Moon Says: So this was my attempt to write something for a reviewer who didn't want Gaara to end up with the wonderfully fucked up Naru. I wrote this thing before I finished Spy's Love or maybe even wrote even a chapter of Spy's Love…no, I think I was in between chapter 2/3 or 3/4. Anyway, (IMPORTANT) a bunch of good details are revealed in this chapter about the effect the Funeral!Seal!Jutsu did on Naru. So, maybe, think of all the Epilogues coming together to create a collage of an ending. The first was definitely the canon, so to speak, ending. She is with Gaara (although the other guys are open-ended). I think no matter what, Naru was not going to become Hokage. There was just too much baggage (emotional-wise) for her ever to keep it. No, in the end, Naru always goes for Uzushiogakure. Though with the 2nd epilogue, it's only a matter of time before she ups and leaves because it because too much—though with the multiple personalities it would drag on a bit till all were in agreement (which would be when the males were). But considering a few of those Naru's are not Hokage, ehh. Complicated. Anyway, this is the one that I wrote out to be like 20 something pages.
WARNING: the first bit is going to seem different and chopping—THERE IS A POINT! Just bare with it for a bit. ALSO: I wrote this for someone who didn't want Gaara to end with Naru, but, at the same time, I can't not do it. But, I will separate the not!Gaara and the rest of the fic.
Written/Published: 27-28 May 2015 & 11 September 2015 / 11 September 2015
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Words/Pages: 7, 429/22 pages
ENJOY!
Epilogue 3: The Non-Gaara Paring/ Pairing Out of Nowhere/ Maybe!Harem (?)
When I woke up, the people that surrounded me were distracted by (and arguing with) a giant breasted blonde. A slight, soundless movement on my part was to see if I was bound by anything.
Nothing.
Good.
I didn't like where I was or that I was surrounded. Too many unknowns. Panic began to take over, and I used it to create and switch with a Bunshin.
Then I was gone. It took almost no Chakra on my part to make the switch let alone make the clone.
When the panic began to fade just a tiny bit, I was able to come to myself a bit. I ignored the question about how I got out of wherever I had been imprisoned. Instead, I took a quick survey of myself. A quick look at my body told me I was visible and very identifiable.
A hospital gown?
I shook the questions rising from my outfit out of my head as I used another small Chakra consuming Jutsu that changed my looks as well as my clothes. I now had brown hair (ew, at least on me) and brown-blackish eyes. My gender was male. All in all, a normal looking person.
The next step was to repress my Chakra.
I didn't want to be found.
Why?
I needed to get away.
They couldn't find me.
Who?
Get away.
But why was this damn village so confusing?
Fucking maze.
I praised my genius at the ordinary look and suppression disguise. It was working. No one was noticing me.
Good.
Quickly, my feet found their way near a forest that I just so happen to remember had a tunnel I was going to make use of.
The utter Darkness didn't bother me. In fact, it relieved me.
It took me no time to not only get into the tunnel but also find the end of it.
Hurry.
Get away.
Once I leave the tunnel, my eyes have to adjust to the light. Not much because the trees did block most of the sunlight from coming down.
Still, light is light. Easier to spot me.
Where to next?
Stay moving, a voice in my head told me. Find me, I'll keep them away from you.
Yes.
Run.
Move. Must move.
My thoughts were going too fast; too choppy, but it was fine for my purpose.
Did I need long, drawn out thoughts, distracting me from leaving?
Move, must move.
No, I don't.
The tunnel lead me into a tower that I knew was located in the middle of a forest.
Death.
Was it called the Forest of Death?
Move, must move.
Don't standstill.
Don't stop.
Suppression.
Think, think.
Tunnel. Secret.
Need safe.
No Anko.
Anko?
Move, must move.
Take the tunnel, hurry! You don't have much time. You need to clear the tower, tunnel, and forest now.
The voice.
Safe. Comfort. Understanding.
Need.
I take the orders with no hesitance, making sure to follow instinct and the directions of the voice.
Must not be caught. Tracking Chakra.
A sudden thought pops into my head. Change Chakra signature?
No, unfortunately. I'd give you mine, but that might draw more attention. Use no Chakra.
Yes. Safe. Comfort.
Need.
Follow blood memories.
Safe. Comfort.
No questions.
I loved that the voice didn't question me.
Only supported. Only trusted.
My need his, his mine.
Two.
Yes. I understand the need to leave the constant pain; the unwelcoming atmosphere surrounded by your mistakes.
Too much.
Too much.
I felt support, though a slight disappointment on me running.
