I Do Not Own Naruto


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Flourishing in Darkness


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The weeks slipped into months, and Sakura found herself and Sasuke falling into a comfortable routine. Six months of marriage and they were good together, she even knew they were good together. The sex had only gotten better as they figured out what they were doing, and she had found herself to be somewhat addicted to having sex with Sasuke.

Over the course of six months she and Sasuke had also figured out how to go about their normal training and careers.

Though Sasuke had taken three month long missions; to where she didn't know, doing what he had been doing before their marriage, just that he had gone off on his solo missions and returned to her. And while Sasuke did his missions, she workded at the hospital as she always had, and she trained, did a few team missions, and generally avoided the Haruno family.

That wasn't easy because they seemed to seek her out, and Sakura wanted nothing to do with them.

However, she was humming in delight of today as she tapped a pencil to her lips and walked through the halls of the hospital this fine morning. It was a good morning, Sasuke had kissed her good bye before he had run off to do some solo mission of an indefinite time period, she was to have lunch with Kakashi, right after the blood work appointment she was going to right now, and she was to have shopping with Ino this afternoon, and then she would have dinner with Itachi and Izumi before going over to Kakashi's for a movie night.

She missed Sasuke terribly when he was away on these missions, but she also knew he seemed to like them so she wouldn't interfere with his work.

Sakura felt her stomach lurch as she walked and she stopped to lean on a wall, this feeling happened occasionally over the past week, it was just nerves. She knew that as she took a moment to take a steadying breath. Once she was steady she walked away from the wall and continued to enjoy her good morning as she greeted Tsunade and just walked to her seat.

"How's the married life?" Tsunade asked again.

"I like it, Sasuke's gone on a mission again," Sakura said as she held her arm out and prepared to have her blood taken again. It had been six weeks since her last blood draw because of a mission she had taken a few weeks ago to the Land of Waves to handle a small outbreak.

"So I've heard, how are you feeling?" Tsunade asked her.

"Alright, I guess," Sakura admitted. She hadn't been paying too much attention as to how she was actually feeling as she sat there having her blood fill a vile.

"You guess?" Tsunade snapped.

"I've been a bit dizzy, but I haven't been sleeping much so it could be exhaustion." She shrugged, it wasn't that important.

"Well, we'll see about it," Tsunade mumbled.

Sakura just endured having her blood drawn as she and Isobu whimpered at the sight f her blood leaving her body.


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Sasuke's mission was simple, he was killing a medic by the name of Kabuto who had betrayed the Leaf and aligned himself with another traitor; he thrilled about this mission; not really, did he care though? No. Sasuke had spoken to Kakashi before taking this mission and they had agreed to keep Sakura in the dark by choice. It was easier for him not to worry about whatever she'd think of him upon his return if she knew he took these particular missions.

It wasn't that he thought she'd think less of him; no, it was he was afraid that if she knew what a monster he really was, then she'd come to really hate him.

And to be frank, that was Sasuke's worst nightmare.

Sakura was of the few important people he had in his life, he didn't want to fuck it up by doing something that revealed just what he really was. Besides, he didn't want to stress Sakura unnecessarily because of what he did for a real living and her crazy biological family being here.

When the hell had his life gotten so complicated?

Sasuke just shook his head and continued running through the trees.

His left eye was feeling strange; he couldn't explain it other than it was pulsing with more chakra than normal. He shut it before it felt like it exploded from his face and kept running.

One Sharingan was more than enough, having both his eyes while useful and desireable was not necessary. He had been dealing with chakra surges in his left eye for the past few months. He didn't know why, but the last time he had felt this chakra surge his eyes had evolved. It wasn't fun.

But that was alright for him as he stopped and his right eye scanned the surrounding area for what he was looking for. He found the trail and kept up high as he rested his hand on his sword and leapt from tree to tree as he followed the trail to where it was. Perhaps if he was lucky, he could take out Kabuto's new master; Orochimaru. He liked that thought, it'd save him a mission and he'd be able to return for a while and relax for a bit. The thought had chidori dancing on the tips of his fingers.

Landing by the river he saw the dead birds and frowned a bit his gloved fingers touched it, turning it over and he felt his lip curl indisgust at the sight of the maggot rotting bird as he pulled away and looked around. He was on the right trail, it was said that the waters in Orochimaru's lands were poisoned from all his experiments. Sasuke pulled up a black mask over the lower half of his face and continued running. Sakura was likely going to have to update his shots when he returned. He shuddered in horror at the mere thought of shots.


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"SAKURA!" she looked up when she heard Naruto screaming and saw him racing towards her. Sakura was prepared for the tackle hug but he skidded to a stop before he even hugged her.

"What is it?" she asked, blinking in shock.

"I think I screwed up!" Naruto huffed out and she just blinked in confusion.

"Uh…?" she didn't know what to say to her friend.

"I got Hinata pregnant," he whispered and then he grabbed her arm and started steering her out of the market. Sakura just stumbled along.

"Didn't you use a condom!?" she snapped.

"We don't know!" he hissed and they were in an ally. Naruto rubbed his face and then he stared at her.

"Naruto, how do you not know if you did or didn't use a condom?"

"I was drunk!"

"And what does that have to do with anything?"

"Everything! We went on a mission together, we completed it successfully so I talked her into going out to drink with me to celebrate; I don't normally drink, and you and Sasuke could probably drink everyone but Tsunade under the table and only feel a light buzz, but for the rest of us alcohol is potent!"

"Get to the point Naruto."

"Anyways, we were drinking, I don't remember much but I kissed her, I remember that, and touching her naked breasts, and being in her, but it's like a blur! We wake up the next morning, and we don't talk about what happened; Hinata damn near fainted when we woke up together. And then today, six weeks since we've slept together she said she's pregnant!"

"Alright, calm down idiot," she snapped as her friend started dancing foot to foot and his eyes were wide and panicky. Sakura knew he had had a crush on Hinata for the past year and a half, so considering that they had skipped the dating and done sex was actually a shock to her. But she had a good feeling about this entire situation.

"What do I do!?" Naruto panicked.

"First, do you like Hinata, even a little?" Sakura demanded.

"I think I might love her," Naruto mumbled.

"Alright, if you really love her you will go to her, not freak out, and discuss this matter with her and act like an adult, and you two will figure out what to do, and you will support her. She's probably scared right now Naruto, her family is very traditional and it's scary for her, remember that. Be supportive to her, and discuss this like rational adults," Sakura ordered. Naruto was nodding his head vigorously and then he stumbled away from her in a daze and she sighed.

Finishing her shopping she returned to the Uchiha compound to see Izumi kissing Itachi before he left. Sakura looked away knowing that the Uchiha were very private about their love lives. This was the first time she had ever seen Izumi and Itachi kissing. She stopped at her door and saw a Manilla envelope waiting on her doorstep. A shuddering breath escaped her as she hesitantly picked it up and walked into her home.

It was from Tsunade.

She left it on the table unopened, put her groceries away and jogged off to meet up with Kakashi for lunch.


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