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Raco rolled over, yawning, linking open his green eye. Val was gone, well she couldn't go far, not in her condition that was for sure. He sat himself up and pulled on his shirt, giving another large yawn and stretching. More than likely she was just out for fresh air, simple as that. The mau gave himself a little shake breathing in, something caught him, a strange scent....

"Val?!" he called out peaking out of the tree to see her doubled over in pain. "VAL!" he gasped and leaped out of the tree. "W'at's wrong, you need to lay down, I'll get t'e medic!" he fussed, his tail immediately turning bottle-brushed. Oh it had to be now didn't it? He could tell, he'd seen women in labor...this wasn't how he wanted to start his day, but all the same, there was excitement and worry.

He shook his head, he could see it, see the pain she was in. "I'll go get t'e medic." he said picking her up carefully and leaping back into the tree hollow. He sat her up with pillows behind her. "Don't move, t'ough I'm sure you won't be going far, not like t'at." he said kissing her forehead. "I'll be right back."

He dashed out of tree hollow pulling out his flute and letting out a single almost inaudible high-pitched note. He was met half way by the head medic. "S'e's going into labor, I know it." he said through gritting teeth. The medic merely nodded to him.

"I'll get my things and be there in a few moments." she said turning away. She stopped and turned back to Raco putting a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, she'll be fine in my hands." she said with a smile. Births were more than rare in the Anbu camp, up until now they had only been by females who the Anbu had come across and aided.

Raco nodded and took off back to the tree hollow to wait with Valiant.

Raco pet her hair and held her hand. "T'e medic will be 'ere as soon as s'e gat'ers 'er t'ings. S'e won't be long." he said trying to keep himself as calm as he could, he wasn't sure how long he would last, let alone Valiant. He did have long to wait before the female medic climbed into the tree.

The medic set down her bag and put her hands on her hips. "Well, you weren't kidding were you." she said brightly. The birthing of a kitten was nothing to her, she'd done it before a hundred times over, even at one point had even had her own litter, but they were long grown and living their own lives. She settled herself down by Val and started to press lightly on her stomach. "Not don't worry, I won't press too hard, I just wanna check and see if I can tell how many there are." she said screwing up her face a bit.

She poked and prodded for a minute or two and made an off face. "Well that's a new one on me." she said with a laugh and went to her back and pulled out a few thing. A packet of herbs, blankets, and shredded cotton cloth that was very thick. She slipped some of the shredded cloth under Val. "Don't want to mess up the place." she smiled.


Youko was out cold in his usual fork of the tree in the middle of the camp. His white tail wrapped around him, one arm dangling over the side of the tree, he was quite comfortable and had even slept through Raco's sounding flute. If the note played had been a different warning he would have awaken, but the call was for a medic, not for him, so he slept on. He was having a nice dream as it was.

Raco didn't even wince as Val squeezed his hand, he'd already broken it twice, so what if she broke it for a third time. He wanted to laugh at the healer, he didn't much like the idea of his extremely clean hollow getting dirty, he was a clean freak, bordering the ideals of obsessive compulsive to tell the truth when it came to his obsession with cleanliness.

"W'at is new?" he asked, tilting his head to the side. He was sure Val was questioning the thought herself but unable to speak it.


The medic waved a hand as she pout the herbs into a bowl and ground them up into a fine powder. "Oh you'll find out soon enough. I wouldn't want to just ruin the surprise." she said nudging the powder into a new bowl filled with a liquid that had a strange smell to it. She handed it over to Raco have stirring the powder into it. "Be sure she drinks it all, it'll help ease the pain and set her as ease." she said pulling back her hair and tying it into a bun as so not to get into her face.


Youko gave a great yawn and sat up grabbing a hold of Ishtar and pulling him down into the fork of the tree and cuddled up against him. "Mmmm Karin..." he mumbled, petting Ishtar's head. "I knew you'd come back to cuddle." he yawned snuggling even closer.

Youko shot up immediately and by pure impulse flung his arms are a large dagger at the ready, pushing Ishtar clear out of the fork out the tree. He looked around holding out the dagger. "b***h!" he yelled continuing to look around...he didn't see anything...had he been dreaming? "I need to lay of the liquor..." he moaned and sat back, dagger still in hand.


The medic merely waved a finger at Val, "Now, now, there's no need to yell at me. It's him you should be screaming at, he's the one who knocked up up remember?" she said with a smile and dropped a mass of weapons on the floor out of Val's reach, her weapons, she had snatched them while prodding Val, it was her duty to know how to almost instantly disarm a cat of all weapons without their noticing. "No I suggest you drink the herbs or the only other way I can administer the same treatment those will do you won't like." she sighed looking at Val sincerely.


Raco sat open mouthed in shock. He'd forgetting how adept the medics were at disarming, it almost scared him sometimes what they could do. He tipped the bowl at Val. "You best drink it...if I were you I wouldn't want to test what t'e alternative probably is." he cringed. There was always an easy way and a hard way, the hard way always sucked.

"Son of a b***h!" the medic swore, this was the worst time for the female to pass out, if she didn't wake up the kit would die. "Raco try to wake her up, do anything it takes!" she order, stern faced. She dug through her bag frantically, looking for the strip of ammonia, that would bring Val back to consciousness. If she wasn't awake to push there would be very little the medic could do. The Human's ideas of C-section was impossible in their situation.

Finally grasping the horrid smelling strip from her bag she ripped it open and flashed it under Val's nose. "Come on Valiant, you're gonna lose your kit if you don't want up Baby." she said in a worried tone.

Raco was in shock as the Medic's sudden outburst but immediately began to shake Val and tap the side of her face. "Val! VAL wake up!" he called. No, he could lose the kit, if the kit was lost then Val would surely follow, he wasn't about to let another female die because of him. He watched the medic wave the awful smelling strip under Val's nose and coughed himself at the smell. If that didn't wake it her he didn't of anything that would.

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Youko glared at Ishtar. "Very funny ya little punk." he growled, but he wasn't in the mood to beat his a**...he was too hung over for it, lucky little s**t. He raised an eyebrow at Ishtar. "yeah..." he muttered sarcastically. Really he didn't care that Val was in Labor, wasn't his ordeal to worry about, nor was he in much of a mood to care of about the gender of the kit. "None of my business, other than it'll be living in my territory. Now go away and let me sleep off the hang over. I have work to do tonight." he yawned.

"VAL!!! COME ON!!" Raco yelled, shaking her again and tapping her face harder, she seemed to be responding but not enough and he knew it. "VAL!!" He wasn't sure if he could take this, why couldn't he have just kept that bottle of sake to himself, hmm? He should have just drank it and slept with Karin and he wouldn't be going through this right now. He cursed himself over and over in his mind.

The medic continued the flash the strip under Val's nose "Wake up!" she persisted and with a with a deep breath slapped Val across the face, at this point it was whatever it would take to wake her back up. "Damnit all Valiant!" she swore, nice start to the day. Even though she could tell Val was pushing it would never be enough, she had to have full concentration.

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Youko scoffed at the young male. "It's none of business to be there. Raco or not. And it's not like I would be of any help as it is. I hate births as it is, can't stand to listen to a woman scream like that.." he said mumbling the last part as he watched the boy leave with one gold eye. It was not his place, the Anbu may be tight knit, but in situations like these they often kept to themselves.