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AN: Here's another chapter to WFWM, hope you guys enjoy. This story is getting to be a bit AU and you'll see in this chapter. I hope you like it. Please read and review. Reviews bring inspiration.

Many of Tenten's friends kept a constant vigil at her bedside hoping that she would get better. But she stayed constant; her heart rate was steady, her breathing normal and she remained still. Many voiced their concern over her state but Tsunade told them that this was her body's way of healing itself and to let it be.

The situation between Naruto and Neji had not gotten any less hostile. They still growled at each other when put into the same room as they both vied for the unconscious girl's attention. The two's antics was gradually getting on Satoshi's nerves as they continually disturbed the calm that he had constructed in her room.

Naruto was taking it the worst. Although, she was deemed healthy he had missed her smiling face. He was also saddened that his fiancé was not able to see the growth of their unborn child. She had been unconscious for a little over three weeks and their child had grown. It made him sad that she was missing it. He didn't know what he would do if she never awoke from her slumber.

Satoshi still held animosity toward Naruto and it was only for Tenten's sake that he did not rip the idiot a new asshole. But he had to admit that they idiot was pretty attentive to her. He was in her hospital room every day and most nights he would stay the night slumped over on her bed. When Satoshi arrived he usually found the blonde staring at her as he did today.

''Good morning.'' Satoshi rumbled out as he stepped into his sister's hospital room. Naruto looked up and saw his future brother in law giving him a surly look that he had come to recognize.

''Mornin' how are you doing today, Satoshi.'' Naruto asked brightly. As usual he was met with silence. He gave Tenten a kiss on the forehead and gathered himself and made his way toward the door.

As he was reaching for the door knob Satoshi spoke, '' Do you at least love her?''

''With all of my heart."

"Then for the life of me I can't understand why you would let her get her like this?"

Naruto looked back at Satoshi, " It was a heat of the moment thing, everything was happening so fast before I knew what was going on it was too late. I rushed back to her but she was already hurt."

Satoshi rounded on him then, "She's your fiancée! She's pregnant with your child. Why did you even let her go on the mission with you? You should have made her stay home! You should have kept her safe!"

Naruto turned fully then, "You don't think that I don't know that? You don't think that I don't think about that every frickin' hour of the day? I screwed up okay? I don't need you to rub it in my face. I'll see you later." Naruto walked out the door and ran into an ease dropping Hyuga, "Get the fuck out of my way, Hyuga." Naruto said as he made his way to the door. Neji silently side stepped the blonde and walked into the hospital room and took the seat that Naruto vacated.

Satoshi just gave Neji a blank look and sat down in a chair that was located by the door of the hospital room, "How is she doing?"

"She still hasn't woken up." Was the reply that Neji received.

Neji stared at the sleeping girl as he let his mind wander. He thought of his father, his ex fiancé but most of all he thought of Tenten and the blonde idiot. If only he took her up on her offer a couple months back she would not be in this situation. He stared at her swelling belly in disgust.

~00~

Naruto worked out his frustrations on the dummy, as he thought about the past couple of weeks. Tenten was in a coma, with their child growing rapidly inside of her. She is apparently engaged to Neji fucking Hyuga, and her brother hated him. But most of all he blamed himself for what happened to her. If only he used his brain back then, they would not be in this situation today.

He threw a kunai at the dummies eye. What pissed him off the most that her brother and that Neji bastard, kept throwing it in his face. And who was that Neji bastard anyway? He had his chance with her and he rejected her so why was he so interested in her now? It didn't make any damn sense and it was pissing Naruto off.

~00~

Naruto returned from a very grueling training when the sun and fully gone down leaving darkness in its wake. When Naruto arrived at Tenten's hospital room, everyone was gone aside for Tenten who laid comatose in her hospital bed. Naruto walked up to her bed and took a seat in the chair situated beside her bed and plopped down placing her favorite flowers on her bedside table. He brushed his lips against hers and then kissed her ever growing stomach.

Then he proceeded to speak about his day in great lengths. He also caught her up on the village gossip. This was their routine every time he would come back from training.

"I wish you would come back to me, Ten." This phrase had been uttered by Naruto over a hundred times in the three week span. Every time he uttered these words he would stare expectantly at Tenten hoping by some miracle that she would here his call and wake up. But every time was the same she just stayed still and silent.

When it grew even too late for Naruto to stay awake he slumped forward and fell asleep on the side of the bed. Hours after he had fallen asleep he felt a soft hand run through his hair, the hand felt familiar, comforting. Naruto leaned further into this hand, as it combed softly through his hair. Naruto opened his eyes and stared into a pair of warm brown ones that he thought that he would never see again. Naruto sat up quickly relinquishing that touch that was established between the two, "Tenten! You're awake!" Said girl smiled warmly at Naruto as he engulfed her in a warn hug that only Naruto could give. Naruto pulled back to get a good look at her only to encompass her in his arms again, "Tenten, I missed you so much." He whispered softly in her ear.

