"Ohhh…..my head is killing me. I wonder if Naru-chan has anything in her books about hangovers."

Jero walked into Naruko's office, surprised to find it empty and started flipping pages in a large leather bound book sitting already open on his wife's desk.

A few pages near the back seemed to have been bookmarked, so Jero skipped to them. There he found the thin file folder he had picked up the day before. Curiosity getting the better of him, he opened it, skimming through the paragraphs, finally stopping at one word: Male Pregnancy. He flipped through the pages, looking at charts and diagrams that deemed the experiment as risky and dangerous with a high possibility of death. Then, the last page was titled: Likely Candidates, subtitled: These ninja have been deemed suitable, by having the correct body types for the experiment, but the choice is yours. On it listed the names of about six or seven male ninja. And at the end of the list was his name.

Jero suddenly thought back to what he could remember about the night before.

"When are guys gonna start poppin' out kids?"

"Augh!! KAK! HACK!!" "I've always wanted a girl, and I've always liked the name Tsubame…"

"Am I a good wife? Like, are you happy as you are?"

'What is this…? Is she considering using a live subject for the experiment?' Throwing himself into Naruko's seat, Jero put his head into his hands, partly because he didn't know what to make of the circumstances but mostly because of his throbbing headache.

"I'm not doing the experiment!!"

Jero was suddenly startled awake.

'What's going on? Naru-chan? How long have I been asleep?'



"But Naruko-kun, you'll be demoted,"

Jero's eyes widened at the last word.

"I don't care! Did you see the list of names in that file? I don't even know most of those people! How can a total stranger just waltz in and ruin their lives like that?! It's not right!!"

"I'll do it," Jero calmly walked out of Naruko's office, to see her and a bruised black ops agent talking just outside the doorway.

WHAAAAATTT??

Yoshino nearly fell out of her chair. "How!? I mean WHY?!"

"I was against it at first too, but he said it's what he wants." I tried to explain to her as we sat in Jonin Station. "As for how, we spent five months performing surgery to improve the structure of pelvis and to make a temporary uterus for the child to develop in, and then left another five months for him to recover. The last 6 months were trial and error. " I noticed Jero's eyes darken a bit.

"It'll be 8 weeks tomorrow since the fertilized egg was implanted. And besides, it's not like it's a random test tube baby. It's our child I'm carrying." Jero commented trying to open her mind to the whole event.

"But….." Yoshino tried.

"Look, Yoshino," Jero seemed to grunt slightly as he stood up. "Naru-chan already warned me about all the risks, and I was willing to go through the surgeries to prove that I am serious about this. Naru-chan is my wife and I'll support her anyway I can. I'll do anything to make her happy, till death do us part, remember?"



Jero turned around and headed towards the door. "I just need to pee first."

Yoshino looked at me smiling, "He's so cute sometimes. I guess I'll have to get used to this whole guy pregnancy thing. I can't wait till he starts to show."

"Till death….."