Chapter 14 Baby and a Thank you.

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Under the dim hospital light, Sakura lets out a scream as Tsunade encourages her. "Push Sakura. Push just a little more."

A pair of deep blue eyes stares into the room, looking around to notice no one in the room except Sakura's mother and father. "Why did no one come?" The man asks himself as he watches Sakura give birth. "Not even Sasuke-teme. He's the father, he should be here if I'm here."

Naruto masks his presence as he wears a normal ANBU outfit, so as to not be interrupted by anyone.

"Sasuke-teme is a lucky man. He got Sakura-chan and all his dreams came true...maybe I should have walked his path. Maybe I should have strived only for power. Seems power gets you everything."

Naruto watches in sadness as Tsunade announces a healthy baby girl. Naruto gives a small smile. "That's nice, she always wanted a daughter. Eh Kyuubi."

"Indeed. We should go kit. The rains going to let up soon, and ANBU will be all over this place."

"Just a little longer fox. Please, just a little longer."

"Very well. I'll keep suppressing your chakra."

Naruto stares at the little girl, his eyes seemingly calling out to her and saying hello. Naruto pulls out a small red rose with a note attached.

He taps against the glass lingering against the Kyuubi's urge to vanish into the rain. He watches as Sakura's eyes cross with his and they pause for a few moments. Before Sakura can manage to react Naruto vanishes into the distant rain.

Tsunade looks to the window as she wipes the sweat away from her forehead. "Huh. I wonder who was at the window...wait."

Tsunade rushes over to the window, looking outside. Yet she only spots the rose with a note.

Tsunade lets out a deep frown. "At least you came Naruto, Sakura will be happy."

Tsunade turns around, snatching up the objects. Sakura lets out a few tears as she looks at the blue eyed pink haired baby girl. "She's got her fathers eyes, that's for sure."

Tsunade smiles. "Someone left you this Sakura-chan."

Sakura smiles. "I wish Naruto-kun would have come in to see his daughter."

Tsunade hands Sakura the rose as she reads the note:

Love is a precious thing that never wilts, like a rose frozen in time.

Tsunade looks to Sakura. "What are you going to name the girl?"

Sakura pauses for a moment. "I like Yuriko."

Tsunade nods her head. "Very well. Yuriko Uzumaki Haruno"

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Naruto flees from the city once more, yet something seems to hinder his path. "Where are you going Dobe?"

Naruto stops in his tracks. "Teme."

Sasukes eyes flicker to the sharingan. "I asked where you're going dobe."

Naruto shrugs Sasuke off coldly. "Away. That's what you wanted, right teme?"

Sasuke glares at Naruto. "I must redeem myself, I will not lose to a dobe like you."

Naruto glares back. "I'm sorry teme, but I don't feel like fighting you. I just want to walk alone."

Sasuke flips through several seals but Naruto flashes away in a yellow blur and appears behind Sasuke. "I told you I don't want to fight you teme. I just came to watch Sakura-chan give birth to your child. I'm surprised you weren't at your child's birth, she's your wife after all."

Sasuke flips around. "Fuck her. I don't care about that bitch. She's weak."

Naruto clenches his fist. "Sasuke you are the weak one. So weak that you can't see what you have."

Sasuke jumps around as he charges up the chidori. "Die."

Naruto shuts his eyes. "If you can kill me, I welcome death."

Sasuke closes in on Naruto. Naruto does not flinch as Sasuke drives the chidori through Naruto's chest. Naruto looks down at Sasuke's bloody arm. "Yet again, you can't strike me where I want you to...you can hit my heart when we aren't fighting, yet you miss when we are. Why can't you kill me? Why Sasuke. Why do you keep avoiding the fatal blow?"

Sasuke yanks his arm out of Naruto's chest as Naruto shuts his eyes. "You once told me I didn't know what loneliness was Sasuke...because I didn't have a family...but I know the other side of loneliness...the side that strives to be acknowledged...you who was acknowledged as great from birth could never know what its like to be ignored. You wished to be recognized for your strength, to be praised as being stronger than the man you looked up to. Even if it made you hated by all. You wanted to be told you were stronger than Itachi. Stronger than your brother. Well you were always stronger than your brother in my eyes. Because you did something your brother wouldn't do for you...you acknowledged me...you were the first to befriend me and make me feel like I wasn't a monster...make me feel happiness"

Naruto flickers behind Sasuke, his soft young voice whispering into Sasuke's ear. "Thank you for reminding me that I was always fated to be alone...thank you for showing me who I am Sasuke...I wish you would have accepted my acknowledgement. But this is where we part ways...I have always been alone, and that is how I shall always remain...goodbye Sasuke. Return to your family...and I shall return to my empty shadows, never to be heard from again. Please don't look back on me. I leave you my last gift and last request...make sure they never repeat my mistakes."

