Her stomach was still fairly flat, but the bump couldn't be hidden from him. He knew her body, he had spent many night holding her, making love to her, and he knew every dip and curve to her. There was a glow to her, but it lacked in her eyes. She looked tired, and even a bit drained. He swallowed down a lump, and felt the prickle of tears forming. She had gained weight, a considerable amount, but her face still looked drawn and thin. She was already a petite woman, her body honed down to lean muscle from being a shinobi for so many years.

She was softer around the edges, her face a bit more plump, but still pleasing. It was the contrasting shadows under her eyes. The way her cheeks seemed a bit sunken in. The picture of her seemed starkly contrasting to everything. She had goose bumps along her arms, and she ran her hands over her upper arms, leaving them there, as to hug herself. To block out all the pain that was about to come.

The last thing he wanted to do was cause her pain, she was, had been, is everything. But, he had been the one to put an end to it.

He kept repeating the mantra don't scare her, don't scare her.

When Sakura had first arrived Tsunade had been watching him through narrowed eyes, not trusting him or his actions. It hurt, that lack of trust. With all the battles they had faced together, the thought of losing that trust. He would never, on his life hurt Sakura. He was his everything. He had never knew how much she left until he had given it up. Until he had pushed it away.

"Sakura?" His voice was a whisper in the air. She had been looked down, off to the side, anywhere but him. He seemed to be the misplaced object that they were all avoiding.

"Na-" he looked at her, waiting for her to finish. "Naruto." She didn't continue, even though he mouth continued to looked like a babbling fish. She closed her mouth, opening it.

Her mouth was dry, and she was uncertain as to what to do. She was afraid. She was afraid of hurting more and even the fact that she had hurt the man she loved. Why in the world did he go through all that to get her records? He had moved on with his life, and now he was putting her through hell. She couldn't believe Naruto, the calm, docile man she had married was strapped to a chair, the residue from his tember still pinking his cheeks and his wrists chafed from the pressure from the ropes.

What should she say? He didn't look like he was going to approach the subject.

"Why did you do this?" he looked startled at her voice. She placed her hands on her hips. Waiting for him to say something. He went from angry to sheepish in no time flat.

"I needed to know, Sakura. You avoided me for too long." The best time for honesty is when you were against the wall, or trapped to a chair.

"You don't have a right to know, at this point the child is mine." It hurt her to say something so harsh, but it hurt her more to have to fight through this all the time. To have him push her away, then pull her back in.

She felt overly emotional about everything. One minute she wanted nothing more than have him in her life, but then things changed. He continued on with his life, he chose to end what they had. No matter the reason, he ended it.

"That child is ours," his voice was terse and again she was flabbergasted. He had never used that tone on her. "That child is half of me." He shook in the chair.

Naruto felt the rage flow through him. She was trying to deny him his child? Why the hell would she do such a thing?

"We are not together, we are divorced. No longer apart of each others' lives." Inside she was shaking and it took all her might to sound strong.

"That doesn't mean that you can keep the child away from me?!" His voice rose, higher and higher, sounding off the walls.

"I didn't! I tried to tell you I was pregnant!" She was yelling back now. He was leaning forward in the chair, pulling his binds taunt. His whiskers grew a bit longer, his voice flowing into a snarl. The fox was coming through. He was so upset. His chakra was increasing dramatically, feeding off the fox. "You shuffled me out the door so fast I couldn't tell you! You seemed pretty happy with Hanabi there!"