Author's Note: I realized the closer to the end I got the more I was avoiding getting chapters out. It took time, but I got them posted. I now want to thank you all for reading this till the end and bearing with me until now. Thank you all for liking The Extraordinary Secretary Sakura, without you guys this might have been scraped. Also Thank you for all the reviews that helped me better my writing. You guys are the best. (Review responses below.)
Onward with this tale.
Sasuke's POV
I look into the waiting room as I avoid going back inside so I walk toward nurse's station to ask about my father when the doors are thrown open from the back and I spare a passing glance at the stretcher rushed past me.
I froze and look back at the young boy rushed toward the operation room. I rush after him and look down at Ayato in horror. "What happened!?" I yell frantically.
"Sir, back away. Nurse I need everyone ready he's lost a lot of blood already!" I am held back from the room and once alone at the doors I step back.
"Where's Sakura?" I ask myself as I look toward the sound of another stretcher heading this way. I watch with a numb shock as Sakura is wheeled right past me and I hear them say. "Keep pumping she already flat lined on the way in." I am again being pulled from the doors, but this time by officers.
"Sir, calm down!" The officers say as I am dragged away. "My fiancé and her brother were just taken back there! I have to get to them." I demand. Once they get me a good distance they tell me what happened to my family.
I sit beside my mom again as I wait for them to tell me how it went. Itachi was with our father and Madara since I wasn't sure I wanted to be near anyone else. I keep seeing them coated in blood and unconscious.
I wasn't there for them.
I couldn't protect them.
I close my eyes and beg that they both make it.
Sakura's POV
"Ugh." I open my eyes and that foggy feeling drifts over me as I look around the room. I look at the machines and frown.
"You're awake." I barely see him as I am enveloped in the very meaning of home. I lean against Sasuke as I try collecting what happened and why I was in this bed. He leans back and frown, worrying made him seem withered and that surprises me.
I blink twice and turn to search the room again. It didn't take long before I was surrounded by the doctor and nurses with questions being asked.
"Where is my son?" I say as I scan the hall to see Sasuke wasn't there.
"I am so sorry but, he didn't make it. We did the best we could. I'm sorry." I stare at him as if his words were only static to my ears. I wept into my hands as I wanted nothing more than to throw myself into an abyss and die.
The sobs that wracked my body made my lower abdomen ache and I clutch it, feeling the stitches holding my wound shut.
"Why? I did the best I could. I'll try harder so give him back." I pray into folded hands. They killed my brother, my son, my Aya. Hands cup mine and I look over at beautiful blue eyes surrounded by salmon hair.
My arms shot around him and I buried him into me. "They said you didn't make it!" I exclaim as I pull him back to examine him and kiss his face over and over earning embarrassed pleas to stop.
I found the doctor and glare at him. "Does he look dead to you?!" I scowl and Sasuke puts his hand on my shoulder.
"Sakura, he wasn't talking about Ayato." I look between them and a whole new emotions enveloped me as the doctor apologizes and explains to me what it was I misunderstood and in my defense I did not overreact.
"No, no, NO! I would've know. I know the symptoms. I, no, nope, I couldn't have missed something like that." I look at the doctor appalled. I couldn't have been with child and at that he was almost full term! I couldn't accept this.
The doctor waits for me to quiet as he continues explaining I that when I was hit with the bullet that ripped through my lower abdomen and should've hit my spine, but due to the position and size of my unborn child it never made it as the he ultimately saved me.
I was mortified and ultimately saddened by the discovery. However, it wasn't tears of sorrow I wept as they were more of anger. Anger at myself for not protecting Ayato and anger at my parents. I would find them and would make them suffer as we have suffered.
My eyes drift to Ayato and I frown. "Are you okay?" I ask realizing how selfish I felt I was being. His blue eyes drift down and his hands pat his legs before shrugging.
"I'll live." I look to the doctor in shock.
"No." I say as I look back at Aya who rolls the wheelchair backwards and forward.
"It's okay, mom. I was depressed when I learned I couldn't walk anymore but, at least I regained the feeling in them, Also, Uncle Naru and Aunt Hina helped me not be so, well, devastated."
"Heck, I don't need legs to play the best music, other musical artists where the best of their kind after losing an ability, some were even born with the lack of some senses needed for music and they are legends, so, I'll become a legend too."
He held his head high and then smiled at me. "I'll overcome this." We hug once more before I had to take more meds for the pain. I made Sasuke go home to shower and sleep before coming back to me. I needed time to mourn the loss of my child and I wanted to do it alone.
In the time before we were discharged Sasuke had sold the house and moved out things over to his parents while we decided on a home to purchase.
Ayato made the final decision right before we were discharged and that would earn us some time at the Uchiha household.
It seemed like life was finding traction and taking off again when we settled into our home and I could go back to work again. I look at Sasuke and slide him an envelope while drinking some tea I look into the cup and to him as I wait for him to read the papers inside.
He looks at me and I look at him as the papers settle in his hand. "You know, that night you were shot I called you because I realized what you had done." His voice even and I recall the call and nod.
"I was going to tell you, I never intended for your father to do something so rash though." He makes a face and nods.
"No one saw that one coming." We both share a look and sigh at the memory.
"Anyways, Sakura, these papers are stating you are giving me full ownership of my family's company." Sasuke raises a brow.
"Yep, I got my revenge on your Uncle. I don't need it." He runs a hand through his hair. "You spent these last few years on a revenge plot?" I smile and giggle.
"Maybe." I set my cup down and look at him. "I already told everyone we were merging into the company so they can keep their jobs but," I grab his hand and smile. "I was wondering if you would be needing help?"
He raises a brow and purses his lips. "I don't know, what do you think Aya?" I look back at Aya as he rolls into the kitchen and opens the fridge.
"Hire her." He grabs yogurt and water before heading to the exit. "Or else she'll cook a lot and gain weight." I gasp and look at him.
"AYA! You meanie!" I stick my tongue out at him. It earns a chuckle from one and a laugh from the other as Aya heads back to the living room. Sasuke looks at the paper and then at me. "I hear a position just opened up, if you're interested."
We share a smile. "Sign me up." Cheer as I lean closer and whisper something else in his ear.
I smile at his shocked expression and exit the kitchen leaving him there. I get a call and pick up my phone. It was the police finally informing me they had caught my parents.
Everything fell into place like a puzzle we finally found all the pieces to.
I loved it in all it was and all it could be, but mostly for all I would make of it.
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