"They're in here Kisame-san," Shizune spoke softly as she guided the new Hokage's second in command to the maternity ward. He'd been away on a mission and missed his wife's final week of pregnancy as well as his child's birth. Kisame tiptoed to the bed and kissed his sleeping wife before making his way to the crib. The medic smiled weakly at the man before waking his wife under the guise of checking her vital statistics. Under normal circumstances she would have given the family privacy, but Zetsu's unexpected reaction to Inoze's birth had set the entire hospital on alert. Both women watched apprehensively as the former Akatsuki member inspected his child.
Unlike her mother, the youngster was wide awake when Kisame walked into the room. She stared at her father matching his set of dark beady eyes with a smaller but equally beady set of her own. She relaxed as his large blue fingers stroked the unruly patch of dark spiky hair that met in a point at the top of her head. Her nose crinkled as he touched the small lines beneath her eyes that were indeed a functioning set of gills. Her fingers clutched into a fist and her toes curled after they were spread apart to reveal a slight bit of webbing between each diminutive digit.
"She looks nothing like me" Kisame exclaimed sadly as she looked from his daughter to his wife. Shizune and Hana exchanged glances that were both worried and puzzled as Kisame looked at his pale female mini-me. They nodded in confusion as he continued speaking. "She has your coloring, not that I mind, blue skin is a bit hard to disguise. I did change my name so my old enemies wouldn't come after the two of you, but I was expecting her to at least look somewhat like me."
Kisame's voice became pitiful as he loving gazed at the 29 inch, ten pound female version of himself, "She has your eyes, your nose, your cheeks, your ears, your round face, your fingers, your hair, your toes and your plumbing if this pink blanket is any indicator. She looks nothing like me. She's beautiful like you."
Hana visibly relaxed at her husband's compliment and Shizune breathed a sigh of relief signaling the ANBU waiting outside the room to disperse. Both women smiled as Kisame began crooning at the little girl cradled against his chest.
"You're my pretty girl. You're pretty like your Mama. I'm going to have to teach you to use Samehada real soon so you can kill every boy that gets near you. Yes I am, oh yes I am. You're Papa's pretty girl. I think we'll name you pretty girl. How about that Hana? Do you think Kireiko is a good name?"
Before Hana could respond the little girl yawned flashing four little white objects in her mouth that could only be classified as teeth.
"Did you see that? Teeth! She has teeth!" Kisame squealed as he flashed his own perfectly sharpened pearly whites in a manner that would make Gai cry with jealousy as he danced around the room and out into the hallway. "My baby has teeth. I knew you took after your Papa in some ways! Teeth! Wait until I show everybody! Teeth! Ha ha…"
Shizune groaned and Hana began rubbing her forehead as a loud shriek echoed down the hallway. "I hoped he'd at least make it out of the hospital before someone told him all Inuzuka's were born with at least one tooth."
Author's Notes
Kireiko roughly means beautiful child
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