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Sasuke sighed in his king sized bed. He wore black sweats, with no shirt. 'Finally…A break from missions and training…now I can stay with the kids…and Sakura.'

He smiled at the thought, but smiled more as soon as he saw her in the doorway. She seemed to be sad about something. He looked at her and decided to break her train of thought. He was sure it wasn't important. She was supposed to be off from the hospital for a week and he doubted Tsunade would give her missions any time soon since she needed her here in Konoha.

Or at least that's what Sasuke thought. She walked over to his side and lay down next to her husband. She could feel him wrap his arm around her.

"Sakura is there something wrong? You seem to be in deep thought…" Sasuke whispered in her ear. She smiled and turned around to meet his face. She kissed his lips gently. "No Sasuke-kun…everything is fine…" she said back to him.

She closed her eyes gently and buried her face into his chest. She didn't want this to end…but pretty soon it had to.

After a good hour or so she stood and left the bed. She knew he felt her leave. "I'm going to get a drink of water…" She whispered to him. He left out a soft moan as she left. He shifted his position to lying on his stomach.

She used shadow clone Jutsu and had her real self cover her chakra while the fake one went downstairs. She began to dress in her ninja uniform.

It was pretty much the same, except for the showing of her stomach, and the Haruno Insignia entwined with the Uchiha Insignia. She looked over to Sasuke and sat down by his side and let her chakra go.

"What's up Sakura? …..come back to bed….." he murmured into his pillow. A single tear left her eye as she looked down at him. She gently began to rub his back, making him sigh in peace, and bury his face more into the pillow beneath him.

She moved her hand up to his neck…where his pressure point was. She made sure it wouldn't cause pain that way he wouldn't be alarmed when he woke up…but she was sure that when he found out…he would be a hell of a lot alarmed.

Sakura pressed against it softly making his consciousness drift away. "Goodbye…my Sasuke-kun" she whispered and took her two Sai's, a few Kunai, and shuriken.

She walked into her children's bed room. She looked at them one last time. They weren't very much deep sleepers so she didn't dare to touch them. "Goodbye Saia…Haru…I love you both." Sakura whispered. Saia…was their 6 year old little girl with the beautiful looks of her mother. Her pink hair and if they were open, green eyes matched that of her mother's but her beauty was said to be second.

Saia herself had said her mother was way more beautiful than her, even if she was only six and she hadn't grown up fully yet.

Haru…was their 8 year old boy. He was already starting at the academy and had a brilliant mind like the rest of his family. He bared the looks of his father. His black hair stuck up in the same chicken butt hairstyle just like his father. If his eyes were open you would see onyx orbs. Many people had no doubt that they were the mother and father of these two children and they knew it from anywhere.

She walked out the room and gently closed the door. She walked away from her house, her life, and went to the Konoha gates. She smiled at her brother.

"Hey Sakura-Chan!" He said smiling, even though on the inside he was crying. The same way she was crying on the inside. He two had to leave his family behind. There were only a select few who actually saw the advertisement. Naruto and Sakura hid it from their loved ones. They had to serve their village anyway they could but they wouldn't dare sacrifice Hinata and Sasuke.

"Hi Naruto…you ready?" she asked although they both knew it was a dumb question. Both knew the answer.

No one on earth…could ever be ready for war.

Sasuke heard crying. He strained his eyes open. He saw his children…crying…

"Saia…Haru? What's wrong?" He asked sitting up as the two hugged him. "M-Mom…Mom is…" Saia whispered and sobbed out. Sasuke began to feel scared but he started getting more scared when the words left his daughter's mouth.

"Mom is at war!" She cried out and she and her brother cried. Sasuke's eyes widened and filled with fear…and a hint of betrayal. Why didn't Sakura tell him that she was going to war?!

Why?!

Sasuke looked up to see Hinata standing at her doorway. Tears fell down her cheeks from her pale lavender eyes. Her own two kids stood behind her crying. Nima was their 6 year old girl. She had midnight blue hair that matched her mother's and sky blue eyes that matched her father's. The sky blue eyes though were pale as if they had mixed with her mothers. That is exactly what happened.

Then there was Hino. He was 8 years old with blond spiky hair and lavender pale eyes. Naruto too was gone…those tears told everything.

"W-Why…How…W-When…" He struggled with words. Hinata brought up a paper that she held in her hands.