Two.
I was out in no time as this wasn't the first time I had gone without Chakra. Or run from others without it.
This was nothing.
Running from pain?
This was nothing.
Need voice. Safe. Comfort.
Not too much longer; you're making good time.
They aren't following too close. Keep going and they won't follow. Deep, dark, warm, self.
Two.
My mind focused on what surrounded me not the voices. Dodged any who could or would stop me.
I can't remember when I left or how long it took to get to my safe, comfort, need. The time of day, night, morning, mid-day, evening—nothing registered in me.
I do remember what happened when I arrived. I was greeted by the voice.
Two.
A blood red fox the size of a giant wolf, dog, Inuzuka.
Inuzuka?
And the main voice. His height was a little more than mine. Five six to my five four. Grey hair. Pink-purple eyes. There was a scar running down his left eye.
A scar I saw happen. A scar I tried to heal. A scar that happened because of me—to save me.
He smiled gently as he knows my mental state. The choppy, not here or there. I could tell with how the others behind him knew by their faces.
My hand trembled. Looked down. When did I go back to normal?
Others. They were cautious. Afraid I'd run away.
Instead, I run to him.
Friend. Comfort. Safe. Understanding.
He was like me.
Like me?
"What's going on?" I asked almost fearfully. Something was truly wrong with me.
"You saved everyone by using a family technique. It absorbed your Chakra and channeled it into the ground…"
"—taking the enemy with me." I finished.
The grey haired man in front of me nodded. "You were almost gone, but a group of us pulled you back. Now your mind is jumped. Do you—" he trailed off as if he was unsure of something.
After a few seconds I understand what he was uncertain of asking. I shook my head and looked at him, the fox, and the others behind him. "No, I want to be here, now. The past…is that. I want to go forward, away from the pain and the guilt. I need fresh," I stopped, my brain trying to shut off and reset itself.
My guide and steady anchor squeezes my hand, giving me something to hold onto, something to focus on.
A flash of brown hair.
Gone.
His voice brings me back. "It will take some time to recover," he told me gently in warning. "We will work on linking your thoughts together. It's gotten better since you woke up and came here. It is a consequences of breaking down and being reformed. Our Chakra connected with yours and brought you back from fading. Your body is here, but it will be some time before you can function as you did before. We will have to build your Chakra back up just as we will do with your mind."
I frowned. "So that's why my thoughts are…short, there, and not there?" I paused for a moment thing as to why this would happen. Did he just not explain? Did I catch all of it? "It must be a consequence, a side-effect, of the Jutsu-Seal. I must have…"
Focus. Focus. What he say? What do I know?
"…have let it absorb me too far before I was pulled back."
I let that sink in. A cost of saving the world.
Worth it?
Unknown as of yet.
After letting my mind wrap itself around the little I remembered of his words and me piecing together parts, I looked around us at the village.
The village was once great, something in the back of my mind told me.
Home.
Blood.
Focus.
A young man, a few years older than me with long black hair, stepped away from a man used to intimidation (demon some call him). He smiled at me gently as the man (who could pass as a girl) came over to me and took my hands in his.
"Welcome home, Uzu-hime."
"Uzukage," the rest called out, and my heart was finally at ease with peace.
I let some of my Chakra out to interact with nature, the village, on an impulse, and I felt a deep connection that resonating with my blood as well as my body. My Chakra rose and hummed throughout the Village as something met it and joined it.
Uzushiogakure was welcoming its heir home.
~Spy E.3~
Years pass, and Uzushiogakure slowly rises up once again. It wasn't until three, maybe four, years that the other villages got word about us. My scarred anchor, friend, and later, love made sure that no one outside of Uzushiogakure got wind of our existence till that was what we wanted.
Yagura. I still can't believe just how much he has accepted me. He warned me that I had a past and it would come back before our relationship changed. He gave me time to come to terms with the consequences and possible backlash of not wanting to remember, of leaving the past behind me. And those who were involved with it.
I chose him; he was the one to save me, to help me, to bring me back. I was whole and thriving because of him. He helped me run my birthright as he had experience as a Kage himself.
I couldn't remember some, ok most, of my life—at least if they centered on certain people. An old friend helped me with my early life, but around the time I turned twelve, that following Spring, I can only remember bits and pieces later, which my second helps. I don't know what I would without this ancient-Chakra twin of mine.
But, like everyone else, they paid attention and respected that I wanted to leave the guilt and pain behind me.
Time healed my wounds, or at least I thought so. I was happy; I had my mate, my village, essential friends, what more could I want? I had no need of the past, especially with the future suddenly taking a turn.
