rewritten 4/25/2021

They had finally arrived at Sakura's mother's house. Dinner was going well for the both of them until Sakura's mother asked her questions that made her stomach do flips.

Sakura pov

My mother was staring at me like she was trying to read my soul. I nervously gulped 'My secret out and now she knows' I thought. "I heard you threw up your guts at work and was sent home during surgery" I let out a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry mom I'm fine I just had a little stomach bug nothing to worry about"

"You need to be more careful, Sakura and eat right" I squeezed my mom's hand. I helped her prepare the table and set the food on the table. It was a variety of food but I kept it simple with rice and vegetables so I wouldn't blow my cover. "Boys come and eat" Naruto and my dad came into view laughing their hearts out. Probably at a stupid dad joke, then I thought about Naruto telling dad jokes to our unborn child that was growing in my stomach. I smiled at the thought.

"Wow, this food looks amazing" Dad hummed. He kissed my mom on the head and sat down across from Naruto. They both began to dig into the meat, not bothering to touch the vegetables. I placed some potatoes and carrots on Naruto's plate. He was about to protest but I shot him a glare. "Don't start" I whispered.

"Naruto, Sakura has told me that you have been shadowing Kakashi, are you excited?"

Naruto smiled whenever someone talked about his dreams, he would always get excited. He was like a kid at a candy store, but this kid has worked so hard to get where he is now. "Yeah, it is a lot of work but I am mentally preparing myself for it"

"Well, I'm proud of both of you. Hopefully, nothing stops you or holds you back" My mom began to eat more food off of her plate. That sentence she spoke hit a nerve in my body. I have been once reminded again that I was hindering Naruto from his dream. I started to feel the hormones kick in. Naruto grabbed my thigh from under the table. I looked up to see him smiling at me.

"Nothing is going to get in my way, That's a promise of a lifetime" I felt my heart swell, It was like he could read my mind. He put me at ease for the rest of the night. We ate and discussed random topics more like my dad and Naruto. We ended up leaving early because I was not feeling good. I think I ate too much rice.

~ The Next Morning~

"Naruto wake up, we have an appointment in an hour." I shook his shoulder to wake him but he just turned the other way. I sat on the bed shaking him once more but nothing. I reached over to his face rubbing his whiskers. He groaned opening his ocean blue eyes. "Sakura-chan stop before I get horny."

"Then wake up we have an appointment." He didn't move again, I picked up the pillow and hit him with it three times. "Come on hun we have to go don't you want to see the baby."

"I'm coming" he mumbles from under the pillow. I was already dressed but I knew I had to wake up sleeping beauty so he could have the bathroom to himself.

"Naruto you have no time for breakfast because you are taking too damn long," I yelled from the bottom of the stairs. I walked to the front door watching him frantically run downstairs still half-dressed.

"But Sakura-chan I'm hungry." Walking into the kitchen I grabbed a granola bar, shoving it into his chest grabbing his hand, pulling him out of the front door.

"It's like I'm about to raise two kids," I muttered

"Uhhh you got the raisin kind. I hate the raisin kind."

"If you keep talking your dick will be the raisin kind."

I heard the crunching of the bar near my ear. He didn't say a word since, I guess my hormones were ragging this morning because I wanted to kill him as of right now and I didn't know why.

The office was in view, luckily I did not have to sign any papers, we just had to wait. Naruto occupied himself with some books and magazines. He spent most of his time glancing at all of the pictures. I had asked him if he was actually reading the book and he shot me a glance that told it all.

"Sakura Haruno." I looked up at the nurse and grabbed Naruto's hand walking back into the office.

"Please sit in this room and the doctor will be with you shortly."

Naruto began to play with the gloves and hand sanitizer in the room. He was grabbing and touching things in the room that were very expensive.

"Get your hand off of that gaki!"

"Baa-chan what are you doing here?"

"Well you idiot, I'm here to check on your baby," She shot Naruto a smile "Sakura lay back ." I laid on the bed while pulling up my shirt getting comfortable before she placed the jelly on my stomach. Naruto pulled his chair closer to me, grabbing my hands into his. The baby appeared on the screen. You could barely see it but it was there.

"Well, it looks like you are about 2 months along." I watched my baby on the screen move around as the wand was pressed harder on my abdomen. "Naruto you want to hear something cool."

