16"They're here!" Lee stuffed whatever supplies he needed hastily into his travel pack, scrambling to throw on his holster, vest and weapons pouch all at once. Hoisting it all up onto his shoulders, he almost ran out of the bedroom door, nearly running into the guests.
"Morning Sakura. Morning Tenten," he panted, shifting the weight to a more comfortable spot on his shoulder, "Thanks for coming to look after Kyra while I'm gone." They both smiled up at him as they linked arms with their pregnant friend.
"No problem Lee."
"We'll keep her under careful watch,"
"And keep we'll her from leaving the house." They continued to smile as Lee struggled to throw on his sandals by the door, Kyra rolling her eyes at the two of them. Lee finally managed to slip his feet into their correct sandal before turning back to the three of them. Kyra broke the linked trio and stood in front of him.
"See you in three days," he said, bending down to her slightly shorter height and kissing her affectionately. "Be careful, okay?"
"I should be saying that to you," she replied, giving him one last hug before he headed out the open door. "Love you!" she shouted after him; he turned back and shouted back the same reply as always.
"Love you too!" He meant it. She closed the door behind him, turning to what he thought were her jail keepers; She thought of them as her partner's in crime. All rushing to crowd into the kitchen at the same time, her two friends sat down the table as she pulled out a mixing bowl and a new spatula.
"What is it today, girls?" she said, pulling a cookbook out from the drawer, "what type do you want this time for the movies later." She smiled as Tenten and Sakura began disputing over chocolate chip or sugar cookies for the movie they were all going to see later that evening. She timed them carefully with the clock on the wall; if they couldn't come to a compromise or decision, she would pick.
"Three, two, one…done!" she exclaimed, "looks like I'm picking tonight." She flipped the book open to a random page. "Looks like we're having peanut butter fudge cookies this time." The girls groaned from over at the table; Sakura didn't like fudge and Tenten didn't like peanut butter.
"Flip the book again!" Tenten whined, "Anything but that!" Kyra smiled and flipped the book again, landing on walnut cookies. Both Sakura and Tenten agreed as she pulled what she needed out of the cabinets. Time passed quickly as the three talked about anything from fashion, to training, to even Kyra's pregnancy.
"So have you and Lee picked any names?" Sakura stood on her right side, helping set the cookie dough on the trays. Tenten stood by the ovens, watching the temperature as it rose to the correct heat.
"Not really," Kyra said, "We haven't really talked about it to much." Tenten opened the oven door for the two of them to place the trays in.
"Boy or girl?" Kyra shrugged her shoulders as she set the timer. She sat on at the table and sighed, her hand on her stomach.
"I don't know," she replied, "But I'm hoping that either way, the child will be healthy." Tenten and Sakura sat next to her, changing the subject to keep them occupied till the cookies where done.
Sakura sat up on the sofa, still half asleep. She yawned and stretched her arms, regretting once again for losing and being stuck in the living room again. Today was the day that Lee was coming back from his mission, and the day she got back to her own bed again. She lay back, stretched out comfortably on the pillows and blankets, looking up at the light tan ceiling.
She heard Tenten in the guest bedroom turning on the creaky mattress. Somewhere outside, a dog starting barking at a cat on the fence; she wondered if it was Kiba and Akamaru on a walk. She closed her eyes as she heard Kyra's bedroom door open. Kyra's feet were hitting the floor louder than usual and she sat up again, her feet touching the cold wood floor. Pulling on the robe Kyra had let her borrow, she slipped her feet into her slippers and stood up. She nearly jumped as she heard something hit the table the hall and ran towards the door, throwing it open.
"Sakura-chan," She looked at Kyra as the woman leaned against the table, knocking over the vase of fresh carnations and sending them falling to the floor. Her hair was pulled back in a mussed up ponytail Leaned was breathing deeply with her hand on her stomach. Tenten burst through the door to the guest bedroom and stopped dead.
"Oh my god…"
Geez! I almost forgot to put my ote at the end of the chapter...Bad me! Thanks for reading guys! Tell me what you think of this chapter! Thanks to Cyber Porygon for being the first to put it on their alert list!
-Kyra Odayashi
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