The mute girl wasn't the only one happy, it seemed. Naruto was approached by a cheerful Sokka who clung to his head in a hug.
"Naruto! Naruto!" Two more people approached the ninja boy, who had a hard time standing when Katara and Aang now jumped on him, joining the group hug.
"Naruto!" And well, since Suki didn't want to just stand there, she also decided to join the hug.
"They're ridiculous," Toph growled as she twisted her wet hair.
"Don't be a hypocrite and come here." Naruto's arm came out from among the teenagers, who took the earthbender to join the group hug.
Toph felt her stomach flutter, as many people said, it was like having butterflies in her stomach from being hugged against Uzumaki's chest, but she wouldn't complain.
It was good to be all together again, safe and sound.
"I think my water broke."
The human mountain of a teenager turned his gaze to an embarrassed Ying, who felt like she had broken the magic of the moment.
A couple of hours later:
The baby's cry was the melody of life that echoed throughout the mountain.
They managed to reach the end of the snake path, which was not as far as they imagined, and immediately began preparations to help the pregnant woman with her birth.
Naruto and Aang stayed outside, or there were going to be a lot of people in the small rock tent set up by Toph.
They both enjoyed the sunset of what was a hectic day.
It was good to enjoy the small moments of peace.
"Can you teach me airbending?"
"Eh?"
What a way to break the moment.
Aang looked bewildered at his friend, who asked him a question he would never have expected in his life.
"Do you have air control?"
"I think... something like that, it's hard to explain, believe me," he said with an awkward smile, which was immediately erased to now have a very serious expression. "But seriously, I think I have an affinity for the wind, and you are the only person on the planet who can help me. Would you do it?"
"I..." he felt very confused now, but seeing the look his friend had, he knew that it was not a joke, and that what he was asking for was something very serious. Imitating the same expression of seriousness, the monk nodded his head. "I will do that."
"Guys?" The talk had been postponed for another time, when both teenagers were called by Katara, who looked out of the rudimentary tent. "You'll want to see this."
They followed her and entered in silence, to immediately see one of the reasons for so much effort to save the snake's path.
A small girl, with little dark hair on her head, eyes still closed and moving her small limbs, eager to one day move on her own.
"It's cute." As strange as it may sound, Naruto had never seen a baby this close. It wasn't like the mothers in his village would allow him to get close to their children, so he couldn't help but feel strangely excited upon seeing the little baby. "He's a boy and what a boy."
"That's the umbilical cord," Katara corrected, and I couldn't help but chuckle along with her friends. Sometimes the shinobi's ignorance and innocence were something that would brighten anyone's day. "She's actually a girl."
"Oh…" Smiling awkwardly, he scratched his cheek. "I'm sorry…"
"Do you want to carry her?" Ying offered, still feeling quite tired, so she gave her baby to her younger sister, and with a smile, she approached the ninja boy.
"No! I never held one before." He was really worried that somehow he might drop the baby. It was a worry that anyone would have, at least that's what he wanted to think.
"Well, it will be the first time."
Yoru did not wait for the boy to make up his mind. Carefully, the mute girl gave the baby to the Uzumaki, who very tensely did everything possible to take her very carefully, as if the little girl were made of glass and the slightest movement could break her into pieces.
The boy didn't know what to think. He felt a strange sensation in his chest with the little girl in his arms. She was so small and delicate, so perfect.
The other members of Team Avatar and the small family of refugees witnessed everything with a smile. The Uzumaki seemed very happy.
Until the girl started crying.
"What do I do?! What do I do?!" He asked excitedly while trying to calm the girl, moving her from side to side, as she had seen other mothers do with her children.
"You need a lot of practice, but you did well for your first attempt. You will be a great father, Naruto," Katara said, smiling as she approached to take the baby and return her to her mother, so that she could give her milk from her breast. The baby immediately calmed down.
"You think?"
Him as a father? He couldn't help but get excited at that idea, of one day being able to have a child. He would make sure to be the best father in the world and give him everything that he couldn't have as a child.
"As long as you don't screw up and you have a good mother, everything should be fine."
"Thank you for the vote of faith, Toph," thanked with obvious sarcasm for the blind girl, who just shrugged with a smile.
"Have you thought of a name yet?" The girl's father asked carefully, so as not to disturb her while she was about to fall asleep.
"A name?" The mother carefully caressed her daughter's face. "For a baby who had a long journey to get here, after so many problems and dangers, in the end, we always had hope that everything would end well, I think it would be fair to let the people who helped us decide."
"Us?" Sokka, Katara, Toph, Aang, and Naruto foolishly pointed at themselves.
Looking at each other, they formed a circle and rested their arms around each other's shoulders and brought their heads as close as they could.
"I say that Diana, like the legendary Amazon warrior," Katara was the first to give a name, and what better than the name of the protagonist of the book that her mother used to read to her.
"Very childish, I say that Láng."
"You're not going to give her that name," Katara wouldn't let her older brother give her a name like that, which in their culture meant wolf.
"I say that Kyoshi was one of the strongest women and my one of my ancestors would be proud that someone would bear her name."
"Aang, half the world gave their daughters that name in recent decades, creating a false expectation that they would become great just by using a name that is great."
"Wow...that was really deep Toph," Naruto didn't think the blind bandit would give lessons like that.
"Why don't you give me an idea Naruto?" The gazes of all his friends turned to the ninja boy, who was sweating bullets.
A name? What name could it be? Menma? She liked Menma, no, she wouldn't let a girl be named after a Ramen ingredient.
'In the end, we always hoped that everything would end well.'
"Hope?" The ninja boy couldn't help but think of that word. "I think I have a name."
Muttering among themselves, the teens seemed to have come to an agreement, and let Naruto step forward.
"Have you decided?" Ying asked curiously when she saw the smile of all the teenagers.
"Well, we think Hope would be a good name for her."
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