"Momma, Momma, help me out with this one," a young child yelled. Naruto could never understand how kids always got so worked up around Halloween, or on it. Then again he wasn't aloud to celebrate it. The little Naruto looked down to the ground in a slight depression. He saw a young boy, Uchiha Sasuke, with his brother, Uchiha Itachi. The elder helping the younger carve a pumpkin with a kunai, something normal citizens, heck anyone really, would do. Naruto looked at the elder brother's one and was surprised at the skill it was at. A cat was sketched out of the pumpkin. He looked at the random pieces of paper with stringy orange things and seeds that were the size of an almond. He looked at thing and heard a little girl yell, "Eww Pumpkin guts!" He looked at it curiously. Pumpkin pie tasted good, but he really didn't want to try pumpkin guts. What if pumpkin pie was made from pumpkin guts?! He felt as if he was going to gag at that.
Naruto woke up, that old memory was one of the sadder ones but he never minded it before. Halloween was today. He looked at the clock, one A.M. He groaned and thought back to the day before. His thoughts were not on what he usually would think of, Sakura-chan, but on his best friend and the shy girl Hyuuga Hinata. The two had been hanging out around each other a lot more often now. Kiba and Shino stood it and didn't mind. Kiba was glad that she only talked to the Uchiha moderately to rarely. Naruto saw that Shino, Kiba, Akamaru, and Neji were still the main men in her life. If only he knew. Sasuke and her did occasionally talk to each other and did talk about things. The thing was he bugged Sasuke until he answered his question, they didn't talk a lot because the past was behind them; they had to look forwards, to the future. Naruto remembered someone saying that to him once, but couldn't really remember. Naruto thought maybe that was another reason why Kiba, Shino, and Neji weren't really worried about the Uchiha with them. He closed his eyes and let his conscious drift away from him.
A woman was there with beautiful dark blue hair. She was with a child next to her, helping it. Naruto took a step closer to the woman and immediately her head went up and she turned. He knew he himself was smiling, just as he was seeing her own smile beautifully lighting up her face. The child looked up, it had a grin on it that was so alike his own and Naruto had nothing but to smile at the child. It was himself when he was younger. The woman was helping him carve a pumpkin, it wasn't anything fancy like the elder Uchiha's but it was his. It had triangle eyes and a triangle nose. The boy was carving out a mouth with jagged teeth that looked like a dopy smile on it. The boy was happy. That is until he cut one of the teeth off on accident. He was trying to shave off some of the pumpkin when it was accidentally cut off. The boy looked up at the woman with tears in his eyes. His younger self, Naruto reminded himself. The woman started to cut of other teeth with a small tool and the boy started to help. Next they were rounding the edges of the once smile. Then the boy started to fix the eyes to make it look as if the pumpkin was disgusted. Soon, the little boy, himself, and the woman started to put the guts in the mouth and had it spilling out.
Naruto laughed, the pumpkin was throwing up his guts. The boy had a proud look on his face and hugged the woman. Naruto was fearful for his younger self then. Afraid the woman would push him away for their hands being coated in pumpkin slime, and him being a demon brat. The woman put her hands on the boy's shoulders and pushed him back a little. The boy looked up with tears starting to form in his eyes. The woman went down to his level and hugged the boy instead and the boy's tears immediately disappeared and he hugged the woman tighter. The woman and his younger self were both laughing. Naruto couldn't help but smile at the sight; he always wanted some one to do that when he was growing up.
"Dear, look at Minato-kun's pumpkin," Naruto looked up from his small nap and saw his wife standing there. Her lavender tinted eyes showing her emotions. She was happy. Naruto looked at their son Minato's pumpkin; it was a witch inside a full moon. At least Minato got his mother's art skills.
"Mama!" their youngest soon cried the child was only two years old. The woman stood and walked into their son's room. Naruto followed his beloved wife and saw a tiny pumpkin with papers underneath it.
"Mama!" the boy was truly happy to see his mother, she smiled a kind smile. She walked over and hugged their youngest son, a young female walked in. Younger then Minato but older then their youngest.
"Mom, look at my pumpkin," their daughter Hana Kushina walked out, her pumpkin was a simple jack-o-lantern like his younger self made originally.
"Sugoi Hana-chan," the woman said. Naruto took a look at his wife and definitely saw his dream woman and his wife were the same.
