Sorry about the errors and misspellings you might find, I was too excited to post that I barely did a quick edit work.
Shikamaru watched Naruto sitting on the floor, facing him as she hunched over scattered scrolls. Her face was scrunched up in concentration as she occasionally muttered under her breath, her hands stroking methodical patterns that he couldn't begin to understand with a brush.
After Naruto's pleasant welcoming gift, they'd stumbled into her bedroom groping and kissing, leaving a trail of clothes behind them. When they were done with the first round, it had taken Naruto only a few minutes before she'd wanted to go at it again. Surprisingly, his own body had been just as eager. The most surprising was when he'd removed Naruto's shirt and saw that her stomach had grown a little bulge in the two weeks of his absence. Not noticeable unless you knew her body as intimately as he had come to know it. Instead of freaking out like he'd thought he would once Naruto started showing, he had felt a weird surge of pride, and warmth, and strangely a little protective too and before he could stop himself, he'd leaned down and kissed her stomach.
Naruto had given him a shy smile before taking his right hand and placing it on her tiny bump. He wasn't sure what to expect, considering he knew it was too soon for the baby to start kicking, but he wasn't disappointed either because a moment later he'd felt a light chakra flare under his hand. It was barely a flutter, but he'd felt it. It felt nothing like Naruto's chakra or his, but was familiar, nonetheless. He'd jerked his head with wide eyes and met Naruto's eyes just to make sure he hadn't imagined it; her smile had widened in response to his reaction.
Shikamaru had looked down at her face as she laid down on her back, her vibrant golden hair spread on the bed like a halo, her cheeks were flushed and blue eyes so wonderfully bright.
"Wow." He'd whispered in wonder, as that was the only word he could manage at that moment. The feeling that had overcome him felt indescribable and powerful, he had to dip his head down to give her a long deep kiss to keep himself from blurting out the three words he knew were too soon to be felt but that felt real, nonetheless.
"Shikamaru?"
Shikamaru blinked from his thoughts back to the present to find Naruto's face inches from his, her blue gaze filled with concern. He couldn't resist pulling her on top of him so that she was straddling his naked hips, enjoying the little blush dotting her cheeks. He found her occasional shyness endearing, a total contrast to her usual brash confident self.
"Did you say something?" he asked, yawning a little. The exhaustion of the couple of days of traveling and the wild sex activity catching up to him.
Naruto's brow furrowed for a moment before her gaze softened, she brushed strands of hair from his face. "You should get some rest; you look about ready to drop."
Shikamaru shook his head, "if I sleep now, I feel like I won't wake up until tomorrow and I still need to give my report to the Hokage."
Naruto's eyebrows rose, "shouldn't that have been the first thing you did when you returned from your mission?" Then her lips quirked into a sly grin. "Am I being a bad influence on you?"
"Maybe." He shrugged, smirking a little when Naruto's grin widened. He shook his head with a smile. "I really missed you."
Naruto's body tensed on top of him, her gaze cautious. Shikamaru wondered if perhaps that was crossing the line between them. Not that they haven't gone past all the lines they had drawn since they started sleeping together. But he refused to take the words back as Naruto's eyes studied his intently as if waiting for him to change his mind, he met her gaze steadily. After another beat, Naruto gradually relaxed on top of him, she opened her mouth to say something but then seemed to change her mind. She leaned forward and kissed him instead; his mouth welcomed her without hesitation. After a while, she pulled back and slowly got off him and back on the floor to continue with her seals.
Shikamaru made himself comfortable, he watched her work until his eyes started drooping a little. He was just drifting off when he heard her speak.
"I really missed you too."
Smiling a little, he let darkness drag him under.
…
"Are you seriously sleeping on me right now?"
Dragging her eyes open felt like a chore as Naruto forced her attention back to her best friend. She yawned, "sorry, you were saying?"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Why did you even agree to come with me today if you were tired?"
Naruto shook her head, "I'm not tired- "she broke into another yawn, "just a little sleepy."
Sakura looked at her dryly. "And the difference is?" She shook her head before Naruto could respond, "that was rhetorical, moron. You should just go home and get some rest; you don't look so good."
Naruto wanted to say in frustration that all she'd been doing was resting, all day and every day! She always seemed to be tired, to the point that she was tired of being tired, but of course she couldn't say anything otherwise she would rouse her friend's suspicion. She stifled another yawn and gave her friend a reassuring smile instead, "I'm fine, just had a late night."
Sakura gave her a disapproving frown and reached over to flick her ears lightly with her fingers. "What have I told you about taking care of yourself properly? What was so important that you couldn't give yourself time to rest?"
