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Chapter Two
"Do you know why I love you?" Naruto looked at his wife with cute, happy eyes. He had his arm lazily wrapped around her waist, resting his head atop of hers.
"No, why do you love me?" She asked not moving a body-part, enjoying how they touched each other. She smiled slightly about what he was going to say.
They were standing next to the baby-cradle they just recently had bought, looked at the newborn baby who was fast asleep with a little toy close to the chest.
It was their child, their second child who was sleeping without any worry on its features.
Rabu was his name; he had gotten the hint of blonde hair like his father but pale oval eyes like his other parent. People guessed he would get the Byakugan when he got older because of them. The difference from the normal Hyuuga's eyes was that his had the slightest tint of blue.
He was beautiful and he loved to laugh and play with the other babies. (Sasuke and Sakura had just gotten twins who liked to play with him whenever they could.)
Naruto and Hinata watched his sleep in silence, a peaceful lovely silence, but the quiet time vanished when they heard Tenshi scream out loud: "Mommy… Daddy! It's a monster, help!"
Both mom and dad sighed when they heard her. Their daughter used to have nightmares almost each and every night. And it never stopped, Naruto and Hinata wasn't sure what to do about it.
Tenshi, their first-born child was five years old and loved to help Hinata with cleaning, and she liked to watch Naruto practice countless of jutsu's in the training-ground. She was beautiful with the short, dark hair and clear-blue eyes. She and his brother didn't look like siblings, but they were very close. Always noticing when the other one wasn't near.
"Tenshi, it's okay. We are here, relax now."
Naruto and his wife came in to her room; saw the daughter standing on her bed, crying loudly while her body shook in fear.
"Mom and dad, I'm s-scared."
"Honey, it's okay. We are here, nobody will hurt you." Hinata whispered to her ear and gave her a warm long hug. The daughter sniffled a bit before she calmed down. And soon was she of sleeping again, safe in her mother's strong embrace.
"We have to do something about it. She has gotten nightmares every night in a month now. It can't continue like this." Naruto said tiredly, looked at the sleeping child while he scratched his head in thoughts.
"Yeah, but what should we do?" Hinata asked while she put a white blanket over her daughter's shoulders, stroke her hair one last time. The young parents went out of the room, silently closing the door.
"We should talk to Lady Tsunade, maybe she could help us." The husband suggested and his wife agreed with a simple nod.
-:-:-
Some days later the little family walked through Konoha's many streets, meeting friends who congratulated with their son who was three months old. He sat in a stroller, smiled friendly although curious to the people who drew attention to him. He enjoyed being the center for attention, something he had gotten from his father who laughed of his son's expression of glee when people baby-talked to him.
The weather was great, the sun steaming hot and almost everyone was dressed in tops and shorts. Somebody only walked in shorts, claiming the weather was far too hot for a stupid t-shirt.
"Naruto, you and Tenshi can go to Lady Tsunade. I'm following Rabu to Sakura; she said that she could take care of him for a while." Hinata said. "I'm coming after you later, ok?"
"Tenshi, do you want to meet the fifth Hokage?" Naruto asked when his wife and baby were out of sight, inside the huge mess of people the streets was crowded of.
"Oh, am I going to meet her? Wow!" Tenshi giggled and took her dad's big and warm hand; they changed their direction to the Hokage's residence.
On the way they talked about ramen. They both loved Ichiraku's, and they use to eat there two-three times a week, if Hinata didn't mind of course.
And so were they outside the Hokage residence. It was huge, rebuilt and looked very powerful there it stood, towering over the houses nearby. Naruto pointed to the window where Tsunade had her office, Tenshi replied with an excited jump only children could make.
They went inside the huge building, straight to the fifth Hokage's office. Naruto talked about all the times he had been there getting missions or argued with the leader, his daughter listened looking around the many corridors they travelled in. Naruto suddenly stopped and reached out a hand to knock, he opened a door and saw Lady Tsunade sit in her chair. Her yellow hair hanged nicely down her back and she looked as firm as she used to.
