100Hey, sorry it took so long. I realize how long it's been but i've been busy with school and home stuff and well death. I'm not going to ramble cause i just finished my finals today so i'm tired. But good new, i'm not winter break. Yah.
Hey, i'm thinking about changing the name of this. Maybe something like Super Human. What do you think?
Well, enjoy. It's not too good.
Sakura sat on the uncomfortable examination bed in the hospital. The room was quiet, as Sasuke was slumped in the chair behind her, zoning out. Sakura quickly glanced at her husband once more before looking back at the door, twiddling her thumbs and swinging her legs. She glanced out the window, and saw birds sitting on the telephone wire. She smiled to herself. It was almost déjà vu. Except the last time she was here pregnant like this, she was scared of how her sensei would take the news. Now, she felt calm.
The door opened soon after and Sakura smiled at her old sensei. The blonde was looking at the charts, but sensing Sakura's stare, looked up and returned the smile. "Well, just got the tests back. You're pregnant."
Sakura smiled and turned to smack Sasuke's arm. He jumped and nearly slammed his head into the wall. Sakura ignored this. "Did you hear that, babe? I'm pregnant."
He blinked and rubbed his eyes. "No shit, who would have thought?" he joked in a monotone voice.
Tsunade eyed him strangely with a hint of frustration in her stare. She took a frustrated breath and then turned back to Sakura. "Well, you are about five weeks along and everything checks out fine. So far, you look good. And of course you know its twins, I assume." She paused to see Sakura nod in confirmation. "Right, anyways, you look good.
"Now, you remember how the pregnancy thing goes, I assume. I will need to put you back on prenatal vitamins and I also want to monitor you closely. After how Kai was already advancing in the womb, I want to monitor you to see if it happens again."
Sasuke blinked in confusion. "But I thought that was such a rare thing. What are the chances that the twins will be that way?"
Tsunade tucked the chart under her arm and shrugged. "Well, for a regular couple, slim to none. But you two are not a regular couple. You both are two powerful shinobi. No two sannins have had children together-" Tsunade said before Sakura interrupted her.
"But we aren't sannin."
Tsunade continued like she hadn't been interrupted. "-and so no powerful children have been spawned like yours."
Sasuke blinked and leaned forward in his seat. He rested his elbow on his knee and then his head in his hand. "What do you mean?"
The blonde woman sighed. "What I'm saying is that you two are a powerful couple. So powerful, that we have no clue how powerful your children will be."
"But we aren't sannin," Sakura protested again, still stuck on that.
Both ignored her comment. "Well, why wouldn't they be normal?" Sasuke asked, his exhaustion making it difficult for him to follow Tsunade's logic like he usual does.
Tsunade sighed again, feeling like she was talking to two year olds. "Because you and Sakura both have strong chakras. When you reproduce, the child is a mixture of both of you, meaning that they get their genes from you as well as their chakra capability. When you two reproduce, two strong chakras are mixing together."
Sasuke nodded slowly. "But what does that have to do with the possibility that Sakura may have another complication like she did with Kai?"
Tsunade leaned against the counter behind her and shrugged. "Maybe nothing. It's such a rare complication that we haven't had a chance to study it and understand why it happens. For all we know, that was just Kai. But on the other hand, it might be because of whom the parents are that determine whether or not the complication occurs. We simply don't know."
Sasuke ran a hand over his face and then through his hair, a habit he did when he was frustrated. He groaned. "I still don't understand."
Tsunade nodded. "Okay, let me try to break this down. When Sakura was pregnant with Kai, she had a rare complication. This was a result of Kai being more advanced than most babies. In the womb, he was able to manipulate his own chakra and give Sakura chakra filled kicks and jabs whenever he didn't like what was going on outside the womb. This may be simply because he was a rare advanced prodigy.
"However, there is also a chance that it was more than that. It may have been because the mixture of both your genes and chakra created a child that was advanced enough to do this. Maybe, just maybe, it wasn't a strange occurrence. It may just have been that the mixture of the both of you makes such a powerful baby that they already start advancing in the womb."
Sasuke nodded slowly, rubbing his hand through his hair. "Well, say that it because the two of us. How do we know?"