I sighed as Zabuza left my office after bringing me news. Really, what idiot thinks he can do anything illegal like Gatou within my land?
I run my hand through my long red hair, which I still don't know how I got. Really, I didn't expect to do the Uzumaki Ceremony and come out with red hair.
Yagura chuckled in my eye as his hands rested on the arms of my chair.
"Still confused? I still think that Uzushiogakure is somewhat sentient and it likes red hair. Why else are you, an Uzumaki, paired with the Kyūbi out of all the nine Bjū? And don't say it's because you are the first set. They aren't in order. I'm the Jinchūriki of the Three Tails. I was not born in the second or fourth set."
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever. A mystery I will leave to the Universe, then."
"See that you do, koi," he teased.
"Che, don't test me," I warned before I teased back. "I am the Uzukage," I shook my finger at him, though I didn't turn around to look at him. "So don't give me orders."
"Aye, Kage you are, but I…am…your…" he whispered the next part just the way that he knows turns me on.
I growled at him, "Bastard."
Then he did something I never suspected: he tickled my side, causing me to squeal.
My hysterics seemed to have my personal medic turn into the room followed by a strange sort of familiar people.
"Uzu-hime!" he and Neji cried as they run toward me, thinking I'm in trouble of some kind. As they did so, Yagura backed off with his hands up in mock but serious surrender. Haku was scary by himself, but with Neji?
I waved them off as Haku tried to check to make sure everything was okay. "Not now," I whispered to him.
Haku blinked, "You haven't told him yet?"
I glared at his words. "You haven't even given me a few hours. I haven't even had time to process. Besides, he just got here a minute or so before you."
Yagura tensed. "What's wrong?" he asked as he stood behind my chair, his hands on my shoulders.
I sighed again. "Later, we have guests now. This isn't something to talk about in front of strangers." I added when I could fill his Chakra behind me protest.
I pushed the chair back, hitting him, then playfully smirked, letting him not what that hit was for—he should know by now not to tease me.
I turned to my right and rose to give Neji a hug. "I missed you. Don't be gone so long again or I'm going to have to steal you from Fire." I warned him as I sat back down once we hugged it out.
Neji chuckled at my threat. I've been saying that for a year, so it's probably not going to happen soon.
Soon.
I turned to look around him, starting at the men who were gawking at me. Frowning, I mentioned for him to introduce us as I fully situated myself in my chair.
Neji moved a bit so that Yagura took up my right and Haku was to my left, both protective, as if they were waiting for me to…break.
I only broke when…my eyes widened. After all this time, now I'm confronted? No wonder Yagura was tense. He was afraid.
"Gura," I said softly before Neji started. Those pink eyes focused on me. "I'm okay; it's about time this happened. You always said this was going to happen sooner or later."
"But are you ready?" he asked, desperate and concerned.
"You haven't had an attack in a while," Haku mentioned.
"Prime time for another. Last time you were out for an entire week—"
I squeezed my lover's hand, my eyes reassuring. "You told me one day I would need to face down my past. At least it isn't too late this time…"
I almost flinched as something was coming to my mind, but I was distracted by a red and brown haired men flinch. Neji quickly gained my attention before I dwelled too much on them.
"The raven," my eyes narrowed and my breathing picked, "is the Hokage, Uchiha-san. The next is Nara-san, and the last is the Kazekage, Gaara."
I actually looked at them, my mind whirling in circles.
I should have expected you, the lazy genius to figure out my secret.
My mother, father, friends, teachers, but no lovers as of yet, I'm afraid.
Don't leave me.
Doesn't concern me? Aren't you trying to kill Itachi for massacring the Uchiha clan? I helped him.
We could be free.
It was an option for us to stay together if it did turn out I wanted Shika as a mate. I can't live without you, Gaara.
I screamed.
No, no, no.
Run.
Get away.
Don't stand still.
Away from the pain, the guilt.
Before I could do anything, Yagura was on his knees in front of me, his arms pinning me to the chair to make sure I didn't escape.
I was going to fight him, flight or fight, but his voice soothed me.
"I'm right here. Focus, pet, focus. You can't run away again. Didn't you say you wanted to face this? You're too strong to let it consume you again."
"No. No. Run. Safe. Comfort. Blood. Blood," I whimpered, regressing as I when I first woke up years ago.
"Calm her down," Haku ordered.
"I'm trying," Yagura replied. "Sedate her if I can't."
Haku hesitated. "I can't."
Yagura let me go in surprise, and I bolted.
