(Ruby's Point Of View)
Today is March Twenty Fourth which is also my fourteenth birthday! I woke up to Kushina-nee throwing up in the downstairs bathroom. She has been sick for the past month and I feel really bad for her. She has been feeling light headed and has been having morning sickness. I sometimes wonder if she has a horrible sickness that can never be healed because she has had it to long! That is just my way of thinking, and it is probably not true but who cares, I like my way of thinking.
I came downstairs to see Minato-nii reading the newspaper and Kushina-nee coming out of the bathroom. I walk up to her and gave her a hug, "Are you doing okay, nee-san?" She nodded and said nothing could keep her down, not even a little sickness. "But you have had this for a month now, are you sure you are okay?" She put her head down in shame and sighing which told me that I have won this argument. Minato laughed in the background and then came up to us and gave his wife a peck on the cheek.
"Why don't you get an appointment with the doctor later today to see what is going on, alright?" She agreed but then gave me a full blown hug saying happy birthday to me over and over while also putting her cheek against mine. Minato rubbed the top of my head and said "Happy birthday my little imouto" then gave me a kiss on the head. I thanked them then asked what was for breakfast. They brought me over to the table and I saw pancakes and bacon which made me drool and little.
We thanked God for the food then started to eat the food in front of us. I was eating slowly until I was not eating at all. I looked down at my food and then the day of my third birthday with pancakes and bacon on my plate. I look up to see my parents sitting on the table instead of my brother and his wife. My dad looked at me with a smile, "are you alright, sweetie?" My mother looked at me and put a hand on my shoulder, "You look pale, dear. What wrong." The walls started to grow darker as flames started to engulf the room.
Then the man with a big sword and bandages covering his mouth swung up and slashed down both of my parents. I screamed and feel out of my chair. I closed my eyes and pulled my knees up to my chest. I heard two people calling out my name. "Ruby! Whats wrong! Speak to me!" The second person said something that I couldn't hear and then I felt myself being lifted into the air.
I was put onto my bed and I started to sod into my knees. I felt a pair of arms being wrapped around me then I felt myself being rocked back and forth while two people sang a song called "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri.
[Kushina:]
"The day we met,
Frozen I held my breath
Right from the start
I knew that I'd found a home for my heart
Beats fast.
Colors and promises
How to be brave?
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone?
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
[Kushina & Minato:]
One step closer
[Kushina:]
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
[Minato:]
Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
[Kushina & Minato:]
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
I'll love you for a thousand more
One step closer
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
I will love you a thousand years"
I stopped crying and looked up at the people who comforted me which was my parents, but I blinked and shook my head and it changed to Minato-nii and his wife. I wiped the rest of my tears away and said thank you to the people who saved me from my own demise. My brother put a hand on my head and knelled down and to my height asked me what happened.
I looked down as my hands and started to cry again. "I-I had a f-flashback of w-what h-happened on my b-birthday." Kushina hugged me tighter and Minato also put his arms around me. "Oh sweetie, I'm so sorry, we didn't know that it would bring up bad memories." Her husband nodded, "I should of known that the breakfast would bring up your PTSD. Next time I will remember to not make that type of breakfast."
The red hot-habenaro's eyes light up as she thought of the best idea ever. "I know, we will do your favorite which is homemade ramen for breakfast next time!" I giggled at her antics and said that I would love to have some Ramen because she makes the best homemade food. The red head squealed and rubbed her cheek against mine saying that I was a very good girl.
Nii-san laughed and hugged me with his strong arms then picked me up bridal style and asked if I wanted to go to the dango shop for lunch for which I nodded. He put me down so I could put my shoes on then we went to one of our favorite dango shop. Once we got their I saw my friends also hanging out there as well, so I ran up to them. "Hey guys!" They all said hi to me and Gai gave me a youth pose. "Happy Birthday Ruby!" He said while the others also said Happy Birthday to me.
I thanked them and sat at the table next to them so I am still sitting next to my family. Kurenai leaned over the table and asked me if I was doing a party and I responded saying yes, that I would have it at 5 o'clock. Everyone agreed then our order came which was fifteen dango sticks and three green tea cups of the family. I was to focused on my dango that I did not notice Kakashi walk by for which Gai tried to call him over, but he just ignored them.
I gulped down a dango then stood up and ran up to my teammate. I grabbed his wrist and dragged him over to the rest of the group. "Ruby? What are you doing?" I stopped in the middle of the street and looked over at him. "Didn't I say to not shut people out, especially me!" His eyes widen then he looked down. "I'm sorry..." I sighed and dragged him over to the table I sitting at then started to eat my dango again.
I gave Kakashi a dango stick and told him to eat. He just stared at it and I just sighed remembering he doesn't like to eat in public. I looked around to see everyone distracted and not paying attention to us, so I turn my head so I would not see. I hear him taking his mask off and the chewing of him eating the dango. He said he was finished about ten seconds later which got me mad because he ate it to fast.
"You shouldn't be eating that fast, you could get very sick. You also don't saver the deliciousness of the dango by eating that fast!" He just shrugged then I looked at his plate to see three sticks which meant that he ate that much in ten seconds. I just shook my head at his antics then went back to the stick of dangos that I was eating before.
Once we were finished, I spilt with my friends and told them all to be at my house at five o'clock which they said they would be there. We stopped off at the hospital to drop of nee-san at the hospital so she can get checked out to see what is going on with her. "I will see you two in an hour or two." Minato-nii said goodbye to his wife and I just waved then we headed home to where we would get the party stuff ready.
