It was three months after the wedding and Naruto wasn't complaining. Shodai forbid, she was not complaining. She loved every minute of being with Gaara and the citizens of Suna.

Sure, she missed her home however the people she had spent these few years with made Suna her new home. That and all the work they had done to the desert had done a lot of good.

As an off duty kunoichi, she didn't have much to do and Gaara forbid her from using much chakra if she could avoid it- so no training. But she was allowed to use her chakra for things like roof running or shunshin under the condition she didn't sprain her body.

Why was Gaara placing such restrictions on her you may be wondering? The day of their wedding Naruto had found out through Kurama that she was pregnant.

Author-san was a tad-bit upset when no one noticed with her subtle hints but back to the omake.

She had humoured her husband, not arguing as he fussed over her knowing why he was doing so. It wasn't because he thought her weak but because of what had happened to his mother.

With that in mind, she had made her mind up that she would allow him to do as he pleased this pregnancy and when she proved to him that she was not in any danger she might be able to get some leeway in the next pregnancy.

She often spent her time with Gaara anyway, helping him with council matters and the paperwork he had to do as well. Without Temari he had, at first, been at a loss however Temari had taught Naruto well.

Another thing Gaara had put a limit on was her experiments. She wasn't allowed to handle dangerous substances alone and if she did she had to have her chakra cloak activated at all time.

All in all, she found the terms and conditions pretty fair and easy to adapt to. Though she still went a bit overboard with the chakra thing.

Whenever she wasn't doing anything official she was working on her fuinjutsu. Once Gaara had walked in on her doing one and had asked what it was for and the answer had made him angry.

She had explained to him it was a jinchuriki seal. Should a situation occur where their bijuu or the bijuu of other jinchuriki came loose they would need a new host and her seal was the perfect thing.

Why was he mad? Because he didn't want to subject anyone to the life they had lived in their early lives. Which in hindsight made sense but she knew that ideology would get someone killed. He lost it even more when she said it was also precaution if something happened to her in childbirth.

Which created the situation she was currently in. He had taken to ignoring her and had it been a day or so she could have managed.

But it was over a week.

One whole week and he hadn't said a word to her. He didn't look at her, locked her out of the office, and wouldn't even go into their shared bedroom and his chakra from her to the point not even her senjutsu could reach him.

It hurt, more than she cared to admit. She had once told Gaara she feared people ignoring her, feared people would disapprove or hate her for what she was- for what she would do and here he was, practically slapping her fear in her face.

After the first day her blood ran cold and she was constantly throwing up, something she had not done even during the beginning of the trimester. It was a testimony for how scared she was.

She had tried approaching his office, however she was told by his guards she was not allowed in to see him and she had felt like crying into a corner, but she was a kunoichi with pride. However, when she returned to their home she hadn't gone into a corner to cry but their bedroom, waiting for him to come home but he never did.

If her husband was going to ignore she would simply make it easier for him to do so by leaving the country for a bit. She doubted he would even noticed her absence with the way he was going.

Now you may be wondering how she was going to get out of Suna without the gate guards notifying their kazekage?

One word.

Hiraishin.

She had come to Konoha mostly because Tsunade and Sakura were here and they were the best medics around. When she told Tsunade of her medical issues she had been forced into the hospital to seek immediate medical attention.

They had done over fifty different tests yet they had found nothing, despite the blood she was vomiting. Tsunade had said it might be due to stressing herself, worrying over the baby, and the seal having an effect on her.

Kurama had spoken insistently that he should be allowed to partake in some of her husband's flesh as he had once stated he would do should he ever hurt her and it had taken some time to convince him otherwise.

However after one week of being ignored in Suna and spending three days in Konoha catching up with her friends came a surprise.

Kakashi had been on duty to watch her but since he had hokage duties to attend to the two of them were in his office and she had decided to help him with his paperwork when a dishevelled, messily clothed and highly emotional godaime kazekage arrived via the window.

He was panting as he stood leaning a hand for support on the window frame. He didn't exactly have god-like stamina that the Uzumaki clan had after-all.

Naruto stayed seated in the hokage seat as she moved a paper onto the finances pile before moving onto the next one, trying to ignore the erratic heartbeat of her husband.

"Hokage-sama… could I be left alone with my wife?" then he added, "Please?" Naruto refrained from looking up in shock, Gaara never said please. It went against the way he was raised.

Kakashi seemed to weigh his options of staying and aggravating the kazekage or go along with his students revenge. Deciding against revenge he gave a small inclination with his head before poofing out of the office, his ANBU leaving with him.

Not a moment later she found herself being held tightly to her husband's chest, one of his hands wrapped tightly in her hair and the other around her waist, yet he was careful not to cause discomfort to her very small baby bump.

