The figures of Sakura and Naruto lingered a few hundred feet from the temporary Hokage building. It was a nice day in Konoha as the villagers mingled around during the hustle and bustle of the rebuilding. The attires of both Sakura and Naruto were somewhat tattered as they had been training hard together earlier in the training grounds before being summoned to the Hokage's office by Danzo.

Sakura looked over at Naruto and noticed the look on his face. He stood looking over to the Hokage's office clearly thinking about something.

'We will need to be careful' played back in her mind as she recalled what Naruto said to her in the training grounds concerning their acceptance into the Ni-Yurei.

"Naruto, what is on your mind?" she asked gaining the attention of Naruto after a moment as he looked over to her with his lone eye.

"I never really realized that this part of the village truly existed. I heard about the other villages' dark practices in passing with my travels with Ero-sensei, but this is our own village Sakura" he said as he looked at her seriously.

"We went thru hell to get to this point Sakura. I'm not sure what really awaits us after this. We are going into a different world that we don't really know about…" he paused as he debated on asking this.

'I need to make sure I can rely on her' he thought to himself as he debated saying it as Sakura looked at him waiting to go on.

"You are still able to get out of this now Sakura, working under Danzo, I don't know what we can expect and I'm worried about it." he said finally while Sakura took her time in considering his words.

'I can't let you go through this alone Naruto' she thought to herself as images of all their times together played like a movie in her mind. 'And I need to make a lot up to you' she thought bitterly to what she had to do during the interrogation. She knew how much Naruto needed her as she had hung to his words he told her previously which confirmed to her that she was not useless to him.

"I appreciate it Naruto, but this is something that we are doing together'" she said resolutely back at him as she re-affirmed her thoughts and commitment to him.

Naruto just smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth as he put a hand on her shoulder and squeezed lightly thankful of her commitment to him.

"We will need to be wary of Danzo…" was all he could say about the ever mysterious and supposedly plotting Danzo.

"What should we do about him?" Sakura asked as she was also wondering how to handle the situation there.

"We need to talk to baa-chan about that more when we can get the opportunity, away from him. From what Ero-Sensei told me, I think she will have some things to say about that based on the mistrust he always had for him" he said to Sakura as he opened up to Sakura on the subject.

"You think so she said?" she asked as she was having questions about her own sensei and how she could allow these things to go on in the village.

"Yea, I caught the tension between the two about the way Danzo is able to control the team completely. Not giving authority to the Hokage in that regard seems really strange. I don't understand how the Fire Daimyo would even allow that." Naruto admitted as the thought was completely puzzling to him based on his understanding of the system.

"Usually the Hokage has full authority with only the Fire Daimyo superseding that, I don't understand how or why Danzo was given special privileges there" he said aloud as he spoke his mind.

"I see… so we should ask shishou about that when we can… there might be some political conflict there…" she said as she understood what Naruto was getting at.

"Yea… let's go" he responded as he removed his hand from her should and began walking to the Hokage office with Sakura following behind.

In the Hokage Office…

Naruto and Sakura walked in after being summoned by Shizune and sat at the chairs in front of the Hokage's desk. Tsunade was sitting in her chair while Danzo was standing off to the side next to her with both of them watching the pair as they just sat down and got situated.

"Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura,

You have both officially passed the Ni-Yurei entrance examinations and have since been invited to join the ranks of the group.

The Ni-Yurei, are teams of two only, who are on active duty at all times and required to see through the missions assigned to them as ordered. You will be the ghosts of Konoha, and from the shadows you will ensure that Konoha remains at the top of the pillars of power that are made up by the other villages.

You will act as the authority of Konoha abroad, and you will fully submit to the will of the village.

This group is not meant for ninja's who are interested in fame and glory. This group is meant to deliver on the will of fire, and ensure that the village remains a safe village and the home for all citizens of Konoha. The enemies of Konoha are vast in numbers, and you both will work from the shadows to eliminate any threats to Konohagakure.

You will also be bound to each other. You comrade will be the only person you can rely on out there, not the village. You will need to protect each other and work together to ensure the success of your missions to your village. Your own families and friends are forbidden to come in the way of your own comrade and village; this is what you sacrifice to be the true protectors of your village and its interests.

Joining the Ni-Yurei is a complete submission to the village which will be enforced. There is no way out once accepted, unless by death, or by release from the Hokage.

Do you both accept your assignment into the Ni-Yurei group?