We got to the house and Mintao-nii clapped his hands together saying to start putting up decorations and get food ready. I went to my brothers room and got the streamers then went back to the living room to put them up. I see Minato putting up a banner saying "Happy Birthday". I put up the streamers under it with little rose clips to keep them up. I put more streamers around the room then went back to nii-san who was in the kitchen getting the food ready.
I got the turkey out of the refrigerator and put it on the counter for my brother to put into the oven because I do not know how. "Alright, Ruby. If you want to start on the riceballs and vegetables I will get the turkey cooking." I nodded and went to the pantry and got out the rice out of the pantry and put it into the steamer. Once it was done I pulled it out and put it all on a plate. While waiting for it to cool, I got the vegetables out of the fridge and put it on the counter.
The kind of vegetables I have are Iceberg lettuce, spinach, zucchini, beans, radishes plus cheese and cut ham. I started to cut up the lettuce and zucchini to be put into the bowl for the salad. Minato-nii came over to me and said he would get the salad ready while I did the rice balls. I went over to the rice balls and split the rice into different sections. I then cover with the portion of rice and press lightly to enclose the filling inside the rice ball. I then gently press the rice to shape it into a triangle. Next I wrapped the shaped onigiri with a strip of nori. For the last step I sprinkle the rice balls with sesame seeds.
I look at the clock and it said four thirty. All the sudden the door slams open and all we hear was "WERE HAVING A BABY!" Minato looks shocked as he almost the salad bowl but walks out holding it stuttering the word baby. Kushina nodded, "I'm going to be a mother, ya know!" I stick my head out from the kitchen as my brother slowly said that he was going to be a father. Kushina-nee slowly got closer to my brother, "I'm going to be a mother, ya know!" He also got closer, "I'm going to be a father!" The red head got half way to my brother and said that she was going to be a mother.
He got closer to her, "Imagine that, I'm going to be a father."
They hugged as I thought to myself about what just transpired. "I'm going to be an...a-aunt." Kushina turned over to look at me and squealed, "That's right, Ruby! Your going to be an aunt!" A tear rolls down my face and the couple freak out, "Ruby! Whats wrong!" I laugh with tears coming down my face, "You two are going to be a family! I'm so happy!" Minato wipes away a tear and says that I am wrong. "No, we are all going to be a family...with you in it, Ruby."
The doorbell rings and I head to the door to see Kurenai, Gai, Genma, Shizune, Anko, Ebisu and Asuma standing at the door, all holding a present. "Hey guys come in!" They walk in and put there presents on the table. "Where's Kakashi?" They said they haven't seen him but right then and there the bell rang and Minato-nii got the door. "Imouto, its Kakahsi!" I see him walk in and I smile while blushing a little.
"Hey Kakashi! I'm so happy you could come!" He nodded to me and put his present on the table. We all headed into the kitchen table where there was a turkey, vegetables, riceballs, sparkling juice, and milk that were there for dinner. Minato came out of the kitchen holding a cake that has three candels that were lit and a label that said "Happy Birthday!" Once everyone saw the cake they started to sing.
"Happy Birthday, Ruby
Happy Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Ruby
Happy Birthday.
Happy B-day, Ruby
Happy Happy B-day
Happy B-day Ruby
Oh yeah."
I blew out the candles and everyone cheers while Kakashi just nodded his head. Minato-nii cut the cake into different pieces and gave it out to all of my friends then we enjoyed the deliciousness of the cake. Before we passed out dinner I tapped the glass of my cup and everyone looked at me. "I have an announcment!...In nine months...I am going to be an aunt!" Everyone clapped and said congratulations to me then patted my back.
We then passed out dinner to everyone and when we were finished we opened presents. Anko was the first to give me a present which was a coupon to the dango shop which I was very happy with. The rest of the presents were mostly jewlery, ninja stuff, and clothes.
It was finally Kakashi's turn, so I grabbed his present, thanked him, then started to open it. I saw it was a book of some kind, but when I opened it, I started to cry. It was a photo album of Team seven that had pictures of our missions and times that we would hangout together. Some were individual pictures if Rin and I which really touched me. I stood up and gave Kakashi a big hug for which he returned. "Thank you." I whispered into his ear and hugged him closer.
We played games for the rest of the party then everyone went home around nine o'clock. I went up to my room and looked through the photo album that Kakashi got me. "Kakashi came over this morning and asked for pictures of team seven when you were sleeping." I look up to see my brother standing there with a smile. He walked over to me and gave me a hug.
"I you were to ever be Kakashi's Girlfriend, I would not argue." With that he walked away with a sly smile on his face. I shake my head at his antics then look at the cover picture for the photo album. I remember the day we took that picture and Obito was late. When he arrived, Minato gave him a "What the hell" look, Kakashi gave him a thumbs down, Rin just smiled, and I slapped my forehead.
When we took the picture, Rin and I went in front and knelled down then did a peace sign with our hands. Kakashi and Obito turned away from the camera but Minato-nii grabbed there heads and turned then toward the camera. It was such a nice day that day, I wish it lasted sooner. I put the Photo Album on my night stand then I layed down on my bed.
"I will not lose any more of my family, thats a promise." I said as I feel asleep.
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The song used in this chapter was "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri!
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