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I really didn't feel like I was happy with it until today :)
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Chapter Twelve
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She had been told a few hours ago and still, she couldn't seem to comprehend it; sakura was going to be a mother.
Normally it would be good news and in any other circumstances she would be, but there was just one problem, one lazy ass problem, Shikamaru.
It wasn't like it was only her and Sasuke's baby there was still a chance that it was her Sasuke, she was ashamed.
just the guilt of having a baby that may not be completely Sasuke's could ruin everything, she would loose Sasuke, break up Shikamaru and Ino's marriage and create a horrible place for this child to live in, so there idea of getting rid of the baby was sounding more and more tempting the more she thought about the situation they were both in.
She knocked lightly onto the door in front of her; she felt her eye's begin to water.
The door edged open slightly and she saw Ino's head stick out; her hair was a mess so it was obvious that they had been asleep before she had turned up, but that would be no surprise to sakura it was early in the morning.
Sakura looked over her best friend her tears threatening to fall even more, "i-Ino" she stuttered before she pushed the door open and held close onto her friend, who in turn put her arms around her and hushed lightly trying to sooth the crying girl.
It had been an hour since she had arrived at there place, the look on Ino's face had stayed the same yet, she had finally began to let the idea set into her head.
There was a chance that it was Shikamaru's baby, but that left one questioning Ino's head, would he leave her for this baby?
Sakura could obviously see the evident worry etched on Ino's face, so she was beginning to come to the same conclusion the worry and the problems that she was causing for everyone was just getting worse, so for the first time sakura took control.
"Even if it's his, I'm keeping it." Sakura said proudly grazing her lower abdomen with her palm.
"It's as much mine as it is his, or maybe even Sasuke's." Ino seemed rather shocked.
"You've slept with him?" she asked eyes widening in disbelief at the idea alone.
Sakura lowered her head and let her pink trellises fall gently around her face, "it's not like you can say anything, you cheated with my husband the day after we got married, and most likely more times before that. "
sakura rose her head you could see the anger burning in her eyes, " you have no right to judge me," sakura spat almost venomously at her former best friend.
You could see the feared expression come across Ino's face as her eyes traced her best friend.
"honey, come back to.." he was cut off when he saw the tear's rolling unconsciously down Sakura's face, fury burning in her eyes and the glow of hate as her gaze was locked right at his wife.
"Sakura" she looked up at the call of her name and felt her anger reduce.
"I need to talk with..." sakura was un-expectantly cut off when Ino spoke in a firm voice.
"She's pregnant" she said staring emotionlessly at the empty seat next to sakura.
She was almost bracing herself for the word to come,
"What makes you think it's mine" Ino snapped up to look at her husband, a hand pressed firmly onto her shoulder.
Ino's gaze swapped from the empty seat to her fuming former best friend, "we were married, don't act like nothing happened," sakura said rising from her seat and walking closer to the newly wedded couple.
"Sakura," he said once again and turned to look at his new wife, she smiled sadly at him, and he nodded at her before weakly smiling back and taking Sakura's hand.
Ino let out a sigh as she stretched over the sofa; the shadow of her husband and sakura disappearing off into the kitchen, Ino just had to wait until they came back now.
Sakura tried to shake him off, shaking her wrist furiously trying to get out of his grip.
He led her into the small kitchen not to far away from the living room in the house.
He let go and pressed his palms against the counter top, breathing heavily, as he waited for her to say something.
But she didn't, sakura just looked intently at his back, wondering what was wrong, it was rare to see him ever this nervous and she had only seen him look like this once.
It was the day he….
Flashback
She lounged over the large sofa, waving her nails around helping them to dry quicker, a small bottle of the candyfloss coloured liquid was balanced on one of the arm rests.
On her lap rested another of her large medical journals, it was rare when she got them out, but it was good to remind herself of how far she had come from her training and now being so far up in the hospital.
Her partner, Shikamaru had gone out, telling her that he needed to do the shopping.
Of course she had offered to accompany him but he declined saying that she needed a day to rest.
So sakura kissed him goodbye at the doorstep and began the task of reading her old journals and painting her long nails, but to sakura it was just, relaxing.
Sakura felt the edge of her fingertip the nail varnish had become hard, and now she was able to do whatever she wanted until her partner returned.
Sakura wondered around there house, it was clean and neat like always so there wasn't any cleaning to be done, she had told herself to relax but she felt restless.
