Rin grew up well considering his messy start in life. Naruto became Hukage, following his own father's footsteps with pride thus giving Rin a goal in life from an early age.

"I wanna be like daddy!" he would cry with glee, a big gapped smile on his face and his eyes sparkling, as he looked at his father in pride as he spoke to all the people of the village.
The villagers around us cooed and blessed at him
"What a sweet boy"
"Aww! Bless him!"
"The hukage has certainly spawned a fine one" laugh one man fondly.
I smiled to myself proudly. As I have said many times before, I am his mother no matter the blood. I am the one raising him and loving him as if I had carried him in my own body.

While Naruto strutted around the village with pride, I spent my time at home mostly. Once a year I would part from my family for a mission, as long as it wasn't long- I had to get back to my baby and husband. Those two really can't handle life very long without me!
Whenever I'm away, a friend in the village with baby sit Rin since Naruto works. Poor little Rin has gotten used to jumping from house to house. It often goes from staying alone with his father for about 2 days, before being left with Gaara and his current girlfriend- note I said current- for 3 or 4 days, then Neji for (which my little prince didn't always find very fun) just one night, then about a week or more with Lee.

The hyperactive boy loved staying with Lee. I guess Lee partly raised him, and took part in a lot of what Rin learnt through his early years.

"Be the best at what you're good at. Even if it's not the most amazing ability in the world, you can still be the best. If you're not, you can keep trying. Just be happy with your accomplishments- what others accomplish doesn't matter as much as many make out…"

Other the years Rin has made that his motto. No matter what people say, he believes he is the biggest winner of them all- and he is in mine, Naruto and even Lee's eyes.

With Rin taking to Lee on first meeting, it didn't take me and Naruto long to choose a god father for our new born. Lee was honoured with the duty and made his place to play spare parent whenever needed.

It was one of these stays at Lee that we shall start this story, 12 years after Rin's birth

Both Naruto and I had been on a 2 month mission-together, thus meaning Rin has spent 2 weeks with Gaara before spending the rest with Lee when he finally returned from his own mission. We had been happy at the thought our seeing our son's smiling face after so long. We had sent him letters, letting him know we were alive and well and on track.

Our arrival back to the village was a pleasant one, saying hello to dearly missed friends, before dropping out belongings back home and heading to Lee's home. He knocked on his brown wooden door and waited. Seconds later, Lee's cheery face appeared as the door opened

"Welcome back guys!" He exclaimed happily, hugging us both in sync.

"Thanks, Lee" Naruto said, patting our happy-go-lucky friend on the back.

"How you been? How's Rin?" I asked

"I'm good, and Rin all happy" he smiled. "How was the mission?"

"It was-" Naruto started before being interrupted by a blonde cannonball diving into him

"Father!" cheered Rin, hugging Naruto round the neck

"I learnt something you'll be proud of while you were away!"

"What's that, my little ichigo?" I cooed.

"This!" Rin stood in front of us both, placed his hand in position before a cloud of smoke puffed around him. As it cleared, I felt my blood boil
"Sexy jutsu!"

Naruto pouted at the sight "Hey… Your sexy Jutsu has bigger boobs then mi-"

Once again, my baka of a husband was interrupted in sentence, this time by my fist

"Shut up Naruto or I'll bust your brains! How dare you teach out son this!" I yelled at him, as he lied dazed on the floor.

Rin laughed childishly, before running back in to the house.

"Erm, I'm sorry to interrupt your little, erm, disagreement" Began Lee "But I have some rather bad news that you two should be aware of…"

Naruto got off the floor, scratching the back of his head and squinting his eyes with confusion "What is it, Lee?"

"Actually you might wasn't to sit down on the step…" he suggested

"Can't we just go in your house?" I asked, confused myself

"I think it's something Rin should over hear…"

Me and Naruto sat down on the step, and Lee moved to stand in front of us. He fiddled with his hand and took a deep breath, giving me enough to time to think of all the terrible things that might fall from his lips.

"Sasuke is coming back"