Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Behind Her Smiles ❯ Chapter Twenty-Five: Coma ( Chapter 25 )

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Behind Her Smiles
A/N- Here is the second last chapter to this story. I hope you all enjoyed reading this story I enjoyed typing it up and creating it as well. Thanks to my beta reader named ... for beta reading this story so far. Thanks again.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Coma
Sasuke looked at Sakura's still form, he sighed loudly as his eyes started to close softly. It has been a week since; Sakura fell into coma, from the gun shot to her head. Sasuke glanced at the sleeping pink haired female as she lay against the white pillow. Sasuke snorted at the smell of the antibiotics permeating the room and the sounds of the life-support systems did nothing to soothe his worry. Beepings and the jagged lines of the cardiogram at least reassured him that she was still alive but he couldn't help but growl at the image of Sai taking one last shot to her head.
"Tch, he managed to get the last laugh," Sasuke scowled as he slammed his hand against the window pane. "That son of a bitch...!"
While the in ambulance, Sakura's heart had stopped for a few moments and Sasuke never had panicked in his whole life. Sure he had bullets firing at him and he had people wanting to rearrange his face but none of them sent him into a panic as bad as Sakura completely slipping through his fingers without even knowing. He only started noticing when her grip began to loosen in his hand. Fortunately the paramedics were able to save her but since then, she was in coma and the doctor's had no idea where she would wake up.
It has also turned out that she was also now pregnant and it was too early for them to take blood tests. His heart hoped that the child was his and not Sai's. That night he had with her flashed in his mind as he remembered how kissed every part of her body and remembered the heat burning between them. He shook his head with a bitter smile; Sakura had to come back! She didn't seem the type to easily trip over some bullet shot even if it was fatal. His parents had taken it upon themselves to tell the twins if anything happened to their mother. Ryuu and Taytai definitely freaked out when they heard that their mother was in the hospital but Sasuke had managed to calm them down by saying she just needed some therapy after a few slight falls.
Sasuke never knew he could do it so well – lying through his teeth.
Sasori made sure that Sakura wasn't getting into trouble with the law and considering the weight of the Kanpeki's crimes, Sasuke felt that retribution had been served. He clenched his hands into fists as he glanced at the sleeping Sakura before remembering what had happened to the Kanpeki. Everything had all been a blur and that was a plan that they had adlibbed due to lack of knowing the Kanpeki's true number in membership. He also knew that the trail was set after Sakura wakes up or so. While Sai and the others that were injury badly were also at the hospital, security tightened and Sasuke didn't know whether or not the policemen could stop him from rearranging Sai's face and making sure he was never born.
"Stupid bastard," Sasuke darkened his gaze at the door; if glaring were a superpower, the door would have melted and withered away into nothing but dust.
Sasuke got up as he left the room to get something to eat. He could almost hear Sakura snapping at him within his mind to get food. He also knew that the twins were being coming were staying with Temari's house with her brothers as the police seen that they stayed at her house before. Sakura's house was just about done with the repairs and the new outside. He made sure that they had everything within that house. Thankfully, his gangmates had given him food as well as noted by Naruto – "hospital food can kill a person's tastebuds". Sasuke slightly laughed; Naruto did have his moments to make him feel better but nothing to soothe his worries.
Sasuke finished his lunch as he got back up and walked back towards Sakura's room. Weeks passed as Sasuke was never far from Sakura. He even made sure that the Kanpeki stayed in jail until the time was right when Sakura woken up from her coma.
He smiled at her still form, as his hand went over her face cupping her cheek. "Sakura…"
Seeing the night slowly fall upon him, he walked towards the door before taking one last look at Sakura and headed home to get some sleep.
…Month Later….
Sasuke looked at Sakura's form as he saw her breathing in and out with any type of air mask. There was a few times, the doctors had to raced and saved her as he was forced outside of the room by the nurses to be only let back in after they had saved her.
Sasuke stood up and left the room again as he seen Samiko's and the rest walking towards him. He smiled as he looked at the door.
"Sasuke… still nothing?" Samiko's questioned as she got up to him.
"No," He shook his head.
Her eyes saddened at this and walked into the room with Natari, leaving the rest outside.
