Days at the Namikaze-Uzumaki Household
Chapter One: Birth
Disclaimer: I own only the OCs.
This shouldn't be difficult for one Namikaze Minato. He passed this stage already when his son was born. But he still finds it hard to keep calm instead of pacing around in the hospital's corridor before the surgery room as he listens to his wife's pained screams in the middle of the birthing process. While the situation is a whole lot easier than during Kushina's first childbirth since she is no longer a jinchūriki now, even that isn't enough for him to stop worrying.
"Tou-chan, will Kaa-chan be okay? Baby coming soon?" little Naruto gazes up at his father as he swings his tiny legs back-and-forth with his pent-up energy on his seat.
It's been hours, he doesn't know exactly, since his Kaa-chan enters the room and letting out scary sounds. Naruto is excited for his new sibling but he also worries for his Kaa-chan. She seems to be in awful pains. He promises to be good and waits for her to deliver his younger sibling. He is sitting quietly, not really moving away from his spot since he first arrived. When is his Kaa-chan coming with his little sibling?
Minato pauses in his pacing as he smiles at his young son, patting his head to what he hopes comforts the blonde.
"Soon, Naruto-kun," it's what he hopes for as well.
He can do nothing to help Kushina in there and listening to her laboured breaths wear him down. In times like these he truly realises how amazing women are, just like how Biwako-sama told him three years ago.
Another shout is heard from Kushina before everything seems to still. A short moment afterwards, and comes the cries of a newborn. The baby is born.
The door to the surgery room opens to reveal one of the nurses, smiling gently, albeit tiredly.
"Uzumaki-san has safely delivered a baby girl. Congratulations Hokage-sama. This way, please," she directs the two befuddled males entry.
The surgery room is connected to the corridor which houses bed rooms for mothers who have just given birth, and that's where the nurse leads them to. Minato has calmed down visibly but his fingers are still twitching now and then. Little Naruto's eyes seem to shine at the prospect of seeing his new little sister soon, along with his Kaa-chan. The trip doesn't take a minute but it feels longer for the two males.
The nurse opens the door to show the red-haired woman appearing exhausted but happy. Tiredness is written everywhere on her features while happiness radiated off her as she cradles a tiny bundle close to her.
"Minato, Naru-kun," she smiles as she motions for the two to come closer.
Leaving the room to offer some privacy to the family, the nurse giggles softly as she watches how the two males are entranced as their gazes permanently locked onto the little newborn. The baby is adorable, as young as she is, the nurse can tell that she inherits her parents' genetics. Which can only mean that she's going to be a definite looker in the times to come.
"Kushina..." Minato whispers, his emotions radiating off his tone as he slowly reaches for his wife, her hands that are cradling their youngest child and places his warm hands over hers. He peers at the bundle and is overcame with pure joy.
"She is beautiful..." he breathes lowly, almost unheard.
Before he has more time to appreciate the little beauty that is his daughter, the toddler next to him whines and wails as he tries and fails to lifts himself up the bed so he can see his baby sister.
"Tou-chan! I can't see imouto-chan!" he pouts petulantly at his father with accusing stare.
Minato chuckles as does Kushina, both visibly amused by their son's antics.
"Alright, up we go, Naruto-kun," he chimes as he bends down to lift his son, soon levelling his gaze with his baby sister.
From this height, Naruto can see his baby sister is awfully tiny and her fingers are even more so. She is pale like his Kaa-chan's whereas he takes after his Tou-chan's complexion. Her hair colour he can't tell, it isn't bright golden like his and his Tou-chan's nor is it like his Kaa-chan's blazing crimson. In all, she appears extremely delicate and fragile, he's afraid he would break her if he holds her too tight. Kaa-chan often says he has a vice-grip and whatever that is, he's sure it's not good for his imouto.
Completely taken and transfixed with the new life before him, Naruto stays frozen as he studies everything about his young sibling; her tiny nose and rosy cheeks, thin eyebrows and long-framed eyelashes. He's about to question the colour of her eyes when as if in slow motion, the pools of translucent blue flutters open to stare at darker shades of blue orbs, effectively freezing his time to a stop.
