This is the chapter when you find out how Naruto came to be taking care of Scarlet.
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Everyone other than Naruto drops their jaws then eye the man with distaste. Naruto lets out a menacing growl and his hair spikes up even more. "Leave now or I'll kill you." Naruto's voice was filled with such malice and hatred that the rookie 9 took a step back and stared at him.
"Where's that bitch? And give me that girl." the man said, staggering forward. "I'm warning you, leave. Now." Naruto growled out. The man just kept coming and Naruto crouched down and pulled a kunai from his pouch. He charged the drunk and embedded his blade into his heart, then disappeared.
A few minutes later, he came back and took Scarlet from Hinata. "I suppose you have questions. Come, I'll tell you what happened." he said, before leading them away. His friends follow him silently.
Inside a restaurant, they crowded into a table and ordered some drinks. Naruto hugged Scarlet close and began by saying, "First off, I need to explain my appearance. I look the way I do because I used to much of Kyuubi's chakra. He warned me about it, but when I transformed into a hanyou, his power was needed."
He sighed and continued. "About two months ago, I met Shisua, Scarlet's mother. She wasn't in the best of shape for an eight month pregnant woman, but that was due to her husband beating her." At the mention of the man from earlier, his ears folded back over his head and his hair bristled menecingly.
"I kept him away from her, until the day Scarlet was born. I'm just glad I got to her in time."
Flashback.
Naruto walked out of the grocery store, arms loaded down with bags. Shisua was in poor health when he met her, and he had been using money from his mercenary funds to feed, clothe, and shelter the woman. He didn't know why, but something told him that she desperately needed his help.
As he walked into her apartment and set the food down, he heard her scream. He ran to her room to find her husband beating her again. Naruto quickly ran foreward and slung the man across the room. He charged him again then threw him out the window. He was lucky they were only on the second floor.
Naruto watches as the man falls unconcious before running to Shisua. He picks her up then runs to the hospital. After an hour of pacing a nurse comes out of her room. Naruto was instantly asking about Shisua.
"Calm down, the woman will be fine. But we can't tell for sure if the baby will make it." she said, putting a hand on Naruto's now slumped shoulder. "Listen, even though you've barely known Shisua, I'm glad you could help her. She'll never forget you." Naruto nods and asks, "Can I see her now?"
The nurse nods and he walks through the door. Shisua looks at him tiredly. "Hey, blondie, why do you look so down? At least you're not thirty pounds heavier than usual."
Naruto smiled feebly at her attitude and replied, "You always look at the glass half full sis. I don't know how you do it."
Shisua smiles and then her eyes widen. "Uh, Naruto, my water just broke." Naruto flies up and runs to the door yelling, "Nurse! We need a nurse!" As if she knew what was going on, the nurse ran back followed by two others.
Naruto stands beside the bed and let Shisua take his hand in a boneshattering grip. He did his best not to take it back, but the thought sure was tempting at this point. "Alright, Shisua, push!" one nurse said. Shisua did as she was told and the nurses brow furrowed.
"There's something wrong, the baby's not coming out right." she said. "Can you get it right?" Naruto asks, worry overriding the pain in his hand. "I don't think I can, and there's not a more experienced person to do the job."
Naruto shakes his head. Then looked up with a look in his eye. "I have an idea. Here, let me." he said, moving to take the nurses place. In his head he was having a conversation.
"Kyuubi, I need your help. Use your power and see what's wrong then try to fix it."
"I'll do what I can but I'll have you know I've never birthed a child before."
"First time for the both of us then."
Stealing himself, Naruto began to use Kyuubi's power and found out what was wrong. The baby's umbilical cord was keeping it from moving. Gently using Kyuubi's chakra, Naruto untangled the child then moved it around to where it would come head first.
"Now Shisua, push!" he said, and she did. (I'm not going to scare the life out of you with the gory details so we'll just move on now)
A few hours later, Naruto was wrapping a pink blanket around a baby girl with red hair and eyes. "Why is she like that?" the nurse asks as she hands the girl to Shisua. Naruto sighed and fessed up.
"I'm the Junchurikki for the Kyuubi, and I used his power to help the baby. I'm guessing his chakra altered her a little bit." The nurse looked at him thoughtfully then said, "Well, I'm glad. If it weren't for you this baby would have never made it." Naruto smiled sheepishly before sitting down beside Shisua.
"Wow blondie, you look rough. And I'm the one that just went through labor." Naruto chuckled, and replied, "You promise not to kill me?" Shisua nods. "Honestly I had no idea what I was doing."
Shisua thinks for a minute then says, "I guess that's what helped then. A regular doctor would have looked for what to do right and gotten nowhere." They both smiled but Shisua looked down at the baby girl sleeping in her arms before saying, "Naruto, I'm not going to make it."
Naruto's face fell and he looks at her. "You have always been a brother to me Naruto. And I'm glad I could see my baby girl, but I can hear Kami calling. Naruto, do me a favor. Look after her. Please?" Naruto nods and tears spill down his cheeks. "So tell me blondie, what's her name?"
Naruto looks at the baby and says, "How about Scarlet?" Shisua nods and they chat for a while longer.
End Flashback
Naruto's eyes were filled with sadness and he hugged Scarlet tighter. "Less than an hour later Shisua died. After I buried her and was in the apartment later that night, the effect of Kyuubi's chakra kicked in and I was transformed into a hanyou. It was the most painful thing I have ever felt."
Most of the girls were crying, and the guys looked anywhere but in Naruto's painstricken eyes. Hinata cried on Neji's shoulder and in turn he rubbed circles on her back. None noticed the group of old women getting up and walking out of the restaurant.
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Later that night Hinata said goodnight to Naruto and walked to her room. On the way she met her father. "Hinata, can I ask you something?" he asks. Hinata stops and nods. "What is the man's name?"
Hinata hesitates but says, "He is Naruto Uzumaki." Hiashi thinks a minute then says, "I kind of thought so, just by the way you look at him, just like when you were kids." Hinata blushes then walks to her room, wondering what people saw in her when she looked at Naruto.
She decided she didn't care then went to sleep.
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So sad about Shisua isn't it? But Naruto has Scarlet now so everything's cool. Well, that's it for now. Bye guys.