Hours later, Sasuke's friends left the hospital as he stayed with Sakura. This went on as it came towards the third month as Sakura's stomach starting showing just a bit, Sasuke wanted to know if the baby was his or Sai's even though he would love the baby if it wasn't his. He had also beside when Sakura woke up; he would fully adopt the twins and marry Sakura. Every day, that hope that she would awake up was slowly falling into an endless abyss. The twins were going into their first year of school and weren't happy about it especially when their mom wasn't there to see them off. Taytai kicked up a huge fuss and Sasuke still remembered her kicking him in the stomach; boy, did she kick as hard as her mother that was for sure!
Sasuke told them that he would always be picking them up after school as Auntie Temari and Uncle's needed to get back to their studying for finals. His finals were done the week before. He asked if he could take them early.
….Four Months Later…..
Eyeballs moved as if they were trying to open up, slowly green eyes showed as she looked around the ceiling. The person groaned as they gently got up and looked more around the room, she saw nothing but a few items. The white walls surrounded her as her body began to shiver slightly from the new surroundings. Sunbeams peeked through the windows as she found herself more wildly confused where in the world she was.
"Sakura!"
She swivelled her head around to see a raven hair boy walking up to her. Fear strike her fast as she shivered in fear, she remembered his looks and hair.
"Sai, please..." she whimpered she saw him stopping in front of something." My…"
He pressed the button, slowly she saw more people with white jackets on. She saw seen them asking the male to wait outside. She looked carefully at his appearance instead of the usual slick hair framing a pale face. She found a jagged mess of black hair and his skin had a more pinkish tint to it. His eyes looked more forlorn and happy; not the same that Sai had flashed at her many times. She shivered at the thought of thinking about Sai. But something inside her started telling her that there was more to the black haired male she saw than what she knew.
"Miss Haruno…"
After an hour, she saw the black hair male walking back in and sitting down. She was told that she was in coma for seven months. A frown marred her features as her questions remained unanswered. They only said ask the male when he came in. Her mouth nailed itself shut as nothing emerged from her throat at the mere sight of him; he looked so much like Sai. She didn't want to say the wrong thing or questioned. She looked around to see the window was opened letting in a soft breeze, the she noticed that she wasn't in Los Angeles anymore.
She turned back to him to see he was looking at her with a sad expression. After taking a breath, she opened her mouth," Where am I?"
"Konoha General Hospital," Sasuke slowly walked over to the bed, sitting next to her. "Please listen."
Sakura could do nothing save nodding her head wordlessly.
Seeing her completely clueless, Sasuke gently held her hands while looking at her solemnly. "Sakura what do you remember?"
Sakura pondered quietly before lowering her head. "I remember Sai kidnapping me on my way home, driving and then the room."
He blinked several times. "You don't remember Samiko or Natari?"
"No, I do remember them. They were kidnapped before me and then ….Tagami came after me and that is all I can remember."
Sasuke sighed and he knew that he had his work cut out of him, telling Sakura the story after and even about her parent's death. He started that story simple, as he told her many events after the last item she could remember. He watched her carefully as he told her everything he knew. Which was a lot; he stopped the story after she moved here. The words came out smoothly but each word ripped itself from his throat as tears started forming in her eyes at every word. He could feel the grip in his hands tightening when he found Sakura shivering and shuddering violently.
Her eyes had tears coming down fast, as she shook her head. "No!"
Sasuke stood up and walked softly towards her, he gently took her into a hug that she didn't struggle against him but accepted his comfort. Sasuke smiled at this as he let go of her. He went back to sit down as he turned to see her confused face.
"I only wanted to comfort you," Sasuke smiled lightly as Sakura stared at him for a moment.
"So, who are you," Sakura tilted her head to the side as Sasuke finally continued the story.
He started to tell the story, only leaving out that he and she had sex and that she was pregnant too. She didn't even notice that her stomach was big and hard. Sakura looked at him and couldn't believe the story he told her, but the story would made sense to her mind. She lay back down as she noticed that male walked out of the room.
As soon as Sasuke walked out, the doctors entered with a kind smile. "Miss Haruno this exam will see where you are with your mind. The concussion to your head was quite severe and we do not know for sure how long it will last. The test will at least show that despite your amnesia, some things should still have been retained."
"W-Will it hurt," Sakura shivered as she remembered the fear overwhelming her a few moments ago.
"No, it will simply check what you can remember so far," the doctor smiled kindly, extending his hand to her. "Shall we begin?"
After an hour of testing, Sakura was brought back in her room. The pink haired female blinked several times as she remembered the multiple colours that flashed before her and how they started rolling out she didn't know really. Inhaling deeply, she managed to wobble back to the room with the help of the nurses. The doctor skimmed through the results as a worried expression appeared in her eyes.
