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Unexpected Consequences	By : dirty_cassirole Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 3250 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own the Naruto fandom or any of the characters. I got this idea after reading Male Pregnancy Serum by AshakiranTheTenthBeast, but went a slightly different way with it. This is written purely for fun, no money/profit made.

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It had been two weeks since Kiba and Kurenai brought home Takeshi and Tamiko, and Shikamaru and Temari decided that it was finally time to go visit them and meet the two new additions to the village.

“Shikamaru, move your lazy butt!” Temari yelled from the front door.

“Troublesome woman. You know I can’t move very fast with this kid,” Shikamaru said.

Temari rolled her eyes and knelt down.

Shikamaru smirked. “A simple apology would’ve been fine.”

Temari glared at him as she grabbed his sandal. “I should make you walk barefoot.”

Shikamaru just smiled at her and placed his hand on the wall so he didn’t fall over when he lifted his foot.

After Temari got the sandals on him, they headed out and over to the Inuzuka’s house.

It took a minute for someone to answer, but they finally saw Kiba open the door, but they didn’t expect to see him in the state he was in. His hair was ruffled more than normal and he had dark circles under his eyes. It also looked like he had something caked onto the front of his shirt that didn’t really smell the best.

“What happened to you?” Temari asked.

“Takeshi and Tamiko happened,” Kiba said. “I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since they got home.”

“What a drag,” Shikamaru said knowing that it would soon be them in the same state in about a month.

“Yeah, it’s been a nightmare,” Kiba agreed. “Who knew babies like to stay up all hours of the night.”

“Can we see the two little nightmares?” Temari asked.

“Well, they’re asleep right now, but if you want to stay and wait you can,” Kiba said. “Just don’t wake them up.”

Shikamaru and Temari nodded and walked in. They followed Kiba to the living room where Kurenai was reading Inside Your Child’s Mind.

“Good read?” Temari asked as she walked over to the couch and sat down next to Kurenai.

Shikamaru carefully eased himself into the recliner that was next to the couch, holding his stomach and grunting as he pretty much fell the last few inches into the chair.

“Yeah,” Kurenai replied as she closed the book and sat it on the coffee table in front of the couch. “I actually started reading it after I found out I was pregnant, but I didn’t’ really believe half the stuff it said, so I didn’t finish it.”

“So did it know what it was talking about?” Temari asked.

“Yes and no,” Kurenai said. “There’s a couple things that have helped, but others that are just ridiculous.”

“Yeah, like when it says it’s ok to leave a crying kid in a room alone. It only makes them scream louder,” Kiba said as he sat down next to his wife.

“Kiba, they were burning up when I checked on them,” Kurenai said a little aggravated at the memory.

“Well, jeez, Kiba. You’re not supposed to try and kill your kids,” Temari said.

Kiba went red. “But it said to make sure they stay bundled up.”

“Only when it’s cold enough to make them sick,” Kurenai said.

“Man, it sounds like this is all so troublesome,” Shikamaru said.

“Everything is troublesome to you,” Temari said.

“That’s because everything is. Especially this kid today,” Shikamaru said rubbing his stomach.

“He moving around a lot?” Kurenai asked.

“Hey hasn’t stopped since four thirty this morning,” Shikamaru replied.

“So you must be tired then,” Kiba said.

“Yeah, I am, but with the kid moving the way he is, I don’t think I’ll get much sleep,” Shikamaru said.

“You’re not in labor, are you?” Kiba asked panicking a bit.

Temari looked at Shikamaru wide eyed. “Are you?”

Shikamaru rolled his eyes. “Of course not. I’m only a little past eight months. If I were going to have him early, it’d probably be in another couple weeks, but this is my kid.”

“Yeah,” Kiba said. “It’s probably too lazy to be born. Probably think it’s ‘too troublesome.’”

Everyone laughed at Kiba trying to copy Shikamaru’s low, lazy tone of talking.

In the middle of all the laughter, Akamaru started barking.

“What is it, boy?” Kiba asked.

Now that there was no more noise, they could hear soft crying from another part of the house.

“Oh, man,” Kiba said. “They woke up already? It’s not even been an hour.”

