Sasuke's P.O.V.

"My son knocked up both his best friends and now he's missing. How is any of this okay?"

"It's not like he's not coming back."

"You don't know that Suigetsu."

"He just needs a break, remember when you found out you were pregnant, you went into hiding for like three days!"

"Yeah then I pulled myself together and figured out how I was going to move forward in life. Which is what he needs to do. He's having two babies by two different people, he needs to step up, now."

"So… you gonna find him and tell him that? Cause he's still your kid, an extension of you, and had I told eighteen-year old Sasuke that, I sure as hell wouldn't have gotten the desired result. That's for damn sure." I let the phone carry dead air. I didn't want Suigetsu to go on thinking he might be right about something for once. But he was right and he knew it.

I stroked my hand through my hair, rethinking, refocusing. "My baby is having a baby."

"Two babies."

"Two babies." I repeated. "What the hell was he thinking?"

"The same thing you and I were thinking when we were that age. It feels better without a condom and I want to get as much of this feeling as often as humanly possible." Suigetsu said frankly. Yeah, that is about what I was thinking when I was eighteen.

"I didn't even know he was having sex."

"Yes you did."

"Okay I did, but I didn't want to admit it to myself. And I sure as hell didn't think he was fucking his best friends."

"Again, we were both fucking our best friend Karin at that age. Shit happens Sasuke."

"This is a lot of shit for one kid Suigetsu. I really hoped Minatachi would have at least a somewhat normal life."

"He's your kid, that was never possible. But this one is on him, not you, you need to remember that."

"My bad parenting. I mean his dad was a prostitute, he's all loosy goosy about sex, used to fuck anything that walked and paid. Maybe he got his lax morals on sex from me."

"And we have found a way to blame ourselves once again. Alright Sasuke. Let's just get into the real reason why I called you alright?"

"Sure…"

"Hi my name is Suigetsu and I'm an addict." I rolled my eyes.

"Hi my name is Sasuke and I'm an addict."

"How long have you been sober Sasuke?"

"Nineteen years."

"Do you have any urge to use?" I thought about his question, really thought about his question, and then answered honestly.

"No."

"Good."

"I wouldn't even know where to get it, or how."

"I can't believe it's been that long."

"Looking back on it, it almost feels like it never happened."

"Oh it happened, I was there."

I chuckled a bit. "There for all of it."

"Sasuke, you gotta stop worrying about your kid man. He's an adult now. He succeeds and fails on his own. I'm glad you're not breaking your sobriety over this. And I want you to continue thinking like that. Right now, all you can really do is be supportive, and give him a kick in the ass when he needs one."

"Supportive… what does that even mean?"

"Well you shouldn't financially support this little mistake of his. Not completely at least. That chunk of change from the little best seller you have on your hands needs to go towards your retirement. But you know… Be the dad you wish you had when you were young and pregnant." I was young and had no one, it's not like there's much of a blueprint for that in my own life. But if my dad were alive back then he probably would have freaked out, disowned me and taken away everything. Or pay for me to go far away until I had the baby, then say it was his and my mothers. No, I can't be a dad like my father would have been. I have to be better.

"I'll talk to Naruto, figure out… what we can do for him… if anything."

"I think you should."

"Thanks Sui."

"Always."

Naruto's P.O.V.

"Dad this is ridiculous. Minatachi can't just disappear like this, leaving his pregnant friends high and dry. Where the hell is he?"

"I don't know Mikoshina. The ambu have looked everywhere. All his usual spots and unusual spots for that matter. Whereever his is, he's not in the Land of Fire."

"Nor Earth or Wind, or Waves. I checked, twice." Mikoshina looked down at her phone then rolled her eyes.

"What?"

"Ino won't stop calling me because her son can't stop crying. He thinks Minatachi's going to abandon him, leave him to raise the baby all by himself." At this point… well I wouldn't count it out.

"We raised him better than that, he'll step up." She didn't believe my lie, her sharingan cut right through it.

