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Enjoy part two of the Ankle Biters story 8D!

Warning: I kill you all with fluffiness! Mwahaha.

Disclaimer: Weeeellll, ummmm... uhhh... okay, no. I don't own Naruto v.v.


Ankle Biters Part Two

After Naruto's startling epiphany, another issue was raised up that got the Cosplay members thinking.

"Who's Etsu going home with?" Pein asked quietly once all the Cosplay member were together and accounted for. Everyone shot glances towards the other, either silently baiting them to step up to the plate or simply saying: "Hell no. I'm not taking that brat home". Finally, Tobi grew some balls and stepped up to bat.

"Well, if I must take on the responsibility, I will take home the child." though he tried to sound horrible exasperated, everyone could see the diabolical look in his eyes. Naruto held onto Etsu a little tighter when Tobi's eyes flashed over their way. He had know idea what Tobi had done to Kiba in the back of the kitchen, and his better judgment was telling him that Tobi wouldn't do the same thing to Etsu, but Lord knows that Tobi has a few screws loose here and there.

Thankfully, Etsu spoke up and settled everyone's nerves.

"You're weird. I don't wanna go with yah."

Tobi's pride was crippled after that.

Itachi was the next to bat. "I'll take her home. After all, I think Etsu would benefit the most from staying with Hidan and I."

"Oh yeah, because teaching a child all about that backwards god of Hidan's is totally beneficial." Naruto snorted and Etsu giggled slightly. Oh look... they're bonding.

Hidan scowled and jabbed an accusing finger Naruto's way. "Jashin is not backwards! And I will not stand for such insults any longer." so he did the smart thing and sat down beside Itachi with a cross look on his face. "But," he sighed and shot Itachi an apologetic look. "I honestly don't think Little Su living with us would be such a good idea. We'd have to clean up all our toys."

At the word 'toys' Itachi instantly grimaced, imagining the sight of the little girl discovering his favorite toys. Everyone's else reaction was pretty standard, save for Deidara and Sasori who immediately vetoed themselves out afterward because they too had very, questionable, things in their house that no kid should ever have to see. Kisame declined as well. Since he had a lot of weapons that, in the wrong hands, would probably lead to Etsu popping up daisies. And since Zetsu unfortunately lived with the blue-faced man, he couldn't keep Etsu either.

So really, that only left Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara, Sai, Kiba, and Pein to decide who took Etsu home.

"I'm not taking her home." Sai deadpanned when everyone looked at him for his opinion. "What?" he asked once he received glares from both Itachi, Pein, Deidara, and Naruto. Etsu on the other hand didn't really care that Sai had rudely said no to her staying over. First of all, she was eating a cookie given to her by Pein. And secondly, well... the cookie was really good. And when you eat a really good cookie you can't be sad!

"You don't have to be an ass about it." Naruto scolded and started to pet the little girl in his arms. "She's just a child! Be a little nicer!"

Sai scoffed and folded his arms across his chest, sort of jealous that Naruto was showing so much affection towards the child. 'I want to be petted...' he inwardly pouted.

"I have a live-in fuck buddy currently staying with me. Do you really want Etsu to walk in on something she shouldn't see ten years from now?"

"See what?" Etsu asked once the curiosity overtook her urge to finish her cookie. "Your dick?"

Naruto's jaw dropped to the floor at how plainly Etsu mentioned such a... private part of the male anatomy. Sasuke couldn't help but crack a smirk. Sure, he couldn't stand the kid, but the girl sure had a way with words. Deidara was currently clutching his sides that threatened to explode at any moment. Sasori was laughing like a hyena – on the inside, of course. Itachi was the cooler of them all, so he simply cocked an eyebrow in not disbelief but rather... astonishment. Hidan was in the same state as Deidara was. Pein was silently chuckling at Etsu's no-nonsense attitude. And everyone else... well... they all more or less had their own comical reactions to Etsu's use of the word 'dick' but we must move on with the plot!

Sai cracked a smirk, finding that he rather liked the little girl that had now switched spots to be in Sasuke's arms. If he currently didn't have a live-in fuck buddy, he might have considered taking her in. "It seems that you're quite familiar with the body part."

Etsu shrugged and didn't say anything more. Her cookie urges were returning with full force and it would be rude to ignore them.

"Okay..." Itachi cleared his throat and scratched Sai off the list in his notepad. When he looked up, his eyes locked with Gaara's. "Can you take her home with you?"

"No." Gaara stated simply. He looked back and forth between the members that all seemed to be waiting for something to grow out of his nose, or something. The red-head inwardly snorted, 'Perverts'. "I don't have anything sexual or life scarring at my house. I just like my privacy as all."

"You know, privacy is just another synonym for the phrase: 'I have sex toys I don't like to share'." Deidara said with a lazy smile on his face as he reclined against Sasori's chest.

"Unlike you guys that constantly eat and breathe sex, I actually have a normal household." Well, as about as normal as a guy like Gaara could have it, anyways. Deidara muttered something under his breath that was probably rather ugly, but Gaara ignored it.

"Pein?" Itachi asked and sighed sadly when the orange-haired man shook his head.

