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Chapter 11~ Ume

Then my mom reached seven months. Her stomach was fairly large but being athletic led to her not having a lot of difficulties. Yet, she and dad agreed it was about time she leave work, but before she did, as celebration for my ninth birthday she promised to take me on a full tour of the T&I Division center.

Which happens to be at the prison.

I was so excited. I danced around and bragged everywhere I went. When my birthday came I was all sorts of excited.

Miso soup for breakfast? That's amazing but dude I get to go to prison!

I was gone in a flash when the final academy bell rang.

My mom was waiting outside of the prison for me. She had on her green jonin vest and black pants with her long hair in high slick ponytail her large round tummy was very prominent. She glowed happily at me and walked me through the door introducing me to the front counter lady, a few other guys, and her second in command. A tall guy Ankos age of 22, his name was Ibiki Morino and he, despite looking scary was very nice to me, but that might be because my mom is his boss.

All of them wished me a good ninth birthday and surprised me with cupcakes!

We ate and they told me what happens in their jobs and how fun but dangerous it is. Mom then showed me the interrogation rooms, her office(which I looked around and then stated when I was head it would have to be updated because it looked pretty old. Ibiki spat his coffee and gave me a look, saying I'd have to take the office after him because he's going to be head next. It appears I have a rival.), and the lounge. And finally after some prodding she finally agreed to show me a none occupied cell.

We had to walk down a few flights of stairs but they didn't bother mom. "Mom? Doesn't walking up and down these stairs everyday get... You know, tiring? I mean your belly is sticken out and it can't be comfortable."

She laughed a little and stopped for a moment to rub her stomach. "Well it's definitely inconvenient. And your right, it's not exact fun and it can strain my body pretty bad." She glanced around before looking back to me. "Well you know, I'm head here and I really can't act weak or complain. That would just be unprofessional." She ruffled my hair and started to walk again.

"Besides! Once the baby is born everything will be worthwhile. I'll be able to mold it's mind, love it, and care for it. In my opinion that's the most important job I'll have, and do have with you too. I am leaps and bounds more proud of you then my accomplishments at work, because you're my baby!"

I blushed red and looked away embarrassed. We continued to walk and I noticed the floors weren't just numbered.

They had names, letters, symbols and a few number word combinations. Mom said they were all weird so that if an escape occurred the prisoners would have no idea which one is the main floor, after all, in this specific sector there are no windows to check with. Which means the main floor is the only exit. "You better try to remember that the main floor is called ninja 12."

I nodded and committed it to memory.

We continued down the stairwell and reached a floor called "Main floor" funny enough and walked into the dank, damp, but surprisingly well lit hallway.

The empty cell was at the end of the long hallway and we had to walk past a few cell doors but they were all bolted and covered so you couldn't see inside or outside. It was pretty quiet with a few none discreet mumbles but I knew I was completely safe with mama.

She walked with complete confidence and ignored all the noises. 'She's so cool!'

The cell itself is completely concrete with no windows and one bolted, protected light. There was a toilet in the corner and a tiny rise in the ground in another, where the bed would go. After I got to see the cell with her, we had only began to walk back when...

The lights shut off.

I twitched and grabbed mom who started speaking into a radio but no one was talking back.

A few red emergency lights appeared and I got less tense but mom didn't.

"It's okay baby, it's just an outage."

I could tell she was lying, her eyes began to glow purple, prepared to attack and one hand was clamped on my shoulder and the other on her weapons pouch her deadly gaze focused at the end of the hall. The lights flicked off making me squirm and shiver, the atmosphere... It's...

The lights flick on.

A white man stood at the edge of the furthest emergency light. He had a face with a splitting smile and had no hair on his body. I wasn't sure he had eye lids either. "Gushikan-sama, I finally found you." he said. He sound crackly and loony. He donned the regular prisoner uniform, a pale gray shirt and pants but with a bloody kunai pack strapped to his leg...

The lights flicked out again, the silence was numbing and I was so tense I couldn't move my fingers. Moms hand released my shoulder and met her other hand in a symbol.

The lights flicked on.

