It all began as a necessity. One time when Sasuke came back from his travels and found that another ones of the houses had been destroyed by his wife's poorly controlled super human strength, he started to really question whether the almighty Uchiha-clan funds would really be able to finance 12 broken houses in a 3 years of time-span.

When he finally looked into his Bank account he quickly realised that, no. It wouldn't.

Despite his wife being an accomplished surgeon and the owner of both the Leaf General Hospital and the head medic, most of her salary went into the Children's mental health clinic, and the rest went into her crazy shopping sprees with either her childhood friend Yamanaka or Sasuke's own daughter.

Which is why it was not a shocking revelation to Sasuke Uchiha that his family was almost broke in terms of money. One time when he was on his travels through Kaguya's dimension trying to find anything that could give him more information about the Ootsutsuki Clan, an idea popped into his mind. He had spent a lot of time with his old sensei after coming back to the Leaf and had remembered a conversation he had with him

'Now that Jiraiya-sama is dead, There is a huge demand for more types of his books. God, I am so bored without new Icha-Icha books Sasuke.'

Sasuke pondered on it. There was a huge demand for more versions of that smutty book among the perverts and no other author had really tried his hands at the genre since the untimely demise of Naruto's old Sensei.

Sasuke had a lot of downtime in between travelling through the dimensions, perfect time for keeping a hobby. And if the book sells well then his concerns for the monetary aspects of his life will be erased.

And so Sasuke finally decided he would adopt a pen name and carry on the legacy of Jiraiya the toad sage, in a manner that he never would have expected. It was perfect in a manner, no one would ever expect the stony and stoic Sasuke to ever write books like these, and he was only doing this for the money- He was thinking of his daughter's future for Kaguya's Sake!

Okay, this was not the level of popularity he was expecting. Sasuke realised he had severely underestimated how great the demand was for another smutty novel with a little bit of plot was. His novel was an absolute best seller within a month of hitting shelves. He had just taken a bit of inspiration from his own sexual experiences with his wife (which are a bit more than anyone would have expected) and tagged it with a cliche and boring plot that you could see through from a mile away.

Sasuke had opened a new secret bank account where the money from the novel went, Sasuke had originally expected a few thousand Ryos - but after a few months of release, Sasuke's secret account was filled with millions and millions of Ryo. He kept putting a little bit of money into his joint account with Sakura and nobody batted an eye.

He had carefully chosen his pen name as 'Sato', a common name that nobody could trace back to him. Soon he was a secret millionaire that could probably buy out the entire leaf village if he wanted. It was a weird thing to listen to your wife complain about monthly expenses when you are most probably the richest man in the village.

Sasuke quickly started to write more and more. Now that his mission had ended and he no longer had to stay away from the village for so long, he could write even more- considering he was a stay at home father with nothing to do.

He had really found his calling- writing this smut was liberating in a way he could never have imagined. Sarada was usually on missions with her team and Sakura was as the hospital or the clinic most of the time, so he was able to write freely with no chance of being caught.

Soon enough, he had published more than a series worth of books, each one more popular than the last. People started to call his books the 'second coming of Icha Icha' and Kakashi could now be spotted with a book from Sato, at any occasion.

Sasuke saw many programs on the television talking about this new tycoon in the writing business and many people trying to theorize who Sato was. None however had gotten it right yet.

Everytime Sakura would complain about recent budget cuts, Sasuke would donate large sums of money from an anonymous account. Everytime Sarada wanted a new set of Kunai or a sword, Sasuke would buy her a brand new state of the art weapon and tell Sakura he had saved up for it. Sasuke was living the prime life.

An emergency summon was called from the Hokage's office and Sasuke and apparently the rest of rookie 12 flocked to the Hokage's office.

Inside Naruto was looking distressed as he paced around the office.

"What happened?"

"Do any of you know Sato, and his work?"

Sasuke almost spluttered in surprise.

"Who the hell is that, dobe." feign ignorance.

"Sato is a great writer, who wrote the recent 'Little Trouble in Big Konoha.' He is one of the best romance novel writers since Jiraiya-sama himself, and apparently…."

Naruto stopped pacing around and aimed his finger at all of them

"Present in this very room!"

Everyone collectively face palmed and Sasuke did too, just to look innocent. Little did Naruto know, he was bang on right.

"This is what you summoned us for Hokage-sama?" Ino looked annoyed.

