Summary

Kagome finds out she's pregnant. Itachi wonders if he'll make a good father. Sasuke wonders if its a good idea for Itachi to procreate in the first place, and Naruto can't wait for the new addition to the family.

A/N: And I promised little looks into their lives after it all ends. So here's one. And I'm sooo excited! Enjoy!

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Itachi was sure he was in shock. He couldn't have heard his new wife correctly. They'd only been married two years!

"You're... what?" the new patriarch choked out, setting down the paperwork he'd been perusing to give her his full attention.

"I'm pregnant," Kagome repeated quietly, fidgeting slightly in worry. This hadn't been the reaction she'd been hoping for. She thought he wanted a family, "I'm about a month and a half along. I didn't realize it at first with all the stress that's been going on recently, so I never noticed when my period never showed. I was just... I thought you'd... want to know. I got a check-up and-!" Itachi snapped out of his daze and rose to his feet. She was obviously worried that he wouldn't approve.

Engulfing her in a tender hug, he hid a smile in her hair as she finally took a breath and sighed. "Tell me everything. Start with the check-up, and what we need to do."

"I... I'm scared, Itachi. What if I'm a bad mother?" He leaned back and gave her an incredulous stare.

"Really, Kagome? If anything, it's my parenting skills that we need to worry about."

"But-!"

"You'll be fine. You love chlidren."

"Didn't you say you raised Sasuke?"

"Practically from birth."

"And look how well that turned out," a sour voice stated from the doorway, making the two look up. Sasuke Uchiha, younger brother of Itachi Uchiha, stormed into the kitchen, soaking wet and high-and-mighty attitude firmly in place.

Kagome giggled and reached over to pull a hand towel from the stovetop. "Bad training day?"

"Like you wouldn't believe. Kakashi-sensei decided our teamwork needed some help and gave us the bell test again," Sasuke grumbled, taking the towel and wiping his face before glaring at the kitchen sink, "Naruto decided a Rasengan to a water clone would be an excellent idea and splattered me while I had a hold of it."

"How's Naru?"

"Tied to the stump. Again. He tried to steal lunch. Again."

"The boy never learns," Itachi muttered, making his younger brother snort and rest his gaze on the other Sharingan master.

"Why were you talking about how you raised me?"

"Well, Sasuke, we're going to have a new addition to the family!" Kagome chirped, taking the towel and sauntering over to the laundry room. Sasuke looked vaguely horrified.

"We're not adopting Sakura, are we? Because Naruto is enough of a handful around here! I don't want her destroying my room!" Itachi clocked the younger boy upside the head in annoyance.

"No, we are not adopting your other teammate," he sighed, watching the younger sibling rub his head absently, "No matter how much she begs. She has a family already."

"She's begged you?"

"Hey Bastard! What the hell is your problem, leaving me at the stump like that!" Naruto howled the moment he walked into the kitchen, making both Uchiha roll their eyes. There were days when they wished Kagome hadn't become so fiercely protective of the blonde. Now was one of those days.

"I'm pregnant," Kagome announced, making the two younger males freeze and give her enormous eyes. A feminine shriek alerted them to their final member of Team 7 trudging into the room.

"OH! CONGRATULATIONS KAGOME!" Sakura shouted, bounding over to the girl and hugging her tightly. Itachi was next to her in an instant, prying her off of his wife and swinging her behind him.

"Do not use that monsterous strength of yours, Haruno! I will not tolerate this baby being hurt!"

"Geez! It's not even born yet and he's already flipped his keister," Naruto grumbled, twisting his pinky in his ear in hopes to stop the ringing Sakura had caused when she screamed.

"Wow, keister? You couldn't think of something better?" Sasuke deadpanned, shaking his head when the blonde growled out "Hey!" in response.

"I want a baby..." the pink-haired girl sighed, staring somewhat longingly at the younger Uchiha as he argued with their knuckleheaded teammate. Itachi bit his cheek to keep from commenting.

'Sasuke, you'd better be careful.'

"So how far along are you Nee-chan?" Naruto asked, pushing aside a heated debate to see what he could learn.

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Seven and a half months came and went surprisingly fast to Itachi. In the time he'd first been told that he was going to be a father, he'd worried constantly about how he'd treat it, what would its' reactions be to him, how would he go about raising it differently from the way his parents had raised him? Would he even be a good father? Or would the nurses take one look at him and tell him to forget about it?

'Despite Kagome's continued reassurances that I will be fine, I can't help but feel that this will change so many things.' They'd decided to keep the gender a secret, something his wife was excited about. He, on the other hand, was getting tired of calling it an 'it'. Would he have a son? Or a daughter? Would that child love him too, despite all the atrocious things he'd done? Truthfully, he believed he'd struck gold when he'd met and fell in love with Kagome. And the fact that she unconditionally returned that love and was willing to spread it to anyone and everyone she got to know? It was a sheer wonder.