Tsunade shrugged. "As of right now, the only way to find out is if the babies suddenly start advancing in the womb like Kai had. We can't screen them or anything so we just have to wait and see."
"But we aren't sannin," Sakura protested again, and both looked at her.
Sasuke blinked and shook his head. "And if they do, then what? Having one child like that is hard enough for Sakura to carry. What happens if both twins do it? How much danger would Sakura be in?"
Tsunade frowned. "Well," she said, pausing to think, "it definitely wouldn't be good. We would watch her very carefully and put her on bed rest. If it got to a very dangerous level, so that all three of them were in trouble, then we would deliver. Worse case scenario, of course."
Sasuke sighed. "Well that's comforting."
Tsunade stood up straighter. "Well, try not to worry about it now. Right now, she is healthy and so are the twins. If it comes to that, then we will worry about it. Until then, just try to enjoy the pregnancy."
Sasuke nodded, not completely happy with her answers, but not wanting to press the issue. Sakura frowned. "But we aren't sannin."
Tsunade eyed her. "Honey, you two are strong enough to be. Jiraiya and I just haven't officially handed down the titles."
"You're going to hand down the titles?" Sakura asked her sensei.
The blonde shrugged. "Maybe one day. We would always be the first sannin but you three would be the next generation. But don't worry about that," she said, waving a hand. "You're done. So hop off the table so your husband can jump up."
Sakura nodded and jumped off the table daintily. Sasuke slowly and sluggishly stood from his seat and moved over to the table. Sakura put her hand on his arm, trying to help him but he waved her off. He muttered an 'I got this', and she reluctantly let him go. He pulled himself up onto the table and looked at Tsunade, who was studying him.
She frowned, that frustrated look still in her eyes. She put Sakura's chart down and then grabbed Sasuke's. She studied it again. They had run extensive tests, and the couple had been there all day. The couple had dropped the kids off at Sakura's parent's house that morning before heading over to the hospital. It was now nearing five in the evening. Sasuke had endured test after test.
Tsunade frowned. "Well, I'm looking at all the results, and they are all clean. All the brain scans, blood tests, etc. Your blood pressure is a bit higher than the last time you were here, but that may be caused by the lack of sleep. I would diagnose it as insomnia."
Sakura frowned. "Insomnia is when a person has problems going to sleep or wakes up frequently in the night. He had insomnia before. Now he's not even sleeping at all. He's already on day ten of no sleep."
Tsunade looked at her student. It was always the hardest to talk to a patient when they were a doctor themselves. In this case, the doctor was just the concerned wife. "Well, it's a severe case."
"I don't care what it is. How are you going to treat it? Sleeping pills?" Sasuke deadpanned.
Tsunade looked back at him. "Well, it might be caused by an underlying condition, stress, something psychological, or any number of things really. However, most of the tests we have done have come up clean so we are just going to have to really investigate."
Sakura extended her arm and Tsunade sighed before handing over the chart. Sasuke watched as Sakura studied them, flipping pages calmly. They waited for several minutes before she lowered the folder in her hand and looked at her sensei. "So, what are we going to do?"
He rubbed his temples and then ran a hand through his hair again. He took a deep breath. "I really don't care what is causing it. I just want to sleep." At this point, it didn't matter to him. Although he was slightly offended that Tsunade had said that it could be psychological, most of it was going right over his head. Sleep was all that mattered to him and all this 'investigating' crap just seemed pointless.
Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "Impatient, are we? Is everyone in a hurry these days that they can't just sit still for a moment? Stupid people coming in with gaping wounds and they tell me to slap a band-aid on it," she grumbled to herself as she looked at charts. She sighed. "I can prescribe a very mild sleeping pill. We will see how that works for you for a bit and then see if we need to adjust the prescription."
Sasuke sighed and ran his hand through his hair again, not exactly happy with the situation. He shook his head in disbelief before looking at Tsunade with a blank expression. "So then, are we done?" His tone was almost dead, cold and detached.
