Chapter 36: A New Uchiha – Edited Version

∆ (Sakura's Room) ∆ - ¤ (7 Months Later) ¤ - Φ Sakura Φ

A/N: Due to my extreme lack of ideas during this period of Sakura's pregnancy we shall go on to the birth, it should be exciting for all those waiting for it. If you didn't even know she was, pregnant you either missed a lot of chapters, are blind, weren't paying attention or are just lost.

I wasn't worried that I would lose the child. I didn't think it was something that I should be concerned; Tenten would tell me every time I had a check up that the child would be doing fine.

I was more worried that the child wouldn't be able to carry on the characteristics of the Uchiha Clan which was extremely important. Hinata explained that the Byakugan was a dominant trait above all, that no matter what it would be the dominant gene and all her or Tenten's children would have it. She guessed that because the Sharingan was derived from the Byakugan it should at least retain its dominant trait. Sasuke also mentioned that because his eyes were onyx colored that they were dominant. My green eyes were recessive so that would make a clean decision that the children's eyes would be onyx. There's also a chance that if we had a girl she would have green eyes, which I couldn't figure, but it was still a chance.

I was sitting in my bed as normal I was starting my 9th month which meant the baby would be due soon. I was 33 weeks pregnant and I only had 3 weeks to go. I was so happy, and I couldn't wait. Ino was still at the hospital which scared me. She's been in there for a month. I hadn't gotten to see her because they surprisingly wouldn't let other pregnant women in the hospital, besides their area.

Shikamaru called daily around this time to give us an update, it was always some big saddening news. Ino was in recovery. In normal cases, you would usually you stay a week. She's been there 3 weeks too long. I was worried though, Ino had almost lost the child 5 or 6 times and she was on a lot of medications to prevent it.

Ino's birth was extremely painful. I wish I could have been there, but of course, I couldn't. It wasn't another event like the one she had in her 3 month. This was real. The child wasn't doing well either. I was scared for my best friend.

The phone rang and Sasuke handed me the phone. "Hey Shikamaru, how is she?" I asked.

"Ino's in a lot of pain for some unknown reason. The child is about to die… I know it. I don't want to tell Ino but she'll know. I know she's going to be sad. How do you think I should tell her?" He asked sad and depressed, not his annoyed, but his extremely depressed.

"I don't know, ask Sasuke." I said scared handing the phone to Sasuke. Sasuke walked out of the room as to not worry me.

I heard a knock on the door. I walked over there. They knocked harder. "Pregnant women trying to answer the door." I called. I sighed, too hard. I finally opened the door and Ino jumped on my crying.

"Ino?" I asked, she was crying. I hugged her. I hadn't heard if the baby actually had died or not, but I suspected it had.

"It's less annoying then her." Shikamaru said smiling at me.

"Can I see it?" I asked. Ino nodded and took the extremely tiny baby from Shikamaru's arms and handed it to me.

"It's beautiful Ino, it really is." I said smiling.

"Thanks, I know she is."

"Name?"

"Shika." Ino replied smiling. I laughed and so did she.

"I told you the baby is less annoying then her."

"That doesn't make an ounce of sense Shikamaru." Ino said.

"Yeah it does, you decided to name our baby daughter after your nickname for me. If it made sense I'd tell you. You're going to drive me more insane then I already am." He said pouting and sitting in a chair.

"She's tiny." I said holding her and then I handed her to Ino.

"I know. I wish I could spend more time with her." Ino said about to cry. Shikamaru put an arm around Ino and one on her leg.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Ino has to take her back to the hospital tomorrow to have surgery. I asked the hospital if Ino could at least have a day with her before hand. They said it was alright." Shikamaru explained.

"I want her to be alive." Ino cried.

"Sh… Ino. It's a baby and it needs its rest." Ino nodded and tried to stop crying but tears kept rolling down her face.

"Is it going to be okay?" I asked concerned.

