Chapter Seven

It was Yuko's monthly check up with her mother, oh how she hated them. The last thing she wanted was Tsunade touching her stomach. SO now she laid on the examination table, with Shizune, Tsunade's friend and so on, checking her. Yuko didn't think much of Shizune, she was nice, funny, and had a pet pig that Ako loved to mess with. "Shizune, will you be examining me today?"

The woman smiled. "Well, is that what you want?"

"Yes please, I don't want my mother touching me or my stomach. You saw how last time went." Said Yuko in a calm and peaceful tone.

Shizune remembered how Yuko sent Tsunade a deep and hateful glare when only slightly touching her stomach. Yuko in fact didn't let just anyone touch her stomach that held her baby inside. Yuko had also punched and kicked the Hokage as if she were a total stranger, so Shizune had a slight fear when Yuko had on that face. "Well, if you really want me doing it, I'm sure lady Tsunade wouldn't mind."

She smiled at the woman, she knew that she was kind and a good soul, nothing like her mother. "Thank you so much Shizune-senpai."

"Senpai?"

Yuko nodded with a blush. "You are like a teacher to me, you help me with things. Although it's true that I don't know you all that well, you still help me. I know you go against my mother's wishes but I want to thank you."

"Well, you're welcome lady Uchiha."

Yuko only laughed to what she was just called. She knew that being married to an Uchiha would come with that name but no one seemed to call her that. After calming down, she let Shizune examine her. Her appointment lasted about half an hour.

Shizune smiled and handed Yuko a picture of the ultrasound. "Here you go lady Uchiha, have a nice day."

Yuko stood up and made her way out of the hospital. She was about a month away from giving birth and yet she felt no kicks from Riku. She let out a sigh before looking at the man in front of her. "Hello Shikamaru."

The tall dark brown haired man with his pair picked up, black eyes, and a lazy attitude, stood there with a calm look. "Hey Yuko, I see you just finished your appointment."

"Did Itachi send you to pick me up?"

"More like Naruto, he wanted you and me to talk a while before going home." He said calmly with a smile. "You know Naruto, even in a pregnant state, he finds it in him to order someone around."

"That does sound like Naru-chan after all." She walked to a bench and sat down. "Where is that Ino girl that likes to hang around you?"

He sat next to her and smiled. "She isn't my girlfriend like everyone thinks. She's just a friend with a lousy attitude."

"Reminds me of Sakura." Yuko looked at the sky. "Today is another wonderful day, Shikamaru. It brings the light of a new future."

He looked at the sky and stayed quiet.

She gave a smile. "You remind me of Hikari, she stares at the sky and then just thinks. I'm sure if you met her, the both of you would like each other."

"Hikari the Anbu?!" Shikamaru looked at her for a moment and then began to laugh. "I'm sure we would. After all, she's the one I like."

She began to laugh happily. "So you're the one that saved her life?"

"Yeah, I guess she wouldn't remember me huh?"

"You never gave her your name, how is she suppose to remember you without a name?" Yuko stood up and pulled on his arm. "Shikamaru, come with me."

They walked back inside the hospital and stopped at a room.

"Why are we here?" He asked her, confused and with no idea to what she was doing.

She handed him a flower. "Hikari is inside this room, she got hurt from a mission but today she woke up at last. I'm sure she will be delighted to see you again Shikamaru. So give her this and say something to her, she's been thinking of nothing but you since you saved her. Now go and be happy with her." She pushed him inside the room and closed the door.

Shikamaru sighed. "What a troublesome woman, she really does work on instinct. I swear, Naruto has her confused for someone else." He thought as he walked to the bed Hikari was sleeping in. He looked at the short brown haired woman who was sleeping. She had no injuries or bandages, she just slept. "She's changed since I last saw her. She cut her long hair, took off all those weapons she carried around and I can tell she smiles more than back then." He sat down beside the bed and watched Hikari sleep. "For a girl, she isn't all that bad."

"You're not all that bad either . . . Shikamaru Nara." Hikari's eyes opened slowly as she sat up. "Yuko isn't a quiet one when she's excited about something."

