Chapter 20, this one will cover up to the time Naruto and the other kids are 2 years old. I've been debating how exactly to write these chapters so that they're aren't boring, and I think I've figured it out. To put it simply, it'll be a mix of the adults training, the parents raising their kids, and of course a little bit of the Akatsuki on the side. Thanks for reading and please review.

Obito was studying his new jutsu with extreme intensity. It was called the Kaumi, and the more he learned about it the crazier it seemed. He found out that this jutsu transported things into a pocket dimension, a pretty useful little trick. Soon, he discovered that he could use it to make untouchable for short amount of time. The longest he had been able to keep himself invulnerable so far was 2 minutes.

He may not be able to use the Susanoo, but this might actually be better. With this new jutsu, there was almost no one who could manage to touch him. Obito was quickly becoming one of the Leaf's greatest assets. That was something he was very proud of, and he was going to make sure that he did as much as he could with it.

Tsunade thanked god she was a ninja and was already used to all nighters. As much as she loved Mito, that little girl seemed to hate sleep. Rin had similar feelings with Kakashi, although they would usually fall asleep if you just walked around with them. They would take turns with Naruto, but to be honest he was the most easy going baby of the three. It was pretty rare they actually needed to put him back to sleep.

By far the babies were the most fun when they had first woken up in the morning. They would smile and giggle, sometimes they would blow little bubbles with their mouths too. Yeah, they adorable in the morning.

They had to move around their schedules a little bit so that they could have at least two people with the babies at all times. Even Anko volunteered to help out when she could.

Jiraiya had given up on writing Icha Icha, couldn't really keep doing that now that he was a dad, especially with a little girl. He did however continue with his spy network, although he wasn't gone nearly as much now.

Tsunade was still working as the head of the hospital, part time at least. She had Rin and Shizune helping her as she had taught them everything they needed to know about running the hospital. They would take shifts of running the hospital and whoever wasn't would stay home and help with kids.

Obito and Anko were both going on missions and training quite a lot, but still made sure that they had time with the kids. Obito didn't go on as many missions as Anko did, mainly because he wanted to be with Kakashi and Naruto as much as possible so he spent more time just training and going home at the end of the day.

The schedules had change quite a bit, but the only one whose rank changed was Anko who was made Jonin. Jiraiya and Tsunade had been teaching her how to use her summonings more effectively, primarily how to use the snake summoning contract without having to give sacrifices to the more powerful snakes. With Jiraiya's help, they modified her technique so that she only summoned the right snakes. They found that some snakes didn't exactly agree with Manda's, the boss summons, line of out Manda wasn't well liked even by his own followers. She had even found a few very powerful snakes that didn't ask for anything but loyalty. The best part was, now Kakashi could sign the contract risk free. Anko was definitely on the way to bringing honor back to the snakes, and she wasn't gonna stop until she did.

Tori was getting a little impatient. They had yet to acquire even one tailed beast, mostly because they needed to lay low because of the hidden Leaf incident. The only thing Tori had accomplished so far was taking control of the hidden Mist. Their Mizukage was a jinjuriki, meaning Tori could control him with her Mangekyo Sharingan.

Having control over an entire hidden village was very beneficial, as it let her keep an ear to the ground at what the other villages might be up to. Not to mention she could now extract the three tailed turtle at any time. You can't kill a tailed beast, so even after it was destroyed when Hatake was killed it reformed about two years later. The hidden Mist sealed inside a young boy known as Yugaru. Yugaru was now her personal puppet, and with him see would Mist right under her thumb.

She may not be close to having all of the tailed beasts, but at least she had gotten the ball rolling. Things were only going to get better for the Akatsuki from here.

Sarutobi was not happy to be back into the Hokage's chair. He considered asking one of his students to be the new Hokage, but with his student having children it just didn't seem right ask them to do that. It wasn't a good idea to try to raise children when you're the Hokage, he knew that better than anyone. Asuma grew up with resentment towards his father, granted he still loved his father and knew he was a good man, but that didn't change the fact that he often felt his father cared more about the village than his own son.

Still, there was nothing he could do about that now. His village needed him, and there was no way in hell he was going to leave it in the hands of Danzo. When the time came he would find a way to make it up to his son. Until then, he would do what he could for his village. He had been entrusted with a great task, and he wasn't going to let anyone down.

Before long it was time for their first birthdays. They decided to have the party on Kakashi's birthday as it was right in between the other two. Most of the clan heads came with their kids, as it was the party for two major clan children and the son of the Fourth Hokage. Although Obito still wasn't calling himself or his son an Uchiha, the clan heads still considered them one. Some were even calling the two, 'The True Uchiha's.'

