Hey there guys! I'm back with another chapter of this story! It's not a big chapter, but this chapter is the big time skip to the main story! I know a lot of you didn't want a time skip, but I just couldn't see a way to avoid it and go to the main story, unless you wanted endless filler lol.

This chapter will contain some surprises, some more cameos from other amine, but this should establish a good bridge into the main story! With that said, enjoy!

12 Years Later:

Time flew by quickly for the Uzumaki family and after eleven years much had changed. For one Naruto's popularity and name had risen to great fame after his novels started to become adapted into TV shows, dramas, and anime. However, he had maintained strict control over what he would allow to be adapted. The last thing he wanted to do was let questionable content with his name on it to be aired.

"Damn, perverts…" Naruto grumbled as he worked on editing another Icha-Icha novel. He was honestly surprised and baffled at the number of unfinished drafts Jiraiya had left behind. Although given the man's nature…He shook his head. Maybe he should try writing a novel of his own.

"I should write one about my father," Naruto said to himself as he leaned back in his chair. Yes. He was sure that a novel about a powerful Shinobi would be very appealing to the younger masses.

"A story about Minato-otosan?" He glanced to his right as his wife walked into the small office that he had set up. One of the biggest moments in his life was when he and Ai were finally married to each other after their daughter was born. And she looked just as beautiful as she did twelve years ago. She walked up to him and gave him a quick kiss as Naruto nodded.

"Yes. I have been thinking about it lately. While Icha-Icha is wildly popular, they aren't my work exactly." Naruto responded as the Ai raised an eyebrow at that.

"Does that mean you'll stop working on the Icha-Icha series?" She questioned him, and he could see the worry in her eyes, he sweat dropped at that.

"Pervert." Naruto said simply, giving her a blank stare to which she brought her hand up and covered her mouth, and giggled.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." She commented to which Naruto just gave her a hard stare. Ai sighed before she leaned down next to his ear.

"But I don't hear you complaining in the bed." She flirted, her war breath tickling his ear. Naruto shuddered as he blushed and looked away. Ai pulled away and giggled at him.

"But you're my pervert." Naruto said in embarrassment as Ai sighed and nodded in agreement. She proceeded to sit down in his lap as she brought her arms around his neck. Naruto shook his head at her antics.

"I'm sure Minato will love to have a book written about his grandfather." Ai spoke softly as she nestled her head onto his chest. Naruto nodded at that. A year after Sapphire was born and their wedding, Ai had given birth to another child, this time a baby boy and he was virtually a carbon copy of Naruto, with his eyes being inherited from Ai. And like his sister, he too had inherited Naruto's Chakra.

"Does that mean he'll fall for a redhead as well?" Ai questioned as she tilted her head causing Naruto to chuckle. Well, if that were the cause then their son would truly live up to his grandfather's name.

"Mama, papa! We are heading out!" They were broken out of their conversation as they looked to the right to find Ruby and Aqua standing by the door. Ruby gave them a cheeky smile, while Aqua looked uninterested, but they could see a faint smile on his face. Ai got out of Naruto's lap and walked over to her children. It was their first day at their school and Ruby was going to audition as an Idol at the company her mother had worked for.

"Look at you two! You look so cute!" Ai dotted on her twins as she pulled the two into a hug. Ruby simply basked in it, while Aqua looked flustered. Naruto chuckled at the sight as he walked up to the group.

"It's already that day huh? Seems like yesterday that the two of you were asking for bedtime stories." Naruto spoke as the twins looked at him in embarrassment.

"Papaaa, we're not three anymore!" Ruby complained as Naruto clutched his heart and fell to his knees.

"I see, I guess your old man's stories are no good anymore, huh?" Naruto spoke depressingly. Ai looked amused at his act, while Ruby started to panic and wave her hands, while Aqua just sighed.

"N-No papa! T-That's not what I meant!" Ruby tried to explain. She had always enjoyed her fathers' stories, in fact, she remembered them all.

"Papa! Papa! Don't worry! You can tell me all your stories!" A bluish blur ran past the twins as jumped at Naruto. Naruto for his part looked up as a mini Ai jumped into him and hugged him.