"I missed you too." Tenten said in her scratchy voice as she tried to clear her throat. Noticing this, Naruto got up immediately to fetch her a glass of water. Once she gorged herself on water she asked, "How long was I out for?"

"Three weeks."

Surprised colored her eyes as Tenten thought back to the time that she was asleep, it only felt like a couple of days. Her hand strayed down to her swelling stomach and was surprised to feel how large it had become. Noticing where her hand had lingered, Naruto placed his large one on top of her small and squeezed it, "The baby has grown a lot since you've been out."

Her eyes glistened with unshed tears, "What else have I missed, Naruto?"

He smiled softly as his other hand wiped away a tear that had fallen from her eyes, "Well, Gaara and Akira's baby was born the night we got back to Konoha. Cute little thing, her name is Kazumi Ten no Sabaku. They named their daughter after you, Ten."

Tears sprung to Tenten's eyes again, "Well at least something wonderful happened out of that disaster."

Naruto looked away then his eyes clouded over with grief, "Look, Tenten, I'm sorry. I'm sorry fo-"

"You don't need to apologize." She said while putting her fingers over his lips.

He pulled her hand down, "Yes I do, Tenten. I am a terrible fiancé and father. I left my fiancé and the mother of my unborn child alone to fend off an unknown enemy. I-" Tenten silenced him by putting her fingers on his lips. She then wrapped her arms around him and hugged him to her body. It was then that Naruto broke down. He held on to her for dear life, as sobs began to rip through his body and tears streamed down his face, "Never again." He whispered in her ear repeatedly. After a couple of minutes Naruto's sobs quieted and he pulled back to look at her but she had fallen asleep on the edge of the bed.

~00~

When he woke up again, light was streaming in through the window and stretched. He looked toward Tenten's hospital bed to ensure that she was alright and was greeted with the sight of an empty bed.

He shot up immediately from his chair and ran toward her room door, "Tenten!" When he received no answer panic gripped his heart as fear settled in his stomach as he shot out of her hospital room and collided directly into Neji, "Watch where you're going bastard!" Naruto growled.

"You ran into me, idiot." Neji replied with a glare.

"What did you call me, White Eyed Bitch?!"

"A FUCKING IDIOT!"

"YOU WANNA SAY THAT TO MY FACE?"

"Sirs? Can you please remember that we are in a hospital with many sick people?" Asked a scared nurse. Unfortunately, the poor nurse was ignored and the two were about to brawl in the middle of the hospital.

Then someone grabbed Naruto by the ear and yanked him away from Neji as Neji lost all the function in his arms, "Hey! Who the hell do you think you are?" Naruto yelled at his assailant as he turned and came face to face with an angry Kushina Uzumaki. "Oh, hey mom… what are you doing here?"

"I came to see why my only son hasn't come home since he got back from his recent mission and I find him having a screaming match with a Hyuuga, do you want to explain this to me?!" Kushina asked as both of her hands found themselves on her hips and she leaned over her son with a very murderous look on her face that promised retribution if he didn't answer the question correctly.

"Well you see-"

"Naruto, where did you go?" Tenten asked as she came out of the bathroom with a hand on her stomach and one on her lower back. Kushina watched his son's face change immediately as he regarded the pregnant woman in the hospital, form the feared look that he usually gave her to one that she remembered Minato giving her every day of her pregnancy with Naruto.

"I'm right here, Ten." He said as he walked into the hospital room and helped his fiancé into bed, "Ten, you shouldn't be out of bed. You need your rest," he said while tucking her into the bed, "For you and the baby." He whispered.

"Tenten, you're awake," Neji said as tried to walk toward her room door and found that he had also lost the use of his right leg, "Really Hinata? My leg too?" he asked as he leveled a glare at his white eyed cousin.

"You were being stupid." She said as she glared back at her cousin, "You'll get back when you behave." She then stepped into her best friend's hospital room, "Tenten, I'm glad to see you awake," She smiled softly and then leveled her eyes at Naruto, "Naruto-kun, can you make yourself useful and find Tsunade-sama?"

"Sure thing, Hinata-chan," he touched Tenten's cheek, "Will you be alright for a little while?" She nodded and smiled softly at her as he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Hinata pulled the privacy curtain around Tenten's bed, "Let's give you a check up."

~00~

"BA-CHAN!" Naruto screamed as he barged into the blonde Hokage's office.

Her eyebrow twitched, "What is it, Naruto? I'm in the middle of something." As she gestured to the two shinobi standing in front of her.

"Tenten's awake!"

TBC

AN: Well what did you guys think? I have some explaining to do. There are two reasons that Kushina is in this story. The first being that Naruto deserved to have a parent in his life and to be treated like a person. I don't know how many times I just wanted to beat people up for the way that Naruto was treated. I could go off on a ranting tangent about my reasoning but that would take a couple of pages, the bottom line is that Naruto deserves it. Secondly, I believe that if Naruto's life had not been put in danger, Kushina would have still been alive as Minato had intended. So with that being said, please read and review. Reviews bring inspiration. Until next time.

Yoshi-chan ;)