Chapter Twenty one: Share the Pain

Naruto was running down to Ichiruka Ramen where his friends were, well at least the guys since the women were all at Anko's baby shower. He had news that they wouldn't believe because even he didn't believe it. Naruto nearly ran into Zabuza who was walking to the stand himself to try it out. He'd heard that the place had great cooking and he wa hungry.

"Damn kid watch where you're going," said Zabuza. The noise of the collision had attracted the guys inside the ramen stand.

"Hey what's going on out here," asked Sasuke. "I guess the dobe didn't see where he was going."

"Shut the hell up," said Naruto. "You just remember that I can kick your ass with just a pinky finger."

"So Naruto do you have a reason for running here," asked Kakashi, who was trying to stop a fight.

"Yeah I have some interesting news," said Naruto.

"What is it," asked Zabuza.

"Keiji's putting his final, most painful operation for when Anko goes into labor," said Naruto. "He says he doesn't want her to be the only person in agony."

Interestingly enough, the same news was being given to the women of Anko's baby shower by Anko herself.

"No you've gotta be kidding me," said Shizune.

"Didn't Tsunade tell you," asked Anko.

"She doesn't tell me anything that isn't on a need to know basis," said Shizune. "She mostly gets the living fuck banged out of her by Sagat."

"Mad that he's not doing it to you," asked Kurenai slyly.

"No, but I can see why you're not," said Shizune. "I mean you have Kakashi to do that for you and he's got to be ten times better."

"Oh you and Kakashi," said Shizuru, one of the jonin Anko hung out with at the bar after work hours. "Ooh, I want a description."

"Hell with descriptions, give me measurements," said Shizune.

"Why would a lesbian be interested in straight sex," asked Kurenai.

"I'm bi-sexual," said Shizune in a sarcastic voice. "It doesn't matter, but I have always wondered."

"Twelve inches," said Kurenai. "But you should feel his hands."

"Are all women this horny," asked a voice. It was Sagat walking into the room followed by Tsunade, who beat him upside the head.

"So Tsunade-sama is it true about Keiji wanting to put his surgery on hold until Anko goes into labor," asked Shizune.

"Yes and he said that he didn't want to be given any painkillers or be put to sleep," replied Tsunade. "He said he didn't want Anko to be the only one in agony during her labor."

"Wow," said Sakura. "What a man."

"What a masochist," said Sasuke grimacing from what he heard.

"I know who would want to do that," asked Kiba.

"Well I guess it shows how much he loves her," said Naruto. "That he's willing to receive pain instead of just videotaping it means that he doesn't want her to be alone in anything."

"Actually it means he thought of the way to destroy the greatest weapon women have over us," said Kakashi. "If he experiences pain at the same time she does, then she can't use that pain of birth card that women use in arguments."

"So he's able to break the chain of power," said Naruto. "I think I'll do this to when Hinata's pregnant."

"Shouldn't she be pregnant already," asked Kankuro with a grin on his face. "I mean you guys do go at it like rabbits, sexually starved unsatisfied rabbits."

"Last I heard, all the women in your village call you minute man," said Naruto. "I guess someone doesn't have that much endurance."

"GAI SENSEI, THE SPRING TIME OF YOUTH HAS FAILED IN SOMEONE," cried Lee to the winds. Somewhere in the middle of god know where, Might Gai was shedding tears of sorrow for some unknown reason.

"Aw dumbass did you have to shout in my damn ear," shouted Neiji. He then noticed a girl running towards them. The boys looked at her as she got closer to them.

"I have a message from your girlfriends," said the girl. "They request your presence at the baby shower."

"What guys be doing at a baby shower you little brat," asked Kiba.

"See you there," said Shino walking off.

"I think I'll avoid the rush," said Naruto in a surprise brilliant move.

"Pussies," shouted Kankuro.

"Well your girlfriends did have this to say," said the little girl. The men leaned in to hear what she was about to say. "YOU BASTARDS BETTER BE HERE OR WE'LL RIP YOUR FUCKING LIMBS OFF."

