Being Hokage is Hard
Summary: Stories about the Hokage being the Hokage.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
12:15PM
Babysitting Shinano
The Hokage sighed as he held out the baby that had been dumped in his lap. Hinata had been at home with his own kids, working on a new juutsu while she took time off from her ninja duties, and he was there, sitting behind his messy desk with a baby in his lap.
"Why are you giving
her to me again, Ino?"
"I'm sorry, Lord Hokage, but you sent
Shikamaru off on a mission and I have to go to buy my sweetie pie
here her first Christmas present, so I need you to just watch her for
the next hour or so. I promise I will take care of any paperwork you
don't want to do for the next week, at the least. Thank you, Lord
Hokage!" Ino said, kissing her baby goodbye as she hurried off
towards the market, leaving the sad blonde Hokage to stare at the
baby.
"Well, you certainly aren't like any of my kids. They like to scream a lot, at least the girl does but you don't look like the type. You're daddy told me that you scream only when you're really hungry… hopefully that won't happen because I didn't really think about asking Ino what you ate, she just left that bag and went on running…"
He sighed and cradled the baby gently and the little girl just looked up at him, her large blue eyes staring at his hair. He had the same color hair as her mother, she noticed. She rather liked blonde hair, but she was stuck her own father's hair, black.
"Well now… what should I do with you?" the Hokage asked, looking around for a place for her to play. He stood up and grabbed the bag Ino had left and found a little corner for her to lay down on.
"She sleeps pretty much most of the time, never really doing much. She isn't hard to handle, trust me."
"I hope you were right Shikamaru…"
The Hokage carried Shinano over to the corner where he could still see her from his desk and sat her on a small pillow that he found in her bag. A few diapers and a bottle were inside. The only toy he saw was a single eyed bear that seemed to be missing a lot of stuffing.
"Okay… well, I guess you are easily pleased," Naruto said to the little baby, who only stared back at him through tired eyes. She really looked a lot like Shikamaru, lazily sitting there, almost looking like she was going to fall over because she had a rather large head. The Hokage smiled at the baby as he sat her down next to the pillow, handing her the bottle. She just stared at it tiredly and then knocked it over, giving a loud shriek, louder than he was really prepared for.
"Oh… I guess you don't want that… huh… here," the Hokage said, surprised that the little girl already had such a loud screech. She certainly was Ino's daughter.
"Ah…" she said, making a face that looked like she was in a tired pout. The Hokage sighed and looked back in the bag and pulled out the bear. Shinano's eyes lit up like Ino's did when she found out she had a day off. She threw up her arms and looked prepared to take the bear with her shining eyes.
"Is this your bear?" he asked, smiling at her as he handed her the bear, her chubby baby arms taking over the bear as she buried her face into its head, smiling and laughing. She really must have loved that bear.
"Well, you're easily pleased, good thing too. You really do take after Shikamaru…"
Shinano looked back up at him as he took the bag over to his desk and sat down, smiling at her as she stared at him. She looked around, her large head wobbling a bit as she found her pillow next to her.
"Well… tons of work to get done…" Naruto sighed as he began to open scrolls as Shinano continued to stare up at him. She held onto her bear tightly and looked at her pillow. She would usually just fall down asleep when her mother gave her the bear and set the pillow next to her, but today she didn't really want to sleep. She wanted to observe the strange man who was in her charge.
She had never seen him before, but her mother seemed to trust him enough to leave Shinano's precious bear in his hands. The baby scratched her head and let out a yawn. She didn't really want to fall asleep, but for some reason it was in her nature to just fall down dead every time she was given an inviting pillow.
She yawned again and looked at the smiling man. He had stopped working and was watching her, seeming to wait for her to fall asleep before he continued. Slowly Shinano felt her eyes get heavy as she just slumped over and slept soundly.
"Heh… your really Shikamaru's daughter…"
"Oi! Shikamaru! Naruto is taking us all to lunch, come on!" Ino shouted, kicking the sleeping boy in the leg lightly. He slowly opened his eyes and glared at her.
"Troublesome, I don't want to get up," he said, closing his eyes again, but the blond would not allow it. She was getting her free lunch, and she was going to splurge thanks to Naruto's generosity.
"Come on Shikamaru! We're going!" she said, grabbing one of his hands from behind his head and pulled hard, making him jump up.
"Troublesome woman, leave me alone!" he said, trying to get back his hand. Chouji laughed next to Naruto, who slapped his knee.
"They're really in love, aren't they?" Chouji said, smiling at his best friends. Naruto looked at him through his fox eyes.
"What do you mean? Don't they hate each other?"
"I don't know about that… I think they love each other just as much as they hate each other, if only a little more," Chouji said, laughing and turning around to head for the village. Naruto continued to watch the bickering pair as they came up the hill, Shikamaru following Ino's angry words with his own spite and fire.
"There's no way they can be in love…"
"Lord Hokage?" Ino peeked her head into the office and didn't see the man sitting behind his desk. Rather no one seemed to be there. She looked around and out on the terrace was a figure laying on his back, a smaller one lying next to him.
Ino smiled and walked outside, trying not to interrupt the sleeping pair.
"Sir?" she said, sighing as she saw her baby laying on a blanket with her pillow, Naruto laying next to her with a pillow from his couch and Shinano's bear in his hand, resting on his chest. Ino stood over the Hokage, smiling brightly.
"My Lord Hokage?" she asked again, Naruto opening a tired eye slowly.
"Oh," Naruto quickly sat up, turning to face her. "Sorry, I was just… uh…"
Shinano stirred next to him, slowly opening her large blue eyes, looking around to see her mother standing over the Hokage.
"M-Maa!" she cried, her best chance at trying to form the word. She hadn't exactly had the reason to talk before because it seemed like her mother knew exactly what she wanted without her worry, but this time she needed to call for her mother's attention.
"Oh, sweetie!" Ino said, bending down and picking up her precious baby girl.
"Sorry about that, Ino… she just woke up and started to scream like crazy and kept looking out of the window, so I took her out there… I didn't mean to fall asleep," Naruto said, trying not to blush, thinking Ino would explode at him for putting her daughter at risk by leaving her outside. Rather Ino just smiled at him and went inside.
"Thank you for taking care of her, sir," she said, grabbing the bag and Shinano's pillow. Naruto realized he was still holding her bear and walked inside to look at the refreshed baby.
"Here you go," he said, smiling again and handing the baby her bear, a slow smile that looked exactly like her mother's spread across the baby's face as Ino began to leave, and without her mother noticing, Shinano slowly waved at the Hokage. Naruto just sighed and went back to work, ready to get home to his twins and his beautiful wife.
- Wow, it's been a while since I wrote a story on here. I've been trying to finish my Letters to Temari and it's just not playing through like I want it to. Oh well, I'm thinking of a new story, once I'm finished with that one, a Naruto and Hinata story called Isn't It Ironic? Hopefully it'll be written soon. Thanks to anyone who reviewed,
Invader Hog OUT!
