Chapter 4

Wow, my muse is happy. Hmm... I still need to name my muse. . . . I'll get back to that later

blah blah blah- Disclaimer- (c) Masashi Kishimoto

my OC's (the twins and Hana) are mine!

One hour later Naruto was back at The Lavender Lady. Hana, Minato, and Jiriaya were there waiting, trying (and nearly failing) to stay awake. The man placed one twin oh his back, the other in his right arm, and held Hana's hand with his left. They walked to the hospital, as Minato and Jiriaya fell asleep.

"She's been in surgery for an hour now…" Naruto looked at his boys sleeping on the floor, and his daughter's head on his lap.

"Looks like your mate is dying, kit." The blond couldn't tell if the fox was making fun of him, or pitying him, so he ignored the comment.

"Please let her be alright, please." The doctor walked into the room and motioned for Naruto to come into the hallway. The blond set the indigo haired girl's head down as he stood up, "please. . ."

The doctor sighed, he hated telling patient's families how the operation went, and he hated seeing their worried faces. "The baby came too soon; there was nothing we could do to save it. Namikaze-san should've had no complications, but for some reason, there was internal bleeding, as if old wounds had been opened up," Naruto's eyes went wide, "The chunnin exams. . ." "Luckily, it wasn't too serious and we were able to get it under control." The blond gave a sigh of relief, and realized he had been holding his breath, "If nothing else come up, you can take her home in two days," The doctor paused, before adding, "You can go see her now, she's in room four."

"Thank you doctor." The retired shinobi turned left into the room. Hinata was paler than usual, and she had an IV in her hand, but other than that, she looked fine. Naruto sat and took her hand, careful not to pull the IV, and fell asleep.

Hana had carried her brothers into the room, and had placed them in the large chair. Neither one had noticed the change of location, and they continued to quietly snore. The white eyed girl watched them sleep. "You wouldn't think that they are the most annoying pests when their asleep." She thought a grin on her face. She took her spot next to them, and looked at her father and mother, "I'm so glad mom is going to be alright. . ." she continued to think, "She's not going to be in the hospital again, I'm going to protect her, Daddy, Minato, and Jiriaya."

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"What?"

The blond repeated himself, "I'm going to teach you basic taijutsu."

The girl couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Taijutsu? I thought this was just a walk! Taijutsu is something ninjas use, how does daddy know it? Why is he going to teach me?"

"Your mother is against me teaching you, but I think that you should be able to defend yourself."

"I don't get it, how do you know taijutsu, only ninjas know taijutsu, this village hates ninjas. How did you learn it?"

"Before I lived here, I lived in a village where it was mandatory to know to defend yourself, so I learned to defend myself."

Hana accepted the answer, as her father started teaching her the basic stances.

For the next two months, she trained after dinner with her father. That's when she finally got a hit. "Hmm... looks like I can stop teaching her this subject, she'll take the rest over," Naruto thought as he clutched his stomach.

Hana took a step back in surprise; she had actually hit her father! Joy filled her as she finally saw her hard work give some results. "Hana!" she looked at her father in shock.

"Why does he sound so angry? I didn't do something wrong did I?" she tried to hide her fear, looking down, and using the trait she picked up from her mother, moving pointer fingers against each other, while he approached.

He smiled, and ruffled her hair, "Good job, Kiddo." She looked up, happy to be praised, "Looks like my part is almost over; from now on, you'll train yourself, if you want to continue, I'll spar you every once and a while, Kay? That way when we fight you'll have a new trick up your sleeve."

"You know I will, and I'll beat you!"

Chuckling, he sat, "Hana, I want you to tell me what you're going to do with your new skills."

Confused, she answered, "Defend myself."

"Defend yourself, huh?" his eyebrow rising, "That's it? Nothing more than that?"

"I-I'm going to protect the one's I love." She looked questioningly at her father, who still wasn't satisfied.

"Why?"

"Because I love them, and without them I would be sad, and I don't want them to ever get hurt."

Naruto smiled, "That's my girl. Come on, it's time we went home."

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"I'm going to protect them Daddy, with everything I've got." Hana thought, as sleep took over.

yeah, so i wasn't as happy with this chapter. . .i don't think i got the daddy/daughter moment right. . . neh. oh well. if anybody hates it, tell me.

you know how i said that i was gonna just steadily add what i've already written (from deviantart)???? well yah, screw that idea, i'm just putting it all on here in one day. (keeps me from doing real work)

(couldn't think of a chapter name, if anyone can think of one, please tell me!)