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Chapter 19: Where Sasuke is in pain

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"Because Sakura-chan just peed in her pants? I don't know if that's a valid reason… but ….um yeah." Naruto pointed with both hands at his female best friend.

Everyone looked at where Naruto and Sakura were.

Kakashi's one visible eyebrow almost is his hair line. His former students just all around had bad timing.

Sakura moaned in pain staggering where she stood leaning the nearest tree. If she wasn't in so pain she would have been terribly embarrassed. To have her water break in the presence of males, but hey they had all seen her at her worst before right? This was a mere smudge of that list.

Sai's eye widened in horror, she was going into labor NOW?
"Sakura?" He made to walk to his friend wincing from his many cuts and bruises.

But the Uchiha beat him to it.

Sasuke quickly made his way to stand behind his wife, letting her lean back on his chest. He put one hand around her waist letting her bury her face in the crook of his neck as she moaned in agony. Her tears wetting his shirt.
"Naruto, run ahead to the hospital and tell them she's on her way." Naruto cast Sakura a worried glance and followed Sasuke's order.

The first words his rival/best friend was speaking to him a few years were an order. However, this was not time to argue or fight. Sakura-chan came first.

Sasuke turned to Kakashi next, while picking up the whimpering women into his arms. Holding on to her tightly regardless of her wet clothing.
"Sakura, has an overnight bag next to her bed. She will be needing it."

Sakura squeezed his bicep and let out a low moan in distress, and Sasuke was off, headed in the general direction of Konoha hospital. He tried his best not to jostle her too much while he was roof hopping.

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Kakashi turned to Sai. "I seem to have forgotten where Sakura lives."

Sai rolled his eyes, and staggered to his feet, stumbling a few times. They both knew the copy ninja had a perfectly good idea where Sakura lived. Nevertheless he nodded his head in agreement to cooperate.

The traitor will most likely be disguised as me anyway when he reaches the hospital.
Not to mention Sai had to bandage his numerous wounds.

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And he was. When Uchiha Sasuke carried his wife into the hospital, he was greeted as 'Sai' and quickly ushered to the maternity ward by three nurses. It seemed like Naruto had properly done his job, of alerting the correct hospital staff.

Shizune quickly appeared in front of Sasuke.

"Sai, follow me quickly-" she led him past a few corridors turning left and right- "the doctor and the nurses are ready, if you would like to go in, I need you to go with Lilly and wash up-" she pointed to a nurse with green hair- "and you will be given a smock , mask and gloves, but first Sai…I need you to put Sakura down on this bed."

Shizune opened two double door and led him to a bed which had various monitors set up next to it and was surrounded by the three nurses from before and a doctor all dressed and ready for battle-er-birth.
Sasuke gently laid his whimpering wife down, but not before she gave his neck a good squeeze to relive some her pain. The Uchiha took it all without so much as batting an eye lash.

"You will come back won't you?" She asked breathless, sweat pouring down her temples.
"Yes." Then he was quickly let out by the nurse to get ready.

"How long will this take?" Sasuke asked the nurse with green hair.
"Any where between two to twenty four hours. But then again there are always exceptions." The Uchiha only grunted in answer.

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It was already 8 hours meaning it was 11pm. And Sasuke was nearing his wits end. His ear drums were ready to burst from Sakura's screams, and her swearing had made the doctor pause and look at him as if saying ,'Are you as shocked as I am? Or does she always spew profanities like this?'

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Naruto was waiting outside, and he wasn't alone, Ino and Hinata were keeping him company, more like keeping watch over him.

Lee was pacing back and forth making Neji dizzy. He didn't even know why he was here. Oh yes, Tenten had dragged him with her. Of course he didn't want to be on the bad side of his girl friend anytime soon. But this was too much.

Neji whispered to Tenten that he was going to go meditate in the hospital gardens. Tenten nodded smiling, when he bent down to kiss her forehead before making a hasty exit.
All the while Kakashi read from his orange book. No one thought it would be polite to point out that he hadn't turned a page in the last eight hours. Now where was Sai?

Sai was tending to his battle wounds at home using all the salves that Sakura had given him long ago. Sai had asked Hinata to give him a signal when he should "appear". Seeing as Sasuke was "borrowing" his appearance. He really didn't want to get into another fight with the Uchiha in his current state.

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There was another loud scream and Naruto leapt up from his seat.

