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Chapter 10: The Thing that Brought Them Closer

Sasuke's POV:

Fuck. My world crumbled as she spoke. "Wait, what?" I was in utter shock as she sat there nodding at me, tears still rolling down her cheeks. "Sasuke, what do we do?" She said, choking through her tears. "I- I- I don't know, Sakura." I didn't know what to say to her.

"What do you want to do?" I asked her, hoping she'd show me what she'd wanted me to say, or better yet, what she'd needed me to say.

"I don't want to have an abortion." I internally sighed, trying to avoid argument.

"Okay, understandable."

She kept crying uncontrollably, and I broke inside knowing that I did this to her. "Sakura," I started, "It's gonna be okay. Please, trust me." She looked at me, her eyes seeming to be searching for a glimpse of hope.

"Okay," she whispered as I went to hold her. I kissed her on the top of the head and held her for half an hour before we spoke again.

Sakura's POV:

"Sasuke," I said, breaking the silence between the two of us, "are you okay?" I'd never taken into account how he'd be impacted by this news - I wanted to make sure he was alright. "Well," he started, "I'm pretty good actually." What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I thought to myself, wondering why my teen pregnancy was good news. "There is nobody I'd rather be stuck in this situation with. Granted, it's a pretty shitty situation - but if you really think about it, we'll be alright. I promise." I smiled, looking at him made me smile. Hearing him say that made me smile.

I loved that he made me smile.

I took his hand in mine, "You look pretty sexy today, by the way," I managed to say through my post-cry sniffles. He chuckled, "Be careful, that's what got us here in the first place." I rolled my eyes, "Don't be a dick, Sasuke." He sighed, "Sorry, too soon." I raised my eyebrows in a 'ya-don't-say' kind of manner.

"Well," he started, "I guess we're having a baby."

I sighed and put my head against his chest. "Yeah… I guess we are."

[A/N: 3 days have passed]

Sasuke's POV:

I was sitting on Naruto's living room couch with Naruto and Shikamaru, discussing the (now open amongst the friends) situation with Sakura and I. "So," I started, "I don't know how this works. Do I ask her to move in with me, do we stay in separate homes, do we scrape up money for a new home? I'm blanking…" Naruto chuckled. "What is so funny?" He leaned over to me, handing me bottle of Coors Lite, which I politely declined. He sighed, "Look at that. You're growing up." I rolled my eyes.

"Honestly," Shikamaru said, "You're making it much more troublesome for yourself than it needs to be. Talk to her about it. Talking always works with Temari. They're best friends, I'm sure it'll work for Sakura too." He put his folded hands on the top of his head, leaning back into the couch.

"Yeah," Naruto said, "you do know we don't have good answers for you, right? We don't know what to say." Shikamaru nodded in agreement.

"So what do I do?"

"Go to the girls," Naruto said plainly. Shikamaru nodded in agreement again.

Temari's POV:

"And you're coming to me for advice?" I asked Sasuke, who was standing in my doorway with pleading eyes. He nodded. "Okay come in. And next time, don't park your car in the middle of the driveway - park to the side." He nodded again as I turned around and led him into my house.

"Okay, what exactly is it that you need help with?" He sat down on my couch as I sat in the chair next to it.

"Well," he started, "I need some help with this baby situation." I nodded for him to keep going. "What exactly do I do? Am I supposed to ask her to move in with me or for me to move in with her? Do we sell our houses and buy a new one? How am I supposed to make this living situation work?" I smiled at him; at first I didn't think he'd take this seriously. I guess I was wrong.

"Who has the bigger house?"

"They're about the same amount of square footage, more or less. I probably have more space - my place has more bedrooms."

"So then you ask her to move in with you - she sells her place, make some money. You have a car, you should be fine."

"Okay, anything else before I go?"

"Yeah," I said, "maybe ask Sakura where she would like to live before asking everyone else next time."

"Ha ha, very funny." He said deadpanned.

"Yeah, yeah," I said sarcastically, "go talk to her."

He nodded, thanked me, and left my house.

I watched him pull out the driveway as I thought, Jeez, I wish Shikamaru cared that much.

Sakura's POV:

Looking in the mirror, I turned to my side and noticed a baby bump. Oh god, I thought to myself, thinking about how much worse it would get. I called the clinic to confirm my sonogram appointment for the following week, with the same lady that did my work at the clinic. Turned out, Rin Nohara was an OBGYN specialist. I picked up my cell phone and called the office.

"Hello?" Rin has answered the phone.

"Hey, Dr. Nohara, it's Sakura Haruno and I just wanted to confirm the appointment for next Thursday." I heard my doorbell ring, so I started walking to the front door of my house.

"Hey Sakura, I was just about to call you to do the same thing! Yes, we're still on for Thursday. Will anyone else be attending?"

It was then that I had realized I hadn't brought this up to Sasuke at all since I'd scheduled the appointment after he left my house two days before. I opened the door to my house to see Sasuke standing there. I turned around and walked to my couch. He followed and closed the door behind him. He mouthed 'who are you talking to?' I responded to Rin.

