"So Do you have any names for the child?" Hiashi asked Hizashi one day as they were walking to the bar. They were meeting Kouga and Shibi there for a guy's night out. It was April Neenah was expecting a little boy early June.
"Hey guys" Kouga shouted to them from a booth in the back, Shibi was all ready there. They said there hello's and sat down. "So what you guys talking about."
"Baby names" Hiashi replied.
"Oh you pick any out yet?" Kouga asked stuffing his face with food.
"Yeah, well Neenah really wants to name him after her grandfather Neji." Hizashi said the other three men started laughing. Even Shibi was trying to suppress giggles. "What?" His twin asked.
"You want to name your kid screw?" Kouga asked.
"It also means spiral, what's wrong with it?" Hizashi defended.
"Screw? You're kidding right? That's just are you like sadistic; he's going to get his face beaten in at the academy. The other children are going to slaughter him!" Kouga said still laughing.
"Or he's going to be emotionally stunted for the rest of his life." Shibi added finally suppressing his laughter.
"Well at least screw is better then Fern!"
Kouga shot some of his Sushi at Hizashi, "We have had this discussion before ferns are an important part of the animal kingdom!"
"Well In my personal opinion both your name suck." Shibi told them, Hiashi decided to stay out of this argument. "My child's name will be so much better."
"You guys planning for a kid?" Hiashi asked trying to stop the fight about the names.
"Yeah Francine wants a child really bad so we've been trying." Shibi informed Hiashi. Hiashi and Shibi had a special bond because they were team mates but also because they were not perverted.
"You guys going to try tonight?" Kouga asked wiggling his eye brows.
Shibi was unfazed, "Several times."
"Cause you know he doesn't last that long." Said Hizashi laughing. Shibi looked like he was going to explode. Maybe we should go back to talking about names.
"So what's your name for your future child?" Hiashi asked him.
"Shino," Shibi said. There was a silence when both Hizashi and Kouga gave a weird face. "What?"
"That's a lame name."
"Yeah it's boring. At least our names mean something, Shino is so bland. It can be a boy or a girl's name its like Taylor urgh I hate that name." Hizashi explained.
"You guys are missing it, I mean if you're going to have a boy name him something masculine. Like Kiba." Kouga told the guys letting them on a little secret.
"Kiba, Fang you want to name your kid Fang. Oh yeah he wont have any problem securing his masculinity," Hizashi retorted rolling his eyes.
"He'll have a better time then Screw!" On no not this again.
"I personally don't want a boy." Hiashi said out of the blue. The other three men looked at him like he was crazy.
"You don't want a boy?" Kouga said incredibly. "I mean I love Hana with all my being, but I want a boy really bad. You can do male bonding things with boys. Somebody to carry on the name man."
"I want 2 little girls; hopefully they look like their mother. And at least one of their names will be Hinata." Hiashi told the group. He and Ran had never discussed names or genders just numbers. She had wanted 6 children saying that with only one sibling there is too much rivalry. Hiashi had talked her down to two because of the whole curse seal thing.
The other three nodded there head appreciably at the name. "That's a very nice name. Deep love, I like it." Hizashi said.
"I thought it meant Shy?" Shibi asked.
"I heard it meant in the sun." Kouga said.
"I don't care what it means; it's a very beautiful name." Hiashi defended, silence fell on the four men.
"Well at least we are going to name him better then Fugaku did his son." Hizashi added.
"Oh yeah, Itachi, weasel? Seriously that is a horrible name" Kouga agreed.
"Weasel is defiantly the worse name you could name your kid." Hiashi agreed.
