Returning in time
A/N: So I had this idea and told myself why not? I don't own Naruto by the way. I want to thank all those that: follow, fav and review. I want to dedicate this chapter to Miyle6!
Chapter 7: Sasuke's first birthday.
It was Sasuke's very first birthday, well this time around, and that evening a big party had been planned for the birthday boy by his parents: more by Mikoto than by Fugaku, because why would a year old need such a party it isn't as if he's gone remember it!
Much to his families surprise Sasuke was still asleep while everyone was having breakfast. Sasuke was asleep because he had been up the whole night expecting something to happen, but nothing did. He was expecting something because Kami had promised him that he would get a surprise he liked on his first birthday: something that would remind him who he was and who he would become. So Sasuke did wait up until he literally fell asleep waiting for whatever it was so now he was out cold.
"Where is Otouto?" Asked Itachi with a frown on his face as he finished his breakfast.
"Yeah where is the birthday boy?" Asked Shisui around a mouth full of rice.
"Asleep." Answered Fugaku not bothering himself to look up from the paper he was reading.
Mikoto smiled at her husbands answer: they had both gone to see Sasuke that morning and had found him deep asleep, he was even sucking on his thumb! While she found it cute Fugaku worried about Sasuke's teeth and such so he changed the thumb for Sasuke's pacifier with the body flickering technique so that their youngest wouldn't wake up… the ups of being a shinobi and a parent.
How do the civilians do it? Thought Mikoto well aware that there must be more differences between a shinobi household and a civilian one than the typical differences such as: in a shinobi household if a child older than 3 runs around with a katana or another kind of weapon he would get scolded for holding it wrong because that way they can't really use it with all their straight and in an civilian one the parents would freak out…. She had also heard that the parents of civilian children that attended the academy cleaned their children room if they don't do it themselves so that they don't get hurt by a katana or a throwing star, but that one must be exaggerated because if Itachi or Shisui don't clean their rooms they deserve the cut they might receive: it was practical once they got hurt they would know a little of the life that awaits them and they would clean after themselves; as if she didn't do enough!
"Is he ill?" Asked Itachi worried because Sasuke never slept inn at this Fugaku made a negative sound while he shook his head behind his paper.
"No dear he must not have slept good last night or he might simply be catching up on sleep: Kami knows that he is an early raiser." Said Mikoto with a warm smile Itachi just nodded.
"I believe this is the first time Sasu-chan sleeps inn…." Mumbled Shisui.
"There is a first time for everything Shisui…" Answered Mikoto to her nephew who just nodded. "Now do the three of you remember what you have to do today?" She asked the three males with a smile that promised pain if they failed: even Fugaku shivered his wife was a kunoichi one shouldn't mess with no matter that she had retired.
"Hai!" Answered the three at the same time pleasing Mikoto.
"Shisui?"
"Patrol the streets of konoha after that I have guard duty with the Sandiame and then I shall buy balloons for the party and other party decoration. Once I'm done I will return here to help you decorate." Answered Shisui who had been memorizing it for days when his aunt nodded he allowed the breath he didn't know he was holding to leave him.
"Itachi?"
"Coming home right after the academy to help with setting up the games for the party." Answered Itachi calmly: his mother had been reminding him it for the last two weeks so he wasn't worried that he would EVER forget it.
"Fugaku?" When her husband stayed silent she thought that he wasn't listening to the conversation: wouldn't be the first time. "Fugaku?" She called again when he didn't answer this time she knew he was avoiding the question. "FUGAKU?" Fugaku knew that he couldn't escape it any longer no matter how much it pained him.
"I will be home early so that I will be here to welcome our guest with you, dressed properly." Said Fugaku after huffing and mumbling the last part: the things I do for that woman! Mikoto urged him to continue and Fugaku was sure that his wife loved to make him suffer. "The only way I'm to stay longer at the station than is absolutely needed is if the Sandiame himself orders me so."
"Good you have all reminded what you should do today!" Praised Mikoto happily and the three male Uchiha sweat dropped: she had promised torture if they forgot!
"What will you do with Chibi while you make the food?" Asked Fugaku curious.
"Oh don't worry I got him a baby sitter for today."
"Who did you blackmail?" Deadpanned Fugaku, and Itachi knew it was the best moment to leave Shisui didn't, it wasn't that Fugaku believed that Chibi would misbehave: no it was the fact that he knew that his wife would never leave their son with a group of gennin so it had to be a Jounnin and one with a good reputation at that if Mikoto approved and no self respecting Jounnin would babysit….unless it was their own child or sibling.
"I wouldn't call it blackmail, but Kakashi-san is more than happy to watch over him."
"Why couldn't you have hired a group or two of gennin for it like a normal woman?" Lamented the father. "Or blackmailed their Jounin sensei into doing it?"
"Nah I wouldn't let Sasu-chan with those Gennin that hate D ranked missions: so they wouldn't really care for our son even if their sensei did. That way I would have a Jounnin babysitting Sasu-chan and three other kids." Explained Mikoto. "This way is more effective one jounnin for Sasu-chan."
"I hate it when your strange logic does actually make sense, but Hatake? He reads porn in public dear!"
