DISCLAIMER & A/N: I don't own anything from the Naruto universe. Section 3 is NSFW, depending on where you work, I guess. It also may not be to everyone's taste.

Think of this as one of those damnable transitional chapters. Thanks for reading and sticking with me!

Thinking (+ flashbacks, "Naruto speaking to Kurama in her mindscape," etc.)

Emphasis

Bijuu, etc. speaking

Bijuu, etc. thinking

"I didn't know you had a summons," Naruto said - hopefully not irritably. Naruto was tired and getting honery; she'd put together a big meal and cleaned up but felt like an asshole for wanting her parents and Sakumo to go home (because hello?!) so she simply kept smiling. She snorted when Kakashi let out a snore while her father was talking to him. He'd fallen asleep with his eyes open again.

"Yeah," Kushina said, wincing. "I signed with them - her - when I was REALLY young and um… Well, my friend summoned them - or I thought she did. This one, ya know… I didn't quite know…"

"What do you summon?" Naruto asked, waking up a little. Who didn't like their summons? (That Silver Cow of a vixen Naru never bothered to demand the name of flashed in her mind.) Oh yeah: me - at least with my second summons. "Sorry to interrupt." Naruto sat up straighter when her mother began flying through hand seals, calling up her chakra in case her mother attacked.

Damn you, Kabuto, for making me think that she might do that.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!"

"Mrrrowrrr," came a horribly raspy and nasty voice from the clouds of smoke.

"Tora?" Naruto asked the world at large. She knew that voice even before "it" showed itself. Not that Tora was truly horrible, but Naruto had absolutely detested that cat a lifetime ago.

"Yeah," Kushina grinned sheepishly. "This is Tora, my summons."

"Mrowshina? What do you ront?" Tora asked. There were other people here and Tora "The Demon Ninneko" didn't like to speak with humans if she could help it.

"Tora-sama," Kushina began, trying to pet her summons (who hissed at her.) Kushina growled. "I'm trying to introduce you to my family, dattebane!"

"I know them," Tora said before checking out.

"You summon Tora," Naruto repeated in disbelief.

"I thought I was going to summon a bunch of ninneko, ya know. My friend summoned them and when Shijimi-sama said that she had a cat summons she wanted to pass on to someone of her own choosing, I jumped at the chance!"

Naruto started laughing, harder and harder, before they began the tales of Tora AND the obnoxious foxes - and the kitsune festival. Her mother could relate.

It took her a while to realize that everyone else was watching them talk and laugh, soft (and relieved) smiles on their faces.

.

Kurama, on the other hand, was pissed. He hated Kushina. And this time, it wasn't fun to hate someone or something…

Oh, Kurama had heard Naruto's pleas often enough but he wanted to hear the truth himself. Yet here he was cowering inside his vessel while that red-haired devil was out there, alive again and free. Unpunished.

Unlike Minato, neither Kushina nor Hatake Sakumo remembered anything of the afterlife. It was as if they fell asleep dying and simply woke back up. Both said they were cognizant that time could have passed but neither had any idea it had been decades since they last walked the earth.

Kurama despised Minato for what he'd done to him but (over time) logically understood that he had been the Hokage, and had known of no other method to stop his rampage.

- A rampage Konoha deserved
- A rampage that he didn't initiate

Minato now treated him (&/or his other half) reasonably and Minato had been punished, having spent nearly four decades in the Shinigami's belly. Kushina? –Nothing: absolutely no punishment nor penance, he felt.

Naruto pinched the bridge of her nose. "Kurama, you are seeping KI while I'm trying to have a nice conversation and not fall asleep!"

"I don't care. She shouldn't be here!"

Naruto huffed: they'd been going through this almost every day since the twins were born. "I'll ask her about that seal, alright?"

"NO." Kushina's despicable seal had hurt and humiliated him for years and years. Mito's was nearly the same. No one needed to learn about that seal. Hopefully, its history would be buried as so much of humanity's history was by these moronic bipeds. But now that Kushina is back, she knows it. Of course, she would know her own seal!

Naruto's face screwed up. She wasn't used to Kurama being so… She didn't want to say that he was being "petty" but what was being all pissed off going to do for either of them?! "Kurama. I don't think an 8-year-old could've sealed you." She thought that her mother was around that age when she took over as Kurama's vessel. Her mother's seal was most likely designed by Mito-sama.

