See the Light

Two weeks later Sasuke left his apartment…for good. Sakura’s apartment was cluttered with boxes. She had a huge fight with her mother over the face that a boy was moving in with her. But, they would be friends again after the shock had worn off. Sakura was so excited about the fact that Sasuke’s stuff was strong out from one end of the apartment to the other. Sakura figured he could work on organizing everything while she was at work.

That particular morning Sakura hurried down the stairs and kissed Sasuke before she left for the hospital. She had truly never been this happy in her entire life. Once she arrived at the hospital, she found a huge stack of papers on her desk. Shizune had left them for her to look at. All the papers regarded physicals and general check ups. Shizune cam into Sakura’s office and Sakura immediately had to tell Shizune that Sasuke had told her he loved her only two weeks earlier and that they were now living together. Shizune loved seeing Sakura so happy. She had remembeed a time when nothing could make Sakura smile.

Meanwhile, at Sakura’s apartment Sasuke had already unpacked three boxes and he now realized that Sakura’s bedroom was only large enough for her and her dresser was already full of her clothes, as was her closet. Now Sasuke had the task of figuring out what to do with his clothes. Indeed the apartment was small even though it had an upstairs and a downstairs. Actually, Sasuke had the bigger apartment and he was now questioning why they didn’t moveto his apartment instead. Besides, he was a man now and he felt compelled to provide for Sakura…not to have her providing for him. At any rate, until he could talk about what exactly he was going to do with all his things he decided to fit as much in her drawers as he could. He thought about asking Naruto over to help him carry out the empty boxes and maybe move some furniture around…but he thought that maybe Naruto would get worked up like he usually did and start acting all... ‘Naruto-ish’.

“So what’s in the future for you two?” Shizune asked.

“Oh, I don’t know. I mean he’s moving in with me that’s all that really matters.” Sakura answered.

“Well, do you think he’ll marry you?” she questioned. Sakura wasn’t sure what to say. The idea was thrilling to her but she didn’t want to let it show that it was.

“I don’t know. Maybe someday, but for now I think we’ll concentrate on him moving in. That’s the biggest even in our lives right now.” Sakura answered. Shizune smiled. She loved watching Sakura dance about the room with so much life and energy. “Oh hey, can you watch for my 2:00 appointment to come in? I need to go get a tampon.” Shizune agreed to watch for Sakura’s appointment while she went to attend her womanly duties. Sakura was prepared to insert her tampon…however when she pulled her pants down she noticed something…or rather she didn’t notice something. “Hmmm…I must be late this time.” Sakura thought. She was referring to her period. Sometimes she got it late, sometimes she got it early she never really gave it a thought. She rejoined Shizune and met her 2:00 appointment. After her appointment for the first time that day she leaned forward over her desk and noticed that her breasts were aching. Not realizing what she was doing, she grabbed herself to massage them, but they continued to be very tender to the touch. This too, sometimes happened with her period so she brushed it aside.

Once Sakura arrived home she called out for Sasuke wondering where he was. The deluge of boxes in the living room had been cleaned up. Sakura walked upstairs only to discover Sasuke stuck in between her dresser and her closet. He was rapping his fingers on the top of it trying to think of a way to get unstuck. Sakura couldn’t help but laugh at this predicament.

“How long have you been stuck like that?” she asked.

“32 minutes.” He answered. She walked over to her dresser and tried to wiggle it out far enough for Sasuke to get free of it. She wasn’t even going to ask why or how he had gotten the dresser in front of the closet.

“Ouch.” She grabbed her breasts again. They were unusually sore today.

“What’s wrong Sasuke asked putting his arms around her waist.”

“My breasts are so sore to touch. It’s time for my period but they are really sore; more so than usual. I hope it stops when my period starts. Sasuke and Sakura spent the rest of the evening organizing what was left of Sasuke’s things. They were both exhausted by evening. Sakura had curled up beside him in their bed and they were both asleep in no time.

Three days later, Sasuke and Sakura had finally figured out an organizational method for all of Sasuke’s things. It was on this morning that Sakura noticed she still hadn’t gotten her period and her breasts were still killing her. Sakura was once again at the hospital for her day shift. On her break she felt that she may need to take a pregnancy test. She figured it would be negative since she felt this way often before her period. But, she had been having sex…a lot of sex so she wanted to take one. She actually began to think about the possibility that she could be pregnant. She smiled to herself…pregnant with Sasuke’s baby…me? She couldn’t help but dwell on this thought for a moment. However, in her heart she knew that the test would be negative so she would save the thought of being pregnant for a later time. Sakura searched through a medical supply closet and dug until she found the stack of pregnancy tests. There were many in the closet because every female ninja had to take one when she came in for her physical. It was silly, but that was the policy. She slipped into the bathroom without Shizune noticing what she was up to. Sakura opened it up and threw the directions away, after all she had given a hundred of these; she knew how it all worked: Pee on the stick and wait. She sat the now moist test on the counter of the bathroom and waited. To pass the time she decided to reorganize the cabinets above her head. She started pitching useless and empty wrappers in the trash and stacking things so they ended up a little neater. Once she was done with that task she looked at the clock that hung above the door; fifteen minutes had passed. Sakura nonchalantly picked up the test and read the result to herself...she could hear Shizune calling to her, Sakura let out a deep breath and threw the test away. It was time to get back to her patients…she had her answer.

After her shift, Sakura practically skipped back to her apartment. It was a scorching hot day and opening the door to her cool apartment was a dream come true. Sasuke had dinner on the table for them. It was funny, Sasuke, the once cold-hearted anti social conceited asshole, was now Sakura’s perfect little housewife. Sakura sat down across form Sasuke and hungrily dug into her meal.

“You like it?” he asked her.

“Yes, it’s great.” Sakura answered.

“So what did you do today?” he asked her. Sakura gave him a run down of her day. It was typical for the most part.

“Sasuke, today something happened while I was at the hospital.” Sakura said.

“Like what?” he was puzzled. Sakura put her chopsticks down.

“Sasuke…I’m pregnant.”