Warning this is a Rated M fanfiction. Originally this chapter was going to be the last part of the flashback, but due to it being longer than I anticipated I needed to extend it to the next chapter. This chapter contains violence, adult situations, and mature content.

Chapter 13

[FLASHBACK PART 3]

"What is it?" Ino asked while watching Sasuke, walk towards her. Nervously Sasuke reached out his hand to grab Ino's, pulling her up off of the couch. Confused Ino watched him grab something from his pocket next, as he slowly opened up his palm for her to see.

"Oh Sasuke its beautiful." she said after looking at a small engagement ring. "I'm going to ask her tonight." he said while he felt embarrassed he hadn't done it earlier, "So that's what's been on your mind? It's about time, she's going to love it congratulations." Ino unable to hold her excitement screamed out before she jumped onto Sasuke giving him a huge hug.

While she hugged him tightly her head buried in his neck, Ino suddenly heard Sakura "What…How could you?'' she yelled before running out of the house. Sasuke watching her run off tried his best to neutralize the situation.

"WAIT... Sakura it's not what you think," he yelled as he tried to go after her. "Sasuke wait" Ino said while holding onto his arm. "Maybe now isn't the best time to go after her" she continued mainly worried about making things worse by handling the situation incorrectly.

Sasuke thought about Ino's words for a brief moment, until he heard a crash of thunder. Pulling his arm away from her, Sasuke looks back at her with a serious expression. "It doesn't matter I need to find her now" he professed before leaving his house. Ino feeling horrible about her timing, debated if she should go after her; since Sakura probably didn't want to see her now. With the rain getting worse and no other option, Ino pulls out her cell phone to send Sakura a text before she headed out the door after her.

As the rain started to drench the ground, the sky seemed to fall in sync with Sakura's tears; as she ran carefully holding her cramping stomach. Finding herself unable to run anymore, she turned the nearest corner to stop and catch her breath. Feeling the pain in her stomach intensify, Sakura slides to the ground as she struggled to deal with the pain in her stomach and in her heart.

As she tried to replay the scene in her head, hoping for some kind of explanation. Sakura hears someone out of nowhere speak to her. "Hey you alright, do you need help?"

Elsewhere Sasuke still trying to find Sakura, had lost track of her in the brief moment Ino had distracted him. Searching frantically, Sasuke was having a hard time looking through the crowed since everyone carried umbrellas, while hurrying to make their way home. "The rain... this is bad..." Sasuke thought to himself, before he noticed Naruto, Hinata, and Sai eating ramen.

"Naruto" Sasuke yelled while he ran over to the trio. Seeing his friend soaked, Naruto was puzzled at what had brought him there.

"What's up Sasuke you hungry?" he invited while sipping his soup. "Baka, help me find Sakura she ran out from my house and I can't find her." Sasuke shouted back at him having no time to deal with his stupidity. Hearing this immediately made Naruto choke on his soup, as another crack of thunder hit the sky. "What! She's out here in her condition." he shouted while wiping the excess soup from his mouth. Looking at Sasuke's worried face, Naruto hastily placed money on the table; as the four swiftly got to work on searching for Sakura.

After someone had asked her if she needed help, Sakura feeling some of her pain subside enough for her to move; gradually sit up from her sitting spot. Looking in the direction of an unknown man covered by darkness Sakura quickly reply s , "No thanks I'm fine," she said while she grabbed her shopping bag from the ground. "Huh... so you're the girl." The male voice asked next, as Sakura turned back around at the creepy comment, "Excuse me?"

"Let's see pink hair and green eyes...named Sakura," The man said as he was still hidden by the shadows. "Who are you?" Sakura inquired while studying the man's silhouette trying to get a better look at him. Deciding to help her out, the man slowly stepped out from the shadows while introducing himself. "Hello my name is Matsumoto" he paused giving her a smile while simultaneously snapping his fingers. "And these are my comrades, Jun and Kenta," he said next as the two men walked up beside him.

Sakura quickly noticing the two men being the ones Sasuke fought earlier on in her pregnancy, slowly backed up."You two again what do you want?" she warningly asked. "Oh don't worry they only move on my orders... and I wanted to introduce them and myself personally." Matsumoto said while another guy came up behind Sakura.

"Oh I almost forgot and that's Ouji. Such a miserable day isn't it?" Matsumoto spoke while Kenta pulled an umbrella over his head to cover him from the rain. "I don't know what you want, and I don't care. I'm not in the mood to talk to anyone right now." Sakura said to him as she wiped her eyes.

Hearing her, Matsumoto could only chuckle a bit, "That's fine I'm just here to leave a message for your boyfriend, since thanks to him mistakenly capturing my younger brother instead of me... My brother was murdered while in jail awaiting a proper trial," he said with a hint of anger in his tone.

