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Haku's team was just as efficient cleaning up petals as they were distributing them. The owner didn't do much himself except stand by the truck smiling at his phone as he tapped away on the screen but he didn't need to because his men were all over it. Mikoto had called them all 'darling', blown them kisses and applauded their handiwork before she sauntered in, kissed him and Sasuke on the cheek then she forced Naruto to call her with the wedding details he did want because the wedding was only postponed until further notice and then she tried to tell Minato good-bye but he was surly so she didn't try very hard to get his attention. Then she said her final good-byes and breezed into her awaiting car and then she was off and Naruto could finally breathe.

He stood in the sitting room Minato on his hip and Sasuke standing by his side settling his nerves after the aftermath that was Hurricane Mikoto. She was something else. As much as Naruto didn't want to admit it, he didn't see his mother and Sasuke's mother getting along. The first strike in Iruka's book would be her planning a wedding and not inviting them. Which Naruto promised to take to his grave rather than tell Iruka.

Minato squirmed in his arms to be put down so he set the cub down and went to close the front door. He locked all the locks then turned and sagged against the door. The smells of different betas were all over the house but Minato was more or less fine. He probably only had issues with the scent of alphas and other omegas. He hoped that meant that Minato would display as an alpha. It was shallow of him to want Minato to be an alpha simply because he'd more or less be handed things in life but he sure as hell didn't was his baby to be an omega.

Satisfied that there wasn't much mischief that Minato could get into if he was left alone Naruto went to find his husband. It was getting easier and easier to call Sasuke that now. It didn't make him cringe or feel nauseous. It was just a fact of his life now and if Naruto had to admit it out loud then it wasn't a terrible fact.

Sasuke wasn't standing frozen in the hallway anymore instead Naruto followed the sounds of clinking glass to find Sasuke in his office, sitting in one of those luxurious leather arm chairs and drinking strong alcohol. Naruto raised a brow at that. He'd never witnessed the alpha drinking before. Sasuke took a deep inhale of the dark brown liquid and then down half the cup in one go. "Whoa," Naruto said.

"I need it," Sasuke replied refilling the cup. Even though the strangers were gone Sasuke was still exuding tendrils of hostility.

"...everything okay?" he asked going to sit beside the alpha. He sat close by the alpha's side, their side touching.

"Yep," he drawled, "everything's peachy keen."

"Doesn't seem like it…" Naruto said reaching for the bottle.

"Leave it."

"You won't be able to hold your son if you can barely stand up." Sasuke looked at him balefully for all of three seconds before he down his cup, simultaneously dropping the bottle to the floor, the contents spilling. Naruto rushed to pick it up. "Hey!" He exclaimed. He set the bottle on the table as he tried to find the cork. "Look I don't know what your mom said to you-" he turned around but Sasuke was gone. "What the…" Out in the living room Minato laughed out loud.

Naruto abandoned the bottle to rush out into the hall where Sasuke was lying down on his back and Minato was sitting on his chest bouncing up and down and giggling like a crazy. "See. I can hold him just fine…" Sasuke slurred making Naruto think that he hadn't had just one glass of alcohol.

"Well… I guess…" He said slowly as he went to sit beside the alpha and cub duo. Minato hurried to him immediately and started to root for a nipple. "You're not hungry and you know it." Naruto said down at the cub but Minato smiled cutely up at him and he was tempted to give in.

"Just give it to him."

"No I'm weaning him." Sasuke snorted.

"Yea right… when you're feeling lazy later and he's fussing you're just going to shove it in his mouth." Naruto flushed because yes, he did do that. He thought Sasuke hadn't noticed but his damn alpha nose must have picked up the scent of milk on him. "You should shove it in my mouth instead," the alpha grinned up at him and Naruto rolled his eyes.

"You're drunk." Naruto stated as he bounced Minato on his thigh. The motion distracting the cub from his journey to the nipple. Minato was almost nine months old. It was about time he was weaned. Naruto had just been slacking off.

"You should get drunk too." Naruto frowned, "When Madara comes you'll wish you were drunk." He slurred as he looked up at the ceiling.

"Madara…"

"The holy patriarch of the Uchiha dynasty that none can contest!" He hefted his arms up into the air suddenly but then gently lowered them and pulled Minato from Naruto lap. Naruto had no problem with a drunk Sasuke lying down with the pup but then he got up suddenly, Minato under his arm like a purse as he staggered to get his balance.

Naruto jumped up immediately and tried to fish the pup out of the alpha's grip but Sasuke was taller and hefted the cub up over his head and out of Naruto's reach. Minato squealed with glee but Naruto's heart damn near burst of his chest. "Sasuke!" His hand were shaking a little as he watched Sasuke staggered around, Minato hanging over his head, standing on his shoulder. "Sasuke you're drunk! Put him down. Give him to me." Naruto trailed behind the alpha his body jerking to rescue Minato every time Sasuke dipped his arms down close enough.

Minato though, was having the time of his life.

He hefted Minato over his shoulder and slowly slid him down his side so that he was resting on his hip and Naruto swooped in to collect him but Sasuke grabbed hold of him. "You know," he whispered into Naruto's face, the omega recoiled at the smell of liquor. "I really like babies…" He said leaning closer and closer to the blonde while Naruto tried to get a good grip on Minato. The one time Naruto wanted Minato latch onto him and the cub was instead avoiding his hands. Smiling as if mommy's distress was amusing. "I wanna make a baby with you."

"Yea okay sure. Let's go make a baby. Right now. Just give me that one to go put down yea?"

Sasuke licked the side of Naruto's face as he sort of slumped down against the blonde so Naruto had to abandon trying to get Minato and instead focus on getting the alpha to the ground before he collapsed. Naruto breathed heavily as Sasuke dropped all of his weight on him. His knees buckled under the weight. Omegas were not built for heavy lifting. Fearing dropping the alpha he slowly bent down in a squat and then dropped to the ground on his butt. He rolled Sasuke off him gently so that he was back on the ground on his back and then he went for Minato before Sasuke decided to get up and throw him in the air again but Minato was not having it.

When Naruto lifted him up and away from the alpha he squirmed and squealed until Naruto put him down on the ground, a little away from the alpha, but he crawled over to Sasuke on his own. Naruto sighed and scratched his head. Now what?

"Naruto…" Sasuke drawled and he beckoned him closer. He looked to the ceiling but then just went to the alpha. He had to get on the ground and lay down and scoot close enough so that Sasuke could whisper into his ear. "Madara's coming..." he slurred. "...he'll ruin you if you let him." he said and then he eased up just enough so he could kiss Naruto's lips. "Don't let him ruin you like Kisame okay?"

Naruto was shocked. Madara ruined Kisame? How?

"He ruined him? How? What happened?"

"Promise me okay?" Sasuke insisted squeezing Naruto's arm.

"Yea… yea okay… sure I promise…" He said and Sasuke smiled, his eyes slipping closed. He turned on his back again and cuddled a docile Minato to his chest. Naruto sat there for a minute but he couldn't stay still. "Sasuke… you awake?"

The alpha hummed and cracked an eye open, still smiling, "yea?"

"What happened to Kisame…?" The smiled drooped and disappeared altogether.

"Madara did."

Notes: Alright so next chapter is Kisame and Sasuke's past. Look forward to it. I promise it's nothing completely horrible.