See the Light

Three weeks had passed since Sakura had revealed the news to Sasuke that she was in fact pregnant with his child. It was now 12:42 and Sasuke was going to bring Sakura lunch at work like he so often did. However, Sakura was now experiencing the portion of her pregnancy where she was sicker than the sickest sick. Shizune, who worked closest with Sakura at the hospital, didn’t know about her pregnancy yet…but that was soon to change. Shizune passed the bathroom and heard someone throwing up. It of course, was Sakura and this was her 3rd time throwing up this morning. Shizune stopped in fron of the door and soon she heard the toilet flush. After washing her hands Sakura emerged, her face was sweating.

“Shizune!” Sakura’s green eyes turned into giant round saucers.

“Sakura! Sakura, are you okay? Have you been sick? What’s wrong?” Sakura motioned Shizune into their office/examination room. She may as well tell Shizune because she would find out soon enough.

“Shizune, I’m pregnant and my morning sickness has set in big time.”

“Oh my god, you’re pregnant? Sakura!” Shizune hugged her.

“Ssshhhh!” Sakura silenced her; she was in no mood for the entire floor to know about her baby and her sickness.

“Oh, sorry, so is it Uchiha’s?” Shizune said her eyes shining with curiosity.

“Yes, it is.” Sakura answered.

“So have you been to the doctor yet?” Shizune questioned.

“No, I go at the end of the week, Sasuke’s coming with me.” Shizune questioned Sakura some more until Sakura excused herself to go meet Sasuke for lunch. She felt badly because Sasuke had brought her lunch two other days that week and she couldn’t eat with him because the smells made her so sick. She walked out to the pavilion where they typically ate lunch. Sasuke watched her walk out to him, she looked pretty miserable.

“Still sick?” He asked her standing up and rubbing her shoulders after she had sat down.

“Yeah, still sick.” Sasuke sat back down.

“Here, see if you can eat any of this I brought today. Sasuke had brought boiled eggplant, rice balls, some fruit, saltine crackers, and fried tofu. These were things he hadn’t tried yet. Sakura managed to smile as he laid everything out in front of her.

“Thank you.” She said.

“You pick first, I haven’t thrown up at all today.” Sakura laughed, it was the best she had felt all day. She examined the options before her.

“Let’s try the saltine crackers and the fruit.” She said. Sasuke pushed them in front of her and Sakura tentatively nibbled on a cracker. She was able to eat one without feeling like she had to throw it back up. “You know, can I just have the whole bag?” Sakura asked. She didn’t realize that she was hungry and the crackers actually tasted very good to her.

“I made your appointment today.” Sasuke told her as he watched her devour the crackers.

“Oh, good. I’m anxious to see what the doctor has to say.” Sasuke smiled at her. “Maybe he can give me something to stop throwing up.” Sakura could have simply gone two floors up in the hospital and made the appointment herself, but she had been so sick that she hadn’t done it and instead asked Sasuke to schedule the appointment. Sakura wasn’t ready for her lunch hour with Sasuke to end but she had to return to work. Sasuke kissed her before leaving the hospital and returning back to their apartment.

Earlier in the week Sasuke and Sakura had agreed that tonight they would have Naruto over for dinner and tell him of the pregnancy. It wasn’t the best day for Sakura to reveal the news, but the sickness wouldn’t be going away anytime soon. She figured they might as well get it over with so Naruto could have an episode and life could go on. Sakura had to put up with Shizune firing more questions at her once she had returned to their office.

“So, do you want a boy or a girl?”

“Haven’t thought about it.” Sakura answered.

“Do you have names picked out?’

“No.”

“Are you two getting married?”

“Shizune, I’ve been pregnant for like 5 weeks maybe. We haven’t talked about anything like that. That’s the last thing on our minds at this point, okay?” Sakura felt guilty for somewhat snapping at Shizune, but she didn’t feel like dealing with her right now. The rest of the day drug on and Sakura couldn’t wait to get home and be with Sasuke. Actually, she was even kind of looking forward to seeing Naruto also. She threw up two more times before the end of her shift. Sakura walked home and the heat didn’t help her sickness any. She couldn’t wait to hit her cool apartment and flop onto the couch. Sakura arrived at the door and took her shoes off. She did exactly as she said she would and walked in and laid on the couch. She didn’t bother changing her clothes or anything. She could smell noodles boiling on the stove and surprisingly, it didn’t make her want to puke.

