They pelted snowball after snowball at each other till Naruto started coughing up a storm. That was the cue that they needed to go inside.

Minochi held the door open for Sasuke to carry Naruto in. They had only been outside for a few minutes for Naruto to be freezing like this.

It was odd.

Sasuke got him over to the couch where he laid him down gently. He then left to go start a warm bath for the two while Minochi checked on Naruto.

"Mom?"

"Hm?" Naruto cleared his throat afterwards.

"Are you still sick?" The child fidgeted with his 'mom's' coat sleeve.

"No...no sweetie. This is just a cold probably."

Minochi felt like Naruto was lying again. He never understood why he kept so many secrets.

"Alright the tubs ready for you two." Sasuke came back to help Naruto back up.

"I don't want to get Minochi sick Sasuke. If I am sick that is." Naruto tried not cough on the raven.

"We'll I'll run a separate bath then. Minochi's old enough now anyway to take baths on his own right?" Sasuke asked.

Minochi forced a smile and nodded.

"Good, I'll get Naruto in then I'll set yours up." Sasuke led Naruto to the bathroom within his room. After stripping the blonde down without an incident he helped him into his bath. Then he left to start Minochi a bath in the guest room. While the water filled he helped the child with picking out pj's from the spar clothes he'd left there by mistake.

Once the bath was done he let Minochi have his privacy. He then went back to Naruto. It took him a minute to get the nerve to just peek in the bathroom. He was surprised to see Naruto apparently asleep.

Sasuke chuckled causing the blond to wake.

"Why don't you just join me instead of perv out like always?" Naruto asked with a slight cough.

Sasuke walked in and closed the door behind him.

"You sure?" Sasuke asked as he started to rid himself of his clothing.

Naruto chuckled and rolled his eyes.

"Well you're already stripping down so...yeah. Plus I don't mind making you sick." Naruto moved up a bit to allow him to sit behind.

Sasuke got in behind the man and wrapped his arms around him like always and pulled him close.

"How do you feel?" Sasuke trailed kisses along his shoulder.

Naruto giggled and relaxed.

"Great, how's Minochi?" Naruto asked as he allowed Sasuke to wash him.

"He's fine. I don't think he's too happy about taking a bath all by himself. I told him he could bring some of his toys into the bath, but nothing electrical."

"Good job Sasuke. I'm proud!" Naruto leaned back and kissed the raven on the cheek.

Sasuke smiled triumphantly before sliding the rag he had on the blonde's chest downward.

"What do you think you're doing?" Naruto asked with a quirked eyebrow at raven's suggestive motions.

Sasuke shrugged and continued on down over his stomach.

"Nothing just cleaning you. Your sick remember?" Sasuke said with a fake apathetic tone. He then casually reached the man's inner thighs.

Naruto blushed and gripped the raven's wrist.

"You bastard, quit it!" Naruto closed his legs which proved futile later.

Sasuke forced the blonde's legs apart creating waves in the tub from the struggle. With Naruto out of breath from that little scuffle he roamed around the familiar territory freely with the rag.

"Lift up a bit."

"W-what?!" Naruto gulped at the sudden lust filled throaty request.

"Lift up so I can-"

"NO! Are you out of your mind?! You had your chance an hour ago!"

"I know, I know but here just move your hips up like this. "

"N-No! Let go of me!"

"What are you guys doing?" Minochi stood there in the open doorway wrapped in a towel and dripping wet from head to toe. His short raven black hair was plastered against his face. He tilted his head to the side with his toy ship in his hands.

Naruto froze with Sasuke's hands still on his waist holding him up a little ways out of the water.

"Nothing sweetie. W-what happened to your bath?" Naruto asked as he forced himself back down in the tub knowingly hurting Sasuke in the process.

"I washed all by myself but I heard a noise! So I came to make sure you guys weren't scared." Minochi explained with a fidget of his toy ship in his hands, somewhat embarrassed.

Sasuke had to look away to silently scream to himself from earlier.

Naruto on the other hand chuckled and waved the boy out. "We're coming out then. You caught us."

"We are??"

"Yes." The blond leaned back and kissed the grumpy bastard on the cheek. "Go on to the room Minochi and get changed. We'll be there in a bit."