Glancing down at the letter he held, he went over the words again and had to shake his head. Kisame had contacted him after he reluctantly sent the shark-man news about the future Uchiha. He'd surprisingly sent him several tomes of material he read through religiously. Apparently, the hanyou dabbled in a little of everything. Who knew the man knew anything about childbirth in general. This, of course, had led to Deidara later contacting him. The resulting scorch marks in the back yard had been part of the scuffle he'd endured from a small bomb the blonde had sent him in fury of getting "his future goddess" pregnant. Naruto and Sasuke had been forced to restrain him from going on a hunt for the former Iwa nin.

Now, he was waiting nervously to be let into the labor and delivery room with Kagome after the birthing was starting to get worried. What was taking so long? The door opened, admitting a pale-stricken nurse and he was on top of her almost before she could blink.

"Is everything all right? Is Kagome okay? What about the baby? Is it-!" She looked up at him, slight shock on her visible features before she relaxed, pulled off the mask, and smiled tiredly.

"Congratulations, Uchiha-san. You are the father of two healthy fraternal twins. One boy and one girl. The boy was born first, followed shortly by the girl." Itachi blinked and stared her down blankly. He he no idea...

".. Twins? I thought... there was only one?" She licked her lips and started to explain.

"Well, your daughter was hidden behind her brother, which is why we didn't see her until your wife started to push her out. It was odd that her heartbeat wasn't read at first. Did you have complications getting a heartbeat during ultrasounds?"

"The nurse said she kept hearing an echo, but said everything was fine and healthy." It was no wonder Kagome had gotten so big. She'd been carrying twins the whole time! "Is my daughter all right?"

The nurse almost goggled again. She'd never seen the infamous Itachi Uchiha look so worried. She nodded and stepped back towards the door. "Would you like to see them and your wife?"

"Please," he murmured, tired of waiting and worrying and wanting to know, with his own eyes, that his fragile new family was safe and sound. She hummed in agreement and pushed the door open, admitting him into the room. Several nurses were putting delicate looking instruments away, Tsunade standing in the middle and receiving congratulations on a smooth operation. The former missing-nin's heart was in his throat. There had been an operation?

Tsunade noticed him a second later and was striding quickly towards him, a large smile on her face. "Uchiha! Congratulations! Everything went well." He let the breath he'd been holding out. Everything was fine. But it was late, or early; he didn't care to figure out, and he wanted to see them.

"Lady Hokage, where are they?" She put an arm around his shoulder and steered him away.

"This way." Once they were away from the others, and he still hadn't relaxed, she patted his shoulder in a surprisingly consoling way. "They're fine, Itachi."

Around the next corner, she proved him right. Kagome was sitting in a hospital bed, flushed and messy looking, cradling one of the infants, while Sakura talked quietly to her with the other bundle. When the priestess saw him, she smiled brilliantly, and he was sure he'd never seen a more beautiful sight.

'I can't believe she's still mine.' Settling next to her, he automatically reached for her hand and mustered up a small smile. "Everyone says you handled it well."

"It hurt. A lot. But it was worth it," she grumbled tiredly, blue eyes sparkling as she turned the baby in her arms, "Do you want to meet your son?"

Carefully, he pulled the baby from her and coddled him, something akin to wonder blooming on his face. This was his son. His son! He was so small!

Itachi knew in that instant that he loved him. That he loved both of them."Have you thought of a name?"

"I thought you'd want to name him, actually," Kagome replied, holding out her arms to take the other bundle, "But I get to name her."

"That... is an acceptable idea. What did you have in mind?" He glanced over at the tiny girl wrapped in her mother's embrace. She was squishy looking, and content as could be. He watched his wife's emotions flitter across her face; even now, she was still an open book to him. And then, he knew she'd decided when she gazed tenderly down at the child in her arms.

"Sango, because she's a fighter, and she's beautiful, like my sister." The patriarch remembered the stories that she'd told him of all of her friends in the Feudal Era, and specifically recalled all the amazing tales of the demon slayer woman that had been an older sister to her. He had to admit; it suited his little one.

"She would have been honored, Kagome." Tears gathered in the woman's blue eyes as she nodded happily. Looking down at the small bundle in his arms, he decided on a name.

"Kozue." Kagome looked up, taking in the picture of father and son. She knew he would make a great parent.

"It's perfect."

"Yes."

Sakura tiptoed out of the room, wiping at her wet cheeks. New parents were always so sweet to watch, and she was even more thrilled that it was these two.

"Their family will be so fun to watch grow," she whispered, smiling up at the ceiling where the sky would be, "and maybe, I can just convince Sasuke to start a family." The thought of holding her own little baby had her giddy.

Life was good.

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Sango- Coral

Kozue- Treetop

A/N: I chose Sango's name for obvious reasons, of course. For Kozue, I deliberated for a while between several names before deciding on this one. I like it, honestly. I hope you guys do too. Ironically, when I started writing this chapter, it was before I found out I was pregnant. So, this isn't a result of my good news, actually. Just felt like it would be cute.

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