So here's the next chapter, and it really gave me a hard time, so I would really appreciate it if you would give me a Review. And I'm really thankful to Pooh Bear Is My Hero, without this person, this chapter wouldn't even be possible.
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(words)-things added…but if there is A/N-then you know what that means
Words-flashbacks
Chapter 11: Riches I Will Treasure
Two months after the Hyugas' engagement party, you could hear the church bells ringing again. Everyone they knew was present in church, some went misty-eyed, and others had big smiles on their faces for the two people about to be wed. "I guess weddings are filling in this year…" One guest had said.
"Yeah, we just had ours last month, Neji-kun…" His wife replied, with a smile.
There, walking down the red-carpeted isle, just right after the maid of honor, Ino, walked down the isle, the bride walked down it. She was now not in her usual buns like before, she let her beautiful brown wavy hair flow down to the middle of her back, her hair was only in a half-moon hair-style. She was wearing a white, off shoulder silk gown, with a hint of some bright pink on its skirt. The gown had really outlined her body well, forming the curves of her body. It has some pink and white beads and sequins on her chest part and on the skirt, forming some of which in the Chinese Raise. Her whole dress was what seems like what Cinderella wore to the ball, only its design differs. She had white gloves that reached up to her elbows and white see-through veil that covered her lovely face. She was holding a bouquet of roses of different colors, arranged and courtesy of the Yamanaka Flower Shop.
In front of all the other guest was some of their friends, those who are close to them, seated on the front row; and near the altar stood the best man, who would have guessed it would be Naruto, and the very nervous yet at the same time excited groom who was waiting patiently for the bride to reach him. He was wearing some sort of dirty white tuxedo and a clear white inside of it. He had a red rose with its leaves sticking out from the coats pockets.
The church was designed by the aspiring designers, Hinata and her sister, Hanabi. The pew isles were decorated with different roses with white and pink see through clothes, similar to the bride's veil. As for the bridal entourage, Shikamaru, Konohamaru and Sasuke, who had now fully recovered, were Lee's groom's man; Temari, Hanabi and Sakura were her bride's maid. Kiba was the ring bearer and Chouji was the bible bearer. The men were also wearing tuxedos but instead of it being white like the groom's, it was black and each had color of roses. The girls also had gowns on, only in silky bright pink color, and not a Cinderella style skirt, but just a simple one, and it had pink sequences on their chest part, their gowns also really outlined their body well.
Enough of that, and let us now continue to the wedding itself. (A/N: I'm not entirely sure of what really happens in real weddings, so forgive me if this is all going wrong.)
"And now please, may you exchange your vows…" the minister said.
"I, Rock Lee, take you, Tenten to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before. I will trust you and respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live." Lee said.
"I, Tenten, take you, Rock Lee to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before. I will trust you and respect you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love, from this day forward for as long as we both shall live." Tenten said.
They then both said the same vow together, "Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you. For where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. And where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. May the Lord do with me and more if anything but death parts you from me." After that being said, the minister cleared his throat then…
"The presentation and exchange of rings and gifts…" the minister said.
"I give you this ring to wear with love and joy…" Lee had started as he took the ring from the minister's hands and wore it in Tenten's ring finger. "As a ring has no end, neither shall my love for you. I choose you to be my wife this day and forevermore." He finished.
"I give you this ring to wear with love and joy…as a ring has no end, neither shall my love for you. I choose you to be my husband this day and forevermore." Tenten said, saying the same words as her husband to be (well, better bear with it, weddings are kind of like that), as she took the ring from the minister's hands and wore it in Lee's ring finger. She then placed their hands gently back down and faced the priest.
"With that being said, please answer with the words 'I DO'…" the minister started. "Do you Rock Lee, take this woman, Tenten (don't know her family name) as your lawfully wedded wife?" The minister asked as he faced Lee and asked this one serious question for him to answer. He eyed Lee for some moments and the whole churched had silenced, waiting for the grooms reply. Lee looked at the minister with determination, then softened his eyes when facing his soon to be wife. He smiled without due consideration and…
"I DO."
He said, making everyone sigh in adoration, then faced back the minister. The minister smiled and continued. He faced the bride and asked. "And do you Tenten, take this man, Rock Lee as your lawfully wedded husband?" She only smiled at the question, and just like what Lee did, looked at him before answering the matter. He looked back down at her again and gave her a smile…
"I DO."
The minister smiled again in happiness for the newly wedded couple, he then faced the guests and the couple. "By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you, husband and wife…" There was a long pause, then the priest faced the couple, "You may now kiss the bride." He finally said making some men and the girls who were present scream in excitement of the scene.
