Title: Romance in the air
Author: enchanted nightingale
Beta: pussycatadamah
Disclaimer: The characters do not belong to me. I only use them in my plot for fun.
Chapter 12
Sakura was accosted that evening by the Hyuga cousins. Both Neji and Hinate popped up before her, making the young medic scream.
"You! Don't go around scaring people!" she accused them.
Neji scoffed but Hinata cleared her throat and asked Sakura the question she wanted.
"Is it true?" the shy kunoichi asked.
"Is what true?" Sakura blinked.
"Well, with our Byakugan we saw that Higurashi-san…" Hinata blushed.
"The medic is carrying a baby in her womb," Neji finished for his cousin.
Sakura groaned. She had forgotten the Hyuga and their blasted sight. "You cannot go around talking about that!"
"We have only asked you," Hinata promised.
"Is it true Haruno?" Neji demanded.
Sakura sighed.
"Hey! Wait up!"
Sakura stopped in the middle of the street when Kiba came running and yelling at her, with that huge beast of his, Akamaru, running close behind.
The pink haired kunoichi groaned.
"What is it Kiba?" she asked once the boy was close enough.
"I wanted to ask you something," the shinobi told her.
The girl nodded to show she was listening.
"Well, I went by the clinic because I cracked a rib and I smelled something funny about Kagome. Is she sick or something?"
Sakura winced. "Um, or something?"
"She smelled like one of our bitches," Kiba mused. "Who was it? Ah, Delia. She then went and delivered a litter of nine pups."
The kunoichi winced again at the comparison.
"Um, Kiba, could we not talk about this here?" she asked.
"Eh? I was right then."
Sakura's head dropped as she nodded.
The next person to accost the pink haired ninja was none other than Ino.
The blonde pulled her inside her mother's shop and pinned her with her eyes.
"Is it true?"
Sakura did not dare hope much. "What are you talking about?"
"I heard it from Ten Ten, who heard it from Lee, who heard it from Gai-sensei, who heard it from Kurenai-sensei, who heard it from Shikamaru who heard it from when Kiba told his mother…"
"Ino!" Sakura half growled.
The girl huffed. "I only wanted to ask if Kagome is really pregnant. And ask why I did not know."
Sakura's face paled. "Just don't tell anyone else?" she begged.
"Sakura!"
The kunoichi turned around and walked hurriedly away when Naruto came her way.
"Hey! Wait up!" Naruto called out.
That was when Sakura really took off.
But Naruto was faster than her and caught up easily.
"Bug off Naruto!" Sakura yelled at him while still running.
"Eh? Why are you so mean?" the blond whined.
"I do not care who told you, just leave me out of this!"
"Who told me what?" Naruto asked confused.
"About Kagome's baby," Sakura blurted.
"Aa! That? I know. Kagome told us."
Sakura skidded to a halt.
Naruto followed suit and was caught in his team-mates iron grip.
"She told you? You and who else?" Sakura demanded.
"Me and Sasuke, yesterday evening when we went there for tea," Naruto blinked when the girl's shoulders slumped.
"Never mind then," Sakura muttered.
Naruto watched her walk away. Then he shrugged and continued to Ichimaru's.
"Yo!" Kakashi appeared before Sakura the next morning, making the girl shriek and then starting to curse at him and land a punch.
"You people must stop doing that!" the girl yelled.
"Alright, alright, calm down," her former teacher told her. "I just wanted to ask you something."
"Is it about babies?" Sakura asked.
"No."
"Is it about pregnant women?"
"No."
"Is it about Kagome?"
"No…Wait, Kagome-san is pregnant?"
Sakura turned and banged her head to the nearest wall.
The one person Sakura was in no mood to see visited her on her break from her shift.
"Haruno," Sai popped up by her office window.
"There's a door right here," Sakura told him.
"I know, but this way is so much better," Sai replied. "And I won't be long, just to ask you something."
Sakura sighed. "Fire away."
"Is Kagome a virgin?"
Sakura choked on air and turned incredulous eyes to her team-mate.
"I ask because women and girls are known to discuss these things. And if she is indeed a virgin the rumors circulating are not possibly true as you need to have sex to make a baby and none of the shinobi in this village have fucked her and…"
"Sai?" Sakura whispered.
The artist smiled. "Yes you ugly sadist?"
"YOU BASTARD!"
Sai dodged Sakura's punch by jumping out of the window.
The wall was not as lucky.
That evening Tsunade received a very distraught Sakura in her office.
Just after that all the heads of ninja clans came to her office demanding she hear them.
"Wait just a minute!" Tsunade yelled. "What is this all about?"
"We heard a rumor," the matriarch of the Inozuka stated.
"And my clan members saw it," Hinata's father added.
"A rumor about what?" the Hokage demanded. Her patience thinned.
"They say Kagome Higurashi is carrying a child," Ino's father spoke up.
"Out of wedlock," Hiashi added.
Tsunade groaned. She really did not want to deal with this.
End of chapter
A/N: Yes, Kagome's secret is not so secret anymore and once again the gossip network among Konoha's shinobi is a thing to be admired and dreaded.