NaruHina: Postscripts

Twenty-eight

Can I ask you a drabble where Boruto discovers he's gonna be a big brother? I'm craving for some fluff. Thank you so much. Sending you love and appreciation

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Can you write a drabble about Hina being pregnant and "glowing" (they say it's actually a thing and Naruto being a sup. Thank youuu. Love your works, it's a pleasure to read

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Thank you so much for bringing so many stories about naruhina. now if I could ask ~ could you write about pregnant hinata? It can be whatever context that's easy for you! Either way! Thank you again!

"Kaa-chan, are you an angel?" Boruto asked as he looked at her from his perch on the carpet where he was building a tower of blocks with his father.

"Yes, she is, Boruto," Tou-chan answered for her.

"Naruto, don't give him weird ideas!" she said, but she laughed when Boruto continued looking at her.

She smiled at him. "Why do you ask, Boruto?"

Boruto was quiet. How to explain to his mother what he was feeling?

It was in the way she smiled at him recently—as if there was an extra light around her that made her glow more brightly than her usual self.

Sometimes, too, her laughter held that extra quality that made him pause from whatever he was doing. No matter how interesting and how fun his toys were, every time Kaa-chan laughed, Boruto felt compelled to stop and just look at her. He couldn't keep his eyes off her.

She was always beautiful, but recently, she seemed kind of changed.

And even Tou-chan was different around her, too.

Previously, he and his father would look at each other in secret and whisper conspiratorially about the pranks they would pull on Kaa-chan. But Tou-chan said they had to stop for a little bit because it wouldn't be good for her.

"We'll wait for a few months, Boruto," his father had said. "When there's more of us, it will be more fun to make Kaa-chan laugh."

"More of us?" Boruto had asked, but Tou-chan only smiled and didn't say anything else.

Now though, he looked at his mother sitting on the couch and left his toys scattered on the floor as he pondered again the aura around her that made her burn brighter.

And it hit him that maybe his mother was an angel, which was why he'd asked the question.

"Because there's a light around you, Kaa-chan," Boruto said in reply to hers.

Tou-chan gasped and Boruto turned his attention to him. He saw the quick look that his parents shared and a puzzled expression came over his little face.

Then Tou-chan said, "Hinata, maybe we should finally tell him."

Kaa-chan smiled again and nodded. "Come here," she said, patting the space next to her on the sofa.

But before he could stand up, though, Tou-chan had picked him up and was swinging him high up into the air first and then he was falling back down into his father's strong arms, making Boruto squeal with breathless laughter.

They both sat down next to her where she took his hand and placed it on her tummy. He was surprised to see it curved and protruding. He explored some more and moved his hand experimentally over the soft fabric of her shirt. She only nodded encouragingly at him.

"There's a baby inside, Boruto," Kaa-chan said, the smile still on her face, but she kept his hand over her belly as she placed one of her large, warm ones over his.

"Yes," Tou-chan said and the smile on his face was just as big. "Remember when we went to the park and we saw a big duck, the Mommy duck? And then the little ones were the baby ducks? Remember we counted them?"

"Yeah," Boruto said. "So Kaa-chan has a baby duck inside her?"

Tou-chan laughed. "Not a baby duck, but a baby human, like you—only smaller."

"Oh!" he said, finally understanding. He smiled back at Kaa-chan.

Her eyes were glowing again and the smile on her face as she gazed back at him just seemed filled with so much happiness.

"And when the baby comes," she said with a squeeze on his fingers. "You'll be a big brother to them. Like what I am to Hanabi-neechan."

"I'll be Nii-chan?" he asked, his eyes wide because the thought of him being bigger than somebody else meant he was going to be their protector.

Tou-chan always said that's what boys do when they're around little people.

"Nii-chan," he murmured again, liking the sound of it.

And his father took him and sat him on his bigger lap while their all fingers spread over Kaa-chan's tummy.

Boruto looked at his parents, who were both smiling at him. He brought his gaze to where their all hands were linked. Closest to the baby, his was the one on the bottom, then Kaa-chan's, and finally Tou-chan's.

"When there's more of us, it will be more fun to make Kaa-chan laugh."

Boruto heard his father's words again then looked back at their joined hands.

And in a few months, when the baby finally came, there would be one more hand to hold, smaller than his.

That's what Tou-chan had meant when he'd said there was going to be more of them.

"Okay," he said and was suddenly screeching with laughter when Kaa-chan's fingers tickled over his ribs and then he felt Tou-chan's arms hugging him, too.

More of us.