DISCLAIMER: Not now, not ever, nor before. Naruto isn't mine, darling :D

Sorry about how long this took.
Cant really say I've had anytime lately.
Not to mention it was pretty hard for me to write the sleepover, what happens next was mostly on my mind.
Well, read on, and Enjoy.

Sakura arrived home pretty quickly, and made her entrance loudly.

"HELLO?" she hollered as she entered her home. "I'm HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!"

Emi appeared out of nowhere and abruptly grabbed Sakura and hugged her very tightly.

"Oh sweetheart I'm so happy to see you! I was so damn worried!" she cooed as she crushed her daughters airway. Then she let go, stepped backwards and proceeded to bring her balled up fist down on top of Sakura's bright pink head. "Don't you EVER do that to me again I was so scared!"

Sakura gasped air into her lungs as soon as her mother let go, and she groaned at the assault to her head. "It's fantastic to see you too mother..." she grumbled sarcastically. Of course, Sakura didn't actually get upset with her mother. She knew why her paranoia was so damn awful. Her father had been 5 hours late getting home the day that he had died. Emi had ever since jumped to the worst conclusion possible when a person was ever really late to somewhere with her. Sakura felt really bad. Not only had she been hours late getting home, before that she had entirely disappeared in general.

Sakura put the car seat down and hugged her mother very tightly. "I'm fine mom. I'm all right and I'm here. No worries."

Emi wrapped her arms tightly around her daughter in return, and squeezed tightly once.

"Fucking Kodak you've got going on." A British voice pierced the air in a mock of the tender moment. Both Haruno women let go of the embrace, but only Sakura's middle finger shot up in a gesture Adelie understood with a smirk. "Jeez kid, don't offer me that. I don't swing that way, plus I'd rather screw your teacher." Laddie said with a wink, poking Sakura in the stomach.

The ticklish girl doubled over like she had been punched, and shrank away from the cook with a glare. Her hand darted out once and pinched the foreign girl in the arm as a retort. "You're disgusting."

Laddie winked and grabbed the girl by the shoulders in a half hug. "Don't you know it." She said happily.

Sakura rolled her eyes fondly. "Oh whatever."

"So how is my little namesake?" Adelie asked, crouching down next to the car seat.

Sakura shrugged in response. "Fine, as usual. It's difficult to take care of, but not as hard as it could be because I've got Sasuke to help. I've only been at it for two something days. Not enough time yet for it to make me hate the thing." She smirked sweetly, then turned to her mother. "Can I have a sleepover tonight?"

"Tonight? Yea, sure. It's spring break, am I supposed to say no?" Emi teased.

"I always have to ask."

"Yes yes and you know your friends are always welcome here sweetie. No matter the circumstance." Her mother informed her.

"Fantastic! I gotta get everything ready, and take a shower too." She said, slipping out of her shoes. As she bent down to grab the handle of the car sear Adelie slapped her hand. Sakura shot her a quizzical glance.

"You had a long day. Go do what you need to, and I'll hang out with this." She said, jerking her chin at the car seat and baby. "Have your shower, collect the stuff you need for the night, an don't worry about it." She took the diaper bag from Sakura's shoulder and slung it over her own. "C'mon Grandma, lets go watch TV." And she picked up the car sear and slinked away, Emi behind her.

Sakura was given no time to protest, and was really not in the mood to do so. She and Adelie may pick on each other, but Sakura took comfort in the fact that she knew her practically adoptive sister was going to always be there for her. She sighed once and ran her fingers through her hair. Then she sprinted a little across the foyer, darting up the stairs two at a time.

She reached the top and walked to her room, whipping her clothes off as she went in, fully unclothed by the time she made it to the bathroom. She jumped in the shower quickly, wanting to get it over with and check on the things she would need. Ice cream, cookies, buns, chips, soda, tea, all of these and more were necessary.

She though of the list in detail as she scrubbed and got clean. As soon as that was done she practically leapt out of the shower. She only half blow dried her hair and grabbed a random outfit from her closet. A pale orange tee shirt, with a black shortish skirt, with a pair of tight flared jeans underneath. She didn't pay too much attention but she whisked her way down the stairs in her favorite fashion. Riding down the banister.

She was down it in a flash, and while she very much wanted to check the kitchen stock, and rushed up her stairs and slid down one more time in spite of herself. It was fun, dammit.