He's now standing ten feet away and I can now see his blood shot eyes and a single kunai clutched in his hands. He began to giggle and then laugh, like a madman.

"Takara, there is a button a few feet behind you on your right. When I say go, run and push it, then go lock yourself in the cell." She whispers quietly. She did hand signs and muttered something quietly. Her eyes got brighter. She was trying to scare him away.

The lights flicked off for 5 seconds.

'Click'

"Gushikan-sama"

The man now stood a foot away but was leaning over her menacingly, he was smiling while licking his raw lips.

Moms eyes twirl and glow and the guy pause before launching himself at her.

He took his kunai and swiped it at her, she crouched to dodge it and then swiped his feet out from under him. He crashed to the ground but mom didn't move at first. She was pale and holding her stomach.

She is definitely not combat ready... being so pregnant. Just the leg sweep was painful to her.

The man stood back up quickly and set his eyes on me, his icy eyes full of hate, and then smiled. I stared back at him and began to slowly creep to my mom. She noticed and yelled out. "No Takara! Stay away!"

She pulled herself up and spun her eyes again and got into a fighting position. He wasn't looking at her anymore, he began walking forward, eyes set on me. Mom noticed, "No! Stay back! Your opponent is me!"

She jumped blocking me from his view but was viability confused. The man chuckled, "Gushikan-sama, you hurt me, over and over, now I think I should hurt you!"

His looney voice was maniacal. He sidestepped her but she threw herself at him.

"You can try to hurt me but I will never let you touch my child!" He looked angry and raises his kunai at her and stabbed her in... the stomach with the kunai.

She pales immediately and glanced at the kunai in her pregnant stomach.

She coughs blood and punches him, knocking him further back.

"Takara run!"

I turn and take two steps to the button before a kunai lodges itself in my right had with such a force in clamps me to the ground making me scream.

"Takara!" My mom screamed, she turned to look back at the man, eyes flaring with color.

"Gushikan-sama, your nightmare juice doesn't work on me anymore, wanna know why?" He leaps foreword and grabs the kunai from my moms stomach ripping it out and licks the blood.

"You are what I fear most"

Her eyes go big.

"Now you will pay for what you did to me! All those years of torture will be paid back in full!" he screams, pulling off his shirt to reveal paper bombs.

They sparked... I made eye contact with mom as she turn to me and leaped to me... They went off.

A ringing in my ear, warmth. All I can see is white. I blink multiple times and I see mama laying next to me.

There is a thick pool of blood surrounding us. Mamas conscious and she smiles at me and is talking to me but I can't hear her.

She reaches for me wiping her hand across my brow smearing blood on me.

She has tears in her eyes but won't stop smiling.

Her voice suddenly cuts through the ringing silence.

"I will alway love you my Takara. My treasure."

Her hand falls and she stares at me. The sparkle in her special eyes fades away and the built up tears stream but she doesn't wipe them away. He dull eyes just bore into me.

'What? What's wrong with mommy? Did she pass out?' I stare into her eyes a moment longer before glancing at my hand.

Pinned to the floor. There is so much blood I can't believe it's mine. Actually... Is it mine? I pull at the kunai in my hand. It had gone through the fleshy part thankfully but it had sunk though the ground pinning me and making it impossible to move. I pulled and yanked through the numbed pain. For some reason I couldn't feel a lot.

It finally slid out and I screamed out. I have a giant hole in my hand all the way through. I stare at it stunned and dully hoped it would heal.

'All this blood. It can't be mine.'

I sit up and look down at mama. My head is pounding and I feel dizzy, rocking back and forth. I kept trying to look back down at mama but I'm so sleepy. I could nod off. I manage to find her eyes again. Her wide eyes... I put a hand to her cheek and then slid it down to her throat. Looking for a pulse. There wasn't one. But that means I need to study the body more. Obviously it should be there. "Mama, wake up, we need to leave." She didn't stir. "Mommy, dads waiting for us. And I need to go to the hospital. You too." Nothing. I lightly shake her body but her head rolls so it's looking at the ceiling.

So much blood.

I stared down.

I'm covered in blood, again.

