A few weeks later, Katsumi was sat in a courtroom, waiting to hear, Sasuke's sentence. She had gone through with her promise of cutting her hair, her crimson mane now rested just above her shoulders. She would never let it grow any longer than a few inches below her shoulders. She had clung to Ibiki's side through the whole court proceedings. She had to repeat everything that had happened. She had to listen to Neji tell the court what he saw and then the medical report. She had to listen to the Hinata, Kiba and Shino tell them what they saw and heard. She had cried the whole time. Sasuke had his say, calming that Kakashi and the others had made up, making Katsumi lie so that Kakashi could have her. Naruto was being sentenced in the same case but he would undoubtedly have a lesser sentence than Sasuke. Naruto explained how he believed that Kakashi and she were having an affair. How he had helped Sasuke because he tricked him. He kept telling them how sorry he was, he was even in tears, begging for her forgiveness.

She had learned that during the raid of the Uchiha estate, the room Sasuke made into his fetish room, had a recorder in it. When Sasuke was asked about where the missing tapes were, he told them, he sent them to his own brother. Katsumi was horrified that his brother had seen her in such a way. She only agreed to his needs because it was what he wanted but she had no idea she was being taped. The trail had to stop for a week while Itachi was contacted. Since the war, Itachi was able to return due to Uchiha massacre files were opened and it was revealed it was an order from the Hokage. He was also revealed to be the secret source of information on the Akatsuki. However, Itachi couldn't bear to stay in Konoha and was allowed to travel where he pleased as long as he still did top ranked missions for them. Itachi had told them he had no idea that Katsumi wasn't willing in the tapes. He had only watched one, the first one he received. He just assumed that Sasuke was trying to make him jealous and happy handed the tapes to Katsumi. Once the trail was over, she would have Ibiki destroy them.

Kakashi walked into the courtroom and everyone stood. He started to read out Naruto's charges, taking part and assisting in a kidnapping. Due to Naruto's clean history past his childhood and his war hero status, the council only gave him a few years as punishment. They could also see that Naruto was tricked however; he shouldn't have knowingly assisted in a kidnapping. It would be unlikely that he would now ever become Hokage.

Next was Sasuke. Kakashi read out the charges: domestic abuse; rape; kidnap and distributing indecent images without consent. He was given life in prison. Normally, this would have led to execution, however, the council won't allow it. They knew they couldn't get Itachi to willingly give them an heir with Sharingan. Many thought the eldest Uchiha was gay. Not that there wasn't anything wrong with it, it just wasn't a very common thing to happen, openly anyway. Although Katsumi was sure that Kakashi was in love with Iruka, they just needed a little push towards each other. The council ordered Katsumi to have a pregnancy test done. Inside, Katsumi knew she was pregnant. She had missed her last period. At first, she thought it could be due to stress. But really, she knew it wasn't. If she was pregnant then Sasuke would be allowed to live until the baby was born. This meant that, if she was to miscarriage, they still had Sasuke. If she wasn't pregnant, then Sasuke would have to donate his sperm, a willing suitable kunoichi would be inseminated. He would also be allowed to live until that child was born. No doubt, Sakura would jump to that chance.

Katsumi didn't want to have his child if she was pregnant, but she wouldn't be allowed to terminate due to its father. Normally, in Konoha, there was no problem getting abortions if the woman: had a life threating illness that could result in either/or both deaths; rape; if the baby won't survive, even incest. Women who didn't have those reasons were often frowned upon by others but they could still have an abortion. Katsumi sighed, there was no point in having this debate in her mind.

"Ibiki, will you still want me if I'm pregnant?" She asked worried as they left the courtroom.

"Of course, I will." He pulled her close to him. "I'll be with you all the way if you are. I'll help you raise it. I'll be there every step of the way." He reassured her. She hugged him tightly, thanking him. Ibiki smiled and held her close, earning a few strange looks from fellow shinobi. He and Katsumi hadn't been public with their relationship yet, they wanted everything to blow over before letting anyone know.

Ibiki took Katsumi to the hospital, knowing if she went on her own, she would just turn back around. She didn't want to know, she wanted to sweep it under the carpet and forget about it.

Katsumi was going to find out her blood results the same day, they were rushing them through so the council could know. She huffed in annoyance; she didn't want those old bats thinking they could dictate to her about her pregnancy. She would bring them hell if they thought they could dictate how she brought up the child too.

She was pregnant. Katsumi sat in the examination room in shock. She didn't respond to anyone. She was too busy trying to take in the news. Ibiki had to come in so he could note down the information she needed about nutrition and what she couldn't do at different stages of pregnancy. The doctor had also stressed that the council requested she was to take things as easy as possible to avoid miscarriage. They even suggested that she had a prenatal DNA test to ensure it was Sasuke's. Katsumi snapped out at that point and started shouting about how she knew it was his, that DNA wasn't needed. She was incredibly pissed off that they would think she had an affair. Ibiki had to make her sit down before she attacked the doctor.

The next day, the council requested Katsumi's presence. She grumbled the whole way to Kakashi's office. They wanted to dictate her actions now because she was carrying their precious cargo.

"This better be good." She muttered as she walked into the office with Kenzo hot on her heels. He had grown a little more since she got him. He was now finding it easier to keep up with her fast walking speed without having run.

"Katsumi, I'm glad you could make it." One of the old council members spoke up and she glared at him.

"If you want to dictate my every move and how I raise this child, you can shove it up your ass." She hissed at them.

"Pregnancy hormones already affecting you dear?" An elderly woman asked.

"No, I just don't think you should be sticking your old noses in my business. The child is mine, not yours and as far as I'm concerned, Sasuke was a sperm donor. He will have nothing to do with this child nor have any influence over it." She explained, already annoyed with them.

"We just want to make sure the child is born healthy." Another councilor spoke up, earning another glare from her.

"This is the last and only time you will have anything to say about ME, MY pregnancy and MY child." She told them, folding her arms under her chest. "The child will be born, taken care of, entered into the academy and not because you want that. But because MY child whoever the father was, would go to the academy. They will grow up and be given a team and sensei. This will be based on their skills alone. Do not interfere, if I find out that you do interfere, I will move myself and MY child to Suna. There will be nothing you can do about. MY child will grow up like everyone else's, not treated any different. Do you understand?" The whole time she made her speech, she stared down every single one of them, daring them to say anything.

"We understand." One of the spoke up. "We just want the child to have the best chance in life." Katsumi snorted at them.

"My child's life as a ninja will be based on skills alone." She told them. "I mean it when I say, I will go to Suna." She added.

"Very well, we will let you carry on now. Please inform us of your progress." Katsumi shook her head.

"No, you wouldn't ask any other kunoichi to do it, so don't tell me to." She told them as she walked towards the door. "Oh, and if I find out you stick your nose in my medical files, there will be hell to pay." She added before walking out of the door.

"She's just as scary as Ibiki when she's angry." Kakashi hummed in agreement. This was tame compared to what he had seen in the past.

"Just keep your distance from now on." Kakashi said lazily. "I warned you all." He added as they left the room.