Kei-Kei Yuki: Hi, guys I'm back with a new chapter, neither Naruko, Sasuke, or their kids the center of this chapter. Also, I'm currently working on prt.5 of The Last, but I'm stuck and currently debating on genderbending yet another character and I don't know how you all will react. Telling the truth, I'm terrified you guys might throw rocks my way, but I need to if I want my idea to play out right as I want the story to focus more on Naruko/Sasuke and less about Hinata. Sorry, Hina-chan, this is not your love story! Anyway, hopefully I can update it by tomorrow!~!XD

Pairings: Naruko x Sasuke, Fem!Iruka x Kakashi, Sakura x Lee, Hinata x Kiba, and the rest are canon.

Beta: Ana-DaughterofHades

Troublesome Kids

After a hard, grueling day at work, members of the Konoha twelve booked themselves a table at Ichiraku Ramen, which had expanded business. Ordering ramen and sake to drown their sorrows, they chatted about their kids and life. Up first today, a tipsy Sai talked about his sweet little artist, his and Ino's darling little princess, and her obvious crush on a certain young Nara heir. "I can still remember her promise of loving only her Papa, but now she wants to hang around him ! That little brat is stealing my sweet Saki away from!" The brat Sai was referring to just so happened to be Temari and Shikamaru's only son, Shikadai.

"Woah, Sai, calm down, buddy. I mean, it's reasonable that they hang out a lot, seeing as they're on the same team. Not to mention the fact that the two grew up together." Kiba tried to speak reasonable words to the artist, but Sai wasn't listening as he took another swig of alcohol and ranted once again.

"It's all his fault! He even one-upped me. By stealing the ninja-art-tool set I was going to get her for a birthday present last year and had the nerve to be smug about it! Where did that kid get the money to buy it in the first place?! That tool-set is way too expensive for a child to get their hands on!" Sai could still recall how his adorable Saki's face lit up with pure joy when that boy presented his daughter with the tool-set she had been wanting, consisting of over a hundred different colored paints and art tools.

He vividly remembered how her smile, sweet as daisies, bloomed across her face. All that should have belonged to him, yet that boy had stolen his spotlight and his precious daughter's affection. "Saki-chan promised she wouldn't leave me. And now she's gone off with that boy !" Cue the ex-root member, a man once unable to understand emotions, bawling like a child, jealous of a twelve-year-old boy.

Shaking her head at the sobbing artist, Sakura, sitting beside Shikamaru, directed her gaze up and asked, "Just how is Shikadai doing anyway?" Sakura could not understand how her simple question caused Shikamaru to look as if he aged a few more years, fingers massaging his brows before answering the pink-haired woman.

"Troublesome and taking over my house." Shikamaru's blunt answer raised a curious eyebrow from Sakura, watching Shikamaru reach out and down another sip of sake.

"That brat of mine has always been obsessed with money. Who did he inherit such traits from? No clue, but lately, I have been growing concerned." Listening to what the man had to say, the group, consisting of Kiba, Sakura, and Sai, gave the Hokage advisor their full attention as he delved into his story.

Shikamaru began with the story where he arrived home late one evening, asking Temari the whereabouts of their son. His wife's reply had caught the tired Nara off guard when she said, "He's in his study room going over paperwork."

"Huh?" Shikamaru had a hard time comprehending such adult words associated with his son coming from his wife's mouth, so he asked once again to make sure he didn't hear things wrong.

"Tch, I said he was in his office! If you're worried about him, then check on him, but be silent. He's been in there for over three hours already!" Temari warned him as Shikamaru wanted to ask, 'When did his son get a private office? Even I don't have one!' But upon hearing Temari's warning, he got up to see things for himself.

Walking down the hallway, Shikamaru creaked open the door Temari pointed out to him, and believe it or not, his twelve-year-old son indeed had a private office room! What was even more shocking was that he saw the sandy blonde sitting down at his desk, counting large bills of money, which he organized into stacks. Growing concerned at the large stacks of money Shikadai somehow had in his possession, Shikamaru sat him down one evening and asked him about it. Bored teal-eyes stared at his father and calmly answered,

"A lot of my classmates and students at the academy have hobbies which I suggest they can profit from, and if they agree, I find customers who are interested in their work and get fifteen percent of the profit as they keep the rest. They do the work, and I bring in the business. It's totally legal," Yes, it was legal, but Shikamaru wondered when did his twelve-year-old son turn into a business tycoon?!

Shikamaru brought up another short story of how stunned he was to discover that with Temari's permission, Shikadai opened his own bank account. When he saw the amount of money his young son had stored into the account, Shikamaru felt his hair graying, because those numbers should not belong to a mere child! It was twice the amount of his own bank account, and last time he remembered, only one of them had a stable job!

At this point, those who claimed to be Shikamaru's friends were either pitying him or on the verge of laughing, but the advisor was not done yet, having one last story to tell—speaking of the time Daisuke and Shikadai had to face punishment for damaging the Hokage mountain when they tried to stop a bunch of delinquents bullying another student. Yes, their intentions were good, but one does not crash a train into the Hokage mountain!

For punishment, the boys were assigned work at one of the many divisions at the Hokage Building, and it was just Shikadai's luck that they were assigned to the Finance Division. When Shikamaru went to check up on his son to see how he was faring with his punishment, the sight of grown adults running up to his young son, asking for his opinions and getting him to sign papers, their eyes holding nothing but utter respect as they proudly addressed him as boss, was the least of his expectations. Somehow, in the span of an hour, Shikadai took control of the entire Finance Division.

Back in the present, both Kiba and Sakura were losing themselves laughing as Shikamaru drowned himself in another bottle of sake.

End of Troublesome Kids

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