well here it is, the more than likely second to last chapter!!!!!!!! so be warned! i hope you like it!
DISCLAIMER: really do we need to go over this AGAIN?
"Me!" I shouted holding my right fist up and holding my kunai across my body.
"Yeah, like we'll have a problem beating you!" Karin snorted.
"I think it'll be fun! I've never fought a shark or dog before!" I said smiling.
"Hey! Listen you little-," Suigetsu tried to announce his insult but Karin started yelling.
"I am not a dog! I'll get you bitch! You little Sasuke stealer!" She screamed.
"It's not stealing if you never had him," I said. I liked where this was going, getting your opponent into a blind rage makes them run into battle without thinking. "What are you going to do anyway? You're just a tracker!"
"But I'm not!" Suigetsu's voice said from behind me. Crap! I was to busy with Karin to notice that he had moved.
"Shit!" The word slipped through my mouth and I jumped forward towards Karin. I was sandwiched between them, but I only had to worry about one side- I hoped.
Suigetsu hefted his sword off of his back and held it in front of him. The sun bounced off of the gleaming metal abusing my eyes. His sharp toothy smile shone behind the blinding weapon. Once second he was there, the next he was right in front of me, the sword flying at my throat. Everything seemed to go into slow motion. I saw it coming and I was falling over trying to avoid it. I was helpless to defend my exposed neck and I waited for the slow world to become fast once again and to get a transfer to the paradise without pain. Then another object flung into my world that was stuck in molasses. It was a fist, followed by an arm, then a face, and such a beautiful face it was.
"Sasuke," The word slipped through the sluggish air like syrup. I don't even think it was a sound, just myself mouthing the lovely name.
Then the universe went back to normal speed and I hit the ground uninjured except for a few pink hairs floating through the air. I jerked my head up to see my Uchiha's face lit up with the blue crackling energy that covered his entire body. Suigestu was trying to shield his eyes but that lowered his guard. I looked away but could still hear the blood-curdling scream puncture the late afternoon's birdsongs. I started to raise myself into a sitting position and felt two sturdy hands help me. I looked over my shoulder and saw Sasuke's face looking back at mine.
"One second," He said and stood back up facing Karin. They looked at each other for a second, Sasuke narrowed his eyes and started to reach for his katana and Karin didn't move. "I don't want to hurt you."
"I know you wouldn't hurt me Sasuke-kun," she said blushing. I couldn't help but giggle at her face at that moment.
"But I'll do it," Sasuke said pulling Katana out.
"Sasuke-kun?" Karin looked heartbroken. She looked like me on that night so long ago and I stopped laughing.
"Leave," It wasn't an option it was a command.
"But Sasuke-kun-," she tried to protest.
"Now!" his voice silenced the songbirds that his attacks hadn't.
Karin clenched her teeth, turned around but peeked over her shoulder at Sasuke one last time and ran off into the forest.
After a few moments, Sasuke kneeled down next to me again.
"Oh Sakura," he wrapped his arms around me and I happily huddled against his chest.
"Will you come back?" I asked quietly, I knew he would answer- Sasuke hears everything. Just the thought again brought tears to my eyes.
"Yes, of course," He said into my hair.
"Sasuke," I hugged him tightly.
"Come on," Sasuke said pulling back. "We need to get to Konoha."
I ran next to Sasuke on the way back to Konoha, occasionally his hand would brush mine. When it did my stomach filled with butterflies and a smile crept across my face. When we could see the gate, Sasuke slowed to a walk and I followed. He took my hand in his, oh how long have I waited for this day!
We were in the gateway when five ANBU members appeared in front us, evenly spaced in the entrance, then Naruto himself jumped down in front of Sasuke and I.
"Sasuke?" Naruto said, his face blank but his eyes hopeful.
"Naruto, it's been awhile," Sasuke said a smile spread across his face and he held out the hand that wasn't intertwined with mine. Naruto shook it and gathered Sasuke into a hug.
