A/N: okay so apparantly I'm super motivated now so here is Chapter 10! don't forget to review! I love them so please help me keep up the momentum!

"NO! No, no, no, no, NO! This is NOT at ALL what I wanted!" Temari could be heard shouting from the doors to the Nara house.

Kankuro and Kiya looked at each other. "I guess you had better get in there and fix it, isn't that what Matrons of honor do?" Kankuro said.

Kiya sighed and smiled at him a little.

"Well good luck. I'm gonna go find Naruto. Bye." He said before dashing off back to the village.

Kiya entered the gates and saw Shikamaru and his father sitting playing a game of some sort. Shikamaru looked up and saw Kiya first and his face actually broke out into a smile.

"Thank the Kami that you're here! Temari hasn't shut up in the last three days!" He sounded totally relieved. "Oh, dad, this is Kiya, Temari's sister in law." He said.

Kiya bowed and said hello before asking "Where could I find Temari? I think I had better get started as soon as possible."

"Just follow the yelling, you'll find her." Shikamaru said and as if on cue Temari's voice rang out again.

"OH MY GOD! I'M GOING TO KILL SOMETHING!"

Kiya couldn't help but laugh "I remember that feeling. Any ways I should be going." And she excused herself.

"Kiya! Oh Kiya! How did you do this? I'm so stressed and nothing is working right!" Temari wailed when Kiya found her.

"Temari its okay, we have plenty of time to make this work, just slow down and work on one single thing at a time." Kiya said trying to soothe her distraught sister.

"No! It's not okay! We only have 73 days left! What am I going to do?" Temari started to pace.

"Okay here's what's going to happen. You are going to stop pacing, it's making me nervous. Okay good. Now you and me are gonna take a nice deep breath and just calm down. Okay breathe." Kiya said as calmly as she could.

Lucky for her this seemed to work as Temari's shoulders relaxed and she closed her eyes.

"Okay, now I need you to calmly tell me what we still have to do." Kiya said getting out a piece of paper.

"I need to do so many things…" Temari started.

"Not 'you', 'we': you and me, I'm going to help you." Kiya softly interrupted

"Right, of course. Okay, we need to finish the invitations. Those need to go out really soon. Then we need to work on the programs and get the order of the ceremony set. We need to pick out some music for the ceremony and the reception. And we need to go to the florist. Man I have no idea about flowers, I looked and there are so many shops, I have no idea which one to go to." Temari listed

"Wow, Shikamaru didn't tell you to go to Ino?" Kiya said surprised.

"No, he has been about as involved with this wedding as a rock." Temari said bristling slightly.

Kiya smiled but didn't touch that one; she knew it was hard not having any input from the groom. She had to plan her whole wedding by herself.

"Okay is there anything else that we need to do?" Kiya asked looking at her list; it wasn't very long but quite a bit of work for one or even two people.

"No, I think that's it. What should we do first?" Temari looked a little confused.

"Well why don't we go to the flower shop first, I can get you a good deal, and Ino might even do it for free seeing as you are my sister and you are marrying Shikamaru, her old teammate. Oh, what are your colors any way?" Kiya asked.

"We decided that we would go with white and gold, that was like the only thing Shika helped with." Temari said smiling a bit more.

"That sounds lovely! I'm sure Ino could do something with that." Kiya said standing and ushering Temari out of the house and down the street to the flower shop.

The day had passed incredibly quickly. The flowers were arranged (like Kiya had thought, Ino was just itching to do the flowers for Temari's wedding and readily agreed to do them for free) Temari had picked white orchids with yellow miniature calla lilies and a cascade of orchids for her bouquet and handfuls of the yellow calla lilies for her two brides maids, Kiya and Sakura.

Kiya had been curious who the other bridesmaid was and when she heard it was Sakura she was a little shocked but it turned out that when Temari came to stay here the only people she knew were Shikamaru, Sakura and Ino so she began to go out with Sakura and Ino because she had no one else to be with. Kiya was again surprised that Ino hadn't offered to do Temari's flowers or insisted that she let her do them, it seemed very unlike Ino.

