Mission: Baby

Prologue and

chapter 1: Mission: Shinachiku

This will be a Narusaku and a few other pairings.

Summary: One night a mysterious figure drops off a baby boy in front of the Hokage's door. Tsunade leaves it to Sakura and Naruto to take care of the baby but what they soon find out is that the baby isn't a normal baby.

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A figure with a hood over their head snuck into the Hokage's office and stole some sheets of papers from inside the desk. The mysterious person then went to the Hokage's sleeping corridors and sets down a basket with some blankets in it.

"I'm sorry young one, but you're too dangerous my mission comes first. I hope a nice family loves you and take good care of you while I'm away." The person knocked on the door then disappeared with the wind.

A grumpy, angry woman with blonde locks looked around the hall wondering who knocked she heard babbling come from down at her feet. Tsunade's eyes widened as she realized that a baby was right in front of her abandoned. Tsunade picked up the child and entered her room. "Where did you come from?" As a response, the baby just yawned. "You're tired so let's go to sleep and worry about this tomorrow."

.x.

Tsunade carried the crying baby boy and tried to settle him down. It was about 5:00 in the morning she tried everything he wasn't hungry, his diaper didn't need to be changed, and he didn't have to burp.

Finally, she gave up and summoned an Anbu member to get her student. "Why not drop this brat off on someone else?" Tsunade went to her office with the fussy child in her arms.

She looked at the child closely and wondered where the baby came from. As she was deep in thought, someone knocked on her door. A grin spread on her face, "come in!" The busty blonde attempted to hide her grin when the young pinkette walked in tiredly.

"You called Tsunade-sama," She mumbled half asleep. She didn't even notice that a baby was in her presence crying.

"Sakura you have a long term mission. Before you ask, let me finish you are to take care of this infant for as long as I tell you to oh and get Naruto to help you. Here's some money to help you along the way." Tsunade handed her the crying baby and pushed her out of the office. "Don't come back with that brat unless it's important." The door slammed behind the dumbstruck teen.

"W-what just happened?"

.x.

"I can't believe her she makes me take care of some kid. There's no use crying over it...speaking of crying."

Sakura looked at the baby in her arms he had a full head of blonde hair. She couldn't see his eyes since they were closed. A small smile spread on her face as she hummed a tune her mother sang to her when she was upset. After a few minutes, the baby stopped crying and was soon asleep again.

"What am I going to do? I can't go home my parents would kill me. Well, at least, you give me an excuse to finally move out." Being a ninja her parents failed to understand her and her need for space. Even if she was only sixteen she was practically an adult in shinobi years.

A familiar apartment complex comes into view, and she quickened her pace towards it.

.x.

Knock knock knock

Sakura was mentally praying that Naruto was at home she hasn't seen the blonde in a week which was surprising. It was 5:30 in the morning so she shouldn't have anything to fear.

Before she knocked again, the door opened slowly and revealed a horrible looking blonde.

"Na-Naruto are you ok?" She asked nervously weary about going inside.

"Sakura-chan? What are you doing here so early in the morning?" He asked back stifling a yawn.

"Sorry to bother you at this time but could you do me a small tiny favor." Naruto looked into her eyes his eyes said, "I'll do anything for you," but she couldn't tell.

"Shoot."

"I was wondering if I could stay here for the time being? Just until I find an apartment." As if that one question was an energy boost he quickly nodded and stood up straight. "C-come on in Sakura-chan make yourself at home!" He shouted she shushed him and walked into the small place.

Naruto then noticed the green eyes looking up at him from Sakura's arms, and they weren't her own. "Sakura-chan what is that?!" The baby's lips started quivering, and he burst into tears crying loudly.

Sakura glared at him as he stared at the crying infant. "It's a baby Baka." Naruto's jaw dropped to the ground at the shocking news. "But why do you have it?!" He knew he hadn't seen her in a week, but he was sure she didn't do anything with anyone, and she wasn't pregnant. He silently panicked knowing that the kid was possibly conceived by some other guy.

Sakura started comforting the crying baby by rubbing his back and walking around. "It's a long-term mission that Tsunade-sama dumped on me." To say he was relieved was an understatement.

"Ohhh." He didn't know how to react to the news that his crush was going to be taking care of a baby and if he didn't know any better, he would say the boy looked like him, and Sakura had a child together. The thought made him feel giddy inside.

"Does he have a name?" Sakura shook her head no finally getting the baby to quiet down.

Naruto thought about a name for a brief moment before he came up with a good one. "Shinachiku." The baby was about 11 or 12 months old and seemed to like the name a lot.

"I like it." She smiled down at the baby, and he stared back up at her with darker green orbs then her own. Naruto smiled at the sight the baby tried to reach up to pull on her hair but couldn't reach it.

Sakura caught his eye and told him to come closer. "Do you want to hold him Naruto?"

Naruto nodded and held out his hands to take the baby boy in his arms. He was nervous but when Sakura showed him the proper way to hold a baby his nervousness faded. Naruto gently held the kid while he swayed side to side. "You may not be mine, but I'm going to protect you with my life. I promise." He was already attached.

"N-Naruto you don't have to say that as if you're his adoptive parent." Naruto stopped swaying to speak to Sakura.

"I don't want this child to end up how I was...alone, and he might be a mission, but he's something more to me." Naruto couldn't explain it, but he felt a deep connection to the baby. Shinachiku triggered his instinct to protect.

