A/N: the last lovely! thank you for reading :)


Lovely #28

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Naruto's favorite part of the day was waking up.

He was always the first- Sasuke never really being a morning person anyway- and his natural internal clock would go off each and every day without a hitch, provided Sasuke wasn't already keeping him busy beneath the sheets.

It started with the birds chirping outside, not too loudly but just enough to sing a sweet melody along with the morning traffic of cars and pedestrians outside in tune with the light breeze coming in through their second story window.

It still hadn't been long since moving into the new place, but Naruto loved it already.

Stretching his arms above his head, he sat up with a roll of his shoulders, having to muffle a derisive snort at the way Sasuke slept. Contrary to popular belief, he has terrible sleeping posture: limbs flailed out this way and that, mouth open and brows still crunched together despite it all. Like he went to sleep with a scowl.

Lucky for his lover, he didn't drool.

Naruto flipped over onto his knees, keeping quiet and stealthy on the springs as he leaned forward to tilt both sides of Sasuke's bangs upwards, knowing with a secretive smile that if he slept longer, they'd stay that way.

With a little shimmy, he was off the bed, hissing lightly as he stepped onto the bathroom tiles to relieve himself, water running softly as he washed his hands and ran his fingers through his hair. Not like he needed to really get up and ready for the day anyway, since Sasuke had taken the day off.

'Naruto time,' he thought to himself with a smarmy little smile, whiskers poking up with the way his lips crinkled.

Finding his bright orange fox slippers- he and Natsuki had picked out three pairs of them for the previous Christmas- he slipped out into the hallway and down the stairs to the landing at the bottom.

Right, coffee first.

He went about the morning ritual, knowing exactly what kinds of smells needed to waft upstairs to attract certain little bodies.

"Daddddyyyyyyy," came the sleepywhinyincoherent groaning through the doorway.

He looked up from the stove to his daughter and had to hold back the laughter wanting to break out. If there was one thing she got from her father, minus the genetics, it was the way her hair stuck straight up in a mass of curls from sleeping so hard on it.

"Hey, Bub. C'mere."

She let out a little affirmative grunt, feet covered in soft cloth padding over to him and reaching her little arms up. Floppy tentacles came up from the movement as well as he leaned down to scoop her up and onto his hip with one arm.

"Smells gooooooddddd..."

"Na, little octopii need their nutrition." He pulled off a piece of egg and prodded at it with a fork, blowing lightly until it was cool enough for her to munch on. "Now, how about you go wake Papa up while I finish this, okay?"

Still half asleep, eyelids lowered, Natsuki flipped up her octopus hood, curls frushing out and around as she nodded her head in violent affirmation.

Naruto put her down and she trampled off with a little salute, arms sticking out slightly with how fat the octosuit puffed out on her.

Naruto only shook his head, nearly dropping the plates he'd precariously balanced on his arms as he walked to the dining table with the resounding shout of "PAPA!" and the subsequent OOMPH that followed.

Only a few minutes later a sleepy Natsuki back down in the foyer, balanced carefully atop an equally sleepy Sasuke's shoulders.

"Good morning, my lovely little snuggle bugs."

"Nfhndhjkdsngfd."

"Love you too."

It was with a quick kiss to Sasuke's morning-breathed mouth that the little trio hunkered down for breakfast.