(A/N well sad news, Naruto still isn't mine, but if it was there wouldn't
be filler episodes.
Well, not much to say. If anyone can suggest both female and male Japanese names (please label them as such) and if they having a meaning that too. I apologize for I'm a stupid American anime fan and I speak no Japanese. If I get desperate for names I'm just going to take them from other animes and that's lame so please suggest some. That quizilla site with the names only gets me so far.
I want to thank my readers quickly. I hope more people are reading than are commenting cause it makes me feel special to know that someone's reading what I put up. So if your one of those who doesn't bother to comment can you do me a favor and just comment once every few chapters? Just so I can see what you think of my story? I would be really grateful.
Ocelot-that's my favorite animal! Anyway, I hope you like what I have up here so far. Thanks for being my first reviewer; you'll always hold a special place in this fic. Jiyu Hatell Kodai- ( glad you like it again. I hope you read this chapter, if has more Sakura yelling. BWAHAHA! v-^_^-v Yuki- hope this is a logical explanation for how they're born. I just kinda got sick and tired of Naruto being in Sexy-no-jutsu and having the kids. It's a good idea, but over used. I hope you keep reading and I hope you like this chapter. Gackt no Hime- again, hope you keep reading, but I'm slightly curious what Ganbatte means. I probably don't know cause I'm a silly American who lives in a hole.
Ronin turned the page. The next plastic covered page didn't hold pictures. This one held letters. Each of them was dated to be within two years of his parents' marriage. They talked of mundane things. They were notes written about what to buy for groceries, about parties they had to go to, notes about funny things said people had said over the day that they had wanted to share with each other, notes written from one to the other when they had to leave in the middle of the night for missions.
One read: Sasuke, It's your day to shop. Don't forget to buy more rags for cleaning kunais or the ramen I want. Last time you bought the brand I don't like. Oh, Ino said something funny today while you were on a mission. She brought all sorts of pasta to lunch and she said "I brought more pasta than you can shake a stick at if you like to shake sticks at food and would rather not just let them be on the ground where they were lying before you picked them up to shake them at the food." Well, when you get this I'll probably be out on a super cool mission, so I'll probably see you at dinner. Don't forget to get me ramen and you're cooking tonight. I can't wait till then and miss you even though I saw you this morning. Naruto.
Another one went:
Naruto,
I had to go on a mission. I'll be home in a week. Don't worry; it's a B-class mission, nothing really dangerous. I was just assigned this and I really want to wake you to say good bye, but it's three in the morning and you have a mission in the morning. I don't want you to be up all tonight worrying about me, so I'm going to kiss you and be gone. Sasuke
Ronin himself had often had to leave his own wife sleeping in the middle of the night while he went on a mission. He thought with regret how he never left her a note, assuming she'd understand where he'd gone.
He reached out his hand to turn the page, but Taka slapped his hand away without moving her gaze from the letter she was reading. Ronin rubbed his hand, ready to snap at her for hitting without good reason, but curiosity got the better of him. He turned his gaze to where his sister was reading.
Dear Naruto,
I'm sorry I snapped at you the other day. I didn't mean it. I know how much you love children. I'm sorry I said that having kids was stupid and a waste of time. I didn't mean it. I want to have children too and seeing Sakura with her son just reminded me how we can never have children.
That's a subject we've been dancing around for a while. We need to talk about it. There's no one I'd want to raise a child with other than you, but we have to face it, we can't have children. The Uchiha line will end with me. I'm ok with this if you are. I don't really care about the clan anymore. I don't care if I pass on the blood line limit. All I care about is you and your happiness. A child would be wonderful, but I'd rather have you than a child. Love, Sasuke
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"Naruto, are we late? Are you sure the invitation was for six? Everyone's here already," Sasuke asked impatiently as he stood with his husband in front of the Rock house.
"Yes I am sure, Sakura said six so that everyone could have dinner together," Naruto recited. He pushed the doorbell and listened to it ring in a high pitched tone.
