Greetings,

I have already received a few statements about Deidara. Now I know you people love him and that is why you read Sakura/Deidara pairings, but I have already made this really clear in my opening notes for the first chapter. Dei-kun will not be in ARC 1. No. He isn't. I'm sorry, but that is just how I decided to write this. However, that doesn't mean that he isn't going to be in the story. For goodness sakes, I would not label it DeiSaku if it didn't have the two together eventually! But right now for sake of character development, Dei just isn't in the first ARC.

If it makes you really sad, then I will add a blurb or two about him in the chapters I am working on now, but he just isn't going to see or know about Sakura being pregnant.

I would just like to say thank you to the people who took the time to review! I really do appreciate your reviews and do know that I have read most of your fan fictions, those of you who signed, and if not, I usually end up checking to see if you have stories that I will like.

But until next opening notes, that is all the answering time I have. But do know that I am taking your comments into consideration when I read them.

That is all my notes for now. I will write some end notes, but until then...

From Konoha to Hana

ARC 1

Chapter 2

An Artist's Paradise

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or this would be where the story line would progress. I also didn't think up Ino's witty nickname for pregnant Sakura. I don't know who, but it wasn't my original idea.

"The artist is not a special kind of [wo]man, but every [wo]man a speical kind of artist." -Eric Gill

The week went on with much progress. Sakura had been able to familiarize herself with each family or to-be-families, their wants for this new village, and their personal input for what they would like in their home. She would spend her mornings usually as sick as a dog next to the toilet, then after Ino came in with some of that herbal tea, she would eat her breakfast with Tenten, Hanabi, Neji, Ino, and whoever was giving her an update, usually Anko or Tenzou.

After that she would head to her office and work. Paperwork mostly, but she did occasionally get up and see how the families were doing. Ino would come in around noon and force her to stop and eat, being the 'good little Godmother she was'.

Sakura was just convinced that Ino was trying to get her fat.

Around the evening time, after dinner of course, Sakura would take the time and draw up the blueprints for all the buildings so far desired. She had never told anyone that she actually could draw and create, except for a certain blonde, but that was only because he had been the one to take the time to teach her.

When she had finally shown them at the end of the week, everyone was surprised at how well they had been done.

"Sakura," Ino gawked, "I didn't think you could even draw a line."

"Impressive indeed," Neji agreed, "I do believe this to be most impressive. No other village will come close in beauty."

"This will definitely live up to the name of flower," Hanabi laughed happily as she stared at the whole schematic for the village, "All that's missing the Hanakage's home."

"I don't need a fancy home, just put me in one of the little houses, just big enough for me and this child," Sakura said as she patted her budging belly.

"Nonsense," Ino snapped as she wagged a finger at the pregnant woman, "You are the Hanakage and you must have a home that makes any visiting diplomat stop in awe!"

"Then find someone else to do it," Sakura sniffed, "Cause I refuse to make it then."

That caused the two girls to squabble yet again. Getting use to it, both Hyuugas dismissed themselves with the blueprints to get Tenzou started on the ones without a stone base.

Sakura smiled as she walked about the growing village. Tenzou had gone right to work, and now, only three days later, everyone was moving into the homes. They were all uniquely designed but at the same time, they were in good harmony with each others. Tenzou had even gone to such lengths as to create a waterfall that made a lake on the base of a mountain nearby. Originally he was going to make it like the Hokage monument, but again Sakura wouldn't have something so extravagant.

"I haven't proved myself nor do I want any hero worshipping of me. I'm not all that wonderful, so please stop trying to make me out as someone great like a Hokage," She had ordered him.

He knew she was wrong, so he had decided to secretly make a statue of her once she had settled down in the role of Hanakage.

The schematics had put a lot of green houses all around the area, most near the center of the village where the business section, resident area, and shinobi offices would meet. The hospital was close by to the area the deemed the entrance of the village so that wounded shinobi would get treated faster. The only problem was that the hospital was to be made of metal and stone so that it wouldn't burn easily, as was the Hanakage's headquarters.

But Tenzou had laid the foundations so that they could start constructing it soon.

The port had been easy enough for Tenzou, he had created a pier that would go at least a mile or two into the water and docks off of that for ships. He had even tried his hand at making a ship, which worked out rather well in his opinion, so that they could have transportation. He also created shops and restaurants out on the pier and even an area for fishing. He kept it off of the beach, so that the children could play there and the pier was connected by a stone bridge that he had made to connect it to the land.

