All for one and one for all (Chapter two)


A/n: Gasp I'm updating this? what did you think it impossible? Hehe sorry for awhile I did too, I had written almost two pages ages ago and then reached a block before deciding to rewrite it all and well skip over a bunch of stuff, voila a new chapter three years from the end of the last one... hehe don't hate me! I'm so sorry about the long wait, forgive me.


"Ino, please take Taru I really need to study for my final." Sakura begged of her roommate holding out the small fussing boy to her.

"And I don't? Sakura it's finals week for everyone, not just pre-med you know." Ino sassed as she looked at the frazzled Sakura.

"But-but you're a Hrtm major… your finals can't be nearly as bad as mine are." Sakura said stressed thinking of watching the child and studying for all of her 300 level classes.

"They're not," Ino said flippantly walking over to her pink haired room mate she took the small boy out of her arms, "I just don't like kids much." she said holding the three year old at arms length and staring at him with an eye brow cocked up.

"He's your brother for goodness sake Ino, you have to like him." Sakura said frustrated as she fixed it so that Ino was holding Taru correctly.

"Yeah but I didn't ask for him to be born, or be a guy, and I certainly didn't ask for Hana and daddy to leave him with us for a whole month while the go on a cruise… damn midlife crisis…" she grumbled having a glaring contest with the three year old Taru.

It was hard to believe that they were in their third year of college; in those years they had grown closer as friends, almost like the sisters they had always wanted to be as children. Hana had given birth to Taru four months into their freshman year. The news of her pregnancy had shocked them all, even her and Inochi. Being a new mother at the age of forty two was a shock and hard to adujust to, but Taru was a darling boy and was soon adored by all.

Sakura had continued with her medical studies while Ino had switched her major several times before finally settling on Hotel, Retail, and Tourism Management. This choice was something that she excelled at; she was naturally a people person and loved to boss people around.

While Ino flourished, Sakura struggled. Not that she wasn't any good, but that there was so much information for her to take in and retain. Her days were spent studying and memorizing hardly and time was spent on socializing and hardly any time was spent with Sasuke.

He was still her love and they were still dating but at times it seemed more like they were mere acquaintances than in love. His studies took up his time almost as much as hers did; the degree in business was harder than originally thought, statistics and accounting were really forcing him to focus. They were lucky if they got to spent one night together enjoying a movie while eating dinner let alone actually move forward in their relationship.

It was like they were stuck in stasis. They had officially been a couple for over three years now but all they had to show for it was a handful of dates and making out periodically. Perpetually stuck at the same person they were at eighteen even though they were twenty-one.

The door bell rang interrupting Sakura's melancholy thoughts. Who can that be? She wondered as she walked to the front of her apartment to answer the door, as she walked out Ino carrying Taru, and Hinata popped her head out to see who was there.

"Who is it?" the violet haired future shrink asked happy to have a break from studying for her big psychology final later in the week.

Answering her with a shrug Sakura looked through the peep-hole and saw her friend from class standing there. "Kotetsu?" she questioned as she opened the door to him. Smiling lightly she let him in as he smiled sheepishly.

"Hey Saku, sorry for not calling before, but I was wondering if you wanted to study with me, it's easier that way trust me, I've been at this a whole lot longer than you." He teased holding up his book bag as proof of his quest.

Smiling at his joke about his age she lead him into the apartment and saw her two suitemates slinking back into their rooms as she went into her room and closed the door.

"So this final sucks right, I mean I knew Dr. Lara was a hard-ass but this one is killer." Kotetsu said sighing largely as he pulled out a massive text book out of his bag and sitting on the bed. Grabbing her notes from the desk she joined him settling down to do some serious studying, for the first time in over a week not having to worry about what Taru was doing.

"Here-" Kotetsu said standing up as they had run out of things to stare at in the book, "let's try some more applied studying." He then took her hand and laid it on his abdomen. "Ok, so here what organ is here?" he questioned as he pressed her had into his side.

"Um-" she said shyly, he was a good looking boy after all and this was the most contact she had had with a male over four in the last month. "It's sortta hard to tell, I could be touching your kidneys or your spleen, with the shirt it's hard to tell…" She trailed off giggling weakly.

"Here." He said as he pulled his shirt up and over his head, he took her hand and again set it on his side toward his back he pressed the tips of her fingers in. "Right here, what organ are you closest to?" He questioned.

"Um your kidneys." She mumbled blushing at touching his bare skin in a closed room- alone. But his total disregard to the situation helped calm her nerves as he genuinely was doing this to study. After several organ identifications they switched to bones and then began making up different symptoms and tried to come up with a diagnosis switching the role of the patient several times. By the time several hours had passed and Ino knocked on the door to alert them to the fact that she had made dinner she was shocked to find the two standing near each other with Sakura only wearing a small cami and shorts and Kotetsu in his boxers.