"Woah... Naru-kun, you get the privilege to see her eyes first! This is her first time opening her eyes!" Kushina nearly gushes and coos at her adorable children interacting with one another.
Without missing a beat, Minato cranes his neck to get a better angle to the view. Even with his effort, the little baby only has eyes for her older brother. She ignores her father's desperate attempts to get her attention and look at him.
"Imouto-chan..." Naruto manages a whisper, his own finger now touching hers and on instinct, she grasps his, not too tight. The warmth from the tiny bundle of life transfer to him, it's so comforting that soon an ear-splitting grin spreads on his face, only joy and bliss present on his features.
"Yosh! I'll definitely be the best Onii-chan ever, dattebayo! We'll be together forever, imouto-chan!" he exclaims loud enough for everyone in the room to hear but not enough to startle the newborn.
Her response has been a series of incoherent yet delightful gurgles directed at her brother before her eyes once again flutters closed.
It is then that both Minato and Kushina know that their family is growing and their happiness even more.
(_O O_)
Three teenagers are walking side by side under the darkening sky of Konoha, on their way to visit the newest addition to their sensei's family in his house, near the outskirt of the town. The young Hokage opts to continue living in his humble abode instead of moving into the Hokage's Residence where the Sandaime is living in now following his adamant refusal.
Uchiha Obito, member of the former Team 7 under Namikaze Minato is humming with his arms slack behind his head. He has seen his sensei, who is Hokage just yesterday in his office and he swears the older shinobi was floating on air with bliss written all over him. He mentions this to his teammates, mostly to the caramel-haired girl beside him since the other is unresponsive most of the time.
"Minato-sensei was literally floating! I can even see flowers around him!" Obito exclaims, disbelief lacing his voice while sneaking a glance at his long-time crush.
The kunoichi of the group, Nohara Rin, is a soft-spoken and gentle girl. Her giggle chimes melodiously, "Sensei seems especially happy to be having a baby girl this time. Naruto-kun also speaks about his little sister a lot."
Obito immediately grimaces at that, recalling the countless times he bumped into the boy this past few days and how he spouted nothing but his amazing, adorable, cute and lovely little sister in loud, exuberant voice. His poor ears.
"It's been three days since Kushina-san gave birth. I haven't visited her yet," Rin notes with slight shame. This is the first day the baby is brought home and as she was on a mission, she hasn't seen the little princess.
"I have been held up with few errands myself..." Obito admits, errands which actually consists of babysitting his cousins and helping some elderlies with their lawns and or groceries. As a jōnin, there're naturally better missions for him, but he's on a break. He turns to his silent teammate, prodding a response.
"How about you, Kakashi?"
With a nonchalant shrug that seems to take too much effort out of him, he replies blandly.
"I had just finished my ANBU-mission. Unlike a certain someone," he sees the need to say the last part.
Which doubtlessly, irks Obito and the two go at it as they usually do as Rin shakes her head at both of them before reminding them to be on their best manners later because childbirth is an agonising process. As an experienced medic-nin who helps in the Konoha Hospital as her past time, she knows what she's talking about.
"So... What's the name of the baby?" Obito huffs as he eyes the caramel-haired kunoichi from the corner of his eyes. The little blonde has certainly spewed out the name, but he tuned out most of his blabbering.
This isn't well-received by Rin.
"Mou, Obito-kun. It's Miruku. Namikaze Miruku," she lightly chides the male.
Kakashi perks up at the name before he hums lowly.
"Hmm. Sensei's daughter inherits 'Namikaze' instead of 'Uzumaki' like Naruto, eh?" he muses.
Traditionally, children will inherit the clan of the father, in special cases, it's the mother's. Naruto is special because his mother, Kushina, is one of the few remaining Uzumaki and thus carries on her heritage instead of his the Namikaze. However, the Namikaze Clan itself isn't a very big clan, in fact it's the opposite. That's probably why the second child takes on 'Namikaze' instead of 'Uzumaki'.
