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"Kaa-san?"

Hinata opened her eyes slowly to see her children in front of her. Yuudai and Yuuki's blond hair and blue eyes and Akane with her deep red hair and her pale eyes stared at her. Hinata smiled at them and reached out to stroke Akane's cheek.

"Hello, dears.", she said quietly. Akane smiled and lunged at her, hugging her tightly. Yuudai and Yuuki smiled and moved to the other side of the bed and joined.

"Kaa-san, we were so worried about you!", Akane exclaimed.

"We were.", said a voice. Hinata's eyes moved to the doorway to look at the man she fell in love with. She smiled.

He walked over to them, sat on the bed, patted her leg and smiled. "I heard."

Hinata frowned. "You're not mad, are you?"

He laughed. "Of course not. Though I wish you would have told me."

"What?", Akane yelled. The adults laughed. The two twins had the same thing running through their heads.

"Kids, Kaa-san is--", their father started.

"Naruto, let me.", she said. She breathed deeply, and then exhaled. "Kids, Kaa-san is going to have baby."

Silence.

"Another baby?", Yuudai asked. "I wished you would have stopped at me and Yuuki, but noooooo, you had to have Akane, too. And now another baby!"

Yuuki punched his twin lightly. "Would you quit being so rude!"

"Is Tou-san and Kaa-san happy?", Akane asked.

"Of course we're happy.", their father said, laughing. Then he stopped and looked at his wife. "We're happy, right?"

"Of course.", she said, taking his hand in hers. She smiled.

"Then, if Tou-san and Kaa-san are happy, I'm happy as well!", Akane yelled.

"Me too. If you two are happy, then why should'nt we be happy for you?", Yuuki added in.

"Naruto, you kids sure are wise for their age.", someone said. The family turned their heads to the door, only to see Tsunade.

"They get it from me, ya know.", Naruto said proudly.

"Uh, no. They get it from their Kaa-san, not you.", Tsuande said. "If they were even just a little bit more like you..." She cringed. "Well, Hinata," Tsunade said, turning to Hinata, "I suppose you can leave now. Naruto, no more missions for her, got it? And I know you all know where to go for checkups. Every four weeks, alright?"

They all nodded. Then Akane, being the child she was, ran over to Tsunade and hugged her around her waist.

"Tsu-ba-chan! Teach me to be a docter ninja, so I can see the baby!", Akane pleaded. Tsunade bent down and picked her up, settling her on her hip and looking into her gray eyes gently.

"I can't do that, sweetie, I'm not that type of medical ninja. I'm sorry. But, if go to the baby docter with your family in a few weeks, you'll get to see the baby there, okay?"

Akane pouted. "Okay..."

After everyone got home, they kids got their baths, the parents their showers. Soon, everyone was dressed to go to sleep. Akane was in the living room, sitting on the couch in her mother's lap, who was brushing her short red hair gently.

"Akane, sweety, why don't you grow your hair out? It would be so beautiful..."

"It'll get in my way.", Akane said.

"Well, Kaa-san keeps her hair long, and it does'nt get in my way.", her mother said back. Then, when Akane did'nt say anything back, she dropped the subject.

Then Naruto came in and Akane jumped into his arms. Naruto then brought her into her room and tucked her in, kissed on the forehead and walked back to the master bedroom.

His wife was laying in the bed, reading, a lamp on. He climbed in bed and kissed her gently. She smiled and put her book up, turned the light out. They fell aleep in eachother's arms.

Naruto woke up in the middle of the night. He had a sinking feeling in his stomach and he got up and walked to his children's rooms.

Yuudai and Yuuki shared a room. They had bunk beds, Yuudai's on the bottom (he used to sleep on the top bunk until he got in trouble a few weeks ago and was forced to sleep on the bottom bunk), and Yuuki's on top. Their father smiled when he saw that they were sleeping soundly. Yuudai was strewn across his bed, snoring lightly. Yuuki had the covers tucked under his chin, his head tilted to one side.

Then, Naruto left their room to go to Akane's room. He stayed at the door, and saw that she was sleeeping.

"I love you, Akane.", he whispered. Then, when he went to leave, he heard Akane sit up. He turned back to lok at her.

She was rubbing her eyes with her hands. "Tou-san, I love you more.", she said quietly. Then she layed back down and sighed, slowly going back to sleep.

Naruto smiled, before closing the door behind him.