Lee and Tenten faced each other, making the guests more agitated than ever. Lee's hands slowly made down her veil, he got a hold of the tip and brought it up to the back of her head. He saw how beautiful his wife was. She was just wearing light make up making her even more beautiful with her natural features, it really did express her natural features. He smiled at her beauty and she smiled back. He touched her face gently, then cupped it. He leaned closer making the gap of their lips shorter, while she also tiptoed a bit. He leaned more and more… inches… centimeters… milliliters… and the next to it until…
BAM!!
Their lips touched lightly and they gently locked their lips together making the crowd cheer. The girls wiped the tears that formed in their eyes, proud that Tenten was now happy after what happened to her the past few months. She threw her arms around his neck while he coiled his arms around her waist, making the kiss more intimate. Tenten just couldn't help but pulled back Lee even closer to her, making herself lean back a little while he leaned forward to still remain their kiss. Lee was kind of shock of what a kisser she was, and because of his shock, he had jerk his eyes wide open, but slowly closed it again, pulling back Tenten so they could maintain their balance and stand up, not fall.
They then pulled apart with Tenten saying, "I love you…"
Lee looked straight at her eyes, replying back to her, "I love you even more…" The two then let out a light chuckle.
After which, they had the usual picture taking and the sort; and so on and so forth.
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In a two months' time, you could see Tenten is in the hospital, with a glowing green hand of Sakura checking her. "Whoa! The two of you are working fast. So when will you tell him? It's already three weeks or so old."
Tenten sat up straight with an uneasy face. "I don't know…maybe…I'll just let him find out?"
"Tenten, that would take long. You should tell him. It would be better. I'm sure he'll be glad to know. He'd be disappointed if you don't tell him and letting him just find out around three or four months later…"
"We'll just see…" Tenten said, then sighed in agitation.
"Don't worry; you're not the only ones working fast. Neji and Hinata are expecting something or someone in the month January of the next year." The two laughed. "Yours is around the next month of theirs, according to my calculations…"
"Well, arigato, Sakura. I'll be going now…Ja ne!! And Congratulations!! I hope you and Sasuke have a wonderful life!" She left.
While she was going home, she was kind of lost in track. She was excited to tell Lee, but scared of what he might say back. A fifty percent chance of what she'd like to happen and also there's a fifty percent chance of the other. She also had to tell Tsunade-sama about this so to excuse her from taking mission. When she found out that she had lead herself not an inch closer to home, she said, "Oh! I better get home and start making dinner!!"
When she arrived home, she right away started. She was almost through with the food she was cooking when the door banged open. "Tenten, love! I'm home!!" She didn't reply to him, knowing that he'd just follow the scent of food to the kitchen, and really he did so. He threw his stuff on the couch, even his ANBU vest, cloak and everything else, what was left on him was his usual attire when just at home. Arriving at the kitchen, he saw Tenten faced back from him. He went near her and wrapped his arms around her waist. He kissed her neck and wrested his chin on her shoulder. "What's that your cooking?"
Tenten didn't reply, instead, she turned around, even in his arms. She lifted the plate that she was holding to their eye level and said, "Let's eat!!"
Lee took his arms off from Tenten's waist and followed her to the dining table. She placed the food on top of the table and sat on one side of the table while he sat on the other. "Itadakimasu!!" And they started eating
Well actually, Tenten wasn't eating much, while Lee was filling his mouth with all her cooking. She was just chopsticking(is there even such a word?) her food and this wasn't left unnoticed by Lee. "Tenten? Is something wrong? You're not eating…"
Tenten looked up from her plate of food… 'Oooohh…how should I even tell him? Why am I even tense! This is suppose to be very good news!' she kept thinking.
"Ten-chan?" Lee asked again.
"Nothing…I'm fine…eat up…don't worry about me…" Tenten replied. She sighed heavily.
"Are you sure? You better eat some food yourself…" He said then started eating once again.
'Okay, it's settled then. He has the right to know and I should tell him.' She thought. She placed down his chopsticks and let out a deep breath.
Lee noticed this and asked again, "Tenten? Are you not hungry?"
"Lee…" She started, "I don't know how else to say this so I'll go directly to the point…" She took in another deep breath and let it out before saying, "I'm…" She slumped her shoulders, 'Just say it!!' She ordered herself. "I went to Sakura today, and well, she said that…I'm pregnant."
