Surrogacy

-chapter 10-

rated for language / adult themes

When Sasuke stormed off down the hallway and left her with the open door and the chilly breeze hugging her neck, Karin was left dumbfounded. She had never seen Sasuke in such a foul mood in their marriage, apart from moment when he would return from a failed mission and they lost a comrade on the field. But never sometime when it wasn't involving work. She closed the front door and rubbed her arms, unsure of what was unfolding before her. She knew Sasuke had left for the meeting with Ms. Nao earlier for the official implantation of the zygote into Sakura's uterus, but what would have left him in such a state?

She knew he didn't like how nosy she was so this time she would be ten times as nosy as she usually was just to get what she wanted from him. "Heh.. He's gonna end up telling me one way or another - even if I have to resort to using my sexy charm to get my way!" She trudged down the hallway and carefully slid open the shoji to their bedroom and peered inside with her curious crimson eyes. Their bed was empty, but their door leading to the backyard was left opened and she could see his knee.

Karin slid through the crack in the shoji and had one leg out the other when she noticed Sasuke was sitting cross-legged on the wooden walkway leaning against a large wooden pillar, his eyes were led astray by a small little Turtle-Dove that landed on the stone birdbath. He looked so calm yet she could see the look on his face and something was on his mind that wasn't her, and that wasn't acceptable, even if it was something that was hurting him.

So she, taking it upon herself to get that dear attention back, took a seat on his lap and forced his face forward. Usually she wasn't this desperate to have him look at her but truly she did want to know what was on his mind. "What's wrong." She held his face within her hands and cocked her head to the side. His brows met in the middle with the anger she always associated him with and slightly wanted to draw away but she wouldn't get anywhere with taking a step back.

"I told you earlier to get off of me. What part of that don't you understand." Sasuke bit out coldly, his piercing gaze hard to look at but Sasuke liked a woman that wouldn't back down, something that gave him a fight. She wasn't sure if this was the type of fight but she pressed on.

"Just tell me what's wrong and maybe I'll get off, Sasuke~" She chimed gingerly with a broad grin on her face, wrapping her arms around his neck and drawing in closer to him. "I want to know what's bugging you."

"You're 'bugging' me, now get off." He placed his hands on her hips and for a moment she thought she was getting somewhere until she felt his hands gently but not-so-gently force her off his lap and onto the light colored wooden slabs. She puffed out her cheeks angrily.

"Well then you're bugging me!" She screeched loudly while she crossed her arms over her chest, causing the pretty little bird to be alerted of their presence and dive away from the possible threat. "You go for basically our last meeting and you come back as such an ass! What the hell happened there?! Did it not work?"

He scoffed. "You'd know if you took the time to leave the house and go to the meeting."

"Just tell me! I signed those papers too!" She exclaimed and lightly pressed his shoulder with the palm of her hand, wanting to grab his attention again.

"You're not good for anything, Karin." Sasuke stated, his eyes were once again back into the garden focused on God knows what.

Any interest to pry the information from him dissolved as quickly as ever as she immediately stood up, everything burning within her angrily, her fists clenched and her face scrunched out. "Screw you!" She stated as loud as ever to scare away any wildlife from their garden and stormed back through the shoji, slamming it as hard as she could just to piss him off further. "How could he say such a thing to me?!" Steam was almost coming out of her ears she was so incredibly mad, her fists were now shaking with pent up anger that just begged to punch him square in the face. "I'm good for.. For so many things!" When she failed to think of any good ones she flopped onto the couch and dug her fingernails into the fabric roughly. The only one that came to mind was along the lines of 'great at sex,' but that was one she couldn't bring up in a fight.

...