Kurenai stood up. “Calm down, Kiba. I’ll take care of them.”

“I’ll help,” Temari said and stood up.

The two women left the room and Kiba turned to Shikamaru. “So, you ready to have the kid?”

Shikamaru rubbed his stomach again trying to calm Tobikuma down. “More than ready, and I’m never doing this again.”

“I can’t even imagine being in your shoes, especially after watching Kurenai give birth to both the kids,” Kiba said. “I have a new respect for women.”

“Yeah, me too,” Shikamaru said. “I never knew how bad women actually have it during pregnancy.”

“So when you knock up Temari, you won’t complain as much,” Kiba asked with a sly smile.

Shikamaru blushed a little. “I probably will, but I’ll also know what she’s going through and hopefully be able to help her better.”

Kiba nodded in understanding and they both turned their heads when they heard the women come back in.

Shikamaru watched as Temari walked back over to the couch, and saw Kiba move over so she could sit next to Shikamaru. Temari was holding Tamiko and Shikamaru could see that she had black hair that looked a little rough like Kiba’s, but still looked like it was soft, a perfect combination of Kiba and Kurenai’s hair. He watched as the baby studied Temari, and could see a hint of red in her eyes, which he figured meant she inherited Kurenai’s eye. As for the rest of her face, Shikamaru couldn’t see it that well, but decided from the angle he was at, she got Kiba’s facial structure.

“Would you like to hold him?”

Shikamaru looked up and saw Kurenai holding Takeshi. His hair was as shaggy and rough looking as Kiba’s, but looked like a male version of Kurenai.

“Uh…” Shikamaru said just staring at the baby.

“That’s why you guys came over, right?” Kurenai asked.

“Yeah, but…” Shikamaru started, but was cut off.

“Oh just hold the baby,” Temari said.

Kurenai handed Takeshi to Shikamaru, who carefully positioned the child over his bulging stomach so as not to hurt his own kid.

Takeshi squirmed a bit and made a face that looked like he was about to cry, but opened his eyes instead to look at the unfamiliar person holding him.

Shikamaru stared into the deep, red eyes. ‘Well, I guess they both inherited Kurenai’s eyes. I wonder if that means they’ll both have an affinity for genjutsu?’

“I wonder if your kid will be as cute as these two?” Temari said.

Shikamaru rolled his eyes, ignoring the smirk his wife was giving him.

“So, what was wrong with them?” Kiba asked when he realized Shikamaru wasn’t going to reply.

“I don’t know,” Kurenai said. “We feed them before they laid down, and they don’t have dirty diapers. They just seem… agitated.”

Shikamaru looked over at Kurenai. ‘Almost like Tobi.’ He looked down at the baby in his arms, face scrunched up in thought. ‘Do they know something we don’t?’

“Hey, why are you looking at my kid like that?” Kiba asked.

Shikamaru looked up at him. “When did they start getting like this?” he asked ignoring Kiba’s question.

“Let’s see,” Kurenai said looking up. “I’d say around three thirty, four this morning. Why?” she asked looking back at Shikamaru.

Shikamaru looked back down at Takeshi. “I think it’s a little odd that both Tobi and the twins are both agitated today, especially since they all started getting that way around the same time.”

“You think they sense something we can’t?” Kiba asked.

“I have heard that babies pick up on things a little easier than adults can,” Shikamaru said looking back up.

“Who’d you hear that from?” Kurenai asked.

“It was from Yoshino,” Temari spoke up. “Shikamaru told her how Tobi was moving around a lot one day, and it happened to be a day me and Shikamaru were having an argument about something.”

“That’s not new,” Kiba said.

Kurenai glared at him which shut Kiba up immediately and he looked down.

“Anyway,” Temari continued. “Yoshino said that babies can sense when parents are aggravated and become aggravated themselves.”

“We weren’t fighting about anything,” Kiba said.

“Neither were we,” Shikamaru said, “but something’s still agitating them.”

They all became silent, trying to figure out what was making the kids like this.

NNNNNNNNNNNNN

“Where are you going, Guy Sensei?” Lee asked.