The first to arrive was Tsume, head of the Inuzuka clan and one time teammate of Minato. (It's my fanfic so I say they were teammates!) Naturally she didn't want to miss the party of her sensei's daughter and teammate's son. She had brought her five year old daughter Hana and her year old son Kiba.

Hana, who had met Jiraiya before, was happy to see him as she thought of him as an uncle. She hadn't really been introduced to his now dormant pervy side. Jiraiya gladly accepted a hug from the young girl, "Uncle Jiraiya! Can I hold Mito, Pleaseeeeeeee?"

Jiraiya laughed, "Of course you can, she's with Tsunade right now. Go find her."

Hana ran off happily and Tsume turned to her old sensei, "How've you been you old pervert?"

Jiraiya rolled his eyes, Tsume never was one to show him much respect, "Good to see you too Tsume. Is Hiashi coming as well?"

Tsume smiled at the mentioning of their last teammate, "Oh yeah, he's bringing his little girl along too. Real cutie, got blue hair like her mom."

Jiraiya couldn't help but find that kinda funny, "Blue hair on a clan heir, I don't think I've ever seen that before."

Hiashi walked in at just that moment, "Yes, it is rather unusual. It seems little Hinata inherited her mother's looks thankfully."

Haria (I'm naming her mother that because I couldn't find a name for her anywhere so I just went with and H name.) was busy making faces at her daughter, who giggled in delight. Hinata was clearly quite content in her mother's arms. Finally Haria turned to Jiraiya, "Hello Jiraiya, I apologize for my husband and I not visiting you more often, but as you can see we have our own little one to take care of."

Jiraiya waved off her apology, "No worries, the whole village has been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off for the past year. I didn't expect to see you guys a ton."

Hiashi handed Jiraiya a few presents he had been carrying, "Still sensei, we're glad we could make to the party. It was massive blow to the entire village when we lost Minato, I want to do what I can for his son."

Jiraiya set the presents in the pile and motioned for them to follow him, "Come on, it's time you guys were properly introduced to Naruto."

Hiashi and Tsume followed Jiraiya to the nursery where Naruto was sleeping peacefully. Tsume handed Kiba to Jiraiya and walked up and picked him up, "Hi there, I'm Tsume. Oh you're cute little pup aren't you."

Hiashi looked at the whiskers then at his sensei his sensei, "So Minato really sealed the Kyuubi inside of him. How are you going to deal with it?"

Jiraiya sighed, "There's no sense in hiding it from him. I'm going to tell him about and try to teach him how to control it's chakra and use it to make him stronger. We've already got some angry villagers after him though."

Hiashi nodded, "The Hyuuga clan will support the boy with the everything we've got."

Tsume handed Naruto off to Hisashi, "Same here, anyone comes after that kids, they'll have me to answer to."

Jiraiya pitted the man who brought Tsume's wrath down on him. Hana came running in holding Mito, "Look mom, she's so cute! She doesn't cry when hold her either!"

Tsume smiled at her daughter, "Yup, good job. Who's all here now?"

Hana thought for a second, "Um, the bug ninja's,"

Tsume always loved when she said stuff like that, but she still had to correct her, "The Aburame's sweetie."

Hana nodded, "Yeah them. Plus the Nara guys and those Yaka-Yakam-Ya…"

Tsume couldn't help but laugh, "Yamanaka's."

Hana nodded again, "And the Akimichi's. I thinks that's everyone."

Jiraiya handed Kiba back to Tsume and grabbed Naruto from Hiashi, "Well, let's get out there. Time to go greet everybody."

The party continued on without much incident. They gave the cake and ice cream to kid who absolutely devoured it. Next they opened the presents, which had some interesting things inside. Some highlights included a special medicine made from insect venom that was good for helping with the pain that came along with teething from the Aburame's. Three large hand made stuffed animals from the Hyuuga's, a Toad for Naruto, a Slug for Mito, and a Snake for Kakashi as they already knew those would be their summoning animals. Also the Inuzuka's gave them special canine fangs from previous Inuzuka dogs on necklace, a very high honor.

Several more gifts were given that day, but those were the really interesting ones. It had been an interesting year, who knew what would follow in the next one.

Actually the next year was more or less the exactly same, with a few new things happening. The kid said their first words, Mito said Mama and as did Kakashi. Naruto's first word, strangely enough, was ramen...go figure. They also took their first steps. Other than that though, it was pretty normal year.