Naruto bit her lip hard, almost enough to draw blood. The pain keeping her from blushing at the memory of Shikamaru fucking her on top of the roof of her apartment. All the while aware that anyone on patrol could stumble on them, hell, anyone that was a ninja really. The low light of the moon would not have hidden much of what was happening, Naruto on four legs with an incredibly hot Shikamaru (yeah, she admitted- Shikamaru was fucking hot) pounding into her, both naked, their clothes strewn all over the floor around them.
Naruto's heart hadn't stopped beating into her ribcage the whole time from the fear and excitement of getting caught, she'd had to keep her senses extended for over a few miles around her apartment for any chakra signature approaching. Oh, did she mention she was under her sage mode? Talk about sensory overload, sheesh. Fortunately, Shikamaru had been holding her mouth shut with his hand, otherwise she was sure she'd have awakened the whole village with her screams of ecstasy. The whole thing had been an erotic thrill fest.
Just thinking about it was enough to make her…well horny. Which was another thing worth noting on this pregnancy journey. She was horny all the time lately. Good thing Shikamaru was always there to, uh, help her with that. She snorted inwardly; he was always eager for sex. He seemed to be just as horny as she was. Maybe his hormones were affecting him too? This time she snorted aloud causing Sakura to give her an odd look.
Naruto bit her lip harder, shook her head. "I was, uh…meditating," she said belatedly, crossing her arms to hide the fact she was pinching herself to keep from giggling madly, her heart felt like it would explode right then at how happy she was. Naruto's face twitched.
Sakura's face creased in worry. "Are you sure you're, okay? You face looks…strange. Here let me examine your temperature." She said reaching over.
That seemed to snap Naruto into reality. She quickly stood up and pretended to stretch. "I'm fine, Sakura, really. Anyways, when are the kids coming out? I'm getting hungry." And she really was. She could do with some seaweed salad right now. Yeah, another weird, surprising fact about this pregnancy, it was making her eat seaweed! No, scratch, it was making her enjoy seaweed, without being threatened. If she wasn't busy craving them so damn much, she'd have been disgusted with herself.
Anyways, she couldn't let Sakura use her chakra to examine her. She was too powerful not to detect the increase in estrogen and progesterone levels within Naruto's chakra (she was glad for all the research she'd done on pregnancies).
Sakura huffed, "we've only been here fifteen minutes." She looked her up and down, her expression sceptic. "Are you sure you're good to do this? Your face looks a little flush and you're sweating a bunch. Why don't you remove your jacket?"
Naruto swiped at her forehead and noticed that, yes, she was sweating. Removing her jacket was out of the question, though, better be safe than sorry. Her body would just need to bear with the heat. "S'kay," she waved a hand towards the building in front of them, "when are the rodents coming out?" she asked again, hoping Sakura would drop the subject. They'd both been sitting on the swing of the academy for half an hour and Naruto was already fed up.
Sakura huffed in exasperation, getting up to stand beside her. "How many times have I told you not to call them names? These are still developing minds; you are calling them names could impact them nega- "
Naruto waved her hand dismissively, "don't worry Sakura, I will personally deal with whoever tries to bully anyone with name-calling," she said, hitting her fist on her palm.
"That's not what I- "the pink-haired started but then shook her head, "never mind. They should be coming out now." On cue the bell rang indicating the end of the day at the academy.
"Alright!" Naruto cracked her knuckles, suddenly feeling energized. "This ought to be fun."
Green eyes narrowed in her direction, "remember they're only twelve, Naruto, don't be too hard on them."
"They're soon to be ninjas." Naruto rolled her eyes, stretching her limbs then cracking her neck. "At least some of them will be," she amended, then she slid a sly grin at her friend, "don't pretend you're not pumped over this. I know for a fact you don't like to mess around, no matter who you're facing."
Sakura tried to act indignant but the evil smirk slowly spreading over her lips told a different story. Giving up on her innocent pretense, she shrugged. "No pain, no gain."
"Remember, they're only twelve years of age, Sakura," Naruto tutted mockingly, her own grin stretching wide.
"Shut up." Sakura said with a laugh as they waited for their temporary pupils to come out of the huge academy building.
A moment later, Iruka sensei ushered about two dozen kids in front of them. Naruto waved cheerfully at her old teacher and received a wink in turn.