"Why would everyone want to have dinner at six?" Sasuke wondered.
"It's open!" someone called from inside. Naruto turned the knob and the door opened revealing squeals of laughter that could belong only to little children.
"Children," Sasuke said. "We're having dinner early because everyone brought their children."
"Sasuke," Naruto murmured quietly. "Do we have to go in?"
"Naruto..." Sasuke started.
"Well come in already!" Sakura told them, coming down the hall to the door where the two still were standing. She supported a child on one hip and a dish she had just taken out of the oven in the other. The child was Sakura's younger child at the age of two. The toddler had his mother's eyes and his father's dark hair which Sakura made sure not to have cut in a bowel shape. He looked at the two people standing in the doorway curiously before smiling broadly.
"Unkie!" he shouted, opening his arms to Naruto. Naruto smiled sadly at the youngster and took him from his mother's arms. Sakura smiled gratefully, shouting for them to shut the door to keep out the draft as she made her way back to the kitchen to put this dish down.
"Uncle?" a black eyed, pink haired five year old asked Sasuke. "Can you play with me? Reizo refuses to play with me!" The little girl, Sakura's older child, pointed to the little boy with dark hair and light blue eyes across the way. The child at age seven was obviously Shikamaru's son. He was sitting in the corner simply staring out into space, completely unaware that his younger brother was putting barrettes into his hair.
"Why don't you go play with Rini and Ichi?" Naruto suggested after Sasuke had just looked at the child sadly for a few minutes while she looked up at him waiting.
"Where are they?" Sakura's daughter asked.
"They're over there. I'm sure they'd love to play with you," Naruto told her pointing to the twin white eyes girls who were listening to their father give them yet another lecture about proper behavior.
"I think so to, they looked like they're bored," the girl agreed. "Thank you Uncle Naruto and Uncle Sasuke!" She hugged them both and skipped away to play with her friends.
Naruto bounced the toddler on his hip to get a better grip. The child giggled with delight.
"You wanna spin?" Naruto asked. The child nodded. Naruto held onto the child by the waist and spun around. The child put his head and arms back and screamed in happiness.
"Naruto, stop that, he's gonna get hurt," Sasuke scolded when Naruto has stopped.
"Stop worrying."
"He seems to have fun. I shall spin him a hundred times and if I don't I shall have to push him on the swing two hundred times," Li vowed as he approached the couple.
"I think that's a bit excessive dear," Sakura yelled from the kitchen. Sasuke hid a smirk. Sasuke knew that Sakura had no idea what her husband had just promised, but some how she always seemed to know when Li made those silly goals of his.
"I think I should take him back now. Dinner is almost ready and he hates being put in his chair," Li informed them taking the toddler from Naruto's arms. He smiled at the couple and walked away with his son.
"Sasuke, I want one," Naruto said quietly.
"I want one too," Sasuke replied slipping his arm around Naruto's waist.
"Dinner!" Ino shouted to the gathered group. Everyone made their way to the dinner table, or dinner area would be more appropriate. Children ate on a tarp with plastic chairs and tables set up in the living room that was adjacent to the dining room.
Naruto and Sasuke took the last two remaining adjacent seats. They were the ones facing the children who were eating and smiling and throwing food at each other. Sasuke watched them, a longing smile on his face, as he picked at his food. Naruto found Sasuke's hand under the table and gave it a gentle squeeze to comfort his husband. Sasuke looked down to where their hands would be entwined under the table and nodded.
Sakura watched this exchange of comfort and pain. Her heart broke to see them so sad, desperately trying to be happy for the other and for the world. They both wanted the same thing, a child of their own, not just taking care of their friends' children. Sakura got up and made her way to the kitchen to take out the drinks. She met a pregnant Ino, Hinata and Li on her way to the cabinet in the pantry.
"You're going to offer tonight?" Li asked. "This is a really good thing you are doing, you are a good friend." He kissed her passionately before scampering off into the dining room.
