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I DO NOT own Naruto.

Hey guys! I'm sorry that it's taken like a month to update! I've been finding out that if I take my netbook to school that I'm able to sneak in a few paragraphs here and there, especially at lunch. I figured out that my school doesn't have a problem with laptops, just cell phones, so I might be able to update more often. However, I still have my online math class to worry about… all I know is that I'm going to have lots of time over the summer because my oldest half-brother might fly out from California to watch my brother graduate from high school, so we wouldn't be going out of town. My parents talked about going to the beach for a week, but I'd have to have internet for my online classes. This is so not fun. I'm going to do everything I can next semester Jr. year to be able to pass. I heard from my councilor that you can get a math credit for a math support class. Well I'm done boring you all with the details of my school life. I still have drama, still have problems, and I'm still using this as an escape (since it's 100% legal).

I also participated in my school's blood drive today… wow… I think I might donate again, but I feel extremely dizzy and I almost passed out during the donor process… and I keep spacing out and my friends are all completely making fun of me :3 Since I'm sitting here finishing this up at lunch. It's taken me several days the first paragraph above I wrote like a weeks ago, and this one I'm writing just now.

Megumi ran through the hospital doors out of breath. She didn't know what to do. It seemed like there had been an accident because all the medic-nins were shuffling around like chickens with their heads cut off. Then through the doors with blood splatted here and there on her cloths, a girl with pink hair and fiery green eyes started barking orders at the medics. She completely took charge of the situation and in less than five minutes all five patients were stabilized and the chaos was over.

"Are you okay Sakura-san?" and medic came over and asked the pinkette as she sat down on a near by bench to catch her breath.

"Hai, I'm fine" she replied panting.

Megumi's eyes widened. This was the woman she'd been looking for. This was the person Sasuke sent her to find. Megumi didn't know how to ask for Sakura to be her teacher. She didn't feel like it was appropriate since Sakura had just finished treating a trauma case and was out of breath. Megumi sat down in the lobby and silently watched Sakura as she guzzled down a bottle of water and caught her breath for a few minutes. When Sakura stood up to leave Megumi stood up and followed her to back where her office was, just right around the corner. Sakura sat down and spied the little girl looking at her and urged her to come in. Not a lot of people came to her office, she normally had to go to some treatment room to see them, so she welcomed the non-burdened company, or so she thought. Megumi silently sat down in the chair looking at her palms playing with her fingers.

"Is there something you need?" Sakura asked sweetly.

Megumi looked at her for a second, but when she saw that Sakura was looking right into her eyes she let out a small gasp and looked back down at her palms. Sakura smiled at how shy the girl was, but knew that she was a genin because of the emblem around her neck. At her age, she couldn't be anything else but a genin because of her shy tendencies and obvious inexperience.

Megumi finally looked up then stood up and bowed saying, "I'm Sasuke's student, please teach me about being a medic-nin!"

Sakura's eyes widened for a second at the sudden outburst, but she could tell that it was Sasuke's student. Sasuke said that there was a quiet girl who hardly said a thing who was extremely shy and didn't enjoy hurting people. The girl also had dark ebony hair with stunning cobalt blue eyes. She had a giant black ribbon in the back of her hair that matched the color or her tresses. She also had on black spandex shorts with a white belt that had a supply pouch and she had a kunai holster around her right thigh. She had a purple spandex shirt as well that left a slight mid-drift on her stomach. The girl also wore black, fingerless gloves. Sakura almost envied the flatness of the girls stomach, but noticed how earnest the girl was being. Sakura just couldn't refuse another student, but she knew that this training was hard, she would have to have the girl almost all the time for training.

"What's your name?" Sakura asked standing up to walk up next to the girl who was still bowing.

"Megumi" the girl replied.

Sakura put a hand under Megumi's chin then raised her face and made her stand up straight as she said, "Well, Megumi, you'll have to start calling me Sakura-shishou now."

The girl looked up and asked, "When do I start training?"

"Today" Sakura said as she led Megumi to the resource room.

When they stepped in Sakura began her first lecture to her new pupil, "This part may be boring to you, but knowledge in important. I'm going to pick out some medical books I want you to read. Sometimes you won't be able to use chakra to heal wounds. It might be poison, which requires a number of treatments. I still read several medical books, so I'm not above this principal either. That's why this is the most important and the first place to start."

Sakura picked out several books for the girl. She decided to start her off in chakra network books. They went through the human anatomy, as well as how to stop and start chakra flow. Megumi became engrossed in the books and finished one before the day was even over. She took the rest home as well as a piece of advice from Sakura on how to practice precise chakra control. She was teaching Megumi how to use the chakra scalpel, so she gave her a wooden box that had rubber-bands glued from top to bottom. Sakura told Megumi to practice slicing the rubber bands inside without scratching the wood on the outside. Megumi thought it was rather hard, but gave Sakura her word that'd she'd at least try to do it.