"They said she has a 50 chance of living." Shikamaru said. Ino looked at her feet.

"That's as chancy as a coin flip." Ino said.

"Ino, I'm so sorry." I said walking over to her and watching her with the child.

I was selfish, I really was. I had been thinking about myself a lot of the last 8 months and I hadn't thought about how it would be to lose your child, just like losing Sasuke, or any of our friends. Alternatively, losing Kaydin was for Ino. I couldn't say that I'd trade my child for Ino because Sasuke needed an heir, no matter what, he did. I just felt so bad. I wish I could do something, but I'm sure there's nothing.

I took a deep breath and stood up. "Sakura?" Ino asked.

"I'm helping, don't worry." I said smiling.

"No, Sakura. Shikamaru stop her, get Sasuke." Ino said scared. Shikamaru grabbed my arms and called Sasuke. Sasuke took me and sat me down and I broke into tears.

"I want to help her." I cried.

"I know you do Sakura, I know you do. But we can't let you."

"Why not?"

"Because it's a danger to your health. I'm sorry I didn't tell you." He said.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"Being in the medical field requires use of a lot of your life force, every time you heal someone, little bits. Your jutsu took out a lot and if you do anymore medical repairing before this baby is born, you and it will die. Within seconds." I stopped and looked at everyone.

"You all knew, didn't you?" They all nodded. I broke from Sasuke grip and ran outside.

I laid my body against the tree. Running took up too much chakra, chakra I didn't have to spare. I sighed, he told me he wouldn't ask, he promised. Maybe he didn't ask, maybe he was told. Ino may have questioned it later because of the jutsu.

Maybe I was just too stupid to realize it. That's why Sasuke didn't want me to heal him, because he didn't want me to waste my life force. That's why the hospital wouldn't let me work, why Ino always took care of the surgeries and things when our friends gave birth, they all knew. Ino had lost a lot, that's why she wouldn't let me. I leaned on my side and cried.

I felt a horribly sharp pain, oh no. I'm going into labor. I can't out here, I can barely move, I can't do a jutsu; this stinks. It's….

"Sakura!"

∆ (Hospital) ∆

I woke up but I couldn't see anything, it was like being in a coma, or asleep. It was a horrible feeling. My body felt lighter, a ton lighter. On the other hand, the baby, what happened to it? Is it okay? Did I kill it? What happened! I need to wake up. I woke up and jumped up but I started falling and was caught by none other than Sasuke, my husband.

"Rest," He said strongly.

"But… I have questions." I asked. He smiled, it seemed that everything was fine, but I wanted answers. "I want answers."

"I didn't say you couldn't ask questions, I said rest. Now sit down and lay back so I can explain everything. You're back to your old habits again now Sakura." I pouted which was surprisingly easier with a 30-pound sack sitting in my stomach.

"Can I start?" He nodded.

"Where's the baby?"

"With the doctors,"

"Is it alright?"

"Yeah, it's considerably healthy."

"Am I okay?"

"Yeah, you're fine."

"How's my life force?"

"Back to normal human levels,"

"Really, how."

"Giving birth takes up about 20 percent of your life force but once it's done it quadruples back."

"So I can go back to being a med Nin?" I asked happily.

"For a while, I guess." He said shrugging. This also meant that I'd have to check on my levels before we had another child, so I wouldn't endanger either of us.

"What are we going to name it?" I asked.

"Like I know," He answered.

"Sasuke…" I complained.

"I don't know. What do you want to name him?" I smiled. "What?"

"Him, it's a boy." He nodded and rolled his eyes. "Hey, I didn't know. I was knocked out and Tenten didn't tell me."

"Sorry but I expected you were over happy there."

"So, tell me about him?" I asked happily.

"Why don't I just tell them you're up so they can bring him back?"

"Really?" I asked excited.

"She's troublesome." Shikamaru said walking in with Ino and a baby.

"How's your baby doing?" I asked.