After the second time her little bare feet padded across a bit more of her house to find the kitchen. She slipped in it and made her way to the pantry. She was only in such a hurry because she wanted to make sure everything was done. She didn't want to make her family have to take care of her project for any longer then they had to. Any normal teen would have been lounging and taking as much advantage of the break as they could. Of course, classifying Sakura as normal...was never quite right.

She opened the panty that was full specifically for sleepovers. All the necessary things seemed to be there. Soda, chips, buns, cookie, chocolate, candy. Too many sugary things to be possible, yet they were all there. Sakura grinned. They hadn't had a sleepover in quite a long time. She remembered one fondly. You can only imagine how a group of five seventeen-year-olds act with as much sugar as was sitting in just one pantry.

She closed the pantry doors and decided not to rush. She'd been as quick as she could, and the only thing she really intended to do once she got there was flop on the couch and watch television with them anyways. She found the room they were in and did exactly what she wanted to do. She dropped down in between the two of them and watched whatever the hell happened to be on.

Three hours, one feeding and a nap later the doorbell bonged its way through out the house. Sakura leapt off her bed and flew down the stairs, taking a good minute to reach there while rushing. She threw the door open to see who it was. Temari stood there, hand on one hip, car seat in the other hip, diaper bag and purse over one shoulder.

"Gods, could you have bounded down your stairs any louder?" she said with a teasing grin. "Ya frikkin elephant.

Sakura grinned right back and started to close the door, but Temari slapped her hand on it to stop it. "How are ya?" she asked, and they hugged.

Sakura made a face in response. "Are you early? Usually you all manage to get here at---" And then she spotted heads bobbing up from behind Temari's back. Everyone was here.

"Nah. I'm not early at all."

Sakura laughed, and went out on the veranda, hugging and helping with diaper bags, car seats and getting through the door. Eventually all of the girls were inside and the made their way up to Sakura's room. Diaper bags and car seats were soon relinquished to the floor and the girls picked up the babies and each took their normal seating sprinkled across Sakura's room.

"So how does Jack like your baby, Temari?" Sakura said with a grin once everyone was settled in. The girl grimaced and snorted once in response.

"He hates it. Says the weeks ruined. I just think he's being a big baby." Temari said with a roll of her eyes. "How are the men you got stuck with? They learning how to deal?"

It was TenTen who laughed first. "Neji is all over this! He just loves the project. I can't remember the last time I've seen him as worked up as he gets around it. I was almost afraid to leave it with him alone for a whole night. Of course, I barely get it when he's around, he's always holding it. Not that I mind particularly." She laughed.

"Lucky!" Ino exclaimed at her friend. "Shikamaru is as lazy about this as he always is. He calls it troublesome, never wants to hold it, and doesn't want to do the homework either! Sometimes I could just kill him." Ino finished, slightly aggravated.

"What did you expect, Ino?" Sakura said, a laugh hidden in her voice, and she tried not to let her friend hear it. "He's Shikamaru. Almost everything is considered 'troublesome' by that boy of yours."

Ino sighed once. "Yeah I know but still I thought this MIGHT just be different but I guess not."

Hinata patted her friend on the shoulder a couple times. "Hey, at least you didn't get paired with Naruto! He likes the project and everything but he just gets so overly excited. He's almost dropped the poor thing at least three times, and he put it on the counter and ignored it for ten minutes so he could make ramen." There was no resentment in Hinata's voice, but there was certainly a sigh. "Should ramen be more important then your baby?" She asked.

"No." Temari answered immediately.

"But we do have to remember who we're talking about here." Sakura chimed in. "Ramen is more important to Naruto then if he put clothes on this morning and is walking around the Town Square. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it Hinata. It CAN be really hard to think about these things like a real baby."

Those in the group nodded in aggreal. "Sakura you're the one who hasn't said anything about your little match made in hell. How does Sasuke like it?" Temari piped up.

"Uhh..." she sighed once, and looked up and at her companions. "I spent the night at Sasuke's house last night." She mumbled, her cheeks turning rapidly scarlet at her memories of the past twenty-four hours.

All around the room faces grew shocked. Even Ino's, because she was horrified at the way Sakura had said it. It was called tact, for goodness sakes.

"...Did you just say you spent the night at Sasuke's?" TenTen finally said, in disbelief.

