After Six months of Silence

"Push Sakura!" Tsunade ordered her prodigy. Sakura tried again to do as she was told but was finding the labours of birth difficult. Tadashi was right beside her, doing his best to comfort her and ignoring the fact that she had just broken three of his fingers. Ino and Anju were working as well, running between trying to help the Hokage and to calm a raging Sakura, who was not in the best of moods. The Hokage had demanded nothing but the best for the young girl, as everyone knew she saw the pink haired woman as her daughter. Shizune was supposed to be here but she got ordered away for an emergency recon mission which required her specialities. They had thought she would be back in time. But then Sakura's water broke three weeks early. At the moment, it seemed like the baby couldn't make its mind up if it wanted to come out or not. Instead of blaming all the pain on the baby, Sakura had decided to pick a much easier target.

"This is all your fault!" Sakura snapped and hit the future father of her child hard on the chest. Tadashi muffled the cry of pain the best he could and tried to ignore the continuous insults that came from her foul tongue. "You fucking bastard!" She cried before slamming her head against the pillow and screamed in pained. No one could really blame her since she had spent nearly over thirty hours in labour.

"Come on Sakura!" Tsunade commanded her. Somehow, Sakura managed to muster up the strength to push harder then she had before. The room suddenly went silent. Smack! The baby began to cry and as its screaming notes flew into the air, everyone let out a sigh of great relief. "It's a girl." The Hokage smiled warmly, wrapping the small babe into a pink towel and handed the baby over to its mother. Gently, the new mother took the child into her arms, with Tadashi helping to cradle the babe for extra support. Seeing the small baby made tears of happiness swell into her eyes as she rocked the baby, soon followed by a triumphant laugh.

"Isn't she beautiful Tadashi." Sakura whispered, looking lovely up at her husband. The new father hadn't even notice she had talked to her at first as he was mesmerised by the tiny infant. Ino and Anju looked at each other with a knowing look. Secretly, they both knew that the kid was going to have her daddy wrapped around her little finger.

"She is!" He finally answered, his eyes shone with pride as he kissed his lover on the forehead.

Later on the room was crowded by people desperate to see the new baby. They named the little baby Tsunade and despite the older woman's appearance to hold up the authortive figure of Hokage, the old woman cried with joy and was now stepping into the role as grandmother for the small babe. Kakashi was there because Sakura threaten to break every bone in his body if he didn't come and see his godchild. Looking out of the corner of her eye, Anju could see that the silver haired man was stuck between admiring the small bundle and itching to read his Icha Icha book. She knew he would never dare, especially with Ino and Tsunade keeping an eye on him. But the worse of all was Naruto, as soon as he held the little girl in his hands, he fell in love with her. Already he had the first five years of her life planned out for her, every trip, birthday and Christmas planned out.

"Give us a chance Naruto, we are her parents after all." Tadashi joked and everyone else in the room laughed. The hyperactive blonde just made a face at him before handing him over to Anju. From what she could tell so far, was that the baby had her brother's dark hair and ivory skin but everything else belonged to the mother; including the slightly large forehead. Anju spent a few moments admiring her niece, coo her and telling her how she would be spoiled rotten not just by her but everyone else.

"Okay everyone. Time to go. New mum needs to rest." Tsunade shouted, taking charge of the situation. Regrettably, Anju handed the small person back to her older brother and wished them both the best. Hand in hand, Anju and Naruto walked down the village streets, just as the towns people were cleaning up their stalls and shops as they finished today's business. Some of the villagers who weren't busy greeted them as they went passed; some even went so far as to bow to them, possibly as a way of covering up their guilt for earlier judgements.

"Do you want kids?" The future Hokage suddenly asked out of the blue.

"Huh?" She replied, taking back by the sudden question. Their relationship had always been close, they never shared any secrets from each other and talked about almost everything; except marriage and babies. Anju believed they were still too new in their relationship to begin talking about babies and marriage. "Well… err, I don' know I never really thought about it much." She answered quickly, ignoring the terrible thoughts that flew through her head.

"Fair enough." He blonde smiled, though Anju sensed that he could feel her doubts.

For the next few weeks little Tsunade was the highlight of the compound. Everyone would stop to admire the little bundle when Tadashi and Sakura would take her out for a stroll. She was the perfect child, she didn't cry much and she was always giggling. The Hokage and Naruto stayed true to their world and spoiled the child rotten, it got so bad at one point that they actually argued over who got to babysitter. Surprisingly, Kakashi was also very good but he would only do it for short periods of time as he claimed to be a 'busy' man. But every day that went by turned colder for Anju. Every time she saw her lover and little niece together she felt like she was being pushed apart. It wasn't jealously. Naruto still loved her the same amount and the Uchiha loved her brothers daughter just as much as everyone else. But it was that consisted reminder that this was what Naruto wanted; a family of his own. Anju wasn't sure she could give it to him.

Anju hated to admit it but these jutsu's and knowledge that Itachi passed on to her were actually quite useful. She didn't need Kakashi's help anymore learning the Uchiha's jutsu's. In fact she was now teaching him one or two things, after witnessing one of the new jutsu she decided to try out months ago. Kakashi called it payment for his training and she could only laugh at his attempts to do its jutsu. It was strange watching him learn a new jutsu. Truthfully, he was just as bad as Naruto (maybe even worse) when it came to perfecting techniques. Though he never got as frustrated as his student. Sitting in the shade of the tree, she watched as Kakashi made another attempt to try the genjutsu on her, his sharingan blazing. He almost had it that time but at the last minute, his charka level sharply fell and could not complete the course of the jutsu.

