A scream of pain rang out of from the next room. A scream loud enough to wake up the whole village of Konoha...definitely loud enough to wake their next door neighbors: Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata. No, Naruto and Hinata had not been married yet...they were still in the process of earning enough money to buy wedding rings, wedding clothes, and invites for everyone.

Sasuke rushed to the other room where Sakura was. He found her in extreme pain...he also found that the bed sheets were extremely wet. He understood immediately, even though he had never seen it before. Sakura was in labor.

Oh holy crap! What am I gonna do? I don't even know HOW to deliver a baby...wait...Hinata lives just next door...she's a medic nin! I should get her to help me!

At that moment he heard a knock on the door that nearly drowned out Sakura's screams. He rushed to the door really quickly...without knocking anything down...which was good even for a world-class ANBU. There stood Naruto and Hinata.

"What's going on, Sasuke-teme?" Naruto asked.

" Is it...happening, Sasuke-san?" Hinata asked in that soft voice of hers.

Sasuke just nodded and led them upstairs, running all the way. Naruto and Hinata followed, Naruto a little slower, but Hinata running just as fast as Sasuke.

They found Sakura still on the bed, but her body was convulsing and sweat was running down her forehead. Her throat let out screams that suggested that her heart was being ripped in two. Hinata quickly got out a medical kit that she always had with her and started to work on Sakura, while Sasuke and Naruto just stood there dumbfounded, gaping. The blue-haired kunoichi shooed them out of the room, saying she needed the utmost concentration for this. So the two shinobi sat on two chairs outside Sasuke and Sakura's bedroom...just waiting.

Different memories were running through both their minds. What if Sakura died right now, giving birth to the baby? They were so absorbed in their memories they didn't hear the screams coming from the other side of the door, didn't hear Hinata's gentle voice consoling her, didn't hear the knocks on the front door that signaled worried Konohans willing to help. They both saw and heard their own flashbacks of their precious moments with Sakura.

Sasuke was walking towards that bandaged mummy, that person from Sound. Kinuta Dosu, the last member of the Sound Team that had not been knocked unconscious in the Forest of Death. Sasuke had already broken Zaku's arms, and Kin had already fainted. The curse seal had already covered nearly his entire body with its black marks. The Sharingan glowed eerie red in the dimness of the Forest. Purple chakra was swirling up around his body in a miniature dust devil. Sasuke was just about to let his rage out on that creep that had tortured his teammates, when he felt something behind him. He felt a pair of arms hugging his neck, heard a voice that begged him to stop. To stop this madness. The burning marks of the curse seal receded and everything stopped. The Sound Ninja left their scroll and went away, thanking the girl that saved their lives. She, Sakura Haruno, could stop evil.

Naruto felt intense pain as the creepy snake guy that went by the name of Orochimaru made a 5-pronged spell on his seal. The pain was blinding. He felt himself being flung through the air, felt himself falling and falling. Then he heard a "THUD" and realized that he had stopped falling. He had enough knowledge to know that it was a kunai that had pinned him to that tree. A kunai most likely thrown by Sakura. Sasuke had been frozen earlier. Dimly he heard Sakura's angry words echo throughout the forest, "You know, Naruto may be a jerk, may be an idiot. He may be getting in the way all the time. But at least he's DOING something. At least he doesn't just stop and let things happen. At any rate, he's not a COWARD like you!"

They were snapped out of their vivid flashbacks as they heard a baby cry from the next room. Sasuke and Naruto both simultaneously gasped in relief and shock. They saw Hinata's blue head poke out the door, saw her bloodstained hand beckoning them to come in. They saw Sakura on the bed, holding her new baby and obviously very tired, but still alive. The bedsheets were soaked with blood and Sasuke knew that they wouldn't be sleeping in that bed for a VERY long time.

"Well, congratulations, Sasuke and Sakura. It's a boy."

Sasuke walked over to the bed to look down at his son. His son had large green eyes like Sakura, black hair streaked with pink, and lightly tanned skin like his. He had a shocking resemblance to Sasuke though, even for the green eyes.

"What should we name him?" Sakura asked in a voice merely more than a whisper.

"Let's name him Natsu, born in summer."

"That's a nice name, Natsu Uchiha..."

"What's his middle name though?"

"Why don't we say his middle name is Hakon...it means Grateful."

Sasuke just nodded.

"Welcome to the family, Natsu Hakon Uchiha..." he said before drifting off to sleep in a chair by the bed.

"Natsu Hakon Uchiha...be Grateful always...and always remember the day you were born in the summer, August 8..." Sakura whispered to her new child before she too drifted off to sleep.

Naruto and Hinata just smiled upon the lovely new family. Then their faces immediately turned to ones of anguish and despair. They were NEVER going to make it out of the Uchiha complex without getting run over by any number of reporters and curious Konohans wanting more information to spread the gossip, including most likely Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Maito Gai, Yuhi Kurenai, Sarutobi Asuma, The 5th Hokage, Rock Lee (they both shuddered at this thought) and probably all of their teammates like Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, Hyuuga Neji, Tenten, Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Chouji, and probably even Naara Shikamaru, if he hadn't been too lazy to get out of bed in the middle of the night. They both sighed with disgust..."We should spend the night here," said Hinata and Naruto at the same time. So they found another bedroom separate from Sasuke and Sakura's and slept, not bothering to get up to open the door for all the knocking.