Sorry it took me forever to update but I started a class that is a much more fast paced one and haven't had time to do much of anything, much less think. I was just able to read some of the reviews that were left for me and I now feel bad for making you wait so long. And now, without further ado:
Disclaimer: Haha you thought the chapter was gonna start. -sigh- not mine, not mine.
Oh ya, someone said that Sasuke was kinda really ooc and I meant for him to be that way. I am sorry if you do not like it but that is how I pictured him in this story anyway. I really hope you would still read it though.
Warning: There will be a flash back in this chapter. Sorry if you don't like, I just wanted to tell her story like that. One more thing, there might be a few OC's but they will not last long, they are only here because the regular characters from the story are either busy or they called off sick. Sorry again. I know I voiced my own dislike of OC's but that is only when they are the MAIN characters in stories. It's just a pet peeve.
How the Fish Got His Wings
Not a word, not a whisper, not even a breath could be heard after the statement. Frozen in time, the same thoughts and questions flowed through each of the three, young shinobi's minds; How? Why?
(Wh-who gave these kind of orders?) Out of these thoughts and thoughts, only this one came to Sasuke's mind. He knows that only she could have done but never really thought that she would do it. How many years has it been since anyone has seen her in the village?
Why would she do such a thing? The logical part in Sakura's mind said it was for money or some other unscrupulous thing. She wanted to believe that it was for a more moral reason but she just could not think of any.
No thoughts came to Naruto's mind. He didn't know what to think. Well, what do you think cuz I'm buyin' it.
Wh-what do you mean? Could grandma-Tsunade really have done something like this to Sasuke. I mean, guys aren't made to have babies. How could she have done this? Naruto then concentrated only on breathing and talking to Kyubi. He kept his eyes closed and shut out all the noises around him, not that there was a whole lot anyway. He knows that he is easily angered and he doesn't want to start shouting. Another thing he has learned over the years is that shouting doesn't do anything but make a fragile situation even worse, breakable even.
All you need to do is ask her to explain the situation. There are six things you can learn if only you could ask the right questions.
Then, o wise one, what is the first question?
Well, what do you want to know?
I want to know why-
There you go. With the why will come who and when. If you're carful you can spot them.
Alright. Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. "Grandma-Tsunade," they air grew still as everyone tensed, "why did you...um...perform that jutsu on Sasuke?" This statement startled Sasuke.
(Why does he sound like he knows about the Jutsu? I didn't tell him and Sakura just found out about it.) Tsunade and Sakura looked just as surprised but for a different reason. Naruto sounded calm and his voice had a command in, demanding answers.
(The nine-tails. Kyubi is over a thousand, he must have heard of it before now and told Naruto of it.) "Why do you think Naruto?" Tsunade asked, sounding sad and tired.
"Tell us the whole story, Hokage-sama. Please, I need to know," Sasuke said, in a voice that lied about how anxious he really was.
Tsunade looked at her shinobi and sighed, wishing she hadn't thrown her chair out the window. She walked to the left of her desk, reaching the wall and sitting down, her legs crossed. The three followed, only to sit in front of her.
"Alright, where to begin?" she says to herself.
"How about 'I was in a gambling hall,'" Naruto said, making Tsunade wince at the sarcasm in his voice.
"No, Shizune and I were in our hotel. It was near midnight, eighteen years ago. It was before you were born Sasuke, about three months before. I was surprised to find an Uchiha at my door, banging for almost an hour. I suppose he thought it'd be rude to just barge in.
__________________________________________________________________
Tsunade and Shizune were walking to their hotel from a gambling hall. It was small town a few days from the village called Chiisai. It was near the middle of the night and the air was absolutely still. No clouds in the sky and yet there were no stars out that night and the moon was all black.
"Well Lady Tsunade, I think we should call it a night, huh? We spent all day traveling and then at the gambling hall. I'm beat," remarked Tsunade's companion, Shizune. Tsunade looked over at Shizune and noticed that her old apprentice was also looking at the sky. So she's noticed too. Something is right about this night.
"Alright. Let's get back to our hotel. We leave in the morning," she says, quickening her pace. Shizune kept up the pace and looked as if she wanted to disagree, until she felt a presence. Neither reacted to it since it didn't offer a threatening aura. They just wanted to get to their hotel faster. Neither wanted to deal with the person.
Once back in their rooms, they felt that person outside their door. They were ready to attack when he or she simply knocked.
"Who ever it is," whispered Tsunade, "will go away if we don't answer the door." And with that said, she laid on her bed and tried falling asleep.
"Lady Tsunade, I know you're tired but maybe if we just deal with the person, whoever it is will go away. They don't seem to be letting up," Shizune tried to reason.