"He supports your decision to say the least," Ino commented smirking.
"Sakura, thank you so much for doing this, you know I would only with the blood line limit... while Neji would support me, the clan would be mad and might refuse to accept me as heiress," Hinata said quietly.
"I know Hinata, Ino don't you even start. It's not your fault that you're pregnant again, well it is, but that doesn't matter. I should be the one to do this. I am their teammate," Sakura told them.
"Yes, but now I have to play Devil's advocate. No matter how much I want them to be happy, did you think of how your own children will feel?" Ino asked.
"I have thought of all this. My children love Sasuke and Naruto. You saw what happened at the door even though you pretended you weren't watching. They wouldn't be upset; they probably wouldn't even notice much. They do tend to over look things," Sakura explained, getting more and more determined to do what she had set out to do.
"This will make them very happy, don't take no for an answer," Hinata advised. Sakura nodded.
"Well go tell them already!" Ino ordered.
"Yes ma'am," Sakura replied smiling. Ino shooed her out of the room. Sakura entered the room to find many of the people had finished eating and were heading back into the living room. Naruto was talking to Shikamaru and Sasuke to Neji. Sakura decided not to disturb them.
The night wore on and Sakura never seemed to be able to catch Sasuke and Naruto at the same place at the right time. By the time it was eleven, the kids had long gone to bed and most had left carrying youngsters on their backs. Sasuke and Naruto were about to leave themselves when Sakura started calling them back.
"You two, wait, I have a proposal," Sakura shouted at them. Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other and shrugged. They followed her back into the living room and sat down.
"What's this about?" Naruto asked brightly.
"Well, I know that you two have been married for about a year and a half now. It's natural that you two would want children," Sakura told them.
"Who said anything about children?" Naruto said quickly trying to cover up the truth. Sakura gave him a death glare and continued.
"Since it's kinda impossible for you two to have children together, I'm willing to help," she explained. She searched their faces for their reaction. Naruto looked confused whether to be really happy or really confused. Sasuke's face was, as always, impossible to read though Naruto claimed the Sasuke was obvious with his emotions. "I'm willing to donate eggs and be the mother for you two."
"What does that mean?" Naruto asked.
"Artificial Insemination?" Sasuke inquired. Sakura nodded. Sasuke turned to Naruto to translate for him. "Basically it means we donate sperm and she goes through hormone treatments to produce extra eggs. The extract the eggs, add the sperm and insert some of the embryos that result back into her. If it works, she carries to term and gives birth like normal." While he was speaking his voice was deadpan, Sakura wondered if he was some sort of robot.
"Ah," Naruto said comprehending. He leaned back before bolting back upward. "Sakura! That's too much! You can't do that for us!"
"Naruto is right, it's asking too much," Sasuke agreed.
"You're not asking, I'm telling!" Sakura shouted at them in a scolding yet friendly manner. "You WILL think about my offer because even though it means that I will never again have to give you birthday presents, I do want to do this for you two. It's not too much, it might not be enough. I just want to see the two of you happy," she finished softly.
"Sakura, it's still too..." Naruto started.
"What about your children and husband? How will they react? Will you be able to give up the child to us and let us be the parents?" Sasuke asked quietly.
"You don't have to worry about that. I've talked to Li; he fully supports me helping you guys. My children, well, they probably won't notice, but I'll tell them it's their cousin. I want to be Aunt Sakura so that when the child is older and asks who his mother is, you can say that Aunt Sakura is his mother. I want to play the role of the doting aunt rather than mother. I have two children already but I don't have any nieces or nephews. I need a kid to dote on and spoil rotten," Sakura responded. She had prepared for this question. Sasuke's face relaxed from a tense expression that Sakura hadn't even been away he was wearing.
"Thank you Sakura, if you are really willing to do this for us, and you can back out at any time and we won't think badly of you, then we will accept and be eternally grateful," Sasuke said. He bowed slightly to her.
"But Sasuke, we can't ask this of Sakura," Naruto protested.
