All Japanese words will be translated at the end. All words with underlines will be defined at the end.

Chapter 10

"Yosh! Emi, you ride on my back and Sora you go on Sasuke's back," Naruto gave the children commands and they instantly complied with no complaint.

"Akemi, give me one of those bags," Itachi tugged on one of the bags that Akemi was holding.

Akemi gave it to him and they all dashed off into the forest that surrounded the clearing. They had a small conversation with an occasional battle between the twins. "Nah nah! I get to ride on *Tou-san's back!" Sora stuck his tongue out at Emi who was on Naruto's back parallel to him. "BE QUIET SORA!" Emi yelled. "*Gomen Naruto-oji-san, what were you saying about your mission with Tou-san?"

Sora's eyes turned into saucers as he stared at Emi with jealousy. He pouted and leaned back against Sasuke's back. "You know Sakura-chan, if you stare at Emi and Sora, it looks like a black-haired version of you and Sasuke wearing green contacts are arguing," Naruto laughed, "though we all know you wanted to impress him so bad, that if he told you to jump off a cliff, you would willingly do it."

Sakura grit her teeth in frustration, she wasn't going to punch Naruto in front of Sora and Emi, nor was she going to swear in front of them either, when she could she would give Naruto a beating. "I'm not the same little girl any more Naruto," Sakura argued.

"I saw, you beat th-" Naruto started, only to be cut off by Sakura.

"Ah-ha, no need to discuss that, right now, maybe later."

Naruto understood and went back to telling Emi her story. Sakura who was still fuming, hit the branch she landed on so hard it cracked, and she lost her footing. Sasuke noticed this and whispered to Sora, "hold on tight."

Sora replied with a nod as he held on tighter. Sasuke then flipped onto the branch Sakura was formerly on before diving after her, catching her right before she hit the ground, and jumping from the ground up to the closest branch , and then onward, until he was parallel to Naruto once again. Sora then deemed it safe to put his hands to his next to his ears and stuck out his tongue at Emi. Sakura noticed Sasuke smirk at Sora's actions. "You know Sasuke-kun, you can put me down now," Sakura informed Sasuke.

"And if I don't feel like it?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her.

"There's no, 'if I don't feel like it'," Sakura attempted to copy his voice.

"Yes there is."

"Why do you want to carry me anyway, I'm just extra weight," Sakura pouted.

"Well, it's been five years Sakura, I want you as close to me as possible."

Naruto and Emi moved closer to Sasuke, Sora, and Sakura. Emi and Sora exchanged nods of understanding. "Sakura-sensei," little Sora poked his head above Sasuke's shoulder.

"Yes Sora-kun?" Sakura stopped glaring at Sasuke and tilted her head to face Sora.

"Are you and Tou-san, going to get married when we get to wherever it is we're going?" Emi asked for the both of them. "Because, you are our *Kaa-san."

Sakura turned a bright red, before giggling nervously, "You have to ask your Tou-san that."

"Okay. Sora, ask Tou-san," Emi ordered.

"Why do I have to? You ask," Sora pouted.

"I already asked, it's your turn," Emi pouted back.

"Fine, Tou-san, marry Sakura-sensei," Sora demanded, "happy now?"

"And I want to be the flower girl!" Emi demanded.

Akemi and Itachi had come closer out of curiosity, and Akemi along with Naruto and a red Sakura was stifling a laugh. "Wow, Sasuke, your children are planning your wedding already," Naruto laughed.

"Who says my dad will let me marry Sasuke-kun?" Sakura frowned.

"Oh you don't want to marry me?" Sasuke smirked at Sakura.

"Talk to my dad first and then we'll see if my opinion counts is what I said," Sakura muttered angrily.

"Sora-chan, you know, when you ask someone a question, you say something like, 'Will you marry Sakura-sensei?' Okay?" Akemi smiled.

"Since when did you call me Sora-chan Auntie?" Sora pouted, looking back at his aunt.

"Since right now," Akemi replied.

Naruto then took off at a high speed in front of everyone doing flips and swinging on branches. It was fifteen minutes before he finally stopped and everyone caught up to find a giggling Emi thanking Naruto. Emi then stuck her tongue out at Sora. She then noticed that Naruto was panting. "Naruto-oji-san, are you thirsty?" Emi asked, placing her head on Naruto's shoulder.

"Just a little bit, but it's not big deal," Naruto gave her a fatherly smile.

Emi didn't listen, instead she slightly opened her back-pack, taking her water bottle, and pulling it open. Her bottle was the type that was pulled at the drinking piece.

"Naruto-oji-san, open your mouth," Emi ordered, "please."

"Auntie-Akemi has been teaching you manners huh?" Naruto smiled.

"Hai!" Emi chirped. "Now please open your mouth."

"Why?" Naruto asked.

"It's a surprise."

"Okay," Naruto opened his mouth.