I look back at mom and for the first time I glance at her lower body. And then turned around and threw up. Her legs are gone from the explosion. She must had dived head first at me and covered me. I glance at where the man used to be, a bloody mess on the wall. I can't say anything all I can do I sit and stare at my... Mom. Tears began to build up in my eyes. I grab her shoulders and shake her. "Mom! Mommy! Get up!" Silence. "You can't be dead you can't!" I checked her pulse everywhere I could think. It was gone. I stare at her. "Help! Help!" I screamed. I couldn't stand up my leg are too wobbly but I looked at the door from my spot. No one comes. I could hear explosions rocking the floor above and below me. There are an innumerable amount of yells echoing the building.

I put my head on her stomach and began to shake. My mommy, this can't be real. Then I felt it.

A kick.

I leaned back and stared at her stomach. My sibling... It's alive! I had forgot in the chaos.

I managed to stand up. Her stomach was covered in blood from when she was stabbed... Stabbed...

Did it hit the baby?!

I have to get help for the baby!

Then I remembered what my mom had told me once. "Babies are not that delicate but without their moms blood flow they will die in ten minutes or so."

How long had it been!? How long had everything been?! Mom was still warm but had she faded five minutes or seven minutes ago? Is there time to get someone.

I looked down at a kunai laying on the ground next to my feet. My eyes trace over to my moms stomach.

I sat next to her and removed her vest. Then slid up her black shirt. I stared at her large blood stained stomach.

'How deep is the baby in there? Will I cut it? Is this really the best option? I could let it die. Then I'd have no problems with it again.

I slapped myself. How could I think that!

I brought the kunai to her stomach and paused. I can't do it. It's my mom. I'll hurt her.

The stomach visibility moved from a kick.

It's still alive! I can't let it die either.

I sat and stared back and forth from my mom to her pregnant stomach.

'What would mom do? What would mom want? She loves this baby. And she's already... Faded. She wouldn't want to drag the baby down with her.

Right? '

I laid her vest over her face. "I'm sorry mommy. But I think you'd understand."

And then cut my mom open.

I stood over my moms body with a small small baby in my arms. The two of us were covered in blood and guts. The baby had cried the moment I cut the umbilical cord but silenced itself quickly.

I had cut my mom open.

I removed my premature sibling from her.

I couldn't move. I had a look on my face which can never be recreated.

Then the door to the hall opened. I turned and peered through the red lights to see a figure come forward.

I thought it was Ibiki.

It wasn't.

It was another criminal. A breakout must had happened. The guys gave a double take and laughed. "Gushikan-sama's dead! At last that disgusting power is gone." Then we made eye contact. "What the? Another one! Well I'll finish off that cursed bloodline then!" He took a few steps and gagged.

"Oh shit! What happened to her? Did you disembowel her?" Man said looking at moms body, and then notices the baby.

"Oh you're a sick little shit of a girl. It's good you'll die, along with the baby of course. I can't take chances." He pulled out a kunai of his own and started towards me.

And then stopped. He held a hand to his eyes in pain and backed up. He began to shiver and twitch

"Shit you have that power too? Ugh I've got to get out of here." He grunted and ran off.

'What?'

I looked into the shine of my kunai. My Akumugan had activated.

I stared a moment longer and it faded away. I still didn't move. There was explosions going on above me. The entire prison must be attacking back.

The baby whimpered. I glanced down and flinched. The baby is a little gray.

'Are the organs not developed yet?' I thought worriedly.

My body finally started to move on its own, first to the button which I slapped. A siren began to wale, I'm sure everyone knows it's happening but might as well. I glanced to the empty cell o was supposed to hide in... But.

The baby doesn't look good. I need to get to the hospital, no to mention my hand is in dire pain too.

I walked to the end of the hallway and stopped at the door. I turned and looked back at mom. I wanted to say something to her but I couldn't.

I turned and walked through the door. The stair well was small and dark with barely any lights.

I walked up the stairs two at a time but I began to feel queasy. After I removed the kunai from my hand blood had been flowing consistently from it.

"I'm going to pass out." I mumbled.

I heard the door on the floor below me open and close.

