Hello, hello, my deary dears! This one is for my little sweety TheCookieMonster77, who very innocently asked a month ago;

"...just out of curiosity, are any of Naruto's kids pranksters?"

And after thinking about it I kind of decided that, nah, not really. But then the temptation to deny me my own decisions once more was too great and Kathy locked me up in a closet to poke me with pointy sticks and taunt me with cinnamon rolls until I broke.

Evil, evil muse.

It was just an idea that I liked, but I wasn't focused on writing like a great deal of the things that are still in my head. But this was only until I visited this sweety's profile (something I do for all of my lovely darlings) and I saw that he had recomended a story for others to read. My story.

So after squealing like a girl and resolving to write this chapter no matter what, I now have it.

So here you go, you sweet little darling you.

Years later, the event would still be remembered with a great deal of amusement and not a little bit of trepidation. The story would be told nostalgically in an attempt to embarrass in front of boyfriends and girlfriends, and later would be told in remembrance of the years where they acted much as their own children were.

How it was started and by who was a much disputed thing, the blame being shifted frequently and the actions being exaggerated to almost epic proportions. But one thing remained constant no matter who told it; it had been a violent, take no prisoners, hold nothing back, do or die blood bath that people found themselves lucky to come out of unscathed.

It had been war.

The academy was on it's spring break, and being free of the learning and dull daily structure of the school was liberation for many of the children. But for Leo, it was just kind of... Meh. All of his friends were busy doing family stuff, his family was off doing Hokage and mission stuff, and he was just stuck laying on a branch up in a tree, flicking and spinning a kunai idly through the air before catching it again in the same repetitive arc that he was already tired of.

He waited for an idea to come to him of what to do, and it came in the form of his older sister talking uncharacteristically shyly to a boy she was walking next to.

Rolling on his side he watched the pair for a moment before a purely wicked grin split his face and he quickly dashed off, unnoticed by the two as the went about their hazy puppy love filled world.

Working quickly so not to allow the devious chance to escape him Leo soon found himself waiting in a high branch in a tree for the perfect moment, and right when the flirting pair stepped to a particular spot underneath a particular overhang Leo tossed his kunai at a branch where a large bucket had been situated perfectly rested on. The bucket upended and it fell to the earth in a perfect and almost poetic arch, the murky pond water that filled it spilling on his poor and unsuspecting sister and dowsing her completely.

The entire forest was silent but for the thudding of the bucket's impact and the sound of Yuka's gasps as she held out her arms as they dripped, her hair sticking together in front of her wide and shocked eyes, her mouth open in a silent cry as she stared wide eyed down at herself and the clothes that were now sticking to her.

Then laughter tore the silence apart, the loud and almost hysterical sound echoing through the trees as Yuka's eyes jerked up to the spot where her younger brother leaned against the trunk of the tree for support, wiping his eyes free of tears.

Yuka gaped like a fish -a sopping wet, dripping fish- for a moment before the boy beside her -Sho, her crush that she knew she didn't have a chance with now- pointed to her top of her head.

"Ah... you got a little something... right there." He said, and Yuka quickly flung her hand up to pull a stingy and gunky strip of pond scum out of her hair.

The laughter got louder as Yuka squeaked in disgust and quickly dropped it, and the more hysterical the the boy got the higher the flames in her eyes burned.

"UZUMAKI LEO, I'M GONNA' KILL YOU!" She shrieked making everything within a two mile radius jump in fright, and with a final snigger her bright haired brother disappeared.

"... And then I had to pull this green goop out of my hair and it was horrible!" Yuka sobbed into the shoulder of her twin. "It was really going good with Sho before that, you know? And then afterward he couldn't even look at me without laughing, and when I asked him about the dance next Saturday -which he already asked me to- he said that he just remembered that he had to do something." Sniffling, she tried not to remember how horrifyingly embarrassing it all had been. Her one chance at getting together with her longtime crush and it was completely ruined by her stupid little brother.

Yuki shushed her and rubbed her back soothingly. "I'm sorry. I know that you liked him."

"I really really liked him." Yuka muttered, and her sister nodded.

"And I know it hurts, but maybe there's something we can do that can help." Yuka moved back and tilted her head as she looked up at her sister with a hint of hope in her tear swollen eyes.

