Chapter 5

I am soooo sorry for such a long delay, the only thing I can say is that life got in the way and I got writers block. However, I do plan to do more updates regualary and also go back edit my previous chapters now that I'm a few years old and have taken a few more story writing classes…

Since so much has happened since I've last updated, I'm sticking to my alternate timeline but I will add in the characters from the current series, I promise this will be good!

Thanks so much for the patience and reviews! I do not own Naruto.

It was a few years later, friends had married, started families.

Naruto and Hinata had married four years ago and already had three children with a mix of their family bloodlines, with a fifth on the way. They had two girls and one boy; the fourth was currently a mystery, but a blessing. Tenten and Neji had finally committed to marriage after so many years of waiting for the family to give their blessing and Neji just being stubborn. It took Tenten to threating to leave if they did not get married. It's been two years since they married and they just announced last month they were expecting their first child. Shikamaru and Ino married two years ago and have one daughter. Kakashi and Anko finally admitted there was something between them and currently live together and talks of children and marriage just starting to come up. Gaara was in marriage talks with a young woman from his village who apparently has had a crush on him since their childhood. Kankuro, Chouji, Lee, Shino, Sai, Tenmari, and Kiba were still single but their mothers were starting to pressure marriage…

Yet for Sakura still was not a mother nor married. Her friends pushed her to marry Sasuke but Sakura just smiled and said it was fine, their relationship. However she wasn't, she wanted a life that she had dreamed of yet…she was not there yet. She was just a lover to Sasuke, a warm body to be next to in the middle of the night when he awoke from a nightmare and she held him and kissed him, soothing him. However, after they made love and would cuddle, she felt content and at the same time, she felt the need to push him away from denying her something she wanted. She wanted to be his wife, the mother to his children. So what if they had a nice house in the rebuilt city of Konaha and it was large enough for them and maybe two children. It was full of memories, but for her it still felt large and vacant when Sasuke was gone at times and she was alone. She wasn't sure how he felt when she left on missions, but she hoped he felt the same way too.

Sakura got out of bed one night and wrapped her robe around her slim body and looked at the moon.

'Please… I ask for one wish tonight and pray you answer' she thought then looked at Sasuke then back to the full moon. 'Please let me be, what I wish to be to him.' She thought and then kissed the cold glass of the window. Sasuke looked at her sitting up on his elbow as he watched the woman he shared body, heart, and home with. He got out of bed and wrapped his arms around her waist, resting his body into hers and resting his head against her shoulder. He kissed her neck affectionately and she kissed him back. One of his hands moved up her body as the other moved down.

"Sasuke, what am I to you?" she asked, still looking at the moon.

"You are the woman I love, the woman I respect, the woman who has the other part of my soul, my girlfriend, my lover, my smarter and better half. Why do you ask Sakura-chan, it seems lately you're sad and I don't know why." He said, kissing her neck.

"We've been together for almost four years, a lot of our friends have gotten married and started families, but for us…we aren't married nor do we have any children." She said walking away from him and had her robe wrapped around her tightly. She didn't feel the urge to have children now, but she wanted to be married to him because they loved each other and discuss when they would plan to have children at least.

Sasuke looked at her, trying to figure out what to say, he wanted to have children too and wanted to marry her…but he didn't realized she wanted it too. All these years they'd been together and she never said anything about children or marriage, they had been lucky early on in their relationship that Sakura hadn't gotten pregnant. It would have been a joy, but they weren't ready for that yet. They were focused on getting to know each other better and just building a solid relationship. Now though, now they had the solid foundation to start a new chapter in their life and he finally got the sign he'd been hoping for, albeit he had hopped it'd come a little differently. But still short of being kicked in the balls like Naruto (he'd been beaten up by Hinata's dad and cousin Neji for stalling and for getting her pregnant without a wedding ring…) or being threatened with a break up (as Tenten threated with Neji) or finally being told 'hey you better stop being lazy and marry me or I'll kill you' (Shikamaru and Ino), this was a positive direction.

"Sakura, I want to be with you, I want you to be my wife and mother to my children…I just didn't realized that you've felt that way. We've never really talked about it and I didn't know that you really wanted to be my wife…" he said looking into her eyes.

"Sasuke, if I've been with you this long and have stuck by you for so long, why wouldn't I want to be your wife?" she said, leaning against the wall, her eyes sad.

