Hinata was drying Himawari's hair while Naruto was looking for clean pyjamas in the bedrooms. Meanwhile, Boruto was brushing his teeth.

"Done!"

"Let me see."

"Ah!" his mouth wide opened in front of his mother.

"Good. Now it's your turn to dry your hair."

"NO!"

Too late, Hinata had already caught his arm and pulled him to her. Rubbing his hair with a new clean towel, Hinata winked to Himawari while Boruto was complaining.

"Boruto, you never stop to make noise?" Naruto asked, stepping in the bathroom.

He was wearing a white t-shirt and a orange pyjama trousers. He put on the table Hinata and his son's pyjama before looking at Himawari. His daughter rose her arms ready to put her yellow dress on.

Once she was ready, she thanked her father and ran downstairs for the bedtime story.

Meanwhile, Boruto was putting on his pink pyjama. First the t-shirt then he grabbed Naruto's forearms and rose his legs one by one to put on his short.

"Hima, please, don't take the same story as last night!" he shouted from the bathroom.

Hinata smiled and put on her nightgown. She knew her son, he was complaining now but when they'll start the reading, he'll be extremely focus.

Boruto ran downstairs. Hinata followed him but Naruto grabbed her hand and pulled her close to him. With a blush on his cheeks, he intertwined their fingers. She then pulled him closer and quickly caught his lips with hers. Surprised, he touched his lips with his other hand while Hinata was laughing quietly.

"Well, Hinata, it's a shame the children are waiting for us, otherwise ..."

Hinata stopped and her cheeks took a deep shade of red.

"Tou-chan! Kaa-chan!"

Naruto closed the bathroom door and went downstairs with Hinata.

They saw their children sitting on the couch, a yellow book in their hands.

"So, who have to read the story tonight?" Hinata asked as she sat.

"Tou-chan" the children decided.

Happy to not read the story tonight, Hinata put her head on Naruto's shoulder. Boruto did the same but on his father's other shoulder. Himawari sat between her mother and her father but she grabbed Naruto's arm and squeezed it against her.

"So, it's the story of Minato who wanted to become Hokage ..." Naruto started.

The kids loved listening to Naruto reading. He knew how to make a story entertaining, he gave each character their own voices. He took time to carefully read the description then he stopped and asked everyone if their understood everything and if they could see the surrounding in their heads.

Once the story was finished, Naruto and Hinata followed their children into their room.

Hinata followed Boruto and Naruto followed Himawari.

Boruto climbed on his bed while complaining because he wasn't tired. Hinata explained that if he wanted to become a strong and tall man, he had to go to bed when his parents told him to.

"But ... and the ghosts? I went to the cemetery today ... I don't know if ..."

"Don't worry, Neji oji-san will protect you and Himawari while you're sleeping." Hinata said.

"Can ... Can you check? Just in case." Boruto asked and pulled the blanket up to his nose as to protect himself.

Hinata stood up, open the wardrobe and looked inside. Then she looked under the bed before land her eyes on her son, smiling.

"Everything's ok."

In Himawari's room, Naruto was walking between his daughter's bed and her teddy bear basket. Himawari couldn't choose with which one she wanted to sleep with tonight. At the end, she chose a pink bear.

"Careful, he's coming!" Naruto exclaimed as the bear was flying towards his daughter's arms.

Himawari laughed when she missed it and it landed on her nose. Naruto ran to her and looked at her nose.

"Oh kami! It looks pretty bad. The only cure ..." he rose a finger. "One good night sleep."

Himawari caught the bear in her embrasse and rolled on her side, pretending to be asleep. Naruto then kissed her forehead and left her bedroom.

At the same moment, Hinata left Boruto's room and walked to Himawari's. With his hand, Naruto asked her to come closer. As doing so, Hinata put her hair behind her shoulder. Naruto came close to her face but instead of saying something, he kissed her lips before walking to Boruto's room. Surprised, Hinata blushed as Naruto smirked, blushing as well.

He entered Boruto's bedroom, dreaming about his wife but a plastic suriken quickly hurt his hand.

"Ouch!"

"If you weren't dreaming, you'd have seen me send it to you. I'm way better than when you left. I trained with Shikadaï in the forest." Boruto said sitting in his bed.

Naruto sat next to him and patted Boruto's head? He was proud of him.

"You'll show me tomorrow."

Meanwhile, Himawari was explaining her first gardening project to her mother but Hinata had to stop her, saying that it was now time to sleep. Himawari pouted but laid down without complaining.

When the children were finally in bed, Naruto and Hinata were all alone. They smiled at each other and walked to their bedroom, both tired and ready to sleep.

Laying on her back, Hinata had put her head on Naruto's left arm, playing with his right hand. Naruto was laying next to his wife, playing with her hair while talking about his mission.

"The trip wasn't too long I hope?"

"We took so much time to arrive to the meeting. We took so many break I thought will never arrive in time. I can understand that Kakashi-sensei is old but Shikamaru ... He just took advantage of the situation."

Naruto paused. He wanted to tell her something important but she didn't let him enough time and kept talking.

"And how the kazekage is doing?" she asked.

"Well, he promised to come by next time he comes to Konoha with Kanduro. They are challenging to see who of the one who can control the sand and the one who can control puppets can be elected best uncle of the year."

"I won't tell Hanabi about this competition." Hinata added laughing.

Then they talked about what happened while Naruto was away.

Sasuke reported the day of his departure, Sakura was so happy about it. Sai and Ino were showing to everyone Inojin's drawing, saying that he had a gift. Choji and Chocho were training of the next Ichiraku contest.

Then, Kiba and Shino came by to see Hinata and the children. Kiba was worried about Akamaru's health who, for the first time, refused to play with Boruto and Himawari. Then Shino complained about his new students. However, Kiba had said that Shino worst class will be the one with Boruto and cie. This made Shino laugh but Hinata was now worried.

"Don't worried." Naruto laugh.

"But imagine he can't make any friend and then he starts making pranks to have attention. I mean, he's really friend with Shikadai but ..."

"Hinata, don't worry. He won't be in the academy any time soon. We have time to talk to him. Plus, he can't be worse than me."

Hinata looked at him, more worried than ever. And if Boruto will try to surpass his father's jokes?

Naruto swallowed.

"Ok ... that's not what I meant ..."

Naruto looked at her in the corner of his eye. This conversation wasn't helping Hinata at all. She reminded him of his mother. Despite she wasn't with him, she had being worried for Naruto.

"I guess every mother are worried for their children." Naruto continued after thinking about it.

He stopped, thought again. He wanted to choose the right words.

"Maybe that ..."

Naruto looked at their intertwined fingers. Hinata released her hold. He looked at her and saw she was now sleeping. She was so tired. Since the beginning of the evening, Hinata was fighting the sleep but after being reassure by Naruto, she relaxed and fell asleep.

Naruto slowly rolled her towards him. Now face to face with her, he took her in his embrasse and put his chin on the top on her head. She seemed so fragile.

"I'm here now." he thought.

He was home. It was time for his wife to rest.