Guy walked over to the couch where Lee was sitting and kissed the top of Lee’s head. “I was going to train with Neji and Tenten.” Guy saw Lee rubbing his stomach and knelt down in front of Lee and placed his hands on Lee’s stomach. “Is everything ok?” he asked a bit worried.

“Huh? Oh, yeah, Taro is just moving around a lot today,” Lee said. He smiled at Guy’s concern.

Guy raised Lee’s shirt and lent down and placed a gentle kiss on Lee’s stomach. “I can’t wait to me you, my youthful little boy.” He felt Taro kick a couple times, smiled, and placed another kiss on Lee’s stomach before standing back up.

When he looked back at Lee’s face, Guy saw Lee was red. ‘He still hasn’t gotten use to my actions toward him yet.’ He thought a little dejectedly, but didn’t show a trace of it on his face.

“May I join you today?” Lee asked.

“Huh?” Guy asked not sure what Lee was talking about.

“To the training.”

“Oh,” Guy replied. “Lee, you know you can’t train in the condition you’re in.”

“I know,” Lee said. “I just want to watch. I… I don’t want to be left alone again.”

Guy’s eyes went wide. “Lee, I’m so sorry. I…”

“It is ok, Guy Sensei. I understand why you have done it, but I would like to go and see Neji and Tenten again.”

“Then let us go,” Guy said with a smile.

Lee smiled too and tried to get up. Guy reached down and helped Lee up and they left for the training grounds.

When they got there, Neji and Tenten were already there waiting.

“Lee, what are you doing here?” Tenten asked.

“I wanted to come watch you guys train,” Lee replied.

“In other words, you didn’t want to be at the house alone again,” Neji said.

Guy felt something hit him at Neji’s words and stumbled a little. ‘Has everyone noticed how much I’ve neglected him but me?’ He looked over at Lee who was now talking about something with Neji. ‘I’m so sorry, Lee. I’ll never leave you alone again.’

“Byakugan!”

Guy saw Neji looking at Lee’s stomach with his byakugan and walked over to them.

“I don’t see anything wrong,” Neji said deactivating his byakugan, “but he is agitated for some reason.”

“Maybe he wanted to get out of the house as much as Lee did?” Tenten suggested.

“Yes, that has to be it,” Lee said.

“It makes sense that our child would want to get out and about. I know you and I have a hard time staying in one place for very long,” Guy said.

“That’s for sure,” Tenten said.

“Alright!” Guys said as he clapped his hands and rubbed them. “Let’s get this training going and show my son the power of youth!”

Neji and Tenten internally groaned, but started running as usual. They knew it was going to be a long day.

NNNNNNNNNNNN

Shikamaru and Temari had been at the Inuzuka’s for a few hours now and Shikamaru decided it was time to leave. “We should probably get going, Temari,” Shikamaru said. “Kiba and Kurenai probably want to try and lay the kids down again, and I wouldn’t mind laying down myself.”

“Yeah, you’re probably right,” Temari said. She handed Tamiko over to Kiba, got up, took Takeshi from Shikamaru, handed him to Kurenai, and went back over and helped her husband get out of the chair.

Kiba and Kurenai got up and started walking Temari and Shikamaru to the door, but stopped when Akamaru started whining and running around the room.

“Is he ok?” Temari asked.

Kiba handed the girl back to Temari and went over to Akamaru. “What is it, boy?” he asked as he knelt down and tried to calm the dog down.

Akamaru looked straight at Kiba and whined, but before Kiba could say anything, they all heard a loud crash outside.

“What the heck?!” Kiba yelled as he jumped up. He ran over to the window and threw open the curtain.

Everyone went wide eyed when they saw the house next door completely destroyed and in flames.

Temari rushed to the front door and almost ripped the door off its hinges trying to open it. What she saw made her go pale. The whole village was in flames.

“The village is under attack,” Shikamaru said behind her.

“Kiba, go grab the babies’ diaper bags and a couple blankets!” Kurenai said.

Kiba rushed out of the room. Akamaru following and came back with the double baby carrier that Kakashi and Sakura gave them. Akamaru had the two bags in his mouth.