"Like what?" She asked, sitting silently as she listened to her sister's plan, a delighted and almost cruel smile growing on her face as the her sister told her the plan.

"You know, I thought you were the sweet one." She teased, and Yuki merely smiled.

"Not when you're unhappy, I'm not." She said, and the pair quickly got to work.

Since Leo wasn't home yet -trying to avoid his sister's wrath until it had calmed down a bit- they easily stole every article of clothing from their brother's room and took it down to the laundry room with the bottles of dye they had just purchased. With a load spinning in the dryer and one more in the washer the two girls quickly threw out the evidence of their involvement and shared a celebratory high five.

They passed their mother on their way out of the room and Hinata tilted her head in puzzlement at the sound of the washer and dryer working together.

"Who's doing laundry?" She asked them, and they both shrugged.

"Leo. He got them dirty messing around today." Yuki said as Yuka scowled.

"Yeah, there was something about pond water." She muttered, and Hinata nodded her head in understanding. None of her children had ever really been all that gentle with their clothes.

About ten minutes later as the twins were up in their room smugly celebrating their victory Kori popped in through the kitchen door, a cloth hamper in her hand.

"Mom, the machines in my building broke and the last time I took clothes to the laundry in town they banned me because they said there was too much blood on them." She whined, and Hinata smiled softly at her.

"Leo just threw his in the wash, so if you get them in there really quickly I think you'll be fine." She said, and Kori nearly fell to her knees in thanks as she rushed to the laundry room and upended her sack of dirty clothes into the machine without really paying any attention to the strange color the water was, more focused on asking her mother if she could mooch lunch off of her because she was starving and she had forgotten to go grocery shopping earlier.

When the laundry finished half an hour later Kori pulled out the first shirt and was shocked at the sheer... neon greenness of it. She didn't own anything in that color, and she knew that Leo would never go for anything so bright, and she was even more puzzled to find that all of the clothes int the washer were that color.

"Leo!" She called out, knowing that the boy had been trying to sneak a snack in the kitchen, "What did you do to the laundry?"

"What do you mean?" He said around a bite of an apple as he came into the room.

"I mean, why are all the clothes in the washing machine green?"

"I dunno'."

"What do you mean you don't know? These are your clothes."

The look on his face would have had Yuka on her knees in thankful tears as he dropped his apple and dashed to the machine, looking inside of it in shock and horror. He could see his favorite T-shit, his underwear even his newest jacket, and all of it was a horrendously bright green.

"There was something in the dryer too." Kori muttered, realizing from the look on her brother's face that he didn't know anything about what was going on, a fact that was further proven when the boy opened the door to the dryer and pulled out a hot pink pair of jeans and looked like he was about ready to cry.

"Who did this?" Kori muttered, pulling out her favorite blue sleep shirt and finding that ti had changed to a murky sort of greenish color. The question snapped Leo out of his daze and his eyes hardened into anger.

"Yuka." He hissed, and Kori couldn't see her sister coming up with it on her own. When one twin was thought to be acting particularly devious you could be sure that it was a joint effort because they would never let the other go down alone.

"Yuki too." Kori muttered, and the two glanced at each other and understood perfectly that they would need something serious to get back at the girls.

Walking down the side walk on their way to glance around the bookstore, the glow of victory still held close, the first hint the girls got as to how wrong everything was about to turn was the way people were staring and laughing, pointing at something they couldn't yet see. The second hint they had -and the hint that made them aware that they were involved- was how people would point at the unseen thing and laugh before pointing at them and laughing even harder.

Looking up at what it could be, the girls froze in horror at the sight of two familiar bras and two familiar pairs of panties hanging from a wire strung between two buildings, a sign above it proclaiming in bold red letters that; SHOULD THESE BE FOUND THEY SHOULD BE RETURNED TO UZUMAKI YUKI AND UZUMAKI YUKA.

They stood there for a moment as they stared at the familiar scrawl of their redheaded brother, shocked out of their horrified daze by the snigger of one of their classmates. "So... do the teddy bears belong to you Yuka, or Yuki?"

Yuka released a strangled scream when the whole situation suddenly hit her, and she quickly threw a fire jutsu at the offending sight, setting the underwear ant the wire that held them up on fire.