"Aunt Mikoto I'm not usually against you ideas, but senpai isn't exactly…he isn't made for it: let's leave it at that." Said Shisui and Fugaku had a look on his face that said that he wasn't the only one against her idea.
"Don't you two worry about Kakashi-san I made it very clear what he is and isn't allowed to do while on duty: plus he knows Sasu-chan good enough. They have seen each other many times when one of you took Sasu-chan to the training grounds or when Kakashi-san comes over for tea."
"Wait you have tea with Hatake?" Asked Fugaku in shock: just when he believed that Mikoto couldn't surprise him further….
"But of course! It would be very rude of me not to allow our youngest to invite his 'Kashi-nii or nii-san over tea." Answered Mikoto.
"Wait Senpai allows Onii-chan to call him like that?" Shisui didn't know if to hide after he asked that or to laugh at the mental image of his Senpai being called that by his baby cousin.
"Kakashi-san resigned himself to the fact that once Sasu-chan gives you a name it stays no matter what you do." Answered Mikoto before turning to Shisui. "Shouldn't you leave: Itachi already left." At this Shisui hurried out of the house.
"Why is my son calling Hatake that?" Asked Fugaku both fists clenched.
"Well Kakashi-san has a spiny wheel eye as Sasu-chan says…" Fugaku hated it when Sasuke called the sharingan by that name and he had the gall to ask him to show him his spiny wheel eye in public too! "lives in the district and spends a good amount of time training with Shisui and Itachi… So I think he believes him to be family." At this Fugaku's eye twitched: Hatake wasn't an Uchiha and would never be one… unless he marries one of the many maids. Fugaku was fast to stop that train of thought: nope Hatake would never be one of them.
"And don't worry about reading porn in public: women have been doing so for ages, but no man notices." Said Mikoto.
"WHAT!?"
"Do you really believe that we read those romance novels for the smut? No that's just what we want men to believe the jucier parts are what interest us… And don't think that I don't know where you hide your own copies of ICHA-ICHA." Awnsered Mikoto and Fugaku was sure that he could never look at a romance novel with the same eyes again: now he understood why Mikoto loved it so much when he brought her a new one….wait he has been buying his wife porn for years!
"Dear why don't you go and wake the little one up and change him while I make him some food?" Asked Mikoto and when Fugaku just nodded pale while he went to Sasuke's room she giggled: oops I might have broken him!
And so was how Mikoto got Kakashi to babysit her youngest and broke her husband in the process: let's be happy that Fugaku asked the huge favore to Inoichi Yamanaka of suppressing that memory before Sasuke's party. Later he had to ask Inoichi's sister to do the same to him because the poor man was traumatized: Inoichi's sister didn't suffer any trauma seeing that memory and just laughed and promised herself to congratulate Mikoto on not breaking one man, but two.
Kakashi was happy that Sasuke Uchiha actually liked him for some reason making taking care of him much easier: the only down side of taking care of the birthday boy had been Guy scaring the little man awake with one of his loud entrances. Who wouldn't start crying seeing an unknown, loud, adult man wearing a green spandex? More so if said freak hadn't been there when you fell asleep: the good thing was that once Sasuke had calmed down he had given Guy a look and called him a green bean: to Kakashi's delight and Guy's tears….
Once Mikoto and Fugaku had changed themselves to great their guests Kakashi came with a happy and clean Sasuke so that they could change his clothes as well. The party went as any party with so many babies present: nothing special happened beside the fact that Sasuke refused to smash his smash cake allowing Kiba, Neji and Hinata to do so instead. Shikamaru was sleeping…. Sasuke enjoyed his party and playing with his new friends and cousins while the adults talked between them. Sasuke's favorite part and Kiba too it seems was the fact that while the adults still talked he and everyone who wanted could go to sleep on a large mattress his brother had dragged down stairs knowing that most Uchiha loved to sleep in bigger groups instead of alone: it was a very normal thing if you where an Uchiha to leave a note to your parents and crawl into the bed of one of your cousins if you didn't feel up to sleeping alone or with your parents or siblings….
Kami only knew how many times Shisui or Itachi sneaked into the others room using the window because they couldn't sleep or the times another one of their cousins did so. Other Clans seemed to find it strange, with the exception of the Inuzuka who said something about it being good for the pact, but every Clan had their own strange traditions.
After they put Sasuke to bed, in his own, a black half moon appeared on the palm of his left hand. The next morning Fugaku rushed his to get the two Sannin, who had attended the party as promised, so that Tsunade could take a look at the strange mark on Sasuke's hand after Mikoto had made sure it wasn't finger paint or something like that. Tsunade had no clue idea what the mark was, but it wasn't harmful and it appeared to be something similar to a tattoo. While his parents and siblings worried themselves silly Sasuke couldn't help, but grin like a maniac because he KNEW what it meant: he would have to thank Kami the next time.
A/N: HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL IN NEXT CHAPTER! Yes I know Mikoto might seem a little OOC with those thoughts about allowing her children to get hurt, but she was a jounin and I believe that most shinobi would think along those lines: because it's better to know if their children are ninja material than for them to get killed way too early. People: please review I would love to know what you guys think!