"I'm sorry to hear that but that has nothing to do with me." Sakura said next as she started to walk past Ouji.
"Oh but it does." Matsumoto said while Ouji rapidly blocked off Sakura's escape.

Sakura feeling the painful cramping getting worse again, quickly got serious. "Move... I may be pregnant but it won't take much to fight you" She said while giving him a death stare; she was in no mood to be messed with.
"Well I don't have a problem fighting little girls," Ouji replied slyly while looking back at Matsumoto.

Sakura now feeling nervous, smartly checked her surroundings for any bystanders. "Looks like no one else is here and if they were well..." Matsumoto paused while looking over at Jun who pulled out an unknown Jounin, he had slit the throat of.

Seeing proof now that the men were serious killers, Sakura instinctively placed a hand over her stomach. "What will you accomplish by killing me?" She asked as panic started to sink in. "Nothing... only to make Uchiha Sasuke suffer and feel my pain, he took the only precious thing I ever loved away from me and I would like to do the same." Matsumoto spoke while walking up to Sakura, grabbing a strand of her soaked hair.

Sakura feeling him touch her, automatically slapped his hand away as she didn't want him near her. The moment she retaliated however he swiftly returned the favor by slapping her cheek; before grabbing her face. Sakura watching as the three other men circled her, one even pulling out a knife; began to cry. "Sasuke...help me" she whispered.

"Anything yet?" Sasuke yelled at Sai who came back down from riding his paper creation. "NO" he replied when he finally jumped to the ground, "but I can't see all the places that have covering and the rain is making it difficult." he cautiously explained to him. Sasuke hearing this grows even more concerned at not finding Sakura already. "Damn" he shouted while he started to take off in search of another area.

"Sasuke" Ino suddenly yelled as she finally made it to where they had been searching, "What do you want?" Sasuke replied back as he was in a hurry. "Sasuke I think I have an idea of where to find her." Ino said as he hastily followed her.

"Hey you think she's dead boss?" Ouji asked, as he wiped the blood from his knife. "Who knows," Jun said next, while kicking at Sakura's limp foot. "Hey someones coming let's get out of here." Kenta yelled, as the three men left suddenly. Matsumoto being the last to leave slowly bent down to pull Sakura's hair away from her face.

"If you are alive give my regards to Sasuke," he replied while walking off. A loud violent sound of thunder, causes Sakura to finally wake up; though only able to see from one eye, she noticed the sky was dark and cold. Groaning before she tried to move a little, Sakura quickly let out a scream at the horrible pain happening in her stomach. "Something's wrong" she thought to herself as she felt something trickle down her inner leg, Sakura painfully reaching for her thigh, felt the strange thick liquid coat her fingers; when she got a good look at her hand; she saw it was drenched in blood.

"NO" Sakura mutely spoke out, as she tried her best to move to get help. However, the pain in her stomach became more intense the more she moved; forcing her to fall on her side. Sakura also struggling with the secondary pain of her head, found herself unable to move anymore; as she lay on the ground with the rain pounding her body. Feeling light-headed, Sakura started to lose consciousness again; as all she could see was a sea of white. "... Ino...Sasuke how could ... were you...really my friends." She lastly thought before completely blacking out.

After Ino informed Sasuke, that Sakura from time to time would take a certain short cut behind the buildings to get home. They momentarily separated to look up and down different alleyways; after turning a corner Ino abruptly found herself stopping dead in her tracks. Out of the blue hearing Ino let out a heart wrenching scream, Sasuke quickly followed suit. Seeing where Ino had stopped, Sasuke turned to ask her what was wrong only for him to figure it out in an instant."Sakura!" he said while he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Slowly on autopilot, Sasuke made his way over to Sakura's unconscious body.

Sasuke trembling badly couldn't tell what had happened; due to the amount of blood everywhere. "No" Ino finally said as she tried to form words; after grabbing her face in horror. "INO GO NOW, GET HELP NOW" Sasuke screamed at the top of his lungs while he looked down. Ino hearing his demand didn't hesitate as she left as fast as she could to go find help.

Sasuke falling to his knees slowly grabbed Sakura's body. While he clutched it hard, rocking her back and forth. Sasuke couldn't recognize her face as it was beaten and bruised severely. Examining her briefly he also noticed her body was riddled with bruises and cuts. "Sakura I'm so sorry please..." he said while placing a shaky hand on her face, before sliding it to her neck; checking to see if he felt a pulse. Unable to feel anything, Sasuke sat there as he buried his head into Sakura's body, only stopping when he sensed someone behind him.

Once Sai and Naruto had arrived; via Ino yelling at them to head in that direction. They had to take time to adjust to the unimaginable scene. Seeing Sasuke distraught and Naruto in shock, Sai quickly tried to help.