Naruto pulls out a book with his headband tied around it. "Make Sakura-chan is happy for me. Sell this book to pay for your child's future. It's the last thing I have left to give."

Naruto Hiraishi's away at a speed unseeable to Sasuke, leaving him in the cold rain. "What have I done...? What did I do...? Am I really that weak that I hurt all those around me just for power...? Just for power, I condemned so many to death."

Sasuke looks at the book as a simple written note drops down. "Naruto Uzumaki October 10, 1455 - October 10, 1471.

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Sasuke sits down in his mansion, staring at the blue headband covered in blood. He takes in a deep breath. "In the end I'm just like Itachi...I befriended Naruto...then I took away everything he strived and worked so hard for right out from under him...just for power."

Sasuke stares down at the headband. "He's really not coming back this time. This was his headband when we were all a team...what's this book about? Hmm."

Sasuke unties the headband, running his fingers over the engraved title "Heart of a Broken Soul...sounds like a tragic love novel."

Sasuke stares down at the picture on the cover. He sees a traditional gravestone soaked by the rain with a red rose sitting on the gravestone. The name on the gravestone is distorted and blurred, unreadable from the cover.

As Sasuke reads over the Author's bio he notices there are two bios. One of which is Naruto using the pen name of Shin Nami(...not very creative of me eh...note to self...come up with something before posting...if not leave this author note in. XD)

Sasuke looks at the black and white photo noticing that Naruto has straight hair and is using a genjutsu to hide the whiskers on his cheeks. He even wears glasses while he pets a sleek red fox. Sasuke raises an eyebrow noticing the fox. "When did he learn how to summon foxes? That's impressive."

Sasuke opens the book to the first chapter and notices quite a few hand drawn features in the book, such as the first chapter has a picture of what the boy looks like. He is a small blonde boy with red eyes and whiskers. He even has fox tails and ears. "Hn...that must be Naruto." Sasuke studies the boys shadow and notices a silhouette of the Kyuubi no Kitsune.

Sasuke raises the book to begin reading when a few neatly folded papers fall out of the back. Sasuke opens the back of the book as a few more fall free from its crisp grip. He notices that the back of the book is the whole team 7 team as adults

Kakashi looks much like himself with Pakkun on top of his head sitting in a tree above them with his book. Naruto with his fox ears and tails. Sasuke with a very creepy face, his skin peeled off at his eye looking much like it was torn, revealing a lighter color of skin and his curse seal eye. Around his hands are snakes seemingly crawling down from his long sleeve shirt along with a pair of long blue baggy pants. (His part II outfit).

However Sakura has the most significant appearance earning a "Hn" From Sasuke as his eyes scan over her angel like features. She has a smile on her face as she stands between the two boys, her Angel wings seeming to embrace both of them, her long pink hair flowing down to her hips as she wears a snow white kimono with pink Sakura petals flowing down it in a diagonal pattern.

"Hn. He over did it on Sakura..."

Sasuke takes his eyes away from the book looking down at the six sheets of neatly folded paper on the floor. He unfolds each one noticing they are all of Sakura. He runs his hand across the one of just her face with a small smile. He notices the water stains on the paper. "He really did love her didn't he?"

Sasuke lets out a deep sigh. "I'm going to publish this book with a message to the author. Maybe if Naruto reads it he'll come back. He's bound to buy a copy of his own book. I'll talk to Sakura in the morning ask what she would want me to put for her part."

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"Naruto-kun have you ever delivered a baby." Shouts out a panting and aggravated girl.

"I'm 15! You honestly think I have? I saw Tsunade deliver Sakura-chan. All I know is to tell you to push."

Kimiko glares. "I'm fucking pushing! It's not helping URG just cut the damn thing out!"

Naruto shakes his head. "That's suicide. Just push. Push when you feel the pressure. Push as hard as you can."

"AGGGGHHH!!"

"PUSH!"

"AHHHHHHH!!"

"I can see the head, keep going."

"Ahhhhh!"

"Congratulations, it's a baby boy."

Naruto explains as he cleans the baby in a warm towel before wrapping it into a fresh one and handing it to Kimiko.

Kimiko gives a smile. "I guess sending you to watch Sakura give birth was a good idea."

Naruto nods his head. "Hai, so what are you going to call him?"

Kimiko smiles. "Ichiro. Ichiro Kichi Uzumaki."

Naruto rolls his eyes. "Kimi-chan, stop that. It will be Ichiro Uzumaki Kichi."

Kimiko frowns. "Fine Naruto-kun."

Kimiko frowns noticing the raven black hair, but smiles as he opens his eyes revealing a beautiful almost entrancing purple. "Naruto-kun, I bet he'll have your strength and charm with the ladies. You better raise our son to be too kind."

