Hey every one, this will be the very last chapter of Across Worlds! I hope you enjoyed every second of reading this amazing story! I wish that I could have made it longer but no other ideas came to my mind. I own nothing of Naruto! Please read and review!
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Chapter 35: Epilogue
"Karin, are you okay?" I cried as I saw my sister collapse on the floor. She had been very fragile the past few days with how close she was to going into labor. I ran to her side and helped her sit up.
"I think it's time… my water just broke," her eyes went wide then she screamed and wrapped her arms around her large stomach.
"Kankuro!" I cried as I pulled Karin into my arms. "Dammit, Kankuro get down here!"
"What's wrong?" he yawned as he came down the stairs shirtless.
"Get Gaara now, Karin is going into labor," I snapped as I ran out of the house to the hospital as Karin whimpered in my arms. "Hold on Karin, we're almost there."
Her only reply was to whimper in my arms. Her eyes were closed tightly as she held back pain. I wish I could have done something for her, but I didn't know anything about babies and birthing them. At the hospital, the staff was waiting and Gaara was in the waiting room. I ran past him and a doctor took her and laid her on a gurney and they wheeled her into the Delivery room.
Gaara sat on the ground and stared at the wall and I sat next to him. Karin had ordered that none of us go in with her because she knew that they'd be useless anyway and just be in the way. Kankuro paced the room and every time we heard a scream, we'd look at each other and wished more than anything to help her.
"DAMN YOU GAARA!" We heard Karin scream and I felt Gaara cringe into me and I laughed.
"I've read that women say that to the men who impregnated them. It's just the hormones being out of control," I whispered to him, trying to comfort him. 'Gaara is still a teenager and became the leader of Sunagakure at age thirteen. Now he is a husband and father while Kankuro and I are still sitting around. This may get awkward now that the child is being born. We should get Gaara and Karin their own home or have Kankuro and I move out. What to do…'
"Lord Gaara?" a doctor came out holding something in her arms. "Congratulations on a healthy baby boy."
She smiled as Gaara stood and handed him the baby. Gaara cradled his son in his arms and smiled. I looked at the child and saw that he had a head full of black hair and I saw red on the tips. He had been cleaned and dressed and wrapped in a blanket. I saw the look on Gaara's face and smiled, knowing that before the Chunin exams I would have never been able to see him that happy.
"How is Karin?" Kankuro asked.
"The nurses are cleaning her up then they'll take her to a recovery room. Blood bags are already in her room for when she gets in there, if you want to go to room 2 and wait then you can. There is a bottle of formula for the child in there also, he needs to eat then be burped."
Gaara's face became panicked as he heard that. "I know nothing about babies."
"Karin will be able to help once she is in there. She told me as we were cleaning him that she knew none of you knew the first thing in taking care of a baby," the doctor smiled then left us.
We walked to room 2 and sat on the couch. Gaara sat in the lounge chair in the corner after picking up the bottle and rag that had been with it and cradled his child gingerly. We didn't have to wait very long for Karin to come in in a wheelchair. Her nurses were smiling and helped her stand and into the bed.
Her long hair had been pulled up into a very messy bun and her skin was pale. Her intake of air was shallow and rapid as the nurses got her situated in the bed and hung the IV bag above her head. She dismissed them and moved the bed to a sitting position and she looked at Gaara.
"Gaara," she whispered weakly and he looked at her.
She motioned him over and he came to her side and slid their child into her arms. The baby started to whimper and Karin took the bottle from him and slid the nipple into his mouth and he started to feebly suck on it. She smiled and looked at Gaara and he looked at her softly.
"What are you going to name my dear little nephew?" I asked and they looked at me.
"Kouhei," Karin smiled as she looked back down at the child. As soon as the bottle was empty, she grabbed the rag and draped it over her shoulder then lifted Kouhei up to have his face above the rag. "Don't worry about not knowing what to do to try and help Kouhei. It's easy to learn and I can teach you everything."
We all relaxed as she started to pat his back. A loud burp sounded from Kouhei and Kankuro and I started to laugh. Gaara smiled and leaned over and kissed Karin's brow.
"Is that burp natural for one so small?" Kankuro chortled.
"Yes, if they have any bubbles in their stomach and they are not burped then they'll start to get pains and cry all the time," she smiled then lowered Kouhei back to her arms and rocked him. "Gaara, would you open one of those blood bags? Temari, would you like to hold him?"
I came over and she slid him into my arms.
"Don't look so panicked, Temari, just make sure you support his head and don't shake him too hard. Both could result in injury. Just rock him gently 'til he goes to sleep," she smiled as Gaara handed her a glass of the blood.
"You would think that I'd be used to you drinking blood by now," Kankuro crinkled his nose.
"It's different actually seeing it then seeing me bite Gaara," she laughed then downed the glass and Gaara refilled it.
Eight years later:
"Kouhei, come back!" Kankuro called chasing after the small child as he ran through the streets.
The red tipped, black haired child looked over his shoulder with his maroon eyes and then jumped up onto one of the buildings and switched directions. He laughed and switched directions again headed towards the gates. Every day it was a game to see how far he could get before getting tackled to the ground. Today he reached the gate but skidded to a halt when he saw his mother in wolf form standing at the entrance.
