Another Favorable Ending?

Ten years had passed since the fated battle between Naruto and Hinata.

Now the situation between them was completely different. To summarise, following the events of their clash and both of them re-kindling their eternal love, the two had made up and started living together as a happy family once again. But that was just the icing on the cake. Ever since their reunion, let's just say that the couple got down to doing some serious unfinished…"business"…and were now the proud parents of ten children.

Yes, 10 children over the course of 10 years. Naruto and Hinata would have given rabbits a run for their money when it came to the rate of reproduction, if the difference in gestation periods between humans and rabbits were not so widely different. Regardless, the couple and their near dozen children were celebrating a very special day today.

But before that – a quick introduction to their children. All of them bore striking similarities to their parents. The boys had inherited all of their father's signature traits while the opposite was the case for the girls, who looked just like their mother. They were almost like miniature versions of Naruto and Hinata, and because of how many of them there were, they were all given nicknames the same as their parents' names but with a number attached at the end to denote the oldest to youngest.

So in the order they born, the children were as follows: Naruto the first (9 years old), Hinata the second (8 years old), Naruto the third (7 years old), Hinata the fourth (6 years old), Naruto the fifth (5 years old), Hinata the sixth (4 years old), Naruto the seventh (3 years old), Hinata the eighth (2 years old), Naruto the ninth (1 year old) and finally Hinata the tenth, who was still a bun in the oven.

Naruto and Hinata were currently located in the kitchen of their mansion. Naruto sat on the kitchen table tending to some of the kids while Hinata was busy preparing a gigantic cake for the special occasion. Given that this was such a massive undertaking and she was pretty deep into her pregnancy with the latest child, making it difficult for her to freely move about the kitchen, Naruto the first was assisting his mother around the kitchen with the smaller tasks. Of all the boys the two had together after their reunion, their oldest son was the most calm and collected, taking a lot after his mother as opposed to his father. He was essentially a mama's boy and always loved helping out his mother as best he could. Today was no different.

Naruto on the other hand was swinging his youngest child in his arms, Naruto the ninth, who was a rather feisty toddler that would be set off at the slightest provocation. Thus he always needed all the attention in the world. While Naruto sat on the chair and played with the youngest, his 3 year old sibling, Naruto the seventh was climbing up his father's body to his shoulders as though he were a tree. He in particular was the most attached to his father among all his brothers and loved hanging around him whenever possible.

While all of this was going on, their two oldest sisters, Hinata the second and fourth, aged 8 and 6, walked into the kitchen and to their father. It seemed the younger of the two was hiding something behind her.

"Otou-sama, she has something that she'd like to give you on this special day." Hinata the second said with a smile, feeling proud of what her sister had created using some of the flowers in their garden.

"Oh, is that so? I'd love to see what my beautiful little daughter has got for me." Naruto replied enthusiastically.

Hinata the fourth extended towards her father a headband made of sunflowers. "This is for you. Me and Onee-sama made it together. Will you wear it?"

The innocent gesture of his daughters making him such a beautiful gift brought a smile to Naruto's face. "Of course I'll wear it! Here, I'm holding your little brother so will you put it on for me?"

The young girl nodded happily and Naruto did his best to move his head close enough to her without bothering the baby in his hands so that his daughter could put the flower headband on him. It looked a bit silly but that didn't matter to Naruto given that he loved his daughters with all his heart and any gift from them was worth the world to him.

Before Naruto could bask in the glory of his children's creation, his 4 year old daughter, Hinata the sixth came running into the room with a frantic look on her face.

"Otou-shama, you need to shee this. Onii-shama is doing shomething crazy!" She explained to her father the best she could, given that she was still in the process of learning to speak fully.

"Oh no, not again." Naruto knew instantly that his two middle sons were up to no good. They never were, and he needed to go ASAP. He handed his youngest son to his older sisters and asked them to take care of him for a bit so that he could go take a look at what kind of mischief his sons were up to.

In the main foyer of the mansion, Naruto the third (7 years old) was standing on the ground floor looking up at the balcony on the second floor where Naruto the fifth (5 years old) was standing atop the railing on the balcony with his back turned to his brother. He was getting ready to do a backflip off of the balcony and to the ground floor.

"GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!" The older brother cheered on the younger one to pull off the crazy stunt that he had come up with and persuaded the younger one into performing. Beside him also stood his little two year old sister who had no idea of what was going on but joined in the festivities with her older brother and shouted the encouragement along with him since it looked fun.

Naruto the fifth took a deep breath and like a fearless tiger, he did a graceful backflip off of the balcony and was now currently soaring through the air, throwing all caution to the wind and without any preparation of what was to come after the leap was made.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Naruto shouted at the top of his lungs and slid into the rescue, catching his son just in time and making the save.

A minute later…

There were two visible bumps on the two boys' heads from the chop their father gave them.

"YOU IDIOTS! How many times have I told you not to do crazy stunts like that? What would you do if you had landed incorrectly and broke a leg?"

"But…but…we're shinobi right and the children of the great Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga. We should be able to do something so simple like that." The younger brother argued.

"In due time you two. In due time. Your mother and I didn't get strong overnight. It took us many years of training to get as strong as we are. You know what they say right; you can't run before you learn how to crawl." Naruto tried to impart upon his sons some valuable advice. "Plus you need to think how we would feel as your parents if either one of you got hurt. We'd feel terrible. Your mother's about to have another baby soon as well. The last thing you want to do is put her through undue stress. So please, think about us next time you do something like this."

"We understand. We're sorry." The two boys replied in unison as they looked down at the ground apologetically.

"It's fine, as long as you understand." Naruto patted them both gently on the head in response. He couldn't remain angry at his children for long. "Well, let's go meet up with your mother. She should be about done with the cake."

Naruto assembled all of their children in the dining room where they all sat around the huge dining table. He then helped his wife in carrying the multi-layered spectacle of a cake that she prepared for the special occasion. They then lit up the assortment of candles that Hinata had so meticulously placed all over the cake.

"Wow Hinata, this truly is impressive. You never cease to amaze me with your baking skills."

"Oh it's nothing really, given the occasion. This special day only comes around once a year. So children, I want you to work together in blowing out all the candles okay?" Hinata directed the question towards everyone sitting around the table, to which they nodded in sync. "Alright then, get ready."

Thus everyone stood up on their seats and clustered around the cake for their parents to give the signal.

"NOW!"

Everyone got into action and instantly blew out all the candles lined up around the cake, before the entire finally shouted in unison:

"HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!"

Happy April Fools Day to you all! You didn't think I wasn't going to do an April Fools chapter did you? This is probably my favourite day on this website with all the great trolling going around.

Yes, yes, I know, I know. I suck. I'm terrible. I'm a dbag for writing stupid stuff like this. Yada yada. I get it. But I love to write silly stuff every now and then. It's refreshing. And I do love to troll as well lol.

So did you see this coming from a mile away given that I posted this chapter pretty late today, or did you fall for it at least for a bit? I did try to make it pretty outlandish/unrealistic and somewhat obvious as the chapter goes on, but it was a fun to write how Naruto and Hinata's family could be if they had an outrageous number of children. It's almost like a continuation of last year's April Fools chapter. The title of this chapter was a massive giveaway.

In any case, hope you enjoyed the little joke. So did you fall for any other April Fools prank, or better yet pranked anyone yourself? I'll get next chapter up within a week and it's gonna be pretty big. Hope you're looking forward to it. Until then, take care.