BTW: Sorry it takes me so long to upload these but again the uploader is being a jerk to me not fun but what are ya gonna do oh and happy late halloween :)
RECAP: They goto the ultrasound.
Everyone in the room was looking at the screen with amazement, Naruto tried to look amazed but he didn't see a baby, he saw a blob. No matter how hard he concentrated and squinted his eyes it was a blob. He leaned over Sakura to Tsunade.
"You sure I should be able to see a baby?"
"Naruto come on, really look. It's clearly a baby."
"How?"
Tsunade pointed to the monitor.
"Look, thats the head. There are the arms and the hands and legs and feet."
"I'm still not seein' it."
"Look!"
"...OK...head...arm...freakish arm...leg...foot."
"See not so hard."
"So is it a boy or a girl?"
"My goodness Naruto. Do you notice anything?"
"Like what?"
"Missing."
"OH!"
"There you go."
"YES! JUST WHAT I WANTED!"
Naruto hugged Sakura and Gaara, he was extremely happy. Sasuke was slightly embarrassed by Naruto as was the rest of the room. Naruto calmed down after awhile and Tsunade ejected the tape and gave it to Sasuke. She cleaned the jelly off of Sakura's stomach and shut off the machines. She went to get some things for Sakura and Sasuke to sign. Sasuke kissed Sakura and sat her up. Neji still couldn't see her and now he didn't even have the baby to watch. He tried to push past Kiba but he didn't want to seem to eager so he didn't. Kiba and Chouji hugged Sakura, they could both feel the swell in her belly. They shook hands with Sasuke too. Naruto was still practically jumping up and down with excitement. Gaara hugged him.
"Gaara, it's just what I wanted."
"Me too. But I would've been happy either way."
Naruto kissed Gaara. Kiba and Chouji had to leave, Chouji was dying of hunger. Tsunade came back with the paperwork to sign, which Sasuke did. Kakashi was still awkwardly loitering in a not-too-close-not-too-far area from when Sakura was. Naruto was caught up in his excitement and noticed it then calmed himself down. They were ready to leave. Naruto helped Sakura up and Sasuke grabbed the tape. Neji was finally able to catch a glimpse of Sakura. She looked the same, except for of course, her stomach. Neji didn't know what he was expecting but this wasn't it. He thought she'd look run down or tired or something, she didn't. She was incredibly happy and she made everyone around her happy, the baby really wasn't and form of a burden.
Neji probably should've seperated from the group a little while ago but when he was about to leave everyone else left with him. He felt sort of awkward walking out with them but he dealt with it. The five of them stopped in front of the hospital and Neji figured he'd separate then.
"I'll be going."
He turned to leave the five of them.
"You're not even gonna give me a hug goodbye?" [Sakura]
Sasuke whispered, "He's not much of a hugger.", to Sakura but she didn't listen.
"Oh, I uh...sorry." [Neji]
Sakura smiled and ran up to hug him goodbye. He wasn't used to hugging people, especially not pregnant people, he had no idea how tight he should hug back. She had her arms around him and he tried to do the same. He too could feel the baby bump, he wasn't sure how he was supposed to feel but it made him happy. His hug suddenly got more comfortable. Sakura said goodbye and Neji did too after congratulating her. Neji walked off and Sakura walked back to the four.
"What was that?" [Sasuke]
"What was what?" [Sakura]
"I've never seen Neji smile...or hug."
"He smiled?"
"Nevermind. Wanna get some lunch?"
"Yes, yes I do, I'm starving. Naruto, Gaara you guys wanna come?"
Of course they did. The two couples started walking towards the restaurant, leaving Kakashi in front of the hospital. He didn't expect any different, at least he got to see the baby. The rest of them were rounding a corner when Sakura spoke up.
"Sasuke...I should at least go thank Kakashi for coming right?"
"...If you really want..."
"Do you want to come?"
"I-uh...if you want me to."
"It's OK, I think I'd rather talk to him alone anyway."
"Why's that?"
"I can vividly see you two getting into an argument."
"...We'll wait for you here."
"OK, be right back."
Sakura turned back towards the hospital, they'd only gone around the corner once so she wasn't too far. The rest of them waited there. Naruto argued that someone should go with her but after Gaara reasoned with him he was fine. Sakura got to the hospital and scanned the surrounding area for Kakashi. She found him, right where they left him only now he was sitting cross legged on the ground with his head in his hands. He didn't see Sakura. She saw that he didn't see her and immediately started thinking of ways to get out of talking to him but she knew should. She went up next to him, put her hand on his shoulder and did her best to sit down with ease. She couldn't sit up straight because of her stomach but she managed. Kakashi lifted his head and smiled at Sakura. She smiled back and kept her hand on his shoulder.
"Hi."
"Hi."
"I didn't get to talk to you, ya know with all the stuff going on."
"It was my fault. Congratulations by the way."
"Thanks. Do you want to come eat with us?"
"I don't think that's the best idea."
"Why's that?"
"I just think you guys need more time."
"That's for us to decide."
"Really, you don't have to."
"I want to, come on."
"...I have a mission anyway...I'll walk with you though."
"Deal."
Kakashi and Sakura started to stand up. Kakashi stood up like normal but Sakura was having some trouble.
"I got this, don't help me."
She struggled for a little while longer before she let Kakashi help her up. When he did she hugged him, it took him a second but her hugged back. He was now among the many people to realize just how pregnant she was. She didn't want to admit it but she had missed him being around, he had missed her too as well as Naruto and Sasuke.
"Thanks for coming today."
"Thanks for letting me."
"Hey, you're apart of this too. Come on let's go, I'm starving. I'm always starving."
