To My Unborn Child

February 3rd

I'm not sure on how to start off these letters to you. It doesn't all feel real yet.

To think that you aren't even the size of a pea yet and you've already changed so much. I keep wondering how something so small can be so life changing. In the past week I've thought about things that had never occurred to me before. To tell the truth I've never been more terrified in my life.

This is my first letter to you and I already feel so overwhelmed. I want to write so many things down, I want to tell you everything I know, I want to tell you what the world is like, I want to tell you so many things that my mind can't seem to keep up.

I suppose that I still have quite a bit of time left but even now I still feel like there isn't enough and there won't ever be. There are so many things and so little time. To be honest, the only time I ever felt like this was when I fell in love with you mother. I hope you grow up like your mother. She is beautiful and she is kind and she is braver than any shinobi I know. Your mother has a smile that can light up the night sky brighter than the stars ever could. I hope you have her smile; it's the most beautiful thing in my world. You're mother has bright red hair that reminds me of pomegranate. After meeting your mother I think I understand why Persephone was so attracted to the fruit. I hadn't been able to stay away either.

Your mother smiles and laughs when I tell her there isn't enough time to tell you everything. She tells me we'll have enough time when you're actually here. Here in our arms where we can see you and hold you throughout the night.

I promise I'll tell you everything that I don't get the chance to write down. I'll tell you about my childhood, my days at the academy and the day I met your mother and the day I realized I loved her.

I promise I'll tell you everything and if I run out of things to tell we'll just have to make more memories and more things to tell.

I've only know about you for a week and already I feel so much love. I promise I will always love you, no matter what may come. You will forever be a part of me.

Your father,

Minato Namikaze