"He could be gone dad." She said crossing her arms, then looking at her phone once again.

"Ino again?"

"Uncle Kiba. Wants to know if he's back so he can kill him."

"Tell him to get in line." Sasuke probably wants first crack at him, then me, after that Mikoshina, Hima, Inojin, then maybe Kiba, maybe.

"You can't keep hiding in here, you have a country to run." She reminded. I shooed her away and as my daughter left my husband came in, a gallon of ice cream in hand.

"Don't even bring that in here, I'll just eat it all." I said hiding under the covers. He pulled them off of me enough to get in with me and let me lay on his chest. "Our son impregnated two people." I whined into his embrace.

"Our baby is having babies." He smirked. Oh that made it so much worse. "Any news?"

"He's… gone. The ambu are spinning their wheels. They have no idea where he could be."

"He doesn't want to be found."

"He's having two kids Sasuke, he needs to be found and deal with this."

"He'll show up when he's ready. We need to talk about what we're going to do when he does."

"What we're going to do?" I asked completely in shock. I needed that ice cream. I took it from him and put a large spoonful in my mouth.

"He's having two kids, he's a freshman in college, never had a job a day in his life, how are we going to help him not end up on the streets with two babies like we almost were?"

"He should have been smarter than this. He should have-"

"Can't put the toothpaste back in the tube."

"What?"

"That's what your mom said to me when she confronted me about my pregnancy. Can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, all we can do now is be supportive. And we need to figure out how exactly to do that."

I blinked a few times. "I don't even know where to begin."

"We could kick Chocho out of the condo. Give it to them rent free… that could help."

"Chocho has been living there since we gave it to Mikoshina, I'd hate to do that to her."

"She'd understand, she's been telling Miko she wants to get a new place when Mizuki gets back from deployment anyways."

"So… we just… give the three of them a place to live? And then what? To what end?"

"I'd like him to finish college."

"I'd like him to pick a major."

"Or get some sort of grade above a 2.0"

"Plus two kids?" I asked sadly.

"It seems like a tall order. Hima has a 4.0 she's probably going to be a lawyer like her mother, and it's not as though they don't have the money to support her through all of this."

"Hima is probably going to be disowned for this Sasuke."

"What?"

"A Hyuga having a baby out of wedlock, under thirty, hell under twenty, with no degree, no job, and no certainty, with an Uchiha no less."

"Hinata wouldn't-"

"Hinata isn't the head of the clan, her sister is. And from what I know about that woman, she wouldn't hesitate to enforce it, Hinata goes against that and she'll be disowned too."

"You're kidding."

"It's a fucked up clan Sasuke."

"Yeah well the Uchiha had their own demons too." He sighed.

"On the bright side, the Uchiha clan will be growing very soon."

"Is it horrible that I wish it was Mikoshina instead of Minatachi?"

"No, I'm sort of wishing the same thing. Oh god, what is she postpones her wedding over this?"

"Gimme some of that, I need it." He said grabbing my spoon.

"You're gonna hate it."

"Desperate times." He chuckled, putting the spoon in his mouth. Immediate disgust and regret was written all over his face.

"You haven't changed teme." I laughed.

"Neither have you dobe." He said with an eye roll, putting his arm back around me.

"So what do we do?" I asked.

"Follow Minatachi's lead I guess… when ever he returns. Either way we can't leave Inojin and Hima in the dark, even if that's what Minatachi does end up doing."

"Taking care of a baby is so hard."

"Especially at their age." Sasuke tapped on my thigh, thinking. "What?"

"Maybe… maybe we should think a little more about retirement… if one or both of us retires early we can be there for our grandkids, watch them, let their parents go to school." I thought about it.

"I don't know if I can step away right now Sasuke. The nation needs me, and still wants me as their president… I'm doing a lot of good right now, maybe in… five or so years I could really start thinking about it, but now…"

"I understand… maybe… I could." I took a deep breath. Sasuke spending time with his grandkids certainly wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. In fact it might be the best.