"Minato-sensei said that it's the clan's lineage preservation," Rin confirms.
On the other hand, Obito is wondering about something else. His eyebrows are pulled together as he's seemingly in deep thoughts.
"...Did sensei... actually name his daughter 'Milk'?" he manages to say with complete bafflement. It's not the first time he can't understand what exactly goes through his sensei's brilliant mind.
Rin sweatdrops and chuckles nervously at this. Even she herself has no idea what her sensei is thinking about sometimes. Minato is a good sensei, a caring and responsible sensei. However, she has nothing good to offer about his naming sense.
His other student, Kakashi, seems to agree with her thought as he sighs in response. "Minato-sensei never has nice naming sense..."
Even Naruto isn't exactly lucky in that department. A 'fish cake', really? What was his sensei thinking? He later discovered that the name is a reference to Jiraiya's book, the Tales of The Gutsy Ninja, but the 'fish cake' stuck. It's still a wonder that his famous jutsu is named decently unlike his usual... creativity.
"I think it's something along this line; 'Mi' from 'Minato', 'Ru' from 'Naruto' and 'Ku' from 'Kushina', thus Miruku," Rin tries to salvage the situation with a shaky smile.
Although, she heard from her sensei directly that he would have named her 'Minako' given the chance, and Naruto would love his name on his sister, thus 'Naruko', not much difference there, while Kushina favoured 'Shizuku', a name with many meanings depending on the kanji used.
"I still think it's silly," Obito argues, frowning. "When I have a daughter, I'd pick a beautiful name for her!" he exclaims, nodding.
As usual, Rin indulges him with a smile as she leans forward in curiosity.
"Mm. And what name would it be?" she asks.
Obito begins to blush fervently at the closeness, his reply coming out in stutters and squeaks, "O-O-Of c-course, s-s-something l-like Ri—"
"We're here," Kakashi remarks nonchalantly, effectively cutting off Obi-Rin's moment.
The heat coming off from Obito changes from one of shyness, to that of anger at his teammate's interruption. He appears ready to explode in any seconds.
"KAKASHIIIII!" he howls with rage.
(_O O_)
Hatake Kakashi isn't the emotionally attached type. He's the aloof, lone-wolf type according to his shinobi peers. Or so he would think. He himself doesn't think he's going to care for more individuals, at least not so easily.
That all changes when he is subjected to the bluest eyes he has ever seen on a breathing form. Tiny pudgy limbs seemingly trying to reach him, and smothered gurgles directed at him.
He melts right there and then.
At three-days-old, Miruku places, and at the same time, loses her first chaste kiss to Kakashi. Minato has never been more thankful that his silver-haired student wears mask over his face. Kushina and Rin giggles while Obito snickers.
Naruto has his hands on his cheeks as he shrieks in terror before his index finger points at the offender indignantly, shouting that he will never acknowledge the silver-haired shinobi anywhere around his baby sister.
"He is a pervert!" his finger stays pointed defiantly at the older male holding his baby sister, yelling as he does so.
The statement is followed by silence as everyone in the room eyed the now stiff Kakashi. After all, this is Kakashi he's talking about. The stickler for the rules Kakashi, the upholding-shinobi-codes Kakashi. To think that such word is associated with him is unthinkable.
"Uh... Why is that, Naruto-kun?" Minato steps up to his son, crouching to his eye level.
At three-years-old and through the association with a certain godfather, Naruto learns the word 'pervert' without really knowing its context but that it's a bad thing. Since after he told his mother his newest vocabulary, his godfather turns up the next day all blue and purple as he begged him not to repeat that word ever in front of Kushina if his godfather is to live.
"This onii-san reads the same orange book Sage-jiji has! I saw it, dattebayo!" Naruto exclaims, sure of what he had seen.
He will never mistake that book for another. Kaa-chan makes sure to get him to memorise the book and to strictly avoids it until he comes of age, and even then, she still wishes he would still stay far away from it. It's one of shinobi's prohibitions, she would say.
