Author's Note: Here is the end. T.T This was so much fun to write. I hope everyone enjoyed this. I may write something based off of this story and this epilogue if enough people want me to do so. I love you all! Thank you for reading! Please enjoy and let me know what you think!

UPDATE: I have started a sequel for this story it is call for the Love of Salad. Go check it out if you want! :)

Chapter 80 – Epilogue

Salad's Chapter

I hate baseball season. I hate the period of time from mid-February to the first half of October. I hate it so much. Why? Because Papa abandons Mama and me to play baseball. I know it makes him lots of money but he is always gone for so long. I hate it! It makes Mama really sad sometimes. She'll sit alone in her room sometimes and look at his pictures and she makes us watch the games on TV so we can see him in action. Sometimes we go out to where he plays and spend time with him but it is not the same because it is not home. I just want him home. I want my Papa. He's not the best Papa but he is mine and I want him around especially with Mama having to mother me and my brothers alone. It's not easy for Mama to be raising five kids alone especially when pregnant again. Sure there are a lot of people help out like my godfather Kakashi and my uncle Itachi and my grandparents and my neighbors but it's not the same. Sometimes I wish Mama had married Kakashi or Itachi since they're actually around. They would have made good husbands and fathers. But they don't make Mama smile the way she does when Papa is around. I wonder sometimes if a guy will ever make me smile like Mama does around Papa. Mama tells me I will meet such a guy.

I know Mi-baa-san and Me-baa-san think that my annoying neighbor Bolt is the one. "Its destiny!" they tell me. Bolt really annoys me though. He is such a prankster and is so disrespectful. I know it is because he wants his father's attention but Naruto-ji-san is the head of a big company and has to focus on that. I can relate to Bolt about having his father being busy a lot but at least at the end of the day, Naruto-ji-san comes home. Bolt is not all bad. He can polite and he can be a good big brother most of the time he is just really annoying! I really hate that we share the same birth day and time especially since that is the reason my grandmothers and his grandmother insists that we were "destined" for each other.

My other neighbor Inojin's mother Ino disagrees with the old women. She says I was meant to be with Inojin but he is just as annoying as Bolt. Inojin has no since of fashion and is such a worrier. He worries too much about grades and what his parents think and what everyone is doing. He can also be really insensitive. If one doesn't do what he wants he starts insulting that person. He calls my best friend Chocho "fat" all the time when she doesn't do what he doesn't want her to do. He calls me "four eyes". Chocho says Inojin is attractive which I too can see and he is really good at art like his dad but talent and looks don't make up for personality.

Mama says that I am destined to be with someone one day, but I get to choose who it is not my grandmothers or neighbors. I know what kind of guy I want. I want him to be kind and funny like Kakashi or Itachi. But he has to be cool like Papa. But he has to be around and be with me to raise our family and such. I am not doing the solo thing like my Mama.

"What are you thinking about, Salad?" My best friends Chocho asked as we were walking home from school since it was already October.

"Nothing," I answered.

"Well, you know what I was thinking about? How we should go get some dango," She smiled. Chocho loved dangos. She could eat that all day seven days a week. I don't know if I could but then again I don't have the Akimichi stomach like her.

"I can't. I have to get back to the babies," I sighed remembering my siblings.

"I'm so glad I'm an only child. I'll see you later," Chocho left me to go to the dango shop.

Since Papa was gone, Mama really needed help around the house. I always did what I could. I helped clean and watched my brothers. Having four little brothers was kind of bothersome sometimes. Shinnosuke, Shousuke, and Sosuke were triplets and four years younger than I. They are nine years old and are always getting into mischief because they like to hang out with Bolt. They used to be able to trick people into thinking they were one another till Mama cut their hair. Shinnosuke got Papa's old duck butt haircut, Shousuke had his hair cut short, and Sosuke's hair remained long and styled like Itachi's. My youngest brother Seiya is so different from the triplets. Somehow my four year old brother has ended up shy. He is always by my or Mama's side and hides behind us if someone who is not family comes near us. He is a sweet boy but so timid. I think it may be because he is the only one to get Mama's pink hair and green eyes. He is so cute especially when he is excited about something. His green eyes get all glittery and he smiles so widely.