Her wonders soon found her in there kitchen and the perfect idea came into, her head.
She was going to cook them something great to eat, sure sakura wasn't the best at cooking but she was going to put her whole heart in it.
She studied the various recipe books that were set in one of the cupboard and found the perfect recipe.
"yes" she laughed and propped the book on the counter top and rushed around the kitchen trying to find the ingredients, she opened the refrigerator door to find there it was completely full, she began to wonder about Shikamaru, why would be leave to get groceries when there refrigerator and from the look of it cabinets were full.
She shrugged it off and carried on with her cooking but still it lay in the back of her mind, where was he.
Beep! Beep!
The cooker alarm sounded through out the whole of the house and sakura rushed to it, there in the bottom of the baking tray lay, ten deer shaped cookies.
A smile grew over her face as she placed them on the cooling rack.
Sakura sat back on the counter top her medical journal back in hand.
She read over the things that had happened in the last year, the patients she had cured along with the help of her mentor, Tsunade.
Of course now she was beginning to succeed the women's expertise but she was still there for the support and help when sakura couldn't be there, or was at least low on chakra after a day of physical training.
Her breathing hitched as she read one of the articles, his return.
It had been the day that he had been brought home to Konoha; of course it wasn't by force.
He had been found almost dead outside the gates of the city and some Anbu members had decided to bring him straight to the hospital for treatment, of course the only anbu that would ever even think about taking an s class criminal back into the city would be none other than the anbu capten Naruto Uzuamaki.
Sakura kept reading over every small scribbled word that she had managed to write that day, they all seemed be blurred slightly with the wetness of her fallen tears.
She had finally been of some use to there group and she had been the one to save him, Tsunade wouldn't of, she refused but with one look at his pale face and wet dark hair she had found herself back under the spell of the Uchiha's charm.
She smiled lightly over how she had gotten over him, as soon as he woke up in that hospital bed the scowl on his face every time she walked past, but the one good thing that came from his return, was that she finally had someone who loved her and she was willing to show it right in front of his face.
She giggled at her writing of the year before and looked up from her journal and over to the cookies resting on the rack.
She walked over and pressed her index and middle finger onto the top of the cookies.
She felt them to be cool and once again raced around the kitchen for some icing.
She wiped her head and sighed, it was a work well done and placed the final cookie onto the plate, licking the remaining icing off of her fingers.
She herd a clash, and a smile became visible on her face, sakura picked up the plate of rather interestingly decorated cookies, and sakura ran towards the kitchen door her hair astray a smile over her face trying hard to balance the freshly baked cookies as she laughed silently from behind the kitchen door.
sakura stood there a behind away from the kitchen door waiting for him to come in, she waited but it seemed like he hadn't realised she was there, sakura turned around to see that he was standing right in the middle of the dinning room her a bunch of very dishevelled looking flowers in his hands.
Sakura's smile seemed to grow even more, even if it wasn't possible as she looked him up at down.
Sakura giggled and brought up one of her cookies and showed him, it was a small dear shaped cookie with green icing of a little smiling face; sakura seemed to laugh even more before popping it into her mouth and then placing the tray of cookies on the dining table.
"This is what boredom does to me" sakura laughed again as she took off her apron and placed it on the back of the chair.
Sakura turned back around and picked up another dear shaped cookie and took the flowers from Shikamaru's hand, " there, darling " she told him and put down the cookie in his hand before walking over to the window seal and placing the flowers in a vase.
Sakura turned around to see that he was leaning on the table top, breathing heavily and clenching his palms on the surface of the kitchen counter.
Sakura outstretched her hand placing it on his shoulder, in a comforting motion, he seemed to be distressed.
"Shika…" she whispered, pressing a little harder on his shoulder, in hope that he would face her.
"Sakura, will you…" he started, but stopped when he saw the smile forming on her face.
Sakura had it wrong, "of course I'll marry you Shika" the smile stretching even further across her face.
He started at her in shock for a while before a small version a smile creased onto his face, as she wrapped her arms tightly around him.
He pressed one of is hand on her lower black and reached in his pocket with the other, he played with the ring in his pocket brushing his thumb over the jewel.
"We can both get you a ring tomorrow," he whispered, he slowly felt her nod on his shoulder, and a sad expression crossed his features, this wasn't supposed to happen…
End Flashback
"You know I'm married now sakura" he told her, head still lowered and he was still leaning onto the counter top.
