Hey All, Slyvia!

Here is the next chapter! I actually really love this story so far, i have BIG plans for it!

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"Sakura, please, just come back," Neji whispered, holding Sakura's hand to his lips.

She couldn't die, he wouldn't let her. She couldn't leave him.

"You're not leaving me," Neji threatened, rubbing her hand between his, "just come back, don't leave me."

"Please," Neji whispered, "Come back."

Tsunade's hand rested on the doorknob. She had been listening to Neji beg Sakura to come back, to open her eyes, to see her son. Tsunade's sighed as she thought about how many people were pleading and wishing for the same thing.

"Tsunade?" Naruto whispered, "Can't you heal them? Can't you do something for them?"

"I'm trying but…." Tsunade's gaze travelled towards the Uchiha sitting against the wall.

"What?" Kakashi asked.

"The baby's too early, he's too weak to breathe on his own and I'm having trouble healing him."

"And Sakura?" Kakashi asked.

"She's not waking up; she went into shock causing her to have the baby early. It was too early for her too and….."

"What? What's wrong with her?" Yamato asked.

"I don't think she wants to wake up, her body's been refusing my healing, it's like she wants to die…." Tsunade whispered.

"No! You have to heal her! She can't die! She's not…she's," Naruto started when he noticed Tsunade glaring at Sasuke.

Sasuke looked into the Hokage's cold eyes, she blamed him. Everyone did.

"It's your fault," Sai started, glaring towards Sasuke, "Naruto was right. If you hadn't come back she'd be fine!"

"Sai," Yamato said, "That's enough. It's not going to-"

"We all warned her about you! We told her not to go out with you, we warned her! But she didn't listen! She never listened to us! She just said you loved her and that you'd stay!" Sai screamed as the other teams stared at him.

"Sai, stop it!" Yamato yelled, "This isn't making things better."

"It doesn't matter now does it?" Ino piped in.

All eyes turned to her, lying against Shikamaru with tears in her eyes.

"She's going to die and so will the baby," her fists balled as she shook with anger, "So yelling at him won't do anything. He can't bring her back-"

"Ino," Shikamaru started.

"Tsunade can't help her-"

"Ino stop it," Shikamaru glared.

"Naruto and Sai can't save her-"

"That's enough Ino," Kurenai cut in.

"And Neji can't be with her…."

Naruto turned around to face his former teamate. Sasuke stared down at his hands, trembling as each shinobi took their turn blaming him. He took it all in; he blamed himself along with everyone else. He knew it was his fault, he knew he hurt her, he had known since day one that he would.

"They were happy you know," Naruto started, "Neji and Sakura, he took care of her. He loved, no, he still loves her!"

"Naruto, just stop," Hinata whispered as she walked over to Naruto's side and held him as he cried into her shoulder.

"We warned her about you," Sai sneered, "We knew you'd break her heart again and you know what?"

Tsunade sighed as she remembered all of Sakura's team yelling and blaming him. She watched as everyone's eyes turned cold, staring at him with anger for what he put her through.

She smiled sadly as she entered the hospital room.

Neji was hunched over Sakura's side, lying on her shoulder and holding her hand. He looked peaceful in his sleep as he faced the baby incubator.

'No matter what, you're always watching over them, aren't you Neji?' Tsunade thought as she walked over to him.

"Neji?" Tsunade nudged the Hyuuga lying at Sakura's side.

"….Hmmm?" Neji groaned as Tsunade placed her hand on his shoulder.

"I need you to leave now," she shook his shoulder until he raised his head, "I'm going to try and heal Sakura again…."

"…..Oh….okay," Neji replied as he laid a small kiss on Sakura's cheek.

"I'm trying Neji, I really am," Tsunade confessed as Neji walked over to where the baby laid.

"…I know you are," Neji whispered as he touched the tiny infant's fist.

"I'm not giving up; she made it this far and…." Tsunade trailed as Neji turned to look at her.

"I know you won't…" Neji sadly smiled as he took one final look at the child and walked out of the room.

Neji walked down the hall, hearing the some of the shinobi whisper about missions and others comforting each other. He stopped before he reached the doors and leaned against the wall.

'She made it through the night. Tsunade said she wouldn't but she did, both of them did. Doesn't that mean something? Won't she be alright now? Won't he be alright?' Neji thought as tears stung his eyes.

He couldn't remember the last time he cried. He never cared enough about anything to cry.

Sakura had changed him.