"Don't. Talk. To. Me." He refused to feel badly by the way that Naruto looked so shocked or the way her eyes teared up.

"You can't make her choose between you and the living, breathing mother she never knew, Kurama," Matatabi counseled smoothly.

"None of you are allowed to talk either!" Kurama wanted to begin shooting bijuu bombs when he realized that he couldn't get away from his siblings.

He glared at them when they began turning away from him.

The next day -

Tenzo's posture was stiff as he followed the woman that was in the manor, spying on her daughter. His best friend had asked him to keep an eye on her.

"I'm not saying I don't trust her, Tenzo, and Kami knows that if I DID say that, Kushina-nee would probably smite me."

"You don't, though: trust her, I mean."

Kakashi shrugged and let out a sad laugh. "I just want to be careful."

"Of course."

His senpai ran his ungloved hand over the crib his babies were in and gazed down at them, an unreadable look on his masked face. "I'm overprotective, I guess."

"As fathers, that's our job: protection." Tenzo might have stuck his nose in the air pompously even if his child hadn't been born yet.

"Maa, you might not want to say that in front of Naru-chan. She thinks that's her job."

"Naruto's a pain."
Oh no! Why had he said that? Fortunately, Kakashi-senpai only laughed.

.

"I see that your hair's green today, Kushina-sama."

"GAH! –Dammit, Tenzo," Kushina breathed, clutching her chest. He was so damn sneaky.

Tenzo and Shizune-chan lived down the street from her and Minato. They had visited with her several times in the month or so in which she was constantly freaking out and being sad. She lightly chuckled and ran her fingers through her (now green) long hair. "Naruto misunderstood something I said about Gai-kun. She hasn't fessed up yet, but before we cleared things up, I think she wanted to give me a cool taste of Youth! I found the seal on my scalp but - you know."

She didn't want to take the seal off yet. Naruto had done a good job with it, had been sneaky when she applied it, and it was a good prank. And green hair almost made her feel "Youthful!"

Actually, Kushina thought she looked pretty good in it. It was a new option, she guessed.

Tenzo stepped up beside her and looked out the window. He'd had a few of those hair-color seals of Naruto's applied to him, too, and didn't appreciate them one bit. Although Shizune liked me with blue hair. She said the forest green fit me better, however. "Watching Naruto?"

"Yeah," she admitted softly. She crossed her arms, pouted, and leaned on one hip. "Kakashi-kun still gotcha watching me?" Tenzo didn't reply, making her harshly sigh. The babies had a touch of jaundice so Naru had taken them out to get a little sun while she went through her katas. "What do you think of the names they're considering - or Kenji-chan's name for sure?"

Tenzo shrugged. "They're not bad choices, really. Considering the twins' parents are named what they are, senpai and Naruto aren't doing too badly in comparison."

Kushina scoffed. "I'll have you know: Naruto's not named after a ramen topping, although anything to do with ramen's a great thing to use as a name!"

Tenzo nodded, not wanting to argue. He knew what Naruto was truly named in honor of, anyway. "'Maelstrom:' I know. It fits her well, really."

"Nny-AwwwwwwWWW! Thank you, Tenzo-kun! You sho shweet!" She tried to pinch his cheek and get that dumb happuri off of him again - he was much more handsome without it - but Tenzo was very evasive.

Tenzo grumbled. Kushina-sama had almost as much energy as Naruto and liked to tease him. Naruto had finally given up (ha!) constantly doing that so he hoped that it would only be a matter of time before her mother did as well.

At the moment, Naruto was hilariously scared of his beautiful wife, Shizune, which was both amusing and understandable to the mokuton user. Naruto was certainly more powerful than his wife but Shizune was experiencing mood swings that sent even him off the edge. And he was a pretty steady guy, he'd like to think.

He hadn't believed his senpai when Kakashi said he'd caught Naruto's hormones. He'd thought his senior was simply being emotional; that Kakashi's superior sense of smell had nothing to do with it. Tenzo's sense of smell was quite average for a ninja, however, and he often found himself mirroring his wife's moods. Maybe Kakashi was right.

"Inoichi released me," Kushina said, surprising him.

"That's… nice?" Tenzo asked more than said. He also wondered EXACTLY what that meant, however. Uzumaki Kushina and Hatake Sakumo were security risks and Inoichi was evaluating them as well as counseling them, personally. He cleared his throat, covering his mouth politely. "I'm um, sure you can go back to see him if you feel the need."

