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A soft crack sounded in an empty alleyway as Harry Potter appeared, just as he knew he would.
Sneaking up on him two loud bangs sounded out in succession and Harry Potter was lying facedown in his blood.
Ronald Weasley could only stare in horror as he looked down upon his once best friend, "what did I do..." he dropped the gun.
He hadn't let his jealousy of his friend get this out of control since he was fourteen...but with him being fired from the Aurors for stealing from the criminals he arrested, and then fired from his own brothers' joke shop for being 'too lazy to put any effort into anything' he couldn't hold it in anymore.
He barely even felt when the Aurors showed up and arrested him, his eyes never leaving Harry's body until they took him away.
000
Aaaaahhhhhh!" screamed Tsunade as she was starting to push, fully clad in a hospital gown and a sheen of sweat coating her face.
"Come on, Tsunade, you're doing fine," Shizune said in soothing excitement as she stood next to the mother-to-be. Tsunade gulped in more air to let out another agonizing scream, "That's it, Tsunade-sama, you're nearly there! I'm starting to see the head!" Shizune exclaimed.
"Just hurry the hell up and get him out of me!" Tsunade shouted back.
Standing off to the side were three men who were in varying states of disbelief, the first was the eldest, Hiruzen Sarutobi. He was still coming into grips that less than forty-eight hours ago his only female student(more like a child of his really since he had practically raised her) had come to him heavily pregnant asking for help, neither Shizune nor Tsunade would speak about the child's father...he got the sense Shizune didn't know at least.
Though despite all of this he had a feeling that this could only be good for his student, Tsunade had been spiraling down a hole of depression and sorrow since the last war rendered her the only Senju alive, and had she been married a widow as well...he was thankful to Shizune for being their for Tsunade...but that wasn't enough, he had received many different messages from debt collectors looking for her and it made him worry that she would either end up dead by her own hand...or someone she owed money too, but with this child, he was sure the natural motherhood bond she would form with her baby would help her get away from that fate. For as much work(and occasional trouble) as children were...they provided a healing effect on the parents(that wanted them) that just couldn't be replicated by even a Yamanaka's mind-healing session.
The second was the current Hokage, Minato Namikaze, to say Minato was surprised was an understatement. When he was in the academy nearly every male had a crush on Tsunade, even those who hadn't hit puberty yet tended to be shy around her. But never had he expected the Senju to come back to the village pregnant...though he was quite excited, his own child had been born just today as well, perhaps they could be friends. Of course that all depended on Tsunade staying in Konoha...not an easy feat.
And the final was Tsunades old teammate, Jiraya. He was feeling a strange mix of feelings of jealousy and happiness. Long had he loved the beautiful Senju...but she never returned the feelings, and her depression just seemed to grow as time went on.
Running a spy network he knew exactly how much his old teammate was in debt too and had been making small payments here and there to help relieve some of them...but he had also had to make sure some people never got to her. He knew his sensei was afraid of it...but the elder Sarutobi had no idea how many people had come after Tsunade to get her to pay up.
So while he was a little jealous of whoever had gotten to partake in the forbidden fruit of his life...he was happy that maybe something could finally go right in his crush's life for once.
They were pulled out of their respective train of thought when Tsunade screamed again. "Get this fucking brat out before he kills me!"
"It's almost done, Tsunade-sama! Just one more push!" Shizune eagerly encouraged.
"You heard her, you're almost there! You can do it!" Minato added with a growing smile.
Tsunade homed her honey-brown glare at him. "Shut up! I'd like to see you try and push out a brat that doesn't want to leave!"
It was but another minute or so when Tsunade gave one final shout of exertion and the first cries from a baby silenced the room. Shizune was the only thing that hadn't stopped, and with a tender smile on her face she gently grabbed the newborn, cut the umbilical cord, cleaned and wrapped him up in a small blue blanket before handing him to a waiting Tsunade.
Just as Shizune handed the baby to her master she gently said, "Tsunade-sama, allow me to introduce you to your son."
The tired but happy Tsunade gazed down at the still-crying baby in her arms with glistening eyes. "Hello, little one," she cooed as she brushed her hands over the tufts of the baby's black hair and round face, smiling with as much love as she could muster.