Ever since Sasuke had left, he never left her side. For awhile he thought she merely thought of him as Sasuke's replacement, just waiting for the Uchiha to come back, someone to tide her over.

He smiled remembering the time he asked her about it.

"She's got a good right hook…." Neji laughed.

She'd punched him straight across the apartment they'd shared when he'd asked her. After that, she smiled and kissed him.

Sakura was strong. She made it through a lot before and Neji was determined that she would make it through this.

The child would too. After all, he was Sakura's son.

Neji smiled, trying confuse his mind in false hope. He convinced himself that Sakura would get better, that they could all be a happy family but he was just lying to himself.

Everything was different, Sasuke was back and Sakura and the child were dying.

'This isn't the way it should be….' Neji thought as he sank down on the ground, holding his head in his hand.

Neji sat behind the door; staring at the ring he had bought Sakura. He had planned to surprise her with it that night after his mission.

He was going to ask her to be his wife.

To take his name.

To be with him.

To stand by his side forever.

To love him.

He was sure she would say yes, everyone was sure. Neji opened and closed the ring box hundreds of times, cringing each time the box snapped shut.

'Just like my life,' he thought sadly.

Every time something good happened, something went wrong and took it from him. Every door that ever opened for him shut in his face when he got halfway through it.

Sasuke coming back the first time dashed his chance of being with Sakura.

Sakura being pregnant with Sasuke's child left a hole in his heart. Even when the Uchiha wasn't around he still controlled Sakura's life.

Neji tried as hard as he could not to love her, to leave her with Sai and Naruto until Sasuke came back to take her. But it didn't work; he loved her even more and never resented the child growing inside her.

He promised to raise the child with her. He promised to be the father the child needed.

Now, he hoped he got the chance.

"Neji?" Tsunade panted as she saw Neji sitting against the wall.

"…hmmm?" Neji groaned dreading Tsunade's next words.

She wasn't going to make it. Sakura was dead and so was the child. Another door shut and closed in his face. His life was taken from him: everything that he had loved had been ripped from his grasp.

Slowly, he looked up at the Hokage's face, waiting for her to continue.

"….She'll make it," Tsunade whispered, "She'll make it."

Neji looked back down at the ring in his hand, "…."

"It'll take some time but, she'll come around," Tsunade continued.

Neji smiled slightly.

"What about the baby?" Neji whispered.

"He definitely takes after his mother," Tsunade laughed, sniffling at her tears.

Neji's head shot up.

"What?"

"He's going to be fine, it's just going to take some time before they can leave the hospital," Tsunade smiled.

"How?" Neji whispered as he stood up.

"Looks like she had something to come back to."

Neji smiled, "Can I see her?"

"Yeah, I'm going to tell the others," Tsunade smiled as Neji ran past her and into Sakura's room.

Neji walked into the room seeing Sakura still lying asleep as her heart monitor beeped along with her heart beat.

"Sakura…" Neji whispered walking over to her bed side.

He kissed her hand as he heard a small rustle from the other side of the room.

Walking over to where the baby incubator stood, Neji looked down at the little boy, starting to move his arms.

'He looks like him,' Neji thought as he stuck his finger through one of the holes and touched the child's fist.

He was surprised when the baby opened his tiny hand and quickly caught Neji's finger.

"He's so tiny…." Neji whispered as he wrapped his finger around the child's palm.

He smiled as the boy rested his hand around Neji's finger. Not that the baby knew, he just let his little fingers curl around Neji's.

"You can hold him," Neji spun around to find Shizune standing in the doorway.

"I don't, I mean, Sakura should," Neji started as Shizune walked over to the baby incubator.

"I don't think Sakura would mind," She smiled as she lifted the top of the incubator. One glowing hand stretched forth as she ran it over the boy's chest,

"Yeah, he's going to be strong."

Shizune looked over to Neji and motioned for him to pick the boy up, "He won't bite," she laughed as Neji pulled his finger away from the boy's hand and gingerly reached his arms into the case.

Carefully, Neji placed one of his hands under the boy's head and his other underneath his lower back, quietly lifting the boy into his arms.

Shizune watched as the boy whimpered slightly and Neji rested his head against the crook of his elbow, slowly rocking him back and forth until he quieted down.

"You're well suited to being a father Neji," Shizune smiled as the boy quieted down and continued to sleep.

Neji smiled down at the little baby in his arms, shifting the body into his one arm, he touched the boy's head and ran his finger over the boy's fist.

