4. Babysitting

Introduction to New AU Characters In This Chapter

Kagami, Masumi, Yutaka, Kichiro, and Jun: Yoshiko's five kids. They are 12, 10, 8, 6, and 1, respectively.

"Do you think they can handle it?" Yoshiko asked her husband.

"I believe so...if they can handle 20 sound ninja at once, they can take care of five kids," Kakashi replied.

"Well, if you say so...I'm especially worried about Sasuke..."

"Don't worry, Yoshiko...he'll live," Kakashi replied. "Hopefully."

Back at My House

After that party, I was tired as hell. I was now, of course, sleeping like a baby in my bedroom with Sasuke. Let me add a note that it's 11 in the morning, almost noon. I suddenly heard a knock on our bedroom door. I moved slightly, then my husband and I sat up on the bed, with my eyes barely open and my hair all messed up.

"Come in," I said wearily.

Tadako slid open the door, and bowed to me and Sasuke. "Ma'am...Yoshiko is on the phone."

Our maid was holding our house phone, and I managed to hold it without almost dropping it. "Hello?"

"Naoko? Is that you?" I heard Yoshiko over the phone fainly.

"Yoshiko? Eh...I'm still tired...what's up?" I replied.

"Oh! I'm sorry! This is probably a big favor I'm asking you then!"

"Well? What's the problem? Do you need something?"

"Um...well, I'm not sure if you can-

I suddenly heard a motioning noise over the phone, and Yoshiko saying, "Hey!"

"Naoko, can you please watch our five kids?" Kakashi said. "You know them pretty well, right?"

"Well, I do..." I began to say.

"Oh, good!" Kakashi interrupted. "We're going on a mission, and our nanny's off. We'll drop them off at three!"

"Uh...okay..." I reluctantly accepted. "I know them...but Sasuke doesn't..."

I hung up after I said goodbye, and I woke up Sasuke, for he fell down again back to sleep. I shook him, when he made this strange grunting noise.

"What is it?" He asked, his voice muffled in the covers and pillows.

"We have a mission to do," I pretended to say urgently. Sasuke hopped back up, and looked around.

"What do we have to do?" He asked sternly.

"Well..." I began to say, "We're going to have to babysit Yoshiko's kids."

"WHAT?!" Sasuke shouted. He flopped back down on the bed, and grumbled in frustration.

"Hey, it won't be that bad...what's the worst that can happen?!"

Four Hours Later

"Hi Auntie Naoko!!!" Kagami said at the door. She gave me a big hug, along with the other two older kids,

who were10 and 8. The oldest kid was 12.

"Hi Naoko!" Yoshiko and Kakashi greeted. I bowed to them, along with Sasuke in the background, attempting to stay away from the kids, when it didn't work. Yutaka and Kichiro were tugging on Sasuke's shirt, and Kagami and Masumi ran about the sofas chasing each other.

"Hey, watch where you're running!" Sasuke ordered. Kagami and Masumi stopped and stared at him.

"Oh, don't worry about Uncle Sasuke!" Kakashi covered. "He's a big meanie, isn't he?"

"This is Jun, right?" I ignored Kakashi and Sasuke's argument after the masked ninja told his kids that Sasuke was a "big meanie".

Yoshiko was holding 1-year-old Jun in her arms. I held her in my arms as well, and felt that she was so light! "She's so cute."

"She's an angel, too...honestly, it's great when your kids can't speak...they don't talk back at you," Yoshiko joked.

"Well, Naoko, good lu- I mean, I hope you can han-

Yoshiko, at that moment, slapped her husband on the stomach so hard it made him stop talking and began to talk. "He means to have a good time with the kids! RIGHT, Kakashi?"

Kakashi coughed. "Right."

"We'll see you in a few hours!" Yoshiko waved, beginning to walk away from the house with Kakashi.

"Bye!"

I shut the door, when Sasuke was having Kichiro and Yutaka jump all over him. I put Jun down on the couch, where she chewed on the little frog toy she was already holding. Kagami and Masumi were chasing each other with unsharpened kunai knives.

