Hi there! So, um, this is my first time writing NaruHina, so please don't blame me if it's a little short or doesn't 'feel' right! I'll try to improve if you want to see a next chapter, or this will be a 'One Shot'!
Here you are!
Lavender eyes and Spiky golder hair
The dawn was breaking...
Somewhere, a little too far for normal ears to hear, a single bird was tweeting, calling the others of it's specie to reply. It was that hour of the dawn that everything felt still, even the air seemed to have stopped, and the morning mist was engulfing the small village...
'Even the sun stops, sometimes...For maybe he found something brighter that himself...' she thought and gazed the ceiling with a genuine smile on her well defined lips.
The bird tweet again...'Maybe it's a dove...Only doves greed the sun so early in the morning...' That single tweet was enough to form a melody in her mind. It was something gentle, simple...
Just how she wanted her life to be. How she had always wanted her days to pass by...
The dim dark outside the window softened while the first hesitant sunbeams gently caressed the earth. She closed her eyes once more and let her imagination form blooming flowers in her small front garden. She knew they were opening their frail petals right now, under the soft sunlight...
'Sakura trees bloom at times like these...And my rose garden must have held the essence of the night that passed.'
With a nonchalant yawn, she stretched her arms above her head and soundlessly sat back on the mattress, letting long dark blue locks fall on her back and chest. A pair of light lavender eyes cast the room, almost immediately falling on a small cot on the down right corner of the room. She smiled and got out the bed walking at her very fingertips not to wake him up.
The small body inside the cot moved and twist. She bowed closer to the baby and when it opened it's eyes, she felt like staring at her own reflection.
"Wake up little one...The sun is here to see you!" she whispered, and the baby smiled a cute toothless smile. "Come, it's milk time..." she giggled and rose the small body from the cot, securing it in her arms. The spiky golden locks ticked her nose as she leaned closer to leave a kiss on her daughter's soft chick. Her hair was long enough to cover her ears and neck but, for some reason only Kami knew, it chose to stand up like thorns and dare anyone to ruffle them. "Daring...just like your father."
She sat back up on the bed again, carefully, and gazed next to her. She rolled her eyes in amusement, for he was sleeping like he always used to, one arm bent underneath the pillow, the other stretched out, exceeding the edges of the bed. 'Just like a child would sleep.'
A low cry came from the baby in her arms, and she immediately turned her attention to her. "You are hungry, poor little girl...". She smiled at her daughter and she drew one strap of her sleeveless night dress down, until her breast appeared. The baby waved her arms in awe as her mother hugged her closer and she was finally able to close her small lips around her nipple and start sucking.
"Why didn't you wake me up, Hinata...?"
She smiled as she felt him leaning against her shoulder. "Whenever she eats you start doing funny things for her to laugh. So, in the end she stops eating to stare at you..." Hinata said and grinned widely. "She loves you, you know..." she proudly accused her daughter.
"Of course she does...Do you?"
She turned her eyes and faced him. Even though still half closed, she could tell the vivid sapphire colour of his eyes. A colour she wished her daughter would have inherited, but didn't. On the other hand, a blue Byakugan would seem strange, so maybe her daughter knew what she did when she was born with lavender eyes like her own.
"Naruto..." she muttered and leaned closer to rest her forehead against his. "I love you..."
He closed his eyes and purred inside his throat. "I love you too."
A tiny hand grasped her hair and a cry escaped the baby's lips. "Gaa!" the child said and her parents giggled. "Goo!" she said, playfully flattering her eyelids.
"What a strong and beautiful girl she will become..." Naruto awed and caressed the baby's belly with a single finger. The baby's laughter filled the room, and Naruto carefully took her from her mother's grasp and held her up in the air. "Ha! Wait until she grows up a little more, and I will make her the greatest shinobi of Konoha in no time!"
Hinata chuckled and evened her night dress' straps in place. "She's way too young for that. I don't want to see my baby all black and blue before she turnes three!" she noted and crossed her arms. But her expression changed when she glared back at him. The sight of those two playing, her daughter trying to crawl up Naruto's chest to touch his nose, him ruffling the baby's hair...It was soothing. 'It's rare to see him so peaceful.' That delicate creature was theirs. It was a combination of the two of them, with its spiky golden hair and the lavender eyes, the fair skin, the strong will...
"Hinata?" Naruto called and she snapped out of her daze.
"Hmm?"
"Will you look after her 'till I get back?" The girl, having found shelter in her fathers arms, had closed her eyes as if she were asleep.
"Of course...You know" she said as he got up and took off his pizzamas "I still believe it's way too early for you to leave, Naruto..." He frowned, but put on his uniform nonetheless. "I mean" Hinata continued "I still need help with the baby, and you have to go on a mission...While I can't..."
Naruto zipped up his jacket and stared at her lovingly. "I will be back before you know, we'll have Sakura take care of the baby and we'll go on a mission together." He smiled at her expression, something between joy and disbelief.
"Do you mean it?"
Naruto laughed. "Of course I do! Wait until I get back!"
She smiled with his confidence. But that was Naruto, after all: A moving bomb of power and confidence. "Ok."
"It's a promise, then!"
...
The sun was reaching its peak already.
"Where is he, anyway? He should have been here about an hour ago." Sharp eyes glared towards the village and a pair of thin lips formed a stubborn line.
"I'm sure he'll come soon." Thick brows arched in excitement as time passed. "It's not easy for me, either, to leave at a time like this."
