Primal

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I hope that you all enjoy the grand finale of Primal.

Naruto talking to Kyuubi in bold.

Kyuubi talking to Naruto in bold italics.

Chapter Notation: This takes place four years after the last one. I also put warnings before and after the first delivery scene. I didn't go into graphic detail. Though if you're squeamish, you can skip it with ease and the plot won't be altered.

Chapter 22

Three years later, Suki shakes her head as she watches Naruto race around the Uchiha District. The Hokage might have been able to defeat Madara, but he was no match for the Terrifying Threes. Though apparently, he liked to think that he was.

The twins were their pride and joy. It hadn't taken long after their official marriage for Suki to become pregnant and now they had two beautiful toddlers. Nariko and Yoko.

"You know that you're never going to catch them. Not without Shadow Clones." Suki informs her husband.

"What? No way! That's cheating! That wouldn't be fair. I mean they're only three. It's not like they can do Shadow Clones." Naruto retorts.

Suki rolls her eyes playfully at her husband's logic. She doubted very much that either toddler was capable of scolding him for cheating, even if they were rather articulate for children their age.

"Foolish little sister, you know that Naruto always has to do things the hard way." Itachi observes with no small amount of mirth.

"Mmm that's very true." The raven haired woman agrees with a fond smile as she watches her husband get outsmarted by a pair of three year olds.

It was amazing, really. Naruto was easily one of the strongest ninjas to have ever lived and yet, their daughters could run circles around them. Suki didn't have any idea where the twins got all their energy, really.

On second thought, she did. They must have inherited it from Naruto. She didn't mind though. Naruto and their daughters were the center of her world. Well them and Itachi. Everyone else were little more than an afterthought.

"I'm betting that the next one is going to be a boy. You have two girls. So make sure it's a boy. I got a lot of money, riding on this one." Kisame adds.

Suki snorts and subtly hurls a fireball at the former Criminal Ninja. She couldn't believe that Kisame was actually doing something as childish as betting on her next child's gender. Well at least Itachi would never participate in such tomfoolery.

"I'm betting that it's going to be a blonde. Naruto has blonde hair and so did his father. It's a recessive trait, but it's one that his family has had for at least two generations. It's bound to pop up sooner or later." Her brother continues.

The pregnant Uchiha Matriarch twitches. She couldn't believe this! Itachi had bet on her child's hair color AND he thought that there was going to be a blonde Uchiha!

"And you call me foolish. Ha! As if there is ever going to be a blonde Uchiha!" She grumbles.

"Oh don't look so irritated. You're my baby sister and you're having babies. It's only natural that I would be thinking of my future niece or nephew." The other ninja states.

"I still can't believe that you bet on my child!" Suki scolds him.

She shakes her head in disbelief. A few years ago, she never believed that such a thing would occur. Mostly because she had been planning on killing Itachi to avenge their family, but also because it was Itachi.

Gambling was something that normal people did. Itachi was many things, but normal wasn't one of them. That was something that Suki knew for sure.

"Fox Daddy, UP! UP!" Nariko calls out excitedly.

Suki watches as Naruto scoops the younger twin up into his arms and rises her up over his head and down again. He does this multiple times. Nariko was certainly the more assertive of her two twins. Though she supposed it was a bit early to make such a definitive statement.

She was the youngest by about five minutes. The adorable girl had been born just as a storm was raging outside the hospital. A thunderstorm. That was why her name meant Child of Thunder. (Well that and Suki's affinity for lightning).

"Alright! Here you go! Up!" He says with a smile as he continues picking her up and putting her back down.

Meanwhile Yoko toddles over to her mother, uncle, and Kisame. Suki smiles down at her eldest and scoops her up in her arms. Yoko didn't really demand things, but she got her point across.

"Mommy! Kitty!" Yoko says innocently and Suki tilts her head, not sure what her daughter wanted.