"Careful," Haku pleaded as Yagura grabbed me and pinned me to his body.
"Blood, need blood. Need same," I chocked. I needed that voice.
Where was that voice from before?
"What's going on?" I heard one of the others say, and I struggled harder. That voice only made me want to get away—it only fueled the pain and the guilt.
Had to get away.
Shouldn't care. Guilt. Pain. Shame.
Yagura grabbed me more firmly. "Uzu-love, stop! Clam the fuck down, so we can talk. Let's work through this," he growled, and I whimpered in response.
I recognized instinctively who he was to me.
Mate. Alpha. Beta.
"Why is she freaking out?"
My twin spoke up then. "After the ritual funeral, her mind fractured and she forgot herself. She only knew she was unsafe, so she fled." Neji explained, but it only made me start to fight again.
Yagura growled at Neji because he riled me up, but then I growled back to defend him.
"Mine!" then the protectiveness left and fear, guilt, and shame filled me again.
"I can't talk her through this, Haku. You need to sedate her—"
"I can't; it'll hurt the—" Haku covered his mouth, and I started to remember…what I was doing was dangerous in the first place, let alone the damage I was doing now.
"What? What can't you tell me?"
Haku wouldn't answer, but seeing as I calmed down, my fight-flight mode reducing, he focused on me.
Yagura wasn't going to let it drop, though. As he slid to the floor with me in his lap, he held me protectively.
"What is it that you're keeping from me?" he asked gently. "Will it hurt her?" Yagura turned to Haku.
Haku looked unsure. "It wasn't supposed to happen in the first place—if we are not careful, she could die. This isn't helping. I'm not sure if it'll…last."
Yagura couldn't for the life of him figure it out. He didn't dwell on it because Kurama came in through the window.
I thought she stopped having attacks as soon as Neji showed up. Kurama asked as he knelt by me in a small fox form for a second before getting into my lap.
The petting soothed me.
I felt the glares directed at Neji and growled in define. My Twin.
Yagura rocked me. "They aren't threatening him, just upset at him."
"Why?" I murmured, burying my head in his neck.
"He kept your location a secret."
I pulled back. "What right do they have to know?"
"Remember I told you that there was people in your before?" I nodded, and he continued, "They were your before. You saved them, and we all pulled you out."
I thrust the flight away and tried to focus when his words started to cause a panic in me. "The pain, guilt, fear, and shame was from them?" I whimpered and went back to his neck.
"You said you would face this," he reminded me.
"Fuck it,.I said I only wanted the present, that I was done running—"
"You're still running," Itachi cut in.
I didn't even look at him. "There is a reason I can't—"
"won't—"
"—remember. I can't just go back. Uzushiogakure needs me, and I need it. An Uzumaki is—"
"That's not what he is talking about, dobe."
I growled, "Shut the fuck up, teme," only for the bastard to smirk at me. "You know nothing. I have peace for the first time ever. I will not leave."
'He isn't saying leave, Naru. He's saying you need to remember and talk to us." The only other red head in the room spoke for the first time.
"Like you ever talked to me?" said red head flinched.
"I did. Always," Shika stared down at me, making his intent clear.
Haku called a stop and said I would see them later. They knew I needed time, and I could see in the Hokage's eyes some sort of triumph. I couldn't look at the others. I felt Neji stopped at the door, they did too before Yagura and I stood.
It looked like he was struggling to say something, then it looked like he wasn't going to spill the secret, but then the bastard did.
"Congratulations."
I froze but decided that the cat was out of the bag. Meekly I told him thank you. I felt the Sharingan activate only after the Nara looked caught between horrified (as if he knew what this would do to me) and conflicted between positive negative emotions.
Itachi gaped at me, and so did Sasuke. I giggled at their expressions.
"Is it time?" Haku asked all excited.
I rolled my eyes at my medic. "Might as well since that idiot over there can't keep his mouth shut," I glared at Neji, and I was not forgiving even when he looked remorseful.
Yagura just raised an eyebrow.
"I'm pregrant."
There was only silence. Yagura dind't kow if he was horrified at what this could mean to me or excitedly happy. The latter won out as he spun me around, laughing before Haku's glare had him put me down.
When he kissed me, the wood in the door frame snapped. In that instant, I feared that Gaara would try and kill Yagura, but he didn't.
He just looked betrayed, lost, and broken.
Too much, too much.
"Shit."
It was then that I realized why I left and the emotions that had consumed me. I thought by leaving I could save them from the pain. I felt ashamed that I couldn't love them, any of them the way they needed me to. And now, I just made it worse.
