Chapter Three: The New Baby
Later on that day after lunch Saki sat on top of a swing and slowly started to swing herself back and forth while glancing down at the ground and sighing sadly. "Hey Saki, are you alright?" Keiko questioned her while she turned to walk over to her.
"No." Saki began. "I'm so tired of all of the other kids always picking on me." She told her as she slowly glanced up at her. "Do you think that you can teach me how to do that thing you do with the rocks?" she wondered.
"Of course I can teach you how!" Keiko exclaimed excitedly. "I've always wanted to show somebody else how to do it but nobody else was willing to learn before so you're actually my first student." She told her. "I'm just warning you now though, it will take quite a bit of practice so it might take a few months or so." She told her.
"That's alright, all you have to do is show me what to do." Saki began. "I'm always willing to learn new things, especially if it'll help me stand up to the bullies." She finished while she hopped off of the swing.
"First of all you have to make your chakra strings appear out of your fingertips like this." Keiko began while she made blue strands appear out of her fingertips. "And then you have to tie them together to be able to bend your chakra like I can." She explained as Saki nodded and watched her demonstration before doing it herself.
"Like this Keiko?" she questioned with uncertainty as Keiko just simply smiled and nodded at her.
"That's exactly right, now all we have to do is find something for you to be able to levitate." Keiko replied before she pointed to a stone that was lying on the ground. "What about this?" she inquired.
"That's perfect Saki." Keiko began. "Now all you have to do is concentrate extremely hard and you should be able to move it." She told her but unfortunately to Saki's extreme disappointment nothing happened. "It's alright Saki, I told you that it's going to take some time to be able to do it. Just keep working on it and don't give up." She instructed.
Later that afternoon once Keiko arrived home from school, Sakura was there to greet her at the door. "Hey Keiko." She began with a grin.
"Hello Sakura, is Ami here yet?" she wondered as Sakura nodded.
"Yep she's asleep. I put her down for a nap about a couple of hours ago so she should be waking up at any point and time now." She said. "Sasuke went to the store to get some baby food and he should be back at any time as well. He also had to buy her a teething ring since she's already starting to teethe." She explained.
"Really? How old is she?" Keiko wondered.
"Six months and she just started on solid food." Sakura replied before all of a sudden Ami started to cry. "That means that it's either time for her bottle feeding or she has a wet diaper." She said before she turned around and walked back down the hallway and into the nursery just as Sasuke got home with the back of groceries.
"Hey Keiko, can you please give me a hand with this?" he questioned her as she nodded before she started levitating the bags over to the counter with her powers and a few minutes later after Sakura finished changing her diaper, she brought Ami out in her arms.
"You can go ahead and see her, I'll take it from here." Sasuke assured her as he went to go put away the groceries (and Titiana decided to have a snack) while a huge grin appeared on Keiko's face as she quickly turned around to face Sakura and looked down at the beautiful baby inside her arms. She had blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes that were just a bit darker than Keiko's.
She was wearing a pink dress that was almost identical to Keiko's though. "Aww,.. she's SO cute!" Keiko exclaimed excitedly. "Can I hold her?" she wondered as Sakura just simply nodded and smiled at her.
"Sure, you can feed her too if you want to." She began. "And you do want to I take it." She said.
"You bet I do!" Keiko cried happily before she sat down on top of the couch and Sakura placed Ami inside of her arms.
"Don't forget to support her head." Sakura reminded her.
"I know, I won't." Keiko assured her while Sakura went to go heat up Ami's bottle.
"Hello baby Ami, I'm your auntie Keiko." She said while smiling warmly down at her before she planted a kiss on her forehead. A few minutes later Sakura arrived back inside the living room with Ami's bottle and handed it to Keiko.
She smiled and watched as Keiko offered the nipple to Ami before she accepted it and started sucking down her milk hungrily. After she was finished eating Keiko went back to her bedroom and gave her an old stuffed lamb that she used to have when she was a baby. Ami sat up inside her playpen and hugged it to her chest.
"Goo-goo!" she cried.
"I'll never get over how cute she is." Keiko began. "How did you guys wind up getting so lucky in finding her?" she wondered.
"Hn." Sasuke began. "I guess that God has just blessed us. After all, He gave us you. In fact, that's exactly what renewed my faith in miracles." He told her.
"Well you see Keiko, the fact of the matter is that Ami was found abandoned outside the post office." She told her.
"Gee,.. that's really sad." Keiko replied.
"Yeah, well she's in a much better and happier place now and she'll never remember that." Sakura began with a shake of her head. "I'm sure that she'll have a good life with whoever adopts her." She said.
"Yeah, and who knows, it could even be you." Keiko pointed out with a grin.
"Yeah, well we'll just have to see about that." Sasuke told her while grinning back at her. "Once thing for sure is that she's going to get a lot of love while she's with us." He said as Sakura nodded.
"Yep, in fact that's exactly why we named her Ami. Her name means much loved." She explained. "Well at least in Indian it does." She added. "In Japanese it means beautiful."
"Well I think it's a beautiful name for a beautiful baby girl and I already love her very much." Keiko said before she planted a kiss on Ami's cheek, got up, and then ran down the hallway and into the bathroom.