He walked over to her and held her by the shoulders; he looked deep into her sad eyes and gently kissed her lips. "Sakura you are the one I want to spend the rest of my life, I want you to be my wife and lover, the mother of my children, I want you to be my everything and I want to be your everything. Sakura, please marry me?" He said, getting down on one knee in front of her.

Sakura was surprised that he would ask her, right here, right now. She didn't realized how serious he was when he was telling her that. She thought he was just saying that, but right here, in front of her, he was on his knee, asking for her to be his wife. She began to cry, the tears falling down her cheeks and he went up to her face and kissed them away.

"You don't have to answer now, my dear Sakura." He said pulling her body close to his and kissed her lips.

"But I do want to marry you…yes Sasuke, I will be your wife." She said and held him tightly.

Present Day

Sakura fell to the ground, her blood starting to pump faster. She had no idea when this idea of suicide came over her. But something inside was telling her…this is the way it needs to be. She couldn't fight, not even her inner voice. She felt her heart breaking, she had been on her way to tell Sasuke that they we're going to have a baby….but she caught him with not just another woman, no…she caught him with…

Sasuke felt another tree scratch another part of his body and kept looking for Sakura. He couldn't believe she caught him when he was in the middle of a sting. He tried as best as he could to have safe guards for this, he couldn't let Kabuto hurt her. She was everything he'd been wanting and now one stupid mistake could cost him his heart and soul.

From the shadows two figures watch Sakura's blood flow form her wrists and one chuckled, soon it would be hell.

Hokage's office, two days earlier.

Sasuke stood in front of Fifth Hokage Tsunade and waited for her orders.

"A few days ago, some of our scouts saw and followed Kabuto, Orichimaru's right hand, we believe he is coming here to try and coerce you into helping him. We want to set up a sting in your residence and try to capture him, do you have any objections?" she asked, looking at him and trying to judge what he was thinking.

"I have no problems, the only thing I worry about is Sakura, I don't want Kabuto to see her, he may try to hurt her or kidnap her, I don't want her involved." He said, looking very serious.

"I'll have Sakura teach a class during the Sting, that way she would not be in the area." She replied. "Also we will have Anbu and other jounins surrounding the house so we can be prepared to catch them as best as possible."

"Good, then what time should I expect him? Though I doubt he'll just come waltzing up to my house planning to paint his toe nails and brush his hair." Sasuke shuddered slightly when a few bad memories of Kabuto's 'let's get to know each better' sessions of said activities. Tusnade raised an eye brow at him and he shook his head. "You don't want to know…"

"I want you to make contact and convince him to come to your house." Tusnade said after a moment's pause and handed Sasuke a packet of information. "Shikamaru will be your handler for this case; he'll try to coordinate everything with the information via text or phone."

"I understand, I'll dot the best I can to be making sure it'll be through as possible."

"I trust you Sasuke; I hope you know what that means for me to say this." Tusnade said, looking at him with a serious look. Sasuke nodded, this was the chance he'd been waiting for, finally it would all be over very soon.

"I understand, trust me you will not forget this." he said and left to meet Shikamaru and Naruto to go over the plans.

Later that night.

Sakura came in the house, tired and surprised, Tsunade asked her to teach a class in two days on how to treat potentially fatal cuts on the body during a battle situation. She saw her fiancé packing his travel bag and looked at him. He seemed tense and trying to make sure everything was there, his normal routine when going out of the village for a few days.

"Do you have a mission babe?" she asked and kissed his cheek.

"Yea I do, I need to do some traveling to the next village for a night, I should be back tomorrow evening." He replied and went over to her and wrapped his arms around her body.

"Ok, do you want me to make dinner for you?"

"No I'll be fine." He replied and led her to the bedroom to let her know how much he'd be missing her. Once they were done, Sasuke stood by the window wearing his robe and looked over to the bed. Sakura was asleep and the sheets only made it to her hips. He smiled at her and savored the memory. The next few days would change everything and he could only hope that she'd be by his side when everything was over. Sitting down at their desk he began to write her a letter that expressed everything he had trouble saying. Sealing it he planned to give it to Shikamaru in case he didn't make it.

I hope you enjoyed this and please review! Now I must go to bed or else work will suck in the AM lol.