That had taken him about a week, due to the fact that it usually exhausted his chakra supply. But, he had decided to do as much as possible without rushing because his time here in Hanagakure was short, since he was only on loan.

"Tenzou-taichou," Sakura said with a happy smile as she looked at all his hard work, "This is wonderful! Thank you!"

"It's no problem Sakura, but don't call me taichou, your technically my superior." Tenzou said with a laugh.

"Old habits, neh? I still catch myself calling Kakashi sensei sometimes." Sakura said as she reminisced, "Too bad he was too valuable to Konoha to trade, not like he would leave that rock of his."

She paused as she thought of something before smiling, "That's what I'll do."

And before Tenzou could ask her what she was talking about, she had scurried off.

He shrugged as he went back to work. Sakura was a strange one, but she was talented as a leader. Now if only she could see that.

Sakura blinked as she temporarily went blind from the bright white flash. It took her a moment to get her sight back, but by then, the culprit was already upon her.

"Sakura!" Ino said as she crashed into the pink haired leader who had been musing quietly out of her temporary office suite windowsill and hugged her tightly.

"Yes Ino," Sakura said as the platinum blond began to rub her slowly growing tummy.

"Guess who's here to visit you!" Ino said as she pulled the rosette up and began to quickly groom her, making sure the maternity clothes were absolutely perfect.

Sakura had complained at first that the outfits were too frilly and lacy, but the blonde shushed her and told her to 'can it' because she was not ruining this pregnancy by not looking utterly adorable.

It was then that Sakura had asked, annoyed as all get out, "Who's have the baby again? Cause I know it's not you."

Names were thrown, but at the end, Ino got her way.

"I don't know, Ino, who?" Sakura said as the blonde woman started pushing her out the door of her temporary office and into the main lobby of the hotel.

Sakura saw the golden short hair and he face immediately began to glow, "Naruto-kun!"

Ino almost fell over when the thing she was pushing moved on its own accord.

"Sakura-chan!" The jinchuuriki yelled happily as they embraced.

It wasn't a long embrace since he scooted her back with a worried face as he looked at the pudge on her belly that had doubled or even tripled in size. Sakura rolled her eyes, already knowing why he was doing that.

"You idiot, you won't hurt the baby," She said, placing her hands on her hips with a teasing grin.

"But Sakura-chan," Naruto whined, "before you left you couldn't even see it!" At this he squatted where the tummy as at his eye height. "Now it looks huge!"

"Naruto," Sakura warned him, biting back her temper, "I'm only around 20 weeks. That's about 4 to 5 months you idiot."

"Yeah," Ino added in, "Wait till around six months when she begins to waddle. That's when she'll be huge."

"INO-PIG! Don't make me walk all the way over there to hit you," Sakura threatened.

"Same Sakura-chan temper," Naruto laughed, picking her up like a doll and the situating her bottom on his forearm as his other hand rested on her back, "But let's not burden the new Hanakage on such petty things, now shall we? I mean what sort of to-be-Hokage would I be if I didn't take the other leader's health in to consideration?"

Naruto had always yelled the words 'I'm going to be Hokage one day!' But this was different. Usually he never said it like it was actually happening, just like some sort of leap of faith.

"Naruto…" Sakura said as she tried to find the right words, "do you really mean…"

Naruto laughed at her surprise, "Of course, Sakura-chan! I am going to be inaugurated Hokage when I get back."

"Naruto!" Sakura shouted for joy as she hugged the almost seven foot man, "You did it! You really did it!"

"Wow, Naruto," Ino said in awe, "I didn't actually think you knew what inaugurated meant."

"I'm not that dumb!" Naruto yelped as looked at Ino with a fake wounded look.

"Does it matter!" Sakura said with a smile, "You're going to be Hokage!"

"Yep." Naruto smiled smugly, "And I was sent on political reasons."

"Oh boy," Ino said as she turned around and threw up her hands, "there goes the neighborhood. I better tell Neji and Hanabi before anything else happens."

"You do that," Naruto said, beginning to walk into the temporary office, "And I'll talk to Sakura-chan about what she needs to be make happen."

He gingerly set her down on one of the cushiony couches and sat down across from her in a wooden chair, a coffee table between them.

"So Sakura-chan, would it be okay to see the blueprints for your new village?"

Sakura nodded and stood up, putting on her professional face and headed over to the desk and retrieved all the blueprints and charts so Naruto could see.

"We have started building for the Kage's office and also began working on the hospital and academy and port, but things are slow since we wanted things to be pretty architecturally wise. We don't have enough workforce so we can't go all that fast. Even with Tenzou here, we haven't gotten far because of the Hospital and Kage's headquarters have to be sturdier then the houses." Sakura said as she laid out the blueprints they did have finished.

