Chapter Ten: Shock

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or ever will. Just Saeko and the store Kunoichi

Well, I'm finally out of school so yay! More time to update my fanfiction and read too :) I haven't calculated the results for the gender of Haku's baby(ies) so I'll tell you in chapter 11. Yeah, so the poll is closed now!

Thanks for all the reviews. Honestly, never expected for people to really like this. I mean, most people say Haku is a guy (like me) but it's amazing how many people like these types of stories. So...thanks :)

Enjoy! This chapter is pretty good, not too short but not painstakingly long.

"So, how was dinner?" Saeko asked Haku the next morning.

"It was…awkward," Haku replied.

Saeko patted Haku's shoulder.

"It must've been. Sorry about that, Haku dear," Saeko spoke sympathetically.

Haku smiled, but on the inside, she was worried with an increasing concern about her identity.

Kakashi knows it is me. Naruto was too slow to know it was me. Now it's just Uchiha Sasuke and that pink haired girl. What was her name? Huh…

Haku was deep in her thoughts until Saeko snapped Haku out of it.

"Well, I'm not open on Sundays, so we have a day off. What do you want to do?" Saeko asked the brown haired teen.

Haku shrugged.

Saeko smiled and said cheerfully,

"Let's go shopping!"

Haku's eyes widened. Oh no. She hated shopping. Maybe it was the fact she had to act like a boy when around Zabuza, but she wasn't a girl who liked it.

"You look like you've never shopped before. Oh wait…yes…of course," Saeko paused in mid-sentence to remember Haku never did go.

Haku turned around to go back to her room but Saeko said,

"Haku, you do realize you have a baby and you need some maternity clothes?"

She stopped. It slightly pained her but Saeko was right. Might as well deal with it calmly like she was before any of this happened.

"Okay, Sae-san," she spoke, trying to sound happy but inside, not really caring. She was trying to seem like the calm, collected person she was but shopping?

"Haku dear, what about these nice maternity kimonos? I heard they are, as you young people say nowadays, 'all the rage', am I right? This one accentuates your complexion," Saeko held out a night blue kimono with silver flowers swirling around the collar and the sides.

"Hm," Haku said, not really paying attention. Saeko had taken her to Kunoichi, a small store filled with girl's and women's clothing and other accessories. Not that she cared, but she wanted to pretend she was grateful to make Saeko feel happy too.

"Or this one? It's bright orange and blue and- oh! What a deal! Two of these for twenty three dollars! I'll get both!" Saeko was off in her own little world and had seemed to totally forget Haku was standing about three feet from her.

Haku, on the other hand, was spacing out, thinking about whatever popped into her mind.

"I love this bracelet! It's only four dollars! It'll go with my brown and pink shirt! Sasuke will notice me in no time!" spoke a girl's voice.

The voice cut through Haku's spacing out and she perked her ears to the sound where the voice came from.

"Sasuke?" she muttered. "He can't be here, it's a girl's store."

Haku took a look at Saeko, who was happily buying clothes and slowly walked away from her to find the person who said Sasuke.

She hid behind some clothes racks and searched for the girl. Being an ex-ninja, she had experience with finding anybody she heard within a mile's distance.

"Ino's going to be SOOO jealous! I can't wait to see her green with envy face. Heheheh," the girl said again.

Haku now knew where it came from. She followed the sound until she came to the bracelet and necklace aisle. The only person in the aisle was her.

Haku let out a small-but slightly loud- breath and covered her mouth because she turned around.

"Oh, you scared me," she said. Haku felt relieved for a second. Then came the bomb of reality that struck the pink haired girl's mind.

"Oh my- You….Y-You…" she said, shocked from the sight of Haku.

Oh no.

Haku uneasily frowned and said,

"It's not what it seems. I'm-,"

"You're alive? But why are you in a girl's store? Pervert!" the girl said, emphasizing 'pervert'.

"Please, listen! I'm a girl! I'm pregnant!"

That certainly stopped the pink haired girl from screeching. She was dumbfounded and amazed. Then she walked around Haku, making sure what Haku said wasn't a lie.

"But…how…you…where?" she said and before Haku knew it, she fainted with a light THUD on the ground.

Haku was standing above her, deciding what to do.

"Oh no. I made her faint in a store," she said, worriedly.

"Haku? Haku dear! Where are you?" shouted Saeko's voice. Haku cringed at the thought of leaving with Saeko and leaving this girl behind.

"Saeko! Someone fainted!" Haku said. An idea popped into the oh so clever mind of Haku.

Saeko ran as fast as an old lady could run with three bags in her hands and went to the scene of the fainting.

"Poor girl, what happened?"

Haku bit her lip slightly and told a lie.

"She was like this when I found her. I heard a thud and here she was," she lied.

Saeko put the bags on the floor and picked up the girl.

What is she doing? That won't look right to a bunch of people. I hope she's not taking her home. How will she react to me when she regains consciousness?

"Um, Sae-san, I would like to know why you are carrying the girl to the house?" Haku asked.

"Well, we can't leave her in the store can we?" she said with a grin.

Can we?

Haku picked up the bags and followed the elderly woman and let out a big breath before leaving the store.

It was going to be a long day indeed.

S.E.: Hmm, wonder how Sakura will react to this...?

Chi: Maybe they'll all be happy friends forever!

Natasha: Uhh...don't think so. In fact-

S.E.: -covers Natasha's mouth- Don't give the story away!