"I'm sorry." He breathed out before gulping heavily, "I shouldn't have ignored you like that. It wasn't right. I understand why you were doing it but it… after us I thought there would be no need for another jinchuriki… but. I can't- I can't lose you after just getting you. I love you and I'm so sorry." He let go of her to kneel before her, head pressed against her stomach.

"I shouldn't have put you through that, ignoring you in your state especially considering how you were raised in your early childhood. It must have hurt, but I want you to know I don't hate you. I don't despise you. All I feel is love.

"You don't know how I felt when Kankuro came back from our home and told me you weren't there. I sent the guards to scour the entire village and when they couldn't find you I looked myself. No one had seen you in days. I questioned the men I stationed as your guards and they said you used the hiraishin.

"When I asked why I wasn't informed they said because I was avoiding you. It was like a slap to the face, especially when they said to me you hadn't been well. I felt like someone had placed a rock over my heart and let it fall into my stomach." He gave her clothed stomach a kiss, "Can you forgive me? Please?"

Now how could she refuse those beautiful eyes so full of love and sadness? Slowly she leaned down and gave him a kiss directly over the love katakana on his forehead, wrapping her arms around him.

Not a moment after she was lifted off the ground and spun around in circles however when he stopped he didn't lower her, "Would you like to stay in Konoha a bit more? I have Kanuro to deal with the village business for a week or so." He added, and Naruto nodded.

It had been a while since they had spent time together on a date, not that they could in her current state.

Just then her stomach decided to remind her of her medical problems as she ran into the adjoining bathroom, throwing up in the sink. Once again it wasn't food but blood and thick black lines that she threw up.

Gaara was behind her not even a second later, one hand holding her hair out of her face and the other rubbing her back in a manner she found soothing. He laced his fingers with his chakra, warming up her back and she found it very soothing, and a moment later she stopped puking but did gag a few times.

She brushed her teeth with a spare toothbrush and cleaned up her mess in the sink before turning to her worried husband and gave him a sad smile, "I'm gonna have to stay in Konoha till further notice. Granny's trying to find out what's wrong with me. You'll have to return without me."

Gaara held her tightly in his arms at that, clearly not liking that she couldn't stay by his side- or at least she assumed. "Could Tsunade or Sakura not come to Suna and help you there?" he grunted as he hoisted her within his arms, gently carrying her onto the sofa at the corner of the room.

She shrugged her shoulders, "I could ask." He leaned down and gave her a kiss, placing his head on her lap as she fiddled with his hair.

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Naruto gulped from within her mindscape. Whilst she had mostly forgiven Gaara for ignoring her, Kurama hadn't. Something he was quick to remind the ichibi jinchuriki about very often- which of course pissed Naruto off since it was her body he was taking over.

Why the hell he couldn't just go through their seals and talk to Gaara in his mindscape was beyond her.

Currently, he was sitting across her husband glaring at him, causing the kazekage to continuously shuffle uneasily, along with his guests and guards. Baki had entered earlier and his chakra had jumped when he had seen them. (Them being Naruto and Kurama)

The promise to not cause him bodily harm still stood but Kurama liked to cause him other types of harm. Making him feel award was high on the list along with taking over her body at night to make him sleep alone.

Which Naruto thought was a bit excessive considering he liked sleeping beside her as it helped him sleep better at night.

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Four months later and the couple came for a surprise. She had gone into premature labour, nearly two months early and she had been so frightened by that. She could have sworn that she and every Suna citizen was praying that everything would be alright.

Tsuande and Shizune had been there as her doctors throughout her pregnancy and had been equally shocked. She hadn't been pregnant with one child but two.

Twins.

One boy and one girl.

They had both gotten Gaara's red hair, and her whisker marks. They hadn't opened their eyes yet so they had yet to discover what colour their eyes would be. They also got her tan skin. Both, thankfully, had eyebrows, something Naruto had been teasing Gaara about lately.

Smiling she held her babies to her as they suckled, not caring in the least about her surroundings at the moment.

She looked at Gaara, giving him a broad smile as he cried into her lap, gently as to not apply pressure there. "Thank-you. Thank-you for loving me and giving me a family." Slowly as to not disturb their feeding children he leaned over to give her a kiss before holding her to him, leaning her head on his chest as he used a sand shunshin to take them out of the cave she had given birth.

After-all, one could never be too careful even with Sasuke, Itachi, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Nagato, Konan and Gaara protecting her as she gave birth.

Yeah, not overkill at all and they certainly didn't attract any attention. Did anyone notice the sarcasm in the sentence?

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A/N Sorry for the wait but life has been a bitch lately is all I have to say for myself. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and don't forget to comment! Till next time!