"You shouldn't be pregnant," Shika said.
I flinched for all the right reasons.
He knows.
"It'll kill you. That's what you told me. On the less than five percent chance that you did get pregnant, your body wouldn't be able to handle it. Kushina and the First Hokage's wife barely survived giving birth."
I nodded my head and eyes were downcast. "I don't know how I got pregnant. After the funeral ritual, I was infertile completely and utterly, no five percent for me. I had no hope of having children."
"So how did you?" Sasuke's voice was full of confusion.
I ran a hand through my red hair trying to figure out a way.
"Probably the same reason she has red hair and is tied to the village," Yagura proposed, his mask in place.
Chakra was freaky—it always did what it wanted.
Yagura let go of my hand, told Haku to watch over me, eyebrowed Neji (bastard nodded), and then proceeded to leave.
He was gone fifteen seconds before a few of us laughed. When Yagura didn't want to argue, and wanted me to do something that I wouldn't do because he was there, he'd leave, trying to force me to do it.
Ass.
"Will it be easier to lose the baby than in a regular pregnancy?" Itachi questioned as he ignored all the drama and went straight toward making sure I was alright.
I tugged my hair. "If I don't lost it in the next few days, I still won't last, probably, three to five months," I steeled myself. "I don't expect to give birth, or if I do, to live through it."
No one liked that, and Haku spent ten minutes lecturing me before I couldn't take it and threatened to get Zabuza.
"This is life, Haku. We all die, such is the cycle."
"You don't care whether or not you or the child dies?" Gaara questioned, his voice spiking the guilt as well as something else I didn't want to think about.
"Aren't' we all dead anyway? This child is mine, no matter the father, but I can't love it and lose it. Because of choices I made, I won't live or the child won't, hell, we'll probably both die. On top of all that, the poison Sasori put in my system is still somewhere in my blood. What'll you think that'll do to a child with a Jinchuriki parent?"
I could see he blamed himself for not getting rid of it all. I waved that off. If anyone was at fault, it was me.
"So you're going to give up? Maybe you are different. The Naru we love would never do that." Shika countered and did the worst thing he could do: he walked out.
I could only stare in brokenness at what he did. The more time I spent with them and pushing back the fragmentedness, the more I remembered, the more I knew why I ran away.
"You promised," I barely whispered only for him to stop and throw it back at me.
"So did you," then he left.
I tried to control my breathing, but it wasn't working. Neji had to shut off my Chakra for a minute.
Sasuke and Itachi had a blank face, but I could see they were worried.
How was I to deal with all of this?
Weakly, numbly, I told Neji they needed rooms for the night. "Show them the ones next to yours."
He nodded, showing them out. Sasuke had to be forced out by Itachi. I thought they all had left until Gaara kneeled by me. He got my full attention.
"Are you happy?" he asked softly, trying to keep his voice neutral.
I smiled bitterly. "Can anyone be happy surrounded by death?" I let out a held breath. "I was happy surrounded by everyone I loved until I let my stupid, possessive Kitsune natural," he chuckled, "take over and tried to have more than I should."
I lowered my head. I couldn't keep looking at him. "I think I didn't want to remember because if felt guilt, shameful. I was scared after our fight that I really was a whore. That you didn't want me. No one would. I wasn't worth anything. Betrayal, shame, worthlessness, whore—"
Gaara grabbed my chin and kissed me.
When he let me go a few seconds, minutes, later I chuckled. "You always knew how to shut me up."
He leaned his forehead against mine. "You thought we were dead, that's why you used that Jutsu. I couldn't let you go; none of us could. The thought of you dying, ready not to live without me, us, after what I did…was too much."
I waited until he continued because I knew he wasn't finished. "We saved you only for you to leave, run. Tsunade thought your brain was damaged—she said you woke up and didn't recognize her."
I nodded. "I was consumed with fear, guilt, shame, and I didn't know anything other than I needed to get away from this pain. I didn't know anything other than the need to run, to find someone safe away from it. My thoughts were fragments, and I heard a voice helping me, guiding me to where I needed to be—blood."
Gaara understood more about the Twin lines now, so I could see some acceptance over certain relationships now than before.
"Yagura was that voice. He kept trying to get me to remember, but it hurt too much. He became my constant."
"Another Nara?"
I sighed and leaned back against the wall behind me. It only hit me that somewhere along the way, I had gotten back on the floor. "Not all the way. He isn't anything but a mixture of the two of you."
