Birthright

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. So we're going with each set of the second generation (and Kenji) will get a chapter and then a wrap up chapter or maybe two. I'm debating how old I want everyone to be in the wrap up chapters. So do feel free to weigh in on that. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter.

Chapter Notation: Arashi and Aiya are 22, the triplets are 19, Kenji is 18, Hoshi & Shisui are 16, Emiko is 1, and Minato is 2 months old. Oh and it's time for a family dinner and maybe some flashbacks ;).

Chapter 29

By the time dinner rolled around, Aiya was smiling. She lived in the Sand Village, so she wasn't able to visit as often as she would have liked. Every time she did it was at least a week trip. Usually two weeks or more and well, her husband was Kazekage. He couldn't just leave at the drop of a hat.

"She's getting so big." Hinata smiles as she scoops up Emiko and cuddles her closely to her chest.

Aiya nods in agreement. It did amaze her how quickly Emiko was growing. She adored her daughter with every fiber of her being, but she was not having eight children like her mother. She and Kaemon had discussed this. They were not going beyond four.

Kaemon chuckles and nods proudly. "Yes, she is." He kisses his wife's cheek and smiles, his harm draped around her waist.

Sasuke gives Kaemon a dirty look. "Watch where you're hands are going." Aiya just shakes her head in disbelief.

"Father, he is my husband!" Aiya continues shaking her head as she cuddles up to the red head as if to prove her point.

She could hear the rest of her family laughing and rolls her eyes. It was tough to find love when you were an Uchiha Princess. Well more specifically, it was tough to find yourself a beloved who was willing to endure your fathers' threats.

"You know how our dads are." Arashi grins at her. "They'll be giving our husbands and wives death threats forever." He smiles at his wife and caresses Akeno's cheek. "Don't worry though. They're more bark than bite at this point and I wouldn't let anything happen to you."

Akeno smiles at the gentle touch and looks down at the adorable infant in the stroller who was still napping. "I know." Yes, Aiya was still getting used to being an aunt.

She adored Minato the Second, but it was still throwing her for a loop. A red headed Uchiha was unusual, but a blonde one…well it almost violated some fundamental law of nature or something. Still, Minato was a very, very cute violation.

"Threats that we are very much capable of carrying out!" Itachi gives Arashi a pointed look.

Hinata shakes her head and kisses both of her husbands. It was intended to be a chaste kiss, Aiya was quite sure of that. Still, her parents were well her parents. Even after over twenty years of marriage, they apparently still couldn't keep their hands off her.

So it wasn't exactly a surprise, when the kiss became far less chaste. Though it did make everyone else that table squirm, especially her siblings and her grandfather.

"How are you feeling?" Nara smiles kindly at Akeno.

The blonde Uchiha woman sighs and smiles back. "Well it's not easy delivering a baby, but I wouldn't trade Minato for the world." She smiles at her sleeping son. "I'm still rather sore though."

Arashi gives his wife a sympathetic look at that and kisses her forehead. "If you need more rest, it's alright." Aiya notices her Sister-In-Law shake her head in response.

"No. I'll be alright." The young mother assures him.

If nothing else, Aiya knew this much. Her brother practically worshipped the ground that Akeno walked on. It was something of an Uchiha Thing. They loved and hated in equal measure. So when they loved, well they really loved.

So much so, that Akeno would likely have to put her foot down. That was, if the blonde didn't want at least half a dozen children. There were many days when Aiya wondered how her mother had ever managed it, but having two husbands probably helped.

"Good. I'm glad to hear that you're recovering so swiftly." Hiashi smiles at Akeno. "But for goodness sake's, Itachi and Sasuke, get your filthy paws off of my daughter!"

Sasuke and Itachi had both been taking turns kissing Hinata, but break apart upon hearing that. Well more like, Hinata had broken apart first and her fathers were shooting Hiashi smug looks. Aiya digressed though.

"I don't know. It's kinda gross to see your parents making out, but I've got seven brothers and sisters." Hoshi bites into his fish merrily. "I guess mother likes their filthy paws on them."

Sasuke smirks. "That's my boy." Well one of them, Aiya mentally corrects herself. Still, her father just looked so tremendously pleased with himself, she didn't have the heart to actually correct him out loud.

Hinata blushes and mutters something about her husbands being impossible. Not that Aiya could blame the poor woman. Aiya knew very much that her fathers could be sometimes!

Sasuke shakes his head in amusement as he bites into his dinner. It was annoying that Kaemon's arm was still draped around Aiya's waist like that. Then again, that boy's courage or recklessness knew absolutely no bounds. It had always been that way.

What was he going to do with this kid? Sasuke shook his head as he look at Kaemon. The red head was now wearing Kazekage robes.