As only honesty could be heard in the three-years-old boy, the case is closed almost immediately. And following that just as quickly, is the retrieval of the little princess from the bad wolf's arms who stares longingly at his furthering object of adoration.
The next day, the neighbours surrounding the Namikaze-Uzumaki household hear the frustrated screams of the fiery housewife who has just discovered a simple note and an empty cot where the four-days-old baby girl was.
'Miruku is with me. -Kakashi'
(_O O_)
The self-proclaimed green beast of Konoha is shrouded with glooms as he trudges into the dango shop where his peers usually gather at, mulling incoherently as he does so. The sight is unusual as said male is famous for his loud and eccentric behaviour and limitless energy while screaming about youth.
"What's wrong with him?" Kurenai, one of the two ladies in the group asks, more curious than concerned. It's Gai after all, there's no need for her to worry.
Asuma, the one sitting next to her shrugs it off, "Just leave him."
From his experiences dealing with the green shinobi, he knows that Gai bounces back faster than any known men. It's in his traits.
Gai turns sharply at this, his eyes on fire and his fists clenched.
"My eternal rival is weird these days!" he exclaims passionately.
"Kakashi? What's wrong with him?" Kurenai asks again, believing that if anyone is to be called weird, it'd be Gai nine times out of ten.
"I saw the man walking through the village with flowery vibe the other day," Anko coins her cents while chewing on her favourite dango. Usually, she would have followed the scarecrow to find out what made him so happy, too bad her dango wouldn't wait. That Uchiha prodigy also wouldn't keep his eyes off her sweets.
Gai cries in exasperation as well as frustration, tears springing out of his round eyes like waterfalls.
"Kakashi's been rejecting my challenges and even vanishing on me after short greeting!" he whines pitifully.
"Well, that's nothing new," Asuma mumbles quietly, knowing the two shinobi's rivalry is more on Gai's side than Kakashi's.
"Yeah. It's the usual Kakashi," Genma agrees, chewing on a senbon causing it to see-saw up and down.
Gai persists as he shakes his head. "I know my eternal rival best!" he insists.
"I saw Kakashi carrying a stuffed puppy few days ago!" he says to confirm his suspicion.
Genma doesn't quite believe him as he raises a disbelieving eyebrow at this but says nothing while Asume only sighs. Gai is always talking about Kakashi, and the group is always stuck hearing all he has to say about his eternal rival. The last time, Gai was trying to enter ANBU to follow Kakashi, kicking up a fuss because the green shinobi is just not the quiet and subtle type as required for ANBU.
Just then, the subject of their conversation passes by the street. Kakashi appears like regular Kakashi, same mask, half-lidded eyes and slightly slouched posture as he walks, but as Anko's earlier claim, he is radiating happiness and there seems to be a slight bounce in his steps. The group of friends silently stares at each other, questioning what is it they just saw.
The first to snap out of his trance is the energetic green shinobi, waving his hand as passionate as his greeting with a smile just as bright as the morning sun.
"Kakashi, my eternal rival!" he calls, running to pat the silver-haired shinobi on the shoulder, only for the intended person to poof away.
A kage bunshin.
"My eternal rival is hiding something from me!" Gai screams, seemingly wronged. This is Gai, and instead of being down, he is more determined to uncover that secret! It must be a new way of training!
Before any of them can react, Obito comes running, stopping just before Gai who is standing on the street rather then the gathered group on the dango shop.
"K-Kakashi... Did you guys see Kakashi?" he pants, trying to catch his failing breath.
"You look awful," Anko remarks as she bites into another dango, dismissing his question entirely.
Asuma takes it upon himself to answer the ragged teen, "His kage bunshin just poofed."
The helpful yet unhelpful reply caused Obito to groan in exasperation. He is so not liking having to play this game of cat-and-mouse in nearly all of his days off when he can try asking Rin out on a date or perhaps training to show Rin his manly prowess.
"What's wrong? You seem desperate," Kurenai asks, absently noting how she seems to ask that question a lot today.
Obito growls defiantly at this, glaring at the air.
"Kakashi is wrong! Everything about that bastard is wrong!" he rages.