"This is yours stupid, even chickens can tell their own children." She sighed.

"Really?" All of them sighed and nodded.

"I think Sakura's been put on too many drugs." Shikamaru said.

Ino smacked him. "Hey I'd like to see you give birth without them." Ino said.

"I'd like to see a guy give birth too." I said raising my hand. Ino looked at me as if I was crazy.

"Sasuke, is it okay to let her see the baby?" Ino asked a bit scared of me.

"Yeah sure, Sakura, just calm down, and be quite before you wake him up." Sasuke said. He sat on the edge of the bed next to me as I watched the little baby.

"Ino, where's your baby?" I asked.

"She's in the recovery room for babies. You've been out for a week now Sakura."

"Really, it didn't feel like a week."

"Yeah, it's been a crazy week for everyone." Ino answered. "Name?" She asked.

"I don't know. Ask Sasuke." I said.

"Yoshi," Sasuke said.

"That means Respected." I said. "Okay, we're done. Uchiha Sasuke Yoshi." I said smiling. They all smiled and nodded.

Sasuke was sure happy about that move, I also liked that, it was perfect. I wasn't going to confuse our son by naming him directly after Sasuke but his middle name still showed honor to his father. I think I'd drive myself insane if I had two Sasuke's in the house.

"Well you have two more visitors so we'll go home, bye." Ino said pulling Shikamaru out of the room.

Tenten and Hinata walked in the room, the weird thing was one, they both didn't have their kids, and they both didn't have their husbands.

"Hey Sakura, and Sasuke, and Sakura and Sasuke's baby." Hinata said smiling. Tenten sighed at Hinata's over courtesy.

"Are all Hyuugas over polite, cause I'm pretty sure they are." Tenten said sighing. "Hello all," she greeted.

"I think all Hyuugas are over polite." I said smiling. "Everyone this is Uchiha Sasuke Yoshi."

"I like the name." Tenten said smiling.

"I do too." Hinata said.

"It's good to see you're awake, Hinata and I had a hard time running through the surgery, didn't we?" Tenten said.

"You two were my surgeons." They nodded.

"Of course, we wanted to be the ones to do it." Hinata explained.

"We've been here all week, waiting for you to wake up. Well now you're awake I've got two hungry Hyuugas at home who are probably very tired of eating ramen."

"I have to go as well, Naruto is probably sick with all the ramen that Tenten left them." Hinata said sighing. "I still don't think that babies are supposed to have ramen Tenten."

"Owen's a year old, don't worry about him. I left a ton of baby food for Hiroka though."

Hinata smacked herself. "Naruto can't make baby food, Tenten."

"What! Naruto can't make baby food but he can make instant ramen, it's the same thing. Knowing him he ate the baby food instead of ramen." Tenten said.

"Yeah so he should be healthy." Hinata said happily. "I'm sure Neji took care of feeding everyone, he's very responsible."

"Yeah he is. I feel bad for Hiroka when you are gone." Tenten said. When they were finally far enough not to be heard, I settled down in the seat with Yoshi in my arms.

"It's over." I said resting my head against my pillow.

"Yep, all 4 babies born and delivered." Sasuke said.

"When can I go home?"

"When you can walk and not fall off the bed, and when you finish taking all your baby care courses. I got to take Yoshi back to the doctors and fill out paperwork, bye Sakura." I nodded handing him Yoshi and watched him walk away.

¤ (A Month Later, April 1st) ¤

All us parents decided to meet up at the park to talk about the good old times even Neji and Naruto got a day off to enjoy this. I was so excited and I couldn't wait to see how everything was going.

Sasuke and I walked to the park and were surprised to see Neji and Tenten already there. Tenten was playing with little Owen while Neji was standing at the bottom of the slide incase he accidentally or purposely went down the slide.