This is your final chance to withdraw your application." Danzo stated in his monotone voice as he looked over both Naruto and Sakura while the Hokage looked on as well with a serious gaze.

'The time has come' Naruto thought as he closed his eye to think about the village, what it meant to him, what Sakura and his friends meant to him and his need to protect them all. And in particular that he now has a true responsibility to Sakura and her as him most important comrade and person aside from his village. She was going to be with him through thick and thin from now on.

"I accept my assignment "stated Naruto resolutely after a long pause as he opened his eye and looked back at both Tsunade and Danzo.

"I accept my assignment" followed quickly from Sakura as she also realized the heavy significance and responsibilities to herself and to Naruto. They would be stronger than family or friends.

"Turn in your forehead protectors and identities" was stated by Tsunade causing the pair to look over at her directly.

"What do you mean?" asked Naruto somewhat puzzled by the request.

"Naruto, Sakura; neither of you are going to be recognized by the village in our military registration. As of now, you are both weapons of Konoha, identity-less weapons. Our enemies must not be able to tie you back to the village if you are ever caught. If you are ever caught, you will be identified as Nukenin by the village. The village will not come to your aide" she stated as both Naruto's and Sakura's eyes widened slightly at what they were hearing.

This was serious

"Konoha will also enforce that you are both incapable of defecting" was stated by Danzo gaining their attention.

"Defecting… Enforce?" Naruto stated aloud questioningly.

"We need to ensure such secrets of your missions do not fall into the wrong hands Naruto, Sakura; your lives will be bound together by a Kinjutsu which is able to force both of your terminations by the acting Hokage" was said by Hokage as she looked on seriously.

"Terminations… you mean… kill?" asked Sakura somewhat accusingly.

"Yes" was stated by Danzo.

"All of your missions will be top secret, you are required to patrol the land of all 5 great nations and establish your own safe houses as needed. Naruto, I will need you to re-establish Jiraiya's spy network." Tsunade stated.

"Remember, you must work in the shadows. You must avoid bringing attention to yourselves. If either of you are ever caught and you can't get each other out of that situation, then we require you to also use the same Kinjutsu to destroy each other to not allow your knowledge to fall into enemy hands. Do you understand?" asked Tsunade very seriously to the pair.

"Y-Yes" said Sakura causing Naruto to look briefly at her.

"Yes" was added by Naruto as well.

"You will be required to check in weekly, if that time lapses, then the Kinjutsu will be activated terminating you both as a failsafe" stated Danzo.

"Remember Naruto, Sakura; you need to always put the village first before any choice from now on, we are relying on you being able to fully fulfill this role to the village" said Tsunade as she stood up from her chair and walked over to the sitting pair.

"Do you have any questions?" she added as she stopped to look at both of them as she reached her hand out.

"…What was my test?" asked Naruto as he handed her his Konoha ID and took off his Hitai-ate and paused briefly to look at it.

Images of cutting Sasuke's forehead protector and the slashed forehead protector of Itachi flashed in his mind. They still had forehead protectors to wear to show where they came from. He didn't even have that now.

'Are we nothing more than weapons to the village?' he thought as he recalled his pride in his hitai-ate.

He handed over his forehead protector to Tsunade.

Sakura followed shortly after taking off her forehead protector and getting her ID also handing both off to Tsunade.

"You were able to be successfully interrogated of information, which means you did not withhold information from the village. That showed that you are trustworthy of being in the Ni-Yurei" Danzo responded to his question.

"What do you mean… you had this done to me on purpose?" Naruto said pointing to his covered right eye.

"Yes" he responded darkly.

"I don't understand, why injure your own… weapons. Wouldn't that hurt our possibility for success in our missions?" replied Naruto as he looked at him with his remaining eye.

"You will adapt… or die; which will include your teammate's life as well. Her life in your hands will provide sufficient importance for you to keep yourself alive or die trying" Danzo retorted causing Naruto to look hard at him.

Naruto wanted to yell at him, but this was not a man you yell at, and worse, this was his new commander. Naruto knew from now on her would have to take orders from him and do as he said. He looked over to Sakura who looked back at him knowing what was going on in his mind as she nodded to him as a sign to let him know she understood what he was thinking.

'We will protect each other Naruto' Sakura thought as she had nodded her head to Naruto when he looked over. Sakura was feeling sick inside at what they were learning. This was nothing like the rumors about the Ni-Yurei.

