The Morning After
Chapter 17
By corpsedollie
Sakura sat in her bedroom chair staring at the outside. Her fingers holding her stomach while her mind was somewhere else completely. It was close to midnight and she could not fall asleep. The news of her pregnancy still gripped to her like it was new. Honestly she did not feel the news sinking in just yet, it all just felt really surreal to her. Like it never happened. It was like they all were playing some horrible joke on her. She was waiting for people to jump from behind the couches and yell out 'Surprise. You are not really pregnant'. But there was no such thing. There would never be such a thing in a situation like this.
Sakura was brought out of her train of thoughts when her front door bell rung. She blinked a couple of times, clearing her mind and getting on her feet. She quickly popped into her pink bunny slippers and shuffled to the front door, when it rung again.
"Yes. Yes. I am coming" Sakura responded, wondering who would bother her at this ungodly hour.
She tiptoed to peep through the peephole of her door. She gasped as she laid eyes upon the man with the jet black hair and the dark eyes, dark circles under his orbs tainting his good looks. Sakura immediately took of the safety looks and opened the door.
"Sasuke. What are you doing here at this time of night?" Sakura asked, Sasuke did not seem like his usual self. He smelt of alcohol and he was finding it hard to stand on his own two feet. One hand holding the frame of the door so that he did not loose his balance "Have you been drinking?"
"Sakura. There is something important that I need to talk to you about. Can I come in?" Sasuke said, trying to focus on Sakura.
"Well. Yes. Come in" Sakura said as she gave way, Sasuke nearly tripping over his own feet when entering Sakura's appartment, Sakura shifted quickly under his arm as Sasuke used her as support until Sakura lead him to the bedroom chair that she sat in earlier.
"Sakura. I really need to talk to you. What I have to tell you is really important" Sasuke repeated himself as he grabbed hold of Sakura's fragile hand in his own
"I just want to get you some coffee. You really could use some" Sakura said.
"That can wait. Please, Sakura just sit down. I really need to talk to you" Sasuke said as he lightly tucked on Sakura's arm.
Sakura sat on the edge of her bed and faced the intoxicated Sasuke. Both her hands were covered by his own hands as he also looked back into her emerald green eyes.
"Sakura. First things first. I want you to know that I love you with all my heart. And I would not let anything happen to you" Sasuke said gripping a bit tighter onto Sakura's hand as he spoke.
"You do?" Sakura asked a bit taken aback. She did not expect this at all. The words seemed so out of bound she did not expect the 'But' to come with it
"But you know to much. We Lycans have been a secret from society for a very very long time. Our elders made plenty sure of that." Sasuke took another breath
"Sasuke. I don't understand where this conversation is leading to" Sakura feeling a bit concerned.
"Sakura" Sasuke took a deep breath and gripped a bit tighter onto Sakura's hands "The elders... They want me to kill you"
A silence grew between the two, the news slowly sunk in with Sakura where she was waiting for Sasuke to start laughing at some sick joke that he made. But there was not such thing. He wasn't joking.
"They...what? What have you decided." Sakura asked feeling tears lingering in the corner of her eyes, she pulled out her hands from Sasuke's grip. Sasuke averted his eyes away in shame.
"I can't kill you. I love you. But they don't understand that. They can't ever understand a love outside of the range of females they have chosen for me" Sasuke said, he stood up and moved to sit next to Sakura on the bed.
"What's going to happen?" Sakura asked him looking deeply into his smoldering dark eyes.
"I will protect you. With every fiber of my being. I will not let them harm you, Sakura. You mean the world to me" Sasuke embraced Sakura with a conforting arm.
"I have... I have something to tell you too, Sasuke" Sakura said as she avoided his eye contact for once since her news one bigger then his own.
"What is it?"
"You know that I love you right?"
"Hn"
" and do you remember that night we spent together" Sakura's flat palms placed on her stomach "well. I am pregnant"
It took Sasuke a while for the news to sink in, the fact that he thought he might've heard wrong before he responded "Pregnant?" He repeated.
Sakura nodded slightly with a smile.
"So there is something growing in your stomach?" Sasuke asked finding it a bit to hard to grasp.
"A little person" Sakura corrected him.
"No Sakura. You can't have this child. You must abort it. Please" Sasuke expressed himself, anger infused in his own voice
"Wh.. What. No! I certainly will not" Sakura said as she stood up angrily.
"You don't understand, Sakura. This child. If it took all of my DNA. He will kill you. The thing will be a monster like me" Sasuke yelled pointing at her stomach.
Sakura shook her head, holding onto her stomach as if protecting it. "Sasuke. If you really feel so strongly about it, there is the door. Leave. I can't be with you if you believe the child that we created is a monster" Sakura screamed back.
She really did not care how this child was about to come out. She could not get rid of it. She loved the child to dearly and already felt like it was a part of her. The news did shock her at first but she would defend it with all her might since it was her own flesh and blood.
Sasuke was silent for a while. Sakura stood there watching him. Waiting for him to respond. She stood by her ground to protect this baby and truelly felt Sasuke must be the one to change his mind. Or else she would take her own life
"If that's really the way you feel, Sakura..." He stood up to face Sakura, Sakura was about to protest thinking that he was about to leave but he did not. His dark eyes connected with hers. Never breaking eye contact. He then got down on one knee "... Sakura. Will you do me the honour of making me the happiest man on this planet in becoming my wife" he took Sakura's smaller hand into his own before locking a breathtaking gaze with Sakura's own emerald eyes.
It took Sakura a few seconds to process what had just happened before her. A warm feeling spread within her midst and made its way up to her brain. She could never be any happier without him. Sasuke makes her happy and he always will.
She fell into his arms with a warm embrace, she whispered into his ears "Yes. Yes. I will marry you"
A/N: I am so sorry that this chapter is late. My laptop broke so I am updating from my phone.
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