Chapter 4

So this chapter will be short, but it does dive into Naruto's thought and fears related to his child. This is also a section where he reflects on certain things and starts putting pieces together.

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Naruto's Baby Chapter 4

There is an unknown strength gained with parenthood. At an early age, Naruto had unlocked it the moment he met his daughter. Her existence has fueled Naruto to follow his goals even more because now he had someone to fight for and someone who would always be rooting for him.

Even if he was haunted by that eye with the commas.

Now, in the second exam to become a chunin, he was in the gut of a giant snake. The tightness was suffocating, the stench of the inner reeked. He pondered if this would be his end…but the mere thought of leaving his daughter and his new friends made him snap out of it and to gain back his inner fire. He burst out of the monster with his shadow clones and sought to go find his friends.

Then he met the real monster…oh he fought him tooth and nail, and even let out some of the demonic nature out to protect Sasuke, but when his stomach was revealed, showing his seal, he struggled even more.

The five-prong seal added his being was enough to knock him out, and everything came out…

That eye…that man…Naruto didn't know any better…

It was a cold day; Naruto remembered that much. He was training by himself, nothing new. Throwing kunai at target was only training, and he was trying to perfect his aim. When he was growing frustrated, he was so upset that he threw a temper tantrum.

A kunai hit the target, but Naruto hadn't thrown it.

He turned to see a man in black. He was almost six feet tall, and by the layer of snow that was on his shoulders, Naruto could tell that he had been watching for a while now.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked as he was amazed at the man. He'd never seen this stranger in the village, and he was also someone who didn't look threatening to him or at least someone who he didn't look like he wanted to hurt him.

The man approached him and saw the light from the other's left eye. Naruto was amazed at such an eye. When he was close enough, the stranger reached his right arm out and with his two fingers, his middle and index, he tapped Naruto on the forehead, instantly making him faint.

It was when he next woke that he realized that something had happened…

Naruto found himself in the field, close to the playground with Ai. The two were sitting on a blanket, and he was in his sexy jutsu. Ai was smiling like always.

"Naruto!"

He turned and saw his teammates, along with Kakashi, Iruka, and the third Hokage. They were all smiling at him.

"Why don't you come on over?" It was Sakura shouting that, waving at him and smiling. Naruto smiled and stood up, and as he took that first step, he had stepped out of the Natsuko form as though he was freed. He turned and saw the form as though it was a dead body, laying on the ground. The park scenery had died along with it. Dead grass and the brown earth showed now instead of the lively green color with the flowers.

Naruto turned and saw the shadowed figured, picking up Ai, who was obvious to him being a threat just as he was. "You're such a loser," The man morphed, aging down and Naruto's eyes widen. He was Sasuke, holding his child. "Do you think you can raise a child when you can't even defeat me?"

"GIVE HER BACK!" Naruto screamed as he ran to them, but it seemed as though he was only running in place. Sasuke turned back and had his sharingan out, "you're such a loser." He said, but as the word loser was echoed in the air, it changed from "loser" to "lose her."

Naruto covered his ears and crouched down to the ground, trying to ignore those words. They were so haunting because that was his greatest fear; of losing his child. It seemed like everyone who claimed to want to help only wanted to take her away from him. Iruka. Kakashi. The third Hokage. But Naruto deepest fear was a purple-eyed man would come back and take her away…

Naruto suddenly heard his baby's cries and jolted up, and saw her sitting, her back to him and crying. He instantly ran over to her and picked her up, "there, there, Ai, Papa has you," he cooed, but his eyes widen in fear when he saw her eyes. They weren't her natural onyx, but they were the same purple with the six tomoe and rings in them.

They were his eyes.

"She doesn't look like you," Sakura's voice rang out in echoes along with her laugh.

Naruto clung to his baby and held her tight, crying as he suddenly felt pains in his head…

Naruto woke up screaming as he whacked on the head. He didn't know where he was at first, but being surrounded by the forest made him remember. He was still in the chunin exams. He took a massive sigh of relief, ignoring the pain in his head.

He looked over and saw Shikamaru and Choji, who looked annoyed, "about time you woke up."

"Yeah, you were moaning in your sleep to which is even more annoying than dealing with you awake," Shikamaru complained.

Naruto quickly ignored them as he looked around and suddenly remembered that grass ninja. "Quick! Everyone hide!"

Everyone expect his teammates looked at him like the dumbass they knew him to be.

He looked over and saw Sakura's hair shorter and a choppy mess, and ran over to see if she was okay, which she was. Ino offered to help fix her hair, and while they went at a distance, Naruto was left with Sasuke. He remembered his nightmare…and scoffed, not noticing how Sasuke was holding his shoulder, trying to hide the newly obtained curse mark.

Naruto looked back at Sasuke and stared at him intently. Then he thought about Ai. Yes, she had dark eyes, but those were common to half, wasn't it? Maybe the eye shape resembled his? No, Naruto noted her's were rounder, like his own. Skin tone was the same, but that can quickly change when she got older. It wasn't until he thought about Ai's face-shape and compared it to Sasuke's that he seriously wondered.

And he saw Sasuke with the sharingan; those were uncommon. He knew that was a kekkei genkai and passed genetically.

But he knew Sasuke couldn't be related to Ai…could he?

Sasuke noticed Naruto staring at him, and tried to snap him out of it, which took a smack to the head to get him out of his deep thinking. "I think I can smell your brain being fried," Sasuke said as he tried to act his usual self around him if only to make sure that Naruto didn't notice the curse mark.

Naruto held his cheek, where he was hit, and looked at Sasuke with sad, but fearful eyes. "You…don't happen to have an older brother, do you?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke's eyes widen when Naruto asked that and demanded to know, "why?"

Naruto looked away, "no reason."

Naruto got up and watched everyone else leave, and Sakura was coming over with her hair fixed to look better than before. She noticed the tension between the two now, and turned to Naruto, "what did you do now? I was only gone for five minutes."

"I didn't do anything," Naruto defended and huffed, "come on, let's go find ourselves another scroll," he said. His mind was heavy, though, thinking about his child, and wondered if she held the same genes as an Uchiha.

He shuddered at the thought.