Ninja Day Care

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. What I'm planning to do is have an intro chapter for each team which will be narrated by one character from that team and after the intro chapters, the puppy love ships will start to make an appearance. Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy this chapter and I will be listing the teams at the top of every chapter to make it easier for everyone to keep track.

Team Awesome: Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara , Kisame, Itachi, Suigetsu, and Hidan.

Team Best: Deidara, Jugo, Konan, Pain, Kakuzu, Zetsu, and Sai

Cool Team: Obito, Sakura, Kiba, Karin, Temari, Shikamaru, Ino, and Mirai.

Dream Team: Hinata, Shino, Choji, Lee, Neji, Tenten, and Kankuro.

Announcement: For those interested, I have listed a poll on my profile for Ninja Day Care. You can choose up to five pairings that you would like to see. The top five results will most likely get included, unless they are rival pairs of course. You may vote from now until the Team Intro Chapters are done. Good luck!

Chapter 4

Naruto wasn't really sure what to make of all this. He knew something really weird was going on. Why where there so many kids and why did all the adults look so nervous?

Apparently, he was on Team Awesome though. So that was cool. Maybe, he'd be able to make some friends here.

He smiles at Gaara. "Cute bear!" The red head blinks and clutches his bear more tightly to his chest.

Oh great. Now, the other boy probably thought that Naruto was going to try to steal his bear away from him or something. That wasn't what the blonde had in mind at all! He just wanted to make friends!

"My Mr. Squishy!" Gaara gives him a wary look as he clutches the bear even tighter. "Mine!" Oh boy.

What made the situation even worse was the jerk was rolling his eyes at him. No. Not Gaara. Sasuke!

Naruto twitches. He hated how Sasuke would do that. Like the jerk thought he was better than him or something. Which reminded him, it was time to kick his butt!

He gives Sasuke his best glare. "You got something to say to me?!" He glares more.

"Just that you're an idiot." Sasuke rolls his eyes again. "It's obvious that's his favorite toy. What did you think that Gaara was going to think you wanted to do?"

Pft! Why did the other boy always have to make him feel like an idiot?! That's it! He was going to show him who was boss!

Naruto was about to lunge at Sasuke when Kakashi stops him! That dirty cheater grabs him by his collar and scoops him up. That wasn't fair!

Kakashi chuckles. "Now, now that's no way to treat your comrade." Comrade? What was a Comrade?

Itachi raises an eyebrow. "Is that what we are?" Apparently, the older Uchiha Brother knew what it was though.

He looked a bit skeptical to say the least. Naruto had noticed the brothers stuck pretty close together. That was going to make things hard for him. Itachi was probably six. He was a lot bigger than Naruto.

Hidan smirks as he watches everything. Naruto didn't like that smirk. He'd wipe it off his face! "Haha!" The smirk continues to grow. "He sure showed you who was boss!"

The blonde had been hoping to make some friends here, but with the exception of Gaara and maybe Itachi, it was obvious he was surrounded by crazy people! That was okay though!

He would show them how strong he was! And one day, Naruto was going to be Hokage! Believe it!

"Kakashi Sensei!" He squirms around in his hold. "Put me down!"

Kakashi chuckles as he sets the sapphire eyed boy down and he looks at Itachi. "Yes, you're comrades." The silver haired man pauses and then continues. "Comrades are those you fight alongside with on the battlefield. If you're fortunate, they can become amongst your closest friends."

The blonde was keen on making friends, but not with this bunch of crazies. He could tell that the others were pretty skeptical too.

The white haired boy walks over to Sasuke. "I don't know why, but I feel like I know you. Were you in the sweets shop too?"

Sasuke blinks and shakes his head. "Nu uh. I don't like sweets." What?!

This kid was crazy! What sort of kid didn't even like sweets. That didn't make any sense! There was something seriously wrong with Sasuke. Naruto wondered, if he even liked ramen!

"You don't like sweets?" Suigetsu frowns and places his hand on Sasuke's forehead. "What's the matter with you?"

Kisame grins. "Maybe, the brat just likes meat better." Naruto blinks when he notices all of the blue skinned boy's very sharp teeth.

They reminded him of a shark. Actually, everything about that boy reminded him of a shark. He didn't know whether to think that was the coolest thing ever or to be terrified. So the blonde settles on both.

"I like meat, but tomatoes are my favorite." Sasuke smiles.

What?! Sasuke was smiling?! That never happened!

Itachi shakes his head in amusement. Clearly, he was used to such behavior from his brother. That didn't mean that Naruto was.

Naruto takes a moment to compare the brothers. They couldn't be more different. Itachi was quieter and never seemed to get excited about anything. Though it was obvious he was really smart and devoted to Sasuke.