"What's all this?" a voice ordered. We all looked behind the ANBU to see Tsuande holding her hands on her hips, her lips in a pout, well until she saw who had arrived at her village.
"Sasuke Uchiha!" she yelled walking forward. Sasuke only smiled, but Naruto backed away giving her some space. Tsuande got right in front of him, she was a whole head shorter than him- same as me. She poked him in the chest. "Don't you EVER pull that kind of shit around here again! You hear me!"
She punctuated her sentences with another jab into Sasuke's chest.
"Ah, well if it isn't my old pupil!" Kakashi materialized next to Tsuande, smiling under his mask.
"Kakashi," Sasuke nodded slightly to his old sensei.
"Well, I'm not letting you in with a get out of jail free card," Tsuande said pointing at me as if I were his card. "There will be paperwork, a lot of it, and interviewing and surveillance, you do know that right?"
"Of course, Lady Hokage," Sasuke said, I could see he thought this part as very unpleasant.
"Well, lets get you to the Hokage building, and start on that paperwork, Shizune! Get me some sake!" Tsuande turned and yelled to her assistant.
I wasn't allowed to be with Sasuke for interviewing or anything actually. I wasn't told any of the restricted information that I was so used to knowing about certain ninja that came in Konoha. All that I was able to do was make sure that the Uchiha's health was in tiptop shape and even then there was five other people in the room.
"Well, uh he seems pretty normal, same old Sasuke except for one thing," I was trying to stall and unfortunately everyone saw that, they only let me do the medical part was so I would stop asking everyone that came out of the room that Sasuke was occupying what was going on and how the Uchiha was.
"Sakura," Tsuande stopped me. "Is there anything bad wrong with him?"
I didn't appreciate Tsuande using dumb man's terms for me at the moment but I didn't object aloud.
"No," I said I put Sasuke's chart on the counter.
"Well, lets continue," she said walking towards the door. Sasuke sat up on the examining table and swung his feet over the edge.
"Come here," he whispered to me hastily. I quickly got to his side and was almost his height when he was seating. "I haven't gotten to do this yet."
He took my face his hands and brushed his lips against mine. I swung my arms around his neck and his lips pressed harder. His arms drifted down until they held my waist. I was wrapping a finger around a dark raven lock when someone tapped me on my shoulder. I deliberately I separated my lips from Sasuke's and saw Tsuande staring at me, her eyebrows raised in a "You know your aren't supposed to be doing that" look. I smiled and gave a weak laugh.
"Come on lover boy," Tsuande said grabbing an arm that was around my waist and broke our embrace.
That was all of my Sasuke-kun that I've seen in about three days.
"Kakashi, when will they let him out?" I asked when he tried to sneak out of Sasuke's room without me noticing.
"I don't know Sakura, how about you work at the hospital, get your mind off of it," Kakashi said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Naruto gets to see him! He gets to talk to him!" I said crossing my arms like a little child.
"Well Naruto isn't a love sick kuniochi either," Kakashi said over his shoulder and began walking down the hallway.
"You take that back!" I ran after him.
And thus I was banned from the Hokage building temporarily.
"Sakura!" A naïve nurse jogged up to me. "A woman is in exam room three ready for you."
"Thank you Aoi," I said and began walking for the room.
I might as well take Kakashi's advice it was helping a little.
I almost walked past the room but went in at the last moment bumping into the doorframe.
"You're a doctor?" A man standing next to the examining table said looking at me. "You're like 16!"
"Your point?" I said, I had been a little irritable, wouldn't you? I walked to the woman on the table. "Okay why are you here?"
"Shush Rafu, she knows what she's doing," The woman patted her companion's hand and turned to me. " I think that nice nurse wrote all the symptoms on that chart."
She pointed to the paperwork on the bedside table.
"Oh yeah," I had forgotten to get them- Rafu rolled his eyes. I opened it and quickly read over it. It was all there. "Um miss-"
"Hoshi," she smiled.
