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Now there will be more TemarixRyo bonding with some Gaara and Kankuro on the side!

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Eight-and-a-half months later, Temari was resting in bed, hand placed on her stomach as she smiled up at her husband, watching as he read a book with his glasses on, something he did around only her and Ino, she noticed. He was the picture of ease even with the impending visit of his two brothers-in-law. They were due to arrive within an hour and Naruto would escort them to his house, since he didn't want to leave her should she progress further into labor at a faster rate than she was. Ino, Karin and his five daughters were out for the entire time until Gaara and Kankuro left.

"Ryo, aren't you nervous?"

"No, I've been through this before. I suppose you are, since it's your first time. I'll make it so you'll feel as little pain as possible."

She took his hand and winced a little as a muted contraction hit her. "You think it'll be a boy?"

"Who knows? I yearn for a little boy to groom to be a compassionate heir to take my place someday as the head."

"What are you reading?"

"My old journal from when I was first created to my graduation from the academy. It's awfully innocent and heart-warming."

"Would you tell me stories about your youth?"

"My youth? Or Sasuke's?"

"He's dead, so the memories you shared with him are now yours. You remember them like you yourself experienced them anyway."

"The memories of before the Uchiha Genocide are rather fuzzy and full of warmth and happiness most of the time, since I was seeing through naïve eyes. Nii-san was my world and gaining his approval and trying everything he did was all I could think about. The feelings of inadequacy and frustration didn't really come until I turned seven and started going to the academy. Then I began noticing that everyone thought Nii-san was the perfect heir to the clan, that I was just the younger brother, the unimportant one in the clan head's family. If anyone outside my family talked to me, it was about Nii-san, and I felt left out because Otou-san praised Nii-san all the time and never myself even when I tried my hardest to be the best.

"Nii-san did tell me that all he was for me was an obstacle to try and get over, since he was the example of perfection and power in the clan and everyone loved him. I looked up to him to be always there for me to support me. Little did I know that he was suffering inside, fighting between duty and love. It tore him up inside because he knew he would destroy everyone he cared about, including me, if he were to steel his heart and do as he was ordered to as an ANBU captain of Konohagakure no Sato."

Temari squeezed his hand and whispered, "You're trembling, Ryo. Are you sure you're okay with talking about this?"

"Yes, I'm sure. It was just an emotional time for me, my creation and the intentions of my enemy. You see, I was created to be an heir to Uchiha Madara, a perfect killing machine to destroy all his enemies and to continue even if he were killed. Through genjutsu and time-warping techniques, I was given the perfect Sharingan, even though I didn't have the chakra capacity to even control my new eyes. If he had thought about it more carefully, he would've done what Nii-san did before he had to disappear: seal my Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan until I had enough chakra to use it."

"Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan? I've heard of the Mangekyo Sharingan, but never this one."

"I'll give you the details of Sharingan in all its forms. Sharingan is awakened through training and evolves according to the training and chakra capacity of the ninja, until three tomoes are reached."

"Tomoes? You mean those dots that spin around when you're using it?"

"Yes, that's why the technique is called so. The three-tomoe Sharingan is the most powerful one can get through training alone. The higher levels require…harsher measures."

"Harsher…measures?"

"Yes. To gain Mangekyo Sharingan the user must…kill his best friend."

She sat up, eyes wide. "You had to do that?! Who did you kill?!"

"I was put under the most ruthless genjutsu to believe that I killed…Nii-san. It isn't the act itself that causes the evolution in the eyes, but the resulting guilt. I believed it, so my eyes transformed into the Mangekyo Sharingan. The next stage, Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan…is actually the most horrible to attain. I'm horror-struck that it was done for my eyes, but for him, it was necessary."

"Do I even want to ask?"

"Madara brought me to an alternate dimension for the act to be done. He killed that version of Nii-san…and implanted his eyes into my own. For using the Mangekyo causes eventual blindness to the user's eyes, so to gain his eyesight again, he must take his brother's eyes."

Temari covered her mouth, tears springing up in her eyes. "That's inhuman! Not only killing your best friend, but your own brother as well to get this power! For this to be forced upon you must've been an excruciating experience!"