Soon he stopped crying as he looked to his mother to show his curious and bright eyes, one being her own honey brown and the other a shining emerald green. After what seemed like an eternity of childish contemplation, he finally smiled back, making him look all the more adorable to everyone.
0000
Harry stared at the gorgeous woman that was apparently his new mother and smiled happily,
he had always assumed being reincarnated was a myth by those fearing death...but here he was, unable to move very much due to his new body's undeveloped muscles.
The last thing he remembered was heading into work after a week's vacation with his godson, sudden pain in the back of his head...then he woke up as a newborn.
Truthfully he wasn't even that upset either. After his relationship with Ginny collapsed he didn't have much in his life. Molly and Ginny had taken it personally when he broke with her and actively forbade the rest of the family from interacting with him, the only thing he had was his godson and her grandmother...and occasionally Fleur and Victore, who came to play with Teddy a few times a week when Bill was out on a job.
In this new life, he had a mother, he had a family finally.
000
"He's beautiful, Tsunade-sama!" gushed Shizune as she looked down at her new godson. She then wiggled her finger over his face, who was following it around with bright glowing eyes.
"He is, isn't he?" Tsunade whispered more to herself. She couldn't keep the smile from her face as she took in every detail of her baby. In her mind, he was the most adorable thing she'd ever seen, and might as well have been the most beautiful and precious entity in the world.
"Don't you agree?" she asked the three men without looking away.
"Definitely, and when he gets older he'll be a killer with the ladies," Minato chuckled with a slight gleaming gaze. "Hundreds will be chasing after him."
"Ha! Like any of those little hussies or tramps are good enough for my sweet little boy. I'm not gonna let any of them even attempt to sink their claws into him," huffed Tsunade, never breaking eye contact with him as he smiled back and even gurgled a bit as if laughing.
This of course caused a series of chuckles to come from the others at the image of Tsunade being an overprotective mother and chasing away all the girls away from him in his teenage years.
"Tsunade-sama, that does remind me..." Shizune said as she took the child to get him cleaned up properly, "Have you thought of a name for him?"
"I was thinking of a nice name I heard some children go by in a village far to the west...Harrison Senju. We can call him Harry for short."
"A fine name Tsunade," Hiruzen smiled happily as Shizune took the child off to get him checked out, "Congratulations are in order, my dear."
"I don't want anyone but you touching my Harry but Shizune. Is that clear?" Tsunade requested tiredly, the excitement finally getting to her mentally and physically.
"Of course, I wasn't going to let anyone go near him anyhow." The medical apprentice affirmed, As she walked away Tsunade was already drifting off to sleep while she started doing a little coddling herself to the newborn. "Come on, little man, come with your aunty Shizune and let your mother rest," she affectionately said while walking out of the room with the men following suit.
As they left the private room Minato quickly sealed it with a special blood seal, one that would keep everyone except Shizune, Jiraiya, Hiruzen, and himself from entering.
When Shizune made her way towards the maternity ward for Harry's checkup, Jiraiya and Hiruzen finally had a moment alone to give their heartfelt words to Minato, "This is an unexpected development sensei..." Jiraya said seriously.
Hiruzen nodded, "We're fighting an uphill battle in getting her to stay I'm afraid, but it needs to be done..."
Movement caught all three of their eyes and Minatos widened as he saw a masked man holding a small bundle...a small bundle with familiar blonde hair sticking out, "Hey!" Both disappeared in a whirl of leaves
"Lord third!" An Anbu with a fox mask appeared and bowed deep, "The nine tails Has appeared near the village!"
Both men cursed, and though they wanted to follow Minato, the nine tails came first.
000
Harry stared at his new mother, drinking in her features, she was quite a few years older than Lily when he was born the first time...but then again they were like 23 or something when they died, so perhaps his original parents had just had him early In life.
He smiled as much as he could in this new body and gripped her finger in his tiny hand, he had seen that other woman...Shizune he believed was her name, use strange powers. He silently vowed to master those powers too.
He would not lose his family a second time.