Back at the Beautiful House

I really miss your daddy little one. I hope he's happy having a baby girl. Sakura smiled gently down at her protruding stomach only to have it nudge her hand in return.

Sakura decided to keep the sex of the baby a secret from Sasuke. This in turn has caused her to be very careful with her words and to only buy neutral colors and stuffed animals for the baby. This in turn, has caused Sasuke to go insane with curiosity.

Sakura had to laugh at his antics when he tried to get the answer out of her buy any means necessary…any means necessary.

Suddenly, the lights in the kitchen went out, and the entire house went black.

Sakura, shocked grabbed a knife from the drawer holding it close to her chest, protectively crouching (as best as she could) to protect the baby. She could here three or four pairs of footsteps circling the house.

One of the chakra signatures she had recognized. The man from the cave whom she knocked out by slamming his head into the wall.

Shit! I thought I killed that asshole! Sakura thought desperately trying to remember what that man Kyon had said. He said that he would kill the woman and her child by any means necessary that he meant it; even in death.

Sakura inched her way to the back door, silently unlocking it. She jarred it open a crack to peer outside, seeing no one. She slowly inched her way out the door as silently as she could, until a kunai shot by her cutting the same side in which her previous injury below the ribcage was located.

"We meet again, little girl" It was the same man from the cave.

"I owe you one for knocking my head in a while back. In other words, paybacks a bitch isn't it?" Sakura gasped.

Good thing she always kept explosive tags around the house.

BANG!

Sakura ran into the woods, and out of sight. The only thing left in the house of her presence, was a piece of her clothing, stabbed with a kunai, attached to the doorframe; blood dripped from the piece of cloth.

The man who had previously been in the fight with Sakura was partially blown to pieces, coughing bits of his lungs up (he hadn't expected that). The other men ran after Sakura, intent on killing her.

Sasuke, most of the Anbu squad, and Tsunade slammed through the door only to realize that half of the kitchen area was blown apart. Anbu searched the rest of the house while Sasuke and the rest went towards the kitchen area.

"S-sasuke, this is Sakura's" Kakashi took the kunai out of the door to hold a bloodied piece of torn clothing in his hand. Sasuke could feel tears in his eyes and tried to suppress it with anger. He herd faint coughing in the corner of the kitchen and ran to the man sitting, and dying.

"Where the hell is she!" Sasuke yelled slamming his head into kitchen wall.

"She's dead *cough* and if not, my men will kill her soon" he maniacally laughed, wheezing out blood. "You're too late. You can never save her. Your life will soon end…you will never have your family." He slid to the floor, dead.

Sasuke slammed him against the wall in anger.

"No…NO!" Sasuke said, tears escaping his eyes. He ran out the door, and into the forest, praying that for once, he was not too late.

Sakura lay in the forest. She could no longer feel her toes, only the thudding of her heart which rang into her ears.

"Leave her, she's dead anyway." One of the men said. She couldn't hear clearly though. Everything was becoming fuzzy. She felt a herself give a hoarse scream only to have the men laugh at her.

"It seems our actions have caused her to go into labor." One of the men chuckled.

"It seems the child will be born to a dying mother, and therefore, die itself." The others nodded in completing their mission, leaving Sakura to die with her soon to be born child.

Sakura coughed and felt something wet; she presumed it was blood. It tasted like copper or iron. She couldn't really tell now.

I'm sorry Sasuke…I guess I wasn't fit enough to protect our child. I guess I can't stop your heart from breaking…I-I'm so sorry Sasuke. Please don't hate me.

She could sense noise coming closer to her but didn't care at the moment. She was alone again; lost. She started to cry at the realization that she could do nothing to even save her baby. To give Sasuke something for the broken life he had had before.

Please forgive me. I will never stop loving you… Sakura could feel the blackness swallowing her up; she was slowly fading. Only her name could be heard. But she had already let the blackness swallow her whole.

"SAKURA!" Sasuke yelled, holding her close to his body; he rocked against her. Tears streamed from his eyes in horror. The men previously surrounding her had been torn apart. When he found her, when he saw her falling in to the blackness, he fell in agony.

"We must move her in order for her and the baby to live" Tsunade yelled out. All of them ran as fast as they could to the hospital, Tsunade trying to medicate the purposely reopened wound below her ribcage.

The 10% chance of her living, was back again. Was it a smaller percentage this time? A smaller chance for her life to begin?

She was cut everywhere; the baby was ready to come out.

Sasuke already believed that she was gone, his life…was gone.

Sasuke was rocking the balls of his feet, back and forth. Side to side. He would sniff his noise, hating the sound. Hating the weakness and sorrow that filled him. He sat in that very chair for the last 16 hours. Waiting. Waiting until Tsunade came out to give him the grieving news.

If he looked around himself, he could see how everyone else was too; torn up by this. Iruka and Kakashi were going to be the child's godfathers, Ino and Hinata would be the godmothers, while everyone else was considered an uncle or an aunt to the child. They all were ready to happily except the child like a family member. But no one was ready for this.

If no one was around him, if Naruto and Kakashi weren't sitting next to him rubbing his back trying to soothe him, he would have balled.

But he couldn't even do that. The realization was too real, too possible.

Am I so unlucky to have this kind of life? Sasuke thought bitterly.

It's not fair… it's not even god damn fair! Sasuke mentally broke his emotional façade feeling his heart beat thud in his ears.

There were always more nurses walking into the operating room then there were walking out.

"Life is never fair…is it?" Sasuke asked brokenly, not looking up from his entwined hands.

Naruto only rubbed his back more, not sure what to say. What could anyone say?

Poor poor Sasuke! Read to find out more! Dont forget to review! :)