"I want to help you two," Sakura assured him. "It's asking little of me to make my friends happy by giving them children."
"Sakura," Naruto murmured.
"Just say thank you already, dobe," Sasuke ordered.
"Thank you, thank you," Naruto repeated over and over again.
"If it makes you feel better I'll let you pay for the medical bills," Sakura joked.
"It does," Sasuke said smiling.
"Thank you so much Sakura, we'll get you everything you need and be involved in anyway possible," Naruto agreed enthusiastically.
"Good, I'll have two men to help with Lamaze rather than just dragging Li. I expect that if I want sardines in the middle of the night that I can call you two and you'll bring them over," Sakura laughed. Sasuke glared at Naruto for volunteering them for all that, but couldn't help grinning at the happy expression on his husband's face.
"We're gonna be fathers!" Naruto said leaping up. He dragged Sasuke up kissing him fiercely. Then he turned to Sakura and gave her a bear hug.
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The next pictures on the page were of hospital visits and congratulations parties. One was labeled, "Sakura going to the doctor looking stoned. Exactly ten seconds before she beats up Naruto," with a picture of the pink haired women barely able to keep her eyes open. The next was a picture of team seven as Sakura proudly held up a pregnancy test that was positive. It was labeled "Sakura's pregnant! (And about to throw up all over Li in one minute.)" There were pictures of Sasuke and Naruto looking at sonogram pictures and one of the doctors attempting to shoo the nervous fathers to be out of the room where the sonogram was taking place. Next were "Congratulations on the baby!" party pictures.
Ronin studied the pictures carefully. He had known since his tenth birthday upon Taka's demanding to know who their mother was that Aunt Sakura was their mother. He had never thought that it had been any big deal about their birth. His fathers had never really seemed like the type to desperately want children.
"I'm turning the page," Taka's cold voice informed him. Ronin nodded automatically.
(A/N hope its ok. I don't know anyone who's either pregnant or has gone through the process of artificial insemination, so I'm really sorry if it isn't correct.
Well, not much to say. If anyone can suggest both female and male Japanese names (please label them as such) and if they having a meaning that too. I apologize for I'm a stupid American anime fan and I speak no Japanese. If I get desperate for names I'm just going to take them from other animes and that's lame so please suggest some. That quizilla site with the names only gets me so far.
I want to thank my readers quickly. I hope more people are reading than are commenting cause it makes me feel special to know that someone's reading what I put up. So if your one of those who doesn't bother to comment can you do me a favor and just comment once every few chapters? Just so I can see what you think of my story? I would be really grateful.
Ocelot-that's my favorite animal! Anyway, I hope you like what I have up here so far. Thanks for being my first reviewer; you'll always hold a special place in this fic. Jiyu Hatell Kodai- ( glad you like it again. I hope you read this chapter, if has more Sakura yelling. BWAHAHA! v-^_^-v Yuki- hope this is a logical explanation for how they're born. I just kinda got sick and tired of Naruto being in Sexy-no-jutsu and having the kids. It's a good idea, but over used. I hope you keep reading and I hope you like this chapter. Gackt no Hime- again, hope you keep reading, but I'm slightly curious what Ganbatte means. I probably don't know cause I'm a silly American who lives in a hole.
Ronin turned the page. The next plastic covered page didn't hold pictures. This one held letters. Each of them was dated to be within two years of his parents' marriage. They talked of mundane things. They were notes written about what to buy for groceries, about parties they had to go to, notes about funny things said people had said over the day that they had wanted to share with each other, notes written from one to the other when they had to leave in the middle of the night for missions.
One read: Sasuke, It's your day to shop. Don't forget to buy more rags for cleaning kunais or the ramen I want. Last time you bought the brand I don't like. Oh, Ino said something funny today while you were on a mission. She brought all sorts of pasta to lunch and she said "I brought more pasta than you can shake a stick at if you like to shake sticks at food and would rather not just let them be on the ground where they were lying before you picked them up to shake them at the food." Well, when you get this I'll probably be out on a super cool mission, so I'll probably see you at dinner. Don't forget to get me ramen and you're cooking tonight. I can't wait till then and miss you even though I saw you this morning. Naruto.