"Ignore them." But Shizune was right, the person outside the room certainly wasn't giving the door any mercy and after about an hour of banging, Tsunade had had enough.
She threw off her blanket, stalked over to the door, opened it quickly and, loud enough for the whole building to hear, yelled, "WHAT?!?!"
The man standing before her was a few inches shorter, with eyes as black as night and his hair long and just as black. He wore a Konaha headband and a Chunin vest with the Uchiha insignia on his shirt. If I didn't know any better, I'd say he was an Uchiha. Those eyes are all the same in that clan. Tsunade thought sarcastically.
"Lady Tsunade, my name is Ryu. I come on behalf of Fugaku-sama, head of the Uchiha clan with an urgent message," he paused for a moment, "this will only take a short amount of time, I promise." She then eyed the briefcase with curiosity.
"You have ten minutes." She let him in. The three sat around the coffee table; Tsunade and Shizune on one side, Ryu on the other. When they were all situated, Ryu put the briefcase on the table, opened it, and turned it around facing the two females.
"What is the meaning of this? What is it that he wants?" demanded Tsunade. Shizune gasped at the sight of all that money. She had never seen so much. The Uchiha's can't be this rich, can they?
"It is of the upmost importance for the Uchiha clan and none of what I say can go past this room," Tsunade and Shizune nodded as Ryu closed the briefcase and set it on the floor, "Mikoto Uchiha is the daughter of the infamous Grandmother Cat and her unborn son will no doubt inherit the ancient creature she was told to protect until a certain time came . The only problem is, he is a boy."
"So," said Tsunade, getting impatient with Ryu's way of beating around the bush.
"So, the only way her ability can be passed on again is through a female," he knew he caught their attention at that, "the mother and the child need to share a soul, if only for a little while, so the mother can pass on the creature into his or her soul."
"This ancient creature you speak of, it's a cat right, named Sakunashaeu," said Shizune, "I've read about her quite a few years back. She has some power that can only be used in the desperate of times. Is it really time for her to be passed on to a new heir. Mikoto is still young."
"Mikoto will be unable to bear anymore children after her son is born. It is a miracle in itself that she was able to get pregnant at all, never mind having two children," Ryu said, wanting to shout at them for not admiring the strength in the wife of his clan's leader chose.
"So what do you need me for? It must be something with all that money carried around. Is the child sick, do you need me to make sure he is alive and healthy when he is born? Isn't there other-"
"My lady, forgive me but you are getting ahead of yourself," Ryu calmly interrupted, "you see, the reason Fugaku-sama sent me to find is, there is a jutsu that he needs your help with. There can be no one else because he believes that no one else knows the human body better than you," he paused, letting his hosts soak in what he has said.
Shizune looked confused but a bit suspicious. Tsunade looked suspicions through and through, as if she knew what jutsu Fugaku wanted to use on Mikoto and their unborn infant.
"It is called Mannlichen Schwan Jutsu. It can turn a males reproductive organs into-"
"A females reproductive organs, I know," Tsunade interrupted sharply, "I've studied it before. All experiments failed, right? What could that man be thinking, trying it on his unborn son and right when he...he..." her throat tightened as she looked at him.
"You are correct. When a child is in the womb, there is a time period when their reproductive organs are being made. He is four months and a day old, just about at the stage where his organs are being made and we need you there when they are. Since he was born on a full moon, we feel the jutsu will be stronger then. You know when the infants cells begin to divide up and start taking shape, well, we need you, on a full moon, to use that jutsu on him. The jutsu allows, for one night only, the male body able to get pregnant. Every day and night when the moon is not full, he will be a normal boy," Ryu pausing, again to let the two think about what he has said.
"It would probably be much easier to do this with an infant than with a grown person, like many have tried," Tsunade said to herself. Shizune looked up, startled.
"Lady Tsunade, you can't possibly think about going through with this! What if the child dies? It'd be like he was just another failed experiment!!" she shouted.
"Shut-up Shizune!" Tsunade yelled, trying to think about all her options. If I do this and it's a success, well, we can get a lot of money and I'll be able to gamble for the rest of my life, she thought happily but then grew serious, but if it should fail, I would have another life resting on my shoulders. Why does everything always have to be so difficult?
"Lady Tsunade, only Orochimaru would sink this low, to perform experiments on infants!!" Shizune shouted, standing up.
"Where are you going?" Tsunade demanded. Shizune walked to the door and put her shoes on.
"I am going for a walk, I will come back in half an hour. I know for sure that it will be decided by then," she then gave Tsunade as sad look, "please don't do this Lady Tsunade, think about the child, even if it's a success. He won't really have a choice in much of anything in his life, especially who he gets to be with." And with that, she opened the door and shut it softly behind her.
Silence filled the room as the only two looked at the door in amazement and knew the truth of her words.