"I think we should go," said Kakashi who hadn't been paying attention to any of what the little girl was saying.

"My god those guys are whipped," said Zabuza. (Yes they are.) "But Tsunami probably wants me to go and I have no one to talk to so I think I'll go."

The men found themselves rushing Anko to the hospital as soon as they got there. Anko's water just happened to break at that moment and all the guys had to rush her to the hospital while Naruto and Gaara teleported all the women to the hospital.

"Come on Anko breathe in slowly," said Kakashi.

"You're hurting my hand," shouted Kiba.

"You don't know the meaning of pain," said Anko.

"Well at least you can hear Keiji shouting in pain," said Shino trying to comfort her. "He's so in love with you that he would go through pain just so that you're not the only one feeling it. What a masochist…I mean man."

"Someone's got the seed of doubt," said Kiba.

"Who's the one who was complaining about having his hand squeezed," asked Shino. "I also believe that he's the only virgin in the group."

"We're just waiting for marriage and Gaara's a virgin to," said Kiba.

"No he's not," said Shino.

"How do you know that," asked Gaara with the eyes of a killer.

"I was talking with a bug that saw you and Rukia," said Shino.

The men got Anko to the hospital and into a room despite three getting left behind while having an argument, but two were able to help by leaving bugs and sand to do the lifting in their place. It was then that most of the men wondered why all of them were lifting one woman, even if she had gotten bigger from pregnancy.

Keiji was in hell, but he would gladly place himself in that position if it meant he could show his love for Anko and destroy the guilt trip card that she could have used had he not gone through with his decision. He'd told Tsunade to help deliver the baby since she knew jutsus that could relax muscles and decrease pain. He wanted Anko to have that so he could get the guilt trip card, all he had to do was tolerate the pain, but he didn't know how long the surgery would take. First, they had to cut him open which obviously hurts, you'd have to be retarded not to know that it hurts to have people cut you open. Then they found pieces of rock imbedded into his back and had to remove those. Then came the part where they mended the broken ribs through a painful process that took twenty minutes, but it felt like an hour. Keiji was immediately wondering how the hell having the guilt trip card could counter balance the hell he was feeling. He wondered if it was all worth it, but then when he felt them close the wounds up in his back, he realized how it wasn't just important to him because it gave him a certain power. It was the best way to say I love you to her.

Anko looked at her two children in her arms and saw how much the girl looked like her and the boy looked so much like Keiji. Speaking of Keiji, he walked into the room supporting himself with a cane. He walked over to his wife and looked at his children.

"They both have my eyes," said Keiji. "The boy has my family's eyes and the girl has my wolf eyes."

"But I'm sure she has my attitude," said Anko with pride.

"Then I'm scared for her enemies," said Keiji. He leaned down and kissed her on her forehead.

"I heard that Tsunade was supposed to be doing your surgery," said Anko. "Why was she here helping me deliver my baby?"

"She was here because that's where I wanted her to be doing what I wanted her to do, namely to ease your pain."

"Next time when we're in this situation, let me have some of the pain," said Anko. "I swear I think you might be masochistic."

"I will be if it means you get less pain," said Keiji, smiling as he walked out of the room to buy some tea from the vending machine.

"Well they look like the two of you," said Naruto.

"Really I never noticed," said Keiji.

"Keiji dear, please don't harass your godson in front of the kids," said Anko. "It might influence them."

"That bullshit that they can remember stuff like that," said Keiji. "When I was six I couldn't remember my fifth, fourth, third, second, or first year old self."

"Don't you have terrible memory," said Konohamaru.

"Don't question me you little snot nose fuck," said Keiji, grabbing the kid by his shirt. He then looked at the others in the room and released his shirt.

"Okay your medication has you more tightly wound up then Anko and she just gave birth," said Kiba.

"Dog boy, shut up or I'll go wolf shit on your ass and neuter you," said Keiji with dangerous eyes. (Actually his eyes would always look dangerous.)

"Now that sounds like our Keiji," said Naruto.

"Okay, don't be getting all faggot on me," said Keiji.