"You'd still be cashing out early in your pension. You need twenty years, you have what? Eighteen and a half?"

"The penalty wouldn't be that high, and the book… you know it's doing really well."

"Do we really want to support Minatachi for his mistake?"

"I don't know if it's right to punish him for it either."

"Can we punish ourselves? I thought we emphasized to him how hard it was for us."

"Mikoshina got the message, maybe a little too well, but Mina… It's like the two of them had completely different upbringings. And you know, we were never clear on the details until it was way too late, I think all the lessons were lost to him in the process. He's just a kid… doing kid things…"

"Making more kids."

"Hopefully he can figure it out."

"And if he doesn't?"

"Help where we can?" That wasn't very reassuring.

"Yeah I guess that's all we can do." I finished off my ice cream and just snuggled with my husband, him petting my head the whole time. News of my son having two kids has been…reeling. I guess I keep picturing him as my five year old little boy, never could do anything wrong in the world, but he's a man now. A man capable of having sex and producing new life; and one that's capable of making his own decisions. However right or wrong they may be. But he is a man, he's just as tall as I am, maybe a little taller, he's cute by any female or male's standards, he's developed his strong and skinny Uchiha body, but sadly he has an impulsive and excitable Uzumaki mind. At the very least I can say he'll be okay with his two best friends, whatever decisions they decide to make. I just hope he does the right thing, whatever that is… But right now, with his reaction to the news… well I just hope he doesn't hurt his friends too hard while he processes.

"Do you think he's ever coming home?" I asked my husband.

"I sure hope so." Sasuke said, kissing my forehead. We fell asleep like that, for a good maybe… twenty minutes before I heard some commotion going on in the living room. Before we could get up, Mikoshina opened the door.

"They found him."

Mikoshina's P.O.V.

"Where?"

"Don't worry about it. I'm gonna go pick him up."

"Mikoshina."

"I've got this Daddy." His rennigan bore into my soul but I closed him out. They didn't need this kind of stress right now. "I'm gonna go get him, you two just stay in bed, it will be okay I swear." I said grabbing my car keys off my parent's counter. They both gave me worried looks but I knew this was just… something I had to do. I didn't want to put that burden on them. I had to be the one to bail my brother out of jail. I said my goodbyes to my fathers, reassuring them once more that it would be alright, and then finally took off.

I could only imagine what Daddy would be going through having to do this. Flashbacks of himself, worried that his child was perpetuating the cycle. And Dad, oh man Dad. He might have PTSD from picking daddy up from prison. No, I couldn't let my parents go through that. They can have Minatachi when I bring him home, yell at him in the living room until morning and they're blue in the face and exhaugsted for all I care, but this… this I need to do.

I walked into the jail and up to the clerk. "Can I help you?" The man asked indignently, wishing he was anywhere but here. Yeah… you and me both.

"Umm… the ambu called me… I'm here to bail out my brother." I said less than confidently.

"Name?"

"Minatachi Uzumaki Uchiha."

"Oh yes. The one with the kekegenkai. Have a seat, an officer will be with you shortly." I nodded and sat in the cramped waiting room, twiddling my thumbs in worry. I can't believe my brother got himself arrested. Of all the stupid and reckless things to do. Especially right after finding out he's gonna have a baby. Two babies. Two babies with his best friends. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around it myself. He's eighteen. That's so freakin young. Younger than our parents were when they had me. That's scary. Really scary. And now he's been arrested. The ambu wouldn't even tell me the charge. I'm not sure they knew themselves.

"Uchiha." I looked up and saw Kurenai standing in front of me in a pant suit, arms crossed and glaring at me.

"Kurenai?" What's the director of the Kohona jail doing here? "I know what you're thinking, but that's part of my job, being called in when the President's kid gets arrested. You Uchiha, still causing trouble for me."

"I'm… very sorry. Is my brother okay?"

"Come on back, let's talk." She opened secure locking door and lead me back through a hallway.

"What are they charging him with?" I asked as I followed her.

