Okay, While I wasn't going to update this fic until ... Next Wednesday, the response I got for this was pretty amazing. I mean, two hours after I posted over 300 Hits? 2 Faves -I know not that much- and 4 follows, and like... I think 5 reviews, you guys made me cave.
So here I am exploring my Pen-drive to bring you the next chapter of my babies Daddy. I have to admit that I was very surprised to find this little piece of shit still existed, quite honestly I though I had deleted the file from the Memory.
It appears to me that I based it a little around my first pregnancy, and now years later I saw that both my grammar and the way I wrote was atrocious, and so I basically re-wrote the whole thing and this came out.
So I'm glad to know that this wasn't a total disaster as it could have been, which it mainly the reason I never got around to uploading it in the first place, but now it's been edited and I needed to toss out things I wasn't going to use anymore so ...It's basically a win-win situation, I toss out shit that's broken and won't ever be used again, and you guys get a new story.
Disclaimer: I own a gun, but I do not own Naruto... But my gun makes me happy enough xD
A cold breeze blew through the window, causing a certain Emerald eyed Kunoichi to wake. Her eyes fluttered open, but she made no attempt to leave the bed she laid on. She refused to move, even though something inside her still wanted to turn around, and peek at the side of the bed she knew would be empty. But she couldn't deny that she was hoping to find Sasuke sleeping there beside her.
But she knew better, one does not wake up with the person you just had sex with, not unless it was more than just a fuck. And Sakura knew this was not the case with her and Sasuke, but, that didn't mean that it made her feel any better. She was only grateful it didn't make her feel worse.
But after a while the sorrow sank in, filling her empty being with sadness and grief. Her hands gripped the thin white sheets, tightly holding onto them as she refused to cry while her mouth remained firmly closed, teeth gritting together in hope hold back the big salty tears that threatened to fall from her glassy orbs.
Why was she feeling this way, this wasn't her first one nighter, hell it was sure not to even be her last. So why did this one make her fell….. So Wrong….?
She had been so lost in her own thoughts that she did not hear the familiar voices call her name from the hall. And she hurriedly rubbed at her eyes to wipe the tears away before they spilled. Her bedroom door burst open, causing her to straiten up into a sitting position and pretend she hadn't been awake for the longest time wallowing in self pity.
But she should have known by now that she was one of the worst actress and an even worse liar, in all of Konoha. So all it took was one solid look at the Pink haired Naked Kunoichi in bed for her three best friends to change from their giddy and happy mood to a worried one.
"...Sakura is everything okay?" Tenten asked softly as she took a seat at the edge of the bed.
Sakura smiled forcefully, doing her best to act alright. "I'm okay, don't worry." She said in a mildly firm voice, although it was slightly quivering.
The three friends frowned. "You don't look alright Sakura. What happened?" Ino asked "Do I need to kick the crap out of some one?"
"Nothing, I'm okay really."Sakura continued to assure.
Tenten raised a brow. "You don't look fine at all Sakura. I mean I thought you would be happy since we saw the apartment has been kind of thrashed around and the only guy we saw you disappear with was Sasuke." Ino paused, seeing Sakura's expression drop at his name. "...Did something happen with him?" Hinata asked softly, joining Tenten and Sakura on the bed.
Locks of pink hair fell in her face as she dropped her head down low, hiding her face completely. Ino looked at the others worriedly, seeing a she was the one who knew Sakura the longest, and she always knew when something wasn't right with the pink haired woman. But it was Tenten and Hinata who first caught sight of the tears that were slowly making their way down her nose and staining the white sheets.
"Sakura why are you crying? Did Sasuke hurt you?" Tenten asked.
"No." she shook her head. Not in the physical sense anyway… she added mentally
"Did he say something that hurt you?" Ino added "You should know better than to listen to that asshole without a soul" she chided.
She shook her head again. "No, No he didn't say anything to me, we didn't even speak." She assured.
Surprising everyone, Hinata spoke in a soft voice. "...You …. Um…. You thought it all meant something more…?" she asked.
Sakura visibly stiffen this caused the other three girls in the room to widen their eyes. "Oh, my gosh Sakura, we're so sorry…!" Tenten spoke softly, her had at her mouth.
A choked sob escaped Sakura's lips. Ino strode over to her and sat beside her, pulling her close to a tight embrace. She returned the hug and held on to her for dear life, her face no longer covered by her pink locks and now exposing her heart broken face.
"I just don't get it you know….. I thought I was over him….." she sobbed.
