Summary: Severus should have seen it coming.
Rating: K
Words: 573
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Severus honestly should have seen it coming. He was surrounded by three little boys and no one else except for an unconscious man who was more trouble than he was worth. What was he thinking, bringing some rouge ninja in his home? Severus sighed and pulled his mind away from those particular thoughts as he looked to the three boys pushing and shouting at each other, making Severus' head throb with their shrill little voices. How had this started again?
"Um… Sev… could I get a kiss goodnight?" Haku whispered as the man diligently tucked him in. Severus froze in his actions and raised a brow at the child. A firm little blush spread across his cheeks and sprinkled his little nose as he squirmed under Severus' scrutiny.
"My… parents would do it a lot," Haku elaborated. Severus sighed through his nose and closed his eyes, counting to ten before he actually brushed his lips against Haku's forehead with the least bit of pressure. It didn't seem to matter to the child that Severus' lips had hardly touched him.
"That's not FAIR!" Gaara's little voice came out which was echoed immediately by Naruto.
Oh yes, that's how Severus found himself staring at all three boys 'fighting' in the most inelegant way possible. Severus sighed and reached out, grabbing Haku and Naruto by the back of their shirt, pulling them away from each other and up in the air. Gaara found himself in the same position although his sand found nothing to break. Their faces were all the classic look of surprise and their large eyes were all on him.
"You will all cease acting like…" Severus wanted to say 'children' but they actually were children. He sighed and dropped them on the bed carelessly, listening to their yelps and watching as they struggled to untangle themselves.
"Now, apologize for behaving like animals and giving me a headache," Severus demanded. The boys pouted and bowed their heads in shame.
"I'm sorry," they said together.
"Accepted. Now, what would have been the better way to sort this out?" Severus folded his arms and cursed himself for sounding like a mother. Oh how he hated children.
"Can I have a kiss goodnight too?" Naruto inquired, looking up at him through his bangs. Severus cursed the fates for tangling him up in another mother like duty. He had no doubts that the parent that kissed Haku goodnight was his mother.
"It's 'may I'," Severus corrected tersely. He already knew that he would do it no matter how it was asked only for the sole fact that it was fair.
"May Naruto and I have goodnight kisses?" Gaara rephrased. Severus figured that he couldn't talk his way out of this although he wished he could. A small bit of magic could possibly alter their memory… no, no, that was a last resort measure that he hoped that he would never have to use on anyone.
"You're not even going to sleep Gaara," Haku pointed out randomly.
"I'll take his kiss!" Naruto offered, raising his hand and waving it wildly like an overzealous student. It nearly knocked Gaara in the eye but a handful of sand blocked the elbow. The redhead turned on Naruto, glaring at the older boy as if he had just threatened to bite his teddy bear.
"No it don't matter if I'm not sleeping—it's my nighty kiss!" Gaara shouted.
Thus the fighting began anew.
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The End
A Goodnight kiss has never been so awesome. I'm an only child by the way so I have no idea what siblings become jealous over the other about but I figured this was passing.