The younger Uchiha seemed more focused on his family than anything else. Until now, the sapphire eyed boy thought that the other boy was just stuck up and couldn't smile. Now, he figured that he was only happy around his family members. That or if he was talking about tomatoes.

"Friends. What the f-" Kakashi shoots Hidan a dirty look for what he was undoubtedly about to say. "I mean…fine. Yeah. Cool. Whatever." He rolls his eyes.

Kakashi shakes his head. "I think that at least some of you need to work off some of that access energy you have in you." Maybe, but how?

Hmm. Why was Kakashi wearing a mask anyway? Was there something wrong with his face? Did he have buckteeth or fish lips maybe?

"Kakashi Sensei, why are you wearing a mask?" He decides it was best just to ask.

The other teams were all getting to know each others as well, but Naruto wasn't paying much attention to them. After all, he had a mystery to solve. Right now, that mystery was why was his instructor wearing a mask?

Kakashi chuckles. "Oh this? It's nothing." He smiles. "Now, lets go get something to eat." Naruto wasn't really sure how, but he could somehow tell that Kakashi was smiling underneath that thing. It was weird, how he knew that. But somehow he did.

"Food sounds great!" Suigetsu beams. "I could really go for some fish."

That's when he looks over at Kisame apologetically and the Uchiha Brothers looked mildly panicked. Naruto didn't get it though. What were they all so nervous about?

Kisame rolls his eyes. "I don't mind if you eat fish." Well yeah. Why would he mind?

"Isn't that…you know?" The violet eyed boy looks at him curiously.

No! Naruto didn't know! What on Earth was going on? He really didn't get it. He felt like they were all in on some inside joke that he didn't know about and it was really, really making him mad!

Kisame raises an eyebrow. "I don't know." He shrugs. "I doubt it though. I mean I eat fish all the time."

"Isn't that cannibalism?" Sasuke blinks.

Suigetsu grins. "Yeah! That's the word I was thinking of!" He pats Sasuke on his shoulder. "You're really smart Sassy."

Sasuke twitches and Suigetsu retracts his hand as if burnt. Actually, he was burnt! Kinda! Sasuke was literally smoking up a bit.

Itachi smirks. "Our Clan is a Fire Clan. You'll be able to produce a full fledge Fire Jutsu in no time, Sasuke." He nods approvingly. "Just keep practicing. Father will be so proud."

Hidan rolls his eyes. "Well that's pretty cool." He spits on the ground as if disgusted. "If it wasn't for the mushy stuff! So let's go get some grub!" He grins.

The CopyCat Ninja shakes his head and Naruto almost felt sorry for the guy. He was obviously going to have his hands full with this group, but that wouldn't stop Naruto! He was going to get that mask off him!

"Right, well let's go get some food." He smiles as he leads them off to the ramen shop.

Meanwhile Ibiki continues his interrogation. He had never met a more stubborn man. He was probing deeper and deeper into the man's mind, but he was a vault.

"Damn it!" All he could see were fuzzy images of the Sound Village.

Mostly of Orochimaru. That last part disturbed him. Saiden was obviously close to the recently deceased Sannin. That couldn't' be good.

"I told you that I was never going to reveal my secrets to you!" Saiden glares at him from inside his mind.

Maybe not willingly, but Ibiki would find a way. There was a reason why he was the Leaf's Number One Interrogator. It was a title that he took great pride in and he wasn't about to lose it to this freak!

The Leaf Ninja had met his fair share of unusual ninjas over the years and to be fair, there really was no such thing as a normal ninja. One had to be at least partially insane to begin with to want to take this job once you were old enough to graduate the Academy.

He grimaces. "Perhaps not willingly, but you will reveal them anyway." After all, Ibiki couldn't allow this to go on.

Some of the most powerful ninjas in the world were mere children now. He doubted that Saiden had done that just for his own amusement. No. There was a larger goal here. Ibiki just wasn't sure what it was.

At least not yet, but he was going to find it out. He was going to protect his village in the best way that he knew how. By stripping his opponent's mind bare.

"I'm more than willing to turn you into a vegetable, if that's what it takes." He'd done it before and he would do it again. "I would suggest that you make this easier on yourself. That outcome is not predestined." And while it was always a gruesome task to carry out, he wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Ibiki would do anything for his village.

Saiden smirks. "There's nothing that you can do to me that will break me." They would just have to see about that.

"Those are tough words." Ibiki begins probing deeper. "Let us see how long you can hold to them!" Vegetable it was then.

A few minutes later, Team Awesome was at the Ramen Shop. Kakashi was speaking with the owner and the children were all enjoying a bowl of ramen. Some more than others.

"So we're all teammates now!" Naruto beams. "Comrades like Kakashi Sensei said!"