"I think you've used too much charka!" Anju tried to warn him but the jonin wouldn't listen. Instead he tried again, only to end up collapsing. Anju was not going to be happy explaining this to Sakura.

"Are we done yet?" Anju moaned as the medic took another sample of blood. This had all happened so fast that Anju hadn't had enough time to take in what was happening. She had only come to the hospital to drop off Kakashi but her best friend seemed to have other ideas. It turned out that the Uchiha was late behind her physical and Sakura insisted that both of them had it done now before they tried to escape with some 'lame' excuse. The silver head man went first, since he was conscious and the pink haired girl insisted that what he didn't know wouldn't harm him. After that, Anju had been led to a private room for her own examination.

"Anju! You should know the rules better than anyone." Sakura told her off, as she placed the samples in a separate box to be examined later. "After all you're the one that designed the rules." She insisted, leaving the Uchiha to grumble about the policies. Ignoring the girl's complaints, Haruno got on with her work, picking up the clipboard and a pen.

"Have you been sick in the last six months?"

"No."

"Have you been on any extreme diets?"

"No."

"Have you suffered any pains?"

"No."

"Have you been sexually active in the last six months?"

"Yes."

"How's Naruto in bed?"

"Amazing…. Hey!" Anju outraged, threw the first thing she could get her hands on. Sakura dodged the object easily.

"Well you never tell me any details so I have to trick you." Sakura spoke up in her own defence, making a funny face at the Uchiha. "Besides, I always tell you about my life and Ino about hers."

"Oh yes! Because I really want to hear about all the dirty tricks you and my brother get up to." Anju answered sarcastically, making a gagging noise at the very thought of it. Though she had to admit, not matter what she heard from Sakura, some of the stuff Ino got up to was both impressive and slightly terrifying. As the medic tried to press her for more details, Anju dressed and signed in the forms, not bowing down to her friends endless threats.

"Oh come on! Give me something!" Sakura whined. The Uchiha stood in the door frame and thought to herself.

"Do you remember that big scandal two months ago of the couple doing it in the Hokage's office while she was having a meeting in the room above and she couldn't work in there for weeks because the sounds of their love making haunted her?" Anju asked and after a while of thinking Sakura replied with a confused nod. "Well, I'll let you figure out." With a knowing wink, she left the medic to stand frozen in shock.

No one attempted to get close to the Uchiha as she came storming out of the Hokage tower, her eyes narrow and dark that if she looked at you it was possible lasers would come shooting out of her eyes. People moved like Moses spreading the waves of the red sea away when they saw her coming; it was like this all the way back to the Uchiha compound. It wasn't until she was in the safety of her own home that she let out a frustrated scream. I HATE Danzo! I hate him so much! Anju thoughts rambled over and over again. All that man ever did was cause trouble and looked for any opportunity to prove her wrong. Thankfully, no one else was in the house, so was able to take some stress out on Naruto's training dummy. It was one of the many items that seemed to be creeping into her house recently, along with some extra clothes, random kunai's on the floor and stacks of instant ramen cups stashed inside her cupboards. Stuffing was begging to burst out of the dummies head when Konohagakure's number one knucklehead ninja decided to come in.

"Whoa! Leave the dummy alone!" Naruto squealed like a child that had just witnessed his favourite toy being torn to pieces. Feeling a little calmer and now actually looking at it, she could see the training dummy looked a lot like… Kakashi? "Meeting didn't go well I take it." Naruto inquired, placing the stuffed doll back into the corner.

"What gave you that impression?" She huffed, holding her arms defensively in front of her chest.

"Seeing you beat the shit out of my dummy was kind of a big clue." He laughed but it did not do anything to defuse the situation. In fact, it just seemed to make everything worse. Maybe he should of let her have a few more minutes with the toy, just to make sure her clenching fists didn't punch him. "Look! Don't let Danzo get to you." He tried to sooth her but it didn't help much.

"I can't exactly ignore him Naruto." Anju snapped back, her knuckles so tight that they were white. Now the blonde really wished he had just let her keep the doll.

The next morning, an emergency meeting was called for all jonin and chunin levelled shinobi to attend. The Hokage, Raikage and Kazkage had finally received news from the other kages and had finally put a plan into action. They had received information about Madara's whereabouts and had decided to take the fight to them. Thought movement in the area had notified that the enemy was preparing for the same thing. Everyone was being informed on who the diversion leaders were plus the new uniforms being issued. Anju stared at hers in wonder. It was the usual plain Konohagakure design, though some ninja's like the mist had a few of the own additional equipment for their own techniques. The new headbands said shinobi on the front, everyone had the same, to give a sense of unity among the soldiers; though tension could still be felt among some of them.

"Couldn't they put a bit of orange in it." Her boyfriend grumbled beside her as he checked everything. Annoyed, Anju slammed her elbow into his side gently. "Ow!"

"Be quite Naruto!" Sakura hissed beside him and slapped him on the head. The Uchiha was trying hard to suppress her giggling, as they were beginning to make a scene. Thankfully, they were saved by the Raikage.

"Ladies and gentlemen." The kage boomed across the room, making everyone freeze and divert their attention to him. "No longer will we sit here and wait. From now on we are taking the fight the enemy." The room suddenly keep alive, as waves of defaming roars echoed among the shinobi. This was an historical moment. This was war.