Not you, too!

42: And Baby Makes Three?


As the doors closed behind the blond another group came in through the entrance and made their way over to where Choji sat among his friends.
Tenten and Iwashi followed by Lee arranged themselves around the chubby young man and offered their support. Lee looked troubled.
Itachi handed Koibito to the couple as he moved to sit near Lee at the edge of the group.
“Uchiha-san,” Lee said as he looked up at the older man suspiciously.
“Something is bothering you, Lee-kun?” Itachi said leaning back against the wall next to the younger version of his new Love Interest.
“A rumor came my way. I do not condone the spread of such stories but I would not be a proper friend if I did not find out the truth,” Lee said keeping his voice low.
“And would that rumor have something to do with ME?” Itachi asked, Lee nodded seriously and Itachi smiled as he watched the Shinobi battle with himself. “And would it also have to do with Gai-san?” Itachi added.
“I heard that you and he . . . . were seen - in the streets . . .” Lee said trying to find the right words.
“Kissing?” Itachi said loud enough for it to carry to the edge of the group, which had grown again when Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Hana and little Shippo had arrived. Silence filled the room only to be broken by Sasuke’s sigh.
“Did Lee finally find out about you and Gai, Aniki?” she asked shifting her girth on the hard seat.
“Itachi-san? Are you involved with Gai?” Tenten asked and the elder Uchiha looked at her, “That’s wonderful!” she burst out and all eyes turned to her, ‘Well, I never even thought of Itachi-san,” She said smiling broadly.
“Tenten, are you okay with this?” Le asked his eyes wide.
“Of course, Lee. As long as Gai is happy and has someone. Only you have to tell us. How long? How much? And How far?”
Hinata giggled as both Lee and Itachi stared back at her and Ino added.
“Yes, that’s all we need. We already know about everybody else here. Share Itachi.” She coaxed.
“Yes, Itachi-kun. And it will help us while we have to wait.” Hinata added, pinching Kiba as he started to protest. “Tell us all about it.”
Itachi looked to his brother for aid and found her leaning against Genma’s shoulder, asleep.
He sighed and looked up at the group of waiting Shinobi.
“How long? How much? And How far? Eh?” he began, “Okay. How long? We’ve been friends ever since I woke up, dating for only about three months if it can be called that. How much? I don’t know about him, but I’m hooked. How far? Far enough.” And he said no more as he looked around.

Gaara was panting through the pain and sweat drained from his face and hair.
Naruto took his hand and leaned down. “Hey, Sandman? What’s going on?” he asked.
Gaara’s eyes opened and he breathed out the words. “I can’t hear him and I feel like I’m being torn apart on the inside. I’m scared, Naruto. The sand wants to help and I can feel it shifting around my skin like it doesn’t know what to do.”
His eyelids dropped once more as he caught at his breath.
Jiraiya touched the blond’s shoulders and he looked up.
“I’m gonna ask it. I think it knows something.” Naruto said and Jiraiya nodded.
Pulling up a chair and sitting down, Naruto never let go of Gaara’s hand. He concentrated on his guest as he watched the tortured look of the sand ninja.
‘Hey, Fox. Tell me what you know.’ He began.
Jiraiya watched the blond as his face contorted and then relaxed. Then, the old man turned to the redhead on the bed, his one hand gripping the side as his other grasped at Naruto’s.
Tsunade was busy in the other area and this Sannin missed her presence.


