A.N-Hey. This is where the action comes in. The babies are four weeks old, and Temari goes to check up on Kira. But she doesn't find her there. Daiki and Hitomi are missing too. Read and see what happens next.


Temari walked into the nursery to play with Kira. She went over to her daughter's crib, only to see that she wasn't there. Neither were Daiki or Hitomi. Now Temari wasn't one to jump to conclusions, but she had just seen the others and none of them had the kids with them. But, Temari reasoned with herself, they might have come in and taken the kids out for a while. She herself had done so on a few occasions

So she called her husband. "Shikamaru! Get your lazy ass in here!" Shikamru did so, grumbling all the way. He groaned when he saw his wife standing in the nursery, hands on her hips and an angry look on her face.

"Oi, woman, what is it? Did you have to yell so loud?" Temari rolled her eyes at her husband's complaints. She didn't have time to deal with his laziness, she needed to know where her daughter, niece, and nephew were.

"Shikamaru, where are the kids? They aren't here." Shikamru was surprised to hear this, but, like Temari, he didn't think it was that much of a deal and answered his wife,

"I don't know. Maybe one of the girls or Kankuro has them? But I just saw them, though, and they weren't with them. Gaara I don't think would take them and they wouldn't take Kira, at least not without telling us. Hm." Temari saw his point, but didn't know any other explaination. Well, there was one, but she refused to believe it. She turned and looked at the cribs again, as if the babies would appear if she looked at their beds.

She didn't see the babies, but what she did see made her gasp and confirmed her fears. Shikamaru heard her and rushed over to her side, asking what was wrong. Then he saw it. A note painted on the wall. The Leaf nin had seen a lot of horror and felt a lot of fear and sadness in his life of a ninja, but this topped it.

He barely heard the others come in. But he did sense their chakra. It was all of them, Gaara, Matsuri, Kankuro, and Ai. They saw the two of them standing there and went over to investigate. They saw the note and stopped. Here is what it said:

You want your kids? Go to Konoha.

Temari spun around and said to her brother,

"We need to go to Konoha, now." Gaara nodded. He left the room and came back a few seconds later and said that he was coming to. So the six of them went to find their children.

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In Konoha...
Naruto's office....

Naruto was going over mission reports when his door was thrown open suddenly and Temari had him by the collar.

"Where are our kids, dam it?" Naruto was so surprised it took him a while to find his voice.

"I don't know! I didn't even know they were missing! And why would they be here?" Shikamaru and Kankuro had managed to pry Temari off the Hokage. He now saw that, along with those three, Gaara, Matsuri, and Ai were there also. The Kybui container was confused. What were they doing here? And why did Temari think he had their kids? Gaara spoke,

"Naruto, I'm terribly sorry, but we just found out that our kids are gone, and we found a note on the wall that said they were in Konoha. But Temari overreacted." he glared at his sister, who glared right back. Then there was a knock at the door.

"Come in." Naruto called. An ANBU stood there, two squirming babies in his arms. A Jounin stood behind him, holding a third baby. The girls cried out and rushed toward, apparently, their children. The ANBU turned to his Hokage and said,

"I'm sorry for the interruption, Hokage-sama, but we found these infants by the gate and didn't know what to do with them, so we brought them here." Naruto nodded. "Thank-you. Is there anything else?" They shook their heads. "Then you are dismissed." They bowed and nodded to Gaara, as he was the leader of an ally village. Naruto turned toward the relieved mothers, who were cradling their children.

"Are they alright? Maybe you should take them to the hospital for a check-up." the parents thought this was a good idea and proceeded to leave the room. Shikamaru and Temari were the last in the room, with Gaara lingering in the hallway. The Nara woman looked embarrassed as she said,

"I'm sorry I, uh, cuffed you, Naruto. I shouldn't have thought you knew where our kids were just because they were in Konoha. Sorry."

"It's alright, Temari. I'm glad your kids were found and I hope they're alright." Temari nodded and left with her husband.

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At the hospital...

Sakura looked over the Subaku and Nara kids, searching for injury. She had found nothing wrong, but the babies needed some shots, so she had applied them. She had done Daiki and Kira, now it was Hitomi's turn.

But when Sakura went to give the girl her shot, the needle was blocked by sand. Sakura's eyes widened as she called Gaara and Matsuri over. The medic once again tried to give the child her shot, and once again it was blocked by sand. Gaara and Matsuri's eyes widened as well. The Hokage's wife turned to the two, her teal eyes shocked.

"This complicates things." It did indeed.


A.N-Well? Do you like it? Please let me know.