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Ch 15: A world of understanding

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"I will not shrike away from my duty nor my responsibility and abandon my clan."
By clan he meant the baby Haruno not you.

Sakura stood up.

"No." She threw the scroll back at him and turned away. He caught it out of reflex.

"Excuse me?" He took the few steps closer until his chest was almost touching her back.
"You heard me Uchiha, I refuse to sign that, scroll." She said the word scroll as if it were the worst kind of venom.

Now she and her baby were a duty/ responsibility that he had to be taken care of? Of course they were a responsibility, but did he want to do it? Did he care about them and want to take care of them or was he compelled to? She was sure he already cared about the child. But what about its mother?

And where the baby went so did Sakura.

"Why?" he demanded.
"I see no reason for me to sign that scroll. I am perfectly capable of providing for our child and you're not willing to give our child what he or she will need the most."

Sasuke's voice rose and their was more fire in his words. "What's that?"

"A loving family. You know what that is don't you Sasuke?" She turned around and started at his cold calculating eyes.
"That's where the mommy and daddy are in the same house," -She waved her hands around making a house shape- "they love each other and the child."

"Where the child learns from BOTH parents. Where BOTH parents are present to look after, and protect them. You know a family. I want to give my child everything I possibly can." Maybe she was saying too much again, but her temper was rising. She could only take so much from the guy. And she knew a family didn't really always have both parents present, but heck she was very angry right now.

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His eyes narrowed. Mind working quickly interrupting her words, her threat.
"Are you saying you will marry someone else?" Sasuke took a step closer. Sakura didn't move an inch.

"W-well yes! Since you can't be there to take an active role as the father. I guess I will find someone else to take your place." Hormones, they were getting to her. But damn him, for being such a cold unfeeling bastard.

His hackles rose.
"No." He spun her around roughly.

Who did she think she was trying to take his child away from him? He would never let another man take what was rightfully his, including her. They were HIS clan now.

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Sakura suddenly found her self pressed against the wall. Damn his inhuman speed. It made her dizzy. His voice was low and dangerous as he whispered in her ear.

"Remember this Sakura, you and the baby are mine. If another man so much as touches you or tries to take away what is mine. I'll kill him. That Sakura, is a promise."

She closed her eyes tightly willing her tears to stay at bay.

His voice was almost sinister. "You know I what I do to those who touch what is mine don't you, Sakura?" A flash back of his breaking the sound nins arm when they were genin popped into her mind.

"I am not yours!" She spat out glaring at him. Sakura pushed against him. "No women in her right mind would marry you and spend a life time with such a cold insensitive bastard as your self! You probably won't be there most of time!"

"Is there someone else?"
Now she really didn't like the tone of his voice. She turned her head to the side, letting her bangs shield her eyes. He grasped her chin with and made her look at him.

"Tell me! Is there someone else?" He demanded his face a scant centimeter away from hers.
She defiantly looked into his eyes as if saying 'yes!'

His lips brutally covered hers, he pressed her chin down with his thumb and made her open her mouth letting his tongues swirl around hers. Claiming his territory again and again.

The mere idea of someone else touching her as he did and was doing now, was unbelievable. The thought of Sakura screaming and moaning someone else's name made his blood boil.

She wasn't going to smile that intimate smile, or tease anyone else with those lips of hers but him, Uchiha Sasuke. None would know the pleasure her touch could bring. No one else was going to be the father of his child or the husband of Haruno Sakura, but Uchiha Sasuke.
His hands were everywhere at the same time, he knew exactly where to kiss where to bite, where to place his tongue, and send her moaning and panting his name.

Sakura was soon again pressed up against the wall, left with nowhere to run. His hand had already pushed her shorts down to her ankles.

Her traitorous body responded to him so quickly and fervently that she couldn't contain a low moan when he slipped one fingers inside of her. His tongue kept the same tempo as his fingers, and it made her heart clatter in her chest. She had one leg wrapped around his waist and was hanging with both hands onto his shoulders. Sakura could feel the familiar tightness in her lower abdomen.

She kissed back now with equal fever and passion burying her hands deep in his hair. Sakura could feel her self come close. She was almost there, he added another finger, and she moved in time with his hand, moaning into his mouth. Her hands franticly moving from his back to his shoulders, back to his hair. She was almost there just a few more strokes.

