Gaara sighed and stood up as soon as his brother was out of the room and walked over to the dome shaped tempered glass window off to the side of his desk and looked outside at the village. He knew that he shouldn't be shutting out his brother about what he knew of the SSS-rank nins still in existence. But he didn't want his brother to know just how truly horrifying achieving the rank of SSS was for a shinobi like the woman in his home.
He didn't want his brother asking the woman questions about the sensitive subject later on and dredging up more than painful memories. For all he knew she may have had to murder her lover/husband and maybe even her own child.
After all the doctor had pulled him aside the other day to tell him that he had noticed that there were certain hormones in her body that indicated that she may have had a child at some point within the last year or so.
Gaara stared out the window, still having a little bit of difficulty digesting the fact that the villages that still used SSS-rank nins, used demon containers simply for the sake of torturing them until they were broken beyond repair...
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Uzu lay on the bed in the room that had been assigned to her by the Kazekage and wondered if the Anbu from the leaf village had found Aarai yet. She sighed and rolled over onto her back and put an arm over her eyes.
Aarai...
She was worried about the daughter that she had carried and given birth too in secret, then left in a town not far from her mark so that the child wouldn't become a target or victim of a retaliation strike. She'd left clues for her Anbu to find when they went looking for her, so maybe Aarai had already been found and taken back to the village.
The thought of her baby being cuddled and cooed at by Tsunade made her feel less guilty about abandoning the child for the sake of the mission. But abandoning Aarai had been the only choice she could live with. And it had been so much better than the alternative.
She had never murdered an innocent child before and she would have done anything to keep from starting now. Even if it was for the sake of her mission.
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Tsunade's left eye twitched as she tried to focus on the report one of her gaki's Anbu was trying to give her.
Tried, being the operative word since her gaze kept straying to the Copy nin standing across the room with a tightly bundled infant cuddled against his chest, cooing at the child as if it were the most natural thing in the world to him.
Finally the Anbu stopped talking, giving her free reign to ask the question plaguing her mind. "Kakashi! Is that your demon spawn?"
The copy nin lifted his head to look at her and practically snarled at her. "Don't call her a demon you old bitch." Tsunade recoiled slightly in shock and disbelief. In all her years, no one but her gaki had ever spoken to her with such disrespect. And the fact that the copy nin had felt the need to call her an 'old bitch' meant that the man had taken offense to her words when she hadn't meant anything by them.
The baby made a soft almost sniffling sound and Kakashi turned his attention back to the child and started rocking it and making soft hushing sounds to keep it from crying. Tsunade blinked and watched the man before saying, "You know Kakashi, for a guy, you'd make a damn good mom."
The copy nin lifted his head and looked at her again then muttered. "Well someone should act like the kids mom since you haven't got a maternal bone in your body."
"Tell me Kakashi, how is it that I sent you to retrieve your Kage and you came back with a baby instead?"
"Because this is what Uzu wanted." Kakashi said as he shifted his hold on the child and dug out a letter that had been handed to him by the person who had been taking care of Uzu's daughter. Kakashi had been sceptical at first that his former student had had a kid. He'd been so sure that her mission hadn't called for her to become the lover of some guy, but after reading the letter and seeing the baby, he'd had no choice but to believe what had been written.
Besides, it was hard not to believe that the baby was Uzu's. It looked just like her.
It had the same wide violet eyes. The same soft blond hair. Hell, the kid even smelled like her underneath all that baby powder and scented shampoo.
And along with the letter explaining about the baby and who she was, was a brief but detailed list of instructions. One of which put the child in Kakashi's care. Apparently Uzu wanted him to temporarily claim the child as his until she could finish her mission and return to the village.
Tsunade took the letter and skimmed over it once and paled slightly. "Oh god Kakashi-"
"I know." The copy nin said without hesitation. His voice very soft. He knew exactly what she was feeling at the moment. He'd felt that way too when he had read Uzu's letter the first time. But there was nothing that they could do about what she'd had to do. Nor was there any way to give her back the parts of herself that must have been destroyed during her mission.
"And she still had the child?"
"You know Uzu, Tsunade. She wouldn't hate an innocent life just because of how it was conceived." Kakashi said gently as he smiled down at the little one as she freed one of her hands and reached for his mask.
"I-I know, but this is too much. It's asking too much." Tsunade said in horrified tone.
"Your right. Having her go through that is asking too much, but there was no way around it. To get close to her target she had to put up with it."
"I hope she killed every last one of them-"
"I'm sure that if she hasn't already, then she soon will."
"Alright. Anbu, you have two days to rest before I send you back out to look for Uzu. Kakashi, bring the baby here and let me see my grandchild."
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Okay kittens just a quick word.
First of all I know that last bit hinted at something horrible. But there was no rape involved.
Uzu was deep, deep undercover on an infiltration/assassination mission and doing certain things was the only way that she could get close to her target. She probably had to ease up some when she got pregnant.
But since most of the dirty work was already done then all she had to do was observe and wait to have the baby then hide it and say that it was dead to keep the father from looking for it.
I didn't actually plan to put a kid in the story, but once I started writing the chapter I thought it would be cute for Gaara to have an already made family. God knows how much that man would adore the baby.
And Temari and Kankuro would spoil it outrageously, so maybe this will work out.