Another one went:
Naruto,
I had to go on a mission. I'll be home in a week. Don't worry; it's a B-class mission, nothing really dangerous. I was just assigned this and I really want to wake you to say good bye, but it's three in the morning and you have a mission in the morning. I don't want you to be up all tonight worrying about me, so I'm going to kiss you and be gone. Sasuke
Ronin himself had often had to leave his own wife sleeping in the middle of the night while he went on a mission. He thought with regret how he never left her a note, assuming she'd understand where he'd gone.
He reached out his hand to turn the page, but Taka slapped his hand away without moving her gaze from the letter she was reading. Ronin rubbed his hand, ready to snap at her for hitting without good reason, but curiosity got the better of him. He turned his gaze to where his sister was reading.
Dear Naruto,
I'm sorry I snapped at you the other day. I didn't mean it. I know how much you love children. I'm sorry I said that having kids was stupid and a waste of time. I didn't mean it. I want to have children too and seeing Sakura with her son just reminded me how we can never have children.
That's a subject we've been dancing around for a while. We need to talk about it. There's no one I'd want to raise a child with other than you, but we have to face it, we can't have children. The Uchiha line will end with me. I'm ok with this if you are. I don't really care about the clan anymore. I don't care if I pass on the blood line limit. All I care about is you and your happiness. A child would be wonderful, but I'd rather have you than a child. Love, Sasuke
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"Naruto, are we late? Are you sure the invitation was for six? Everyone's here already," Sasuke asked impatiently as he stood with his husband in front of the Rock house.
"Yes I am sure, Sakura said six so that everyone could have dinner together," Naruto recited. He pushed the doorbell and listened to it ring in a high pitched tone.
"Why would everyone want to have dinner at six?" Sasuke wondered.
"It's open!" someone called from inside. Naruto turned the knob and the door opened revealing squeals of laughter that could belong only to little children.
"Children," Sasuke said. "We're having dinner early because everyone brought their children."
"Sasuke," Naruto murmured quietly. "Do we have to go in?"
"Naruto..." Sasuke started.
"Well come in already!" Sakura told them, coming down the hall to the door where the two still were standing. She supported a child on one hip and a dish she had just taken out of the oven in the other. The child was Sakura's younger child at the age of two. The toddler had his mother's eyes and his father's dark hair which Sakura made sure not to have cut in a bowel shape. He looked at the two people standing in the doorway curiously before smiling broadly.
"Unkie!" he shouted, opening his arms to Naruto. Naruto smiled sadly at the youngster and took him from his mother's arms. Sakura smiled gratefully, shouting for them to shut the door to keep out the draft as she made her way back to the kitchen to put this dish down.
"Uncle?" a black eyed, pink haired five year old asked Sasuke. "Can you play with me? Reizo refuses to play with me!" The little girl, Sakura's older child, pointed to the little boy with dark hair and light blue eyes across the way. The child at age seven was obviously Shikamaru's son. He was sitting in the corner simply staring out into space, completely unaware that his younger brother was putting barrettes into his hair.
"Why don't you go play with Rini and Ichi?" Naruto suggested after Sasuke had just looked at the child sadly for a few minutes while she looked up at him waiting.
"Where are they?" Sakura's daughter asked.
"They're over there. I'm sure they'd love to play with you," Naruto told her pointing to the twin white eyes girls who were listening to their father give them yet another lecture about proper behavior.
"I think so to, they looked like they're bored," the girl agreed. "Thank you Uncle Naruto and Uncle Sasuke!" She hugged them both and skipped away to play with her friends.
Naruto bounced the toddler on his hip to get a better grip. The child giggled with delight.