Sasuke pulled his hand away from her and took his mouth off hers. Sakura gave off a protesting mewl.
Both his hand came to hold her head as he rested his fore head against hers, his breathing labored.

"Does any other man do that to you? Can they work up as much as I can? Tell me the truth Sakura."

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Sakura inhaled deeply her chest rising and falling against his, the smell of him make her head spin, and her insides were burning. She took more deeps gulps of oxygen , trying to calm her heart down. She had been so damn close to completion and he had stopped. The nerve he had to stop at a time like this, leaving her high and dry.

"What do you think Uchiha?" She roughly pulled his head down and kissed him, hard. Two could play this game. Her other hand made its way to his pants. She palmed him, not being gentle at all.

Sasuke's hand held onto hers. Pulling it up over her head.
He was trying to get through to her, not the other way around.

Pressing his body flush onto hers, letting her feel all of him, his very need for her. Making sure she couldn't run.
"Promise me Sakura, there is going to be no one else besides me that will know your secrets. Promise me that I will be the only father to our children." Did he realize he used a plural term; children in stead of child?

That was when in her lust, and anger hazed mind that Sakura figured something out. She relaxed and Sasuke let go of her hands, letting them fall to her side.

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Sasuke was clinging to her like a drowning man would a lifeboat. He was doing all that was possible to keep his 'family', together. His family. His clan. That was what she and the baby were to him. How could she take that away from him? When his clan was once a upon a time ripped away from him . Could she do it again to him?

At the mere hint that his 'family' might be taken away from him again had made him desperate and dangerous.

And he did care for her and the child. He just wasn't so apt at showing it. He was showing it in his own ways. But a thought lingered in her mind, if this was another women would he treat her the same as he was her? Did they have a relationship between them, Sakura and Sasuke? Would she ever have had one with him if the child wasn't present?

His lips came near her temple and the one words shattered her resolve.
"Please?" It was a low halting question. How could she say no?

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Sakura was still disappointed about the wedding issue, VERY disappointed.

Sasuke knew something in her changed when she began to kneed his shoulders with both hands. He looked into her eyes and found them tearing.

Sakura pulled his lips to hers and kissed him in that aching sweet way she did when they had made love for the last time in the cabin….when they were saying good bye!
He quickly broke away from her a frantic look in his eyes.

"You are not leaving me!" And they were suddenly on the bed with him frantically kissing and removing her one article of clothing. She let him kiss her with mad urgency and clinging to her. This was a man who had lost it all and couldn't bare to loose any more.

She ran a soothing hands up and down his back trying to tell him without words that she wasn't leaving him, never.

Until he came to a stop.
His head buried in her neck, arms tightly bound around her.

Her heart ached for him.
"Sakura?" Her name a question. Asking her everything.

She gulped the aching lump in her throat a few times dislodging it.

"…Y-Yes."

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The sudden loss of warmth woke her up. Sakura turned in her bed expecting Sasuke to be there. But he wasn't. Sakura shot up in her bed, clutching the blanket to her bare form.

"Sasuke?" She searched around in the dark, he wasn't there

He can't have just left me!

"Sasuke!" She heard a chair scrape against the floor in the dinning room. And a moment later Sasuke appeared in her bedroom door, dressed in boxers, holding a white bowel with pink flowers on it, and a matching chopstick set.
"Yes?"

Sakura visibly relaxed, her heart rate deceased considerably.

"You didn't leave."
"No." Obviously he hadn't left he was still in her apartment wasn't he?
She watched him eat, he watched her watching him eat.

"Do you like it?" Sai and Naruto liked her cooking fine, but then again they ate almost anything.

"Yes."

Is he going to continue to answer me in one word? The only time he seems to really talk, is when he is …
"Were you expecting company?" That question jarred her out her thoughts.
"Yes I was." She looked around for something to wear. She was hungry as well.

"Ah."

Sasuke watched her get up with the blanket wrapped around her form. I have seen all of her so why is she covering her self? A thought came to his head.

The lights were turned on. Sakura gasped.
"You scared me there!" He only shrugged and went back to watching her search for something to wear.
"Thought the light would assist your search." Sakura looked oddly at him.

