Story: Smaller

Author: Skippylove

Summary: Children. They just had to get themselves turned into children? Why'd the Jutsu have to be Nenrei no Jutsu? Sasuke and Naruto get themselves put under a Jutsu that turns them into babies, and who has to take care of them? Of course her, how long too? –months, right… maybe it'll be fun! Maybe…

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto

Time: Post canon (after ch 667, so the last movie and such hasn't happened)

Chapter 1: Taking a Bullet for a Friend

AN: Please read the first chapter at least and tell me what you think! Enjoy this chapter! Reviews are bae!

The only sound that could be heard was the drip of water on the floor of the hideout and the whistling of the breeze through the long corridor. They were currently in a long hallway that never seemed to end. There was no light and they were relying on one man to guide them through the endless darkness that was their surroundings. They moved slowly moving backed against the other. him and his teammate were moving backward watching their guide's back with Kunai held out in front of them, well he assumed she was doing the same since he couldn't see her.

"Stop," Their guide whispered in his smooth voice so quietly he almost didn't hear it. They did as he ordered putting all their trust into him as they blinked blankly trying to see what brought them to a halt. "Did you hear that?" He whispered ever so quietly, it sucked that they couldn't use hand signs so they just had to verbally communicate which was a disadvantage in enemy territory.

"No," He and his teammate responded using as little words as possible.

"Let's move slower," Their guide told them starting again at a snail's pace.

"Teme, if we were moving any slower we wouldn't be moving," He hissed not able to help himself.

"Shut up, dobe," The now angry sounding Uchiha hissed back. He didn't respond knowing he should just follow the captain's orders anyway, but Sasuke was so easy to piss off it entertained him. He swallowed his retort when he heard the smallest noise, a shuffle, just a small ruffle of clothes maybe? He wasn't sure, but they all tensed up. He could feel the Uchiha freeze and knew he was using his activated Sharingan that was there only guide to find a possible hidden enemy.

Naruto held his kunai closer to him when the Uchiha tapped him on the side as unnoticeably as possible. He was signaling there was an enemy. Where the enemy was, only the Uchiha could tell.

Suddenly there was a light as a Jutsu was in motion, it was like a sudden flame in the never ending darkness. Sadly that flame was on the wall closest to Naruto and looked to be heading straight for him. Naruto let out a small yelp to signal they were found even though he knew the others had probably noticed the light.

"Naruto!" He heard both his teammates yell as the flame like Jutsu game right at him. He closed his eyes knowing he didn't have time to block it and just prayed it wasn't too bad.

Thud. "Ahh!" He heard someone fall then let out a pained scream. He held his arms in front of his closed eyes.

"Sasuke!" Sakura gasped before the noises of battle were heard and someone punched Naruto's raised arms. The Jutsu hadn't hit him, why not? He pushed back now back in pitch blackness only relying on the noise of his enemy to find his location. He felt a blade graze his leg as the enemy engaged the fight. His enemy landed a punch in his gut causing him to keel over in pain before jumping back to try to protect himself only to hit a wall.

He got fed up.

Suddenly the hall exploded with light as he let Kyubi's chakra out and he was surrounded by a glowing yellow light. He took his enemy by surprise and quickly took the opportunity and launched at the man. He didn't realize how much force he used but soon learned when he hit the guy in the gut with a balled up chakra infused fist and sent the pore guy flying to the wall and intern giving the wall a good beating as it split with cracks from the force of the blow. His enemy crumpled to the ground, if dead or not he didn't have time to figure out when he heard Sakura's battle cry.

"Cha!" He turned in time to see Sakura finishing off her enemy by running a fit to his chest. The floor cracked and broke up under the force. The entire hall and probably hideout shook from the force and power of her punch. He pouted a little that his punch looked pretty weak to her monstrous power.

They stood for a few seconds looking around for more enemy, but none came forth. Naruto's chakra cooled down a little dimming the light around them. He glanced around a frown started to form on his face, "Hey, where's Sasuke?" He asked not too worried and expected the Uchiha to appear out of nowhere with an enemy's body over his shoulder or something heroic like that.

