So many great things happened in this chapter! I am anticipating the next chapter to be the last before I start the sequel. If not there will def be no more than 2 more chapters left to this first story. How do you think it will end? : )

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto watched in horror as Kabuto plunged a kunai into Sakura's stomach.

Before he could react Itachi and Sauske were both at her side. Itachi stabbed him in the neck but still Kabuto sliced into Sakura's stomach.

Sauske appeared on the other side of Kabuto grabbing him by his neck.

"Let her go!" he demanded.

"I must have the Uchiha child! Lord Orochimaru needs the child!"

Uchiha child? What was he talking about?

A loud snap! Echoed throughout the cave. Naruto watched as Itachi snapped both of Kabuto's wrists in half causing him to release the kuani and Itachi to grab Sakura in his arms.

Kabuto dove to the floor taking Sauske with him and bit his finger, summoning Orochimaru's snake. Naruto watched Sauske snap Kabuto's neck, leaving his lifeless on the floor.

Sauske in return summoned his own snake.

Sensai versus student. There was a snake on snake showdown about to take place.

"Now's our chance!" Naruto shouted.

"Wait Naruto." Kakashi ordered. "We are only here to bring Sakura back."

"Sensai you can't just leave Sauske here to battle Orochimaru alone. Arms or no arms he still is a legendary sanin!"

Neji shook his head "Naruto Sauske is a rogue ninja we couldn't bring him back with us even if we tried. Lady Tsunade would never let him past the gates."

"Im not leaving here without him and im not letting him fight this battle alone! He just saved Sakura's life! If Sauske didn't care about the village and us anymore he wouldn't have killed Kabuto and he wouldn't be battling to protect Sakura right now!" Naruto argued.

Before Kakshi could speak Ino stepped up and stood by Naruto's side.

"Kakashi Sensai, I will fight by Naruto's side. I'm sorry but he's right. We have the opportunity to bring them both home." Ino looked at Naruto and nodded.

"Ino are you crazy? That isnt the same Sauske that you obsessed over as a child. He's dangerous and controlled by his desire to seek revenge." Shikimaru stood next to Kakashi as if to physically symbolize who he as siding with.

"Naruto I can't let you waste time here trying to drag Sauske back to Konoha. Who's to say he want's to come back? Remember the last time you tracked him down? It took you three years to find him and it only took him five minutes to refuse to come home and disappear again. The Sauske we knew and loved is gone." Kakashi starred into his pupils eyes.

Naruto clenched his fist and his icy blue eyes stared back into Kakashi's onxy.

"Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum." Naruto threw the words his Sensai once told him right back at him.

Hearing his own words come so sincerely from his pupil's mouth, Kakashi secretly was brimming with pride.

"Obito….your words still give others courage. Allowing them to remind me what is important in life when I forget." Kakashi thought to himself.

"Ino, go tend to Sakura, Neji you go with her just in case Itachi tries anything. Shikimaru, Naruto and I will help Sauske."

"Hai" Naruto smiled inside.

Thank you sensai.

Ino and Neji took off running. Ignoring Itachi, Ino knelt by her side while Neji closely kept an eye on the Uchiha.

"Sakura! Sakura what happened!" Ino became frantic at the sight of her wounds.

Neji observed the Uchiha staring down at Sakura when a look of complete and utter shock on his face.

"Ino…..please….save the baby first…" Sakura struggled to get the words out as she choked on her own blood.

"Baby?! You're pregnant!?"

"Ino please…..no time….dying…."

Ino understood. "Right, I'm sorry we will save that conversation for later when you're feeling better because you will get better. I don't have as much experience as you and Hinata but I've picked up a few things here and there from the both of you."

Leaning in to grab Sakura's arm and lie her flat on the ground, Ino was stopped by Itachi gripping her wrist and squeezing down hard. His sharigan was ablaze and looking at Ino with an intent to kill.

Neji reached for a kunai but Ino stopped him.

"Neji don't!" Ino couldn't believe she was looking back directly into the crimson eyes of the deadly Itachi Uchiha. However, despite his chilling gaze, there was a reason for it. He was protective over her but why?

"Oh my God…..it's yours isnt it?" Ino asked him.

"Ino what are you talking about?" Neji was becoming irritated.

"Yes…" his voice was barely audible.

"Neji don't attack, the baby is his."

Neji's eyes grew wide and he quickly composed himself. "I understand"

"Please help her." Itachi released Ino's wrist.

"Don't worry I'll keep her alive until we can get her to Lady Tsunade, I promise."

Itachi

"Don't worry I'll keep her alive until we can get her to Lady Tsunade, I promise."

