"Who's going stay over for a sleep over?" My mom asked me, pinching my cheeks. I swatted her arms away and grinned at her.

"These two are!" I exclaimed, putting my arms around both Rin and Obito bringing them closer.

"Aww, you two are adorable! Are you from the same class as Kaoru, Obito-kun? We already know about Rin-chan because she visits us occasionally when Kaoru accompanies her back home!"

I grumbled at that. This was not the time to reminisce about the past mom! These are times of high importance! As in, time to privately discuss with them on tactics on escaping from boulders and avoid being kidnapped!

"Yeah, both Obito-kun and Rin-chan are, mom." I answered her, as I noticed that both Rin and Obito were not answering and were blushing furiously. I wonder why? I wondered. My arms tightened a bit on my hold on them as to prod them to talk.

"Hmmm…" My mom analyzed my face and I stared back at her, blowing a raspberry, only to have the top of my head be bopped by my dad.

"Owww! What was that for?!" I winced, nursing the top of my head in pain, letting go of my hold over Rin and Obito.

"You weren't letting them breathe." Was the simple amused reply I heard from him.

I blinked, looking at Rin and Obito. "Oh, I wasn't? Sorry! You guys should have said something if you couldn't have breathe!"

"…we t-tried, b-but failed…" Rin said, gasping for breath. "…Control your hug power Kaoru-kun…"

"…Y-Yeah, l-like, seriously…!" Obito muttered, taking deep breaths to fill his lungs with oxygen.

I winced, feeling sheepish. "Hahhaa….whoops?"

"Tomorrow, we'll train you on how to control your strength…" Dad muttered, although I could still hear it. "…but you're only six year old…where did your strength come from…?" He paused at that and dad's eyes contemplatively strayed to mom's face. Mom, who had a vein popping out of her forehead, took out her clan's powers, the chains rattling dangerously by her side.

"…What are you trying to say, anata?" I heard my mom quietly whisper her anger out, the temperature of the room going down by several notches.

It was in that moment that I decided it was a good time for the three of us, Rin, Obito, and I, to escape the living room and into my room. Ignoring the yelp my dad produced, I dragged the breathless two, Obito and Rin, and grabbed several of the left over food plates and ran up the stairs to my room.

"Okay, we should be safe from mom's chains in here." I told them, wiping the sweat off my forehead. "Now, let's go into my room!"

I opened the door wide, and blushed. It was really messy. "Hehehe…Sorry about the mess, I haven't had the time to clean it since there was no time for me to do so."

It was true! After school was over, I had immediately went to Obito's apartment and then back to my home that held a surprise birthday party for me to enjoy, but no time to neither study my books and scrolls nor clean up the place.

"Woah…Your room is like a mini-library with these books and scrolls littering the place." Obito remarked, as he walked into my room, grabbing one of the scrolls out of my shelf. "…Sealing A#192…."

"Ah!" I yelped, flash stepping to him in an instant. "Don't open that! It's my failed attempts in creating my own seals…!"

Then, in a rebellious move, Obito's eye glinted in mischief and he opened it.

POOF!

In an instant, several of my haywire seals popped into existence. One of them glowing and activating. "Crap!" I yelled, my eyes staring wildly at them and the glowing seal. "It's one of my malfunctioning exploding tags! Run!"

BOOM!

Fortunately, since it was a failure of a seal, it only produced a small amount of fire and boom that I could easily use one of the simple D-rank Suiton jutsus to get rid of it. "Suiton-Mizurappa!" Gushing the water out of my mouth, I put out the fire before it could have spread.

Finishing, I wiped off the left over water from my mouth and ignored the wet floor and turned to face Obito. "…Obito-kun." I sweetly uttered with my eyes closed, and lips tilted up into a smile."When I tell you to not open something, you don't, understand…?"

Obito's face was dripping bullets of sweat; he furiously nodded his head in agreement. "Yeap! I won't! Sorry!"

"Hahaha, Kaoru-kun, go easy on Obito-kun, the last time I was in here, I also accidentally opened one of your scrolls that contained your supplies of kunai and wire and got tangled up in them…!" Rin cheerfully proclaimed.

"That's different, Rin-chan! Plus…" I laughed. "I hadn't even done anything yet to him!"

She rolled her eyes at me. "…but you had that look on your face that was saying you wanted to do something…" She told me.

I sheepishly looked away and took a bite out of some of the food I've brought over, nibbling on the left over salmon maki. "…Okay, fine."

"So…" I said in between munches. "What was that about me being widely known in the academy about before Obito-kun?"

Rin looked curiously at Obito and I. "Huh? Did something happen?"

Obito nodded. "Yeah, well, I overheard a bunch of conversation that you…well…did…a…erm..ano…"

I blankly stared at him. "Just spit it out already!"