“I thought this would help,” Kiba said as he put the carrier on.

Kurenai handed Takeshi to Shikamaru and helped Kiba get the carrier secured. Once done, she took Takeshi back from Shikamaru and put him in one side of the carrier. She then took Tamiko form Temari and put her on the other side. Kiba now had both babies securely strapped to his chest.

As soon as everyone had their sandals on, they hurried out the door and toward the mountain side where the safety zone was.

Along the way, they could see and hear fighting and buildings falling and everyone was on high alert.

‘Dang it. The one day I decide not to bring my fan,’ Temari thought as she watched another building fall. She stayed close to Shikamaru so that she could protect him if needed.

When they got about half way to the mountain side, Kurenai let out a scream. They all turned and saw her on the ground.

“Kurenai!” Kiba cried out and rushed to her side.

Kurenai was holding onto her leg and that’s when everyone noticed the deep gash. She was bleeding out and everyone could tell she was in pain.

Temari ripped the bottom part of her shirt and grabbed one of the blankets from the diaper bag. She placed the blanket on Kurenai’s leg and tied the cloth around it to make a quick bandage.

“Kiba, get the kids out of here,” Kurenai said as she watched Temari wrap up her leg.

“No way! I’m not leaving you!” Kiba said.

“You can’t carry me and the kids,” Kurenai said. “And Temari has to help Shikamaru. You need to protect our children.”

Kiba saw tears roll down her cheeks. He reached over and whipped them away. “I’m not leaving you,” he said.

Akamaru came up and nudged Kiba’s arm.

Kiba looked over at Akamaru, who had dropped the bags. “That’s it!” Kiba suddenly said. He turned back to Kurenai. “Akamaru can take the kids and I’ll take you.”

“Well, whatever you’re going to do, you need to do it fast,” Shikamaru said looking at something to the side. “We’re about to have company.”

Kiba took the twins off his chest and handed them over to Akamaru, who took the top of the carrier in his mouth.

“Here,” Temari said. She grabbed another blanket from the diaper bag and fixed it in between the twins. “Now they won’t hurt each other as Akamaru carries them.”

“You’re going to make a great mother, Temari,” Kurenai said with a smile.

Temari blushed. “We’ll see.”

Akamaru moved back a few steps and Kiba got up. He ripped a piece of his shirt, picked up the diaper bags, and tied them onto Akamaru’s back. “Is that too much for you, boy?”

Akamaru shook his head the best he could without hurting the twins.

“Ok, then get going,” Kiba said.

Akamaru turned and ran for the mountain side.

“We won’t be too far behind,” Kiba told Kurenai when he saw her worried face. He picked her up and got her settled in his arms.

“You’ve gotten stronger,” Kurenai said with a smile.

“What would a man be if he can’t pick up his own wife,” Kiba replied with a smile. He then turned to Shikamaru and Temari. “Will you two be alright by yourselves?”

“We’ll be fine. Just go,” Temari said.

Kiba ran off and Temari went back over to Shikamaru. “Let’s go,” she said.

Shikamaru nodded and they left.

After running for a while, Shikamaru had to stop because it was getting hard for him to breath.

“What are you doing?” Temari yelled when she noticed he stopped.

Shikamaru was panting. “Sorry… I just… need to catch… my breath.”

“Well catch it quicker,” she said. “This is no place to rest.”

“I know,” Shikamaru said and looked up. He saw Asuma running toward them. ‘Well that will help,’ he thought with a smile.

“Shikamaru! Temari! Look out!” Asuma yelled in horror.

Shikamaru and Temari turned and looked up and saw the building they were standing next to was already falling.

Shikamaru couldn’t move. He stared in wide eyed horror as the building got closer to them. The next thing he knew, something had grabbed him and was pulling him away. He lost his footing and was falling backwards.

Time seemed to have slowed to an agonizing speed as Shikamaru realized that it was Temari that had grabbed him and flung him to a safer distance. He stared at her as the building was mere inches from her head, gazing into her scared eyes. He watched her close her eyes and saw tears streaming down her cheeks, and he barely made out the words, “I love you” before she was bombarded with rubble.