'He does look like Sasuke,' Neji thought as he stared at the boy's dark hair.

Neji smiled again as the baby opened and closed his hand over Neji's finger, letting his little fist clench around his index finger.

The baby was a dream. Neji couldn't stop smiling as his white eyes scanned over the child lying in his arms.

'He's beautiful,' Neji walked over to Sakura with 'their' son in his arms, "Just like you," he whispered.

"What?!" Naruto as screeched as Tsunade rubbed her ear.

"Oi, dickless we're at a hospital! Shut up!" Sai yelled, hitting Naruto over the head.

"You mean it? Sakura's going to be okay?!" Naruto cried as he rushed up to Tsunade.

"Yes, she's should wake up in a couple of days, maybe even shorter," Tsunade winced as Naruto hugged Tsunade screaming 'thank you' over and over again.

"How is the baby?" Ino asked.

"He's going to be okay too, the three of them are doing just fine now," Tsunade replied watching Sasuke smile sadly at the floor.

"Three?" Naruto quirked an eyebrow as he stopped hugging Tsunade.

"Yeah," she smiled still watching the Uchiha, "Neji's with them now," she smirked as Sasuke narrowed his gaze in her direction.

'They look like a family,' Tsunade thought.

"Can we see them? Oh, can I see Sakura chan?" Naruto begged.

"Naruto," Tsunade sighed rubbing her temple, "When she wakes up you can see her. Just wait until then."

"Waiting?" Yamato snickered, "I don't think Naruto waits very well."

"Well he's going to have to!" Ino shouted, "Because I'm seeing her before you!"

"What?!" Naruto yelled.

"Yeah dickless, you'd scare the kid anyway. He wouldn't know if you were a guy or a girl," Sai smirked.

"Sai!" Naruto growled.

"And what makes you think you're seeing them Sai?" Ino asked drawing the artist nin's attention, "I'm seeing them before any of you!"

"No you're not!" Naruto cried.

"We're her teamates," Sai responded, confused by the whole situation.

"I'm her friend! I get first look!" Ino shot back.

"Troublesome woman…" Shikamaru muttered.

"What was that Shikamaru?" Ino snarled as she glared at her boyfriend.

"Uh…uh… nothing," Shikamaru backed away as Naruto and Sai laughed.

"Boy does she have you whipped!" Naruto hollered as Sasuke continued to glare at Tsunade.

Neji walked over to the window of Sakura's hospital room and stared out at the over head view of Konoha. It had been hours since he had first picked up his son.

He smiled proudly as he showed the little boy where his home was going to be.

"You'll live with us and-" Neji whispered before he was cut off by a presence in the doorway.

"No he won't," a dark voice growled, "He's going to live with me and Sakura."

Without turning around Neji replied, "He's not going anywhere with you, Uchiha."

"He's my son," Sasuke smirked.

"….No he's not," Neji whispered.

Neji turned around to see Sasuke standing next to Sakura's bed, holding her hand.

"Get away from her. Don't you think you've done enough damage?"

"You're not his father, I am," Sasuke repeated.

"No, you'll never come near this child. I won't allow you to hurt him like you have his mother."

"Hn, no matter how many times you tell yourself, Hyuuga, that's he's your son," Sasuke snickered, "he'll never be. He's an Uchiha and he belongs with me."

Neji activated his byakugan as Sasuke's sharingan glared back at him.

"Both of them belong with me," Sasuke continued.

"What's going on in here?!" Naruto screamed as Sai walked up behind him.

"Sasuke? What are you doing here?" Kakashi asked as he stepped into the room.

"I just wanted to see them," the Uchiha replied quietly.

"Leave," Sai bit out, "This isn't your place anymore."

Sasuke glared at the artist before looking back to Neji.

"Hn," he mumbled as he turned around and left the room.

Neji sighed as the baby started to whimper in his arms. His gaze softened as he softly rocked the child back to sleep.

"Sakura chan! Are you okay?!" Naruto cried as he dashed to Sakura's side.

"You idiot, be quiet!" Yamato whispered harshly as Neji looked on in mild amusement.

"I just wanted to see if she was okay!" Naruto defended.

"Fine but be quiet about it," Yamato sighed as Naruto looked towards Neji.

"Is that him?" Naruto whispered pointing to the little bundle Neji cradled in his arms.

Nodding, Naruto raced over and stuck his face in front of the small child's.