Yoko had been born just as the Sun was rising up into the sky and the thunderstorm was raging. Her name meant Child of the Sun and it was fitting. Like her father, she was always smiling.

"That's right. We got you and your sister a nice kitty to play with." Kakashi says with a smile as he makes his way over to the others.

Sakura, Hinata, and Gaara were at his side. Suki mentally sighs and braces herself. This could only mean one thing. Complete chaos.

"Oh fine. We can keep the cat. I'm not going to have them look at me with those sad eyes, if we don't." Suki says with a defeated sigh.

"It's Sandy!" Narika calls out happily.

Suki smirks. She was pretty sure her daughters were the only people who could ever get away with calling Gaara that his face. Though in their case, they had an excuse. They were only three.

"Oh hey, Gaara! It's good to see you again. What are you doing here?" Naruto asks as he carries Narika over to see the red head.

"I thought that we might go over some plans for the Chunin Exams. Suki is getting rather close to her due date and it would be smarter to have this sort of thing squared away before she goes into labor. I am not going to be in this village when that happens, by the way. Oh and that's a wise decision, Suki. You wouldn't want your children to throw a temper tantrum over the cat." Gaara states dryly.

Suki makes a rather rude gesture at the back of the Kazekage's head for that comment. Hmpf. As if he had any room to talk! Gaara was a guy. He didn't know the absolute agony of labor!

"No. We wouldn't. You have no idea what our children are capable of when they're angry." Suki warns him.

"I'm sure that they're quite terrifying." Gaara says as he rolls his eyes playfully.

It was worth it though. She wouldn't trade the twins for the world. Suki smiles as she remembers the day that they were born.

Warning Delivery Scene

Childbirth was the most sadistic form of torture that Suki Uchiha had ever experienced and that was certainly saying something, considering everything that she had been through. Getting turned into a human pincushion by Haku. Her brother's Genjutsu. The various experiments done to her at the Sound. All her battles. The war. None of it could compare to the horror that were contractions.

"Naruto, I love you. I love you more than anything. If you don't back the Hell away from me right now though, I will kill you!" Suki hisses at her husband as another of them hit.

"Alright! Alright! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm here though. You know that, right?" Naruto asked as he wisely took several steps back.

Suki knew that. She knew that and she appreciated it. Naruto had completely spoiled her throughout her pregnancy. The man wouldn't even allow her to so much as stub a toe without going into a panic, but the raven haired woman was having a very hard time remembering that. At the moment, she was in so much pain!

The Bond she had with Naruto and the love she had for her twins was what made it labor somehow bearable. It took the better part of a day for her to bring her twins into the world and many death threats, but finally they arrived.

"WAHHHH!" Came a loud cry from their first child.

"It's a girl!" Tsunade told her as she took the child into her arms and handed it to Shizune.

The Sun had just risen in the sky as their child took their first breaths. Suki thought that was rather poetic. Naruto had always been her Sun. He kept the Darkness at bay and their child had been born when the Sun was rising.

"Suki, I'm going to need you to push again. You still have another child to deliver." Tsunade told her.

Suki cursed Tsunade out rather colorfully at that encouragement. The medic just snorted in amusement in response. She apparently was used to this sort of behavior from first time mothers, especially when they were ninjas.

"You can sass me later. Push!" She stated.

A few minutes later, another cry is heard throughout the room. This time, it happened just as the thunder clapped. Suki also found that fitting in a strange way. After all, thunder and lightning went together and her favorite attack was the Chidori.

"Good girl. Let's have a look at this one." Tsunade told Suki as she inspected the baby and Shizune helped the woman clean up, after making sure that the woman was alright.

"You alright?" Naruto asked in concern as he caressed her cheek.

"I'm more worried about them than me." Suki whispered as she kissed Naruto's hand.

She felt tremendously guilty for yelling at her Mate and threatening him. It wasn't Naruto's fault that childbirth was anything, but fun. That was just the way that it worked.

