Author's note: This is a direct continuation of the one shot "Incognito" of this series.

Uchiha Sarada was a woman of many achievements. She was the eight Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village and the first who was an Uchiha. She was the creator of the lightning clone technique. She had a flee-on-sight order reserved for her in the Bingo book.

In short, she was a leader, a fighter, an inspiration and, to her enemies, one of the most dangerous threat they had ever face.

Uchiha Sarada was also a woman who was struggling with peeing into a goddamn cup.

"It's not supposed to be this fucking difficult," she muttered to herself as she missed the cup for the fifth time in a row.

She had spent the last hour chugging down glasses after glasses of water, then running to the toilet like a mad woman when nature called and still, she hadn't managed to finish the first step of doing a pregnancy test.

Step 1. Collect your urine sample in a clean, dry container.

"You're gonna run out of pee at this rate, Sarada," Chouchou commented, looking far too amused for Sarada's liking. "Seriously, you're the friggin' Hokage. How hard can this be?"

"Shut up. You're not the one whose bladder has to work overtime here," Sarada grumbled as she downed another glass of water and the waited. She was getting sick of water.

Twenty minutes and five glasses later, Sarada finally managed to collect enough pee in a cup to move to the next steps.

Step 2. Dip the absorbent tip into the urine sample for 5 to 10 seconds, then remove it and put the cap back on.

Step 3. Wait 5 minutes for the result. The instruction leaflet will tell you how to interpret the result and any next steps you should follow.

"This is more nerve-wracking than going on a S-class mission," Chouchou muttered as the two of them waited with bated breath, eyes glued to the small testing stick that was now sitting on the kitchen table.

"Tell me about it," Sarada replied. "It's 5 minutes, right?"

Chouchou's eyes flickered towards the clock. "Yep. It's the moment of truth."

Sarada breathed in deeply before taking hold of the stick and looked at the result.

"Holy shit," Chouchou breathed and Sarada couldn't help but agree with her friend.

Holy shit indeed.

Sarada was in the middle of going through a particularly mind-numbing stack of paper work when Boruto shunshin-ed himself into her office. He was covered in dirt and mud, there were several cuts and bruises on him and there was a wild look in his eyes that Sarada had come to associate with Boruto freaking the fuck out.

"Boruto! What the…aren't you…did you just get back from your mission?" Sarada gasped, standing up from her desk. Boruto had been on a mission for the past two weeks, right when the whole pregnancy test fiasco had broken out.

"Is it true?" he asked breathlessly, completely ignoring everything she had just said.

"Is what true? Look, you're supposed to be doing mission report first-"

He cut her off. "Is it true that you're pregnant?"

Realization dawned on her. So this was why her husband had appeared in the middle of her office, looking (and smelling) like he had recently been spending quality time bathing in the mud right after getting back from a mission.

"Where did you hear that from?" she asked in a controlled voice, though she could feel her temper rising. She would love to get her hands on the person who had babbled this to her husband before she had the chance to talk with him properly.

"The guards at the gate. They were congratulating me for the upcoming birth of my twin girls," Boruto said, his face torn between panic and elation. Then, in true Boruto fashion, he wailed dramatically, "Please, please tell me whether it's true or not. I'm going out of my mind here, Sarada!"

Sarada made a mental note to have a friendly chat with the guards later, but right now, she had more pressing matters to deal with.

"It's not true."

Boruto blinked. "It's…not?"

"Nope," Sarada replied, popping the p sound. "You really shouldn't be listening to idle gossips. You know how out of hand they can get."

"Oh…oh," was all Boruto managed to let out as he visibly deflated. "I really thought…"

"Where are you going?" she asked when he turned and started to head towards the door.

"Oh, well, I kinda rushed here since I thought…you know, that you're pregnant so I wanted to see you right away. But then you're not, so I'm just gonna-"

"Who said I'm not?" Sarada interjected, still straight-faced.

Boruto whipped around so fast she thought he was going to break his neck.

"What?! But…but you said…you said it's not true!"

Sarada was now fighting hard to contain the smile that was threatening to break out on her face as she said, "It's not. I'm not having twin girls. I'm having a baby, though, and I have no idea what the gender is yet."

Her husband froze in his spot, his body so still that Sarada suspected he wasn't even breathing. He stared at her, his blue eyes wide and unblinking, and for a few minutes the room was completely silent.

As the silence dragging on, the amusement and happiness that she had been feeling was slowly replaced by anxiety and doubt. This was…good, right? They had been talking for a while about trying for a baby, now that they had been married for two years and she had started to settle into her role as Hokage. Given the way he had burst into her office, Sarada thought that Boruto would be over the moon with this news, so why was he so quiet?

"Can you…can you say something?" she pleaded, her voice came out small and unsure.

Apparently, that was enough to snap Boruto out of his spell. He sucked in a breath and the next thing she knew, his arms were around her, drawing her into a warm and protective embrace.

"You're having a baby. A baby!" he choked out, voice husky with emotion.

"We're having a baby," she corrected gently. "This is…this is good, right?"

"Oh gods yes! It's good. It's so good! I'm so happy I feel like I'm going to combust," Boruto admitted in a trembling tone.

"I would really prefer it if you don't do that," Sarada said jokingly.

Boruto's chest rumbled with laughter as he said, "Don't worry, I have no plan of doing that. I'm never going to leave you…either of you…behind. I promise."

They remained like that for a while, wrapped in each other's embrace and the happiness that they shared. There was no telling what the future held for them when one was the Hokage and the other was ANBU Commander, but right then, the only thing that they were thinking about was how in a few months, their family of two would become their family of three.

"Boruto?"

"Hm?"

"You smell, you know that, right?"

End.