Hello and welcome to the story that currently has no name

Another serious chapter-so beware and if you get too bored go skiing!! It's fun and it's spelled with too i's right next to each other!!

Glares

What it is!!

I know I just wanted to randomly glare!! YAY

O.o. scary…..she's mad one minute and super happy the next WTF?? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, in the moments that follow you will read about my worst fear….a girl talk! And if you're not going to be reading in the next couple minutes then leave you stupid head! Go, Shoo, Leave!! Get off my property you hooligans!

Giggle you sound old!

I am over four hundred

And you look great….

I know being a vampire will do that to a person!

Chapter Nine-Have Faith

The problem with Kakashi's strategy was simple; Sasuke didn't come back. As Sakura entered her seventh month of pregnancy she began to worry.

"What if an enemy got him or Naruto?" she fretted.

As a response to her nervous fidgeting and torn expression, Ino practically ordered her to stop getting so anxious.

"Something might happen to the baby," she scolded when Sakura went out to lunch with her Tenten and Hinata one sunny afternoon in August. Sakura hung her head, ashamed, and began picking at her untouched salad.

"That's not going to help Ino!" Tenten snapped from across the table. Sakura shook her head and exchanged an exasperated glance with Hinata who was sitting beside her; those two never got along.

"You got a better idea Panda head?" Ino snarled. "Or is your mouth working faster than your empty brain?"

When Tenten didn't answer, Ino continued much to the dismay of the other two women at the table who were now carefully avoiding each other's eyes.

"That what I thought. Sakura's my beast friend! What do you even know about her?"

"Plenty," Tenten suddenly became quiet. "And I know exactly what she's going through. Remember last year?" Despite her cold stare, she was twisting her napkin in her lap. Ino, who was looking like she'd like to retort, abruptly closed her mouth and turned her head the other way.

Sakura remembered. Tenten had been the first of them to become pregnant, beginning early the previous year. Happily married already to her prodigy of a teammate, there seemed to be no trouble with her bearing his child. Until the middle of the eighth month when Neji was called away on an urgent mission and Tenten fell into such a strong depression when he didn't return on time that she became ill and lost the baby. Luckily Neji had come back as the illness took a turn for the worst and was able to nurse his wife back to health. He hadn't been on any mission above C rank since. Sakura tugged nervously on her shirt, another borrowed one from Tenten.

"People telling me the things like "Stop worrying, you'll lose the baby." Only made it worse because I felt guilty and ashamed of myself," Tenten finished. "And that's why I lost the baby. Sasuke-san will turn up, Sakura, have faith in him."

Sakura looked at her gratefully. She had never felt particularly close to Tenten, but to have someone place her feelings into words like that gave her a sensation unlike any she'd ever known. For the first time in weeks, she relaxed a little and allowed herself to enjoy the feel of the sun as its bright rays danced along her skin.

Suddenly and without any warning or apparent reason, Hinata burst into tears. They all turned to her in alarm.

Tenten was the first to realize what was going on ad her expression softened. "Hinata-chan," she got out of her seat and put her arms around Hinata's shaking shoulders. "It's ok…I know…I know you miss him."

Sakura understood now too. Sasuke wasn't the only one who hadn't returned…

Awkwardly, but with no hesitation or second thoughts whatsoever, she joined Tenten beside her normally quiet friend who seemed to be having a hard time calming down.

"He p-promised," she sobbed. "He p-promised-d he'd come back."

Sakura murmured comforting words in a slow steady voice in Hinata's ear while Tenten let her cry on her shoulder.

Ino got up looking uncomfortable and herded the huddle to the one stall bathroom, glaring at other customers and anyone else who stared. They knew Ino's reputation as a fiery tempered chunin kunochi and hastily returned to what they were doing. Once inside the stall, Hinata began to pull herself together.

"I'm sorry," she murmured, hiccupping a little. "I shouldn't be bawling like this. I j-just don't want to lose him after he f-finally noticed m-me." Hinata hardly stammered anymore, but on rare occasions like in the presence of Naruto or when she was upset the old habit resurfaced once more.

"I understand," Sakura said, untangling herself from the group. "I felt the exact some way about Sasuke-kun for the first year or so. But have faith in him and Naruto. They're strong. Too strong to be overcome by an enemy of any level."

With a sniff and fresh wave of tears, Hinata began sobbing again. "Thank-you."