"WHAT are they doing to her?" Ino shoved him back down.
"They are trying to HELP her, and birthing isn't an easy process."
The loud ninja was at a loss. "Isn't there a painLESS way to do this?"
Ino shook her head. "Nope", they could always do a C-section, but was too complicated to explain to a male, especially Naruto.
Naruto slumped back into his seat.

"I'm going to kill the teme for causing her this much pain." He muttered cracking his knuckles.
"And I shall join you!" Lee chimed in then went back to his single minded task of pacing.

Kakashi snorted and commented from behind his book. "I'm sure right know he would rather be dealing with you Naruto, then Sakura."

Ino surveyed those around her.
"2000 Yen she will break an appendage of his?"
Again Kakashi spoke from his book. "Completely unfair. We all know that is going to happen. 5000 yen for she will not let him sleep with her for another six months."

"I'm in."
All head turned to the weapons specialist.
"What? After that much pain what women would let a man sleep with her for the next year?"

Kakashi coughed.

And Lee paced some more.

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Sasuke looked at the clock, it was one am.

"You are giving birth to our child on the 12th of November." He sounded so pleased with him self that Sakura decided to break a few bones while calling him a pompous fucker who needed to keep his mouth shut.

"Kuso! Sakura you just broke my wrist!" He hissed while a nurse quickly grabbed the injured hand, and healing it with her chakra, while Sakura took hold of his other hand.
"That won't be the only thing I'll be breaking!" Sasuke gulped and decided to keep his mouth shut.

"Come on Sakura, keep breathing as the nurse is instructing you." The doctor instructed from her position between Sakura's legs . This was one slow birthing process.

There was actually a nurse behind Sakura' s head telling her exactly how she should be breathing, but Sakura was too far in her pain to be following the instructions continuously.
"I am damn it! When will this be over? I want to push already! I want my mother! Most of all I want my epidural!" She wailed. Her eyes full with tears of pain and frustration.

All Sasuke heard from the doctor who was murmuring to the nurse next to her was, "You are not ready to push-you…. made me promise…epidurals this early in your labor may increase the risk of using forceps or a c-section." the rest was cut off as Sakura yanked Sasuke so that he was hovering over he face. Her lips close to his ears. The nurse still healing his hand.

"Sasuke this hurts so much. It a million times worse then being stabbed with a kuni a few hundred times… I don't think I can do it any more, I'm so tire-AHHH!"
The whispered comment ended in a blood curling scream. Sasuke shut his eyes tight willing his ears to stop ringing. He entwined his fingers with hers and let his forehead rest against hers.

"It's almost done, just a little more. You are doing fine." He swiftly kissed her sweat drenched forehead and pulled his other hand away from the nurse who had been healing it, so that he could push sweat drenched pink strands of hair that had fallen over sea foam eyes.

His hand was healed and the nurse had been holding on to the appendage for too long.

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Tsunade joined the wait room crew. It was three am and her apprentice had yet to give birth.
"Is Sai in there with her?" She asked the room at large.

Kakashi and Naruto kept silent since they knew exactly who was in the delivery room with Sakura and who wasn't.

It was Lee who decided to answer.
"Yes he is Tsunade-sama."
"Well at least he's doing something right. How come Sakura's parents aren't here?"

Again no one immediately answered her question. Everyone was too busying shooting each other accusing glances, as if saying "why didn't you go get them?"

"I take it from your silence that no one thought it inform her parent's. Kakashi I expected better from you. And Lee STOP pacing! You're wearing out a hole in the floor!" Lee stopped. "I shall go inform Sakura-chans parents!"
When he was gone Naruto sat back. But then jumped up when he heard another tortured scream.

"Yeah dead man."
The only sound in the wait room there after was of Naruto cracking his knuckles.

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"You can start to push now Sakura. But do it when I say so… push!"

The doctor encouraged her, while Sasuke felt like his right hand was about to be broken again.
"God damn it I'm never sleeping with you again!"

"I want you to push as hard as you can this time, okay Sakura?"

"Next time you giving birth!" Sakura was barley pay attention to the doctor. Her attention was trained to the young man next to her. Who continued to stroke her damp hair.

