Naruto's P.O.V.

"Where is he?"

I looked at my phone. No messages, not even an alert. And his plane left on time. He was supposed to be here three hours ago. Suigetsu got in last night, why wasn't he on that plane? "He'll be here." I tried to say calmly.

"His phone is on. He's just not answering it." Hima said, resting her hand on her nearly nine-month pregnant belly.

"Hasn't read any of my texts either." Inojin said looking at his phone sadly.

"You two should sit down, we really don't want to chance the babies coming early because your upset about Minatachi." Sasuke said softly, helping Hima to a chair.

"I'm always upset about Minatachi, what else is new?" She muttered vindictively.

"Let's just go ahead and start the rehearsal, he'll show up soon." I said, getting everyone in their places around the church.

"Right." Minatachi, Hima, and Inojin apparently had all broken up right before he went off to the Waves. Whatever breaking up exactly means to them. I had no idea, Hima just told me on the way over, they haven't spoken a word to each other all summer. Inojin either. Just when I thought I could be proud of my son being a hero and finishing all his community service, he's still his same old self, shurking his responsibility. Sigh. Even more so now that he's late for Mikoshina's wedding rehearsal. My baby girl is getting married tomorrow. If he misses the wedding… I just… don't know if he'll be able to recover with any of us.

We all rehearsed for tomorrow, pushing Minatachi to the back of our minds as we put on big smiles. Mikoshina's having her dream wedding. She looks gorgeous, her fiancé loves her, there's only two loose ends left to tie up, and one, well, let's just hope her brother shows up. We rehearsed and once finished, everyone started to leave for the dinner. We rented out Ichiraku's ramen for the rehearsal dinner, seems pretty fitting, and delicious. As everyone started to leave Sasuke and I pulled Mikoshina and Shikadai over to the side.

"What's up you guys?" Mikoshina asked, her blue eyes sparkling as she looked at each of us.

"We'd like a minute of your time." Sasuke said kindly, gripping my hand firmly. I felt myself smile with pride.

"We have something we'd like to give you before things everything really starts and we can't get a minute alone with the newly married couple." I said, equally as proud.

"Yeah, sure, what is it?" Mikoshina's eyes shined brightly as she took Shikadai's hand.

"Come with us." Sasuke said as he led everyone to a private room in the cathedral. On the table there was a neatly stacked set of papers, with a fancy pen and a notary sitting in the corner.

"What's going on? Seriously guys? What is this?" Her smile was so big, but I suppose so were ours.

Sasuke put his hand on the table, thumb softly stroking the edge of the paperwork. "Over the years I've watched you grow up Mikoshina, grow to be this beautiful Uchiha the clan would be proud of. They'd probably worship at your feet if given the opportunity. Advancing your sharingan so far at such a young age. It the clan were still at its greatest, you'd be a commander, a general, well on your way to leadership and Uchiha royalty. You make me so proud. And Shikadai. The clan would be honored to have you, welcome you into its ranks with open arms. You two would have the perfect Uchiha wedding, the perfect send off into your new lives."

"We're already getting that Daddy, you're already giving us all of that and more." Mikoshina said, letting go of her soon to be husband's hand and hugging her father tightly, tears in both of their eyes.

"It's always been your goal to rebuild the clan, restore the Uchiha to their former glory. Is that still your goal?"

"Yes."

His rennigan moved to Shikadai, questioning him. "Yes, Mr. Uzumaki Uchiha, more than anything."

He nodded, looking down again. "It's my dream too, for you to rebuild the clan but… I don't want you to restore it, I want you two to reimagine it. Make it stronger than it was before, better. Make our bloodline strong, and kind, free of the faults that caused our demise in the first place. Make it incredible, like the two of you have always been." They both nodded, softly shedding tears.

"This is our wedding gift to you." I said, putting a hand on my daughter's shoulder.

"It's our legacy." Sasuke said, guiding them both to view the paperwork before them. Mikoshina read the pages, her eyes turning from crystal blue to bright red and intense, then filling with tears.

"You're giving us the old Uchiha district?"

"It's your birthright." She put her hands over her mouth and Shikadai just hugged her.

"What about Minatachi?" She asked, after pulling herself together from the overwhelming emotion.

