Sasuke and Sakura sat on wooden stools over the bathtub, bathing their lovely son. (no im not gonna give a description, pervs!)

Natsu had inherited most of the handsomeness of his father, but also most of the beauty of his mother. His green eyes were usually keen and alert, looking around for any possible danger, like strangers, or cars, or stuff like that.

Natsu would be turning 3 soon, in a few more weeks. The cherry blossoms were drifting down slowly along the main road to Konoha. They had never bothered to get another tree because they said it would take too much work. Natsu smiled happily as the warm water splashed over his small body in waves. He felt his mother's gentle hands running through his black and pink hair, lathering the shampoo on it. He closed his eyes obediently as his father poured water over his head, washing the lather off.

"Daddy, Mommy?" he asked in a cute chibi voice.

"Yes, Natsu," both answered at the same time.

"What does my name mean?"

"It means Born in Summer."

"What does my middle name mean?"

"It means Grateful."

"Is that a good thing?"

"Yes...as a matter of fact, it is."

Natsu was starting school the day right after his birthday. He would be going to the Ninja Academy, just as Sasuke and Sakura had gone before him. Iruka Umino was still teaching the Academy, partly because he said life in Konoha was better than a life of pointless missions. Kakashi had tried to persuade him that missions sometimes were fun to go on, even if they were completely pointless, but had utterly failed. Iruka had slammed the door in his face and told him to go have fun on his missions, he would have fun in Konoha. Kakashi had been utterly emotionally hurt, and wouldn't come out of his house for a whole week. Finally, the other Jounin had gotten a bit too concerned for their own good and had forced Iruka to go and comfort him. Once the Dolphin was inside the Scarecrow's House, he saw a bunch of empty tissue boxes piled up on the floor. He entered a room and found Kakashi without his mask, still crying away. Then he comforted him...and well...it was the start of a whole new relationship.

Natsu stood up and got out of the bathtub, dripping water from his well-formed body. His parents toweled him down and dressed him in comfortable flannel pajamas. They were dark blue with the Uchiha crest patterned all over. His pink and black streaked hair matched in contrast with his pajamas, making him look very cute indeed. He padded softly through the Uchiha complex, heading for his bedroom which was connected with his parents' bedroom. He went inside his room, and got into the soft feather bed. His parents came in, also clad in their pajamas now. His mother had on a pretty pink yukata with flower petals, and his father wore about the same thing he was wearing, except it was black. They tucked Natsu in comfortably, and both kissed him on the forehead and said "Sweet Dreams." Then they turned off the light and Natsu's green eyes started to close, wondering what the Ninja Academy would be like.

Meanwhile, the other grown-up residents of Konoha were doing very different things at that point of day, rather, evening.

Shikamaru was at the ramen stand with Temari, sharing a bowl of beef ramen with her. Temari had never tasted ramen, being that ramen required water and there was no water to spare in Suna. Temari had decided to move in with Shikamaru. She said that Sunagakure's heat and boredom was just a bit too much for her. After a couple of chopstick fighting for clumps of noodles, they settled down and finished the bowl in a record 20 seconds. Shikamaru just hoped that Temari wouldn't get addicted to ramen, or the Ichiraku ramen stand would have yet another blond customer eating away their stocks.

Hinata was at home with Naruto and her child, Mizuki. They could hear loud exclamations of "Speed" coming from the Uzumaki residence. Undoubtedly Naruto was teaching Mizuki how to play Speed, the game of the shinobi when they were bored. Then people heard another loud exclamation of Speed that couldn't have come from Naruto or Mizuki. Then they assumed that Hinata was playing Speed as well, a step up in confidence for the shy Hyuuga girl. Usually, she never would have indulged in playing cards unless she was more confident than usual, which she was.

Kakashi was haunting the bookstores, desperately asking if the new Icha Icha Paradise/Violence book had come out yet. Finally, he had been shunned out by the owners of the bookstore, saying to come back tomorrow. But he had still continued pacing up and down in front of the bookstore, hoping to God that the book would come in, and glaring at the windows, as though his glare could make his favorite book appear out of nowhere. Finally the Chuunin Iruka had to come and drag him away, taking him back to his house in tears and screams of "Rip-off artists!"

Rock Lee was staggering around the streets of Konoha, a strong smell of sake following him wherever he went. He stopped in the nearest bar and found Neji there, also getting drunk. He also saw Shino, who was literally killing the cook and demanding to know where they kept their sugar. In the end, he conked out next to Neji, who was still going strong. I mean, he was literally on his 75th glass before his head fell onto the table and he had conked out next to Lee.

Their sensei, Maito Gai, found them the next day in the sake bar, still conked out. Neji still had a half-filled glass of sake in his hand, and Lee had a bottle of sake in his hand. Figuring out what had happened, and seeing the cook dead and a hyper Shino eating away all the bar's sugar stores, he slung Neji over his right shoulder and Lee over his left, and carried them to the training grounds where a stunned Tenten was waiting. Eventually, they woke up with major hangovers and Tenten and Gai had to support them walking home, giving them reminders never to drink so much sake again. But of course, as the stubborn people they were, they got drunk once every month and they had to repeat the process over again.

Kiba's dogs were terrorizing the cats of Konoha, and Kiba made no move to stop them. He claimed that they were only having a "little fun", which was clearly not true when his puppy came back holding a half-dead cat that belonged to the Hokage. The cat was shredded to pieces, but was still yowling its heart out. In the end, Akamaru and Kiba had to let go of the puppies, and give them away to new owners. The 5th Hokage claimed that the puppies would much enjoy it with their new owners than learn how to be fighting puppies and be needlessly put in the way of danger constantly.

And finally, when the day was over and done, Shizune was still in therapy and the 5th Hokage was still drunk. Shizune had just gotten out of therapy and immediately had to go back in, for a naked Shino had been running outside in circles and singing the Barney song at the top of his lungs.

A/N: Poor Shizune...