Well here's the next chapter and I guarantee that it is much better than the last! I felt so bad that I just wanted to post this chapter ASAP to make up for the bad one. I also promise that there will be no more bad chapters like that, I should have written better than that so I'm sorry! But thank you to all those that reviewed the chapter anyway, you guys make me so happy that I could really cry! And just to let you guys know, I've already got the kiss chapter written! It's not next but it will happen soon!

- Disclaimer: I own none of the Naruto characters/places used in this story! Otherwise Kimimaro, Minato, Kushina, Obito and Rin wouldn't have died, and there would be more romance involved!

Chapter 7 – Someone to confide in

"Mom, why do girls get 'moody'?"

It was barely seven weeks since Sakura had landed in Konoha, and she and Naruto had become fast friends, some even uttered them as best friends. Yet recently the pinkette had been acting strangely, her mood constantly changing.

'I hope something isn't wrong with Sakura-chan,' Naruto thought while waiting for his mother's reply.

"What do you mean Naruto?" Kushina murmured. 'I hope he isn't talking about me,' she pleaded. "Girls can get moody for a number of reasons."

"I know, but lately, Sakura-chan has been going overboard. One moment she's happy and the next she's crying because she accidentally stepped on a blade of grass," he sighed. "I don't understand it, every time I ask she changes the topic."

Kushina breathed a sigh of relief, 'So he isn't asking about me.' "Well Naruto, girls have frequent mood swings, you know that?"

"I know but hers are worse than usual. She cried over the pavement because it had a speck of dirt on it. Something about how the pavement must feel, getting dirty without someone to clean it," he responded, grimacing at the memory.

"Well Naruto when a girl is pregnant their mood swings get a lot more emotional, you should ask your father how I was," Kushina stated, grinning.

Naruto's sapphire eyes increased in size. 'Sakura-chan is pregnant?' "What do you mean 'when a girl is pregnant'?"

Kushina frowned, "Didn't Sakura tell you?"

"Tell me what?" he questioned, perplexed. 'Sakura-chan can't be pregnant, mom must be joking with me, she must be because there is no way Sakura-chan is pregnant.'

"That shes pregnant Naruto," Kushina said, somewhat annoyed. "It's what we've been talking about."

"Oh," Naruto stammered. "She… she… did." He was blatantly lying, yet he did not wish for his mother to know that Sakura had not informed him of her pregnancy. "I remember now."

"I worry about you Naruto," Kushina sighed, "You spend too much time with your father."

"I guess," he solemnly replied, standing from his seated position. "I have to go meet Sakura-chan to work on the project Kakashi-sensei gave us," he remarked, gingerly stepping towards the door.

"Be in time for dinner," Kushina called as he exited the kitchen. 'That Naruto, he makes me wonder at times.'

"I wonder if he would respond to your mood swings in the same way?"

Kushina turned, grinning as she located the voice. "Who knows," she replied, 'We are not having this discussion again are we?'

Minato walked over, wrapping his arms around her waist. "Don't you want to find out?"

"Minato Namikaze, we are not having another child," Kushina growled, grin replaced by a scowl.

"But Shina-chan, you said when you didn't have to look after Naruto anymore we could talk," he whined.

"You also said you would stop calling me Shina-chan," she retorted, slipping from his grasp. 'You know I hate that nickname,' she thought, smirking. Slowly, teasingly she raised her fist, "It's time to live up to your name, 'Konoha's Yellow Flash'."

"Eh well," Minato mumbled, backing from his angered wife. He hit the stairs, taking them one at a time.

"Oh and don't you dare think of running to our bedroom," she threatened, slowly following him.

Minato grinned mischievously before breaking into a fast-paced run up the stairs, "Wouldn't dream of it Shina-chan."

Kushina sighed, '… And this is why I love that man.' With a determined expression she began her chase.

'Maybe another child won't be that bad, Naruto turned out well. Didn't he?'

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Naruto sighed softly, 'It's been two hours and we haven't spoken about anything other than the project,' he thought, carefully glancing at the pinkette.

'She seems deep in thought, yet I don't think she really is.'

"If we had to calculate the percentage to this, then I'm sure we'd get the answer," Sakura stated, neatly and legibly writing the formula on the paper below. "Don't you think Naruto?"

'This is useless, I'm going to be blunt about this.' "Why Sakura-chan?"

"Why?" she repeated, "Because if you think logically then this answer should give you that answer," she informed, frowning in confusion.

"No," Naruto curtly replied. "Why didn't you tell me?"

Sakura sighed in frustration, "Tell you what Naruto?"

"That you're pregnant."

Speechless, Sakura's eyes enlarged, her slim frame wracked and tears threatened. "You wouldn't understand," she whimpered, not daring to meet his gaze. 'I feel so numb, so scared, so fearful. How did you find out Naruto?'

"How would you know?" he growled, "If you told me, we could have some to an understanding."

"Tell me Naruto," Sakura began, wetness soaking her cheeks. "Do you really think we could have worked it out?" she quested, futilely wiping her eyes. "Would you really have wanted to be friends with a pregnant teen?"

"Of course, it's the person inside that matters," he countered, rising from his seated position. 'How could she even think that?'