After Sasuke had dismissed both Akio and Takashi, he too went home. He was tired and the sun had already set. He didn't know whether to expect dinner or not (due to Sakura's irregular work schedule). When he finally got up to the house he was half relieved and half worried. He saw Sakura was home, but she was in a silk night robe standing on the front porch leaning against one of the posts in the railing.

"You're going to catch a cold" he told her sternly.

"It's summer" she replied with a scowl.

Sasuke just narrowed his eyes knowing he didn't have any excuse now. He assumed that because she was outside waiting for him that it wasn't good whatever she wanted to talk about. He noticed how her fingers gently brushed her cheek bone to gather hair from her face to compact behind her ear.

Sakura took a deep breath then said, "I know Tsunade might've already talked to you, but I haven't had my say yet…"

Sasuke just gave her a weary look as he nodded his head and waited for her to continue to speak.

"Why on Earth did you seal the two-tails inside that boy? Why did you give up your rank as an anbu to be a jounin with genin students instead of asking for fewer missions? Why? Why?" Sakura said as she began to cry and stomp her foot like an agitated three-year-old.

Sasuke had the answer in his head, but he was rather certain that she wouldn't accept it as a valid answer, "Because I want to protect you, I wanted to stay with you, I want to make you happy."

Sakura's tears started to slow but she still continued to cry. Sasuke wasn't sure why she was upset all of a sudden, but he knew it was completely out of character for her to be upset over things that he'd already explained to her. All he could do was attempt to comfort her until she feel asleep.

Sakura woke up the next morning still feeling lousy. She found that Sasuke was gone, probably off to train with the Takashi and Akio, which left Megumi at the hospital waiting for medic training. Sakura was sure that'd she'd find the girl with her nose in a book for sure. The girl enjoyed the reading far more than Sakura did, which made Sakura think that training her would be all the more easy. The pinkette slipped fresh cloths on after taking a much needed shower and headed off to the hospital for her late morning shift, locking the door behind her. Sakura arrived at the hospital to be rather calm. All the patients were ill or slightly injured with a few broken bones or check-ups, nothing that required dire attention. She thought this would be a good day to get Megumi to practice on a few minor scrapes and bumps.

"How long have you been waiting here?" Sakura asked while using one finger to make Megumi put the book down.

The girl smiled up at Sakura and replied, "Not long."

Sakura showed the girl around the hospital more and then got her to take care of a few scrapes with healing chakra, then set her to work on smaller animals and other things to practice (like the fish in the show that was on the chakra scroll or something. Those sorts of things). Eventually Sakura left her alone in the library again to do some more work on other patients. She had to split her time evenly between her work and her new student. Sakura felt lightheaded while she was bandaging up one person's arm after healing the bone with her chakra. The man asked if she was ok and she replied that she was, but she had a bad feeling. When she got to the door way she heard a yell as she feel to the floor and everything went black.

Sasuke was out on the field with Takashi and Akio watching them spar. Takashi had already picked up the beginnings of the rasengan, but Sasuke put a quick end to its use. Akio wasn't much for justsu but he was more than satisfactory with his weaponry. It was almost as if he was related to Ten-Ten the way he inventively used kunai and shurikin. Sasuke was amazed with both of them. They each had a strength different from the other which allowed them to almost be even when they sparred. Sasuke eventually had them stop before they were completely out of breath and put them to work on chakra control. He used the same lesson as Kakashi, he had them climb trees without using their hands. Though Takashi was slow catching on to it, but Akio wasn't much faster. They were about even until Akio almost got to the top and Takashi had had it with being the last place looser and gave the next round his all and they both reached the top and the exact same moment. Though the two didn't much favor each other, Sasuke thought they'd make good rivals. They'd have a healthier rivalry than Sasuke and Naruto did. The two boys hopped down from the tree and Sasuke could see the sweat dripping from their faces. He decided to call it a day and told the boys to go home. It was sunset and he knew Sakura would be home by then. She was home early last night. The hospital seemed to understand that they couldn't completely exhaust her anymore if they wanted a top doctor on staff there. Sasuke was about to enter the Uchiha compound as he saw Naruto leaning against a tree waiting for him. He wasn't sure what it was about but Naruto's face was grim and rather upset. Sasuke knew Naruto had a piece of knowledge for him that wasn't bothersome, it must be important.

"Teme…" Naruto said somber with an undertone of malice, "Sakura passed out at the hospital, granny sent me to get you…"

Sasuke didn't know how to reply so he just nodded in confirmation as the two quietly trudged off towards the hospital.

Sakura awoke to find herself on an examination table and Tsunade's hands hovering over her, searching, looking for something. Sakura was mildly frightened, especially when she saw Megumi's watery eyes in the hallway. The girl probably had no clue what was going on and was frightened. Sakura didn't know herself. She just suddenly 'killed over' without so much as a warning. Tsunade saw the little girl peeking in from the hallway and smiled at her with a gesture to come in. Megumi slowly walked up, unsure of the situation.

"Sakura is fine, you know why?" Tsunade asked.