He fell back into Asuma’s arms as the broken building fell on top of each other, burying Temari.

“Temari!!”

Asuma wrapped his arms around Shikamaru’s chest, keeping Shikamaru from running toward the pile of rubble. He felt Shikamaru struggle in his hold, grabbing and clawing at his arms, trying to remove the obstacle that was keeping him from Temari.

“Asuma, let me go!” Shikamaru yelled. He had tears streaming down his face.

“I can’t do that,” Asuma said. “Temari would want me to get you to safety.”

“No! We have to help her!” Shikamaru yelled still trying to break Asuma’s hold.

“She’s gone, Shika,” Asuma said quietly.

Shikamaru froze. He felt numb. Asuma relax his grip and Shikamaru felt himself falling to the ground.

Asuma grabbed Shikamaru and gradually let Shikamaru go down to his knees. Once he knew Shikamaru was balanced on his knees and wouldn’t fall, he went around to Shikamaru’s front and knelt down.

He saw Shikamaru’s blank face, his eyes hollow, and raised his hands and put them on both sides of Shikamaru’s face. “I’m so sorry, Shika, but we need to get you to safety.”

Shikamaru didn’t move.

“Shikamaru!”

Asuma looked over Shikamaru’s shoulder and saw Shikaku and a few other shinobi running toward them.

“Asuma, what happened?” Shikaku asked. Asuma moved over so that Shikaku could look at his son.

“Temari…” Asuma began and looked over to the pile of rubble. “She was buried under the rubble.” Shikaku looked at Asuma in horror. “She pushed Shikamaru out of the way, but couldn’t escape herself.”

Shikaku looked back at his son and closed his eyes. “Asuma, take Shikamaru to the mountain side.”

Asuma nodded and grabbed Shikamaru’s arm, but before he had a chance to move him, Shikamaru grabbed Shikaku’s arm.

“Dad.”

That one word broke Shikaku’s heart and he placed a hand on the side of Shikamaru’s face. “We’ll try to get her out, but I can’t promise you anything.”

The only response he got was more tears running down Shikamaru’s face.

“Asuma, go. Please,” Shikaku said.

Asuma nodded again and helped Shikamaru get to his feet. He swept Shikamaru up bridle style and headed out.

NNNNNNNNNN

In the training ground of Team Guy, Neji, Tenten, and Guy were all facing enemies of their own. Guy was sticking close to Lee to keep him safe, but one of the shinobi managed to separate him and Lee. Guy was grateful when Neji jumped to Lee’s aid. He could now focus on taking these guys down so he could get Lee and his unborn child to safety.

Tenten managed to get another enemy down, but saw several more coming toward her. “Where are they all coming from?” she asked herself as she grabbed two more scrolls. She jumped up in the air, unrolled the scrolls so they were swirling around her, and hurled several different weapons at the enemy. “Twin Rising Dragons!”

The enemy went down easily and she dropped back down to the ground, but before she had a chance to catch her breath, another wave of enemy came into the clearing. “There’s just no end to them.” She ran toward them after summoning a pair of twin katana.

Neji blocked another punch from an enemy and thrust his palm out. “Gentle fist.” The guy went flying and fell to the ground unconscious. He jumped forward when he saw someone trying to stab him in the back. He twisted his body around and managed to block the second attack coming at him, but he also noticed that he let an enemy get to Lee, who was now expertly blocking punches from his enemy. ‘I’m sorry, Lee.’ He had to return his attention to the enemy in front of him when he felt pain on his arm.

Guy heard Lee cry out and looked over to see Lee blocking several attacks from an enemy. “Lee!” He punched the enemy in front of him as hard as he could and the enemy went flying. Guy didn’t wait to see if the enemy was down for the count, as soon as the hit connected, Guy turned and started running toward Lee.

Not even two steps and Guy had to back pedal to avoid getting his head chopped off. He glared at the enemy and dropped down into a sweeping round house kick. Once the enemy was on the ground, Guy jumped back up and slammed his heel into the back of the enemy’s head, hearing a loud crunch.