'Shit!' I thought turning around. There was a women standing there in prisoner garb. She had a sword. She smiled at me and walked forward and raised it over her head. I didn't move but I could feel akumugan activate.

The women froze and screamed. She backed up to avoid the invisible entity I created. And fell over the stairs railing.

I froze and then walked to the edge and looked down into the black abyss.

'Did I technically kill her or not?' I thought staring down. I shrugged and continued up the stairs.

I eventually reached floor ninja 12 and walked through the door. I walked through a few hallways desperately trying to remember where the door is when I stumbled upon the counter where a ninja women and Ibiki we're standing with weapons and discussing where the breach was originated in.

"Ibiki."

He turned around and looked at me. He dropped his kunai and ran to me, then dropped down to my height.

"What happened to you? And this baby... Is it..."

"We were attacked. A guy committed suicide by explosion and he... Moms gone. So I saved my sibling. The only way possible." My voice was hoarse and shook while he stared at me shocked.

"The baby." I said holding it out.

"It's dying."

He stared down at it and picked it up. "I'll rush it to the hospital!" He said turning around but then froze. He turned back to me and stared at my hand. "Your seriously injured!" He grabbed my good hand and then stared into my eyes saying, "Your pupils are different sizes." But that's the last thing I remember.

I fainted right then and there.

Cool slick blackness without noise. That's the first thing I noticed. It felt good and I was so tired anyway. All I wanted to do was sleep. After a while it started to replay though. The explosion, moms final words, the baby, and my overwhelming sense of depression and worthlessness. I still hadn't opened my eyes when I started to hear voices. The most prominent one being Naruto. Especially when he first got here. I heard the sliding door slam open and the slap of the shoes. "Takara!" He yelled. I could numbly feel him grab my hand. "Takara! What's wrong with you?! I just heard so I ran out of school! Come on wake up Takara!" I could hear a rush of people talking at once. "No visitors!" "You aren't her family boy! You have no right to be here!" "Leave her be! She needs to heal!" I could hear him fight them. Saying things like, "I don't care if there are no visitors! She's my best friend!" "Who said I'm not family? We have always been family!" "She needs me! She needs someone!"

I guess they made him leave after that. I wasn't allows visitors at first.

Although the Hokage came in for a few moments. His talk with the Doctor cleared some things up for me.

"What her status?"

"All vital signs are normal but her brain activity is low. We have no idea how long she'll be in this coma. It initially occurred when she reached the main floor of the prison. It appears that during the explosion she must had slammed her head into the ground creating some trama. Then without proper care she only lasted traveling up to the main floor before passing out and going into a coma. According to our research her brain has healed normally and is working correctly. The big problem is she hasn't responded to pain or has opened her eyes. This may be due to the psychological damage she endured. She did witness her own mothers grisly death and then had to do a c-section on her mothers corpse to save the Gushikan baby. Even when she does wake up, which could be anytime now, who knows if she will be... Truly there."

There was a long silence.

"Has Tenchi visited her or the newborn?"

The was a short silence.

"No, he came by once but couldn't bring himself to walk into the room. I can't blame him though. His daughter is hooked up to so many tubes and wires... He also hasn't looked in the nursery at all."

The Hokage sighed. "I almost forgot. Now that she is stable and able to have visitors, can you please put Naruto on the list of those who can see her for extended periods? He burst into my office yesterday and wouldn't stop pestering me until I said I'd ask."

"Sure no problem. Honestly the girl could use some company."

Naruto stared coming in everyday after that. He'd tell me about his day and how stupid Sasuke is and what I missed. "Oh, I saw your dad yesterday! He promised he'd come by! I know you probably miss him. He misses you too, he just hasn't been the same since your mom... Anyway your moms body has already been buried, but they are waiting for you to wake up before they do the memorial... Speaking of waking up... Can you do it soon please? Takara I miss you. You're my best friend."

I didn't wake up then. And dad didn't visit that day or the next. I was in my coma for a week and a half. In all that time all of my friends had visited me at least once.

Naruto every day though and my dad never.

I would had slept some more but I guess my body was tired of it.

