The Girl Under the Mask-Kakashi x OC Romance

Chapter 48

"Hurry, get her on the bed." Tsunade ordered Kakashi as he carried her into the first available hospital room.

Naruto, Sakura, and Ino followed in after them. Ino had come across them while searching for Tsunade and they had run all over town togethrr-first to the meet them at the gates and then to the hospital with Kakashi.

Kakashi laid her down and stepped back, giving Tsunade all the room she needed to examine her. More medical nin entered after them, ready to provide their Hokage with any assistance she demanded.

Tsunade touched on a few points, confirming her pulse and checking her temperature. All those seemed to be fine, neither yet indicating this sickness that Ino claimed she was suffering from. Tsunade needed to listen to her lungs, hear her breathing from within her chest and try and figure out why it was so hard for her. Her eyes narrowed at the outfit before her, that corset being too thick and stiff to let her do anything. "We need to remove this corset, I can't check anything with this dammed thing on." She grumbled. Tsunade glanced at Sakura and she nodded her head, then quickly and gently lifted Ama to sit up. Still unconscious, her body rested limply against Sakura as she held her up by her arms. Tsunade first pulled the trench coat from her shoulders and Naruto's eyes widened in shock and anger. Kakashi's reaction was just sadness for his wife and what they had done to her. Now was their turn to see how fragile she had come to look. Her form really was much smaller than it used to be.  But why?

"Naruto, turn around." Kakashi suggested as he stepped just close enough to be able to hold her hand.

"What, why?!" He demanded,  oblivious as Tsunade was unlacing the strings that had trapped Ama- and man, were they tight.  Whoever laced her up meant to keep her in it.

"Because I'm undressing your sister, and I don't think that's a sight she'd want you to see." Tsunade interjected and Naruto immediately swiveled on his heel without further question.

Tsunade finished with the strings and Kakashi let go of Ama's hand long enough to help pull it off and discard the corset for her .

"Oh my god!" Sakura gasped loudly in absolute shock.

Kakashi wanted to turn to see what the matter was,  but had to stop Naruto's unthinking curiosity and hold him in place.

"Is that... could that be...?" She only got out half sentences as she murmured in shock while staring down with wide incredulous eyes at Ama's front side.

Tsunade hurried around to the front of the table and took Ama's other side to help Sakura lower her back onto the table gently. Sakura was practically frozen, unable to take her eyes away. Tsunade finally gasped just the same and Kakashi knew whatever Sakura saw wasn't in her imagination.  Something was there.

Tsunade kept a grip on herself better and threw a hospital sheet over Ama's top half to cover her. "You can both turn around now."

But Kakashi was already turning around before she even said anything. His breath caught in his throat and he understood Sakura's shocked murmuring.

Naruto finally turned some and looked confused. With a tilt of his head as he stared at Ama's stomach he wondered,  "I don't get it. She's gotten so small, how can she also be so fat?" If Sakura were next to him she'd lump him in the head.

"She's not fat you moron!" She couldn't control hollering, then bit her lip at her outburst in this sensitive moment.

"Her stomach looks like mine after going to Ichiraku. If that's not fat, then what is it?"

Sakura chose not to indulge his conversation of fat and turned to Kakashi, whose face had gone pale as he was lost in thought. Too busy staring at Ama and her swollen stomach, they didn't notice Tsunade step away as she grabbed some medical equipment and rolled it back to her side.