"Yeah, he said that," Kushina agreed in a quiet voice. Inoichi was still seeing her sensei but when she'd gotten fed up with him and threatened to beat him up, her old classmate had been thrilled and "welcomed her back" with open arms. What a baka. Had I known he was waiting to see what happened when I lost my temper, I would've shown him what's what weeks ago.

"I think I've decided to go by the name 'Misato.'" Kushina didn't like giving up her name but would do whatever it took to make a place for herself at her family's side, safely.

"'Beautiful,'" Tenzo said before freaking out. "Aha! I mean 'Misato' means 'beautiful' of course!"

Kushina sucked in a huge, noisy breath. "What?!" she teased. "You don't think I'm beautiful?! Oh, man…"

"Uhhh… Of course you are, Kushina-sama."

"Stop calling me that, you baka. We're family, 'ttebane." She snorted when she saw Naruto begin doing a silly dance in front of the babies, not seeing Tenzo shift his stance uncomfortably. The babies had woken up. "Anyway, the kanjis representing my alias is 'beautiful VILLAGE,' ya know. So, my name will mean the 'Beautiful Village of Uzushio! Or you know… Uzumaki: which is basically, kinda like Uzushio or at least representative of it," she finished explaining, feeling lame and annoyed by it.

Tenzo hummed. "I am reminded of Kakashi-senpai's name: Protector of the Fields, ne?"

Kushina deadpanned. "'Scarecrow.'" She shook her head, finding it fitting for Kakashi anyway since he kind of looked like one. He only needed a big hat and to reinsert that stick he used to have up his butt, plus give him a field and some crows; then he would be good to go. "Maa, we grandparents might not be great at naming our children - or things," she added, thinking of all the weird names Minato came up with for his jutsus, "but we are on point!"

Puppy 2's name was now Kenji for sure: Kushina had seen Kakashi (finally) enter it on Puppy 2's birth certificate after putting "Puppy 2" on a fake one. She had gotten so mad! Puppy 1's - or just "Puppy" now - name was still being discussed but at least her first-born kawaii grandbaby's name was down to a few final choices:

Kuebiko, which was supposed to be in honor of the great protector of wisdom and agriculture naturally pleased Kakashi and Sakumo-sensei very much. But it was also associated colloquially with destruction which Naruto found hilarious and fitting. It was only still in the running because a maelstrom could also be destructive. Plus they just liked the way "Biko" sounded, for short.

Kojin for the god of fire, hearth, and kitchen. Naru wanted the twins' names to "sound alike or have alliteration going or something" and Kakashi liked that "Kojin" honored Fire for Hi no Kuni.
Kushina could also admit that it was sweet that Kakashi thought that in another life, Naruto could've been the goddess of the home and kitchen. She might have been spying on them… "Maa, you're simply a goddess, though, Naru-chan: the benevolent, beautiful goddess that makes everything right." –So cute. How dare that big brat act so damn adorably smooth with her beautiful daughter. Ha!

- Okay so I WAS spying on them!
- I had to, though, Kushina thought, pouting furiously, I couldn't tell whether or not they were truly happy!
- They are happy, maybe: I need to keep checking. Plus it's become fun to just watch them, 'ttebane!

Oh right, the other baby names:

Kuzumi meant peace and good things in general, Kushina thought - so she really liked that one, too. It was also a super bonus to her that all of these names began with the "K" sound, just like hers did.

Ken'ichi would have been a superb choice for Puppy 1s name because it meant strength and honesty along with the number one since he, Puppy 1, was born first. But it's not like Naru and Kakashi could name one child Kenji and one child Ken'ichi.

Naruto, on the other hand, thought that was a great idea.

"I can just holler 'Ken' and they'll both come running!"

No, no, no: the boys wouldn't appreciate that at all. And finally, Narukashi was just ridiculous. It did have a nice meaning, though: "to be the lyrics." Or maybe that was "Kashinaru." -It was hard to remember or be sure.

Kakashi was thorough and came up with more than one kanji set for each and every name which made their decision even harder.

Really, Kushina had earlier been worried it might take years for them to figure out baby names.

"Hey, that's a good idea, ya know," Naru chirped.

"Mmhmm," Kakashi agreed. "Maa, then they can choose their own names."

Kushina's mouth fell open and she saw her sensei's head fall back.

