Heart of Many Colors
Chapter 11
Stomache PainsIt was two weeks after the wedding, but it was still the only thing people talked about. Temari and Shika were away on there honeymoon in leaf, why they went there no one knows. And Gaara and Amaya were starting to plan their own wedding, but it wasn't going quite as smootly as Shika and Temari's did.
"Gaara why do we have to get married so soon?" Amaya whinned as they ate breakfest.
"Because the sooner the better." He answeared.
"But what if I'm not ready yet? I love you Gaara, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for marriage, that's why I wanted to wait a year!" Amaya said annoyed.
"Amaya," Gaara started but was quickly cut off.
"No, you never have any time for me anymore! All you do is work, we eat breakfest together then I don't see you till right before we climb into bed, if you get home that early!" Amaya yelled.
"It's a little hard to be there for you, when my people need me! We are at war with rain, I can't be with you all the time live I used to be!" Gaara said calmly, but this just seemed to piss her off more.
"But I want to get to see you more! Don't you understand? I love you, but I hardly get to see you, why don't you just understand?" She ran out of the room crying, leaving a very confused Gaara sitting at the table.
Neither Gaara or Amaya had relized that Kankuro had been standing behind the door on the other side of the room. He knew why Amaya was acting that way, but apparently she hadn't told Gaara yet, and he himself had only found out by accident.
That morning he had run out of shampoo, and since he didn't know where the supply closet was, he went to Gaara's room to steal his shampoo. But just when he was leaving he saw a box on the floor beside the garbage can, and deided to pick it up and throw it away, but not before looking to see what it was. A pregnancy test, very new but accurate, recently developed by the Suna medics. He looked at the thing inside it, and the reading was pregnant.
He thought that Amaya would be telling Gaara right now, not biting his head off for no reason. Kankuro walked into the room, Gaara had his head in his hands.
"What's wrong?" Kankuro asked pretending not to know.
"Amaya, she's irritable, and just yelled at me for no real reason." Gaara said confused, "She was fine last night, and a little sick this morning, but she's never acted this way before."
Kankuro sighed, Well it couldn't hurt to just hint to it, he's smart he'll get it, Kankuro thought to himself. "Has she been sick a lot latly?"
"The last couple mornings." Gaara said thinking.
"Did you guys just start to fight, or has this been going on?" Kankuro asked tring to get his message through to the clueless Gaara.
"No, this is our first real fight, but it was so sudden, one minute she's calm, the next she's about to kill me." Gaara put his head on the table.
Kankuro sighed "Okay think about what I just said." Kankuro said trying to have a little patience, but it was hard, espesialy when it was so obvious. He sat down in the seat across from Gaara.
"She's sick and she's been having mood swings…" Gaara said thinking, then the light bulb ontop of his head went of "She's on her period!"
"She's pregnant you dumbass!" Kankuro said not being able to put up with waiting anymore. Gaara looked surprised, then he started to think again.Then he stode up and walked out the same door Amaya did, leaving Kankuro sitting there by himself. Kankuro looked around and pulled Gaara's plate over to him, it was still full and he was hungry.
Gaara knocked on the door to his chamber, then tried to pull the door open, but it wouldn't budge, she'd looked him out. The chamber was sound proof so that you couldn't hear what was happening on the inside but you could hear what was on the outside. "Amaya, sweetie, please let me in… I didn't mean to upset you, I was just a little aggravated, please don't be mad." He said, genuinly apoligetic, he heard the lock slide open, then the door opened. Amaya stode there, in her pjs and glared at him, he was not going to get out of this so easily. "I'm so sorry…"
Amaya glared at him, then walked back over to the bathroom and slamed the door shut behind her.
Silent treatment, Gaara thought to himself, and worst of all it was working. "Amaya please come out, I want you to understand. Maybe I don't understand what you were trying to tell me, last night you were fine, but then this morning you were so mean…" Gaara stopped when the door opened and Amaya came out stomping torwards him, he held his ground. She slapped him across the face.
"How dare you say I was being mean! You're the workaholic, I'll tell you this now, I'm pregnant! How are we going to raise a child when we're not ready, this is the worst time possible for this, you're so busy at work, and I'm not ready!" She fell to the ground sobbing, Gaara held her til she fell asleep.
The next morning when Amaya woke up Gaara was gone. She felt awful her stomache hurt and just about every where else hurt. But she could tell something was wrong, her stomache was really painful, she felt faint, when she tried to stand up she fell to the ground clutching at her stomache. It was then that she noticed the blood that was running down her legs, she did the only thing she could think of, she screamed as loud as she could.
The closet door flew open and Grandma came racing out, "What's wrong?" she asked kneeling beside Amaya.
"It hurts!" she said clutching her stomache, Grandma stode up and looked around.
"I'll be back in a minute, don't move." With that she ran out the door, leaving Amaya in the room, terrified, and by herself.
Two minutes later Grandma came back in followed by 2 sand nin who ran over to her and started to pick her up. She yelled at the pain of being moved but didn't try to break free.
"I'll go tell the Kazekage that Amaya is being taken to the hospitial." Grandma said again, then Amaya passed out.
Knock, knock, someone was knocking on the door to Gaaras's office, he was in an important meeting with a few of his most high rannking ninja's. Either he could say come in, or hope it wasn't important and that they would go away, the eairlier was the wisest decision so he pucked it. "Come in." he called. The door burst open and Grandma ran over to where he was sitting.
"Amaya's being taken to the hospital. I found her on the floor screaming and crying and clutching her stomache, I'm afraid that something may be wrong with the child." She said as fast as she could then collapsed onto the couch closest to her.