A low whistle sounded next to them and they turned to see there brother wearing a pair of jeans that had been worn a day too long and a pink hoodie, a smirking and superior grin on his face.

"Well," He said as he stared up at the sight of the burning underwear, "That was amusing."

Yuka screamed and launched herself at the boy, gripping his hoodie and dragging him up to his toes. "You are dead, do you understand me? It wont be easy, it wont be quick, it'll be painful and violent and bloody." She hissed, and Leo didn't even bother to struggle, just smirking up at his sister as if he still held the upper hand.

"Oh?"

"Yes. This, Uzumaki Leo," She said, dropping him back to his feet and giving him a little shove paired with an acidic glare, "Means war."

The twins turned and hurried away with their fury fueling their steps, and Yuki clenched her fists, sure that she had never been so mad before.

"He didn't do it alone. You know he wouldn't have went through our underwear drawer."

"Well then who-" They both stopped when they spotted Kori wearing a absurdly green top that they remembered being white the last time they saw it, shooting them a glare before walking by. The two girls shared a glance before sighing.

"Well, shit." Yuka groaned.

"Yuka!" Yuki reflexively reprimanded.

"Well, it goes with the situation! Now we're going against Kori and Leo, and that's twice the trouble."

"Yes," Yuki murmured, thinking the whole thing over before coming to a decision with a somewhat sweetly evil smile. "But it can also mean more trouble for them if we play this right."

Yuka stopped, unsure of what she was getting at, and crossed her arms over her chest as she tried to figure it out. "...What do you mean?"

"I mean that out of the four of us we are the ones who know the most about war from the scrolls we've read and our studies, so why don't we use that? Knowledge has always been our greatest weapon, so we'll use it against them."

Yuka thought it over for a moment before smirking and nodding. "Right. Well, Sir General, what's the plan?"

Kori was tired. She had just gotten back from an overnight mission where Mio had helped her lament the destruction of her wardrobe and all she wanted was a warm shower to get the rest of the tomato juice out of her hair -just how stupid did you have to be to throw tomato juice at ninja when you were trying to escape? All it was was annoying- and then sleep in her newly colored pajamas.

Letting her hair down she quickly jumped in the shower, singing off key to a song she had heard on the radio earlier as she began to shampoo her hair. Twenty minutes later she was stepping out, still humming, and wrapped a thin towel around her chest, rubbing her hair roughly with another.

She wasn't really bothering to pay attention but it was hard to miss the way her happy yellow towels had suddenly become stained with a disgusting black color. Blinking she quickly rushed to the mirror and screamed at what she saw.

Across the village and nestled in their happy little house, Yuki and Yuka were blissfully smiling as they ate their breakfast. Leo came in and glared at them, waiting to see hat kind of revenge would be enacted on him but he was merely ignored so he cautiously went about getting his cereal ready, eying the twins as he did so that he could catch them even if they breathed suspiciously.

Setting down cautiously, none of them noticed the ever silent Mino walk in and get his own bowl until he was sitting at the table and reaching for the sugar bowl before Leo could catch it.

Mere moments after Mino put a spoonful of his favorite morning cereal in his mouth he was spitting it right back out, his face contorting in disgust as he tried to control the urge to throw up.

"...Salt?" He muttered, puzzled and sickened, and Leo was immediately reaching for the sugar bowl and finding it not filled with sugar but with salt.

He smirked at the other girls, just moments away from haughtily laughing in victory. "Well now, it looks like this little plan of yours didn't work, did it? I didn't eat the salt! You should really work on something better." He said, moving to get up but finding himself unable to.

The girls laughed as Leo's face changed from his holier-than-thou smirk to one of puzzlement.

"Oh, Leo-kun," Yuka cooed, "Did you really think that that was all we were going to do?"

"We put a seal on your chair." Yuki said before he could ask, "You'll be trapped there for the next three hours..."

"... Unless you break the chair, which you know how mom will react to that, especially when added to the whole pond water and underwear facts." Yuka added finally, an almost cruel grin growing on her face.

"I aughta'-" He growled, interrupted by the door being thrown open so hard that it banged against the door and left a dent.

