A Sakumo and Kakashi Gaiden | A day of beginning and ending

The room was drowned with screaming pain, the woman on the bed shrieking. The sound bouncing off the walls and echoing down the corridors of the white wash building. Medical ninja panicking at the bedside trying to calm her, wiping away the sweat trickling on her forehead and encouraging her to keep on going. One woman at the foot of the bed was ordering the howling woman to keep going as she waited and waited to see the crown of a new born head. Nothing.

The room was dimly lit as the lights flickered. Rain lashed against the windows as did the wind which rattled the whole building and sending swooping ghostly sounds through the long halls to then be scared and dispersed away when arriving at the woman's room. Lightning crashed across the black stormy sky. No stars visible tonight in the space above Konoha, instead ghastly grey, and blue and black clouds thundered thickly.

'You're going to have to push harder than that!' the doctor demanded, concerned for life of her child.
'I can't... I can't!' the woman wept, unable to open her eyes due the barrier of stinging tears clinging to her eyelashes. Next thing she knew an ice cold shivering wet hand was squeezing her hand.
'Yes you can..' a low voice rumbled by her ear, 'I know you can'
She flicked her head round, tears flying away from her glistening eyes now widened with joy. 'Sakumo..' she breathed, 'you came..' she smiled whilst panting with exhaustion.
'Of course I came darling', his trembling chilly breath caressing her skin, cooling the beads of sweat slipping down her cheek , 'You can do this' he shivered lifting up their hands and squeezing hers tightly. His dark eyes intensely fixed on hers. His clothes were soaked, water was seeping into the bed covers, and his drowned hair dripped from the tips of his silver strands onto her shoulder and arm.
'5...4...3...2...1...now push!' ordered the doctor, the stress of the job showing in the purple bags under their eyes and the strain in their voice.
The woman leaned forward and pushed with all her might. Screams ripping through her teeth as she struggled to breathe. She clenched her lover's hand, forcing all the pain she felt through her fingers. Tears streamed down her face whilst fluid and blood seeped onto the bed covers. Sakumo kept his tight hold on her, as if his strength was being transferred to her.
'That's it! Keep going! The head is visible! Just a little longer!' the doctor announced, ready to carry the head. The two smiled in response. The encouragements making her try harder, the last of her energy being sucked out of her.
The baby was out and the new mother fell back onto the pillows in exhaustion. The new father stared at the baby in amazement, a tear of joy spilling over. His grip loosened. He watched them cut the chord and listened to the baby's first breath and cry. They carried the tiny human away to clean the blood off. 'Darling...he's beautiful' he whispered as her hand limply fell to the bed. He glanced at her then back to the doctors with a smile... which quickly faded. He looked back at his wife, her face smooth, pale and glistening with sweat and tears, her body motionless, her chest not rising in a regular motion. 'Darling...' he croaked, leaning closer, 'N-No... p-please no' he stammered, his heart snapping into two.

Lightning flashed across the black and grey sky. No twinkling stars to be seen in the space above Konoha. A man sat at a bedside sobbing into the sheets of a just cleaned bed, his wailing echoing through the silent corridors of the white washed building. The lights turned off leaving the room heavy with shadows. The medical ninja left the man to drown in his sadness in the very room... the very room that his lover, his wife and the mother of his new born son... died.

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