A/N: If you don't like the plot or pairings, then don't read.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto/Naruto Shippuden.

WORD COUNT: 1, 308

Chapter 1:

Naruto's Lullaby

Naruto groaned as he listened to his son's wailing drawl from the baby monitor for the fifth time that night.

Blue eyes slid open to red digital numbers blinking at him from his alarm clock: 4:21 AM.

Hinata had managed to get Boruto to sleep the last time at four o'clock but it obviously hadn't lasted as long as they desperately wished it to. He wouldn't bother her, even though he was at his wits end and she magical arms that put the newest Uzumaki right to sleep almost instantly.

Hinata had such a way with their problematic son that the hero of the Fourth Shinobi War could never hope to attain. Either it was due to her maternal instincts or her natural gift for motherhood. . or she had crazy mother-powers that superseded his puny fatherlike abilities- she was a gift that Naruto couldn't have lived without.

Naruto reluctantly rose from his comfortable bed and sat up before he stood shakily, rubbing his eyes so they rested open, albeit heavily as he clumsily made his way to a screaming Boruto. "I'm comin', Boruto. Quiet down, you'll wake Mama and we don't want that do we?" His voice was croaky as his son tossed and turned in his cot, his orange jumpsuit bright against the moonlight as he rolled around the comfortable mattress and screamed in frustration. Naruto sighed, feeling the same frustration his son was loudly complaining about as he slid his arms underneath little Boruto and lifted him into a safe embrace like Hinata had shown so many times before. "What are we going to do with you, dattebayo?"

Boruto thrashed in his father's arms, reaching the peak of his tantrum as his screaming became even louder while Naruto tried to rock him but that only served to incense the newborn.

Naruto ran downstairs with a screaming Boruto in his arms and prepared a bottle, but the blonde-haired baby wasn't hungry.

Running back upstairs, Naruto even changed his clean diaper with a new one, but not even that helped!

Naruto was close to tears as he paced back and forth in the nursery, rocking his son as he did so but nothing placated the baby Uzumaki. 'This baby really did take after me-ttebayo.' He thought despondently as he started to hum as he had witnessed Hinata do. It was a soft tune that he had made himself.

The impossible happened.

Boruto started to calm and his eyes slowly opened to reveal big blue eyes that were a genetic twin for Naruto's, making the older Uzumaki smile joyfully as the lyrics just came to him and he started to sway Boruto from left to right slowly.

"Tailed Beast counting song, here we go, here we go!"

"One, 'sleep is better than humans', says Shukaku." Naruto swiped his hand over Boruto's eyes, making the baby coo in interest as Naruto's hand slid away and Boruto smiled at his father, his toothless gums revealed.

"Two, burning in fire, Matatabi." With that, Naruto ruffled his son's blonde locks.

"Three, leave the water to Isobu." He gently swayed Boruto, emulating the waves in the ocean.

"Four, hot as lava, Son Goku." Naruto gently bobbed the baby boy up and down as if he was scalding, making Boruto laugh happily.

"Five, always on the run, Kokuo." Naruto ran his fingers quickly up and down his son's little tummy, causing Boruto to shriek in delight.

"Six, relaxed and never in a hurry, Saiken." Naruto set Boruto in his crib, keeping his son's attention on him.

"Seven, the flying leaf insect, Chomei." Naruto raised his arms and flapped them up and down as if he was flying.

"Eight, "yeah!" is all it needs, Gyuki." Naruto enthusiastically fist-pumped the air.

"Nine, "ko-kon" cries the mighty Kurama." He bundled Boruto back in his covers, tapping the tip of his long pointer finger underneath his son's chin.

"All the Tailed Beasts have finally come together.

They're a little hard, but they're nice names.

They're all splendid names.

They're all wonderful names."

He sang gently to his calming son, watching him with loving eyes as he crooned the words that meant so much to him and now to his son, who was watching his father with heavy lidded eyes.

"Next is the Jinchuuriki, here we go!" Naruto grinned as he continued with the song.

"One, with terrible bags under his eyes, Gaara." Naruto pointed to the dark circles under his own eyes, making a deadpan-serious expression like Gaara.

"Two, with a silky voice like a cat, Yugito." Naruto deepened his voice and raised his hands, making little cat expressions and gestures.

"Three, the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura." His expression turned childlike and he tried to make himself appear more like Yagura, making his son giggle lazily.

"Four, together for 40 years, Four Tails and Roshi." Naruto hunched his back and screwed his face up in what he considered Roshi to look like.

"Five, tough and powerful, Han." Naruto straightened and flexed his muscles, striking a dramatic pose, resembling Lee more that Han.

"Six, reserved and dressed in a kimono, Utakata." He made an indifferent expression, almost bored as he using a bubble jutsu that Kakashi taught him, he produced bubbles and they floated all around them, enrapturing Boruto.

"Seven, the heart-warming kunoichi, Fuu." The older Uzumaki bat his eyelashes at his son, who was smiling at all the different faces his father was pulling.

"Eight, he's got killer rap skills, Killer Bee." Naruto made outrageous and over the top gestures just like Killer Bee, before he straightened and sang the last part.

"Nine, the Leaf's Uzumaki Naruto." He jabbed his thumb at his chest, proudly, a large smile on his face as Boruto's eyelids started to droop, unable to focus on his father properly.

"All the powerful Jinchuuriki have finally come together.

Can they become friends with the Tailed Beasts?

They're all splendid shinobi.

They're all wonderful shinobi."

Naruto finished the song gently, turning his eyes down to his sleeping son, breathing deeply though his mouth and a gentle smile played at the corners of his little lips as he slept deeply. Naruto smiled and bent over the railing, pressing a gentle kiss to his son's little forehead.

Watching him for a little longer, Naruto left Boruto to sleep in peace as the Uzumaki patriarch returned to his own bedroom and slipped underneath the warm covers of his own welcoming bed and sighed in relief. He didn't expect Hinata turn over and slid her body against his, her head now on his chest as she cuddled into him. "You have a beautiful singing voice, Naruto-kun."

Naruto sputtered, about to ask her just how she knew he had sung his Jinchuuriki Song to Boruto when it dawned on him.

The baby monitor.

He blushed.

Bright. Red.

He chuckled, shaking off his embarrassment as he wrapped his arms around his beloved wife's body and closed his eyes tiredly, his trademark Naruto Uzumaki smile gracing his adult features. "Thanks, Hinata. Maybe I could sing it to our next child-ttebayo?" Naruto asked, kissing her exposed forehead.

"Yea- wait, what?!" Hinata blanched as she processed his words carefully and as they registered in her brain; he could feel the blush against his chest and she gasped. "Naruto-kun!"

Naruto laughed gently, hugging his embarrassed wife to his chest as they fell into a deep exhausted sleep with their son sleeping peacefully in the nursery.