As The Leaf Turns

This could be a little confusing for anyone who hasn't read Not you, Too!. The scene is based on the day that Ino came across the team just heading out to train for their mission. Sasuke and Neji are currently in the Female form of Naruto's jutsu, and they are with Kankurou and Shikamaru carrying babies that the girl has never seen. It is a suspicious situation.

Ten: Hayate is Born –The Start of a New Generation


::flashback::
Ino watched the two women follow Shikamaru and Kankurou down the street. She was sure that they looked familiar and it was more than the family resemblance in the Hyuuga girl. The other one - Kankurou’s wife. She hadn’t heard that Gaara’s older brother was married, and that didn’t surprise her, but the girl had acted so strangely. And how had the two managed to get a baby with such blond hair and blue eyes?
And that name. Who would name their baby after the mailman, Really?
As the blonde reached her home she was even more certain that she had met the girl somewhere and it was very frustrating for her.
“Genma.” She called out as she entered their home. “Hey, have you heard anything about Kankurou’s wife and their son?” she said as his face showed from around a doorway.
“Kankurou isn’t married.” He said, and she stared at him. He shifted his senbon to the other side of his mouth, “No. He and Temari were both single the last time I saw them.” He added for her benefit.
Ino had simply retreated to the bathroom to take a long hot bath.
It settled her mind these days.
::End flashback::

When they had returned from their mission, Ino had been home in bed. The information that Kankurou’s wife was ill is all that Ino heard later from Sakura and then nothing more came from the tower.
Kankurou and his family had left and no one had spoke of it afterwards.
But, Ino was curious.
She was itching with curiosity and there was one place she thought she could get some answers.
And that was how she found herself knocking on the door to the apartment that Naruto had lived in for as long as she could remember.
As she waited she looked around the building noting to herself that it was a dump and wondering why the blond hadn’t move out long before especially since he was making good money now in his capacity of Jounin.
The door slowly opened and Ino turned back to greet her comrade when she found her mouth had stopped working.
“Yes, Ino? Did you need to speak to the Dobe? He rarely wakes up this early unless he has a mission. But, I’ll go get him if you want?” came the clear crisp voice of Sasuke as he stood before her in a light blue wifebeater and a pair of dark blue boxers. His arms crossed his chest and there were any number of hickeys prominently displayed on his long pale neck. His hair was tousled and he was ‘smiling’ which really freaked the blonde out more than anything else she had just witnessed.
“Um, no. Sasuke. That’s okay. Just tell him I was worried about him and wanted to make sure he was all right.” She stammered out.
“Oh, he’s more than all right, Ino. Don’t worry about Naruto. I’ll take good care of the Dobe.” He said in a very territorial way. Then from behind the door came a fuzzy sounding voice.
“Who is it Sasuke? What do they want? If it’s nothing important come back to bed.” And the door moved to find a very sleepy Naruto with nothing more than a pair of bright green boxers and some similar markings on his body, only in more places than Ino wanted to think about. And were those teeth marks?
“Ino?” he asked, “Did you need something?”
“NO. I mean, I was just visiting. I don’t need anything, well I mean I wanted to ask you something, but it isn’t important and I just, Um,” she found herself blabbering on until something suddenly stopped her short. “Oh!” she choked out.
“Ino?” they both said in unison.
“Oh, boy that was something.” She added as she began to realize what she had felt. “Oh, no. I think I am in . . . .” and a sudden warm gushing feeling ran down her legs.
”You’re in labor.” Sasuke said, as Naruto yelped.
“Ah, you’re gonna have the baby!!!”
“Don’t worry, Dobe. She has some time. Let’s see about getting her to the hospital. Go put on some clothes. Ino come in and sit down, we’ll get you there, right away.” Sasuke said taking charge and leading her into the room.
The two quickly dressed and then helped her out of the door.
It was a ten-minute walk to the door of the hospital from Naruto’s apartment and the two ninja’s, carrying a very pregnant Kunoichi made it in one hundred and seventy five seconds.
As Sasuke supervised the nurses bringing a wheel chair and getting Ino into it, Naruto left to find Genma and inform him of the need for his presence.
This also only took one hundred and forty seconds. And by the time Genma arrived behind his kidnapper, Ino was safely in a delivery room and attached to the various monitors that the hospital deemed necessary.
Genma threw off the hand that had dragged him through the streets and glared at the blond as Sasuke explained what was going on.
Then, the normally calm special Jounin, dropped to the floor.
Three minutes and seventeen seconds later they managed to revive the father-to-be and sent him in to his wife.
Then, they settled into some uncomfortable chairs to wait.
Hey, they had been there when the water broke and they were determined to see this one through.
Naruto drank four and a half cups of coffee while Sasuke nursed one cup of tea, then after badgering the hospital staff fourteen times, the blond returned to find Sasuke sleeping while sitting up and he thought it was too cute to wake him, so he lifted a magazine and pretended to read it.
“Excuse me? Are you the two that brought in the young lady who was in labor?” a pretty nurse named Kaori asked.
“Yeah. That was us.” Naruto informed her, gently elbowing Sasuke awake.
“Well, you will be happy to know that she has a healthy baby boy. Would you like to go see the new family?” And the two just looked at each other once, before.
“Yes.” They said.