However when she asked Ino in private she grinned and said "I just wanted to see how long it would take for her to come crawling to me." And that DID seem like Ino.

Kiya waved after Temari as she walked around the corner in the hall of the hotel Kiya was staying at. Temari had asked if she wanted to stay with her at Shikamaru house but Kiya had declined saying she didn't want to impose and that Gaara had pre-booked this hotel room for her.

Kiya sat at her provided desk in the quiet hotel room and thought about the day and remembered that she was supposed to write Gaara a letter. She pulled out paper and a pen and just started to write.

Dear Gaara,

How are you doing without me? Kankuro got me to Konoha, safe and sound and I feel perfectly fine, although I can't say the same for the Bride to be. Temari is incredibly stressed and Shikamaru is no help at all, he is absolutely dumbfounded as to what to do with his Bridezilla. I talked with Tsunade and it seems that Temari has been raising hell the closer it gets to her wedding. I could hardly stop laughing! Tsunade called her a Bridezilla and a nuisance!

But really, it is hard planning a wedding when you have a non-responsive groom, or in your case an absent one. Plus Temari's wedding is three times the size of ours, there is going to be at least 150 people there! Luckily Ino is doing the flowers for free and tomorrow we are going to see the person doing the invitations and hopefully get those mailed out as soon as possible.

I hope you have been using your time well and getting your paper work done ahead of schedule so you can come to the wedding, I know it isn't for another three months but it's good to start early. I miss you and I love you so much! I know you miss me too. I will go and see Sakura tomorrow or the next day, probably the next day, for a checkup and ultra sound. We'll finally see our little baby! I'll send you the pictures so you can see him/her. We won't know for another month or two the gender but it's amazing to see it. I wish you could be here for it. Any who, I have to go to bed, I'm so tired! Temari kept me running all day!

I love you.

Kiya

She read over her letter once, dated it, then sealed it and took it to the front desk, letting them know that the Kazekage needed this letter ASAP.

The next day went much the same except Kiya peeked in on Sakura and asked when she should come in for her check up.

"Oh! You haven't had one yet? You are two months behind. You are supposed to go and get your baby checked on at least every two months. The appointments get closer together when you are further along. I can fit you in at the end of the day tomorrow for an ultra sound but if you want I can check now and make sure the baby is okay." Sakura said

"Would you? That would be great!" Kiya smiled

"Okay lift up your shirt; now it's going to feel weird for a moment but just relax, it's just my chakra checking that baby." Sakura said placing her palms on Kiya's stomach.

Kiya felt a pressing sensation and her instincts told her to pull back but she relaxed and let Sakura's chakra examine the baby. After a minute or two Sakura opened her eyes and smiled.

"The baby is fine, developing right on schedule. The chakra network is on its way to working order and there are all ten fingers and toes." Sakura informed Kiya

"Were there any demonic traces? Anything that could possibly be linked to Shukaku? I know Gaara will be anxious to know whether or not our baby has any sort of link to that...thing." Kiya asked seriously.

"Hmm, I didn't sense anything like that. The baby felt perfectly normal and loving, just like a baby should be." Sakura mused.

Kiya thanked her and told her that she would be back for the ultra sound the next day at 6:00 and went off to find Temari again.

"Oh I'm so excited! I can't wait to see my little niece or nephew! You know what? Tomorrow should just be a baby day! I need a break from all this wedding craziness. We'll go to all the maternity shops and buy cute little clothes! We could bring Ino and Sakura if they aren't working." Temari said as the walked to the printers who were making the invitations.

"Well I guess that could be fun, I'm a little sad that Gaara won't be here for the ultra sound though. It is our baby after all. I sent him a letter last night saying that I would be getting an ultra sound and I would send him the pictures but it's just not the same without him here." Kiya said, her hand traveling unconsciously to her belly.

Temari smiled at that "Well you never know, Gaara can travel quite quickly if he wants to. He probably got your letter this morning and is racing to be here by tomorrow. I'm sure the council will understand that he wants to be there to see his baby for the first time."

