I do not own Naruto okay? I honestly don't have much to say here this time, so just read on. I really appreciate the response I am getting so I am going to work harder on this one. Anyway, enough with this A/N, on with the fic!

Sasuke and Sakura were sitting at the table staring at the pamphlets. Tsunade had given them to Sakura when they had left the hospital seeing how crushed Sakura was that she could no longer have a child of her own. Sakura looked across the table and noticed that Sasuke was being unusually silent. She had just assumed that it was because Tsunade had yelled at him for causing a scene in her medical office and it made her warn Sakura about unnatural behavior that Sasuke could become abusive Sasuke would never do anything to hurt me. He can't hold it against me that I lost my fertility, he just can't! Sakura thought as she looked back down at the Konoha War Orphan Adoption Agency pamphlet. Reading the pamphlet and turning back to her experiences treating war wounds and seeing patients close to death made her feel even more sympathy for these poor orphans of war. They were just children and they had lost the people that were most important to them in the world.

"You know Sasuke-kun; you would know perfectly well how these kids feel…" Sakura said, trying to subliminally convince Sasuke to be willing to adopt.

"Yeah, I guess I would huh…" Sasuke said with a note of resentment.

"I'm sorry…" Sakura said. "But it just pains me to think of these poor children without parents. You and Naruto were orphans and I want to help others."

"I know what you mean" Sasuke said blankly.

Sakura lifted the pamphlet back up and made like she kept on reading it. However, she was really trying to keep herself together emotionally. I am a medical nin, a Jonin and a kunochi. I am not allowed to let my emotions affect me. I must stay calm, cool, collected and rational. My duty is to my village and to my patients. Besides, Lady Tsunade wants me to learn surgical techniques now. She thinks I am ready for it now. I must not let this affect me so bad. Sakura whispered to herself. Looking up at the clock on the wall, she saw that it was now 3:30 in the afternoon. She then got up and headed for the door out of her and Sasuke's apartment.

"Where are you going?" Sasuke said in a demanding way.

Sakura's miscarriage was all the fault of her work in the hospital in his mind. Tsunade should not have been ordering to do so much work when she knew that Sakura was pregnant. In fact, Tsunade was the one that told them herself that Sakura was pregnant so there was no way that she did not know about her pregnancy. Even if Sakura was working harder than she should have while pregnant, Tsunade could have always ordered her to stop working and go home. But she didn't and Sasuke blamed her about as much as he blamed Sakura for the miscarriage.

"I have surgeon's training today. Shizune says I can begin the training and she says it would help me cope with all of this that has happened." Sakura said.

"Going back to work already?" Sasuke asked standing up. "But…but…you just recovered from your miscarriage!"

"Yeah…" Sakura said trailing off. "But I have a duty to the village. Even though I am more disappointed than you on the miscarriage- and yes I am," Sakura added at the expression on Sasuke's face before he could interject. ", don't you even think I am less devastated than you are. YOU didn't lose your fertility. You can still have biological kids. Anyway," Sakura continued going back to her original thought. "Even though I am more disappointed than you are, I am taking this surgeon's training so I can at least be helpful to the village in other ways. I mean what if an Academy Student has a severe injury while training? Remember some of the horrible wounds we saw on various missions? All I could do was stabilizing the patient and get it so they could be transported to surgery? Despite what you may think that is not enough to know. I mean Neji needed specialized surgery when he was wounded trying to save you from Orochimaru's henchmen! No way could I have cured him without surgeon's training! Besides shinobi require surgery for things other than just an injury. Illness is another concern of shinobi that may need surgical treatment. I want to be as good as, if not better than, Lady Tsunade one day." Sakura said standing her ground, trying to convince Sasuke of her intents.

"Yeah, but I have a duty to my village and clan. A duty that YOU said you would help me with!" Sasuke yelled. "Itachi can have all the little bastards he wants but they are not true Uchiha clan members and they could have the Sharingan that other enemy villages can use. Konoha's Uchiha clan needs restoring and you said you would help me with it! I wouldn't expect you to understand being from such a minor clan like the Haruno clan!"

The snide remark at her clan filled her with such a rage she stormed out the door. "Well maybe I can find a way to correct my infertility!" Sakura yelled hiding her tears, slamming the door behind her.

