Here you go; the epilogue. I'm glad you liked this story! I haven't had a bad review yet, though one said I liked writing lemons too much. I must protest this; I only wrote two and suggested several, although I will admit there is a lot of innuendo. Oh yeah…and every one says I review too fast….ah ha…I just am very fast at typing and I have loads of energy so I am usually up until the wee hours of morning. I do see my chapters are short, and in my usual writing, they are much longer, but I was satisfied with the chapter ends. I am glad I finished this so quickly because I hate getting left hanging and I'm sure you all do also. Only problem is, I have no ideas for a new one. Thank you, thank you all for your support, let me know if you like this epilogue, I tried to make it a bit longer. :)

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My Personal
Assistant Uchiha

Epilogue

Sakura worked over her exam table on a little boy with bold yellow hair. "So, what's your daddy doing?" she asked as she rubbed a cotton ball over the area she needed for the shot.

"He's going with uncle. They are getting lunch!"

Sakura smiled and withdrew her ready needle. "Are they bringing you some too?"

The adorable boy grinned and nodded vigorously. "Mm hm. Uncle says he is getting you some too. And you!" the boy leaned and patted Sakura's eight month enlarged belly causing Hinata to giggle from somewhere behind.

"Kino, you have to be careful with Aunt Sakura's tummy. It's almost time for her baby to be born."

"Don't worry." The pregnant medic said. "This baby is going to be strong and stubborn. Just like the parents."

"Are you sure you don't want to know the baby's sex?" Hinata asked, prodding at Sakura's decision.

The once-Hyuga woman and their other friends wanted to know so badly whether I'd be a boy or a girl, but the pink-haired woman was locked tight. "I could do it for you? Just a simple procedure."

"You're a slick, ah…woman," she tossed a dubious look over her shoulder to Kino who was busy ripping the paper on the exam table. She'd been about to say bitch…she'd been watching her language of late. "You just want to know so you don't have to keep all the receipts for me."

"Well, I did by two sets of pink and blue."

Sakura smirked and told Kino to look at the visual puzzle on the wall. "Tell me what you see there."

"A horse!"

"Good. Keep looking. Can you find a face anywhere?" Sakura said and held the little boy's arm. She stuck the needle carefully, hoping he wouldn't jerk and smiled as Kino kept staring at the illusion.

"All done."

Kino turned and looked at his arm where a tiny droplet of blood remained before Sakura wiped it clean. "Go choose from the treasure chest."

"Yes!" Kino leapt down and ran out of the room.

Hinata giggled at her daughter's antics and stood by as Sakura washed her hands. "I am starving." The pregnant woman moaned and dried off with a paper towel.

"Oh, sounds like they're back." Hinata said and the two women left. Sakura spotted Kino on the floor digging into the 'treasure' chest which was nothing but a painted box filled with goodies; but the kids loved it.

"Aunt Sakura, can I pick two?"

"Yes, you can. After all you didn't even cry."

Naruto knelt down to look into the box beside his son. "Hey, Kino what are you- hot damn a yoyo! I haven't seen these in years!"

Sakura heard her husband sigh and she looked up to his Uchiha features; he was even more handsome then five years before. "Hn. Dobe, watch your mouth around your son."

"Here, daddy." Kino said and handed his father the yoyo. "I got it for you."

"Ah," Naruto smiled and patted his boy's head. "That's okay. You should play with it. I can teach you."

Sasuke looked up to Sakura as the bonding continued beside them and kissed her hard, sending shivers down to her toes. "How's the baby?"

She sent his hand on a spot where their unborn child kicked against it's womb. "Not yet." Sasuke whispered, leaning down so only their baby could hear him.

Sakura looked at him with a grin as he straightened. "What?"

"Nothing." She said as she laid her hands on her lower back, a habit she'd formed with the pregnancy, and looked longingly at the bag Sasuke held. "Is some of that mine?"

He held it up to her and she snatched it hungrily, inhaling the heavenly scent. She waved as Naruto, Hinata and Kino said goodbye and, together, Sakura and Sasuke went to her office. They walked past her reluctant assistant Moeji, who was texting Konohamaru, and walked into her own office..

She sat on the desk and waited as Sasuke took the bag and withdrew the contents. "Ooh! BBQ ribs!" She nearly foamed at the mouth.

"You are so lucky I love you enough to fight for your food." He said and ate a pickle with a crispy snap. "Choji saw me with the order and tried to bribe me for them."

