The Child of Prophecy

└ C8 ┐

└ If you just submit yourself to fate, then that's the end of it.   —Keiichi Maebara (Higurashi: When they Cry) ┐

"Alright, Naruko-chan, be a good girl, okay?"

Kushina grins widely at her daughter, who enthusiastically nods her head before running off to one Uchiha Sasuke, who immediately grunts at the approaching ball of sunshine.

Kakashi quietly mourns his own fate whilst the two mothers beside him just giggled.

"Kakashi-kun, I leave Naruko-chan to you," Kushina tells him and despite the glare he sends her, he nods his head as a response.

"Kushina-chan, are you sure you won't be eating with us? It's already disappointing that Hiashi-kun's children can't make it." Mikoto asked her friend, a worried expression on her featurues, "And I don't think I can babysit all of these kids."

Feeling insulted upon being called a 'kid', Kakashi glared at her as well, but she just brushed him off and told him to enter the Uchiha household, which he did.

"No, I still need to help out at the hospital today. So it's really a great help that you invited Naruko-chan to dinner, I was just about to consider leaving her to Minato for a while," Kushina replied before they both giggled. "Well then, I'll be off, dattebane!"

The friends waved at each other before separating.

"Oi S'suke! I want to sit beside 'Tachi-nii!"

"I got here first, go sit beside Shisui-aniki!"

"Ara, ara, there are plenty of other seats to occupy. Don't fight over Itachi-chan, I'll get jealous."

"Hey, you two are being so loud.. Ah! Naru-chan, don't bite Sasuke-kun's arm!"

"ano.. Sasuke, why don't you let Naru-chan sit beside me, just for today?"

"No way! Aniki's barely home, so I get to sit beside him!"

"Ah! Sasuke, don't bite her arm, too!"

This scene was not what Uchiha Mikoto expected to see as soon as she entered her home. No. She surely did not expect to see Naruko-chan biting her youngest son's arm, and vice versa.

"What is going on here?" She decided to ask, after what seemed to be a few minutes of the spectacle just continuing on in front of her.

Everyone turned to her and looked as if they had not even noticed her standing there and watching them.. do whatever it was they were doing. And they say Kakashi and Itachi were prodigies at being ninja, Mikoto jokes in her mind before shaking the thought off and keeping a stern look on her face as she stared at the 'children'.

"Mikoto-san! S'suke won't stop biting my arm!"

"Kaa-san, Naru started it!"

And the two suddenly let go of each other's arms, which now had bite marks left on them.

Naruko faked a disgusted gag, earning amused looks from the Uchihas (except Sasuke, and Kakashi just continued to dread his fate).

"Pweh! Your arm doesn't even compare to the burnt lunch that Mom made last week! And that tasted so terrible!" Naruko exclaimed, even sticking her tongue out to express her disgust.

Mikoto sweatdropped at the comparison, whilst Kakashi nodded his head in understanding of the feeling. He had been in the same lunch table that day, and trust him, when he says to never let Kushina-san experiment on food ever again. Minato-sensei became a 'housewife' type of father (and occasionally sends clones to do housework, instead of Kushina-san) for a reason.