I Do Not Own Naruto

Uchiha

Sakura found that the most worrisome day of her life happened in September six weeks after her husband's twenty-ninth birthday. She was only twenty-eight herself and when it hit her. And it hit hard.

It was a normal day, she was discussing the way to remove an axe from a patient's head without killing him when she just collapsed. There was no warning, no the world wavering, none of the normal indicators of something coming to her, she just collapsed onto the ground and was out like a light.

She woke twenty minutes later confused as to why Sasuke was sitting beside her and why she was in a hospital bed. Tsunade came in five minutes after Sasuke telling her not to even attempt to get out of the bed or he'd duct tape her there. She believed him, but she wasn't happy about being forced to stay in the bed.

When Tsunade came in and said the very words Sakura had never thought she'd be hearing or saying to Sasuke everything froze, for both of them. Sakura was dismissed from work, she broke in the car then trying to say she didn't mean to get pregnant, but she was crying so hard no words could come out. Sasuke didn't say anything and she was panicking. She had cried herself into exhaustion and woke up to him sitting there. Again, she tried to say she didn't mean to get pregnant and he just shrugged and said it was earlier than he planned but they were going to be fine. Sakura had sat in his lap for the rest of the day now worrying about those fainting spells and if they happened when she was operating on someone. It could be very bad if she fainted when she was operating on someone.

Izumi had had her third son in August, she had named him Itachi and that was the first person Sasuke called for her when they had found out and she was panicking. Three hours after talking to Izumi Sakura felt a bit better about all of this but she was still nervous about as she talked to Tsunade about an appointment for OB-GYN. It was something to be nervous about.

Sasuke went with her and the moment she saw that little blip on the screen and was told that was her baby she felt very happy, relieved and a bit excited with her terrified. After what she had had for a mother Sakura was terrified of the very idea of motherhood; what if she turned out to be like her mother!? The thought was enough to have her wanting to hide for an eternity and die in a dark hole as she remembered Mebuki.

Kakashi had been the one to assure her that she was nothing like Mebuki, which was calming. September rolled into October and she looked at her two friends with sons of their own for comfort. Ino and Temari were active, working mothers, and Sakura found that comforting even on her days off when she agreed to take Inojin or Shikadai. She decided she could do this.

November was when she announced to the Uchiha family that she was in her third trimester of pregnancy. They had all congratulated her and offered to help. There was some truth to 'it took a village' when the Uchiha clan spoke of raising children. Izuna, Naori, and Itachi were transferred amongst the relatives with ease, and Sakura felt a bit happier with that knowledge as she accepted their help.

Come her second trimester there was no morning sickness, no fainting spells, but there was something about sex cravings she found to be very true. If Sakura and Sasuke had had an active sex life before during and before their marriage, then now she couldn't keep her hands off of him. Sasuke was more than happy to comply with her demands. He even took care of the odd three a.m. cravings she had, and just patiently got in the car and drove off to get what she wanted. She was pretty sure he liked the time away from her sometimes.

The other thing that drove her, and Sasuke bonkers, was her hormones, they could flip her around and have her from happy to tears in less than a second which was not helpful since she was a doctor and she couldn't be an emotional wreck. And yet… here she was, happy, to sad faster than a blink of an eye; it worried patients until she pointed to the baby bump and said hormones. Then everyone laughed. Sakura laughed with them but was worried about the rapid mood swings. They made her think of Mebuki, and that scared her. she went to a head shrink just to make sure this was just hormones and not… whatever Mebuki had suffered from.

It was just mood swings, thankfully.

She never told Sasuke, Tsunade, Izumi, Ino, Temari, Hinata, Kakashi or any Uchiha about her worries about her mood swings being something else, she didn't want Sasuke to worry more about her.

The worst day of her life came in just after Christmas, she started bleeding. Sasuke rushed her to the hospital, and it was told to her that she was lucky she had gotten there when she did. She had suffered a tear, but with careful monitoring, and bed rest with regulated exercise, she would be able to carry her baby to a healthy point for a C-section, and maybe even to term.

Sakura took everything she was told to do to heart, and she might have driven her husband insane with this but she was not losing her baby. It wasn't happening.