Emi then squirted water from her bottle into Naruto's open mouth. "Do you feel better Naruto-oji-san?"

"Yes, thanks," Naruto smiled, "you know I have a daughter, that's about a year younger than you."

"*Honto?"

Naruto happily nodded in reply. "You know Sora, I have two boys that are about the same age as you too," Naruto called to Sora.

Sora who looked bored perked up, looking at Naruto excitedly, "Can I play with them? Naruto-oji-san?" Sora asked, a huge smile of excitement plastered to her face.

"Okay Sasuke-kun, time to put me down," Sakura smiled at him.

"Hn," Sasuke held on tighter.

Sakura opened her mouth to protest, but she saw Akemi, she lip-read, and found out just how to get out of Sasuke's arms. "Sasuke-kuuun, if you put me down, I'll give you a," Sakura gave Sasuke a little wink.

Sasuke raised a questioning eyebrow, but he still refused to put Sakura down. As much as Sakura wanted to be put down, she wouldn't deny that she loved being in Sasuke's arms, she just didn't want him to get tired. The next two hours passed with no chit chat or comments, meaning that the group had been traveling for about three hours. "Tou-san, I need to go to the restroom," Sora said.

"We're stopping at the next town!" Sasuke told everyone, diving downwards.

"That's good, Emi was getting hungry," Naruto commented following Sasuke's lead.

Karin who had been surprisingly quiet during the trip followed. Akemi followed feeling insecure, but not knowing why. Itachi followed feeling very disturbed. Looking at Akemi, Itachi couldn't help but ask, "Do you feel it too?"

"Feel what?" Akemi furrowed her brows.

"We're being followed."

"That's why I feel so insecure."

Little did most of the group know, a water loving little ninja, had passed to the house in the Flame, and was now following them, about a half a mile behind. He was hunting down, his former criminal teammate, and he was doing rather well for a guy who was over an hour behind. He still remembered the ridiculous information he had received, Sasuke, the Uchiha, Sasuke, that ice-cold bastard with no emotions, had kids? Now he was sure that Kisame-*sempai, was crazy. However now that he was finally on there tails, he couldn't help but remember that house.

He had gone, to find Orochimaru's favorite toy, and for some reason he wasn't there; but he felt it, he had left not to long ago. Could he be going to Konoha? He despised Konoha, so why go back? Only one way to find out, he was going to have to ask Sasuke himself, and so he took off on the same trail that the Konoha group were currently on. He was going to find him and ask him questions, and get his answers.

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The Konoha group landed right in front of the entrance to a city that was surrounded by trees. "Welcome to the town of *Moesashi," Akemi announced, "I've been to this town at least twenty times on my way to the Flame."

"Well, take us to the best restaurant here," Sasuke ordered Akemi setting Sora and Sakura down on the ground.

"I would have told you that you were still treating me like a slave if Sora, didn't need to go to the bathroom," Akemi walked into the town furious.

Sasuke followed, rather annoyed. "She has a point you know," Sakura eyed Sasuke before walking past him.

Akemi walked them to a classic little Japanese restaurant. Well, it was classic on the outside, on the inside it had rows of booths on either side of the walls. The restaurant was like a small rectangular like box, meaning that there was only about two meters between the two booths, there was a balcony with tons of traditional Japanese dining seats, and that was why the booths were so close. Sasuke took Sora straight to the bathroom while the men took one booth, and the females (as Emi is still a girl) took a booth diagonal to the men. Emi was on the inside of the booth with her mother on the outer end, and Karin was trapped by Akemi, who was sitting on the outer side of the seat as well. Naruto and Itachi sat next to one another on the side of the booth that gave the women their backs.

A waitress in a peach kimono came to take their orders as soon as Sasuke and Sora headed out of the bathroom. Sora was walking behind his father. Sasuke walked up to the table where he saw Naruto's whiskered face. The waitress looked up, it was rather intimidating when you saw a 5.512 foot man staring at you, and it was hard not to want to melt at the sight of his handsome face. The waitress turned even redder than before, as she had seen Itachi. She instantly moved away, obeying his silent request. Sasuke moved aside to let Sora in, before taking a seat next to him. Naruto told the waitress the order, and pointed to the girl's table. After the waitress took their orders, she went back to where she came from, giving the chef the order, and ogling at Sasuke and Itachi from a safe distance.

As the time for the meals to come came near, the girls went to wash their hands; however Karin, had a bit of a hold up, and was stuck in the bathroom for a while. The girls returned and after waiting for a while the meals came. Karin was still stuck in the bathroom, poor girl, well of course she was sick, she was tied to a tree for a whole night.

Our water loving ninja then poked his head into the restaurant, just another restaurant to look for Sasuke in. he was about to leave when he saw Sakura, a fairly attractive kunoichi. He was so busy staring at Sakura, that he completely ignored the duck's butt hair-do sticking proudly above a booth. He just walked past Sasuke and straight to Sakura.