"Yup"
Hiashi woke up that morning, still sleepy, it was 3:00 of course he was sleepy. Hiashi laid there for a while thinking about things, that conversation had been so long ago. Neji was born that June 3rd, He started leading the clan July 4th. That July had been hectic, he was preparing for his own wedding, and trying to untangle all the politics with the Uchiha Clan his father had gotten them into. The elders were looking for a new hokage and the two front runners were Uchiha Fugaku and Minato. The Uchiha's had persuaded his father into backing there man up for Hokage. He had been persuaded by the idea of the two of the most powerful clans together, and the fact that another Senju taught person should be in the seat of power. Hiashi knew Fugaku, he was ruthless and heartless in his opinion, and man that let his 6 year old son go to war, was not fit to be Hokage. It said way too much on how the Uchiha's operated to let their leader be Hokage. So when he got in power he tipped the balance by voting for Minato again. Minato was a true leader, a kid from no prominate clan who wanted to become Hokage to better Konoha. Un like Fugaku who had been spoiled since birth and only cared about the Uchiha's station in Konoha. The Uchiha's were the Military police force; if they had the Hokage too they would be way to powerful.
So on august 3 Minato was appointed Hokage, and on august 16 he married ran. It was a hectic time but he loved every moment of it. The next April, Ran found out she was pregnant, that was a time he would always remember.
Hiashi had just gotten home from a day of mindless paper work. He got to the main branch's sweet he was sharing on the edge of the Hyuuga estate. It had made a lot of people angry that Hiashi had decided to take the smallest most far away of the sweets in the huge Hyuuga estate. But he liked it better that way. Ran and he had a garden to separate them from the prying eyes of everybody then. He took off his shoes and plopped down on the couch in the living room. He heard the water running in the kitchen; Ran must be washing the dishes. "Hey Ran I'm home." He said as he lay down. The water stopped suddenly.
Ran burst through the door her eyes bright with excitement. "Honey I have big news." She told him, this made Hiashi stand up. Ran bit her lip in anticipation.
"Yeah? What is it?" He asked her. He had never seen his darling wife this exited before. There was a long silence before she took a deep breath.
"I'm pregnant." She said, Hiashi lost his bearing on the carpet and some how tripped. His nose smashed into the coffee table. It was broken. "OH Kami, Hiashi!" His wife squealed. Running over to Hiashi, his eyes were blurred from the tears; he got up slowly, covering his nose so the blood didn't get on the carpet. He rushed to the bathroom to get a towel to cover it up. "Oh god I'm so sorry Hiashi, I didn't mean too." Ran stated. After the worst was over Hiashi came out of the bathroom.
"Sorry I ruined one of the white towels." He told his wife, Ran bit her lip. He hadn't said anything about her announcement.
"I know you said you wanted to wait a couple of years before having kids but…" His wife never got the chance to speak though. For he stopped her lips with his, pulling Ran into a passionate kiss. The Joy he felt right now was equal to if not more then their wedding night.
"You are amazing, you know that right?" He whispered into her ear.
Ran smiled and traced her finger up and down his chest. "Well you know, I didn't do it alone, you helped out." She teased; Hiashi loved her when she was like this. He pulled his wife into another passionate embrace. Without giving it another thought he picked her up bridal style. She just smiled at him and let him lead her to the bed room.
Hiashi remembered people making remarks about his broken nose. Hizashi even joked that Ran just got tired of him and decked him in the face. Ran had been the only one that had been disturbed by this though. Saying she didn't want people thinking she was a husband beater. Hiashi decided to go for a walk around Konoha, even though it was only 3:30. To his surprise he found a letter under the door when he walked outside his room.
Dear Father,
I'm sorry that I couldn't inform you in person, but I had to go on a mission suddenly, I'll be back in two weeks.
Hinata.
Hiashi sighed, First Hinabi is gone then Hinata. He couldn't show his girls that he loved him, but now he wanted to so much it scared him. Walking around Konoha in the morning was relaxing. Nobody was milling about aimlessly the only people who were out were people who had something to do.
A bossy women's voice broke the morning trance. "Kankuro, we got to go get this to the Hokage." The two eldest sand siblings came in sight.