Kouhei whimpered, knowing that narrowed look in her eyes as she walked to me. She sank her teeth into his shirt and tossed him on to her purple highlighted black fur and padded back through the streets. They past Kankuro who was breathing hard but was smiling and back at the house, he slid off her back and she transformed back to her humanoid form.
"Kouhei, go up to your room, but be quiet. Your sister, Rin is sleeping," Karin ordered and his shoulders slumped and he walked inside.
"Well his name definitely is opposite his demeanor," Gaara appeared and wrapped his loving wife in his arms. "At least Rin is well behaved and listens to us."
"Yes, but Rin has Kouhei to look at and learn what not to do," Karin giggled as they walked inside.
"Hello, you two," Temari came into view with lunch on the table. "Should I go get the kids?
"No, I'll get them," Karin smiled and walked up to the second level where Temari and Kankuro used to be at. She walked into the room they remodeled to be one huge room instead of two. Kouhei was on his bed, reading a book while Rin was on hers asleep. The five year old had red hair like her father and eyes like her mother. "Rin, time to wake up sweetie."
"Mommie?" the little girl opened her eyes and blinked a few times.
"Hey honey, how'd you sleep?" Karin asked as the little girl sat up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes.
"I was dreaming of you and daddy and big brother," she smiled. "There was a baby in your arms though. Are we going to get another sibling?"
"We'll have to ask your father about that one," Karin smiled as she pulled the girl into her arms. She was about 40 inches tall and weighed about 40 pounds. "Kouhei, lunch is ready and your father is home."
"Am I going to be yelled at?" the boy whispered.
"No, it's good to wear out your uncle. After lunch we'll pick up both of your training. Kouhei, run down and tell your father about how you almost got through the gates."
"Alright," the boy smiled and ran out of the room.
"Mommie, why is training so important for big brother and me?"
"Because like your father and myself, you two hold greater power inside of you. We're training you now so you don't lose control of it later in life. I started training when you did but your father never had anyone to help him train so he lost control many times. We don't want that to happen to you," Karin explained as she carried her daughter down the stairs.
"So, you almost go through the gate, did you?" Gaara smiled.
"Ya, if mama hadn't been standing there at the entrance, then I would have gotten out!"
"Looks like Kanki needs to start training if he can't catch big brother," Rin giggled as I sat her at the table.
"Yes, I do believe that is needed. Kankuro you need to get yourself married," Karin snapped as she tossed an apple at the man slouched on the couch. He had finally stopped painting his face. "You too, Temari, I mean seriously, almost everyone else is married. Naruto and Hinata, Sakura and Sasuke, Neji and Tenten, Ino actually married Shikamaru, etcetera, etcetera."
"I'm seeing Matsuri right now, but she's still too shy for me to even bring up a question like that," Kankuro smiled as he stood up and sat next to Rin.
"Kanki marry Rin!" Rin laughed as she stood on the chair and jumped onto his back. Gaara laughed at that as he and Kouhei came over and sat down as well. "Daddy, are you and mommy going to get me a baby brother or sister soon?"
Karin froze at the way she said it while Gaara wrapped his arm around her and kissed her cheek.
"We have talked about it; now let's eat so you can start training."
"Yes daddy," the two children smiled and started eating.
After lunch, they all walked out to the training grounds. It was training for all of them. Kouhei had inherited the abilities to transform into a wolf while Rin inherited part of Gaara's beast, Hisashi. She had a lot more control than we had thought when we had started her training but then again, she was a half-breed.
When she transformed, she had white leathery wings and small horns on top of her head. Her skin would darken some and she held the Kanji for love on her left forearm. She held no marks in her blood of Karin's wolf while Kouhei held a little of Hisashi, but not enough to lose control over him. Every now and then though, his eyes would turn black when he got angry, but that was the extent of it. His wolf form was burgundy colored while a patch of fur around his left eye was black and his paws were black as well.
"Temi, come train with me!" Rin ran away from Gaara and towards Temari and Kankuro who had their weapons as they walked towards us. "Kanki, you can train with Kou!"
"Rin, mind your manners," Gaara called to her and she looked at him with innocent eyes.
"Daddy I want a baby brother or sister!" she snapped and turned to him and crossed her arms. "Kou has gotten boring to play with!"
"Rin, you do not talk to your father that way," Karin walked to her and knelt before her. "Listen for a second. You will have a baby sister soon enough. Count the days for five months and then you'll get to see her."
"REALLY?" Rin screeched and lunged at her mother and wrapped her arms around her as they fell to the ground.
Everyone laughed as they came over and sat around them. This was the perfect life, many had dreamed of, but not all of them got it. Wars and any disputes between people and villages in the Five Nations tore some people apart. It was a hard life to be a Shinobi but many have been able to overcome it.
Naruto was now the Hokage with four children around him while Hinata was with another child. Sasuke and Sakura had two children, Neji and Tenten had three, and Ino was pregnant with her first. For the first time in many years, the five nations were starting to get along.
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THE END!
Sorry everyone if you wanted more. I have many other stories in store for you. Look up 'Story of a Jinchi' when I put it on. It should be a few days and I'll get it updated. It is also a Gaara X OC but this character is not from any other anime or Manga. She will be my own in every way from her looks to where she's from and all of that.
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