Tsunade was aware of Sakura teaching the girl to be a medic-nin, so she held out her hand for Megumi's. Tsunade scooted Megumi over to the examination table and placed her hand over Sakura and told her, "Don't heal, don't do anything, just sense, and tell Sakura why she's fine."

The girl was uncertain but mover her hand around sensing with her eyes closed, searching for something but didn't know what.

When she finally found it her eyes shot open and she yelled, "Sakura-sensei! You're going to have a baby!"

Sakura's eyes went wide, especially when she saw Naruto and Sasuke standing in the doorway. Sasuke walked in and up to the examination bed across from Tsunade. He didn't really have to say anything, but just looked at Sakura with a smirk. He wasn't very good at smiling and Sakura knew it, so she smiled for him. Naruto just moseyed in and looked at Sakura with disbelief. He had no clue that this would happen so soon. He didn't know if Sakura was completely over of losing her first unborn child yet. But now that she was pregnant, there was nothing left to do but wait and hope that this one would be different. Naruto gave Sakura a pat on the shoulder and a tender smile that almost said 'well done'.

Sakura and Sasuke arrived home, but neither said a word. Sakura didn't know what to make of Sasuke's silence. What was he doing? Why was he so quiet? What was the big idea of keeping her in the dark on what he was thinking? Sakura was just irritated and wanted to go to bed. When she climbed under the covers, she looked at the ceiling and drifted into thought.

"Did he know all along?... Is that why he became a jounin? Was it to console me?... Or to pave the way for this new child?... He didn't seem at all shocked when Megumi yelled the news while standing in the doorway… but why so quiet?... Why won't he say a word to me?..."

"You're thinking too much" Sasuke said as he slipped under the covers in his boxers.

Sakura was started and suddenly sat up and gave him a shocked face that quickly turned to a frown as she asked, "Why are you so invasive?"

"It was written all over your face. You're thinking too hard."

"Why shouldn't I be allowed to think?" Sakura asked with her nosed turned up and her arms crossed.

"I have nine months of this…" Sasuke thought to himself as he harshly frowned in the dark to himself.

He could tolerate the regular Sakura just fine, but last time she was pregnant she was more than a handful. It was more than just annoying to him, but he figured that he could put up with it since there was a time limit on it. It's not like she was going to stay like that forever. The only thing he was concerned about was her not being able to work. She could easily work up until she's a solid two months pregnant, but after that Tsunade will have her doing nothing but sorting papers and then the occasional errand to run. Sasuke knew how much that drove Sakura insane. However, he did realize one thing that was going to be better for Sakura. He wasn't going to be gone this time. The last time she was pregnant he was quickly sent away on an anbu mission, but this is the whole reason why he demoted himself to a jounin. The only thing he had to worry about now is possibly being sent on some sort of low ranked escort mission with his genin squad, but if he were to do that he wouldn't be gone for more than a week. The mission he was sent on as an anbu the last time this happened didn't have a return date, just an estimate of two months. Sasuke was determined this time to stick around for Sakura. He even thought that maybe all the emotional stress, separation anxiety, and prohibition to work was what finally caused her to snap and possibly have a miscarriage. Sasuke decided to lay his mind at ease. When he looked over beside him he saw that Sakura was already in cold sleep. He hadn't expected her to fall asleep that fast with so much on her mind, but he guessed that's how tired women get when their next day Sakura woke up to find no warmth beside her, just ruffled sheets and a crooked pillow. She was so used to waking up this way already that it didn't faze her at all. She slipped out from under the sheets and went to go take a shower. When she wandered into the kitchen she found that Sasuke actually hadn't left. He was sitting at the kitchen table sorting papers and drinking coffee.

"Did I leave enough hot water for you?" He asked not looking up from his papers.

"Yes, you did" she replied confused by his presence in the early morning.

Sasuke knew she was confused because he was always gone by this time so he took the time to explain himself, "I gave the genins the day off today so they could rest. I also had some paper work I needed for file for several D-ranked missions."

Sakura just nodded in understanding then sat at the table. She found it uncomfortable to look at him, even when he was looking down completely at his papers. Sasuke knew that she was still touchy about the pregnancy, so he decided that if she couldn't talk about it with him, she needed to find someone else to spill it to. Whether or not he heard her didn't matter, he already knew how she felt. He just wanted her to get it all off her chest.

"Maybe you should go see Ino today" he suggested.

Sakura wasn't sure what she wanted, but a visit with Ino didn't sound like a half bad idea. Ino hardly ever called beforehand, so Sakura decided that after she did the dishes she could just go. She went over to the sink to start on the morning dishes but she was pleasantly surprised.

"I'll take care of it. Just go to Ino's" came the dry tone of the raven haired Sasuke

To Be Continued…I'm sososososososooo sorry it took a while to update! I really wish I had more time for this stuff but between school, the gym, and trying to relax and watch a few animes I find that I have less and less time for this stuff. I normally do it during lunch or even after school.

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