woohooo...crappy one shot time...a lot of dialog in this one...

"What are you doing here?" He asked once he had made his way through the crowded bar to get to her. "You should be at home resting; the doctor said-"

"Oh, please shut up. Look who's talking."

He stared at her for a moment before chuckling.

"I wasn't badly hurt, you know."

"You were tortured."

"Okay, so I was badly hurt. But as long as I don't over do it for a while...anyway, I'm not the one whose eight months pregnant."

"I should hope not."

He chuckled again at her sarcastic sense of humor. "Let's go home."

"I'm perfectly capable of walking myself home."

"Someones being difficult tonight."

She almost made a snide comment at this, but bit her tongue at the last instant. She hadn't come here to annoy and bother him.

"Now, come on." He clasped her hand gently and started tugging her towards the door of the pub.

"I don't want to take you away from her friends." That stopped him in his tracks. He turned around to look at her with slightly narrowed eyes; She looked down to stare at her swollen stomach.

"I don't want to be a burden for you." Silence.

"That's all I've seemed to be lately." By the time she said this, he had led her the rest of the way outside and around the corner of the building, where he stopped.

"Kakashi?" She asked. "Home is that way."

"You're pregnant with my baby." He said suddenly.

She blinked, then started giggling. "Please don't tell me you just figured that out!"

"I care about you so much...so how could...so why would you..." He seemed to be struggling with the right words. She blinked in confusion and waited for him to continue.

He took a deep breath. "You're not a burden to me." He said quietly. "It's not like...it's not like there's much I can do for you right now." He said this with frustration evident in his voice. Apparently he had been having this inner battle for a while. "So what little I can do for you, I want to do! How could you even think that you are a burden to me!" He clenched his fist tightly. "Dammit Sakura, I love you! So don't...say that kind of stuff again."

Well, she hadn't been expecting that. "I-I'm sorry...I had no idea...I just thought..."

"You haven't been keeping stuff from me because you didn't want to burden me, have you!" There was an edge to his voice now that she hadn't ever heard there before, something that sounded like...panic?

"No, but I was kind of worried about finding you out tonight..." She held up her hand to silence his response to that, in order to continue. "I was worried about you...I'm just..." She massaged her temples in slow therapeutic circles. "You're still recovering!"

It was his turn to look at her in surprise. "Then why didn't you just ask me not to go out tonight? I would have stayed with you if it bothered you that much...Unless I had a really good reason to go out, that is..."

Sakura's gaze once again drifted down to her over sized belly. Kakashi watched her for a moment before walking forward and embracing her.

"Not a burden..." He nuzzled against her pink hair. "Next time, stop me before you have to walk a mile to come find me. You're supposed to be on bed rest, you know." Without further discussion, he hoisted her up into his arms bridal style and began the trek back to their small apartment.

This time, she didn't feel like a burden. She felt loved.

corny much? XD. comments are appreciated.