"…Iheardthatyoubeatuponeoflastyear'sgraduatingstudents!" Was wat shot out of Obito's mouth rapidly like a water hose.

Rin blinked. "Could you say that slower, Obito-kun?"

I nodded, in agreement with Rin's request. "Say it slower and louder! We could barely hear you too!"

Obito sighed but nodded and gulped. "I heard that you beat up one of last year's graduating students!"

I laughed. "That's it? Geez, and here I thought there was some kind of bad rumour spreading around about me, or something! You're too much of a worry wart Obito-kun!"

"S-Shut up!" He blushed flustered. He paused and looked at me. "S-So…Is it true?"

I shook my head at him. "I didn't even know anyone from last year's graduating students so nope. Sorry to have burst your bubble."

He sighed in what seems to be relief. "Thank goodness! I thought for sure you would've– …erm, I mean…Nothing!" He yelped once he saw my fingers twitching into a hand sign.

Rin laughed. "Don't scare Obito-kun too much, Kaoru-kun!"

I smiled at her. "I'll try!" I innocently said before winking at them both.

Obito laughed, seemingly amused by my action. Whereas Rin just rolled her eyes at me.

"So, since we're going to have a sleep over, let me just unpack some futon." I told them. "Don't open anything!" With that I left the room, and went to the storage room, downstairs.

"Hey mom! Dad!" I waved at them as I passed by, seeing them both calm and sipping on their cup of tea. Seems like they managed to resolve peacefully – well, not really if you consider mom's chains… but, eh. – and were now just drinking tea.

"Hello, munchkin!" They both chorused at me. I grinned back at them and continued on my merry way to the storage room.

"Looking for where the futons are at?" I heard my mom ask me as she popped behind me as I entered the storage room.

I nodded my head. "Yeap!" Then I continued walking into the room and flipped on the switch, jumping to do so, because I was still six yea- no sorry, seven years old and not that tall yet.

"So, while I do know this is a sleep over and all, there are two boys and one girl, so I'll have to make Rin-chan sleep in the guest room yeah? What will you three do all night long?" She asked me. I shrugged.

"I'll tell her, and I guess we're going to finish the left over food as we chat yeah? That or we might just sleep?" I guessed and I looked at the dusty mirror on the corner of the room. "What's that mom?"

"Ah, that's just a sealing mirror I used to have, don't play with it, alright? It's quite dangerous, only use it in battle." She chided me and I looked at her, my eyes wide and twinkling.

"…Battle huh?" I muttered as I felt my brain churn out ideas. "…Could you maybe teach me how to use it after I graduate from the academy?"

She nodded and patted my head. "Sure, Kaoru. Now, don't forget, "Thy enemy is thy friend, and thy friend is thy enemy"."

I rolled my eyes but nodded at her, dragging the ladder on the wall to the side. "Yeah, I know mom, I'll always remember." Always be aware that your enemy can be your friend, as well as, your friend can also be your enemy.

She flashed me a smile. "Good, now, I've just finished making some hot milk green tea for both you and your friends to drink."

I hugged her. "Thanks mom!" …Wait, how could she have made it so fast? Just now…Wasn't she sipping tea with dad and then followed me here? "…But wait, how did you-?"

She cut me off and shrugged at me before smiling. "Shadow clones."

The words died at my lips. "Ah…. Don't you think you're being too reliant on them for daily activities.?"

She laughed and patted my head. "…I'm also a shadow clone. The original is with your dad talking with your friends upstairs."

I looked brazenly up at her from the ground and hurriedly took the futon from the cabinets. "WHAT!"

She smiled and patted my hair cheerfully. "Have fun!"

Sprinting out of the storage room, I heard the shadow clone that was just with me flick off the lights and close the door I had open in my haste to get back to Rin and Obito.

"Hey! Rin! Obito!" I yelled, as I opened the door widely with my foot, my arms full with carrying the futon. "You guys alright?!"

The weirdest scene met my eyes when I saw them. The four of them were sipping on tea in a truly tranquil athmosphere.

"…What." I unintelligibly uttered. Feeling quite stupefied at the whole ordeal. "What."

"Munchkin, close your mouth. It's unsightly for you to open it so widely and for so long." I snapped my mouth shut at dad's order.

"…I…I thought." I stumbled and pointed my hand at mom. "You, you said…!"

She sipped her cup of tea as if it was the most normal thing to do, ever. "I know what I said, I had simply said that your dad and I are talking with your friends, and that's what we've been doing – talking, and then sipping on tea until you suddenly decided to disturb us with your presence."

I stared at my parents puzzled, and looked at Rin and Obito for more elaboration. "…Guys?"

They both sipped on their tea one more time simultaneously before turning their heads to face me. "Yes?" They chorused.

"Er…." I paused, oh well. If you can't defeat them, join them. I took a seat and laid down the futons beside me, and grabbed an empty cup and poured some milk green tea to it myself. I sipped it and I think the five of us literally just drank tea in silence for five whole minutes.