"Hello, Naruto. It's been a while. You look great." Then she saw the girl behind him. "Is that your daughter? Wow, how much she has grown. It's some years since I last saw her."
Naruto smiled and agreed, led Tenshi to a chair in front of Tsunade's desk. She looked at the leader with the clear-blue eyes of her, speechless because of the nice-looking Hokage in front.
Naruto sat down in the chair next to her, still holding her hand, squeezing it in reassurance when Lady Tsunade opened her mouth.
"What's your name, little girl?" She asked friendly. The girl gasped for a moment before she said with a low voice.
"M-my name is Tenshi. Are you the Hokage? You are s-so young, daddy said you were an old granny."
Tsunade laughed, but sent the father a glare nobody but he could read. He had gotten it much more often than other people after all.
"She is adorable and honest like kids her age normally is." Again she sent him a glare, "and she looks like her father and mother. What would you talk to me about?"
Naruto took a deep breath. "She has nightmares every night, she use to scream out loud and wake up the neighbors. What should we do?"
Some minutes past before Tsunade said half interested: "It's normal to have nightmares; children have huge fantasies you know. Sometimes it's hard to 'cure', so maybe we should try to understand what she dreams about. Tenshi, can you tell me what you see in the bad dreams of yours?"
The girl nodded and said slowly, a little scared while she thought about it: "I-I dream about a huge, black monster with many tails who is hunting me."
"Can you describe the monster for me?" Tsunade asked with a slight frown.
"The monster is huge, black and have one red, s-scary eye who looks mean at me."
"Are you alone in the dream, and where are you in it?" Tsunade asked gently, Tenshi swallowed and said quietly.
"I-I'm in Konoha in the middle of the night, running down the streets with the huge monster after me. A creepy man with an orange mask jumps from building to building; he looks at me. The monster screams 'I will get you' after me and I'm scared!"
A few tears ran down her cheeks, she was still very scared after those bad nightmares. Naruto took his arms around her, comforted her. His skin was almost as white as Sai, he had heard what his daughter was saying and he didn't like it.
"A huge monster, you say? The monster will never get you, your mom and dad will protect you." Tsunade said kindly, but her eyes showed uneasiness.
"Shizune, come in!"
Naruto and Tenshi jumped when Lady Tsunade yelled out, the big door opened and Shizune ran in with her hair in a brown mess.
"Hello, Shizune. It's been a while since last time!" Naruto said smiling, happy to see her again.
"Oh my… Naruto! How are you, who are the little girl next to you? Is it your daughter? Wow!" Shizune, quite surprised smiled like a creepy weirdo; she pulled herself together when she saw Tsunade's look and asked her: "What is it?" in a professional matter.
"Can you take Tenshi out for a second? I have to talk to her dad."
Shizune nodded and took Tenshi's hand. "Will you meet Tonton, Tsunade-sama's deep loved pig? You can help me catch him; he doesn't want to take a bath."
Tenshi answered in giggles and they were soon walking out of the room.
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Minutes went by in silence. Then finally Tsunade spoke up; "She describes the monster like the Ten tails. And the man with the orange mask must be Madara."
"What… like the Ten tails? Madara!? But, how can…"
"I don't know, maybe she saw a picture of it or something. She can have heard someone talk about it and him, and the fantasy have made it like that…"
"We haven't talked about the Ten Tails at all, specially not Madara! How can it be...?" Naruto was furious and wouldn't believe it. Tsunade took a deep breath before she calmly exhaled.
"I don't know Naruto, I do not know…"
The silence came again, but when the door opened with a huge bam the noises from the outside world followed with.
"I'm sorry I-I'm late. It was a little trouble with Sakura's twins." Hinata's breathless voice rang through the room, and the fifth Hokage accepted the apology with a short nod.