"I can ask right now, hold on."

I turned to Sasuke, "Do you wanna come with me on Thursday for my sonogram appointment?" "Yes I do," he said without looking up from his phone.

"Yeah somebody is coming with me."

"Okay, and just for record, how is this person related to you?"

"He's my boyfriend, the father." Sasuke seemed to perk up to me calling him my boyfriend.

"Okay, great - it's best to have them included in the long run. See you Thursday at 4:30!"

"Great! Thanks, see you then."

I hung up my phone and placed it in my lap. "Hey Sasuke." He kissed my cheek, "Hey babe. So, what was that about?" He looked up from his phone, "I mean obviously it was a baby thing but, why did you have to ask if I wanted to go?"

"I didn't know if you wanted to be included in things like that or not, so I asked."

"Don't ever question whether or not I want to be involved when it comes to my kid. I will always wanna be there, whether it's a doctor's appointment or a class or whatever your mind comes up with. Don't ask. I'm there."

I gave him a short passionate kiss. "You know, you're pretty hot when you get all sweet and stuff." He smiled and said, "By the way, wanna move in with me?" Well, that was blunt, I thought. "Uh, what?" I said, half shocked and half pleased that he really cared so much. "Move in with me," he said, giving me his big eyed begging look. His place is bigger than mine… No, I can't make this decision right here and right now, I need to think it over. "Give me a month to think about it."

"A month? Why so long?"

"Well, if you think about it, when my month is over and I say no, you still have 6 months to change my mind. And if I say yes we'd still have 6 months to get me move out. It's really not a long time."

"Okay, I'll give you the month."

He kissed me and I caught a whiff of his cologne. I curled my head up into his chest and fell asleep there for a few hours. My day could not have gone better.

[A/N: It is now the following week, Sakura is now getting ready with her appointment with Rin Nohara]

Sakura's POV:

I stopped in front of my full length mirror and saw the baby bump just slightly bigger than it had been the week before, breaking a little part inside of me. I went into my bedroom to get my clothes, only to see Sasuke getting out of my shower. He had a towel around his waist and he was using another to dry his hair. He looked as desirable as ever, I could get used to this, I thought to myself. When he looked up and saw me, he smiled.

"Hey babe," Sasuke started, "shower so we can go."

"Three steps ahead of you."

Surprisingly, Sasuke and I had jumped back into being together so easily it was unexpected. It was just as if we'd picked up from exactly where we left off. Neither of us were complaining.

I went into my bathroom and took off my shirt and pants, throwing them to the side. I opened the glass door to my shower and I unclipped my bra. I slid off my panties and balled them up with my bra and threw them to the side along with my shirt and pants.

I turned on the shower, awaiting the bliss I'd soon be entering.

Sasuke's POV:

Once I heard the water running in the bathroom, I took the towel off my waist and put on a pair of black boxers. I put on deodorant and a white button down top. I put a black tie on.

By the time Sakura got out of the shower and back into the bedroom, she saw me in my boxers and shirt - which had yet to have its collar fixed over the tie and have the buttons on the wrists buttoned up to fit the circumference of my wrist itself.

"Well," she started, "you're slow." I rolled my eyes. "It's the tie." She was already dressed. She put on her shoes while I put on my black jeans. When she'd slipped her feet into her shoes, she fixed my tie for me.

In an hour we were sitting in a room with Rin Nohara telling Sakura to lay on the bed. As I stood next to Sakura, Dr. Nohara put some gel on Sakura's stomach and started the sonogram.

It took about 10 minutes for her to find something.

"Well," Rin started, "you're definitely pregnant." Sakura sighed. "Now I'm just looking for a heartbeat." Sakura and I smiled.

We started hearing some beats and I smiled wider.

"Oh." Dr. Nohara stated quickly.

"What does 'oh' mean?" I asked, wondering if something's wrong.

"Well, for one we can determine the gender."

"Do we have a girl or a boy?" Sakura asked, half eager, half curious.

"Both."

Both? What the fuck does that mean?

"Both?" Sakura asked.

"Yep… you're having twins."

And from there, for me, everything faded into black.

Sakura's POV:

"Yep… you're having twins."

Sasuke fainted, dropping to the floor.

"W-wait, what?!" She's gotta be lying.

"Yeah," she said pointing at the picture on the sonogram, "there are the two heads, and we are definitely hearing two heartbeats."

"Well, what are their genders?"

"One boy, you can see the penis over there," she said pointing to another side of the sonogram, "and one girl, you can see there is no penis there between the legs."

I didn't know what to do.

"Um," Rin started, "don't you wanna get your boyfriend off the floor?"

"Oh, yes… SASUKE!"

He woke up, startled, and got back on his feet. "Yeah, uh, yeah, that was bad." he rubbed his eyes and refocused his attention to the doctor.

"Sorry," he said nervously, "I need to get ahold of myself." With that, he walked out of the room nervously, still in shock and with wide eyes.