He was only sixteen, but already a freaking Kage! Not that that was going to stop the Uchiha from putting him in his place. He wasn't afraid of Kages! After all, many years ago, he had attacked the Kage Summit.

"Well I have to admit that you are quite the clever one." Itachi chuckled. "Waiting until after you appointed Kazekage to ask us that."

Yeah. He was a smart kid. Killing him would be a major headache due to all of the political implications. That didn't mean he was going to get off easy though.

"Thank you, Mr. Uchiha." Kaemon smiled at them. "So does that mean that I have your Blessing?"

His Blessing?! This boy, Kage or not, was out of his mind. Did he actually think that it was going to be that easy?!

Aiya was his daughter. His firstborn. The only Uchiha Princess that he had personally sired. Itachi had three girls and one boy. He had one girl and three boys. It was funny how that worked out, but that just made Sasuke all the more protective of Aiya!

Hinata laughed and walked over to Kaemon. "You have my Blessing." She gave Sasuke and Itachi both a dirty look. "Which means you have theirs as well, if they wish to continue to have a happy household."

Sasuke just gaped at his wife! How dare she?! He was simply doing his fatherly duties and she was interrupting him!

Itachi looked just as incredulous though! He obviously wasn't happy about not being able to join in the fun.

"Thank you, Mrs. Uchiha." Kaemon shot her a brilliant smile.

Sadly, it was easy to see why his little Princess might be smitten with the young Kazekage. He was powerful enough to be a Kage at sixteen, seemed to completely dote on her, and as much as it irritated Sasuke to admit it, most women would probably find him attractive.

He was also smart enough to ask for their Blessing before asking Aiya out. So begrudgingly, that earned him some respect. The second that Kaemon upset his Princess though, that respect would fly out the window and there would be nothing left of him to bury though!

"You're welcome. Sasuke, Itachi?" Hinata glanced at them.

Sasuke crossed his arms and looked away. "Fine, you have my Blessing. If you hurt her though, I will make you wish that you had never been born." That wasn't a threat. That was a promise!

"And I'll remind Aiya to use the Gentle Fist in rather unpleasant locations." Itachi smiled cheerfully. "And lock you in my Genjutsu until you are driven to insanity. Please do keep that in mind, if our daughter consents to date you."

Sasuke was pleased to see Kaemon shiver at that. He merely nods and darted off. Probably to find Aiya.

Of course, she had said yes. Their courtship for a few years until Kaemon proposed. Sasuke hadn't been happy about Aiya moving to the Sand, but she had been of age.

That and he couldn't deny her anything. Not when she had looked up at him with the Bubble Eyes Jutsu. Besides, she was obviously happy with the red head. Her eyes sparkled every time that she looked at him in a manner that was far too similar to how Hinata looked at him and Itachi. So he had relented.

"So Ibiki took you on as an apprentice?" Miya glances at her big sister Amaya.

She nods in agreement. "That's right, he did. Father Itachi talked him into it." The eldest triplet smiled smugly.

At this, Itachi couldn't help, but smirk. It hadn't taken that much convincing on his part. Clearly, Ibiki wasn't an idiot and recognized Amaya's gift for Genjutsu.

"That's true, but it was really her skill that got her the position." Itachi nods at this.

As he looks out at the massive table, he smiles. It was a damn good thing they had expanded the kitchen into a dinning hall and the table was big enough to seat over twenty people.

Eight children, two grandchildren, his father-in-law, sister-in-law, himself, Sasuke, Hinata, one Hyuga nephew, and the Kage Families made for quite the full house. There were some days when it still amazed, Itachi that their Clan had grown so large.

Amaya smiles and nods. "I still appreciate it, father." Well of course. He knew that she'd do well in the post though.

"Think nothing of it." Itachi smiles. "He would have recognized your ability eventually." That much was true.

Their Clan was still a small one compared to other Clans, but that was rapidly changing. Sadly, he knew that it wouldn't be all that long before the triplets paired off. Kenji and the final set of twins probably wouldn't be that far behind either.

It seemed like only yesterday, they were all just babies in his arms. Now, some of his children were actually having babies of their own. (Well technically, Sasuke's children, that didn't really matter).

"WAHHH!" Speaking of babies, it looked like Minato had been woken up by all the noise.

"I'll get him." Arashi moves to head to the stroller, but Itachi stops him.

He shakes his head. "It's alright. Besides, I want to hold my grandson." Itachi smiles and toddles over to the stroller, scooping the boy up into his arms and smiles down at him.

He had such adorable grandchildren (well a grandniece and a grandnephew, but that made no difference to him). "Wahh." Itachi smiles ands rocks Minato in his arms.

