A/N: I do not own Naruto, Kishimoto rightfully owns it.
It felt like years since Naruto and Konohamaru could hang out and just relax. Well the main reason was because of the Fourth Shinobi War having put everyone on high alert. They were eating their favorite serving of ramen at Ichiraku's. They were both happily slurping their noodles. "I'm so glad that this place hasn't changed!" Naruto praised the food. Konohamaru agreed with Naruto's point. The noodles were still as delicious as ever.
"I don't want to imagine what would happen if they changed their ingredients."
"You hit the hammer on the nail with that one, lil' bro. Just make sure you bury that thought in the farthest reaches of your mind." Naruto commanded.
"Understood, sir!" Konohamaru posed in a mock salute to his brother, which earned a giggle from him.
"I'm glad that my number one and two customers didn't move on to another ramen shop!" Teuchi stated.
Naruto smiled, "No one can beat your ramen, unless ya' know someone were to steal it and, uh, I don't know start their own ramen business, but that'll never happen." He looked in the air.
"Yeah. . . Luckily for me I have two of the Konoha's worst cooks sitting in front of me." The ramen owner said laughing. "And I know you'll keep my secret ingredients a secret from any outsiders." He admitted.
"And why's that?" Konohamaru asked.
"Because I know you two will either stop the crooks from even getting close to my secret recipe or you'll find whoever took it." Teuchi replied.
Naruto started getting an idea, "So that means if we save your ramen business, does that mean we get free ramen for life?" He was hoping for a yes type of answer.
He started laughing, "Ha ha ha. In your dreams." He said.
"Damn, I was sure that was going to work." Naruto snapped his fingers.
"Speaking of dreams, I'm sure you two were in that weird genjutsu at the climax of the war."
"Yeah, I remember it." Konohamaru admitted. "What about you, Naruto?"
"I was never in it." The blond haired ninja admitted. "I helped end it though, but for some reason, I never bothered to ask anyone what they dreamed of during the genjutsu. I guess it was one of those personal questions that I didn't have a right of asking, at least that was my logic. So do you want to tell me what you dreamed of?" They nodded at the blond ninja "Well then: what were you dreaming during the genjutsu?"
Teuchi spoke first, "I dreamed that I created my shop's own instant ramen brand and it was the most preferred instant ramen brand."
"Really?" Konohamaru was intrigued by the idea. "Have you started work on it?"
"Well I'm still researching the concepts of it, but I haven't come up with anything yet."
Naruto smiled, "It'll be like you're in kitchen, especially when I crave ramen in the middle of the night."
"Which reminds me, Naruto," Teuchi began, "can I have permission to use your name for a ramen flavor. Like the 'Naruto Miso Special!'"
"Maybe, I need to know if you're actually serious with your project." Naruto said understanding a little of the business side of using his name.
"I see," Teuchi nodded, "I'll tell you more information at later time. However, I'm glad you two like my expansion ideas. What about you, Konohamaru, what did you dream about?" He gave the spot light to the developing ninja.
Konohamaru smiled, "I dreamed that Naruto stepped down as the Seventh Hokage and named me his successor."
"Dude! That's cool." Naruto smiled. It got quiet after his outburst, but he soon remembered something, "I know it has nothing do with the genjutsu, but I've been having this dream after the war ended." They shot him the 'go on with your dream' look, so he started, "So I find myself on a hill, following a trail. The more I continue on the path, I see three figures; one tall one and two small ones. Then those two small figures start running up to me, yelling out 'daddy.' And I don't know but what they said felt right to me. Then the tall figure caught up to my kids and kissed me on the cheek. One of my kids shouted out, 'eww! Mommy do you have to kiss daddy in front of us?'" The group laughed.
After their laughter died down, Konohamaru raised an eyebrow at Naruto's dream, "Nice, but did you ever get a good look of how your future kids and wife look like?"
Naruto sighed, "I have in the dream but every time I wake up, I don't remember how they look like and that's the most frustrating part!" He put his face into his hands.
"So basically every time you wake up, you have to start all over again?" Konohamaru asked.
"Exactly."
"If you look on the bright side, maybe one day your dream will come true." Konohamaru said smiling.
"I hope you're right." Naruto said, "I hope you're right."
*A Few Years Later*
"Thanks for staying late, lil' bro, you can tell Hanabi it was my fault for making you stay so late." Naruto told his brother after they exited the Hokage's office with the cold night air hitting them once they step foot outside.
Konohamaru shrugged, "No problem but are you sure ten o'clock is late?"
"This is the time that Bolt and Himawari usually go to bed." Naruto said.
"Is it a parental thing?"
"Yup. It used to be one or two in the morning was late, but once you have kids, ten is the new late."
"Mhmm." Konohamaru shook his head in agreement. "I guess midnight isn't so early after all." He said messing around.
"You think."
"But I suppose it's a taste for my future role."
"Which one?"
"Both but I guess I'm like my grandpa, an eternal student."
"And you do almost look like him when he was around your age."
"Thank you." Konohamaru said, taking Naruto's comment as a compliment. After five minutes of Naruto giving advice to Konohamaru, they arrived at their destination: the Hyuga Compound. At first, they were stopped by one of the branch members, but he let them enter the compound once he recognized them in the dark. "You would think being apart of this family would mean less stops at the gate?" Konohamaru announced.
"Tell me about it but it has to do more with it being evening and not during the day." Naruto responded.
"True but it's still a pain in the ass nonetheless." He said opening the sliding door for Naruto to enter first.
"Dad!" A blond kid said running up to Naruto followed by a blue haired girl. The kids jumped into his arms.
Hinata followed them and smiled at what she saw, eventually she walked up to Naruto and welcomed him home with a kiss. "I hope you enjoyed your day."
"Well I'm glad that there's less paperwork, but I wish there would be less documents to read on a laptop screen." Naruto laughed.
Konohamaru sneaked by the happy family and took off his scarf and hung it up on the coat hanger. "Welcome home." A pair of arms engulfed him from behind.
He smiled, "Hanabi," he placed his hands over her hands. He turned around and kissed Hanabi on the lips. "I hope your clan wasn't being too harsh with you today."
"Not with Himawari here, they were too busy trying to avoid her puppy dog eyes." They both laughed. Then Konohamaru began focusing on Naruto's family and he notices something; something that Naruto had said a few years ago. Even though the location and surrounding was different, he still recalled the moment when Naruto announced that dream. However Hanabi saw it differently, she thought that Konohamaru was jealous of Naurto's family, "I know you want to have kids-"
"But we're not ready, not yet." Konohamaru finished for her, "It's just that — I'm remembering one of Naruto's dream: his sunshine. A sunshine that I'm sure we'll share in the future." Their hands interlocked.
"Please dad, can we stay up for another thirty minutes?" Bolt pleaded then Himawari gave their dad the puppy dog eyes.
Naruto smiled knowing that he wouldn't miss out on an opportunity to spend time with his family after his obligation as the Seventh Hokage; besides he couldn't resist saying no when his daughter made that face, "Alright, thirty minutes then I'm putting you two to bed. Understood?"
"Yay!" Both of his kids exclaimed.
Konohamaru and Hanabi smiled at the family before them, "Even at night, they still shine bright as the day." The Hguya heiress whispered and the future Hokage nodded in agreement.
Naruto and Hinata held hands as they took their kids to the living room, "Daddy, can you and mommy tell us a story?" Naruto simply nodded.
Bolt would disagree with Himawari but he didn't want to spend the majority of time arguing with her about they should do with their dad. "Can you tell us the Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi?" Bolt decided to ask.
"Yeah." Naruto nodded wanting to relay the story of his late godfather to his children.