"Think logically Naruto," she whispered. "Can you honestly tell me you wouldn't have thought I was a slut or whore? I don't have a boyfriend do I?" she stated. "So do would you have really wanted to find out my 'person inside'?"

'She's… she's right,' Naruto concluded, posture relaxing. 'She's absolutely right. I would have judged her like every other pregnant teen out there.'

"You can't even answer me, can you?" she asked. "It doesn't matter does it?" With that she stormed from her seat, racing out the door. 'I thought he would have been different. I thought he would have accepted me.'

'But I thought wrong.'

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"Shh," Tsunade gently whispered as she soothingly ran a hand over Sakura's back. "Everything will be fine," she reassured, somewhat in vain.

"I… I tho…ught he wou…ld b…e differ…ent," Sakura replied, stammering.

"People aren't always who we think they are Sakura," Tsunade replied. 'I know how she feels, from personal experience,' she winced. 'Memories are painful, aren't they Jiraiya?'

"I… ho…ped… he woul…d hav…e bee…n wha…t I… ex…pected," Sakura responded, tears loosening. "I wanted him to be different," she softly continued, burying her head within Tsunade's lap, enjoying the warmth.

'Naruto feels warmer, doesn't he?' she questioned. 'His smell also smells better,' she recalled. 'I want to be in his arms but how can I when he's the one that made me like this?'

"Thank you Tsunade, I feel better now," she gently, softly said as she sat upright, trembling. "I'm sorry I burdened you with this."

"No, I'm glad you did," Tsunade countered. "Wait here, I'm going to go get us something warm to drink, okay?"

Sakura nodded, flopping onto her bed; face deeply buried within the sheets.

With a soft sigh Tsunade sat up and exited the darkened room. 'We've been in there for quite some time,' she thought, glancing at the time.

She entered the kitchen, surprised to see a blonde seated at the table, "Naruto?"

"Baa-chan," he replied, voice solemn.

"What are you doing here?" Tsunade questioned, voice raised. 'If he thinks he's going to hurt her again, he's got another thing coming.'

"To apologize."

A brief silence filled the room, neither willingly to respond.

'He just wants to fix things,' Tsunade smiled, 'That's the Naruto I know.'

"She's in her room," she stated, watching as he eagerly jumped from his seat and determinedly set off for Sakura's room.

'You'd better fix this Naruto, you've got to fix this Naruto.'

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'Why did Naruto have to do that, why did he have to find out?' Sakura queried. 'Things would've been perfectly fine. We would have been happy.'

'We wouldn't have fought and he wouldn't have found out until the baby happened but by then I was hoping we would have been good enough friends for him to accept it and deal with it. By then I was hoping he would have been able to understand my reasoning.'

'This is why I shouldn't have become friends with him. I should have said no, I should have distanced myself from him. Yet I took the risk, knowing this could have happened. I was just hoping it would have happened much later when things would have been better.'

'I hear footsteps, maybe Tsunade is back,' she un-buried herself and groggily turned to the door, expecting to see her relative.

"Naruto?" she shockingly mumbled as her gaze landed upon the blonde.

"If you've come to shout again then please just go," she softly pleaded. Glancing upwards she found that his expression was not one of anger, but one of compassion and sorrow.

He took a tentative step forward, "You're right Sakura-chan."

"I'm right?"

"I wouldn't have been your friend and I would have seen you as a common slut or whore," he continued, moving forward as he did so.

"Why? Why are you telling me this?" she asked, body trembling.

"I'm glad you kept if from me," he said, "Otherwise I wouldn't have found out how wonderful you are Sakura-chan."

He was now less than an inch from her bed, gently staring down at her with apologetic eyes. "So I want to say sorry Sakura-chan."

"Naruto?" Sakura whispered in disbelief.

"Naruto," she repeated, this time throwing herself to his chest, tears soaking the material of his clothes.

Naruto sighed and embraced the weeping girl, "I'm here Sakura-chan."

"For so long I've wanted to tell someone, to get it out," she wept, grateful when he sat upon the bed.

"Then tell me Sakura-chan, I promise to listen," he responded.

"It all started…"

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'Naruto's been taking his time apologizing,' Tsunade thought, eyebrow twitching. 'Is he taking a minute to mutter each letter?' she grumbled. 'I can't take this waiting. I'm going to go and find out what's going on.' With that she stood and hastily made her way to Sakura's bedroom.

"If I find out that he's hurt her in any way, then he will get hurt," she mumbled, clenching her fist.

'I hear crying,' rage filled her. 'Why that Naruto!'

But she was surprised to find that Sakura was not crying because of Naruto but rather onto Naruto. He sat, her head cradled in his lap and listened attentively to whatever she was telling him. 'What are they saying?'

'Wait she's talking about her pregnancy, is she finally telling someone the story?' Tsunade questioned, backing from the pair. Relief flowed from her body.

'I'm glad you've found someone to confide in, Sakura.'


Yay! Naruto finally knows! Whee! And he doesn't hate her for not telling him! I hope this chapter was much better than the last! I really hated the last and when I have time I will go back and re-write it because I owe you guys big time!

Also if any of you have suggestions or things you want to happen then don't hesitate to tell me, I love new ideas! I'll also give you credit, so don't worry :)

Lorelock

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