The Black Leaf (Part 2)

Chapter 5: Redemption

"Say that again?"  I was sure I misunderstood what she told me.

"you are pregnant," she smiled, "you are going to be a mother." I chuckled hard and she just looked at me like if I was crazy.

"Shizune that is physically impossible," I said looking at her. 

"Well have you been sexually active?" she asked and my I could feel a shiver go down my spine.

"Well yeah, but you don't understand, it's physically impossible for me to have children," I said and she looked at a folder of paper she was carrying.  

"I see," she brought her hand to her chin as she kept reading my health file. "Izumi after some of you reproductive organ was removed and you still have a 5% to 10% change to get pregnant, it is not physically impossible." She looked at me with a more serious face, "and according to your blood work you are about four weeks pregnant."

Her words hit me like a ton of bricks, I brought my hands to my face and I could feel the air leaving my lungs and not returning fast enough. "I can't, Shizune," tears started streaming down my face, "I can't bring a child to this world, I- I can't do this." I started panicking so much that my whole body started trembling as I gasped for the air that never came to my lungs. 

Shizune immediately ran and hugged me, "calm down Izumi, breath, I'm here to help you." After a while I started breathing evenly, she let go of me and went and sat in front of me. "Izumi you have options you know, it is all up to you," she held my hands, "but I think you should talk to him first." 

I stared at my hands for a while before answering, "Shizune I need some time to think," I got up and started walking towards the door. "Can you please not say anything about this to anyone?" I asked her and she gave me a warm smile. 

"Of course Izumi, you don't have to worry about it," she said and I left the hospital. I headed for the Uchiha District, I walked the streets of the place I once called home. I went straight to Aunt Hae's house. Like every building there, it was abandoned, and everything remained the same, intact, like frozen in time. The same question popped in my head why did he do it? why did he killed them? I went to his house and headed straight to his room. I sat in his dusty bed, and looked around his room, a picture on his night stand caught my eye, it was Itachi, Sasuke and me. I took it and looked at it for a while, the tears started leaving my eyes. I remember of how happy we all were, I cried so much. Now I was pregnant and I knew the only way to find out if he was the father was to break the genjutsu, but I was still hesitant. All I could do was cry, I cried so much that I lost track of time and just fall asleep there.

The next day I woke up and the sun was out, it was probably past midday. I walked outside and started heading towards the village when I felt a familiar chakra behind me. I hesitated to turn around, "hello Izumi, it's been a while?" the man said in a deep voice that sent shivers down my spine

I activated my Sharingan and turned to face him, "you?" I growled at him 

"Oh, Izu let's not do this again," the man with the orange mask said standing in front of me, "we were actually very close friends," he said.

"How could I be friends with a scum like you? you are the reason Yunki is dead," I shouted.

"Not me, you killed her remember, anyways you became somewhat of scum yourself," he said laughing. "Damm Itachi, he put you in his reverse Tsukuyomi, didn't he?" I didn't say anything just stared at him. "But of course, you knew this already, only you can break this genjutsu, what are you afraid of?" he said walking closer to me. "You are scared you are not going to like the person you were before?" he walked around me. He stood right behind me and leaned closer to whisper in my ear, "or is it that you like here with Kakashi? because if all you wanted was a replacement for Itachi, I was just three doors down."