Naruto looked over them for a moment before looking back up at her, "These are amazing. The design, there is room for expanding, and still making it look like it was all planned, this is amazing Sakura-chan!"

"Yes, well looking at paper and actually getting the finishing product are two very different things Naruto," Sakura told him with a sigh, "Neji and Hanabi are even trying to push me into designing my house first before everyone else's so we can invite over diplomats from other villages." She rubbed her belly, as she pouted a bit, "I'm not ready for outsiders coming in here yet I would rather look like a finished product, not a still in processes one."

Naruto nodded, standing up to his full height, with a smile on his face, "Sakura-chan, I want you to relax a bit and stop stressing. You shouldn't do that when your pregnant, it's bad for the baby. You leave your house to a good friend of mine. I think he would be honored to design a Kage's house. So," he said as he rolled up the blueprints, "Don't worry about these, you just finish your other duties as Kage here."

And with that, he got up and headed for the door with her blueprints in his hands.

"Naruto, where are you going?"

"To go build these buildings," He answered as he turned his head to look at her, "That's why I came. No one can be a miniature army like I can."

He soon left a dumbfounded Sakura who didn't really move until Neji came in about twenty minutes later looking for her to talk about what should be planted in the greenhouses and where they were going to place the 'Yamanaka flower shop'.

It was actually amazing what one man could do with one jutsu. In just that day, Naruto had built the frame of the hospital, academy, Kage's HQ, and was even paving the village square like her blueprints had dictated.

He came back to the hotel, hungry enough to eat a whole table of food, and then relaxed a bit in Sakura's suite with her dodging Ino for the ninth time that evening.

"Really, can you blame her for taking pictures of you, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked with a small laugh, "I think it's cute how into this she is."

"Yeah, well, it gets tiresome after a while," Sakura said as she locked the door before plopping down right next to Naruto, "She dresses me about forty times a day in dresses and outfits just because she wants to give me a break from working so hard. Kurenai even laughs at how obsessive she's being."

"Ino loves babies and pregnancies," Naruto said, "Didn't you know that? I mean, when her cousin got very sick during her pregnancy, it was Ino that took care of her and helped her through it all. I hear she even delivered the baby when it came. I mean, yeah, she's obsessing a little too much over yours, but I think that is because…"

"Because what, Naruto?" Sakura said as she looked at her lifelong friend and brother.

"You aren't," Naruto finally said.

"What? Yes I am! I care about this child!"

"But not like you should," Naruto countered, "The baby made you have to leave. The baby exposed the truth to you and others and you hate it. Not the baby, but the truth."

Sakura's expression dimmed a bit as she rubbed her stomach, thinking over what she had heard.

"Has the baby started to kick? To move to where you can feel the baby?"

"Yes," Sakura said, not bothering to look at the blonde who was right.

"Have you told anyone or let anyone feel?"

Sakura shook her head no, her expression dimming, "I just… feel bad… I want to love the baby, but I'm afraid."

"Of what?" Naruto asked as he pulled her into a hug.

"Still loving the father." Sakura finally said, "I still love him. I know it's wrong, but I keep hoping he will find me and stay with me, but I know that's not possible."

There was a pause. It was long, but not too long that it made both feel uncomfortable. But it was Naruto that finally spoke.

"Maybe that means you should love this baby even more, because of who the father is. I mean, if it's a boy, it will probably look like him. He'll have your temper, and probably be the very image of his father. I think he will be the baby of your dreams, dattebayo."

Sakura looked up at Naruto, her eyes watering a bit with some sort of emotion. She had never thought about it like that. This child was a gift from Deidara and she needed to treasure it, just like she treasured her moments with him. She would seize this chance and love it every moment she could.

"Thanks Naruto," Sakura said as she sniffled, "I didn't think you were so deep and sensitive."

Naruto just grinned as he mess with her hair, "Yeah, well it did help that Ino gave me these flash cards to study from."

"Ino!?" Sakura yelled as she stood up, "She told you what to say?"

"Nah," Naruto laughed, "I just forgot to tell you the other surprise I have for you."

"And that would be," Sakura drawled angrily, not happy about his last joke.

"I am going to be a father a few months after you become a mommy." Naruto said with a foxy grin, "So I have to have some fatherly wisdom to tell you."

It took a moment before Sakura even understood what Naruto was talking about, "You mean Hinata is…"

"Yep."

"And your going to be a…"

"Uh-huh."