"Congratulations. You have two beautiful, healthy baby girls. Two little Princesses of the Hidden Leaf. Oh and they're identical twins." Tsunade informed her as she placed the girls in Suki's arms.

Suki smiled down at her daughters. Both of them had inherited her raven black hair and her fair skin. They also had their father's sapphire blue eyes and his whisker like markings.

"They're adorable, Suki." Naruto told her as he smiled down at their twins and kissed her forehead.

"They better be after, what I went through. Our Yoko and Narika." The Uchiha Matriarch informed him.

Naruto beamed and nodded. That's when Suki saw the slightly confused expression on his face and mentally groaned. He was about to stay something stupid. She just knew it.

"Those are nice names, but which is which and how are we going to tell them apart?" Naruto asked.

"The eldest shall be Yoko. The youngest will be Narika. As far as telling them apart, we'll learn to tell the difference eventually. They may be identical physically, but eventually their personalities won't be." Suki said as she nursed them.

"Yeah. You're right." Naruto said with a smile as he snuggled into his new family, the very picture of fatherly pride.

End of Delivery Scene

After Suki had recovered, the birth of their twins was announced. A grand celebration was held that lasted for days. After all, it wasn't every day that a Hokage had a child. Let alone two.

"Yeah. That's probably be a good idea and Suki, I saw that." Naruto says with a laugh as he walks over to his wife and wraps his arms around her stomach.

Her stomach which was much more round than usual. Suki always said that she felt like a Pufferfish when she was pregnant. Naruto thought that it was cute though.

Of course, he knew better than to actually say that. Well at least anymore. Not unless he was willing to dodge a half-hearted fireball. Women apparently became much more sensitive about their weight when they were expecting.

"Saw what?" She asks innocently.

"That you flipped Gaara off. Be nice. Be a good Suki." He states in mock seriousness as he snuggled into his beautiful Mate.

"If you wanted a good girl, you wouldn't have married me." Suki says with a smirk as she leans back into his embrace.

Gaara snorts at that retort. He couldn't really argue with the accuracy of that one. Suki definitely was not a good girl. Though apparently, motherhood agreed with her. It had been awhile since she had seriously threatened to kill anyone.

"She's got you there." The Kazekage mutters.

"Hey! Quiet! You're not helping!" Naruto grumbles as he kisses Suki's Mating Mark.

"Mmm alright. I'll be nice to Red. Well nicer." Suki says as she sighs in contentment at the affectionate gesture.

Naruto smiles. He really wished that he had given her the Mating Mark a lot sooner. It made this so much easier.

All he had to do was touch her there and she transformed from a vicious panther into a cuddly kitten. Again, he wasn't dumb enough to actually call her that to her face though.

"That's better." Naruto say smugly.

"Well it's about time that you started acting like the Dominant Mate." Kurama observes in amusement.

"Careful, Kurama. Suki can tell when you're talking about her." Naruto warns him.

Just like that, Suki activates her Sharingan and is inside Naruto's mind. The woman marches right up to his cage and Naruto sighs. Well this was going to be a Hell of a shower.

"You really think that I don't know when you're running your mouth about me, furball?" She demands.

"I'm just happy that you've acknowledged your place as the Submissive Mate. Don't get me wrong. You lead him around by his kunai for years. He was just too dense to notice it, but you're the Submissive Mate now." He answers her.

That was all that it took. Suki dispersed Kyubbi and mutters some rather unflattering things about him under hear breath.

Naruto laughs as they make their way back to everyone else. He was sure that Sakura, Kakashi, Hinata, and Kisame thought he was nuts. It was just part of having a Tailed Beast as your friend.

"Sorry. It was Kurama." He says in embarrassment.

"Grandpa Foxie!" Yoko "corrects" him and Naruto chuckles.

"Yeah. You could say that. Kinda." He replies as he kisses the top of her head.

It was the strangest thing. If anyone had ever told him that his life would turn out this way, the Hokage would have laughed in their face. Well back when he was a Genin and even when he was trying to bring Suki back to he Leaf.

