Throw Yourself Away

Prologue

The dance was in full swing, guys and gals flying across the floor to a frantic beat, bodies swaying, hips pumping, and the teachers walking around with watchful eyes, ready to break apart the students who got a little too "friendly". All in all, people were having a blast. It wasn't until two hours into the celebrations that something happened that would change the course of many people's lives.

The principal Tsunade was sitting at the staff designated table, happily sipping on her sake when the commotion began. Students began muttering amongst themselves, looks of shock and astonishment crossing their faces. Some of the girls looked as if they were ready to cry, while the men in the crowd looked utterly confused.

One of the students braved the crowd to run over to the staff table, collecting the principal. "We have a problem here, you might want to come and see this."

Tsunade made her way through the crowd of students murmur's shifting through the crowd, gasps of shock and astonishment floating through the masses.

"Oh my god. Who would do that?"

"I wonder whose it is?"

"I can't believe this shit is real. This sounds like some sort of myth. Things like this don't really happen."

"I didn't even know that someone was pregnant."

It was the last one that kicked the woman into high gear, pushing the students aside as she made her way through the commotion. It was the cry of the baby at the door of the girls washroom that made her heart begin to beat faster. Opening the door she saw a small form in the arms of a silver haired boy, cradling the naked squirming babe to his body, he had removed his jacket and had wrapped it around the whimpering child, and was holding it as if he was fragile glass.

Looking up Kakashi grimaced at the principal of the school, before getting to his feet and walking over. Tsunade was looking at him with shock in her eyes as he gently handed over the whimpering form, she looked at the small babe in her arms and felt her heart go out to him. His umbilical cord had been messily cut, and tied with a small red ribbon, the poor thing had three scratches on each cheek, and was still sticky to the touch, covered in birthing fluids. His little hands fisted tightly, even as he stopped thrashing to open his little eyes. His eyes were the deepest blue, while he had a full head of blonde hair. The little thing gave a big yawn, and a gurgle, reaching out to try and grab her blonde locks. He was the sweetest things she had ever seen. Looking down she noticed a small pendant hanging off of a chain around the child's neck.

Her eyes looked over to Kakashi in questioning, the teen shook his head and sighed. The junior was way over his head, this wasn't something he wanted to get mixed up in, but the second he had walked past the deserted girl's bathroom in the second corridor and heard that baby cry he couldn't help but look, despite every instinct that told him to walk away.

"I just found him. I didn't think anyone would be up here, and I just needed a break from the crowd, I heard him cry, and... I couldn't just leave him. The pendant was on him when I found him."

"No. You did the right thing Kakashi. Now let's go find his mother and father."

Tsunade ordered the teachers to block all the exits, and make sure all the teen's remained within the gym. She called an ambulance to come check on the baby, handing him over to the paramedics before going to question the teens. The boys were sent to one area of the gym, and the girls to the other.

"Now I'm sure not all of you have heard, but we have just found a newborn baby boy lying abandoned on the second floor bathroom. He seems to be in perfect health, but a question remains. Who is the mother? Now I'm sure this experience is difficult for you, considering you hid the pregnancy this entire time, and I'm going to offer you a chance to come forward on your own, and admit what happened. There will be no repercussions if you do so. We just want to find who the parent's are of the little one, so he can have a family to go home to."

None of the girls moved at all, except for a few twittering conversations sprouting here and there. The girls looked at one another as if to determine whose it was. A short red head in the back of the room bit her lip, her thighs trembling, and her face close to tears. It hurt her so bad, but she had to do this to protect him, she didn't want her baby to end up like her.

"Anyone?" Tsunade almost begged at this point. She didn't want the poor child to end up like all the other orphans out there, the poor precious thing was already born on the bathroom floor during prom night, he didn't deserve to be abandoned like he was.

The paramedics came back over, and handed the small wrapped bundle to Tsunade, the precious thing was already drifting off to sleep, sucking on his thumb as his other hand clenched and unclenched the blue blanket he was wrapped in.

"He's in perfect health, the little cuts on his cheeks are superficial, but otherwise he has a steady heartbeat, and is a healthy weight. Whoever gave birth to him did a good job, if you do find the mother tell us, we're waiting right outside. She'll need a check-up herself to make sure she's alright." The paramedic said.

Tsunade nodded before looking back to the girls, she held the precious bundle in front of them, showing the sweet sleeping face of the babe wrapped within. "Are you sure you don't want to come forward? Do you want to leave this precious little thing without a mother, or without ever knowing his grandparents? Or his father? Are you ready to abandon him to the orphanage at such a young age? Without even having held him?"

Kushina let out a little whimper at that, but the girls around her paid no attention, their eyes were focused on the sweet child before them. He heart nearly burst upon seeing her sweet baby boy there, his little tufts of blonde hair sticking out of his blanket, and his little hands. He looked so angelic, and it was taking all that she had not to walk forward and take him into her arms. However she knew what would await him should she take him home, he deserved better, and an orphanage would be a million times better than her home.

Tsunade sighed, rocking the small bundle. "Please. I can understand why you wouldn't want to come forward in front of your peers, so I'll keep him with me today and tomorrow. Call my office, or come to see me. After that... I'll have to give him to the orphanage. Please, just, please consider him."

Kushina felt her heart breaking in two. 'I am though. I am considering him.' No one seemed to notice as the teen allowed tears to stream down her cheeks, her breathing laboured. She felt as if she was dying, perhaps it was for the best if she was, then he would be safe. No one would know. No one needed to know. Her precious little boy, he was all that mattered now, and she'd protect him, even if it meant her death in to achieve it.

"I love you, my baby, my boy." Kushina whispered to herself, walking with the crowd of girls out of the gym looking back at her son in her principal's arms, sleeping like an angel while the woman looked down on him in sadness.

Tsunade cradled the little form closer to her bosoms, rocking him gently, and cooing softly to the little sprite. The vice principal Jiraya came over to the blonde, looking towards her and the little form.

"You're a natural you know."

Tsunade gave him a look of sadness before giving the boy a look of longing. "Dan and I always wanted to have children... before..." She trailed off, unable to continue.

Jiraya simply nodded and placed his arm around her shoulders. "I know. I know. If no one comes to claim him..."

"No. I can't. I don't have enough love left in me for him. I don't have enough left in me for myself even. He precious, but I can't." Tsunade said, feeling her heart clench at the thought of giving the child up, knowing that she wouldn't be able to care for him either way.

"I understand. It's a shame really, that someone just threw him away like that. No one deserves to be thrown away. What's his name anyways?"

Tsunade shook her head before fingering the small pendant around the little boy's neck. She observed the little whirl on the necklace with suspicion, turning it over and over again before nodding her head. "Naruto. We'll call him Naruto."