Chapter 18: Kimi Monogatori, Your Story

OV: glimpses into the future and how life is progressing for our little family.

AN: I have decided this will be the last chapter for this story. I have had such a run of bad luck lately and I haven't had time to finish it, but I really think this is all that needs to be finished for completion…

Nariyaku woke her parents to the enticing aroma of rice and eggs. Naruto cracked one bleary blue eye to peek at the food he had known was there for some time. His senses had been intensely enhanced since the seals release. He knew it was because of the Kyuubi's chakra gift, which was also to help him keep his own chakra balanced. He had always had the Kyuubi chakra inside him and his body ahd grown accustomed to it. So to keep his chakra in harmony Kyuubi had given him a final dose of chakra that would replenish and blend with his permanently.

After the ceremony, and Naruto's three day recovery sleep, he and Tsunade had been summoned before the council of elders. They had eventually learned to trust Naruto, especially when he continued the prosperity and programs of the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi. But they had also always held reservations about him. Their distrust of the destructive power he held within him was always just beneath the surface.

They had been extensively interrogated as to what they had done, how they had done it, and what the results had been. They had been separated and taken into interrogation rooms. Dark uncomfortable rooms with weapons for torture clearly visible lining the walls. Neither was afraid these weapons would be used against them, but the rooms had always proved useful in the past so they were what the ANBU teams turned to.

For two days they were interrogated. The same questions were posed in many different guises and by different people. At one point Naruto heard Sasuke's indignant scoff and knew that he had not escaped the process completely. Eventually the determination had been concluded that their actions had been in the best interest of Konoha, and the current Hokage, and they were released. It was only after testing had proved that the Kyuubi was really gone form inside Naruto and no traces of it could be found lurking around posing any threat that this had happened.

Naruto had arrived home to a grand ceremony in honor of his Birthday. He grinned sheepishly when he thought that he had disappeared in his birth day to release the seal and all the events that had followed. He looked around the room and gave every person there an individual smile of thanks and recognition as one of his own precious people. Every smile was returned in the receiver's own fashion. Gaara's shone in his eyes and a tiny curving of his lips, Shikamaru's in a lazy grin, Sakura's in a glossy eyed grin that showed how deeply she felt about how close she had come to losing Naruto. His wide grin had turned shy at realizing that after all the years he had spent trying to get her to care, she finally did. Every face he looked into had love and care showing clearly for all to see, even Sasuke couldn't hide just how much he loved his loud mouthed, still hyperactive, blonde idiot.

When his sweeping gaze rested on each of his children beginning with, Suke moving to Nari, and ending with Ryuu, they all looked back at him with pride, love, and a touch of anger, anticipation mingled with acceptance, and defiance; respectively.

As the night concluded and the party goers began to trickle out it was decided with unanimity that it was the well wishers that had truly received the greatest gift.

Before long another Birthday celebration was being planned. It was the twin's fifteenth birth day. This was the first year they ahd requested a separate party from their sister. Actually they had requested separate parties from each other as well. So Friday night found Shunsuke and his team, Konohamaru, and many of Suke's friends all gathering to respect that today he was a man. When he steeped out the patio door everyone who was old enough to do so, thought they had entered a time warp. Shunsuke looked exactly like Sasuke had when he was fifteen; exactly save for his clear blue eyes and darker skin tone.

The children's gift from their fathers was their own respective home. They were all close by, but far enough away to begin their own lives. Suke was led to his house tucked deep into the trees where he could find solace and train to his heart's content. He loved it, but requested to stay at the family estate until it had been finished with his personal belongings. He was answered with a loving reply that he would always be welcomed into the family home.

Two days later and it was Ryuukin's turn. He was still the exact copy of his brother, except for his eyes. They had deepened in color over the years and were a dark midnight blue. He still had Sasuke's attitude when he was pissed, but mostly he was still boisterous and energetic like his blonde Otousan. He had been given a home in the heart of the Uchiha complex. He loved the location and proximity to people. His home was removed from the street enough to offer privacy, yet still smack in the center of the complex.

Ryuu had a secondary reason for loving the location; it was also just down the street from his fiancé. Of the three he was the first to settle into a serious relationship. Suke was mini Sasuke; he had no interest in girls or guys. His interest was in his training and becoming the best. Nari had many admirers and dated often, but said she had yet to find that special someone just yet.

The following weekend found festivities once gain centered at the Uchiha household as the final child was accepted as an adult and shown her new home. She was near the lake in a cabin style home that overlooked the water. She was amazed at how well her fathers knew her.

Soon after the three new adults moved out Naruto and Sasuke were sitting in their too silent kitchen. They looked at each other as a kunai was sent through the window and lodged into the wall beside the stove. Sasuke sighed and sent Naruto an inquisitive glance. Naruto was still the Hokage; he didn't plan to retire for a few more years and had already chosen a successor. As such he wondered who had delivered the message; he knew he hadn't ordered any missions.

Sasuke began to laugh out loud as he read the rolled up scroll that had wrapped round the handle of the kunai. Naruto was very distressed now; Sasuke laughed but not like this.

It was only when Sasuke showed him the contents of the scroll that he understood Sasuke's mirth. It was an announcement of a wedding… in Sunagakure, for Gaara!!

It seemed that the Kazekage had finally found someone to break through that sand armor he wore. Naruto grinned and tossed the reply out the window knowing someone was there waiting for it. His senses were still completely attuned thanks to the Kyuubi's chakra and he had heard them and smelt them.

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other with knowing looks. They couldn't wait to meet Gaara's paramour and were genuinely happy for him.

The next thought Naruto shared was how soon it would be when they would be helping plan their own son's wedding. …

And so life in Konoha continues. Trees blossom and leaves grow strong and mighty; some wither and die, but they are replaced with new buds of hope.

Now if only someone would have warned them that every peaceful time is only a calm before a storm…

Many events would happen to cause happiness and sorrow… babies sometimes die, friendships are always at risk of becoming strained, people age; yet marriages, Birthdays, new babies, and other happy life events are celebrated, a new Hokage will be welcomed with a grand ceremony, and new faces will become part of the family.

So there ends the saga of Uchiha Naruto and Sasuke, Shunsuke, Ryuukin, and Nariyaku.

For now anyway! XD

-Kneise