This year, the academy administration had decided to do things a little differently for the Genin test. Instead of the usual substitution and clone jutsu, this exam will be slightly different. A jounin would make a dozen clones of themselves while the students are required to spot the real one. As shadow clones were a specialty of Naruto's, the academy administration had asked her to help in the test. This would be an observation test so the students won't be interacting directly with any of the clones or herself, instead, they will be given a few seconds to study Naruto's current appearance then she would change a minor detail using the transformation jutsu technique. Students will be required to spot the difference and replicate Naruto's previous appearance, perfectly. Of course, this would be tested individually, and it would be a different transformation for each of them, they couldn't have the kids telling each other which difference to spot. They should have learned and practiced observational skills in class, this little test was just to see whether they could apply for it. A shinobi should be able to analyze a room or a situation at the blink of an eye. Good thing she'd managed to slightly tweak the seal so that her chakra doesn't give her any issues. She probably shouldn't have, but she was desperate and tired, not to mention she couldn't confide in anyone about this. At least not yet.
Sakura on the other hand will deal with the physical portion of the exams. Naruto sent a silent prayer to those little graduates-to-be, Sakura looked ready to knock some heads. Good thing she was the most powerful medic in Konoha in case something gets broken.
Not that Naruto herself wasn't gearing to go, she could barely handle her own evil cackles. Just because the exam sounded simple didn't mean she had to make it easy. She was going to make it so that the difference between the clones would be very hard to spot. A small laugh must have escaped her lips because a few kids gave her weary looks.
"Behave," Someone muttered, walking past her.
Naruto's heart skipped a beat as she recognized the owner of the voice. She looked up to see the back of Shikamaru's pineapple head. He was dragging his feet, with his shoulders slumped as he walked towards Iruka-sensei and the students, as if the weight of the world was on his shoulders. Not surprising, as he was under a lot of stress with all the work he had to do in the village.
"Man, he really doesn't want to be here," Sakura said next to her, amusement in her tone as she also watched Shikamaru.
Naruto snorted, "what else is new?"
As if he heard them, or maybe he just knew them too well. He looked up from his conversation with Iruka to roll his eyes at them.
"I still can't believe he and Temari-san broke up," Sakura said with a sigh, as she started her stretches while Iruka-sensei gave the kids instructions on what was expected of them today with Shikamaru watching and listening on the side. "I was really rooting for them."
Naruto grimaced at her friend's words, her stomach roiling at the guilt that always appeared at the mention of the Sand Kunoichi's name. She hadn't been courageous enough to ask Shikamaru about what had happened with Temari-san during the Sand siblings' visit in the village. She realized it probably made her sound terrible for not even expressing concern considering the nature of their visit in the village, but she feared of what Shikamaru would tell her if she'd asked. Cowardly? Maybe, but their relationship was already unusual as it was; she didn't want to make everything awkward by talking about his ex. Also, she didn't know if the break-up was official or not.
"Yeah, it sucks." Naruto said lamely, she wanted to throw up of how fake she sounded to her own ears. She wished her friend would shut up about the subject already.
"I wonder what's going to happen to them both," Sakura mused worriedly, "Temari-san still has to appease the council in the sand village and Shikamaru has his own clan to worry about."
Naruto lifted her hand to run her stomach before aborting the action in time, she found herself doing that more often, especially when she felt slight flutters of nerves. At least she told herself they were nerves.
"Do you think keeping his relationship with Temari-san would have been best in terms of everything?" She asked as she watched Shikamaru help Iruka-sensei direct kids in their respective positions. She was sure she wasn't the only one that could spot the exhaustion surrounding him, her worries were confirmed with Sakura's next words.
"It can't be easy being him right now, a lot of people seem to be expecting a lot of things from him, I don't blame him for wanting one less burden in his life." Sakura said following Naruto's eyes and missing the flinch the blond reacted at her words. "No wonder he looks more exhausted than usual."
Naruto could feel her guilt increase for different reasons, I'm one of those burdens, she thought sickly bile rising to her throat. With a groan, she quickly announced she had to use the bathroom before rushing out of there. She made it in time before emptying the contents of her stomach in the toilet. She grimaced after she was done, emerging from the stall as she found her reflection in the bathroom mirror.
"What the hell am I doing?" she wondered aloud. Just when she was starting to believe she could do this, reality had other plans. This pregnancy was not only ruining her life, but also the lives of others. A lot of people would be affected by her decision to keep this baby. She was stupid to believe that she could handle this; her dreams and her future don't seem so attainable anymore. Jiraiya had always called her a fool for believing in the impossible.
"Guess you were right, old pervert," she whispered sadly to her reflection as a drop of tears slid down one cheek followed by another. Before long, she was bent over the sink and was sobbing at how complicated everything was.
/ / /
Shikamaru watched Naruto play with the food on her plate worriedly. "Is the food not to your liking? Should I give you something else?"
Naruto glanced up to stare at him blankly, "what?"
