"Hey!", a red-haired girl screamed. She reached her hands up and stood on her tippy-toes. A blond boy stood above her, chuckling, holding a stuffed animal in his hand. He had an evil smirk on his tan face, his blue eyes shone. "Give it back!"
"You should'nt have been in my room!", he yelled. He wiggled the stuff animal in one of his hands, shaking it.
"Akane!", someone yelled. Akane,the red haired girl with white eyes and pale skin looked in the doorway. In it was a boy that looked exactly like the one that held her stuffed animal. "Yuudai!"
Yuudai, the one that held Akane's stuffed animal, laughed. He flung the stuffed animal to Akane, who scurried over to the other blond boy. She grabbed onto his right leg, clutching it and her stuffed animal close to her.
"Aw, Yuuki, you know I was just playing around with her.", Yuudai laughed. Yuuki scowled and picked Akane up and settled her on his hip.
"Yeah, by scaring her to death!", he yelled. Yuudai just laughed, walked over to his bed and lounged on it.
"Come on, lighten up, little brother.", Yuudai said. He picked up a scroll that lay open on his bed and looked through it.
Akane whined and Yuuki looked at her, brushing her crimson hair out of her pale eyes. He pointed at Yuudai.
"I'll deal with you later, when Otou-san gets home and Kaa-san gets done with her mission." Yuuki said. He situated Akane on his hip and walked out of his older brother's room.
"Tattle-tale!", Yuddai yelled from the vicinity of his room. Yuuki stuck his tongue out in his direction and Akane did the same.
Yuudai and Yuuki were brothers. Though they looked alike, they were entirely different. Where Yuudai found hilarity in messing around with his younger siblings and playing meaningless pranks, Yuuki found his true calling in helping his mother in the house, cooking and cleaning and resolving fights. They were also academy students of Konoha Village, nine years old. Akane was the youngest, the object of most of Yuudai's torture. Her name meant 'deep red', given to her by her parents because of her beautiful red hair. She was the baby of the house, the only one other than her mother that had white eyes. She kept her hair short and croppy, flopped meaninglessly in her eyes. She was shy, but when angered, she could have a language that made her father, the one with the sailor's mouth, cringe. Her mother and her rarely spoke; Akane spent more time in her father's office, finding fun in stapling papers and watching him sign treaties, rather than stay home and help her mother and her brother cook dinner, making food for the family. She was tiny and fragile, only five years old, the baby...
Yuuki set Akane down on the kitchen counter and went back to stirring the food on the stove. Akane played with her stuffed animal. She glanced at her brother, the nicer one, and smiled.
"Yuuki-nissan, what'cha cooking?" she asked. He turned away from the stove to look at his little sister.
"Ah, just some dumplings, onigiri, and some of those sticky sweet buns Kaa-san likes.", he replied. He lifted to his hands up, which were covered in sticky rice and wiped them on Akane, who laughed and swatted at him. "And of course a bowl of ramen for you and Otou-san."
She shook her finger at him. "I was about say, 'You better not have forgotten me and Otou-san's ramen, nissan'!" They laughed. They both walked over to the sink (or in Akane's case, crawled), and washed their hands with the perfumed foamy-soap. They both cupped their hands together and blew bubbles from their palms.
"Honey, I'm home!", the heard a deep voice yell. They looked at eachother.
"Otou-san!", they yelled and ran to greet him. Yuudai caught up with them. Akana jumped into her father's arms and he swung her around and hugged her.
"Ah, how have my wild children been today?", he asked.
The replied that they were good and he smiled. Akane snatched his jacket off of him and went running to another room. She left him in just his jounin jacket, a 'What the hell just happened?' look on his face.
"Akane!", Yuuki yelled, but their father patted his head.
"Let her.", he said.
Their father was a tall man, with wild blond hair and bright blue eyes. He had a giant smile and faint scratch marks on his cheeks. He was the Hokage, leader of Konohagakure. He was always smiling, and laughing and playing around with his kids. He was also protective, getting upset even when they got a tiny scratch on their knee. According to their mother, 'He was always too protective of his precious people'.