"Who can know about our missions?" Sakura asked aloud.

"Only the Hokage and I, anybody else will be notified by us appropriately" responded Danzo.

"How did Sakura pass her test?" asked Naruto causing Sakura to look over to him somewhat startled as she was not expecting him to ask that.

"She followed orders…" replied Danzo.

"I don't understand… what orders?" Naruto probed confused by the vague response.

'Kami, please don't tell him' thought Sakura as images of her stabbing Naruto's eye played in her mind and the scream he let out when she did so causing her demeanor to change to one of sadness.

"She was your interrogator" replied Danzo shocking Naruto once he processed what he had said. Naruto looked over to Sakura for some form of confirmation.

She couldn't even look at him he noticed as she looked down to the ground.

'She… did it' he thought as pain welled inside him. This was his comrade, his pillar. It was her who had injured him during that interrogation. He felt angry, betrayed, and hurt by her as his visage took on a somewhat angry look.

"Is that true?" he asked in Sakura's direction as he looked at her.

She could feel his stare on her. She could feel the pain in it.

"Y-Yes" she stumbled out as she felt ashamed for what she had did. Despite it being under orders from Danzo and that he had threatened Naruto's life.

"Why?" Naruto asked as Sakura could her his anger in his voice.

"Because I was ordered to… We have to follow orders Naruto" she responded back slowly and painfully.

'I had to save your life' she thought as anger welled up in her at the position Danzo had put her in. She thought about how Danzo had originally threatened Naruto. He inner self was screaming at her to tell Naruto about Danzo threatening his life. But she knew better of doing that in front of Danzo. It felt as if Danzo was daring her to state what he had done. But she thought better of it. She would have to tell Naruto away from this situation.

Naruto could hear a sinister laugh in his mind, the Kyuubi was laughing and it caused anger to swell up inside. His whole world was turning upside down with that revelation. Naruto was not expecting that Sakura could be capable of that.

He looked over to Tsunade who was just looking at him with a stoic look. But he could see her look over to Danzo with a somewhat agitated body language.

He was trying so hard with every fiber of his being to understand why Sakura would do something like that to him, and at least not try to fight it. While Sakura hit him from time to time, this was completely different. His image of Sakura was starting to change as he thought about the moments he thought he shared with her and her feelings she had displayed to him. He couldn't match those up with her torturing him during the interrogation.

"I… see" was all he could say aloud to which Sakura heard and flinched as she could hear the anger and pain in his voice.

'This will ensure they will not be close enough to each other to defect' thought Danzo as he watched the emotional struggle happening between Naruto and Sakura.

"What about what happened with Naruto and Hinata" asked a downcast Sakura as she thought about what happened between them. She had remembered seeing the results of the rape as she did the assessment on Hinata.

This question only served to upset Naruto more as he thought back to what happened regarding that.

"That is not a concern for either of you" responded Danzo, again vaguely.

This caused both of them to look up at him.

"Bu-" was all Naruto could get out.

"Come Naruto, Sakura; It is time to apply the Kinjutsu" was interjected by Tsunade as she looked over to Danzo puzzled and slightly upset which both Naruto and Sakura caught. While both of them had more questions, neither of them had the will to ask anymore as the revelations thus far had really put both of them in a bad mood. They both briefly thought about having to talk to each other about the answers as they got up and followed Tsunade and Danzo as they left the Hokage's office.

In a chamber in the basement of the Hokage's tower…

The group entered the room which was decorated with plain walls but vast arrays of seals in intricate patterns littered the walls and floor.

In the floor were two big circles and two small circles all interconnected by complex looking seals.

Naruto and Sakura looked over the assortment of arrays briefly as it was unlike anything they had ever seen before.

"Naruto, Sakura, each of you stand in one of the large circles" said Tsunade as her and Danzo went to stand in the smaller interconnected circles.

"What is this?" asked Naruto who stated what Sakura was about to ask.

"This is the Ketsueki Maji Fuin Kinjutsu" replied Tsunade causing both Naruto and Sakura to look at her puzzled.

"This Kinjutsu was developed by the Senju, although for what exact purpose has been lost in the records. This sealing jutsu merges your blood and chakra's together to be one. In effect, you will both gain each other attributes of Chakra and affinities to elements." she added.

"W-Wow" was all Sakura could say as she thought of the implications.