"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed as she hugged the man, "Congratulations! Again! Oh you are going to be a wonderful father!"

He hugged her back, this time not being intimidated by her belly, and laughed as she squealed happily.

"I hope so," he said as he picked her up, "I am currently practicing on you. So far I think I'm passing."

"Yes," Sakura said as she let go, still smiling, "You are. You're a natural. Just look out for the mood swings and you'll survive."

He laughed nervously as he rubbed the back of his head, "Oh boy, Hinata is quite scary when she's in a mood."

"Well better get use to me," Sakura said, "Ino says I'm like Godzilla, going on a rampage when I'm in a foul mood."

"Sakura," Naruto laughed, "That's you ninety percent of the time even when you aren't pregnant."

Naruto never saw it coming, until it was too late. The next thing he knew, he was staring up at Ino who had been walking though the hall.

"Sakurazilla?"

"Dattebayo…"

"Naruto, can I take this ridiculous blindfold off?" Sakura asked rather annoyed.

Naruto had banned her from leaving her office during the duration of his stay. She was afraid of the set backs that would cause, but everyone had come to her for the planning. She was still able to plan out the greenhouses from her office, but she felt caged inside that hotel, not allowed to even leave the front door.

So now, about twelve days later, Naruto was finally allowing her out of her office and into the sun, but blindfolded so the 'surprise' was not ruined.

"No Sakura-chan, that would ruin the surprise!" Naruto whined as he shifted her yet again in a new direction.

"This is ridiculous, I am feeling really unbalanced right now," Sakura said as she tripped over her feet, not acting like the graceful kunoichi she was.

Had Naruto not been supporting her, she would have fallen flat on her face, or her still growing belly, hurting her little darling child.

"Almost there," Naruto said in her ear as he pushed a bit more before pulling her to a stop, "and we are here."

"Can I take it off now?" Sakura asked rather distraught.

"Sure you can Ugly, but it won't make you any easier on the eyes," A familiar voice said.

Only one person dared to call her Ugly. One. And he was someone very close to her that she hadn't been able to say goodbye to because he had been on a mission during that time frame.

She pulled off the blindfold and there he was. Sai. But what really caught her attention, pulling her away from her thoughts of even greeting her friend, was a house. It was huge, but at the same time elegant and beautiful the way the angles shifted and meshed together into one harmonious house that could only be designed by her artist friend.

There was a large garden filled with blossoming sakuras and even a few plum trees. The flowers were vibrant and colorful and the grass was the greenest shade she had ever seen. He had even added a lake that meshed together with the house, going under it and sneaking into the background. He had placed a patio in the front for tea time right in the center of the lake with a small little stone bridge connecting it.

He had even made sure the place was gated. She just stood there stuck by it's beauty, unable to move except for covering her mouth in awe and wonder.

"Sai," she finally managed as she looked at him with tears in her eyes.

His face turned into a frown as he cocked his head to the side, his face scrunched up in confusion, "What? Is it that bad?"

"No," She said with a slight sob, "I love it. Thank you so much Sai." At this point she was bawling, "Thank you so much, I don't deserve this."

Sai pulled his face into one of those smiles that none of them got very often, his real smile, "Of course you don't deserve it Ugly, but none of us deserve what we get, so bear with it and learn to enjoy it."

Sakura just nodded as she cried a bit more, walking up to her socially-inept friend and pulling him into a tight hug as she cried some more.

"Um, Sai," Naruto said as he looked at Sakura, "I think she's having one of those mood swings."

"Oh," Sai said, smiling a silly fake grin, "I read of that in those pregnancy book I borrowed from the library."

"Why did you…Oh never mind I don't want to know what goes on in there," Naruto said as he rolled his eyes, "I'm just glad you'll be bugging Sakura-chan about it instead of me."

Sakura looked up and looked between the two of them. From Sai's smiling face to Naruto's fox like grin.

"You mean, your staying, Sai?"

"Do you not want me to say?" Sai asked, "You did build this beautiful place, why wouldn't I say in an artistic village? I am after all an artist."

Sakura just laughed happily as she hugged him again, "Welcome aboard Sai! I can use your skills around here."

"Well that's a relief," Sai said pulling up a grin, "I thought I would be stuck with a man like him over there as ruler when his brain is only as big as his-"

"New rule," Sakura said as she glared at him, "Say anything crude like that around here and I leave you halfway through a wall on the second floor, upside-down."

"Why?"

Sakura just glared at him before he sighed and promised. She beamed after that and grabbed him by the hand and tugged, motioning to the house he had designed and helped build.

