2 chapter 2

"…What the hell is the futa seal doing on my daughter?" Mako questioned. Was this a prank of some sort? She couldn't explain why there was a tiny penis sprouting from her child's crotch. That couldn't, shouldn't be right…could it?

"I don't believe it…" The doctor holding the child muttered, her eyes betraying the utter shock and disbelief at what she was seeing, "T-this, this child… it's, it's a BOY!"

With that statement, the very cavern became silent, Mako simply stared at her child… her lovely child, her daugh- no… her-her SON! A large smile broke onto her face as she stared at the miniscule pink body of her boy!

A feeling of pride coursed through her, and immediately she turned towards Kushina who was still slumped against the rock. Fixing the seals and weaving them back to normal, she turned towards her son, and then back towards her wife.

Kushina looked up with out of focus eyes, her arms outstretched to hold her child, she had heard 'son' vaguely, but right now she didn't care. She stared into the cute face of her little child and smiled.

"You… you're going to do great things when you grow up…" She said weakly, hugging her son to her chest, "...Naruto…"

GoF

[5 Years later]

"Mako…" The blond Hokage looked up to see her wife hefting a toddler Naruto in her arms, rocking him gently to try to calm down the excitable child. Said child had a slight habit of pulling on her long hair, or at the cloth around her chest. Which was strange, considering that he'd been weaned from her breast milk for three years already.

Kushina secretly let him indulge every now and then, but she hoped he would get used to the bottle soon. It's just he looked so cute and impatient when it happened, she couldn't deny him.

"Mama!" She cringed slightly with the volume in her ear, and adjusted her excitable son so he was lying down in her arms.

"I think it would be good if I go back to being active soon…" She looked up at her wife and smiled sheepishly, "Naruto has already gotten old enough for a babysitter, don't you think?"

Mako sighed heavily, "Kushina, you DO know that we have a son right? A son." She held up a hand at her wife's swelling with indignation, "Let me finish. If it were our daughter, then there wouldn't be any problem leaving him with a normal sitter. The reason we kept his real identity a secret because he is the only male. We can't just expect someone to swear to secrecy from a normal caretaker agency."

She sighed. "I would do it myself, but a lot of things have been brewing lately; I can hardly move from my desk without another issue coming through the door, and I hardly think Naruto is going to enjoy sitting in the corner. We've been able to disguise his gender for now, but when he needs changing or a bath, it's going to be impossible to cover up."

Kushina slumped at her wife's words. It had been hard being a nobody, but she didn't regret a single moment raising Naruto; he was beautiful, positive and excitable, but she couldn't help but envy the mothers that could take some time off from parenthood. She no longer had a clan to help take care of Naruto, and Mako couldn't simply drop her duties as Hokage on a moment's notice.

Wait, clan? "How about we only let the clan heads know about Naruto?" at Mako's curious expression, she continued, "I mean, we have been having some discipline issues and other problems, maybe letting them into this important secret will help them rekindle any wavering trust."

Mako considered this. There were honestly no downsides to the plan. They would only have to worry about foreign powers that might try to kidnap the only male in the world. Iwa was the biggest concern since it was a fifty-fifty chance they would either use him for breeding or kill him outright for vengeance over Mako's kill count in the last war. With Kumo, it was more like seventy-thirty, if what happened with Kushina and the Hyuuga clan were any indication. Letting the clan heads know would help with the underlying tension, and beef up security against any possible kidnappings. No clan would want to lose the first male since the Shodaime, after all. In short, a win-win solution.

Mako nodded at this and frowned, "Still… it's a bit awkward to just ask the clan heads for an informal 'play date,' don't you think?"

Kushina merely chucked, "I've known a few other mothers before I had Naruto; it won't be awkward at all."

Mako merely shrugged. "Very well, but that just takes care of the mothers; most of the other clan heads are 'fathers,' so you don't know them that well."

"Well then just let the mothers invite them, then you won't have to worry about every detail dear." And with that Kushina walked out of the room and worked out the details in her mind. While she was certain that most of her old friends had had a child or two, it would be nice to finally take a break while their children played with one another.

[hey there, after reading it, please suggest a name for the chapter. in the comments.]