"Will Sakura have to deal with… the Kyuubi?" Naruto asked as he looked over to her and Sakura in turn looked back at him at his question.

"No, you will still be the only container of the Kyuubi, Naruto. However she will be able to share in your Chakra as you both will have the same Chakra signatures after this. To what extent she can use that is unknown." Tsunade replied s she thought about it.

"Why… Is this a Kinjutsu?" asked Sakura as she took in the extra information.

Sharing the same blood and Chakra as Naruto is something that she couldn't quite comprehend. She remembered the concept of having slight pieces of chakra embedded in people and objects from advanced training. When the chakra was the exact same, that Chakra was interconnected.

In essence, it seemed at least in theory, like she and Naruto would share a chakra pool and could in theory use the same abilities due to sharing the same blood. But what was so dangerous about this to label it a Kinjutsu? That is what was on her mind.

'We would share the same blood? Like a brother and a sister' she thought briefly as the memory of Naruto saying she was like a sister played in her mind.

"Control" responded Danzo causing all in the room to look at him.

"The Senju found that they couldn't control the subjects created by it. While the original uses as a technique were lost, the one piece of information that did survive about it, was that it was a potential calamity waiting to happen. If you do not control something with immense power, you are in effect opening the doors to your own destruction" he added to his explanation.

"With my Ura Shisho Fuin, that will be the control mechanism" he stated.

"What does that sealing technique do?" asked Naruto.

"Since you and Sakura would share the same blood, when activated, it would effectively destroy both of you simultaneously. If either of you die, it is automatically activated. And it can be activated by any of us. It is the control mechanism to keep you both in check and for yourselves to do the same as required of you in case you do fall into enemy hands." he added seriously.

"That is what you accepted" he said with finality as both Naruto and Sakura thought about it as this is something they would have to do in the event either one got into trouble.

'Could I really kill her and myself if she got in trouble?' Naruto thought as the though did cross his mind that if she were killed, he would die to.

Similar thoughts were playing in Sakura's mind as she looked over to Naruto and could tell he was having similar trouble.

"Do you both understand what is required of you?" asked Tsunade as all them were standing where they were supposed to.

"Yes" both Naruto and Sakura responded.

'We'll have to kill ourselves if that ever happened… For the village' both of them thought with downcast expressions.

Both of them also shared in similar thoughts about the deeper they got into the group, the more their humanity was seemingly being forced out of them.

"Ketsueki Maji Fuin Kinjutsu" shouted Tsunade as she went through seals rapidly and the seals flared into activity.

"Ura Shisho Fuin" shouted Danzo as well going through seals to apply the sealing technique into the chakra from Tsunade's jutsu as their chakra's intertwined from the smaller connecting circles.

The chakra then flowed into the large interconnected circles to which bodies of chakra appeared from Sakura and Naruto.

The bodies then slowly merged into each other in between the circles as both of the ninja's began to feel their entire bodies burning as they looked onto their chakra representations of themselves as they both watched the figures slowly merge with the corresponding pains wracking their bodies.

As the merging got more complete the pain only grew until it was unbearable and both were heard screaming as the seals all around the room were bustling with activity.

As the forms finished merging into one, one last bolt of pain washed over both Naruto and Sakura and they both collapsed onto the floor with the sealing complete unconscious from the technique.

The next day in the hospital…

Sakura realized she was coming back to consciousness as she could hear talking around her. The voice of Tsunade was close although she couldn't really comprehend what was being said.

She pulled out further from her groggy state hearing her shishou talking to an assistant about lab results.

She opened her eyes and looked at the hospital ceiling as she took notice that she was lying in a hospital bed.

She looked down at her body as she laid there and she immediately realized that something felt off.

Power.

She felt like power radiated from inside her, her whole body tingled with the feeling. It felt as if she had chakra bursting from her pathways whereas before she was always accustomed to the feeling of a fine amount. This felt like there were literal rivers running all through her body.

'This is his power' Sakura thought as she was beginning to get an idea of how it must feel for Naruto. Sakura had previously done tests on his Chakra with Tsunade and could always easily the see the difference in his from others. It was bright, and hard to get it to do anything she wanted for it to do during the tests. It seemed to have a mind of its own unlike other chakra that simply flowed to the path of least resistance in her chakra containers. Naruto's snaked about.

