BTW: Hello again see I told you I won't take so long anymore but its ending and I know you can feel it. :'(

RECAP: Not much happened just read the last chapter

The months went by. Sakura got bigger and bigger and Sasuke was a few missions away from their financial goal before Naru. Temari, Kankuro and Matsuri were visiting more and more often. Kankuro found out about Sakura and Matsuri has heard the whole thing too, she took it pretty well. Shikamaru and Temari get together every time they visit and have yet to go farther than a kiss. Kakashi's been talking to the three of them more and more. Naruto and Gaara have helped Sasuke baby-proof their apartment and have moved another chunk of Sakura's stuff into Sasuke's apartment to make it feel more like home. They'd made a nursery in the extra space of Sakura and Sasuke's room. The baby was due in the next three weeks which had everyone on edge especially Sasuke since Sakura has gone into false labor a few times. Finally the day did come when it wasn't false labor. Naruto and Gaara had come over to cook her a very spicy meal. Sasuke was getting more and more nervous as the days went by and Naruto found out that spicy foods help induce labor so there they were. Sakura was sitting on the couch, her stomach had not grown much after about halfway through the second trimester. Sasuke was cooking whatever the food was with Naruto and Gaara was talking to the baby.

"She kicked!"

"Yep, she wants to leave."

"She will soon enough."

"I hope so. I don't know how much more of this my back can take."

"I doubt you'll be saying the same thing once you go into labor."

"What?"

"I'm just saying be sure you get an epidural."

"I don't need one of those, those are for wimps."

"Everyone gets 'em."

"I'm not everyone."

"Everyone is everyone. You'll see."

"Just get me the spicy food."

Naruto presented her with a plate of what looked like something scraped off the underside of an old car then fried with spices.

"What...is that?"

"Every spicey food we could find fried with lots and lots of curry powder."

"You know I'm supposed to eat this right?"

"Just hold your nose. Do you want to go into labor or not?"

"I'm not sure anymore..."

"It's just food. You'll be fine."

"I'm actually not sure if I will be."

"You'll never go into labor without this."

"Will too."

"Come on Sakura just eat it."

Naruto and Sakura went back and forth. Gaara was right up against Sakura trying to mask his laughter and Sasuke was next to Naruto watching him try to force feed Sakura the sludge they'd made, he too was laughing hard at the whole situation. Naruto finally threw his hand up in exasperation and put the plate in the kitchen after Sakura wouldn't eat it. She started laughing a little too. Naruto started cleaning up the sludge and the laughter died down. Gaara stood up suddenly.

"Sakura?"

"What?"

"Um...I really really really hope that was your water breaking cause some form of liquid is all over me."

Sakura realized that her water had in fact just broken. She was wet and now so was Gaara. Sakura sighed and slowly got herself up.

"Well, guess we better go."

Sasuke was stunned a little but managed to grab her bag. Naruto rushed out of the kitchen and tried to help Sakura start walking. Gaara made sure to call Kakashi to meet them before he left. The hospital was only about a block away and Sakura was way ahead of everyone, she was so used to walking around with her stomach so this was nothing. The other three were so nervous and worried they were about to collapse but they didn't. They were almost to the gate of the hospital when Sakura had her first contraction. She started clenching her teeth and she squeezed her eyes shut. Sasuke and Naruto let her squeeze their hands which was very painful but she was clearly in more pain than them. They gave her a second and rushed toward the hospital with most of Sakura's weight on Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto and Sasuke made it inside and got her into a wheelchair while Gaara got her checked in. They got her in a room and hooked her up to the monitor. Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara and were all standing by her head. Kakashi came a while later. Every time another contraction came along she yelled the same thing.

"EPI-DAMN-DURAL!"

And the nurses going in and out of her room would say the same thing.

"Not yet Ms. Haruno."

That and

"May I ask who the father is?"

Her response to both was-

"Uchiha!"

Sakura was near exhaustion by the time she was allowed the epidural. After a few more hours she was finally fully dilated and they moved her to the delivery room where their doctor waited, and it seemed that with a lot or rescheduling Tsunade had made herself Sakura's doctor. The four of them were allowed to stay as long as they stayed out of the way. After a while out came the head. Tsunade said they could come see. Sakura still screaming and panting managed to get out a sentence.

"Gaara, Kakashi, stay by my head. Got it?"

Gaara who had moved to go see Naru was stricken with fear and stayed by Sakura's head as did Kakashi. After the shoulders were out the rest came easy-ish. Gaara was letting Sakura squeeze his hand and he had his other hand on her head and was constantly pushing the hair out of her face and running ice over her forehead to try and keep her cool. Finally she was done. Sakura and Naru were all cleaned up and after they'd wrapped up Naru, Tsunade handed her to Sasuke. She was about the size of a preemie. Naruto was back at Sakura's head.

"What all did you see?"

"I was just looking at Naru, I swear."

"Where is she? I wanna see her."

"Just gave her to Sasuke."

Sasuke was talking to Naru, out of earshot of the rest of them.

"Hi Naru, I don't know if you remember me from when I used to sing to you and I'm your dad. I'm going to love you as long as I live. And Naruto and Gaara over there are going to train you like a real ninja, and just because they're jinchuuriki doesn't mean they're scary, it actually means they're stronger, stronger than everyone in this village. That's my teacher over there, he'll be good by the time you're grown-"

Sasuke started walking toward Sakura.

"-and this gorgeous women right here is your momma."

Sasuke handed Naru to Sakura. She smiled and started talking to her in a baby voice. Sasuke kissed Sakura and Naruto kissed Gaara and Kakashi felt a little awkward. After a few more minutes Sakura asked Naruto if he wanted to hold her and of course he did.

"Hi Naru. I'm your uncle, I hope you like your name, it's been good to me so far."

Naruto handed Naru to Gaara. He was a bad hugger so this really pushed his comfort zone but he really did want to hold her.

"Hi Naru. I'm your uncle too...your parents'll tell you more about that when you're older though."

Gaara handed Naru back to Sakura. Kakashi let himself out, he had a mission that he was late for. They moved Sakura to yet another room. They could take Naru home in just a few days. They all stayed in her surprisingly spacious room for a few more hours and after that she passed out from exhaustion and slept for a while. As it turned out Kakashi or Tsunade or maybe even people that saw them walk to the hospital had let a few people know that Naru was born.

BOTTOM NOTE: I can feel it ending and I know you can too makes me saaaaaad BOTTOM NOTE OVER AND OUT