ABC'S: Baby

Pairings: GaaMatsu, ShikaTema, and KankuSaku

Genre: Romance and Fluff

Special Thanks to SilentTears2662 for your review

ABC'S: GaaMatsu: Baby

As Matsuri silently walked down the street with Sari, she could feel the menacing aura by strolling with her. For the past two weeks, Matsuri hadn't been allowed to part take in any missions and Sari really wanted to know why. Sari was really getting angry because Matsuri refused to tell her why she was now working as a nurse's aid in the hospital instead of a shinobi.

"Uph!" Matsuri was so engrossed in her thoughts, she didn't see her best friend stop in the middle of the road.

"Tell me!" Sari yelled to the other brunette.

"Do you really want to know?" smirked Matsuri.

"YES! You've been so secretive lately. I was informed by Ittetsu that you not only couldn't part take in missions anymore but you couldn't train either. When you're not at the hospital, you've been hanging with both Lady Sakura and her one year old son Arashi." Matsuri who had been quiet this whole time during Sari's little explosion decided to give her friend some clues.

"Sari, do yourself a favor and connect the dots. I can't go on missions anymore; I'm on doctor's orders not to do anymore training for the next fifteen months. Some of my clothes are getting rather tight . . . . . . ." Matsuri stopped in hope that Sari had gotten what she was hinting at, yet Sari was as clueless as always. "I have to get a checkup at least every two weeks." Sari still looked clueless and Matsuri decided to give another hint that would basically give it away, "I have to take-"

"Matsuri!" Both brunettes looked to the voice that had interrupted Matsuri. It turned out to be Temari who was looking rather . . . . . annoyed? "There you are Matsuri, you're late?"

Sari was now baffled, "Late for what?"

Temari gritted her teeth, "You're late for 'lunch'." Realization dawned upon Matsuri; 'lunch' actually meant her bimonthly doctors' appointment.

Matsuri turned to her friend, "I'll tell you later."

Two hours later Matsuri was now seated on a couch in between a pillow and her future-sister-in-law. The younger women was reading over some papers about her condition that her doctor gave her, however Temari would not allow Matsuri to be in peace because the blond kept on clearing out her throat and dropping things such as her fan and other loud clacking objects.

"Tema, did you need something?"

"You were going to tell Sari weren't you?"

"Of course I was going tell Sari, she's my best friend. Plus, I can't keep it a secret for too much longer. Even Gaara thinks so."

"My youngest brother thinks that you should tell Sari?" Temari was now completely baffled; she may not be as close to Gaara as Kankuro or Matsuri, but she knows her youngest brother to a degree and she is pretty sure he likes his privacy, and things to be kept quiet between him and his former student.

"No, that pretty soon I won't be able to hide my baby bump under my flack jacket anymore."

ABC'S: GaaMatsu

Matsuri felt something warm on her bare skin, on her stomach to be more exact. It didn't feel like she was on a couch anymore but on a nice warm, very comfortable bed. She opened her eyes to see the outline of a man barely a year older than she; he has crimson red hair and teal eyes. The brunette took a look at her surroundings and finally realized, 'I'm in the Kazekage's suite.'

The man smiled at her, "Enjoy your nap?" Matsuri sat up and pulled her shirt down so that it covered her small but noticeable baby bump.

"Yeah . . . What time is it?"

Gaara looked to the circular clock on the wall, "A little after six. What time did you go to bed?"

The kunoichi scrunched her nose, "I must have fallen asleep on the couch a little while after my talk with Temari, so about one-thirty-ish?"

"Talk?"

"I was on the verge of giving Sari a unmistakable hint about my pregnancy when Temari came and got my for my doctor's appointment."

Gaara frowned a little, "Matsuri in your condition-"

"No! Sari is still my best friend despite what you or Temari think. Sari and I have been best friends since we were genin and she's the only family I've got. How would you feel if Shikamaru told Temari she couldn't tell you or Kankuro that she's having a baby? I couldn't do that to Sari."

"I'd probably do unspeakable things to Shikamaru and probably force Temari to come home."

Matsuri was about to say something, but more they heard a high-pitched voice yell, "DINNER!" Before Matsuri could reach the door, Gaara grabbed her arm and twirled her so that she was now in his arms and pressed towards his chest.

He shyly asked, "You know I love you right?"

"Yes I know."

"You know I love our unborn baby, right?"

"Of course." Gaara then led his future wife to the dinner table where they ate their supper in pure happiness with Kankuro, Sakura, and little Arashi in knowing that pretty soon they would be adding their own little bundle of joy to the world.

End

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