Naruto's p.o.v

I wake up in a hospital bed. I see my daughter Kasumi looking at me with her big blue eyes. She jumps on top of me hugging me tightly. Tears roll down her face and onto my shoulder.

"Daddy I thought you were dead! You have no clue how long I've been waiting for you to wake up! Mommy said you would wake up in less than an hour, but it took almost 2 hours!", she says in her usual loud tone of voice.

I smile, and hole her tightly in my arms.

"I'll be fine Sumi. Daddy needed his rest, he has had a long week.", I say as calmly as I possibly can.

"I'm gonna beat up that Uchiha guy that tried to hurt you dad. I'll make them pay for what they did to you.", she says sounding more furious then I've ever heard her sound before.

"No Sumi, daddy needs to help the man that hurt him."

"But why daddy, why would you help someone who hurt you?"

The room went silent. I stared at my girl friend Hinata who was staring at me, waiting to answer Kasumi's question.

"Because even if this man did hurt me, it's still daddy's responsibility to help him. That is what daddy's job is all about."

"Daddy I don't like your job anymore", she says sounding very upset.

"Daddy likes his job. Daddy wants to help people. When you help a person it's like you're helping a very tiny part of the world. And even the smallest changes in a person can inspire others to change as well.", I say.

"But daddy, what if you can't do it?", she says worriedly.

"Then at least I tried", I say happily.

Hinata grabs Kasumi's hand. They say there goodbye's and tell me that they will be back after Kasumi gets her hair cut.

I love Kasumi and Hinata dearly. I met Hinata when I was 14. She was a straight A student and worked very hard. I played football and had B's and a few C's. We were friends at the time, and talked to each other a lot.

We started dating at 15, and we were young and it was innocent, but then we got closer. We constantly told each other that we loved each other.

When I was 16 I got her pregnant. She cried for so long. She told her parents and they threatened to kick her out if she didn't abort the child. I convinced her not to abort by telling her that she could live with me. I thought that everything would be easy, but it was so much more complicated than what I thought.

I lived with my foster parent at the time. She was nice enough to let Hinata move in, but lectured me about how disappointed she was in me, and that becoming a father was a huge responsibility. I was stubborn at the time. I didn't think it was that big of a deal, until I witnessed what it was like to live with a hormone crazy pregnant girl friend.

She cried all the time. And when I say all the time, I mean all the time. When we were in school together she was happy and positive, but when we drove home she would cry for hours. She would cry about how she felt like she let down her parents and cry about how fat she was. She would even cry if we ran out of milk for her cereal.

I was so close to giving up, but then I remembered what it felt like to have a dad that wasn't around. I promised Hinata that I would never be the kind of dad that was missing in action. I told her that I was going to stay with her forever. I held on, and before I knew it, little Kasumi was born.

Luckily my foster mom worked from home, so she took care of the baby while Hinata and I finished high school. She said that if we both got a scholarship into college then she would take care of Kasumi for four more years. Hinata and I graduated. I got sports scholarship and went to college. Hinata got an academic scholarship and went to college.

Now that we both finished college, have our own apartment in the city, and have very well paying jobs, we can take care of Kasumi on our own. I promised my foster mom I would pay her back. I offered to pay her 10,000 dollars for all the hard work she had done. She agreed and took the offer. Now I have to pay her, because I made a promise, and I NEVERgo back on my word.

Wow. It's amazing how much I can do when school is over. 3 chapters In 3 days :D You guys have been so supportive! Thankyou so much!