Chapter 31: Year 14, Month 8

"Sano-chan...Keiji won't stop crying..."

"Where's momma, Keiko?"

"Sleeping. Daddy said to let momma sleep."

Sanosuke sighed, nodding, before setting down the book he was working on to run into the nursery. It was December 12, and Sakura has just given birth on the 8th. Sasuke was off on a mission once again, and made sure to lay down rules that Sanosuke and Keiko were to let their mother rest.

That was rather hard, especially with the twin newborns in the house. From the beginning of her pregnancy, Sakura had desperately wanted twins, a boy and a girl to be specific, because she knew that, at thirty-four years old, this pregnancy was likely to be her last one. It was planned to be her last one, but she wanted to have an even number of children. Sasuke figured that was very strange, he didn't see a problem with having an odd number of children. When Sakura came home from an appointment six months into her pregnancy, she tossed the sonogram photos at Sasuke and told him she knew it was going to be twins and she was right.

Sasuke just hoped one of them would be a boy. And he was right in the end. The first of the twins was Keiji, who was born at exactly 2:30 a.m. He was handed over to Sasuke immediately, who got a good look at his dark blonde haired son that was screaming his lungs out.

"...How the heck is he blonde?" That was the only thing Sasuke could think of at that moment, even though Sakura was yelling at him to either let her see the baby or get out of the room. When she did get to see him, Sakura brushed off Sasuke's questions about the little boy's hair color and just focused on him. She may have still been in labor with the baby boy's twin, but she was too busying fawning over him to care.

It was almost two hours later, at 4:23 a.m. when the other baby, a tiny baby girl, was finally born. Instead of being handed over to Sasuke, she was instantly given to Sakura, who fell in love with her pink haired daughter right away. Both her daughters ended up with different shades of pink hair, and she was ecstatic over it. Everyone, during all three of her pregnancies, told Sakura that they thought her children would look exactly like Sasuke, all of them. When Sanosuke was born, that was true, but Keiko, Keiji, and their new daughter Satomi went completely against that. Keiji did have black eyes, just like Sasuke, but Keiko had green eyes and Satomi had blue eyes. Sasuke and Sakura actually were very glad their children all looked different. It made it easy to tell them apart.

"Keiji, what are you crying for? Momma just fed you!" Sanosuke lifted up the crying four-day-old and started rocking him in his arms. As Christmas was nearing, Asuna decided to give her team a large break, also because she knew Sakura was going to need Sanosuke's help with the twins.

That, however, was before Asuna found out about her own pregnancy, and now had to leave Sanosuke and his teammates in the hands of another Jonin, who had yet to be decided.

"Gosh, first aunt Asuna has to leave the team for a while, and now you're having a fit..." Sanosuke scrunched up his face a bit, looking at the slowly calming baby. Life is starting to suck more and more lately...

Keiji stared at Sanosuke for a moment, before letting out a sob. Sanosuke knew there was something wrong with his brother. Even though he was only four when Keiko was born, he learned a lot and just had to figure out what it was.

"...man, it's your diaper, isn't it?" Sanosuke scrunched his face up again, shaking his head when he laid Keiji on the changing table. "I really hate this part of taking care of you guys..."

I should pass him off to Keiko next time.

"Sanosuke, why don't you go and train with your dad or something?"

December was quickly going by and it was already the 20th. Sasuke had been back since the 16th, and off missions since Christmas was so close. Sakura knew Sanosuke had been the one doing the most with the twins the past few days, trying to teach Keiko how to change diapers and swaddle them up. She felt bad because he hadn't been able to hang out with his friends, nor had he been able to train.

"...why?"

Sakura gave the fourteen-year-old a smile, before taking Satomi from him. He had been caring for her while Keiko took take of Keiji when Sakura went to get a shower. "You've been doing a lot lately. I appreciate your help with the twins and Keiko so much, but I want you to go have some fun, ok? You're still young, sweetie, and I know that sounds dumb, but, it's true. I want you to have fun, ok?"

Sanosuke blinked, but still nodded, jumping up and starting out the door. "Where is dad?"

"He should be at the training fields."

He nodded, running off as Sakura sighed and looked at Satomi who was fast asleep. "You are going to love your big brother, Satomi. I bet he'll do well with helping you train."

"Dad!"

Sasuke didn't expect Sanosuke to run into the training field with a smile on his face. He knew Sanosuke was supposed to be taking care of Satomi while Sakura did some work around the house, but he figured she must have let him go as a break.

"What is it, Sanosuke?"

Sanosuke stood in his place, just a few feet away from Sasuke. He had never just suddenly asked Sasuke if they could train. Usually, they would plan it a few days in advance so they could both get through with missions and anything Sakura needed done at the house.

"Can we train? Mom let me have a break and I... wanted to train with you."

There wasn't even a second of hesitation as Sasuke nodded, motioning for Sanosuke to get into his starting stance.

"I'm going easy on you, Sanosuke."

Sanosuke grinned. "I didn't expect you to."

END CHAPTER 31

Author's Note: Did you think it would be twins? :3 Originally, it was only supposed to be a girl for their third child, but, I love giving characters big families. :D

Do you know where I got Keiji's hair color from? :3 If you do, give a guess and maybe I can write a special bonus chapter at the very end of the fanfic for you. :)
I haven't done a chapter where Sanosuke and Sasuke bonded for a long time. What better way to bond than training? :3

Hey guys, I got a poll coming up for you today. I want to know who you believe Sanosuke should be with in the end. Our choices are Shikamaru and Ino's daughter Aoi, or the girl that Sanosuke was friends with in the academy, Ayano. So, make your choice and then you shall see in a few future chapters which girl ends up with our darling Sanosuke.

GUYS, I SHOULD HAVE A USABLE COMPUTER NEXT WEEK. 8D My friend is giving me her old one. And it's a Dell Inspiron, which is what my computer was. :3 Until it gets here, I'm still using my younger sister's computer and the one at work, but, it's not a problem.

My SasuSaku month fanfics failed miserably. :P I'll try to get it done next month, though.

See you all soon~!