Hinata said a quiet ''Hello'' to her husband before she sat down in the chair her daughter before sat on.
She sensed that something was going on when none of them said a thing. An uncomfortable silence was there instead, making her know something was up.
"What is it?"
"Your husband told me about your daughter's bad dreams, and she herself described the nightmare. The monster sounds like the Ten tails. And I'm not finished..." Tsunade said when Hinata was going to open her mouth. "A man with an orange mask is also in the dream, and with the mask it has to be Madara."
"What! Lady Tsunade… how is it possible?''
"I don't know. Have you ever talked to her about the Ten tails or Madara?"
"No, why should I?"
"That's weird… why should she dream a nightmare like that then?" Tsunade asked, mostly to herself. In the end she shook her head.
"I don't know how or why, but to get the nightmares to stop you should sleep next to her some times a week, maybe it stops then, who knows? But when did the nightmares begin?"
"It began a month ago." Naruto answered thoughtfully, looked at his wife who nodded back.
"Did something happen at that time, a trigger for the nightmares?"
"No, I don't think so…Hinata?"
"Huh... No, not that I can think abo- oh my..!"
"What!? Hinata, what do you think about?"
Tsunade herself looked curious not saying a word, waiting for the young woman to open her mouth.
"I… don't you remember Naruto? When you trained? You destroyed… and with the rocks… and suddenly the guy was there…"
"What Hinata, tell me!`?" The fifth Hokage yelled with a frown, impatient of the woman's lack of words.
Hinata swallowed and told Lady Tsunade about the incident:
"The children and I watched Naruto train to celebrate Rabu's second month. On the way back we decided to go the Memorial Stone. We stood there in a f-few minutes, suddenly was this creepy guy next to us. He looked at Naruto in this weird way, screamed 'monster, monster' at him. We all got scared but luckily to us he ran away far into the woods again. Tenshi got especially scared. She admires Naruto, you know."
"Unbelievable, think that I forgot the damn thing…"
Naruto shook his head, ashamed of himself.
His wife squeezed his hand. "Honey, don't blame yourself. We agreed to forget the incident, you just did it literally." She patted his head with her other hand. Tsunade smirked a little of the weird couple, but quickly changed to her normal firm self.
"Okay, but that doesn't tell me why she dreams about the Ten tails or Madara..."
"No, it doesn't…" Naruto mumbled and looked outside the window. He was thinking, hard.
All three of them were thinking, but they couldn't figure it out.
"Oh, is it that late? Sakura is going to kill me!" Hinata said frantically, her husband and the Hokage both jumped of the sudden and unlikely outburst.
"Shizune, come in here!" Yelled the leader and soon was Tenshi, Tonton and the woman herself in the room, all of them laughing loud of something that just happened.
"We're done here. Maybe we'll talk together later. Sadly I wasn't helping much; if Jiraiya still was alive he would probably be in much bigger help than me. I'm not sure you knew this, but he loved children." Tsunade said: her voice not as strong as before, it was a little shaking.
Naruto met her eyes from a moment, nodding in understanding.
"Bye-bye everybody, it was nice to see you again." He said and sent them a weak wave, a bit moved over the flom of memories that began spinning through his mind when he thought about his former teacher.
"Bye piggy!" Tenshi giggled to Tonton. The Uzumaki family waved and so were they walking out from the Hokage's office, soon out from the building.
"I'm going to get Rabu, just go in the meantime. We will catch you soon anyways."
A second later Hinata ran away from them; she was in a big hurry. Naruto smiled, took his daughter's hand and walked down the streets with calm steps.
"Who is Jiraiya, daddy?" Tenshi looked at him when he met her gaze for a moment.
"Jiraiya was my teacher, and in a weird way also my godfather. He was a great teacher and I cared a lot of him. He died in battle some years ago."
"How do the Hokage know about him?"