"What if they choose something like 'Oni' or 'Spike' Kakashi?" Sakumo asked. "Please just make up your minds!"

Kushina smiled as one of Naruto's clones helped assist her chakra arms (Kushina wanted to squeal) in picking both her sons up. Something shifted and her daughter turned toward the forest where the barrier was.

Kushina heard a soft sensor go off. She pounced outside, Tenzo anxiously following her. She was in front of Naru and the babies in a heartbeat.

"Halt! Suna nin!" Her eyes darted to the Nara kid, Naruto's "Aniki," who'd brought the woman in. "What's the meaning of this, 'ttebane?" Oh crap: she really needed to work on that verbal tic if she was going to be undercover.

"Uh, Naruto?" Shikamaru asked, wondering what was going on. "We discussed this, remember? Temari's sworn to secrecy about the puppies."

Naruto smiled and bobbed her head. Call her crazy but she couldn't help but be happy about what her mother had tried to do- and felt very surprised. It was nice that her mother was trying to defend her even though Naru knew she was pretty much back to full strength, just out of practice. "It's okay, Ka-Misato-oba," she said, poorly trying to use the alias her mother told her she'd chosen to use this morning. "Temari-hime is my friend!" Hmm. My friend that's glaring at my mother.

Temari somehow managed to look cocky while glaring: she really had it going on, Naruto thought. "Yo, Temari! It's so good to see you again!"

Temari sighed and tried to relax. Shikamaru had FINALLY told her the unbelievable story of his (and a little of THEIR supposed past lives - which was embarrassing although he was so complimentary of my battle skills. Temari would've never believed any of it if it weren't for Gaara backing up what Kankuro said he had experienced.)

Kankuro: I almost lost him.
I DiD lose him!

"Temari? You okay?" Naruto glanced at her brother and mother, too, who was obviously on high alert.

Temari got herself together and nodded firmly, walking toward Naruto in large strides. "Let me see those babies. —Ohhhhh! Look how pretty they are! Give me one: gimme gimme!"

Naruto softly laughed and bobbed her head as she carefully transferred Kenji to Temari who just melted in front of them. How adorable! She winked at Shikamaru who rolled his dark eyes.

"That one's mine," he said. Without thinking, he pulled out his cigarette pack and Naruto growled at him. So did his girlfriend. He quickly put them away.

He would've never smoked in front of the boys but Kushina-sama was making him antsy again.

"Yours, huh?" Naruto smirked back at him although she thought it was cute that Shikamaru saw Gai as a rival for who could spoil their godson more. Just what Gai needs: another rival. She softly snorted as she saw Tenzo looking so jealous.

She and Kakashi had told him that he was "Uncle Tenzo" but Tenzo countered that so was "Uncle Shikamaru" - yet Shikamaru got godparent rights and he didn't. She sighed, not regretting that they'd promised that their next child would be Tenzo's godchild. She was CERTAINLY not ready to consider having another puppy right now, though.

Temari huffed. She loved babies but was fed up with the green-haired woman glaring at her. "What's your damage?"

Kushina jumped a little. "Huh? My 'damage?'" She didn't understand.

Naru sighed. "She means, 'what's your problem,' ya know. You've been glaring."

Kushina's lips curled up in a snarl. "I'm Naru's… guard! And her aunt!"

"You have green hair," Temari deadpanned. This woman didn't look like much to her but maybe her clothes were just a cover. "Although I guess I can see the resemblance."

"You need to watch your attitude, Suna nin!"

"It's 'Temari-hime,' Misato-oba! And she can't help her attitude, 'ttebayo."

"What do you mean by that?" Temari hissed. "Honest to Gods."

"OI! No cursing or saying God-stuff in front of the puppies!"

"I'm sorry, Naruto," Temari said after letting out a long sigh. "I'm sorry, little one," she cooed at the baby. "Kenji-chan, right?" Naru nodded and swayed back and forth holding the other baby whom Shikamaru said they were still calling "Puppy" for now. She nodded toward Naruto's aunt. "I didn't like the look she was giving me."

"Ah, she's protective," Naruto said quickly about her mother. The natural redhead had a hell of a temper and Naru was just glad that they didn't fight since Temari did, too. "You want to come inside?"

"Sure."