"What even gave you the idea?"Shikamaru asked.

"Look in The third book of the second series. Chapter 12 speaks about a mission that was super similar to one that all 4 of our teams took together. Whoever wrote that was surely someone who was on that mission."

Sasuke internally face-palmed , he was pretty strapped for ideas at the time and that was the only thing that came to mind. He knew it would look suspicious! He was an idiot!

"So you called us here to ask which one of us it was?" Sasuke asked, appearing to look bored and stoic as always.

"Yes. Whichever one it is, show yourself !"

Sasuke turned around and almost left.

"Cool, I'm leaving then."

Naruto stopped him.

"Look it obviously isn't you. But you can still help find out who it is."

Sasuke realised if he left now it would look suspicious.

"If I help you find it then will you give me that mission I've been asking about?"

"Yes! Now help me find Sato."

Sasuke sighed and went back to the little circle everyone had formed.

"I say it's Lee." Choji said.

Lee immediately defended himself.

"No! Writing like that is super un-youthful! I would never."

"You sounded too defensive, Lee." Ino mused.

Lee quickly saw all the eyes trained towards him and pointed fingers quickly.

"I say it was Ino."

"What! Me? No way, I wish I could write like that."

Naruto snapped his fingers.

"Aha! You're right Ino, most people in this room would be proud of writing such great material! We just have to pick one that wouldn't be."

Sasuke sweat dropped. Of Course Ino, Sai, Kiba or Naruto would immediately admit to writing the books, they would be looking for someone who would hide who he/she is.

"People hide their identities while writing books for other reasons also, dobe."

"Like what?"

"Taxes and stuff."

All the eyes in the room narrowed towards him.

"How would you know?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke almost squeaked. He was done for.

"I have written a book before."

"Which book was that?"

"D-destroying Konoha in three simple steps. I wrote it before the war. It flopped."

Everyone in the room stopped looking at him, apparently pleased with his explanation.

"Will Sato come forward and please just admit that he/she's Sato." Naruto asked looking defeated.

Sasuke looked at the assembled ninja and was surprised that they were all actually interested in finding Sato.

"Have any of you even read Sato's books?" Naruto asked.

Ino, Kiba and Sai raised their hands. Sasuke patted himself on the back for having such a good reach.

"Oh man! Ino, did you read the last book? It was such a shame Shizuka went for that vampire guy, I wanted her to end up with that werewolf dude."

Sasuke gritted his teeth. How dare he say that? Shizuka's whole character arc was not being forgiving, if she ended up with Hazuki then her character's story would be ruined.

"That was nothing Naruto, Didn't you read 'Thieve's tale' ? Budi was an idiot to keep waiting for Sakiri to return, all she did was have a fling with him."

Sasuke refrained himself from flipping over Naruto's desk. Sakiri was not a 'fling' type girl! She couldn't stay with Budi because of their different lifestyles! Budi waiting for her was a testament to his statement in chapter 6!

"I hated his third book though. The ending ruined it for me. I was a KazaHana shipper."

Sasuke slammed his hands on Naruto's table.

"WHAT! KAZAHANA? In what world would Hana want to be with Kazaki when I clearly made Kazaki say that he was Hana's best friend? And I wrote Hana's character to be loyal, ofcourse she wouldn't betray her feelings towards Kukizo like that! The third book is the best one I've written, of course a dobe like you wouldn't like it!"

Sasuke was fuming and it took him a second to realise what he'd done. He wanted the earth to open up and swallow him whole right then.

"Well, well, Teme. I never took you to be such a talented writer. It was you!"

Sasuke rubbed his forehead to ease the headache he was getting.

"Wait. Anata you were Gato the whole time?! That scene from the 4th book in chapter 6 was inspired by our trip to the hot springs wasn't it? I knew it felt familiar!"

Sasuke looked at Sakura, confused.

"You read it too?!"

"Of Course I do, it's one of the best things I've ever read."

Sasuke charged a chidori in his hand, and looked at all the people gathered.

"If word of this reaches outside of this room, I swear I will burn Konoha to the ground."

Naruto stood up and raised his hands.

"I will keep quiet on one condition."

"What?"

"Sign my copy."

Sasuke sighed and signed Naruto's book when suddenly everyone in the room brought out their copies too. Sasuke swore during this impromptu book signing that he would never write again.