Gaara shakes his head. "They put it on this team because we're the most dangerous." The red head picks at his ramen. "Not because they wanted us to be friends."

Naruto blinks. The most dangerous?! What did the other boy mean by that?! They weren't dangerous. Well maybe Kisame was, but everyone else seemed pretty normal!

"That's perceptive of you." Itachi takes another bite of his noodles. "They did put us here because we're the biggest threat." He looks around as if he expected someone to overhear them.

Hidan smirks. "Well that is why we're Team Awesome!" He slurps his noodles happily.

Suigetsu raises an eyebrow. "So they're scared of us?" Yeah. That's' what Naruto was wondering.

"It seems that way. Why would the adults huddle like that, if they weren't?" Itachi frowns. "There's no cabbage in this."

"You're nuts! Who eats cabbage?" Kisame gives Itachi an incredulous look.

Yeah. Cabbage was kinda yucky, but that was besides the point. Naruto was a boy on a mission. It was as simple as that.

Maybe, he could get them to go along with it. "Hey, let's prove it!" He grins.

Sasuke raises an eyebrow." Prove what?" Well at least he had everyone's attention now. All his teammates were no looking at him.

This was his big chance! If they could unmask Kakashi it would prove that they were the best team and then he'd be well on his way to becoming Hokage! After all, Kakashi was an important ninja, right?

This would prove that they were all strong. And if the proved that they were the strongest team, that meant Naruto was strong too! That meant that he was strong enough to become Hokage!

"Prove that we're the best!" He smiles.

Hidan looks at him. "Alright. I'm listening." He slurps his noodles some more. "What do you got in mind?"

Naruto grins some more. This was all going according to plan! Perfect!

"We can steal Kakashi Sensei's Mask!" That would prove they were the best, right?

Suigetsu looks at Gaara. "Well I guess if we all come at him at once, Red here can probably grab it with his sand." Hmm! Yeah! That was a good plan.

Gaara looked rather shocked to be included and for a moment, Naruto felt bad for him. It was obvious that Gaara was as lonely as he was. No wonder he was clinging to that bear so much!

"Um alright." Gaara gives a shy smile. "I can do that."

Kisame smirks. "Great. It's settled then." Those teeth still creeped Naruto out so much.

Those couldn't possibly be natural, could they? Then again, it looked like Suigetsu's teeth were also sharp. Maybe, they were brothers or something.

"Hey, are you two brothers?" The blonde asks the two sharp toothed boys.

Suigetsu blinks and shakes his head. Oh. Not brothers then. That was kinda weird.

Kisame laughs. "Nah! We're just both from the Mist most likely. The Seven Swordsmen always sharpen their teeth!" He grins. "I'm gonna be one of them one day!"

This causes the white haired boy to tilt his head to the side. "Really?" He smiles. "Me too and it's going to be so awesome. I'm gonna find all the swords!"

Naruto didn't really understand what they were talking about, but that was okay. They had more important things to worry about. Like unmasking Kakashi!

Meanwhile Tsunade was back in her office. It was part of the Academy; so she wasn't really worried about being too far form all the chaos. It was just very difficult to think with that many children running around and some of them were very, very loud.

"I can't believe this." Tsunade had thought that she had seen everything and then, this happened.

She had no idea what she was going to do. Dividing them into teams had minimized the damage so much, but it was a stopgap measure. That wouldn't be enough in the long-term.

"My Lady?" Shizune walks into her office with some scrolls in her hand.

Oh good. Shizune. Maybe, Shizune had news from Ibiki. There was a chance that he had managed to crack Saiden and if that was the case, their troubles might be over in the very near future!

She nods at her encouragingly. "Come in, Shizune."

The other woman walks inside and sighs. Oh wonderful. A sigh was definitely not good news.

"It seems that Kakashi took Team A to the Ramen Shop." Shizune sighs.

What?! He what?! Was Kakashi completely out of his mind?! Oh when Tsunade got her hands on that man, he was going to get an earful!

The busty blonde twitches. "Very well. I shall make sure to deal with the situation." Thank goodness for Shizune or else Tsunade might never know what was going on.

"Yes, My Lady." Shizune nods and with that, Tsunade Flickers off to deal with Kakashi's latest prank or whatever this was.

Back at the Ramen Shop, Kakashi smiles as he heads back to the kids. Well that was good. He hadn't heard any sounds of arguing for awhile. Maybe, they were finally learning how to get along?

Of course, he knew that it was highly unlikely that he'd ever be that lucky. Still, a man could dream. Couldn't he? There was no harm in hoping.

"KAKASHI SENSEI!" Naruto leaps at him happily for a tackle hug.

The silver haired ninja umpfs and falls over. Well Naruto was certainly happy to see him. It had only been about ten minutes, but then again the blonde was now a small child. Ten minutes could be a lot to a little kid.