One morning following that -

Kakashi returned from the nursery, glad that he and his wife were alone for now. Naruto was just waking up and the pups were asleep again. They'd been up just a couple of hours ago for a feeding. Kakashi groaned like an old man as he sat down on the bed and curled up to his wife. Being a parent was tiring but he was finally getting the hang of it - and the pups were beginning to sleep through the night, occasionally. "Morning."

"Morning," Naru smiled and stretched like a happy but lazy cat. "Already, huh?" Kakashi pulled her closer to him when she tried to get up to go check on the twins. Baby monitors plus various seals or not, she was always concerned about them and wanted to ensure she didn't miss something.

"They're both sleeping well," Kakashi assured her softly, snuggling into his wife's neck. He kissed, nibbled on, and licked her, up and down, before biting her earlobe when she giggled and wiggled around. He let out a happy sigh and moved to lean on his elbow, pushing Naru's beautiful, tangled hair off her face. "I've been thinking."

"Hmm?" Kakashi's brows were pinched together. "You're worried," she assumed. They were both always worried - well, almost always. Sometimes it was exhausting. "What can I do?"

"You'll be going into heat soon."

Naruto gaped at him and tried to get away. "Baka man. I am not a fox or whatever." Kakashi grabbed her by the waist and laughed as she half-struggled against him. It was too early to do much more than that even if he was talking about perverted stuff. Did she believe all the books he'd given her to read about humans going into heat or being omegas and zetas or whatever? —Not really. Those authors had to be major pervs with interesting imaginations. "Don't talk about things like that!"

"We have to think about it." Naruto's back and ass were against him now and she really needed to stop moving so much. Kakashi subtly moved her nightgown up and pressed his morning wood between her asscheeks and growled at her. "What are we going to do with the pups when we're having wild sex every hour of the day for a week or what have you?"

Naruto turned her face toward him, her (blushing) expression one of amused outrage. "Hush, you. Like you wouldn't love that!" That wasn't going to happen. When that kinda happened before, it was because they'd nearly lost each other, she was sure.

Kakashi gently bit her shoulder and brushed his fingers up her side. Naru was subtle about it, but she always tried to hide or push him away from that wide pink scar below her hip on the right side from the cesarean and was also very shy about her breasts now that they were feeding their pups. "You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world, don't you?"

Naruto grumbled but moved his hand to her waist so that she was all wrapped up. Kakashi had wound his other arm around her neck, under her pillow, so now they were just right. She was comfy and wanted to get some more sleep even if her mate was grinding against her. "Silly. Saying that doesn't get you out of saying pervy stuff and implying that I'm an animal."

Kakashi tilted her face toward him and kissed her cheek before pulling her grumbly self up and into their bathroom where there were lots of mirrors. His words were soft. "I want you to see yourself the way I do."

Naruto rubbed her eyes. "What do you mean?"

"I'll show you." He bit his lips and thought about how best to make his little wife see how serious he was. Although her heat could be delayed since she's breastfeeding. He had no clue - and that wasn't going to last forever, anyway. "You are not the fox, Naru-chan; but you are a little vixen," he teased a little, stopping her for a sec when she went to turn on the shower. "And maybe the heat's a me thing rather than a you thing." He didn't let her deny the possibility and continued after putting his finger on her lips. He did grin - probably goofily - at the way she kissed each of his fingertips because she was so sweet and cute. "As your alpha; maybe it's a canine thing."

Naruto saw that he was serious so didn't say anything else although she did bite the inside of her cheek. She waited for him to either leave or do something and smiled, raising an eyebrow at his hard-on. Kakashi looked all cocky when she did and basically bounced that giant thing against his abs as he ambled around her.

This man…
All those muscles and all that meat…

"Nightgown off," he said easily as he jerked it up and off of her. He smiled more at her: she still wasn't wearing panties and that was because they'd been together last night - which had been beautiful. Sure enough, she tried to move so he couldn't see that scar. "You're my other half, Naru-chan. And I like your scar."

"Whaat?" Naru exclaimed in a silly voice. "Oh, yeah: it's just so pretty."

It wasn't like Naru was truly embarrassed about having another scar, per se. Every time she saw that one, though, she remembered the ripping, long pain… The hissing she may have imagined more than heard(?) as Kurama tried to heal her after Tsunade pulled Kenji out of her belly as they were attacked. It had been extremely frightening. Naruto was grateful she didn't ask her grandmother to try again to fully numb her: it wound up that there hadn't been time for such a thing.

