Updated early because I felt like it :) next update should be up in about the same time, five days give or take.

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As soon as Kushina opened the door to the Hokage's office, Naruto bounded towards his father, jumping and leaping all the while. Quick to think, Minato caught his child in midair.

"Tou-san!" Naruto yelled, his arms in the air as his father set him on his yellow hair. Kushina smiled at the sight, remembering another instance that was a replica of the moment.

When they were younger, Tsume used to put her pets on top of her head. Now thinking about it, it was a wonder she never dropped a dog. No matter how much she ran and leapt and tilted her head at Kushina. tilting her head at Kushina, that's what she always did, saying Kushina was weird. How ironic. Nonetheless, Tsume wasn't as bad as the others when Kushina first came to Konoha. She was, as always, a friend to everyone, if rather a bit too competent.

Looking at how Naruto looked on top of her husband's head, they could almost pass for members of the Inuzuka. Especially with her son's whiskers.

"Look at how your mother is staring at us," Minato whisper-yelled to his son. Showing his playful side to the only two people who knew about it. "She marvels too much at our good looks, huh?"

"Baka," Kushina replied, finally out of her daydreaming. "You look like Inuzukas, dattebane!"

"What Inuzuka?" Naruto's eyes grew small, almost slits. He wanted to scratch his head, but he might fall off if he let go of his father's hair. He scratched Minato's head instead.

"You know your friend, Kiba?" Minato asked. "He's an Inuzuka."

"Oh!" Naruto smiled widely. "Wait. How's he Inuzuka."

"Naruto-kun," Kushina walked closer to the two. "He was born to the Inuzuka. You, on the other hand, were born to the Uzumaki and the Namikaze."

"Don't get," Naruto tilted his blond head in confusion.

"Don't worry about it," Kushina waved her hand. "You'll understand when you're older. No need to know now, you're not Hokage, dattebane!"

"What's Hokage?" Naruto asked another question. Immediately, Kushina regretted mentioning the word.

"I'm the Hokage!" Minato proclaimed, saving Kushina from having to explain. He also "I'm the strongest ninja in this village!"

Naruto's face lit up. Minato had provided a simple, if too simple, explanation to the word. Naruto didn't need to further understand though. If his father is the Hokage and the Hokage is the strongest ninja, then its enough.

"I gonna be Hokage!" Naruto pumped his fist in the air, loosing hold on his father. Minato turned around and caught the little kid before he even fell down an inch.

"If you're gonna be Hokage, you should be more careful, dattebane!" Kushina scolded. She no longer panicked as this happened often and Minato would always catch her child. But it still made her heart stop for a second every time.

"I just know you're gonna be Hokage!" Minato said instead, pride sparkling in his eyes. He held Naruto at arm's length and began throwing him upwards. Naruto started giggling, having no worries that his father won't catch him.

"Be careful!" Kushina strode up closer to catch Naruto if ever Minato couldn't.

Minato glanced towards his wife, mischief visible in his ocean-like irises. He immediately sat Naruto down on the table and held Kushina like a princess, all in a second's time. He had done this a few times before, in memory of him saving his then-future wife, but Kushina was always taken by surprise. At the way he uses his speed, she could never predict what he would do next. Instead, she put her arms around his neck, just in case he decided to do something stupid.

Minato started twirling his wife around, dancing her in weird, awkward ways. They were both used to it. Naruto was used to it. The room was filled with laughter and happiness.

"Put me down, dattebane!" Kushina said between catching much-needed air. She ran out of oxygen from too much laughing./font /p p font"Only if you kiss me," Minato started pouting. Naruto scrunched up his face and closed his eyes tight like any normal kid would. But really, he has long decided that if he were to marry someday, he'd do the same.

Kushina kissed her husband in the cheek, receiving another pout from Minato.

"You didn't say where!" Kushina defended with a smile. "Now put me down!"

Minato obliged. Soon after, he kissed her in the forehead, claiming it was to be fair.

"I need to get back to work," Minato stated. Kushina started walking towards Naruto to pick him up.