The blond haired kunoichi who resembled Deidera, was sincere with her words. She reminded me of Sakura, they must be good friends.

"Please lie her on the floor."

I stared at her silently. For reasons I did not know, I didnt want Sakura to leave my arms.

Itachi….please save the baby….save our daughter.

The chakra signature back in the sand...it wasn't yours it was the child's.

I'm sorry…..I…..wanted to protect her…..

Itachi's inner self made an appearance and this time he didn't mind.

Up until that moment you denied all of the feelings that Sakura caused to rush to the surface, threatening to expose themselves. Hearing that you were going to father initially shocked you.

Yes…

And now it scares you. If Sakura does not survive you will lose her and the child.

She will not die! I won't let it happen!

You have another chance. For the first time in a long time you have what you lost all those years ago.

A family….

You have the opportunity to expose the truth of what happened that night.

Sakura will live….my child will live….

"Itachi." Ino's voice broke me away from my thoughts.

"I won't let anyone else harm her, please I need her flat on the floor in order to help her and get a good look at her and the baby. You can carry her to the village after I am done."

"They will never let me step foot past the front gates." I told her.

"Yes they will, I will make sure of it. Now please lie her down." She seemed sincere.

"Hn" I gently set Sakura on the ground and let the blonde kunoichi do her work.

"Sakura, how far along are you?" she asked.

"Fi-five….." she struggled to get the words out.

"Five months okay, that's about twenty weeks along. The baby would be extremely premature if Tsunade has to perform an emergency C-section but it would be able to survive out of the womb at least. Neji I need your eyes to examine the baby in the womb while I tend to Sakura."

Five months? That means….she was pregnant after the rape. How did she conceal it for so long? How did I not notice her uncontrolled chakra signatures until just this past week? When did she find out? How Sakura managed to hide something like this from me for so long, from someone like me was beyond me. Only Sakura had the ability to truly, continuously surprise me this way.

"Byankugan." The Hyuga boy focused intensely.

"What do you see?" the kunoichi asked as she ripped Sakura's shirt open.

"The child is fine right now. Sakura has a chakra shield protecting the womb, it wont last for long because Sakura won't have the strength to maintain it. Just her maintaining it now instead of using it to heal herself is killing her, she pushing out chakra she doesn't have she should have run out of chakra already." He explained.

"Sakura, I need you to take the shield down the baby is okay." The kunoichi told her.

"No!" she managed to shout.

"Sakura if you keep pushing out this amount of chakra you're going to die before we can get you to Lady Tsunade. Please trust me, it's safe to take your chakra shield down." She pleaded

"I don't care about dying…..save her…." She was incredibly stubborn.

"Sakura I can't perform a C-section! I need you to survive until we can get you and the baby to Tsunade! You and the baby will both die if you don't preserve your chakra! You're a medical ninja you know I'm right!" she shouted at her.

"Fine..."

"Kunoichi….sasori knows medical ninjutsu, he's saved her before." I told her.

"The one who healed her when she stabbed herself?" she asked.

I nodded.

"Alright, bring him here." She agreed.

Sasori and Deidera had been standing quietly in the tunnel entrance waiting for the opportunity to catch Orochimaru off guard. Now that Sauske and the nine tails boy were fighting him their help was no longer necessary.

"Sasori, come." I called him and Deidera came with.

"The kunoichi has very basic medical training, assist her." I commanded.

Sakura began to cough violently, choking on her own blood.

"Roll her over on her side!" the blonde ordered.

Sasori and I propped her up on her side, supporting her back with the palm of our hands while the blonde kunoichi, held Sakura's pink hair out of the way and supported her head.

"Her heart beat is slowing" the Hyuga boy warned.

"Kunoichi, pump chakra directly to her abdomen to slow down the bleeding while I pump chakra directly to her heart." Sasori guided her step by step.

"We must leave now or she wont make it." Hyuga boy said impatiently.

"We will get there faster if we travel on my bird, yeah?" Deidera made himself useful for once.

"Then leave now." I ordered.

"Hai, lets go" the kunochi agreed.

"I cant carry all of you." Deidera said.

"I must go to keep her alive, as well as the blone and the Hyuga boy to keep us updated on her condition." Sasori looked at me.

"Wherever she goes I go." I glared back at him.

"I will travel on foot behind you all, my byankugan will allow me to see her even from far distances." The Hyuga boy said.

"That's still too many people." Deidera said gazing at me.

"I said wherever she goes I go."

Did they honestly think I would leave Sakura and my child?

"Itachi please we don't have time for stubbornness!" the kunochi addressed me.