When he looked back up to check on Lee, his eyes went wide. Lee was blocking more punches from the same enemy, but now there was an enemy coming toward Lee with a sword. “Lee!” Guy cried out and ran over to him.

Lee turned his head and saw Guy running toward him. The next thing he knew, he was on the ground on his back with Guy over top of him. “Guy Sensei…”

Guy cried out and his face contorted in pain. Lee felt something wet hit his chest and when he looked down, he saw a sword sticking out of Guy’s chest. Lee’s eyes widened in horror and he looked back up at Guy’s face when he heard Guy scream again.

Guy’s chest was on fire. He felt the two swords make their way through his body. ‘I have to protect Lee.’ He straightened his arms with more determination and looked down at Lee’s horrified face. Guy tried to give him his best smile.

“Hey, he’s down. Let’s help them keep him down.”

Two more swords were plunged into Guy’s back and through his chest and stomach.

“Hey, let me in. I want to help too.”

Another sword went through his back and into his abdomen.

“Ha, an easy kill. Die Leaf scum!”

Two kunai buried in his back, one puncturing his lung.

Guy closed his eyes. He was in so much pain. He was having trouble breathing and his vision was swimming.

“Guy Sensei.”

Guy opened his eyes and looked into Lee’s eyes. Tears were streaming down Lee’s face. “Lee.”

The noise around him quieted to a dull roar and the only thing he could see now was Lee. “I’m so sorry, Lee. I… I won’t be able to help you with Taro.”

“No, do not say that. We will…”

“Lee, please.” Lee closed his mouth and the tears flowed even more now. “They’ve hit major arteries, punctured one of my lungs, and I’m losing too much blood. I know I won’t make it, so please, listen.” Lee nodded slowly. Guy coughed and blood splattered across Lee’s chest. He then looked back at Lee. “I love you, Lee. I love our child. I regret that I won’t be able to help you raise him or train him to be the great shinobi I know he will become, but I want you to stay strong.” Tears fell onto Lee’s face. “Stay strong not only for me, but for our son. He’ll need you, Lee, and I know you can do this. Find someone that can help you. Someone that will love you as much as I do. Someone who will love our son as their own.” His vision started going black. “I love you so much and I’ll always be watching over you.”

“I love you too, Guy Sensei,” Lee said quietly.

Guy smiled then everything went black.

NNNNNNNNNNNN

Sakura placed a hand on her stomach as she walked toward another group arriving. “Please, find a spot and have a seat. We hope to have this situation cleared up as soon as possible.” She watched them nod and go over to another group they apparently knew.

“Hey, where’d you come from?”

Sakura turned and saw one of the shinobi helping with the evacuation talking to a big white dog with something in its mouth. “Akamaru?”

The dog turned its head and walked over to Sakura.

Sakura’s eyes went wide when she realized it was Takeshi and Tamiko in his mouth. “You,” she pointed at the shinobi, “get those babies out of his mouth and get them to someone who can take care of them.”

“Yes, ma’am,” the shinobi said and quickly collected the twins and went off to find a woman to take care of them. Akamaru stayed right with them.

“If they’re here, where’s…” Sakura started, but saw Kiba carrying Kurenai to the front entrance.

“Sakura, Kurenai’s hurt. I’m gonna go back out and help fight. Can you take care of her and the twins?”

“Yeah. The kids are over there,” Sakura said and lead them over to where the twins were.

Kiba placed Kurenai on the ground. Before he fully stood up, Kurenai grabbed his shirt and smashed their lips together. “Be careful out there.”

Kiba blushed a bit. “I will. Come on, Akamaru,” he said as he ran back to the entrance.

Sakura turned back to Kurenai once Kiba was out of sight. “So, what happened?” she asked as she carefully got down on the ground next to Kurenai’s leg.

“Shikamaru and Temari were visiting when we heard a crash outside. When we saw what was going on, we all started heading to this place, but I got hit by something and it left a deep gash on my leg,” Kurenai said.

Sakura gasped when she pulled back the blood stained blanket. “That’s definitely a bad cut,” Sakura said and focused her chakra. Her hand glowed a soft green and the wound started to close a little before she stopped. She turned to someone nearby who was watching her. “Can you go find me something to clean and wrap this wound, please?”

