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"Rin-chan! Congratulations!" Kushina says, walking into the hospital room. Naruto follows her, carrying a life-sized stuffed bear.
"Yeah! Ma and I picked out this bear, dattebayo!" Naruto says.
Rin beams at them, exhausted. Next to her, her baby boy is swaddled in blankets, his little hands curled into fists, a shock of spiky black hair sticking to his forehead. "Thank you," Rin says, smiling. Naruto looks around.
"Where's Obito?" Naruto says.
"Oh, him?" Kakashi, who had been bending over the chairs, rises, frowning. "He started having a panic attack and is hiding in his dimension."
"It was my fault," Minato says. "I visited them earlier and it brought up bad memories for him."
"Sensei. Of all the people here, you should have been the one to react negatively, not him," Kakashi says.
xXx
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Babymaking and the subsequent pregnancy that followed had made Obito a quivering, neurotic mess. It wasn't enough to be suffering from rock-related PTSD, piled on with memories of his One True Love killing herself at the hands of his best friend. Now that fun cocktail of trauma was layered with an additional, I-can't-believe-I-did-this-to-Sensei, except turned up to eleven, because Obito's guilt over killing Kushina overlapped with his increasing worry that Something Bad Will Happen to Rin.
"Obito. You are not going to dump all your neuroses on Rin. She's pregnant, it's bad for the baby."
Kakashi watched as Obito once again worked himself into a lather, convinced that fate and bad karma were conspiring to kill off the baby and Rin. Obito glared at him.
"You think I don't know that?" Obito said.
Now Rin is lying in bed, smiling serenely while Obito paces around the hospital room, waiting for the proverbial shoe to drop, his chakra battle-ready, as if he were expecting the place to be suddenly overrun with assassins. Kakashi furrows his brow, then grabs Obito by the arm.
"What, Kakashi, what?"
"You are being ridiculous," Kakashi says. "Rin is exhausted. Take your Xanax."
Obito opens his mouth but Kakashi interrupts: "You keep that anxiolytic in your pocket, you should freaking take it," and Obito doesn't muster the energy to argue with him.
"Sensei," Kakashi says, at the waiting room. Minato smiles at him.
"How are they?" Minato asks. Kakashi scoffs.
"Obito is being a pain in the ass."
Minato smiles. "Ah. Well, it's understandable that he's anxious," Minato says.