"Grandchildren are one's reward for not strangling their children when they run off to face a kidnapper on their own." He gives them all a knowing look.

Kenji rubs the back of his head sheepishly. "You're never going to let that one go, huh?" Damn right.

"No! Never!" Naruto shakes his head. "What you all did was incredibly reckless!" Oh look who was talking!

Sakura laughs and playfully swats her husband upside the head. In her defense, Naruto had been asking for that one. The eldest blonde had just blown up the irony meter with that statement.

The medic just laughs more though. "Considering everything that you've done, that was rather hypocritical." She shakes her head.

"Well that was different!" Naruto flails and protests.

Gaara shakes his head. "No. Not really." He smirks and Mei nods her head in agreement.

Hinata smiles as she watches Itachi hold Minato. She couldn't help, but remember the day that she found out Arashi was dating Akeno. What a day that had been!

Arashi had been about seventeen at the time. It had been on Hinata's birthday. "I'll get it!" Her son smiled at her as he dashed off towards the door.

Someone had just knocked on the door. That was hardly surprising though. The guest list for birthdays in the Uchiha Household was quite long.

"Alright." Hinata smiled as she watched him.

Sasuke and Itachi came up behind her as their eldest son was answering the door. Sasuke placed a silver necklace with a large heart shaped diamond on the end of it on her neck and Itachi a matching braclet.

Itachi smirked. "Now, you'll keep us close to your heart at work and while you write or cast Jutsus." Hinata laughed and kissed them both.

She didn't have the heart to tell either of them, that wearing such expensive jewelry probably wasn't a good idea for someone with eight children who worked in a hospital. Besides, they were such beautiful pieces.

"I always do, anyway." Her smile only grew. "But it's nice to have such…shiny reminders?" The bluenette laughed.

"Oh hey, Akeno!" Hinata heard her son greet his friend happily. "You want some help carrying the gifts inside?"

Hinata looked back and blinked at all the gifts the poor girl was carrying. There were a lot of them. Well at least her son was being a gentleman and offering to help!

"That'd be great." Akeno smiled as she handed him the gifts.

Sasuke chuckled. "He's a good boy." clearly, the chivalry amused him.

Hinata nodded. Yes, he was a good boy. A good boy who apparently wasn't as aware of his surroundings as someone with the Byakugan should have been though. It was winter and there was a lot of ice on the ground.

Arashi took two steps outside to help her get the presents and then he slipped on the ice. Dragging Akeno down with him on accident and somehow their lips connected.

Itachi laughed. "Well this looks familiar. An Uzumaki and an Uchiha accidentally kissing." Sasuke glared at the elder Uchiha for his taunt, but Hinata couldn't help joining in.

"Yes, it reminds me of our Academy Days." HInata laughed.

Though it was no real laughing matter. Unlike Sasuke and Naruto, a apparently Arashi and Akeno had absolutely no problem kissing. The accidental kiss steadily grew more passionate and well, it would have been quite the show, if Miya hadn't booped them on the head and told them to get a room.

The rest had been history. Their courtship had also lasted longer than her courtship with Sasuke and Itachi. (Not that that was difficult to do). The end result had been a happy marriage and the first blonde Uchiha by blood. Minato the Second.

Arashi smiles at the sight of his family all together again. It was obvious that Emiko and Minato had stolen the show though. Not that he minded. His son and niece were absolutely adorable.

No one could resist them. Not even Hiashi. Though at the moment, Konohamaru, Hanabi, and Hiruzen were competing with him for the third generation's attention.

"So how are Aoda's and Kara's children doing?" He smiles brightly as he continues eating.

Mei laughs as she looks out the window. "It seems they're doing fine and begging for table scraps." Indeed. More than one large snake was waiting outside the house for scraps.

Yeah. That sounded like Aoda's family alright. They were really all a bunch of overgrown golden retrievers!

"I'll give them some." Shisui laughs as he grabs some fish and heads to the window. "Here you go, guys!" And with that, he throws some fish out towards them.

"Thank you, Master Shisui!" Aoda catches a particularly large piece of fish in his jaws.

It was funny really. Though speaking of funny, their fathers had been hilarious when Aiya and Kaemon had really started dating. Of course, those two had a long distance relationship originally. So a lot of their courtship had been through letters.

"You're so lucky that Akeno lives in the same village." Aiya sighed and shook her head.

Arashi could only nod in agreement. That much was true. It must be a pain to have your fathers sort through your mail like that.

He probably would have started throwing out fireballs. "How do you stand it?" Arashi raised an eyebrow.

"He writes me beautiful, but chaste love letters and sends me gifts." She nodded. "Each coded. Red roses are for passion for example."

