You know I would have had this chapter out much earlier than this but I bought Kingdom Hearts 2 last Saturday and combined that with my work schedule and I just didn't have much time. I have seven class periods and during this whole week I was only awake for two of them(oddly enough, if you have a jacket a gym floor is a very comfortable place to take a nap right before lunch or maybe my school is just weird that way).

Well this chapter was based off a old Disney commercial.. At least I think the commercial was for Disney… Eh, it doesn't really matter since the similarities are very small. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto I be Masashi Kishimoto or at least Japanese, but I'm neither. I'm African American and my name is none of your darn business, dream killer.

-/-

Some time during the night three year old Uchiha Sanosuke slipped out of his bed and into his parent's. He carefully climbed over his father's legs, crawled up the bed and then wiggled around until he was snuggled between his parent's chests. Settled and comfortable Sano quickly fell back to sleep.

Minutes after Sano'd dozed off Sasuke commented, "He does this every time I have to leave for a mission," but never opened his eyes.

Sano shifted and turned away from the sound of his father's voice. He buried his self closer against Sakura and popped his thumb in his mouth.

Sasuke sat up, finally opening his eyes, and looked at his son. His hair was as spiky and unruly as ever and he was wearing the pair of red footy pajamas Sakura insisted on dressing him in because he hadn't grown out of them yet and still looked adorable in them.

"Never fails." Sano refused to stay in his own bed whenever he found out that his father would be leaving for a long term mission. Sasuke assumed it was because he wanted to enjoy every minute his family was together even if he wasn't awake during the time. It made sense as Sano never managed to wake up in time to see his father off.

"Goodnight, Sano-chan." Sasuke whispered as he kissed the top of his son's head and then, because he knew she was awake, leaned over and kissed the smile on his wife's lips. "Go to sleep Sakura."

-/-

Early that morning while the sun was still sleeping Sasuke rose from bed and disappeared into the bathroom. Thirty minutes later he emerged equipped and dressed in full ANBU uniform except for his mask which sat on its own stand on top the dresser. He crossed the room to retrieve it, but paused as he reached the bed and stared down at his little family. His wife and his son. Something seemed a little different about Sano but Sasuke couldn't place his finger on what it was. In any case they were all he had.

Being careful to not disturb Sano, Sasuke leaned over Sakura placing both hands on either side of her body as he lowered his self and buried his face in her neck. Sakura immediately turned towards him; she'd probably been awake since the moment he'd left the bed. Sasuke claimed her lips again and, smiling when she eagerly responded by wrapping her arms around his neck, he gladly deepened it.

"I love you." He wouldn't be home for a while.

-/-

"Arg, where is it?" Lift the couch. Not under there. "Did I leave it here?" Pull bookcase away from wall. Not even a dust bunny. "Maybe here." Check under table. No-"Ouch!" Watch out for table before standing up, but not there either. "Where's my kunai hostler?" Naruto was sure he'd seen it around here somewhere.

"You left it on the TV." Hinata called from the kitchen and of course she was right.

"Oh." Naruto strapped his hostler to his leg and then assessed himself in the mirror. He was still forgetting something. "Hinata-chan!" He called, turning around. "Have you seen my-"

"Here." Hinata replied, slipping the red fox mask on her husband's face. "I found it in the refrigerator." How had it ended up in there? "I think Sano-chan hid it in there the last time we babysat him."

"The chibi Uchiha's as adorable as he is a handful." Naruto pushed his mask up and grinning broadly enveloped his wife in a hug. "We'll have our own little handful soon." He dropped to his knees and nuzzled his face into her stomach.

"I'm not even showing yet." Hinata laughed while trying to pry him off. He had to leave. "You're going to be late meeting the others."

"They can wait." Naruto stood up and pushed Hinata backed into the wall.

"Naru-" He covered her mouth with his own.

"They… can wait." He said once they separated. He then leaned back in to get another kiss.

A kunai whizzed by between them just centimeters from Naruto's nose.

"What the-!" Naruto shot away from Hinata and looked towards the direction that the kunai had come from. "Sasuke you mood wrecker! Voyeur! Teme!" He continued yelling at the raven haired ANBU lounging comfortably on the sill of his opened window.

"Good morning Sasuke-kun." Hinata greeted.

"More like goodbye." Sasuke turned to the still fuming Naruto. "If you could manage to peel yourself off your wife we would like to get going."

"Give me a minute… and some privacy." Sasuke grudgingly did as requested, climbing out of the window and turning away.

