A/N: So, this are a bunch of stories that popped up on my mind after I read chapter 700. I hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 1 - Day off
"Bolt, please, stay away from the edge!" Hinata shouted to her older son.
"Mom, look! We have found a albino lizard!" Bolt exclaimed while he runned back to his mother, holding a lizard by the tail. His younger sister, Himawari, were just a few steps behind.
"Well, that's… gross. Put him away." Hinata couldn't help but smile.
"No! Mom, please, let's keep him!" Bolt demanded, hopping on his feet with excitement.
"That won't do. You'll scare your sister with a pet like that."
"Not at all, mommy. I also like Shiro-chan." Himawari said, smiling softly.
"Pleaseeee." Bolt begged, trying to hide his devious little smile in a candid face.
"Alright, alright. Let him go for now, and if he's still around by the time we leave, you can take him..."
"Yosh!" Celebrated Bolt.
"... If your father also approves." Hinata concluded.
Bolt grimaced in disgust. "Great, now we will never keep him." He mumbled, letting go of the lizard.
"What do you mean?" Hinata asked infinitely patient with her little brat.
"Dad is never around! Look at it! Today is Sunday, he was supposed to be with us! It's his day off!"
"Don't be silly, Nii-san. Daddy is a very important person for the village and Uncle Shikamaru said it was an emergency." Himawari argued.
"It doesn't matter. It our family picnic. How can we call it family if he's not here?"
"But we are having fun just the three of us, aren't we?" Hinata said, picking a hand sanitizer from her basket.
"But you miss him too, don't you, mom?" Argued Bolt.
Hinata sighed. Of course she missed him. All the time he wasn't around. And every time Shikamaru, Moegi, Shizune, Kakashi, whoever it was, interrupted their private time saying it was "an urgent matter", she felt like punching them all… Of course she couldn't say that to Bolt.
"I understand his job as the Seventh, Bolt, and my own duties as the Hokage's wife." She answered, spraying the hand sanitizer on her kids' hands. "You should understand your job as his son too, Bolt, like you sister."
"Yeah, right." Bolt said sarcastically.
Hinata sighed again. "Let's eat. I brought all your favorite snacks."
Bolt's mood changed instantaneously.
"Let's eat, let's eat!"
Hinata had set a towel under a frondosus tree, the three of them sat down there and ate. Himawari sat all quiet and classy like always, Bolt ate like a starving bear. Hinata had to laugh.
"God, you're so much like your father." She said fondly, cleaning rice off his face. "We have to work on your manners or girls won't like you."
"It's alright. I don't like girls either, they're stupid."
"I'm not stupid!" Himawari complained.
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not. Right, mommy?"
"No, she's not." Hinata answered.
"Yes, you are." Kept teasing Bolt.
"NO, I'M NOT."
"Stupid, stupid, little girl."
"Bolt, Himawari, cut it." Hinata asked, even if she knew it was useless. That wrangle would end with Bolt running around the field with Himawari running after him, with occasional shouts of "Baka, baka, baka!"/"No, I'm not!" until both of them were weary.
Her prevision was proved right just a minute later.
After almost one hour of running, her kids lied down on lap and fell asleep right away.
"Great, how I'm supposed to carry both of you home now?" She wondered, petting their hair.
"May I offer the pretty lady some help?" Asked suddenly a voice beside her.
She smiled, recognizing the sound of his voice, the chill on her spine caused by his presence, the cozy warmth of the hand wich stroke her hair.
"Well, thank you, sir, but I should wait for my husband." Hinata answered playfully.
"And what kind of stupid husband would let you alone on a Sunday evening?" Naruto spoke, with a slight hint of guilt on his voice.
"A very important, earnest, strong and compromised one, who is able to give his life for the sake of our village."
Naruto chuckled. "Thank you."
"You're welcome. Good work today."
"Thanks. I'm really sorry, but we had an urgent report of a shinobi who was gone in mission for 2 years. We thought he was dead, but it turned out he was abducted by some nukenin. I had to sent a..."
"It's okay, darling. I'm not mad. I undestand."
"And Bolt...?"
"Bolt was... Pretty pissed. But he had fun teasing Himawari and chasing a lizard."
Naruto laughed. "Lizard?"
"Yes, they wanted to adopt that awful thing. Thank god they seem to have forgotten it."
"That's a shame. I would like to have a pet."
Hinata smiled and leaned on him, resting her head on his shoulder.
He kissed her forehead and nuzzled on Hinata's hair, delighted on that lovely sweet smell and feeling home.
"I think you were right." He said suddenly.
"Huh?"
"Back then, on the war, when you said my life wasn't only mine. You were right. My life doesn't belongs to me, it belongs to this village. Now more than ever."
"Yes. I know. And I'm proud of you. I always have been."
"'Weird girl.' That's was what I thought. 'What kind of weird, amazing, strong-willed person she is. Why does she care so much for me?' It took me long enough to understand why your feelings towards me were so different from the others." He confessed.
Hinata smiled. "Well, let's say you were never quite brainy."
Naruto playfully poked her. "Come on, you."
"I always have loved you. All of you."
"Weird girl." Naruto repeated. "You deserve better."
"Better than the Seventh Hokage? I highly doubt that."
Naruto couldn't held himself back and kissed her lips. Hinata responded right away, and they got lost on each other. He pulled her head closer, deepening the kiss, their hearts beating faster and faster...
"Wah! Dad, why are you eating mom's face?" Asked Bolt waking up.
Naruto and Hinata backed off like to teenagers caught in the act by their parents.
"Huh? Hmm..." Naruto tried to think in a answer but his daughter were faster:
"Nii-san no baka. They were just kissing."
"Eew. That's gross." He declared.
Hinata and Naruto laughed.
"It's late already. Let's go home." She said. "Get up, you two. Let mom pick the things up."
"Daddy, can you carry me home?" Asked Himawari, blinking her baby blue eyes.
"I want a piggy back!" Demanded Bolt.
"Alright. Climb up, you little foxes. Let's go home."
After they placed Bolt and Himawari on their beds, the couple lied on their own bed, starring at each other.
"I'm the luckiest man in the world."
"I was thinking the same thing."
"Stop it, I'm not the catch here."
"I know. That's why I was thinking: 'you're the luckiest man in the world'." She joked.
Naruto laughed. "Man, I miss the shy Hinata sometimes."
She smiled. "Thank you."
"Huh?"
"Thank you for being such a good father, husband, man, Hokage... You made my life complete."
"I'm the one who should be thanking you." He said. "I wouldn't be who I am now if it weren't you. You gave me love, support, trust, a family. I love you very much."
Hinata blushed and looked down, embarrassed. "Me too."
Naruto took her face on his hands and brought her eyes to his again.
"As I said before, my life belongs to Konoha, but my heart... My heart it's only yours."
"I could never ask for more."