Chapter 2

"I'm pregnant."

Cringe. Shake head, stare at mirror again.

"Hey, so, I'm pregnant!"

Sakura blinks, before sighing and looking at herself in the mirror. For being nearly four months pregnant, she wasn't showing as much as usually, even though she was pregnant with twins. Practicing to tell her parents wasn't going well. She had been saying the same thing over and over again for nearly an hour, not even getting close to saying it the way she wanted to. She was beginning to hate it.

"Mom, dad, I'm pregnant again!"

Ick… that sounds bad…

Sakura sighed again, forgetting the mirror and flopping on her bed. It had been nearly a month since she and Sasuke found out she was pregnant, but they had yet to tell anyone. They wanted it to sink in first, and then decided that around Christmas would be a good time to announce the pregnancy.

Now, it was impossible for her to figure out a way to tell her parents, without sounding awkward.

"I hate my life."

"Well, gee, thanks."

Sakura sat up, smiling at Sasuke who had just entered their room, obviously having just finished his shower, based on the fact his hair was dripping wet.

"I didn't mean it like that. I can't figure out a good way to tell my parents."

Sasuke shrugged, walking over and grabbing his shirt off the bed, putting it on. "Just tell it to them straight. Say they're going to be grandparents or something. We have to do the same with my parents tomorrow."

"Oh gosh, your parents! I didn't even think about telling your parents!" Sakura let out a frustrated sigh and fell back on the bed, staring at the ceiling. "How on earth do we tell Mikoto-san and Fugaku-sama we're having a baby? What did your brother and Asuna do?"

Sasuke shrugged, sitting beside Sakura and putting his shoes on, trying to get ready as quickly as he could, since they had to leave in a few minutes. "Ask Asuna. I bet all they did was say 'Hey, she's pregnant, so, yeah'. Well… not in those words, but, you get it."

Sakura sat up, running her fingers through her hair and looking at Sasuke. "Can we just, like, not tell them and let them figure it out in a few months when I'm huge?"

Laughing, Sasuke shook his head, and threw his arm around Sakura's neck, pulling her into a hug and kissing the top of her head. "No. as much as it would be to see our parents freak out in a couple months because we didn't tell them, I don't think it would work."

Sakura stuck her tongue out at Sasuke, before slipping out of his hold and going to the closet, pulling out her long sleeve green dress she had been planning to wear. She slipped it on, before stepping into her black flats and going back to the mirror, brushing through her hair.

"Sakura, it's going to be fine."

"I know, I just…" Sakura sighed, looking at Sasuke. "I'm just worried history is going to repeat itself."

"It won't. I know it won't."

Once they arrived at the Haruno residence, Mebuki had nearly swept her daughter up in a bone crushing hug, before turning and giving one to her beloved son-in-law. Sakura, in turn, went straight to Kizashi, giving him a hug before her mother ushered her into the kitchen to help out with finishing dinner.

"Sakura, here, put this in the oven! It has to warm up!"

"All right, all right, mom!" Sakura smiled and rolled her eyes, shoving the glass pan into the oven and shutting it. She watched her mother for a moment, before thinking over exactly how to announce her pregnancy to her. Sakura was very, very close to just shouting 'I'm pregnant!' and getting it over with, but she knew that wouldn't be helpful at all.

I can't wait for their reactions…

The rest of the night went very well, in Sasuke's personal opinion. Sakura, however, looked as though she was about to break. Mebuki had commented that Sakura looked very tired, which the younger woman waved off as too many hours at the hospital. Kizashi suggested she cut back, while Sakura whispered to herself that she would be doing so very soon, nearly making Sasuke elbow her to just hurry up and say it.

The second her parents left the room, to take the dishes into the kitchen, Sakura sighed and slouched in her seat, looking at Sasuke. "Should we tell them when they come back?"

"I think so. We need to so we can get home soon. I have a mission in the morning and you have to perform a surgery, correct?"

Nodding, Sakura sat up straight when her parents came back into the room, both of them looking at her strangely.

"…what?"

"Sakura, dear… you're not pregnant again, are you?"

Sakura blinked, glancing at Sasuke before looking back to her parents, wondering how they figured it out. "Why are you asking?"

Kizashi shrugged, sitting down across from the two. "Your mother was wondering because she said you were acting the way she did when we told your grandparents she was pregnant."

Sakura stared for a minute, before giggling a bit. "Well, that makes it much easier on me!"

"…what?"

"Yes, I am pregnant!"

Mebuki let out an excited squeal, hugging Sakura once the younger girl stood up, then roping Sasuke into the hug. "I'm going to be a grandmother!"

Sasuke found it hard to breathe after a moment, and slipped out of the hug, watching Mebuki and Sakura with a smile as the older woman looked Sakura over, commenting on how she didn't even look pregnant yet.

Kizashi moved beside Sasuke, setting his arm on the young man's shoulder. "Well, congratulations."

"Thank you, Kizashi-sama."

"I pray all goes well this time."

"Me too."

As Mebuki continued to comment on Sakura's appearance, all she did was try to get her mother to calm down, so she could tell her the better part of the news. "Mom… there is something else."

"What is it? do you know the gender already!?"

Sakura giggled again, shaking her head. "No! It's just… well… it's not just one baby this time… it's two."

It was quiet for a moment. Mebuki broke out in a smile, and Kizashi looked exasperated. Both were shocked, in two different ways. Mebuki was shocked with happiness, while Kizashi was just plain shocked.

"Twins?! You're having two babies! I get two grandchildren at once!"

Sakura nodded, looking at Kizashi who looked like he was trying to cope with the idea he would have twin grandchildren in just a few short months. "…daddy?"

Kizashi looked at Sakura, giving a smile and hugging her. "This is going to be wonderful! Maybe one of them will be the Hokage one day!"

…oh heaven help me…

After returning home that night, Sakura jumped right into the shower, thinking over how the night had gone. After blow drying her hair and changing into her night gown, Sakura made her way into the bedroom, only to find Sasuke already fast asleep, taking over a bit of her side of the bed.

Gee… he could have waited!

She still smiled as she crawled into bed beside him, not feeling even the least bit shocked when Sasuke pulled her over into a hug.

"I think it went well, don't you?"

"Mm…"

"…You're half asleep, huh?"

"Mm-hm…"

Sakura laughed a bit, snuggling against Sasuke and sighing. "I love you."

"I love you too."

And everything will be fine… I know it will.

END CHAPTER 2

Author's Note: I hope everyone that's reading this likes it. I've never written a SasuSaku Road to Ninja story before...xD
I plan for this to have weekly updates, so I can try to get each chapter to be around the same length.
If there is an update like this, one after the other, assume that it's because we've hit some bonus chapters, or I just couldn't wait to put up the next chapter. It also helps me get ahead in my writing. ^^
If you'd like to see something in a bonus chapter, I'd love to hear it. :D

I have a poll up. I'm planning to write a parallel/companion fic to this one, for my pairing for Itachi. All I'm asking if whether you want him and my character, Asuna, to have a boy or girl, and what name you would like the child to have. Simple, right?

Have a good week, and I'll see you next Monday.