Hello! This is my first story I've written, and I've gotten the idea by browsing through other stories I've seen on Fanfiction. Constructive criticism is very welcome.
I don't own Naruto, Kishi does.
Minato had been through many painful and terrifying situations.
He'd been stabbed, burned, scalded, and nearly crushed while washing a giant toad. With a rag. He'd faced down entire squadrons of enemy shinobi, had fireballs and boulders as large as the Hokage Tower launched at him, and had accidentally walked into the ladies side of the onsen near his home.
That last one wasn't so bad, since apparently most of the ladies didn't mind him coming in, for some odd reason. Whenever his sensei "accidentally" did the same thing, the bruises he'd left with had stayed for nearly a week.
Everything he'd experienced, however, paled in comparison to the day of Kushina's childbirth.
The screams, the wails, the feeling of oh my god I'm a dad I'm going to be a dad holy crap holy -
"Minato, I swear if you don't get your shit together right now," his beautiful and terrifying girlfriend snarled, squeezing his hand even tighter (was that a crack he heard?), "I don't care if you have missions to run, you're changing the kid's diapers. Every. Fucking. Day."
Did he mention that Kushina had a really nasty mouth while delivering?
"Deep breaths, you need to take deep breaths," Biwako-san said gently, and Minato instinctively found himself following the instructions as well. The Sandaime's wife shot him a dirty look that contrasted greatly with her bedside manner. "Not you, idiot, you focus on containing the seal." Minato almost whimpered. Biwako-sama seemed to make it a point in her life to make Minato's worse after she'd seen the results of the pregnancy test for Kushina. Now, everything that went wrong, in her eyes, was because of him.
Absolutely unfair.
Granted, it was his fault for impregnating his girlfriend, and more importantly, taking the village's jinchuuriki off the active duty roster for 9 whole months during wartime. But it was an accident! He'd gone over to Kushina's house for dinner, and she'd produced a bottle of horrifyingly strong alcohol from her pantry. The next few hours were a little murky, but he'd assumed that they'd had unprotected sex somewhere along the way. Their positions when they woke up next morning, as well as the general state of the bed sheets, only confirmed his suspicions when they had to literally untangle themselves from each other. The results of their night together made themselves known once Kushina started throwing up in the mornings.
Jiraiya-sensei was the one who had sent her the sake that he'd later found out was from one of his detours on a mission. Seriously, the man should have been known for his legendary ability to multitask, rather than his battle presence. Jiraiya-sensei would somehow always have time to mess around at an onsen or a brothel while still completing the objective. It was just absurd. How did he do that?
Even more, why would he even get sake on a detour to send to Kushina, anyway? And he was not jealous that Sensei had disregarded to send him a present as well. It just wasn't like him. Those actions spoke of a plan of sorts. There was a conspiracy here. He just had to find it.
Furrowing his brow, Minato concentrated. He sent sake to Kushina, who he knows only drinks when she has good friends over since she refused to drink with him, he thought, and the only good friend that has time to visit from her pool is... me... and I'm very sure that he knows that sake makes jinchuuriki horny... Oh hell.
He stiffened, eyes wide. Was that what Sensei was aiming for? He wanted to get his student laid? A groan rose up in his chest from the realization that he might have been played, but Biwako-san narrowed her eyes at his wandering focus, and he snapped back to reality and returned to maintaining the seal. There would be time to feel self-pity later. As well as to interrogate his sensei.
Meanwhile, Kushina was busy trying to convince herself that no matter how much this shit hurt, she was not discovering the sixth circle of hell, she had very capable nurses that knew what they were doing, and her stupid, wonderful boyfriend was here to contain her tenant. It would be a smooth, easy delivery. Easy.
"Keep pushing, Kushina, you're almost there." She resisted the urge to scream right then, from pain or from victory at being so close she didn't really know. The seal was burning like hell, and Kushina had never hated the stupid fox more than in this moment. The contractions were painful enough, but the Kyuubi just had to make things worse. She took a quick peek at Minato, and would have laughed if it didn't hurt so much – he was pale and sweating more than an Akimichi in the summer heat. Namikaze Minato, the Yellow Flash, who regularly stared down enemy teams without flinching, looked like he was literally about to pass out from the stress of the delivery.
Another contraction, stronger than the rest, nearly made her heave, and Biwako started barking out orders to the other midwives. Something unintelligible, because right then all Kushina really could think about was the fact that oh god the seal the seal it's weakening. Her stomach felt like it was on fire, and her whole body began flaming up with the tell-tale signs of demonic chakra. Minato somehow pulled through for her in his panicked state, and the inky lines that had started to spread over her body receded back to the seal on top of her womb, and she found that she could breathe again. Maybe, she thought a little guiltily, I'll be a bit nicer to him once this is all over. He's gone through enough shit for these past months. Not as much as me, but still.
She still didn't know what she was thinking, keeping the baby. Logically, the best thing to do was to abort it. It was wartime, she was needed to stomp on all the enemy forces, but she couldn't deprive this baby – her baby – of this chance to live. She'd secretly been excited when the test had come out positive (unlike her boyfriend, who had passed out from the shock), because if there was one thing that she'd wanted to be other than the First Female Hokage, it was a mother. She had deeply rooted values, and they told her that it was wrong to murder something that hadn't had a chance to experience anything because it was the logical thing to do. And she wanted it too. She'd pissed off a lot of the council for her (MINATO'S) irresponsible actions, and it had taken her best friends, Mikoto and Tsume, to convince them not to immediately abort it.
