An: enter the Mikoto, Kawaki and Sumire chapters. Their lives are the focus but things with their parents siblings and friends will be mention too.
Sakura strolled Sarada inside the building. Her white coat dawning an Uchiha crest on her back matching the one on her youngest child's chest. The girls happily talk gibberish throwing in a real word every now and then as her baby glasses glared under the night on her big brown black eyes. She couldn't help but to smile every time she looked in them. Her miracle baby. The birth had been so hard on her and Sarada. She blames herself for traveling but her girl came early then expected.
She leaned down and smiled in the child's face. "What are you saying? Huh? What are your saying?" She gushes before pulling away and continued her walk towards Ino office.
The blonde is at her desk looking at documents.
"Good Morning" Sakura beamed
"Oh you brought her!" Ino stood up and marched over to her niece picking her up and sitting her on her hips.
Sakura had tried to convince Ino to try again seeing how much she spoiled and gushed over Sarada and adore Himawari but she says she's done. Reaching into her Hermès bag she pulls out the evenelope.
Her wellness brand had been doing amazing so much so she just released the second line of organic cloth diapers. They sold out in twelve hours. Her wealth had tripled in the time of owning half the hospital and her own brand. She of course shared shares with Ino,Shikamaru and Hinata for their respective business endeavors together but the over all company proceeds and popularity came back to her. So much so she's bought an luxury apartment downtown. Her brand name is KotoSara and it's having its international debut soon. She's paid a few British stars to be in a commercial as a he Haruno clan has roots ties in Europe.
She placed the check onto Inos desk. "That's it the last payment"
Ino rolled her eyes. "You've already finished the last payment plus interest. We don't need more Interest!"
Sakura sighed. "Well I'm not taking it back"
"I'm not accepting it!"
The two stubbornly held eye contact.
"If I do I'll buy Sarada and Mikoto tons of things with it"
Sakura paled. "Fine fine. Let's donate it to patients families. Have a nurse give us the top fifteen families who needs assistance"
Ino smiled. "That forehead isn't just for show big brain"
"Yeah yeah Pig, you shop way too much for the girls!"
Ino bite her lips and closed her eyes bringing Sarada closer. "It's not that I won't have any. I can't have anymore "she admits "apparently I can not hold another one. I'll just put me and the baby at risk. I couldn't worry Sai or Inojin by doing that"
Sakura jaw drops before she hit her lips. She had no idea. "You buy them whatever you want okay"
Ino shook her head and handed Sakura Sarada. "I can cut back to birthdays and Christmas only"
"That's a huge step. I'm proud of you"
The friends laughed together before they go their separate ways. Sarada and Inojin had a nursery by Sakuras office but they hardly use it unless it's nap time. Sitting down in her desk she began approving Surgeries.
Sasuke
Picked up Mikoto, Kawaki and Sumires from school and just bid farewell to Naruto's children. Mikoto sat next to him in the squad car as the drove away from midtown.
"Where are we going tonight? To the house or apartment?"
"Your mother and sister are at the apartment" he answers and is greeted by her silence.
"Is everything okay" he asked his nine year old.
"Mom told me I could use Haruno at school and that the teachers will be okay with it"
So Sakura had told her. "You can"
"Why?"
"Our last is associated with pain for some people"
"But it's a name that's important, it's my name. If I can't make new friends with it, I wouldn't want those friends without it. "
He was proud of her. "We thought we give you and your sister the option"
"I see Sumire around school now we even have lunch together with Kawaki and Shikadai"
"Then we were worried in vain" he says and pats her head.
She smiles and looked up at his hand before he takes it and place it back on the wheel.
Walking into their apartment he smells a scent of spices and sees Sarada on the floor.
"Papa" she says and picks herself up to walk towards him. He picks her up and hold her close to his chest before fixing her glass which have gone crooked. Walking into the kitchen he sees Sakura there in an apron hugging Mikoto kissing her forehead. He waits until there down and he hugs her. She lays her pink head on his shoulder keeping it there for a few seconds as Mikoto giggled.
Pulling away from her husband she gathers herself walking back to the pot.
"Mikoto come here let me teach you a thing or two"
Mikoto dropped her backpack on the table and rushed to her mother's side putting on a waist apron Sakura bought her.
