Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything related to Naruto. This story is purely for fun.
Warnings: Male/Male, fluff at full blast.
Pairings: SasuNaru.
Summary: Naruto faces the challenges that come after Sasuke drinks a mysterious potion and turns into a BABY!
Notes: The fic is set when the Rookie 9 are all 17.

"Talking"
Thinking
Flashbacks

My Sweet Little Dear One
By: Narutonewbie
Co-written and Beta'd by: koolanimefreek

Last Time:

Sasuke glared a final time for good measure and with a scoff raised his hand. Birds and animals ran and trees swayed with the loud scream of "NANI!"

Chapter 2

Onyx eyes widened in disbelief and glazed over as the knowledge of what he was seeing sunk into his brain. "Wha- what happened? Why am I so tiny?" Sasuke babbled incoherently trying to understand what had happened.

Naruto anticipating his rival's distress scooped up the infant into his arms, trying to avoid the frantically flailing limbs. Confused but at the same time awed at his teammate's state, Naruto looked over the baby's tiny body. Naruto frowned and his expression rapidly changed into barely concealed panic when tears started streaming down Sasuke's eyes.

"E-ehh? S-Sa-Sasuke? Daijobu?" Naruto asked as he held the infant at arm's length. He still couldn't understand the mechanics of holding a baby properly, more so when the baby to be held was fighting the person trying to hold him.

Sasuke couldn't understand what was happening. He denied that this was real. He was 17 for Kami's sake. He wasn't a baby! Then why had his body shrank so drastically? Still trying to wrap his mind on what was going on, Sasuke let his instincts take over. Of course, his instincts at the time where of a newborn so the natural response to his distress was a hearty yet extremely loud wail that could easily break a window if they were closer to the village.

Startled by the cry, Naruto jumped and was able to hold the baby securely in his arms after a second of almost dropping him. "What did I do? What did I do?" Naruto asked himself trying to calm the baby. Those cries really hurt his sensitive ears. Sighing in distress, Naruto looked up to the sky, "Why didn't I go with Iruka-sensei to the baby-sitting training?"

Suddenly an idea popped into Naruto's head, and his face lit up in malicious glee.

Needy baby Kakashi.

Naruto quickly turned the baby in his arms and leaned down to pick Sasuke's shirt up to cover the still wailing baby. He wrapped the baby carefully trying to warm him up and held him close to his chest. Naruto pulled onto one of the shirt's sleeves and wiped the baby's face from the snot and tears. "Let's go Sasuke!" Naruto twitchily grinned, eye twitching with the effort, "Kakashi-sensei will solve this!" With that said, Naruto turned and ran towards the meeting place, hoping against all that Kakashi would take this burden from him before something worse happened.

As if someone listened to his thoughts, warmth settled on his hand and Sasuke, who had calmed for a while, let out a high-pitched cry. Naruto looked down in anguish and froze, his nose twitching. He sniffed loudly and groaned, "Oh shit! Did you really have to do that?"

Naruto grimaced in distaste and tried to hold the baby avoiding the shirt's wet spot. Picking up the pace, he rushed to the clearing where they had agreed to meet. He stopped in the middle of the grassy field and anxiously turned around praying for his sensei to appear.

Sasuke now somewhat calm continued sniffling, big onyx eyes watery with tears. He felt uncomfortable and cold with a wet shirt covering him. Annoyed at his rival's lack of common sense, he glared at the twitchy blonde and growled, "Dobe! Can't you do something about this? I'm cold and wet!"

Naruto scowled angrily at the baby and held it as far away from his body as he could without dropping it. The baby REEKED!

Suddenly, Naruto tensed by the sound of ruffling bushes.

"Ahhh... Naruto! Who's the lucky lady?" A lazy voice drawled behind the frozen fox-boy. Blushing furiously Naruto turned and glared at the smug jounin, "Lady?"

"The lucky female you got pregnant?"

The silence of the night was once again disturbed by the shrill cry of, "PREGNANT?" Eye dangerously twitching, Naruto walked over his sensei, dumped the smelly baby in his sensei's arms and turned back, leaving a few feet in between them. Kakashi watched curiously at the heavily breathing blonde and looked down at the bundle in his arms.

Naruto drew in a deep breath, pointed accusingly at his sensei and screamed, "YOU PERVERTED SENSEI! THAT IS NOT MY BABY! THAT'S SASUKE!"

Kakashi gazed lazily at his fuming student and held the baby closer to his face to watch it curiously. "This is Sasuke? How do you know? It doesn't look like Sasuke..."