"He jumped in front of that Jutsu thrown at you… did we move away from the area?" Sakura thought out loud looking around. Naruto did the same and noticed both of them had strayed a little from the original battle area, or at least far enough that the light Naruto was giving off wasn't showing them an injured Sasuke or something.

"Sasuke!?" Naruto yelled down the hall in one direction and the Uchiha's name bounced off the walls and echoed down the endless hall.

They both froze and quickly readied a weapon when they heard a cry. Sakura gave him a glance when they both realized it wasn't a normal cry, it was whiny and high pitch. The cry was not something an enemy or Sasuke would make. It sounded close and Sakura wordlessly gestured –not that it would matter since his light could be seen from a mile away in the dark hall- that they would go down the hall in her direction, were the cry sounded like it was coming from. They soundlessly moved; Sakura stayed close to him for the light he was emitting.

They froze when the farther reaches of his light tickled something out of the ordinary. They first spotted some clothes on the ground, weird… Naruto took another hesitant step forward and he heard Sakura stop breathing. Before them lay a small form, it reached out to them with big puffy obsidian eyes, its black hair being gently brushed by the small breeze whistling down the hall. Naruto squinted at the thing, what was it? As if a light bulb appeared above his head he realized it was a baby, this only raised another question, why was a baby here? Sakura seemed to be stunned, for a different reason than just a baby in a ninja hideout.

"Sakura-chan, why is there a baby in a sound village hideout?" Naruto leaned over and whispered still confused.

Sakura shot him a look before she whacked him on the back of his head, "You're such an idiot!" She hissed before shaking her head and turning back to the crying baby who was still looking at them with its hands held out.

Naruto frowned and stared at the baby, was he missing something? He took a few steps closer, they both kept a comfortable distance. The brighter light urged a small gasp from him, the clothes that were draped over the small child were none other than Sasuke's!?

"Did that baby attack Sasuke?" Naruto asked pointing an accusing finger at the child in tears.

"You're such an idiot!" Sakura told him punching him in the ribs. He faltered and grabbed his side looking at Sakura with a pained look. She shook her head a little before looking at the crying child. "Both of you are idiot's," She mumbled before approaching the baby. Why was she talking as if Sasuke was here? I mean who else would be called an 'idiot'? "Hey, how are you doing?" Sakura asked and kneeled down next to the baby and started to reach out to the child.

"Wait! He could be dangerous! We still don't know what he did with Sasuke!" Naruto warned.

"Shut up you idiot!" Sakura hissed giving him a scary death glare. Naruto backed down and looked down apologetically. "I'm sorry, come here small one," Sakura turned back to the baby and put on a gentle voice reaching out for the child again who opened and closed his small hands at her willing to be picked up. Naruto bit his tongue trying not to say anything just in case Sakura killed him for speaking again. Sakura grabbed the baby by his small sides and lifted him out of the large clothes picking him up and holding the child to herself. "You idiot, you had to take a bullet for Naruto huh?" Sakura whispered now proceeding to grab the clothes and used Sasuke shirt to wrap around the baby like a diaper.

Sakura stood up and turned to him, "we have to leave, we can't completely the mission in these circumstances," She informed him before she started walking away and Naruto had to follow so she wasn't drowned in darkness. He looked at the small boy as he snuggled into Sakura's shoulder and had stopped crying but stared at Naruto quietly. If Naruto wasn't sure that was a baby he would have thought he was getting a death glare.

"What circumstances? And why are we taking the baby with us?" Naruto asked walking a little faster to walk next to Sakura and get out of the child's glare.

Sakura's face twitched a little in a mix of anger, annoyance and disbelief. "I knew you were an idiot, but I thought by now you would be able to put two and two together without getting five…" She muttered not even looking at him.

Her statement confused him further, what do numbers have to do with this? "Two plus two is four, though…" He stated more to himself trying to understand her words.

"Never mind. I'll just break down what I've deducted," She whispered having become so annoyed she gave up and was calm. "So that Jutsu was aimed for you and I know you didn't see it but Sasuke used his speed to jump in front of you, I don't know why," The baby randomly started babbling and bouncing a little, Sakura adjusted him and he stopped, "So I can only guess that that Jutsu was some sort of age reversal Jutsu…? I can't completely tell because I don't want to use my medical Jutsu till were out of this place," Sakura finished and started walking a little faster seeming to remind herself with her words.