I opened my eyes. No one was there. I tilted my head to look out the window and it was pitch black. I sat up in my bad and winced in pain. My right hand was securely wrapped in bandages. 'If my hands still hurt, it can't be that long after.' But the more I looked at my hands... The more I saw my moms blood on them. Everything seemed to fade but my hands. The blood was thick and hot as it dropped off my hands. My moms blood.

I yelled and stood up from the bed and then fell off. A bad choice because I was connected to endless amounts of machines.

Moments later nurses rushed into the room to see me sitting on the floor hyperventilating staring at my hands repeating. "My mom, its her blood! Why is it still there!? I need to wash it off!"

I guess they're used to crazy. One of the nurses covered my hands with her and made me look at her.

"Welcome back Takara."

They helped me back in bed and I fell asleep again. I woke up to the doctor checking my vitals. He talked to me a bit about my health and then brought up last night.

"The nurses said you saw your moms blood on your hands." I nodded looking at my hands. "When I woke up, my hands were bloody. I can't really explain it. But it was my moms blood.

He shook his head and sat on the edge of my bed. "Takara, I know you were scared so let me explain it. When you woke up it was dark and you were sick and stressed. Not only that but you had a lot of anxiety built up after what happened to you. Your body hallucinationed the blood taking advantage of the dark. So don't worry. You're clean. All the bloods gone."

I nodded but it didn't help any. I know it's not her real blood. But the vision and feel of it won't go away.

I glanced at my hands and watched the blood drip drip drip off them.

"I think I'm going insane." I lay in my bed and fell back asleep.

I woke up to the sliding door slam open.

"Takara!" Naruto ran through the door and jumped onto my bed. He grabbed the sides of face and pause to look at my surprised face and then his hands slid around my neck and he hugged me.

" I missed you! I've never missed anyone so much in my entire life!"

He pulled away to look me in the eye. "Don't you ever get hurt like that ever again!"

His voice cracked and he had tears start to fall down his face. My eyes widened and I sat up and put my arms around him. His head fell on my shoulder and he shakes and breathed shakily.

"I'm sorry Naruto, I'm sorry I left you for so long." He pull away and sat cross legged on my bed.

" I'm sorry, about what happened to you and your mom."

All I could do was shrug.

"It's not your fault." My voice cracked and Naruto looked startled.

I had never cried in front of him. Actually I think I've always been able to hold in the tears. Even when I got punched in the nose during sparing. But there I was, nine years old and I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I tried wiping them away but they wouldn't stop.

"My momma... I couldn't save her..." I let out, putting my face in my hands. "She could had just jumped out of the way but she dove in front of me!"

Narutos eyes opened wide. "Of course she did, she's your mom. She loves you."

I looked up at him. "But now dad and I... We have to try to live without her. When she disappeared we could barely survived. My little... Sibling will never know their mama!" He looked lost as he sat their and gently rubbed my shoulder.

"What do I do Naruto?" I cried looking at him. He was quiet.

"I-I don't know. You live and raise the baby and take care of your dad. That's probably what your mom wanted but I really don't know."

I just sat and stared at him with tears still streaming down my face.

Naruto looked sad too. Really sad actually. He was close to my mom too, she as his substitute mom after all.

He glanced at the door and smiled at me. "I'll be right back!"

He turned and ran out the door. I stared stunned and waited a minute but he didn't come back.

'I'm alone.' I thought dully. It was like a dam burst and I leaned over onto my knees and began to sob. My body heaved as I tried to breath and I felt cold. The blood on my hands dripped again.

"Mommy..." I cried squeezing my eyes shut. The next thing I knew I was in large warm arms. I was squeezed into a comforting hug and a hand began to stroke my hair.

"Hush curly top. It will be okay." I gasped and opened my eyes to see my dad.

"Daddy! Daddy, mommy's-"

"I know. It's okay." He hugged me tightly and rocked me back gently.

"What do we do?! Daddy we are all alone." He hushed me and stroked my hair.

"It's okay. Takara we will be fine. I know you miss her but we will have to stick together raise the baby. We can do it. We are Gushikans after all."

"But so was mom."

"Your right but now your mom can just watch over us instead." A silence fell over us and I stopped crying.

"Dad do you know what I did to get the baby out?" I felt him nod.