ALL NINJA'S AND WARRIORS

JOIN THE GREAT KONOHA ARMY AND SERVE YOUR VILLAGE

BE FAITHFUL TO THE OATH YOU TOOK AT YOUR GENIN STAGE AND JOIN!

KONOHA IS NOW AT WAR WITH SOUND!

A single tear fell down Sasuke's face. "I-I…I found it in his pocket…when doing the laundry…th-this morning." Hinata whispered crying. "I-I-I thou-thought…that he-he was wi-with you…tr-tr-train-training." She said crying harder. Sasuke's mouth was slightly open and now he saw what happened. He activated his sharigan.

He could see Sakura's chakra standing right in their bed room. He could see that she had made a clone that did the fooling. She placed on her ninja uniform, grabbed her weapons, and gently slipped him into unconsciousness. She bid her children farewell and left….

She

Freaking

LEFT!!!

She left as if she didn't care. All she thought about was herself! She didn't think that it would impact them. All she thought about was that she needed or wanted to enroll in this damn war. What was the point?!

What was the damn point if there wasn't a guarantee of her coming back!?

Sasuke looked down with unimaginable pain. He felt abandoned. He felt like he was just thrown to the side lines to sit and watch. They had agreed they wouldn't go on any missions they couldn't handle. That way they would always return to their family. She broke that promise! Needless to say he was angry.

"No…she can't be…" Sasuke whispered shaking his head.

Hinata looked down and cried more.

Swing, stab, chop, swing stab swing chop...

The blood splattered all over Sakura's body as if it was pouring blood. She ran at the next enemy with her Sai's and stabbed one in his neck while doing a flip in the air, to dodge the kunai he tried to stab her with, also twisting the Sai in his jugular vein. The choking noises the enemy made disgusted Sakura but she was used to it.

6 months of war gave you that ability, to listen to the sounds of one dying, and not be affected. Being away from everything for 6 months she killed more than anyone on their side. Naruto kept at her pace obviously feeling the same pain she felt. The question they had was why killing made it more bearable. Why killing hundreds made it more bearable.

They had no idea why, but later they found they secretly enjoyed it.

Finally the final man was killed by Naruto. Sakura looked over to him, seeing the same bloody body. It was like looking into a mirror. "Captain Sakura, Captain Naruto…" The two turned in perfect sync, mimicking each other as if they were standing between a mirror. The young private who called to them trembled. These months of war, obviously made them mentally unstable. They needed the blood.

"Tsunade-sama sent us a messenger hawk. She says Sound surrenders and we could return home." He said. Sakura and Naruto glared and both scoffed. "This wasn't much of a war." Sakura said. "It could be a trap." Naruto continued for her. The young private nodded, and began writing the letter back. They would have to wait for a reply even though it would be another day when they would get one.

Another day went by and it turns out Naruto and Sakura were right. As soon as they put their guards down, well excluding Sakura and Naruto who were itching for a fight, they were attacked by more of the Sound nin.

And the games for Sakura and Naruto began.

Sasuke noted how her letters stopped after 5 months and 2 weeks. He hasn't had a letter from her since, same with Hinata. To make the two a little more comfortable they both signed each other's letters to let them know both were alright. But they haven't had a letter since.

They were told by friends that they were okay. They told themselves that their lovers were dead.

2 more months went by. The families were miserable. Saia didn't even want to celebrate her birthday. Sasuke sat up in bed. He guessed the reason he could ever sleep was because he knew Sakura was okay by his side. When they were younger he knew she was fine since he watched her sleep from the tree next to her bedroom window.

8 damn months and still not a single letter. What did she find someone else? Or was she just dead? Sasuke hoped to god she would just come back. His pain grew immense and he was losing his mind slowly. He saw his kids at the doorway silently asking to come sleep with him. He tilted his head over to the side telling them to come.

They laid there not getting a wink of sleep. Only their blinks were the source of any kind of shut eye.

The next few days were no different. Sasuke took care of the kids and took no missions at all. The kids needed to constantly be watched. Haru had Academy. He had to train Saia. He had to cook, clean, wash clothing, and do more things that he often helped Sakura with. Everyone heard a knock. They all got excited and ran towards the door.

There stood a man, and a man alone. The family's hope shattered a bit. The man pulled out an item. An item that cause Sasuke's eyes to widen and for tears to fall from his onyx orbs.