Only now she could feel it in herself. She felt like she wanted to go break down the walls of the hospital room, like she could do anything. She produced a small chakra scalpel in her hand and she noted that it appeared to be brighter, like a stronger color of green than what she used to create previously.

"Your awake" she heard the familiar voice of her shishou as she let the chakra scalpel fade away.

"How do you feel?" asked Tsunade.

"I feel… different… like I have this immense feeling of power all over my body. It feels like my pathways are bulging with chakra" she mentioned to her mentor.

"That would be Naruto's chakra combined with yours, the vast amounts of chakra his body produces is unlike anything yours makes" she responded.

"Yea, I feel it, it's so… powerful" was all Sakura could say as she tried to wrap her mind around the power her body now contained.

"I heard you talking to the assistant about lab results… how did those turn out?" as Sakura could already guess that her mentor was running blood tests and chakra tests on them.

"It came out confirmed that your chakra signature of both of you is different from your old imprints. It now looks like it has pieces of both of your patterns within it. Your blood also bears the signatures of both of you as we saw in the other teams" Tsunade mentioned as she thought back to the other pairs.

"Do we have a group identifier or something?" Sakura asked wondering as she thought back to Team 7.

"Okami" replied Tsunade quickly.

Sakura just looked at her mentor as she questioned its meaning.

"Will we meet the other pairs?" she asked as she thought about the other Ni-Yurei members.

"No, you are all intentionally kept separated from each other for security purposes" Tsunade briefly elaborated.

"Oh" Sakura replied as she realized just how isolated there were going to be in their new group.

"You both will have an orientation into the group with me and Danzo in a couple days. For now you will need to remove your belongs from your office in the hospital Sakura, as you are officially dedicated to the Ni-Yurei now, you will no longer be working in the hospital" she said to Sakura.

"What?" Sakura said looking at her mentor forgetting about this aspect and how it would apply to her.

"You have an oath to your comrade and your village now Sakura, you will need to be devoted to both of those. For the success of your missions, and the security of the village" Tsunade said in her Hokage tone when she was getting her point across clearly.

"I'm really needed at the hospital" Sakura replied as she knew she was.

"We will manage Sakura, this was what you signed up for" retorted her mentor bringing up that aspect that she asked for this, not the other way around.

"Ok…" was all Sakura could muster as she thought about leaving her post at the hospital. It was something she worked really hard for, but now she had to give it up for the village.

"Shishou…" Sakura said gaining Tsunade's attention.

"Would you kill us?" she asked as she thought back to the enforcement clause of their oath.

"...Yes, I will always do what I must for this village Sakura. While you have been my apprentice and I do really care for you; I must not let personal preferences come in the way of my ability to protect my village and all of its citizens" she stated clearly to her apprentice.

"If I am ever forced to make that choice, I will. Please don't let it come to that" she added after a pause as Sakura looked at her.

"I.. understand.. shishou" she replied as she thought what her mentor would have to do if either for them failed their missions. She certainly didn't want to put her mentor in that place, nor herself.

"This is hard for me Sakura, I didn't want this for you, just understand that…" her mentor opened up slightly as she turned to walk out of the room as she paused at the door.

"Go ahead and clean out your office Sakura, we'll have Asami take over for your vacant position" she said as she then walked off.

It made sense to Sakura as her colleague Asami was a very capable medical practitioner with almost all of the same capabilities in medical jutsu as Sakura. But it still hurt to have to give up her position she had been working in different capacities for years.

Sakura got up and proceeded to walk out of the room on her way to her old office. As she walked down the hall she noticed Naruto in a room asleep similar to hers. She peered in and looked at his sleeping form wondering why he hadn't woke up yet. Especially considering how quickly he always got up and out of the hospital during his visits.

'The merging must of taken a big toll on him she thought' as she looked at his peaceful form.

She continued walking in the hospital eventually reaching the floor of her office and was stopped by Asami who called out her name once she saw her.

"Sakura-san, we're swamped at the moment, can you close out the last patient in room 541 for me as I'm needed elsewhere?" Asami asked as she looked at Sakura. It was evident Asami was stressing out a little.

"Sure Asami, did you hear the news?" Sakura asked her.

"Y-Yea, I'm sorry to hear about you having to leave Sakura-san. You will be greatly missed. Where are you going that you have to leave?" Asami asked her.

"I-I can't really say Asami, the village hasn't told me yet" Sakura lied, she hadn't yet really thought about having to keep her Ni-Yurei status hidden so she had to try to get out of Asami's questioning quickly.