Tenten could do nothing, but stare at her broken hearted friend. Hinata crawled over to Sakura and rubbed her back in soothing circles. "It'll be okay, well help you through this." She promised.
"Sasuke!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes at his best friend's hollering, his voice most likely to be heard miles away, but continued hitting the dummy roughly, ignoring the blonde as he stopped beside him, panting. And he continued to ignore him as he attempted to regain his breath; instead he concentrated on shooting a shuriken at the training dummy, the one right behind the one he was currently beating the crap off.
Naruto grinned broadly, more like an idiot Sasuke thought, and casually leaned against one of the dummies, grinning cleverly at the raven haired man. "What that retarded look on your face for?" he asked.
"Where exactly did you go to after you kicked Sakura out the Club?" Naruto asked slyly, his clever grin growing wider.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, grunting his usual, "Hn."
Naruto laughed. "You know I saw a couple of your fan girls leave after you, I bed you took one of them home…" Naruto slyly said, wiggling his eyebrows at the man.
Sasuke did not want to answer, and for that Naruto knew he was right. "Was she any good?"
To that Sasuke only smirked, causing Naruto to laugh. "You bastard, you had a good lay and you won't give me any details!" He exclaimed, winking at Sasuke as he slung an arm around his shoulder. To this Sasuke scowled, and tried to push away the boy.
"Say, do I know this girl?"
Sasuke looked at him questioningly. "...Why?"
Naruto laughed. "Well, she was a good lay for you and that doesn't happen very often that you find one! So I want to know who the lucky girl was!"
Sasuke looked at him blankly. "That has got to be one of the stupidest reasons you have ever given me." He replied flatly. Naruto rolled his eyes. So, do I know her?" he repeated ignoring the statement.
No reply came from the Uchiha, instead Sasuke only glared at Naruto, which could really only mean one thing. "That means she's a ninja then." He nodded. "Was she one of the Rookie Nine?"
More silence from the Uchiha. "That will be a yes too." Naruto nodded. "Now let's see…... Ino was there the whole time, and Hinata and Tenten too...unless..." Naruto's mind went blank at the realization.
Then there was the rage. "YOU MOTHER FUCKER! YOU SLEPT WITH SAKURA!"
And anyone within a mile radius was able to hear the knuckle headed ninja's proclamation. Because let's face it, that man has got to have the loudest voice in all of Konoha.
Rumors started flying around all of Konoha, even Tsunade got word of it, and it took Sakura some time to confront the woman and tell her the truth of what had happened.
But now, nearly two months later, Sakura had learned to mute out the shushed words the Villagers spoke of her. They weren't anything but words, without even a hint of the truth in them.
Besides she had other things in mind. Like how she felt as if she would need to walk around the village with a facial mask. Not because of the shame, but because everything made her sick now. And she meant everything. Ranging from the Morning breeze, to food, from the smell of her Fridge, to the very hygienic bathroom in her apartment.
She'd been sick for nearly, what was it now, three - four weeks? Sure she was able to get a few pounds off her person, about 10 pounds to be exact. And sure it was amazing to be able to fit into the things in the back of her closet, but there was something haunting the Pink haired Kunoichi in the back of her mind.
And so, light headed and nauseous as she was, she was headed to the pharmacy store to confirm her suspicions. With a sigh she continued to walk on the rocky ground, her eyes fixated on the stones forming the path. Her mind wandered elsewhere, thinking of anything but the possibilities, she was hoping would turn false.
She was doing well in distracting herself, that is until the most disgusting sent hit her nose and made her turn on the spot and look for the nearest trash bin so she could deposit the saltine crackers she had been eating all day.
But she instead bumped face fist into someone, who made her feel all that more sick. "Can't you watch where you're going?" he snapped.
"Ever heard of a fucking shower?" she gagged and headed to the pharmacy, completely avoiding him. Or at least she attempted to.
"Hey, I bought you that thing." He called holding out a brown paper bag. "I stick to my word; I tore it I bought it." He called.
"Keep it, I don't want anything of yours." She said walking inside the pharmacy. It probably won't fit me anymore anyway…..
"Arrogant bitch." He said. Matters not, she made me buy it for her, I just have to make sure it gets in her position, what she does with it afterward is up to her. He thought and made his way to the Pinkette's apartment.
She walked all the way to the back of the store and made her purchases, paid for them, and received a wary smile from the shop keeper. "I hope you get the result you yearn for." He told her kindly, looking at the home pregnancy test.
