Chapter Three

Not much later Sasuke was sitting on Sakura's couch while she made an infusion to take away the pain that she was going to inflict on him. She pulled the needle out of the ice bucket and got some flesh wire to stitch up Sasuke wound. It was a small cut but it was deep and it would add to countless scars he already had. Sitting down next to him, Sakura spread some for the paste infusion onto his would numbing the skin around it. Pushing the needle into his skin she made loose stitches just to hole the skin together so she could heal it. She put her hand over the wound and a green light came from her finger tips. Slowly the skin melded together again leaving only a faint scar.

Sakura sighed and looked at Sasuke, his eyes were glazed as thought he wasn't really all there.

"Ok Sasuke." She said pulling him out of his daydream. "Now tell me what happened?"

Sasuke seemed like he was deciding if it was safe to tell her or not. He must have decided it was because after a wile he told her.

"I'm not really sure what happened. I was going to see Naruto to find out if there was anything I could do, and next thing I know is that I'm being thrown to the ground and a kunai is sticking in my arm. But that's all that happened. Whoever it was just ran away." He sad with a shrug. He leaned his head back onto the couch and closed his eyes. He opened them again and looked at his hand, as though he was trying to see if the cursed seal had come back. Itachi had made Orochimaru take it back, but Sasuke always missed the surge of power it had given him. But that wasn't why he was looking so intently at it now, he was looking for the burn that he got when he tried to steady himself on a beacon when he was attacked.

"I healed the burn too." Sakura said as if reading his mind. "I've gotten better at moving my charka away from the place where my hand is." She looked so proud of herself.

'She has every right to be,' Sasuke thought, 'about to become my brother's wife, and have a child,' his eyes wandered to her belly, 'also soon to become the best med-nin there ever was.' He looked back into here eyes and took old of her hand, fear suddenly crossed her face. "Don't worry Sakura, I know my boundaries when it comes to you." She relaxed and held his hand tightly.

She looked at the clock when it struck ten o'clock. "You should go Sasuke. Kakashi will be here soon to check up on me."

Sasuke pulled Sakura into a hug, "Keep Itachi's baby safe Sakura." There was only brotherly love in that hug, Sasuke knew that he had thrown away any chance with her, she was his brother's and he felt no jealousy about it. He let her go and got up. Sakura looked at him and knew he wasn't a danger anymore. "Bye." Sasuke said walking over to the door. He opened the door to come face-to-face with Kakashi.

"Sasuke." Kakashi said politely.

"Kakashi." Sasuke replied with a slight hint of fear in his voice. He ducked under Kakashi's arm and darted down the hall way.

"Sakura." Kakashi said to her his uncovered eyes looking at her. She knew he was smiling and could guess why.

"Kakashi. You were the one who attacked him weren't you?" She asked.

He nodded slightly, "Thought he'd go to you and get you to heal him. Looks like I was right. Sort things out I hear."

"You were listening!" Sakura started to laugh and got up to hug Kakashi.

"You'll get used to it Sakura." He hugged her back and then made her sit down again. He placed his hands onto her bell and felt to see how much the baby had grown. "So how's the baby coming along?"

"Fine. Get morning sickness now, and huge cravings, but otherwise the baby and I are fine." She said thinking of how she had had to run of to the bathroom when Itachi had made eggs that morning. "Anything interesting happen in the meeting today?" She asked wondering what she had missed because of not being able to attend. Itachi's orders.

"No not really. Mostly that we need more people to train as med-nins. Shows how much we need you back huh?" He said laughing with her.

"Well Kakashi as much as I hate to say this but I need to get some sleep. I didn't get enough last night. I was eating too much. The cravings thing." She added when Kakashi looked at her oddly. "So if you don't mind, do you think you could leave? Sorry if this seems rude or anything."

"Not at all Sakura. You need rest, I understand entirely. Sleep well." He kissed her on the fore head and left. It wasn't long before the slave Kakashi had put on belly worked it magic and she fell asleep on the couch. Also taking away most of her cravings and settling her stomach so morning sickness wouldn't affect her so much the next morning. Kakashi planned to use that on her as often as he could. 'She needs this so don't you dare feel guilty about it.' He though to himself.

Itachi came to a cave and decided that he would sleep here tonight. He needed sleep. Sakura had kept him awake a lot last night, it seemed like she was going to eat everything they had. Plus the morning sickness she had gotten when he tried to cook her breakfast. A fond smile played at his lips, and his heart longed to go back and fall into her arms. The only thing that kept him going was the thought that he would lose her if he didn't complete what he had set out to do.