Whispering Bells

The Clinic

Masumi leaned back against the table with an unimpressed look. "Pregnant? Is that all? The way you were talking earlier made it sound a lot more serious." She tied back her long red hair in a ponytail as she sat down across from her.

"I think something is wrong" Temari said quietly averting her eyes from the medic. "I've been bleeding, but then it stopped. It's not the same. Something feels wrong."

"Well, lay back. I'll examine you. I should be able to sense if there are two chakra signatures or just one. How many weeks are you late?"

"About three I think."

"You married?"

"No...um...I..."

Masumi laughed. "So you and that cute boyfriend of yours were having a bit of fun hey? Don't worry, I get it." She snickered. "You know we have pills that can prevent this kind of situation from happening in the first place. All of the fun, none of the consequences." She lay her hands slightly below Temari's stomach. A warm ball of green light emitted from her hands. Her hands slowly went over her, examining her closely.

"I can only sense your chakra signature. I don't sense a second one. Everything seems good here, I can't sense any damage or anything concerning. I'll take a blood sample to make sure I'm completely positive." She went and got a needle from a drawer. She rubbed her arm with alcohol and then took an extract.

Temari turned to her concerned. "Then why am I so late? Why the strange bleeding?"

Masumi went back to her table and started writing on her notepad. "Well, that could be a lot of things really. Stress being the main culprit. It can really mess with your cycle. Are you under a lot of stress?"

"You could say that" Temari said hesitantly.

Masumi started tapping her pen on her notepad. What was up with this girl? A simple pregnancy check was not something that a couple would need to travel to Amegakure for. Temari had helped her out at the security check, but why? She needed to find out more. The blood test showed that she was negative for pregnancy. She held up the results to show Temari.

"Are you happy that you are not pregnant or are you sad? I would think with you not being married, this would work out better for you."

Temari merely sat there staring ahead. Finally she started talking. "Logically, you are right. This is the best thing."

"Why didn't you get this checked out at home. You didn't need to come all this way for something so simple."

"My father, he's an important man back home. You can't do anything without him finding out. His daughter possibly pregnant? He'd blow up. Especially since he's trying to marry me off. It would ruin all his plans" Temari shuddered, her arms filling with small goosebumps. This story she was telling was hitting a little too close to home.

"So he doesn't know about the boyfriend huh?"

"No...he doesn't know about him. He'd kill him, I know. I'd don't know what I'd do if anything happened to him.....I wasn't supposed to fall in – " Temari stopped herself choking on the words. "I mean...He's so different than any other man I've met before."

"So you two walked all the way here just to find out. It still doesn't make sense to me. You could have found out somewhere else, and somewhere a hell of a lot easier. You can't tell me you didn't have anyone you trusted who could help you out back home."

"Trust is a luxury that I cannot afford. I thought...maybe we could escape here somehow. Start over. Live our lives the way we want to. The possibility of a baby was an unexpected complication, but not one I was heartbroken over. "