Here I am! Hehe, time for a second generation fanfic, which, yes, I know there's quite a few here, but I couldn't resist. :P This'll be centering mainly around Sasuke and Sakura's children (and, yes, I will explain how Sasuke isn't all angry and hated anymore, although I've only watched up the first series right now and may not know how far he's actually gone) as well as Naruto and Hinata's kids. Yay! Party! All night!

Okay, cool. I'll stop wasting your time. But first...

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Darn, doesn't that suck.

I can never come off very witty in those things...

"Big Sister!"

The 16 year old Uchiha glanced up from her reading, eyes narrowing. Her long dark hair was kept in a constant long ponytail, bangs hanging over typical Uchiha obsidian eyes.

"Kaori!" The cry sounded once again as the youngest Uchiha slid into the study, her bright green eyes almost frantic. "Raiden got hurt doing something stupid. Again."

Kaori nodded, albeit also sighing. Honestly, it was about time. Raiden usually had an average of about three or four times a week. It was Friday and he still only had two instances under his belt. However, that was the way of the world for the troublesome middle sibling and it was her and Kazumi's job to fix him up before their mother or father got a whiff of it.

She got up, carefully bookmarking her spot in her book, and they left the room together. "You'd better show me to him, Kazumi. Although next time you could be careful not to yell it through the house."

Kazumi's face turned to an embarrassed grin. "Sorry, Kaori."

Kaori ruffled the ten-year-old's shoulder-length hair, smiling only slightly. "Let's go, short stuff."

"You know, Raiden calls me that now too!"

"Good."

"Before long, everyone will be calling me that!"

"Good."

Kazumi glared at her sister with that patented glare their mother gave when no one had taken out the trash like they were supposed to. Even their emerald eyes were the same. Those green eyes. They reminded Kaori so much…

Of a moment in her life she regretted more than anything.

"Big Sis?"

Kazumi had caught the strange look in her sister's eyes and it confused her. Sometimes it felt like Kaori was a million miles away in some world of her own where no one could find her. But, she'd always been like that: stoic, detached, just like their father in every way.

Kaori smiled a tiny bit, but Kazumi couldn't remember the last time she'd seen her actually grin. "I'm fine, Kazumi-chan. Just where's Raiden?"

Kazumi's face wrinkled up, foretelling the bad news that Kaori was no going to like. "You know that huge cliff just outside of town?"

Kaori scowled. "You gotta be kidding me."

Uchiha Raiden was not the smartest when it came to good old common sense.

Of course, Kaori knew this and, even as she was patching him up with her healing jutsu, he could feel disapproval radiating off of her. But that was always how it was, Kaori's disapproval mixed with Kazumi's scolding (which, to be frank, was becoming a helluva lot similar to Mom's) and Raiden just sitting there and taking it cause it was a good damn bit better than listening to the same rap from Mom and Dad.

"And we should turn you in to Mom and Dad right now, if we knew what was good for you, but no, we're good sisters and we cover for your butt, but really, Raiden, how many more times is this going to happen? I mean…"

Oh, yeah, that was Kazumi's ranting in the background.

Kaori broke it with a single question. "Where's Minami?"

Uzumaki Minami- his partner in crime, yet at the same time, the bane of his very existence. He would never have actually gotten hurt if it hadn't been for her. "She already went home."

"Before you had even gotten help?" Kaori asked in that quiet, critical way of hers. "How… thoughtful of her."

Raiden's dark eyes flashed as he shot a glare at his unflinching older sister. "Goddamn it, Kaori, it's not like she's a saint. Plus, I didn't want her here when the clean-up crew finally got to aisle seven."

Kaori lifted her eyes from the healing, having completed it. "Just commenting, Raiden. No need to get angry." She raised an eyebrow, seeing that this obviously got him riled up. "Why, have you come around to defending her all of a sudden?"

Raiden looked away, a brooding look coming to his eyes. "No."

No way was Uzumaki Minami his friend. She was the village pain-in-the-ass, the one that everyone wanted to just shut up for even two seconds. God, why had he even started to hang out with her in the first place?

He and Minami had met after training late this afternoon, just to have someone to argue with, mostly, when they had come to the cliff. This was when Raiden's eyes lit up.

"Okay, I got a challenge. But, if I win, you have to promise to shut up for a whole two hours."

"Aw, a whole two hours?" The spiky-haired blonde kunoichi complained, but the fact that she had been challenged meant there was no way she could back down. "Fine. But, if I win, you have to admit that you're a pansy, Uchihas suck, and Uzumakis will always better."

"Exact wording?" The dark-haired, dark-eyed Uchiha made a face.

"Exact wording."

"Okay, fine."

"So…" Minami narrowed her eyes, "What's the challenge?"

"See that cliff?" Raiden squinted against the sunlight, pointing toward it. "We get to the top and then we both close our eyes and walk forward. The one to get closest to the edge of the cliff without stopping wins."

"You're on!" Minami yelled, running toward the cliff.

So… the whole closing-your-eyes-and-walking-off-a-cliff thing was probably where the trouble started in the first place. It is assumed now that SOMEONE fell.

Hey, at least he had caught himself a bit before he hit the ground. Otherwise he'd be in a lot worse shape.

Kaori broke his trance. "Wanna tell me what happened this time?"

Raiden winced. So, that idea hadn't been his finest one. "I don't know that you'll quite appreciate my explanation."

"Hn," Kaori commented back.

Kazumi frowned at Raiden's lack of an explanation, although she and Kaori usually got nothing for their troubles anyway. At some point, she didn't really care, as long as Raiden ended up in one piece by the end and Mom and Dad didn't know anything. It's not that they were particularly strict, but that Raiden had many strikes to his name already. There was the stealing of the Hokage's special ramen (Naruto-sama hadn't been very happy with that one, although it had been Minami's idea), the wrangling of Akamaru for the purpose of some kind of rodeo (which only ended up well for Akamaru as Raiden got a beating from both the dog and a furious Kiba-san), and the cutting of Ino-san's hair (which, thankfully, was unsuccessful or else the whole village might have gone down in flames of rage).

Raiden's face was cautious as he looked for an opening in Kaori's defenses. "She said that Jiraiya is back from his mission though."

A flash of something flitted across her face, but it was gone quickly, and her voice remained neutral. "That's good."

Raiden had mentioned the oldest Uzumaki boy in hopes that Kaori would be distracted (she always seemed to have had a soft spot for him, after two years on the same team and after all that had happened during the last few), but apparently it had only worked for a moment. He should've known better. His older sister was in ANBU now. She wasn't going to fall for those kinds of tricks.

Kaori looked toward the setting sun, noting the time, and stood, turning her back and walking away. For a moment, Raiden thought she was turning her back on them, her siblings of all people, and he was frozen from his seat on the ground.

Kazumi, ever the charming little sister, flicked him on the side of the head, grinning. "C'mon, Raiden. We're gonna be late for dinner if we just sit around like this. You know how mad Mom gets when we're late!"

Then he remembered. Kaori was the firstborn Uchiha. She had to protect them.

Cool! That's the end of the chapter! Also, just to clarify, Jiraiya is Naruto's kid cause Naruto named him after everyone's favorite Pervy Sage. He's totes my favorite character after Kakashi and I already have found out that he dies, despite the fact that I haven't even gotten to the second series yet. This sucks... Yeah, I'm stuck in the seventy-thousand filler episode run at the end of the first series. I'm about to loose my mind!

Okay, until later! :D