Theme: Gardening

Disclaimer: Remember, this is a FANfic.

Beauty surrounds us,

but usually we need to be walking in

a garden to know it.

It was four weeks along her pregnancy when she noticed something weird about her husband.

It wasn't like she intentionally stuck her eyes wherever he goes, she just couldn't help but notice it. It was hard not to.

It was when she came home from work in the hospital. As usual, she stopped by the market to buy some fruits and vegetables. Picked the nicest tomato of the lot and walked home. She stepped into their home and took off her sandals. Overall, nothing had happened and everything was normal.

Except the man kneeling on the floor on the corner that seemed to be staring holes into a plant she had never seen before.

She couldn't quite believe the sight of her husband hovering over a plant. She shook her head in disbelief and stared back at the door before turning to see if what she saw was still there.

It was.

"What are you doing?"

Her husband who normally sensed her before she even sets her foot to their house turned to her so quickly that she could only conclude that he was surprised to see her standing there.

He abruptly stood up and muttered, almost inaudibly, "Nothing."

Staring confused at her husband as he walked into the kitchen, she raised a brow and proceeded to join him at the kitchen, putting the fruits and vegetables in the fridge in an organized manner and then tossing her husband a tomato.

Three weeks after the strange sight of her husband doing something absurd, she just couldn't take it anymore.

She walked, more like, stomped into the living room. Although she was considerably angry, she still carefully stomped on the floor that was unpleasantly infested with plants.

"Sasuke!" she shouted with a glare.

Her husband, who looked quite busy with tending to a plant in the corner of the room, stopped working and stood up to face her.

"What?"

Feeling tired and angry at the sight of her house full of plants, she tried to calm her nerves before speaking, "Why are you trying to flood our house full of plants? I can't even reach you with these things in the way!" she just couldn't see why in the world her husband would do something so ridiculous.

After she saw her husband taking care of a plant for the first time, she had dismissed it as him taking a sudden and unexpected interest at gardening or something similar. The next week when she noticed the plants steadily growing in number, she assumed that her husband must have loved it and brought more to tend to it. Besides, there was nothing wrong with taking care of greenery and it wasn't doing any harm. That was her initial thought. Now, their house, their kitchen, their living room, their bedroom and even their bathroom was full of them! Their house was practically a forest! There wasn't any room to move at all. Pregnant as she was, she couldn't take the stress at thinking through how she had to walk their floor without damaging or bulldozing her way through the damned things.

She had enough!

She waited patiently for her husband's explanation, still glaring at him while crossing her arms. She really tried to understand why he did all this. She couldn't find one plausible explanation he could possibly have for it.

After a seemingly long minute of waiting for any kind of response, he finally said something.

"Ino said it'd be healthy for a pregnant woman to walk in nature often."

Her husband looked away, his face lit red as though he was embarrassed to say it.

She blinked once.

Twice.

Her jaw almost dropped at the confession. She didn't know if it was because she was pregnant, thus the hormones but, she was indescribably happy about what he just said.

"You-" she couldn't find anything to say. Her heart warmed and she could feel butterflies flying all around her stomach.

She grabbed the plants that prevented her from reaching her husband and gently set them aside until she was directly in front of him. Without a second thought, she hugged him and smiled.

"Thank you Sasuke."

She felt him hug her back before saying, "Thank you but the plants still needs to go." She said, irritated.

If you liked this, you might want to read Sarada's Delivery since this can be considered it's prequel.

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