"You and Shikadai will get the half of the property where the head of the clan used to live. It's a little bigger, the views are thought to be a little better… But Minatachi will get his half when we feel he's ready."

"So never." She said with a classic Uchiha smirk on her face.

"Sign the documents Mikoshina." Sasuke smirked back, handing her the pen.

"This is… incredible dad, daddy. Thank you so much." She hugged us both and then Shikadai did too before each signing the paperwork. We did too and the notary gave us a stamp of approval. It was done, our legacy was officially passed on to them. Sasuke held me tightly. A part of our hearts were finally complete. After we handed the deed over, we rode to Ichiraku's together.

Mikoshina's closest family and friends were all there. Everyone except for Minatachi. I caught Sasuke asking Hima and Inojin if they had heard from him. They hadn't. I was starting to get antsy when he finally walked in. He was dressed nice, a button up shirt, although wrinkled, and a tie with skinny jeans. His hair was long and as messy as ever, but that couldn't be helped I suppose. On his arm however was Metal Lee. He'd inherited his mother's beauty, with his father's physique, in fact, he may even have quite a bit more muscle than his father. And my son was clearly dating him. They seemed… well they seemed in love. Genuinely. I've never seen him look at Inojin or Hima that way. He was really happy. He paraded around the room with Lee although I'm not sure which one was the prized pony, they both looked to hold the other as something to be cherished. It was a really good look for my son.

As they walked around I noticed they avoided some key people. Sasuke and I in particular, but also Inojin, Hima, Mikoshina, and Metal Lee's parents. Sakura drank her wine, glaring at me as she waltzed over.

"I'm not happy about this Naruto."

"Come on Sakura, they seem happy enough."

"If he gets my son pregnant it will be the end of your life."

"Threatening the President of the Land of Fire. Tisk, tisk Sakura-kun." My husband laughed, coming over and wrapping his arm around me.

"I'll make it look like he had a heart attack. No one would know the difference."

Lee put his arm around his threatening wife and clicked his beer to Sasuke's. "At the very least they seem to be happy." Sakura rolled her eyes at her husband's comment and he silently refilled her drink. Shikamaru and Temari soon joined us at the bar.

"Ah there's your future in laws now, just a few more hours until your family." Lee tipped his glass to them.

"So excited to be Uchiha. I guess you guys are next huh." Temari chuckled, sticking her tongue out at Sakura.

"Let's all pray this is just a passing phase."

"Mom, Dad." Shikamaru and Temari moved aside to reveal Lee holding Minatachi's hand coming towards them. "Umm… do you have a minute?"

"Dad, Daddy?" Minatachi looked at us, his innocent blue eyes sparkling.

"Please tell me he's not about to tell us Lee's pregnant." Sasuke whispered into my ear before kissing it. I pinched him, but I was worried too.

"We just we wanted to formally tell you… that we're… together." Metal Lee said upfront.

"Boyfriend and boyfriend… hoping for your… blessing." Minatachi muttered the last part.

"Oh." I'm not sure who said it, maybe we all did but… the inflections of everyone involved were painfully different. Well… I can at least say that was a very big step for Minatachi. Maybe Lee might do him some good after all.

Sasuke's P.O.V.

Knock. Knock.

"What time is it?" Naruto moaned from underneath me.

"Early." I answered, a little groggy as I searched around for some underwear. Naruto and I got a little drunk last night, a little crazy. What? It was our daughter's rehearsal dinner; we could indulge if we wanted. Plus, we both really love hotel sex. So yeah, underwear, nowhere to be found.

Knock. Knock.

"Hold on." I nearly yelled.

"Try by the door. I think I had you naked and hoisted up on the counter before we even closed the door." Naruto mumbled. I wasn't even sure if he was awake or not.

"Right." I ran my hand through my hair and searched through the pile of clothes by the door. Boxers finally.

Knock. Knock.

"What?" I nearly screamed as I opened the door. There was my son, wide eyes, looking very small.

"Did I wake you up?"

I raised my eyebrows I'm sure my rennigan looked crazy in that state. "Yes."

"Sorry, I'm still on wave time, jetlag." He chuckled. I put my hand over my face, it's way too early for this. On Mikoshina's wedding day no less.