Sasuke took Sarada to the living room. Sitting on the floor as she crawled to get her doll and came back to him.
Seems they been worried for nothing. Mikoto wanted to keep her last name as is. As his.
3 years later
The eldest Uzumaki boy had been a month into Summer break at his Dad house on the hill Mito. The 12 year old played with his four year old brother by the shore as his step mother and little sister played in the water. Sumire sat close by reading her books. The laughs of Himawari and Hinata followed by a turn of a page and Boruto telling him to pay attention.
"Big brother Big brother look!" He says kicking the football.
"Good job Boruto"
Dad wasn't here, he is working. When he does come home he's so tired. Boruto and Himawari doesn't understand that. He plays with them for a little while and tries to talks with himself and Sumire but the older kids keep it short so he can eat his meal and go to bed. By time Kawaki wakes up dads gone again.
"Kawaki Kawaki Hima water, I can't see Mama"
The voices are gone he once could hear. He furrowed his brows and he sees his step mother being taking by the Current.
"SUMIRE!" He screams
The girl jumps up dropping her book. "What?"
"Moms she's underwater I CANT SEE HIMA"
He runs towards the water diving in.
Sumire jumped in behind him towards her mother's failing arms. The ten year old grabbed her arm but she got pulled under too she made eye contact with her mom underneath before they both shot up and swam to the shore.
"Mom?"
"Oh my god where's My baby?" She cried .
Kawaki held Himawari who cried rang around the hills loudly.
"My foot" Hinata cried. "I can't move it"
Before closing her eyes taking deep breaths. "Call your father Kawaki, Sumire take Boruto "
Kawaki ran holding his sisters bloody head towards the house. Dialing his father office.
Naruto: Hinata?
Kawaki: Dads it's me there's been an accident. Himawari she drown"
Naruto:WHAT?
Kawaki: I pulled her out. Moms foot is messed up they were in the water one minute I saw them then then
Naruto: listen son there's keys in the kitchen drawer to the truck take her and your mom to the hospital
Kawaki: Dad I can't drive!
Naruto: it's just like the four wheelers. Mito is a small town. Left is gas right is break. P is for park, R for backing up D is for drive
Kawaki and Sumire held their mother up into the truck. She held Himawari in the front as Boruto was in the back with mom.
Naruto had rushed to the Uchiha Yamanaka children's hospital. After stabilization Himawari in Mito's hospital he immediately ask Ino and Sakura to transport them. They sent a ambulance to extract her and Kawaki to Konoha city.
He saw Sakura before a room by a monitor.
"Naruto" she says with deep regret.
"Tell me I can handle it"
"She hit a rock underneath it punctured her ear drum and the hearing in her right ear is gone"
He winced as soon as she said it going inside the room.
The suit felt like it was suffocating him under those floursent lights that buzz. His blood was cold and his chest pierced him. Fat white oversized gauze tapped to her little eardrum is a sight he never wanted to see. Looking down at his toddler in the white crib shiver and huff breaths of trauma from the accident. His hand rub through her indigo hair as her big blue matching distilled sapphire eyes look at him. In Himawari eyes he saw all the pain of those two minutes she spent in agony. Naruto always thought himself to be the bearer of everyone he cared about Burdens but it wasn't until he divorced Shion, accepted Sumire, had Boruto and then Himawari is when he found out the people he brought into this world he couldn't shield them from the bad things all the time. No parent could. He patted her head as she lifted her small hand wrapping its entirety around his index finger tip. His eyes rippled over and he felt comfort he couldn't feel anywhere else on the planet. Heavy heart from the gut wrenching news Sakura just laid on him he winced at his youngest daughter.
"There there" he lowly coo to her. "Daddy's here"
The door behind him open and he saw his disheveled son there.
Kawaki walked towards him with confusion and concern.
Naruto wrapped an arm around him.
"You did great. You save her"
Kawaki shook his head. "What happen Dad? Why did I have to drive the truck and leave everyone else?"
Naruto turned from his son. He is ashamed his children had to go through this. He should've been there with them, with Hinata. He's suppose to be there when she slips. The words of her doctor shortly after they had Boruto had been stored and pushed back but there wasn't nothing he could.