Lee was surprised. He had stop eating and the chopsticks he was holding had slipped from his fingers and he was still has a statue. 'We're a family now!!' He thought in his mind.
Since he didn't give any other reactions besides being shock and not moving, she was hoping she had the wrong theory. 'Oh my, oh my, oh my!! Please, just don't be sad!!' She kept thinking. She looked away for a few seconds, trying to think of words to say to him. When she looked back at his seat, she noticed that he wasn't there. She then felt arms wrapping around her waist, and what seemed like her reflexes, she just wrapped her arms around his neck and she was lifted from her seat because of the hug. She then heard him say while spinning around making her feet being lifted up as well, "We're going to be a family!! I'm going to be a father!!" He said it again and again while spinning round and round still with her in his arms. She was relieved when she heard him say this. 'He's happy…' She said to herself.
Lee then placed her back down and asked, "How long has it been in your belly…okaa-san?" He smiled widely.
She smiled back at him, "Sakura said on about three weeks or so already…"
"Hehe…" He started, and though still her belly was small, he rubbed it gently, "I'll take good care of the two of you no matter what…" "What do you think it is: a girl or a boy?"
"I don't know, otou-san…we'll just find out soon enough…alright"
"Oh!! I can't wait!!!"
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So there, she announced it to him and now her belly has grown to a great size, it should be expected though since she is already 8 months pregnant, just a month before her expected delivery. But as surprising as it seems, her belly was bigger to those of whom are also eight months pregnant, hers seems bigger. But that didn't matter, now, does it? All they are expecting is a child.
Hinata just gave birth to a son last week and a week later, the group just wanted to celebrate for their son and the next heir, so here they all were, in the Hyuga Household, celebrating. All of Hinata's friends were there, and some girls of whom are already pregnant and this included Tenten.
"Lee, can we sit down…I'm kinda tired…" Tenten said. Lee nodded. He held her hand, never letting go, and lead her to the nearest comfortable couch which the two of them can sit on. Once seated, Tenten sighed in relief. "The baby's kinda really getting heavy."
"But you aren't..." Lee said. He looked at her tummy and started talking, "Oh, hello there, cute little baby…" He started saying, in a cuddling way while rubbing her tummy and pouting his mouth. "…you have grown so big, or yes you have!!" Tenten just smiled at him, enjoying the sight of what Lee was doing.
"What are you doing?" This caught Lee and Tenten's attention to the one who had said it. "You're talking to an unborn child?" What seemed like a question was also like a statement when Neji says this…he had his week year old son in his arms…
"Lee-san, don't listen to him..." Hinata said, who was beside Neji, chuckling a bit. "He was also like that before our son was born…" Hinata and Tenten gave out a small giggle.
Neji raised his eyebrow and he seemed irritated, but if you look at him closely, he was really happy. He started to smile, "Well, I can't deny it. We, men, sometimes tend to do that when it comes to an unborn child in our wives' womb…" They all started laughing.
"We'll leave the two…erm…three of you now…" Hinata said joyously.
When they just turned around, Tenten started to moan, and groan in pain. "Ooof! That one hurt. Better be gentle there, now, or you'll hurt mommy…" Tenten said while soothing the pain.
Neji and Hinata couldn't help but turned back around and look at them, smiling at the soon to be family. "This one's such a wild one…" Lee said.
But Tenten didn't stop her grunting. "Uggh!" She cried out again. "It can't be hold now, Lee!!" She just shouted.
Neji, Hinata and Lee went wide eyed. "She has to delivery!! Now!!" Hinata and Neji just shouted.
"Nani?!!" Lee said, looking in surprise facing Neji and Hinata while his body was comforting his wife. "The delivery was not yet to be expected!!" Lee said.
"LEE!!" She cried out again. "I CAN'T HOLD IT MUCH LONGER!! THE BABY WANTS TO COME OUT!!"
"This can't be helped!!" Hinata said. "She has to do the delivery!!"
"I'll rush her to the hospital!!" Lee said. "Your household is just near it so I think we can make it…" Lee said. Without hesitation, he quickly carried Tenten in his arms and rushed to the hospital. He went off ahead while the others just followed on later.
As soon as they arrived there, he placed her down on one of the stretcher offered by some nurses then rushed her to the emergency room. He followed them going there and once they reached outside, a nurse stopped him from going inside. "Please stay here and wait. She will be alright, rest assured."
But inside he could hear her scream, "I WANT LEE!! I WANT HIM HERE!!!" And her grunting in pain. He could sense that she wasn't in labor yet, but he knew she had to be sooner!!