He's speaking more then one word to me! Watch it there Sakura, you don't want to faint and miss a chance to relish this moment. Sakura laughed at her own private observations.

Sasuke gave her a inquiring look, which she simply waved aside and pulled out a new shirt and sweat pants.

"Um Sasuke you want to turn around while I change?"
"I hardly think I…"She glared hard "..I will be in the kitchen."

Sakura smiled in triumph. He was partly whipped.

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Sakura to her surprise found that Sasuke had warmed the food, with out setting her kitchen ablaze. He nodded his head to her when she began eating.

"Listen carefully to what I am saying Sakura."

She only nodded her head and munched away on her rice.

"A copy of this Marriage certificate is going to go to the fifth-" Sakura choked on her rice, Sasuke raised an eye brow at her reaction, but handed her a glass of water and continued before she could interrupt. "-simply because when head clan members are married a lot of paper work is involved, and it's tradition."
"B-But you can't!" Her face was red her mind racing.

If Sasuke does this Tsunade will know the whole Sai thing is a lie and that I..

"I already did."
"WHAT!" She jumped out of her seat her chair flying to the floor. His eyes narrowed.

"Sakura calm your self. I'm sure she already knows that you are carrying my child."
"Um no!"

"Excuse me?" Now he was puzzled, he had thought she would have told her mentor… if she didn't that meant… "You lied and told her you were carrying someone else's child didn't you? Why? Are you ashamed?"
Sakura ignored the piercing look as she sat back down."No, I lied to save your ass!"

"What?"

"Oh this is so bad." She buried her hands in her hair, her meal forgotten. "I told Tsunade-sama that Sai is the child's father. Because if you ever come back to Konoha you have one way ticket to the gallows."

"Sakura you are making no sense." He was become more confused.
"Arrgh!" Sakura shot up from her seat and began pacing around her living room, Sasuke followed her and sat down on the love seat, his eyes studying her every movement.

"Kakashi told us that, if you ever came back, the Hokage would let you live, being the last Uchiha that doesn't hate Konoha and all. However, if she knows you have a child,"- nervous laughter- " well then we all know the Uchiha clan will live on, no need for Uchiha Sasuke. Now do you get why I lied about the baby's father?"

Sasuke sat there absorbing the new information. This would only slightly complicate things.

"Well then make sure she signs it and isn't aware who's wedding certificate she is sighing."

Sakura looked like she wanted to murder him.
"Um hello, she is a sanin, you know."

"Yes and you are her apprentice, who has access to her office, I also heard she drinks quiet a lot." He gave her a knowing look.

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The light bulb went off in her head. "Oh! You mean get her drunk enough so that she isn't aware of what she is signing, and since I can come and go in her office, I just present the scroll to her when she is the most unaware…"

Sasuke smirked and nodded his head.
"But wait…" She stopped in front of him left fist resting on her hip, right hand index finger tapping her lip, "but that is so underhanded! And when she does find out…"

"Don't worry about that now, later she can't do anything about it."

"True…but-"
"Sakura I have other things to tell you, and we have solved this problem."

After a long drawn out sigh she flopped down next to him on the couch.
"Okay fine go on."

"Another copy of the marriage certificate, which I still need you to sign, will be sealed and placed in the Uchiha vault. I have already made arrangements so that you and Naruto each have a key to the Uchiha vaults. Just go to the Konoha central bank and tell them your name and it will be taken care of."
Sakura was very confused now.

"What? Why?"

"Sakura you are my wife now, anything I own is yours, I simply put Naruto's name there to avoid suspicion. Just make sure he doesn't empty the coiffeurs they are for my heir and wife." Sakura blushed, she was his wife…she had almost forgotten.
Sasuke went on as if he didn't notice.

"In my will I have already stated that everything I own will be given to you and Naruto.."
"But Sasuke, Naruto won't take it."

A small smirk graced his lips.

"I know."
" How did you do all this in two nights? You're a missing ninja and to conduct all this business?"

"Sakura, not everyone thinks avenging my family is illegal, and my dad has a friend who works in Konoha main Bank. And my family has other numerous connections."

That still didn't answer all of Sakura's questions.
"Alright, but why are you the Uchiha heir what about your brother?"