"Of course it was, and because of the Uchiha Genocide, I was ready to kill Nii-san for real to avenge their deaths, until he told me the truth behind everything, so I wouldn't end up worse than the original Sasuke. Even though I suffered through much more pain and anguish than my counterpart, because the truth was given to me, revenge was no longer something I wanted to pursue. And by Sasuke's example, I know it only breaks you, drives you mad. Also, you know the end result of his quest for revenge. I had to silence him myself."

"What are the powers you gained with Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan?"

He gave a wry smile, only to place a hand on her shoulder and make her lie back down. He got up and opened the shoji, smiling at seeing Gaara and Kankuro on the other side. "Kankuro-kun, Gaara, it's good to see you after so long. Come in, Temari's been waiting to see you."

Kankuro knelt next to his younger sister. "Hey, Imouto. You feeling okay? Your eyes are red."

"Ryo's been telling me about his past, some of it was rather heart-wrenching," the soon-to-be mother explained to her elder brother.

"You sure you should be telling her stories like that when she's in labor?" Gaara asked, frowning as he sat down next to Kankuro. "You might cause her to miscarry because of stress."

Temari waved a hand. "I'm fine, Gaara."

"So, what sob stories were you telling her?" Kankuro tried to pry, smirking.

Ryo placed a hand on his wife's stomach, checking on the baby's stress level as he stated, "Just old stories about the old clan, before it was wiped out. Most of it was rather normal and dull, just like any other ninja clan. Certain details both of us must be mum about because of clan law."

"Aren't we sorta…honorary clan members because we're your brother-in-laws?"

"Unfortunately, no. Sorry to disappoint you, but unless you were to marry into the clan, you aren't part of it. Every clan has their secrets, you know."

"Stupid ninja clans and keeping their techniques mysterious. I sure know about the Sharingan and the affinity to fire manipulation, though."

"That's common knowledge that everyone knows, because the clan wanted the outside world to know. Every ninja has secrets, that's just part of being what we are."

"I guess you're right, even though I want to know about some of the more powerful techniques that your two brothers displayed to some ninjas they fought, especially each other. I suppose they weren't worried about holding back anything during that battle."

Ryo's eyebrows furrowed and he nodded slightly. "Indeed."

Gaara saw the look in his brother-in-law's eyes and glared at his elder brother. "Kankuro, you go too far. Talking about Itachi and Sasuke must be hard on him. Forgive his callousness, Ryo-kun."

"It's not that talking about them is painful, but knowing that Sasuke's hatred was so strong he would abandon his home village, friends, everything to kill his elder brother, and even when he did, his need for revenge wasn't sated. I never saw any reason to hate anyone that much, but I heard that it's a trait that many members of the clan shared, but I'm pretty sure it was partially because of all the inbreeding that drove their minds over the edge. It was the saner ones such as myself that were rarer. I plan to quash that trait by giving a serene, carefree and loving environment to my children so that the feeling never emerges."

"So most of the Uchiha Clan's members were inbred psychos, huh? No wonder they were so unstable and kept at a distance," Kankuro remarked. "It's a wonder you didn't turn out that way."

"It was nature versus nurture, and being nurtured won out over the dark nature of my genes. I'd rather be a good person with nothing holding me back," Ryo admitted with a smile.

"You sure are a lot freer than you were when you first arrived in Sunagakure no Sato. I thought you looked like a walking zombie—"

"Temari, when do you think you'll be delivering?" Gaara interrupted, turning to his older sister.

She looked up at Ryo with questioning eyes and he nodded. He answered for her, "She should be reaching the late stages of labor within the next hour or so, since the baby's turned into position. We're both hoping for a boy first off."

Kankuro cradled his chin. "You sure are calm and relaxed, I thought you'd be screaming, yanking on his ear and cursing the air blue. Aren't you feeling any pain?"

Temari snorted. "Ryo's a top medical ninja, he knows how to deaden pain without anesthesia. It's all how the chakra is applied. I can feel some bits of pain, but it's not excruciating like I was expecting."