The ninja's looked at Gaara confusidly then stared at Grandma. "I must cut this meeting short due to unexpected personal circumstances, please take Grandma back to her room, then go home. Do not breath a word of what you've heard to anyone, and one of you fetch Kankuro and send him over to the hospital." Gaara said then used transportation jutsu to leave. Minutes later, he reappeared in front of the hospitial and ran up the steps, then to the front desk.
"How can I help you Kazekag-sama?" asked the nurse who stode behind the desk.
"Amaya, my fiance was just brought here, she was bleeding, or something, I don't know! Just tell me where to find her." Gaara said franticly.
"They just took a woman with dark green hair up to the maternity/trama ward on floor 3, is that who you are looking for, I didn't catch her name they ran by so fast." She said pointing to a staircase. Gaara took off up the steps, when he reached the 3rd floor he looked around wildly, a nurse walked up to him and bowed. "May I help…" she was interupted.
"My girlfriend the nurse downstairs said they brought her up here, her name's Amaya and she has dark green hair, and…" Gaara was starting to lose it. He looked at the nurse and saw she was looking at him with pity, this disturbed him more.
"Please follow me," she said leading him down the hall to a small room, she entered and he followed, there were chairs and a small table, it was a waiting room.
"I want to see her now," he said in a comanding tone, but sh eshook her head no.
"Please sit down, I'll explain everything then and only then." Gaara sat down, she sat down at the table across from him. "Yout girlfriend has had a miscarriage, and she's in the doctors are working on her now, it's unclear about what has caused this, but we belive that there is something that is not in her medical history that should be. Would you happen to know anything about that?" she asked eyeing Gaara like he should know the answear, but he didn't, she sighed and stode up. "Wait here, I'll come get you when the doctors are done." She left the room, Gaara put his head in his hands.
5 minutes later there was a loud crash down the hall by the stair, and some screaming, so Gaara went to go see what was going on. What he saw made him laugh dispite his nervouse and upset mood. At the end of the hall Kankuro was laying on the ground a tray that held things that needed delivered to people on this floor laying beside him. They were right across from the stairs, and from what Gaara said he came to a conclusion, Kankuro had run up the stairs not paying any attension and had not been able to stop when he came to the top of the stairs and had crashed into an innocent tray. As Kankuro stode up a very pregnant women walked over and slapped him across the face, Kankuro looked shooked as the woman started to yell at him. Gaara could just make out something about scaring her half to death, and what the hell had gotten into him, others started to join her. Gaara went back into the waiting room after seeing Kankuro get slapped a few more times, any other time he would have found it extremly amusing.
A few minutes later Kankuro sat down next to him, bruised and beatten, "Get into a fight?" Gaara asked trying not to laugh, Kankuro glared at him.
"Yeah, with about 50 pregnant women who were trying to kill me." He said defensivly.
10 minutes later the nurse walked back in and sat down, she looked grim. "I have some bad new for you Kazekage-sama, Amaya-san lost the baby, and is in critical condition, there's a chance she may not make it, she's consious for now, you should go talk to her." They all stode up, Gaara and Kankuro trailed behind the nurse down the hallway, women glared at Kankuro, but he didn't take notice. "Here's the room." She said and then walked away back down the hall.
Gaara opened the door and looked inside, the room was filled with mechians and in the center of it all was Amaya who was silently crying. There were tubes connected to her, so many that she could have been mistaken for a puppet. Gaara walked over to her and leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. Kankuro stayed at the door, and watched not wanting to interupt what should be private, he left the room.
"Gaara, is it true, what they told me, did I really lose the baby?" she asked weakly, not looking at him.
"Yes, but there's more, they said you could die, so you have to fight, you have to fight as hard as you can to stay alive." Gaara said spilling tears of his own "Please don't leave me Amaya, please, not when so much has happened. I can't live without you, I love you so much, please don't die, don't leave me alone." Gaara started to cry harder.
She wipped away a few of his tears "Gaara I have no intension of dying, but that doesn't mean it won't happen, so I want you to listen to me, and listen to me closely. If I die, I want you to be happy, I want you to find someone else who makes you happy, 'kay?" he shook his head yes "And most importantly promise me that you'll always love me, even just a little." She asked her tears falling again. He nodded yes again unable to speak at all. "I'll fight as hard as I can, but if I lose I hope you're not mad at me, always remember that I tried my hardest. And the reason I couldn't have the baby was a blood flaw, my blood, its comman in my family, but I was hoping that I had somehow not gotten it since my mother didn't have it, but I was wrong. I can't have children it seems, but I hope you still love me." She said wiping more of his tears away.
He finally found his voice "I'll always love you Amaya, whether you die or you live to be 100, whether you have no kids or 20, I'll still love you, nothing could ever change that."
A doctor walked in, and stode infront of Amaya's bed, "We just got your tests back, it looks like with the proper medication and healing time you'll live, but you're not in the clear yet. There is still a chance at infection, so you'll have to stay here for a week minimum." She finished and walked out.
A bird was scratching at the room window and Kankuro came in and went over to let it in. It had a note ties around one of it's feet. Kankuro read the note out loud "The presence of the Kazekage is requested immediately at his own office. A very important person is waiting, who needs to speak with the Kazekag immediately, please come as fast as possible, the man says it is very important." Kankuro scoffed then looked at Gaara "Go, I'll stay with her til you get back." And with that Gaara kissed Amaya on the check and left. "I wonder who this important man is," Kankuro said turning back to Amaya.