"Do you need something?"

"I uh… I wanted to talk to you. Is your equipment here, can I give you a transfusion?"

"Sure Minatachi." I said, letting him in. He walked in and grabbed the equipment out of my bag, setting it up as I gathered myself, actually waking up and putting some sweats on. I sat on the bed and he sat in the chair, getting the needles together.

"Mmmm…. Who was it, what's going on?" Naruto muttered.

"Shhh, it's just Tach, go back to sleep." I said to him, putting the covers back over him. "So, what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked, guiding the needle in his arm, the taking the other and putting it into my own, starting the transfusion.

"Umm… a lot. I… I'm sorry for being such a screw up."

"Minatachi, you're not a screw up."

"You don't have to do that Daddy. I am. You know it, Dad knows it, Mikoshina. I… I just wanted to tell you that I want to do better. I'm gonna try to do better."

"What brought this about?"

"I… I actually really loved my community service project. It sort of… I don't know, taught me to be less selfish, to care about others. To be honest… that kind of work, it made me want to do that sort of thing for the rest of my life. You know make a difference." Wow. I… didn't realize he had such a revelation while he was out there.

"Minatachi, that's amazing."

"Thanks Daddy." He said, not really smiling.

"Alright so what am I about to be mad at?"

He smiled at the fact that I knew him so well. "You're not gonna like it."

"Probably not."

"I umm… I want to work for Uncle Sui full time. He offered me a paid position on staff as an organizer. It's pretty much minimum wage, but I could send my whole check home to Hima and Inojin… It could buy them groceries or diapers or something. Help out a little." I put the dots together.

"You want to drop out of college."

"Yeah…" I'm gonna kill Suigetsu. My knee jerk reaction was to tell him no, but that would only make matters worse. Send him spiraling in the opposite direction.

"This is something you really want? To help others?"

"More than anything."

"You know I don't want you to drop out of college."

"I know."

"So let's compromise."

"How?"

"Suigetsu really doesn't need another unskilled worker, especially with the kind of pull and publicity you could bring in for him. You're the Hokage's son… my son. He needs someone to run, build, and even expand his charity. Why don't you… do something that will help him give you the reigns someday? Get your degree in business, event planning, humanities, social work, something. Something that will help him and give you an integral position in his foundation. Soccer is already giving you free education, could you… please take advantage of that for me?"

He looked down, thinking about it. "I don't have to get a degree in engineering?" I almost laughed.

"Were you ever really going to?"

"Heck no." He chuckled.

"So long as you're following your dreams, that's all I want for you." And a degree would be nice too.

"I could major in social work, be a humanitarian, and you wouldn't be mad?"

"I would be so proud." His heart skipped a beat.

"Okay. Yeah, deal." He smiled. I took a breath, I'm glad Minatachi's finally finding some direction in his life, but I'm still worried. "Oh no, I've heard that sigh before."

"You and Hima, you and Inojin." He looked uncomfortable, scratching at the IV. I pulled his hand away, but held it, hoping to give him some reassuring vibes. "What's going on between the three of you?"

"Daddy… they… dumped me. Right before I left for the summer. They said they didn't need me, that they had it under control."

"So you retaliate by coming home with a sparkly new boyfriend?" I could see the guilt riddled all over my son. He truly did feel bad.

"You should have seen the look on Inojin's face, it was like I broke his heart." I gave him a sad look. "I didn't expect to fall in love this summer Daddy. I didn't think I was ever going to be in love with anyone. But Lee… I just… love spending time with him, he makes me laugh, cares about me. Has thoughts, dreams, stories, experience. I fell for him really hard Daddy."

"He seems to be just as smitten with you." I read him while he was talking to us last night. Lee thinks Minatachi could be the one. I'm pretty sure my son feels the same way.

Minatachi blushed. "Yeah…"

"You need to talk to Hima and Inojin."

"Lee's been telling me that since we got back." So Lee may really be a good influence on him.

"Are you going to listen to him?"

"I'm gonna go to their room after I'm done with your transfusion."

"Just… keep it light okay? We don't want either of them to go into labor of all days today."

"Right."

"You're really growing up Minatachi." I said, removing his IV.