The scar was also a little rough, unlike her others. The way it felt reminded her of how her chest and back first scarred in her last life after taking Sasuke's Chidori - although the Chidori scar was worse. Naru shifted around, playfully swatting her husband as he unhooked her ugly nursing bra. She laughed when he pulled back from kissing her but held onto it. "Ka-ka-shi! What are you doing?" She supposed he wanted to do it in the shower instead of the bed this morning - which would be fine but…

"I want to show you. I want you to really see yourself." He turned her toward the long mirror on the closet door and saw how uncomfortable she looked as she tossed her blonde hair over her breasts; it came down in waves to her hips now. He kissed her shoulders more, nipping now and again while trying to relax her, running his hands over her arms, back, and waist. It didn't seem to be working. "You've never realized how extraordinarily beautiful you are. –I'm at fault for that."

Naruto melted into his caress. "You can't be serious. Of COURSE you're not at fault. For anything."

Kakashi let out a huff of disbelief. "Let me show you, hm?" The silly woman was trying to recover herself. Too many mirrors in this room for that, Naru-chan. She turned to him, kissing him and he groaned unhappily at seeing that she was still managing to cover her chest. She had a lot of hair.

He turned her toward the mirror and groaned - this time because she looked so delicious. He closed his eyes and ghosted his fingertips over her arms and shoulders, moving down and forward little by little as she relaxed into his arms - somewhat. She'd at least rested the back of her head against his chest. "I like it. Maa, I like it a LOT, Naru-chan."

He finally ran his fingertips over her breasts as they leaked and felt his knees go weak. In the mirror, this was an even bigger turn-on than it normally was. "Fuck me," he moaned. Naruto tried to laugh but covered herself up again by grabbing a towel. He pulled her arms down, she pulled them back up, and he tried again; so did she until he finally barked at her (quietly but firmly.)

"Bossy man."

"Mmhm." Kakashi held her shoulders in place so she had to face the mirror and wished that he had her chakra arms to hold her in place. He nipped her neck more sharply and chuckled when she squeaked. "Stand still."

"Okay," she pouted.

Kakashi looked up into the mirror, marveling at her body but couldn't help but softly laugh at her ridiculous pout. He ran his fingertips around and around her nipples, ducking down so that he could better stuff his cock between her legs. Naruto opened them up for him and he let out a pretty pathetic whine, (he would've thought - had Naruto not been shuddering and trembling in front of him. )

In the mirror.

"Doesn't matter what you look like; not really." He reached down and gently touched her scar before reaching to trace her pussy. "Think of that scar as another one of my marks. You're gorgeous inside and it shines through." He bit into her shoulder softly and tried something new as she shuddered and gasped. Concentrating his chakra and breathing in and out - slower, slower, he forced himself - he pushed it through his mouth and into his fangs, (Actually, they were his canines. But they were pretty long.) Naruto's knees began to buckle and he was overwhelmed by the scent of her arousal. "You like that."

"Do it again," she pleaded.

"Only if you watch. I want you to see what I do." Her blue eyes met his gray ones in the mirror and she slowly bobbed her head. "Good girl."

Naruto brokenly moaned. She felt Kakashi's teeth sink into her shoulder again and melted. She didn't know what he was doing but it was so relaxing and yet beyond stimulating. "Fuck." Kakashi pinched her and she met his eyes again but flinched when he firmly squeezed her breasts. "No!" Breastmilk had gone everywhere! "It's… I'm such a mess!"

"No it's not, and neither are you!" Kakashi said firmly as he grabbed her, stopping her from moving forward. "It IS you. It's what feeds our family." He looked aside and Naruto tried to grab her towel again.

"You want to know the truth?" he asked quietly.

"Sure." I guess, Naruto thought. Kakashi's cheeks were pink but he'd gone back to rubbing her shoulders and holding her against him.

"When I was young, one of the first… pornographic images I ever saw was of a woman's breasts being squeezed. Milk was spurting out of them."

Naruto blinked with wide eyes several times. Maybe that does make sense. "And it turned you into the pervert you are today?" she teased.

"Very funny, Naruto," Kakashi replied, unhappy that he'd just shared that part of himself only to get made fun of. She was probably right, though.

"So you want me to recreate that image for you?" Naru asked in a low voice. He was a beyond-excellent amateur photographer. She began to softly snicker when Kakashi went stiff, looking so obviously shocked and intrigued.