Right then, she vowed to work twice as hard to end the war – for her child's sake, and for everyone else as well. It was with a lot of guilt that she realized that she and Minato had a lot of time to make up for being absent on the warfront, which meant that her child wouldn't have his parents around for some time. Poor baby. Hopefully she could get Biwako-san to take care of her baby until she could be back.
First things first, though, was getting this kid OUT. It had been in her for much too long, and she had started having dreams of those glorious days past where she didn't have constantly swollen ankles and an enlarged belly.
"Push, Kushina! You're doing just fine, we're almost there." She nearly growled with the effort she put into straining her muscles. Didn't Biwako say that same thing 5 minutes ago? She was a liarrr, and Kushina was so going to get her back later for getting her hopes up early. Except she could really feel it this time. The baby was coming.
Minato, mouth agape, watched in morbid fascination as his crowning baby was pulled out and swathed in blankets by Biwako-san (Gods, how in the world did his girlfriend stretch that much?). It didn't look like a baby - it was more like a red, wrinkly raisin. As if insulted by his observation, the raisin started crying and wailing up a storm, while Biwako-san began running tests with her crew.
"...range chakra, is that norm...?"
"...ould be the 'special' Uzumaki chak..."
Was something wrong? Judging from the confused faces of the midwives, there was something off about his boy's chakra. But the baby was out, he was here, and when Biwako returned with the bundle Minato reached for his beautiful baby boy with trembling hands and –
Was promptly slapped away by an irate Biwako-san. "Mother gets to see the child first, you miserable wretch. Get the seal stabilized already!" He actually did whimper this time. Biwako-san was always going to think of him as a hormonal teen who thought with his dick, wasn't she? Inwardly cursing Jiraiya-sensei, he set to work on fixing the seal. My Genin would be laughing at me if they saw this, he thought glumly.
Kushina was busy panting the stars out of her vision and trying to see her baby at the same time. While one part of her mind screamed victory, the other screamed bloody hell, and she could feel the fox's chakra seeping through her system again as the seal started unraveling.
A large explosion of noise shook the room, and everyone in the room tensed. As dust fell from the rafters above, Minato's gaze turned steely, and he started kneading chakra. The room shook again, the reinforced doors bending and twisting into a shape that was… oddly familiar, actually. What an interesting spiral. One last explosion threw the doors open, seal lines sputtering out, and Minato readied himself, thoroughly forgetting about the seal on his girlfriend. He was ready to jump into action and kill whoever dared to harm his newborn son and his girlfriend. Palming a Hiraishin kunai and extending his senses, he peered through the gaping doors to catch a glimpse of his target and froze. A large mane of white hair jauntily stepped through the wreckage.
"Hey gaki! How did the childbirth go?"
Jiraiya-sensei was so dead. Minato could feel it. This was a certainty, a fact of the universe that could not be challenged. He. Was. Dead.
An unearthly screech sounded throughout the room, and Jiraiya turned as white as his hair as he registered his favorite student, crouched near the bed with a pale face and a kunai, Biwako-obasan, who looked about ready to murder him with that scalpel, and Kushina-chan, with her legs spread open and gaping from childbirth, demonic chakra bubbling from her seal, and her long red hair flying like tails.
He never figured out how she did that, he could only lengthen and strengthen his own hair, not make it fly around like it was a being possessed. Maybe a trick with the Kyuubi's chakra?
Wrong time for that right now, he thought to himself, I'm sure Minato can handle the resealing just fine by himself, and vanished from his sensei's home in a Shunshin. Or he would have, if Biwako, with all the foresight and knowledge of someone who'd known him nearly all his life, hadn't moved to grab his ear before he could make the hand seals. Minato grabbed his baby boy from her unoccupied arm and reluctantly handed him off to a terrified nurse to stabilize the seal. Jiraiya-sensei was dragged out of the remains of the doors to the private, sealed off room of the Hokage's residence with shouts trailing behind him (IDIOT boy using RASENGAN to break into a SEALED OFF ROOM that has a lady giving BIRTH you inconsiderate slob like student like sensei I swear to Kami-)
Sensei would be ok. Hopefully.
Minato fed chakra to Kushina's stomach to restabilize the seal again, and watched as his exhausted girlfriend received her newborn and cradled him in her arms. Planting a kiss on his tiny forehead, she whispered words that only she, the baby, and Minato could hear.
"You'll be our winning strategy in this war, ok? We'll be thinking of you as we fight, and our Will of Fire will shine so brightly that no one will be able to beat us, 'ttebane."
As the parents were cooing over their new baby, one of the midwives, Taji, smiled at them and began writing up a birth certificate.
Parents, Namikaze Minato, 19, and Uzumaki Kushina, 19.
Born, December 2, at the Hokage's residence, Konohagakure.
She looked up.
"Have you decided on a name for the child?"
Minato stopped his adoration for just a moment to think and give his answer.
Name, Namikaze Sakusen.
Reviews are love! Please tell me what you think. The next chapters will be longer, this is just the beginning. I might play around with the POV's later on, but ultimately I think I will settle for just Sakusen's POV, with necessary interludes from other characters.