Prologue

It was the day the cherry blossoms were blooming, Tsunade Haruno was pregnant, and ready to give birth - as she working. No one dared tell her to take a break. Tsunade works at the local hospital, and was Chief of the hospital, more importantly Chief of Surgery. They had the best Trauma Center around. Tsunade was proud of her workers and her hospital, the one thing she wasn't proud of was the fact that her husband wasn't around at a very important matter. She had her brother, Minato, who was a very good Trauma Surgeon on staff today in case she went into labor. Once she hit six months, Tsunade stopped doing surgeries and would be out for a few weeks to take care of her new born.

"Dr. Haruno, how are you feeling today?" Minato asked as he walked into her office.

"Horrible! I just want Sakura born already. I know a lot of mothers say this, but it's true! I just want to see her, and then head back to work after a few weeks." Tsunade said as she looked up from her paperwork. "Shizune said that there was a possibility that Sakura was going to have to stay in the hospital for a while since she's under-developed." Tsunade took a deep breath as sshe looked at her brother.

"Everything will be alright, you know that she will be taken care of here. We have the best doctors."

"I know, but come on, I'm more worried that everyone is going to try and be gentle, because she's the Chief's baby. I don't care what it takes, I want everyone to work their best - do their best."

The two went their separate ways after they exchange a bit more. Tsunade was worried about her child, she wanted to make sure that everything was going to be going well. There was just something that could happen. Sakura being underdeveloped could lead to a lot of medical problems in the end. There was just something that Tsunade needed to know - what were the medical problems that she could have?

A look into the future

Sakura was standing in front of the mirror, looking at her pink hair. She took a deep breath as she looked out the window. She knew that today was the day she was going to be missing more school. Sakura pulled her pink hair into a ponytail and grabbed her hospital bag - the bag that basically had coloring books, reading books and her laptop. She also grabbed her overnight bag - which really isn't an overnight bag. Sakura was only nine and she was missing a lot of school and she couldn't believe that this was going to be happening again. She's been going so much, that her parents are probably just going to pull her out of school since no one wants to be friends with her.

Back to Tsunade in the Hospital

"Ow!" She said as she felt Sakura kick. "Sakura...stop..Come on you aren't meant to be born yet." She said to herself as she was in her office.

The kicking hasn't stopped though. Tsunade got up from her desk and walked out to the room and went to the nurses station. She looked at the nurses and put a hand down.

"I need...a room now." She said as she looked at the nurses.

"IT'S TIME?!" The three of them said.

"Yeah, please now..." Tsunade stated as she looked at them, rushing to get her a chair for to sit in. "Call my husband!"

"Yes Doctor!"

The staff started running around, getting in touch with her husband, the one and only Jiraiya. One of the nurses got in contact with him, and she told him that Sakura was being delivered today, she was a bit early, but everyone on staff was ready, knowing that Sakura was under-developed, they were ready. Jiraiya using a transportation jutsu arrived in less than a minute. Tsunade was being rushed into the delivery room, Jiraiya grabbed her hand and kissed her forehead. Just then Minato and his wife, Kushina, arrived, they dropped Naruto - their own two month old son in the hospital's nursery/day-care center. They were family, and Tsunade would need all the support, and Kushina was the head of the pediatric care center. The doctor was going to be the delivery doctor, came in and looked at everyone. Kushina was at the station where she would asset what would need to be done with the baby, Minato was standing on the other side of the bed holding his younger sister's hand and of course the famous Ninja and Author, Jiraiya was holding his wife's hand.

After two hours of being in labor, Tsunade was able to push, and soon her daughter, Sakura was born. A nurse walked Sakura over to where Kushina was. Soon enough Kushina started checking out Sakura to make sure that everything was okay, before she had Sakura moved up to the NICU. Tsunade watched her daughter being strolled away to the NICU where the nurses and doctors can do their job better. Tsunade looked at her husband and brother.

"You did it," Jiraiya said as he kissed her forehead.

"Yeah, I'll check on her later." Tsuande said as the strolled her into a vacant room.

"You know, you should worry about getting some sleep. I'll update you on anything." Minato said kissing his sister's cheek. He walked out of the room, leaving the couple alone.

"Remember when we first found out that you were pregnant?" Jiraiya asked as he looked at her and smiled.

Seven months ago

Today, Tsuande was going to take a test to see if she was pregnant. She knew that her and Jiraiya were wanting to have a baby. Her sister-in-law, Kushina was also pregnant, so she wanted to see if she was going to be pregnant too. It was always a dream to have children around the same age, they were going to be the best of friends, cousins, and like siblings with each other. Tsuande picked up the pregnancy test and took a deep breath and she flipped over the test -

POSITIVE

"Oh my..." Tsuande said.