The various embarrassing procedures that Neji had undergone during the course of the gestation had been nothing compared to what she was dealing with at this time.
Waking up in the hospital wearing only a thin gown that was pulled up to expose her oversized middle and hearing the beep of the machine that was strapped to her to monitor the baby inside was just the beginning.
“What happened?” she asked the young nurse who was checking her pulse.
“You passed out. They brought you in here. It was real scary and for a minute you looked like . . . .” and the girl blushed and turned away. “Oh never mind.” She mumbled.
“No, tell me what I looked like.” Neji insisted, curious as to what the girl was nervous about.
“You’ll probably laugh at me, but you looked like a man, only for a second. I think I’m just tired.” She said, blustering and waving her hand around.
“Mmm, maybe. Where is Shikamaru?” Neji asked.
“Ooh, Nara-san is waiting outside. They just sent for him. You are about to have this baby and he should be her, ne? He is the father, right?”
“Mmm, yeah. He is.” Neji agreed, watching the girl fidget. “Are you cleared to be here?” she asked, uncomfortable with the girl’s presence.
“Me? I um, I just wanted to help. I was here when you came in.” she began and Neji rolled her eyes.
“Tsunade!” she called and the girl flinched. “Nothing personal, but I don’t need any unqualified attendants during this.” And the girl bristled.
“I’ll have you know that I have helped out with lots of deliveries.”
“Not Mine!” Neji shouted as the curtain parted.
“Is there a problem in here?” Tsunade said, standing in the opening. “Who are you?” she asked the girl.
“Hokage, do you suppose I could have a blanket?” Neji asked ignoring the nurse as best she could.
“Of course. You! Wait outside or I will come looking for you.” She told the girl as she spread a cover over the Hyuuga. The girl stepped out as the Hokage was occupied and was stopped at the other side by a wide-eyed and not very pleased Shizune.
“You will wait for Tsunade over here.” The dark haired medic announced pointing to a laundry basket and some other items that would be in need of care very soon.
Tsunade smoothed the blanket over the soon to be mother as she explained. “Shikamaru is on his way, you are dilated to eight and the baby has dropped, but you haven’t broke your water yet. So, it’s just a matter of time.”
“Tsunade-sama, I trust you implicitly but I have no idea what you are talking about.” Neji admitted as she stared at the Hokage.
“I said that you are about to take the ride of your life. This experience has caused more single children households than Kyuubi.”

Naruto’s eyes opened and he blinked a few times. Gaara looked the same and Jiraiya looked strained.
“Kyuubi has an idea of what is going on.” He said to the Sannin. “Gaara said he felt like he was being torn apart, separated. Shukaku is doing that. It’s splitting and part of it will stay with Gaara while part goes with the baby. Kyuubi admitted that it wanted to do the same thing if I went through this. That’s why it encouraged me to do the jutsu in the first place. I thought I was soo ingenious. It’s the only chance for immortality in the Jinchuuriki. Other than being resealed in a new host. But for Kyuubi that isn’t possible. When I die it does, too. Unless it can move part of it’s self into a child, a boy child. And that why forth sealed it into me. So it would be trapped in a non-regenerating body. I guess we fooled him, huh?”
“So, Shukaku is splitting and joining with Gaara’s child. Can it be stopped?” Jiraiya asked and Naruto shook his head slowly.
“Kyuubi says no. We can’t do anything and the pain will only quit when the separation is complete. The separating part wants to rejoin with the main body so it has to keep being ripped again. All we can do is help speed things along.”
“We need Tsunade.”
“And what have you figured out?” She said as she came through the curtain, Shizune on her heels.
The two men brought her up to date and she looked at the Sand Kage thoughtfully.
“Naruto,” she began, “Normally to get a baby out faster we would do a c-section. But I doubt the sand will let me cut into Gaara.” And she sighed as she continued to consider this.
“Wait. Naruto, Shukaku and Kyuubi hate each other, right?” Jiraiya asked and the blond nodded.
“Yeah. Damn Fox is chuckling about the whole thing in there. Weird, too. Cause Gaara and I are so close.”
“If we were to distract Shukaku for just a little bit it should stall the sand and. . . . . .”
“And I could get the baby,” Tsunade said.
“You want to mess with Shukaku while Gaara is so messed up?” Naruto asked.
“Not much. Just distract it. That’s all. So Tsunade can do the surgery. How soon can he be ready?” Jiraiya asked.
“I have a room ready and Shizune can assist. Naruto, go with Jiraiya and scrub. You are going to be the anesthesiologist.” And Naruto was out the door following the elder man to the next room. Tsunade unhooked the monitors and Shizune went to get the two medic Nins who had been aided with the cases. Then the Hokage rushed back to the other pair to check their progress.

