Chapter 22

Shikamaru looked at Chikako as she looked over at Taro, "What are you planning Chikako?" He asked as he noticed she looked as though she was coming up with a master plan. She looked up at Gaara, then back at Taro. It seemed as though she was just figuring out that the two red heads were related.

She then looked at Keitaro, whom was now happily sleeping on Akamaru, and tilted her head. Chikako looked at Shikamaru with a very confused yet irritated look. It was almost as though she couldn't figure out who Keitaro belonged to, so she closed her eyes and put her hands together, almost like she was in the same exact pose her father, Shikamaru, got in when he was trying to think. It looked like that until she yawned and rolled over asleep.

Shikamaru shook his head, picked Chikako up, and sat down on Kibas couch, "Looks like she gave up in the middle of thinking" he sighed, "Lazy child of mine"

"At least she sleeps" Kiba said watching Kaida crawl after one of the puppies again. "That one hardly ever sleeps, unless one of Akamarus pups are right beside her" Kiba walked over to where Keitaro was sleeping, bent down and wiped away one of his baby tears, "That's the only similarity between the two, other than there looks, they both love to sleep with either Akamaru or one of the pups" he laughed quietly, not wanting to wake his son up, "What about Taro….does he sleep a lot, or is he a night person?" He asked Gaara

"he sleeps most of the time, unless it's a full moon, or if Kankuro comes over and plays with him" Gaara said looking down at his son, whom was watching Kaida pull on a puppies tail.

Taro then crawled over towards Kaida and pulled on her brown hair, then laughed when she turned around, her hand on her head. It was almost like Taro was telling Kaida not to pull on the pups tail. Kaida then looked at Kiba, a look like she was try to tell Kiba, 'He just pulled my hair!' And Kiba smirked.

Kaida then looked back at Taro and went to pull his hair. It soon became a war between the two, to see who would last the longest without crying, or who's dad would pick who up first. Not long after Taro and Kaida started pulling hair, Kaida became fussy. She was use to her brother, Keitaro, giving up or her mom, Awaii, picking Keitaro up stopping her from pulling his hair. So she grabbed a block and was about to hit Taro with it when Gaara sent some sand over to pick Taro up, and carry his son to him. Gaara then shot Kiba a very deadly look.

Kiba scratched the back of his head, and walked over to pick Kaida up. Kaida looked completely confused as to what happened to Taro. "Sorry bout that, it's a bad habit Awaii and I are trying to get her out of" Kiba apologized to Gaara, then looked at Kaida and said, "Kaida, you cant always throw stuff when your not winning"

Shikamaru shook his head, "Troublesome children" He then looked down at Chikako, whom was now fully awake, "Your not gonna start throwing stuff….are you?"

She tilted her head, "Tu-bl-sum" she smiled, then giggled.

Shikamarus eyes widened and he looked really surprised, "What did you say?" He asked, hopping to get her to say it again…

"Tu-bl-sum…..tu-bl……sum" She yawned in the middle of the last one. Now with a very lazy look on her face, she didn't want to say it anymore.

Kiba looked at Shikamaru, "Looks like she takes after you…" He then looked back down at Kaida, "What's gonna be your first work….Heh, it'll probably be 'no' " He laughed.

"No, No, NO! Couldn't you of picked a different word…your mothers gonna kill me once she hears you say Troublesome" Shikamaru let out a loud sigh, "What a drag"

Hissori and Red took Awaii to the spot they first became friends, the pond with a water fall. They all took of there shoes and placed there feet into the water, then leaned back on the grass.

"Do you guys think-"

"if you are going to ask about the guys and the kids, I'm gonna push you into the water right now" Hissori interrupted Awaii.

Awaii shook her head, "That's not what I was going to ask…I was going to ask you guys….what do you guys think would of happened if we never became friends?" She sat up, "Don't either of you think it was weird that all three of us were drawn to the same exact spot…and are now best friends?"

