Night was falling onto the village. Families reunited from a long day's work, and young people heading out for the nightlife. Naruto and Saya were currently working in the kitchen fixing dinner while the twin boys were rough playing in the living room. Saya's mode had changed as the evening turned into night. It meant her father was coming home soon from a day's mission. Naruto would occasionally glance over at his daughter noticing her ghost like movements around the kitchen. She was nervous, scared, and worried. Punishments were both his and Sasuke's job as parents, but it was mostly Sasuke's final word that determined the outcome. He was the father figure after all. On rare occasions, he and Sasuke would argue over the discipline terms. He would argue that he was being too rough or cruel and Sasuke would argue saying that he was too soft and to stop babying them. However, in the end everything would eventually fall into place.

"Saya can you set the table? I can handle it from here."

"Sure..." Saya removed her apron and started to grab the china out of the cabinets. As she went over and started placing plates and silverware on the able, she heard the front door open. Her heart dropped a little as she realized her father was home. The twins ran out of the living room and into the foyer to greet their dad.

"Dad your home!" Nero said as he jumped on Sasuke. Shin grabbed onto his legs. Sasuke worked a little to keep his balance.

Suddenly that horrible fear of a knot started to develop in Saya's stomach area. With her mother, it was different. She could fully face him and not be as scared as she would with her father Sasuke. Sasuke was known to be well…intimidating and downright frightening, especially since his Sharigan appears when he gets angry. She took a deep breath and tried to relax and calm her nerves. Her little voice in her head was telling her repeatedly "you're so dead". Saya was quickly placing all the plates down, and in whirl of nervousness her fingers caused the plate to slip from her hands and crash onto the floor. The sound was loud and everyone heard it.

"Saya? Are you okay?" Naruto hastily walked out of the kitchen with the spatula still in his hand.

Sasuke was just walking in, with both the twins in his arms as they giggled and tried to hit each other.

"I'm fine, I'm fine just…butterfingers? Hehe..." Saya tried to play off, but was not successful. Both parents could see the nervousness she had around her. Sasuke looked towards Naruto and lifted an eyebrow. Naruto just shrugged his shoulders re-entered to the kitchen.

Saya quickly picked up the scattered glass on the floor so they can eat dinner, or so she can walk into her own execution is more like it.

Dinner

Everyone was settled and already eating especially the twins. They surely had Naruto's appetite. Sasuke was explaining everything that happened during the mission he came from. Saya however was in wonderland and played with her food, still bummed out about her demotion and the upcoming punishment she still has to endure from her father.

"Saya"? Sasuke said a little bit loudly that caused her to come back from her daydreaming.

"Huh?"

"I said how was training today? Are you all right? Your mind seems to be elsewhere today. Did something happen?" Sasuke asked his daughter.

"Um...no..." Saya said sheepishly, but then Naruto grunted and eyed her carefully.

"…um...yea something did happen today actually…" Saya said

"Well spit it out, it's obviously bothering you." Sasuke said and started to drink some of his green tea.

"…I…I been d-demoted to genin level…" Saya said quietly and looked away to not face her father's eyes.

Naruto looked towards Sasuke cautiously a little worried now; Sasuke didn't say a word and just merely continued to drink his green tea until he finished it. The silence was killing Saya. No yelling? No flipping out? No hitting her upside the head? Sasuke stayed calm and put his cup down. The twins even became silent watching their father too.

"Demoted?" Sasuke asked as he kept his eyes closed and put his hands in front of his face.

"…yea"

"For what reason?"

"…Well…I been tardy more than a few occasions, Sensi says that I've become careless and lazy. She feels that I need to be a genin again, until I re-learn those lessons…"

Sasuke re-opened his eyes and looked at Saya, they were red.

"Get up." Sasuke said as he stood from his chair.

"D-dad?..." Saya meekly asked.

"I SAID Get. Up!" Sasuke said with obvious anger behind them. Naruto feared for his daughter, wondering what Sasuke could possibly have in store for her. Saya quickly stood up from her seat and followed after Sasuke into the backyard. Naruto and the twin boys watched the scene from the kitchen window.

Saya stood on one side of the training yard while Sasuke stood on the other side.

"Re-learn huh?! Let me give you a few lessons of my own! Show me what you got!" Sasuke yelled over to Saya as he activated his Sharigan. Saya quickly got in a fighting position and was shocked, she didn't know they were going to brawl. And out of nowhere, Sasuke knocked Saya to ground, she sled across about 30 feet away from where she was standing before. Saya stood up slowly a little shaken from the impact but did not have time to recover in time. Her father was quickly running over doing a few hand signals and released multiple fireballs. She barely was able to dodge them, but was hit by the very last one that seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"LESSON ONE! DON'T BE LATE! EVERY SECOND COUNTS!" Sasuke yelled out as he did more hand signals and made a giant fireball and the hurdled towards Saya. This one missed by a few inches but the blast caused Saya to be thrown into a tree and was knocked against very roughly it made the tree trunk have a dent. Saya panted, and looked around, her father was out of sight, and fear struck as a sudden large amount of charka appeared from behind her.

"LESSON TWO! DON'T BE CARELESS! It will only get you killed out there! An enemy could be anywhere!" Sasuke uppercut Saya in the abdominal area and kicked her a few feet away. Saya quickly recovered and started to somewhat spar and fight back, trying to match her father's Taijutsu speed. The Sharigan made it difficult, barely blocking a few hits, and receiving more. Another kicked caused her to be pushed back again, but this time she was able to block it.

"LESSON THREE! LAZINESS?! I didn't teach you to be lazy, and it only slows you down! If you can't keep up with me how are you to stay alive out there?! That's why you can't keep up with my hits!" The final blow ended with a punch to the face and being thrown back across the rough dirt. Saya sat up carefully. She had small cuts and a few possible bruises from the brutal spar. She was about the lift herself off the ground when suddenly she was lifted up by the arm, and was embraced into a hug. It was her father.

She was confused, he just kicked her ass, and now he was hugging her, as if he was afraid to lose her in an instance. Then she heard him talk again, in a more calmed voice then before.

"I'm being tough on you not to be mean, I'm being tough on you because I don't want to be going out there someday, to retrieve your body. I want you to be strong. Today I had retrieve a body…it was a young female chunin, the team was ambushed on their D ranked mission…I don't want that to be you one day. Never stop training and never stop advancing as a Ninja." Sasuke let of his daughter and looked down at her.

Saya merely looked back at her father and her eyes began to water. She quickly looked back down not wanting to show her tears. Sasuke lifted her chin and whipped them away.

From the kitchen window, Naruto had watched everything and just smiled. He admits it scared him when Sasuke began to land punches but still trusted his husband and was glad he did. Or else someone was going to sleep on the couch tonight. The twins had ran away from the window when they saw their father using fireballs, a little frighten from the loud blast. In all everything was going to be fine in the end. Naruto smiled once more and walked away to clean the table area.

END

NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE EXCITING! FINALLY! WE GET DOWN TO THE LINE! THE CROSS OVER BEINGS.

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Sneak Peek

Saya's POV

I looked around my surroundings, nothing was familiar anymore! Where's my house!? The streets are paved with stone and and there's stone buildings everywhere! More importantly WHERE AM I!?

…O.o

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