Ch. 12
Blind and Stars
Temari looked up as the door to her room opened. Gaara and Shikamaru walked in. "Hey," said Shikamaru.
"Hey and where is Kankuro?"
"I accidentally broke his nose."
"You broke his nose? How come?"
"You know how Kankuro sings when he gets scared?" asked Gaara. Temari nodded. "Well he started singing the zuma-song. After the first verse Shikamaru deemed it to happy and punched him."
"You punched Kankuro on the count of the zuma-song?" Shikamaru nodded. Temari laughed. Not snickered but a big laugh.
After she had calmed down she showed Shikamaru their son. Their daughter was getting a more through examination by Tsunade and a nurse was supposed to bring her when she was done. "I wanted to wait for you before he was named."
"If I'm correct," thought Gaara out aloud, "he'll it's a tradition to name the first born son in the Nara family Shika-something, right?"
"It is a tradition, but there are only so many names in the book that you can use without it being dumb."
"I was thinking," Temari spoke up, "what if we name him Ryu?"
"I have a better name in mind." Shikamaru then whispered it into Temari's ear.
"That's a good idea. Hoshiryu is just perfect. Star dragon."
Shikamaru took another look at his son. He was pretty much a carbon copy of Shikamaru except his hair was red like Gaara's and he had Temari's color of eyes. He seemed to observe everything around him. He was pleasantly alert. After he and Gaara had gotten to hold the baby Kankuro finally came. "I found Sakura and she healed me right up."
"I would have never thought that you would have gotten punched singing the zuma-song. Much less by Shikamaru."
"Don't remind me. I don't think I be able to smell any thing for a week."
Fifteen minutes later a girl came in with Tsunade pushing what looked like to be a mobile bed with a clear glass dome covering it. "Well she's not as bad as I first thought." Every one in the room breathe a sigh of relief. 'Gaara was right.' Thought Shikamaru.
"However her immune system is compromised so we are giving her a formula with extra antibodies because she needs it." Shikamaru and Temari nodded. It was an easy fix, and Tsunade had done it. "Unfortunately there was something else."
"What?"
"First what's her name?"
Temari looked at Shikamaru, "What do you think about Kaida?"
"Good name, especially for her." She was very small. She had black hair but, her eyes were closed. She looked a little like Temari.
"Kaida is blind."