Mother is the Name for God for All Children

By: Paine W.

Edited Chapter 1

June Bug

Haruno Sakura watched as the nurse cleaned away the waste she left while giving birth. Separation anxiety slowly flowed into her system as she looked for her newborn children. As a medic ninja, Sakura knew why they had taken them away. They were born 37 months into her pregnancy; they were premature. They needed to be checked and watched over. Still, it was torture knowing she couldn't hold her children. It was all she had left.

"Hokage-sama." Her voice croaked as she called out to the leader of her village. "Where are they?"

"Be patient Sakura. You'll have them in no time." Senju Tsunade spoke with a smile on her face. "You were strong through this; however they need to be checked out. A bit eager in meeting their mother may have damaged their organs. I'm sure they are fine."

"Can you please go check?" Sakura asked, wincing.

Tsunade sighed. "Alright. Just don't get out of bed." Tsuande nodded at Sakura and then turned to Haruno-san, the widowed mother and a new grandmother. "Make sure she doesn't stand up. She needs to regain her strength."

"Hai Hokage-sama." Haruno Mikoto bowed. Tsunade left the room sighing. "Sakura." Mikoto turned to her daughter. "How do you feel?"

"Like I pushed two children out of my uterus." Sakura pushed herself up to make her a bit more comfortable. "I don't know whether or not I have two boys or two girls." The anticipation had started getting her giddy.
"Be patient, it's not every day one gives birth. However, twins! I didn't know you were having twins."

Sakura looked away. "I didn't know either." Mikoto stood up from her chair and sat down next to her daughter on the bed. "Mom, I didn't know if I wanted to even see what they looked like in the scans. I was afraid. I still am. What if they look like him? What if they have his eyes? His personality. His…his sense of betrayal?"

"Sakura, as far as I am concerned, they are your children. Not his. He just donated the necessary materials needed to procreate. He has nothing to do with those babies. You are their mother, and you are their father."

The door opened with a bang. Sakura, startled, looked up to find Tsunade with a baby in her arms, slowly followed by Uzumaki Naruto, Hatake Kakashi, and Hyuuga Hinata with another baby in her arms.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto smiled. "Look what we have!" Naruto sat down next to Mikoto. Tsunade placed one child in the arms of its mother. Sakura looked down at the bundle of joy in her arms. She couldn't believe it. "She's a girl." Naruto spoke quietly. Sakura instantly noticed the tuft of pink hair on top of her daughter's head. A bit darker than her own, but beautiful. Tears of joy dropped from her eyes.

"Sakura, what are you going to name her?" Mikoto asked, staring at her granddaughter.

"Name. Haruno. She's a Haruno. And her name…Amarante. Flower that never fades." Sakura kissed her daughter's head.

"She's beautiful, just like her mother." Hatake Kakashi finally spoke. "May I hold her?" Sakura nodded and handed her daughter to her sensei, and most importantly, her father figure.

"Sakura-chan." Hyuuga Hinata's meek voice filled the silence that had followed after Sakura handed her daughter over to Kakashi-sensei.

"Hai Hinata-san."
"This is your son." Sakura's eyes widened as she heard the word son. Fraternal twins? She asked herself, reaching out for her son.

"Thank you." Sakura looked down at the boy sleeping in her arms. He was slowly being lulled from a sleep. Sakura noticed a clump of jet black hair on top of his head. Her heart raced as shelooked down at him. Would he have black eyes? Like his father? Would he look like him? She waited for him to open his eyes, and when he did, she noticed green. She smiled. This was her son.

"And his name?" Naruto asked, curiously.

"Taro." She smiled. "Yes, Taro. My son." Sakura looked up at Kakashi. He smiled and then handed Amarante over to Sakura. Sakura looked at both of them. Taro was falling back into sleep while Amarante was already knocked out. "Mom." Sakura turned to Mikoto. "Can you take them to the nursery? They're a bit sleepy."

"Of course." Mikoto smiled and took her grandchildren in her arms. Sakura watched as the woman took away her progeny. Once the door was closed, Sakura turned to Naruto.

"Minna-san, if something were to happen to me, will you promise to take care of those two as if they were your own?" Sakura asked. "I need to know that you will take care of them and never let them feel the sadness of a lost mother if I am ever gone."

"Sakura." Naruto stopped her from continuing. "Don't say that. Nothing is going to ever happen to you."

"Naruto, I am a ninja. I know what is needed of me and if something were to go horribly wrong on a mission, or an attack, or anything. I need to know that my children are loved and taken care of. My dear old mother can only do so much."

It was Kakashi-sensei who spoke first. "Sakura-chan, I will take care of your children. I'm sure everyone will. However, they are hesitating because they do not like the idea of you dying."

"Nevertheless, I need to know. Will you all take care of my children?" She looked at each and every one of them. Naruto nodded his head and smiled. Hinata replied with a quiet "yes", and Tsuande smiled.

"You can always trust me Sakura." Tsunade sat down next to Naruto.

"Also, Kakashi sensei, can I ask you for a favor?"

Kakashi nodded.
"If either of them forms the…blood line trait…can you teach them how to use it appropriately?"

"Of course." Kakashi leaned over and planted a kiss on Sakura's forehead. "I need to go right now, but I promise. In the event that your daughter or son forms the Sharingan, I will be here to help them." Kakashi looked over at Tsunade. "Hokage-sama, you said you had some business with me?" Tsunade nodded and then looked over at Sakura.

"I will be back later to check on you." Tsunade left the room with Kakashi following her. Hinata sensed that Naruto wanted to talk to Sakura alone so she left by saying she was going to check up on Mikoto.

Naruto sighed as he watched Hinata close the door.

"Sakura-chan…"

"She's four months pregnant." Sakura stated smiling. "I'm a medic nin. Remember? Baka, her father is going to kill you." Sakura looked over at Naruto. "How long have you known?"

"She told me yesterday."

"What are you going to do?"

Naruto smiled. "I'm going to ask her to marry me."

"Good." Sakura felt tears down her cheeks. "Naruto…"

"Yes Sakura-chan?"

Sakura laughed. "I should have never fallen in love with him." Naruto stood up and walked over to her. "He didn't marry me. He married a girl he picked up from Sound?" Sakura's cries became fiercer. "I let him use me to pleasure himself, and the second he's done with me, he throws me aside?"

"Sakura-chan…"

"I'm a horrible person, and because of my mistake. Because of our mistake, two lives have been tangled up in our mess."

"Sakura-chan…"

"I am horrible. I will never be a good mother. What will I tell them when they ask me who their father is? When I tell them that their father is the man who lives a few streets from us? The man who lives in a great home with a wife and their son? How will I be able to face him? He told me he didn't accept me as a wife and he would never accept the children? How could he say that?"

"Sakura-chan…"

"I am a disgusting person, to have slept with him. He used me, and when he didn't want me, he threw me away. He abandoned me. It was because of us that the Hokage didn't kill him! It was because of us that he was able to live comfortably at home. And now he pushed me away as if I was nothing. He called me a whore!

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled. Sakura stared at him with shock. "We will get through this. We are here for you. Now, get some rest. I will talk to you about this some other time. Just get some sleep. You look worn out." Naruto planted a kiss on her forehead and left the room. Sakura stared at the door.

"I loved him." She whispered as sleep came over her. Two faces popped up in her head. They were the faces of two babies. Sakura smiled as sleep took her. She realized she had something important now to look forward to. Something that would destroy her romantic love. Something that would turn her inward towards her family. Smiling, she snuggled up in the bed and fell victim to the draught of sleep.