"Don't you get tired of paper work, dattebane?" Kushina whined.

"I need to do it, nonetheless," Minato explained.

"See!" Kushina pointed out. "You'll get bored out of your mind, dattebane."

"Kushina," Minato sat on his chair again.

Kushina rolled her eyes and started walking towards the door. Minato valued the village very much and didn't complain from all the paperwork like other people would. But sometimes, Kushina wished he would take a break sometimes.

"Well, I can't leave all these work," he said as she put her hand on the doorknob.

As quickly as she said that, Kushina heard him say those oh-so-familiar seals and a poof.

"Fine. I'll leave one of myself with them," Minato gave up. He started following Kushina out the office.

'Practice on this,' Kaa-san said. She told me to pierce the leaf in two not using my hands, mouth, feet or any other thing. She told me to lie still and hold the leaf on my forehead. I don't know how to do all that. But Kaa-san told me it's for my training. And if I do it, I'm a step closer to Hokage! So I will do it, dattebayo!

"Minato," Kushina called later that night. Their little boy had been trying to do what she said all day. And he never even complained. In a day or so, Kushina suspected he would start. He's an Uzumaki with large reserves of chakra. He'll find controlling it into a tiny leaf very hard. "I started Naruto on chakra control, dattebane."

"Hmm?" Minato responded. He was probably very tired tonight. All those paperwork took a great deal of energy from him.

"I know he's not even four," Kushina explained. "But I kinda slipped when he asked what makes a Hokage strong. And then he's downright intent on training."

Minato smiled. He didn't even have that enthusiasm when he was that age.

"Don't worry," Kushina added after a few seconds of silence. "I wont take away the jobs of the academy, dattebane. I'll just teach him the sealings passed down to me from the Uzumaki."

She felt Minato nod. He's slowly falling asleep. She knew they could talk about this tomorrow when he's fully woken up. But Minato carried his consciousness in his dreams. She knew he'd somehow plan on what to do while he's asleep.

"You can teach him something of yours," Kushina said. "The jutsu you made up on your own. I know there isn't much from the Namikaze, dattebane."

Minato reached out and put his arms around her, inhaling deeply the scent of her hair. And then he fell asleep.

"Good morning, Kushina," Minato greeted from the kitchen. He was cooking a breakfast of eggs and bacon for Kushina. Naruto won't wake up for another couple of hours or so.

"Good morning," she replied with a smile. She rubbed her eyes, let out a yawn and sat on a chair.

"Guess what," Minato asked as he put a plate in front of his wife. "I know how to help train Naruto!"

"Really?" Kushina was suddenly fully awake. So he did think about it in his sleep.

"I'm busy being Hokage and all," Minato said as he went back to put an egg on Kushina's plate. "And Naruto is still very young. But we can write the jutsu we know on a scroll. Arranged by difficulty. He can learn them one at a time, at his own pace. If he knows he can take it slow and never lose the jutsu, he won't miss out on his childhood by choice,"

"Of course, we'll train with him sometimes. You especially, since you're still looking after him." he quickly added.

"Minato!" Kushina stood up and hugged her husband. "That's a great idea, dattebane!"

End of Flashbacksss

Itachi stood up and went inside the house. He walked towards the kitchen and poured himself a glass of water. Once he had drunk the last drops of the water, he poured himself another glass. He was thirsty.

He was parched.

And he was unaware of the commotion happening outside.

Naruto had been yelling loudly since the day had started for the toddlers. It was a natural occurence. It was nothing new and all the other children had developed ways to adapt to it.

Kiba had made it a point to scream as loud as Naruto. He realized that it garnered much attention and he should do it, too.

Shino and Shikamaru had found it 'troublesome' as the later had stated. They decided not dealing with it at all was the best thing to do. They both stay as far away from the obnoxious brat as possible.

Ino, Hinata and Neji, the two later being newcomers, had been staying inside the house, doing things girls do and looking after the heiress. When they did come in contact with Naruto, Neji would put himself between him and Hinata. Hinata would not talk and Neji would tell Naruto to lower his voice around the heiress. Naruto didn't understand though he didn't try to. He won't keep his voice down and that's that. Ino would then tell Naruto off, before strutting down with the Hyuugas to somewhere else.