"Oh, well thank you again Sakura-san for helping me, I have to get going to go treat a patient, we'll talk later" Asami replied as she bowed to Sakura before leaving to go into a patient room.

'Whew that was close' Sakura thought as she really didn't want to have to think of a good reason to be leaving the hospital as a cover story. She realized this would be something her and Naruto would probably have to get good at with having to travel so much outside of the village.

She proceeded to walk down the hall in search of the room to help Asami.

She stopped in front of the closed door to room 541 as she pulled out the medical chart with the findings as she skimmed to the bottom not bothering with the rest of the content as she was in a little bit of a hurry to clean out her office.

She opened the door and walked in and shut the door behind her as she walked into the room and passed the partially drawn bed curtain.

She stopped in her tracks when she took sight of who was sitting on the bed looking at her with equally enlarged eyes.

Lavender eyes.

'Hinata…' she thought as she got an immediate sick feeling in her stomach. Images of the unconscious woman and her body that was raped by… Naruto flashed in her mind as she tried to really shove those memories into the recesses of her mind not to recall again.

"Sakura…" said the subdued voice of Hinata.

Hinata's emotions just crashed down completely once she had caught sight of Sakura. She had been expecting her previous doctor Asami to come in to tell her the news.

The news that she was dreading to know…

"Hinata… I'm sorry but the tests results came back positive for…" Sakura said slowly as she tried to get past the mental battle she was having seeing Hinata looking at her very awake unlike the last time she had seen her. She stumbled through the report looking for the context of the positive result to finish her sentence.

"…pregnancy" she said slowly as her eyes widened and she got a huge pang in her chest as her eyes shot back to Hinata.

Hinata slowly held onto herself as she put her head down and slowly started to get wracked by sobs as tears started to come down her eyes.

"OH NO…" Sakura stated aloud as she realized the implications. Hinata was pregnant with Naruto's child.

This news hit her like the most powerful physical punch she could ever produce from her finite chakra control, and right in the heart.

She stepped forward slowly and sat on the bed next to Hinata as she slowly placed a hand on Hinata's shoulder.

She skimmed the report to find that the DNA matched that of Naruto's ninja registration number. She clenched her eyes closed as she fought back to stop the tears that were threatening to fall out of her own eyes.

Naruto was going to have a child with.. Hinata. That hurt Sakura immensely; it was a feeling like she wished it could be her instead, especially considering the circumstances of how it all happened.

"I-Is it… Naruto's?" came the broken voice of Hinata's as she sobbed quietly.

"Yes" was all Sakura could offer as she felt like her world was crashing down.

All that Sakura could hear was the quiet sobs of Hinata as she worked to steel her own emotions. She was devoted to Naruto now with them being bonded by something much stronger than anything else… blood. She had to be strong for Naruto, it pained her immensely though to look at Hinata as she was now carrying Naruto's child.

"I-I can't believe I'm pregnant… I was told I had the counteracting jutsu to prevent a pregnancy" Hinata sobbed.

"W-What?" asked Sakura incredulously as she knew she hadn't done it.

'Danzo' she thought murderously as she recalled Danzo telling her to not do it to begin with. She thought he would have some other medical ninja do it.

She thought she couldn't hate Danzo any more previously but that quickly got replaced by a new level with this information.

"I thought they made sure I couldn't get pregnant after I reported the attack to the Hokage" Hinata responded as she looked up at Sakura. It was hard for Hinata to see Sakura, seeing her she could only think about her teammate Naruto, the one who did this to her as rage flooded inside her demanding to be let out.

"AND FUCKING NARUTO… IT'S ALL HIS FAULT!" Hinata finally screamed as anger and pain were spilling out in the tone of her voice. She kept that welled up inside her, but seeing his teammate here next to her, with her hand on her own shoulder was too much. She had to vent to someone, anyone. She couldn't vent to her own family members. They didn't even know the attack happened yet, she hadn't dared told them yet, only the Hokage.

'She thinks he did it intentionally' Sakura thought as she realized where Hinata's assumption of the situation as she was startled by Hinata's outburst.

"Hinata… Naruto was interrogated about the incident. We found that something happened to him causing him to black out during the attack on you. We are investigating into what it is that caused that attack, but all evidence indicated it wasn't…intentional" she said slowly to Hinata making sure the woman heard her while not fully going into the details.