Sakura smiled back at him. "Pass or Fail, it's something I'll have to live with." She answered. The old man nodded and handed her a bottle of water. "The restroom is that way." He gestured to the back.
"Thank you." She said taking the water bottle and downing it as she headed to the restroom. It took he a while to want to go pee, and when she did she was so nervous she nearly dropped the sick in the toilet water.
She was a nervous wreck, she even threw up a couple of times, yes it was that bad. She didn't want to be alone when she got the result so she capped the test and walked over to the front. "Done already Miss?" the shop keeper asked.
Sakura shook her head. "No… I just…couldn't be alone when I read out the results." She admitted. The man nodded. "Understandable. Take a seat." He gestured to the counter. "Now, how much time do you have left?" he asked once Sakura was seated.
"It said Five minutes, two have gone by and I just need to wait for three …." She sighed. "Do these things even work?" she asked. "I mean, do they really tell you how far along you are? When I saw them on the commercial I thought it was a load of bull, but here I am, and this was the first one I thought of buying" she chuckled dryly.
The Man chuckled, let's call him Chen. "I've been told by the ladies that purchase them that they tend to be off by a week or two, but they're some of the most efficient Home Pregnancy test on the market." He assured.
Sakura sighed. "Well even if it were off by a month, I would still know when it was that this whole thing happened; I haven't exactly had the most active sex life in a while." She admitted.
Chen frowned. "And why is that?" he asked.
Sakura raised a brow. "Have you not heard the rumors, do you not know who I am, or are you being nice to me?" she asked with a smile.
"Oh, I'm an old man, rarely step out of my shop, see my house is on the second floor. And I don't really care what people have to say about other people, everyone is entitled to some privacy, and I don't see reason to meddle in them, taking that I wouldn't like others meddling in mine." He huffed.
Sakura chuckled. "This Village needs more people like you Chen." She said. Chen smiled in return. "I have some food here if you would like some." He offered.
Sakura made a face. "Not to be rude or anything but I haven't been able to keep anything but Oranges and pickles down so…. I think it best I refuse." She smiled.
Chen frowned. "Alright then, More for me." He said as he pulled out a salt shaker a bowl of tuna, some mayonnaise and Saltine crackers. Sakura smiled bashfully. "Second thought, I wouldn't mind some Crackers…" she admitted.
Chen laughed and handed her a pack. "Here you go, and try them with mayonnaise, they settle your stomach a lot faster." He said as he prepared himself a cracker with tuna and mayo and ate it.
Sakura smiled and did as he suggested and moaned in delight. "They're really good." She said. Chen chuckled. "there was a time in my life in which the only thing I could eat were those things, was held captive you see, and then I fell sick and still I ate those, they make even a dying man feel better." He joked.
Sakura laughed. "I won't know about that but they sure are good." She chuckled. They then ate in silence, Sakura ended up putting salt in nearly all her crackers and by the time it came to look at the stick, she had downed nearly half the salt.
Sakura took a deep breath as she brought the stick to her with shaking hands. "Relax Sakura, it will be alright." He assured. Sakura sighed and nodded. "right." She said and then looked at the results.
In the pregnancy Box: Positive
Term box: 9-10 weeks.
Her breath hitched and she chocked on a sob.
Yeah, those numbers were about right. Off but about right.
"There there Sakura, it will be alright, these things aren't always right, it might just be a false, but you do need to go to the Clinic to get a real test done." He said.
Sakura nodded, she knew his was right, but quite frankly, she knew it would be in vain. "I'll be going now, Take care Chen." She said as she slid off the counter and walked to the exit.
"Be careful now Sakura." He said.
She made it to the Hospital in a daze, unsure of how she had walked across the village so fast.
She looked up when she reached the entrance, her heart pounding painfully inside her chest. Her left hand tightly fist around the Test she had taken a while ago. Her breathing ragged.
She just knew that no matter how many different test she made on herself, she was positive the end result would always be that: Positive.
And honestly there was very little Sakura could do to change that.
She walked up to the front desk, where the Attendant smiled at her, she could tell It was a fake, not to mention forced smile from a mile away. "Hello Ms, Haruno, We weren't expecting you here today? Is it not you day off?" she asked.
"It is, but I have a few things that I need to get, I've been feeling terribly unwell and I need to get a checkup." She informed.
