Don't own Naruto .o.o.

You should know the talking, thinking, etc.

'Flashback'

You should know all the characters by now.

"Shiori! Setoru!" Setsumi called running to the boys, who were standing outside of Ino's flower shop. "Is everything alright, they didn't hurt her?" Ino asked as the rest of the rescue group appeared. "No he didn't harm her," Naruto stated. "Setsumi-chan!" Ino called the child. "Aunt Ino!" the girl ran to her and jumped into her arms.

Sasuke watched the whole scene unfold from a short distance away. "What will you do now Uchiha?" Sasuke turned to the Hokage. "He's still out there," "You are needed here," she stated looking at the children. "Their Mother is here, along with everyone else that cares for them." Tsunade sighed "Their Mother is not here," she said.

Sasuke could hear her voice cracking, "Where is she?" he asked; the tone in his voice suggested he didn't care very much about the answer. 'The bastard,' Tsunade glared, "She's….dead." Sasuke's eyes widened a mere inch, but he quickly retained the stoic expression to hide what he didn't want the older woman to see. "What happened to her?" he growled out. Tsunade could see the curse mark spread across the young man's face, 'So he does care.' "I don't wish to speak of it here, come to my office," she ordered. Sasuke took one more look at the scene before following the Hokage to the tower.

"What happened to her?" he calmly questioned when they entered her office. Tsunade sighed and sat at her desk. "You killed Orochimaru," she stated more then asked; Sasuke glared at her for not answering his question. "What I've done in Sound has nothing to do with this," he said, which angered the Hokage. "You have no idea what your actions have done!"

Fear rose in the Uchiha's body, but he would never show that he was afraid of her. "You killed Orochimaru but allowed Kabuto to live?" "How did you know he was alive?" Sasuke asked with a glare to his features.

"Because he gathered what was left of the Sound village and attacked us! He was after you and figured you would return here; however when he didn't find you he went after Sakura. He wanted your children." Tsunade was unsure about the expression on the boy's face at her statement. She assumed the Sharingan activated on its own accord at the mention of the children being in danger, because Sasuke didn't seem to notice. "She died protecting them. They were only 3 months old. They will never remember her."

Sasuke didn't speak, 'She died…to protect them…Sakura.' He suddenly had a flashback of when his own Mother was killed, he remembered the pain he felt that day; he never wished for that to happen to anyone else. And yet here his own children have been growing up without their Mother because of a mistake he had made. If he hadn't spared that cowardly little pet of Orochimaru's, Sakura would still be alive; and it was his entire fault.

The silence was shattered when a knock came from the door. "Enter!" The door opened and Naruto's sensei, the Toad Sage, walked in. "Am I interrupting something?" he questioned sensing the tension on the room. "Is this important?" Tsunade questioned, Jiraiya shrugged, "Not really, updates on Akatsuki's movements. Then I thought I would go check up on Naruto." "Alright, leave the reports here," Tsunade commanded while making room on her messy desk; he dropped the papers and turned to leave. "Uchiha!" the old man called, "Nice work with Orochimaru!" Jiraiya smirked, which Tsunade glared at making the pervert flinch and quickly jug out of her office.

After the toad sannin left the Hokage turned back to Sasuke, "I don't mean to rush you, but you need to make a decision and it needs to be made now. If you wish to go after Itachi I will give you permission; however you must think about this. If you choose to go and kill him, even if you do survive; you may not come in contact with the children. No one knows how long it will take you to locate and kill your brother, weeks maybe even years. And I can't have the children being hurt by this. It would be too traumatic for them to handle," she explained.

"Is Kabuto died?" he calmly asked a few minutes later. "No…after he killed Sakura he attempted to go after the kids. Naruto got there before anything was done. Kabuto escaped but threatened to come back." "Why are you protecting them? You must have known they were mine, that Sakura betrayed the village by not reporting I was here; not to mention everything else," Sasuke mumbled the last part more to himself.

"The sins of the parents are not passed to the children," Tsunade glared at him, "Even though Sakura made a bad choice, I've always treated her like mine own daughter ever since her parents death. I would treat her children no differently, no matter who their Father is. What is your choice Sasuke?"

Note: So what do you think Sasuke will choose? Go after Itachi freely without having to worry if someone is going to stop him. or stay in the village and raise his own children that he did not know existed till a day ago. Tough choice.

And now you how Sakura died, she was killed protecting her children that's so sad. I won't get into the gory details that I thought of in my crazy mind, but let's just say it's a sad way to die.

I'll try to get the next chapter up by tomorrow, but if not it will be up by Friday. And thanks for all the comments!