"Father changed his will and made me heir, once he found out that Itachi had achieved the Mangekyou Sharingan."

Her lips formed a perfect "O"
Smart man, Sasuke's father.

"I didn't find out about this until I left Orochimaru and started to run low on funds. I visited the banker and he showed me all the papers."
He turned around to face her form.

"If you wanted to live in a larger place I could buy-"
"No!" Sakura let out a nervous giggle. This whole idea of being married to Sasuke had yet to settle in. "I'm fine like this and if I did move again so soon it would raise eyebrows."

"Ah."

He relaxed his head against the back of the couch. Sakura decided to do the same.

"Why Sai?" That question jarred her out of her sleepy haze.
"Hugh?"

"Why did you choose him to be the 'father'?"
"He looks like you."

"I see." Sakura's face scrunched up. What was that supposed to mean?
"Do you spend time with him?"

"Yes, I have to keep a charade of being his girl friend. He's actually being a really good sport about this."
"Hn. He doesn't take advantage of you?" HIs voice sounded as if he could careless if Sai did.

"No! nothing like that." Sakura knew Sasuke's careless tone belied his jealousy, of which she couldn't help but enjoy.
"So he doesn't touch you?" The way he said 'touch' made the fine hair on her arm stand.

"No of course not! Naruto and my self would beat him to a pulp. And he's not like that."
"So today what happened at the market place rarely happens?" He didn't sound like he would believe her if she said anything else.

Wait! He was there today at the market place?

Before she could ask anything he was up off the couch and picking up the dish's from the table and taking them to the kitchen. She saw him come and go, from the kitchen to the dining table. Until he started washing the dish's.

I could get used to this. Sakura sighed. She got up and decided to help him. Look we are almost acting like a normal couple! He's even acting like a jealous boy friend! She grinned at that thought.

Sasuke eyes the kunouchi as she hummed and put away the dish's. His eyes scanned her from head to toe. As much as he liked her wearing his shirt, he would very much like it if she wasn't wearing anything…
Don't dare to finished that thought Uchiha! You came back to inform her and now that you are done, its time to leave.

Sakura noticed Sasuke tense up beside her before he left her in the kitchen with out a word, and head for her bedroom.
Sakura of course, quickly followed.

She was in time to witness him zip the last zipper in his back pack .

"Sasuke?"
"I have to go."
"So soon?"

He didn't answer her, only looked at her. Sakura took a quick steps till her chest was almost touching his.
"When will you be back?" She asked in whisper.
"When they are dead. "

But they she assumed Orochimaru and Itachi.

"But that could be a long time and yomghgmmm."

His best method of quieting her was simply to kiss her.
It had worked many times.

One hand wrapped in her soft pink hair keeping her head in place while his other arm went around her waist holding her against him. He kissed her hard, robbing her of her very breath and senses. His tongue quickly melding with her before pulling back completely.

His voice as thick as honey and sexy as night.
"I don't know what's happening Sakura, but what I do know is, I want you." This time she pulled him down for a kiss.

It was slow and sweet, she was trying to remember feel of his teeth against her lower lip, how it felt to be wrapped in his safe arms, with his scent of him engulfing her. How his nose bumped hers while they kissed. How is hair felt when she buries both her hands into the thick dark locks. They way he would pull her closer, melding their two bodies.

Sasuke pulled away when he felt one of her hands slide under his shirt. Her eyes were closed as she rest her head on his chest, trying hard not to cry. His lips rested next to her ear as he softly whispered to her.

"Until next time, Uchiha Sakura." She felt a cold metal ring being placed on her finger. And then in rush of leaves he was gone.

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TBC...

AN: Thank you so much for the reviews. Sadly school will be starting again. I hope to finish this part soon. Another two or three chapters. And the second part will be up during x-mas break or next spring... depends on how much time I have. Again thanks for the reviews.

About the chapters, these are all the chapters, it says on my fic body ch 15, labels it 16, cuz if you look back..I did the chapter 9a and 9b thing. And for those who noticed ch2 is a part repetition of ch1, that's cuz I added to chapter one, chapter two and didn't delete ch2. Why? Ch one on it's own sucks and doesn't give enough body.