"Onii-chan's is still better," Hana said with a pout.
"That's because Minato got a lot of help with your Okaa-san," Naruto said picking up his daughter.
"Honto?" They looked at Minato who gave a small nod; it was as sheepishly as their mother when she was younger.
"Demo," all of them turned to their mother, "Minato-kun did most of the work." Minato brightened at that.
"Now Hana-chan, Minato-kun would you like to help me carve Kotaro-kun's pumpkin?" There was a small smile on her face, and Naruto saw their children's faces brighten.
"HAI!" they both yelled enthusiastically.
Naruto watched as they started to draw what they wanted on the pumpkin. This would be a simple design since it was a tiny pumpkin. They drew a circle on the top of the pumpkin with a small triangle outward so the top could come off and fit in easily. Then small upwards triangles were place near the top, in the center beneath the two upward triangle eyes was an upside down triangle to be the nose.
"Okaa-san!" Little Hana piped up, both parents looked at her, "could you make the mouth a pacifier to make it a baby, it sorta looks like one as it is." Hana was right. Their mother smiled and nodded. Soon they cut the top and were removing the guts. He thought it was still disgusting, apparently so did the kids but they had smiles on their faces. This was the longest part, he knew, they scrapped and scrapped getting out all of the strings and seeds from the pumpkin.
"Otou-san I think this pumpkin had more the mine and Hana's combined!" exclaimed Minato. Naruto laughed and agreed, "it really is like a baby."
"Naruto-kun!" his wife reprimanded him, her voice was still soft though. They were then cutting out the eyes and nose pushing them in. Then all of them watched eagerly as their mother did an intricate pacifier in the baby pumpkin's mouth. When it was finally finished they took the pumpkins outside and placed some candles in them for when night would come they would light the jack-o-lantern's up.
"Come on!" Hana yelled enthusiastically, "let's go get our costumes on."
Naruto hugged his wife around her waist and she smiled at him.
"Aishiteru Hinata-koi,"
"Hai, aisiteru Naruto-kun, however, you are still on trick-or-treat duty, and I'm passing out candy," she turned in his arms and kissed her husband.
Pain surged through him as he awoke; he fell off his bed in the middle of the night. Naruto sighed, another dream about Ms. Hyuuga Hinata, as his wife. It wasn't as if he didn't mind the dreams, well it freaked him out that it was her and he only thought of her as a friend, a dear one at that. But it was also strange how real they seemed and how it lead him to Sasuke and Hinata's now secret of her memories being sealed. He looked at the clock and noticed it was twelve in the afternoon. He let out a yell and jumped out of his bed. He quickly ran towards the door and opened it letting in a burst of cold air. He ran out the door and went to Ichiraku Ramen to get his skipped breakfast. He was going to be late.
He was running. Naruto being lat would mean extra punishment. He was running by and he saw kids carving pumpkins.
"Daddy!" he remembered Hana and Minato's faces as they were carving pumpkins.
"Naruto-kun," he remembered the elder Hinata's soft, yet smiling reprimand. However this time it didn't sound like it was reprimanding him, more of calling him.
"Oi Dobe!" he heard Sasuke's voice and turned. Hinata and Sasuke were at front of the orphanage helping kids carve their pumpkins.
"What did you call me teme!" Naruto yelled and glared at his best friend. Hinata started to giggle and both looked at her. When Naruto asked why Sasuke wasn't at practice Sasuke called him an idiot again.
"Practice was canceled for the day."
"Then why are you here?" for some reason he could hear a tint of over protectiveness in his voice. He blamed the dreams.
"He's helping me carve pumpkins for the orphans in the orphanage," Hinata said with a small smile, her eyes were kind, "Would you like to help N-Naruto-kun?" That was when he noticed her stutter was almost gone with him. He remembered his younger self being helped with Hinata, was that basically what was happening now? She was giving himself to be a child all over again.
"Nah, I'm going to get some training in," he said with a fox-like smile. Hinata smiled.
"M-maybe some o-other time, t-then."
"Yeah," Naruto then ran off. Definitely some other time, he thought.
Sasuke sighed and told Hinata, "He really is a dobe," Hinata giggled and smiled at the lone Uchiha. She looked at the sky with a smile on her face.
"Maybe but I like him anyway."
