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This is the last chapter! Kinda an epilogue if you will. Thanks for sticking through it; believe it or not, this whole sequel got started in November. Yes, I know it's a long time compared to posting a chapter a week (and sometimes a month), but this one was kinda hard since I was going through a long stretch of trauma and writers block.

Yes, I know it's a very short sequel,, but that's how it's always been. Also, a treat for you who followed me way back when, I'm touching up Lingering Madness (also probably renaming it something else) and then I'm going to post it again and I don't give a damn what my dad says because he's not allowed to have contact with me in any way. Police orders xD

Ten years later

Amejisuto looked out at her village, enjoying the warm summer breeze and the quietness of this spot. It was easily accessible, even to normal civilians, but no one really went up to the top of Naruto's stone head. They feared it was too new to be sturdy enough for sitting on. The Uchiha was grateful she had at least one peaceful place left where she wouldn't be bothered by clan duties.

Sure, her husband was the one that had to make the decisions and attend all the clan meetings, but she had to join in on a lot of them. She also had the job of representing the Uchiha clan during village meetings; that was one of the jobs for most Konoha clan leader's wives, so she saw her mother and sometimes even Sora at least once a month, since she was the next heir to the Ishi clan.

She would like to have visited them more, but duties as the Uchiha Clan leader's wife and as a mother took up most of her time; she rarely even went on missions any more. The missions she did go on recently had involved escaped tailed beasts; they had escaped years ago, making her and Itachi excited since that meant there was no more Akatsuki to contain them.

Thankfully, no beast had caused too much damage and it was rare that someone died because of them. So far, five were caught and sealed in shinobi that were selected specifically to be jinchuriki by the five great nations. Sora had been best friends with one of them and gave reports regularly to the new Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki, since he automatically felt friendship toward anyone, especially fellow jinchuriki.

The brunette smiled, thinking about her friend. He had been appointed as the new Hokage after being gone for two years to train with the eight tailed beast's host, Killer Bee, on how to properly control the nine tails' power. A year ago, he returned to Konohagakure to find Tsunade wanting to step down and appoint him as the new leader. He was disappointed that he didn't get to go on as many field missions, but he was a good Hokage nonetheless. He had finally married Sasuke just a few months before.

Ameji giggled to herself at the thought of Sasuke. He turned into even more of a clean freak and she constantly got visits from him and listened to his tales of what he had to pick up from all over the house that day.

Sakura and Sai had gotten married only a year after Amejisuto and Itachi, to most people's surprise. They rarely even showed any signs of being together, and some even doubted they were even in love until they had their son. Sakura had been very relieved that he had black hair instead of pink.

Kakashi and Yamato rarely got to take their teams out any more; Team Kakashi didn't even have the knucklehead ninja any more, making their missions quicker and more efficient but less fun.

"Maybe I should visit Kaa-san," she mumbled. "Sora too…"

"I'm sure they would love that."

The woman didn't look over as she felt the familiar presence sit next to her to look at the village. She leaned slightly, resting her head on the other's shoulder. "Is it already time to pick up Kohaku?" she whispered, not really wanting to disturb the nice silence.

"Not yet, but Rin and Ren have decided to paint their room with Sasuke's tomatoes and berries from the garden."

"One day without a mess… All I ask is one day…" Ameji sighed. "I see why Sasuke-kun is a clean freak now. Taking care of Naru-chan is probably the same as taking care of a pair of our five year olds."

"At least our eight year old is tidy," Itachi pointed out. "And she does help out a lot too."

"I should raise her allowance," the brunette smiled. They sat there for another moment, enjoying the sun, before getting up and returning home.

Right when Amejisuto opened the door to her house, two small children could be heard running through the halls to see her and Itachi. "Slow down! Your parents would never forgive me if you broke something," a man's voice called out after them.

"It's alright, we would know it's not your fault these two are so destructive, even to themselves," Ameji laughed as her twins came barreling into sight, clinging to her legs. She looked down at them, eyes softening at the sight of her twins.

They both had black hair, though Rin, her daughter, had her hair in pigtails. She also differed from her brother with her eyes being a light purple instead of black. Their smiles were also identical as they beamed up at their mother, happy and excited for her to be home.

"How was your day?" Ren asked, hopeful for some kind of adventurous tale.

"Did you see Naruto-sama?" Rin looked back at Sasuke as she asked, smirking. "Oji-san misses him."

"How would you know? I never said a word," the uncle's curious gaze confirmed the truth of his niece's statement.

"I could just feel it," she replied, proud that she was right.

"No, we didn't see him. He's probably busy doing his work and babysitting Hiro-kun for Sakura-chan and Sai-kun," Ameji responded to the initial question.

"Are they on another mission?" Sasuke inquired.

"I think so. Naru-chan always takes it upon himself to babysit everyone's kids except ours, since we're your close family."

Rin and Ren decided to interrupt by flailing their arms around excitedly and running around. "Is Onee-chan done school yet?" the girl asked.

"She always teaches us a little of what she learned," her brother continued.

The brunette's eyes widened in worry. "Not anything dangerous, right?!"

"Kohaku's more responsible than that," Itachi assured his wife, putting his hand on her shoulder for comfort. He then turned to his children. "What has she taught you so far?"

"She taught us hand seals and what different ones can do," Ren started.

"And also about the history of Konoha," Rin beamed, that being one of her favourite parts.

"So is she coming home soon?"

"I miss her!"

"It's no fun with just Oji-san…"

"He always makes us clean up messes or cleans them up for us."

Sasuke glared at the twins. "Maybe you should try not making huge messes in the first place," he hissed, remembering all of the times he had to wash crayons and ink off the walls, vacuum shards of paper thrown everywhere and scrape pudding off of the ceiling, not even bothering to ask how it got there. Today, he had scrubbed his precious, easily-staining fruits off of the twins' room.

