Sasuke: I still don't get this.

Neko Hoshi: Have you read Hisho yet?

Sasuke: No, why should I? It has my brother in it.

Chapter 3 One Left

Naruto sat up in his bed with his eyes still closed as he yawned. While rubbing sleep out of one eye, his other hand touched his stomach that was to its full size. An ache started to pulsate through his body, making him double over as he looked around for anything that was amiss.

"Mommy," A child's voice echoed in his subconscious, making him twitch, "where's Daddy, Mommy?"

He grunted as he prayed to anyone that was above him for the pain to end as he held his stomach.

No one answered him as the pain increased as the pulsating it was going through came closer and closer to the last. Then just like that, like someone snapped their fingers, it was gone and he felt numb.

"What the hell just happened?" Naruto asked in a hushed whisper as he looked around his lonely apartment. Biting his lip, he crawled out of the bed slowly and went to get dressed in his new orange outfit that Sakura got him.

After getting dressed in the oversized shirt and sweat pants, he took the apple out of the bowl that Shizune insisted he eat for the child's sake. Taking a bite, he shrugged. It was so-so, he thought as he sat down at the small table. He never really liked fruit or vegetables but yet he liked gardening. Maybe it was for the fact that he didn't have any parents to force him to eat them.

With that being his mind, he looked down at his developing child. "I'll be able to change that. I'll be the best damn parent a kid could have. You can count of me Isami or Tsuneo."

He knew that it was almost time for the arrival of his child, only one more month left to separate him from it. He would have someone to hold and cherish, to be with them through thick or thin.