Title: Fire Born
Author: mitsuki0tennyo (Mitsukino Tennyo)
Fandom: Naruto (SasuSaku_month 2011, Prompts: Protect(or), Innocence)
Pairing: SasuSaku (Uchiha Sasuke x Haruno Sakura)
Rating: K+
Genre(s): Romance, Family
Word Count: 387
Summary: The first time his wife asked if he wanted to hold their newly born daughter, Sasuke’s life changed in way he never imagined… not unlike a certain green frog umbrella.
“Would you like to hold her?”
Sasuke stared at a tiny bundle of pink and white safely cradled in Sakura’s arms, his brain barely processing his wife’s question. But when it did, his gaze instantly shot from his daughter to Sakura.
“Ah,” he said. “Although… I’m not quite sure how to…”
Sakura smiled at his hesitancy, so rare and so sweet. She was one of the few privileged to see that side of Sasuke and now their baby girl would be one of those people.
“Make sure you support her head, and she’ll be fine. You won’t break her,” she said with the best bedside manner she could muster in her weakened state, lifting the newborn towards him and waited patiently until the baby was settled comfortably into her father’s arms.
Sasuke looked down at his firstborn with a mix of apprehension and awe, a fierce protectiveness swelling up in him. His little girl worked one arm free of the blankets the nurse had warped her in. Sakura guided Sasuke’s free hand to meet the tiny groping fingers. The baby’s grip tightened immediately, her small fingers barely meeting in a fist around her father’s finger.
Sakura knew it was a reflex, an instinct all newborn babies possessed, but to her and Sasuke it seemed nothing short of a miracle. The young couple looked at each other for a time, until the baby yawned and closed her eyes, slowly drifting off to dreamland in the safety of her father’s arms.
Sasuke stared at his daughter, her dark violet red tuff of hair and the now closed black eyes. Sakura had been right, aside from her nose, their daughter mostly resembled him.
“What shall we name her?” Sakura’s voice broke him out of his musings. He stared at the pinkette for a short moment, before he looked at the baby in his arms. He had been named after Sarutobi Sasuke in the hope he would be as great as his predecessor. Sakura however had poetically been named after a cherry tree because of her pink hair.
“Hino, her name is Hino.”
“Hino… it suits her.”
(01. Rainy Days ←| Seasons |→ 03. Passion in the Air)
Author’s Note: Fire Born was inspired by the last chapter of unicorn_paige’s Pragmatic. As always the story was beta-read by halfkyuubikat.
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