"I was planning to do the same thing to Sakura when she was going to have our baby," the dark-haired man explained. "I can do the opposite as well, to my enemies. I hardly ever need any tools because I know how to use chakra to get the results I need."

"What if, in the worse-case scenario, Temari has complications?" Gaara inquired. "Would you have enough here to care for her?"

"In a worst-case scenario, I have Hokage-sama. She's on-call if I can't handle it myself."

"That's reassuring, although I wonder why you don't just eliminate that danger and take her to the hospital."

The married couple looked to each other in silent communication before Ryo stated, "New clan law: all children must be born within the compound's premises unless dire circumstances arise."

"Why would you make a stupid law like that?" Kankuro demanded, rolling his eyes. "Sounds like you have something to hide from the rest of the village about your kids."

"Perhaps, but that is to be kept secret."

Temari hissed through her teeth and informed her husband, "The pains are getting even closer together, but my water hasn't broken yet."

Ryo thought about what had to be done, since she'd been in labor most of the day and it was early evening. His first two fingers began to glow with razor-sharp chakra before he instructed, "Raise your knees, love. I'll have to induce you."

Kankuro paled and covered his mouth as his sister did as asked. "Do I gotta watch?"

Gaara shook his head. "You're a ninja and you think seeing fluids rushing out of a pregnant woman is disturbing?"

"Gushing blood is different from gushing fluids!"

"All it is is a little blood and water," Ryo murmured as he stuck his fingers in.

Kankuro covered his eyes as Temari's water broke, gagging as Ryo mopped up the moisture and placed his probing chakra into her stomach again as he assessed what inducing her had done. He nodded and smiled a little. "Now that you're induced, the baby ought to come sooner."

"I'm never gonna watch when my children are born if this is what's gonna happen," the eldest of the Suna siblings complained.

"You're weak-stomached if you thought that was the worst of it, Kankuro," Gaara mocked, crossing his arms and closing his eyes. "The actual birth is much worse, from what I've heard. If this effects you so much, leave the room when Temari's going to deliver."

"But I wanna see the baby at the very first, Gaara! You're mean!"

"You think babies come out pristine? They have to be washed and such before they look cute."

Ryo snorted. "I think they look at their most beautiful when you first see them and they take their first breath. As a medical ninja who's delivered several babies, I'm used to the blood and fluids."

Temari gasped, taking her husband's hand as she took controlled breaths. "That was a little stronger, I think the baby's getting impatient."

"Yes, you're close. You're almost completely dilated."

"I think I'll take a little nap. I'm tired from staying up most of the day. Will you wake me when it's time?"

"Of course, couldn't do it without you, unless you wanted me to completely numb you and perform a C-section."

The blonde woman snickered and closed her eyes.

Kankuro went out to walk about the grounds with Naruto when Ryo shook his slumbering wife awake. She yawned and her eyes tightened at the sudden contraction.

"I take it that it's time?"

"Yes, Temari. Now relax until your next contraction comes and then push as hard as you can until it passes."

She nodded and gripped the futon beneath her as she pressed her chin to her chest. Her first push was comparatively weak, but it was because she wasn't fully awake yet.

"That was good, the next one try harder."

"…okay."

Within a couple hours, the couple was enjoying their newborn daughter, Temari breathing with disappointment.

"I'm sorry—"

"It's not your fault you conceived a daughter. It seems to be in my genetics. I wonder if I have any Ys left or I'm cursed to have girls for the rest of my life. Will the name of Uchiha die with me?"

He got up and walked to the door, leaning on the frame with an arm as Gaara, who'd been silent through the entire birth and afterwards, stood and came over to him.

"Why is it so important Temari has a son?"

"You know, clan heir and all. I've always imagined having a little boy to raise. After losing my unborn son and first wife at once, I feel rather frustrated having a daughter when having a son is vital for the clan to go on."

"Then don't, just have patience. You'll be able to have a son in time."

Ryo rubbed his forehead and nodded. "Yeah, I know, I just hope I won't have to resort to using a Petri dish."

Temari looked up at the mention of artificial means and her eyes lit up, perhaps if she spoke with Tsunade in a few months…

Idea! Temari has one! Why didn't Ryo think of that? He's silly...

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