Live, Learn & Love

Disclaimer – I don’t own Naruto or any of its characters nor am I making any money off these writings.

Warnings – Not many warnings to speak of. Boys loving other boys, an overdose of fluff maybe…


Just another little snippet, I don’t seem able to let this family go...

Saturday Morning.

”Mama!” The voice was insistent and tiny hands made grabby motions towards the closed bedroom door. A full bottom lip was sticking out and dark blue eyes looked up at the man who was carrying him pleadingly.

“Shh, Shin-chan. Remember, we’re letting Mama sleep in today.” Sasuke hoisted Shinji up higher on his thigh and moved towards the kitchen. Naruto had been working so hard lately, trying to get his own catering business off the ground and taking care of Shinji, he really deserved to sleep in one morning.

Those big blue eyes blinked at him and the full bottom lip began to tremble dangerously. “No mama?”

Oh Shinji had definitely inherited the moron’s puppy eyes and Sasuke could feel his heart clenching. This time he wouldn’t give in though. “Not right now, Mama is sleeping, he’ll be up later.”

Chubby cheeks puffed out and Sasuke could see his son wasn’t happy at all about being kept from his mama. Honestly Sasuke didn’t blame him; he was possessive of Naruto’s time too. No matter how many hours they spent together it was never enough. The blond moron was addictive and Sasuke knew he could never do without him. He reached down to nuzzle a chubby, puffed up cheek. “Come on little guy, why don’t you help me make a Saturday breakfast for your mama?”

Shinji’s mouth closed on the wail he had been about to let out and he looked up at his daddy before nodding eagerly, bouncing in Sasuke’s arms.

“Thought you’d like the sound of that.” Sasuke chuckled and nuzzled his son’s silky hair as they moved towards the kitchen. Shinji had an unwavering love for the kitchen with its pots and pans, perfect for banging on. Chairs and drawers to climb on and lots of things to put in your mouth. Everything had to be tested whether it was tasty or not it had to be tried.

Placing the bouncing boy on the gleaming hardwood floor Sasuke hurried about the kitchen, pulling out all the ingredients necessary to make Naruto a perfect, lazy Saturday breakfast in bed. He tried to make sandwiches while keeping an eye on Shinji who was doing his best to climb up his leg, not happy with being deposited on the floor. “Up!” He demanded loudly. “Up, help!”

Sasuke knew that his son would only get louder and louder, along with the puppy eyes Shinji had inherited Naruto’s lungs too. He picked up his son and placed him carefully on the counter next to him, one hand holding him steady to make sure he didn’t fall off.

“No Shinji, don’t put your fingers in the jam jar.” Sasuke felt sweat start to prickle in the back of his head as Shinji dunked his whole hand in the blackberry jam and then sucked on his fingers happily. “No Shin, no…Mama doesn’t like it when you eat sugar the first thing the morning.” Sasuke did his best to pull the jar out of his son’s reach leading to sticky, tiny handprints all over his shirt, face and to his horror even hair as Shinji fought back, not ready to give up his tasty treat.

In the struggle the cheese went down on the floor along with Naruto’s favorite, obnoxious, bright orange mug. Sasuke watched in pure horror as the mug fell in what seemed to be slow motion only to shatter into a million pieces as it hit the floor. “Oh crap.” Sasuke could only imagine how Naruto would take this, not of the scenarios playing in his brain were good ones.

“Crap! Crapcrapcrapcrap.” Shinji repeated, placing more jam prints all over the counter top and the surface of the white cupboards and drawers as well as more sticky handprints all over Sasuke as he looked at the shattered cup with huge, blue eyes.

“No Shin-chan, that’s a bad word, we don’t say that…Please don’t say that.” Sasuke was growing desperate. Naruto would be pissed enough as it was without their son having learnt a bad word too.

Sasuke was just trying to figure out what to do, where to place Shinji so that he could clean up the broken porcelain and hide the evidence when there was a sound of a throat clearing.

“What’s going on in here?”

Sasuke stiffened and turned around slowly. He looked like a deer caught in the headlights, taking in his jam-covered persona, the state of the kitchen, the broken cup and his sugar high son. “Um…Surprise?” He said in a small voice.

“Mama!” Shinji squealed happily. “Crap!”

One blond eyebrow rose and Naruto crossed his arms over his naked chest as he looked at his husband and son. “Mmm, surprise indeed.” Naruto’s tone was dry and unreadable as he kept his gaze on his little family.

“I can explain, it sort of just snowballed.” Sasuke looked miserable and looked over at his purple colored son. “We only wanted to do something nice, let you have a lie in for once.”

Naruto melted, who wouldn’t when met with the sight of two jam covered Uchiha’s one wearing the guiltiest expression imaginable and one the happiest. They were his family, he wouldn’t survive without them. He walked into the kitchen, dressed only in his plaid, flannel pajama pants being careful so he wouldn’t get cut on the shards of the cup and wrapped his arms around his husband. He licked a broad stripe up Sasuke’s cheek. “At least you taste good.” He said and reached for Shinji who practically threw himself in his mama’s arms, patting him with sticky hands and placing kisses where ever he could reach. “Mama.” He said in satisfaction, leaning his head against Naruto’s shoulder.

“I love you.” Sasuke still looked miserable. This had not turned out the way he had planned it.

“I love you too, even though you are cr…bad in the kitchen.” Naruto leaned in and kissed Sasuke on the corner of his mouth. “I’m going to take Mr. Sticky here and give him a bath and you are going to clean this up. Later we can all go for ramen…And you can find me a new cup.”

“Yes love.” Sasuke was not stupid enough to argue. Having almost lost Naruto on account of his own stupidity Sasuke had learnt to carefully pick his battles.

“Bye bye Papa.” Shinji waved to Sasuke with a tiny, purple hand as Naruto started to carry him towards the bathroom. “Bath…crap.”

Oh yes, it was just another Saturday in the Uzumaki-Uchiha household and Sasuke wouldn’t want it any other way.

~Fin~