He looked at her and gave a slight blush. "It's been three years since I last saw you."

She gave a smile. "Well, I could say the same thing about you but I have seen you around. I guess until now I see you face to face. So you're a jonin now? That's good for someone your age."

"How would you know? You're probably younger than me anyways."

She began to laugh for a moment before poking her own cheek. "I'm the same age as Yuko, I'm nineteen years old till this day."

"No way, you have to be joking." Shikamaru was surprised when he knew her age. To him, she was young and beautiful. How was it possible for him to not know this? He stood up and grabbed her hands, doing something he normally didn't do, and looked at her in the eye. "Your age doesn't matter to me Hikari, you matter to me. I know what I have may seem nothing to you because you're a mature woman and all but I fell in love with you the day we met. If there was a way to forget you I would try but there isn't. You are meant to be with me, I see no other choice in it."

Hikari only looked at Shikamaru spill all his emotions out on her. All that he felt for her. "Slow down, it's a bit hard to keep up when your this fast." Her hands made their way to his cheeks as she smiled. "Shikamaru, I want to thank you for what you did for me that day. You made a difference in my life, so I guess I feel the same about you too."

He smiled and leaned down to her. "Then it's settled, we're an item."

Yuko smiled as she stood in front of the hospital looking up at Hikari's room, watching the couple kiss. "This was a good deed. I should get some kind of award." She suddenly felt hands around her stomach, a familiar touch. "Itachi."

"I thought you would be home by now." He spoke calmly. "Where is the Nara boy?"

"Oh him? Well, he's doing something much more important now. So how about we get back home and you make me some mixed fruits?" She said happily as she turned around. She looked at him and gave a gentle and loving smile. "Please Tachi-kun?"

He kissed her for a slight moment. "As you wish."

They began to walk home slowly, well, as fast as Yuko could walk.

"Itachi, I have a picture of our son. Would you like to see him until he gets here?" She asked him. Really, there was no need for her to even ask him that. She knew he was happy to be having a child, a son. She handed him the ultrasound picture and watched as he looked at it with wonder. "What do you think?"

"Amazing to how much he has grown." He placed his hand on her stomach. "Soon enough we'll meet him."

She stopped walking and looked shocked for a moment. She put her hand onto her stomach and looked at Itachi. "I think . . . he's kicking me."

"Kicking you now?" He felt her stomach and could now feel the slight kicks coming from it. "They're strong."

She could feel herself crying. "I'm so glad that he's moving in there. I had thought something was wrong." She held a grip on his shirt as he cried even more. "I thought I did something wrong."

"You did nothing wrong, you have been wonderful throughout this whole thing. Now let's go home, it's getting late."

They made it home about an hour later. Yuko was very tired, more than usual. Itachi sent her to bed as he and Sasuke talked.

Sasuke watched as Itachi sat in front of him at the table. "What?"

"Have you perhaps noticed that when Naruto's chakra returned to normal, the children began to react?" He asked calmly. Itachi was in fact realizing that both pregnant Uchiha's were low on chakra and it was making them sleepy and tired more than usual.

"I have but I thought nothing of it. Is there something I should be worried about?" Sasuke looked at his brother. "Has your son not been kicking?"

Itachi stood up and walked towards the door. "Yuko and Naruto's spirits are hibernating the children each time they transfer chakra. Although it is true that the next generation will be Uchiha, they will also carry chakra of a spirit."

"As long as we give them the attention and love they need, we should have nothing to worry about." Spoke Sasuke calmly and determined to have his family and raise it with nothing but love and everything they need.

"Itachi!" Called Yuko. "Help me please! Something is wrong."

Sasuke and Itachi ran to the room and saw Yuko sitting on the bed with her hand on her stomach and tears down her face.

Yuko looked at them as she cried more. "I think . . . I'm going into labor."

TBC

Haruna: Well then, that went smoothly.

Yuko's screams could be heard from the other room: AH!! Make it stop!!

Sasuke looks at Haruna while he's on the phone: Don't just sit there, do something you lazy writer.

Haruna smiles: The birth of a new chance, review now!