He smiles. "Yes, it's good to see you again too, Naruto." The Jonin chuckles.

"COMING AT YA!" Hidan joins the dog pile.

That was odd to say the least. The Masked Ninja had expected that sort of behavior from Naruto, but Hidan? That was a little bizarre to say the least.

"DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE MIST! WE'RE HERE TOO!" And with that Suigetsu lunges forward joining the other two children in hugging him tightly.

Kisame grins. "That's right!" He beams as he joins his comrades in the Tacklehugs of Doom!

Oh for the love of God, what was going on here? First, Naruto. Now, Hidan, Suigetsu, and Kisame? This didn't make any sense.

"Don't forget about us either!" Sasuke smiles as he and Itachi soon join the fray.

Why did this feel like some sort of ambush? Hmm. Wait a minute. Let's see here.

There was Naruto. That's one. Sasuke and Itachi made three. Suigetsu and Kisame added two more to the total, which made five. There was also Hidan. That meant he was up to six children.

"Where is Gaara?" He was missing someone.

It was Gaara. Now, where that red head. The future Kazekage with the Ultimate Defense and quite possibly, the biggest threat at the moment.

As far as Kakashi could tell, he might actually be the only child capable of fully using their adult abilities to any serious degree. And Gaara didn't always consciously choose to do so either. So even if he didn't mean any harm, he could still be dangerous.

"Gaara?" Very dangerous. "Where are you?" Which was why it was so concerning that that particular child was the one that had to go missing. This might not end well.

SMACK! Some sand smacks into Kakashi from all directions. As the children were piling up on him and trying to distract him, the sand was "attacking him."

For a minute, the silver haired ninja thought that the red head had lost control. Lost control of his demon, but that didn't seem to be the case. The other children didn't seem frightened in the least.

"What are you all doing?!" It seemed like this was some sort of coordinated attack!

Gaara smiles. "Getting the Mask. Mr. Squishy is curious too!" He huggles his bear as the sand keeps going at him.

You've got to be kidding him. The children were trying to steal his mask. Kakashi honestly didn't know whether to find this amusing, disturbing, or to be proud that they were apparently quite capable of working together.

Well at least when they wanted to. This reminded him of the bell test. Ah good times. Good times.

He chuckles. "Alright." That was quite enough really. "You've had your fun. Now everyone, cease and desist."

"YOU GOT IT!" Sasuke smiles happily when the mask falls off of the Jonin.

Itachi sighs. "Kinda. He had a second mask underneath." Indeed. Kakashi always came prepared for situations like these. If Sasuke still had his memories intact, he would have known that. Thankfully, he didn't.

That didn't stop the red head or the other children though. They kept coming at him with hugs and sand attack. They were ferocious little things, it seemed.

"That's enough!" He didn't actually want to have to get rough with a bunch of children.

It didn't matter how old they were in reality. All of them ranged from five years of age to eight. That was hardly a fair fight. It didn't matter how gifted they would all be one day.

Kakashi had to put an end to this before it got out of hand. Someone could seriously get hurt and then, Tsunade would tan his hide!

He feels a slight tug on his face though and his eyes go wide. "MR. SQUISHY AND ME GOT IT! WE GOT IT!" The red head had pulled off his Mask.

That's when Tsunade appears in a swirl of smoke and the Jonin blinks. "I can't believe this. One of my best ninjas outclassed by a bunch of brats." She shakes her head. "Though I don't really see why you where the Mask, you look just fine without it."

Kakashi rubs the back of his head sheepishly in response. He didn't really know what to say to that. Though he felt rather naked without his Mask. That much was for certain.

He sighs and reaches over to grab his Masks. The brats as Tsunade called them didn't bother to try to stop him. Apparently, they didn't need him unmasked anymore. They had seen what they wanted to see.

"Man, that was awesome!" Naruto grins at the red head.

Suigetsu nods his head excitedly. "Yeah! That's why we're Team Awesome!" The former (or was it future) Prodigy in the Art of Murder also grins.

Gaara blinks. It seemed the poor kid didn't know how to handle praise. Kakashi shakes his head at this. Well one day, he'd get used to it. He was going to become Kazekage, after all.

"I can't believe that you brought them out here by yourself." Tsuande glares at Kakashi. "What were you thinking?!"

Kakashi sighs. "That they needed to burn off some energy and they needed to eat." He shrugs. "So I figured I'd solve both problems."

The Hokage smacks her forehead. "You're lucky that all they wanted was to see your face." She then glances at the boys. "Alright, we're going back to the Academy. Follow me." And with that, she heads off.

Kakashi sighs and gestures for them to follow. After all, you didn't disobey an order from your Hokage and especially not from a Sannin. Not if you wanted to live long enough to see your next birthday, anyway.