"Sasuke let me" he said before getting a Sharaingan in response; gulping at the ferociousness of his eyes Sai look towards Naruto for some help. Naruto trying to stop his own self from losing it shook his head as he got closer. "Sasuke..." Naruto tried to speak, only for him to get the same treatment.

In a short amount of time, Tsunade and medical staff had already arrived on the scene. Naruto watching Tsunade walk up to Sakura, quickly warned her about Sasuke not letting them get close. Fearlessly Tsunade walked over to him, while placing a hand on his shoulder. Sasuke looking back at her for a moment finally allowed her to touch Sakura's body.

After Sasuke let go of Sakura, his head fell as he sulked over the prognosis he had already assumed. Tsunade placing a hand on her neck waited a moment before frantically turning to her workers, "She's still alive but barely let's get her back," Tsunade ordered as they rushed her to the hospital.

Shortly after arriving to the hospital, Ino, Naruto, Sai, Hinata, and Sasuke anxiously awaited for any word on Sakura. Sasuke wanting to be alone, sat by himself on the other side of the waiting room; his eyes blank and his clothes and hands were still covered in Sakura's blood.

"Sakura" screamed out her mother, when she and her husband finally made it to the hospital. "What happened to her?" her father asked next, as he held back his wife. "I'm sorry we don't know yet she's still in intensive care" said a nurse as she pointed them to the waiting room.

Once her parents walked into the room; Naruto and everyone kept there eyes down as they were unable to look at them. Sakura's mother in tears, noticing Sasuke off to the side; and quickly walked over to him. "What happened she was suppose to be with you right? What happened to my daughter?" She demanded, from Sasuke whom was still out of it.

Sasuke didn't respond, as he could only look down at his bloody fingers, "Calm down, we don't know anything yet" Sakura's father said as he helped her to a chair. After waiting for over 3 hours everyone, remained silent not saying or doing anything. While they waited more people hearing the news came to endure the wait.

Once the fourth hour started, Sasuke and Sakura's parents started to squirm around a lot more as they didn't know how this would turn out. Before the hour almost came to an end everyone was surprised to see Tsunade herself come out from surgery. Seeing her made everyone stand up instantly, as they awaited the news.

"Everyone, thank you for waiting and I know all of you are worried... Sakura will make it." Tsunade said as the room simultaneously let out a relieved sigh. "Oh that's great" Hinata said while she placed a hand on Naruto's shaky shoulder; since he had been a wreck as well.

"What about the baby?" Ino found herself asking, since no one else had thought about it or didn't decide to ask. The moment she asked Tsunade didn't answer her, as she went on to her next statement. "I'd like to see Sasuke and Sakura's parents please come with me," she finished while the three followed, after Tsunade left; Ino fell back to her seat, while she placed her hands over her face.

After the somber trip up to the intensive care, Tsunade allowed Sasuke and Sakura's parents into her room. Upon laying eyes on her daughter Sakura's mother turned into shambles. Sasuke didn't have the same issue as he was still in shock, he had seen her covered in blood but once the blood was cleaned up he now didn't even recognize the person in the bed.

Sakura had been beaten up so badly that one eye was covered in bandages and her skin was covered in black and blue marks all over. Sakura's father furious looked to Tsunade. "What happened to her?" he impatiently asked. Tsunade looked at all three as she began to give them the information. "We examined her and she received severe head trauma, a broken leg and eye socket and lacerations all over her body... and " before Tsunade could finish, Sakura's mother re asked Ino's question.

"And the baby? " Tsunade looked to Sasuke first before lowering her head. "It was too late, due to it being to early and due to the trauma it forced her to miscarry..." she finished.

Sasuke hearing this, instantly fell to the ground. "You…This is your fault why weren't you with her" Sakura's father screamed as he pulled Sasuke's limp body from the ground, before laying a few punches to his face.

"Stop that now." Tsunade screamed while holding back Sakura's father. "Look here's the thing Sakura did suffer a great loss but we have a bigger problem, even though she's still alive there is some brain trauma to the extent I don't know. Whatever the case she needs you three to work together with each other not fight. This is going to be a very long recovery for her not just because of the physical trauma but the emotional one. Do you understand me?" Tsunade spoke while a random tear fell down her cheek.

Sakura's father hearing this stopped his behavior, while dropping Sasuke back to the ground, after he wiped away some tears; he walked over to his daughter's side as he grabbed her cold hand.

Unable to deal with the outside world, Sasuke found himself in his own head. "Who could have done this to her?" He asked himself before remembering two faces that had followed him the day he went with Sakura to the hospital. "It has to be… THEM"

Sasuke thought while, still on the ground. After coming to his revelation, Sasuke's eyes rapidly changed. Unable to control himself, Sasuke hurriedly ran out of Sakura's room. Tsunade seeing this ran in hopes of catching him knowing he would do something stupid; found she was unable to as he was to fast.

