DISCLAIMER: Naruto does not belong to the author kuristina
Naruto was in major discomfort as he tried to find the right sleeping position in his bed. Already his eighth month had passed and he was close to his due date. He groaned out loud and used an arm to cover his eyes. "Sasuke!" he called.
In just a few seconds Sasuke was by his side from wherever he came from. Now that the baby was due soon, he had been awfully attentive lately. "What is it?" he asked in concern. He was always in anticipation, waiting for his wife to say that the baby was coming. After all, the baby could also come earlier than it's expected due date. But he sighed when he was only asked to close the blinds so that the blonde could properly nap.
"Thanks teme…" Naruto yawned as he shut his eyes.
Sasuke kissed Naruto on the lips and then kissed his belly before leaving the room, making sure to shut the door quietly on the way out.
He looked over at the bedroom next to their bedroom. He opened the door to the room and a small smile came to his face. There was the crib against the wall, the changing station, a rocking chair, and lots of other necessities. The room was ready to have a baby in it. They even had a bassinet in the master bedroom. He was ready to be a father. He was ready to be a parent to his son.
Briefly he glanced over at the nursery, his heart swelling a bit, and he shut the door quietly.
"Your face…"
Sasuke looked over at Kushina was swooning, a dreamy smile on her face as she stared at him.
"Excuse me?"
"Your face… or rather your expression reminds me so much of Minato's when Kyuubi was about to born. He would always glance at the nursery and have that same smile on his face. Ah… such a sweet memory…" Kushina sighed. Her face had a slight blush on it. "I just remember thinking two things."
"And what was that?"
"One was that I hoped Kyuubi would pop out of my belly soon so that Minato could finally become a father. And the other was that I wished that Minato and I could have had sex at that moment because he was so sexy!"
Sasuke was quiet, choosing to ignore the other part of what his mother-in-law had just said. He and Naruto did have sex when he was still early in the pregnancy. The both of them put off their sex life around seven months, getting mentally prepared to be parents in just a matter of two short months. They could have continued to have sex and he had even read that if his wife was past the due date that he could try having sex to induce the water breaking. That would have to wait though. But he nodded his head in agreement at the first part. But for the baby to come, Shiki would come when he was good and ready.
And for Naruto's sake, he hoped that would happen soon.
"So what was it like for you and Minato to become parents?" Sasuke asked as he Kushina walked to the living room together. Once they both sat down he added, "How terrible was it?"
Kushina chuckled and leaned back against the cushion of the armchair. "Hehe… I can tell you that you will not sleep properly for perhaps the first two or three weeks. You'll be going through a lot of diapers and will keep on guessing on what to do to have your baby calm down."
Yeah, Sasuke was already anticipating all that stuff. He knew it wasn't exactly going to be heaven at first.
"But once you know your baby and your baby knows you, then it will become easier. And lucky for you, you'll have your mother to help you for your first few weeks!"
Sasuke nodded and silently sighed to himself in relief. Thank goodness that his mother would be around to help them ease into the role of being parents. "Were you ever… frustrated when you first had Kyuubi?"
Kushina nodded with a pleasant smile on her face. "Oh yes of course! In fact I was going crazy because Kyuubi would cry so much. Thank goodness for Minato being the sane one. He had to keep me rooted the first three weeks before he had to go back to work."
He also had three weeks off from work when Shiki would be born.
She reached a hand out and patted Sasuke on the shoulder. "You'll be fine!" she assured him.
Sasuke nodded in thanks and relaxed against the cushion. For now he should just relax a little before Shiki actually came.
(/゚Д゚)/
"You and Shiki are going to share a birth month." Naruto commented.
Sasuke sat up in bed when Naruto asked the question. He was just on the verge of sleep, ready for his nap when he was asked. "I… guess we are."
"We're going to be taking care of Shiki while it's your birthday."
"We will. But I won't mind."
Naruto scooted up to him on the bed and leaned against his husband. "You won't? I mean, I won't be able to dress up and do something sexy for you. Maybe you should have gotten me pregnant sooner so that we could have celebrated your birthday."
Sasuke put an arm around Naruto's shoulder and kissed his temple. "It's okay. As long as Shiki is fine when we bring him home, then my birthday wish will have been granted. Besides, since we're going to be parents a lot of our attention will be going into raising our child. But don't worry, there's always the in between time for each other. Besides, I don't think we'll be having sex right away. I read that after having a baby we have to wait three months until your body is physically ready to have sex again. Once about three months have passed, it will be up to you whether you're ready to do it. I'll be waiting patiently for that moment. We just have to make sure that Shiki will be sleeping when we decide to fuck again."
Naruto awed and pulled Sasuke into a kiss. He figured that his husband would look up when it would be safe to have sex after having a baby. But he wondered about it too; Naruto honestly couldn't put off sex for a long time since he was so used to having sex every week before he got pregnant. He was very grateful though about his husband has been holding back his libido to attend to his own needs. When he pulled away he asked, "Can I confess to you about something?"
Sasuke nodded.
"Well… for the past few months I've been having sex dreams. I heard that that is pretty normal to actually happen during pregnancy and everything but I just wanted to tell you."
Sasuke stared and blinked at Naruto before asking, "Was I in the dreams?"
"Most of them."
"Most?"
Naruto looked away and traced his belly a little bit. "Yeah, you were mainly in my dreams. A small handful of sex dreams I was with someone else. It was always just either you and me or me and someone else. I never dreamed about having an orgy or anything like that."
Sasuke glared at the wall ahead of him. With his teeth gritted he asked, "And who were the others?" Silently he swore that he would hunt them down and kill them.