"Hey Neji, Hey Tenten," I called. Neji smiled and Tenten waved and went back to watching Owen. Owen is 13 months old now: February 1st. Hiroka is 8 months: June 9th. Shika is now 3 months: January 4th. In addition, my little baby here is now 1 month, his birthday even though I don't remember being awake is March 16th.

"Hey Sakura where is everyone else?" Tenten asked.

"Shikamaru and Ino had to go pick up more diapers at the store and Hinata had to pick up more baby food since Naruto accidentally ate it all."

"Again?" Neji asked.

"Yeah, I for one don't think that baby food tastes like Ramen." I answered.

"Neither do I but that's Naruto." Tenten said laughing. She slid down the slide and tackling Neji to the ground.

"Tenten," Neji said rolling his eyes.

"Play nice, I want to go talk with Sakura." Tenten said handing the person formally known as Neji, their child. He sighed and took their child and she ran over to me.

"So how is your son?" I asked.

"Owen is doing fine. He's playing with Neji, if you can call what Neji does playing." Tenten said sighing and put her hands on her hips. "Neji isn't very playful; it takes a lot of work to get Neji to play."

"Like Sasuke," I said smiling.

"Really guys need to be more childish, and have a better sense of fun."

"We married you two, how much fun was that." Sasuke said smirking. I smacked him.

"Not nice," I reprimanded him. "Ino is going crazy with trying to stop Naruto from being too loud."

"Naruto, being quiet. That's a joke." Tenten said laughing.

"I miss missions." I said.

"I don't, I get enough adventures with Neji and Owen and the Hyuuga Clan for a lifetime even without those adventurous missions Neji and I use to go on." Tenten said.

"Uzumaki Naruto is here." Naruto said jumping out of a tree.

"Naruto, one, your late. Two, your not a child, Hiroka is less child-like then you are. Three, you're the hokage, start acting like it." I reprimanded him.

"Where's Hinata?" Naruto said looking around.

"You lost your wife and child?" I asked unbelieving him. I sighed and wanted to smack my head against a wall.

"The child is more likely to find Naruto then Naruto is to find him." Neji said. "Byakugan!-- Hinata is coming this way, 20 meters north." He shut off his Byakugan.

"Hey Neji, when did you start using your Byakugan?" Tenten asked.

"I'm not sure, it was around my 3rd birthday, because I had started Jyuuken training with my father and then he taught me how to activate it but I don't think I did it much. When you live in the Hyuuga Clan they won't let you use it within the house, unless you're in the training building."

"Because I swear one night I thought I saw him activate." Tenten said.

"It's possible, even small children especially Hyuugas can concentrate chakra into certain parts of their body by trying to adjust to something. It could be as simple as you turn of the light for it and it wants to see you and it tries to search around and by stressing its eyes it can activate it." Neji explained.

"So it's possible that they could be using it right now?" I asked.

"It's possible but unlikely. What is likely, is that if Yoshi there sees you activate your sharingan that he would as well." Neji said. "Since the sharingan needs no hand signs for beginners he could easily mimic your eye adjustments and copy everything around him."

"What, so he could easily learn how to walk by watching us?"

"He could, if Sasuke activates his sharingan around Yoshi a lot. During the first year of life they look around them and mimic everything, so he could accidentally stumble upon the sharingan and mimic how to walk."

"I don't think I could handle that." I said sighing.

"I can't handle the fact that Owen is almost as talented as Neji and I both were at his age."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"He can disperse chakra through his body and handle kunai like Tenten could when she was about 1."

"Really, that's scary." I said.

"Yeah, it scares me too." Tenten said.

"Owen has no weaknesses anymore." Sasuke said.

"The Jyuuken's weakness is and has always been distance based attacks, such as Tenten's weapon handling abilities. So if he can master both weapons and Jyuuken, then he has no weakness because weapons are both based and you can enter chakra into anything."

"So in theory, when he's older he'll be able to beat both Neji and I?" Tenten asked.

"Not exactly, there's only a certain amount of skill anyone person has on each level so by using this he's normal level on both not extremely talented at both." Sasuke explained.