"Sorry. I'm living with Minato now so..." a blush was all everyone needed to fill in the blanks. Etsu, on the other hand, didn't really care and went for another cookie.

"So I get to go with them, right?" she asked after swallowing a rather delicious chocolate chip cookie.

"It would seem that way." Itachi answered.

"I refuse to take her home with us." Sasuke glared at the child who shot him a look of indifference.

"Get that stick out of your ass, Teme. It's only going to be for a night." Naruto shook his head at his boyfriend's rude antics. "Sorry, Etsu. My boyfriend can be such a prick."

Etsu glared at the blonde and punched him in the shoulder.

"Ouch!" Naruto yelped and rubbed his abused body part. "What was that for?"

"Baka," she scowled and then turned her head the other way, refusing to listen to Naruto's insults any longer.

Sasuke, albeit reluctantly, had to admit that Etsu was pretty cool despite being an ankle biter. Really, anyone who loved to insult Naruto's intelligence on a daily basis like him was cool in the raven's books.

"You know what... I think I've changed my mind." Sasuke said with a small smile on his lips.

Etsu looked up at him, one blue eye and one green eye sparkling with delight, and smiled – cookies and all.

+Conspiracy+

"Etsu, get in the bath!"

"No!"

"I'm not taking 'no' for an answer. Now get your tiny butt in the bath right now!"

"No!"

Sasuke was sitting on the couch, watching his blonde try and try again to get the girl, who wore nothing but her birthday suit on, into the bath. So far, Naruto was failing miserably.

"This is why I hate children..." he muttered. 'First he brings the dog home, and now a freaking kid. Is this some personal vendetta?'

The argument was starting to get on his nerves the more the voices started to escalate. So he whipped out his handy dandy iPod, plugged in his earbuds, and blasted himself into a world of beautiful melodies and powerful voices.

His world shattered into a million pieces when a naked Etsu plopped into his lap, ripped out his earbuds, and screamed.

"Tell Baka I don't wanna go in the bath!"

Sasuke sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, mentally counting from one to ten in Spanish until he felt like he was calm enough to talk to the little girl.

"Fuck off," Sasuke said bluntly. He caught the girl by the armpits and handed her over to a very smug looking blonde who, though looking rather cocky, looked worse for wear. "You still want to have a kid?" Sasuke asked 'innocently' as he handed the wiggling child over to Naruto.

Naruto scowled slightly, holding Etsu as tightly as he dared so the girl would stop her annoying wiggling. "Of course, Sasuke." he leaned forward and placed a chaste kiss on the raven's lips. "You may hate kids, but Etsu doesn't hate you. Besides, this is sort of fun." Yeah, because arguing with a little girl is always a riveting experience.

Etsu's eyes were wide as saucers as she watched the two men share a light kiss. 'Just like a mommy and daddy...' her child-like mind was slowly connecting the dots together, and she felt her heart soar that she finally might be able to accomplish her goal. You see, she may not have had the actual family experience, nor see her real parents share a kiss, but she had seen a lot of TV shows. And the parents in them always shared a kiss or two, just like Naruto and Sasuke had. So that would mean Naruto and Sasuke were kind of like a mommy and daddy, right? It made sense in Etsu's mind.

"What are you staring at?" Sasuke asked, though it wasn't in a rude way. More like... plainly stated!

Etsu's hand reached out and grabbed Sasuke by his hair's bang. "Bathe with me." she said in a matter-of-fact way.

Naruto had to chuckle at how straightforward Etsu could be. Though he didn't miss the pang of jealousy that hit his heart when he realized that no matter how hard he tried, Etsu would never like him as much as she liked Sasuke. Which really made sense in the blonde's mind now that he thought of it. He was always second best when he came to Sasuke, though he hated to admit it at times. He'd always give 100 percent, but Sasuke barely had to lift a finger and he'd come up on top. Or so it seemed. Now the same was happening with Etsu.

'I sound so childish...' he thought as he absentmindedly listened to the banter go back and forth between Etsu and Sasuke. 'I got over my inferiority a long time ago.'

"Where are your manners, brat?" Sasuke asked. "That's not how you get things from people."

Etsu was silent for a moment, scrunching her face up in concentration before attempting to try again. "Bathe... with... me?" she asked veeerrry slowly, hitching her voice at the right moment to make the statement sound more like a question.

"You can't say 'no' now that she asked." Naruto smirked, "Remember the last time you denied her of something she wanted?"

Sasuke visibly twitched. Oh yeah... he remembered vividly. 'I still can't hear properly out of my left ear...'

+Conspiracy+

"Rubber Ducky's gonna to attack my boat! Launch the rockets! POW! BAM! PHEWW! BABOOM! Waaaaah! Rubber Ducky's been hit! Get Dr. Octoputh, quickly!"

"It's octopus." Sasuke corrected, scowling every once in a while when a bubble hit him in the face.

Etsu, who was sitting in-between the man's legs, looked up from her playing and gave him a look. "That's what I said. Octoputh."

"No, you're saying it wrong."

"Am not!"

"You are."

"Am not!"

"You are!"

"Am not! Rubber Ducky, attack!"