At the same time, a pink-haired young woman walked into the clearing. Ears perking up at the sound of his beloved's name, her previously sorrowful face lit up in joy. "SASUKE-KUUN! (sigh in relief) Is he here? Where is he? NARUTO! (punch) Tell me where he is! Sasuke-kuuun came out! (primp) I know you're there! SASUKE-KUUN!" She continued babbling while Naruto nursed his newest bump on his head. Kakashi had stopped studying his now de-aged student and was watching in amusement at what his other two where doing. Sasuke however was getting annoyed and he wanted to be changed! He was WET!

"ENOUGH!" screeched a tiny voice. Sakura turned surprised and saw the baby in her sensei's arms for the first time. Squealing in delight, Sakura rushed to her sensei and scooped the infant up. "KAWAII!"

Kakashi cleared his throat and decided to get everything solved once and for all, it was getting dark. "Settled down Sakura, give me the baby."

Sakura reluctantly handed the baby to Kakashi and asked, "Where's Sasuke-kun?"

Naruto wanted to get this over with! He wanted to get some ramen! "The bastard was turned into a baby!"

"Stop talking about me like I'm not here!" said the tiny voice again. The eldest trio turned to the voice. Sakura and Kakashi watched in amazement at the baby, barely a month old, talking like an adult.

"I have no idea how this happened! But oh help me god if one of you does not figure out a way to change me from this filthy clothes, I'll find a way to get back to my proper age and I'll kill you three!"

Kakashi shook himself from his stupor and smiled in glee, "Okay, then." Turning to the fox-boy he handed him the baby and said, "Naruto you'll be in charge of Sasuke until we find a solution!"

Sakura gaped in disbelief and screeched, "SENSEI! I'll take care of him!" At the pink-haired girl's offer, Sasuke turned in alarm and glared at his sensei as if daring him to send him to his doom at Sakura's, the most obsessive fan girl, side.

Kakashi ignored the female and looked pointedly at the Kyuubi-holder. "Don't complain Naruto. You found him first. It's your responsibility. Come, Sakura! I'll take you home." The jounin turned and pushed a still arguing female chuunin toward the village.

Naruto watched the retreating figures gaping like a fish out of water. He shut his mouth with a loud click and look up to the sky, "BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CARE FOR A BABY!" Naruto looked down at the scowling baby he was holding far away from his body and began grudgingly trudging home.

"Quit squirming Sasuke! I'll figure this all out once we get back to my apartment," Naruto spat.

"Then hurry up and get home dobe!" Sasuke snarled, fed up with being uncomfortable. As Naruto ran as fast as his feet could carry him, he suddenly crushed against something falling down on his ass. "OW!" Sasuke of course went flying and landed a little in front of the figure. Naruto raised squinting eyes and locked his gaze with blue eyes as clear as his were. Naruto warily waited for the woman to yell or glare at him in the way everyone who knew he was the Kyuubi-holder did.

However, the woman did neither. She looked at him calmly as he took in what she looked like. She had hair of the purest gold color, her eyes a very deep blue. Her figure was trim and was accentuated very nicely by the white tunic she wore. The tunic caught Naruto's eye quickly. It was of the purest white material and looked as soft as silk. It was edged in gold and seemed to glow with the light of the setting sun. Her face had a sort of a motherly aspect to it, perfectly shown with the motherly concern, love, compassion and gentleness, she was displaying at the moment.

Shocked at the emotions directed at him, Naruto remained seated astounded at the picture of the beautiful woman before him. He saw as she bent down and lifted a now wailing Sasuke up into her arms and soothed his frantic crying.

She gently unfastened the wet, soiled shirt that he was incased in and cleaned his body with a white cloth that appeared out of nowhere. She then wrapped a fresh clean diaper on him, then dressed him in some comfy warm clothes that appeared in the same way the cloth had. She smiled dreamily at Naruto as she held the now comfortable nearly asleep baby in her arms.

"Naruto-kun this will prove to be a difficult test for you. But I am confident that you will be able to handle it," the woman said in her melodic voice.

Naruto eyed her warily again and asked, "Who are you? ...and how do you know my name?"

She smiled again, fixing her soft gaze on the quiet Sasuke and after rocking him for a moment, said in a voice dripping with kindness and sweetness, "I am Hestia and I have been sent to help you with your new task, Naruto-kun."

Relief filled Naruto's face and happily stood up. "OH! So you're gonna take the baby! Thanks! I owe you one!" He turned, "Well... Goodbye, Hestia!" Naruto waved quickly and set up to leave.

'"Wait! Young one I am not going to take him from your care. I am merely here to give you the supplies you'll need," she said still in a soft voice as she handed the baby to a startled Naruto as well as a medium-sized bag. She then took a small book from one of the bag pockets and held it up to the fox-boy, "...and this lovely little book. This will tell you anything you want to know about babies. All you have to do is ask it. Now take this little one and these supplies and be off young one it's nearly dark."

Naruto held clumsily the now sleeping Sasuke, took the bag and book and looked up to thank Hestia, but she was gone.

TBC-

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