"He's the father of your child…"
"I don't understand that. It shouldn't have happened. I don't have the right amount of Chakra to fulfill my part of it. I have a theory, but…" I trailed off, shaking my head.
"You love him?" the feeling coming from Gaara's voice was unidentifiable.
"I love too many in too many ways, Gaara, that it isn't right. It isn't fair. It's my fucked up life."
We didn't say anything else until I whispered something shocking. "You shouldn't have pulled me out."
"Why must you always think you're unworthy, not worth anything? Che, so troublesome, Onna."
My head shot up to see Shika standing against the wall near the door.
"What is done is done. You had a horrible fight—both of you at fault. We dragged you out. You fled. We all spent three in a half years lost. I moved to Suna; Sasuke's Hokage. You're Uzukage and memoryless."
Shika always, always was there to help guide me out of the darkness that I let myself be swept deep into. Gaara and Yagura kept me afoot, but there were just some holes that they can't pull me out of.
I cried, let loose the pain I've kept buried inside. They didn't move; they didn't comfort me because I didn't want it. I needed to find myself again.
All this time, I've let Yagura hold me up and support this fragment of myself. Garra and Shika, who've haven't been around me all this time, still knew exactly what I needed.
I was once strong, independent, lost and somewhat dark, but their contact helped me through it and stay myself.
Yagura wasn't bad; he was everything my memoryless-self needed. I loved him; a part of me will always. Just like with Gaara and Shika.
I stood up, shakily, once my crying was done. I walked over to the window, and my eyes landed on the sun overhead. Everything started in the light, everything good. We've all come a long way.
Without turning around, "Did you ever find that girl?"
I knew Shika well enough to know his eyes widened as he took in my words. That and the way his Chakra reacted. He hadn't changed at all.
"Che, troublesome, Onna."
He remembered, I knew, my prediction of him loving a woman who only hurt him, but I knew he wouldn't leave her. I hated myself for my own selfish part in it. I would never let him ago, and we both knew it. Not that he would leave in the first place.
I turned around, looking at both of them determined yet uncertain
"Let's see what the future brings. Do you want a tour of Uzushiogakure?"
~~SL: E: Above is the non!Gaara ending a reviewer wanted, and below is my harem~~
"Uzukage-sama, Haku-sama, I have those reports that you wanted."
I held out my hand; I have enough medic training and knowledge to be able to decode the results. My eyes sped across the page, and my astonishment overpowered everything.
"The fuck?" I exclaimed as I read through it a few more times. "Impossible. How is the chakra inside…"
I had to fight to stay focused as fought back the onslaught of the fragment.
"What is it?" Shika asked, coming towards me, ready to offer me his brain. My smarts would never match his, after all.
I hesitated, how would they take it? The possibility of what might have happened as well as if this is true, what the fuck kind of future would we have…especially since I knew with certainty that one or both of us was going to die…
"This baby, it seems, isn't one of…" I trailed off, wondering how to put it.
"Sex," Gaara inserts with a neutral mask.
I nodded, kind of embraced and a bit shameful to be talking with two men about me having sex with another man instead of one of them. "It explains why I'm pregnant when I was infertile."
"How do you know? What medic did the exam that declared you such?" Shika questioned.
I wondered if he was curious if I wanted to have a child, so I checked into it.
I leaned against the wall behind me for support, this time I was standing up (how the fuck was I moving and not realizing this shit?), running a hand through my hair. "Kurama told me once I got settled here. Having a child never crossed my mind, not after my childhood. I also never had time to think of marriage or sex or children, flirting aside."
"Then how did you get pregnant if not by semen?" Haku cut in, wanting to see the note.
This is where I hesitated, and Shika and Gaara's silent strength, them not rushing me, made me continue.
"I was lacking enough Chakra, and I got it."
Gaara blinked. "A Chakra baby?"
"It's mainly what the Bjū do to get pregnant."
"So Yagura is the father."
Shika started toward me as his eyes lit up. "Chakra?"
My eyes widened because I knew he knew, and I was out of the window (thank Kami all Kage have such large ass windows), and gone before he loved more than an inch. I could feel their Chakra following me. It seemed the others, who had left (but I guess they didn't) had joined.
"Get back here! You can't drop this shit on me and run," Shika growled as he came after me.
I slightly turned around, stuck out my tongue, and called back, "Watch me!"
I picked up my speed, careful of the baby. He took such words as a challenge and increased his speed as well.
I was still faster, and I knew my way around. I cut off my Chakra and got lost in the alleys and streets.
See if they find me.