"So if Neji and I were to stay on normal level Jyuuken and weapon skills, it would be equal."

"Correct, he will probably have about the same amount of skill as a normal level Hyuuga and a normal level weapon handler."

"So he's going to be normal, like everyone else?" Tenten asked.

"No, a Hyuuga on any level is a major match for anyone, undefeatable except to higher ranking Hyuugas. Then if he can succeed in handling weapons then he has overcome his weakness. So he's a great match for anyone around." Neji said.

"He's right, he'll be the equivalence of you two working together when you were at the Chuunin Exams except when he's about your age." Tenten was amazed by this.

I sat there and listened to their discussion on Owen possible ability when he was older. It was amazing what two people having a child could bring to the world. What it sounded like was the ultimate ninja. One who excelled in Hyuuga Jyuuken and Weaponry? I guess the only thing they weren't good with was ninjutsu. Nevertheless, I mean they had a doujutsu for that and they had all those attacks they really didn't need it but Owen would become one awesome ninja, like all our kids would be, that was for sure.

"I'm here guys, sorry we're late." Ino called.

"Hinata should be here by now." Neji said looking around.

"Hai I'm here, over here." Hinata said sitting on the swing with Hiroka on her lap.

"Hinata, there you are." Naruto ran over to her.

"Naruto, no!" We all yelled.

Something tripped Naruto and caught him. "Thanks Lee," Hinata said.

"You are welcome of course Hinata-san. Sorry Naruto, but I could not allow you to tackle Hinata and hurt her and your child."

"It's alright, sorry for not thinking Hinata." Naruto said rubbing his head.

"It's alright, come on." She stood up and walked back over to the crowd of people holding her baby in her arm and holding Naruto's hand in the other.

"Lee, good to see you again." Tenten said walking over to him and hugging him. "I'm glad that you're finally back to normal, speed, visibility and all."

"I am glad all is well also." Lee said.

"Look Neji, it's Lee." Tenten said pointing to Lee.

"Hello Neji, how are you and your and Tenten's son doing?" He asked.

"I'm doing fine and so is Owen." Neji answered.

"May I hold him?" Lee asked. Neji looked skeptical of this request. Tenten smacked him.

"Sure, yeah." Neji said.

"Thank you so very much for allowing me to hold your child Tenten and Neji." Neji rolled his eyes.

"Be nice Neji," Tenten said watching Lee watch the little Hyuuga.

"I'm happy to see all the youthful children of our generation." Lee said.

"I know it's so nice to see all the little kids, isn't it Lee?" Tenten asked. She took Owen back from Lee. Owen didn't seem to like this new person, as did his father.

"Ah who else do we have here?" Lee asked. I walked over to Lee.

"Hello Lee, I'm glad that my last attempt on to replace the bones in your legs worked. I'm glad you're back to normal." I said happily. "Have you met Yoshi?" I asked.

"No I have not, hello Yoshi." Lee said waving.

"Sakura! I can't believe that Shikamaru got lost finding this place, it's not been that long since we were last here, has it?" Ino asked.

"No, I think Shikamaru just has a bad sense of direction." I said.

"More children?" Lee asked.

"Yeah Lee, this is Shika, she's 3 months old." Lee smiled.

"All the little children that will some day are in our places and we will be the elders and adults of the village." Lee said.

"For once I couldn't agree with you more Lee," Neji said.

"We already are considered adults though," Hinata said.

"Man, being an adult is troublesome." Shikamaru complained.

"Deal with it Shikamaru, you can't have a child and act like one at the same time." Ino reprimanded him.

"Unless you're Naruto-kun," Hinata said.

"Yeah, unless you're Naruto, you have to grow up." I said.

"Man, lucky Naruto." Shikamaru said.

"Trust me, being a child isn't the best thing to be when you have a child." Sasuke said. I just nodded and we continued talking for a long time.