From the Ashes

by raspbewwies

Canon, Post-war. Drabbles on Konoha's rebirth from the ashes. Multiple characters. Possible warning for spoilers from the manga. #20: "Through it all, hope will follow, in traces and faint whispers. For it is hope that remains as they journey through the infinite, hope that will resurrect. Hope that will birth them from the ashes."

9. 9: Thunder

A/N: Flufffff fluff fluff fluff :3

Prompt #9: Thunder

Uzumaki Mae is a baby born in the middle of a storm.

In the waiting room, her father is pacing anxiously, strangely quiet and absolutely petrified. His shy, gentle wife was in that room, in the middle of a storm and he's in the waiting room. It makes no sense, dattebayo.

"Tch. Stop panicking." That would be her father's best friend, the raven haired man she would come to call Unca Sauce-kay. "Sakura is with her. She won't die."

"Hinata is FRAGILE." Her father is almost screeching.

"Women are all built the same way."

"Teme, you're cold and DEAD inside. I don't listen to you, dattebayo."

Silence ensues, punctuated by blasts of thunder when it dragged on for too long. The silence is full of fear.

Her father's pink haired friend, who Mae will grow up to call Auntie Saku, comes into the waiting room. She's beaming.

"It's a girl."