The blonde women blinked in surprise and noticed his mood shift. Sakura looked at him as well. She could sense his silent anger, his patience wearing thin. He was upset, she could see it in the way his tired body was tense. She glanced at Tsunade, giving a silent plea to hurry this along. The blonde nodded.
"Yeah, I guess. If you don't have any more questions, just stop by the front desk and they will give you your prescriptions."
Sasuke nodded and didn't wait for either girl to answer. He jumped off of the uncomfortable table and marched to the door, pulling it open violently and letting it slam against the wall. He marched out of the door, disappearing from sight quickly.
Tsunade looked at her student, seeing the concern expression on her face. The blonde was concerned too, but she hid it from her face for the sake of the daughter she never had. She smiled comfortingly. "Well, he doesn't seem so tired anymore," she commented lightly.
Sakura nodded dejectedly. She gathered her bag and gave her sensei a hug. "Thank you for seeing us today. I know you're busy and you must have put off a lot to work with us all day."
Tsunade shrugged offhandedly. "Don't worry about it. Take care of yourself and those babies."
Sakura nodded with a small smile. "I will."
Sakura moved and followed her husband down the hall at a much saner pace. Tsunade frowned and moved over towards the door. She stopped, glancing behind the door to see that he had damaged the wall when he opened the door so violently. She shook her head, silently cursing him and his stupid strength.
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The couple had gotten their prescriptions and then picked up the kids before they went home. Sasuke hadn't exactly been in the mood to talk. His face was emotionless and he barely spoke a word to anyone. It was the same thing he did every time he was really upset. He pulls away from everyone. Sakura hated it when he did this. He went about his usual business and she was left to worry.
He had silently cooked dinner that night, barely functioning but refusing to accept help with his usual chores. He hadn't eaten a lot that night, though Sakura was always hounding him to eat. It had her very worried, fearing that he would start dropping weight again. But even as she hounded him, she couldn't get him to eat more than a few bites.
The evening past slowly, filled with silence and worry. After the two had put the kids to bed, Sasuke disappeared. Sakura sat on the couch for awhile, trying to focus on the book in her hands but couldn't because of all her anxious thoughts swirling around in her head. After reading the same sentence at least fifteen times in a matter of fifteen minutes, she groaned in frustration and put the book down.
She folded up the blanket that was previously been draped on her lap and turned off the small lamp before heading upstairs. The house was dark as she silently navigated through the halls, rubbing her still flat stomach that somehow was starting to feel different. No doubt she would be showing very soon. She absentmindedly noted that pregnancies tend to progress quicker after the first, not to mention that she was growing two little people inside of her instead of one.
She entered the dark bedroom, stopping when she noticed that the bathroom light was on. The door was cracked, letting a sliver of light fill the dark bedroom. She paused for only a moment before slowly moving over. She didn't bother knocking, but instead pushing the door open slowly.
She found Sasuke sitting on the bathroom floor, his head leaning back against the wall. His prescription bottle was sitting on the very edge of the sink countertop. He was staring at it blankly, but she could sense how much of a big deal the bottle was too him. She slowly sat down next to him and stared at the bottle.
After a few minutes, she looked at him. "What's wrong?" she asked in a whisper.
He said nothing.
She gently nudged him with her shoulder. "Babe, talk to me."
He was silent again. She sighed and was about to question him again when he pushed against the wall and stood in front of the sink, staring at the bottle like it was an alien invader. He braced himself against the counter, his grip so tight that his fingers turned white. She stared at him, waiting for him to speak.
"What is eating at you?" she asked when he said nothing.
"It has come to this," he muttered.
She stood up and leaned against his shoulder, watching their reflection in the mirror. "What are you talking about?"
He kept his stare away from her watchful eyes. "After all the things I've endured in my life, I'm so weak that I have to take pills to sleep. Sleep is such a simple thing. If I can't even sleep right, how in hell am I going to protect this family?" he muttered angrily.
She removed her head from his shoulder. "What are you talking about?"
The marble counter top underneath his grip cracked. Not enough to break it into pieces, but enough to alarm Sakura and scar the perfect sink. He snatched the bottle off the counter top and wrenched the cap off. Sakura gasped and moved quickly. She applied enough chakra into her hand to stop him from dumping the pills down the sink. She pried the bottle out of his hand carefully.
