Hello, well. This is the first fanfic that I've wrote here, like ever. It has been a long time since I last wrote fanfictions so I feel quite abashed :" However, English is not my first language although I'm an English Literature student (haha, unnecessary information.. but still), so pardon for my advances grammatical error.

I do not own the Legend of Korra, but I think I do own the main idea of the fanfiction. Enjoy, and please review because I'm going to need that!

The Bundle of Joy

By irismoirae

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"When did the last time I bled…?"

Asami Sato repeated the question that Korra asked with a blank face. She closed her eyes, tried to calculate the days of her monthly duty. She could not remember it clearly, but she was sure it was around two or three months ago.

Nope. She remembered it clearly. It was nearly a month before Iroh was deployed to Ba Sing Se.

Korra, who was standing across her, began to fidget impatiently. She could not believe that her friend, best friend, was this slow, and Asami called herself the inventor of New Future Industries. Could not she take a hint? After all, the missing of the monthly bleeding was not the only hint that the black-haired girl got.

"Are you finished calculating, slowpoke?" Korra finally opened her mouth, "Now should I make the conclusion or should I leave you for another thirty minutes to sum everything up?"

Asami still starred blankly at the wooden floor of the Air Temple Island.

She came here firstly in the morning to meet Korra and asked her to heal her. She started to feel unwell for several days and every food she ate would ended up be flushed down in the toilet. She felt every body part of her was swollen. Not mention the fatigue that kept making her restless. Korra was practically the best healer she knew because she did not have to wait in line to get checked, plus she was a close friend.

"Hello, earth to Asami, are you here?" Korra snapped her fingers in front of Asami's face. The raven-haired girl startled of the sudden sound at first, but she began to recompose herself. However, she still could not shake off the shock that shown on the expression of her face.

"Am I…"

"Pregnant?" Korra decided to cut her, "Yes, you are. Two and half months."

And then, Asami blew a deep breath through her nostrils she did not know she held. She buried her face in her palms. It was not like she did not like the news; she was happy, but also frightened, and excited, and scared, and thrilled. It was the news that she did not expect. Her being pregnant was the last thing in her mind. She thought it was a very usual cold or eating disorder as she was quite busy with her work at the New Future Industries.

"What should I do?" Asami's voice snuffled, "What should I do, Korra?"

"..are you serious right now? Of course you need to tell that husband of yours, slowpoke!" Korra needed to press the urge to hit her best friend's head with rocks, "There's a phone in Tenzin's room. I'm gonna talk to him and you can use that after."

Asami tiptoed inside of Tenzin's room. She clutched on the old Airbender's phone like her life was depended on it—and ironically, her life did depend on it. She was going to tell her husband, the General of the United Forces, the Crown Prince of Fire Nation, her beloved Iroh, about the news.

She was scared that Iroh would not like the surprise news. They already talked about having kids and decided that it was not the wisest thing to do right now because of their works. She did not want to give him any burden, especially when he was deployed to do an important mission in a foreign country.

She took a deep breath and finally rang the phone. She waited for the line to connect by unconsciously biting her bottom lips. She never felt so nervous before.

The sound of the phone being picked up made Asami gasped.

"Hello, this is General Iroh, can I help you?" the deep voice of the General which usually soothe her, weirdly made her almost choked on her own saliva, "…Hello?"

"..Iroh? This is Asami," she tried to sound as cheerful as she usually sounded, but the tremble failed her, "Is this a bad time?"

"Asami? It is not like you to call at this hour." the General sounded a little bit worried, "Anything wrong, dear?"

"No, it's okay. It's just.. Do you remember what we said about having kids this early in our marriage and you—well, we—said now is not a good time and then we agreed to not having kids until at least next year?" Asami did not realize that she talked really fast right now. Thankfully, the General was paying full attention to her and he could catch her entire words.

"Yes.. and what is the connection of that event to this event?"

"Well.. I am.. sort of.." she sighed again, "..pregnant."

There was a silence. A long, long silence, between the two. Asami curled the cable of the phone, tried to calm her beating of the heart down. Would he like it? Would he feel that he was being forced to like it? It was not like he could hate her for it but still..

"Are you serious, Asami?"

"I am.. I am," Asami sounded so desperate right now, "I have Korra confirmed it not ten minutes ago."

"Well.. that was… good," Iroh took a gap before he continued, "Actually, it was fantastic! Are you serious Asami? Oh my God, are you really pregnant with my child? Do we really have a child together? How old is the baby right now? When will you due? What should we name the baby?"

Frankfully, the response of the General made Asami speechless. She never heard her husband this enthusiastic after she gave a yes to his wedding proposal. Still, the response made her relieved.

"It's two and half months right now.. I do not know yet, silly. Whoa—you want to jump to names already? Calm down, General!" she finally chuckled.

"Sorry, being too happy right now. Good thing that I'm in my personal chamber right now." Asami could hear that the General was also holding a laugh, "But don't worry. I'll arrange something so I can be back before you due.. in six months, right?"

"That would be correct, General."

"So.. see you, darling. I'm so happy right now! I think I could not sleep this night!" Iroh said, "Ah, I'm sorry, 'Sami, but I have an important meeting in two minutes. I'll call you later, okay?"

"Okay, see you later, Iroh. Bye."

And with that, she hung up. Smiled was spreading across her face. Now that she knew her husband would not hate the sudden pregnancy news, she could relax and focus on being a great mom for the next.. eternity.

Well, that's the first chapter. What do you think?

Please review and I'll try my best to make it better! Also if you want to give any idea about how will the two lovebirds cope with the pregnancy months.. let me know!

X,

irismoirae