A/N- Okay, so I went to bed for the night and when I wake up, I get these really nice notifications. I was so shocked. I didn't think this story would get this much attention. It made my day. I realize that this chapter is extremely short and I'm sorry, but I promise that the next one will be significantly longer. I haven't decided on where the timeskips should be placed, so... eh? Well, that's enough rambling. Without further ado, I now bring to you the third chapter.

3/9/17 EDIT: Some dialogue add-ins and other minor changes too.

6/1/2017 EDIT: Again, I'm still continuing the merging. Baby changes to the story.

Zabuza's eyes were fixated on the baby in his arms who just gave him a small smile. He felt extremely awkward and didn't really know what to do. His thoughts fell back onto the note that Naruto's mother wrote. She wanted someone - him since he had found the baby - to take care of her kid since someone was after her family. There are a few reasons why he shouldn't be here holding this baby: He sighed and groaned, "What am I thinking, I don't even

1. He isn't good with kids. They either cry when they see him or run away in fear.

2. He has no idea what to do with a sighed and groaned, "What am I thinking, I don't even

3. He doesn't know the first thing about taking care of another being.

4. He would be a bad father anyway.

Zabuza sighed, "What am I even thinking..."

The baby in his arms pouted, glaring slightly at him half-heartedly.

"Look, kid, don't even give me that look." He rolled his eyes, "You would be better off with someone else taking care of you."

Naruto gave a gurgling noise, eyes narrowing.

"I don't even know how to take care of you!" Zabuza added until realizing something, "What am I doing?! He doesn't understand a word I say."

Not liking his tone of voice, Naruto frowned.

The swordsman looked confused and concerned, "What?"

The baby started to give off small sniffles.

"Don't you dare." He commanded.

Naruto started to cry quietly.

Just by hearing that noise, Zabuza's eyes widened. The baby's cries started to get louder, which shocked the swordsmen a little too much. Zabuza tried cradling the crying child, but it wasn't working. "Why are you crying?" He questioned frantically. The blond haired baby's face turned pinkish with his fit. "C'mon, stop crying. Please?" The crying was starting to get worse. Naruto was hiccupping, snot trailing down his face. His blue eyes seemed darker, sadder. Something died a little inside of the man as he stared at the utter sadness of this baby. Zabuza didn't know what to do and panic was rising in his chest. "Okay, okay, what do I do?" He mumbled to himself. Naruto curled his tiny hands into fists, his crying amplifying. Zabuza was amazed that no one had heard yet. "What do I do...?" A sudden thought struck him. "Kami, please let this work." Zabuza gave a small hug to the wailing baby, closing his eyes, "It's okay…uh... Naruto." The baby started to quiet down, his crying fit zapping his energy away. Naruto gave one last sniffle before declining into a slumber. "I… I did it?" Zabuza stated before chuckling quietly, "I did it!"

"What's up, shortie?" A deep voice asked. The swordsman turned his head to see who was talking to him, only to find a blue skinned man. He sighed, mentally cursing himself, as he turned away from the taller man. He flashed a grin, showing his sharp teeth, "What's with the hostility?"

"Go away, Kisame, I don't feel like having shark fin soup tonight," Zabuza growled lowly, trying to hide Naruto from sight.

Kisame raised his hands in the air in surrender, "So, what are you doing out here?"

He shrugged, "Nothing."

The taller man walked in front of his teammate, only to find Zabuza turning away from him. He stared curiously at him before grinning mischievously, "You're hiding something, aren't you?"

"I have nothing to hide." He stated, growling lowly.

Kisame poked his shoulder annoyingly, "Then what's in your hands?"

"There is nothing." Zabuza hissed, taking a step away from the shark-like man.

He sighed, "You're going to make this harder than it needs to be, aren't you?" With one hand, Kisame held his friend in place as his other hand grabbed the bundle.

"K-Kisame!" Zabuza stuttered with wide eyes, the horrible ache coming back, stabbing needles in his heart, "Give him back!"

"Him?" The man questioned, looking down to see a very awake baby staring at him curiously. Kisame's eyes widened as he looked from the baby to Zabuza. His eyebrows furrowed together before he started laughing loudly, "No way...!"