"I knew you loved my stories!" Naruto said in joy as he spun around with Sapphire, who giggled childishly at her father.

"Papa, you're so clumsy, of course, I love your stories!" Sapphire declared in joy as Naruto chuckled and gently put her down. He looked at his family before he raised an eyebrow and looked down back at Sapphire.

"Hime, where is your little brother?" He questioned her as she blinked and looked around her.

"Right here, Oto-sama." Naruto heard as he turned around and found his youngest looking up at him with a smile. This was Minato Uzumaki, his youngest, and for all intent and purpose, Minato Uzumaki was a prodigy, truly living up to his grandfather's name. Ai had named him Minato after she had seen him for the first time. He looked so much like Naruto and his father and she chose to honor her father-in-law.

"There are my two favorite siblings!" Ruby spoke as she pulled her two younger siblings into a hug. Sapphire giggled at her sister's affection before she returned the hug.

"N-Not too hard Sap-chan!" Ruby grunted out as she felt her spin being compressed. If there was one thing the twins knew, it was that Sapphire was strong, very strong, and sometimes she forgot her strength.

"S-Sorry Nee-san." Sapphire apologized but Ruby shook her head and ruffled her hair.

"No worries Sap-chan. I'm not angry at you, I could never." Ruby said with a grin before she turned to her younger brother.

"Good luck, Nee-sama." Minato offered her as she sighed. Minato was such a sweet boy, always polite and formal, even with his family. Aqua looked at his little brother with curiosity. Minato was smart, very smart. He had managed to skip quite a few grade levels and managed to enter the same school that they were going to, which made the situation quite funny.

"Nii-sama?" Minato questioned him as he tilted his head at his older brother. Aqua simply grunted as he ruffled his hair. Minato would have looked like Aqua had it not been for the fact that Minato's hair was as wild as their father's and he had inherited their mother's eyes.

"You ready for school?" Aqua questioned as Minato nodded. Yoto High was a very prestige school that was practically attended by rising stars in the entertainment industry. However, Aqua had no interest in the industry, merely attending for the sake of Ruby and Minato. However, while he didn't know what exactly he wanted to do, he had been in sort of mentorship from Gotanda.

"Ruby wants to be an Idol, Minato still trying to figure things out, and Sapphire…" He sweat dropped at the thought of the mini Ai as she was called, wanting to be nothing like her mother.

"I want to take over the Uzumaki Dojo!" She had proclaimed, wanting to learn the martial arts from their father. Speaking of which, their father built a dojo for the family. Initially, he had built it after Aqua's request to train him, but over time he had gained the Dojo started to gain a reputation.

"Hell's Dojo." Aqua mumbled to himself. Despite the fact that their father only had one arm, he was still a force to be reckoned with, and after Sapphire had witnessed her father easily dispatch members of a nearby Dojo with ease she had made up her mind. She wanted to be as strong as her father. And it showed. She had begun to train with him at the age of Seven, and Minato followed soon after. Aqua himself had been trained by their father, but he knew that in time Sapphire would easily surpass him. She was born extremely strong after all.

"Alright then, it's time for you all to head out! Aqua, Ruby, look after Minato!" Ai instructed her eldest two. Minato was much too young in her opinion to be attending a high school, but he had the intellectual abilities to skip grades. Still, that didn't mean high school was going to be easy. Soon the three left for school Ai sighed as she leaned her head onto her husband's shoulder.

"You shouldn't be worried," Naruto called out to her to which she hummed.

"I'm a mother, how can I not worry." She spoke as Naruto nodded to himself, that much was true. Ai's high school days were…not ideal and even Naruto's own academy days were riddled with loneness. He lifted his only arm and rested it on her shoulder.

"I know, but remember, they have each other." Naruto reassured her as she nodded at that. She loved her children dearly and she was equally as happy to know that her children cared deeply for each other. Yes, they were half-siblings, but that distinction was rarely brought up, if at all.

"Hime, don't you have practice today?" Naruto called out as his daughter nodded. Unlike the other three, Hime wanted to take over the Dojo. She was still in middle school, but her activities mainly revolved around martial art clubs, working out, etc.