He nodded towards her plate. "You haven't touched your rice nor your vegetables, you don't like them?"
Naruto looked down at her plate as if only now noticing she had food in front of her. She grimaced, sitting up and pushing the plate away. "The food is fine, I'm just not really hungry."
Shikamaru sighed in exasperation, "how many times do I have to tell you, Naruto, you must eat some- "
Naruto abruptly stood up from the table. "I'm exhausted, could I go lie down on your bed for a bit?"
He frowned at the blonde's odd behavior, since they'd left the academy, she'd been weird around him. It took a lot convincing for her to even agree to come to his place so he can make her something light, to replenish whatever she'd lost throwing up in the toilet at the academy. "of course, you don't need to ask."
"Thanks," Naruto mumbled as she made her way towards his room, her expression seemed miles away. Before she could pass him, though, Shikamaru took her hand, stopping her.
Shikamaru studied her expression that had turned in surprise, slowly he leaned towards her, giving her time to pull away or push him if she wanted to, he kissed her. Soft and moist, he didn't deepen the kiss, content in waiting Naruto out. A moment later, the blonde let out a soft sigh against his lips as her hands lifted to cup his cheek, she opened her mouth to allow him access. The kiss went on for a while, when they pulled away, they were both panting.
"Better?" Naruto asked, smiling teasingly.
"Idiot," Shikamaru bumped his forehead softly against hers. "I should be the one saying that."
Naruto chuckled softly, before sighing again; this time she sounded tired. She pulled away softly, her eyes seemed sad as she met his gaze before closing them. "I'm really sorry, Shikamaru, but I really just need to lie down."
He nodded in understanding; though he had no clue what was going on with her. Was she not feeling well? Was it pregnancy? He watched her disappear into his bedroom, closing the door behind her. At least she wasn't leaving, he consoled himself, at least not yet. Two weeks had passed by since he'd gotten back from his mission. He'd made sure to spend as much time as possible with her whenever he was free; things had gotten very interesting between them.
Physically, they've gotten much closer than before. They've had countless sex since he'd been back. It seemed that they both couldn't get enough of each other. Which was all well and good, but unfortunately Shikamaru was starting to feel that they were growing further apart emotionally. Of course, they talked about regular stuff, what each of them had been up to, about the situation in the village, they've even mentioned a few of their friends during their conversations. Unfortunately, nothing on a deeper level.
They barely mentioned the pregnancy other than when Naruto was feeling discomfort with her chakra or when she needed to throw up and she would throw complaints like "I can't use my chakra because I'm being leeched from!" and "being pregnant sucks!" Shikamaru had no comment on the second one choosing to believe her since he couldn't imagine what she went through daily, but the first comment worried him a little. Not only that the pregnancy was affecting her chakra, which was really worrying because Naruto was the one person that should never need to complain about chakra at all, but the fact she referred to the womb growing in her as a "leech". That wouldn't have worried him usually except for the fact he'd heard that word mentioned a couple of more times. He'd tried talking to her about it and even suggested a few times that they both go to his aunt's clinic at her discretion, Naruto wouldn't even acknowledge him on this. Except for that day in her bedroom, she hadn't let him touch her stomach since. Shikamaru wasn't an expert on either pregnancy nor motherhood, but he was pretty sure Naruto avoiding her pregnancy and giving the growing baby inside less than savory names was unhealthy. Her mood swings were even more worrying, she'd go from being happy to sad for random reasons. He wasn't sure what to do, it was frustrating because they weren't even talking about those issues.
Sighing, he stood to put away the uneaten food. Hopefully, Naruto be would up for some food when she woke up. For now, he would catch up on some paperwork.
"Naruto." Shikamaru murmured, his voice coming out like an exhale in her ear as he slid in and out of her.
Naruto's body shuddered underneath him spreading her legs wider around him to allow easier access into her. "Yes, yes, yes!" She cried gripping his shoulders tightly as he hit the pleasurable spot in her repeatedly.
"Naruto," Shikamaru moaned loudly in her ear before his body tensed and he came inside her. He quickly pulled out before inserting his two fingers inside her, sliding them in and out. He lowered his head to plant soft kisses inside her left thigh, each one getting closer to vulva. Naruto's breath hitched knowing what was coming, she opened her legs eagerly to encircle his neck and her hands ran through his hair, a wordless invitation. Shikamaru chuckled and opened his mouth to let his tongue slide along her clit and sucking the inside of her vulva while his fingers continued to slide in and out of her vagina.