"Yeah, it totally sucks." He said getting up, shoving his hands in his pockets.

"Don't miss the wedding alright?" I said messing up his already messy hair.

"I won't." Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.

"Good luck son."

"Thanks Daddy."

Minatachi's P.O.V.

"Well?"

"Well… you could do it."
"I don't like the look on your face Lee." He swallowed the bagel he was chewing and took a swig of coffee before replying to me.

"You'd have to take more then 12 credit hours a semester."

"Fuck."

"Like at least fifteen. Maybe even eighteen."

"Double fuck."

"And you absolutely cannot fail another class."

"My GPA couldn't take the hit anyways. I'm just barely eligible for soccer as it is." I said, drinking my orange juice, letting it sink in.

"But you could do it. Social work, humanities… it's… doable." He said scrolling through the course schedule on his phone.

"Even with soccer."

He nodded, "Even with soccer. You're smart Tach. If you just applied yourself, you could do this no problem." I looked down, playing with my napkin. When have I ever actually applied myself? He put his hand over mine. "You said you wanted to do better. This is… a brave move in the right direction. Your dads will be proud, Mikoshina too. And I think even Hima and Inojin will appreciate the effort."

"Can I really do this? It's a lot of pressure."

"Yes MT, you can really do this. And I'll be right there, every step of the way." I smiled at that, taking his hand and kissing it.

"This changes everything, our plan."

"I know you're scared of long distance, but you'll be super busy. With soccer, school, the babies. And I will always be based out of the Leaf. I'll always come home to you. Instead of sending Hima and Inojin your check, I'll send them part of mine so you can just focus."

"Babe." He smiled.

"I am so proud of you."

"I really am trying."

"Hima and Inojin will see that."

"I don't know Lee."

"They will. They love you as much as I do, if not more. They'll see it." I played with his fingertips, looking down. "Stop procrastinating."

"I'm not procrastinating."

"Minatachi."

"Alright, alright. You sure you don't want to come with me?"

"This is something you have to do MT, on your own. I'd probably only make it worse."

"Maybe today's not a good day. I mean Miko's getting married today."

"And she shouldn't have to start her new life with negative energy at her wedding. You need to do this. Now." I looked up to the ceiling, biting my lip.

"Fine." I decided to get them some breakfast, try to be nice. Lee helped me out, you know, make nutritional decisions for them and stuff. He went back to our room, and I went to Hima's and Inojin's room. Taking a deep breath I knocked on the door. After a few moments Inojin answered, a glare on his face. I've never seen him so mad at me.

"What do you want?"

"To talk? I brought you both breakfast." I said holding up the tray. Inojin rolled his eyes, closing the door to unlock the latch but letting me in.

"Hima probably won't eat much, she's been feeling pretty crummy all day." Inojin said not looking at me, heading back to his own bed. I closed the door and went inside, setting the food on the coffee table. Hima was on her phone, nearly upside down with pillows under her thighs.

"Are you feeling okay Hims?"

She looked up at me, glaring. "Not great. I'm hoping it's just false labor, but who knows. This position is supposed to help stop the baby from coming, but it's just giving me fuckin heartburn." She nearly growled.

"Do you need anything? Is there something I can do to help?"

She gave me a seriously pissed off look. "What are you doing here MT?" Wow, this is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

"I just… I want to make things right. The way we left things, I don't feel good about it."

"Sorta find that pretty hard to believe. You showing up with this new man attached to your dick. Flaunting him around to replace us. Thanks for that by the way. It was real fun explaining to my parents why I'm not with my baby daddy." Hima sneered, not looking up from her phone.

"I didn't mean to embarrass you Hima, that wasn't my intention at all. I just… fell in love this summer, I didn't expect it. But I wanted to show the people closest to me I was happy."

"Yeah, happy until you get him pregnant or he dumps you, then he'll be no better than dirt just like us." Ino said from his bed, crossing his arms and looking away. He was trying not to cry. My heart absolutely broke. No better than dirt? Does he really feel that way?

"Inojin, you don't… you don't honestly believe that do you?" I felt tears come to my eyes. I looked at him and he was biting his lip, trying his best not to cry.

"What else are we supposed to believe MT?" Hima asked.