"That is my child." I said.

The kunoichi contemplated hard, and glanced up at something behind me. Her face suddenly lit up.

"Naruto! His sage toads! We can travel on one of them as well." She suggested.

Glancing behind me I observed the boy and a giant toad, along with my brother and his snake battling head to head with Orochimaru's snake. If Sakura had any chance of survival she need to leave soon and that meant their battle needed to end soon as well. Entrusting the leaf ninja completely, Itachi rose to his feet.

"Keep her alive." I said as I left to end Orochimaru for good.

"Aoda, fend off Manda and buy us enough time to kill Orochimaru." Sasuke commanded his large blue snake.

"Hai, Sasuke-sama" the snake replied.

"Gamakichi! Go help him out!" Naruto commanded.

"What are you doing here, dobe? This is my fight." Sauske asked.

"I told you back then and I'll tell you again now, I'll save you even if it kills me! Sakura-chan risked her life to come save you today you better bring your ass home after this fight!" Naruto warned.

"Sasuke….I should have known this would happen. Betraying your own sensai?" Orochimaru hissed.

"As I recall Orochimaru, you told me I wouldn't be able to kill Itachi unless I was heartless. I can commit my first heartless act by killing you. Sensai or not, you tried to kill Sakura and steal her child, my niece. You will die for that." Sasuke clenched his fist at his sides.

"WAIT WHAT? NIECE?SAKURA'S PREGNANT? BY ITACHI!?" Naruto's mouth was hanging wide open with his eyes bulging out of his head.

"You really are a loser, and a stupid one at that." Sasuke sighed.

"I can't believe Sakura-chan is having Itachi's baby….why?" he said aloud to himself.

"Naruto! Get yourself together dobe!" Sasuke reprimanded.

"Right! Sorry! Orochimaru you're going down!" Naruto pointed a single finger at him.

"Chidori!"

"Chidori!" Sasuke's head snapped in the direction of the echo. Kakashis stood off to the side, chidori ablaze prepared to attack.

"Kakashi sensai." Sasuke addressed him.

"It took Naruto to remind me, but, no matter your standing with the village, you are still my student and my comrade. I will protect you with my life as long as your intentions towards your comrades are good, in which I can clearly see they are." Kakashi approached Sauske.

"Lets do this!" Naruto shouted!

"Resengan!"

"Chidori!"

"Chidori!"

Student and sensai all rushed towards Orochimaru. Naruto was thrown to the side by a snake that submerged from Orochimaruis arm, as Sasuke chidori was deflected by a sword that was regurgitated from Orochimaru's mouth. Kakashi landed a direct hit to the snake protruding from his arm slicing right through its neck, decapitating it.

"Manda swallow the nine tails whole!" Orochimaru commanded.

Turning his attention away from Aoda, Manda dove straight for Naruto who was sprawled out on the ground.

"Aoda, stop him!" Sasuke commanded.

Aoda slithered at the speed of lightning scooping Naruto into his mouth before Manda had the chance to.

"Ahh! Let me out of here you stupid snake!" Naruto screamed from inside of Aoda's mouth. Slithering next to Sasuke's side Aoda opended his mouth allowing Naruto to walk out.

"Your snake tried to eat me!" he yelled.

"He just saved your life you idiot!" Sasuke yelled back.

"Guys! Pay attention!" Kakashi warned.

Orochimaru's neck extended like a yoyo reaching out and wrapping around Sasuke restraining him completely. Sasuke activated his curse mark, his wings emerged slicing through the snake skin wrapped around his body.

"Orochimaru, it's time the tables have turned. I will be absorbing you."

"Big words for an Uchiha hatchling." Orochimaru laughed as he lunged for Sasuke.

Activating his sharigan Sasuke pulled orochimaru into another dimension, showing him the body jump ritual.

Inside of the dimension Orochimaru had created Sasuke used his curse mark to reverse the ritual.

The pink snake matter began to consume Orochimaru.

"What? Impossible! This is my domain!" he yelled.

"Your domain is no match for my eyes. I have reversed the ritual with eyes and am now absorbing you with my curse mark. Ironic isnt it? The power you gave me to seek you out and eventually allow you to consume me is now the sole thing that is allowing me to consume you." Saskue smiled.

In the meantime outside of the domain Aoda and Manda continued to battle. Leaving Naruto and Kakashi to only watch.

"Shikamaru! Aid Aoda with your shadow jutsu." Kakashi ordered.

"There aren't any shadows close by enough to allow me to do that. This cave is poorly lit." he responded.

"I shall help you." Itachi said as he wove hand signs.

