Naruto hummed, rocking back and forth on the balls of his feet, as he waited for someone to answer the door. Sasuke stood slightly behind him, looking off into the distance as his hands rested nonchalantly in his pockets.
Finally, the door opened, and the two were met by Shino's tired face, his sunglasses missing.
"Hey Shino." Naruto beamed as he invited himself in.
Sasuke rolled his eyes, and silently followed the blonde. He nodded to the now Hyuuga as he passed by, and smirked. "You look like shit."
Shino shut the door. "What do you want?" He demanded irritably, ignoring the Uchiha.
Naruto jumped slightly, seeming to almost lose his nerve. "We thought that maybe you guys could use a break. I mean, a baby takes a lot of work, and with two, that's like, double." He smiled again.
"And you think you can take care of them?" Kiba asked as he entered the room.
"I'm great with kids." Naruto insisted. "Besides, it'd only be for a little while, so you guys can have a break, and Sasuke'll be there." He looked nervous again.
Shino perked up. "We could actually sleep."
"I don't know." Kiba pressed.
"WE COULD ACTUALLY SLEEP!" Shino grabbed Kiba by the shoulders, and shook him. "KIBA, WE COULD ACTUALLY SLEEP!"
"But-" Kiba tried again.
"Sasuke-kun will be there too." Hinata reasoned as she came in carrying two babies and a large bag. "And besides, they are the boys' godparents." She handed one child to Naruto, and the other to Sasuke. She also gave the bag to the Uchiha. "There's extra diapers; try to only change them in rooms that are really warm, otherwise they will pee again as you change them. For the bottles that are in there, use for scoops of formula, and make sure it is lukewarm before you give it to them. They will sleep often, but never at the same time and never for more than five minutes before they want something else." She paused to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything, and brightened when she couldn't think of anything. "Okay, buh-bye." Hinata seemed incredibly perky and full of energy, unlike how she looked.
Kiba held Hinata back, stopping her from ushering the men out of the house. "Are you sure? I mean, this is Naruto we're talking about."
"I haven't slept for the last three weeks, and if I don't get some sleep soon, I'll go crazy." The woman snapped. "So unless you want to see me get mean, chop off the part of you that got us into this mess and feed it to Akamaru, you'll let them go."
Kiba backed off quickly. "Okay, see ya." He waved Naruto and Sasuke off, uneasily pulling the hem of his pants up.
Sasuke snickered as they left, and handed Shino a piece of paper that reminded them when to come and pick the kids up.
Once they were out of the house, and on their way home, Naruto let out a victorious yell. "That was too easy, right Sasuke?"
The pale man jumped slightly, regaining his composure. "R-right." He had been playing with the child in his arms, wiggling a finger in the boy's face while making faces and soft coos. The baby giggled.
"Aww, look at the mighty Uchiha." The blonde teased. "Playing with a wittle baby."
Sasuke scoffed. "So I like kids; my fan club would turn to putty over it."
"Well, we'll just see how long you last." Naruto stuck up his nose and continued on.
-Uchimaki-
Naruto pushed the door to the Uchiha manor open, and was greeted by the smell of baking sweets and bread, and a wave of busy energy.
Nearly instantly, Sakura swooped down on them. "It's about time you get back. Here we are, going crazy to get everything ready, and you two decide to take your sweet time picking up the kids; we should have just sent Sai."
They heard a large sigh, and looked to see Shikamaru half-heatedly stirring batter of some kind. "Like they would be desperate enough to hand Hikaru and Hiraku over to him, and how do you think we would explain them coming here to pick them up?" Instantly, Shikamaru regretted what he had said as Sakura rushed over to give him some sort of lecture, forgetting Sasuke and Naruto for the moment. Apparently, the lazy Nara had miscalculated the pink-haired woman.
When they had gone to get the Hyuuga children, Naruto and Sasuke had left their friends to cook and decorate the Uchiha house for the surprise party they were throwing for Hinata, Kiba, and Shino. Sure they had had a baby shower, but that was before anyone had known that they would have twins, and it no longer seemed fair that only one of the babies would have had a party, or at least that was their excuse.
Sakura had been put in charge of making sure everything got done, and everyone did what they were supposed to do: a job no one questioned her on. Tenten, Temari, and Gaara were put in charge of cooking, while Kankouru, Lee, Chouji, and Neji were told to decorate. Shikamaru and Sai had both been causing too many problems in their own ways for both tasks, and so were set to do any miscellaneous tasks that anyone could find which would keep them busy.
Naruto and Sasuke were supposed to have the same fate, as well as watching the children, but now that they had the kids, there was no way that they would do anything else. No matter what anyone asked them to do, both men would get busy, doing something for one of the boys, or merely forgetting what they had been asked while playing them.
Sakura soon gave up on them. "Fine, just play with the twins, but that better mean that you don't need any help." And she stormed off to dictate someone else's actions.
Naruto and Sasuke shared a quick, sly, smile before turning back to the boys.
-Uchimaki-
Twelve and a half diaper changes later each, everything was finally ready, and the only ones missing were the Hyuugas.
Finally, the others came to rest in the main room, and Naruto and Sasuke were able to pass the boys off and take a break of their own. Sure, the kids were cute and fun, and their laughter could almost be seen as magical, but they were a lot of work.
It was unknown, exactly, which one of the Hyuuga men the father was, and no one was able to tell from the looks of the kids.