Temari did not know how true her words were. Gaara had worked almost nonstop since Kiya had left. He was over a week ahead in his paper work and currently working on assigning Genin teams their missions. That really wasn't his job, he could well have someone else do that for him but he needed something to do. It was the morning of the fifth day Kiya had been gone that he got her letter.

He read it with a small smile on his face completely forgetting that he had a team of 12 year olds in his office. He looked up when he heard giggling.

"Kazekage-sama, that letter wouldn't, by chance, be from the Kaze-hime would it?" the small girl with huge brown eyes asked with a slight blush on her cheeks.

"It is." He said going back to sit at his desk pulling out their mission scroll and signing it then pulling out a different scroll and writing something hurriedly on it, rolling it up then sealing it and putting it in his pocket. "I'm afraid I will not be able to brief you, I must leave immediately." He rolled up the mission scroll and handed it to the Jounin in charge then grabbed his gourd and left the office before the team could respond.

Gaara walked briskly, dropping off the small message he had written a little earlier then to the meeting room the council currently occupied and opened the door.

"Sorry to interrupt but I thought you would like to know that I have to leave for a few days. Baki can take my place for a while. I am a week ahead of schedule on my paper work so when I get back I'll be perfectly caught up." Gaara said turning back to the door.

"Wait, Kazekage-sama. Where are you going?" one council member asked.

"And why?" another added.

"I am going to Konoha to see Kiya and be there for her through something called an ultra sound." And with that he left the room intent on getting home and packing as soon as possible.

Kiya hugged her sister goodbye for another day and entered her room. She looked around again and sighed. It was strange to be here as a guest in her home town, yet it didn't feel like home when she walked around in the bustling markets, waving to her lifelong friends. She had known for a long time the Suna had become her true home. Sure she didn't like the crazy hot summer where it got to be 120 degrees or the lack of plants but Gaara was there and where ever Gaara was seemed like home.

Kiya smiled at how cliché that sounded but it was true. She loved Gaara, she loved everything about him. She felt a tear run down her cheek but didn't bother to wipe it away. She looked out her window and watched the sun set and again wished that he could be here for her and their baby. She knew Temari would be there but it again just wasn't the same.

There was a knock on her door and she hastily wiped her face off and fixed her hair. She opened the door and saw the woman that was always at the front desk.

"Excuse me Kaze-hime but this letter just came from Suna and it was marked urgent so I thought it best to bring it up to you now rather than tomorrow since I knew you were here." The woman said smiling and holding out the small scroll.

"Thank you." Kiya said as she took it. The woman bowed and walked back down the hall.

Kiya closed her door and practically ripped the letter open. It didn't say much.

I'll be there.

Gaara

P.S. no time for a letter to the Hokage. Let her know.

Kiya couldn't help her excitement. She squealed with delight and jumped from one foot to the other.

The next day Kiya could hardly contain herself as she waited for Temari to knock on her door. She had hardly slept at all but she couldn't understand why she was so excited, it wasn't like it had been forever since she had seen her husband it had only been about 5 days. She had concluded that it was the excitement of seeing their baby mixed with the fact that he was going to be there to see it too.

The knock on her door barely finished when she wrenched open the door and grabbed her sister up in a huge hug.

"You were right! You were right! You were right!" Kiya said over and over again

Temari laughed a little saying "Okay, great. What was I right about?"

Kiya let go of her and grabbed the letter she had gotten the night before.

"Look! He's coming! He's on his way right now!" Kiya giggled

"Hmmm, it says he didn't have time to write a letter to the Hokage. He must be hauling ass like no bodies business to get here in one day. But like I said If Gaara wants to, he can move pretty fast. Any who, its baby day time, once he gets here he'll be happy to know that your appointment is much later in the day.

A/N: sorry this ended super randomly. the next chapter will Pick back up with the ultra sound. (typical narrator voice) "Will Gaara make it in time for the ultra sound? tune in next week for another exciting episode!