"Hoh, you're cute," he put his hand on the table where Sakura was sitting, "so tell me sweetie have you seen a guy about six-feet tall with a sword, black hair that looks like a duck's behind, black eyes, and a really dull face like this," he made his face similar to that of Sasuke's.

"Why would that interest you?" Sakura looked back at him.

"Well you see, I heard he was in the Flame, but I didn't find him there, so I'm hunting him down you see," the strange man continued, leaning in closer to Sakura.

Sasuke felt murderous, but he did well to hide it. "Tou-san, who's the guy with the big sword?" Sora whispered.

"An old teammate of mine," Sasuke whispered back, "his name is Suigetsu."

"You would do well to stay away from her," Akemi stated, glaring at him with her deep purple eyes.

"You're cute too," Suigestsu turned to Akemi, "so tell me

have you seen a guy about six-feet tall with a sword, black hair that looks like a duck's behind, black eyes, and a really dull face like this?"

Little did Suigetsu know, he had initiated Naruto's get-away-from-my-little-sister-or-else mode. Yes, Naruto did not like anyone flirting with his little sisters. He was going to beat that guy's ass down, for even attempting to flirt with both of his little sisters. Thank god Itachi was holding him down and forcing him to listen to reason.

Akemi continued to glare at him. "A silent one, huh? So," Suigetsu turned back at Sakura, where he spotted Emi, "Oh, who's the little cutie behind you; your daughter maybe?" Suigetsu looked back at Sakura smirking; making Sasuke even more murderous, "according to the records, Haruno, Sakura of Konoha doesn't have kids, and they never said you were this beautiful up close."

As Karin exited the bathroom, she felt like she should go back in there and hide. It was like a little foreign voice in her head was commanding her to go back in. So she concealed herself within the safe walls of the bathroom confused. Sora noticed Suigetsu turn his attention to Emi again, and he along with Sasuke and Naruto felt very angry. Thankfully Naruto had listened to Itachi's voice of reason and had subdued his anger to a fair point where he wasn't tearing Suigetsu's spine out of his body, and pulling his intestines out and feeding them to the hounds, and taking his heart as a trophy for daring to flirt with his little sisters.

"Hey sweetheart," Suigetsu called to Emi, making Sakura just as frustrated as Naruto, Sasuke, and Sora, "what's your name?"

Sora knew Emi wouldn't talk to strangers, but he felt like he had to protect his sister, so he jumped past Sasuke, and before any of the surprised ninja had a chance to pull him back, he was in front of Suigetsu, shooting him an almighty Uchiha glare that would send girls squealing over how cute he looked.

Suigetsu's features took on a confused and surprised tone before they relaxed into a devious smirk. Sora looked like a miniature of the ice-cold bastard. Maybe Kisame-sempai wasn't crazy after all. The only difference were the tint of his eyes, Sasuke's were that deep onyx that had made even him, the notorious Hozuki, Suigetsu, rogue swordsman of the Mist village back down from the intense glare that they were capable of giving. This boy's eyes were, "Leave my sister alone!" Sora demanded pulling Suigetsu out of his thoughts.

"Hey!" Sora then protested as Akemi pulled him away to safety gaining Suigetsu's attention.

Sakura landed a surprise blow on Suigetsu that send him flying before his flight was cut short when he landed with loud crack into the wall. Sakura walked over to Suigetsu, who was lying there subconscious. "I dare you to even look at my kids one more time, and I'll make sure, that instead of your ribs cracking, it'll be your skull," Sakura gave him a glare with the same green eyes that Sora used, except that her glare made him want to piss his pants.

Suigetsu smirked, "Damn, Sasuke sure knows how to pick his women."

Suiguetsu was so busy paying attention to Sakura; he hadn't noticed Akemi who had successfully hit a point in his body that forced him to unconsciousness. "I'm rather thankful that he stopped to ogle at you," Akemi said.

"Well, I'm not," Sasuke walked up behind them.

"Aww Sasuke-kun, you're jealous, over me again," Sakura nudged him.

Sasuke stared at Sakura before grabbing Suigetsu's body, flinging it over his shoulder, and leaving the restaurant. Sakura and Akemi took their seats back at the booth. The little voice that was haunting Karin finally died down, so she left the bathroom and came to take a seat next to Akemi. Their orders came in, and Sasuke showed up to find Sora beaming and sitting down and talking so enthusiastically to Naruto, "Sakura-sensei-I mean Kaa-san is amazing! She's so cool, did you see how scared that guy looked!"

"Oi Sasuke, is Sakura-chan still weak?" Naruto asked smugly, earning a glare from Sasuke.

"Eat, we need to get moving soon," Itachi ordered.

