25. Waiting
She'd left Itachi a note saying she'd be at the interrogation building by the time he woke up. She felt bad leaving him so early and lying about where she had been. It wasn't worth telling him she might be pregnant if she wasn't. She knew he needed to produce an heir for his clan, she didn't have any fertility issues, she just wasn't sure if she was ready yet.
After they'd gotten engaged, she was under pressure from his parents for their own reasons. His mother had just wanted a grandbaby, his father wanted a grandson, to take place after Itachi was done serving as the clans leader.
Going to the medical center, her suspicions had been confirmed. She was carrying their first child. She clutched her stomach, trying to think of the best way to tell Itachi the news.
She sat in their home and worked in the flower shop waiting for him to arrive home. She'd felt bad that he hadn't been the first person she'd told, the hokage had to know that she could no longer be deployed on missions.
Waiting to tell him was driving her nuts, she wasn't ready to be a mother, she wasn't ready to bring an heir into the world knowing that if it was a boy he would be forced into the life a shinobi to take the position of the Uchiha clan leader from his father. She had no one to talk about that with though, no one that would understand anyway.
So she waited for him to return home from his mission, waiting to finally tell him that he'd soon be a father.