"Yuki." Kori hissed, her white eyes glowing in a way that the three younger siblings weren't all that comfortable with, "Yuka."

The girls swallowed nervously, unsure of what to do about the pure violence of the elder girl's aura or the lopsided beanie that she had stuffed her hair into. They knew what that meant since they had been to ones to play this particular prank.

"What the hell," The older girl hissed, "Is THIS?!" She jerked the beanie off of her head to show them her hair, and everyone had to stop themselves from gasping.

Her usual blonde hair was still the same shining yellow, but it was liberally splotched and streaked with a dingy tint of black that stained her scalp and a bit of her forehead as well.

"Kori-"

"What? What on earth could be your reasoning for this?" She cried, her eyes filling with tears and making the twins feel a twinge of guilt. But then they remembered their burning training bras, and the guilt magically disappeared like a magician had waved his wand over it.

"Well, if you hadn't hung our underwear up in the middle of the-"

"YOU started that! All I wanted to do was wash my clothes, and you made them green! And now my hair is... this and you... you..." She took a breath, calming herself so that she could glare at the pair. "I am not going to forgive this."She finally threatened.

And none of them noticed the youngest of them slipping out of the room.

It dragged on dangerously, the acts ranging from tiny affronts like sealing the windows and doors shut with traps so that they couldn't get into their rooms to much larger offenses like when the twins found all of their furniture up in the trees outside the house (this compliments of Kori with the help of Mio and Sora).

When all of the twins' pens were super-glued shut only to explode all over their hands when prompted open the girls retaliated by putting sand in Leo's bed, and when Kori found that her legwarmers -a present from Lee-sensei that she never wore but dearly cherished- had been turned into puppets seemingly by Leo -a beautiful sabotage of their alliance by the twins- she immediately hit back full force by painting his nails with a permanent marker while he slept and drawing mustaches on his kunai.

It wasn't pretty and it wasn't quiet, but amazingly their parents didn't notice since Naruto was holed up in the Hokage's office with an extraordinary amount of paperwork because of the annual peace meetings between the shinobi nations that would be coming up, and Hinata was helping out Hanabi since it seemed that Hotaru had caught an especially bad cold and wasn't handling it very well.

On the last day of break they woke up to find a platter of cookies sitting on the table and -thinking that they were an apology from their mother for not being there the whole week- they happily ate them.

And hour later the four were in their beds, holding their stomachs and throwing up into trashcans as they moaned for God to just hurry up and kill them. When Hinata found them she quickly called Sakura and the pink haired medic told her that they had been poisoned -not dangerously so, though- and they were all quick to point fingers at their siblings.

And so, poison out of their systems but still pale and a little queasy, the children found themselves standing before the judging eyes of their parents, their father sitting behind his desk in his Hokage robes and Hinata standing steadily at his side.

Wincing under their father's gaze, they understood that their little war was now over and that now they were in serious trouble.

Their parents studied them for several heavy moments, noting how sickly the first four looked and that Leo had apparently decided to defy all laws of fashion what with his purple nails with pink jeans and a green shirt, the outfit clashing horribly with his hair. Kori's hair was a terrible collage of black and blonde and the twins' hands were stained with blue and black and red. Mino was the only one that had come out unscathed, and he stood perfectly at the end of their little interrogation line.

"Would you care to tell us why you think that you poisoned one another?" Hinata asked, breaking the silence first, a very bad sign.

Immediately the four oldest started in on their own explanations at the same time, creating a chaotic babble of words that their parents were having a hard time keeping up with.

"So..." Hinata started, her forehead knit in concentration as she processed all of the new information. "You hung your sister's underwear up in the middle of town?" She asked her eldest daughter and son, the eldest who looked away guiltily and the other quickly defending himself.

"We wouldn't have if they hadn't dyed our clothes pink and green!" He said, which made said girls glare at him because of the serious lack of information he had given.

"But first Leo dumped dirty pond water all over me!"

"And Kori was a complete accident." Yuki added, said blonde leaning forward a bit so she could glare at them from around Leo in their spots in line.

"Yeah, well you dying my hair black wasn't an accident."

"We told you," Yuka moaned, "That it turned out so badly and won't come off isn't our fault. It must have had some kind of reaction to the tomato juice that was in your hair."