"Anime characters…" the blonde muttered.
Sasuke blinked, silent for a moment. "I'm sorry… what?"
"The other people I had sex dreams about were anime characters."
Inside the room it was dead silent. Then Sasuke was trying to push down the laugh that was bubbling up in him. Naruto had glared at him and pouted. Now he was regretting telling his husband about his dreams. He crossed his arms and waited for his husband to calm down.
Finally calming down, Sasuke grinned at Naruto and kissed his cheek. Well he had nothing to worry about if his wife was having sex dreams with anime characters. They weren't real so obviously there wasn't going to be a literal competition for the blonde. "Don't tell me that you're actually still watching anime?"
"So what if I am?" Naruto huffed. But he did feel slightly guilty about dreaming about "other men" so he decided to describe in detail of how his sex dreams occurred when he was dreaming of being with his husband. "I had this one dream where I was a tailor for this suit shop and you came in to get one of your fancy suits fitted. So I took your measurements and…
Sasuke chuckled as he brought Naruto closer to him to snuggle while he continued to talk. Nope, the only thing that needed to be worried about was when Shiki was ready to finally be born.
Kushina was ready and waiting. She wasn't just prepared, so was super prepared. The minute Naruto would announce that it was time to head to the hospital she would be the very first one to jump into action. She had everything prepared for both her son and Sasuke.
She had everything needed in the bag like the insurance cards, checkbook, and hospital papers. There were some essentials like extra outfits, since Naruto wouldn't want to leave the hospital gown for when he went home. There was even an outfit for the baby to go home in instead of just blankets to wrap him in when they would leave the hospital.
And probably most important was the car seat in the back of the car.
Using her own experience from her pregnancies and the use of when she witnessed some of her own family members, she was prepared for both Sasuke and Naruto.
When Naruto would sit and eat breakfast, fold laundry, or read a baby book, Kushina would look at the blonde carefully watch for the signs. And she would occasionally ask, "Do you feel the baby coming?"
The first time she asked Naruto would glance at her and say awkwardly, "No…"
But several times after that he would just answer a plain, curt no. He felt slightly uncomfortable with his due date approaching but Shiki wasn't really giving the signal that he was ready to come out and join them. He had read before that sometimes you either had to wait it out or doctors had to induce the labor.
He would rather just wait it out. There wasn't any reason to freak out yet.
Still, the way his mother would stare at him sometimes just plain freaked him out. But he knew it was just because she was excited.
(/゚Д゚)/
"Minato… Naruto is still pregnant!" Kushina moaned into the phone.
Her husband chuckled on the other end of the line. "Dear, even if his water were to break it wouldn't mean that our grandchild would come right away. Labor could take an awfully long time depending on the person. Remember when you had Kyuubi? You were waiting for almost a full twenty four hours to become eight centimeters dilated."
Kushina could look back and still imagine the pain she was in to this day. Sometimes she would ask her oldest son what took him so damn long to be born. And Kyuubi would indignantly answer, "How the hell am I supposed to know?"
"Just be patient. Naruto must be quite uncomfortable at the moment."
"He sometimes complains about some pain but he's pulling through. But I want to see my grandson already!"
Minato started to say something but then yelped a little into the phone. Kushina asked what was wrong and he answered, "Oh, I have you on speaker phone and I guess one of the cats heard your voice and jumped on me."
Kushina squealed when her cats were mentioned. "Hi my pretties! How are you?" she said into the speaker. She heard a soft meow and a large smile came onto her face.
She cooed into the phone to her cats.
Naruto had woken up from his nap upstairs. His cellphone was downstairs but he didn't feel like getting up to get it. So he reached for the home phone that was on his nightstand. He needed to make a call to Tsunade but when he put the phone to his ear he heard his mother cooing into the phone and soft meows.
Silently he hung up the phone and leaned back against the headboard.
The phone call to Tsunade could wait.
(/゚Д゚)/
Sasuke gently nudged Kushina while she slept. She mumbled but didn't make any other moves. He nudged her again and then she flipped to her stomach.
"If poking her doesn't wake up, just turn on a light." Naruto instructed at the foot of the door. He reached over to the side of the wall to his left and flipped the switch on and off until his mother sat up in her bed.
"It's three in the morning…" Kushina yawned. She scratched the back of her head and pulled her hair out of her ponytail. She ran her fingers through her red hair to get rid of some tangles and asked, "Why did you wake me so early?"
Naruto and Sasuke just stared at her briefly, waiting for her to connect the dots.
Then Kushina's eyes widened and a grin split her face. She pushed off the covers off of her and shot up to her feet. Usually when one goes to sleep they would be wearing pajamas but the soon to be grandmother Uzumaki was dressed in a blouse and jeans. And right by the foot of her bed were tennis shoes.
The soon to be parents stared at the woman quietly.
"… Mom, how long have you been going to bed in clothes like that?" Naruto hesitantly asked.
"Two and half weeks ago!" she proudly announced. Before the blonde could say anything else, Kushina had jumped into action. She grabbed the "ready to go to the hospital and leave the hospital" bag and rushed out the home. But that wasn't all. She had screamed on her way to the door. "I'm going to be a baa-chan!"
Sasuke and Naruto were left standing in their spots. Neither was dressed or ready but they could be in the time it took Kushina to realize that they weren't with her.
"Where are my shoes?" Naruto asked as he waddled back to the bedroom. No way was he going to the hospital in his night wear.
"I'll go get them."
A/N: Hooray, the baby is coming! And Kushina sure is excited.
(BTW, you guys watched the new anime Free! yet? I was pretty happy the entire time watching the first episode)