"They're so cute." Hinata laughs.

"Yes, they are." Suki agrees proudly with the Hyuga Heiress.

Now, they were married with two children. A third was on the way and Suki was apparently just fine with being a housewife. Though she preferred the title Matriarch.

"Silly Foxie Grandpa." Narika says as she giggles with her twin.

"Yes, he's a very silly foxie." Suki agrees.

Naruto really didn't really see the difference between a Matriarch and a Housewife. Suki apparently did though. So he was more than content to humor her.

It was better to humor her. A happy Suki sometimes meant a Suki who would still cook for him in nothing, but an apron. Though the aprons were no longer pink and frilly.

"Really, Naruto? Maybe, after the baby is born we can take care of your little fantasies. Though if you're a good foxie, maybe I'll pet you a bit later." Suki whispers hotly into his ear.

Damn. Right. The Mating Bond. Suki must have sensed that he was thinking about the aprons and the other outfits she'd wear for him. Outfits that Nariko and Yoko were NEVER going to be allowed to wear! (He really loved her rather impressive lingerie collection though)!

"Sounds good to me. So do you really think that this one will be blonde like me?" Naruto asks cheerfully.

"Why does everyone think that this one is going to be blonde?! There has never been a blonde Uchiha!" Suki gurmbles.

"Well there kinda is. I mean I married you and I took your last name." Naruto points out.

He smirks when he sees his wife get all flustered and indignant. Suki really did have quite the colorful vocabulary when she got annoyed.

"You KNOW what I meant. I meant a blonde Uchiha by BIRTH!" She says.

"I guess we'll just have to see what happens. Besides, you said that you wanted to restore your Clan. Three is kinda a small restoration. So odds are we'll eventually get a blonde son or daughter." He says smugly.

"You're impossible." Suki mutters as she kisses him.

Naruto smiles and kisses back. He was pretty damn content to kiss his mate until he heard a cough. Apparently, Gaara wasn't that interested in getting an eyeful and neither was Itachi.

"Sorry, guys. Guess we got a little carried away." He says sheepishly.

"And now I understand how my foolish little sister, became a foolish little mother." Itachi says with a chuckle.

Suki gives him a dirty look and Naruto tries his best not to laugh. It was impossible though. Damn. His wife was so going to kill her brother!

Two weeks and one very frightened Naruto later, a loud cry is heard in the hospital. The cry of their third child being born. As Tsunade was inspecting this one, Naruto notices that this child had a head of GOLDEN hair.

"Don't say it, loser. Don't sway it." Suki mutters.

"I thought you said that there would never be a blonde Uchiha by BIRTH!" He says smugly.

"Oh I'm sorry. What was that you were saying? You want to sleep on the couch for a month? Is that what you said, Naruto? Because I could swear that's what I heard." Suki growls at him.

"It's never a good idea to tease a woman who has just given birth." Kurama points out.

"Oh NOW, you tell me?!" Naruto snaps at the Fox Demon.

That's when Suki looks around and smiles as she sees Nariko and Yoko come bounding in. Both of the girls were rather eager to meet their new brother.

"Here you are, Suki. You and Naruto now have a very handsome son. As you already heard, he takes after Naruto's side of the family." The medic informs her with no small trace of mirth to her voice.

"Yes, I heard." Suki says as she sighs and takes the baby into her hands.

It was primal, really. The only thing that could rival the bond that she had with Naruto was the love she felt for their three children. She didn't even really mind that he was blonde.

Naruto was just going to be annoying about that. He was never going to let her live that down, but it was hard to be angry. Not when she was staring down at such an adorable little face.

"I was correct about the hair." Itachi says smugly.

"Oh shut up!" Suki grumbles at her brother as she smiles down at her son.

He had Naruto's blonde hair in color, but the texture of an Uchiha. His eyes were blue, but he had ivory pale skin and her facial features. It was a strange mixture of Naruto, Minato, Suki, and even hints of Madara.