"Yeah! Tomo-chan is coming over today!" She answered cheerfully causing Ai to raise an eyebrow while Naruto's sweat dropped.

"Tomo-chan? Do you mean Aizawa Tomo? From Aizawa Dojo?" Ai questioned as her daughter nodded happily. Tomo-chan was her friend from school and like her; she was also into martial arts! Ai turned to Naruto who chuckled nervously.

"Didn't you just beat someone recently from Aizawa Dojo? What was his name?" Ai put a finger on her chin, trying to recall. Naruto simply sighed.

"Gorou Aizawa, the girl's father. The man challenged me and lost. Now he's calling me his rival." Naruto let out as he ruffled his hair. He didn't know how, but his family Dojo had somehow gained the reputation of being a hellish training Dojo. He wondered who exactly had spread those untrue rumors!

*Sheez* His four children sneezed at once.

"Silly papa! No one can defeat papa!" Sapphire claimed as Naruto chuckled at her proclamation.

"Hime, what did I tell you?" Naruto asked her as she folded her arms and pouted.

"There is always a bigger fish." She answered as Naruto nodded. No matter how strong you were, there was always someone stronger than you. Well, Naruto was sure that no one could defeat in him this world and in time he was sure that Sapphire and Minato would also be unbeatable. But he had to keep them humble.

"Can't let all that power go through their head." Naruto thought to himself. Minato also had a seal placed on him, although given how smart the boy was Naruto was sure that he was on to him.

"Well, either way, you have another challenger coming in today." Ai spoke up causing Naruto to almost fall.

"Why are you keeping track?" Naruto questioned her to which she looked at him with a smile.

"Because it's fun?" She responded. She had become more of a stay-at-home mother, always wanting to spend more time with her family at every opportunity. And it helped that Naruto's job also kept him at home for the most part. So, she opted to help Naruto with stuff like deadlines and such. If there was one thing she had learned about him, it was that he could be quite lazy at times.

At Yoto High:

"Wow! Look at this place!" Ruby was in awe at the high school she would be attending. As someone who dreamed of being an Idol, this was like a dream come true for her! All around her, she could recognize the young talent that was coming up in the industry, from actors to even Idols themselves!

"Nee-sama really wants to be an Idol, huh?" Minato called out as Aqua nodded. He didn't agree with Ruby's dream of becoming an Idol, after all, it carried great risk.

"I still don't approve of it. Being an Idol means your options are limited and you can only be an Idol for so long. This isn't even mentioning all the danger that surrounds it…" Aqua said as he still remembered that day. Minato nodded at that. He had heard about how their mother was almost killed. It was also the day that their father met her and saved her.

"Baka onii-chan, didn't papa tell you to follow your own dreams?" Ruby chastised her brother, who just looked away, a habit he had developed when he wanted to avoid a conversation.

"Don't worry Nee-sama, I'll always support your dream." Minato offered. Ruby promptly hugged her younger brother and started to rub her cheek with his.

"I know I can count on you, Minato-kun!" Ruby said with anime tears while Aqua grew annoyed at that.

"It's 'Minato-kun' for him, but 'baka onii-chan' for me?" Aqua pointed out as Ruby shot him a glare while Minato chuckled sheepishly.

"Cause Minato-kun is a good brother!" She answered. Ruby was by far the more dotting sibling out of the twins. That wasn't to say that Aqua didn't love his siblings, he was just more reserved and had his own ways of showing it.

"Aqua?" The trio heard as they turned to look at who had called out to him. Aqua and Ruby looked confused, but Minato blushed. It was a girl with red hair with a dash of pink in it that was shoulder length with blunt hangs flanking her face.

"She has pretty hair." Minato thought as he watched her jog over to the three.

"Aqua? Aqua?" She questioned as Aqua nodded.

"Yes, that is my name," Aqua responded, why was she saying his name over and over again? And how did she know him? Ruby, however, gasped.