Once the bottle was out of danger, she dragged him away from the sink. She gently pushed him against the wall, reaching up to grab his face between her hands. He looked away, but she calmly told him to look at her. She repeated the command until he listened to her.
"Stop this right now. You are an amazing person and a damn good husband and father. You don't always have to be so strong. You aren't superhuman. You are only human, so weakness is allowed. That doesn't make you any less of a person."
He kept quiet. He looked up at the ceiling and the closed his eyes with a pained expression on his face. He reached up to gently grab her arms and tried to push her out of the way without hurting her. But she wasn't having it. She tore her arms out of his grip and pumped charka into her hands, quickly grabbing his hands and locking them above his head. He could have broken the hold if he wanted to, but he would never hurt her and she could always pump more chakra into her hands in order to trap him. But for extra measure, she nudged his legs apart and pressed her knee against the wall, directly under his sensitive parts. If he wanted to go anywhere, he was risking his future children.
He whimpered and hung his head. "You know, this is domestic abuse," he muttered in a defeated tone.
"You know I have never been very gentle," she said while trying to look at his face. His hair blocked her view.
He was silent for a long moment before he responded. "He hasn't responded," he muttered.
She blinked and tried to look at his face again with no further success. "What? Who?"
"Itachi," he muttered, his voice cracking a little. He took a deep breath. "We are always in touch with one another. Whenever I spend out a message to him, I get a response a day or two later. But it's been two weeks since I've heard from him. I'm worried," he explained.
Sakura hesitated and then dropped his grip on his hands and lowered her knee a little so that it was still between his legs but in no danger to hurt him. His hands fell limply at his side and his body sagged a little in response as well. Whether this was because of the subject or because he was too exhausted to hold himself up, Sakura wasn't sure.
"Your brother can look after himself. He's probably just busy with Akatsuki business," she tried to assure. He nodded helplessly, like he was trying to convince himself.
She gently grabbed a hold of his face, pulling him up to look at her. He stared at her with sad, tired eyes. She gave a sad comforting smile. "It is okay to be scared and worried, but you can't let it get the best of you. Whatever comes our way, we can handle it like we always have."
He nodded slowly. "Yeah, I think I'm just tired. It's making me irrational," he whispered.
She stroked his cheek tenderly. "You need sleep," she said and then detangled herself to grab the pill bottle. "Will you please take some?"
He stared at the bottle for a moment before nodding and stepping up to the sink. A clean glass sat at the rim of the sink and he slowly filled it up with warm water. He stared into the mirror for a moment before turning and extending his hand, palm up. Sakura opened the bottle and placed two of the small white pills into his hand. He quickly shoved them into his mouth and gulped down some water, not giving himself the chance to change his mind.
He breathed out deeply and then emptied the remaining water in the sink before reaching out to his wife. She settled in his grasp, tucking her head under his chin and wrapping her arms around his thin waist. They stayed like this for a long moment.
Finally Sakura pulled back slightly to look at him. She reached up on her toes to kiss him, a simple chaste kiss that spoke a thousand words. "Let's go to bed," she said as her hand moved from his back to his arm and glided down until she could intertwine her fingers with his. He nodded and together they slowly made their way over to the bedroom.
They hadn't bothered to switch on any lights, so when they switched off the bathroom light the room became pitch black to their unadjusted eyes. Using their senses and memory of the room to guide them, they made their way over to the bed. Sasuke removed his pants and then his shirt, which he handed to Sakura. She didn't want to bother with finding her pajamas so she stripped herself of everything besides her underwear and then pulled Sasuke's discarded shirt over her head. Now comfortable, they climbed into each other's arms.
Sakura, because of the pregnancy and lack of sleep she had been getting because of Sasuke, was asleep in moments. Sasuke took longer, gently stroking his wife's hair and lower stomach. He concentrated on the chakra signatures growing within her, much stronger now than he had expected them to be. Slowly his word began to cloud over and with almost hysterical delight, Sasuke let out a small laugh as he started to drift into some much needed sleep.
So yeah. review please.
And since i probably won't undate in time Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.