"It has been nice chatting with you, please do come by next time." My parents bid farewell to them as they both walked away and closed the door.

I tilted my head, puzzled and asked. "…What was that about?"

Obito shrugged. "Your parents just…told us several things. Nothing to be worried about."

Rin cracks a smile. "Yeah. Nothing to worry about!"

I looked at them blankly before shaking my head. "…Just tell it to me now."

They smiled at me. "We can't."

I cracked my knuckles. Was I bad for resulting in violence? …Probably. Was I worried about what exactly my parents told Rin and Obito? Extremely so.

"…Tell me." Then they pulled out their tongues down and I gasped.

They were like one of ROOT's seals!

"…What did my parents do to you guys?" I asked in horror. I never could have thought my mother would use such seals on my friends! Especially Obito because he's a part of dad's side of the family and Rin because she and I were close buddies since the start of the academy! Noticing their shake of heads, I pushed one of my blank papers, ink and brushes to them. "Just write it down! The seal doesn't work on your hands!"

They both lit up at that and immediately began scribbling things down.

"Kaoru. Your parents are insane." Rin quickly noted down.

I grimly nodded at Rin. "They are."

"Your dad put us in a genjutsu! Like, seriously!" Obito gestured comically with his hands and arms flailing about.

"In it, we were shown about several pretty cool training montages. Apparently your mom and dad wants us to be…and I'm quoting your parents Kaoru! "strong enough to support our baby"!" Rin took quite a while on writing it out and at the first part, I had been nodding along…Until…That quote.

I choked on my spit and gaped at them both. "What….?!"

"We can now establish your parents are highly overprotective of you! How great!" Rin mustered out, shaking her head.

"…Too overprotective if you ask me, but then again! Hey! I'm not complaining!" Obito laughed. "We gained a bunch of cool ninja information to up our performance! I'm actually quite thankful of your parents for this! Heh!"

"Yeah, you both were able to get training montages in an instant, I wished my dad did that to me…Why doesn't he do that to me?" I whined. I feel a bit left out.

"…Because it's cheating and the Uzumaki don't cheat!"

"Neither does the Uchiha clan! …Despite what our bloodline may tell you, we don't! Honest!"

I heard two incredibly familiar voices, both being my parents' voices. Widenig my eyes, I snapped my head to the direction of their voices.

"When did you both get here?!" I yelped out, gaping and pointing at them.

"We never left." Mom replied, looking quite gleeful.

"Those were our shadow clones." Dad added, overall smug.

Those two asses!

"….Mom, Dad...What was the point of this all?" I questioned them, feeling a tad bit ticked off they had been here the entire time.

"To assess your reaction, and what you plan to do after discovering the seal I've placed on their tongues." She winked at me. "Don't worry, they're not permanent…I promise!"

I sighed in relief. "Thank goodness!"

"Although…" My mom mused. "…I should make a seal on how to prevent writing down vital information as well…Hmmm….How should I do that though…? I need some test dummies- errr, I mean, volunteers first to get a grasp on it…" With that my mom was gone, and my father shook his head at her as he followed behind.

"…Get some sleep kids, it's almost time for your bed time!" I heard dad say on his way out and with that, he closed the door. Leaving the three of us in silence.

"…Why didn't you guys react?" I asked them. Were they, like, not surprised at all?

In response the both of them put out their tongue again, and I shook my head. "You could have at least look surprised! Did you know they were there the whole entire time?" I asked them, feeling extremely disgruntled.

Then they both looked at the futons and prepared them. I thinned my lip into a line and sighed. "Fine, be that way. I'll find out sooner or later."

"So, Rin-chan, do you want to sleep with us or in a different room? Considering how Obito-kun and I are boys and you're… a girl." I tried to phrase it carefully. Well, I was a girl too, previously, in my previous life, but it seems like I was reborn as a boy. How odd. Oh well. I'm not too perturbed by it. Not at all.

"Oh." She blinked before flushing red. "Right! Erm, where?"

I chuckled as Obito also flushed red. I wonder what he was thinking about… "It's a guest room right besides my room, on the left."

"Oh okay." She said, rolling up the futon, ready to move into the next room.

I blinked at her. "Err, it's okay you can still leave the futon here. We'll still stay up here and chat and stuff. Plus, there's a bed there for you to sleep on."

"Oh, alright. I never knew that was a guest room though. I've always thought that was a storage room…" Rin mused outloud.

"Eh, the more you now know then, Rin-chan." I shrugged.

"So, continuing the previous gossip…" I started.

The night went past us pretty quickly, and before any one of us knew it, we all fell asleep talking.

Author's note!

Sorry for the abrupt ending. Didn't manage to put this up according to the deadline :( Sorry! Pretty busy with school! There won't be that much updates anymore! At least, not until the winter exams are done!