"The fifth Hokage was a good friend of him. They were former team-mates."
They walked in silence, both of them in deep thoughts.
"You're very slow, do you know that?" Hinata's laugh made them jump. Naruto smiled, heard Rabu giggle happy down in his stroller.
"Hello, little guy! Was it fun to play with the twins?"
The son laughed in answer.
"Sakura was very angry when I got to the house, since Rabu was there it was impossible to get the twins to sleep. They wanted to play with him instead. Sasuke said that many neighbors complained about the noise, he said he will get you…"
Naruto laughed and said. "We're friends… I don't think he would catch me if he tried anyway. Remember I'm stronger than him." He grabbed his wife hand. He smiled at her and with the two children they walked down the streets to their little, white house.
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Many weeks pasted without any bad dreams. At the beginning they slept next to her, and when they stopped with it no scream at night woke them up. Tenshi was very happy now, she never cried or became scared anymore.
Naruto and Hinata were surprised, but also very glad. They thought it had helped to talk about it.
But one night, two months after the parents talked with Tenshi about the nightmares at the Hokage's office, they sat in the living room, on their favorite green sofa. She was six years old and was preparing for the Academy.
"Honey, are the bad dreams away now?" Hinata asked tired. Every single one of them was tired, sleepy after a long day. They had a meeting in the Academy, getting information about things and teachers she would have.
"No, but four nice people say that I shouldn't be afraid, and in the dream they fight against the monster…"
"What!?" Naruto and Hinata gasped in shock and sent each-other some worried looks.
"They are kind to me; say that I shouldn't be afraid. They also know my name."
"C…can you describe those four people?" Naruto swallowed, Tenshi answered happily:
"One of those four is an old man with white, long hair and funny sandals."
The parents were shocked.
"The second one is a man with yellow, spikey hair like you dad. The only different is that he is much cooler."
Still shock between the parents, but Hinata smiled a little when she heard the last sentence.
"The third one is a cool, beautiful woman with fire-red hair. She's awesome!"
Naruto couldn't believe what Tenshi was talking about.
'She had dreamt about Jiraiya, dad and mom?' He was so surprised, and a bit sad when he thought about their death. It was tough not having them near, not having someone relative to help him when he needed it. When he was an orphan he had wondered what had happened to them, who they were.
A long silence went before he asked: "Who is the fourth one?"
"The fourth one is a man who looks like grandpa Hiashi. But this one is much funnier, he says I look like you mom!"
Tenshi laughed and said happily.
"They said they are watching over me, so I am not afraid anymore. The monster will never get me… I'm tired so I am going to bed. Goodnight!"
When the daughter left them a shocked silence began to spread between them.
"Was the fourth one… your uncle Hizashi?"
Hinata nodded in tears,
"He sacrificed himself in the risk of dad's life. Someone wanted to kill dad, but uncle Hizashi sacrificed himself. I know dad miss him, they were twins after all… who was the other three?"
"Jiraiya, my father Minato and my mother Kushina..."
"Why does our daughter dream about them? Why are they fighting against the monster in her dream?"
None of them could answer the questions but deep, deep inside was they relieved that they protected Tenshi, even though it was just in the dreams. They felt safe, that someone watched over them from above.
Many minutes pasted before the husband asked his wife:
"Do you know why I love you?"
"No, why do you love me?" Hinata whispered, feeling the athmosphere.
"I love you because you are nice, kind, beautiful, strong and smart. You are a caring mother and wife. And you are the best cook in the whole Fire-country. But the biggest reason whyI love you is because you love me, a not so smart guy, back!"
Naruto laughed when he saw Hinata's face, came silently closer to her in the sofa and gave a soft, tender kiss to her lips.
She laughed and kissed him back.
So, what do you think?
Rabu means something around the line 'love' in Japanese.
Do you have some ideas for other pairings or ideas for plot. I will happily try to write them in future chapters.
Until next time, bye!:)