“Hey, you want a pillow and some different clothes?” Sasuke asked her appearing out of the laundry room. He kissed her forehead and ran his fingers through her hair.
“Yeah, will you get them for me?” Sakura partially whined.
“Of course.” Sasuke smiled and went upstairs.
“I love you.” She called after him, but he had already disappeared into their room. Sasuke returned with her pillow and gray soft cotton pants with a white spaghetti strap top that matched. She changed quickly and curled up on the couch. She watched TV while Sasuke did his wifely duties. Just to be safe, Sasuke brought a paper bad and left it near Sakura’s head.

“Naruto will be here in about 40 minutes. Should we rehearse what we’re going to say?” Sasuke asked. Sakura laughed.

“Naruto, Sasuke fucked me and now I’m pregnant. There, how’s that?” Sasuke was stirring his noodles in the kitchen.

“That pretty much sums everything up, let’s go with that.” He said laughing at her. Sakura was fine until Sasuke began mixing some seasonings into the noodles, then she was thankful for the bag he placed at her head. She didn’t know why it was called morning sickness, here it was 6:30 in the evening and she was still throwing up. She couldn’t wait for the sickness to subside. She knew that it would be gone by the end of the second month but that felt like an eternity away. There was a knock on the door, Naruto had arrived.

“Sasuke! What are you fixing it smells wonderful! Sakura-chan! Doesn’t it smell great! He’s a good cook isn’t he? Is he a good cook?” Naruto bombarded her with questions.

“Uh…Naruto Sakura had a long day today why don’t you come help me set the table.” Sasuke said tugging Naruto into the kitchen away from Sakura. Sakura knew she had to get rid of her paper bag so she slipped it outside while Naruto was talking a mile a minute to Sasuke about Ero-Sennin in the kitchen. She got a fresh bad and kept it close at hand. She conveniently left the other in the garbage. Sasuke and Naruto had the table set and Sakura sat down at Sasuke’s side to eat. She stared at her food at first not completely certain what she would actually be able to eat. However she discovered she could eat everything before her.

“This is good, thank you for cooking.” Sakura said squeezing Sasuke’s thigh. He smiled at her and then shifted his attention to Naruto who was eating everything faster than Sakura and Sasuke combined. Once they were finished with dinner Sasuke talked Naruto into cleaning up the kitchen before joining Sakura on the couch in the living room. Sakura relaxed and slightly felt the grossness in her stomach subside. Sasuke came in the living room and sat beside Sakura. He kissed her and put his arms around her pulling her body close beside his. She put her head on his shoulder. Naruto sat across from both of them.

“So, you were going to tell me something? What? Is it? What is it? Do we have a mission assignment? Are we going to train? Is Kakashi Sensei putting together an A rank mission for us?’ Naruto was smiling all over. Sakura looked at Sasuke, who looked back at her.

“Naruto…” Sakura began. “Naruto, we asked you to join us tonight because…well…I’m about 5 weeks pregnant.” Sakura took a deep breath and felt the sickness creep back. She looked at Naruto. Naruto’s mouth hung open and his round blue eyes were fixated on both of them. He didn’t say anything for a long time.

“What! What! What! What! You’re kidding! Sakura-chaaaaaaan! You can’t be pregnant! Sasukeeeeeeeee! I blame you! Is it a boy or a girl? When are you having the baby? Sasukeeeeeeeeeeeee!” Yep, as guessed Naruto completely went biserk.

“Naruto, please…calm down.” Sakura said.

“Calm down? Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! How can I calm down when you’re having a baby! Sakura-chaaaan.” Naruto finally wore himself flipping out. It was strange that now he was older yet he had managed to find a more mature way of freaking out.

“Naruto, we wanted to tell you because you’re our friend. We didn’t want to hide it from you. Besides, even you would have figured it out soon enough.” Sasuke said. Sakura and Sasuke spent the remainder of their evening together explaining that they were going to have the baby. Naruto never could get over the fact that they invited him over and spilled this on him, that’s what friends are for.