"What the hell is going on in here!" she screeched throwing open the door exposing the scene.

The two blinked owlishly at her not seeing the big problem; after all they were only studying. Sakura was currently the patient sitting on the desk as Kotetsu sat in a chair near by listening as she was listing off her 'symptoms' which included an upset stomachache and a feeling of listlessness looking for the diagnosis of hunger seeing as she was playing the role of a starved model, hoping to confuse him with a curve ball.

"We're studying Ino." Sakura said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"What anatomy?!" Ino yelled thinking they had been fooling around.

"Yes." They both answered. "What's for dinner I'm starving?" Sakura asked lightly jumping down from the desk and attempting to walk out the door, only to be stopped by Ino's arm.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" She asked pointedly looking down.

"Huh?" Sakura asked looking down before turning red and making a noise only to scramble around and looking for her clothes. "Why didn't you tell me I was undressed?" she hisses to both of them, this prompted Kotetsu to realize he too was only in his boxers and he made a dash for his discarded clothes.

While all this was going on the guys had walked in Hinata having gone over and invited them to dinner. Sasuke automatically went in search of Sakura only to find Ino standing in the door way laughing at something.

"Ino." He said, his way of saying 'What's going on and move out of the way.'

Hearing his voice and realizing the compromising position she had unknowingly put herself in she turned and shut the door blocking it with her body hoping that the two would put their damn clothes on before Sasuke went in there and had a melt down.

"Hehe nothing Sasuke, Sakura and her ugh- friend are just clearing up from studying… you know how Sakura gets everything must be clean…" she BS'd hoping he would buy it.

"Ino, move." He calmly looked at her with an intense coal black gaze, he hadn't seen Sakura in over two weeks and now Ino was keeping him from her. He was not happy with the blonde. Pushing her aside with ease he gripped the door knob and pushed the door open, looking around he was confronted with the sight of some guy putting a text book into his bag and Sakura pulling a hoodie over her head. What the hell was Ino's problem from her stalling tactics he's expected to see an orgy or something.

He walked into the room and pulled the off guard Sakura into his arms earning him a small 'epp' that rushed past her lips. Smirking softly her pulled the hoodie the rest of the way down her face and finally looked into her green gaze.

"Hey you." He husked leaning in to plant a small kiss on her lips.

"Sasuke…" she breathed her face lighting up into a smile. "What are you doing here?"

"Hinata invited us over, how have you been?" he said lowly to her holding her close, he missed this, just being near her helped to calm him down and release his energy.

She was about to answer when Kotetsu discreetly coughed bring the two to the attention that they were blocking the door way and that he was trapped watching them cooing at each other.

"Oh!" Sakura blushed bright. "Right Kotetsu sorry, Sasuke this is Kotetsu he is pre-med too we were just studying, Kotetsu this is Sasuke, my boyfriend." She grinned.

"Ah, so this is the famous 'Sasuke' I have heard about for three years, nice to finally meet you." Kotetsu said reaching out his hand to shake Sasuke's hand. Sasuke reluctantly held out his hand and briefly shook the older mans hand with his.

"Pre-med huh? Aren't you a little old to still be pre-med?" Sasuke asked rudely.

"Sasuke…" Sakura glared embarrassed by this comment.

"Ha no," Kotetsu said laughing it off used to the question. "I went on a stint with the army right out of high school, so really I'm just in my third year in college." He grinned good naturedly. "Now, who's up for food?" he said walking through the door and into the living room/ dining room and joining the rest as they all ate.

"Sasuke what was that?" Sakura asked rather angry at what he had said.

"What?" he questioned oblivious to why she was peeved.

"You being rude to him, what was that?" She asked.

"Oh, well I don't like him." He answered simply looking away and pulling her closer.

"Why on earth would you not like him? You hardly met the guy…" Sakura trailed off laying her head on his chest.

"He's close to you. Maybe closer than me. I don't like that." He said simply burying his head in her pink hair.

Smiling at his insecurity and possessiveness she smiled slightly and gave him a gentle hug to reassure him of his spot in her heart. He returned the hug happy that she didn't feel the need to voice her thoughts feeling the expression of feelings was deeper when it was with an act rather than words. Pulling away he took her hand and led her out to the rest of their friends to enjoy the meal Ino had… bought, after all this time she still couldn't boil water but was handy with a phone.