Sakura smiled sadly at the pair both of them were like new parents unsure what to do. "We're going to have to pick Shinachiku up a lot of things." Sakura walked up to them and ruffled Shinachiku's hair.

"Is a baby expensive?" Sakura nervously laughed before she nodded her head yes.

"But it's a good thing Shishou gave me some money." Sakura sighed and flopped down on Naruto's couch. She didn't get much sleep last night tormented with nightmares. By the time she did go back to sleep, Tsunade had summoned her.

"Naruto could you watch Shinachiku for a little bit I'm going to take a small nap." Sakura stretched and yawned just about to fall asleep right then and there.

"Sakura-chan you can take the bed if you want I'll be out here playing with Shinachiku." Sakura shot Naruto a thankful look before she left towards Naruto's room.

"Now let's see what we are going to do while Sakura-chan is resting." He sets the baby on the couch. Naruto looked around the bare apartment for what the two can do that was until Naruto caught a whiff of something foul.

Naruto snapped his head to the baby who sat staring up at him with innocent forest green eyes. They stared at each other waiting for one to crack.

Shinachiku lips began trembling a sign that another round of crying was going to come forward if Naruto doesn't change his diaper. Naruto quickly picked him up and started panicking.

He had no idea how to change a diaper, and they currently had no diapers. A light bulb turned on when he finally had an idea of what to do. Naruto set Shinachiku back on the couch and does his Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. A clone of himself appeared beside him much to Shinachiku's fascination.

"Here's some money buy diapers quick!" The shadow clone took the frog wallet and quickly left. Naruto picked the baby up and goes to the bathroom to give the baby a bath. He makes sure that the bath wasn't too cold or too hot. Naruto also made sure it wasn't too much water and hoped that his clone got back quick.

Once the water was just right Naruto worked on getting the fussy baby out of his clothes. Naruto removed the footie pajamas first.

Naruto eyed the diaper with disgust the thought of taking the diaper off was a scary one. With shaky hands, he pulled back the flaps. Almost instantly the smell coming from Shinachiku's diaper hit him full blast. Naruto was close to fainting right there on the spot, but he had a job to do. What made it worse was that Shinachiku thought it would be funny to piss on him.

"Shinachiku!" Naruto hissed having his favorite shirt covered in urine.

Shinachiku stopped giggling and laughing when he sensed a dark aura surround Naruto. Instead of laughing he replaced it with crying.

Naruto's eyes widened when Shinachiku started crying. "No no no no! Stop, please! I'm sorry don't cry Shinachiku!" Naruto put on a big false grin to try and cheer up the crying baby. He then began to clean up his nasty mess with tissue. "See you're all clean tada. It's bath time now!" Naruto picked up a butt naked Shinachiku and started mimicking what Sakura did earlier rubbing his back and walking around.

Luckily for Naruto, it was enough to calm him down. Naruto sighed he felt the tension leave his body. Naruto set down Shinachiku in the bathtub, and he instantly started splashing water everywhere. Naruto facepalm before lazily getting up to get some towels.

"Geez, Shinachiku you're quite a handful." Naruto used a small towel to clean the baby as he played in the water.

Once Naruto was finally done giving Shinachiku a bath his whole shirt and hair was soaked.

Naruto flopped done on the couch with Shinachiku wrapped in an orange towel. He wondered where his clone was with those diapers. He planned on resting his eyes for a few seconds not falling asleep.

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Meanwhile with Naruto's clone

Naruto's clone wasn't sure where he could get diapers from and got easily distracted.

.x.

Sakura felt a bit refreshed getting about an hour and a half of sleep. She was not expecting a fast asleep Naruto holding a wide-awake Shinachiku in an orange towel. Shinachiku babbled to the asleep Naruto, and she found the sight cute.

Shinachiku turned to her and reached his chubby hands out to her. Sakura chuckled and picked him up. "I see you and Naruto had bath time but where are your clothes."

Suddenly the clone of Naruto came in panting with a pack of diapers in his hand. The clone gave her the diapers and poofed away. Sakura looked at the diapers then Shinachiku and everything clicked.

"Let's get you in these diapers." Sakura opened the pack of diapers and took one out. She lifted his legs and slid the diaper under him and set him back down. She folded the flap and made sure the diaper was secure. His diaper would have to do she just hoped he wouldn't get a diaper rash. Sakura looked for the footie pajamas and put it back on him before waking Naruto up.

"Naruto wake up."

"Sakura-chan." Naruto moaned seductively.

Sakura blushed red and with her free hand punched her teammate on the head. He woke up instantly after the hit. "Argh Sakura-chan why?" He groaned out clutching his head.

"For having perverted dreams about me now get up, we're going shopping for Shinachiku." Naruto groaned and trudged to his room to find something else to wear than his pajamas.

"I swear that baka." Shinachiku giggled at his caretaker's antics.

After a couple of minutes waiting for Naruto, he was now decent. "Did you get some sleep Sakura-chan?" Sakura nodded before walking straight out of the door with Naruto close behind. He locked the door, and they were soon trekking to the market section of Konoha.

A/N: Review and let me know what you thought of Chapter 1.

Don't know when I'm going to actually update I'll just do it when I have time.

Every chapter title will start off with Mission:

Revised: 1-11-19