A boy no older than 20yrs paced up and down in short strides through a white hall. The hospital smelled of anesthetic and cleaning product but it didn't matter. His footsteps echoed and they only got faster as time went by. A red hair male and his brown haired brother sat on chairs lining the wall. Kankarou tapped his foot on the ground which kept an interesting beat with shikamarus pacing ones, this gave gaara something to listen to as he tried to understand the nervousness lingering in the air. Two hours passed and Kankarou had bought up drinks. Four hours: as the sun peeked through a window at the end of the hall it started lighting up the way as the lights turned off. Five hours and no-one hadn't said anything and the tension was growing. Gaara looked out the window and spotted three very familiar people. Naruto, Hinata and sakura we're making their way towards the hospital entrance with flowers. Ino and Chouji appeared right behind the three attempting to catch up with flowers and 2 large teddy bears. Gaara backed away from the window and walked over to Kankarou. He leaned in and whispered to him. The two stood there staring at each other until Kankarou turned his head and looked at shikamaru now squatting in a corner with his head bowed. Kankarou nodded and dashed towards the lift and left. Gaara floated over to shikamaru and squatted in front of him. He handed him a cola and stood up. (I have no idea where the cola came from) gaara glared down at him.

"Now stand up" he said walking back over to the lift. "Troublesome" whispered shikamaru using the wall to hoist his drowsy frame up. Gaara was standing next to the lift as it binged. "you've got visitors" he stated smugly as the lift doors opened and out poured naruto, Hinata, sakura, Chouji , ino and Sai. "Sai walked over to shikamaru and handed him a square box which was badly wrapped and a card. "It's for the baby" he smiled and sat down. Naruto and Hinata came next. Hinata kissed shikamaru on the cheek and gave him three objects. "One for the each of you, you're doing well shikamaru – Kun" she said stepping aside. Now naruto was acting as though he was the one about to be a father. "CONGRADULATIONS!" he shouted only to be smacked by sakura in the back of the head. "Shhhhhh" she hissed. Naruto picked himself up and handed shikamaru a snow globe of Konaha. "It took me ages to find this. It glows in the dark too." He walked over to where Sai sat and blew into conversation mode about how excited he was. The lift binged once more as he was given the bears from ino and Chouji and Kankarou appeared with the flowers. He staggered over to the group and put the flowers on top of the coffee table. "I'm so glad this is only one baby" this earned him a glare from all the females in the room and a scared look from shikamaru at the mere thought. "What?!" he said backing away slowly. Hinata stood over him arms crossed. Naruto watched with a smile and Sai looked at shikamaru and said. "Ever since Hinata started dating naruto she's become quite violent" he said in a matter of fact tone. Shikamaru nodded and slowly placed all the gifts he had received in a corner then joined them. He looked dead staring at the ceiling.

Ino and Chouji had begun telling everyone about how they knew shikamaru and temari were dating way before they got married. "Yeah, she had come on 'official' business for 3weeks. Only she ended up staying for 5" everyone laughed as Chouji continued. "Yeah hahaha, kiba and I had taken him out for lunch at the markets. He ended up buying; let's see if I can remember correctly . . . . umm" "I bought a bunny for Easter, a bracelet, a necklace and a cook book. The bunny was for ino, the bracelet for my mother and the cook book with the necklace was for temari" he said to them all. Ino and sakura awed, and Hinata grinned. "Yeah" replied Chouji remember. "But that was 2 yrs ago" added ino. The 

conversation went on and it helped calm shikamarus nerves for a while. But Shikamarus parents had arrived and this made him on edge again. "Son" spoke his father. "Don't get so flushed, it's gonna turn out alright. Now you know why I only wanted one child" chuckled his father. After an hour and a half the door opened and out came shizune. She closed the door behind her and yawned. "Shikamaru you are allowed in now" she said smiling. In the blink of an eye he was gone and everyone looked at each other.

Shikamaru approached the bed as Tsunade tasseled around cleaning up. A small plastic crib sat next to the bed with pink and blue blankets inside it. He leaned over temari and gave her a small kiss on the cheek. "Shikamaru" she whispered and smiled softly as her hand touched his face. "How are you feeling?" asked shikamaru looking around the room for the baby. "Weak" replied temari. "Where's the baby?" he asked her. Temari looked over to a room across from her. "Having a bath"

"Well I bet it shall be a youthful boy!" shouted lee to Neji. "Girl" said Neji with a smirk, his eyes closed. Tenten held lee's hand to keep him in his seat and stop him from jumping around. He looked decent in his new attire. Sadly to gai sensei he branched off when he married tenten. He liked the tux he wore on their wedding day and never went back. "Well I hope it's healthy" said tenten only to get ignored by both boys. "It shall be a boy because they had love sex" yelled lee. "It's a girl lee because they did it hard and long" whispered Neji back. Tenten sat between them quite embarrassed by how the conversation was going.

"Tsunade!" shouted shizune from inside the room where the baby was. "Yes?" replied Tsunade. "Come take a look at this". Tsunade walked into the room and came out smiling at the couple. "Your child is very special" shizune came in two minutes later holding a baby in white cloths. "A beautiful baby girl for the Nara family, it's been long time shikamaru" she said handing the baby to temari. The baby was 1 week early. She had brown hair like her father but no-one knew what her eyes might be just yet, but shikamaru had a clear idea just what. She had fallen asleep in temaris arms. "Take her to show everyone" said temari handing her to shikamaru who cradled her gently. He nodded then kissed her then walked out.

"It's a girl" he announced when he exited the room. The door swung shut behind him as gaara and Kankarou dashed into the room quickly to see their sister. "OH MY GOD!!" shouted his mother when he handed the child to her. "Look shikaku! She truly is a nara!" she squealed to her husband who looked amazed at what he saw. "Y… yeah" he mumbled out. "She's beautiful" spoke ino. She then glared at Chouji "do you really think you don't want this?" she whispered to him. "You know I don't want them yet" he whispered back looking at the little girl in yoshiro's arms. The lift binged and out came kakashi Sasuke and gai. "Yo" said kakashi walking up to shikamaru handing him a mini pakkun stuffed dog and a lollipop flower. "Hey shikamaru, congratulations." Spoke Sasuke in his usual bored voice handing him a small ninja set and a ninja dummy decorated in shuriken. "A YOUTHFUL GIRL!! WHAT A WONDEROUS THING!!" shouted gai handing shikamaru a mini green spandex. "See lee, it was a girl" stated Neji in a triumphant voice only worthy of a hyuuga. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOST AGAIN" "lee calm down" "NO I LOST AGAIN BUT I WILL WIN NEXT TIME"