"Yeah" he answered. The echo of our baby's heartbeat was played throughout the room. It was beating so strong. I lost it, I began to cry harder than I expected. I was really having a baby with the man of my dreams. I felt a hand wipe my tears away, Naruto was smiling so brightly it made me cry even harder.

"I'm going to print out these pictures and Sakura we can schedule another appointment."

I was still crying but not as hard as before. My heart swelled at the thought of raising that child with Naruto. He was going to be such a great father to the new baby. My high did not last that long when I thought about the upcoming tribulations. We still lived in that damn apartment with no room for a new baby and it was nowhere I would want to raise a kid.

"Ahh, Sakura-chan stop stressing over the small thing I told you everything will be alright….believe it."

"I know I just can't help it Naruto."

"I know Sakura-chan…..stop worrying it may stress the baby."

"Where did you learn that?" I laughed

"I read it in a book somewhere." He sheepishly laughed.

I grabbed his face kissing him with all the love in my heart. "I love you."

"I know." That remark earned him a smack across the head. He was good at ruining special moments.

"I love you too Sakura-chan."

Lady Tsunade returned back to the room with the pictures from the ultrasound. She then sent Naruto and I on our way back home. Naruto kept staring at the pictures, never letting me touch them at all.

"Sakura-chan I need to tell you something." I glanced at him not bothering to stop walking. He was lost in his thoughts still looking at the picture of the baby.

"I don't know how to say this so I'm just going to say it, there could be a strong possibility that our child could be a carrier."

"Well, obviously every child carries a gene from their parents." I opened the door to the apartment making my way to our bedroom. I was still listening to Naruto babble about something. He was talking off like he was nervous or something.

"No, what I'm trying to say is that our child could possibly have Kurama chakra and you can see it in the ultrasound." I grabbed the picture from his hand staring at the ultrasound. There was nothing there but the baby surrounded by darkness like every ultrasound picture.

"Naruto the picture looks normal and also wouldn't you have to extract Kurama from you for our child to have the genes?"

"No Sakura-chan look at the difference from this photo."

Naruto began to pace back and forth looking stressed. I wasn't stressed because Kurma was a good fox and two it was a possibility. Naruto befriended him during the war and there was no way he would hurt our baby.

"Naruto calm down, our child is going to be safe, no one is going to hurt the baby."

He grew more frantic by the minute."I just don't want the baby to have a birth like me."

"That's not going to happen, I'll make sure of it."

He was now on the bed rubbing his hands against his face. I watched as he began to pull at his hair becoming more stressed by the minute. "I don't know Sakura-chan what if bringing a child into this world isn't a good idea."

"Excuse me, what are you trying to say, abort our child," I screamed at him. Tears began to arise in my eyes.

"What if that child destroys this village once it's born?" He screamed back.

"Why are you referring to our child as "that child". Do you care more about this damn village more than your own child, why would you even consider your own child as a monster." At this point, we were both heated, coming at each other's throats.

"No, Sakura-chan it's not that, I just want to protect this village."

"Protect the village Naruto?" I scoffed once I heard those words. "Why would you want to protect a village when the village just called you a demon child and bashed you for being a so-called demon."

"Sakura." It hurt me deep down when he didn't call me Sakura-chan but I couldn't let him see it.

"You know what that's exactly what you're acting like, I should have never opened my legs for you."

"Yeah I bet you would have rather opened them for Sasuke wouldn't you." I smacked him in the face. The tears that were in my eyes began to fall. He got up from the bed and began to walk out of the bedroom. There was a bright red bruise on the side of his face. I had never felt more guilty about hitting him.

"Where are you going." I sobbed. He didn't answer me; he just walked out of the front door. I tried to grab his arm but he wouldn't let me. He ripped my hand from his forearm.

"Naruto don't you put your fucking hands on her again!" I looked over my shoulder to see Sasuke. He pulled me behind him blocking me from Naruto's rage.

"What? You think I'm you? I would never lay a fucking hand on her!" He spat those words with venom. He then walked out of the door slamming it behind him.

"Are you okay?"

"No." He began to rub my back trying to calm me down but I just threw myself in his arms crying even harder. Sasuke actually held me for the first time but his arms were the arms I did not want to be in. I wanted to see that smile again but it seemed like I will never see it again.