"Your step mother ex husband is waiting for an opportunity to take your sister away. We want to keep Sumire with us. It wouldn't be in our favor for her to be attached to this accident"
"Who is Sumires dad?"
"When I taught that guy when you were four Its him"
Kawaki blinked rapidly looking at Himawari. "What happen. Can you tell me "
Naruto stared at his son then smiled. "You drove them to safety thank you. Your a man. So I can tell you things as the man of the house when I'm not there."
Kawaki nodded with a blush at his father praise. "Okay"
"That man hurt Hinata. He use to hit her."
Kawaki eyes widen then he frowned. "That's terrible! Why?"
"Because he's weak" Naruto answered. "He was put away but he's been out for a few years. His lawyers fighting us in court to get her. I won't let him hurt Hinata anymore."
Truth is He wanted full custody of Sumire or to appoint her a power of attorney. Naruto would not allow Toneri to hurt Hinata like that.
"I know it doesn't make much sense to you but your are the oldest. " he says looking at Himawari who's sat up. "It's a huge responsibility but they'll need you and come to you when they can't come to me or Hinata."
Kawaki nodded. "Can I hold her?"
"Yes go ahead"
He walked forward and reached for her her arms reached for him he picked her up as Naruto watched the cords stretch.
"Careful" he tells Kawaki
Sumire were at home holding Boruto as her mother sat at the table her foot in a cast as she held her cheek in her hands.
Kawaki had slowly came in behind Dad who sat next to mom.
Naruto's could see the guilt Hinata felt. It wasn't her fault he knows that.
"Himawari?" She asked deeply and A shiver sent down Sumires back at her mother's tone.
"She's with Ino for the night. I'm going back there but I wanted to bring Kawaki home"
Hinata nodded with her head down before lifting it up.
Naruto leaned from the side of her so he could catch her eye. Tears stained her face. She wasn't looking at him.
"Her right ear" he says "the hearing is gone"
Fresh tears came out of her eyes and he hugged her as she faintly cried and covered her face. He holds his sadden wife then looks at the kids watching.
"Sumire im proud of you too"
The girl nodded.
"Come on Sumire let's takes Borutos bath" Kawaki told her remembering what his father told him. Earlier.
She stood and they left.
When the door closed to the bathroom. Sumire let out a sob for her little sister as Kawaki ran the bath water. She tried to undress her little brother but he threw a tanturm.
"No I want MOM!" He shrilled
"No! Stop being a brat mom is" she pauses "sad right now"
"Mom Mom Mom mom mom" he cries pulling back down his shirt.
"Boruto!" Kawaki says.
"That's not cool, you a big guy not a baby alright" he says and the boy puffs before taking off his own shirt.
Sumire sat on the floor as Kawaki cleaned Boruto.
"What happen Kawaki? With my mom?" She says.
"Dad doesn't want you or your mom to get in trouble"
"Why would we get in trouble?"
"You don't need to know why just trust Dad he's going to take care of things"
Sumire winced and looked away. "I'm going to bed. "
"Go ahead I got him"
"Thanks I owe you one " she says while talking back out.
She stood by the end of the hall.
"Toneri's going to use this against me! I know he will" her mother sob "he's going to take her, so he has the last laugh"
"No! " Naruto says. "He knows nothing. The story is you broke you ankle trying to save her. The Hyugas already released a statement on our behalf"
She heard more cries from her mother. "I didn't think I'd forg-"
Sumire turned and marched towards her room with Himawari and she slid down and cried on the floor. She knows her father. Her real father is who their talking about.
Naruto moved around some dates and pushed things back. When he walked in with Himawari. His family surrounding him. He handed her immediately to Hinata who kissed her cheek and closed her eyes.
"Dad who's that?" Kawaki asked.
Behind him is a young man he found at elementary.
"This is he's going to teach You, and Sumire sign language"
"What about you Boruto and mom?" Sumire asked.
"We will be taking a class with Himawari and Boruto they're still young and it'll be easier, you two have other activities after school. Kawaki still lives with his mother so stopping your routines would be unfair to you"
Sumire face dropped as she nodded. Kawaki does still lives with his mom. He has a whole family out there.
She did too she just didn't know them.