"Trespassing, loitering, vandalism, property damage as well resisting and evading arrest." All misdemeanors. Okay… I can handle that, but still six crimes? It doesn't look good.

"What did he do?" I dared to ask seeing as she didn't seem too keen on giving me information.

"Set up shop on the great stone faces. Your father's in particular. Just popped up there and started raising hell. The arresting officers were going to charge him with drunk and disorderly, the kid seemed real out of it, but after the BAC came out clean…" She trailed off.

"Where are we going?" I asked, realizing we passed the drunk tank and general holding cells long ago.

"Psych ward."

"Psych ward?"

"Only way we could get him under control."

"What was he doing?" God Minatachi can your be any worse right now?

"Teleporting all over the place, causing us to use more force than necessary."

"I'm sorry about that."

"Sure you are." He said, rolling her eyes at me an unlocking a jail cell. I stepped into a padded room, Minatachi was fighting against a straight jacket, a blindfold covering his eyes. I felt my hands ball into fists. How could he be so stupid? What did he even do?

"Minatachi?"

"Who's there? Answer me, tell me what's going on!" He was extremely irritated but you could tell most of his fight had come and gone. I analyzed his chakra and it was very much distorted. Something was really wrong.

"It's your sister, I'm here to bail you out."

"Miko? Oh gawd!" He moaned, knowing he had really done it now. I walked over to him and grabbed his hair roughly.

"Now listen up you are to comply and do everything the officers tell you. Seriously Minatachi, you are in deep shit."

"Don't you think I know that?" I shook my head, not that he could see it. Two officers came in and picked Mina up and took him down the hall. I followed with Kurenai and I got him through release procedures. Five thousand dollar bail. Ouch. I will make sure Minatachi pays me back every penny. Or maybe that will just be his baby shower gift or something. At this current moment thinking was a little difficult. Kurenai allowed me to take him out the back, to the media wouldn't catch wind of him being arrested. All Dad needs is that kind of bad publicity. Oh my god. So I got him in my car and started to drive to our parent's house. I didn't really know where else to take him, because he's sure as hell not going back to the dorms right now. This was the best option.

"Are you gonna tell our dads?"

"No, you are." I said firmly.

"Mikoshina."

"Minatachi you got arrested! We can't just sweep this under the rug and pretend it didn't happen! You're gonna need a lawyer, there's gonna be court dates, hearings! What did you even do?" He was silent for a really long time. Thinking. Yeah, now he chooses to think about his actions.

"Daddy said my sharingan is rare right? The only other person known to have one was like his cousin Obito right?"

"Yeah." I said, not really sure what he was getting at.

"And he's… crazy right?"

I nodded, "He's locked up in a mental institution. Why Minatachi?"

"I don't know." Is he trying to tell me all of this was some sort of… fugue state? That would explain the extent of his distorted chakra, or why he's so out of it, even now. What happened to him?

"Look… lets not tell our parents about this… not yet. Your still pretty shaken up… we all need to just… process."

"Are you serious Mikoshina? You're not gonna tell them?"

"They're already freaked out as it is. And there's nothing we can do about it tonight. We'll tell them… later." He looked at me with nothing but gratitude, it made me angry, but I had to keep calm. We're about to walk into a storm and Minatachi needed an ally. I took a breath as we pulled up to our parent's house. Here we go.

Minatachi's P.O.V.

"Where have you been?" Where have I been? Wasn't that the ultimate question?

"I'm… I'm not sure."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Dad scolded. I accidentally made eye contact with Daddy and his rennigan read me instantly. I was sure he knew where I'd been, even if I didn't know myself. Oh I feel woozy.

"His sharingan has changed… evolved." Evolved? What? Daddy sat me down on the couch, put his hand on my thighs, looking at me with concern. "You went somewhere, where was it?" His eyes pierced into mine, analyzing me.