My goal was to go to a safe place till I could figure out what the fuck was going on. When I got there, the ritual-safe room, Yagura was there, waiting. He had a purpose, though, and it was looking for a scroll that I needed before the moon hits next. Something for the Wards and Seals around the Village. I had preparations to do anyway, so this would be a good time to start.
In fact, if Yagura hadn't distracted me earlier, I would have been here already starting.
I loved this building. It was in the center of the Village, the ritual room was below our house. The Kage's house was the building, but the lower floors were the ritual rooms and libraries that were special and no one should have access to except my family.
We were the Village, its center, its protection, so it was only logical for this room to be with the Kage house.
"If they find me, don't let them enter. Tell them I'm starting the prep process for the Restoring Mood Ritual (and really, who came up with this name?)."
Yagura could tell I was serious, but damn me, he couldn't help but detect a bit of a mystery concerning my actions. He knew by the way I was acting I wasn't just running from them again, but there was something driving me away from my past. I just hoped that him picking up on this wouldn't hurt me.
I quickly grabbed the paint, did the door symbol, and went inside. Once inside, I cut my hand and put Chakra into the door, activating the Seal on the other side I just painted.
A few hour sin, I hadn't even set up all of the main Seal, let alone half. It was frustrating and kind of tedious to be honest. But, all in all, exciting because of the danger.
Maybe being pregnant and doing this wasn't a good idea, but what else could I do? This had to be done, and I was the only one to do it. Can't stop now though.
I stopped for a second, stepped back to observe what I had done, when the side door opened. One that I had forgotten was there. I stabbed myself the brush/dagger I was using because it opening startled me. I quickly make sure that no blood or ink dripped onto the floor. Thank Kami I didn't make an extra mark on the ground.
"Get the fuck out now." My voice was calm as I tried not to use Chakra or make a move.
"We need—s"
I interrupted, not caring at all who spoke or what needed to be said.
"Not now, unless you want us all to die."
Kurama, make them leave nwe. If they don't, use Yagura.
"Hyūga," my voice cold, "We will talk about your defilement later. Get the fuck out. If Hinata arrives, tell her I need her."
"OF course, Uzukage-hime-sama," was his reply as he shut the door. We both knew he was in deep shit, and both of us were hurt, and we knew this by the way we addressed each other.
It took almost half an hour to calm down before I could begin working again. I then continued, losing myself in the Seals. For the first time in the last day or so, I felt relaxed as if the world outside couldn't reach me.
~~SL: E3~~
"What the hell?" every one of the males asked Neji as they were driven out of the room by a pretty irate fox. Said fox who seemed to come and go whenever he pleased.
Neji looked almost broken and couldn't look at anyone, let alone Yagura who warned him.
"She was beginning to reset the Seals around the Village, a sacred ritual of the Uzumaki and Hyūga lines. I've been told they do this together to not only show their unity but also because together, they are stronger. Twin bond and all. It was why I could get into the side room. I betrayed the sacredness of our connection by allowing others into the room; that and one wrong move, and we could have all been killed."
Shika only spoke after considering his friend's words. "The Uzumaki is vulnerable, in a life or death situation, and the trust between the two…to allow the Hyūga to go in…"
"And due to your "defilement?"
"I am no longer allowed to help—maybe I've even damaged our bond as her Twin."
Yagura sighed as his friend's predicament. "A serious crime to be sure, one where death or dishonor are the outcomes. She may end up not giving a shit. I think she only cared that you all would have died. Fuck, the entire village would have if the Seal goes wrong."
The silver headed man rolled up the scroll and fixed it with a Chakra Seal. "We just have to wait until she comes out," he frowned at the door. "I'm surprised it took her so long to start. She was supposed to start last week."
"I was talking too long to get here," Neji answered.
Yagura waved him off. "She'll do what she wants. Why were you chasing her?"
All looked to Shika, "Che, I figured out something when she did too, but before we could talk, she ran here."
The pink-eyed man raised an eyebrow, waiting.
"The baby isn't a…sex baby." Haku, popping out of nowhere, spoke when no one else said anything.
Yagura blinked. "The only other way is…"
Haku nodded at his Twin. "Chakra."
It only took half an hour of silence before the former Mizukage asked, "How much Chakra did she need?"
"How much did she lost?" Shika countered.
Yagura rubbed his forehead. "Well, fuck, that complicates things."
"No shit," Sasuke snorted as he figured it out as soon as Haku spoke. "She's pregnant by Chakra; our fucking Chakra. What I want to know is how many kids she's carrying."
"Whose Chakra contributed?" Itachi asked, trying to figure it out, speaking for the first time.