Sakura had partially lied, she didn't know if there was an investigation going on, but she would certainly be doing her own as things just were not adding up to her in her own mind.

"Not… i-intentional" Hinata slowly repeated through sobs.

"HOW THE HELL COULD THAT NOT BE INTENTIONAL! I WATCHED HIM RAPE ME SAKURA, I FELT ALL OF IT… I COULD DO NOTHING! HE HAD BINDED ME!" Hinata screamed as she continued to let her real emotions burst out.

"I LOVED HIM! AND HE DID THIS TO ME… THIS IS WHAT I GOT FOR LOVING HIM!" she said as she collapsed onto the bed a mess as she sobbed.

All Sakura could do was look down at her sadly as she could empathize with Hinata and see her point of view. She had to somehow understand what happened between the two.

'I need Ino's help to look at Naruto's memory' she thought as she tried to think of ways to see what Naruto saw. She didn't want Naruto's name to be remember as a rapist, she would have to get to the bottom of that.

But it still pained her terribly, the woman that she wished she could trade places with could only cry at what was happening to her. It was against her own will, but she ended up carrying Naruto's child. Sakura could only imagine how Naruto would take this news. Her eyes widened at that thought.

'I-I can't tell him about this… The Ni-Yurei…' Sakura thought of the implications this would have for Naruto, and future enemies.

She focused back onto Hinata as she had a question she thought of.

"Are you going to have an abortion?" she asked aloud causing the girl to slowly stop sobbing as she watched the form of Hinata on the bed.

"N-No…this isn't the child's fault… I couldn't do that to the… to my child" Hinata slowly answered. She couldn't end the life that was just beginning, despite the situation. She really loved Naruto, but even though he raped her, she couldn't dare think of taking out her anger, betrayal and violation by getting killing off the innocent life growing in her.

Sakura could understand where she was coming from and while she wouldn't admit it, it pained her even more. Because it meant that Hinata would bear Naruto a child even though she hated Naruto.

"Are you going to tell him?" she asked Hinata.

"N-No… and Sakura, please don't tell him either… promise me…" Hinata said as for once she revealed her eyes again as they were looking deeply into Sakura as her face still contorted with the pain and sadness she was feeling as she was still trying to comprehend the news.

Hinata's hands had involuntarily moved down over her pelvis and she held her hands over that part of her body which Sakura had shifted her eyesight to look at. That hurt Sakura as she could only image herself doing the same with Naruto's baby in her. But with what happened between her and Naruto she was likely not going to have anything like that happen.

"I… promise" said Sakura as she slowly contemplated what that promise was going to require of her. And if Naruto ever found out that she knew…

"Hinata… just please understand, something happened to Naruto that caused him to do what he did without him realizing it. I'm going to find out what happened, I also promise you that. I-I'm sorry for this news" Sakura said as she slowly got up from the bed to leave. She wanted to go off to be alone and cry.

'something happened to Naruto that caused him to do what he did without him realizing it' played back in Hinata's mind as she laid on the bed crying as Sakura left her room quickly as she watched her go. Hinata couldn't fathom how that could be true, but she wished it was as she wanted to die at the thought of Naruto doing that to her purposefully.

She continued to sob again, as she was still coming to terms with the answer to why she had missed her period, and had suffered a lot of throwing up and lethargy lately. She couldn't imagine how she was going to tell her father this. And instead of thinking of dying, she now had someone to live for as she was now carrying a child.

Sakura's Hospital Office…

Sakura sat down in her office chair facing the door which she closed and locked.

She just stared straight ahead feeling numb at the news that she just learned and had to deliver to Hinata. Naruto was going to have a baby, and it was something she could of prevented at that time she performed the rape kit on Hinata.

But she thought to Naruto having a child. And she couldn't honestly answer if she could deny him that, it was something that he wanted more than being a Hokage.

But now that they were in the Ni-Yurei, that group was going to have to be more important to him than his own child.

'Oh Naruto…' she thought of him as she felt both sad for him and sad for herself. She put her head down on the office desk and started to sob as she didn't know what else to do. Her feelings of pain and hurt were too much for her.

She had to look after her teammate, and work to clear his name. Hopefully she could amend the situation between Hinata and Naruto as much as possible, he at least deserved to see his child at some point. She just hoped he would be able to handle it, and not give up on them as she was aware of the 'enforcement' part of their Ni-Yurei oath.