"What does the mother say?" asked Tsunade.
"She...She...ah...consents to this procedure," he answered, looking at the floor.
"There's more to this?"
"She doesn't know how dangerous this is, Fugaku-sama stumbled upon this jutsu by chance and studied for months about every aspect of it. That's why he decided to do it when the child is still in the womb," he answered looking up at her, "what do you say, Lady Tsunade?" She looked at him and he had his answer.
_________________________________________________________________
One month later she was all set up to do the jutsu for the very first time. Well, the first time on a human. Needless to say, she was panicking. What if something goes wrong and he dies, or she dies, or they both die?
"Lady Tsunade," said Fugaku, "it is almost time. The moon is just about overhead." Tsunade nodded and followed him into the hospital room. Tsunade found it almost funny that the only thing really needed, other than her vast knowledge of the body and her complete control of her chakra, was an ultra sound, to find where the child was.
"Hello Mikoto, how are you?" Tsunade asked the pregnant woman. She saw that Fugaku went over to her side and held her hand.
"Well, you know, pregnant. And kind of happy." she looked up at her husband with the most trust filled eyes Tsunade had ever imagined, especially with this kind of situation. He told her less than what Ryu told me. I should stop this but, I am in this just as much as they are now. I will not screw up!
"That's good. Now, lets get started," she said as someone gave her the signal of when to start.
When she found the baby, he was so small and so, in her opinion, breakable. She closed her eyes, put her hands on Mikoto's exposed belly and, hands glowing with chakra, started to chant over and over, "Ach helfen Götter mir, dieses Baby in Ein von Ihres geschätzt zu drehen. Helfen Sie ihm zu helfen, zu schützen, was ihres durch Drehen ihn von seinem in ihren ist." Soon, she felt the infants reproductive system change until it felt familiar pull. She opened her eyes and saw that the jutsu had worked. He had female reproductive organs. Now all I have to do is hold this until the full moon passes, which should be...about...now. She let go and he went back to normal.
She looked around the room and saw smiles on everyone's. She checked Mikoto's vitals and everything was fine. She had the biggest smile and Tsunade couldn't help but smile too.
_____________________________________________________
When she stopped talking, she her three most talented shinobi. She knew that there still laid confusion but most of all, she saw anger. Especially in Sasuke's eyes.
"Why was I not told?! I had the right to know, even if I was to young to understand-"
"Sasuke, calm down alright. There was a complication during the pregnancy," Tsunade trying to interject.
"What, another complication, the fact that I wasn't born a girl wasn't enough?" he yelled, standing up now. This was seriously pissing Tsunade off.
"I was supposed to perform the jutsu on you four more times but I only got to the second time because you were born early." Sasuke paused.
"What, how early?"
"You were born at seven months, we thought we failed because your body didn't recognize when to change just yet. We didn't say anything because we didn't think that it worked," she sighed heavily, " I'm sorry Sasuke."
He was about to retort when a wave of nausea hit him. Tsunade saw this and reached for her trash can and he emptied his stomach of all Naruto's breakfast he worked so hard on.
"Sasuke! Are you alr- no stupid question. Um, how's the babies feel?" Sakura just looked at Naruto as if he finally lost it.
When Sasuke finished, he answered, "They are fine, just morning sickness, remember."
"Sakura, Naruto. I need you two to catch up to everyone in the Land of Tea. They will explain the situation and everything you need to know," she turned to Sasuke, " you need to stay here for obvious reasons," she turned her head towards the other two and shouted, "MOVE OUT!" But before Naruto went, he reached for Sasuke and pulled him in a tight hug.
"I love you," he said.
"I know, dobe," and when he saw what Naruto was trying to do, he moved his head to the side, "baka, I just threw up." Naruto grabbed the back of Sasuke's head and kissed him soundly on the lips.
"Does it look like I care?" And with that, Naruto and Sakura left, with Sakura pinching her nose of coarse.
"There are some things you should also be informed about, Sasuke. Things that might happen during the delivery," Tsunade said when she was sure the two were out of ear shot.
"What's that, hokage-sama?" asked Sasuke, only mildly interested, too busy thinking about his blond.
"During the operation, there is a more than likely chance that you or your children will die."
Ahhhh! Gomenasai!! You all must hate me. I am so sorry it took me forever. School and home and yeeesh. Well, I'll update as soon as I can. Oh, if any of you were wandering how to pronounce Sasha's full name it's: Sakunashaeu: Sa-koo-na-shay-you.
That little chant tsunade was saying was German, it translates:
Oh gods help me to turn this baby into one of your esteemed. Help him help protect what is yours by turning his hims into hers.
Yeah, pretty much dead tired and I thought that since the jutsu itself was German, then so should the chant. R&R please please please.