"I can't help you raise a baby, least of all a baby that may not even be mine," he turned to face her, a stern expression across his face.
"It's hard enough having to start all over again, it's not like things are easy for me…." he was cut off when sakura started shouting at him again.
"And you think this is easy for me, I feel guilty enough knowing that my baby may not be Sasuke's.
I don't even know what I'm going to tell him, and it's not like anyone else can break the news to him, so don't you for a second say that your life is harder than mine.
" Sakura yelled moving closer and closer to him her finger stuck out accusingly at his chest.
Right at the moment, a crash came from the door behind Sakura and Shikamaru, they both turned shocked to see in the doorway a distraught looking Sasuke, he stomped closer to the two, and you could almost feel the fury he was delivering towards Shikamaru.
Sakura's finger was still pointing accusingly at Shikamaru but she seemed stuck as she watched her boyfriend wide eyed.
Right at that moment he stomped over to sakura and took her small hand in his and dragged her out the garden door of Shikamaru and Ino's new home.
While Shikamaru stayed there looking shocked at the whole scene, it was frightening and he was even intimidated himself.
Flashback
He dropped into a crouched position behind the bushes; the outside her room they were surrounded with them.
He could see the shadow of her still sat in that hospital bed.
He was on edge having to leave here there.
Hospitals weren't really the place anyone wanted to be when they were just feeling, well normal.
That's what confused him, she seemed fine but she had to stay, he let out a sigh and stuffed his hands back into his pockets.
The main streets of Konoha were just getting busy, a few people walking around buying products for the day.
But not him he just wanted to get home with her beside her.
But this was the only way the fast growing busy streets of Konoha, a few of them actually acknowledged him and others just took no notice of him at all.
But of course it was a normal occurrence to see the Uchiha walking around the village; of course he had been back years ago.
Back then was a completely different story; people would gawk at him as if they had never seen him before.
He reflected over the last three years in his mind as he walked down the streets, things had been so different when he got back, he thought.
He finally arrived to him home, sure this place wasn't to different, the blood was off the walls and it was a lot neater, after he returned home he took some time cleaning the place, he wasn't allowed missions for a while so he decided that he would strip the house back to the pristine state, before the massacre.
He kicked off his shoes like always and wondered around his home, a hand massaging on his temples.
He was still trying to think of one logical reason for everything that had happened recently.
He walked around his home, trying to pass time until he felt the weight of the day before dawn on him, so he collapsed on the bed and rested for a good half and hour before finally awaking to the brighter morning.
He made the bed that he had just slept in and began preparing a dinner, but it dawned on him he didn't know what she liked the most.
There was only one person he could ask to find out the answer.
The blonde haired idiot, with a sigh he picked up some keys and a jacket and slipped on his shoes.
Luckily for him the way to Naruto and Hinata's was located a little of the main road, so he wouldn't meet anyone at this early hour, and it wasn't to far away.
He locked his door with a crash and then began walking at a leisurely pace towards the Uzamki's.
He walked with his head down and his hands deep in his pockets, he had never really come out of his shell once he came back, he was only relaxed around her.
He sighed loudly her, he really hoped that she would be back home soon; he was starting to make him worry.
That's when a cold droplet hit him on his perfectly proportioned nose, rain.
Just what he needed, he picked up his pace as he began to approach their home.
He knocked loudly on the door to there small house, they had brought it after the news of Hinata's pregnancy, sure it was no where near the size of the Uchiha estate where he grew up, but they hoped that it would be big enough for there family to live before, Naruto got to him dream job, that's when they would buy the most beautiful place they could find.
Or so Naruto had said over countless bowls of ramen, with him.
It had already been a short while and there was still no answer which could only mean one thing, they were back at the hospital.
He let out an angry huff, "I might as well go and ask her myself" he moaned before racing through the streets of Konoha his energy slowing returning from his earlier sleep.
Soon enough he found himself at the pristine white halls of the hospital, there had been so many disturbing memories about his place, many that he wanted to forget, but most of them were permanently imprinted in his mind.
He sped down the halls, not wanting to spend time there long; he just wanted to see the pink haired beauty and hopefully take her home with him.
Luckily he remembered where she had been set to rest while they waited for Tsunade.