Sakura sighed and nodded once. "But it's not as bad as that specific statement make it sound." She said quickly, realizing how bad She had made it sound.

"Really now? Elaborate, please." Hinata requested.

"Well you see it's like this..." And Sakura launched into her story. She told them about working with him the first day, him forgetting the bottle, bringing it over, the morning after, walking in on his nearly naked self, the things that happened with Itachi, and her little breakdown.

All of them were just kind of staring at her once she was finished.

"...Wow." TenTen spoke first. "Are...you okay?"

Sakura shrugged. "Mostly. This baby thing sure has been something though." She said with a short laugh. Temari picked up on it first, and she stood up from her chair.

"All right. Enough of us all being ninnies. Sakura's fine, and we haven't eaten, gotten ready, or done ANYTHING. C'mon! We need sugar, Hard Gay, and board games!" she said happily. The girls cheered in agreement and Sakura mouthed the words 'Thank You' to Temari, who winked back. The situation had obviously made Sakura very uncomfortable and while she had wanted and even needed to tell her best friends it was still something she was dealing with and wasn't fond of talking about. Temari had noticed and helped her by changing the subject.

"Alrighty on with the board games!" Hinata called cheerily. Everyone went out of Sakura's room, and to the pantry. They grabbed at least half it's stock and went into the huge living room. Sakura popped in an anime and they half watched it as they played Clue.

At about 3 in the morning, after extensive amounts of popcorn, chips, pop, Little Debbie snacks, taking care of babies, and at least three hours of karaoke, the girls put on their pajamas. Ino grabbed the couch, Hinata crawled into the recliner, Temari and TenTen flopped onto the king size air mattress, and Sakura snuggled into the other couch. She smiled at her room full of friends, and mumbled goodnight, with a long string of incomprehensible murmurs in response.

The night was a bit of a hellish one, as a baby went off every forty-five minutes. The girls were all tired when they dragged themselves out of the land of dreams at ten o'clock. After dressing, eating, and cleaning up, it was about eleven and the thing on each girl's mind was to go home and take a nap.

They hugged each other blearily and muttered good-byes.

"Hey," Hinata said before they all left. "What time do you want us to get here on Wednesday?" her pale eyes focused intently on Sakura.

"Eh? Oh, no really you guys don't have to come I don't wanna ruin you day or anything." She insisted.

"Oh, please. We want to. It isn't going to be something you have to go though alone, Sakura. What time?" Hinata repeated.

Sakura's eyes blurred a bit with tears but she blinked them quickly away. "Noon." She choked on the word. "Get here about noon." Hinata nodded once and Hugged Sakura once more.

"We'll be there."

Yeah.

"Mmhmm."

"Noon it is." The others replied. Sakura smiled thankfully at them once, then waved as they all turned around. She watched their backs for a few moments before closing the door.

"You have some good friends." A voice came from no where. Sakura turned to face Adelie.

"Yeah. I do." She smiled once at the cook. "I'm gonna change clothes and then go pick something up, okay?"

The other girl nodded. "But tell your mother."

"Okay." Sakura said, and then she dashed upstairs. She changed her clothes quickly and put the baby in its car seat. She slung the diaper bag over her shoulder and walked to her mothers room. She opened the door and Emi was on her bed, looking over papers.

"Hey mom?"

"Hmmmm?"

"I'm gonna go out, okay?"

Emi looked up and smiled once at her daughter. "Alrighty, love. Gimme a hug." Sakura walked forward and hugged her mother once, then turned and walked out of the room. Her head popped back in once. "Love you mom."

"I love you too, sweetie." Emi said, and she waved once. And with that, Sakura was gone.

Sasuke paused his game as his cell phone rang. He flipped it open. "Hello?"

"...Sasuke?" Naruto's voice sounded choked.

"Yea? What's up?" He heard Naruto take a long deep breath.

"Sasuke...Sasuke it's Sakura."

The raven hair boy sat up straight, and he felt his chest constrict with worry. "What about Sakura?"

"..."

"Naruto! Tell me!" he demanded.

"Sakura, she...she...She was in a car accident, Sasuke. She's at the hospital, and she hasn't woken up." Naruto said slowly, barely managing to get the words out without crying.

The Uchiha's eyes widened, and it didn't even register to him as his phone hit the floor

Chapter 11 coming soon.