Chapter 6

"Help me get the table ready!"

Sasuke sighed, shaking his head as Sakura shoved the table cloth, plates, and utensils into his arms. He quickly turned and left, heading for the dining room and started setting up the table. It was best not to fight with her at the moment. Sakura was stressed and trying to get everything together, which included making Sasuke set the table.

'We can have dinner at our house, Mikoto-san! It's not a problem!' Sasuke repeated what Sakura had said to his mother weeks before, even though Sasuke vehemently denied and tried to get Sakura to reconsider.

She had to ask him why, not understanding why Sasuke wouldn't want his parents over for Christmas. She figured it probably had something to do with the fact that she and Sasuke did not have children but Itachi and Asuna did, even though it was just one child.

"Ah, Sakura-chan, calm down! You're going to overwork the poor boy!" Asuna laughed as she watched Sasuke walk by, looking tired. She and Itachi had shown up as soon as she and Keisuke got out of the hospital. Itachi had tried to get Asuna to go straight home, insisting she needed to rest, as did Keisuke. Asuna, however, wouldn't hear of it. She wanted to be at Sasuke and Sakura's for dinner that day, especially so Mikoto and Fugaku could meet their new grandson.

"Asuna, go sit down!" Sakura stopped cooking for a moment, just to shoot Asuna a glare. "You gave birth barely 48 hours ago. You need to sit and rest! Go sit with Keisuke and enjoy him!"

Asuna blinked, shrugging and walking off. "Fine. He's probably hungry anyway…"

"Oh! Remind me to ask you about breast feeding later!"

"Yeah, yeah! Maybe!"

Dinner was quiet. Minus Mikoto fawning over her new grandson, telling him how much he looked like Itachi and how precious he was. Asuna had a hard time getting Keisuke away to go feed him once more, with Sakura following after a moment later.

"This is going well, Sakura, don't worry!"

Asuna laughed as her sister-in-law sighed, taking Keisuke from her and getting him set to be fed. "I don't know… Fugaku-sama hasn't said much…"

"He never says much, you know that."

"Hmm… Mikoto loves Keisuke."

"He's her first grandbaby. Of course she does. My mother is going to flip when she meets him tomorrow."

Sakura laughed this time, nodding. The two had hidden away in hers and Sasuke's bedroom, so Asuna could have privacy as she fed Keisuke.

"Sakura, next year will be easier."

"Why?"

"Well, if you do this again next year, you'll have the twins and Keisuke will be a year old. Mikoto-san and Fugaku-sama will be busy with them, meaning you won't have to worry much about anything except the cooking."

Sakura sighed, flopping back completely with her hand on her stomach. "I can't wait. I really can't. I want them now. I want to hold and love my babies' right this second…"

"That's exactly how I felt about Keisuke."

"Oh, Sakura."

"Hm?"

"Have you and Sasuke thought about names yet?"

Sakura blinked, looking at Mikoto, shaking her head. She and Sasuke had been very busy even before they found out she was pregnant, and they had no time to even sit and think about possible names. "We haven't. With Sasuke having missions and my working at the hospital, we haven't been able to think of names yet."

Mikoto nodded, looking over at Sasuke, who was trying to avoid eye contact with everyone. "Sasuke, how was your last mission?"

"It was fine, mom."

Sakura elbowed him, making Sasuke nearly shout in pain. Instead, he glared at her, as she did the same, while Mikoto sighed.

Sasuke never really talked about missions at dinners, even before he got married and moved out. He was usually very talkative, but disliked talking about missions, more than likely because of the gory details of some, and he knew it would ruin someone's appetite.

"So," Mikoto decided to change the subject, looking back to Sakura. "How did your last surgery go, Sakura?"

"Oh, it went as well as it could!"

"I'd love to hear about it later."

"Of course!"

The rest of the night went slowly and quietly. Sakura wanted it to end as soon as possible, all so she could crawl into bed with her husband and sleep.

Unfortunately, Mikoto insisted on staying an extra hour to spend time with Keisuke and talk with her daughters-in-law and sons about anything and everything.

Sakura continually jabbed Sasuke in the side with her elbow, giving him a look that he could easily decipher. He knew right away that she wanted to tell everyone the genders of the babies, as they had been told earlier that day by Lady Tsunade what they were having.

Sasuke thought it would be better to wait until a little bit closer to time and give a surprise to everyone, while Sakura, personally, though it would be better to go ahead. She knew Mikoto and Mebuki were dying to start shopping for the babies, and decided that it would be good to tell them do they could buy whatever they wanted without much of a worry.

The only thing Sasuke saw wrong with telling them that day was that they could be told later on that the ultrasound was wrong and the genders were different. Sakura wasn't worrying about it much, because anything they couldn't use she knew they could give away to someone who could use it.

After a few minutes of Sakura jabbing him, Asuna giggling at it, and knowing Fugaku was watching, wondering what the heck was going on, Sasuke let out a loud sigh.

"Everyone, we have an announcement."

Mikoto looked up from Keisuke with a smile, wondering what was going to be said this time.
"What is it, Sasuke?"

Sasuke looked over at Sakura, who grinned and nodded, before standing up. "Um… well, we found out today that we're having twin girls on May 31st."

Mikoto and Asuna looked at Sakura in shock, before jumping up and hugging her, Asuna squealing a bit while Mikoto was trying to be quiet for the sleeping newborn in her arms.

"That's wonderful, Sakura!"

"Oooh, you get to buy all the cute pink bows and dresses!"

Sakura laughed and nodded. "I plan to buy all the pink dresses I can…unless either of them has my hair. Then I'll buy them red."

The three women laughed, while their husbands just watched them. Itachi just shook his head at Asuna when she squealed, but understood. She had done the same thing when they found she was pregnant.

Sasuke was just smiling, glad Sakura was excited to finally tell his mother and Asuna.

Fugaku just sighed when Mikoto had jumped up. She has hoping they would have girls ever since they had been informed Sakura was pregnant. She knew how much it hurt them to lose Keiko last year, and thought twin girls would help them heal. He had to agree in the end.

"Sasuke, you two are going to have your hands full."

Sasuke looks from Sakura to Fugaku, giving a smile. "I know, but I'm excited. I can't wait."

"Sleep, at last."

Sasuke smiled and shook his head as Sakura stretched out on their bed, taking half of his side as well as all of hers.

"Now, that's not fair, Sakura. Move back to your side."

She looked at him with a puppy dog pout, before he shook his head and moved to his side of the bed.

"Move."

Sakura glare, sticking her tongue out at Sasuke, then curled up on her side as he climbed into bed, shut off the lamp, and pulled their comforter over both of them.

"Do you think it went well?"

"Definitely."

"…can we do Christmas here again next year?"

"No."

"Sasuke!"

"Goodnight, Sakura!"

"Wait!"

END CHAPTER 6

Author's Note: Today's chapter took for ever for me to figure out what to do.
I'm bad at writing Sasuke and Itachi's dad, I JUST SUCK AT IT, OK?
-sigh- I guess practice makes perfect, eh?

Sorry for not posting last week. I had a tough time with the chapter and had chores and other stuff.
But we're back and we're going through the normal, weekly update again. Yay!

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