A/N: Well, I'm BAAAAACK! you guys, I'm SO sorry about the wait on this and it's so short but I thought it was better to up load something NOW rather than waiting for me to finish a whole chapter. the next chapter will be the finale and then there will be an epilogue. I have chosen a name from your suggestions and it will be revieled soon enough. I'm doing very well and I'm much happier. thank you all so much for being patient with me and letting me get over my last relationship. and here it is: the bridge to the end!
Kiya glared down at the offending utensil as it lay unashamed on the floor of the kitchen. Her almost perfectly round eight-month pregnant belly stuck out shielding some of the spoon from her wrathful frown. She had been in the middle of cooking dinner when said belly had knocked the spoon onto the floor and now she had no way to pick it up. Kiya's face softened as she kicked the spoon out of her way and just picked out another one to use until Gaara got home and could pick it up for her.
She smiled as she checked the pots. She was cooking something special because she expected Sakura to arrive for her month long stay in Suna tonight and as if on cue there was a knock on the door.
"It's open!" Kiya shouted.
A few seconds later Sakura appeared in the kitchen door way. "Hi Kiya! Wow! Look at you, you're huge!"
Kiya put on a fake offended look before hugging her friend.
"How are you?" Sakura asked once they parted.
"Ugh! My feet hurt, I feel like I take up all the space in the room and the baby won't dislodge his foot from under my rib cage. But other than that I'm fine."
Sakura giggled "Well can I check on him? Maybe I can move his foot."
"Please do!" Kiya said then turned and lifted her shirt for Sakura.
The pink haired woman knelt next to Kiya's stomach and pressed her softly glowing hands to her swollen tummy.
"He seems perfectly fine. Very healthy and happy, I do think that he will need some coercing to come out though." Sakura said after a minute. "Alright let me try to move him, I'll need you to lie down."
Kiya led the way to the living room and laid down on one of the couches.
"Okay this might feel weird but it should get it better soon." Sakura said then pushed firmly on Kiya's stomach.
"Ow! His foot is still there!" Kiya mumbled then with a very soft 'pop' Kiya felt the pressure release from her bottom rib. "Oh my god! That's so much better!"
"Now I'll check and make sure that didn't hurt him." Sakura said. "He's just fine and it sounds like he even slept through it." she smiled up at the mother to be.
"Good. Oh, Sakura, I'm so tired of being pregnant, I feel so…disabled, ya' know? I can't do anything for myself, I always have to have help and it takes me forever to get anywhere!" Kiya said sitting up.
"Well if it makes you feel better you only have a few more weeks to go and then you will have to take care of a baby." Sakura said standing up and helping her friend stand as well.
"I know, I just want to be back to how I was." Kiya said shuffling back into the kitchen.
"You have a great recovery time so I think that once I clear you to go back to training you'll be back to your old self, or as close as you can get, in six weeks."
The two women spent the rest of the time talking about mundane things. Then when Gaara got home they ate the large dinner Kiya had prepared and went up to bed.
The next few weeks passed by slowly, Kiya sat at home with her feet up, all the while feeling restless. Sakura had been given a temporary job at the Suna Hospital and was just as much a work-aholic as she was back in Konoha. Gaara was working a little less since the counsel knew the baby could come at any time. He found himself jumping anytime someone would knock on his office door, he kept thinking that it was the message that Kiya had gone into labor but it never was.
Gaara paced his office, he was happy yes, but he was also scared out of his mind. He knew that he would be practically useless in the room with Kiya while she is having the baby but he knew that she would want him to be there, it was a dilemma. Gaara walked to his desk and pulled out a ruffled piece of paper. Written across the top was the title: "boy baby names" but he had yet to write down anything. Gaara sighed quietly to himself, maybe he could get Kiya to just tell him her names and he could choose from her list.
"That would never work, she'd know that I didn't have anything written" he mused out loud.
"Well then I suggest you get to writing." Kankuro said from the door way.
Gaara rolled his eyes and spun his chair around to look out the window.
Kiya lay on the sofa staring up at the blank ceiling. She, just like Gaara, was perplexed at what she should write down on her name list. All she could think of were people that they knew already and she didn't want her baby to grow up in any one's shadow, not that she didn't think her baby wouldn't do great things, she just didn't want to put him under that much pressure.
"Gods, like if we named him Naruto, what sandals to fill! And naming him Lee would be just strange, then the actual Lee would probably move here to be more involved, then we would have THREE 'beasts' dressed in spandex to harass the vision of the world instead of just two! No fucking way!" Kiya ranted to herself.
"or we could just think of a new name." Gaara pointed out walking into the room.
"What are you doing home so early! It's 4:15!" Kiya said looking at the clock on the end table.
"The counsel has taken a lot of the work that I normally do because you are getting so close to your due date. The result being that I didn't have any more work to do so I decided to take the afternoon off so we could discuss that very matter you were thinking about before I interrupted." Gaara explained
"Okay well…what do you have?"
"Absolutely nothing."
Kiya smiled "That's my husband. Well you're in luck because I don't have anything either so I can't get mad." She pulled Gaara so he was sitting on the couch and then situated her head on his lap. They sat that way for a while just thinking of names that could possibly be their first baby's name.
"How about Naru? Kind of after Naruto but not." Gaara broke the silence.
"I thought of that already, it shouldn't be a name that even resembles any one that we know really well, I don't want him to feel like he has to live up to some one else's standards." Kiya argued.
"Aiko?" Kiya threw out after a short silence. Gaara pursed his lips, enough to tell Kiya he didn't like it.
"Daisuke." Gaara said.
"Daisuke's are so common, he needs to be unique. How about Daine?" Kiya said.
"I don't hate it." Gaara said as he scratched his head.
The conversation lasted like that for another hour or so, making 3 different lists and using the process of elimination they finally found a name that they both agreed sounded right.