Hi there!

Today was great! And kinda bad. In that order. Let's start here.

Father returned home. Well... not home. But he returned to the village. He is actually at the hospital. Rock Lee ran to our home to bring the news. Mother immediately gathered Inora and I and we sprinted to the hospital. After close to an hour and making some laps around the facility, we found his room. His eyes were wrapped in totally bandages. He was awake and sitting upright, which I found to be good. He was speaking with a blonde-haired nurse. Mother tackled him and hugged him and cried.

He said he was fine. Well, sorta. He had to get his torso healed a bit after she hugged his ribs too tight. Inora leapt onto his bed and basically tackled him. Mother was crying into his chest. I leapt and hugged him as well. How could I not? Shikamaru, Naruto's other aide, was the next person that ran in the room. He was out of breath when he asked what happened.

Father said his squad got pinched after he assassinated his target. In his squad of seven, the mission took a bad turn and suddenly there were only three members of the team left. He was forced to run. Father told us that rather than backtrack and retrieve their bodies and risk dying, he just burned everything to the ground using the Amaterasu. If they were discovered to be Leaf Ninja, then that would spark a war. He then said that he used this technique to cover the widest area he ever had done before. It also didn't help that father was also high on adrenaline at the moment. The nurse said that he ruptured a blood vessel in both of his eyes. This wasn't the normal blood vessel that breaks in his right eye when he normally uses the technique. This was in both eyes and his eyes were filled with blood as he ran back to the village. So his damaged eyes went virtually untreated for hours.

But the mission was a success.

Father and Shikamaru talked more specifics about the mission. But all that mattered was that father was going to be alright. Then, there was more good news and more bad news.

It appeared when Narucha and Hinata ran into the room. I've never heard Hinata yell, let alone speak over a dull roar, but she ran in the room and screamed.

"Where's Naruto!?"

Instantly, father turned his head in that direction. Rock Lee ran behind Hinata and directed her to some emergency room. Father yelled me and told me to go follow them. I guess I was supposed to get information on Naruto's condition and then tell father.

However when I protested because I wanted to stay with him, he yelled at me.

Here is what he said. "I won't tell you again, Inosaichi! Move!"

Here is how I knew father was angry with me. Father has NEVER called me Inosaichi. It has always been Saichi. Always.

So I sprinted after Hinata. It took me a minute to find where Rock Lee took her. Yet when I did, I was sorry to see what happened. Naruto was lying on the hospital bed. Both of his arms were wrapped in hard casts. His legs were under the blankets, but looked larger than normal. Casts too? I guessed they were in some type of bandage. His left cheek was covered up completely. He was somehow awake though and sitting upright when his wife and his daughter sprinted to him. Naruto's mind was elsewhere, seemed far happier than father to be with his wife and child. Then again, father doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeves like Naruto.

I then felt a little guilty because I wished father acted more like Naruto. While Hinata was busy grasping Naruto, Naruto's mind felt the need to be elsewhere.

"Hinata! Where is Sakura and Sasuke!?" he yelled.

Hinata said she didn't know where Sakura was. She hadn't seen her in days. She said Sasuke was in the hospital as well. Then Shikamaru entered the room, and he was out of breath again. Shikamaru said that Sasuke was fine and could get released as early as tomorrow. Sakura was working intensely on the rest of the team. Naruto then asked about Konohamaru. Shikamaru sighed and said it was not looking good for him. Konohamaru had an extensive amount of damage to not only his physical body, but his internal chakra network.

Anyways, I ran back to father and told him that Naruto was ok. Father then relaxed in his mattress. They can act like they aren't concerned about each other, but I l know they are. All I remember is sitting down on one side of the bed as mother and Inora sat on the bed next to him. The next thing I knew, I fell asleep, and then mother woke me up at sunset so we could go home. Inora got permission from Sakura to stay with father overnight for some reason. When we left, I saw that Inora was asleep on fathers side, and Sakura's hands were on father's temples and her hands were green. I was too sleepy to question it. We'll stop back at the hospital first thing tomorrow morning. So this is goodnight I guess.

See ya tomorrow.