Naruto's hands gripped his hair tightly while she blabbered words of encouragement and appreciation. A moment later he slid his fingers out of her and replaced it with his tongue sliding it in and out. Naruto buckled, the pleasure becoming too overwhelming she instinctively pulled away. Instead of pulling her back as should be the natural response, Shikamaru instead followed her on all four with half-lidded eyes filled with pleasure and tongue out and ready to dip his head back and continue his torturous pleasure in her opening, for a second he resembled a dog eager for food which should have been funny and ridiculous but instead made her inside flip and her body shudder in pleasure. Shikamaru was awakening parts of her she didn't know existed.
"Shikamaru I-" Naruto gasped on the verge of climax, her toes curled, and she was faintly aware that her grip on Shikamaru's hair tightened, a moment later she felt her body give out as she came. Shikamaru didn't immediately let go of her, he continued licking and sucking her entrance until there was nothing left of her cum. After he was done, he lifted his head to give her a one-over. His expression was one of satisfaction, most likely at the quivering mess he'd made of her. Naruto scowled at him for a second before giving up the pretense, she chuckled instead.
Shikamaru dragged himself to lay beside her and turned sideways to face her, grinning. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing, really." She smiled softly, "Just our whole situation, I would never have imagined a world in which Shikamaru Nara would ever give me head." Or be the father of my child, Naruto thought, her smile fading as she turned to stare at the ceiling. She'd been thinking a lot about their predicament lately, but also trying hard not to think about it if that made any sense. For now, she could get away with hiding her condition, but that wouldn't last in the long run. Although, she had bigger worries than hiding her pregnancy from the world. There are lots of things to consider when preparing for a child, financially she was less than ready and emotionally… well, she is still a teenager so no she was not ready on that front either. Her eyes trailed the cracks on her ceiling with a frown, this apartment had been her solace from everything she experienced outside. When the villagers' mistreatment of her got too much for even her to bounce back from, she'd come back to this apartment and find solace in the one place she knew belonged to her. But she couldn't imagine this being a safe place to raise a child or let alone bring a baby in it, she would need to find a nice apartment fit for a child to live in with heating and no loud hateful neighbors.
She felt warm hands run up and down her arm, causing her to shiver. What about Shikamaru, is he really going to put his future on pause to help her raise a child? His clan certainly wouldn't sit by and let him shirk his duties to play house with her.
Shikamaru kissed her shoulder, pulling her out of her thoughts. "I keep telling you to stop thinking so hard, you're not good at it. That's my thing so don't try to copy it."
Naruto rolled her eyes to look at him, "you're not so good at it yourself, you know, in fact you look like a butt when you're thinking hard like this," Naruto scrunched up her face with her hands on both cheeks and pursed her lips.
Shikamaru laughed and pushed her lightly, "I do not look like that, moron."
Naruto grinned, "how would you know?"
"Because if I did," Shikamaru pushed her down on the bed and climbed on top of her, he kissed her nose lightly, fingers brushing blonde hair from her face, "I doubt you'd want to have sex with a butt-faced looking guy." To prove his point, he started grinding on her lightly, Naruto gasped her legs automatically going around him.
Naruto ran her fingers down Shikamaru's back, her eyes running over his face, "I don't know about that, you already look like a butt, and I still let you fuck me. Who knows, maybe Butt-faced guys are my types." She groaned when Shikamaru bit into her neck, sucking lightly to sooth away the sting. "Butt-faced guys with neck fetishes."
Shikamaru lifted his head to give her an unimpressed look, causing her to grin then lean forward to give him a deep tongued kiss, he immediately opened his mouth inviting. His hands roaming all over her body creating sparks somewhere she desperately needed to fill with life. Naruto unconsciously clung to him tightly, wanting to mend their body together. Scared that if she let him go, she would fall and never be able to get up.
Unfortunately, like all good things the kiss came to an end because of course they needed to breathe. Naruto groaned in disappointment when Shikamaru pulled away, they were both panting slightly. To her further disappointment Shikamaru lifted himself up from above her and got off the bed, she groaned again this time she made sure to add on a pitiful whine. "Can't we just enjoy one last round before you leave?"
Shikamaru chuckled, as he looked around for his clothes. "We've been in bed all morning, Naruto, we need to get ready and face the day ahead," he paused in thought, "did that sound weird to you as it did me?"
Naruto nodded with a disturbed frown, "yeah, who's converting who here? Next thing you know you'd wear orange and enjoy five bowls of ramen if you're not careful."
"Don't even joke about that," Shikamaru gave a disgusted shiver, he put on his jounin pants and looked at her. "I'm going to go home and shower then we'll meet up in an hour in front Tanazo's supermarket, okay?"
Naruto looked up in confusion, "meet up?"