Red also sat up, "Are you still thinking about what Orochimaru said, before we killed him?" she asked looking down into the water.

Awaii nodded, and Hissori sighed, "SO much for relaxing…I though we all decided that, that guy was crazy and was only trying to get us not to kill him…there was no way that he could of made us the way we are"

"Then how'd he know so much about who we were….and how come none of us remember anything from when we were younger, or that we were told that all of our parents died before we could remember anything about them" Awaii asked, she then hugged her knees, "What if that creep Orochimaru did something to us that will effect out kids?"

Hissori sat up, and looked at Awaii with a serious look on her face, "You shouldn't trust anything that guy said, for one; he saw us fight that Kabuto guy and the sound minions, two; no one remembers anything from when they are young, three; a lot of kids grew up not knowing there parents, and four; he couldn't of done anything to our children…they have our blood not his" She answered Awaiis questions in order of how Awaii asked them.

Awaiis sighed, "I guess your right….but I still cant help but worry"

Red looked up at the sky, "You know, if the Orochimaru guy did do anything to us…it would have been bringing us closer…I mean think of it, if he did find all 3 of us, then somehow he made it to were we would all meet….allowing us to be the friends we are….which as far as I can see that isn't such a bad thing"

Awaii stood up, "Come on, lets go home….as much as I enjoy this spot, and love the quiet….I miss Keitaro and Kaida…I want to spend my birthday with my babies"

Hissori and Red also stood up, looked at Awaii then pushed her into the pond, "I told you , not to worry about them…now look, your all wet"

Awaii was now completely soaked, she swam towards the edge, and grabbed both Red and Hissoris legs then pulled them into the water. She began to laugh as Hissori and Red surfaced. Both looking surprised that Awaii pulled them in the water.

After about 30 minutes of relaxing in the freezing cold water, they all crawled out, looked at each other, and began laughing. They were all dripping wet, and shivering slightly.

"Thank you for this…..I really needed it" Awaii said as the three-wet-women walked back towards Kohona.

Hissori nudged Awaii, "that's what friends are for" she laughed.

"Now we can go home…I'm sure the guys are all dying for us to walk in the door" Red said as she began ringing the water out of her hair, "Not to mention we all need to change"

They all walked back into Kohona, and into Awaiis house. Once inside the house, the guys looked at them with confused looks on there faces.

"Is there a reason you are all soaked?" Kiba asked, holding Kaida in his hands.

Hissori nodded, "Awaii was worried about Keitaro and Kaida"

This just made the guys even more confused, they just shook there heads. Hissori, Red and Awaii all walked back into Awaii and Kibas room to get some clothes. Even though Hissori and Red didn't live with Awaii, they kept clothes at her house, just in case something happened while they were there…which right now, seemed like a very good idea.

They walked out of the room, hairs still wet, but clothes dry. Awaii walked over to where Keitaro was, and picked him up, not waking him up, she just wanted to hold him. Red walked over to Gaara, and took Taro from him, then held him close to her, and Hissori walked over to where Shikamaru was sitting, and just sat down beside him.

"did anything happen while we were gone?" Hissori asked, laying her wet head on Shikamarus shoulder.

"Kinda…." Shikamaru said, Hissori sat up, and looked at Shikamaru, "Your daughter said her first word…."

Hissori looked at Chikako, "What did she say?"

Chikako smiled, "Tu-bl-sum" She said reaching up for Hissoris wet blue hair.

Hissori smiled at Chikako, picked her up, then looked at Shikamaru, "I told you saying Troublesome all the time would make that her first word….You owe me a dinner" She smirked.

-End of chapter, okay….so now Chikako said her first word…and of course it had to be Shikamarus favorite word…Troublesome…anyways…I think this story is over…cause I don't know what else to do with it….the wars over, the bad guys are all dead….so unless someone has some master plan as to what else could happen, this story is over….hope you guys liked it. And sorry if there were any unanswered questions…just ask and I'll answer them…-