The woman nodded and ran off.

“You have beautiful children, Kurenai,” a woman next to Kurenai said.

Kurenai realized that the woman next to her had both Takeshi and Tamiko in her arms and looked up at the woman’s face. She recognized the woman as the clerk from one of her favorite snack shops. She smiled. “Thanks Sanako.”

Kurenai took Takeshi from Sanako. “I can help you take care of them here while Kiba’s out fighting,” Sanako said as she repositioned Tamiko in her arms.

“I would appreciate that. Thank you,” Kurenai said.

“Here you go, ma’am.”

Kurenai and Sakura both looked up and saw the woman had returned with a bottle and some bandages. “Thank you,” Sakura said as she took the bottle and bandages. She turned back to Kurenai’s leg, sat the bandages to the side, opened the bottle, and poured it over the wound.

Kurenai let out a hiss.

“Sorry,” Sakura said looking up at Kurenai.

Kurenai shook her head. “It’s ok. It has to be done.”

Sakura nodded and went back to cleaning and tending to the wound.

“There,” Sakura said after she secured the bandage. “That should be good. Just keep an eye on it and if it starts hurting or gets red, come to the hospital, ok?”

Kurenai nodded. “Thank you.”

Sakura smiled and turned around when she sensed someone coming up behind her.

Kurenai’s eyes went wide as she watched Asuma walk past Sakura and sat Shikamaru on the ground next to her. “Asuma? What are you doing here? Where’s Temari?”

Asuma looked down sadly and she saw Shikamaru turn his head away from them. “She… A building collapsed next to them. She pushed Shikamaru out of the way, but…”

Sakura gasped and covered her mouth.

Kurenai looked back over at Shikamaru who had tears going down his cheeks.

They all remained quiet until Asuma spoke up. “Please take care of him,” he said and turned to leave.

“Shikamaru, I’m so sorry,” Sakura said, but they got nothing from him, so they left him alone.

NNNNNNNNNNNN

“Captain Shikaku, we can’t stay here much longer,” a young male shinobi said.

Shikaku stood there, arms crossed over his chest, as he watched three shinobi digging in the rubble. “We don’t leave until we find Temari’s body.”

Before the shinobi could protest, one of the three digging shinobi called over to them. “We found her.”

Shikaku quickly made his way over to them and saw Temari’s face, cut and bloodied. He reached down to her neck and felt for a pulse. His face dropped when he didn’t feel anything and closed his eyes, but they shot open again when he felt a faint throb. “Get her out of there!”

The four shinobi scrambled to get the rest of the rubble off Temari’s body. The more they uncovered the more Shikaku hoped he wasn’t just imagining the pulse. Her body was bloody all over and he could she one of her legs bent at the knee in the wrong direction when the shinobi removed a large piece of rubble off of it. He could also see redish white pieces sticking out of a couple places along with deep gashes all over her body. ‘Please, let her be alive.’

They finally got the rubble off and Shikaku carefully picked her up, careful not to jostle anything. He almost lost his stomach when he stood up and felt as if every bone in Temari’s body was shattered, but kept it down and raced off toward the hospital. He couldn’t feel or hear her breathing and the warmth he should’ve felt wasn’t there. He wasn’t so sure anymore if he felt anything after all, but prayed that she could still be saved.

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The training ground was silent. Neji and Tenten had finally managed to take out the rest of the enemy and now they watched as Lee cried over Guy’s body.

They removed all the weapons that had penetrated Guy’s body and laid him on his back next to Lee. Tenten had tears running down her cheeks and Neji had his eyes closed and his fists clenched, refusing to let the tears escape. He knew he had to be strong for both Lee and Tenten, but was angry at himself for letting this happen.

Tenten placed a hand on Neji’s arm which made him look at her. “It’s still not safe. We should get Lee to the mountain side.” She looked over at Guy’s body. “It’s what Sensei would’ve wanted us to do.”

Neji nodded and walked over to Lee. He put a hand on Lee’s shoulder. “Come on, Lee, we need to go.”