Chouji is neutral about everything else. He's fine as long as he has his food.

This time however, Naruto wasn't just screaming random things.

"I gonna be Hokage, dattebayo!"

"Kaa-san train me!"

"Tou-san help me!"

"Tou-san Hokage! Me next!"

"I make National Ramen Day!"

And Sasuki was getting tired of it. Usually, Naruto would not yell the same thing twice. That's what made it less uninteresting. But now, those five phrases were the only things Naruto seemed to be capable of yelling.

Kiba had already gone home with her sister and so has almost everyone else.

Bored out of her mind, Sasuki suddenly thought up an idea.

"Naruto, think fast!"

She jumped into the air and held on to the little blond's back. She thought he would catch her the way her Nii-san did when she did that to him. Of course, she was wrong.

Naruto's small legs couldn't hold both of their body weights and he came crashing to the ground, taking Sasuki with him. Sasuki's head came first, her chin colliding with the solid ground. And then, the momentum she took running towards Naruto, made her fly over the little kid. Her side hit the ground and she couldn't stop herself from rolling over a few rocks. Instead, she used her tiny forearms and shielded her face from further injuries.

When her tiny body finally stopped moving, she was lying on her back. The cuts, scrapes and bruises had started to hurt and she could feel the blood oozing down from her chin and neck.

The worst was that she couldn't breathe properly.

The pain in her back was immense.

She started standing up, holding back the tears that were trying to fall. She winced as every move she made sent a new pain.

"If you can't even think fast and catch me," she tried her best glare at Naruto. "How can you become Hokage?"

With great effort, she scoffed and turned towards her house. She saw Itachi on the hallway to the kitchen and she stood still. She couldn't see well right after entering the darkness, but she knew Itachi could and he would be.

Itachi saw as Sasuki's lips started to quiver. He immediately ran towards her and scooped her into his arms. He didn't ask what happened yet but he saw the wounds. Sasuki held on to his brother and burrowed her face in the crane of his neck. Just before they reached Sasuki's room, he felt wet drops seep into his shirt.

"Ne," Naruto sat down beside Sasuki. It's been a few days since the accident and she still hasn't spoken to him. She didn't even come out of her room for the rest of that fateful day. And she didn't come on the last play day. The proud little girl has held her grudge for that long.

Unfortunately for Sasuki, both their mothers decided to go out together and bring their children along. It wouldn't have been too bad if Itachi was here. But the raven-haired boy was on a mission. So it was just Naruto, Sasuki and their mothers at a local barbeque restaurant.

"When you talk to me?" Naruto tried to face her, his blue eyes filled with regret and confusion. She turned away from Naruto and closed her eyes even to the window. "I say sorry, dattebayo!"

"Sasuki, Naruto-kun already said sorry," Mikoto told her daughter. She and Kushina had stopped talking for a while when they realized the one-sided conversation.

"It's okay, Sasuki-chan," Kushina said. "Everyone gets cuts and scrapes. They'll heal and they don't scar. You'll still be pretty, dattebane!"

Sasuki scoffed as she took a peek at the redhead. Namikaze-sama sure was naïve and loud. She now sees the resemblance between Naruto and the Hokage's wife.

Naruto was still blabbering about being sorry and being friends. The raven-haired little girl tuned out most of it but she still caught a few words. She was thinking of her first words to him for a few days when he said, "How I gonna be Hokage without best friend?"

Without thinking, Sasuki countered with a, "Hokages don't need best friends. If you can't do it, then I'll be the Hokage."

Holding her pride, she lifted her chin, stood up and strutted to the women's restroom.

A few minutes after she did, Ino came out of one of the bathroom stalls.

"Sasuki!" she called. The raven-haired girl glared at the annoying blonde. Blond people really were annoying, aren't they?

"Sasuki!" Ino screamed yet again. This time, it was from shock. "What happened to your chin?"

Right. Ino didn't see what happened and Sasuki didn't go to the last gathering.