Kankuro rolled his eyes, "Temari, the Hokage won't even be up yet and its not that urgent." Kankuro said. His sister turned around and faced him.
"I know that Kanky, but you see, the hokage is going to be addled with appointments and we will have to spend all day lazing about waiting for an opening. If we give it to the old lady now, we have the rest of these two days to ourselves." The elder sister scolded the younger.
"But the lady will kill us when we wake her up." Kankuro added. Temari stepped forward grabbing her fan threaten. Kankuro rolled his eyes. "I'm not afraid of you and your girly fan."
"Girly! You call my weapons girly when your weapons are over grown dolls!" she scoffed.
"Not dolls, puppets, puppets!" Kankuro corrected.
"What ever kanky," Temari said and started walking towards the hokage's office. Hiashi needed to stop breathing to keep from laughing out loud. He had meat those two when they were really small, and they had almost had that exact argument then.
Hiashi was walking home when Minato stopped him. "What do you want?" He asked, Hiashi was grouchy and all he wanted to do was go home to his very pregnant ran and read stories to her belly before they both fell asleep.
"I need a favor Hiashi," Minato pleaded. Hiashi didn't dignify that with a response.
"Tomorrow the Kazekage and his wife with their two little children are coming for a congenial visit. And they need to go to dinner at somebody prominent house, last time they had dinner at the Nara's. We can't have their noses be assaulted so they can't go over to Tsumes's place. We can't creep them out so they can't go over to Aburame's. So they should go over to your house." Minato explained.
"I have an Idea Minato why don't they go over and have dinner with kushina and you." Minato stopped and started at him in disbelief.
"Kushina cooks worse then me." Minato admitted. Hiashi palled he remembered when the 4th and him were younger and they had to go on a mission together. He was in charge of making dinner. It had been the worst tasting thing Hiashi had ever had in his mouth. It made Hizashi's cooking look edible.
"I didn't know that was possible." Hiashi shuddered Minato shuddered along with him.
"They have to go over to your house, the only other option is going to Fugaku's, and I don't trust Fugaku to be alone with a promenade man from another country. I can trust you Hiashi, your one of the few heirs ever to realize that the clan has to make Konoha better, not Konoha making their clan better please." Minato was practically on his knees.
Hiashi sighed, for the past month he had been making dinner for Ran because she would get tired during the day. He didn't mind it, he rather enjoyed cooking, but cooking for 4 other people would be hard. "I'll do it, but you owe me big, I want two more weeks off any paper work once my kid comes along." Minato squinted at him.
"Fine, but don't tell the others they all want vacation for breeding! And I don't know if you guys have noticed but my wife's just as pregnant as yours are." Minato grumbled. Hiashi chuckled to himself.
"I'll see you tomorrow." He told the 4th.
"Ran are you getting ready?" Hiashi asked his wife the next night. She was getting ready. Hiashi surveyed her profile. She had a very small bump for being 6 months pregnant. The doctors said that it was a little small, but not small enough to be worried about the baby, but thin enough to keep an eye on. This news had worried Hiashi a lot more then Ran; she had just smiled and assured him everything would be ok.
The couple walked in and exchanged there Hellos'. The Father Held his little boys in his arm and held his little girl hand with his hand. Ran took to the children quickly.
"Hey Temari, how are you doing?" She asked the older of the three.
"Good." The little girl replied, her sand colored hair didn't come from her mother, for her mother had red hair. It didn't come from the father either for the father was a brunette. Other then the hair though the little girl looked just like her mother. The little boy on the other hand was the walking clone of his father. "Whats your name?" She asked ran.
"My name is Hyuuga Ran, How old are you Temari?" Ran asked.
"I'm 3 but I'm super smart, so you can count me at least 5 If not more." The little girl replied. The 4 adults all laughed.
The Kazekage shook his head, "yup she's 3 going on 30." They put the children down and headed towards the living room to have some snacks. The little boy had an action figure with him and was playing with it. He didn't like all the attention his sister was getting.