Naruto nods his head. "She still continues to claim it as mine. Hey Kyuubi, can you tell whether he's our child?"

"No I can't tell Naruto. I can't tell because my connection to the child is still very weak. But your child has definitely been born. I bet you this one's him."

"Are you positive Kyuubi?"

"Who else would have your child? You've only been with two women and you ruled Sakura out after you saw her give birth."

"Yeah I guess you're right. Regardless, I'm not letting this child grow up fatherless."

"Good."

"I'm going change Kimi. You should rest." Naruto says as he unties the apron. Kimi just nods her head, falling back into the pillows of the bed. "Hai, good idea."

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Sasuke knocks on the hospital door, his eyes still tired from spending most of the night reading through Naruto's novel. He found it horribly depressing and really didn't like his Idea of making a copy for Sakura, but eventually decided it was better if he did. He spent over two hours at the Konoha book store getting the book copied.

Sasuke finally enters the room to see Sakura cradling the infant. Sakura turns her gaze. "Oh, you're here. What do you want? Are you going to try and kill Naruto's baby?"

Sasuke hangs his head low, expecting such a blow. He shakes his head. "Nah. I came to give you something and apologize Sakura."

Sakura raises an eyebrow, not believing a single word. She holds up the chain on her wrist. "Why should I believe you? You destroyed my life and tried to rape me the last time we met."

Sasuke holds up his hands above his head. "I didn't come here to fight. I came here to talk about Naruto."

Sakura shakes her head. "How do I know this isn't some sort of trick?"

Sasuke lets out another sigh. "Because last night Naruto opened my eyes to how fucked up I've become and I want to change."

Sakura begins moving her fingers, performing one handed seals. "Yeah right. That's the biggest load of shit I've heard come out of your mouth since the day you said you loved me."

Sasuke lets out a sigh. "At least hear me out before you kill me, isn't that something a shinobi does."

Sakura glares. "I'm not a normal shinobi. I don't get friendly with my enemies."

Sasuke frowns. "You've changed more than I have Sakura. Naruto would be depressed if he knew how much you changed. At least hear me out for Naruto's sake."

Sakura glares. "Hmm. Only because I don't want to wake Yuriko-chan up."

Sasuke lets out deep breath. "Thank you Sakura."

Sakura continues her glare. "Out with it."

Sasuke nods his head pointing to the red rose. "Naruto visited last night didn't he."

Sakura nods her head. "I guess you could say that. More like watched from outside the window."

Sasuke pulls out Naruto's book. "Last night Naruto visited me too."

Sakura notices the book. "What's that?"

Sasuke tosses Sakura the book. "It's Naruto's book. He gave it to me after making me realize how fucked up I've become."

Sakura catches the book "Hn"

Sasuke pulls out a copy of the original. "This is the original. I'm reading it over, but before I publish it for him I want to add a note in hopes he'll read it and maybe come back to the village."

Sakura glares. "Why didn't you just tell him to stay? Tell him the truth?"

Sasuke lets out a sigh. "At the time I wanted to kill him. After he just stood and took my chidori he showed me my error in judgment and vanished before I could say anything."

Sakura rolls her eyes. "How do I know this isn't one of your tricks. How do I know this is Naruto's?"

Sasuke frowns. "Look inside and read it if you need too. I'm not lying this time."

Sakura sets the book down. "Another time."

Sasuke nods his head noticing how edgy Sakura is getting. "I'll leave you be. I left some things I think Naruto held dear. I'm guessing he forgot he left them inside his book. Either way they're yours now. When you're not in such a bitch mood I'll return. Tsunade's keeping you here for a week."

Sakura nods her head. "I'm perfectly fine, but she wants to watch the baby."

Sasuke nods his head. "Later Sakura."

Sakura just glares at Sasuke as he leaves. When he's finally out of sight Sakura turns her stare onto a soft gaze as she looks down at her new daughter and smiles a genuine smile. "Sleep tight Yuriko-chan. I won't ever let Sasuke-teme hurt you."

A few hours later Sakura finds herself eyeing the book. "What's teme up to? I can't see any traps or genjutsu on the book. Maybe I'll give it a glance, but I'm horribly tired. He did say he left something of Naruto's in it."

Sakura battles her mind over checking the book. Finally giving in she grabs the book and very carefully opens it to have a few pieces of folded paper fall out. She sets the book aside unfolding the first picture of the team. She smiles at how much Naruto seemed to focus the whole drawing on her. Putting much more detail into her and the angel look than everything else. It reminded her of how innocent she used to be and how Naruto still saw it inside her. She smiles at how wicked Sasuke looks, knowing full well that Naruto despised Sasuke. She even saw the Kyuubi silhouette. She runs her fingers across Naruto, giving a sad smile. "I miss you Naruto-kun, I wish you'd come back."