She stormed down the street to the hospital furious at Sasuke. It was sounding more and more to her that all Sasuke wanted her for was her womb. He didn't want to be with her for any reason other than to make Uchiha babies. He could do that with any girl in the village. Ino, Tenten or even Hinata would be willing to do that for him in a heartbeat, even if they were with other men. Sakura had been teammates with Sasuke for years however. She knew everything about him, and she was the one who had saved him from near death after he left the village. Sakura knew everything about him, his good, his bad, his handsome and his ugly. He's just disappointed about my infertility like I am is all. I mean he is the last of his clan and this happens, it must be devastating to him. Sakura thought, trying to convince herself that Sasuke was in love with her for her as she opened the door to the hospital. She cared for him with all she had. She had loved him since they were first genin together on Team 7. It was this fact that made Sakura think that Sasuke cared for her no matter what. Never mind that now, it is time to get to work. Sakura thought as she headed to the Nurse's Station to change into her hospital uniform and sanitized her hands so she could get to work.

"Sakura, it's good to see you here!" Shizune said noticing her.

"Yes Shizune!" Sakura said saluting her. "Lady Tsunade said you would be starting me on my surgeon's training."

"Yes I am." Shizune said. "I will also make sure you don't overextend yourself while you do it. Despite the fine attention to detail that this requires, it can drain one quickly. I am sure you have recovered fine but I don't want you to ruin your recovery while it is still in progress."

"I do not want that." Sakura said, imaging how furious Sasuke would be if that happened.

"I know. Now I assume you already know the use of the chakra scalpel, am I correct?" Shizune asked.

"Yes mam." Sakura said. "I have used it successfully in combat and in extractions of impaled weapons and dead flesh in the battlefield."

"That is good." Shizune said pulling down a training scroll down from the vast collection on the walls of the training room. "Now this is a dummy of a person with tonsillitis and appendicitis. They are both two rather simple yet delicate surgeries. You know the basics of these already as you can perform tracheotomies. However, you have to bear in mind the risk of infection. The tonsils and appendix are both inflamed due to severe infection. If you are not careful, you will rupture the organs you are removing and possibly cause the patient to have severe, nearly fatal complications. If you rupture either organ, these dummies will make a sound. Do you understand?"

"Yes Shizune." Sakura said.

"Well, show me what you can do." Shizune said.

Sakura rolled open the scroll, causing the two dummies to open up and lay in front of her. Neither one was labeled with what illness they had. Each one had an area where you could do diagnostic jutsus as if the patient could not tell you what they were feeling. Sakura had identified that the first dummy had appendicitis and began to open up the chest of the dummy, and identified the inflamed appendix. She made the hand signs for the chakra scalpel and began to gently remove the inflamed appendix. With one hand she cut off the diseased organ and with the other, she performed the jutsu needed to staunch the flow of blood and heal the wound induced by the surgery.

"Sakura, watch out, you need to remove the organ from the body and you are nearly done disconnecting the organ from the dummy's digestive system." Shizune warned.

"Well I only have two hands here!" Sakura yelled. "I am going to need your help here!"

"Okay." Shizune said walking over to Sakura and standing by the dummy. "What is it you need me to do?" This was part of the test of her abilities, to see if she knew when to ask for help and direct another surgeon or nurse as to what to do to help her out while she had other duties to do for the patient.

"I need you to take ahold of the appendix and remove it from the body without rupturing it." Sakura ordered. "I can finish staunching the bleeding and heal the site of the incision but I don't have the extra hands to take care of the organ."

Shizune took the training organ and placed it aside. She watched on as Sakura then performed the healing jutsu, closing the incision on the dummy. Shizune was amazed that Sakura could take such care and order the proper techniques needed to assist in the whole operation. It was a sign that she had the talent and skill that it took for her to be a skilled surgeon like Shizune and Tsunade were with the proper training. Not every medical ninja had the ability to do such a delicate job that required a cool head and the strength to order whatever was needed. Shizune picked up the notepad and wrote down what she noted in Sakura and what she was going to tell Tsunade.

"You have done a good job there." Shizune said looking at the dummy and at how it looked like it was brand new when Sakura was done. "I think you can breeze through this training with the proper encouragement."

"What do you mean?" Sakura said cleaning her hands up.

"I could tell when you came in that you and Sasuke had been fighting. It was all over your face." Shizune sighed, sitting Sakura down. "And based on how he reacted at the appointment we had a few weeks ago, it had to be on the fact he blames your miscarriage on your work. That is wrong. He may hold you back if you are not careful. I have seen many a talented kunochi stunt their skills trying to please an abusive boyfriend. Do not let yourself become one of them."

Sakura sighed and brushed off the thought that Sasuke would do something like that. She did have feelings like he only wanted her for her womb, but she knew he loved her. "I won't." Sakura said as she got up.

"Just be careful." Shizune said as a knock was heard at the door.

"ANBU needs skilled medical nin! Five of their team has severe life threatening injuries!" Naruto yelled as they got up and headed to the operating room.

"Come on Shizune!" Sakura said as she ran out the door.

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