle started to move slightly before both women saw the blanket and the baby give out a yawn, and Sakura couldn't help but smile at her newborn.

She wished that the boy would always stay like this. Small and fragile and content with life. But Sakura knew better. This peace wouldn't last and she knew that once she got with home with her bundle of joy, he wouldn't be a bundle of joy. There would be crying in the middle of the night, sleepless nights, the changing of diapers and everything else that came with having a baby.

Sakura's body jumped slightly when the baby decided he was hungry and let out a small piercing wail, letting everyone know that he was hungry and demanded to be fed that instant. Sakura momentarily forgot what the nurse had said so, Eri helped her, telling her what to do and helping her along. Sakura gasped at the feeling of her child suckling her. It was a new experience, but a good one, Sakura decided.

After the baby had decided he was done he let out another yawn before falling back asleep. And Sakura could only stare in wonder at her new life. He was so precious. The only other thing that was in her mind was that whoever the father was, would never get to meet this miraculous little boy. He would never know that he had a son with her, but she didn't dwell on that thought, because she had a son, and that was what mattered.


After checking up on his father and with several doctors he made his way back to where Naruto and he had seen the child that looked like him. Looking through the paned window, he didn't see the child that resembled him. Tracking down a nurse he told her an elaborate story of how a friend had sent him down to check up on a friend of his and how he didn't remember the last name, and just the baby had dark hair and green eyes. He knew his story was far fetched but he hoped the nurse believed him and after a few seconds the nurse smiled and replied that she did know of the baby that had the green eyes. Inwardly Sasuke sighed and asked about the child and where the mother's room was at.

"He is the cutest little thing, I must say." the nurse gushed at him, "and a cute name too. Daiki. Isn't that such a great name for a boy. And I'll take you to the mother's room." the nurse led him through several hallways before coming to a doorway. He stopped her before she opened the door and told her he wanted to go in by himself. She nodded and left him by himself.

Sasuke stood there outside the door, and heaved a deep breath. Daiki. Such a 'great' name. Looking at the door he noticed a small window near the top. Looking around him, he figured he was tall enough to take a peek through the window just to see. Again looking around him he took the steps towards the door and craning his neck he peeked inside the window and found the bed and the occupants. The first and last thing he saw was pink.

Dropping his head and taking a few steps back he just looked at the door. Pink. That was the exotic hair color of his one night stand all those months ago. He could clearly remember it now. The exotic pink spread over the white silk sheets. The pink strands that at some points he had let his hands tangle in. How many people had pink hair?

Looking at the door a final time, he strode away catching the number on the door before completely leaving the vicinity. He headed straight back to the Department, ignoring everyone and everything until he was in his office seated behind his computer. Clicking on several icons he brought up a search and typed in the last name that was given to him 'Haruno'. Clicking on a button, a profile appeared before him on the computer.

Of course the first thing that caught his attention was that her hair was indeed pink, and then the vivid green irises. Leaning back in his chair he continued to just look at her profile picture. This was the woman he had slept with at that party all those months ago. He remembered vaguely that her hair was an exotic color, and pink certainly was exotic.

But she had a child? Could that child possibly be his? She certainly wasn't a virgin when he had slept with her, but looking at the features the kid certainly had looked like him. The dark hair, the aristocratic nose, and patrician features. It was all there. Maybe, he would expose himself to her, and then have a paternity test done, just to really see. She could have gone and slept with someone the next weekend if she had wanted too. Her having that child certainly didn't mean it was his. But in essence he was calling her a whore and that was no good.

He couldn't just walk in say they had rolled around and nine months later they were meeting for the first time, being sober, and now there was a kid involved. He sighed. This was too much. He would gladly have the murder case back, instead of having to deal with possible parenthood, and he didn't even know the mother or woman that had birthed his possible kid. As much as he hated to think it, but he really needed Itachi on this one.

Getting his phone from his pocket he opened it up and called his brother and told him to get down to his office, immediately, that there was a situation that needed to be taken care of. His brother not needing any further information, informed the younger Uchiha that he would be there shortly and when Sasuke had ended the call he felt a little bit better but not much.