Shikamaru avoided her gaze as he put on his shirt over his head, "I, uh, spoke to my aunt she's agreed to see us this afternoon. It was the only convenient time for us as the clinic will be mostly empty and most of the nurses will be on lunch."
Naruto sputtered, her face turning red, "why would you make an appointment with discussing with me first?"
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, "We have discussed it two weeks ago if you remember correctly, but then you just kept procrastinating despite the fact that you don't have mission or anything as pressing keeping you from doing a checkup."
"So, you decided to take matters into your own hands?!" Naruto squawked, her face turning red from anger, "you have no right to make that decision without my say so, no right! I told you I was going to do it in my own time."
"And when would it have been?" Shikamaru asked with exasperation, "in another two weeks? A month or you were going to stall until your term is up?"
Naruto scowled, "I wasn't going to wait that long, I was just waiting until- "
"Until what?" Shikamaru asked with a touch of impatience, "until you start showing? Until you lose more weight by puking each day? Or until you can no longer close your eyes to this situation?"
"Until I'm fucking ready, okay!" Naruto shouted in frustration, "so what if it's taking me a bit longer to get used to this messy situation? I just found out about this, is it so bad that I want to wait just a little longer before I need to deal with it all?" To her immense horror her eyes started misting and she quickly pulled the sheet over her head to hide, but also to keep from looking at Shikamru's expression. She knew she was probably acting like a small child, her excuses probably sounded like shit, but she didn't care.
She heard a sigh and shuffling of feet before the bed dipped. "Listen, Naruto, I can't really imagine what it's like for you, but I can probably guess that it sucks. But remember I said we will figure this out, and for that to happen we need to take it one step at a time. This step is needed for us to move forward to the next step." There was a stretch of silence to which Naruto assumed he was waiting for a reply, she stubbornly kept silent while she cursed her hormones for the silent tears streaming down her face. "I know that you'd like nothing but to pretend you're not pregnant, but reality is a bitch, and you should get used to it by now. I've never known you to be a coward so don't start now."
That made Naruto come out of her cover to gape at him in shock. Shikamaru lifted one eyebrow, "surely you didn't really expect me to coddle you, did you?"
"I expected some empathy from you, you asshole!" Naruto fumed sitting up and gripping the sheets around her, her tear streak face forgotten in lieu of her anger.
Shikamaru nodded patiently, and Naruto wanted to deck him or kiss him, maybe deck him then kiss him she didn't know which her feelings were all over the damn place. "I completely emphasize with you, which is why I avoided pushing on the subject for the last two weeks. I even let you get away with calling our baby leech even though it sickened my stomach each time. Watching you avoid this pregnancy makes it hard for me to also get used to all this," he made a lazy gesture with his hand indicating everything around them, her included. "It's been hard on me too."
At this Naruto's anger was replaced with shame, "I didn't mean- "
Shikamaru touched her thigh lightly, "I know you didn't, and I know this situation is less than ideal. But it is stupid to go about it blind the way you want to keep going, we need information and help from a specialist. I don't know anything about kunoichi being pregnant but even I know whatever is happening with your chakra can't be good. I need to at least know why you can't hold anything down." With that he stood up, having said everything he needed to.
"You should start getting ready, we meet in an hour." He paused at the door in thoughts, "put on some civilian clothing and leave your Shinobi headband just to be safe,"
Naruto was left staring at her lover's back in stunned with only one question in her mind. Was it wrong that she was currently feeling turned on right now?
She groaned falling back on the bed, fucking hormones for turning her into a lustful spycho, fucking Shikamaru for being a righteous bastard and fucking pregnancy for upending their lives. Why the fuck did she even bother with those birth control pills if they were completely useless?
An hour and a half later both Shikamaru and Naruto were sitting in the waiting area with six other women in various state of pregnancy. Both she and Shikamaru were the only two young ones, she felt out of sorts, but she imagined that the pineapple-haired felt worse as he was the only guy in that ward. She glanced at him only to find him already asleep, her left eye twitched in annoyance. They'd arrived less than ten minutes ago!
She would have pinched him if she wasn't still mad at him earlier, but mostly mad at herself for not considering that he could also be having a hard time with the whole pregnancy ordeal. The guy went through a break, then ended up having sex with one of his friends, only to have that friend end up with an unplanned pregnancy. The only person unluckier than him is herself who ended up pregnant with the first person she was ever curious enough to have sex with.