"Hey! I know you! You're the talented kid that can kick baking soda in 10 seconds flat!" Ruby shouted as she pointed at her. This caused the girl to stumble. She and Aqua remembered the first and only time they met her as children and they remembered how she bad-mouthed their mother.

"Baka! I can cry in 10 seconds flat!" The girl shouted as she huffed and look at the two twins before her attention was turned to the third person. She raised an eyebrow at that. Who was he? Minato's blush intensified as he noticed that she was looking at him. So, he extended a hand in an effort to introduce himself.

"I-I'm M-Minato." He stuttered out. Now that caught his older siblings' attention. Minato was never the one to get flustered so easily. The girl however shook his hand as Minato stared into her eyes. They were as red as her hair and he found them…attractive.

"Kana Arima." She introduced herself as Aqua's widened. Oh, he remembered her now! Kana turned her attention to Aqua and narrowed her eyes.

"What happened to you? I thought you had talent, but you just stopped after a couple of small projects." She questioned. That much was true. Aqua preferred to work behind the scene.

"I have no interest in becoming an actor." He shrugged, but she pointed at him accusingly.

"Then what are you doing here?" She questioned to which he sighed.

"General studies, like my brother." He answered as he pointed at his brother. This caught Kana off guard. Aqua had a brother? A little one at that?

"W-What?! I didn't know that Ai and Naruto Uzumaki had other children!" She shouted, pointing at Minato, who gave a nervous chuckle. But Ruby stepped in between the two and glared at Kana.

"Nee-sama?" Minato questioned but Ruby paid no mind as she kept her glare on Kana.

"You got a problem with that?" Ruby questioned, folding her arms over her chest, her eyes shone darkly at the girl. Kana took a step back but didn't back down.

"N-No. I just wasn't aware that you two had other siblings." Kana responded as Ruby kept her glare but she was broken out of it when Minato put a hand on her shoulder. She looked back and saw Minato smiling warmly at her.

"Nee-sama, it's fine. She honestly didn't know." Minato's words eased Ruby's aggression. As dotting as Ruby was towards her younger siblings, she was also very protective of them as well. Ruby backed down as he bowed deeply to Kana.

"Sorry about my Nee-sama, Arima-san. My name full name is Minato Uzumaki and I'm a 1st year. I'm the youngest son of Naruto and Ai Uzumaki." Minato apologized and introduced himself as she sent a soft smile, causing her to blush.

"N-No worries. I'm a 1st year too. Sorry for bothering you three." She stated before she turned left without letting the three to see her blushing. Minato blinked as he watched her jog away from them.

"Minato-kun…" He shuddered as he slowly turned to look at his sister, who was smiling sweetly at him.

"Yes, Nee-sama?" He let out as she walked over to him and looked him right in the eye.

"You don't have a…crush on her, do you?" She questioned him in that same sweet voice, but before she could get an answer, she felt someone bonk her head.

"Baka, stop scaring him." Aqua spoke up, coming to his brother's defense. Who he had a crush on was none of his concern, and neither should it be Ruby's. Ruby pouted as she looked at Aqua, before she turned back to face Minato, but when she did he was already gone. She looked down the hall to find her little brother on the run.

"Minato-kun!" Ruby shouted as she chased after him. Aqua just shook his head as he slowly walked to follow after the two. Honestly, sometimes Ruby did the most.

Just updating this chapter, a bit, weeded out some of the mistakes.

And that's a wrap! How did you all like the fact that they had a baby named Minato? And no, he isn't Minato reborn, he was just named after his grandfather as I explained in the chapter.

Minato is currently 11 years old, Aqua and Ruby are 16 and Sapphire is 12. I have also changed Kana's age as she is also 16 and is a 1st year. I wanted to create a pairing between Minato and Kana that revolved around a love triangle, with Kana crushing on Aqua, who isn't interested in her, while Minato tries to get her attention. It should create some friction between the three, nothing earth shattering, but the drama should be fun.

And how did you like the fact that Sapphire is going in a totally different direction then what people would have assumed? She might look like Ai, but her nature is more in like with Naruto's and Kushina's. Let know what you all think! Leave a review with your thoughts! Bye!

Chapter edited: 6/9/2023.