"I fell," Sasuki answered as-a-matter-of-factly.

"Is that why you didn't come last time?" Ino's eyes widened even more. "Oh, don't answer that. I know I won't if my face looked like that!"

Sasuki twitched. She didn't go because she didn't want to see Naruto, not because she didn't want to be seen! Stupid Yamanaka!

"Can't answer, huh?" Ino walked towards her. "Don't worry, it should heal and it might not leave a scar."

Ino reached to touch the almost healed scrape on Sasuki's chin. The raven-haired girl pushed her hand away. Ino saw the action as nothing but provocative and disrespectful.

"Might," the blonde repeated. "If it doesn't, then that means you won't be a threat to me." She did her best to glare at Sasuki who was glaring back. Then, Ino turned on her heels and walked out of the bathroom.

Sasuki stayed for a while and looked at herself in the mirror. The wound on her chin was long but it was healing. Even with it, there was no doubt that she was prettier than Ino. The other girl might have nice blue-ish, green-ish eyes that she was so proud of, Sasuki will develop the sharingan and to her, nothing was more beautiful. While the blond hair was soft, it wasn't nearly as shiny as her jet black tresses.

"Hey Ino-baka!" she called after the girl. "I'm prettier than you!"

Ino turned around, her hands on her hips. "Really? Do you have proof?"

"I'll show you!" Sasuki stomped off towards Naruto. "Who do you think is prettier, Ino or me?"

Naruto, sulking just a while ago after Sasuki's sudden statement, was more confused than ever. Why would Sasuki ask that? She didn't even act like a girl most of the time and he certainly didn't see her that way before.

"Uhmm... You?" he asked more than answered.

"That doesn't count!" Ino exclaimed, pointing a finger at Sasuki. "He's an idiot!"

"Well, then let's just ask more people!" Sasuki countered. "If you'd like to hear more people choose me!"

Ino and Sasuki stared at each other, burning the other in their minds. If looks could kill, they'd both be dead. If Sasuki's sharingan has been activated, Ino would be dead ten times over.

Soon, the staring contest had ended and both had agreed to the challenge. As Sasuki thought it over, she realized how stupid that was, sinking down to Ino's level. Thinking about looks and appearances. Ino was really getting to her.

Sasuki is a girl, not even four-years of age. This is the time of her life when she depends on others more often than not. She is smart and independent in some ways, as she strives to be like her brother, but she's just a little over three years old.

Like most children, she will feel the lull of sleep more often in the day, and like most children, she will, at the best of her skills, try to stay awake. And like most children, she'll only last a few moments before going under. This might dull her personality but it doesn't mean she would be less impulsive.

At this stage, too, she will find comfort in the touch of those she love and trust. Most people experience this, especially those with siblings. However, as with most people, she'll outgrow, if not set aside, this sense of security. This would be like getting embarrassed whenever your mother kisses you in the forehead in front of your friends. It will still make her feel loved but she won't say that out loud, in fear of getting teased.

As with being a girl, Sasuki would be getting lots more of attention from her mother. She realizes this when she tries to imitate her brother and sees that he doesn't get the same attention. She then tries to stop doing as much of whatever bonding time incorporated with it is with her mother. Being part of the head family will also add up to this. She will get more attention and will probably have more praises for her beauty in her everyday life than most average clan members. She'll ignore the comments as with the beautification time with her mother, but she'll still appreciate them. Dealing with another head family daughter who gets as much attention would spark a competition. As out of character it may sound, it's what female instinct is. Prove dominance over others.

This is what might have happened had she been born a girl. She'll get into character in her later years but right now, she has a family, a mother who appreciates having a girl, a brother whose protective instincts are more sharpened due to the fact that it's a princess he needs to protect.

Naruto on the other hand, having parents will not as much be a prankster. He gets attention, more so because he's the son of the Hokage, what more does he want? On another take, he's less impulsive and more curious. He has parents who will answer his questions and village people who will watch his every move. One mistake and its his father who is questioned. He will still be unpredictable and quite stupid but a lot would have changed had his parents lived.