"Am I okay," Sakura swallowed hard, preparing for the worst.
The doctor exhaled in relief before smiling at her. "So far, many things are intact but your motor skills might need some reworking. You will need to go through some physiotherapy before your baby is born."
Sakura looked at him and widen her eyes. "Baby?"
The doctor looked at her and nodded his head." Hai, your baby."
Sakura finally looked at her stomach as she noticed it was big and hard. She placed her hand on it a smiled when she felt a kick, surprised as she looked up at the doctor. "I didn't even know."
"We thought that Mr. Uchiha would have told you," he glanced at the door where the young male had exited.
Sakura retold the story and the doctor looked at her. "Why do you think he didn't tell me?"
"Well, I think that he wanted you to remember it on your own," he smiled before he walked out of the room, leaving Sakura to think. "There are some things best remembered as time passes."
Why didn't he say anything? Was he regretting it? Or was he trying to lessen the pain of the story? Was my baby his or Sai's? Sakura swallowed hard at the thought of it belonging to Sai. He had already caused so much damage and he just had to have the last laugh. Not that it was the baby's fault but based on Sasuke's story – she severely began to hope it was anybody's but of that of the Kanpeki or Sai in particular.
"I hope its Sasuke's… but he also said I had twins named Ryuu and Taytai," Sakura rubbed her belly again as a slight kick responded to her touch, smiling.
With more thoughts coming into her head, Sakura found it hard to sleep that night. Dreams flashed in her mind of her former memories and surprised Sasuke more when she learned the gang's names even as he didn't given much elaboration. She could see the smile on his face and her heart soared at the sight of him. She started to wonder why exactly he meant so much to her but she definitely began to try figuring things out on her own. At some point, Sakura had been frustrated with herself as her hand simply refused to write the way she wanted and nearly jabbed Neji with a pen when he was trying to help her but apologized to the boy soon after. Her progress in reading had quickened considerably thanks to Temari but the other things had to be relearned. Slowly day by day, Sakura was taught something new. Each area that she had to relearn was in deep progress.
Sasuke had also stopped by many times as he was needed back to college. She re-met her old friends and relearned each of their stories. However no one was bringing up the subject she wanted; where were her twins? They kept on telling her that they were fine but sad. While she stayed in her hospital room, Natari had begun peeling an orange and slicing it into bite sizes as Sakura finally decided to ask. If anyone were to answer, Natari would probably be the most truthful one.
"Natari…where are the twins? Why hasn't anyone brought them here to visit?"
Natari, clearly surprised, averted her eyes away from Sakura. "The doctor had order no one to bring them as you don't really remember and the twins would be hurt."
Sakura hissed at this but then went on with it, there were things that she didn't remember or recall. She knew it was the best for groups, the twins and her. Slowly later that day, the doctor came in with some female officer and lawyer.
"Miss Haruno, this officer and lawyer would like you to try to answer some questions."
Sakura looked at the officer to see she was around her late thirty's with a black and blue pants and shirt. Her badge and gun and many other items were on her uniform.
"Okay, Miss Haruno," the female officer pulled over a chair, leaning against the back rest casually. "I'm going to ask you some questions."
Sakura nodded her head at the officer. Thus the questions began as she told her what happened as she remembers bits of it. Even the lawyer wrote down every detail that she could remember.
After some questions, the female officer had left the room leaving the lawyer with Sakura. While she was answering the questions that the lawyer had questioned about, Sakura seemed fine with it. Some moments had caused her to suddenly remember things but they weren't too bad. The images blurred before her but it wasn't to the point of sheer agony. However after each question, there was one that threw Sakura off guard as the officer brought out a picture.
"Miss Haruno, if it is alright – I'd like to know: what does this symbol mean?"
As the picture flashed before her eyes, Sakura found her whole world swirling around her as her mind exploded as if something had begun to stab her head. Sakura gripped her head tightly as she screamed in pain; flashes went through her mind. Each one of them was a memory and as she saw the picture, she recognized it as the mark of being Sai's breeder, mate and wife. Sakura saw the lawyer widening her eyes as she opened the door to and yelled of help.
Within minutes the pain stopped and Sakura looked at the doctor's that came into her room. The doctor asked what the lawyer had asked and she told him.
Sakura remembered everything as she held onto her stomach in pain as the contractions started to spread out. "Well prepare the labour room."
Sakura remember the first time, she went through this and hissed in pain. "Doctor…. My baby, who is the father?"
A/N- I leaving it right here, until next time. Bye