Shisui looks down at the fourth's old clothes and grins. Then he strikes a pose and says, "I'm the Yellow Flash!" he starts shunshining around the room saying, "I'm here! Now I'm here! Now I'm over here!"
Naruto takes a taijutsu stance and makes chopping movement with his hands. "Hi-ya! I'm a ninja!"
"Me too!" says Hinata, doing some basic gentle fist moves.
Shikamaru and Choji join in, doing basic taijutsu move and pretending to fight each other.
"How do we stop Shisui from bouncing off the walls?" whispers Iruka to Lord Third.
"Like this," says Lord Third. "Hey everybody. It's time for the presents."
All movement stops, even Shisui comes to a halt, standing in a corner of the ceiling. The children and Shisui stare at Lord Third in surprise.
"Presents?" asks Naruto. "What for?"
"For YOU, silly!" says Hinata, giggling. "It's your birthday!"
"Really?" says Naruto. "Only that guy who signs his name as 'Your Godfather' ever gave me presents before."
"Jiraiya sends you presents?" says Lord Third. "I didn't know about that."
"Jiraiya is Naruto's godfather?" asks Akira, surprised. "How is that?"
"Naruto is named after the main character in the first book Jiraiya ever wrote," explains Lord Third. "For that he was made Naruto's godfather."
"So my Godfather's name is Jiraiya," says Naruto.
Iruka catches Shikamaru giving Lord Third a strange look. Iruka wonders just what it is that Shikamaru is thinking.
"Here, Naruto," says Hinata, handing Naruto a square package. "Happy Birthday!"
Naruto almost looks giddy, Iruka thinks as Naruto unwraps Hinata's present. It is an orange box, which Naruto immediately opens. The box is filled with an odd assortment of things like a whoopee cushion, a jar of fake blood, some tubes of paint a roll of string and assorted packets containing things like fake mustaches, stick on cuts and bruises and fake dog poo. "It's a pranking kit! Thanks Hinata!" yells Naruto, happily.
Iruka feels a chill run down his spine. Out of the corner of his eye he sees Lord Third shudder.
"Cool! Cool! Cool!" Shisui shunshins down to the floor. "So when's the next prank gonna be?"
"Soon!" grins Naruto.
"Cool!" says Shisui. "I got you this." he hands Naruto a round package.
Naruto unwraps it to find a small orange ball. "Cool!" he tosses it in the air and catches it again. "Thanks Shisui!"
Choji steps forward bearing a circle box. "Here you go, this is for you."
Naruto opens the box and finds a pie. "What kind of pie is it?" Naruto asks.
"It's a gooseberry pie," Choji tells him. "I helped my mum make it."
"Thanks Choji," says Naruto, looking genuinely touched.
"My turn," says Shikamaru and gives Naruto a box-shaped present.
Naruto unwraps it and tries to read the words on the box. "Shi-o-gi. What's that?"
"It's a game," says Shikamaru. "It's said 'shogi'. There's an instruction book in the box. If you play it, it will help your planning stuff skills."
"Yay! Planning stuff gets it done so much easier." Naruto grins.
Iruka grins too. Maybe teaching Naruto strategy won't be as hard as he thought. "Naruto," he says, pulling out the present he bought for Naruto. "Here is my gift for you."
Naruto takes it, wide eyed, and unwraps it. A neatly organised set of brushes, ink and heave paper is revealed. Naruto grins up at Iruka and asks hopefully, "Does this mean I can start using proper ink for my fuuinjustu?"
"Yes," laughs Iruka, then starts in surprise as Shisui groans and falls face-first onto the floor.
Everyone stares at Shisui in shock as he starts to snore softly.
"Looks like Shisui came down from his sugar high pretty hard," comments Lord Third. "I'll send a message to his parents to come and collect him."
Lord Third leaves to go do just that.
"I think maybe it's time for the party to finish," says Akira. "You're all beginning to crash."
Indeed, Hinata is yawning and Choji is rubbing at his eyes. Shikamaru is heading over to the couch to curl up and go to sleep. Even Naruto is starting to look tired.