Five minutes later he had to peel Naruto and his lips off Hinata and dragged him through the window by his hair.

"Say 'hello' to Neji-nii-san for me."

-/-

"What kept you two." Neji asked from where he sat outside his door with the ever quiet Shino.

"The dobe's sudden need to procreate. Oh and Hinata says 'Hello.'" Naruto scowled.

"I was just kissing her goodbye."

"Tch, you were playing tonsil hockey and going into overtime."

"Break it up children." It was best to stop it now while they were still just verbally abusing each other. "Let's go." Neji stood up, dusted off his uniform, and fell in step behind Shino who made himself scarce at the first sign of Sasuke and Naruto's fight. The other two ANBU, still snapping at each other, followed after.

Kaoru shot out the house with his brother and Tenten just a step behind him. "Otou-sama!" Neji turned around in time to catch his youngest son in the middle of a flying leap. "You can't go yet!"

"Kaoru, why aren't you in bed? Or at least wearing something on your feet? Never mind." He continued to reprimand his son as he carried him back to his mother. "You're going straight back into bed, you hear me? You're sick and shouldn't be outside dressed like that."

"He's a real mother hen, isn't he?" Shino and Sasuke agreed.

Neji set Kaoru down just inside the door. "But-but Otou-sama-"

"Back to bed." His son sniffled and began to shuffle away when his mother stopped him with a small touch on the shoulder.

"Neji-" He knew what was coming. He was being too stern, his son was only six, he wasn't dieing of pneumonia for Pete's Sakes!

Well he could have been! "You mother him too much." Tenten just shook her head and nudged her son forward.

"Go on." Still sniffling Kaoru shuffled back towards his father and threw his arms around Neji's legs.

"I didn't get to say goodbye like Tezuka." Actually Tezuka had simply looked up at his father and asked him to bring back an enemy kunai, but that was the way the older Hyuuga twin said goodbye. Kaoru was a mama's boy and much more emotional. "I woke up and Okaa-sama said that you had all ready left, but you can't go yet." Kaoru would say the exact same thing to his father every time he left for a mission, long term or not. Unfortunately yesterday he'd been sick with a fever, confined to bed, and had slept through the whole night. He'd missed his usual chance to say what needed to be said. Had Neji and the others been on time to leave this morning he would have woken up much too late and missed his chance again. "Come home safe." Kaoru could never let his father leave without saying that to him first. He was afraid that if he forgot just once Neji wouldn't return; in one piece or at all.

Even Shino had to admit (never say, but admit) that it was a touching scene when Neji pulled both of his sons into a fierce hug and promised them he'd be home safe with an enemy kunai and hell maybe even an enemy shuriken too. Then Sasuke and Shino politely looked away and Naruto let out a loud, "Woohoo! Go Neji!" when the Hyuuga gave his wife a much different goodbye.

-/-

It was just as they were approaching the gates when Naruto suddenly realized that they were an ANBU short. "Hey, where did Shino go?" After a moment's searching they spotted him a few paces back silently conversing with a bee that had perched atop his finger. For a couple of minutes they stood there starring, then the bee flew away and Shino headed out the gates like nothing had happened. "What was that about?"

"Maybe it was the wife?"

-/-

There was one good thing about having a very rich client. They knew how to provide for their bodyguards. Nothing beat a long (and fast since they were running extremely late) journey like discovering that the man who hired you had no problem renting out five stars hotel rooms for the ninja assigned to protect him.

"Why do you get the bigger bed?" Sasuke twitched. He would be the one stuck sharing a room with Naruto. As rich as their client was he was also just cheap enough to rent two doubles instead of four singles. "What are you looking for anyway?" Naruto asked, watching Sasuke rummage through his pack.

"I didn't notice this morning, but this is heavier than it should be." He finally gave up searching and just flipped the pack over dumping its contents onto the bed.

"Hey, that's-" Sasuke picked it up.

"Kyuubi." He turned the plush over inspecting it. No mistake. It was his son's.

"Sano-chan doesn't go anywhere without that."

"No, he doesn't." Sasuke had thought something had seemed different about Sano this morning and now he knew what.

"We'll have to get that back to him, won't we?"

"Guess it's just one more reason to come home safe."

fin

I think my priorities are a little mixed up. I have an essay due this Monday and all I have written for it is half a page worth of notes. I've spent all week writing this.. when I wasn't snoring away with my face in a textbook anyway. Yeah, my priorities are mixed up.