"We are so not letting him grow out his hair like Madara did. That would be too weird." Naruto says.

"Yeah. We'll make sure that he keeps it normal. Your father had a good haircut." Suki observes.

"Well if it gets me off the couch, I could grow mine that way." Naruto offers.

Suki rolls her eyes. Naruto was Naruto. It was impossible to stay made at him for long. He was just too cute sometimes. Though she'd never admit that.

"Hello, little brother!" Akira says cheerfully as she gets up in the newborns face.

` "Hiya!" Yoko says brightly as she does the same.

"WAHHHH!" The infants starts bawling, not really liking being ambushed in such a fashion.

"I think that we should call this one Daichi." Naruto says happily.

"Grand or impressive first son. Mmm it's accurate. Alright, Daichi it is." Suki says with a smile.

"Oh don't cry! Here look! Look! Pretty lights!" Narika says as she breathes out a fireball.

Suki blinks. Her three year old had just spat out fire and she couldn't be prouder. Now, that was a true Uchiha.

"You gonna start a fire!" Yoko says as she puffs out a jet of water from her mouth.

Water? She had no idea where Yoko got that one, but well that was still impressive. Their children were already displaying their ninja abilities without any training.

"God help us all, by the time they're old enough to attend the Academy." Sakura says with a dramatic sigh.

"Sakura, be nice. Well we have to give little Daichi his shots." Tsunade says as she scoops up the child and proceeds to do exactly that.

The only problem was that she received a nasty shock. Daichi was radiating a rather crude and mild form of the Chidori, but still he was a newborn.

"I knew that these kids were going to be a handful." Tsunade grumbles.

"Sorry, Granny Tsunade. He's just a baby. He doesn't know any better." Naruto says quickly.

"Yes, brat. I know. I know." The busty blonde says.

"Come on, now! We want to see the boy too!" Suki hears a familiar voice shout from outside the window.

She blinks when she sees who it was. It was Gamabunta, Aoda, and Garuda. Apparently, they all wanted to see the newborn as well.

"You're kid is already the life of the party. He's got three Summons trying to see him and everything." Kisame comments.

"The Hatchling is very handsome." Aoda comments, after Daichi is briefly held up to the window.

"Thank you, Aoda." Suki says with a smile.

Gamabunta and Garuda also have a good long look at the newborn. They both knew that they would have to protect him at some point. It was a foregone conclusion. After all, Suki's and Naruto's children were obviously going to be a magnet for trouble as they got over.

"Cute kid. Let's hope he's not as much of a troublemaker as his father." Gamabunta agrees.

"Hey!" Naruto protests and Suki just laughs.

"We'll take him to meet the rest of the Rookie Nine later." The Uchiha Matriarch says with a proud smile.

"Yeah. We will." Naruto says with a smile.

A few weeks later, the family was back in their home. Suki and Naruto had both finished putting the twins and Daichi to bed. Ah. At long last, peace and quiet.

"I love them, but man are they a handful sometimes." Her husband says.

"Mmm. You know, I could say the same thing about you. So I guess they really do take more after their father than me." Suki teases him as she wraps her arms around his neck.

"I'm the handful? Who is the one who had me chase her all over the Five Nations for YEARS?!" Naruto demands.

Suki shrugs. That was a fair point, but there was no way that she was going to let him win the argument. It was the principle of the thing.

"Yes, you're the handful. You actually believed that our Bond was just the bond of friends. Are dense can you get?" Suki retorts.

"Alright. Alright. I kinda deserved that one." Naruto says with a sigh as he concedes defeat.

Suki smiles and kisses him. That was better. She knew that she'd win sooner or later. After all, she was the one who was largely in charge of playtime. She just let him think he was in charge.

Naruto smiles and kisses back. He definitely felt his Mate's smugness though. He was going to have to prove that he wasn't a pushover.