"No, no. My eternal rival is simply amazing. It's unyouthful for you to say that of Kakashi, my friend," Gai defends the silver-haired shinobi, patting the tired shinobi on his shoulder comfortingly.
Obito turns his full-forced glare towards the fashion disaster of a shinobi, and in a split second, the Uchiha blood in him shines through with the power in his glare.
"Tell me that again after you have to look for that bastard on your days off!" he barks.
It would have worked on anyone else, but this is Gai he's talking to. And when it comes to Gai and Kakashi, Genma knows better.
"Gai always looks for Kakashi on his days off," he supplies from the side, still chewing on a senbon.
"That is correct," Gai confirms, appearing proud with that statement.
Realising that this is going nowhere and getting irritated will only get him in trouble, Obito ignores the green shinobi.
"Anyway, I need your help to locate Kakashi ASAP, or we'll be in trouble!" he turns his narrowed gaze at the group of shinobi.
"'We'?" Kurenai asks, her eyebrow raised in questioning manner.
"Don't you mean 'you'?" Asuma questions, just as confused.
"Don't drag me into this," Anko grumbles, averting her attention elsewhere.
Obito is famous for his unpunctuality as well as his penchant for causing troubles due to wanting to win over his teammate and brag to his other. Which is why none of them is elated to be included in whatever case he's in now.
"Well, if Kakashi's not found soon, Red Habanero will wreak havoc in Konoha and all of us have to help with the rebuilding after!" Obito remarks, shuddering slightly. The image of nine-tailed red-haired woman with thick fury radiating off her and unreasonable behaviours scared him.
"No way," Genma shakes his head in disagreement. He doesn't see why fellow Konoha shinobi would do that.
Anko nods, "I second that."
Asuma and Kurenai are about to agree, when Obito continues.
"This is the Namikaze princess I'm talking about! She is with Kakashi, and for her, even the Red Habanero has little to no restrain!" the dread in his tone is as clear as crystal.
At this they all tensed and picture the images of Kushina, running around leaving no stones unturned as she searches for her beloved daughter. A chaos for sure.
"We're going," Asuma quickly says, standing up. Not a whole month of D-rank missions, heck no.
"This is an emergency," Anko agrees, standing up right after, her eaten dango stick between her teeth.
"Where's Rin? We need all the help we can get," Kurenai notes the absence of the sweet caramel-haired shinobi.
Obito perks up at the mention of his crush, always does.
"Rin is already on the search!" he informs.
Genma doesn't seem pleased with the situation, he clicks his tongue.
"This is getting troublesome," he mutters, not caring how he sounds like a Nara.
"My eternal rival! Just wait for me!" Gai is just happy and excited to search for his eternal rival, he is raring to go.
All six shinobi shoots off to different directions, all searching for one particular person to find the person he is with. Since Kakashi is the one they're looking for, the infamous ANBU for his superior skills, it's hard to track him if he hides himself with the intention of vanishing from existence. After long hours of search, they finally find Kakashi and the three-weeks-old baby girl sleeping soundlessly by the foot of a big tree near the park. The persistent Gai is the first one to spot him.
Little Miruku is holding on to her new favourite stuffed toy, a cute puppy plushy with Konoha's hitaite around its head and a mask covering the bottom half of his face, dark blue cloth around its body and a white-inked henohenomoheji on it.
Later that night, Naruto reminds his little sister to stay away from the bad scarecrow.
"Miru-chan. You have to listen to Onii-chan and stay away from Kaka-baka, okay? He's bad!" Naruto whispers-yells at his baby sister as they stare at one another, laying on their bellies against the soft bedding material.
Little Miruku is only three-weeks-old, and already there are individuals barred from interacting with her, courtesy of her over-protective family. Of course the child herself isn't aware of it, but the tell-tale of glimmers in her translucent blue eyes sometimes show a different story.
So yeah, how is it?
I'm not in the mood to write chapters for the rest of my existing stories, so I did this instead. This is going to be short stories, so no pressure. I just need a dose of cuteness that I hardly find these days, so please allow me this story.