"Lee-kun!"
"Neji!"
Both men smiled at the two women approaching them. They were both holding hands with two little boys.
"Sakura-chan..." Lee blushed and proudly patted his son's head. 'He so looks like me!' Tears of joy started running from his eyes when his son smiled at him.
"Tenten." Neji huger his wife and the boy Tenen was holding jumped on his back. "Ne, ne, tou-san, will you bring me something from this mission?" asked the little boy. His hands were occupied with his fathers long dark brown hair.
Neji smiled and opened his mouth to answer, but the sudden appearance of a blonde fellow covered his words.
"Yo!"
"Hi everyone...!"
"Naruto oji-san!" both boys cried and hugged the blonde, while their mothers gathered around Hinata and her baby.
It was a nice picture, those three families with their children at the main entrance of Konoha. Soon Hinata, Sakura and Tenten would have to say goodbye to their husbands, for they wouldn't see them for many weeks.
'Maybe more that three weeks...' Hinata sighed and brought her baby closer to her chest, were her heart was.
The little girl, sensing her mother's concern, curled up her tiny palms and grasped her blouse. She wanted to say that she didn't want her daddy to leave them, either, but she knew he would come back safe and sound. Her daddy was strong, so nothing could harm him! How she wanted to be able to comfort her mother and assure her that everything would be ok!
But she was way to young to talk...
"So" Lee said "now we are all here, we should move according to the plan and leave."
Sakura nodded and took her son's hand in hers. The little boy fixed his eyes on his father, clearly admiring him.
"Be a good boy and protect your mother." Lee said to his son.
Next to him, Neji was trying to do about the same thing Lee did...but his son wouldn't let him talk!
"I'll be a good boy and practice every day so I'll be able to equally fight you, father, when you come back. Hm!" he declared with a determined look upon his face and crossed his arms under his chest.
Neji questioningly stared at Tenten. She was smiling. "It seems you don't need to say a thing, Neji..." she said and held the little boy protectively against her.
"So it seems..."
Only Naruto seemed to have a perfect moment with his daughter and wife.
"I want you to take care of your mother...I'll be back before you know and we'll play again..." he whispered and kissed the baby's forehead. He then turned to Hinata. "Take care of yourself."
"Yes dear."
Or...almost perfect!
"Remember, the baby needs to eat three times a day. If you don't have that much of milk, you can always ask for a nurse to feed her." Naruto warily glared at Hinata's frail frame, wondering if such a thin and fragile body could endure through the hard time of...lactating!
"Yes, Naruto, I know." Hinata rolled her eyes.
"And if she gets hurt, don't try to heal her on your own! Tsunade obaa-Chan will be happy to help you!"
"I already know, honey..." Hinata muttered in disbelief.
"And if-"
"Naruto!" Hinata hushed him with a glare. "You're worrying too much! You are the one leaving for a mission, not the child."
Naruto awkwardly smiled and scratched the back of his head. "Heh, maybe you're right, I'm being overprotective..."
"We'll be fine...Now go, they're waiting for you."
With a last kiss on her lips and a caress to his daughter, he approached his team mates. Lee and Neji held back their laughers at Naruto's desperate expression.
"Somebody doesn't want to leave Konoha today...Right Lee?" Neji commented, looking at the sky.
"M-hmm, I believe you are right, Neji-San. Maybe somebody is worried over his child, yes." Lee agreed, and Naruto glared angrily at them.
"And maybe somebody" he hissed through clenched teeth "is pushing his luck today. If you have time for jokes, better make up a plan for the mission."
"Said and done...Let's go, Naruto, Lee!"
The three of them spared a moment to look back at the women, patiently waiting for them to leave, with their children next to them. Lee smiled at Sakura, Neji waved at Tenten. And Naruto...
...Naruto decided it was time for a heroic exit, so he took a deep breath and yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Hinata! Wait for me here! I'll come back soon! It's a promise!"
Neji shoke his head. 'That Naruto...' and rushed forward, taking the lead. Lee followed, with Naruto at his tail.
And they soon were too far away for the women to see.
"This is it, then...They left." Hinata sighed.
"They'll be back soon. Naruto promised." Sakura encouraged her, thought somewhere inside she knew she would miss Lee, no matter how soon he would be back.
"Don't worry you two. Neji will take good care of them." Tenten smiled and turned to Hinata. "So, Hinata-san, what's the name of this sweet girl?" she asked.
"It's not decided yet..."
The truth is they had never discussed it. They were either calling their child 'baby', or 'sweetie'...
Then something crossed Hinata's mind, something she had never thought off. 'His mother's name was Kushina. His father's name was Minato. So...Yes, it fits...'
"Maybe" she said, drawing Tenten and Sakura's attention "...maybe we'll call her Kumina. What do you think?"
Tenten smiled brightly. "Huyga Kumina...Sounds nice."
"It's decided, then!" laughed Sakura, taking her 'Naruto pose'.
It was a nice sight, those three women with their children taking the path down to the small hidden village of Konoha. The sun was bright; birds were tweeting all around, sakura trees were blooming...
'It's nice, being like this...I'm happy.' decided Hinata and hugged her precious Kumina tighter. 'I hope that every day of our present and future is like this; Bright and happy, filled with beloved people.'
A dove flew above her head. It was like a secret promise between Kami and her; that dove.
A promise that everything would be just fine.
Fist chapter : complete (Ha! That was fun! Really, I enjoyed it!)
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Till my next chapter...
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