Rubber Ducky collided not so nicely with Sasuke's face and plopped into the bath water with a splash. Etsu giggled like a mad woman and went back to her playing, feeling like a winner in every way. Sasuke, on the other hand, was finding it very hard to not start a splash war with the child. 'You're older than her, Sasuke. Retaliating would only feed her ego. Yes, that's it. So if I just sit here and—'

This time Etsu had gotten bored and threw her rag at the raven instead. Needless to say, Sasuke dropped all of his inhibitions and the splash war was on!

+Conspiracy+

"You're an idiot." Naruto mumbled as he searched through his drawers for a shirt that would hopefully fit Etsu. Thankfully he had washed the girl's underwear before hand, for decency's sake, because he highly doubted any of his would have fit her anyways. Pulling out a dark blue t-shirt, he walked over to the tired girl who was mumbling quietly to herself and helped her get dressed.

Sasuke scoffed, frowning as he dried off his hair with a towel. Okay, so maybe starting that splash war with Etsu was a little bit out of his nature. And sure, all that water and soap had gotten onto the floor. And yeah, when Naruto had walked in to check if everything was alright, he had slipped and fell rather hard on his ass. But that didn't mean Sasuke was an idiot! That just meant that... he was careless. It wasn't the greatest adjective in the world, but it was a lot better than being called an idiot.

"Blame the brat." he said as he pulled on a pair of sweatpants over his boxers and tugged at the string till he felt the waistband fall comfortably at his waist.

Naruto shot the raven a glare and shook his head. "Don't even bother. You're going to clean up the mess you made before you go to the bed tonight."

"Naruto—"

But Naruto wasn't listening, he was currently tucking Etsu in for the night. And Sasuke was pretty much screwed in trying to get out of it. Once Naruto had his mind set on something, it was hellishly hard to get him to see another view point. Sighing, Sasuke sent one final scowl towards the sleeping child before setting off to clean the mess he was, unfortunately, a part of.

+Conspiracy+

Etsu was standing outside the bathroom door, waiting for Sasuke to get finished so he could come to bed with her and Naruto. Naruto had dozed off a while ago with her in his arms, which she really didn't mind anymore, but when she woke up from a rather unpleasant dream, the side where Sasuke should have been was cold. And that frightened her more than she wanted to admit.

"Suke...?" she asked hesitantly. A huge part of her wanted to call the raven 'Papa' or 'Daddy' but she knew better than to do that. Sure, she could be lippy, but she knew when to stop before it was too late.

At the moment Sasuke walked out of the bathroom, yawning and stretching out like a cat, determined to claw his way into bed when he spotted the little girl looking up at him in... relief? Was that the emotion that was shining brightly in her eyes?

"Hmm?" he hummed, too tired to form a complete sentence or be rude to her.

Etsu reached out and grabbed his hand, pulling him for the bed. Sasuke stumbled along the way in a mixture of lethargy and confusion. He wanted to ask what got her so worked up for, but she seemed to relax when they finally reached the bed. Etsu turned to look at the raven and then tugged him forward until his knees hit the bed. She didn't let go of his hand until she was lying next to Naruto, who was on his side currently wavering between waking up and falling back asleep.

"You lie here." she said, and patted the space she wanted Sasuke to be.

The raven raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

Etsu didn't say anything, only patted the space a little louder this time.

By this time, Naruto was already stirring, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as he stared at Sasuke, then looked down at Etsu, then to their joined hands.

"Wah's gwann?" he mumbled incoherently. Naruto wasn't the best at articulation when first waking up.

Etsu patted the space a little faster this time, before Sasuke finally gave in and laid down where she instructed him to. She smiled brightly and told the raven to turn on his side, which he did. Then told Naruto to do the same thing, which he complied to though still confused as to what the hell was going on. When they were both on their sides, she took both their arms and draped them over her until Sasuke's hand rested on Naruto's hip and Naruto's hand rested on Sasuke's hip. Perfectly content with their sleeping position, Etsu found sleep easy to fall into.

Naruto was still a little dumbfounded by what just happened, but he couldn't deny that something felt right being like this. Him, Etsu, and Sasuke lying in bed together as sleep tried to claim them. Sasuke had to admit he didn't mind sleeping like this with Etsu snuggling tucked safely in-between them, and found himself running his hand through Etsu's shaggy, brown hair.

The blonde peered over Etsu's head and smiled cheekily. "Still say no about adopting a kid?"

Sasuke snorted softly, though he didn't stop stroking the girl's hair. "Don't push your luck."

Naruto simply smiled and intertwined their fingers together, pressing against Etsu until her back perfectly molded against his chest. He could tell Sasuke was already starting to rethink on adopting a kid, and with that thought happily dancing in his mind, Naruto drifted off to sleep. His dreams that night focused on the three of them; Him, Sasuke, and Etsu enjoying a nice picnic in the park.


Well that's it. The end. I hope you enjoyed your two-parter Yaoiloverrr. But don't think this is the end to little Etsu! ;). I think I might bring her back, because there are so many things you all must learn, right? Or maybe I could leave you all in suspense... mwahahaha -evil grin-.

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