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Chap 14: Kyubii's Chakra

A couple months passed and Naruto and Sakura couldn't be happier. Every day, more and more people in Konoha were warming up to the idea of Naruto becoming the future Hokage and a fine shinobi as well as acknowledging his gift of Sasuke's eye. Over those months as well, Sakura and Naruto continued in their 'sexual adventures' both in and out of the house.

Sakura blushed deeply as she remembered their adventures behind the kage mountain and blushed a bright red that made blood boil. Man, she'd never felt anything like three Naruto's at once ever before, but she'd be damned if it was to be the last time they experienced it.

Light invaded into their bedroom and touch Sakura's face, helping her to simply open her eyes before yawning cutely and giggling as her fiancé wrapped his arm around her, forcing her to stay in their bed. Naruto, himself grinned as his fiancée tried to squirm away playfully from him.

"Geez, Sakura-Chan, don't be such a child." Naruto smiled with his arms wrapped around Sakura's body.

"I'll be a child till the day I die."

"Then I'll treat you like a young woman for the days of my life."

Naruto soon found himself in a battle of playful fighting for dominance later underneath Sakura as she held his arms above his head. Damn, she was fine when she tried to stay in control in any situation.

"Now, now Naruto-Kun, who said treating me like a young girl was the best thing for me?"

"W-What s-should I do then?" Naruto asked as Sakura trailed kisses down and around Naruto's neck.

"I believe that you should treat me like a woman…a woman with needs like any girl, but one that her future husband can give to her."

"O-Of course, my blossom." Naruto stuttered as he understood what his future wife wanted right now.

(Thirty minutes later)

A half hour later found the two snuggling tightly into each other as smiles covered their faces and as they stared at each other. Sakura moved off the bed and headed to the connected bathroom as she grabbed a towel and wiped herself clean.

"Naruto, I swear that you keep getting better and better at this."

"It helps with all the practice you give me." Naruto replied as Sakura threw him another towel to clean his lower self off as well as the rest of his body.

"Still, I love it more every time we do it is all." Sakura replied as she spoke from the bathroom, the hair dryer making its noise for a few seconds before it stopped and Naruto spoke again.

"Well, maybe I'll need to put up some more privacy seals to block out your screaming."

"Well…I guess you could…although you could just gag me like last time." Sakura said as she poked her head from around the corner of the bathroom.

"But Sakura-Chan…our children will get the wrong idea!" Naruto mentioned playfully

"Yeah, you're right, Our chil-" Sakura began before gasping for air and then started to breath in heavily.

Naruto widened his eyes in worry as Sakura froze midsentence as pain seemed to appear on her face.

"Sakura-Chan?"

Naruto watched in slow horror as Sakura's face became pale before she suddenly whimpered as she grabbed her right arm in agonizing pain with her left and slowly slid down the doorway to the bathroom as tears filled up around her eyes and slid down her Caucasian-white skin. Naruto rushed over to her side and after a minute, coerced her to let him look at the glow behind her hands.

All seemed fine with Sakura's arm. The mark of the Kyubii was still there, elongated from her shoulder to her elbow. ..and it was glowing a crimson red…Glowing?! Naruto searched frantically for something to wrap his fiancée in before looking back to her face and saw it in pain and deep agony.

"Sakura-Chan, we should get you to the hospital."

"Y-yeah." Sakura said as the glow dimmed.

"Come on, let's get some clothes on you."

"R-right." Sakura whimpered as the glow began to arise again and placed her arms around Naruto's neck as he carried her back to the bed. As Sakura allowed Naruto to play dress up with her frame, Sakura smiled meekly but happily as she knew that he'd love doing this for her for another time. He was always happy doing things for Sakura. As Sakura thought this, she noticed that the pain feeling dulled significantly, and switched her thoughts and felt them skyrocket. Sakura backtracked and the pain receded. It appeared that this pain was emotional as well.

As Sakura mulled things over, Naruto had dressed her in her workout outfit before suiting up himself before leaning over and picking Sakura up by the front and placed her on his back. Sakura wrapped her legs around Naruto like a child caught with a cold or going home after a tiring day of play. Sakura smiled meekly as the day had only started and she was already tired beyond belief and sick of the pain that seemed to be connected to Naruto.

As the couple left the house, they moved quickly to the hospital where Sakura was quickly placed on a stretcher by some medical ninja and off of Naruto's back where the mark seemed to glow repeatedly as she was moved further and further from Naruto.

Naruto went to the phone and called up Shikamaru and Ino. He meant to make two phone calls but was glad he'd only needed to make one and then another to Kakashi before the three of them showed up and Naruto explained to them and the two doctors surrounding them what had occurred.

"Well, Naruto, it would appear to me that the Kyubii's chakra has finally grown strong enough to try to escape back to where it came from. It's either that, or the chakra needs to be used up." Kakashi stated after a small time.

"I don't know about that, Kakashi," Shikamaru added, "It shouldn't have taken this long to grow strong, and even a year is usually enough to become fully within Sakura's system."

"You're completely right, of course." Kakashi conceded the two points.

"It not like this has acted up before now though…" Naruto thought before he noticed Ino's rather pale face. "Ino, what's wrong?"

"I-It's just…geez Sakura will kill me for this…It's happened before." Ino admitted

"WHAT?" Naruto yelled in surprise.

"When?" Kakashi inquired.

"About three weeks ago, Sakura was performing a surgery with me since I needed some help in the room. Sakura winced in pain just before the chakra in her right arm died right away. We thought nothing of it and tried to start it up again, but Sakura suddenly collapsed and that glow that you mentioned earlier was on her arm. Sakura hasn't been able to mold chakra since then."

"Now that you mention it, I haven't sparred with her in anything besides taijutsu for about two weeks now. Dammit!" Naruto said as he smashed his fist into the wall, making a dent. "I should have known."