"Push again Sakura, that's it, you're doing great."
"Bloody fuck why do you have to be such a horny insufferable prick?"
Sasuke's eyes brows shot up. And his cheeks turned the slightly bit of red.
"Sakura, this is no place to-"

"But you are horny! If you weren't I wouldn't be here! What the hell happened to your bloody control. WHY me?" She wasn't making any coherent sense at this point.
Sasuke tried reasoning with her, poor guy didn't stand a chance.
"Sakura I seem to remember that it takes two to-"

"Make a baby? Yes I-AHHHHHHH-know. But-shit this hurts-if you weren't so insistent-Holy mother f!- this would NOT-GAHHHH-have happened!"
By this time Sasuke's hand was turning blue since Sakura had effetely cut off blood circulation to it.

Sasuke truly was at a loss. He had NO idea what to say or do. He knew that it was the pain talking not Sakura. Nevertheless, he was a shinobi, he wasn't trained to help pregnant women give birth. This was completely out of his field of specialty.
He leaned down to kiss her cheek.
Sakura noticed his lips come close to hers.

"Oh no you don't!"

Slam!

She rammed her forehead into his nose. "Keep those lips away from ME! Or so help me Kami-sama I'll rip them out!"

"Arhh shhhut Sakuurah" Sasuke swore as he held his bleeding nose with one hand. It was as if the nurse who had healed his hand was waiting for something like this to happen, for she was quickly fixing his nose, after sickening crack it was set back in place and she had given him a cloth to wipe away the blood.

He was getting more injuries here then he had gotten fighting Sai. Sasuke looked down at his wife who had her eyes shut tight her teeth biting into her bottom lips. And Sasuke forgot his pain and shock, and was back to 'helping' his wife bring their child into the world.

The doctor spoke up again. "That's good Sakura I want you to relax for a bit and then we will do a few more big pushes."
"REST? HOW can I rest? Did you hear her? She said REST!"

"I think she means you can stop pushing for a short while." Sasuke really should have kept his comment to him self right there.
Sakura lurched up and grabbed him by his collar brining him down to her level.
"Keep-deep breath in- your bloody mouth -deep breath out-SHUT. I KNOW what-pant-she means. I don't need YOU telling me! You arrogant , insensitive NIT WIT! "

At that moment Sasuke felt a fleeting wisp of fear. Her eyes were raging with furry and then suddenly pain. And he continued to hold her hand and stroke her hair. What else could he do?

Why does such a pleasurable act have to come such painful conclusion?

He leaned down to kiss her fore head again. Sakura lurched away.

"Don't touch me! That's how it all starts!"
Sasuke this time decided not to inform her that she wouldn't become pregnant with a kiss in the delivery room, nor would he try and have sex with her in this place.
"Alright, we'll do whatever you want Sakura."
"What I want is this child out of me NOW! And I never want to have sex with you!"

"Sakura push!"

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At 5:45am the doctor opened the delivery room doors. She was quickly cornered by Naruto. "Where is she? Is she okay? Oh my god is it a boy or a girl? What is Sakura-Chan doing-"

"Naruto!" Ino pulled him back away from the doctor. "Let the doctor speak!"

"It's okay Naruto-kun, Sakura and her baby are doing just fine. We moved them to a private room via the back doors of the delivery room. However the father has asked that you give the family a few moments alone."

More like demeaned but the doctor wasn't going to hold it against him. One broken wrist, a dislocated shoulder, some hair loss, three broken fingers, a dislocated nose…and she didn't know what other kind of injures he had sustained, but she figured the poor guy deserved to be left in peace for a bit, before being bombarded by his friends.

"Over my dead body!" Naruto stormed out of the waiting room before anyone could stop him.
"Naruto-kun!" Hinata tailed after her exuberant boyfriend."

Ino shook her head Naruto was utterly hopeless. She apologized to the doctors on behalf of her friend, since she was the only one awake. Even Tsunade had fallen asleep on the comfy waiting sofas. Ino made her way over to Sakura's parents and decided to wake them first. Since everyone else was asleep including Kakashi.

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TBC:...

Thank you soo much for your reviews for the last chapter to everyone.

As you can see this is not the last chapter. The last chapter is causing me a LOT of grief, because if I end it the way I want to ppl will be out to kill me. So i thought I'll post this real quick. Sorry i didn't up date last week. This is the latest I have held out on you guys, but I had two assignments due! Yeah and I'm already behind on this stupid essay...ah lets not go there.

lets not go there.