Twila's breathing was labored, groaning in pain while holding her stomach. Recognizing the symptoms, Kakashi quickly got a doctor. Before he knew it, the doctors and nurses had wheeled her out of the room and into the maternity ward. Then, he was sitting in a hospital room with his passout brother on the bed, Twila's words echoing in his head. His heart slowed it's pace and became enlightened, the possibility of his children having a mother again made him smile. And with his parental experience, he would be able to help them with their new born child. And his children would have another sibling, although adopted, to play with. They would be the perfect blended family.

Gai belched loudly and rolled onto his side, his back facing Kakashi.

"Oh, that was a big mistake. A big BIG mistake." Gai groaned, drooling on the floor, his head pounding and his body felt like it had been trampled by the children in the academy. Kakashi shook his head, amused and unsurprised. That was the one thing he did not miss about drinking. His students gave him a bad enough headache to merit a hangover.

"That's what you get for being a belligerent idiot."

"How bad is the damage?" Shakily, he sat up right on the bed, holding his head in his hands. Kakashi stood up and lowered the shades in the window, making it slightly more bareable for Gai.

"To me? Not bad." He paused, taking a quick glance at his hand. Thanks to his glove, no one would notice the cut's or the dry blood. But that didn't help with the blood on the metallic part of his glove. He covered it with his other hand as he turned to continue talking to Gai. He knew he had to be firm and gentle, after all, Gai was scared of becoming a father just as Kakashi was when he adopted Nicholas. But, Gai was stepping over the line and now is the time he had to change before Twila forbid's him from the maternity ward. "You claimed I was having an affair with Twila, told me to leave the two of you alone, then took a swing at me. I managed to knock you out cold, you scared the hell out of my kids, dragged you home and got the wife pissed off."

"I did all that drunk?" He mumbled into his hand, if he wasn't suffering a heavy hangover, he would be able to say something more of an apology. But it hurt to even hear his own voice.

"I blame myself for this, Gai." Kakashi stated, rethinking on a couple of their discussions the previous night. "I should've known better than to leave you alone in your state of mind."

"Oh don't patronize me, Kakashi, my head hurts enough."

"It's not patronizing if it's the truth." He paused, clearing his throat, mentally preparing himself. "Look, I get it, being a dad is heavy and scary. You don't know what's gonna happen but you want to figure it out. You think something's going to go wrong with you and Twila. You start over thinking things, then you stop paying attention to everything else that matter's. I know that just as well as any other dad."

"Yeah, I know." Gai flopped back on the bed, groaning loudly, his face still in his hands.

Even sober, he doesn't learn his lesson, Kakashi thought to himself, struggling to fight off the pitiful feeling he usually felt when Gai was drunk.

"And I have experienced something new with each kid." Kakashi continued, hoping he still had Gai's partial attention. "I can't count how many times I was scared. There were time's I believed I was going to fail both, and then all three of my children. I still think like that. And you know what? I don't think I'm ever going to stop. But I made it this far with them, and we are getting through it just fine. If you're still the same Gai I grew up with, the same will happen to you."

An intense moment passed before Gai had done anything. He removed his hands from his face, his eyes were red and tired.

"Where's Twila?" He asked, then he looked around the room, apparently more aware. "In fact, where am I?"

No point in delaying it, Kakashi thought to himself.

"Twila went into labor," He paused, watching Gai's body wave back and forth, and his face turn a hue of green. "I had to drag you all the way here." He started again, slowly so to let Gai digest it. "Are you sure all of your weight is muscle?"

Gai was silent, his body still waving back and forth, then quickly over the side of the bed to release a stomach full of vomit. When he finished, he sat up and wiped his mouth with the sheet on the bed. "Labor? Wh-but-how..."

"Easy." Kakashi stood up and walked over to his brother, placing a hand firmly on his shoulder. Gai's body was shaking, his pupil's dilated, sweat formed around his bangs, and his mouth gasped for breath. Kakashi reached for the cup, ran into the bathroom and filled the cup with water. He ripped off a piece of his sleeve and ran it under the faucet. Quickly, he went back to Gai and handed him the water. While Gai sipped the water, Kakashi dabbed the sweat off his forehead and neck. "I said she was in labor, she hasn't given birth yet. They just wheeled her out before you woke, your baby's gonna be here soon."

"Damn it. I gotta be in there-oof!" Gai grumbled, falling off the bed with a hard thud, nearly missing his vomit mess.

"Here you go again." Kakashi sighed, pulling Gai back up and sat him back on the bed.

"Let go, I gotta make it."

"Can't you do anything without turning it into a challenge?"

"This is no challenge, Kakashi." Gai panted, wiping the sweat of his unibrow and the saliva off his mouth. "No amount of laps, sit ups, eating competitions, will make up for missing this. I'm gonna miss the birth of my baby, I-I gotta fix things up with Twila."

Gai's words caused Kakashi's heart to ache. It was sad to see what uncertainty could do even to the fearless of men. It was even more so to see what love could do to a man like Gai. Uncertainty led him to love, and love gave him a chance at a new life.

"If you're gonna do it, you're gonna need help. I twisted your ankle when we fought."

"How'd you do that?"

"I knocked you off the table."