Neji had stared at the woman unable to form words to answer the statement.
Shikamaru chose that moment to arrive and move to her side. “Neji are you all right?” he asked seeing the wide-eyed stare on his lover’s face.” Neji pulled her gaze away from the Kage and found the concerned look of the Nara man.
“Huh? Oh, no Im fine. Just some stress.”
"I thing I want to induce a full labor. When Sakura comes in, we will try to start up some contractions and see about getting this baby going. How does that sound?” Tsunade said and the two nodded silently.
“Okay, I’ll be back then, relax it will be a long time before you get this chance again.
Neji had drifted to sleep by the time Sakura returned. She was awakened when her body pulled into itself and the quick pulse of pain rolled up her spine and across her already sore shoulders.
Tsunade returned and Neji was subjected to yet another embarrassing assessment of her conditions progress. The Hokage turned to the young medic and smiled brightly.
“Are you ready to bring the first Orioke no newborn into the world, Sakura?” she asked.
Sakura turned from watching the steady beat of the monitor and smiled. “Okay kids. Let’s make a baby,” Tsunade said, pulling a stool over and dropping onto it.
Neji leaned back onto Shika’s lap and waited for the next pain as the Jounin gently rubbed her arms.
“Shika I love you,” she said turning up to the Shadow Master and smiling lightly.
Sakura stood to her side and held a damp cloth to her cheeks and forehead.
The young medic smiled along with the expression on Neji’s face.
“I love you, too Neji-kun. You’re the only one for me and I can’t believe you’re doing this. It’s so amazing and so wonderful.” Shikamaru said kissing her gently while holding tight to her shoulders. Before the kiss could be released, Neji’s shoulders stiffened and another pain rolled up her body.
“Ahh, unght.” She cried as the Jounin pushed her forward and Tsunade waited below.
“Push Neji. This is it.” The Hokage said as she saw the crown of the baby’s head come into view. Sakura place her hands on the top of the bulging belly and added a push along with a chakra surge. Then, as the couple panted together before Neji pushed again Tsunade winked at the girl.
The next pain was the worst Neji could imagine and as Shika held her shoulders high, Sakura added her aid, and Tsunade called out. “The head is almost clear. Keep pushing.” As the baby’s nose came into view and she guided it out, aiding it and catching hold as the shoulders passed and it slid into her hands.
It was very small and extremely pink but when the Hokage carefully cleaned the fluid from its mouth it released a loud protest to her treatment. “Yes, yes, I know.” The woman assured the tiny child before looking up at the couple on the table. “She’s beautiful, Neji. You can both be very proud.”
Neji sighed and dropped back onto Shika’s lap as the Hokage handed the baby to Sakura to complete the cleaning as she finished the delivery. A final pain, that was nothing compared to the others, had delivered the remains and Sakura returned with a clean, diapered and well-wrapped infant, that she handed to Neji. The Hyuuga held her close and smiled up at her lover.
“Can I hold her, now Neji?” he asked and was handed the bundle.
A smile bloomed on the Nara man’s face that would be hard to remove even with the sharp edge of a kunai.

The surgical theatre was bathed in yellow light and the occupants of the room wore scrubbs of an odd green color.
The Sannin pulled the blond up to the table and sat him on a stool at Gaara’s head.
Tsunade and Shizune stood on either side of Gaara and there was a tray with instruments arrayed on a stand nearby.
Jiraiya nodded and Naruto concentrated his chakra to his hands. Calling to the demon as he did the blue glow fluctuated and turned a purple color as it filled with the new flow and moved toward the red of the Kyuubi no Youko.
Naruto’s hands settled on either side of Gaara’s head and the fine layer of sand seemed to glow as it moved under his assault.
Gaara flinched and the sand began to rise from his skin and float above him searching for the source of danger.
Tsunade reached or the tools and moved to the exposed area of skin in front of her, carefully opening the womb so that the child within would be easily reached.
Shizune reached out and took hold of the open piece of skin, her chakra cracking in her fingers as she cauterized the blood vessels to hinder the flow of life fluid.
As she held onto the flap, Tsunade reached below and began to draw out the small life that was there.
As it emerged the head in her one hand showed its parentage in the mop of wet red curls and its chubby cheeks. Tsunade shifted it and slid her hand to its bottom to bring it fully out of its mother.
Naruto watched in awe as a small penis came into view when it kicked its feet in protest.
“It’s a boy!” Tsunade announced handing him to the attending medic and clamping the cord to cut the baby free from Gaara. Once done, she prepared to deliver the after birth and close the incision.
“Don’t stop, Baachan! Another one - quickly. Kyuubi says its in danger!” Naruto yelled.

tbc.


Marielle – How do you do that? You guessed about the two babies. It is just so funny.

Serenia – I aim to please, the only problem is now I have this new idea about a Gai/?? And I think it’s gonna have to be written.
I have already started it and I will post it as a one shot, another day, I suppose. Hope you like it, too. It’s currently called “Just to Make Them Wonder” but I may change that. I sometimes write two titles to a chapter until I decide if I like it, then pick the one I like the most.
That’s what I was doing on my current Yu gi oh! Fic (And the Kink Goes On) and sometimes I have trouble picking one of the titles.

Next Chapter is How to tame the wild beast