Ino sat in the bed and looked down at the sleeping baby in her arms. He was so tiny and pink and she could hardly believe he was the same vibrant wiggling thing that she had been carrying around for so long.
The knock on the door startled Genma from the chair by the bed that he had dropped into the minute they had arrived in the room.
“Come in.” Ino called to the visitors. She had a reasonably good idea who it was from what the nurse had told her.
“Ino? Me and Sasuke were hoping to see your new baby. Can we come in?” said the blond at the door.
“Get in here, Naruto.” She said, waving to them and then realizing she had released a hand from the baby she jerked it back startling him.
The tiny child cried in a not so tiny way.
“He’s got some healthy lungs on him, huh?” said Naruto as he covered his ears. Sasuke whacked him gently on the head before looking down at the baby in the girl’s arms.
“What did you name him?” he asked.
“Hayate, Shiranui Hayate,” Genma answered. “After my best friend.”
“He looks like a strong little guy.” Naruto assured them. “You must be the happiest couple in the whole village.”
As Ino nodded, Sasuke did something that left her speechless.
“Can I hold him, Ino?” he asked. Ino stared at him even as she presented her newborn son to the Uchiha.
Sasuke accepted the baby and held him perfectly, smiling down at him and to the surprise of the room Hayate stopped fussing and fell back to sleep.
“I’ve never held a new baby before,” the dark haired Shinobi said, and Ino shook herself out of her trance.
“How many babies have you held, Sasuke?” she asked.
“Oh, only one. But, he was special. And now, this little guy, he’s pretty special, too.” The Uchiha said winking at the blonds in the room one at a time.
“Yeah, Sasuke is pretty good with babies. You need any help, just call him, Ino.” Naruto said, and he was rewarded by a strange smirk from the other.
“I will, thanks Naruto.” Ino said as she accepted her baby back from the Jounin.
The pair said goodbye and left the new family to get used to each other.

Naruto walked beside his recent lover and watched Sasuke’s face.
The Uchiha was thinking, and that could be a good thing for the blond.
“Sasuke?” he said.
“Hnn,” came the reply.
“Is something bothering you?” he added.
“No.” Sasuke said.
“Are you sure?” Naruto asked.
Sasuke stopped and turned, staring at the blond with a look of incredulity on his face.
“How do you do that?” he asked.
“Huh?”
“Don’t go there, Uzumaki. You know what I mean. How do you know when something is bothering me? No one would be able to guess that, and you always do.”
“I know you, bastard. I know exactly when you are thinking something through and aren’t quite sure what to do about it.” Naruto informed him.
“Okay, so if you know me so well, what am I thinking?” the sight of the Sharingans coming to Sasuke’s eyes was not as unnerving as the way he was just standing there. Naruto swallowed the thick lump in his throat.
“You aren’t going to be able to get this from those.” He said pointing to the deep red irises. “I just know you. I figure that holding Ino’s baby made you think about Meichan and the Oro-clone. So, I knew you were thinking about it. We already said we’d take it so I figure it must be second thoughts. Is that it, Sasuke?” he finished.
“No. Not second thoughts. Just thinking about what it will be like. I won’t just take care of the baby, Naruto. I want the baby to feel like we wanted it, not that we just took it in. I think we are going to have to work real hard on this.” He suggested.
“I have an idea.” Naruto suggested. “Let’s go see Iruka and Kakashi. Tsunade said they have one of the brothers, and we won’t be seeing much of them once Meichan has her baby, so we should go see them now. I would really like to see what Orochimaru looked like as a baby, and you could practice on your baby before it’s even born.”
“Believe it or not, that sounds like a good idea.” Sasuke relented as the blond pulled him toward their former teachers home.

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