When Itachi arrived the older brother noticed how distressed the younger Uchiha seemed, he immediately knew something was up. He had known something was wrong when he had received the phone call, but now upon seeing his brother there was something definitely wrong. He walked deeper into the office and sat down in one of the leather chairs that were before the desk that Sasuke sat at.

"What happened?" Itachi asked sinking into the seat. Sasuke just took a deep breath and released it. He wasn't sure where to start. Probably from the beginning.

"You remember..... when I told you about that night?" Sasuke asked, hoping that he wouldn't have to expound on the 'that night' part. Itachi just nodded.

"Of course." Itachi mused. "What about that?"

"The other night, when we were all at the hospital, Naruto and I took a walk." Itachi nodded, " and Naruto stopped at the nursery window. He told me there was a child that.....resembled me." Sasuke bit out." and Itachi's eyes narrowed. "earlier I went to check on father and then to find out something about the child. The mother, she's the woman I slept with nine months ago."

"Are you sure?" the question came out quickly and deliberately.

"I'm positive." Sasuke answered back.

Itachi leaned farther back into the chair. He certainly wasn't expecting this. He wasn't expecting to come down to the office and be told that he could be an uncle, without even knowing it. Hell, Sasuke was probably a father and hadn't even known it. How was he supposed to react to this? The woman probably had no idea that she had literally slept with one of the most powerful men in Kyoto and had gotten impregnated as well.

The child was Uchiha and deserved such rights as Uchihas deserved. It made him sound pompous but it was the truth. He didn't know anything about the mother and frankly he wasn't sure he wanted too. But this would have to be dealt with. He was half pissed at Sasuke for being so careless and letting this happen. Didn't the boy know to use a condom? Closing his eyes he took a breath before talking to Sasuke.
"What are you thinking of doing?" Itachi asked.

"Get a paternity test done." was the immediate response and Itachi nodded.

"and if the child is an Uchiha?"

"No idea." Sasuke admitted.

"Did you not think to use protection?" Itachi asked irately and Sasuke looked up at him stunned. "Sasuke, you're old enough to realize that having sex leads to having kids. Why the hell didn't you use protection?" Sasuke looked at him blankly.

"Well, we both had had some alcohol." He replied sheepishly, knowing that he wasn't going to be getting out of this one.

"That isn't an excuse!" Itachi practically snarled at his younger brother. "I had alcohol and I didn't go have sex with someone."

"Stop reprimanding me, Itachi!" Sasuke snapped sitting forward in his own chair. "I'm not even close to being ready to be a father, yet I might be. And if that child is mine, then I will see to it that the child is taken care of." Itachi and Sasuke just sat there for a moment, both silent and stewing over the words that had just been exchanged.

"Then lets get to the hospital and see what the hell is really going on." Itachi said stiffly and stood from the chair, Sasuke nodding and following his brother out of the office and towards their respective cars.


Ino squealed and wrapped her hand around Shikamaru's arm even tighter as she saw the cute baby blink at her.

"He's so cute!" she told Shikamaru. "I want one!" and Shikamaru paled, thinking that his girlfriend was insane.

Sakura just laughed at Ino's antics. Both Ino and Shikamaru has just barely gotten there about ten minutes before. Sakura had been taking a nap as had Daiki. But now the child was wide awake and so was the mother. Sakura knew the child couldn't really discern what was happening around him, but just glad for all the attention that he was receiving.

Ino held the baby as he began to squirm restlessly in her arms. Sakura was just sitting up in the bed relaxing and just watching her friend hold her baby, who she could see was getting restless. Ino decided to let Shikamaru hold the child with Sakura's approval and the man took the baby and instantly the child fell still, quitting its squirming.

"Guess Shikamaru is already rubbing his laziness onto the kid." Ino joked letting the baby play with her index finger, while Shikamaru rolled his eyes and Sakura chuckled. Hearing a knock on the door a nurse soon entered and stopped once getting through the ajar door.