A nurse soon came out of the room, breathing heavily, sweating, "Please…come in…and hurry!!" And so he followed right away.
He saw that Tenten was on a stretcher in a position ready to give birth, with Tsunade and some nurses to help in the labor. He quickly went near Tenten and she right away took his hand. He then heard Tsunade say, "Tenten, we need you to perform the labor now!! Don't hesitate in doing it!! We can make it!! Now, PUSH!!!" She said. Tenten pushed, and her grip on Lee's hand seemed to tighten, with her face showing force and pain.
She pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed, until…Tadaa---!! The baby was born. She was relieved when she heard her…their baby cry. Tsunade cleaned then wrapped the baby in a clean blue blanket, showing that the baby was a boy and handed the child to Lee. "A boy, our baby is a boy, Tenten." Lee said. Tenten sighed in relief.
Lee went outside and saw that their friends were already there. They all got startled to see him and his son in his arms. "Lee!!!" "I see that your child's a boy." Neji said. Lee nodded. Everyone started to near Lee and his son when they heard Tenten scream in pain again.
This got Lee really worried. He left the group and went back in to see how his wife was doing. He saw her again, her face showing pain. "What's wrong?!!" He asked. All the commotion had lead their son to start to cry.
Tsunade brightened a bit…then faced Lee. "There's another one!!!" Then positioned herself to get ready for another labor.
From the outside, their friends heard what Tsunade had said. "Nani?!! They have twins?!!" They exclaimed. Sakura went in the room and said. "Tsunade-sama!! Please, let me assist!!"
"NO!!" Tsunade replied. "You're five months pregnant and you shouldn't be doing this!!" She complied and got out of the room but in disturbance.
Lee sat back down again near Tenten and she again took one of his arms, so he was forced to carry their son with just one arm. And now, instead of taking a hold on his hand, she got old of his wrist.
Every push she forced for the child to come out, her grip on his wrist tighten making his whole left hand white and it seemed like his wrist was about to be broken. "ONE LAST PUSH, TENTEN!! NOW, ONE…TWO…THREE…PUSH!!!" And the baby finally came out.
"Finally…" She said, sighing in total relief. She heard her second child cry out and she started crying in happiness and faced her husband. "It wasn't just a child after all. They were children." She said, loosening her grip on his wrist and letting it go.
Lee looked at his wrist, it was really red. He just smiled, it didn't matter to him, she was in labor at that time after all. Tsunade once again cleansed and wrapped their second child in a pink balnket and gave the child to Tenten. She walked out of the room, wiping her hands with a towel, and ordering the other nurses as well to leave the family to their privacy.
Lee looked from his son, then to his daughter, then to his wife who was still crying. "So, what do we name them, Ten-chan?"
"We did never considered looking for a name for them, now, have we? Since we never minded whichever gender they have..."
"We just kept looking forward to today...love, what will we name our children?"
She faced her husband, then looked at her son then to her daughter. "I want to name her Ami, Lee-kun. I've really love that name for a girl."
"I love that name, Ten-chan…" "And how about our son?"
She looked at her son before saying, "Ari…I want to call him Ari…" She said. They both smiled happily. They were now a family, together in living life's problems.
Lee wiped off the tear on Tenten's smooth face then kissed her lightly on her lips and took the child from her arms. Tenten got confused of why he just did that. "You better get some rest and go to sleep." He said. She nodded. She can't deny the fact that she was really tired. He then left the room with both their children in his arms, looking at them lovingly, hushing their babies to sleep. 'Thank you, Kami, for everything…' the couple thought to themselves. 'These are my true riches, riches that I will forever treasure…' They both thought, counting their blessings.
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And there, finally, this chapter's finally through!! Sigh!! It really gave me a hard time!! But I hope it would reach to your satisfaction. And I hope you like it. R&R please!!
Kyoko: Oooo!! I finally found it!! The chapter that I have been looking for!! And they have no idea that there's still one more...hehehehehe!!
Tenten: (bang open the door) Kyoko!! I lost one of my scrolls!! I think it's somewhere in your home!!
Kyoko: What?!!
Neji: BYAKUGAN!!
Tenten: Hey!! What's that?!
Neji: (looked at direction Tenten pointed at) It's another chapter!!
Tenten: Oh! So we'll be taking this!! (snatched the papers from my hand)
Kyoko: grunt!!
Tenten/Neji: Arigatou!! We'll be sure to show this to Naruto and Hinata!! Ja ne!! (leave)
Kyoko: Grunt!! This sucks!!