"Come show me what you did to my new home," Sakura said cheerfully as she tugged him to the door.

Sai just looked back at Naruto before saying, "Your right, she does have constant mood swings. I thought you were exaggerating that."

"If you only knew the half of it," Naruto said as he rolled his eyes, "I'll go get Ino."

The house was even more beautiful inside. There were dozens of rooms, rooms for company, rooms for diplomats and important figures, rooms for servants, and rooms for family. Bathrooms connected everywhere and living rooms, study rooms, libraries, kitchens, and even a little green house. It had them all.

Not to mention the bathrooms. They were huge! Designed for one to wash or soak and there was even a connecting room so there was a soft lit room where people could get massaged or relax on a really soft body sized silk down pillow.

Her room was huge, but well designed with all sorts of glamrous items that just screamed Sakura. There was even a room for Ino to live there, with a huge walk in closet that never seemed to end. The woman had enough clothes for it.

"Sai, I don't know what to say," Sakura said as she hugged him again, "Thank you."

"But we're not done," Sai said as he looked at her strangely.

"Why aren't we done?" Sakura asked, a little shocked that it was just that big of a house.

"Come here, I'll show you. I left it for last. I read it in a book that it makes it all the more amazing if I do."

Oh, Sai and his books on social common sense that he should of had.

"And what could be greater then all you have shown me?" Sakura asked as he led her a few doors down from her room.

"This," Sai said, pointing at the door with the little off white bird on the door.

Sakura stopped dead in her tracks as she stared at the bird. It looked like one that Deidara was infamous for using, but in a more nonlethal kind of way that made it cute.

She slowly opened the door to see a room with a giant mural on all the walls, reaching high into the sky where there were white clay colored birds flying gracefully to a field where animals and sakura trees stood to a koi pond where the fish jumped from the water going back to the field and looping back to the sky. The crib matched theme well as it was put close to a sakura tree and a bird that was coming into a landing. It was made of cherry tree wood and had little birds floating above the bedding, also white and clay like.

From the toys that ranged from birds to foxes, Sakura could tell her friends details into making this room for her child.

"Sai…"

"Everyone back in Konoha decided to get you stuffed animals for the baby," Sai said as he picked up a deer, "See, this one is from Shikamaru, the bear is from Chouji, Kiba picked the dog, Hinata picked out the bunny, Ino chose the horse- even though she lives here now, Shino chose the butterfly, Naruto chose the fox, and I chose the dragon. I think there is a slug and pig somewhere in here from Tsunade-dono and Shizune."

"Thank you," Sakura said as she began to cry again, "thank you so much."

"Ah, don't worry Ugly, you can make it up to me by giving me my own art studio. As for the others, they just want your baby to be healthy. Which I don't get why they worry, you're going to be a fine mother." Sai said as he patted her on the back gently, "As soon as you get over this hormonal thing. When that's over, people might actually visit you."

Sakura laughed as she threatened him weakly with hurting him, but he didn't take it seriously.

But there was one thing she had to ask.

"Why the birds?"

"Because out of all the animals that could represent us, isn't your lover the bird?"

"You knew?" Her eyes widening with realization, "Why didn't you tell anyone?"

Sai just shrugged.

"I like it when your happy. He made you happy. So there was no problem since it wasn't like you were leaking information or going to leave us."

Sakura found herself hugging the pale artist again, whispering, "You are getting that studio with a huge bow on it too."

"I'll be looking forward to it Ugly."

That is the end. Of this chapter anyways.

I hope you liked where this is going. I know some of you are still bummed about the whole No Dei till ARC 2 thing, but Sakura is developing well, and I just don't mean her stomach girth. I hope what I did with the whole her resenting the baby a bit thing was done well and made sense. I really do believe that she would have problems accepting it since she got in trouble because of it. Please tell me if you like it or thinks it makes sense.

If I used words you didn't know, please mention it to me in the review.

By the way. I love reviews. But I usually take a long time writing one, so I don't do it often.

But for those who do want to review, please, could you add a bit of critique in it? I know people love the usual "I love it please update" but I ask of you to add just a little bit more. More means perhaps telling me your favorite part, telling me what you think might happen, pulling out something I wrote and adding to the idea.

Like I mentioned Sasuke. He's married to Karin. Is he going to have children too? Are Sakura's and his children going to be rivals or friends?

Things like that.

So please, critique me, it will not discourage me from writing. If I make grammar errors, please, point them out.

Thanks.

Unknown Artist of Hanagakure