"So?"

"'So?' So, it's you're own fault for deciding to bathe in tomatoes! And anyway, we could have tried to find a solution to get it out, but then you went and put out beds in the forest and ruined out pens and our hands." Yuka hissed.

"The pens weren't me, that was Leo."

"Hey!"

"What? That's what you get for making some kind of crack puppet out of Lee-sensei's present!"

"What? I didn't touch anything from that crazy psycho! And you're the one who drew all over my kunai!" Leo defended, and ignoring his last -truthful- accusation, Kori was quick to figure who had defiled her beloved present.

"You two." She hissed. "How dare you?! First you destroy my hair and them my legwarmers, and then you go and poison us all!"

"Hey now, we're not the ones who poisoned the cookies! That was Leo!"

"Nuh-uh! I don't even know how to turn on the oven, let alone bake cookies!"

"Oh, so it had to be us because we're girls and we're supposed to know how to bake?" Yuka shrieked at the boy, and he stomped up to her and poked her in the chest, yelling in her face.

"No, it's because you're crazy!" He bellowed, and Yuka was drawing in the breath to make a very loud and extremely angry reply when a quiet voice interrupted them.

"It was me."

Shocked, the whole room turned to gape at the youngest child, the one thought to be the best behaved.

"You...?" Yuki managed, trying to grasp the concept of their brother actually poisoning them.

"Mino, why did you poison your brother and sisters?" Hinata managed, just as perplexed as everyone else. This was her baby, the sweet one with the rare sweet smiles and the even rarer words.

"They put salt in my cereal and it made me mad, so I punished them. It only made them sick, though. It wouldn't have killed them." Mino said simply, and they all blinked in shock.

"It was an accident!" Yuka immediately defended, and the boy barely spared her a glance.

"Mino-kun, you can't just... poison your siblings because they upset you." Hinata managed, and the boy nodded. "And I also don't want you using the oven again without supervision." Another nod.

"Well..."Naruto strangled out, "Part of this is our fault for not noticing, I guess, but only a tiny part. Really tiny. The rest is going on you because this got way out of hand, so we're going to have to ground all of you."

"I just moved out! You can't just ground me!" Kori protested her, and Hinata silenced her with one of her looks.

"We are your parents, which doesn't change when you move out of our house. The fact that you are still a child and that you need to be punished was very well proven by how you had a hand in this entire thing." She said quietly, the girl's bravado wilting. "No go out and wait so that we can discuss just how severe we need to be."

The group dejectedly shuffled out, and Naruto shouted after them that Eri shouldn't give them any snacks. A silent moment passed after the door had closed when Hinata sighed.

"Go ahead, Naruto."

The room was suddenly filled with loud and uncontrollable laughter, the silencing jutsu placed on the door keeping the sound from carrying out and alerting the children that their parents weren't really all that upset.

"They... And she... He... Ha!... Did you see her hair?!" He managed, practically falling out of his chair from the force of his laughter, and Hinata chuckled in answer.

She was angry, there was no doubt of that, but the situation also gave her a sweet sense of nostalgia for the devious prankster her husband had been when she had first started admiring him and was even still, though it was a bit more controlled. She was certainly surprised that all of their children, even her sweet little Mino, had gotten Naruto's prankster gene.

"We do have to punish them. We're lucky that nobody was caught in the cross fire." Hinata said, and Naruto nodded as he wiped at his eyes.

"Yeah, I know. Some of that stuff was pretty good, though. Wish I would have thought of the hair and clothes dye when I was younger. It would have been hilarious to see peoples' faces when I did that." He cackled again, and Hinata smiled and shook her head fondly at the man.

I would just like to say that this, just like all of the other chapters that Kathy rather violently takes over, got away from me.

I would like to say that I fixed the spelling mistake last chapter with Madara's name (a thank you to my newbie Sumiku Agaishi) and I also filled in a couple blips in the story line that I probably should have notice earlier. No more writing and posting when I'm half asleep any more (though that does seem to be when Kathy likes to come out best).

I got a new laptop for college! It's beautiful and sexy and I named it Rodajio (Roh-dah-gee-oh), just because I could.

Will I be back?

You bet your sexy little flip-flops that I will be.