"Eh, Naruto, what the hell are you doing?" Kakashi asked sitting down in the chair beside Sakura.

Naruto laughed as Neji quirked an eyebrow, "I want-"

"Can I hold him?" A soft voice asked cutting Naruto off.

"What?! No I want to be the first to hold him!" Naruto whined as Sai looked over to Neji.

"Well, actually Neji was the first one to get to hold him," Sai shrugged as Naruto stomped his foot in front of the Hyuuga.

"Can I hold him?" Sai asked again.

"Yeah," Neji replied, silently handing the small baby over to Sai's welcoming embrace.

Sai shifted uncomfortably as the baby was placed in his arms, trying to get comfortable while the child mewled in his hold.

"Neji?" Sai panicked.

After all the years Neji had known Sai, he had never seen the artist so flustered and scared in one look. Sai's eyes widened as the baby started to move around in his arms, "Am I hurting him?" Sai asked.

Neji chuckled as he adjusted the child in Sai's arms.

"Look! Sai can't even do it right!" Naruto laughed as Neji and Sai shot him a glare.

"Shut up Dickless," Sai whispered as the child took in a small breath and tightened his mouth into what Sai deciphered to be a smile, "Look, the little one here agrees with me," Sai smirked triumphantly, "I guess he's got Sakura's personality."

Kakashi, Neji and Yamato laughed as Naruto huffed at Sai's side, "Okay, you've had long enough, it's my turn!" Naruto called as Sai glared at him.

"Give him a minute Naruto," Kakashi drawled as he looked over at Sakura.

Yamato sighed and shook his head, "I bet that baby's got more maturity than Naruto."

Kakashi laughed as Naruto continued to whine about Sai holding the baby.

"Shut up Dickless and wait your turn," Sai smirked as he turned away and faced the window.

Sai cradled the baby in his arms, shocked by how calm the child was in his arms. Even though he wasn't even the father, the baby looked content with him.

'You're definitely Sakura's child,' Sai smiled as he turned around and nodded to Naruto.

"Yes!" Naruto cheered as he happily took the baby from Sai's arms.

Neji sighed and shook his head as he rubbed one of Sakura's hands.

"When is she going to wake up?" Yamato asked as he smoothed one of his hands over Sakura's hair.

"I don't know," Neji replied, "soon, I hope."

"Did you name him?" Kakashi asked, watching Sai scold Naruto on the right way to hold the child.

"…No," Neji replied sadly, "I think Sakura should, I mean, he is her son."

Yamato looked towards Neji's pained face, no matter how much he tried, that baby wasn't his and he knew it.

Neji could never completely erase Sasuke from his life; someday he would have to let the Uchiha see his son. Seeing how it was Sasuke's child, he would definitely have the Sharingan and Neji couldn't teach him how to use that.

Neji sighed, he could teach the child how to be a good shinobi, be a good person but he could never teach the child to wield his own bloodline trait.

"He is your son you know," Kakashi drawled, "He'll grow up to love you and not Sasuke."

It was rare for Kakashi to talk bad about one of his own students but, he couldn't take what Sasuke had done to Sakura lightly. Sasuke continued to hurt his student and, in Kakashi's eyes, teamates didn't treat each other that way.

"Yeah," Yamato agreed, "Sakura loves you and that's not going to change Neji. She'll never let Sasuke near that little guy," Yamato laughed, "Not unless it's to kick his ass."

Neji laughed along with them as Naruto walked over with the baby in his arms.

"He's pretty quiet, isn't he?" Naruto asked.

"That's nothing like his mother," Sai mumbled, smirking over to Neji who laughed.

"Kakashi sensei, do you want to hold him?" Naruto asked, pushing the child into Kakashi chest.

"Um, I don't really know, uh, I don't-"

"Oh come on Kakashi," Yamato laughed, "He's just a baby."

Kakashi sighed as he took the child with ease from Naruto, setting the baby against his Jonin jacket.

The child curled up against the Jonin as he smiled down through his mask, "He's tiny."

"That's what I said," Neji laughed as Sakura started to stir.

Dun dun dun! No not really, Sasuke's a jerk isn't he.

SO, Sakura finally wakes up!

What will the child's name be? I already picked it out! Ha!

So some funny stuff in this chapter, Sai and Naruto are hilarious!

Well, i am going on vacation tomorrow at like 3 in the morning!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Oh well, see ya when i get back!

Slyvia out!