After spending a long time on the picture Sakura moves to the others. She picks up the one of her face, noticing the water stains she can clearly tell are tears and the smudgings on her cheeks clearly showing her that she was still dear to Naruto's heart. The picture drew tears from Sakura. She wanted to leap out of bed and hug Naruto, yet she knew that was impossible. She had given birth only 8 hours ago and she couldn't leave until Tsunade let her. Sakura decided to lay the picture out on the desk to admire later along with the team picture Naruto had drawn.

Sakura opens up another picture, noticing this time its a make out picture of her and Naruto. She is being swung up off her feet in Naruto's hug as he kisses her deeply. She has her tail twisted with Naruto's. The picture touches Sakura, making her happy as she remembered the date they first kissed.

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Sakura had had a nice picnic lunch with Naruto as they sat under a Sakura tree, the wind blowing Sakura's hair in a gentle motion. The day was a perfect day. Nice and cool, the air was fresh with the spring bloom, and the Sakura petels were just coming out to bloom. Naruto had managed to overly charm Sakura with his words as she blushed a deep shade of red. Naruto stood up getting ready to leave. "Come Sakura-chan. Let's go for a walk."

Sakura stumbles to her feet, her mind still wrapped in Naruto's complements, causing her to fall into Naruto's arms and he catches her with a soft grip. "Sakura-chan, you okay?"

Sakura blushes more, noticing how clumsy she was acting. Never before on any of their lunch breaks had she lost her composure. She saw Naruto's eyes staring down at her with such kindness and compassion in them. She melted into his hug. Slowly she moved her lips closer to Naruto giving him a peck on the lips. The kiss seemed to shock Naruto so much that he lost his balance falling backwards to the ground causing Sakura to fall on top of him.

Naruto and Sakura just seemed to stare at each other for a long time until Naruto moves in for another kiss. Sakura kisses him back as they lay in the grass together. Sakura nestles her head against Naruto's chest as she quickly finds herself fading on the edge of consciousness, wanting to just lay in his arms forever. "I love you Naruto-kun." She whispers out.

Naruto just whispers back in a warm voice. "I love you too Sakura-chan."

Sakura falls asleep at the sound of his voice.

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"We slept like that for hours. I remember Tsunade getting pissed off that we missed our mission. She put me and Naruto on D ranked missions for a week until I explained what happened. Even then she still had us do D-ranks. Neither of us even cared about the punishments, we'd just create clones and lay around in the park all day

Sakura looks down at Yuriko. "I never imagined when I was little that I'd have Naruto's child. But I wouldn't change a thing except maybe having his ass here Grrr. Stupid Sasuke."

Sakura lets out a sigh as she lies back, setting the pictures aside. She places Yuriko back in her crib before letting herself drift asleep.

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(AN: Their you guys and girls go. Now you know who's is who. Congradulation for those that actually guessed right for those that didn't... Hahahah I got you good. Anyways yep Sasuke's become good. See I told you he'd eventually change... Just took the relization that he was his brother in so many ways. Thats all for now.)

Well I'm so sorry I didn't relized I mistaked so long ago making the update I placed the disclamer instead of the chapter I applogize to all those I had kept in so much susppence, Cries eyes out Sorry well now you have to chapter so party Sighs I guess I'll point this out... Sasuke is not getting off He's going to suffer for his actions so for DDD that just said he's getting off free he's not, Just how shall I say... I'm going to have fun with Sasuke Ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku.

Spoiler as well

Sighs I'm really trying not to let that review by DDD anyonmies get to me but Urg, Really pisses me off that someone would jump so quickly to conclusions that He would just get off, I said Yes Sasuke is becoming good but he is not getting off for his crimes. Twitchs Urg, I swear I'm pissed beyond piss trust me when I say this I don't tolerate acts of Rape or even attempted rape. Killing however hey he's a shinobi thats their job but rape is a diffrent story no person man or woman should have the right to force themselves on another person. But Sasuke is still a important key for the story right now so I can't just go killing him off least not untill the puppet master is reveiled. That is when Sasuke goes down SO FOR THE LAST TIME IF ANYONE ACCUSE ME OF SUPPORTING RAPE I WILL DISCONTINUE THIS STORY This is an dark fanfic angsty duh that why I wrote it but if you can't tell from this chapter Sasuke didn't successfully rape Sakura at all only attempted and If you notice on one of the other chapters... Sasuke didn't rape anyone their you have the truth of Sasuke for those that honestly can't handle the fic. Sighs Now I'm going to go work on my other fic's sorry for ruining the work for anyone that didn't jump to conclusions It's just well the only way I can put it is I'm not blind to the world and about a million people need to die for the crimes against humanity actually I'm sure their are more than that but before I turn this into a Rant I'm going to go take a few deep breaths and go write.