Naruto gave her a confused look before taking a large breath and nodding having finally decoded her words, "So Sasuke's the baby!" He said happily sounding like he had just solved the cure for some deadly disease. "Wait! Sasuke's the baby?" His words started to sink in.

"It would make sense. One, the child was in his discarded clothes –and I don't think Sasuke just take them off to run around naked. Two, look at the baby, he sort of looks like Sasuke," Sakura pointed out turned her head to the very small child and bounced him a little to get his attention. The baby turned to her then followed her eyes to Naruto. Naruto quickly scanned the baby and saw he had the same eye color, hair color, hell he even looked upset. None the less he had to agree the child did quite look like there Uchiha friend, and he was really fricken cute with his big eyes and chubby cheeks.

"Bah, bah!" baby Sasuke babbled in a very baby way and turned to Sakura smacking her shoulder with his small hands.

"What? What?" Sakura asked in a high pitch way rubbing her nose against the babies. The child continued to babble and took a fist full of her shirt clinging to her. She bounced him a little as they walked and the baby stopped babbling looking back at Naruto and smacking her shoulder.

"Doesn't that hurt?" Naruto asked still watching the baby.

"No, it's not like he has much muscle build-up, from just looking I would give him an estimate of six or seven months old," Sakura explained glancing down at the boy who was still staring at the Jinchūriki smacking the woman's shoulder. Baby Sasuke started making whimpering noises and a whine escaped his mouth and Sakura quickly shushed the child before he cried out again.

"His hair even does that style thing he always has it in…" Naruto pointed out seeing the back of the baby's head.

"Interesting, it must be natural," Sakura shrugged a little glancing down at the baby.

"That's no fair, I couldn't get my hair to do that even if I wanted to and yet his just naturally falls that way…" Naruto muttered giving the baby a slightly annoyed look. The child picked up his head and now facing the Jinchūriki, the little bastard giggled! He giggled at Naruto's displeasure! Naruto just glared at the child who was happily giggling, which was also adorable, god dammit! That child is too fricken cute to be mad at!

"What's so funny Sasuke?" Sakura asked bouncing the boy a little who turned back to her and laid his head down curling closer having stopped giggling.

Naruto sighed and took his eyes off the baby focusing on keeping the chakra steady so they could see. It flickered like a flame casting Sakura's shadow against the wall next to her as they quickly strode down the halls keeping a watchful eye out for enemies.

Suddenly the child started crying quietly and fussing a little, "What is it Sasuke?" Sakura asked in that high pitch voice. The child only responded by gripping her clothes tighter and wiggling a little. She put her hand on the boys back and felt small goose bumps and cold skin, "Are you just chilly?" She asked and started unzipping her Chunin Jacket. Naruto watched with a raised eyebrow as she placed the child inside her jacket and zipped it up again so the baby's head was poking out. After a minute, the baby's cry calmed and he left them with sad sniffing as he gripped the woman's inner shirt. Sakura put a supporting hand on the lower bump that was the child's rear, this succeeded in stopping the baby's wiggling and brought quietness back.

"I bet that's what he wanted since he's been trying to get that close for months," Naruto joked and that only earned him a punch in the face and a giggling baby. He grabbed his now bruising cheek and pouted at Sakura, "I was just joking…" He muttered rubbing his cheek.

"Bah!" Baby Sasuke exclaimed loudly and wiggled a little with a giggle.

"See, he agrees!" Naruto pointed out. The baby stopped wiggling and stared at him quietly along with Sakura's glare and he turned back forward and frowned. "Even now you guys gang up on me," He pouted quietly as they walked.

They made it out of that dreaded place and quickly jumped to the trees and put a good distance between them and the hideout. They were sitting on a large branch in a tree that was part of the large forest that is most of The Land of Fire's land.