"More importantly, why did it take three years if our Chakra got her pregnant?" Neji asked, trying to push down his emotions at what occurred not to long before with Naru.
Yagura didn't respond until he looked at Haku and laughed. "Twins. Our Chakra was more powerful in sets. That is why she was able to get pregnant in the first place—a shit tone of Twin combinations."
Shika blinked. "There are four sets of Twins. Uchiha and Senju—"
"Naru and Sasuke," Itachi clarified.
"Uzumaki and Hyūga—"
"Naru and I," Neji added.
"But what are the other two?"
Yagura raised his hand. "Haku and I are one set; probably why it's taken three years. She needed enough from us—"
"But the babies aren't mine," Haku pointed out. "My Chakra isn't registering in her."
"So an incomplete Twin? Who are the other two?" Shika asked.
"You and Gaara are a Twin set." Naru cut in as she left the ritual room. "There is no way I'm carrying three and a half set of Twins."
~~SL: E3~~
My eyes locked with his as I walked his brain work behind those brown eyes.
"So four?" he concluded.
I snorted. "It doesn't matter does it? As any baby I am carrying and I will be dead soon."
"Do you honestly believe that knowing I have a child that I am okay with losing it?" Sasuke asked in disbelief.
I glared at him. "If I survive to deliver, which has the same chance of getting my father's soul back from the Shikigami—which is never—I will die or the babies will not too long after. That is if we aren't dead before the week is out because I will lose all my Chakra. I have to have a shit ton of Chakra to just carry one baby, but more than one? I don't have enough to support myself, let alone a few babies and myself."
This is where Haku comes in to explain. "A Shinobi baby, more so than a civilian baby, needs Chakra to grow. Naru doesn't even have enough to fulfill her part of getting pregnant, let alone sustaining it. This means," someone tried to interrupt, and Haku glared him down, "that what little Chakra she has left will be used up very soon."
Sasuke let this run through his mind before asking, "How are you Uzukage if…"
I sighed and slide down the wall right next to my Sealing door as I was unable to support myself. Haku kneeled by me and checked me over. "Idiot. How much Chakra did you use for the ritual?"
I rolled my eyes. "I am the last Uzumaki—I am the only one who can do the Seals. I will not let what happened last time happen again. We will not fall."
"You been using Kurama's Chakra, haven't you?" Shika asked as this was the only option that occurred to him.
"And it isn't enough anymore," Neji inserted, but then faded into the background when I ignored him.
"I don't think any of us wish to loose either you or the babies." Yagura said gently "We will find a way."
"Chakra transfers," Shika suggested.
I snorted. "What if we aren't compatible?"
"We got you pregnant, didn't we?" Gaara shot back with a slight teasing tone.
My eyes widened and shock overrun me because Gaara just said that. "Okay, say we do this. How are you going to do this without wasting and draining yourselves? Because with each child, I am going to need more. It may have been nothing for all of you together to bring me back, but I am going to need that and some for the babies."
No one had an answer to this until Haku, with a serious face, said, "sex".
Before anyone could react, Hinata came and I was up so fast they barely saw me more.
"We need to finish. Hinata, please come with me."
She smiled and nodded, "Hai," as she passed Neji, she gave him a sad smile as she knew exactly what had taken place. Otherwise, why else would she feel a need and pull on Chakra to her Uzu-hime and the Ritual Room? Neji-nee-san messed up.
Sasuke and Shika came out of their shock first.
"Don't go in there!"
"You don't have enough Chakra to spare to do this damn ritual."
Gaara nodded in agreement. "We're not going to lose you without even attempting to save you—"
I cut him off. "That's why Hinata's here."
With that, the two of us finished the ritual. It took two fucking days. When we got out, all of them were still there.
When they noticed us, the worry and love in their eyes moved me. They really didn't want to lose me. Maybe it was just because I was pregnant, but maybe it wasn't just that.
Gaara approached first, and cupped my chin, raised it so I would look at him.
"We can't lose you. Not again. Please let us try," the sincerity, love and a hint of desperation among the almost broken look in his eyes and voice touched me.
I wasn't the only one suffering.
I nodded, and he smiled that smile I used to adore at me.
I turned to Haku. "Sex, really? Is there no other way? Because I doubt all of them want to be with me at the same time. Besides the fact you have like two Kage, it's kind of physically impossible. I don't have more than one pussy, and I doubt five dicks in going to fit in a one time."
Hinata chose then to faint causing all of us to life.
Hope. Maybe with them by my side, I could do this. I could have them too, that is, if I didn't run away.