He pushed the door open lightly to feel the breeze from the window he crawled out of brush his face, "sakura" he called softly in case she was asleep, he was surprised to see her no where to be found.
Panic washed over him, could she have been taken to surgery? He knew he should have stayed, he ran full pelt towards the front desk, "sakura Haruno, is she in surgery?!?!?!?!" He yelled at the poor nurse at the desk.
She was scared out of her wits as she checked over the list of patients for surgery.
"No, she's in her room" she said timidly.
Sasuke gave out a grunt before snatching the list from her hand; he read it over and then threw it roughly on the desk before taking off into the ward.
"Where is she?" he questioned holding the door open, the blonde haired man stared at him in disbelief, "who? Hinata's right here" he told Sasuke placing a hand protectively around his wife.
"Sakura" Sasuke yelled, Naruto looked shocked.
"What is sakura-Chan doing in hospital? What happened? Did you hurt her Sasuke? I'll kill you if you hurt her!" Naruto yelled his voice getting even louder the more questions he asked.
Naruto took another deep breath he was about to ask even more questions when his wife tactically placed her hand over his mouth.
Hinata coughed lightly before starting to talk, "luckily for you, Tsunade told me of her condition and said that she most likely would leave to see Ino and Shikamaru before she would return home."
Sasuke nodded in thanks for two things, the peace of Naruto not talking and the information.
He closed the door quietly and ran once again off into the streets of Konoha.
Arriving at the house of her ex fiancé, he felt his anger rise.
Why would she go to see anyone else other than him, and least of all her ex fiancé, it was almost as if she didn't care how he felt.
He opened the door of the house to find it almost silent before the sound of shouting came from the kitchen.
He knew who it was, "sakura" her voice was unmistakeable, at least to him.
"……I don't even know what I'm going to tell him, and it's not like anyone else can break the news to him, so don't you for a second say that your life is harder than mine."
What couldn't she tell him, she could tell him anything!
His anger went in over load as he opened the door hard making it crash against the wall.
There reaction was just as he expected, but he didn't care, he rushed through and took her by then hand, he just wanted her to be away from him and never have anything to do with him ever again.
He wasn't prepared to talk to her until they got home, that would be where he would ask her everything, there they wouldn't make such a big scene that would be something that he couldn't deal with not today with the lack of sleep that he had.
There journey home was quiet, just the way he wanted, well not the way he wanted exactly he much rather that she would stop trying to break out of his grip, but there was nothing wrong with that.
As soon as the reached the Uchiha estate he could feel almost uneasiness in the air, he dragged her inside there dark home he hadn't noticed that a storm was in town the rain had been pouring since he left and he was soaked through the bone, but he had no time to worry about how he looked, not that he pay much attention before.
He had more important things to tend to today, but at that moment he was happy that she was home, and he wasn't alone in that big house anymore.
Ever since she had come that one dark night it seemed to lift his sprits.
It made the house seem less cold, it make him act less cold, she seemed to bring everything in his life back to the state it should be.
He wrapped his arms around her waist, not caring that he was getting her wet; she was surely as wet as him so it wouldn't matter.
"I was worried, I thought you left me." He called, Sasuke felt her stiffen.
Was she surprised?
"I herd you talking to, Shikamaru," he called his name with hate and anger.
"Sasuke I'm..." she started but was cut off when he kissed her tenderly,
"When you feel ready to tell me, I will listen" he called sweetly into her ear.
Holding her even closer, sakura felt herself relax into his embrace, this was what she needed.
"Sasuke," she called before inhaling,
"We're having a baby" she called.
Sasuke was shocked his eye's widened, he looked his girlfriend up and down before pulling her closer into his embrace.
"Thank you" he whispered a single tear falling from his eye.
"Sometimes something good can come from mistakes."
She whispered as she snuggled her head into his shoulder.
The end
Pleased with the ending ?
I think I am :) but there is still a chance that I may right a sequel chapter :)
Anyone want one?
I know I mentioned it about .
But this actually took agessss XD
I've been reading a lot of ouran high lately so I've been on edge about making my own :
I doubt it would be any good though :\
Well I hope you're pleased with this one
I think a few one shots will come after or just short stories for a while XD
I have no beta by the way XD
So mistakes : I'm sorry about them
But I'm only human so it can't always be perfect :)
Plus the fact i'm a alien :O
At least I'm not using text .
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