A/N: AHAHAHA! so sorry but I'm afraid that the baby doesn't come in this chapter either...I lied. but I promise next chapter they will have a baby! any who I hope it's okay for the second part of the bridge to the other side! DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!
Kiya's due date was days away and she had been having cramps every day, Sakura had assured her the a few cramps was normal and nothing to get worked up over.
"Why do I have no shoes that FIT?" Kiya shrieked to her empty house.
Her feet had swelled significantly and her mood was getting substantially worse with every passing day of cramps and less sleep. Kiya had decided that she was tired of sitting around her house and she wanted to go to the library and check on things but her shoes were preventing her. Finally she just threw on a pair of Gaara's old sandals and left to waddle across the village.
"Kiya-hime! Aren't you supposed to be home resting?" Kiya's good friend Aliya ran up to her on the street a block or so away from the Kazekage mansion. She'd had her twins about 5 months ago, one was strapped to her back and the other on her hip.
"I'm so done with resting! If a little walking around the village will jostle this baby outta me then bring it on!" Kiya said a bit too loud.
Aliya giggled "I did miss you! I'm happy you are doing well enough to walk around and you aren't confined to bed rest like me before I had the twins! You saw, two months I was lying in that hospital! By the way thank you again for coming to see me!" She had started walking with Kiya toward the Library. The two women caught up, they hadn't seen each other because when Aliya came out of resting from having the twins Kiya went into resting in preparation for labor. The usually 10 minute walk turned into a 20 minute mosey to the Library. Aliya said goodbye to Kiya and let Kiya slowly climb the stairs to the top floor of the building.
Kiya walked into the library and smiled, everything looked in order and she shuffled up to the front desk to ask for her assistant.
"Kiya-hime! Hello! We weren't expecting you until after the baby was born!" Rei stumbled up from her chair behind the front desk and bowed so low she hit her head on it.
Kiya smiled "It's okay Rei-chan, I just got so bored just sitting around, I thought you guys might like a visit. Do you know where Miyzu is?"
"No, but I can page her for you Kiya-hime." She was quick to reply.
"Don't say it's me, I want it to be a little surprise!" Kiya winked at Rei. Kiya remembered when she had hired Rei, she was so sweet with the most radiant, genuine smile. Kiya thought it would be nice to have visitors to the library greeted by such a nice smile and she had been right, in fact they saw quite an increase in young male shinobi to come in to the library doing "research".
Kiya giggled to herself but was interrupted by a shout of "Kiya-hime" and her assistant suddenly hugging her.
"Kiya-hime, what are you doing here! The Kazekage will be so angry if he knew you have left your house, you're supposed to be on bed rest!"
"Miyzu-chan, calm down! I'm fine. And no he will not!" Kiya laughed as she was relinquished by her assistant.
Miyzu walked Kiya through the stacks and they found a little table to sit and visit quietly. After about an hour Kiya decided she wanted to visit the museum, since that had always been her favorite part of the library.
"But Kiya-hime, it's all the way down stairs, don't you think you should wait till after the baby?" Miyzu tried to persuade her while Kiya was heading toward the stair well.
"Of course not! What's life without a little adventure? A little risk can be fun!" Kiya laughed then hip-checked the door so it flew open.
"Kiya-hime I really don't think this is a good idea in your condition. 5 flights of stairs is a really long way and also you have to get back up them eventually!" Miyzu argued half-heartedly. She knew that once Kiya wanted to do something it happened, no ifs, ands or buts.
"See? I'm fine." Kiya said once she hit the bottom floor. "I'm back! Oh, fourth underground, how I missed you!" Kiya shouted in an overly dramatic voice.
The next half hour was spent as Miyzu showed Kiya her displays she was working on. Kiya admired her work but was unable to fully appreciate it because her cramps were getting a little more intense and she started to feel, more and more, like coming all the way down here was a bad idea.
"And this is that display on the swords you wanted for the pre-kage exhibit in a few months." Miyzu said indicating a half finished display box with cards and other note things in it telling what goes where.
"It looks great Miyzu although I would change the background, the plain white is so…" she was gripped by a particularly painful cramp then a loud SPLASH. Kiya froze. She had just known something bad would happen but did she listen? NO! She looked a Miyzu, whose face had gone completely white and was starting at the floor. Kiya screwed up her courage and looked down at her feet where they were standing in a puddle of water that had not been there a few moments ago.
"Kiya-hime?" Miyzu whispered.
"Oh Gods. Miyzu! My water just broke!" Kiya moved to the other side of the aisle and sank to her knees.
"Kiya-hime, stay here, I'm going to go get Sakura-san, you need to get to the hospital!" Miyzu said.
"No! Get Gaara! I need Gaara." Kiya said quietly.
"But Kiya-hime…" Miyzu tried to reason with her.
"Miyzu I am not moving from this spot without Gaara. Go get him now! He's in his office and if he's not there he's in the counsel room which is down the hall, fifth door on the right." Kiya said firmly.
Miyzu ran. She jumped the stairs three at a time and finally made it to the top floor. She burst out onto the stairs outside, quickly jumped down them and ran through the village toward the Kazekage tower.
Gaara sat quietly in the counsel room looking over his papers for the hundredth time. The counsel waited in silence for his answer.
"I do not think that we need to spend any more on the outer wall, I believe that we should spend more time reviewing our budget for water resources and the local economy. Also I think we should funnel more funds into the school system." Gaara mused more to himself than anything.
"We have an excellent school system Kazekage-sama…" One of the council members started but was cut off by some loud voices out in the hall way. Two voices, one male and one female, seemed to be having an argument right outside of the council room doors. Suddenly the doors burst open and Miyzu came rushing in followed by the male voice of one of the guards shouting "Miss, you can't go in there!"
Gaara stood "Miyzu-san, what is the meaning of this?"
"I'm so s-sorry Kazekage-s…sama." She panted. She took a moment to catch her breath then swallow then "Kiya-hime came to the library! Her water broke and she's gonna have the baby! She says that she won't move until you are there with her, she absolutely refused to go to the hospital unless you took her there!"
Gaara felt his heart race and his knees go weak. His adrenaline shot up as he pushed his chair away from him a sped out of the room. "Miyzu-san, come with me." He walked quickly down the hall to his office pulling off his Kazekage robes in the process.
"Where is she?" he asked as he pulled on his grey vest.
"She's on the fourth underground floor, in the back next to the new exhibit stuff on the Pre-Kage era."
Gaara nodded once and attached his gourd to the vest. "Close your eyes and hold your breath." He instructed then grabbed Miyzu's upper arm. She did as he said and they disappeared from the office.
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