I Do Not Own Naruto
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Blooming in Darkness
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The rhythm of the machines roused her as her head turned slightly. There was a familiar chakra pool in her stomach, she heard men arguing and she sighed as her eyes wearily wandered towards the bed next to hers'.
"I want to know how the hell he got in this village!?" she heard Itachi roar and winced as the sound echoed in her ears.
"Not so loud," she whispered hoarsely as she tried to turn her head away but she was looking at the bed beside her. her stomach felt odd, slowly she raised her hand and traced a flat like surface which had her confused and looking around.
"Hey! Hey kid," she saw Kakashi as he grabbed her hand and she stared into his dark eyes.
"Kakashi? Where's Sasuke?" she mumbled as she tried to sit up slowly. However there was no moving her lead like limbs.
"Beside you," he answered. She saw the tears in his eyes as his hand caressed her head. "You did well, you did well, Sakura," he murmured.
"Isobu?" she murmured. Blinding yellow followed by red came into her field of view, she winced at the sight of Minato and Kushina.
"We sealed him back in you, it wasn't easy, but… with the twins out and your seal properly broken this time it was easier to seal him away with a good seal," Minato informed her.
Her chest felt heavy with relief but then she looked at Kakashi.
"My babies?" she whispered.
"They're fine, they're perfect and safe," he assured her. Sakura tried to fight the oblivion that was fogging her mind and sight but she couldn't. She surrendered to it again with a sigh.
Sasuke was beside her, and she had had her babies. That was the best she could hope for as she surrendered to oblivion.
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When he had come too he had only looked at carnage around him. Itachi had never felt more terrified in his life aside from when he hadn't been able to find Sasuke or Izumi in the aftermath of the massacre.
What he had seen had shocked him.
His little brother, missing his left arm sprawled atop a dead unknown shinobi, Sakura bleeding half to death from a hemerage, Kakashi furiously trying to save her, and two babies quietly swaddled in rags as the Mighty Isobu stood over them all grumbling.
The carnage was tremendous and he had to give his brother props for annihilating an enemy.
Itachi felt relieved seeing Sakura for a moment blearily awake and then he relaxed against a wall.
"I don't care what it takes, I don't care who you summon for this investigation, Minato, but find out who the hell wanted to fuck with my family," he finally managed to get out through clenched teeth. His rage knew no bounds at the moment as he stood up and went to go visit the babies.
Itachi was rarely driven by his emotions, however, where his family: Izumi, Sasuke, Isamu, Sakura, and Kakashi; were concerned he was very emotional. They were everything, and when he walked to the nursery he found himself looking at the babies Sakura had nearly died giving birth too. The two who were silent the entire time.
Both of them were healthy, when Tsunade had come too she had done a thorough testing of their health and found nothing wrong with either of them. He softened as he looked at the twins, one with ebony hair crowning their head and the other with light pink tuffs, both of their eyes were onyx coloring which was normal and they were both a balance of Sasuke and Sakura.
He sighed and decided he was going home to his wife and son before he lost his composure again.
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Kakashi just sighed as he relaxed against Sakura's bed and held her hand then. After everything that had happened he would only ever be happy seeing her awake. He stared at her for a long while, stroking her hair and then he pulled away as he looked to Minato and Kushina.
"His name was Yagura," Kakashi supplied. He knew who that bastard was after having faced him in a fight before Rin's abduction. Yagura had been a known associate with Ao and Mei, they were an elite team from the Mist, at least that's what Kisame had said when he had come here hearing that Sakura and Sasuke were here.
"Kakashi, we…" Minato falter and Kakashi looked back at his girl, his kid, his sanity and saving grace some days.
"I don't care Minato, all I care about is that she's alive, and that the babies are alive," Kakashi admitted as he looked at her sleeping face.
"We just…" Minato sighed in frustration.
"I get it, I'm just happy she's alive Minato, this is my kid," Kakashi said firmly. "Short of being my flesh and blood she's my kid, and Kami do I love her. I'm just relieved that's she's alive, that she's here, and that she's… she's happy, safe and protected."
The Fourth seemed to accept this as he and his wife left and Kakashi stared at his kid for a long time before sighing. He really was just grateful that she wasn't dead, he had thought her to be dead for a while after they had carted her and Sasuke here. For several long, horrible hours he had feared that they had both perished.
So he meant it when he said he was just happy that she was alive.
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He groaned when he felt his world spinning and opened his eyes.
"Sakura!" he shouted and lurched up only to see his father-in-law standing there against the wall. He groaned as he rubbed his face with his right hand. He had thought it odd that his left was unresponsive but he didn't dwell on it as he looked at Kakashi.
"Sakura?" he inquired.