The young woman nodded. "I'll call up a nurse right away for you." She said. Sakura shook her head. "Shizune is the only one I will let anywhere near me with a needle." She informed. "And I know where her office is, so don't worry, remain seated and I'll go look for her." She smiled and made her way to Shizune's office.
Shizune was a little more than surprised to see Sakura there, and when she said she was sick she nearly sent Sakura into more of a panic than she already was. "I'm alright Shizune, honestly all I need is a blood test to see what I have, if it will make you feel any better, I'll read the results to you and we can-"
"That would be a great idea, I don't think I could read your results even if you weren't sick!" she said nervously, causing Sakura to smile. "Come on, just take the sample and we'll send it to the labs." She said.
Shizune nodded and did just that, sending the blood sample to the Labs with an urgent label. "You're results should be here in about thirty minutes." She told Sakura.
The Pinkette raised a brow. "Thirty minutes, but they take two hours…. You put it Urgent? For me?" she asked with a smile. Shizune smiled. "Of course I did." She said. Sakura smiled gratefully at her, quite honestly she would have lost her mind in those two hours. Gods bless Shizune.
Those Thirty minutes were the longest thirty minutes Sakura had ever heard off. "Haruno, Sakura?" a nurse called at Shizune's door.
"That would be me." She said. Shizune looked up from her paper work stared fearfully at the papers in the younger nurse's hands.
"You're lab results." She smiled and handed them to Sakura, who quickly thanked the woman and closed the door behind her.
Shizune was beside her in a flash. "What do they say?" she asked.
Sakura smiled at her. "Let's see…" she said with fake calmness, or maybe it wasn't as fake as much as it was forced. She read out each category and it's results, till she got o pregnancy. A Capitalized POSITIVE lay there.
"So what does Pregnancy say?" Shizune asked when Sakura skipped over the result. "Negative." Sakura lied with a smile.
Shizune looked relieved, and Sakura felt guilty, but if she knew she was pregnant right now, before she made up her mind as to what she would do with the child, and Tsunade got word of it, she would never hear the end of it.
They said their goodbyes and Sakura pocketed her results before she left for home. It wasn't until she was back at her apartment that she remembered that the Doctors who performed the analysis kept a copy of the results, and she cursed herself.
She just hoped that Shizune wouldn't be too mad at her.
It took her the remainder of the day and part of the night for her to decide what she was doing with the baby inside of her.
She couldn't very well kill the innocent thing, it hadn't done any wrongs. To it was either Adoption or Keeping it. Adoption would require for her to tell Sasuke that it was his so he could also sigh the required paperwork.
So that only left her with one end solution. She would have to keep it, and of course she might even have to lie about the parenthood of her child, but it would have to be for its best.
She sighed and headed over to the shower, thankful that the other girls were either fast asleep or simply not home. She took her shower, letting the hot water relax her tense muscles and clear her mind. She didn't step out till she felt the cold water tart falling at her back.
She walked over to her bedroom in a towel while she looked for something to wear to bed. She looked at her closet and pulled out an over sized T shirt and tossed it on the bed and then headed to her drawers to pull out some underwear.
It was then she noticed the paper bag. Bastard had no right to come here and leave them here; I told him I didn't want them. She thought angrily. She pulled out the bra from inside the bad so she could take a look at it and see which of her friends would like it best. But she saw that it was one the exact match to the one he had ripped.
It was a larger than the last and so there was a possibility it would still fit her…. She shook her head and tossed the garment in the trash and pulled out some panties and pulled them on. She went to grab her tee and then went to sleep.
"Hey Sakura, are you sure you're feeling alright?" Ino asked her.
Sakura, who had been lost in thought, snapped her sight up to the woman standing at her door. "I'm sorry, what?" she asked a little dazed.
"I asked if you were feeling alright, I mean, I know you haven't been feeling well for a while and lately you've been sleeping all day, and I thought it very strange that the Hospital hasn't called to see why you haven't showed up, and well… did you get fired or something?" she asked.
Sakura smiled at her best friend. "yeah, I'm alright, and well, I asked for my vacations, I should be getting back to work soon, Tuesday for sure, don't worry about it." She smiled.
Ino frowned. "You've been so out of it since Monday, you only eat things with salt, and you've been sleeping 16 hours a day, I mean, we all knew you were tied but…"
"I'm fine." Sakura replied quickly.
Ino narrowed her eyes at her. "Well, if you're fine then get dressed, it's Friday." She said crossing her arms over her chest.
Sakura mentally cursed herself. "I can't go with you guys." She said. Across the hall she heard something clatter to the floor, and she was sure that Tenten had dropped something in shock.
