Ch. 7

Surprise! Twins!

It was night time and Shikamaru and Temari were trying to sleep. Temari couldn't get comfortable and her tossing and turning made it hard for him to sleep. "Is something wrong Temari?"

"Remember how the girls came over today?"

"Yeah, you told me everything they told you."

"Not everything."

"Huh?" He put his arms around her and lightly squeezed her. "What didn't you tell me you troublesome woman?" He said the last 3 words softly, but she heard and knew they were a complement.

"There is more than one."

"Huh? More than one what?"

"More than one baby. I'm carrying twins."

"What?" Shikamaru was shocked. As far as he knew twins weren't on his side of the family. "Are there any twins in your family?"

"Not that I know of."

"Hmmm…Then this must be a first on both sides." He then laughed softly hoping that Gaara could not hear what they were saying. "I guess this means I'll be a father 2x over."

"I guess so. I just hope they are both healthy."

"So do I."

Next morning….

"What?!?!?" yelled Gaara who had just heard about Temari carrying twins. His eyes were bugging out and the sand looked like it was about to kill something…. Or someone. (No Gaara don't kill Shikamaru!!!! Oh wait I'm writing this XD.)

"Gaara don't you dare try it, and it came as a surprise to us too," Temari had to go to a formal examination by Tsunade since Hinata told Tsunade what she saw. "Besides, I have an appointment with Tsunade so if you want to see how the babies are you and Kankuro and Shikamaru can come. She's going to do an ultrasound."

"And why would she do that?" asked Kankuro, "Already Hinata knows what's going on. She can tell Tsunade."

"I thought you would want to see what's going on with them, after all you 2," she pointed at her brothers, "are going to be uncles and I'm sure Shika wants to see them. Especially since you are leaving tomorrow."

"I have to admit, I was kind of wondering what they would look like," said Gaara who had calmed down.

"It's settled then; we'll all go with you and see how the babies are doing."

At Tsunade's doctor office…

All four ninja's and Tsunade were in the examination room looking at an ultrasound screen. Kankuro and Gaara were a little confused at how the babies did not really look like babies at all to the point that Tsunade gave them a couple of pamphlets that explained all their questions.

"Is there any way to tell if they are healthy right now?" asked Temari.

"Them seem healthy enough now but it's too early to tell if they have anything wrong with them. They seem fine now though. Better than fine. Just relax, they are right where they need to be," Tsunade noticed that Temari was much more relived than before the screen turned one and showed both the little ones as they were developing. Though every thing was not all right. One of them was way smaller than the other. That was not a good sign.

"I told you Temari every thing is fine," said Shikamaru.

"Yep, just come back next month so I can monitor their progress."