Disclaimer – Sadly, I do not own the Naruto guys and girls... no matter how much I wish I did…
Warning – May contain traces of fangirl pairings, such as SasuSaku, and I have ignored all time skips and such.
Summary - …Why should I tell you again?
Previously - Kakashi waved them off then sat back onto his desk.
I wonder which one of them will get it.
Chapter Two – Why Not Try The Bottle?
Naruto, over excited as always, ran ahead to the house that they had been assigned while Sakura just looked at the ground; Sasuke hadn't said a word since they left the school.
"Hey! Sakura-Chan!" Naruto called back, "I think this is the place! Yeah! 153! Time to get a good grade! DATTEBAYO!"
Sakura looked at Sasuke to see if he seemed to be speeding up at all. No such luck, he was so laid back and cool… But she already knew that, that was why she liked him so much.
"Come on then, Sasuke-Kun!" she said, putting on a smile, "Let's do our best together!"
Her encouragement was greeted by a grunt from Sasuke, who obviously wasn't falling for her 'oh yes I AM interested' act. They continued walking up to the house, where Naruto seemed ecstatic for them to finally be getting in.
"Sakura-Chan! Put the key in! Where's the key? Sakura-Chan, where's the key?"
Sakura looked at Naruto for a minute, considering whether to slap some sense into him or not. After her better nature had won the argument, she looked around trying to find where the key might be hidden.
After a few minutes of searching, Sakura looked up, only to see Sasuke push the door open. She looked up and smiled apologetically as Naruto bounded into the house, immediately seeking out whatever it was that they were supposed to be doing.
Sakura walked into the large house, it was lavishly decorated with white and gold and little hints of red, quite breathtaking really. She stared up at the high ceiling and turned in a circle to take it all in.
"Sasuke-Kun… Isn't it wonderful?" She asked, hoping to get some kind of reaction out of him.
"It's nothing on the mansion." Sasuke replied shortly.
Sakura nodded, as if she understood why he was being so cold. Their silence was broken by Naruto bursting in from what was possibly the lounge.
"Sakura-Chan! Sasuke-Teme!" he cried breathlessly, his eyes wide and sparkling with excitement, "Come into the front room!"
Without warning, Naruto grabbed Sakura's hand and dragged her into the front room. He stopped in front of the coffee table and beamed at her as she looked down at three bottles, in each of them, a scroll. Sakura picked on up and looked at it. There was a note stuck to the side of it.
Group 5,
Here are three bottles, once you have opened them; retrieve the scroll and each run your finger over the writing of your own scroll.
Happy house warming,
Hatake Kakashi.
Sakura read the note aloud to Sasuke and Naruto, before pulling her own scroll from the bottle. She watched the other two do the same then proceeded to run her finger over the writing, as the note had instructed.
"So… What was that supposed to do?" Sakura wondered to herself, out loud.
"Sakura…" Sasuke said, sounding slightly less cold than normal and a little worried.
Sakura turned around. There, in front of her, was a six year old version of Naruto. He was clinging to Sasuke's leg, blue eyes shining, as always. He looked up at her and smiled in such an adorable way that, even though she knew it was just the old annoying Naruto inside, she couldn't help but smile right back.
"Mummy?" said the little Naruto.
"Well…" replied Sakura, pausing to think, "Yes, I guess I am."
Naruto smiled brightly and looked up at Sasuke.
"Daddy?" he asked, staring up at the stony eyed figure that he was clinging onto.
"Hn." replied Sasuke.
Naruto grinned mischievously and held out another piece of paper that had been on the coffee table. Sakura took it and read over it;
So I see that one out of your group is now only 6 years old. The assignment is now officially in progress! If you would all be so kind as to oblige, I would like to have you all back at the school this evening for a fill in session.
Hatake Kakashi
P.S. Make sure you bring your children!
Sakura tried to comprehend the information she had just been given. She passed the note to Sasuke, who in turn grew wide eyed.
Later That Evening
At 6pm, Sakura turned to Sasuke and, breaking the silence, she got up from an arm chair and called Naruto down from wherever he had gone in the house. The two of them hadn't gone and looked around yet, their minds were too busy trying to overcome the fact that they were now the "parents" of Naruto for 3 months.
"I suppose we'd better get ready and go then…" Sakura said, a blank look still on her face.
Sasuke nodded in agreement, hardly knowing what he was doing. Naruto bounded down the stairs with all the energy of ten puppies, raring to go.
After Sasuke and Sakura had changed into some more casual clothes, they set off for the school, back the way they had come.
"…And remember that time at the beach? When the tide came in so far that the ice cream car nearly floated away?" Naruto babbled on happily about all the memories he had of them as a family. Sasuke refused to hold his hand, so Sakura had offered to carry him so that he wouldn't start to cry. She nodded blankly at everything he said, until they finally reached the school.
Sakura set Naruto down on the ground and took his hand as Sasuke pushed open the door, revealing a classroom full of their classmates and a few miniature versions.
Sasuke blinked and Sakura's jaw dropped as she noticed who some of the miniatures were.
"Hey! Sakura! Over here!" TenTen gestured to a table next to her and Choji. And what looked like a mini Hinata.
"TenTen?" Sakura asked, "Is that Hinata?"
"Yeah! Isn't she cute?" TenTen smiled at pulled the little Hinata up onto her lap as she giggled, "Is that a… mini Naruto?"
Sakura nodded a picked Naruto up to stop him clinging onto her leg.
"Is Kakashi-Sensei late for a meeting that he himself scheduled?"
"It would appear so." said Sasuke, who, despite the fact that all around him were miniature versions of his classmates, still looked bored.
"So," said Sakura, trying to stop Naruto from wriggling off of her lap, "who else got shrunk to six year old size?"
TenTen looked around, calculating who was and wasn't attempting to control a struggling child.
"Well, it looks like we have miniatures of Lee, Kiba, Hinata, Naruto and Gaara."
"You're kidding right?" asked Sakura when she heard the last name.
"Nope, I bet you're thinking the same as me," TenTen grinned, "six year old Gaara… Could you get much cuter?"
The two of them giggled and let their miniature team mates slip off their laps to go and play with the other children.