"You guys dumped me." I said getting on my knees in between their bed.

"Like you're ready to have a baby Minatachi." Hima growled dangerously. My hands balled into fists as tears freely flowed down my cheeks.

"Of course I'm not ready to have a baby! We're nineteen! We're just kids ourselves. And yeah, you guys fuckin grew up and dealt with it. You both are… really remarkable… incredible for being able to do that. I needed more time… I still need more time, but…" I looked down, wiping my eyes, but the tears wouldn't stop. "But I fuckin love you guys. I love you guys more than anyone else in the world. I know I'm a shitty partner, and I'll probably be a shitty dad too, but I realize now that… I don't want to be left out of it. I don't want to live a life without you guys. You two are the two best people I've ever known, and that I could ever want this to happen with. And you're going to be amazing parents, amazing parents to my kids. I still have a lot of growing up to do, and Lee's helping me with that. I want to support you and help you guys out, I want to be in your lives, because… my life's just so hallow without you in it. Even with Lee." I don't know what I was saying, I was just pouring my heart out, snotty, nasty tears just flooding down my face as I gripped my hair trying to hold on to anything. "I just… I love you guys so much. Too much to be without you." I curled into a sobbing puddle onto the floor. God I was pathetic. I'd been repressing this emotion for a really long time, and it just all came out. Was it even coherent? Did they even care?

Suddenly I felt arms wrap around me, and then another pair of arms and a wetness on my shoulder and back. They were both on the floor hugging me, balling their eyes out too.

"We love you too Minatachi."

"More than anything."

"It just felt like you didn't give a shit about us, or the babies. That's why we ended it."

"And then you show up with Lee, I've never seen you that happy before. Never with me." Inojin cried.

"I'm so sorry. I do care, about you, the babies, I just… fuck, I don't know what the hell I'm doing."

"And you think we do? We don't have our shit together either MT."

"More than me."

"Well, when don't we?" Hima chuckled, tears in her eyes as she pushed my bangs back out of me face. We both tried to smile.

"We're always gonna love you MT, no matter how shitty a person you are." Inojin chuckled, giving me a squeeze.

"Can we just… keep trying? Don't give up on me, please." I begged.

"You idiot. Got me crying and everything. Of course we can keep trying, even if you weren't the dumbass sperm donor. The three of us have been inseparable since birth, probably even since conception." Hima chuckled, "You're kinda stuck with us MT."

"And we're kinda stuck with you." Inojin laughed, wiping his snotty tears away.

"Look at us being idiots, Mikoshina's gonna kill us when we all look like we've been crying in her wedding photos." Hima laughed, trying to dry her tears too.

"You're not mad anymore, we're okay?" I asked.

"We're always gonna be mad at you for some reason or another, but that's just life with dumbass Minatachi. It's good to have you back though babe," Hima said, pulling me close to her and kissing my forehead. "Apology accepted."

"Plus you and Lee look really good together. I'm just glad you found someone who could make you happy."

"Inojin." I looked in his eyes, putting a hand on his cheek, tearing up again.

"It's okay really. You and I… we're better off as friends, I just want to see you happy, you know that."

"I really am happy."

"He must be really fuckin good in bed then." Hima chuckled, punching me.

"We uhh… we haven't had sex yet. It's not like we're waiting or anything. And we do other stuff, we just… want the moment to be right… not force things." I confessed.

Both of my best friends looked at each other, jaws dropped. "What?"

"You must be really fuckin in love then." Hima smirked.

I blushed really hard. "I… I actually think I really am."

Mikoshina got married that day. She was the happiest I've ever seen her. She looked like the most beautiful Uchiha queen in the whole world. Dad and Daddy cried the whole time. I made it through the wedding with my best friends and my boyfriend at my side. Everything just felt right. Hima went into labor that night. Literally seconds after the wedding officially ended. She was in labor for nearly 20 hours, bringing my beautiful daughter into the world. Himiko Hyuga Uchiha. Inojin went into labor a day later, he barely had any pain, it only lasted maybe two hours. Inotachi Uchiha. My sister got married, my best friends gave birth to my perfect kids, I had Lee, I had my dads. Life was… finally perfect. The way it should be.