The boys were identical, and had the same soft face as their mother, along with the Hyuuga eyes. Already, tuffs of straight brown hair lined the tops of the twin's heads. It almost seemed as if they had taken on all of the Hyuuga characteristics, and none of their father's, knowing which clan they belonged to.
Sakura laid her head lovingly on Sai's shoulder as he played with the child lying on his lap.
The other boy was in Neji's arms, and it was he who seemed to notice the time. "They're late."
"You're right." Sakura lifted her head. "It's not like Hinata, or Shino, to be late."
"Do you think something's wrong?" Temari turned to her husband.
Shikamaru sighed. "How troublesome; they're probably still just asleep."
"That's right." Sakura perked up. "New parents tend to loose a lot of sleep, and with having twins, until they fall into a pattern, the three of them will most likely suffer from extreme fatigue. There is a high probability that their bodies are not allowing them to awake so that they can catch up on lost sleep."
"Does that mean that we should let them sleep?" Gaara asked.
"No." Sakura completely launched into medic-nin mode. "If they sleep longer than they actually need to, when they wake up, they will be more tired than if they were woken up when their bodies have fully rested. It's better to only sleep as much as you need to, and no more, otherwise your body will try and compensate."
"So we should wake them up?" A slightly evil smirk found its way across Sai's face. "Can I go do it?"
Sakura smacked her husband upside the head. She then turned sweetly to Neji. "Perhaps you should go get them."
"Hai." The present Hyuuga nodded, handed the child to his wife, and left.
-Uchimaki-
Neji crept silently up to his cousin's bedroom window and peered in. Sakura and Shikamaru had been right; they were sleeping.
Shino was sprawled out on one side of the bed, while Hinata lay diagonally, head resting on the man's chest. Kiba was laying on the opposite side of the bed, at the end, curled into a tight ball, his head resting on Hinata's calves.
Neji smiled to himself; they were almost too cute to wake up… Almost.
Opening the window slowly, the long haired Hyuuga snuck into the room. His smirk grew as he pulled out a small jar with holes poked into the lid. Opening it, he turned the jar upside down over Kiba, letting its contents fall onto the man. Quickly, he made his way out of the room, but stayed close enough to watch.
First, Kiba's nose began twitching. Suddenly, the man jerked awake and began scratching profusely. Instantly, that forced Shino awake, who jumped up and lunged at the dog-man. Hinata was thrown aside and awake.
It took her a few moments to get her bearings, but as soon as she did, Hinata jumped in to calm the men down.
"If you don't stop scratching, you'll kill them." Shino pressed.
"If you'd keep these fleas off of me, I wouldn't have to scratch." Kiba growled.
"I don't keep fleas." Shino shot back. "They had to have come from your mutt."
Akamaru barked from one corner of the room. The dog wasn't stupid enough to jump in against the bug master, but he also wasn't going to just sit quietly as all of this went on.
"If they aren't yours, then why do you care?" Kiba barked.
"Kiba-kun! Shino-kun!" Hinata tried to calm her husbands down. "Please."
Neji chuckled to himself as he made his way back to the Uchiha compound, knowing that the Threesome would soon follow. Now he was grateful he had spent that week collecting fleas, hopeful that he would be able to use them against his cousin and her family in some way.
-Uchimaki-
"Gomen." Hinata blurted out as the door was opened. "We're late."
Sasuke stepped back to allow the Hyuugas in, and everyone yelled a greeting of surprise as they entered.
"What's going on?" Kiba asked, looking around, bewildered.
"When we threw you guys a baby shower, it was only for one." Naruto explained brightly as he made his way towards the couple. "So, we thought we'd throw you another, to make it even."
Shino let a small chuckle escape. "So you used Hiraku and Hikaru as bait to get us here."
"It was Shikamaru's idea." Chouji announced proudly. "He said that it would be the only way to make it impossible for you to make an excuse not to come."
"And we got a full day's rest, too." Hinata said dreamily as she walked over and picked up her sons. "And the boys seem tired enough to actually sleep tonight… We should have you baby-sit more often."
"Anytime." Sasuke spoke up quickly, wiggling a finger in one of the children's faces, causing him to giggle and try to catch it.
All of the girls cooed.
Temari smacked Shikamaru upside the head. "Why can't you be more like that?"
"Geeze." The lazy shinobi groaned. "This is why women are so troublesome."
His reward was another smack, and everyone else laughed.
-Uchimaki-
The rest of the night was spent eating and socializing. Half-way through the night, Hinata, Kiba, and Shino opened gifts, and then the party continued. At about midnight, people began to trickle their way out, but the full group wasn't gone until after two.
Naruto and Sasuke plopped onto the couch, too tired to make it to their room. Naruto's head fell to his lover's chest, while the later placed his head on top of the other's.
"That was tiring." Naruto sighed. "I can't believe how much work those two take. I mean, it was fun and all, but I can't imagine having to do that all the time."
"It's just because they're too young to do anything for themselves." Sasuke explained. "It's when they get older that you get to have fun with them. You'll see; when the boys are old enough, we'll train them, and take them to the park, and do all sorts of things with them."
"And I'll teach them how ramen is the greatest food ever." Naruto said dreamily. "They were still cute." The blonde smiled.
"Yeah." Sasuke mused.
'I want one.' Both men thought silently to themselves, but remained silent.
Sasuke tightened his hold on his dobe, both of the drifting off to a dreamless sleep.