Well shit… this is gonna be a lot harder than I thought.

Sasuke's POV:

I walked out of the room, not sure what to do. After a while, I gathered my thoughts and went back into the room, where Sakura was getting her clothes back on.

"Hey," she started, "knocking is a thing." I smirked, "Well, I think you're safe. I've seen much more than that." She giggled, "Oh shut up."

"Let's go," I said when she was fully dressed.

"Yeah, let's go."

"So, is it true?"

"Is what true?"

"Are we having twins?"

"Oh, yeah. A boy and a girl…" She had a nervous look on her face, which made me sad.

I'm sorry for doing this to you, Sakura… I'm so sorry.

We walked out of the hospital, hand in hand, and to my car. I unlocked the car and opened Sakura's door for her, waiting for her to sit down so I could close it. Once I closed her car door, I got behind the wheel, strapped up my seatbelt, and turned the ignition.

"Sasuke,"

"Yes, Sakura?"

"Can we get ice cream on the way home."

"Sure. On the way to 'home' your place or 'home' my place?"

"Your place."

"Hmm." I had a shocked smile on my face as I pulled out of the parking lot.

"What does that mean?"

"I just didn't expect that answer, that's all."

"Uhhh… okay."

I drove home carefully, aware that the mother of my children was in the passenger seat. I pulled up to the nearest ice cream shop and got out, leaving Sakura in the car. "Wait, you're seriously leaving me?" I nodded, "I'm double parked and I'll only be 5 minutes - tops. Just wait here, I'll be back." With that, I went into the shop and bought 2 pints of Sakura's favorite ice cream, Rocky Road.

When I got back to the car, I gave Sakura the bag of ice cream and started to pull out of the space I was in.

"Sasuke, I didn't even tell you what ice cream I wa-"

"I got 2 pints of Rocky Road, it's your favorite."

"Oh… that's exactly what I wanted. Thanks, babe."

"No problem. Now let's go home."

I took a left and I saw my house in sight, slowing down the speed of the car by at least 10 mph. I pulled into my driveway and took the keys out of the ignition. I went around the car, trying to beat Sakura to her door so I could open it for her. Successful once again, I thought to myself as I opened her car door for her.

When we got to my house, I got her a spoon and put one of the pints of ice cream in the freezer, while I left the other on the table for her. I sat down at the dining room table with her and just looked at her. I admired her in every way possible, and in ways I never thought possible.

"Listen," I started nervously, twiddling my thumbs, "I know you don't like this reality of ours, but I'm actually glad this is happening…" I trailed off.

"Umm… why? This isn't exactly what you'd call the ideal high school romance."

"You see, but it doesn't have to be. If it weren't for this, honestly, we would've never gotten back together and we would've never given us a second chance."

"You have a point."

"So, I'm sorry that this is happening, but only to an extent. I want to do this, and it's because of you. You're the reason I keep going and I think it's doing you an injustice by not telling you that every once in awhile."

She blushed, scooping some ice cream out of the pint.

I looked at her and smiled. I got up and kissed her on the head, "I'm going upstairs to bed. Another perk about this is that the school has relieved us of any homework assignments… I could get used to this." She laughed lowly, "Oh shut up… I'll meet you up there."

Sakura's POV:

When I went to Sasuke's room, I was thinking about how amazing he had been throughout all of this so far. I was seriously thinking about moving in with him. Actually, I really wanted to. I'm not gonna tell him that till tomorrow though, I want him to think I'm still thinking it over. I don't know exactly why I thought that as I was walking upstairs, but when I thought about moving into his place, my heart melted and I got butterflies in my stomach. All good signs.

And so my decision was then made. Looks like I'm moving in with Sasuke. I opened the door with an ear-to-ear smile, my head facing the floor. When I lifted my eyes from the floor to the bed, I saw Sasuke lying there shirtless with a pair of sweatpants on - and by the looks of it, he was going commando.

"Oh, hey Sakura." I snapped back into focus.

"Are you going commando?"

"Shit, yeah. Do I need to put some boxers on? Because I'll put some boxers on if you want me to."

"No, I was just wondering. It's kinda hot, actually."

"Oh shut up S. Come lay down with me."

I walked over to the bed and laid down with Sasuke. "You know," he started, "you sleeping here makes having to pick you up in the morning much easier… just for the record." I laughed, "Yeah, I know."

"Anything you wanna do before we go to bed?"

"Nah, I'm tired."

"Okay I'm going to the bathroom downstairs, I'll be back in 30 minutes."

"Ew," I said through my laughs.

"You say 'ew' and I say 'need'." He laughed softly.

He got up to leave the room when I stopped him. "We can make out, but that's it." He whined. I sighed, "Second base at most." He smiled widely, "You see? Now that's what I'm talkin' about." I laughed as he got back in the bed and leaned into me, kissing me promiscuously. "You see, that's what I'm talking about," I said, leaning in for another kiss.

I could get used to this every night...