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Aura
Birth
Naruto sat in the waiting room of the Konoha medical clinic for what seemed like an eternity, desperate to hear any good news. A nurse walked by; the blond quickly called her attention.
"Nurse, nurse! Do know how she's doing?" The nurse's face looked grim as she shook her head.
"It doesn't look good, whoever attacked her really did a number on her." The genin thanked her and returned to his seat, praying with every fiber in his being that she would survive.
The doors on the other side of the room erupted as three figure quickly made their way towards the panicked Naruto. He looked up to see Sakura, Kiba and Shino approaching him, worried looks in all of their eyes.
"Naruto," said the female chunin, hugging her teammate in hopes of comforting him, "everything is going to be alright.
"Ya," second Kiba, his voice shaky, yet confident, of the situation. "She may not be the strongest, but she always pulls through in the end." The blond gave a weak smile, thanking his friend with a nod.
The door on the other side of the lobby opened, the group turned to see one of the head medic-nin walked towards them, a somber look on his face. Naruto quickly stood up and ran to him.
"How is she?! Is she going to make it!?"
"It doesn't look good I'm afraid." Said the medic, his face growing grimmer by the second. "I just have a few questions for you to-"
"Why are you wasting your time here while you should be in there helping her!" Shouted Kiba, pointing to the door.
"Please," said the doctor, raising a hand to calm down the ninja. "Now Naruto, what is your relationship with Miss Hyuga?" Naruto faltered with this question for a moment, not sure how to answer. Luckily, Sakura managed to give an answer for him.
"He's her friend, what does that have to do with any-"
"Are you aware or her condition Naruto?" The genin tried his best not to stammer and managed give an answer.
"…Yes" the medic-nin nodded and wrote down a few notes. The group looked confused.
"Wait, what condition? Is she sick? Is that why she was attacked?" These flurry of questions erupted from the group, throwing Naruto into a deeper state of both panic and worry.
"Miss Hyuga is with child." The room went silent, all three chunin looked at their friend with pure shock.
"W-what did you say?" stuttered Shino, speaking for the first time since entering the room, and with his voice full of shock. The group of nin slowly adverted their gazes from the doctor, the tension so thick you could slice it with a kunai.
"How…how far along is she?" asked Sakura in a weak voice.
"Miss Hyuga is eight months along," said the doctor, showing no remorse for outing Naruto to his fellow ninja. "Now may I assume that you that-"?
"YES!" barked Naruto, his voice full of rage. "I'm the father, now will you please tell me how Hinata is?!?" As the rest of the group recovered from the recent revelation of Naruto and Hinata's relationship, the blond continued his rant.
"Now tell me, HOW. IS. SHE?!" The medic nin finally answered his question, but it was not the answer he wanted.
"Miss Hyuga's condition is critical. Her body is covered with many superficial cuts, but that is not the reason for her severe condition. She has been stabbed in her chest, puncturing a lung and slicing a vital artery." These words echoed through his head, leading him to come up with one grim conclusion.
She's going to die…
"What about the baby," interrupted Sakura, still recovering from the large flow of information she had recently taken in. "What will happen to the baby?"
"If the worse should happen to the mother, then we will perform an emergency operation to deliver the child." The doors opened and out emerged a nurse, a panicked look on her face.
"Doctor, her stats are falling, we need your help!" The doctor nodded and went with the nurse to attend to the situation, leaving the four shinobi alone to contemplate the recent series of unfortunate events that has befallen their friend. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Kiba hit Naruto with a sharp uppercut.
"YOU BASTARD! How could you do that to her?!? Were you two together, or was it a one-night-stand!?!" The genin slowly got up from the floor, rubbing the spot on his jaw that the dog ninja hit him.
"…No…yes…I don't know. It all happened so fast. I…I just wanted to help her out in whatever way she needed." Kiba began to calm down as the blond slowly began to explain everything. "When…when she told me, I-I didn't know how to react, I didn't know what to do. At first, I thought we should give the kid up or something. But then I remembered what it was like for me to grow up, without a family, without a home. I promised myself that I would never let that happen to anyone else, especially not even my own child."
The doors opened, the medic-nin emerged from the portal with a sad look in his eyes. All eyes fixed themselves on the doctor walking slowly to Naruto.
"I…I'm sorry." The room became dead silent, as if all sound was sucked right out of the room. Naruto was floored, he felt all energy drain from his body from that single sentence. It was Sakura that was the first to break the hush that had befallen the room.
"W-what about the baby?"
"We're already working on an emergency C-section to deliver the child, a nurse will inform you when the child is born." As the medic nin left for the second time, everyone felt the energy drained out of them. The female shinobi could only imagine what was going through the blonde's mind. So much has happened to him already, the container of a demon, a fighter against the Akatsuki, and now a father at sixteen. How will he ever become Hokage now?
As everyone was distracted by the recent change of events, they failed to notice another join their ranks.
"Well, well I wouldn't expect to see you all here." Naruto looked up to see Neji, a disgruntled look on his face as if he went out of his way to do someone a favor.
"N-Neji, what are you doing here?" asked Kiba, his voice still shaky from the current turn of events.
"Lord Hiashi asked me to come here to see how his daughter was doing after birthing that bastard child of hers." Naruto nearly cracked; he knew Neji was never very close to Hinata, but to go so low.
"How can you say that?" shout Sakura, feeling angry at how thickheaded Neji was being. "Is that what you heard was happening to Hinata? And how could you say that about her?" Neji only gave a small smirk.
"When Hiashi found out about Hinata's 'condition', he kicked her out in a heartbeat. The only reason I'm here is to see what half-breed she delivered into this world." The genin wanted to beat the jonin within an inch of his life. As he slowly got up, ready to knock some sense into him, a nurse came into the waiting room.
"Mister Uzumaki, you can come in now." Naruto responded with a nod and began to follow the nurse, but not before clearing up a few things with Neji.
"Neji, Hinata didn't come here to have her baby, she was killed." The genin left the now silent room to see what the doctors wanted with him.
As the medic-nin led him down the hallway, many questions rang through his head. How am I going to be a father to this kid? I'm still just a kid! What if this kid grows up to hate me? How am I going to get by?
The nurse led Naruto into the operating room, where so much tragedy has already occurred. He looked around the room calmly until his eyes came across two beings. The first, the body of Hinata Hyuga, her body on the operating table, covered completely by blankets except for her head. The genin walked up to the body and looked at her face. He ran the back of his fingers gently against her paling cheeks, feeling tears well in his eyes. At that moment he heard a crying noise from behind him. The shinobi looked around to find a small crib, the blond made his way to the crib and looked inside. Naruto felt his heart melt instantly. In the crib was the most beautiful child he had ever seen; the child had cream-colored skin and tuffs of his blond hair. As he reached down to pick up the child, he noticed that this child had its mother's lavender eyes, the very eyes he fell in love with.
"Hey," said Naruto to the nurse. "What is it?"
"Oh, it's a girl." Replied the nurse. The genin nodded and looked at the child, his daughter, and then to the mother. He walked over to the corpse and suddenly broke into tears.
"I'm so sorry I wasn't there to protect you," he sobbed, "I'm so sorry. But I promise you this, I will protect our daughter from anything." Said Naruto, kissing the forehead of his lover "I promise. I will protect our daughter, our Aura."
Wow, that was certainly interesting. As you probably figured out by now, Hinata won't be making an appearance any time soon. I wanted to write a story that was different and show a side of Naruto none of us would imagine seeing. Anyway, leave some feedback and let me know what you think about it.