"Hoshi, have you taken a pregnancy test lately?" I asked. Her eyes grew wide and she hugged Rafu's hand.
"Do you mean I'm pregnant?" she asked.
"You have the symptoms," I said.
"Symptoms? You saw it like a baby is a disease!" She said hugging her middle.
"All right, you have the uh, ingredients of a miracle," It was corny but it got the point across.
"Oh you hear that Rafu!" she asked her mate, and I noticed the ring on their hands. " We're going to have a baby!"
"Oh baby, that's incredible!" Rafu bent over and kissed Hoshi on the cheek.
"I'll ask a nurse to get you a test and my congratulations if it is positive," I said smiling weakly.
"Can't you get it? That nurse seemed rather frazzled." Hoshi said.
"Well, I guess so," I said.
"Thank you!" Hoshi said smiling brightly.
I walked from the room a little light headed. Happy people- I despised them right now. I walked /to the nearest nurses' station and got a test. I dragged my feet back to the room and handed the overly happy woman the test. I pointed her in the direction of the nearest bathroom, leaving me to talk with her husband.
"So, uh how long have you two been married?" I asked.
"Two years," Rafu smiled, "She is the best thing that as ever happened to me. Are you with someone?"
"Yeah," I said, stupid happy people.
"Is he a medical ninja also?" Rafu asked.
"No, uh he is just a plain old ninja," I said and quickly shoved the rest of my sentence into a mumble of words. "Who also used to be a rouge."
"What was that last part?" he asked.
"Nothing, oh look who's back," I said pointing out that Hoshi had gotten back.
"I don't know how to read this thing at all," she smiled and held it out to me. I looked at it.
"Your pregnant," I said matter of factly.
"That's amazing!" Rafu gathered his wife into a hug.
"Well, I'll leave you two," I said quickly leaving the room.
The hospital didn't help, obviously. So like any ninja I attempted a break in.
I snuck in the Hokage building behind a pile of paperwork during the afternoon. In the afternoon everyone is too busy running around you're not noticed too much. I got to the door of Sasuke's room and I was sliding my hand into the handle when I heard voices around the corner. I panicked and ran into the door across the hallway, which was used for storage. The voices stopped in the hallway in front of the Uchiha's room and I opened the door a hair.
"Come on, if we keep them apart for to long Sakura is going to try to break in, I know my pupil," Tsuande's voice came through the small crack between the door and the doorframe.
"I don't think it's a good idea, he could be planning to use her again," I recognized one of the Elders' voices. Of course one of them would want to keep us apart.
"Well do you want the last remaining Uchiha to die of depression?" Tsuande said rather loudly.
"No, but I don't think he'll die because he hasn't seen his little girlfriend in a couple of days," the Elder argued.
"You want to make a bet on that," Tsuande's voice was quiet but full of venom. She of all people would know, her love, Dan, died in her arms on the battlefield.
"Fine! The Uchiha can visit with that Haruno girl, but for a limited time only!" The Elder said.
"An hour, daily," Tsuande said.
"15 minutes," the Elder said.
"45," Tsuande said back.
"Fine, 45 minutes daily," The Elder announced and I heard the opening of a door, then the slam of a closed one.
"You better use that 45 minutes wisely Sakura," Tsuande said. My eyes widen and I pushed the door open.
"Hi," I smiled.
Tsuande just winked.
I got my first visit that day. It was hardly long enough.
"Sasuke! I haven't seen you in forever," I said diving into the room, the door closing behind me.
"I thought I'd never get to see you," Sasuke said wrapping an arm around my waist.
"Now where were we?" I asked.
"Oh I remember," he smiled and pressed his lips against mine. The action felt foreign for a second but then my lips started moving with his and my hands made their way up his back and into his hair. The after what felt like a second, the door opened and Sasuke pulled back. I blushed but left the room eager to come again tomorrow.
i was going to make this be the last one but i'm tired and it seemed like a good stopping point. hoped you liked it.
TUNE IN NEXT TIME lol