"Did you tell him you'd rather fight a hungry fat man more than a hungry pregnant woman?"

Sasuke grinned up at her and she too him. Then she turned back to her plate and he watched her eat with satisfied relish; her cravings were put to rest…for now.

His job, for the past eight months, had been to protect her and fetch her desired foods. She constantly told him it was for their baby, but he wondered that she wasn't doing it just to savor the feeling of ordering him around.

"Sakura, when do you get off work?"

"Hm," she mumbled and swallowed her food to speak. "When Tsunade gets here. She wants to give me a check up and an ultrasound."

"Hn."

He sounded uninterested to Sakura, which made her a little mad but, inside, Sasuke was excited. He had loved looking into that monitor and watching his unborn child breath and move around. Tsunade always cleverly placed the console over Sakura's belly so none of them could see the sex of the baby, but Sakura generally wanted it to be a surprise. He, however, wanted to know. Was dying to.

"Sakura." he said, then bluntly spoke his mind. "Is it okay if we know what our baby will be?"

She was about to say no, as usual, but then she looked up and saw his eyes. They were hopeful, emotional. She couldn't deny him; after all, she was not the only parent.

"Well, I guess it's alright. I guess I'd like to refer to our baby and a gender and not as an it."

Sasuke smiled down at her and held her close. "Thank you, Sakura." He said and ran a hand over her long hair.

Tsunade decided to walk into the room and grinned as they separated a little more swiftly than a normal couple would. They were such a private family it was almost disturbing.

"How is my baby?" the Sannin had already decided she wanted to be considered part of the baby's daily persons seen.

"Kicking and upset."

"Oh, it will be for a while longer." Tsunade said and snatched Sasuke's arm where a fresh bandage was wrapped. "How is your injury?"

"Damn, woman. It's better." He hissed, and looked over to the woman he considered an aunt. "I am married to a medic nin."

The former Hokage grinned and slapped his back roughly. "Smart ass bastard."

Sakura grabbed her bag and shut of the lights in her office, then lead the way out to the exam room where the ultrasounds were conducted.

Tsunade spread the blue jelly on Sakura's stomach and she hissed. "Fucking cold."

"You need to stop cursing. It's going to be hard to stop your child from saying fuck when you say it in front of him on a daily basis."

Sakura sighed and laid her head back. "I know."

Sasuke was tired of their bitching. He wanted to see his kid on the monitor! "Just hurry up. I've gotta go."

Sakura glared at him and he shut up.

Tsunade wisely kept her laughter in her head and switched the monitor screen on as she set the console on Sakura's belly. The screen was black at first, and then with some shifting Sakura saw her organs and some portion of the womb. Then the camera found their baby, which had grown so much since they'd last seen it. Which reminded her…

"Tsunade?"

"Hm?" the woman asked, breaking from her prideful happiness at seeing her once-pupil's baby again. She felt like a damn grandmother…

"Let's see the baby's gender."

"I thought you'd never ask."

The camera showing their baby moved just slightly, enough for Sakura see. "Oh!"

"What!? What's wrong?!" Sasuke shouted and leaned over his wife.

Tsunade grinned widely and patted Sasuke on the back. "Congrats Uchiha, you're going to be the father of a bouncing baby girl."

He was quiet as he looked at the screen with a new feeling. His daughter…

Sakura was unsure of his reaction. He had told her long ago his clan was nothing more than a name now. But did he still want a boy? A boy to set off his new clan?

Sakura mentally shook the thoughts from her mind. She knew him better than that.

"Our daughter." He breathed into her ear as he leaned down and laid a hand on Sakura's stomach.

She looked up at him and smiled. "Yes."

Tsunade couldn't be any happier for the young woman she thought of as both her niece and her daughter. "So! What's the name?" she cried and the couple looked up in unison.

"Ah…We haven't really thought of a name."

Tsunade looked at her dully. "Huh?"

"Well, we haven't had much time…ah."

"We have to think about many things on a daily basis. Our child's name can be thought of in an instant." Sasuke said simply.

The Sannin pursed her lips, then shrugged. "That's sounds exactly like what I would do if I'd ever had a child. Too preoccupied with the thought of actually having a baby would distract me."

Sakura smiled and said. "Let's just get this nasty shit off of me."

"Language."

"Eh?" Sakura snarled. Damn it!

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Sakura and Sasuke lied on the bed as he caressed her stomach with light finger tips. She enjoyed the feeling and it always lulled their unborn child- their daughter- to calmness.