I shook my head. I still wasn't totally sure where I was. Or where I've been in the past… I don't know how long. As weird as this sounds, it's like my body is having a hard time adapting to the concept of time at all. An even weirder feeling that I feel I have to adapt at all. "A room with no walls. It's like… time didn't exist, and if I wanted something, it would just… appear. And if I didn't want it, it would disappear just as fast." My head hurt just thinking about it. I want to puke.

"Minatachi stop freaking us all out and tell us where you were." Mikoshina scoffed. Daddy looked up to her. "He's not lying Miko."

"A place where he controls time and space?" Dad asked hesitantly. Daddy only nodded.

"All of our sharingan control some aspect of time and space. At the lowest level we can see things one can't normally see in space, reading people, seeing patterns in code, things like that. It moves up from there, controlling the spaces inside peoples head, giving them projections of scenes, controlling how they feel time… Up to my rennigan that can control actual time and actual space in the real world with each eye respectively. That's what you and I can do Mikoshina. But Minatachi has always had a rare sharingan, much like my cousin Obito's. Obito had the ability to teleport, control his ownspace. Once while I was in prison he brought me to a place that seemed to be outside the realm of our standard universe. One where he had total control of time and space. I think that's where you were Minatachi, a place where you were in your own time/space, one that is separate from reality."

I took a sharp intake of breath. "What?" I was in my own time space?

"His sharingan must have evolved with the news." Dad said quietly. The news? Oh…right. That news. I looked down sadly.

"How long did you think you were gone for?"

"I don't know, an hour? Maybe two?"

"Minatachi you were gone for three days."

"Three days!" I shouted. Oh Hima is gonna kill me. Inojin too.

"The question is, what did you do while you were there?"

I shrugged, looking down at my feet. "Thought about stuff."

"Mina, you're having two kids." Mikoshina insisted. And I was just arrested. Something else I don't remember doing at all. Why can't I remember? Am I going insane? Am I doomed to be locked up in the looney bin like Obito?

"Yeah…" I said scratching the back of my head. "I really screwed up."

"I'll say you did."

"Mikoshina!" Daddy scolded. She crossed her arms and looked away.

"I didn't mean to-"

"None of that matters now Tach. What matters is what are you going to do about it?"

I shook my head. I don't know, I feel like I don't know anything right now. "Whatever Hima and Inojin want I guess…"

"But what do you want?" Dad asked. To be honest I wanted not to be having a baby, two of them at that. I'm eighteen for Christ's sake. And Inojin and Hima? I mean I love them but I'm not… in love with them. I don't know what the hell I want.

I shrugged again. "I mean… if they want to keep them… there's nothing I can really do about that." My head hurts so bad.

"But you don't want them."

"I didn't say that." I just… I don't know what I want.

"I think he still needs time to think." Daddy said getting up. "And talk it over with his friends."

"Yeah…" I said meekly.

"But Mina, you know if they decide to keep the babies, you have to step up, support them however they need support."

"What does that mean?" I asked, genuinely confused and worried.

"Get a job, a place to live, support your kids and the parents of them." I can't live in the dorms? Mooch off my scholarship money? No I guess not…

"Will I have to quit soccer?" I asked.

"You'll have to make sacrifices. Whatever you decide those sacrifices are."

"But Minatachi we want you to know you're not going to have to do this all alone. We are here for you. And we want to help you in any way that we can."

"What?" They're not gonna disown me? Take away my Uchiha name? Murder me? Well they still might after they find out I got arrested.

"As long as you take responsibility for your actions and step up in a real way, we want to help, do whatever we need to do to help you."

"You can't be serious."

"You can't abandon your kids Mina."

"Which means we're also not going to abandon you." Daddy said firmly.

"So figure out what you're going to do, and we will support you as best we can." Wow. Wow. I thought they were going to be pissed, yell at me, I'd never hear the end of it as they threw me out on my ass. But they're actually being supportive? Did I come back to the right reality? I mean, that means my parents are actually pretty… awesome? It's nice to know they have my back, really, but… still… what am I gonna do? I don't think I'm ready to be a father… I don't think I'm ready to be an adult.