Sasuke partially felt bad for what he said. What he said was true, all of it. He didn't mean to compare to her Sakura, but upon hearing Sakura's extensive knowledge on medical conditions roll right off her tongue it was hard to find something good in Karin. Karin never even wanted to leave the house, let alone pick up many long hours at the hospital, or at least he was basing it off of what Naruto had told him, and is one of the best Medical nins in all of the lands. When there were women out there that are strong and capable and in control of their own lives it just made him so incredibly bored with the life he was currently living with Karin.

She technically didn't deserve what he said to her but he hoped it would be a wake up call to get her life in order. Maybe start taking missions again, or take a little step into having a social life and make some friends. Hell, he didn't even like talking to people but he had a better social life than her.

Instead of running after her like he knew she wanted he continued to peacefully sit outside of his home, still thinking about the horrid images and ideas Sakura unintentionally put in his head.

Alright, he told himself, if nature is peaceful at this moment then I will take after it.

He decided against dwelling upon the bad energy and focused on the good. Instead of having a baby that had every single birth defect Sakura listed like he was picturing earlier that also emotionally scarred him, they would have a perfectly healthy little baby in their arms. It would have the average weight for a newborn baby and was of adequate size. He closed his eyes peacefully at this point. There was no doubt that his child would have his color hair because there was no way in hell an Uchiha would come out with pink hair, whether it was a girl or not. So there he imagined his little baby that was perfectly healthy and had his dark hair, but the eyes he was somewhat torn about. Uchiha's were known for their usually black eyes, and if they weren't black they were a dark brown, they weren't well known for producing children that had bright green eyes. That wasn't the part he was torn about, it was mostly the fact that he wanted the green eyes. They were eyes that were refreshing to look in to, not resembling pieces of coal in any way, and that was somewhat appealing to him. Eyes that color were somewhat hard to come by, at least the shade he liked which just so happened to be the shade Sakura donned and he found himself lucky that it was her bearing his child because he wouldn't know what do do if his children came out with crimson pupil missing eyes.

That's how he liked to imagine how his child, no matter the gender, would come out. But knowing how his luck always played out, he would be handed a son with tresses of bright pink hair and hard black eyes. He shuddered and prayed for a brood of dark haired children in the future.

That was it. That was all he prayed for. He wanted his child to be healthy and strong and take after his elite skills and it's mothers mind-blowing strength and that was all he wanted. Perfect vision, perfect hearing, no messed up chromosomes, dark hair, no clubbed feet, Sharingan, skull shattering punching powers, green eyes.

He smirked to himself because he knew his child was going to come out strong.

...

"Sakura! How aaare youuu?" Ino cried loudly as she burst through the front door as part of her well known entrances with bags clutched in both hands. She smirked when she saw her best friend sitting on the couch reading a book all by herself. "I can't believe it! You know to be honest with you, I thought I'd be the first to be knocked up out of the two of us." She snickered and bounded over to the couch and dropped the bags at her and Sakura's feet.

"I wasn't 'knocked up' Ino, that's a derogatory term used when you accidental get pregnant." Sakura calmly told her as she folded the corner of the age she was on and closed the book, setting it down on the end table and tried to get a glimpse of what were in the bags. "What are in the bags?"

Ino dropped to the floor dramatically and picked up a bag, flipping it upside down to reveal it's contents. "Ino!" Sakura immediately began to reprimand. "I'm not keeping the baby, you know that!"

On the floor in a big heap were many articles of baby clothes. Ino sighed heavily. "I know Sakura. But baby clothes are so cute, you can just give them to the couple afterwards, okay?" She beamed brightly and picked up a small onsie. "Look, it has cute little sheep on it! Oh oh oh, and look at this one! You can't not love these little baby chicks on it!"

Sakura admitted Ino was relatively good at picking out clothing and when it came to baby clothes she was excellent. It gave her assurance her future children will be well dressed. She scooted onto the floor beside Ino and picked one up. It was a tiny light pink dress with a small picture of a light green butterfly on the front. "This is cute." When she held the little dress in the palms of her hands she could only imagine holding a baby this small in her own hands.

