Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine

Being a dad means providing for your family. And that can mean sleepless nights, ulcers, and low-grade fear.

Shikamaru worked harder than he ever did. Something about having kids made him want to not necessarily put more effort into things but he did do a little more missions than usual. Having children also made him sleep less, actually get an ulcer once, and have fear that his children got Kiba's intelligence.

But during those sleepless nights he went to Kiyoshi and Shikavivi's rooms and he saw them sleeping like black haired angels. And when he got that ulcer they drew him pictures. Badly drawn pictures but they were masterpieces in his eyes. And for the low grade fear? Pssh, Kiyoshi and Shikavivi passed with flying colors. Of course someone needed to wake Shikavivi up in time to take the test and not snore during class but she passed.

He loved his bratlings despite the pain.

Authors' Note: Now this one was hard. Curse you Shika why are you such a pain to write. He isn't but why must you always get really hard ones that might go well with someone else but are horrible for you?!?!?!