okay this is my first sasunaru fanfic. no sasuke for the first few chapters but still there will be lots of cutsy things so relax. please enjoy!!!

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i do not own naruto this is just a fanfic that i hope epople enjoy! XD

It wasn't a happy day when Naruto came home. Dark clouds hung in the air as rain pelted the village. He limped up to the sentry station his clothes tattered and bent slightly over a small blue bundle as to not get it wet.

"Naruto!" a shocked voice yelled as he slumped inside the dry station for a moment. Naruto looked up with a tear stained face. "What have you got there? A…a Baby!?"

"I would like you to meet my new son Koichi."

Naruto had been on a solo mission. He simply had to escort a young rich man's wife to their new home across the country. It was supposed to be simple except when Naruto arrived to pick up the girl, Kaede she had a newborn son. Before they left she had made Naruto promise that if anything should happen…

"Please protect my son. If anything goes wrong make sure he is safe." Her eyes looked into Naruto's.

"Relax lady we aren't going to run into any trouble and if we do I can handle it…but if it makes you happy I promise I'll protect your son." A smile graced the young mother's lips.

"Thank you." Naruto smiled. They headed off that very afternoon in very good spirits.

"Your son?" TenTen and Lee were managing the station and looked at the blonde uncertain. Naruto nodded about to explain when Koichi started to cry. Naruto sighed and rocked the small bundle.

"Shush Koichi. We are home now it's all right." Koichi quieted, he had become accustomed to Naruto during the journey as he often had helped Kaede.

"Wah! Wah!" Koichi cried and cried. Kaede was in a nearby hot spring bathing. Naruto looked off in the direction of the woman and then down at the wailing child. He sighed and picked him up.

"Hello Koichi. I'm Naruto my job is to protect you and your mom. Shh shh now don't cry we are nearly to your dad's new house, your home." Koichi quieted and played with Naruto's necklace.

"He seems to like your necklace quite a bit Naruto." Kaede came back all dressed and clean.

"Heh heh well as long as it keeps him from crying I don't mind." They both laughed. They had become good friends and were only a few days from Kaede's husband's house.

"Naruto! Who is the lucky lady? I must know!" Lee had tears in his eyes. Neither ninja had noticed Naruto's tattered dress or bleeding wounds, completely distracted by his bundle.

"Hey relax Lee! Koichi isn't mine, not directly, he has been left to me in a way." Naruto didn't feel like telling the whole big story quite yet and racked his brains for an answer.

"But...but...but Naruto! Your only twenty-one! Isn't that a little young to be a single father? And what about finding Sasuke?" Lee blathered on.

"Lee! Will you shush up!" TenTen said exasperated.

"So Naruto is there a lucky lady waiting for you back at home?" Kaede asked the next afternoon as she nursed Koichi. Naruto blushed.

"No...I…I don't swing that way if you get what I mean and before you can ask no I'm single." He laughed. She smiled gently.

"That's too bad, that you haven't someone I mean. You'd make an excellent father." She smiled rocking her son.

"You think so?" He asked eagerly.

"Well you've been a huge help with Koichi! He wasn't exactly a planned addition to this trip as you know." She smiled and Naruto beamed.

"Naruto if he isn't yours? Why do you have him?" TenTen asked cocking an eyebrow.

"I made promises." Naruto said started to feel the effects of walking on his injuries.

They walked over the final hill approaching the house. It was on fire. The flames reflected in Kaede's eyes.

"It's under attack!" Kaede's knees shook. Naruto grabbed her and pulled her into the forest.

"Stay here. I'll go see what's happening." He went to leave but she grabbed his sleeve.

"Find…find my husband…Hiroshi." She stuttered. Naruto nodded. He jumped through the smoke looking for anybody, anybody alive.

"Help! Kaede!" Naruto heard a yell and went through a collapsed wall to find a young man bleeding from a cut in his head.

"Oi! Are you Hiroshi?" Naruto bent down by the man.

"Yes...who are you?" He asked coughing. Naruto picked the man up and fled the burning house.

"I'm Naruto, your wife's escort." He landed near the hiding place. A kunai flew at him, he blocked it.

"Who's there?" Several ninjas came out snarling and laughing. One held Koichi and another Kaede.

"Kaede!"

"Hiroshi!" They reached toward each other. A man jumped between them.

"You, the leaf shinobi, give us the young man." Naruto set Hiroshi down. A battle ensued, even though Naruto was now an anbu black op he was being seriously beat. He landed near Kaede who was tied to a tree branch at some point in the battle. She was bleeding profusely by now.

"Na...naruto." she whispered.

"Hang on I'll get you out of here!" He stood.

"It's okay Naruto, just save Koichi." Naruto turned to the man holding the baby. He was crying.

"Yes! Listen to my wife. Please!" Hiroshi begged.

"I can't leave you here to die!" The battle kept raging. At some point a misfired kunai untied Hiroshi and Kaede. At that same point two giant shuriken had pinned Naruto to a tree and another was being thrown as his fatal blow. To Naruto it felt like slow motion. Hiroshi and Kaede threw themselves in front of him. They were sliced wide open by the shuriken which still managed to wedge itself in Naruto's gut.

"Naruto...please take my boy. Keep him safe." And with that Kaede died alongside her husband. Tears flooded Naruto's eyes. It was all a blur from then. The next thing he remembered was waking up to Koichi's cries surrounded by corpses. He picked up the little bundle.

"I promise Koichi, to keep you safe by my side….my son." Naruto murmured as he remembered. It was then that Sakura walked up to get the reports of the afternoon for Lady Hokage.

"Naruto! You're…oh my God. You've got to come to the hospital." She ran over just as he started to fall into unconsciousness in Lee's arms, TenTen grabbing Koichi before he could fall who immediately started to cry.

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