"Hey!" Sasuke cried. "Naoko, can you get them to stop chasing each other with those thing?! Someone might get hurt!"

"Nonsense, Uncle Sasuke," Masumi said. "It's not like we're going to poke ourselves with it and bleed."

"OUCH!" A cry was heard. I ran over to Kagami, where she accidently...poked herself on the finger.

"SEE?!" Sasuke shouted at the 10-year-old girl. Kichiro and Yutaka were still trying to hit and kick Sasuke all over the floor, and manages to block all their blows.

Masumi ran over to her sister, and stared at the small cut on her thumb. "I thought you unsharpened the knives!"

"I did!" Kagami complained. I took her thumb, rubbed some antiseptic on it, and wound her finger up with a small bandage.

"There. All better! Does it still hurt?" I asked.

"Yes, Auntie Naoko! Thank you very much!" Kagami politely said.

I smiled at her. "Now, go chase each other without the weapons."

"Don't encourage them! They might break something!" My nagging husband said. He finally got a grip on the two boys, and held them by the collars of their shirts while he stood up.

"Auntie Naoko! He's being a big meanie!" Yutaka complained, pointing at Sasuke.

"Big meanie, my ass..." Sasuke grumbled under his breath.

"Hey, you said ass!" Kichiro joked.

"Kichiro, don't say that word," I calmly said. "It's a bad word! You don't want your mommy and daddy to know that you said that bad word!"

"If that's a bad word, why did Uncle Sasuke say it?" Kagami asked. Sasuke grumbled in exhaustion and annoyance.

"Well...he said it because he likes to be bad sometimes," I answered as quick as I can. "Right, Uncle?"

"Right..." Sasuke mumbled.

"Okay! Is anybody hungry?!" I asked, changing the subject.

"Yay! Can we have ramen?!" Yutaka asked.

"Make mine spicy!" Kagami added.

"I want miso ramen!" Kichiro requested.

"Can I have umeboshi in my ramen???" Masumi asked.

"Sure," Tadako answered, bowing from the kitchen entrance. "Give me about 20 minutes, and I'll give you all what you want!"

Our maid walked in the kitchen, and began to prepare and make the kids' snack.

"While we're waiting for Tadako, what do you guys want to do?" I asked, trying to fill in their time.

"Uhh...why don't we run around and throw kunai knives at each other?!" Yutaka suggested.

"No..." Sasuke firmly answered.

"But whyy??" He whined.

"Uncle Sasuke here doesn't want to get anything broken in the house," I told them.

"We can do it outside!" Kichiro said.

"You might hit the neighbors," Sasuke replied.

"Aww...what else can we do?"

"Well..do you guys want to play 'Hide and Seek'?" I asked stupidly. These kids would actually play the game?

"Yeah!!!" Kichiro surprisingly agreed. "I wanna count!"

"Okay, then." Kichiro then closed his eyes (or so I think so), and counted to 25. The kids began to run about the house, but managed not to break or hit any furniture. Jun even crawled under the coffee table between a few of our couches. For some reason, I saw Sasuke with his Sharingan eyes glancing up, down, and side to side of the rooms.

"Is there something wrong?" I whispered in his ear. Kichiro was up to number 15.

"No," he whispered back. "I'm going to help Kichiro."

"Why???"

"So he won't think I'm a 'big meanie'."

"25! Ready or not, here I come!" Kichiro said, holding his arms up in the air. I saw Sasuke walking up to him, and whispered in his ear, 'I know where they're hiding'.

"Really?" I heard the six-year-old say. "Where?"

Sasuke took his hand. "I'll show you."

In an instant, Sasuke and Kichiro found Yutaka in the coat closet, Masumi under the kitchen sink (Tadako didn't mind), and Kagami in our guestroom shower. The only one left was little Jun.

"Can I try finding Jun by myself?" Kichiro politely asked.

