1The most ABSURD things had been inhabiting the Uchiha compound: empty ramen packets, empty hot sauce bottles, even dead crabs! Thankfully, the crabs had been a practical joke pulled off by Naruto and Kakashi.

Sasuke smiled slightly as he watched his beautiful wife turn over in bed, so she was facing him. Her breath, like mint leaves, brushed his face ever so slightly and tickled his cheeks. Her cravings had really taken a toll on the Uchihas' bank account. Their fortune was nearly depleted, because of the baby. Lately, Sakura had been craving beef ramen with hot sauce on top, and was rivaling Naruto in how much ramen they consumed a week.

Thankfully, the 9 months were nearly up, and Sasuke knew he would have to rush Sakura in to the hospital any day, at any hour. He just hoped to God that it wouldn't be any time this week. He had too many ANBU missions this week. Well...he was the captain and he could tell other people to do it, but that would require money loss on his part. Missions meant money, missing missions meant missing out on a paycheck, which Sasuke was not bound to do any time soon.

A summer breeze blew in through the open window, making Sasuke's black hair rustle slightly. Since it was the hottest months of the year, Sasuke and Sakura had no need for blankets, and the blanket with the Uchiha crest was sitting, neatly folded, on a wooden chair near the door, enabling Sasuke to see all of his wife's body. (No you pervs shes wearing clothes)

Her belly had really swelled up, to the point where it looked like she was growing a watermelon inside her. The two had already decided on godparents for their child. They had asked Tsunade if the child could have more than one set of godparents, a set that would indeed include the other members of team 7. So the paperwork was signed and it was concluded that the child's godparents would be: Hatake Kakashi, Yuuhi Kurenai (only because she had agreed to be paired up with Kakashi so she could be the godparent of somebody), Uzumaki Naruto, and Hyuuga Hinata.

Naruto and Hinata were going to be married next month, which would give Sasuke and Sakura ample time to get the baby out. The two Uchihas had already decided on names for the baby, but of course, that could all change. If it was a girl, they decided they would name it Masako. (A/N: I will explain why they choose these names in next paragraphs.) If it was a boy, they had decided they would name it Katashi.

They were planning on naming a girl baby Masako because Masako meant justice. Sasuke HAD been hellbent on revenge a few years ago, but once he realized his life didn't mean just that to him, he had been set on justice instead. He wanted everything to be good and proper, and not bend the laws, even though you could if it was right. He wanted his children to be right in the ways of life, and wanted them to have justice all the time.

Sakura had chosen the male child's name. Katashi meant firm. She wanted her children to be firm in the right way, and not to give up easily. She wanted them to continue fighting until they couldn't stand, continue fighting until they reached their dreams. She did not want them to die, of course, but if they died for the right purposes, it was considered an honor. And besides, Kakashi would be pleased to have somebody with almost the exact same name as him. But their child would definitely NOT take up the way of the mask and Icha Icha Paradise. It would be banned from the household before it even thought about doing those dreadful deeds.

Sasuke stared into the backyard of the Uchiha compound, and remembered. There were many memories that held Sakura and him together, even before they got married.

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He had been walking through the screen door to the backyard of the Uchiha complex, a kunai in his hand. His mind was telling him to commit suicide for all the bad things he had done, and his body was actually acting like doing it. He knelt under a tree. It was supposed to be an oak tree, but it had died long ago. It had died with the rest of the Uchihas. All that was left was a trunk with branches like fingers.

The kunai lowered to his wrist, and he smiled a sad smile. Surely nobody would miss him, with the things he had done. Naruto would have died if somebody hadn't resurrected themselves to save him. He had knocked Sakura out for no apparent reason at all, and had scarred her for life, telling her that he hated her, when that was not the case at all.

The blade was centimeters from his skin, and he was about to do it, until he heard a whispered prayer in the backyard adjacent to his. Sakura's house was right next to the Uchiha complex, and his sharp hearing picked up every word of the small prayer. He scooted closer to the short wall separating his house from hers, and listened intently, momentarily forgetting the blade and what he was about to do.

"Ohayo, Moon. Maybe tonight will be the night my prayers will not remain unanswered."

Sasuke's heart was pounding and still he continued to listen.

"I hope that Sasuke's mind will not be consumed by evil and revenge. I pray for this every night, and the coming day never answers my prayers. He always is spiteful, full of hatred for me and Naruto. But I don't mind, because I know, in my heart, that I can never forget him, that I can always forgive him. He is not a cold-hearted person, you just have to take the time to melt him down. Moon, you don't take the time to do anything. Don't take the time to answer my prayers, don't take the time to help me to help Sasuke become a better person. I don't like it when he's emo, and your really not helping me make him anything besides that."

I'm emo?

"I love Sasuke...and my only wish is that he can achieve his dreams if it is for the right causes. If I have to die to stop him, so be it. My life is less important than his anyway. Sayonara, Moon. Answer my prayers."

She had remained sitting outside looking at the full moon and Sasuke remained sitting in his backyard, the kunai still in his hand. Finally, he pressed just a bit harder, not slitting the artery, but enough to draw blood and create pain. He tried to muffle a moan, but failed. He saw two emerald eyes peeping over the wall, and knew Sakura had seen and heard.

"You...you heard didn't you?"

"Yes..."

"And still you do this to yourself! People care about you Sasuke, why would you want to kill yourself?"

"Because...I can't be anything like what you wanted, what you said in your prayer."

"You don't decide that. The Moon does."

Tears started to well up in her eyes, and one crystal drop hit the ground.

"You selfish brat! You don't even know what your saying! You can be whatever you want...you...you just don't try." Then she disappeared, leaving a very stunned Sasuke.

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It was that very teardrop spot that the sakura tree had grown on. It still was there, only it was just a stump now. Sasuke owed a lot to Sakura. If he hadn't heard her prayer, if she hadn't been there and saw, then he would've died. But she had saved her life. One girl had saved his life. And he wasn't ashamed of it.