Lord Third comes back and says. "Unfortunately when I asked Shisui's parents to come and collect their son because he ended up on a sugar high, went out in the rain and mud and has crashed so hard he fell asleep, they told me to send him home once he is in a fit state to get himself home." Lord Third sighs. "Parents these days. I'll have to put him in one of the spare rooms until he wakes up." Lord Third scoops Shisui up off the floor and carries him away.
Just after Lord Third leaves, Shikaku arrives with Chouza and they carry a sleeping Shikamaru and a sleepy Choji away. After they leave, Akira takes Hinata and Hanabi home; one sleeping soundly and the other yawning and rubbing her eyes.
Naruto crawls onto Iruka's lap and goes to sleep. He is so tired. He is woken up a short while later by Lord Third.
"Come on, Naruto," Lord Third is saying. "There's one thing left to do and then you can go home and sleep all you want."
Groggily, Naruto sits up and rubs his eyes. "What?" he asks.
"Can't he have his nap first?" asks Iruka.
"Oh, come now, Iruka," says Lord Third. "You are the one who convinced me to tell him, so let me tell him now, before I change my mind."
"Tell me what?" asks Naruto, confused. What could the Hokage have to tell him?
"Naruto," says Lord Third seriously. "Iruka convinced me, after much persuasion, to tell you about your parents."
"My parents?" Naruto sits up, wide awake. "You're going tell me about my parents?"
"Yes," says the Hokage, nodding. "Your mother's name was Kushina Uzumaki. When she was a child she came from the Hidden Whirlpool to live in the Hidden Leaf. She was killed the day you were born when the nine tailed fox attacked the village. Before she died she made you this scarf."
The Hokage gives Naruto a long dark grey scarf with thin white stripes. Naruto snuggles his face into the scarf and wraps it around his neck, giggling the whole time.
"Naruto," says the Hokage. "Now I will tell you about your father."
Naruto looks up, his mouth open in a little 'o' of wonder.
"His name was Minato Namikaze," says the Hokage. "At the end of the Second Shinobi war, a team of Leaf ninjas found him wandering alone in the forest near the village. They learned that he came from a nearby village that had been recently destroyed. His parents died in the explosion that threw him from his village. Minato stayed in the Leaf and became a shinobi. Eventually he became the Fourth Hokage."
"Really?" Naruto's mouth falls open. "My Dad was the Fourth Hokage?" he looks down at the Fourth's Hokage cape, which he is still wearing because the washing machine hasn't even finished yet. "Then I'm wearing my Dad's clothes?" he looks at the clothes Iruka is wearing. "Iruka is wearing my Dad's clothes too?"
Iruka laughs. "Yes! We're wearing your Dad's clothes! And so are Shisui, Hinata, Choji and Shikamaru!"
"He, he, he," Naruto giggles happily.
"Come on, Naruto," says Iruka. "Let's go home."
Much later, Naruto is getting ready for bed, when he smells a familiar scent from the window.
Naruto turns and trots over to the window. He can smell his ANBU quite strongly. Then he sees a small package sitting on his windowsill. Curious, Naruto picks it up. It smells like his ANBU, he decides as he sniffs it. His ANBU must have left it when Naruto was facing away from the window.
Grinning, Naruto unwraps the present. It is a hat that looks like a panda. Giggling, Naruto pulls the hat onto his head and runs to tell Iruka what he just found.
Sitting on the roof of the apartment building where Iruka and Naruto live, Kakashi grins. He is glad Naruto likes the hat. It's been a long time since he bought a gift for anyone, and this year Jiraiya hasn't sent a present for Kakashi to give to Naruto. Usually Jiraiya sends the gift to Kakashi because he doesn't trust that anyone else will make sure Naruto gets it.
But for some reason, this year Jiraiya is late. So rather than wait for word from Jiraiya, Kakashi bought Naruto that little hat in hopes he wouldn't notice that Jiraiya didn't send him a gift.