"Pregnant?"
Kaguya took a step back, her eyes widening in shock at Shinsei's news.
Although she was kind-hearted and somewhat timid, that did not mean she was an idiot.
This doesn't mean she didn't know what pregnancy meant.
She hadn't been in contact with any men other than Shinsei, so how could she be pregnant?
Seeing Shinsei's serious yet puzzled expression, Kaguya hurriedly asked again.
" Shinsei, are you kidding me?"
Shinsei gently shook his head.
"I'm not joking, your physical characteristics do indeed match the symptoms of pregnancy."
Shinsei was not joking, and now is not the time for jokes.
He was completely bewildered. These past few days, Kaguya had been with him the whole time, and hadn't been in contact with any other men besides him.
Before this, Kaguya was merely an alien visitor who had escaped from outer space.
Through their previous conversations, Shinsei also learned that Kaguya didn't have time to interact with any men.
Even the legendary Emperor of the Land of Ancestors and his followers only stayed in that place for half a night.
It is certain that Kaguya had no opportunity to come into contact with anyone, let alone become pregnant.
Besides this news, Shinsei has an even more shocking piece of news that he hasn't revealed.
During the diagnosis just now, his Chakra had detected the two points of life emerging inside Kaguya's womb.
However, those two points of aura contained the same aura as his own bloodline.
This does not mean that his bloodline originates from Kaguya.
Compared to the bloodline that had been passed down for thousands of years, the two points of energy within Kaguya's womb felt much closer.
Only those with extremely similar bloodlines can produce such a similar aura.
In other words, the two unfinished lives within Kaguya's womb belong to the same bloodline and species as Shinsei.
To put it more bluntly.
Shinsei is very likely the father of Kaguya's two unborn children!
Kaguya couldn't believe she was pregnant.
Her face turned deathly pale, and she couldn't help but take a step back, plopping down on the wooden bed.
After calming her breathing, Kaguya finally regained her composure from the shock.
Upon closer inspection, details that had previously gone unnoticed now appeared clearly in Kaguya's Chakra perception.
Two life-giving energies emanated from her lower abdomen, appearing with crystal clarity in Kaguya's mind.
She rolled her Byakugan, and veins bulged around her eye sockets.
Extreme insight, with a 360-degree perspective.
She saw inside her own body.
In the lower abdomen, there are two tiny embryos, like two faintly pulsating points of light.
They are so small, almost invisible, yet they are definitely there.
One on the left and one on the right, like two seeds lying side by side.
Kaguya slowly raised her hand, gritted her teeth, and her expression suddenly turned fierce as she pressed her palm against her lower abdomen.
Chakra gathered in her palm, as if to solidify into an invisible blade.
She didn't want to give birth to a life for no reason.
Even though she already knew those legends about the future.
The Sage of Six Paths, Hamura Otsutsuki.
But those are other people's stories, not hers.
She didn't want to be Kaguya from that story.
She only wants to be Kaguya as she is now. She only wants to have children with Shinsei.
Kaguya.
Shinsei's voice was soft, but his hands moved even faster.
He grabbed Kaguya's wrist. Kaguya's hand hovered in mid-air, her Chakra trembling in her palm before dissipating.
She turned her head, and two streams of tears fell from her eyes.
" Shinsei, I don't want to have someone else's child!"
Shinsei did not answer immediately.
His hand was still clasped around her wrist. His gaze fell on her lower abdomen, then lifted again to look into her eyes.
His expression was complex. There was confusion, hesitation, and something else he couldn't explain himself.
" Kaguya," Shinsei's expression was somewhat strange. After hesitating for a moment, he finally mustered up his courage, "These two children... might be mine."
Kaguya paused for a moment.
"What did you say?"
"Those two lives inside you," Shinsei said, "I just checked them with my Chakra. Their bloodline and aura are extremely similar to mine. Not just similar, but the kind that are of the same blood and kind."
Therefore, from a medical perspective, these two children are very likely mine.
Shinsei sighed inwardly, wondering how this child had been born.
Kaguya looked at him, her eyes filled with confusion.
She looked down at her stomach, then looked up at Shinsei's face.
She opened her mouth, but after a long pause, she managed to squeeze out a single sentence.
"But... but how could I be pregnant? When... when will we..."
Shinsei didn't know how to answer either.
He really didn't know.
Between him and Kaguya, that line was never crossed.
He remembers it very clearly.
On the snow-capped mountains, in the wooden cabins, during those long and quiet nights, they simply sat together, watching the moon, talking, or remaining silent.
He took her hand, hugged her, and let her lean on his shoulder when she was scared.
But other than that, nothing happened. He didn't touch her.
She never touched him.
So, where did these two children come from?
"I don't know either," Shinsei said honestly.
Kaguya looked at Shinsei.
There was confusion, unease, and something else slowly surfacing in her eyes that she couldn't quite put her finger on.
She gently withdrew her hand and placed it on her lower abdomen. The two embryos were still throbbing weakly and stubbornly, one on each side.
Like two seeds that fell into the soil, they took root on their own without anyone watering or fertilizing them.
"So what do we do now?"
Kaguya asked. Her voice was very soft, as if she were asking Shinsei, or perhaps asking herself.
Shinsei did not answer.
He stood beside her, watching her hand rest on her lower abdomen, watching the moonlight stream in through the window, falling on her pale, thin face.
He suddenly felt he should say something. But he didn't know what to say. This child had come so unexpectedly.
Regardless of how it came about, it's already there.
Meanwhile, far away, in a human city, Madara Uchiha was sitting in a simple guest room.
This is a small town with only a hundred or so households, and it doesn't even have city walls.
Madara, with Kushinadahime in tow, finally found a place to settle down.
Kushinadahime's body is still very weak.
Although Shinsei has eradicated the plague, she is severely weakened and needs to recuperate.
Ban rented a house in the east of the city and invited the only doctor in the city to come and see him.
The doctor was an elderly man in his sixties, with gray hair, carrying an old medicine box on his back.
He entered the house and was taken aback when he saw Kushinadahime.
He had never met such a special woman.
But Madara stood to the side, and with just a casual glance from his Rinnegan, the old doctor lowered his head and carefully took Kushinadahime's pulse.
After taking the pulse, the old doctor frowned and looked at it for a long time before switching to his other hand.
Then he stood up, cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards Ban, and smiled broadly.
"Congratulations, sir, your wife is pregnant."