In the Palm of my Hands [Under Construction]

Excuses

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In the Palm in My Hands

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'At first when I see you cry, it makes me smile. At worst I feel bad for a while, but then I just smile. Oh, I just smile.' – Lily Allen, 'Smile'

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The hospital felt cold and narrowed. The crisp white walls seemed to close in on him.

He left everybody behind him, those who followed to the hospital. He needed to be alone to breathe for a moment. But he couldn't, he wasn't getting any oxygen in his lungs. There has to be something in the air, or he must have an allergic reaction to something, which was impossible for he was tested and had nothing.

Sasuke sat down in a seat where a row of more empty seats were against the white wall. Some nurses walked by, gaping at his pale, disheveled figure but remained from saying anything. He's in a hospital, there's no good reason being here while looking like that.

Two hours ago, the pregnant Sarina Karin has been brought to Nara Sakurai Byoin hospital because she fell from a stairs and was found unconscious on the ground. There was no sign of blood or any injury but the doctor said that they'll be doing ultra sounds to see if she was having internal bleeding, for those are more lethal than external, just to be in case.

Also, they were testing if she was… Sasuke clenched his jaw so tightly his head began to throb.

He never thought he'd cared this much. Not for Karin and certainly not for the baby. But now that they both has been put to danger it seems that he isn't as careless about them after all. Karin was still a human being, someone who was once, and maybe still is, an important person in his life. Someone he shared practically everything with once and though he wanted to end everything with her, she still didn't deserve this.

Then there was the baby she is carrying. The 13 weeks old baby, which was 3 and a half months. It could barely be called a baby, rather a fetus.

He was worried sick about that baby. Wanted or not, it is still an Uchiha descent. His first child, if born maybe even the future heir of the clan. Uchiha blood runs through his barely there veins. He might not have wished for the child and he may be calling it a mistake, but he will never judge the child, much like Fugaku did with him.

He would be a good father, no, a better father than his own has ever been for him. Because despite everything, Fugaku was a good one father, the only thing that did not make him the 'greatest' father was that he had no emotions to show except to his wife and sometimes anger towards his children; namely Itachi nowadays. Everything was about discipline, intelligence, traditions and the company for him. But Sasuke would not. He wouldn't make his child's goal that high to his expectations like Fugaku did, that he was sure of.

Sasuke has never thought this far into the future about him and his child.

If the baby survived that fall, that is.

He still doesn't know anything about either the baby or Karin. He didn't know what to hope for now.

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It came as a great shock for those who knew what happened and who were present at the scene how Sasuke reacted. But it would have been more shocking if he had not reacted the way he did. Itachi came in late, Sasuke already had Karin in his arms and was on his way to the exit to bring her to the hospital. How exactly he was going to do so and in what transportation, Itachi had no clue. Sasuke didn't have a car here, as they were brought in a limousine and he had no idea where the hospital was because Nara wasn't a city they were particularly familiar with. Yet, he was carrying her out of there. People were stopping him though, and told him he should wait for the ambulance, which was already on its way.