Of course she would have to wait for Jiraiya to get home, they weren't even married yet, they were still engaged. They were planning on a wedding for the spring time, but now it either had to be pushed back, or it has to happen earlier. She paced around the living room of their apartment. She could call Kushina over - knowing that Jiraiya probably wouldn't like the fact that he was the second person to know, but she had to tell someone, or just like a second person to talk this through. What was she going to do? She just go the job of Chief of Surgery and now she was pregnant!

Tsunade for an hour was just wondered what she was going to do - she knew that she wanted to tell Kushina, but she knew that Jiraiya would want to be the first one to know. A baby. Boy or Girl? Tsunade prayed for a girl because knew that Kushina's child - well little boy would watch over the new baby that was going to part of the family. She was going to be a mother.

Now it was time - Time for him.

"I'm home!" Jiraiya said walking through the door.

"Welcome home," Tsunade said as she walked over to him.

"How was your day?"

"Well, it was good. So there is some news I want to tell you."

"What's this news?"

"We're...going to be parents."

"Wait...What?"

"I'm pregnant."

"Tsunade, really?"

"Yeah, I don't know how far along I am, but maybe tomorrow we can go to the OB-GYN and see how far along I am."

"Well, you are in luck. I don't have to go in to work tomorrow, so we can go."

"I can't believe this. We're going to be parents, and we're not even married yet!"

"Our wedding is soon, you know that."

"By then, who knows how far along I am! I could be fat!"

"You aren't going to be fat, you are certainly going to look big -"

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD SAY THAT!"

"Calm down, Honey."

Tsuande took a deep breath and looked at him. She rolled her eyes, she couldn't believe that he was saying. She knew that they had to get married before the baby was born. That was one thing both their parents taught them, not to have kids before they were married. So, of course, everyone will know that she was pregnant before they were married. Jiraiya walked over to her, hugging her.

"You know, you are the only girl for me, my love." He whispered in his ear.

"I bet you said that to all your girlfriends, as you were traveling." She shook her head.

"Come on now, you know I don't really think of those girls, as girlfriends. They were just...flings. You know, one timers."

"You are so gross!"

"Yeah, but you still love me."

"I guess you can say that."

"Tsunade, oh how you wound me at this time."

"I'll do more than just wound you."

"Oh yeah?"

"Definitely, I'll kick you out of the apartment."

"But, my adorable Juliet! Where shall I go?"

"That isn't my problem."

"Give me one more chance."

"I guess. I mean you are the father of my baby."

"And what fine child that he or she shall turn out."

Four months ago

Tsunade was sitting in her office, she was only five months along. This was something that she couldn't believe. She was a newly wed. Tsuande was now looking at her ultrasound of her baby girl. There was something there, she - the baby was small for someone who was five months along. Though everyone knew she was five months along. Why was she so small? There HAD to be something wrong with her baby. Her baby - Sakura. That's the name they were going with. She looked up when the office door opened. There stood her Husband. Now that was still funny to think about. She was married. She was with the best man ever. They were also having a baby. Jiraiya was looking at a new home for them, and of course they were going to get something close to the hospital, but also close to her brother and his wife, Kushina who was going to be due soon as well. Kushina was doing well, as she was seven months along with a baby boy on the way.

Of course, Kushina and Minato had picked the name Naruto for his name. Tsunade prayed that the two children...No. The two cousins would get along, they were after all family. Family should stay together no matter what comes their way. Just then Kushina knocked on Tsunade's office door. Of course, Jiraiya was still in the office, so he opened the door.

"Hey Kushina," Jiraiya said smiling at the woman. "So how much longer until I get to see my nephew?"

"In another two months, He's just such a kicker, and it's really annoying." Kushina sighed as she looked at her brother-in-law. She then turned to Tsuande. "I heard the news,"

Tsuande looked up and frowned a bit. "I just want her to be healthy, I don't mind that she's so tiny I just need her healthy that's all."

Now

Tsunade saw everyone rushing to make sure that Sakura was okay. "Is...Is she okay?" Tsunade asked. She wanted to get up and walk over to the - No - HER baby.

"Tsunade, she'll be okay," Jiraiya said as he looked at his wife and looked over to where their baby.

As the nurses, and the doctor looked over Sakura, they knew that there was going to be problems in the future. One of the nurses walked over with Sakura in wrapped in a purple blanket, since her hair was going to pink.

"Here you go, you can hold for a little bit." The nurse said, staying close by to make sure that nothing happens.

"Thank you." Tsuande as she took her daughter. "Hello my blossom." She whispered to her baby girl. "I'm your mommy, and I will always protect you."