"Sir Karura-sama is giving birth to the twins" a random Sand Shinobi burst into his office suddenly and Rasa rose to his feet, face blank of all emotion for he knew with this final birth, that his beloved wife might not make it through the ordeal.
He followed his subordinate to the hospital, where Karura was already in labor, sweat pouring from her brow as her muscles contracted painfully, Temari and Kankuro stood out in the hall, awaiting news of their siblings birth.
The door shut behind him "Rasa" Karura reached out, and the red haired male silently grasped the sweaty palm, holding it as the pale haired woman let out a cry of agony, the medics and Chiyo telling her to push in order to bring her children into the world.
She had gone into premature labor, especially as it was with twins, the two would be tiny and underdeveloped, and not even Chiyo knew who the beast had been sealed within as it had been just a random choosing.
Rasa stood quietly to the side, keeping a silent vigil as the labor progressed and finally after six hours of waiting the first child plopped out into the hands of one of the medics tending to Karura, a little boy and they could feel the evil chakra pouring from him in waves.
"I want to see him" Karura rasped, her voice strained from all the screaming, the little boy was placed before her, "Gaara" she murmured cradling her second son tenderly, he was so small "I love you" Karura whispered before the boy was taken away.
He knew he had to keep watch over the child as Gaara grew, for he was to be the ace up their sleeves in case of an attack, Rasa turned to his wife as she gave a pained groan, signaling she was going into another round of contractions.
His hands clenched into fists, even Rasa could see that Karura was weakening and had little energy to give birth to the second child, the monitors beeped loudly in his ears as her heart slowed "C-section" he ordered suddenly.
"Get that child out of her" Rasa barked when she flat lined moments afterwards and the medics stood around cluelessly, at his commands they prepared to do as he said and just fifteen minutes later, a squalling pink haired child was being cleaned off, another girl.
Karura was cleaned up, and now he had the difficult task of telling his two eldest children that their mother had passed away during labor, his face was tight with anger "What shall we do Kazekage-sama" a medic asked holding the twins.
Rasa paused and turned to look at his two newest children, he knew they would be close and it would possibly interfere with his plans "Send her off, I'll tell them that one of the children were stillborn" he made a choice, then vanished out the door.
It was quite the task explaining what had happened and lying point blank about the second child, but in the end Temari and Kankuro believed the lie and everything returned mostly to normal, as for the little girl.
She was sent off, far across the land to a run down village, nameless and without a family, never knowing where she belonged, or that she had a twin or even two older siblings, not even knowing that she had abilities that would help her along her path.
Until a person stumbles across this child, Orochimaru the Snake Sannin and took her in for himself, like he was known to do, determined to find a use for the girl, as he walked in the direction of the Rain Village ready to start his new journey.
He thought of a name for the young girl, with bright jade eyes and pink hair that had blood red tips at the ends of her hair, and finally it came to him "You're name shall be Sakura" Orochimaru dubbed wrapping the girl in a blanket and tucking her into his arms.