"You wanna spin?" Naruto asked. The child nodded. Naruto held onto the child by the waist and spun around. The child put his head and arms back and screamed in happiness.
"Naruto, stop that, he's gonna get hurt," Sasuke scolded when Naruto has stopped.
"Stop worrying."
"He seems to have fun. I shall spin him a hundred times and if I don't I shall have to push him on the swing two hundred times," Li vowed as he approached the couple.
"I think that's a bit excessive dear," Sakura yelled from the kitchen. Sasuke hid a smirk. Sasuke knew that Sakura had no idea what her husband had just promised, but some how she always seemed to know when Li made those silly goals of his.
"I think I should take him back now. Dinner is almost ready and he hates being put in his chair," Li informed them taking the toddler from Naruto's arms. He smiled at the couple and walked away with his son.
"Sasuke, I want one," Naruto said quietly.
"I want one too," Sasuke replied slipping his arm around Naruto's waist.
"Dinner!" Ino shouted to the gathered group. Everyone made their way to the dinner table, or dinner area would be more appropriate. Children ate on a tarp with plastic chairs and tables set up in the living room that was adjacent to the dining room.
Naruto and Sasuke took the last two remaining adjacent seats. They were the ones facing the children who were eating and smiling and throwing food at each other. Sasuke watched them, a longing smile on his face, as he picked at his food. Naruto found Sasuke's hand under the table and gave it a gentle squeeze to comfort his husband. Sasuke looked down to where their hands would be entwined under the table and nodded.
Sakura watched this exchange of comfort and pain. Her heart broke to see them so sad, desperately trying to be happy for the other and for the world. They both wanted the same thing, a child of their own, not just taking care of their friends' children. Sakura got up and made her way to the kitchen to take out the drinks. She met a pregnant Ino, Hinata and Li on her way to the cabinet in the pantry.
"You're going to offer tonight?" Li asked. "This is a really good thing you are doing, you are a good friend." He kissed her passionately before scampering off into the dining room.
"He supports your decision to say the least," Ino commented smirking.
"Sakura, thank you so much for doing this, you know I would only with the blood line limit... while Neji would support me, the clan would be mad and might refuse to accept me as heiress," Hinata said quietly.
"I know Hinata, Ino don't you even start. It's not your fault that you're pregnant again, well it is, but that doesn't matter. I should be the one to do this. I am their teammate," Sakura told them.
"Yes, but now I have to play Devil's advocate. No matter how much I want them to be happy, did you think of how your own children will feel?" Ino asked.
"I have thought of all this. My children love Sasuke and Naruto. You saw what happened at the door even though you pretended you weren't watching. They wouldn't be upset; they probably wouldn't even notice much. They do tend to over look things," Sakura explained, getting more and more determined to do what she had set out to do.
"This will make them very happy, don't take no for an answer," Hinata advised. Sakura nodded.
"Well go tell them already!" Ino ordered.
"Yes ma'am," Sakura replied smiling. Ino shooed her out of the room. Sakura entered the room to find many of the people had finished eating and were heading back into the living room. Naruto was talking to Shikamaru and Sasuke to Neji. Sakura decided not to disturb them.
The night wore on and Sakura never seemed to be able to catch Sasuke and Naruto at the same place at the right time. By the time it was eleven, the kids had long gone to bed and most had left carrying youngsters on their backs. Sasuke and Naruto were about to leave themselves when Sakura started calling them back.
"You two, wait, I have a proposal," Sakura shouted at them. Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other and shrugged. They followed her back into the living room and sat down.
"What's this about?" Naruto asked brightly.
"Well, I know that you two have been married for about a year and a half now. It's natural that you two would want children," Sakura told them.
"Who said anything about children?" Naruto said quickly trying to cover up the truth. Sakura gave him a death glare and continued.
"Since it's kinda impossible for you two to have children together, I'm willing to help," she explained. She searched their faces for their reaction. Naruto looked confused whether to be really happy or really confused. Sasuke's face was, as always, impossible to read though Naruto claimed the Sasuke was obvious with his emotions. "I'm willing to donate eggs and be the mother for you two."
