The Secret

5

Cracking open his bleary eyes, Naruto slowly woke up from a long night of little sleep. He slowly rolled to the side of the bed and pulled himself up, noting his husbands weren't in the bed. As he stood up, he winced as a jolt of pain raced up his spine like a lightning bolt.

'Damn those two and their Uchiha stamina,' he thought with a groan as he attempted to massage his backside. He limped out to the main room of the suite, where he discovered his husbands and youngest children sitting at the table in the main area of the hotel room. It confused him to not see Fugaku there as well. The men at the table turned toward the blond when they heard his footsteps, both smirking at the sight of his limp. They gave each other low fives under the table, though the blond noticed immediately.

"Sleeping Beauty has graced us with his presence," Obito joked, causing Itachi to snort softly. "How you feeling?"

"I feel like I was hit by a fully loaded carriage, thank you very much," he replied, glaring at the men. "Not that you two had anything to do with that. Anyway, where's Fugaku?"

Itachi stood up and helped Naruto to the table before answering his question. "It's already after 1, he left about an hour ago to take the written exam."

That reminded Naruto of his Chūnin exams, and who the proctor was at the time.

"Do you know who's in charge of each phase?"

"I heard from a few people as we were out walking around with the kids. Apparently Ibiki is the proctor for phase one, Anko for phase two, and they requested Konan be the proctor for phase three." Hearing Itachi explain the jobs, Naruto had a flashback of his Chūnin exams once again. He groaned, hoping for his son's sake it doesn't go the same way his own went.

Itachi returned to the table with a plate of food for Naruto, who greedily ate everything. He felt like he was starving after the vigorous "exercise" his husbands put him through the night before.

"Kit, I have some news," Kurama's dark voice rumbled into the blond's head. Instantly, he imagined what the fox wanted to tell him.

"Don't tell me. Does it have something to do with the 'activities' we got up to last night?" Naruto replied, praying he was wrong, but knowing how unlikely that was.

"Yes it does."

"I'm pregnant again, aren't I?" There was no response, which was answer enough to the blond, who glared once again at his two husbands. Noticing the look he gave them, Obito spoke up.

"What's that outraged look for? Did we do something wrong?"

"Oh, I don't know," he started sarcastically, "does 'let's relive the night Fumiko was conceived' ring a bell?! What about, 'good practice for the next one'?"

Naruto's words caused both ravens to stare at him with wide eyes. When the information sank in, they burst from their chairs and rushed the fuming blond, scooping him up in a three person hug they'd perfected over the years. Though he was still grumbling about timing, he couldn't resist sinking into the love his husbands were embracing him in.

~

By the time the prelims were going on, Naruto was becoming impatient. He wanted to know how his son's team was doing. He figured they'd be doing fine, but he didn't know for sure. He decided to leave the hotel and go for a walk through town, his Kage hat firmly placed on his head to avoid being found out by Sasuke.

On his walk, he ran into several people he would have recognized even if they'd not been mentioning names.

"So, Ino, how do you think your son is doing in the exams?" a pink-haired woman asked the pale blonde beside her.