He softly pinched her and went back to the task at hand. "You're going to watch."

Naru didn't know when she had bent over the countertop - it was the killer backrub and the thing Kakashi did with his chakra that had done it - but she was so eager for him and relaxed - aside from her dumb anxiety, she felt - and he slid right inside of her. "Oh… Kami, Kash!"

"Look up." He fucked her slowly as he rubbed his palms and the webbing between his fingers over her nipples. Naru was so short, they were easy to reach and play with. "Beautiful." Having her wet like this all over: her cunt AND her breasts? He loved this. "So good. –Yes."

Naruto stared up at the mirror and shivered. Kakashi was keeping her back down gently as he slowly moved in and out of her. She was a goner until he picked her up.

"Upsy-daisy."

Naru squawked and shuddered when he grabbed her thighs and planted her knees on the marble. The countertop and sinks were fairly low in here and… "Oh, fuck!" Really seeing what he was doing was titillating. "Kash?" Her face and chest were soon pressed against the mirror and her knees were nearly in the sinks.

Kakashi fucked her on the sinks, spreading her legs out in front of him as they watched in the mirror over and beside them. He fucked her in front of the closet at various angles and in multiple positions - and made sure she watched the whole time. Kakashi was holding on to what felt less than a thread of control as she came again and again but when he heard a little cry from the baby monitor, he let go. He looked up into the mirror and saw the hungry look on his mate's face and growled. Snarling and pulling out, he sent ropes and ropes of cum over her back and ass.

Naruto sank to the ground and tried to get her wits about her again. "Ohhhh," she whined once her heart managed to slow down. "Boo!"

"Oi!" Kakashi stepped into the shower that had gone cold after giving her ass a soft pop.

"I like it when you cum inside of me." Naruto was totally whining.

Kakashi soaped down QUICKLY, rinsed, and got out again, playfully glaring at her. "I think you've had enough enjoyment for one morning."

"Ha! Never!"

"..."

"Brat," he finally settled upon grumbling. "This is what I'm worried about, my insatiable little vixen."

Naru rested her forehead on her hands. She'd moved to hide again (just a little) because surely she couldn't be attractive as a puddle of goo on the bathroom floor - and that's how he'd left her! "I'm sated. I promise. …For now, anyway." She grinned at him cheekily before thanking him when he turned the water back on. He helped her up and kissed her deeply.

"It's cold in there. I'll go see to the boys."

"Kay."

After attending to the twins, Naruto leaned against her husband as the boys "talked" to each other, cooing and being adorable. They had really begun smiling and even laughing (although it came out more like soft but squeaky snorts) now. "Thank you."

"You see how beautiful you are?"

She looked up and kissed him again. Whether she really was or not, Kakashi was definitely into everything about her body, even now. He proved he loved her in a myriad of ways, every day. He even cared enough to show her that she didn't need to hide from him. She vowed that she never would again. "Thank you, Kakashi."

.

When Kakashi asked to speak with him privately (outside of the nursery) it was not about anything Sakumo expected.

His grandsons were so insanely happy and adorable and he was NOT letting Kakashi put tiny masks on them!

"I'm just going to say it," Kakashi said, sitting back in his office chair with his fingers threaded together over his Jonin vest. They were on the other side of their large home where both Naru and Kakashi had a joint home office of sorts. One side of the room was neat and tidy, while the other - as expected of an Uzumaki - was cluttered with seals, scrolls, books, folders, ink pots, plants, colored pencils, and art supplies, with post-its pasted to nearly everything. (Almost everything was marked as "urgent.") There didn't appear to be much organization but after observing his daughter-in-law for a while now, Sakumo would bet that Naruto knew where any and everything was despite that.

The rest of the house was much more organized although some of it was a little… interesting. Or odd; but that's fine.

"Go on then, Kakashi," Sakumo encouraged his son.

"Maa, my wife goes into heat and I…got a knot once."

Sakumo flushed and scratched his head. "Oh."

Kakashi felt his face heat up. "Yeah: 'oh,'" he parroted before putting his masked face into his hands. Now he was the one hiding, wasn't he?

Sakumo wasn't sure what to say. "Is that a problem?"

Kakashi twisted his lips, thinking about that although he loved it. He had FUCKING loved it at the time. "What about the twins?"

Sakumo tilted his head. "Maa, what about them?"