Sasuke attempted to smile at him. "Sure."

Kichiro sneaked up behind the coffee table where Jun was hiding. The other three kids were following suit. Quietly as they could, they reached their arms out, and suddenly-

"Okay!" Tadako chimed in, coming out of the kitchen with her hands full. "I have your dinner!"

The kids screamed and fell to the ground due to the scare, and Jun unknowingly laughed and slapped her knees. I picked up the kid, and the other four got to eating. I fed Jun her milk, and the kids stuffed their mouths with the custom ramen Tadako made for them.

"Thank you for the food!" The four of them said in unison.

"You're very welcome," Tadako replied. "I hope they fit to your liking!"

"This is delicious," Kagami complimented. "How did you learn to make all this?"

"My best friend works at Ichiraku Ramen, and taught me the ropes of cooking," Tadako replied. "If you know Ayame, she knows me."

"Wow!" Masumi suddenly said. "Auntie Naoko, do you have any children?"

I turned pink, while I was feeding Jun, and she was holding the bottle on her own. "Actually, no I don't...why?"

"Because you work really really well with kids, especially with Jun!" Masumi replied. "How come you don't have any kids? You'd make a great mother!"

I turned even redder, and Sasuke coughed. "Well...I haven't...got the time to?" I grabbed some ramune

"So you don't have any time to have sex?!" Kichiro suddenly said. Kagami spit out her ramen, and I almost choked on my ramune.

"Kichiro! That's not polite!" Kagami scolded.

"But mommy said-"

"Well, you're being rude to Auntie Naoko and Uncle Sasuke!" Kagami said. "Now eat your food!"

Kichiro grumbled and finished his miso ramen. I suddenly heard a knock on the door, and I let Jun hold the bottle on her own. I opened the door to find one of my best friends, Yoshiko, and her masked husband.

"Hello!" Yoshiko greeted. Kakashi took Jun out of my hands, and he held the bottle in her mouth.

"Hi! How was that mission? That didn't take very long..." I said.

"Well, it turns out the mission was basically helping a 95-year-old lady clean herself. You should've seen Kakashi. He look so cute when he cleaned her!"

"I wasn't the only one rubbing the old hag's back," Kakashi grumbled.

"Hi mom! Hi dad!" The four older kids greeted.

"Hi kids!" Yoshiko greeted back, giving her kids a hug. "Did you behave well at Auntie Naoko's?"

"Yes, we did," the eldest child said. Kagami seemed like the nicest one in the bunch. It's nice that she keeps her siblings in order, too.

"Mom! I want a cousin to play with!" Kichiro said.

"Why do you say that?" Kakashi rang in.

"Because Aunt Naoko didn't get pregnant by Uncle Sasuke yet!" Yutaka added.

I saw Yoshiko and Kakashi sweatdrop. "Kichiro! Yutaka! What did I say when it came to talking about that subject?!"

The two boys sighed in exasperation. "Never talk about it when it sounds funny and immature."

"That's good. Now, let's go home. Thank you very much, Naoko! You too, Sasuke!"

Sasuke waved, and I said goodbye to the family. I shut the door, and plopped down on the couch and laid down. Sasuke sat almost on top of me, and suddenly started to kiss me. I grabbed his shoulders, and pulled him away from my face. "What has gotten into you?"

"Did you hear what Kichiro said? We never have any time for ourselves...alone...together..." Sasuke said softly. Tadako, thank goodness, wasn't listening to our conversation. Sasuke carried me up the stairs, and enjoyed the rest of the night together.

Sharingan - Yes, I am aware that the other spelling is "Sharigan". I used the westernized version, okay?

Ramune - This is a Japanese soda. You know that thing when you open the bottle and there's a marble inside it? Yeah. I like strawberry flavored.

A/N: Well...how did you like that? I'm really directing this at my buddies, A.K.Y.Y. But if I don't know you in person, otherwise if you're not in this story, go ahead and review! I hope you like it!