"She should be out in about ten minutes," the mother got an idea and bent down to her children's level. "Do you wanna pick her up and surprise her? We could go for barbeque after!" The five-year-olds cheered their answer and ran to their room to change into something they deemed 'proper' enough for going out. They were very proud Uchihas. "You're welcome to come too," Ameji invited her brother-in-law.

"Sorry, but I'll have to decline. Naruto probably needs help with Hiro-kun. Knowing him, he's probably trying to get him to stop crying at this moment," Sasuke sighed, rubbing his temples. No matter how much kids liked the blond, babies were completely different, and the idiot was too oblivious to notice. "I should leave now before my husband gets his eye poked out."

"Alright. Here's your payment for the past week," Itachi held out a wad of money. His brother took it gratefully and left running to the Hokage tower. Not long after, the twins emerged from their room, wearing matching outfits similar to the ones their father used to wear as a genin.

"Off we go!" Ameji called as they left the house, charging through the Uchiha estate.

"So when you divide 29 from this column, you divide it from the other one as well, so all you're left with is x over here," a tall man with black hair in a gravity-defying ponytail explained as he wrote on a white board.

A young girl with tanned skin, long black hair in a ponytail, pale blue/green eyes, and two red triangles on her cheeks raised her hand. "Shikamaru-sensei, math is boring. Why do we have to do it if it has nothing to do with fighting?"

"Because the people who created this system are stupid," Shikamaru Nara replied. "Trust me, I don't want to be teaching all this, but I was asked to substitute for Iruka-san, and this is what was written down for lessons today. So troublesome," the man mumbled the last part to himself.

"Can't you tell us about the Akatsuki war? Our parents won't say a word," a boy with short brown hair and blue eyes tried to change the lesson.

"If your parents won't tell you, it's not up to me to. Besides, Suna citizens don't know much since the battle was over before they could make it here."

"I can tell you what happened! It was centered around my parents and Naruto-Ojisan," a girl with dark brown hair and black eyes raised her hand, excited to share a tale that would let her brag about her family.

"It's probably not the best idea. We wouldn't want anyone being mad," a sudden interruption caused all the students and even the substitute teacher to look at the door. There stood the powerful Uchiha leaders with their two youngest children.

"Shika-kun, the academy lets out at 3:15. It's now 3:20," Ameji laughed at her friend's annoyed face. She knew he didn't want to be a teacher longer than necessary and yet there he was, spending unneeded time trying to calm hectic 7-10 year olds.

"It's alright, we just thought we'd let you know while we grab our daughter," Itachi smiled, looking at the students that stared in awe at the shining couple. The Uchiha clan was so prestigious, most others that weren't used to it yet would still detect the higher-classiness. "Kohaku," he beckoned after meeting his eldest child's eyes.

"Seeya," she stood up and ran out of the classroom with her family following behind.

"Class dismissed," Shikamaru groaned even more as the volume of the room went up instantly. 'Never again,' he thought.

"I swear, math is so useless. Gina-chan even said it was boring," Kohaku complained, laying meat on a grill.

"She sure takes after Kiba-kun," Ameji popped a bite of food in her mouth.

"I feel sorry for Hinata-chan, having to take care of two kids: her husband and her daughter," Itachi joked.

"Who was that boy who asked for the Akatsuki story?" Rin inquired.

"Dekkusu-kun. He's an exchange student from Suna. His brother is a dictator or something," the older sibling shrugged.

"I think you mean diplomat," her mother grinned.

"What's a dictator?" Ren asked.

"What's a diplomat?" Rin added.

The Uchiha leaders looked at each other, sending messages with their eyes, arguing over who should explain this time. Itachi lost. Sighing, he put a new piece of meat onto the grill, preparing to try to explain to a pair of five-year-olds.

It was around ten p.m. when the house fell quiet, leaving Amejisuto and Itachi exhausted. They felt like they would only make it to bed by literally crawling across the floor. Once they got home from the restaurant, their children insisted on going into the forest and running around. Of course, they had to be supervised, and running after three energised kids wasn't exactly the easiest thing to do.

The three then wanted to have a movie marathon, and since it was a Friday, the parents willingly agreed, hoping that they would settle down and have a nice movie night.

They were wrong.

Three hours, two animated family movies, and three boxes of small hard chocolates dropped in popcorn later, the couple sat on the couch, trying to drown out the twins as they jumped around the living room, not watching the movies at all, while Kohaku gave up and took her bowl of chocolatey popcorn to her room.

Eventually, the sugar high that Rin and Ren were affected by made them crash, sending them straight to sleep. Itachi and Amejisuto carried them to their room and tucked them into their beds, soon heading to the disaster area to clean up. They finally made it to their own room, preparing for bed.

"Hey, Itachi," the brunette yawned, changing into something comfortable to sleep in.

"Yes?" he replied from the bathroom where he was brushing his teeth.

His wife joined him. "What would you think about having another child?" she asked before putting the cleaning bristles into her mouth. Her question made Itachi choke and spit the foamy toothpaste into the sink.

"You aren't again, are you?!" he asked.

She smiled and shook her head. "No, just felt like alarming you," she said after she was done. They went into their room and slipped under the blankets.

"I have the meanest wife ever," the raven smiled.

"And I have the jumpiest husband ever," the former-Ishi grinned, replying to the sarcasm with her own.

"I love you," Itachi turned off the lights, feeling his spouse instantly curl up to him.

"I love you too," she mumbled, leaning up to kiss him. Eventually, they were on the brink of sleep. "I might be pregnant again. You never know."

"What?!"

"Just kidding."

"You're evil."

"I know."