"There are two gentlemen here to see you." The nurse said rushed and Sakura scrunched her forehead. "They wish to speak to you in private." the nurses eyes flashed to Ino and Shikamaru.

"Who are they?" Ino asked.

"They look to be officers." the nurse replied and Shikamaru groaned and gave the baby back to Ino.

"Let me go see who they are, and then I will come back." Shikamaru said before heading out of the door. Closing the door behind him he turned to see two high ranking officers before him.

"Superintendent?" Shikamaru stated a little confused. "What are you doing here?" the two Uchiha looked at the Nara.

"What are you doing here Shikamaru?" Sasuke asked leaning to one side.

"I'm here with my girlfriend visiting her friend who just had a baby." Shikamaru began to think back to the baby. How familiar the child seemed to be, and upon realization he groaned. "Don't tell me" Shikamaru groaned out.

"Don't tell you what?" Itachi asked the genius.

"It was one of you who got Sakura pregnant." Shikamaru started.

"It was my brother who supposedly did that." Itachi said sending a cross glance at Sasuke, who seemed to stiffen. All along someone in his own department had known the woman he had slept with and he hadn't even known it.

"You're saying that child is mine?" Sasuke asked.

"Well she certainly didn't sleep with anyone after that night. Ino said Sakura moped around for weeks afterwords." Shikamaru told them. "She hardly believed that she was pregnant at first."

"Well I guess that confirms that you are indeed the father Sasuke." Itachi stated.

"and the child even looks like an Uchiha." Shikamaru noted. "I knew there was something familiar when I first saw him."

"Well, we still need to deal with the rest of this. We need to speak to Sakura." Itachi told them and they both nodded.

"I'll get Ino and then you two can go in." Shikamaru said turning around and going back through the door, only to come out a few minutes later with a loud blond.

"What are you doing Shikamaru? We don't know who got Sakura pregnant." Ino ranted to the man as he pulled her from the room and then stopped as they came in front of the two Uchiha. Ino stopped her ranting and looked at the two men.

"Oh Kami, don't tell me." she whined as she faced Shikamaru. "Which one of these assholes got Sakura pregnant?" Ino demanded earning a cough and a grunt from the two other men, while Shikamaru groaned.

"This asshole apparently." Sasuke muttered looking at the blond with a touch of disdain making Ino whip her blond head towards him and then started marching the few steps towards him.

"Do you have any idea what you have put her through all these months. After getting over her pining over that night and finding out she was pregnant, she has had a hell of a time, let me tell you." Ino angrily told him, blue eyes burning.

"I assure you, there wasn't any intention of her getting....... pregnant from what happened. But now that I know of the situation, I have come to take care of it." Sasuke stated to the angry blond in front of him.

"Whatever." Ino told him, before retreating towards Shikamaru. "Just don't mess up!" she hissed at him after reaching Shikamaru.

Sasuke looked at Itachi before beginning to walk towards the door. Upon reaching it he had to take a deep breath before looking back at Itachi, just for a little reassurance. Getting a nod from his brother he, took another deep breath, and opened the door so he could step in.

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Sakura was confused when Shikamaru had come back in and told Ino to give the baby back to Sakura and then dragged her out of the room. After the door had closed she could hear the mumblings of heated words and figured that a nurse had upset Ino or something. Turning back down to face her baby she gently cooed to the small child and let him play with her finger as well as he could.

Hearing the door open, her head came up and watched as a tall dark figure walked through the door and then shut it. There was a little shadow over near the door since the blinds were half closed and the sun was setting. She saw the silhouette of a man and immediately cradled her baby a little closer to her, eyes straining to see who the man was.

When he finally stepped out from the shadows, a gasp left her mouth and her eyes widened in shock. While she looked at him in shock, he just looked at her with an almost empty expression. But there was something there and it looked almost like remorse.

"You're....... you're...." she couldn't get the words out, but she knew who this person, this man, was. He was the man that she had slept with all those months ago, the father of her child. He only nodded his head at her words, confirming them and then he spoke.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke." he told her in low tone. "and I believe that he is our child."


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