"Okay!" Minochi shouted out in excitement, sprinting off to the bedroom to get dried and dressed. He left his parents to take care of themselves. It took them a minute but soon they were out and had gone to get dressed elsewhere for a while.

After minutes in the room by himself just waiting on that bed, he smiled big when his parents came back finally. "Can we share a room?"

Naruto chuckled at how the bastard sulked all in a mood about no action in the bathroom. "Of course sweetheart."

"Are you seri-" The raven bit his tongue when his little frowned up at him. "I mean... Great! Let me get another sheet." He walked off with a drop in his shoulders to go to the linen closet.

Minochi still pouted, warming up when Naruto came over to hug and hold him. "Dad really doesn't like me, does he?"

"He does. He just has trouble with expressing himself." He ruffled his child's hair, poking at that ship toy next. "Sleeping as Ahab tonight?"

The child nodded, hugging it close. "I'm going to slay Cthulu when I sleep."

"He knows who Cthulhu and Ahab are?" Sasuke asked while coming around the corner with a big, navy blue sheet that would cover someone when the other two were hogged. He knew what the deal was because he'd been with the blond before.

"He gets into weird things when someone's not watching him. I don't know how he does it though." The blond snickered, welcoming the raven over.

"Wait!" The little boy shouted, hugging onto the blond. "Is he a narwhal or a baby Cthulhu??"

"Am I a what?" Sasuke paused with the sheet, looking to Naruto for help.

"I'm sorry. It's a game we used to play with Iruka when he babysit for me." Naruto informed the raven with a small smile. "You can't tuck him in unless you say which legion you're with."

Sasuke shook his head, wondering why he didn't have such an imagination like this boy and then again... his childhood was pretty bleak of it. He tried it out now. "What if I say I'm a dolphin instead?"

"Hmm, they are allies with the narwhals against the forces of evil." Minochi gave it some thought with a digit to his chin before pointing at the raven and saying, "Prove it!"

"Prove it??"

"Make the sound, bastard." Naruto smiled, patting the empty spot beside him. "Do that and you may just rest with us."

"No way." Sasuke responded flat out, grinning a bit still because the offer did sound nice.

Minochi pouted and brought his ship closer to his chest. "So you lied! You're not a dolphin! You're a baby Cthulhu!" He hid against his mom, burying his face in his chest.

Naruto shook his head and covered his mouth slightly to snicker. "And we sure can't sleep with one of those. Guess we'll have to go back to our roo-"

"Okay, fine!" Sasuke caved out of nowhere and made his best dolphin impression ever to get it over with.

Both Naruto and Minochi laughed hysterically.

After minutes of laughing at the raven's high pitched voice crack, they finally laid down to rest.

"Sasuke, are you part dolphin?" Naruto jokingly asked.

"Hn, you wish." Sasuke laid there with hands behind his head and a taunting smirk on his thin lips.

"Well I'm not into sea creatures." The blond drew a little closer to the bastard, forgetting about the confused child in between them slowly getting squished.

"Why not? Don't like getting wet?" He turned on his side, facing this tempting blond. "I can fix tha-"

"What is going on?" Minochi asked with wide eyes to the ceiling, feeling uncomfortable in this half up half down position. His toy was clutched tightly to him as a result.

Sasuke felt like putting a giant 'cock blocker' sign over the boys head, but he couldn't blame him. It was the karma curse he'd gotten from Naruto and his dumb butt forgot the child was right here between them.

Naruto looked at the little boy then back to Sasuke with a malicious smile.

"Nothing, sweetie. Sorry."

The child could finally breathe now once his mom back up.

"How long are you going to keep this up?!" Sasuke asked in an exasperated hush, hush voice.

"For as long as I want to Sasuke. Especially since you pulled that little stunt in the bathroom." Naruto cooed in a soft voice. He then leaned over and kissed the raven's forehead, bringing their son up to love him too.

Sasuke opened his mouth to make a comment but his words froze in his throat when Minochi sort of hugged onto him next. He held the boy back the best he could despite that toy being there.

The blond chuckled at the father's stunned expression. He gave the man a reassuring wink that it was a good sign. "You're a dolphin."