Sakura's headband…

Sakura stared at the enemy. Her entire body was bathed in cuts, blood, bruises and gashes. She was a damn POW.

Prisoner

Of

War.

She hated herself for getting caught so easily. Naruto was trying with all his might to get her back but Orochimaru just threw everyone in his way as if not giving a damn about his soldiers who were dying.

Orochimaru was still freaking alive. He knew her weakness was Sasuke so as soon as she heard his voice she stopped her reign of bloodshed and terror among her enemies, and turned only to be met with the back hand of a sound nin, with just enough force to get her unconscious.

Her hands were chained up held above her head. She was kneeling against the ground, but if she pulled herself up she could easily snap his neck, and break the chains as well.

"I can see it in your eyes Sakura…You were happy to hear his voice…I think you were even getting excited into some…activities…" Orochimaru said smirking holding the bloody whip he hit her with over and over. Sakura glared. "So what?!" she retorted. She could get out of this, if she wasn't enjoying the pain, which she was.

The pain of the cuts and bruises gave her a wave of relief. One she had not had ever since she had gave birth to Saia.

"So these past 8 months were the hardest on you. Not to mention the 2 weeks of being a POW, you became a killing machine, and oh dear…it was all because you missed and wanted your family back…because you and I both know they were, and are the only source of happiness you ever had besides the Konoha 12." Orochimaru said rather smartly.

"You're a real idiot sometimes. You and I are one in the same. We're both orphans. Both our parents wanted us dead…" Sakura continued. "What makes you any different from me Orochimaru?" Sakura asked this time giving a smirk of her own. "That's the thing Sakura…" Orochimaru paused and continued.

"We aren't different at all."

Orochimaru smirked, and lifted the whip to hit her again, and Sakura had just about had it. She caught the whip with her teeth tasting her own blood, pulled Orochimaru towards her with a hard jerk, and then jumped of her knees, wrapping one foot on his jaw, the other just against his temple.

With one motion she snapped his neck and stomped on his head making sure the snake sanin was killed. She broke the chain and left the place that had kept her for two weeks. She didn't give a damn about her wounds. They were already healing since she was concentrating her chakra on them. She walked back towards Konoha territory.

"Orochimaru is dead. This war is over." Sakura said.

And there was a cheer among the Konoha soldiers.

Another night, with no sleep as always.

Sasuke glared at the ceiling. His children laid beside him trying to sleep. Their eyes were closed but their consciousness was not yet gone. It had been 1 month since Sasuke had learned that his wife…his everything, was a Prisoner of War. That she was Missing in Action. He didn't want to believe it, but something in his heart said give up, your wife is dead.

But that's when they all heard it. The door from the entrance opened and closed. The family dashed out Sasuke and Sakura's bedroom and ran downstairs. What they saw, was not a sight they wanted to see.

And surely it was a sight that would scar their souls.

Sakura stood their looking drowsy and a bit dizzy, but she was bloody and dirty. She looked as if she was standing in a rain of blood. There was a man with her.

"We are sorry we couldn't clean her up." He said looking down. Sasuke noted the fresh scar on his face most likely given to the young man by the enemy. He gave Sasuke some pills.

"Have her take those pills twice a day. Sometimes in war, seeing so much blood and death can make someone mentally unstable and they might want to even go back to war for their "thrill"." The man said. Sasuke nodded.

"She's okay. She has a couple of minor wounds." The man said and bowed to Sasuke.

"Please forgive us for returning her in this state. I understand it must pain you to see her like this. She wouldn't allow us to clean her up." He said. He bid them good night and walked out the home, most likely to deliver more injured soldiers and warriors to their families.

Sasuke walked over to her. "Sakura…" He called. She lifted her head and looked at him. The blood leaked down from her hair down her forehead, it went in between the arch of her nose and to her left cheek, as if it was a river. Sasuke closed his eyes. But realized she wasn't in a very conscious state.

"Sakura…I'm going to give you a nice bath okay…A nice hot one…" Sasuke said.

She shook her head and snatched her hand away from him. The blood, that was in her pink hair, sent droplets onto the floor as she shook it.

"No I don't want to." She said. Her voice was different. It sounded more…commanding. Unlike the soft sweet motherly one she once had. Sasuke was a bit hurt when she snatched her hand away.