Her suspicions were confirmed when the brunette appeared at her door with wide shocked eyes. "What the fuck….. Sakura, you never say no to a club, especially not on a Friday, its girls night, and… Free Bar and…. What's wrong with you?!" she demanded.
"Bitch, I want to see you get yourself out of this one." She said. Sakura flicked her off. "Choke on it." She said.
"Sakura, what's wrong with you, are you alright?" Hinata asked entering the bedroom.
Sakura smiled sweetly at her two best friends. "I am. What makes you think I'm not?"
"Maybe it was the fact that you refused to go clubbing?" Tenten said matter-of-factly. "Did it ever occur to you that I might just be tired of the same routine, I mean, why do we have to hit the clubs every Friday I mean –
"Who the fuck are you and what have you done to Sakura!?" the Weapons Mistress demanded already reaching for a Kunai from beneath her leather skirt.
"I'm right here, and I grew up! I can't carry on being reckless all the time, It's not just-" she cut herself off before she really got herself into some sort of trouble.
Hinata finally spoke in a soft voice, her head shaking. "Sakura this is not like you." She said softly, sitting down beside her friend who looked away. "What is going on? You know you can tell us right?"
Sakura looked at her, eyes now filled with tears. "I..." Damn fucking hormones! Is there anything I won't burst into tears now?! She thought bitterly as she tried to wipe the tears away.
Ino sighed and made her way to Sakura before she softly spoke. "You know you can trust me, Tenten and Hinata. We're all here for you, no matter what... what's wrong?"
Sakura looked at her friends, her eyes filled with tears again which threatened to spill. "...I'm pregnant." She said her voice breaking.
The three friends gaped.
"No Fucking way…." Ino gasped in utter shock. "Please don't tell me Sasuke is your Baby Daddy." She said a little too loudly.
"Wait, what?" another voice asked in utter confusion.
"Fuck…" Sakura muttered.
All heads turned towards the newcomer, seeing Shikamaru standing in front of the open door, looking surprised for once. Behind him was the grey haired man who had at one time been Sakura's Sensei, and he was looking directly at her, his single visible eye utterly stunned.
"...Sakura?" Kakashi asked in a tone that was not accusing not demanding, but it was obviously disappointed and questioning, trying to confirm what they had both heard.
The four girls blinked, and Sakura couldn't help but to close her eyes, nodding as she bit her lip.
His dark eyes saddened. "Well... this surely is a surprise." He sighed walking inside the apartment and closing the door behind him.
"Would you like to talk about it?" he asked as he walked into her room.
"Come on girls, we should Leave Sakura and their Sensei to talk." Ino said as she shoved Shikamaru and the other three girls out the room and out the door.
Sakura sobbed and nodded. Kakashi took a seat beside his old student and embraced her in a hug and let her cry. He din't ask any questions, and only let her tell him what she wanted to say, which was very little.
"Will you tell him?" he finally asked. Sakura shook her head. "I can't… I won't" she said more determinately.
"It will come out eventually, and the longer you take to tell him or for him to figure things out, the worse things could get." He said.
"He doesn't need to know it's his." She said. Kakashi frowned. "What about when it's born, it will have some of his attributes." He pointed out.
"He's not the only man in Konoha with Raven hair and Onyx eyes." She said. "If it comes to it, I'll modify a picture of my father, no one here know him, he died before I was born." She said.
"What about the Sharingan, if the child ever does develop it, he will know." He said.
"Again, he's not the only living person with that bloodline. I know of two others." She said quickly.
"You mean…"
"Yes, you and Itachi, all I have to do it perfect my background story and I can let him to believe that his brother or even you could be the father." She said with sudden determination.
"I would I appreciate it if I was kept out of the picture." He said scratching his head, turning slightly red from under his mask.
Sakura nodded. "I'll pretend the mission I was on caused the pregnancy, it will be a week or so off, but it's the best thing I have for now." She said.
"But you didn't go looking for Itachi on that mission, he would have been notified." Kakashi pointed out.
"Who's to say I can't lead him to believe I ran into him, Naruto has run into him on more than one occasion, and so have I, this mission might not have been any different from the others." She said sternly.
Kakashi sighed. "Why not just tell him the truth. Lying will leave you with nothing good, especially when he finds out that you've been lying to him.
"I guess I'll just have to avoid him then." She said."He can't know that I carry his child. He just can't know.
To know Why, Hope Dies.