"Hmm. Feels great." She whispered and he smirked.

"Just for the baby. Don't get hopeful."

She frowned up at him, like he expected, and raised one slim eyebrow. "Oh really? I can think to withhold a little something from you in the mean time…"

Sasuke, too, frowned. "That's low, Sakura."

She grinned cattily. "It's effective is what it is."

That night as she slept, he lied awake, his hand on his wife's stomach. He felt a few light kicks and he knew his daughter felt he was there. He knew she could pick him out from all the hands that had been laid on her mother's stomach. She knew him.

Sasuke felt he was being a bit too emotional for his own good, but somehow he understood his daughter knew him. He'd always feel a soft spot for her and her mother.

He leaned over and kissed his wife's neck and he heard her murmur in her sleep as he, too, followed her lead.

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A month later, Sasuke was out among the village with Naruto and Shikamaru when Konohamaru rushed up to them. "Moeji texted me and said Sakura-san is in labor!"

Before anyone could blink the Uchiha was gone. "Hey, Teme!" Naruto shouted in vain. He turned to Shikamaru who looked helpless.

"Man, I don't know what the hell to do. I do not want to see a baby born! Temari uses too much birth control for that to happen anytime soon."

"It was pretty cool when Hinata had a baby!" Naruto protested and they both began running to the hospital.

"You don't remember a damn thing. You were passed out!"

"Hey, I was there!"

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Sasuke appeared instantly in the maternity ward, having practiced to get there over and over, then looked for anyone to tell him where Sakura was. "Moeji!" he shouted and the young girl raced forward. "Sasuke-sama, she is in delivery room three and she is very scary! All she's been screaming is that she wants you!"

He didn't wait for more, just ran.

He burst into the room with the intent to kill whoever was causing her stress and, having heard terrifying screams, feared the worst.

"Sakura!"

"I hate you!"

He hadn't heard those words in years and still they pissed him off. He just barely dodged a stethoscope that one of the aids had been wearing and he looked over to his seething wife.

Sakura was red in the face and her eyes were fierce. "YOU did this to me" she wailed, then suddenly, she lied back onto her pillows and burst into tears.

"Where were you, Sasuke?" she whimpered and he rushed to her side. He'd been told about such outbursts and mood swings during labor, but he'd never expected this.

"I'm here now." He uttered in his deep voice, which soothed her immensly.

Tsunade stepped up and checked Sakura. "She's going through these contractions quickly and her dilation is already very far. It's almost time already. You're very fortunate woman, Sakura, to not have suffer a day long birth."

"I don't feel very fortunate." Good, a whiff of the normal Sakura.

Sasuke held her hand as the next three hours went by. He swore he lost feeling in his own after the first thirty minutes because she had him in a death grip.

Finally, Tsunade called for a blanket and lifted an infant girl with a little puff of jet black hair crowning her head.

Sakura fell back and she looked up weakly as Sasuke came near. He seemed entranced by his daughter and she enjoyed the sight. A child meant so much to him, it seemed, and she was glad she'd been able to give him one.

Tsunade stepped forward and laid a cool hand on Sakura's head and gave a little bit of healing chakra to help heal. "You'll need to rest."

"I know."

"Be sure to eat something, even if it's small."

"Tsunade…"

"And call me for anything. And I mean anything."

"Mom…"

Tsunade looked down suddenly. "Wh…what did you say, Sakura?"

The pink-haired nin almost took back her word. She hadn't known if it was alright to call her once-teacher mother. But from the look on the Sannin's face, she was not at all upset.

She looked pleased and rather humbled.

"Yes, I'll stop nagging…daughter." She breathed the new word on her lips and smiled down at Sakura with warm eyes. "I've always thought of you as the child I never had. I've always cared for you especially. And over the years, I've come to love you as if you'd come from me."

Sakura teared up as she listened but before she could say anything more, the Sannin turned awkwardly and she swore a sniffle was audible.

"I'll be back in an hour." Tsunade muttered and walked out.

Sakura sighed and turned to see her husband holding her child, still mesmerized. He'd heard nothing but for the beating his own daughter's heart.

"Sasuke…"

He looked up and saw Sakura's content smile, wondering if it would always be like this between them. He hoped it was as he gently handed their daughter over and watched his wife and child look into each other's emerald eyes.

He was happy, and he was home. He had a wife and a newborn daughter he'd kill to protect.

Life, it seemed, could get no better and he was thankful he'd been given the gift of it.

The End.