NARUSAKU ;; heartbeat
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It wasn't that Sakura needed to hear his heartbeat... it was just that she needed to hear his heartbeat.
Naruto didn't seem to mind. He was perfectly fine with the fact that Sakura's default cuddle position was ear to chest. He indulged her, allowing her to lay and listen to his breath rattle and his heart pump as long as she needed to verify that he was still very much alive. Sometimes the tempo was slow as they laid languidly together, his arms wrapped protectively around her or his fingers twisting absently in her hair. Other times it beat so fast and his breath came in such ragged gasps that she was hardly sure if the pounding in her ears was her own blood rushing or his. She didn't care.
The sound was precious. There was nothing more precious in the world.
Or at least, that's what Sakura had believed.
"...Is that?"
"The heartbeat, yes. And there's the spine, and the head..."
Tears welled in Sakura's eyes, blurring the black and white screen where the technician was pointing out things which as a medic, Sakura could very well identify herself. But Naruto couldn't and as the doctor went on, he squeezed her hand harder and harder as the steady wub wub wub of their child's heart filled the room.
"Sakura-chan," Naruto whispered loudly, leaning close to her ear. "Do you hear that?"
Yes, she responded. And she had never heard anything more beautiful.