Kakashi slowly stood up, feeling increasingly mortified - and this had been pretty bad to begin discussing in the first place. "I shouldn't have asked."

"No, no; wait!" Sakumo wanted to help in any way he could. "Oh. Your mother was part Inuzuka. I hadn't thought about the whole… knotting thing." He ran a hand over his face and couldn't help but ask, "did it hurt?"

It didn't hurt me. Kakashi rethought his guilt, knowing that Naruto had milked him for all he was worth for hours so she must've liked it enough. He'd felt bad at the time for hurting and stretching her so - and having never warned her of something like that being possible: that was the main reason he felt bad about it. "No."

Actually, it had felt incredible; it had simply been shocking. His father scratched his head again and Kakashi was glad he always wore his mask in front of other people: his dad, too, was blushing up a storm. "Never mind."

"No, no, no, son! It's better not to stress on everything - or most anything - alone, I've learned."

Kakashi felt a weight that had constantly been on his shoulders since his father made his return lighten considerably as he considered those words. He remembered his father suffering alone and in silence, even when he, as a child, had turned against him. "Yeah. –Yeah; you're right. So," he sang, getting serious again but with a fuller heart. "What do you know about this stuff? Maa, I obviously don't need 'The Talk' or anything but the clan archives had nothing that told me about… that." Most of that.

Sakumo nodded and wondered where to start. "Who's the oldest Inuzuka you know of? Or is there anyone I might know?"

Kakashi immediately thought of Tsume-san's mother and thought that was a rotten idea. He hummed, thinking about a few Inuzukas he knew that were in either his father's or sensei's generation.

"Let's just go over there."

Kakashi's eyes widened in surprise. "You're ready to go out?" His father had been cleared but had thus far been remaining in the Senju Compound when he wasn't with them. He didn't think his father had wanted to go anywhere else but they had talked about Sakumo using an alias, wearing a mask, and saying he was Kakashi's uncle or what have you - and that he had been on a very long mission. Or that he was a Hatake from Iron Country. –Something like that.

Kakashi had to tie up all possible loose ends and look into the possibilities more before clearing it. In the meantime, his father would henge.

Playing Kakashi's uncle could kill two birds with one stone. Kakashi was the ANBU Commander but he could stick his father/"uncle type" on the council in the Hatake seat like Sakumo should be in - now that he's alive again - anyway. Minato (and he) would get an additional vote. Naruto was requesting the same thing for or from Kushina, once Kushina's alias was fully approved.

None of them wanted to go to those damn council meetings.

The other big idea was for Sakumo to go in "disguised" as Jiraiya's long-lost younger brother. His father didn't care for that idea at all: "People might expect me to be a pervert."

Sorry, Otou-san, but as a Hatake, people will think you're a pervert, too. Kakashi didn't feel that he was as bad as Jiraiya but he was certainly associated with carrying around his erotic novels. So far, Kakashi had not made an Icha-Icha lover out of his father.

It seemed as though they still might have time to take care of that, though.

.

Kushina blinked up at her husband in astonishment. "A mission?" You've gotta be joking!

Minato sighed but nodded. "It's important, Kushina, and with Naruto being otherwise occupied, I really need you for this." Seeing her stunned expression, he quickly continued. "Don't worry: I'll be accompanying you."

Kushina pulled a face. "That's not what I was worried about, 'ttebane. What I WAS thinking was that I already gave my life for this village!" And Minato would NOT make her feel guilty for saying so by looking at her like that. "Anyway, ever since you became Hokage, every time you go on a mission, it's like this whole… drr-ama."

Minato would have to agree with that and winced as he acknowledged it. His guards would demand to accompany them.

"Wait," Kushina said after a few beats of silence. "You said you need me because Naruto-chan can't do it." She felt her heart speeding up. "This is about Uzushio, isn't it?"

Minato nodded. "It is. And I'm doing my best to clean up this village, Kushina. To make it better."

Kushina sighed. "At least now you admit that it isn't all sunshine and rainbows."

Minato didn't respond to that but what he did do was pull out a Whirlpool hitai-ate that had a scratch through their village's symbol. Kushina looked thunderstruck and grabbed it, searching for clues on who it belonged to. "When Kakashi-kun last ran into Obito, he had a run-in of sorts with an Uzushio nin. An Akatsuki Uzushio nin."

"No. That's not possible!" Is it?