January she started looking at birth plans, and everything that was possibly going to happen and again she felt a bit overwhelmed. Sasuke had said they'd do what she wanted to do since it was her body, but he drew the line at her desire for a home birth saying she was going to be in a hospital surrounded by doctors. She pointed out she was a doctor and he had only snapped that she was going to be surrounded by doctors who weren't laboring and birthing.

She saw his valid point and submitted to Sasuke's will especially when he pointed out she might not get a say and would have a C-section. Sakura had surrendered at that point though and he had won. If she didn't happen to love him so much she'd have punched him to get that smug look off his face.

February came with a vicious vengeance, she just endured and took her Lamaze classes with Sasuke. Tsunade said it was very possible that she would carry her baby to term with how she was doing, but she was still on restrictions.

Sasuke and she argued about the nursery, mostly because they had agreed to keep the sex of their baby a surprise way back in the beginning of this pregnancy. But still, she was now regretting that decision since she wanted to know what they were having so she could theme the nursery. Sasuke had held firm on it remaining a surprise.

They painted the nursery blue and green, and said if they had a daughter they could paint flowers for her. Sakura was happy with that. and perhaps she went a bit overboard with buying stuffed animals, but they were just so cute and she loved it. Sasuke had just let, which had her grinning in delight because; despite her mood swings; she was really happy with Sasuke and her baby.

March hit hard and it was a day she was home because her shifts at the hospital were regulated rigorously by Tsunade now when she got the call.

She was sitting at home, it was March 4th, and she was reading a parenting book trying to figure out what was coming. She saw her phone ringing, but didn't look at who was calling as she answered.

"Sasuke, I'm fine, I told you to go on the business trip and it's only a weekend," she assured her worrying husband who was gone for the weekend.

"Is this Uchiha Sakura," an unknown voice asked which had her sobering up.

"Who is this?"

"This is Dr. Yamato Tenzō,"

"What happened? What's this about?" she demanded.

"Ma'am, I have some bad news about your husband, he's been in an accident," the man started and Sakura bit her trembling then as she let the doctor in her take over.

"What hospital? Where is he? Tell me now!" she snapped as she maneuvered her bulk off the couch and grabbed a pen in paper.

"Suna General," the man replied.

"I'll be there as fast as I can," she said firmly.

"Ma'am, we're calling to tell you that, he's in surgery," the man said.

"Dr. Yamato, I am a surgeon, I will be there myself in three hours! You had better have answers for me when I get there!" she roared and called Tsunade then.

"Tsunade, I need your help, I need to get to Suna, now," she said quickly and explained what had happened as she quickly packed a small bag and took her birth plan just in case as she waddled to the door of her house and maneuvered her bulk down the stairs of her home when Tsunade pulled up to the curb, got out, grabbed her bag and helped her into the car then.

"What happened?" Tsunade demanded as she took the fastest route to Suna then.

"I don't know," Sakura burst into hysterical sobs then as Tsunade broke traffic laws.

Arriving at Suna General two hours and fourty-nine minutes after having received that call Sakura walked in with Dr. Senju Tsunade who was on a rampage to find Uchiha Sasuke.

"Where the hell is Uchiha Sasuke!?" Tsunade roared and when a stammering fool didn't answer her Sakura watched as her mentor lifted the man up. Sasuke was out of surgery and in ICU, Sakura had gone right up there.

The nurses had tried to get her to leave but she called Madara, explained and after he threatened Suna General's board she was sitting with Sasuke and Tsunade was standing guard then. Hesitantly she lifted his hand to her lips and stared at her husband.

"You have to wake up Sasuke, you have to," she whispered. He was missing his left arm just above the elbow and the crush injuries to his left side worried her, but with Tsunade standing guard over Sasuke there was less to worry about. At least to Sakura there was less to worry about.

Kakashi was the first to arrive in Suna, then there was Shisui with Izumi, Izuna, Naori, and Itachi, then Madara came with Obito. Shikamaru had come the moment he could, bringing Naruto and Sai, and with Shikamaru, Naruto and Sai came Temari, Shikadai, Ino, Inojin, Hinata, and Boruto. And no one dared to try to make Sakura leave as she sat with Sasuke the entire time.