"It made me thing of you because it's the same shade of your hair and your eyes!" Ino giggled and dug through the enormous pile and pulled another one out. "And this one is so cute for a little boy but it kind makes me think of Sasuke..!"

Sakura peered over to her then to the little onsie in her hands. It was blue with red and white accents. "Why-"

"You know he makes me so curious! You'd think he'd be the first of our year to have children, well, planned children at least. I mean he's been married for three years! Wouldn't he want to get on that while he was still young? So weird!"

"Well it's not like we ever see Karin around, so who knows what's she's up to. She could be pregnant for all we know." Even though Ino had the biggest mouth apart from Naruto, Sakura wished she could just tell her to see her shocked reaction. Boy, that would lift any horrid mood she was in.

Ino shrugged and pulled out a tea drink from out of no where. It was quite mysterious. "I don't know Sakura. She's a weird one too, that one. There's much better females around here that he could have easily gotten. Even weirder that her and Naruto are cousins, wouldn't Sasuke not want his children related to Naruto in any way, shape, or form? Oh look at this one too, this was my first pick." She showed Sakura a cute little bedtime onsie that made the child look like a cute little yellow bunny. Sakura didn't know what Sasuke would think, bringing all these girly looking clothes to him. He'd never dress his children like that.

"You told me earlier that you were working. What happened to that?" Sakura glanced at the time and noticed Ino's break ended in seven minutes.

"Yeah - hold on I still have stuff to show you." Ino grabbed the other bags and hauled them off to the kitchen. "You stay there because you can't touch these 'till the cravings start. All of my friends that had babies, even my mom told me what her cravings were so I got you everything they said! Here's the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever eaten, seriously, they're crammed with chocolate! Don't touch." She shoved the box into the pantry. "Then I have chocolate ice cream which I know is your favorite flavor, no touchy!" She wagged her finger in Sakura's direction and shoved it into the freezer. "Pickles for some reason, I don't know why." She pulled out a massive jar of picked and slid it into the fridge. "Tons of potato chips.." She picked three bags of said foods and tossed them into the pantry as well. "Carbonated soda helps with dizziness apparently, so I got you a lot of that and then Bacon." She shoved the rest into the fridge and looked at Sakura with an accomplished face. "What do you think? I think I've fully stocked you if I do say so myself."

Sakura smiled sweetly and took to her feet. "Ino, thank you so much." She paced over to her and gave her friend a well deserved hug, a real one at that. "It's good to know you'll always have my back."

"Aww, always, billboard brow." Ino snickered and held her tightly. "But I've gotta run back to the pharmacy, my shift starts soon. Good to know everything was a success!"

"Go ahead Ino Pig." She smiled and watched as Ino ran out the door with her tea drink in hand. Even after all these years of horrible fighting her and Ino were still Best Friends like in their youth. She turned back around to come face to face with the lump of baby clothes. "Jeez.." She groaned to herself as she dropped to her knees and began folding them and placing them into the bottom of the bag. "I can't have these in my house, I'll fall in love with them!"

Hesitantly she folded the little pink dress last and stood up with it in hand. She knew she already saw Sasuke today and he probably already got his fill of Sakura for one day but she needed to go buy groceries anyways and wanted these clothes out of the house. She pulled the yellow brush through her straight pink hair before pulling her sandals on and leaving out the front door of her house.

She was in a much better head space now that the drugs had worn off from earlier. She'd taken her pill after Sasuke left because she could see in his eyes how much her taking that pill was important to him, and she knew if she delivered a baby that had a birth defect she'd be a goner. She locked her front door and left into the street, turning left to begin making her way to the supermarket.

She bought eggs, tofu, udon noodles, lots of umeboshi, dumplings, and red bean paste. When she payed she looked down to the bag of baby clothes she held and sighed. She really didn't want to intrude on Sasuke's home life but she did not want these clothes and Ino would be brokenhearted if she returned them. So instead of going back down the main street she turned off a small road that lead directly to the Uchiha district.

