"Do I really have a right to be in this picture?" Sasuke Jr. said nervously as he was coaxed into the picture as well.
"I want to hold Sasuke!" Kiba exclaimed.
Pause.
"The baby, I mean." He said.
"Oh, okay." Sasuke Jr. said, handing Little Sasuke to Kiba.
"I'm so proud of you all!" said Kurenai randomly with a sigh. "I'm so glad you're happy and you're STILL happy!"
"Whoa Kurenai." Said Kiba. "Don't go all grandmother on us."
"Well, at least WE'RE happy, Pansuke." Said Kobiru as she hugged Pansuke with one arm and fondled her stomach with the other.
"Yeah." Said Pansuke. "Unlike Lee."
"Lee's not happy?" Kobiru questioned.
"Heh." Laughed Pansuke. "The poor fool's wife left him."
"Aikan left him?" Kobiru said in a surprised voice. "So now he's single?"
"I guess so." Said Pansuke with a satisfied smirk. "Now he's got a hideous baby with no mom."
"The poor baby." Said Kobiru. "Poor Lee."
"Well, in the end, I win." Said Pansuke. "Like always."
"I have to go cheer him up." Said Kobiru as she walked off in search of Lil Lee.
"So who's next?" Kiba butted in to everyone in general.
"What?" said everyone, looking confused.
"Come on, guys." Said Kiba. "You didn't think we'd make you all come to take pictures if YOU guys weren't getting family pictures too!!"
"OH KIBA!!" chuckled everyone.
But no one really did anything.
"Fine, Shino, YOU'RE first!" said Kiba.
"Why me?" said Shino.
"Because I like to pick on you." Said Kiba.
Shino's eyes narrowed.
"I was just kidding Shino." Said Kiba. "You KNOW that."
"Right." Said Shino, feeling dumb that he had gotten all cross over something Kiba was joking about. But really, he shouldn't joke about something like that.
"Neat!" said Moujo. "A family picture! I don't think we've EVER gotten one of those before!"
"Okay, how about we just put Shino in the back?" said Kakashi. And then the three daughters in front in height order."
"There's a certain unbalance of color." Asuma observed since Moujo was wearing a pretty yellow dress and the others…well, they just WEREN'T.
"Um…put her in the middle then." Kurenai suggested.
"But then it's like we're singling her out." Said Gai.
"She singled herself out." Said Kakashi as he held up the little tray with the powder on it and got underneath the curtain of the camera. "Say cheese."
"Cheese!" said Moujo. Shino, Jijo and Sanjo couldn't even PRETEND to even think about saying cheese. Or smile for that matter.
"That was exciting." Said Kurenai as soon as the picture was taken.
"This family picture is sort of pointless considering my wife isn't in it." Said Shino while he rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"We could superimpose her in it." Said Asuma.
"You don't have to." Said Shino.
"Good because Asuma was lying and we really can't do that." Said Kakashi.
"In that case I do want her in the picture." Said Shino.
"Yeah." Said Jijo. "I want mom in the picture."
"Whoa…" said Kurenai. "Please tell me you guys are kidding."
"We are." Said Sanjo.
"Before we do anymore families, my whole team SO has to take a picture together!" said Kiba, grabbing Hinata and Shino before they could escape and dragging them over to the picture taking spot.
"Fine." Said Shino. ONLY because it was his anniversary.
"That was a good idea, Kiba." Said Hinata.
"And then we could do one with our children in it!" Kiba announced. "Tashoku and the three girls!"
"Fine." Shino said.
"…I guess." Said Hinata.
"And then one of JUST the four girls together WITHOUT us!" Kiba continued.
"…Fine…" Shino said.
"Um…that may be a little excessive…" Hinata started.
"And then one with Little Sasuke!!" Kiba said.
"How about just this one and the one with your kids?" suggested Gai since he wanted to get on to more awesome families. Like Lee's family. He couldn't wait for Lee's family.
"Kurenai!" said Kiba. "YOU should get in the picture too!"
"Only if you insist!!" said Kurenai as she ran over. It was pretty obvious she was just WAITING for someone to say that. As she got all positioned into the picture, she paused for a second. "How come we weren't invited to this little shindig you guys were having?"
"Um…" started Hinata. "We forgot?"
"Forgot?" Kurenai said, a little hurt. "That's even worse than just not wanting us to be there and not inviting us."
"Well, I didn't forget." Said Kiba, sticking up for Hinata. "I was just lazy when it came to mailing your invitations."
"That's even WORSE." Said Kurenai. "Because that's like we WERE invited but then we were UNINVITED."
"SAY CHEESE!" Gai yelled as he pushed Kakashi out of the way to take the picture. Then the picture was taken.
Meanwhile…
"Lee, I heard." Said Kobiru as she walked up to Lil Lee and go EXTRA close.
"Heard about what?" asked Lil Lee, completely unsuspecting.
"The divorce." Said Kobiru.
"What?" Lil Lee said at an absolute loss for words. He was completely baffled as to how she would know.
"Don't worry about it!" said Kobiru. "You know, if you ever need someone to talk about it with, I'm here."
"It's not a divorce." Lil Lee said since he was in denial city. "Just a temporary sabbatical." He probably still thought she was coming back. The poor dear.
"Yes it is." Kobiru said rather forcefully as if she knew.
"UZUMAKIS!!" shouted Asuma from the camera. "TIME FOR A FAMILY PICTURE!!"
"Aw man!" said Kobiru. "I wish I wasn't an Uzumaki."
"What?" said Lil Lee, raising an eyebrow.
"You probably didn't even notice." Sighed Kobiru. "But I had the biggest crush on you ever when we were teenagers."
"I think you have to go and get your picture taken." Said Lil Lee, stepping quickly away from her. Kobiru frolicked off to where the pictures were being done. Naruto and Sakura had just gotten finished with their picture, and now Kajitsu and Pansuke were joining the mix. The whole family looked really silly because of their unmatched colors AND Pansuke's hideous black eye.
"Okay, now Kobiru has to get in there too." Said Kakashi.
Kobiru went over and stood next to Pansuke. Now the picture looked even worse because not only was Kobiru was there, but she was wearing the ugliest dress ever.
"Pansuke!" Kobiru yelled. "I didn't even notice your eye! What happened?!"
"How did you not notice that?" Naruto said bitterly. The truth is, he hadn't noticed it either until a few moments ago and he was even LESS happy to hear how Pansuke got it.
"I fell." Said Pansuke.
"What did you fall on?!" Kobiru yelled loudly as she pulled out her make-up bag and started applying it to Pansuke's eye.
"Um…a table." Said Pansuke thinking that saying 'Senjou's fist' might not be the coolest thing to say.
Asuma shuddered as he took that family picture.
"I hope Hana's picture doesn't look better than ours." Said Kajitsu bitterly.
"It won't." said Naruto.
"Even though their family is completely color-coded." Said Sakura. "Even though their family is frequently featured in Sexy Ninjas Unlimited. Even though they've got a beautiful baby to decorate their picture! EVEN THOUGH all their children are well behaved and none of them have pink hair! Even though Ino got Sasuke…"
"Whoa Sakura…" said Naruto. "Calm down."
"Sorry." Said Sakura. "It's just that looking at our family picture is sort of depressing me." She secretly hoped that either something would sabotage the Uchiha picture or that somehow, it would look bad.