She grimaced, crossing her arms she decided to think of something else before she went down a self-pity road. She looked around at the women again, one woman caught her eyes due to being heavily pregnant. She looked like she was due at any moment's notice. But despite all appearance she seemed at ease, sitting on the bed and reading a fashion magazine out of all things. Was this what she would look like in a few months? She grimaced, glancing at the watch on the wall across from her and almost groaned, it had only been a couple of minutes. She tapped her foot impatiently; she was getting hungry, not to mention the smell of the disinfectant used to clean the floors was giving her a headache.
When they' arrived, they'd given the receptionist two fake names as per Shikamaru's aunt's order. She'd even hid her whisker marks to keep anyone from recognizing her, since that was her most distinctive feature that even civilians can recognize her by. They were both shown to the waiting room, where they've been sitting ever since. That was… Naruto glanced up at the watch again and slumped in her chair, just fifteen minutes ago. Not long enough for her to go and back to the receptionist and asked that she see the bloody doctor. Especially since they are six women that were here before her and were probably kept waiting for much longer.
"First visit?"
Naruto looked up from picking her cuticles to see the heavily pregnant smiling at her. She grinned back, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly. "Is it that obvious, uh?"
The woman smiled wider, "a little bit." She glanced at the sleeping Shikamaru curiously, before returning her gaze to hers. "I presume you are first parents?"
Naruto wanted to shake her head but stopped herself when she realized that, yes, they were in fact going to be parents soon. That's what giving birth usually meant parenting them. She blinked in a daze, "uhm," was the only sound she could manage.
The manager smiled in sympathy, "don't worry," she said rubbing at her bulging at her stomach, "you get used to it eventually. Kind of. It took me six months after my first one was born before I could feel like a parent."
It was Naruto's turn to look at her curiously, "So that's you second child?"
The woman shook her head, "She's my fourth one." Naruto must have made some kind of horrified expression, because the woman let out a tinkling laugh. "I know what you're thinking, who in their right minds would choose to do that to themselves not once but four times, right?"
"Well, yeah," Naruto blurted out, not being known for tact, "I've just started my term and I'm already sick of it. I haven't been able to eat, sleep, walk the same since it started. Everything I do feels like I'm expanding energy for a whole army, and I've expanded energy for a whole army without breaking a sweat! But this pregnancy has defeated me in ways I can't explain, hell, even my poop doesn't come out the same way it used." She ranted, unaware that she had all the women in the waiting area watching in amusement.
"You know the worst part of all this?" she continued, not waiting for a reply. "I can't eat my favorite meal in the whole world anymore without emptying my gut out, brutal I tell you." She finally became aware that she had gathered attention to herself, she blushed, "oops, was that TMI?"
It was the woman sitting on her left that answered, "Well, if it makes you feel any better, I get really bad leg cramps in the evening and I can't stay awake for more than five minutes when I'm on the bed to my husband's dismay."
Somebody else pitched in at this, "I more than once fell asleep during sex with my boyfriend, after the last time he'd reigned himself to counting on his hand to do the job." That one had two third of the women nodding in agreement.
"I can't sleep on my sides anymore without the pain." The heavily pregnant woman offered with a smile.
After that the women spent the rest of their time sharing their experience and complaints about either their current or previous pregnancy. Even the newcomers were happy to join. Naruto found that all the complaints were good-natured, most of them were quite content with things as it was. When she asked them why, they were all in agreement when one answered that giving life to their child and watching them take those first few breaths was worth all the pain and discomfort in the world. Although nobody negated that pregnancy phase sucked ass.
Shikamaru slept all through the commotion until they were finally called into the doctor's office. Naruto bid goodbye to all the women with a bow and a smile, thanking them.
"Had a nice nap?" Naruto teased as they knocked on the doctor's door waiting for a reply.
"How could I when there were stories of uncontrollable bladder and intense constipation to listen to?" Shikamaru muttered sarcastically, then he smiled teasingly, "though I did enjoy the story about the woman that could get an orgasm with nothing more than a brush of her breath. Something to remember in the future."
Naruto rolled her eyes, "Of course you did, pervert."
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Shikamaru's aunt was named Mezuki Nakamura. She was in her late to early forties. Shikamaru had told her that she married out of the clan to a civilian. She'd given up being part of the clan after a few disagreements with her folks and had moved to this side of the village to stay with him. She'd opened a clinic with the little medic-nin skills she had from her time as a chunin. He also said that even though he called her aunty she was actually his very distant cousin who used give him dumplings when he was little by the time he grew up knowing that fact he'd already been used to calling her aunty Mezuki, he had felt it troublesome to change that reference.
So, Naruto decided to also refer to her as such.
