Inside the Operating Room

"She's going in and out Tsunade!" The nurses kept hustling about trying to get the baby out while keeping the mother alive.

"I know god damnit! Sakura! Don't let this get you!" Tsunade kept yelling onto deaf ears of her beloved student.

"She's gone Tsunade! She's gone…" Half of the nurses started to cry as did the others who were cutting the umbilical cord from the baby.

"Don't let this beat you Sakura" Tsunade whispered into her ear, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Don't let this beat you."

Sakura slowly opened her eyes to women crying around her. She felt no pain, only confusion.

Why is shishou crying? Her thoughts were cloudy.

Only one sentence came out of Sakura's mouth before she fell into blackness again.

"M' sorry, Sasu- u ke, I umplugged…wire again…" All the nurses gasped in shock that indeed, the heart monitor wire leading to Sakura had somehow been unplugged by the hustle.

All the nurses cried in joy praying to Kami-sama that she would live to at least see her baby.

"Get the child to the maternity ward! We'll need all the room we can to get Sakura back in order again!" Tsunade yelled throughout the operating room

Sakura was being treated carefully by at least half of the hospital staff.

"Maja…I need you tell Sasuke…" Tsunade whispered quietly.

Maja nodded in understanding leaving the operating room with tears still streaming down her face.

Everyone was looking everywhere except for the operating room. Once Sasuke saw something white standing close to his shoes (considering he was gazing absent mindedly at the floor) did he look up.

"Maja…" he whispered quietly noticing the stream of tears down her face.

"The-the baby is in the maternity ward if you would like to see…" Maja choked on her own words trying not to cry in happiness. Sasuke took it as depression as he only nodded.

He slowly waked down the hallway with Maja behind him as well as some of his friends. Maja didn't point out which one was his. He didn't want her to. He wanted to find his child on his own.

He looked down row after row of sleeping and turning babies until his eyes landed on a puff of dark black hair. He paused for a moment trying to see the babies face. The baby somehow could sense someone looking at her, and opened her eyes to her father. Beautiful green eyes.

"Congratulations Uchiha-san…you have a beautiful baby girl." Maja whispered as more tears of joy slipped down her cheeks.

Sasuke gingerly touched the glass with his hand as his baby girl gave a very small smile to him.

Sasuke broke, silently crying. He couldn't hold on.

"S-Sakura" He whispered. How many times had he said her names? How many times had he held her face, her hands, her body against him. How many times had he gotten lost into the depths of her eyes?

Oh how he was breaking against his will.

Sasuke slid to the floor, onto his knees as his friends could only watch. Tears started to sting into their eyes. They didn't want to break too.

"Sasuke…Sakura is strong, even to the end she will always be strong." Sasuke's body shook at her voice. "Tsunade is still with her, she is still with us Sasuke. She will always be strong…for you." Maja rubbed his back gently as he looked at her with questioning eyes. Daring her to lie to him about Sakura.

Maja frustrated her brows, while wearing a small smile against her lips. "The last thing she said before she blacked out…do you know what she said?" She knew he wouldn't know of course, but he shook his head nonetheless.

"I'm sorry Sasuke, I unplugged the wire again." Maja began to laugh through her sobs. Sasuke choked on his own tears, praying for the happiness he once had to return. Everyone listened intently not sure what to do, or what to believe.

Maja picked Sasuke up by the arm again leading him back to his previous seat. She bowed low to the people that surrounded her before she left to assist Tsunade.

Sasuke breathed deeply through his nose, placing his head into his hands, remembering his daughters face. Naruto and Kakashi resumed rubbing Sasuke's back in comfort. They all prayed then, for Sakura's life to continue.

It was bright. There was a beeping sound. It was annoying. Sakura could feel the stiffness in her limbs as she tried to sit up. Trying to move something. Sakura decided on working out the fuzziness in her eyes. She tried to reach up to brush the sand out of her eyes. This was a task in of itself considering she didn't know how thick of a wire/wires were running through her body.

Her fingers were numb; she guessed it was from all the medication. Once she finally rubbed her eyes, tension caused her arm to fall back to her side in exhaustion. She looked around the room and noticed that her stomach was small again.

Oh god! Is my baby ok? Is Sasuke ok? She was able to slide the hand on her side up and over her stomach. Tears began to slip out of her eyes in horror of losing her baby.

Tsunade had just left the room ten minutes ago talking to the mob outside her door.

"How is she Tsunade?" Kakashi spoke softly to the Hokage. She had just finished signing paperwork outside Sakura's door quietly while everyone bored their eyes into her.

Tsunade glanced up to notice that everyone was staring at her with unemotional expressions. No one knew what to expect, but deeply hoped that the worse couldn't be realized.

"She's stable at the moment, but I don't know when she'll wake up." Sasuke was happy for a moment unable to believe this was actual happening. Maybe his life wasn't over after all. He slid by Tsunade and went through the door.

When he went through the door, his back was turned away from the lover of his life. He took an unsteady breathe turning. His eyes widened a fraction at the sight he saw. He couldn't tell whether or not she was awake, but she was crying and holding her now flat stomach.

"S-Sakura" Sasuke whispered. Sakura didn't hear him though. Her vision was slowly fading back again.

So tired…Are you OK my baby girl? Sakura thought sadly. "Sakura, the baby is ok" Sasuke whispered into her ear. Sakura opened her eyes tiredly seeing a blurry Sasuke in her vision.

"M, so sorry, Sasu- ke" Sakura mumbled.

"No, no sweetheart its ok" Sasuke whispered holding her hand.

"I…pulled the w-ir-e" Sakura grumbled before slipping into slumber.

"As long as you're still alive and with me…you can pull that wire out of you as much as you want." Sasuke whispered into his now unconscious Sakura.

He kissed Sakura on her damp forehead whispering "Our child is waiting for you. She looks just like you sweetheart. I thought I lost you…you're the strongest woman I have ever met you know." He bit his lip in frustration, "You promised to never leave me…you know." He kissed her gently on the lips then, "I love you."

How sweet! Sorry i know the characters are a little...well maybe a lot OOC but...you know...mushy endings and all. I kind of fall for them myself ;)