Everyone ate quickly and in silently. Once everyone was done eating Sasuke suggested that everyone should go shopping; he wanted to do something with Sakura. Akemi instantly piped up, wanting to get something for her fiancé, Karin also got excited and chose to accompany her. Itachi and Naruto decided to walk around town with the kids. That left Sakura with Sasuke, who instantly dragged her to a deserted alleyway he had found when ridding himself of Suigetsu. He cornered Sakura, "Kiss me."

"I only said I'd kiss you if you put me down," Sakura folded her arms across her chest.

"But I did put you down when we reached Moesashi,' Sasuke smirked.

"That's not what I meant," Sakura glared at Sasuke.

"Well, then you should have specified what you meant, because you still owe me a kiss."

"No I don't."

"Sa-ku-ra."

"Hell no," Sakura turned her face away from him.

"Why are you so against kissing me?"

"B-because!" Sakura stammered turning red.

"That's not a valid answer."

"Grunts aren't either."

"Look Sakura, it's either a kiss, or I'll get you pregnant, again."

"I chose neither," Sakura looked at him, "well I might give you a kiss, if."

"If what?"

"If you say please."

"Fine. Sakura will you please kiss me, passionately?" Sasuke added deviously.

"You're one hell of a pervert," Sakura pouted before her eyes widened, "oh my gosh! Does that mean you were peeking at me when I was changing?"

Sakura then decided to start freaking out over the fact that Sasuke was a pervert. If only she knew that unlike Jiraya-sama, he was only a pervert for her. Not that made anything better. Sakura was then cut off when Sasuke's pale hands cupped her face, "Sakura, I love you, all I want is for you to love me in return, not to stare at your curvaceous body."

"Curvaceous body?" Sakura exclaimed.

"Every guy can see that," Sasuke stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Sasuke smirking, walked up to her and cupped her face once more, slowly he brought his mouth down onto hers while closing his eyes at the same time. Before he finally managed to get the kiss he wanted from her; he felt her tense up, maybe that meant she still loved him, or she wanted to slap him, he couldn't tell. When he finally broke away, she was blushing shyly.

"Let's go find, Akemi and Karin," Sakura suggested.

When the couple found the pair, Karin was trying to convince Akemi to go to a lingerie store, and Akemi looked like she was going to vomit out everything she had masticated. As they got closer, they could hear the conversation. Akemi was smiling nervously, waving her gloved hands before her in a refusing manner, "I truly appreciate your suggestion, but I'm a proud virgin, and I don't want that to change anytime before my wedding."

"Oh come on Akemi, the best present to give to any guy is yourself!" Karin whined.

"Uh no thanks," Akemi attempted to walk away before Karin snatched her arm and began to drag her to the lingerie store.

"If you did appreciate my suggestion you would go with it!" Karin huffed.

Akemi's eye was twitching. Snatching her arm from Karin's grasp, Akemi blew up in Karin's face, "I'm telling you that I don't wanna firggin' wear whore's clothing dammit!"

Karin looked just as stunned as the couple observing her and Akemi, had Akemi just sworn? Akemi stormed to the local gift shop thinking, 'I wish it changed her nature too, would make my life ten times easier!' She came out ten minutes later with a little paper gift bag and a big smile plastered to her face. "I bet you anything those are condoms," Karin muttered venomously.

Akemi had heard, as she was practically next to Karin when she had uttered the insult. "WHAT PART OF PROUD VIRGIN DIDN'T YOU FRIGGIN' UNDERSTAND?" Akemi blew up once more, very much unlike her.

'She's definitely PMS'ing, and she is also under a load more pressure with Sasuke-kun coming back, it makes sense for her to act like this, as she would have taken this much more easily had Sasuke-kun stayed in the Flame,' Sakura thought nodding her head, 'Also that Karin is really pushing her buttons, Akemi hates lingerie, it automatically pisses her off.'

Due to how loud Akemi had been Itachi, Naruto, and the little Uchihas showed up to see what was going on. "Let's get going, it's gonna be nightfall soon, I wanna get as close to Konoha as possible, before that happens," Itachi spoke.

Sora got onto his loving father's back, and Emi got onto her active "uncle's" back. They took off going at full speed for Konoha.

Akemi's Note (A.N): Woooo! I'm so thankful that another chapter's out! I edited the past chapters, so they're much better. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. See you guys in a week or so!

-Akemi

Japanese Words Translation:

Tou-san: Father. Can also be seen as Otou-san, further honoring the name.

Gomen: (Short for Gomenasai) An informal way of saying sorry.

Oji-san: Uncle.

Kaa-san: Mother. Can also be seen as Okaa-san, further honoring the name.

Honto: Really?

Sempai: (Sempai of a Kouhai = Junior) Like a "big-buddy"

Moesashi: Ambers

*All definitions are my own, as I already know what the words mean, except for Moesashi, that's Google Translate, Thanks.