Kakashi put his arm around her and they walked back to Naruto, Gaara and Sasuke. Needless to say they were less than happy to see Sakura had brought Kakashi along. Kakashi saw this as soon as he walked up with them. He saw Naruto whisper something to Gaara and watched Sasuke give him the worst stare he'd ever endured. It didn't seem it but Sasuke was doing his best to make amends with Kakashi but having all that stored up anger was really not helping. Unlike Sasuke, Naruto was not happy about making up with Kakashi, he was going to do it so Sasuke would too but he was definitely not happy about it. Gaara felt very awkward about the whole thing. He'd done his best to forgive Kakashi seeing as it was an accident but having Naruto constantly unhappy when his name came up made him start to feel otherwise.
Sakura knew that this would happen. It was going to have to happen sooner or later otherwise they'd never see Kakashi again.
"OK, let's get going. I want food."
The rest of the group started walking. Kakashi and Sakura were still behind them. Sasuke maneuvered himself so that he was on the other side of Sakura and held her hand. Kakashi had taken his arm off of her as soon as they'd turned to corner to meet up with everyone. Sasuke hadn't said anything to Kakashi but he hadn't said anything rude either. They were almost at the restaurant, nobody had said anything yet. Naruto and Gaara were the first at the door, they didn't go in, instead they waited for everyone to catch up. When they did Kakashi started to leave. Sakura hugged him goodbye. Nobody mentioned anything about it all through lunch, instead they talked about the baby. Sakura was too busy eating to talk. [Gaara's being left out]
"I can't wait!"
"For what?"
"What do ya think?"
"Ya know I thought you'd be this excited if it was a boy."
"Are you kiddin'. I'm getting a niece!"
"So we can officially refer to the baby as Naru."
Sakura had finished her food and was getting tired. They said their goodbyes and Sasuke took her home. Gaara thanked them for letting him come and him and Naruto walked home. It was about 4:30. They came home and sat on the couch, feeling a little worn out from the day's activities.
"Naruto?"
"Hm?"
"Are you ever going to forgive Kakashi?"
"I don't want to talk about this."
"Why not?"
"I said I don't!"
Gaara wasn't in any mood to deal with Naruto yelling at him, in fact he never dealt with Naruto yelling at him. He also didn't like yelling back, it would just turn into a screaming match, nobody wins there. He got up and left the couch, went into their room and slammed the door. For him, slamming a door was the equivalent of yelling and cursing at Naruto, seeing as he didn't like to argue. Naruto knew that, he didn't know his negative feelings toward Kakashi upset him, he just didn't want to get into it. He got up off the couch and opened the door to their room. Gaara was plopped on the bed, angry.
"What's the big deal? I just don't want to get into it right now!"
"Don't you yell at me one more time Naruto."
The way Gaara had delivered that last line slightly scared Naruto, he could tell he was really mad but Naruto was stubborn, he wasn't going to let up.
"I can yell all I want!"
"One more time Naruto, yell one more time, I dare you."
Gaara's voice changed when he said that which made Naruto never want to speak again. He could be terrifying if he wanted to.
"Gaara...I'm sorry..."
"Why can't you talk to me?"
"I can-"
"No you can't. You've never talked to me about any of your serious problems, you always goto one of your other friends."
"I just don't want to worry you about anything."
"But you're supposed to be able to talk to me about anything."
"I didn't think you'd want to hear it."
"What makes you think that?"
"...I don't know..."
Naruto laid down next to Gaara on the bed and kissed him. Gaara didn't really feel like being kissed, he resisted for a while but Naruto got to him. He kissed him back and they stayed kissing for a while until Naruto broke the kiss.
"I love you Gaara...I'm sorry..."
Gaara didn't know what to say so he kept kissing him and running his hands through Naruto's hair and down his back. Naruto did the same. They were both worn out from the days events so they ended up falling asleep kissing.
MEANWHILE
Sasuke and Sakura were walking home from the restaurant.
"So um...what did you say to him?"
"I just, ya know, hi."
"Oh so uh what did he say?"
"Sasuke, what does it matter?"
"It doesn't really."
"Are you gonna talk to him?"
"...Sure, ya know when I see him. That probably won't be for a while though."
"Actually we could see him later today, when he gets back from his mission."
"Well yeah but-but he'd probably be tired by then..."
"You're going to have to talk to him sooner or later."
"I know, I know. I guess tonight's fine..."
"Yes! I'll leave him a message when we get home."
The continued walking until they got there. Sakura went to the phone to leave Kakashi a message. Sasuke put the tape of the ultrasound in.
"Hey Kakashi...sen..sei...anyway it's Sakura. I was wondering if you wanted to meet up later...or something. Ya know with Sasuke. Anyway if you could call us when you get back, but if you're like way too tired it's OK. Well, that's about it. Bye."
She felt a little awkward about the way she's called him sensei but she ignored it. She hung the phone up and saw Sasuke preparing the ultrasound video. He slid the tape in and sat on the couch with his arm around Sakura. They watched it over and over again. They couldn't pull themselves away from it.
"Sakura, you know what's weird?"
"What?"
"That-that baby, she's inside you right now."
"I love you Sasuke."
"I love you too."
"I'm getting hungry again."
"It's almost dinner. Did you leave Kakashi a message?"
"Yeah, but he was on a mission so he might not have even checked his messages."
"I guess you're right. So what do you want to eat?"
The phone rang. Sakura did her best to jump up but she ended up needing Sasuke's help. She made it to the phone in time.
BOTTOM NOTE: I got nothin' BOTTOM NOTE OVER AND OUT