It was eerie to be walking through this abandoned district since all of the streets were busy at this time of day but here you could hear a pin drop. She could understand why Sasuke felt so lonely in their younger years when he was the only soul in this expansive place. She walked for a few more minutes before finding the large Uchiha abode. It almost seemed too big for just him and Karin, but Sakura reassured herself by saying it wouldn't be too small when you have a wild child running around filling the place with laughter.

She stepped up to the front door and lightly knocked three times. She stood their awkwardly waiting until she realized there was no one coming to the door. "But Karin does nothing but stay home.." She was puzzled and hoped to God they weren't doing something she could interrupt. She contemplated leaving the large bag outside the front door but the weather in Konoha was on and off in January so she didn't want them to get damaged. She stepped into the gravel beside the walkway of the house and carefully slunk around the corner, not wanting to make a sound but these damned grocery bags sure were loud. She continued to sneak passed the side of the house until her feet hit the soft green grass of the backyard.

She stood there in shock. She never knew Sasuke had such a beautiful backyard! And so expansive too! It was a massive plot of land with tall beige walls keeping the outside world out with the Uchiha crest embedded into every panel. In the back of the yard was a large willow tree that cast a large shadow onto the grass, making shelter for anybody or animal that was too hot to sit out in the heat. There were empty flower beds that were anxiously awaiting spring time to roll around so let the flowers bud out. In the middle of the yard was an old, pretty and beautifully decorated bird bath with a small green vine wrapping it's way around the column. Sitting in that bird bath was a young Japanese Turtle-Dove.

"Sakura?" A voice snapped her out of her shock and her head snapped to the side, where Sasuke was currently sitting cross legged and leaning against a wooden pillar that held up the second floors large balcony. "What are you doing here?"

"Erm, I'm sorry Sasuke, to intrude an all. You have a beautiful backyard! Do you take care of it?" She questioned as she took a few step closer to him, her eyes watching the little bird dip its feathers into the crystal water.

He looked somewhat offended that she'd ever think he was taking care of a garden. "No. Karin does."

"Oh..." Sakura looked down at him for a moment before totally remembered why she came in the first place. "Ino came to visit me earlier and for some reason thought it was a good idea to buy me these baby clothes. I don't need them so I was wondering if you would take them. Less clothes for you to buy I suppose." She smiled and set the bag down in front of him.

Sasuke stared at her for a moment with calm eyes. "Thanks."

She nodded and took a small step back. "Well I've gotta get going to get dinner ready. I'll see you later." She calmly waved him goodbye and rounded the corner to get back home. He gave her a small little wave which he knew she didn't see.

Sasuke cocked his head when he stared down at the large bag in front of him that housed the tons of clothes he could guess on his own Ino was responsible for. He had to be honest, he was going to leave Karin to get clothes because if there was one thing he was going to be bad at it was picking out children clothes.

He wrapped his fingers around the plastic handles of the bag and dragged it closer to him. He was curious as to what his child may or may not be wearing. He slowly dropped his fingers into the bag and pulled out the first article of clothing he grabbed. He pulled out a tiny little light pink dress with a little green butterfly in the middle.

He was a very prideful person and when he set eyes on this little dress he somewhat hope for a little daughter, but he'd never admit to himself it was because this dress heavily reminded him of Sakura.

Wow so cheesy I can't believe I wrote that. D: And this chapter I think is the longest I've written with about 3522 words, holla! Aren't you guys surprised Karin actually does something around the lot that isn't being all whiny and annoying? OH and by the way, the 2 million whatever amount of money Sasuke gave Sakura was only in Ryo, I remember reading one review where they said it was a lot. I did conversions to get that amount, so in Canadian Dollar it's $30,000. Just making sure you guys weren't thinking he was flipping his pockets out for Sakura haha.

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