They had moved into the apartments after their first year, they were somewhat expensive but nice and fully furnished. They were almost taking up a whole floor, there were four apartments per floor and they had filled three of those. Hinata, Ino and Sakura in one, Sasuke, Kiba and Naruto in another, and finally Neji, Tenten and Shikamaru in the last.

Though they were all neighbors they all had very different majors and very different schedules. The past month was very intense for the majority of the friends who were majoring in something hard and for Tenten and Neji who were writing their senior theses in their fields.

After the upcoming week their lives would be a lot easier seeing as it was winter break for a month meaning they could finally go home and relax.

The rest of the night all the friends stayed in the girls' apartment and hung out, Kotetsu leaving early claiming he had a date, the rest gathered and watched movies and talked. Sakura sat on Sasuke's lap and cuddled him as the movies played. Naruto was letting Hinata try to psychoanalyze him which she was failing miserably at, too flustered to really make any head way, besides that all of her questions seemed to confuse him rather than get any answers out of him all she got was an bunch of 'huhs' and confused looks.

Kiba was laughing at Naruto's idiocy and Ino was beating him over the head. Neji and Tenten were sitting and doing school work and Shikamaru was watching the movie through sleep veiled eyes.

"Hmm, aren't they something?" Sasuke asked her gently as he held her close. Looking at her friends and thinking of her past she smiled and nodded. "They sure are, great." She smiled at him about to give him a kiss she pulled away as Taru began to cry from Ino's room, having been awoken by a loud part of the film.

Getting up she looked down at him and joked, "Honey I must go attend the baby." Then she winked gently. He smirked getting the joke and getting up to help her.

"Hey little one…" Sakura was cooing the distressed Taru when Sasuke walked into the room, he leaned on the door way and stopped to observe her. She had picked Taru up and was gently rocking him to and fro trying to calm his tears. She began to hum a small melody as his tears dissolved into hic-ups and he slowly fell asleep. Smiling gently she lay in back onto the bed and tucked him in. Turning around she was surprised to see Sasuke watching her with what she would describe as 'bedroom eyes' his onyx eyes deep, soulful and filled with swirling emotions. Blushing lightly she walked up to him.

"You'll make a great mom." He husked his hand lifting to cup her face as he looked into her eyes.

"Uh- thanks." She whispered embarrassed yet pleased by his statement.

"Come on." He said grabbing her hand and pulling her to her room and onto the bed. The two smiled at each other and Sasuke smirked slyly as he leaned in to kiss her gently. It had been so long since they had any serious alone time that they were almost desperate in their kisses.

"Mmmmm" Sasuke said as he rolled them on the bed and let his hand slip up her torso cupping her head in his hands as he fisted her pink hair. A knock on their door caused Sakura to shriek as she attempted to pull up and Sasuke kept his hold on her hair accidentally pulling it in the process.

"Ouch!" Sakura cried tears in the corner of her eyes from the sharp unexpected pain after such pleasure. "Sorry!" Sasuke said letting go of her hair and cupping the back of her head in his hand trying to soothe the sore spot.

"Hey Saku," Ino said barging in before stopping and grinning at the picture before her.

"Hmm so sorry to interrupt, but I got a call from Mike, the guy from the bar last week… he wants to meet me again so I was wondering if you'd watch Taru tonight…" she trailed off hoping Sakura would agree.

"Ugh yeah sure Ino, no prob." Sakura said rubbing her head and not seeing the scowl of the male next to her as he realized their make out time was over.

"Great I'll get him and go. I'm so excited, he's soooo dreamy Saku… tall dirty blonde, dirty mouth…" she giggled oblivious to the looks the couple on the bed was giving her. She sure wasn't shy about the men she liked. "Who knows maybe I'll get laid tonight." She gushed.

"Oh Ino I don't want to know!" Sasuke protested covering his ears with a pillow making Sakura giggle and Ino stick her tongue out at him.

"Well ta!" she waved and flounced off only to return in a few moments with a sleepy Taru in her arms. "Here he is." She announced handing him to her, his little arms already sticking out seeking out Sakura's warmth.

Taking him in her arms she settled him onto the bad and pulled the covers over him settling him to sleep again. To both their surprise Taru scooted over and cuddled up to Sasuke's side before falling asleep.

"Hmm, looks like I'm not the only one who will make a good parent." Sakura teased as Sasuke adjusted himself to hold Taru more comfortably. A blush stained the tips of his ears at her words. She got up shut the door and pulled off her jeans before turning off the lights and joining the two boys in bed. She snuggles up to Taru's small body and they sought out Sasuke's hand grabbing it in hers she gave it a squeeze and then allowed herself to drift off to sleep.


A/n: Aww cute moment at the end there. Hope you liked it, again sorry for the wait.