Leaving Sakura and her parents alone, Tsunade quickly summoned for some Anbu; to apprehend Sasuke. Since they didn't condone killing in Konoha without proper evidence, Sasuke needed to be stopped before he got into serious trouble. Knowing that the Anbu probably wouldn't be enough to stop him, based on the situation; Tsunade also went in search of Naruto.

Seeing her chance when everyone was distracted, Tsunade whispered over for Naruto. "Tsunade…?" he said before she hushed him."Naruto, come here." she demanded in a silent gesture. Once he walked over to her she quickly started to whisper to him.

Shortly after Sasuke made his way wrathfully throughout Konoha, he noticed some Anbu greeting him. "Uchiha Sasuke, we have special orders from the Hokage to bring you back." One said while stopping just in front of him, Sasuke not in the mood for orders; quickly gritted his teeth while staring them down.

Elsewhere, Matsumoto and his men enjoyed a few beverages at a small local bar. "So now what? once that Uchiha kid finds out I'm sure he'll come after us." Kenta questioned while slamming back a shot. "Yea well will be ready for him right, I say we get some more of our boys and pay him a visit first." Ouji said while smirking, "There's no need for that." Matsumoto replied as he sat back in his chair. "Boss?" Jun asked confused about his calm demeanor.

"After today I no longer require your services." He replied while looking at them. "But boss if that kid comes after you he'll kill you; you're going to need back up." Jun continued. "It's fine, I want him to." Matsumoto said while grabbing a smoke from his upper pocket. Once the rain finally stopped, Matsumoto and his group leave the bar. However, as soon as they stepped outside Kenta, Jun and Ouji get chopped down one by one.

Hearing the men scream, Matsumoto found himself face to face with Sasuke's dangerous eyes as he instantly grabbed his neck."It was you guys wasn't it?" Sasuke snarled as he lifted Matsumoto up from the ground. "So you found me quicker than I had anticipated..." Matsumoto said before grunting at the tightening grip Sasuke had on his wind pipe. "How should I kill you...?" Sasuke said out loud, as he continued to hold himself back from straight up slaughtering him; only because he wanted answers since he didn't even know who this man was in the first place.

"Do it anyway you like, you'll just be doing me a favor..." he replied with a smile. Watching Sasuke give him a confused look to his response, Matsumoto decided to help him out. "My brother was innocent and you just locked him away...You took away any meaning I had left in my life... He died because of you. No matter what happens to me now I'm just glad that before I died I got to see the look on your face when I returned the favor ..." he smugly said while staring him back just as coldly.

[SASUKE'S FLASHBACK]

"Uchiha Sasuke we have orders from the Hokage to bring you back." An Anbu said after stopping him.

"Get out of my way." Sasuke said while he got ready to fight them so he could get by.

"Please Sasuke don't do this, If you kill anyone we will have no choice but to take you into our custody for murder and if that happens you will be locked away for a long time unable to speak with anyone."

[END FLASHBACK]

Sasuke remembering what the Anbu had said to him, before he knocked them out. Suddenly released Matsumoto's neck as he started to stare him down. He wanted to kill him more than anything else in this world, however when he thought about being locked away unable to speak with Sakura he felt divided.

Matsumoto annoyed Sasuke hadn't killed him yet, put a hand to his sore throat. "Come on you know you want to kill me." he taunted, while giving Sasuke a crazy look. "Show me that murderous side of you Uchiha...That girl… Did she die?" he asked with a grin.

Hearing that, did the trick in forcing Sasuke to choose, since he didn't want to let him live another second longer despite the consequences. Reaching his hand up to form a noisy ball of chakura, Sasuke went to strike Matsumoto down. Matsumoto on instinct; closed his eyes happily awaiting death, only to reopened them a few seconds later; when he saw the white light just in front of his face.

Naruto having a strong hold onto Sasuke's arm, stopped him just before he killed the man. "Sasuke please don't" he said while looking into his eyes. "Let me go or I'll kill you to" he angrily shouted back as he struggled for control. "Sasuke stop this, if you kill him you'll be locked away... and you won't get to see Sakura." he said trying to quail his rage.

"No he has to die now... he killed my... my son." Sasuke said before he found himself stopping after admitting it out loud. Once Sasuke realized the truth of the situation he fell back to the ground, while his hands submerged into his hair.

Naruto feeling heartbroken, watching him break down; noticed Matsumoto growing angrier "What? Come on kill me now you're such a weakling do it," he screamed, "Do it you cowered." He continued his harassment. However, before he could say anything else, Naruto swiftly knocked out the man before walking back over to Sasuke.

Watching Sasuke dig his nails into the ground and scream out, Naruto knelt down as he wrapped his arms around him, "Sasuke will get you through this together I promise." Naruto said as he held him tighter. "Come on let's get back, Sakura... needs you now."