"Your not thmart, you're a poo poo fathe!" The two year old said with a lisp.
"Shut it Kinky you need to shut up and let me play with your doll." The girl ordered her little brother pulling at the toy in his hand.
"It's not a doll, it's an action figure!" the little boy squealed.
The Kazekage's wife looked pregnant with their 3rd child. "So you're on number three?" Hiashi asked them politely.
"Yup," the Kazekage said. His wife gave a week smile.
"Is this your first?" She asked. Hiashi and Ran smiled at each other and nodded. The other couple wasn't as affectionate as they were though. An invisible wall seemed to be between them. "How many children are you planning on having?" The wife asked another question.
"Just two, are you two planning on having only three?" Ran replied. The kazekage and his wife shifted uncomfturbly; she gave her husband a weird look that Hiashi didn't understand.
"This will defiantly be our last child." She said, her voice was like ice, even the children could feel the tension between there parents. Kankuro came up to his mother. Hiashi looked at the two kids on the carpet, they were staring at their parents, both of there intelligent eyes seemed to understand what was going on between them. The little girl bit her lip and looked at her dad; she seemed more confused by him not doing anything then her mother acting so cold.
"Daddy! Kanky won't let me use his doll!" she tattled trying to get the attention back on her.
"Its not a doll it's an action figure! And he doesn't want to play with you he will get girl cooties!" Kankuro told her. Ran smiled at the two.
"I think I have something for you to play with Temari." Ran said getting up. After a while she came up and gave Temari one of those cheep paper fans you get at festivals all the time. Temari took it and thanked ran. She then turned around and smacked Kankuro with the fan.
"Take that evil doer!" She screamed as she beat her little brother with the fan.
The little boy started crying. "Ahhh I'm gonna get girl cooties!"
"Attention." There father whispered, both of them snapped into attention like trained shinobi's. "Now we are going to have a nice dinner with the Hyuuga's I want no fighting at the table, do you two understand me?"
"Yes sir," They both murmured. After that the dinner went smoothly. Hiashi noticed that the Kazekage and his wife were acting distant and very cold to each other. At the end of the dinner the Kazekage's wife leaned over to Ran.
"Since this is your first one I'll give you some advice." She said.
"Oh certainly please." Ran replied smiling.
"Take as many drugs as the insurance will buy, screw those women who say it's bad for the baby, they have never given birth. Those drugs were a Kami send, take them." Ran smiled cause she was uncomfortable and nodded.
Temari pulled on Hiashi's sleeve. "Yes Temari?" He asked.
"Can I talk to your wife's belly? I want to give it some advice." The three year old said.
"Oh ok." Hiashi smiled at the girl, Ran sat down so Temari was on her lap. The girl looked at the belly.
"ATTENTION DOWN BELOW! DO NOT BE A BOY! I REAPEAT DO NOT BE A BOY, THEY SMELL AND WHINE AND EAT WORMS! THERE DISGUSTING, DO NOT BE A BOY!" the little girl yelled down at Ran's stomach. The Kazkekage laughed before picking his daughter up.
"Come on Mari; come on Kuro, its bed time for everybody." He told his children, Temari was closing her eyes, and Kankuro was all ready asleep.
"I'll take mari Honey," His wife said uncharacteristically. The kazekage gave her a confused look but smiled a knowing smile and gave her, her daughter. Temari looked more confused then both of her parents, but gladly let her mother hold her, it seemed to be a small treat for the girl for she hugged her mother ferociously.
"Oh Miss. Hyuuga I still have your fan!" The girl said quickly before the family left.
"Keep it" Ran replied they waved the family off.
Hiashi chuckled as he remembered this encounter, he know knew why the couple was acting so weird. It was ashamed, to him at the time they did seem like a family that wanted to love each other but politics got in their way. Hiashi related to that so much it scared him. But it gladdened his heart that some things would never change.