Aunt Mezuki was a dark-haired woman, with a short stature and very kind eyes. Naruto felt at ease in her presence immediately. She asked Naruto questions concerning her health but nothing too invasive. Naruto didn't know what Shikamaru had told her about their situation, but whatever it was it didn't show on the doctor's face. She was nothing but patient and kind although a bit too quiet.
She was asked to do a few tests, which was not too bad except for the pissing in the cup part which Naruto refused to do with Shikamaru in the room, his answer was an exasperated reminder that he'd seen everything there was about the blonde's body and that he had even tasted it to her complete mortification.
"Shikamaru, if she doesn't want you to see her take a piss in a cup then that's her choice. Remember what we spoke about choices?" Aunt Mezuki said her voice soft and expression not unkind, with a grumble Shikamaru had promptly left the room. Naruto decided that she really liked this aunt Mezuki.
And now they were at the part they'd both been dreading and anticipating. The Sonogram.
Next to her Shikamaru shifted, she assumed that he was just as nervous as she was. This was the moment that everything became real.
Naruto laid on the bed, her stomach exposed and trying hard not to fidget as Shikamru's aunt applied cold gel on her stomach just below her navel, rubbing the sticky substance.
"Ready?" The doctor asked after she was done.
Naruto took a deep breath glancing over at Shikamaru, his brown eyes were startling clear as he met her gaze and gave her a weak smile. If the smile was meant to be encouraging it completely as Naruto could see the fear behind it. She swallowed, then nodded wanting to get it over and done with.
"Just relax and take a deep breath," Doctor Mezuki said lifting a wand-like looking device and ran it slowly over her Naruto's stomach, "this is a transducer, it sends sounds waves into your body. The gel prevents air from getting between the device and your skin, which would block the sound waves from entering your body. "The doctor explained. "The sound waves will then turn into images from your body, this will show on the small screen in front of us."
"Right," Naruto didn't particularly care about the explanation, but she was grateful for it. It helped distract her from the nerves, which Naruto suspected was the doctor's intention.
"Here we go," they all turned to watch the screen that would display their baby.
It took a few seconds before anything could happen. First there were sounds filling the room, it took Naruto a second to recognize it as heartbeat, albeit it was a bit accelerated.
"The fetal cardiac activity is sound and healthy," the doctor muttered, and Naruto let out a breath she didn't she'd holding. "Oh."
Naruto tensed at the doctor's exclamation, next to her Shikamaru moved forward.
"What is it?" He asked, and Naruto thought he sounded she a tad bit breathless.
"Hm," The doctor said, squinting at the screen. "You're much further along than I thought you'd be considering your weight."
Naruto too squinted at the screen, wondering how could the doctor tell anything from the moving blobs on the screen. "What do you mean? Isn't it just a month? I mean I only started vomiting about two or three weeks ago."
The doctor hummed, "the symptoms doesn't always show right away, it takes weeks for some women others don't even have display any symptoms until they're into their third trimester. Considering you're an unusual case, it's not surprising it took you some time to notice anything was amiss. From the shape of the fetuses and the sound of both heartbeat I'd say you're about twelve weeks into your term, almost into your second trimester."
Naruto blinked, twelve weeks. Couldn't be, she and Shikamaru hadn't really started having more than a month ago and it was not like they were having daily sex. There were times they didn't see each other for a week or two due to Shikamaru being on missions. She thought hard, twelve weeks that would be when she was last on a mission, she knew that because she had it marked on her calendar to pester the hokage daily to send her on a mission, but that had also been the first time she and Shikamaru had had sex the night before. Shit.
She looked up at Shikamaru who hadn't said anything to see if he knew about this the whole time, (because there was no way he hadn't come to that conclusion before coming here) when noticed his extremely pale expression.
"What," He breathed, taking a step back, "did you say?"
His aunt gave him a sympathetic smile with a touch of concern in her eyes, "Congratulation, you are both having twins."
Shocked? Yeah, me too.
All I can say is I'm story for taking this long to get back to you guys. When I started this story, I was much younger and a big Naruto fan. Don't get me wrong, Naruto will always have a special place in my heart but the thing about growing up is you sometimes don't view the things you love the way you used to. But I did say that I wouldn't give up on this story even if it took me years, so I decided to update this chapter for all the people that haven't given up on Troublesome Hormones as well.
Hopefully you enjoyed it and I apologize if it is a bit rough, it took me a bit of getting used to the characters again.
Someone once asked me to write side pairings as well and include the characters' POV, I'm not sure that would be possible. Shikamaru and Naruto are the focus of this story, other characters will be mentioned and some of them will have POV but as you've previously read, but it'll only be to evolve the plot or the two main characters relationship. If you're looking for other love pairings I suggest to find them elsewhere.
Okay, enough said, until next time.