"Onee-chan!" I was suddenly attacked from the side.

"Ah!" I yelped and saw I had been attacked by little Himawari Uzumaki, Bolt's nine year old sister and my neighbor. She was cute. I wanted a sister.

"Himawari, you scared me," I told her. She giggled.

"Onee-chan, I have to tell you something!"

"What is it?"

"Someone's moving in across the street!" She pointed to the house in front of our houses. I had not realized I had made to my house or that the house in front of mine had been up for sale.

"Really?"

"Yes! Kaa-san says we have to introduce ourselves to them once they finish unloading the trucks," Himawari informed me.

"Good idea," I patted her head.

"But I've observed there is some weird looking boy with them that has white hair."

"White hair?" I looked towards the house and did see a boy about my age standing around talking to people who were probably his parents. Great. Another boy in the neighborhood? Was I born in the year of the boy? Speaking of, I should probably get to mine.

"Where are you going? Don't you want to watch the people unload the trucks?" Himawari asked.

"No. I need to help my Mama," I told her.

"Ok. Bye, Onee-chan," She left me to go sit in her yard and watch the movers. I went into my house.

"Tadaima," I announced.

"Okaeri!" Seiya ran up to me and hugged me.

"Okaeri, Salad," Mama came into the room in her cleaning clothes, "How was school?"

"Fine."

"No fights broke out? No love confessions?" Mama always asked.

"No, it was fight free and love free as always," I answered and gave her a hug, "Where are the triplets?"

"They're up stairs doing homework or at least they should be," She remarked.

"Want me to check on them?" I asked.

"That'd be great," She smiled.

"I want to come! I want to come!" Seiya was trying to follow me.

"Get on," I bent down so he could get on my back. I carried him up the stairs to where the boys' room was. I had to put Seiya down.

"What are you boys doing!" I slammed open the door.

"Nee-chan!" They all jumped. They were not doing their homework at all since Bolt was in the room. He had climbed up in to the house again.

"Bolt, what are you doing here?" I glared at him.

"None of your business, Salad," Bolt responded smugly.

"It is my business if it concerns my brothers," I stated and came farther into the room towards him.

"Aw, come on, Nee-chan. We're just guys hanging out," Shinnosuke stated trying to be cool. Shousuke and Sosuke nodded in agreement. I didn't believe them. Nothing good comes from them being with Bolt. But I couldn't do anything till there was more evidence than them just sitting around and talking.

"If you guys do anything, I will be forced into action," I showed them my fist. Everyone knew I was the best fighter thanks to being enrolled at Rock Lee's dojo.

"Whatever," Bolt rolled his eyes. Punk.

"Come on, Seiya, let's go back down stairs," I scooped him up my arms. I loved carrying him. He was so light and soft. Off we went down stairs to where Mama was cleaning the living room.

"Are the boys behaving themselves?" Mama asked.

"Bolt's up there," I informed her.

"Oh no," She sighed.

"We should get a guard dog," I suggested making Mama laugh.

"He'd just find another way in," She chuckled.

"Uzumakis always find a way to do anything they want," A deep voice behind me said. I saw Mama's face light up. Seiya was smiling widely too. I knew who it was. I spun around.

"Tadaima," Papa smiled.

"Okaeri!" All three of said and attacked him with hugs.

"I didn't know you were coming home today," Mama stated.

"Hn," He shrugged.

"Boys, Papa is home!" Mama yelled so the boys could hear. A rumbling occurred upstairs and the triplets came raunnign down the stairs.

"Papa!" They all attacked him as well. They all tried to ask him questions or talk to him but he raised his hand slightly and everyone went silent.

"I have an announcement," He stated. We all looked on eagerly.

"I have retired from baseball. I'm going to be home a lot more from now on," His words shocked me.

"Really?" I was the one to ask.

"Yes. Is that fine with you?" He asked me.

"Yes!" I hugged him. I was so happy. Papa was home. We were all going to be together now!