"As soon as your better, we'll let Itachi watch the kids for a week." Naruto says.

Suki tilts her head. She didn't really understand why Itachi would have to watch the children for a week. Despite that, the former ninja shrugs and nods her head.

"Alright. Why is my brother going to be watching them for a week though?" She asks.

"Well because daddy likes his alone time with mommy and the kids need their sleep. Mommy can get really loud sometimes, especially when she's screaming daddy's name." He says with a smirk and Suki shivers.

Alright. Most of the time, Naruto was sweet. He was practically an angel really, but there were times when he could even more of an animal than Kyuubi.

"Mmm in that case, I'll ask Itachi to babysit them. You should rank that as an S Class Mission though. In all fairness, our children are rather…energetic." Suki says with a sly smile.

"That's true. I'll mark it as an S Class Mission. I mean he's going to be dealing with three children under the age of five. That can be rough for anyone and that's before they all started using chakra natures." Naruto says with a laugh.

"Mmm that's true and by the way, I was thinking six." Suki says as she turns to saunter off.

Suki smirks as she does so. She knew that Naruto would ask what she meant by that. It would be almost impossible for him not to.

"Wait. Six what?" The Hokage inquires in confusion.

"Six children. I think six is a good Clan Restoration and we really don't want to be outnumbered by more than three to one." Suki says and with that she saunters off.

"Hey, Suki!" Naruto calls out before she disappears from sight.

Suki smiles and turns around. In some ways, Naruto was extremely unpredictable. In other ways, well she knew her husband better than she knew herself.

"Yeah?" Suki asks innocently.

"I can live with six!" He says with a grin.

"Mmm I thought that you might say that. I'll be back in a little while." His wife replies and with that, she Flickers off to find Itachi.

Over the years, her relationship with her brother had improved. There were days when she could almost pretend that the Massacre had never happened. Suki would always miss her fallen family members, but now she had a second family and she loved them just as fiercely as the first.

"Itachi, do you mind watching the children for a week in like a month or two?" Suki asks.

"You're going for baby number four already?" Her brother asks with a sly smile.

"Mmm maybe." Suki replies cautiously.

She knew what was coming. Yep. Just as she had suspected, Itachi pokes her forehead.

"Of course, foolish little sister. I don't mind watching my nieces and nephews. You should have fun with your fox." He says.

"Oh believe me, I will. Thank you." Suki says with a smirk.

"I'm betting that this one will be a red headed boy. Naruto's mother was a red head." Itachi adds.

"YOU'RE IMPOSSIBLE! I can't believe that you are still betting on my children!" She seethes.

Honestly, she couldn't believe him. Itachi Uchiha was becoming almost as bad a gambler as Tsunade. The only difference was that her brother had yet to lose a bet.

"It's just harmless fun. So I take it that you don't believe you'll have a red headed son or daughter?" He asks.

"Oh that's it. I'm in and this time, I'm going to win. You got lucky with Daichi. This one isn't going to be a red head though." Suki grumbles as she rubs her forehead.

"Foolish little sister, when are you ever going to learn? You'll never beat me when it comes to predicting things." Itachi says smugly.

"Oh yeah?! We'll see about that!" Suki growls at him.

That did it. As soon as she was fully recovered, she was going to have some alone time with her fox and she was going to prove Itachi wrong. Oh and she was going to have a damn good time doing so!

She couldn't believe that she had ever tried to sever her bond with Naruto. It was too deep. Too much an intrinsic part of her being.

"Yes, I suppose that we shall." The other Uchiha says with a smirk.

Far too wild and primal to ever be ignored. Ignoring their bond was like ignoring as wildfire. It just wouldn't end well and besides, it was much more enjoyable to allow the fire to consume you.

She doubted that this is what the Third Hokage had in mind when he said that the Will of Fire would get passed down. That didn't matter though. Naruto definitely knew how to fan her flames and she wouldn't have it, any other way.