"Thank you. You saved your baby brother. I know it must had been hard but your mom would had been destroyed to find out her baby died with her."

The door slid over and we both looked over to see Naruto and a nurse rolling the baby basket into the room.

"You told me your mom said when you hold the baby everything with change." He paused and smile, "I think it's time everything changes."

The nurse smiled at us and carefully picked up the tiny tiny tiny blue bundle. "He's under weight because he's early and a few of his organs are a little ripe but his lung are completely formed already so we are lucky." She slowly walked over to me and held him out.

"Here you go."

My hands shaking I slowly took the baby and held the baby as dad began to instruct.

His eyes were closed and he was breathing so lightly he looked still. I rubbed my thumb over his cheek and he twitched and his eyes opened and stared at me.

He has long eye lashes that frame his big brown eyes that resembles dads but he also had the dark purple lines my mom and my eyes have. He has barely tanned skin like how mine and dads, it more leans towards moms color. He stared at me with tired eyes and yawned. I gently pulled back his baby cap to reveal short purple wavy hair, it was super soft and fuzzy.

I pulled the cap back on and stared at him so more. He blinked at me and all the sudden my throat clenched and I smiled.

My heart was pounding in my chest so hard I thought I'd explode. I looked at my dad and he smiled at me.

"You name him Takara."

I stared at him. "Really?"

He nodded "You know I can't name him."

I looked back at the baby, studying his features. "I don't know dad. I want to name him after mom but... I can't think of any good boy names that will mean moms name."

He patted my shoulder. "It will come to you."

'Ok well moms name is Ume... How about a name that starts with U.' I stared at him and blushed all the way to my ears and fought back the smile.

"What?" Naruto asked. I laughed.

"Well I thought of a name but it's too girly for a Gushikan." My dad looked interested.

I tilted my head and made eye contact with the baby. "Usagi, because of those big brown eyes, they remind me of a bunny."

My dad slowly looked away and chuckled.

"True that is usually a girls name, but you know Takara, your name is feminine AND masculine. You can name him whatever you want and he will wear it with pride."

I glance up to him, "It doesn't have to be a T name?" Dads smile broke as he stared at the baby.

"Your mother...well honestly, I'd like to name him after your mom too..."

He took a shaky breath and put a hand on my head.

"There aren't a whole lot of male names that start with U, there are a few but they aren't the best."

He stared down at the baby.

"However, somehow I think Usagi works for him."

I look at the baby. He blinks at me. "Usagi Gushikan. It's not very intimidating."

"Neither is Takara." Naruto responded from the door.

"My little brother. Usagi... Usa-kun. My Otouto." I felt another blush creep up my face.

"Dad." I turned and looked at him.

"Can I really be a good big sister? I couldn't save mom, and I'm turning into a rock Gushikan like you."

I knew it was strange of me to ask, but, it was kind of my way of asking if I'm worthy after what I did. After I defiled my moms body. I think he understood.

He ruffled my hair and wrapped an arm around me. "Yes Takara, you can be a good sister. In fact I think little Usagi will only think the world of you."

I wanted to cry again but I turned to my brother and smiled.

"Hi Usa-kun! My little bunny! Don't worry, we may live in a crazy no good world, but I will always protect you."

He stared at me and yawned, falling asleep.

And the blood on my hands disappeared.

Authors Note:

...(whispers) I'm so sorry...

for the fact that Ume died and the horrifying revelation I had that I might not be able to post for a while.

First this weeks picture might not get done on time... or next weeks... and the next chapter being on time is... about 70% impossible.

I'm going to art camp for all of Sunday-Saturday so the only time I could write is after classes but hopefully I'll have new friends to hang out with instead of writing by myself in my dorm room. Then I'd have to take the time to sneak off to the library and post it. I'm just not sure if I can do that.

If everything in the world aligns correctly you can expect the chapter Friday, but please don't be offended if it has to come Sunday.

And I'll make up the pictures when I can.

I'M SORRY FOR EVERYTHING

Just be happy that I didn't split the chapter in half like originally planned. I won't cliffhanger you guys today!

Thank you for reading though and have a nice day.

~ToL