Ah. Well that made sense. He was happy that the most he had to put up with was Naruto giving him THE look as he took Akeno to the Ramen Shop or somewhere more private to makeout with her or something.

It had to be hard to have your most precious person live in another village. "That makes sense. So would you be willing to do it?" He paused. "To move to the Sand?"

She'd have to eventually, if she really wanted to be with Kaemon. He was Kazekage. It was a given she'd have to move to the Sand at some point.

"I would." She sighed. "Our family wouldn't be happy about it, but I would." Aiya smiled. "When you're in love with someone, you'd do anything for them."

Arashi nodded. "Like tolerate Ramen." Aiya laughed in response.

"Yes, like tolerate Ramen." They both knew that Akeno loved Ramen as much as her father did. "Anyway, they'll eventually get over their overprotective father stage. Kaemon is a good man and they know it."

Yeah. That hadn't really worked out the way Aiya planned, Arashi thinks to himself in amusement. Even after they were married and had a child, Sasuke and Itachi were still extremely protective of their "Princesses."

Nara smirks at Kenji. "So where were you all afternoon, little brother?" Uh oh.

Keni fidgets and Hinata shakes her head in amusement. She had a pretty good idea where her son had been. Well more like who had had been with.

"Oh you know, training." Uh huh. "Mostly swimming. It's great for exercising all sorts of muscles." Hinata didn't entirely believe him.

Oh she knew that swimming had likely been involved. Safa was Suigetsu's daughter, after all. She just doubted that was all that had happened.

Kenji was eighteen now. He was older than Arashi and Aiya had been when they started dating. It wasn't outside the realm of possibility. Though she wasn't exactly sure how Sasuke would feel about their son dating his former teammate's daughter. (Other than Akeno).

Hinata laughs softly. "Yes, swimming is good exercise." Well it was true.

Fortunately for Kenji, Itachi and Sasuke had always been a bit more lenient on their sons than daughters when it came to dating. Hinata had smacked them around more than once for this favoritism or whatever one wished to call it, but it was just too deeply ingrained in their psyche to fully dislodged from their thick skulls, she supposed.

Kenji nods and blushes. This causes Sasuke and Itachi to both raise an eyebrow. Oh boy. Hinata knew where this was going and it was likely going to wind up with one very embarrassed Kenji.

"Very good exercise." Sasuke agrees as he smiles down at Minato. "I can't believe that we have a blonde Uchiha." He tickles the boy's toes. "But you're such a cute little thing. Nothing at all like the loser."

Naruto twitches. "Hey!" He glares at Sasuke. "What's that supposed to mean?!" Uh oh. This could get ugly.

Sakura twitches. "No fighting during dinner! I'm sure that Hinata worked very hard on this meal!" Well no. Not really.

Hinata had long ago mastered the art of the Shadow Clone Jutsu. While Naruto used it far more often, it was certainly a useful one. Particularly for things like cooking. Not that the Uchiha Matriarch was ever going to admit that!

"Thank you, Sakura." So she just smiles sweetly at her friend and nods her head politely.

After all, she was a Clan Matriarch. Hinata did have a certain image to uphold. And she did her best to do so!

Sakura smiles. "You're welcome, Hinata. I still can't believe that you had eight children. One was enough for us." The pink haired woman smiles at Akeno. "Our perfect little Princess."

Well that had never really been much of an option. Hinata had two husbands. At a minimum, she assumed that she would have two children. One child wasn't much of a Clan Revival.

The bluenette had never planned to have eight though. Her husbands were just very…attentive. And one thing had lead to another. Clan Restoration had been a relatively quick process. She could have lived without going through labor that many times though!

"And us." Gaara nods proudly at Kameon.

Mei nods in agreement. "That was mostly due to the fact I was already into my thirties by the time Gaara and I married." She didn't feel like pushing her luck beyond Kaemon.

Hinata smiles and nods. "That's alright. Having eight children certainly isn't for everyone." She smiles as she watches her husbands play with their grandchildren. Itachi had decided to jiggle Emiko instead, after Sasuke was playing with Minato's toes. Really, there was only so much room around that stroller!

They were endlessly endearing with their children. No one could say they weren't devoted fathers and grandfathers. It was hard to think of her husbands as grandfathers though.

Earlier today had demonstrated that Sasuke and Itachi might firmly be in the middle age category, but they were showing no signs of slowing down. Thank goodness for that. Hinata definitely enjoyed their attentions.

"That's true." Sasuke smirks. "But we wouldn't trade them for the world."

Itachi nods in agreement. "Yes, even though they occasionally try to give the three of us all heart attacks." And Hinata just laughs because truer words were never spoken! (Being a parent was hard work)!