Lee wiped his tears away with the sleeve of his shirt and looked up at Neji. “Yes, you are right.”

Neji helped Lee get off the ground and the three left the area. They remained silent along the way and Neji kept an eye on Lee to make sure he was doing ok.

After walking a few more minutes, Lee stopped and doubled over, letting out a cry.

“What’s wrong, Lee?” Neji asked.

“I do not know,” Lee said. “The lower part of my stomach hurts and I feel as if something is pushing on my… uh… lower half.”

“Don’t tell me you in labor,” Tenten said.

Neji activated his byakugan and saw the child trying to go where a vaginal passage would be if Lee was a girl. “He is. The fighting earlier must have triggered an early labor.”

“What’re we supposed to do?” Tenten asked.

Lee cried out in pain again and fell to his knees.

“We can’t move him like this,” Neji said.

“This does not feel pleasant,” Lee said.

Tenten ignored him. “So, what, we deliver the baby ourselves?”

“It seems we have no choice,” Neji said.

Tenten and Neji helped Lee lay on his back and Neji knelt over him.

“How are you going to get the baby out?” Lee asked.

“I’ll have to use my chakra to cut you open and take the baby out that way. “Neji said.

“So you’re preforming a C-section on him?” Tenten said.

“Yes,” Neji said. He activated his byakugan again, raised his hand and focused his chakra to the tips of his fingers, and saw the sharp, blade-like shape it took. Doing this was simple for him since he mastered the gentle fist. “Alright, I’m going to begin. Lee, this will hurt.”

Lee nodded and braced himself.

Neji brought his hand down and made a cut in Lee’s stomach about five inches. He wasn’t sure how long he was supposed to cut, but thought that would be enough to get the baby out.

As Neji cut deep into Lee’s stomach, fluid and blood gushed out and covered his hand. Neji went a little green and pulled his hand away quickly after he finished the cut.

“Neji? You ok?” Tenten asked when she saw Neji’s greenish face.

“I… can’t do this,” Neji replied and jumped up and ran to the side. He emptied his stomach of everything.

Tenten just stared at him surprised. “Who knew Neji was that squeamish?” she asked no one in particular.

Lee let out another cry and Tenten quickly dropped down and took Neji’s place.

“Ok, sorry about this, Lee,” Tenten said and stuck her hands into the cut. She made a face at how slimy it was and just the fact that she was digging around inside of Lee, but finally found what she thought was the sac holding the baby. It was already open from the cut Neji made, so she reached further in and found the baby. She pulled the baby carefully out so she didn’t hurt Lee or the child. “I got him.”

“Why is he not crying?” Lee asked a bit worried.

Tenten put the baby over her arm and gave his butt a quick smack, and the baby started screaming. “Sometimes that happens and you need to shock them into crying,” she said.

Tenten passed the baby to Lee, who sat up the best he could and cradled the small crying child in his arms. The child had a small patch of hair at the center of his head and eyebrows that were slightly bigger than his own or Guy’s. He couldn’t tell for sure what the child’s eyes looked like since they were squeezed tight, but one thought went through his mind. “He’s perfect,” Lee said out loud.

“Yeah, he’s pretty cute,” Tenten said. “Here, wrap him in this.” She handed Lee a small green blanket with the leaf village symbol on it. “I was going to give it to you after he was born anyway. There’s a liner on one side so the blood and slimy stuff shouldn’t ruin it.”

“Thank you,” Lee said and wrapped Taro in the blanket.

Tenten looked back down and saw the umbilical cord coming out of Lee’s stomach. “I need to get the after birth out and then I’ll sew you up. I suggest wrapping that up with Taro until we get you two to the hospital.”

Lee nodded and felt Tenten reach inside of him again and pull something out. They got Taro and the after birth wrapped up in the blanket, and Tenten was now working on sewing up the cut.

Neji finally walked back over to them, still a little green, and looked down at Taro who was now sleeping soundly. “I’m sorry I couldn’t be more help,” he said.

“That’s ok,” Tenten said. “You can carry him.”

Neji nodded and helped Lee to his feet. He picked Lee up bridle style and they all headed for the hospital.
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