"Not many would have seen the signs, Naruto." Kakashi said as he placed a hand on Naruto's left shoulder. "At least you found out before it was too late."

Naruto's head shot up faster than a kunai reappeared when thrown at maximum speed. Was it too late?

The group watched as Naruto's breathing started to climb higher and higher until suddenly one of the doctors appeared and walked over to Naruto and spoke.

"Your girlfriend should be fine, Namikaze-san. If you want, we can take you to her room now to see how she is doing."

"T-thanks." Naruto said as he and rest of the group followed the doctor down the halls before moving up the stairs to the fourth floor of the hospital meant for shinobi and higher classed injuries from normal circumstances. They knew these halls well, Naruto and Ino especially, since this was where Sakura spent most of her time working in.

The doctor stopped in front of the last door on the floor before channeling some chakra into the lock and opening the door. If the patient couldn't mold chakra correctly, then the door would not open. The door had been built to stand against intruders and attempts to escape from the patients, but then again, with Sakura's Sharingan and her brute strength, this door was nothing but a window.

The group entered the room and seated around the bed that Sakura was currently sitting up in. Sakura smiled weakly at her entourage before smiling brighter at her soon to be husband. Naruto took note of all the tubes attached to his love's arms and the oxygen mask that she had pulled off and smiled back at her face weakly with as little bit of sadness showing as he could.

Sakura sat up as they came into her room and noticed that they were a little peeved and sad at the same time. She had to admit that she'd taken this thing a little too far, but she had honestly thought that it would pass with time.

Sakura's right arm was in a special cast with siphoning seals around it and her pain medication was supposedly helping, although Sakura knew that when Naruto had entered the room, the pain had suddenly ceased and Sakura knew that he should stay with her to keep the pain away even though he would still see her pain.

The doctor explained how they weren't exactly sure as to why the Kyubii's chakra was deciding to react now of all times and that they would continue to look into the matter as much as possible.

"For now though, I think it would be best if Sakura just goes home and rests, the medication will be sent to you tomorrow."

"Thank you Doctor, you may leave." Naruto stated quickly before grabbing Sakura and used the Harishin to go back home.

'Damn,' Ino thought, 'I really wanted to tell them about me and Shikamaru about our surprise.'

Sakura smiled as she played lightly with Naruto's ear, awaking him from his deep slumber. When they'd first started sleeping together, Naruto would hardly sleep at all and Sakura was worried that it was her that bothered him. But the fact had been that Naruto needed to trust someone on the highest levels to sleep in peace. That in and of itself was evident in the amount of sleep he received since he knew that Sakura would protect him and also him to her.

She marveled at what had happened after they'd returned home. Naruto had yelled at her, right in her face, about not telling him of the problem sooner. Sakura had cried and explained the entire situation before apologizing sincerely. And then, as soon as she did so, Naruto had forgiven her, simply forgave her, and they had shared another night of bliss before deciding to speed their wedding along.

Naruto opened his eyes to the sight of his smiling girlfriend, or maybe he should say wife now?. They had gotten married a few days after they'd gotten scared by the red chakra. Just a run over to the administrative district with his friends in accordance with the marriage witness act and after a few hours in the courthouse and a wedding band later, they were kissing like no tomorrow.

Since then, they had done it everywhere, from the park to the bedroom closet and most likely most of in between. They were married after all, and Naruto trusted Sakura more than he had ever trusted anyone before. True; she had been ahead in the race for trust at the start, but that didn't matter. All that mattered was that he trusted her and she trusted him, and they loved each other more than life itself.

"Good morning Sakura-Chan." Naruto said with a bright smile on his face.

Sakura giggled lightly as she stopped her previous motions. "Morning, Naruto-Kun"

"You know that I love it when you do that."

"I know you do."

"You look like a baby vixen."

"Just loving my husband is all. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"Not at all. By the way, it's been two weeks now, so how's your arm?" Naruto asked, changing the subject to Sakura's arm like he always id these days.

"It feels better, but I could swear that it was acting up whenever I left you."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I think it was actually…really emotionally based."

"Huh. Well, it's over now."

"Yeah, it-"

Sakura suddenly covered her mouth before rolling over to the end of the bed and running quickly towards the bathroom. Naruto listened with his sensitive ears as the sounds of someone throwing up reached his ears.

"Sakura? You okay?"

The sound of more vomit answered the question. Naruto hopped out of bed and slipped slowly over to the bathroom and leaned his head on the bathroom doorframe and saw the look of a pale facing Sakura with her hair messed up a little and her raspy breathing from just vomiting out the contents of last night's dinner.

The sound and added sight of his angel puking her guts out found Naruto by Sakura's side in a split second as he held her hair back as she kept her face buried in the toilet. After a few minutes, Sakura breathed deeply as she caught her breath.

"I…I'm alright now…yeah…I-"

Sakura threw her head back in the bowl and rose up a minute later.

"Okay…I'm not good at all…"

"When you finally stop, we'll go see Ino at the hospital."

"Why?! I'm just sick with the flu. I'm sure I'll be good in twenty four hours."

"Maybe and maybe not, but I'd rather have Ino look you over."

"Naruto, I'm a doctor too. I- ," Sakura held her mouth for a few seconds before calming down, "I know the procedures."

"But you can't run tests here, Sakura-Chan, now can you?"

"Okay," Sakura conceded, "you win."

"This isn't a game, Sakura-Chan." Naruto replied worried for his wife.

"I know that. It's just a figure of speech."

"Really? What shape?" Naruto asked curiously.

(Sigh) "Naruto-Kun you Baka…" Sakura said as her husband was sometimes an idiot, but-…he was her idiot and she would not have it any other way.

Oh No! What will happen next?!

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