"Beside you, alive, sleeping from blood loss," Kakashi answered and he looked over at the pale form to his left. He moved to reach for her and stared at a stump where his arm had been. There had beena damaged, burnt, bleeding limb here the last that he had seen it. "You blasted it off, as best we can tell, with chidori."
"Hn," he grunted and slowly swung his legs off the bed. He just wanted to curl up beside Sakura and sleep until he wasn't tired anymore. "The babies?"
"They were delivered, two very healthy, unusually quiet children."
He nodded and he carefully stood as he wobbled his way over to where his wife was and sat down beside her.
There was a soft moan from her side of the bed but he maneuvered her to where he wanted and where she'd be comfortable before curling up beside her.
"Sasuke," the voice called to him and he looked over to his father-in-law then. "I didn't like you marrying Sakura," he admitted. "However, I see that you love her very much and she loves you just as much. So, as her father or guardian, I'm warning you now, fuck it up and I'll rip your heart out and feed it to you up your ass and then chidori you until you don't know up from down."
"Aa," he submitted.
"Good, and just so you know, I'm proud of you, very proud and grateful to you," Kakashi admitted.
Sasuke looked at the woman he had pulled into him and nodded. He could live with Kakashi's pride, and he was thankful that he had someone he considered a father figure proud of him.
"One more thing, Sasuke," Kakashi said before he surrendered to sleep. Sasuke peeled open his onyx eye and glared at his father-in-law then. "Just tell her you love her, she deserves to hear it," Kakashi said and then he left.
Sasuke looked at the woman beside him again and smirked.
He did love her, he had figure that out when he had been fighting that sandy haired freak and she was in need of his protection. He had fought with everything he had and everything he was, he had given up everything to fight that bastard and would lay his life down to keep her safe.
Closing his eyes he settled down beside her and decided to sleep. He just wanted to hold her tightly to him and never let her go. It was important to him to never let her go.
Every memory he had of her came flooding in then and he just let them all come, the good, the bad, the unusual and the ugly. And he savored having them all swirl around in his dreams as he slept.
"Sakura," he whispered when he was waking again and he saw her staring at him with sleepy green eyes.
"You're alright," she smiled sleepily.
"Aa," he agreed.
"Good, I love you," she mumbled and he stiffened as he felt like he had been struck by lightning again by her blunt statement and then she was sound asleep again.
"Uchiha, we have…" a voice started and he looked over at nurses holding swaddled bundles in their arms.
"Sakura," he murmured. "Sakura, wake up."
"Mmm?" she moaned as she tried to move.
"Sakura, there's some people here to meet you," he mumbled sleepily. Her green eyes opened he sat up carefully on his one arm as she moved to sit up.
"Who's here?" she asked with a yawn.
"I believe you know these two, Tsunade-sama said we should have you meet them now officially," the nurse said and they wlaked over. He peeked over at them and stiffened when his arm was filled awkwardly with a tiny, fragile, light bundle.
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Sakura stared down at Sasuke's eyes in her baby and smiled as she traced the soft cheek of her child. Her husband on the other hand was sitting as if he were holding a ticking time bomb which had her peeking over at her other baby. She smiled a bit seeing his eyes in their child again.
"Two girls," the nurse informed her and Sasuke's head snapped to them.
"WHAT!?" he nearly shouted and she saw him pale dangerously then.
"Yes sir, you are the proud father of two, perfectly healthy baby girls," the nurse chuckled and Sakura giggled a little before leaning on him again.
"Girls," she mused as she stared in wonder at the pink haired baby in her arms and she looked at her husband.
"Shit! They are not dating!" he snapped at her and she giggled.
"They're babies Sasuke," she pointed out sleepily as she looked over to her ebony haired daughter who had a full head of hair.
"No! they are time bombs and if they look like you I'm screwed," he grumbled after the nurses left them. She giggled and traced her baby's cheek some more.
"I don't see how," she said softly.
"Simple, if they're like you, no boy stands a chance," Sasuke stated.
"Mm," she agreed though she wasn't paying him attention now as she gently brushed her pinkette's light dusting of hair, it was so soft. "And how does being like me get boys, I don't remember one boy vying desperately for my attention."
"Because I always had it," he stated and she blinked at him as she looked up at him. "I never fought for your attention, you gave it to me. And I never had to chase you, you were always with me, and I sure as hell never had to worry about someone stealing you, you were mine."
"Sasuke?"
"Uchiha Sakura, I love you," he informed her coldly and she gasped as she stared at him. the warmth that bloomed though had her smiling as she stared at his serious black eyes.
"Really/"
"Since I first saw you," he said flatly and she blinked.
"You called me annoying!" she snapped.
"And you still are, and I still love you," he admitted softly as he kissed her temple. She smiled a bit. "But please, no more daughters."
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Blooming in Darkness! =)
