Chapter 3

"You were calling who?" Hinata asks. Naruto simply smiles back at her softly as he leans against one of the trees holding up the hammock.

"Satoru and Satoshi, they're our boys that we take care of." Naruto says as Hinata slides her smooth elegant legs up to fully join Sakura in the hammock.

Then the two large foxes from earlier walk through the trees and join Naruto and Sasuke. Sakura and Hinata's eyes grow wide as the two massively over sized foxes walking towards them. Then their eyes go to Sasuke and Naruto.

"Wait so these fox follow you both around like puppies?" Sakura asks as her eyes go back to huge fox that is currently sitting down in front of Sasuke.

"Yeah, Jariya-sensei gave them to us when we were six years old." Sasuke smirks as he motions for Satoshi to come closer. "We grew up together and we both have a summoning agreement with them since they're fox demons."

Naruto smiles as Satoru walks up to him and nuzzles him with his face. "Oh and this big guy here is Satoru; he looks mean, but he has higher chances of licking you to death."

"He's a very handsome fox." Hinata smiles as she looks at Satoru with warm eyes. Satoru's eyes light up at Hinata's comment and he leaves Naruto's side instantly for Hinata.

She climbs off of the hammock and Satoru walks up next to her, showing her just how big he really is, he looks at her eye to eye on all fours.

"Anata ha totemo kawaii desu!" Hinata squeals as she hugs Satoru around his big warm fluffy neck.

"Don't tell him all that cause it just might go to his head and he'll get cocky." Naruto sighs with a smug grin on his face as Hinata continues to gush over Satoru. Satoru's eyes cut over to Naruto and Naruto begins to chuckle as Satoru sends Naruto images and thoughts of how he plans to hurt him in the future.

"Urusai!" Naruto finally says to Satoru. Hinata quickly looks up at Naruto.

"I hope that wasn't directed at me." Hinata says softly.

"Wha- oh no, it was to Satoru, he's mind is linked with mine so we can read each other's' minds." Naruto says in a rush, but he adds on the last part with a pout lip, "And right now he's not being nice to me."

"Well I think they are kawaii!" Sakura smiles as she rubs Satoshi's ear causing him to sit in front of her and lean his head into her hand.

Naruto and Sasuke look at each other and then they hear Kushina calling them back up to the patio.

"It's getting late boys and I want you both to walk Hinata and Sakura home, please." Kushina smiles as Minato sits next to her holding her close to him.

"Yes Kaa-chan." They say with no argument.

"We'll be okay; I'm staying the night at Sakura's house anyways so we won't be alone." Hinata says with a blush as Naruto glances at her. Then Hinata realizes that she's been stutter a lot less lately, maybe she has finally mastered her stutter.

"Non-sense, it's late plus we're going to a friend's house to pick up some stuff for Otou-san." Naruto announces with his usual bright warm smile.

"We're good." Sakura blushes as she feels her heart pound against her chest at the thought of being walked home by Sasuke.

"Thank you for the offer though." Hinata says as she grabs Sakura's hand. Sasuke simply nods and walks to the door.

"At least let us walk you to the door." Sasuke says. They all walk inside and Minato and Kushina wish the girls a good night and leave them as they approach the front door.

"Well I guess we'll see you tomorrow then." Naruto smiles as he opens the door for the ladies.

They only nod, than they say their goodbyes as they head off. Naruto shuts the door and they walk back to the living room to look for something else to do. They see Kushina sitting in her usual spot on the couch, drinking tea.

"Hey Kaa-chan." Naruto announces as they stand in the door way.

"Hello, I take it that the girls are gone now?" Kushina wonders as she gets up and walks, past the boys, towards the door.

"Hai." Sasuke says softly while watching his mother move across the room.

"How about you boys go have a bit more training before you relax and settle in for the night?" Kushina says softly with a smile as she tilts her head towards the front door.

"We're always relaxed when we train." Sasuke points out as he stretches his arm above his head and Naruto walks outside.

"Let's go Sasuke." Naruto calls as he jumps nimbly into a nearby tree.

"We'll be back soon or later." Sasuke announces as he runs off in the direction that Sakura and Hinata left in.

"Just have fun." Kushina smiles to them as they disappear from sight. A small smile curls on her lips as she turns to go back inside.

Sasuke leaps from roof to roof, his silhouette barely visible against the wild fiery colors that are spanned widely across the vast sky. Soft shades of pink mix and meld with the bright oranges. The blues and purples of the night sky give off the allusion that they are dancing with the shining star that are coming out after a long day of waiting. As Sasuke approaches one of the parks he sees an assortment of different things, like an elderly couple taking a nice evening stroll. He also sees a family of five out on a walk before settling in for the night. The man has his arm around his wife's shoulder while she carries a small child in her arms. She's humming a small lullaby to the child as he seems to try and fight his inevitable slumber. The other two children are running around throwing fake shuriken at each other. The two boys duck and roll around playing ninja. Sasuke stops shortly to watch the two young brothers play without a care in the world.

"Too bad being a real ninja is nothing like the game." Sasuke sighs as he jumps away to another tree.

Soon he spots Sakura and Hinata walking down through the park, they're walking along the small stream that flows through the whole park and even some of the training grounds. He moves closer to them, knowing that he needs to be much stealthier when following so close behind them since they are both well trained kunoichi. Now he can hear what they are saying as he trails in the trees close behind them.

"Can you believe that Naruto and Sasuke are the fourth Hokage's sons?" Hinata ponders as she continues to walk with Sakura by her side.

"I know and we've known them for so long I thought that they were just orphan brothers that were pranksters," Sakura admits as she tries to think about anything that might have been a hint. "Now we know and it's hard to believe that we just now found out."

"Well Naruto and Sasuke's last name is Uzumaki, but the Hokage's last name is Namikaze." Hinata states, "Why would he not want his sons carrying on his clan's name?"

"I don't know." Sakura yells as she throws her hands up in the air. "Maybe they took Kushina-sama's family name."

'Sakura, why are you so smart?' Sasuke asks himself in his head.

"Just think though we get to train with them tomorrow." Hinata smiles brightly her eyes beaming with excitement.

"Ahhh, I can't wait for tomorrow!" Sakura huffs as she lets her hair down from its messy bun on the top of her head.

She shakes her head and lets her pink hair tumble down her back.

'She grew her hair back out.' Sasuke says to himself. 'Where are you Naruto?'

"Have you ever had a dream were the only thing you can see are Sasuke's eyes staring you down?" Hinata asks out of the blue.

"Nani?" Sakura almost trips on her own feet and Sasuke stops dead in his tracks.

"Sometimes I have dreams that all I see are Naruto's bright cerulean eyes staring at me." Hinata blushes wildly like she's imagining him kissing her right in front of the whole village.

"Sounds to me like you're still in love Naruto." Sakura concludes with a big smile across her face.

Suddenly there is a loud splash from something falling in the water a bit further upstream.

Sorry for the short chapter and tiny cliffhanger...buuuuut there is more to come!