Sasuke woke on March 10th, and only groaned. She had cried, and yelled at him, for scaring her. all he remembered was going straight on a green when something t-boned him on the left and the pain. Sakura told him that a drunk driver had plowed into him and that they hadn't been able to save his left arm. Sasuke swore, then asked why she was here.

The moment he was able to be transferred to Konoha General that's what happened. Tsunade had made all the arrangements, and Sakura got to ride with Sasuke back home.

Their baby was a week late now as March 27th rolled around and Sakura celebrated her twenty-ninth birthday. The twinges and back pains were nothing, and the Braxton Hicks contractions were irritating the hell out of her. Sakura loved it when she had Sasuke's right hand on her belly rubbing it, it felt good, and everything fucking hurt.

March 31st Sakura's water broke when she was walking around the hospital with her husband who was leaning on a crutch.

From there her labor had progressed quickly and about three hours later; because no C-section was needed, she screamed, cursed and gave birth to her daughter who came into the world without making a sound. After they were both cleaned up and her daughter was thoroughly examined Sakura smiled as Sasuke was presented their daughter, it was an amazing image as she stared at him; all bandaged, healing bruises, missing arm, sitting in a wheel chair holding their newborn. Sakura smiled.

"She looks like you," Sasuke said softly.

"Really, because I think she defiantly looks like her father," Sakura sighed as Sasuke carefully moved to sit on her bed as he held their daughter. Sakura looked at the little bundle of black hair, and solemn black hair; she hadn't cried yet, but Tsunade said her lungs were good and that was all Sakura really cared about.

"She's so tiny," Sakura murmured.

"Aa," Sasuke agreed.

"What about Sarada?" Sakura murmured as she gently traced her baby's cheek.

"Sarada?"

"Yeah, for the hindu goddess of wisdom, and… for your brother," she murmured with a large yawn.

"You want to name her for Itachi?" he murmured.

"Uh-huh, he was important to you, and I know you miss him and I miss him, and she kind of looks like him with those lashes," Sakura mumbled sleepily. It had taken a lot of energy to have this little bundle of joy, and she was very happy as she smiled at her daughter.

"Uchiha Sarada it is then," Sasuke murmured.

"Good," Sakura agreed as she carefully lifted her baby into her arms for a feeding. She was going to try to do this the natural way, and Tsunade had given her maternity leave and medical leave to help with Sasuke who would be coming home next week; though after having Sarada here Sakura wasn't sure either of them were getting home sooner rather than later.

"I called the family," he murmured as Sakura fed the greedy baby who was suckling awkwardly.

"They'll be happy for us, right?" she whispered.

"Sakura, they're going to be thrilled for us, though your uncle is coming to live with us for a bit," Sasuke warned her and she looked at Sasuke then. he gave her a bland look and she just nodded.

"Alright, you'll like Gandpa Kakashi," Sakura assured her daughter.

"And she likes her Grandma Tsunade already!" Tsunade declared as she sauntered into the room. Sakura chuckled as she looked at her mentor whom she had grown exceptionally close to during the duration of her pregnancy.

"Thank you, Tsunade," Sasuke said softly.

"Of course, you're my family now," Tsunade assured them and Sakura smiled as she leant back; feeling very beat up and ripped up but very pleased with herself as she looked at her baby. Sarada stared at her with large onyx eyes and Sakura saw all the Uchiha in her daughter that there was to see and felt very proud of herself again.

"I'm never going to let you know what it feels like to be unloved," she promised her daughter softly so Sasuke didn't hear her.

Hours later she was sound asleep and her family had taken over watching over Sarada as she and Sasuke shared the cramped hospital bed. Exhaustion did not even begin to describe how she felt or how her husband felt no doubt.

Now they had to survive parenthood; a terrifying prospect in her mind as she surrendered to sleep.

I'm going to write up an epilogue for this now, and then I'll post it and this Force of Nature Arch is complete! =) Then I'm going to take George to the IT guy, and after he's wiped clean I'm taking a sledge hammer to him! Mwahahahahahaha!

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy A Force of Nature! =)