Their mother was beautiful, with raven hair cascading down her pale shoulders. She was a Hyyuga, and had passed her Byakugan down to Akane. She was always sweet and encouraging, smiling sweetly,cheering the loudest when Yuudai and Yuuki were made genins.
Though the children never wanted to know, their parents told them how they met. They had been in the same class in the academy and when their mother's eyes graced over their father's face, she was madly in love. Though she suddenly got a habit of being shy, poking her fingers together, blushing and fainting when she was near him, and did'nt have the courage to tell him how she felt about him. It was a day in November, snow fell down from the sky, when she told him she loved him. And to her surprise, he had felt the same way and knew the entire time that she loved him. Two years later they got married and a year after that they had Yuudai and Yuuki, the twins,and then Akane arrived four years later.
Akane rushed into her room, carrying her father's coat in her hands. She snuggled her face into it, breathing his scent in; a slight musk and the tingy ramen smell she had, too. She walked over to her mirror and put the jacket on. It draped down to the floor, past her tiny wrists. She turned around and it cascaded down to the floor and when she moved, it followed. She grinned, and then walked back ito the kitchen, where her father and brothers had started eating.
She sat down at the table, broke her chopsticks and dug into the delicious meal layed out in front her. Her father chuckled lightly and patted her head and ruffled her red hair. He brushed it out her eyes and tucked it behind her ear.
Then he looked over at the empty seat next to him, frowning.
"When'll she be home?", Yuudai asked through a mouthful of food. Their father shook himself out his trance.
"Oh, late tonight, probably." Though his wife was married and had children, she loved missions with her old team. She asked for a mission twice a month, as to not get out shape. She had a lithe and tiny figure, passed onto her daughter.
All the children looked up at their father, who had gone back to eating his dinner. His eyes were clouded.
Sometimes, even though he knew she was strong, he worried for her. He loved her more than anything, and if she got hurt, he would never forgive himself.
Suddenly, a grey haired man in a jounin outfit appeared behind their father. Their father did not turn around.
"Yes, Kakashi?", he asked.
Kakashi looked down gravely. "There has been an accident. Hinata-sama has been hurt on her mission. Sakura and Tsuande-sama are at the hospital taking care of her."
Their father flew out of chair. He stood up, shaking slightly.
"I-I'll be there in a minute. Let me get the children..."
"I'll take care of them, Naruto."
Akane's eyes widened. She grabbed her father's arm and tears fought to drop down her cheeks.
"Otou-san, I wanna come, too!", she cried. "I'll love Kaa-san just as much as you do!"
"Akane...", her father whispered. He looked at her for a moment and smiled. He hoisted her up on his hip.
"Come on, Yuudai, Yuuki, lets go check on your mom."
"Is she alright?", Naruto asked. He had his little daughter, Akane, on his hip, and his twins sons stood close to him.
Tsunade smiled. "She'll be just fine. She gave us all quite a scare, but she's just resting now."
Naruto sighed in relief. "May we go see her?", Yuuki spoke out.
Tsunade looked at him and nodded. "You kids go see her." She looked at Naruto. "I have to talk to your Otou-san real quick."
Naruto let Akane down and she latched onto Yuuki. They were let into the hospital room by Sakura.
When they were gone, Naruto spoke. "What is it, Tsunade?"
"She is perfectly fine, just a bit tired. You should'nt have let her go on this mission, Naruto." Tsunade said. "Did she tell you that she did'nt have her yearly physical exam like the rest of the ninja?"
Naruto opened his mouth in surprise. "W-We went together. How could she not tell me?"
Tsunade smiled. "Naruto, she's pregnant. She wanted to go on that mission, so she skipped the exams and went. If we had found out she was pregnant earlier, we would have put her off her missions. But, she never came."
Naruto smiled. "She is?"
Tsunade scowled. "Naruto, you're wife is twelve weeks pregnant, you let her go on a mission in her condition, and all you say is 'She is?'! She could have lost the baby because of your mistake!", she yelled.
But Naruto was too busy grinning.