Sakura had felt bad afterwards, really, when she saw a broken and bruised Sasuke in the hospital. Well, until she learned that the arrogance (and pure stupidity) hadn't been beaten out of him.

The pink-haired girl gritted her teeth as she made her way to the ward in the hospital reserved for critically injured patients.

'Hey, Sakura.' Stupid Inner was back again.

'What?!'

There was an immature raspberry, and the girl gritted her teeth angrily again as she stomped into her patient's room. And that was how Sasuke woke up- to the murderous chakra in the air- so close to Naruto's Kyuubi chakra it made his blood run cold and his pee run down his leg.

"Sit up." He gulped but remained laying down- must be that genetic Uchiha stupidity.

'Calm down, Sasuke. Show her who's in charge- yeah, you. Give her that Uchiha charm- a few 'hn's' and 'annoying's' with a side of 'we'll have powerful children' will have her begging at my feet for forgiveness again.

"Hn." The fricking-dumb-as-a-rock Uchiha muttered, looking away in an attempt to show his future-concubine how much he cared for and respected her.

Sakura, who remembered some of her Sasukenese from the days of Team Seven, translated it into: 'Why should I, soon-to-be-babymaker, because you're below me and have no right to order me around.' That did not go over well.

Naruto had been walking to the hospital to take Sakura out to Ichiraku's (platonically, of course, Hinata was his one and only girlfriend!), when there was the sound of a shattered window along with a gigantic burst of chakra. He paused and decided that someone had pissed his scarier-than-hell female teammate again as a body sailed almost gracefully from the hospital and landed with a soft thump.

Which just happened to make a twenty-foot-wide crater or so. The jinchuriki whistled and grinned, as a girl screamed, "AND DON'T COME BACK, BAKA!" ,making Sasuke open one dazed and bruised eye.

"Wha- what happened." He winced when his voice cracked. It was unmanly to get voice cracks- Stupid puberty.

"Sakura took pity on you."

"What?"

"When someone almost killed Kakashi-sensei out on the field, she tracked him down and literally made a valley. The Lightning Country weren't happy, of course, but it turned out the valley was getting lots of tourists because of the size of it and something about the irrigation, so they let it slide."

"Hn."

Naruto shook his head. "You'll never get her to love you if you keep giving monosyllabic answers and pissing her off."

"Hn."

The blonde paused. "You don't want Sakura to love you?"

"Hn."

"You want her to produce babies."

"HN!"

"Okay, okay, no need to shout. You want her to admire you, produce genetically perfect babies, and care for you."

"Hn." Sasuke was satisfied.

It was funny, really, how much Sasuke could communicate through his emotionally-retarded grunts. Or maybe Naruto and Sakura were just really good at guessing and deciphering after years of experience. It was most likely the latter.

After Sasuke's second disgraceful beating, he didn't even attempt to hide his fear of pink, green, or anything medical. He would have nightmares over the two most painful and scarring incidences in his life and stay awake, shivering on the covers in fear. He decided that maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to ask the Yamanaka girl.