"You need a bath Sakura…" He said and grabbed her. This time he achieved success and got her into the bathtub. The kids had ran the water already and went to bed.

Sasuke closed and locked the bathroom door. He began to take off Sakura's shirt/vest first. He slid it off and placed it in the sink since he had ran some hot water there. This way the blood wouldn't stain her clothes. He began to do the same with every article of clothing. He gently led her into the bath. She stepped in rather reluctantly.

The blood on her began to mix with the water. She sat there and turned her head slightly to look at Sasuke. He had tears trickling down his face but he cried silently. He didn't sob, or sniff, just let the tears flow. Her soft skin against his hands held bruises and cuts. 'The man said minor, for god's sake she has a damn gash across her stomach.' Sasuke thought.

He looked at her hands. Her knuckles were bleeding. The place where the blood had leaked from her head was the result of a cut, right at her hair line on the right side of her head. She had a couple of more scratches on her face. They were small, but bled, not enough to fall down her face, but enough to reveal themselves. The rest of the blood didn't belong to her.

Sakura stayed staring at him with unblinking eyes. Her blood stained hair began to turn back into its natural pink hair. There was so much blood it changed her hair into the crimson red color of blood. Sasuke swallowed hard. Seeing her like this was so damn hard for him.

"Why, didn't you tell me Sakura? Why, did you just run off to war like that?!" Sasuke asked her, and scolded her.

She continued to stare but didn't say a word. She turned her head back to stare at the blood stained water. Sasuke noted how she stared at the water now instead of him. The water was now more blood than it was water.

"You don't want to answer me huh?" Sasuke asked her. She turned her eyes back to him. Sasuke glared at those green orbs that he fell in love with. "Do you understand what you put us through?!" Sasuke said through gritted teeth. The question was rhetorical.

"Do you understand how much we missed you?! How scared we were?! You even made it worse by not writing to us for 3 months!" Sasuke said glaring at her. His voice was getting loud but he made sure he kept it in check. He didn't want to wake up the kids.

"Then we were told you were captured! Do you know what that did to us?! I thought I lost you! I thought you and Naruto wer--…." He was cut off with her lips.

She had cut him off, finally confirming that he was real. She had missed his lips, missed the soft feeling of them. She wrapped her bloody arms around his neck not necessarily caring about the blood. She was perfectly fine. All the damn hallucinations of him she had during the war pissed her off often and she was sick of waking up alone.

Sasuke couldn't resist the kiss no matter how angry he was. No matter how much fear he held he too missed the affection from her. Sakura's hand went down to the waist of his sweats and pulled them down, along with his boxers. With that they let out their passion, their yearning, their loneliness, their pain. They showed how much they yearned for each other over the past 9 and a half months.

Sasuke woke up the next morning in their bed with her. Sakura's major wounds were gone. She healed them while she had kissed him. The minor wounds too were gone. The only sign she had wounds was the scar left on her stomach from the gash that was once there.

Sasuke gently put on some sweats while Sakura slept a bit more. He even brought her breakfast in bed understanding that she must be tired. 9 long months of war were obviously tiring.

Sakura opened her eyes to see her family smiling at her. She sat up.

"Hey…" She said giving a small smile. The two kids ran up to her bed side but softly knowing that she was probably in pain. Haru went on her left side and Saia went on her right. They both placed their heads on either side of her chest which was covered by her red silk robe. Sasuke walked in front of her and placed a tray of food in front of her.

Sakura smiled and ate it slowly. She looked to the orange juice beside the food. She had to stare at it. All she saw was a cup of blood. She closed her eyes for a moment and then looked at the cup again. Plain juice. No more blood. Sakura sighed in relief. She knew her family would help her through this, the same way they had believed in her, and helped her through the war.

And a family they were once again.

Please everyone remember the soldiers that give their lives for us every day. Remember their families and how they are impacted at this very moment. I know it's not Veteran's Day or Memorial Day or anything like that but sometimes I feel people take advantage of the fact that there is still a war out there and there are thousands, probably millions of families who are affected by it.

The worst part about it is sometimes these families don't get their loved ones back. The Uchiha Family and Uzumaki Family were lucky here but others weren't.

Support the troops, and support my message please. =)

~RoCk-ThIs-PaRtY153