"Kisame!"

Said man started to laugh, "I didn't think you'd be one to bang a girl and get her pregnant."

"That's not what happened!" The black haired man was becoming furious.

His laughter rose a level, "So you've got a girl of your own! My man!"

The shorter swordsman noticed Naruto's anxious shuffling inside the blanket, "Kisame, I think you should really-" The blue haired man couldn't keep his laughter detained, the loudness of it blocking off the rest of Zabuza's sentence. He was in pain from the laughter. This whole situation was a joke to him, Zabuza had realized. Kisame started to double over the hilarity of the situation. His hand slipped from under Naruto's back as the world started to move slower. The two swordsmen's eyes widened as Zabuza sprang into action. He used his chakra to become faster and catch the baby before he touched the sand. Naruto started crying fearfully, thrashing around. Zabuza cradled him and spoke calming words, something he'd never really done. The black haired man hissed, fury burning in his eyes as he stared angrily at Kisame, "I should kill you for this."

He held his hands up and backed away, no longer finding the situation funny anymore, "Man, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to."

"If I hadn't caught him, he could have died!" Zabuza's glare seemed to be burning his teammate alive.

Kisame took another step back, "Why do you care so much?"

"I care because… because I…" He had to stop for a second. Why did he care so much for a child he knows barely anything about? Was it only to stop the heartache? An ashamed look crossed his face, "This is Naruto. His parents sent him away in a boat and he made it to Kirigakure by himself. This is the note that was beside him." He handed the small note to Kisame.

The shark-like man read the note twice before giving his friend a concerning look, "Why don't you just drop him off at the orphanage?"

Hearing that word brought horrible memories up. "You know just as well as I do that an orphanage is an awful place or have you already forgotten what goes on in the building?" Zabuza stated, "Look, I don't know why, but I feel obligated to take care of him."

"What if he is the child of one of Kiri's enemies?" Kisame was having a hard time understanding this situation, "Do you really want to take that risk?"

"I'm not sure. This is happening too quickly." He sighed, "The more I have him around, the more I don't want to let go. I don't know what I should do, but I know that the orphanage is not the answer."

The taller male sighed, "Well, whatever you do with the kid, I promise I won't tell."

Zabuza smiled, "Thanks. I owe you."

"I may hold you up to that someday." Kisame grinned before walking off the beach.

"I'm so sorry, Minato." Jiraiya stated, placing a reassuring hand on his student's shoulder.

His eyes were red, "I-I just don't know what to do. We've searched everywhere, but it's been five days since we'd seen him. I… I only got to hold him once. Do you think he's… he's dead?"

The older man frowned, "We'll just have to hope for the best. I'll check out my spy network and see if they have anything on your son's whereabouts."

"Thank you, Jiraiya-sensei." Minato took a shaky breath, not feeling up to finishing the paperwork surrounding him.

"Maybe someone found the little guy and decided to take care of him." He grinned, trying to lighten the mood.

The blond haired man smiled, "I hope so."

Q&A:

#5: What inspired you to write this kind of fanfic?

hadescabin1999 from Wattpad.

Okay, so what happened is I truly felt that I had run out of fanfictions to read... well, the ones I wanted to read anyway. I lowered my standards to search for more fanfictions until I came across a story where Minato and Kushina were still alive and kicking. It was inspiring but then I read another fanfiction where Naruto was adopted by Kakashi and/or Iruka. Both were highly inspirational. Then everything got out of control. I searched up so many 'Naruto gets adopted by someone' that I just had to write it. I also didn't want to be too cliche so I made Naruto get adopted even though his parents were still alive.

#6: Wait, I was reading chapter 2 and I just realized: why didn't Kushina like just sign her name at the bottom of that letter to Zabuza?

Another one from UndertaleSinner11 from Wattpad.

Uh... oh. Well, I guess that it could be because if Naruto had ended up in, for example, Iwagakure and Kushina would have put her name at the bottom of it... well, let's just say that a corpse would have been shipped to Konohagakure. Yeah. I almost put her name at the bottom of the letter in the story, but then I got to thinking and well, it's no longer there.

Hope that answered your questions!