"What does that mean?" Naruto asked.
"Artificial Insemination?" Sasuke inquired. Sakura nodded. Sasuke turned to Naruto to translate for him. "Basically it means we donate sperm and she goes through hormone treatments to produce extra eggs. The extract the eggs, add the sperm and insert some of the embryos that result back into her. If it works, she carries to term and gives birth like normal." While he was speaking his voice was deadpan, Sakura wondered if he was some sort of robot.
"Ah," Naruto said comprehending. He leaned back before bolting back upward. "Sakura! That's too much! You can't do that for us!"
"Naruto is right, it's asking too much," Sasuke agreed.
"You're not asking, I'm telling!" Sakura shouted at them in a scolding yet friendly manner. "You WILL think about my offer because even though it means that I will never again have to give you birthday presents, I do want to do this for you two. It's not too much, it might not be enough. I just want to see the two of you happy," she finished softly.
"Sakura, it's still too..." Naruto started.
"What about your children and husband? How will they react? Will you be able to give up the child to us and let us be the parents?" Sasuke asked quietly.
"You don't have to worry about that. I've talked to Li; he fully supports me helping you guys. My children, well, they probably won't notice, but I'll tell them it's their cousin. I want to be Aunt Sakura so that when the child is older and asks who his mother is, you can say that Aunt Sakura is his mother. I want to play the role of the doting aunt rather than mother. I have two children already but I don't have any nieces or nephews. I need a kid to dote on and spoil rotten," Sakura responded. She had prepared for this question. Sasuke's face relaxed from a tense expression that Sakura hadn't even been away he was wearing.
"Thank you Sakura, if you are really willing to do this for us, and you can back out at any time and we won't think badly of you, then we will accept and be eternally grateful," Sasuke said. He bowed slightly to her.
"But Sasuke, we can't ask this of Sakura," Naruto protested.
"I want to help you two," Sakura assured him. "It's asking little of me to make my friends happy by giving them children."
"Sakura," Naruto murmured.
"Just say thank you already, dobe," Sasuke ordered.
"Thank you, thank you," Naruto repeated over and over again.
"If it makes you feel better I'll let you pay for the medical bills," Sakura joked.
"It does," Sasuke said smiling.
"Thank you so much Sakura, we'll get you everything you need and be involved in anyway possible," Naruto agreed enthusiastically.
"Good, I'll have two men to help with Lamaze rather than just dragging Li. I expect that if I want sardines in the middle of the night that I can call you two and you'll bring them over," Sakura laughed. Sasuke glared at Naruto for volunteering them for all that, but couldn't help grinning at the happy expression on his husband's face.
"We're gonna be fathers!" Naruto said leaping up. He dragged Sasuke up kissing him fiercely. Then he turned to Sakura and gave her a bear hug.
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The next pictures on the page were of hospital visits and congratulations parties. One was labeled, "Sakura going to the doctor looking stoned. Exactly ten seconds before she beats up Naruto," with a picture of the pink haired women barely able to keep her eyes open. The next was a picture of team seven as Sakura proudly held up a pregnancy test that was positive. It was labeled "Sakura's pregnant! (And about to throw up all over Li in one minute.)" There were pictures of Sasuke and Naruto looking at sonogram pictures and one of the doctors attempting to shoo the nervous fathers to be out of the room where the sonogram was taking place. Next were "Congratulations on the baby!" party pictures.
Ronin studied the pictures carefully. He had known since his tenth birthday upon Taka's demanding to know who their mother was that Aunt Sakura was their mother. He had never thought that it had been any big deal about their birth. His fathers had never really seemed like the type to desperately want children.
"I'm turning the page," Taka's cold voice informed him. Ronin nodded automatically.
(A/N hope its ok. I don't know anyone who's either pregnant or has gone through the process of artificial insemination, so I'm really sorry if it isn't correct.