"Firestyle! Fireball jutsu!" a large flame escaped his lips creating a giant shadow as the light combined with the darkness of the cave.

Shikimaru seized the opportunity. Pressing his hands together and holding his two fingers he commanded his shadow jutsu.

"Shadow bind technique!" his shadow slithered over to Manda binding him. Shikimaru now had complete control over Manda forcing his movements mirror his.

"Shikimaru, direct him over to Naruto and I" Kakashi wove hand signs.

Shikimaru walked over to Kakashi and Manda followed against his will.

"Resengan!"

"Resengan!"

Both Naruto and Kakashi summoned the deadly jutsu attacking from opposite sides. As they came in contact a bright blue glow illuminated the cave. After the jutsu died down there was nothing left of Manda, he had been completely obliterated.

Kakashi fell to his knees panting hard.

"That resengan knocks me off my feet every time." He said breathlessly.

"We got him, yeah!" Naruto cheered.

"You summoned me here for nothing you little twerp!" Gamakichi yelled.

"Oh shut up!" he yelled back.

"Actually your summoning will not be in vain, toad." Itachi spoke.

"What do you mean?" Kakashi responded.

"Sakura is dying, Deidera, sasori, and the blond kunoichi will take her upon Deidera's bird and fly her back to the godamine Hokage. The huga child and I need transportation there as well we will be too slow on foot and I will not leave Sakura nor my child."

Just then Sasuke came back to consciousness form his domain.

"It is done. Orochimaru is absorbed." He said.

"Why should we trust you!" Naruto yelled at Itachi.

Just then the ANBU black ops came bursting out of the tunnels. Spotting Sasuke and Aoda first they all threw one large kunai attack catching Sasuke off guard.

Itachi immediately threw himself in front of the attack deflecting most but taking the hit for some.

As he stood there with his arms spread out and kunai lodged into his legs, chest and arms everyone froze in disbelief.

"He is innocent. You will not harm him, he has killed Orochimaru and saved Sakura's life." Itachi sounded deadly.

Sasuke stood wide eyed "Itachi…what are you doing…?"

"All this time I never wanted to kill you, I've never wanted to fight you. There's so many things I lied about that night, so many things you do not understand because I never wanted to burden you with them so instead I pushed you away. It did not realize until now, until Sakura pushed through to break down my walls, until I learned I had a child on the way. I have been a foolish older brother Sasuke, and for that I hope you can forgive me one day."

"Itachi…." Sasuke was speechless.

"Now is not the time, Sakura must get back to the Leaf to survive." Itachi pulled the kunai out of his limbs.

" ANBU Stand down." Kakashi commanded.

"Kakashi Hatake, Tsunade specifically said Sauske was not to be a part of the retrieval mission." The member with the fox mask spoke.

"I don't care, as your former captain I am telling you to stand down. If Sakura dies because of your ignorance Lady Tsunade will have more than a simple punishment in store for all of you. She ordered that we all came back to her alive, did she not?" Kakashi stood to his feet.

After a slight hesitation the ANBU captain backed down. "Escort them back to the village, Sakura Haruno is wounded!"

"Gamakichi transport Kakashi, Neji, and I back to the village." Naruto commanded.

"Aoda, you've done well. transpot me back to the Leaf and then you can go." Sasuke commanded.

Deidera who was quietly observing the situation pulled out a clay bombs tossing them across the cave. A large explosion went off causing the roof of the cave to crumble exposing day light.

Summoning his bird he hopped on.

"Load her on here, yeah."

Itachi walked over picking up Sakura in his arms. Her eyes were closed but she was still breathing.

"Open your eyes, you can't sleep just yet." Itachi leaned down and whispered into her ear.

Her eyes fluttered open.

"Kunoichi there is no need for your assistance any further I have it handled from here, her bleeding in her abdomen has slowed down. I will ride with Didera and Itachi." Sasori said.

"No way,"Ino protested. How do I know you won't run away with her."

"I give you my Ino Yamanaks. The Godamine Hokage is the only one who can save her and my child at this point. I would not risk Sakura's life." Itachi deactivated his sharigan to look less intimidating as he looked her in her eyes.

Ino believed him and nodded.

"I'm trusting you to keep your word Uchiha."

Hopping on the back of the clay bird Deidera, Itachim Sasori and Sakura took off through the hole in the top of the cave.

Naruto and Kakashi followed behind, followed by Sasuke.

"Ino, you can ride on Aoda with me. Hurry." Sasuke stopped to grab her before exiting the cave.

With the Anbu following behind the race back to the Village Hidden in the Leaves began.

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