Year One
Could you not?
Inokoto made a new discovery when she had turned four months. She was sitting in her play room when she noticed that whenever she tossed something her father would pick it up.
So she tossed everything she could get a hold of. She was already able to crawl short distances two months before most babies. This caused great problems for her parents and havoc in their home. She just loved grabbing everything that fit in her hand and tossing whatever it was. She also loved getting her parents to pick up after her.
If she was able to pick it up, she tossed it.
Her father picked up.
She squealed and giggled.
She was instantly forgiven.
There was no way Itachi could get mad at that little girl. She was just having fun. He tried telling her no but she was too young to understand that word, he thought.
Ino had fallen asleep in the middle of playtime one day and Itachi was not one to wake her. She was lightly snoring and drooling. Inokoto was instantly curious of the sound mother was making and they grabbed her attention. With a large o mouth she made her way over to look at mother.
She had never heard mother make such a sound. She had in fact never heard such a sound before. She looked over at her father, she didn't like that he was so far away in case it was dangerous but he seemed fine with mother's sound so there wasn't anything wrong.
Ino grunted as her daughter grabbed her pony tail. Itachi had been waiting for it. Ino was still sleeping blissfully unaware of her daughter's intentions.
With a large laugh she yanked with all her might. Ino jumped up instantly making the small baby fly across the room. Mother and father almost collided trying to catch the small child.
Inokoto found being hurled and airborne great fun. She clapped her hand and reached for her mother's hair once again. She wanted to do it all over again!
"Inokoto, could you not?"
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Nighttime came by fast and Ino was tired once again. Not that she had gotten much rest during her first nap and the nerve-racking flight of her daughter had cost more energy than her nap had given her. Serves mommy right for falling asleep during play time if you had asked Inokoto and were able to understand her mumbles.
Ino had gotten ready for bed when she was going to Inokoto's room to say good night as she always did when Itachi was putting her to bed. She found daughter and father in a rocking chair they had placed in the room. Rocking gently in the chair had seemed to be the only thing to make her go back to sleep when she woke up in the middle of the night crying.
Inokoto was sitting in her father's lap with his arms around her. Her attention was on the touch and feel book she had gotten from aunt Sakura and uncle Sasuke. He had even added an extra page to the book. The cold feel of his poorly drawn sword. The parents weren't so sure it was a great idea to teach their baby to touch swords. She loved it just as much as her uncle and the page remained.
Itachi was slowly rocking singing some nursery rhyme. It must have been one from his childhood, he had his eyes closed struggling to stay awake.
"Itachi, could you not?"
He opened one of his eyes wondering when Ino had gotten there. He hadn't even noticed that Ino had entered. Had he been sleeping?
"No surprise she's still awake with that voice."
"The book said that the voice didn't matter when you sang to her."
"It does when it's that off-key."
Ino grabbed the child and she seemed surprise she was moving but then she saw mommy and kooed of joy.
"You look beat, I'll get her to sleep."
These days their only comfort was that she had clocked in eight hours of sleep once this week.
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There were some request wanting some Sasu-Saku action and Itachi reacting to Inokoto being mistaken for a boy, I'll be sure to write that in somewhere as soon as possible! Sorry I'm not able to respond to each review personally this time, I read and love them all. Chapters will be longer somewhere along the line, I hope that's not problem. I also hope daily updates makes up for small chapters!