Green eyes glared into frustrated grey eyes. A battle of wills that Jiraiya was sure he wouldn't have to deal with until the girl's teenage years have happened for past month. From clothes to toys to food, Jiraiya should have known that any child he fathered or claimed would be opinionated.

But this?!

"Sakura-hime," he had been reduced to begging. He was begging an eight month old toddler to wear clothes. He sighed and brought the kimono to his eyes. It was a cute kimono; it would bring out his princess' beautiful jade eyes... if she would just put on the stupid thing.

"No. No, no, no, NO!" Jiraiya cringed as the volume increased. He learned that the girl would be getting her way no matter what would happen because of how loud she could scream.

"Sakura-hime, don't you want to see your Mikoto-ba-chan?"

Defiant jade eyes met helpless grey for a few moments before Jiraiya sighed and put away the brown kimono picking up a white dress. It had a emerald green sash. "Would Sakura-hime like to wear this one?"

I giggled and clapped my hands. The man sighed as he tugged over and started to dress me in the clothes that I helped pick out. It's been an interesting month I've had; wrinkly old people fighting the Thing on whether or not I should live with him or go into the orphanage with the other children who lost parents in the Kyuubi attack.

That was ended the moment they tried to take me away and I started screaming for my 'chichi'. Apparently, it was agreed that Jiraiya could keep me, but only if I were to be with an approved family during the time he is outside of the village. "Alight, all set; hello my pretty Sakura-hime. Don't you look just so cute!"

Instead of cooing back at him like regular babies, I decided to greet him everytime he talks to me like that... which is every time he speaks a word to me. Using the pincer method, as my brain and my body have yet to sync with each other; I grabbed his nose and pinched him... hard. The screams could have made birds fly away.

Jiraiya sighed as he slipped off his shoes, carrying the sleeping pinked hair girl into the house that held too many memories. The pink haired girl, no, the pinked haired meance, had spent the entire time at the Uchiha household glaring and smacking the youngest Uchiha boy. However, when he attempted to leave the child at the Uchiha household overnight.

Jiraiya sighed as he tucked the young girl into her bed. He turned to move away only to be stopped by a tug on his sleeve; turning back to the child, he chuckled at her as she tried to keep him in place by her.

"Chichi, no! No! Chichi!"

Jiraiya picked up the child and stood. Craddling the young pink haired girl to his chest, he shifted so he could fully sat on the bed. The girl was making it harder for him to leave the village with all of the pulling on his heartstrings. "Mou, Sakura-hime... Chichiue has a lot of work to do outside of the village, but it doesn't mean that he'll leave you with the Uchiha clan forever and ever. I can't bring you out of the village because then you'll get hurt, pretty princess."

Unknown to Jiraiya was the jade green eyes that peeked up at the sleeping Jiraiya. Sakura stared up at the male she claims as her father, biting her lip. She snuggled back into his warm embrace reflecting on the day that they had at the Uchiha clan.

"Sakura-hime has arrived!" Jiraiya announced as he swing his little princess off his shoulders. Mikoto giggled at the face that the little girl was making at her father. "Sakura-hime has arrived to play with her Mikoto-oba and Sasuke-kun."

"Chichi, no." Sakura glared at the mere thought of the stupid little Uchiha baby.

"But, Sakura-hime~" He whined as Sakura opened her arms to Mikoto who smiled and took the young girl from the stone faced Jiraiya. Mikoto giggled as Sakura babbled to her about her day.

Moments later, Sakura and Sasuke were put in the playpen that was moved to be in arm reaching distance if Sakura were to display her dislike of little Sasuke. Jiraiya and Mikoto were drinking tea as they discussed the plans of Sakura becoming Mikoto's ward so that Jiraiya could leave the village to take care of his spy network. "No! No!"

The two adults looked over to the playpen before shooting forward to pull apart the two toddlers."Sakura-hime! You can't hit people you don't like without reason! Especially if you're going to be staying here when Chichi is out of the village!"

Sakura stopped her struggling in Jiraiya's arm with a look of horror on her face. Jiraiya sighed.

It wasn't until much later, that Sakura fully understood the words that her Chichi was saying as he tried to leave her in the house with the Uchiha to become accustom to the Uchihas. It resulted in Sakura crawling after Jiraiya screaming, "Chichi, no! No! Chichi!"

Okay. I know I said I would try to rewrite all of Michi's chapters. I really tried, but the original chapter for this was a bit too immature for my taste so I came to the decision to write a chapter in which showed why Jiraiya didn't show up for a long while in her original series. I really planned to have this up sooner, I swear I did. But writing a chapter is hard. Like really hard, I didn't expect it to be this hard. I'm usually the one editing it instead of actually writing it.