Sakura took a seat and leaned against the trunk while Naruto sat a little farther out on the branch. She looked down to see the child had fallen asleep curled up against her. She smiled a little and started unzipping the jacket without waking the child if that was possible. She failed and the child jumped to consciousness when she put her hands on him to pull him off her. The boy clutched her and kept an iron grip having gotten his fingers in the very under layer of her clothes that was the net like shirt. She wondered how he had pulled it out from under her other layer. "Sasuke you need to let go, I have to do an exam," Sakura muttered untangling one of the boy's fists then moving on to the other to only have the boy grip her again with his free hand. "Sasuke if you don't let go I'm to have to use force," She muttered as she finished untangling his other hand then held it as the boy struggled to stay close to her. She succeeded in getting free from the child and placed him in her crisscross lap. He wiggled with a grumpy face. "Just stay still," she muttered with a smile.

"He's sort of needy, not much different than before," Naruto teased. He got a dangerous glare from Sakura and the baby continued to look at Sakura. The baby gave up and became still looking teary.

"Well at least you got him to calm down," Sakura said grabbing the small child and laid him down sideways in her lap. Sasuke looked around at his surroundings while she started pushing chakra to her hands. The baby jumped and little when she started hovering her hands over him, it had a tickle to it. The baby smiled then started giggling as she did her exam and she ended up laughing at the baby's happy giggles and small shrieks of joy. "Sasuke I can't properly focus while you're being so damn cute…" She told him and trailed off in a laugh as the boy shrieked happily again and squirmed with a smile. "Who knew Uchiha Sasuke was ticklish," She said still laughing at the boy as she ran her hands over his abdomen. She found his chakra system, "Naruto, by the way, this is definitely Sasuke, they have the same chakra," Sakura told the blond but kept her eyes on the wiggling boy trying not to laugh while speaking.

"Not sure if that's a bad or good thing…" Naruto said staring at the boy with a smile.

"I'm not sure, I can't tell if the Jutsu's harmful or not. It seems he his physically okay, but mentally… I'm not sure…" Sakura said trailing off a little as she ended the exam with a slight frown and the boy stopped giggling when the tickling ended. "How are you doing Sasuke?" She asked smiling down at the boy. Baby Sasuke looked up at her and opened and closed his fists in her direction babbling randomly.

"He can't talk…" Naruto pointed out.

"It was a rhetorical question, Naruto," Sakura told him with a sigh and picked up the boy gently placing him back against her chest and zipping up the jacket. "I think we should call the mission off and head back to the village, we can't fight with a baby," Sakura instructed now by default becoming team captain.

"I can take down that whole hide out signal handed, though!" Naruto argued stubbornly.

"I'm sure you can, but we were instructed to find something one and bring them back alive," Sakura said giving the blond a challenging look. He frowned at her and sighed before standing up and awaiting further order. "Let's head back, I'm not sure how long Sasuke will be able to hold out without baby food or proper supplies," Sakura said getting up and putting a supportive hand on the lump under her jacket. Sasuke looked up at her and clutched her shirt giving her big eyes that seemed scared. "You'll be okay," Sakura assured him with a smiled and bounced a little. The boy continued to look at her then laid his head down to prepare for the long journey.

"Shit!" The ninja hissed trying to move. He timidly put a hand to his ribs and held back a pained yelp as he felt around and decided a few ribs must be broken, he wasn't surprised since that Jinchūriki had thrown him at a wall! "Hey?" He called looking at his 'teammates' body. Crap, it seemed he was dead. He sighed and painfully climbed off the floor and began slowly making his way down the hallway.

What was he going to tell Junzo? His Jutsu had instead hit the Uchiha rather than the Jinchūriki, damn the Uchiha's speed. He hadn't even gotten the Uchiha, maybe if he had brought the child back he could have avoided his possible punishment. That Uchiha was the last after all, and his Sharingan were the very last as well. Damn him passing out! Maybe if he had stayed conscious he could have nabbed the baby.

He found the hidden door and reluctantly pushed it open. With the sound of stone against stone it slid open and he was met with light. He blinked a few times as the door closed behind him and his eyes focused.

"You are empty handed," A deep voice echoed around him.

"I'm sorry," he got on his knees and bowed apologetically and kept the position.

"Care to explain why?" The voice asked.

"There was the Uchiha on his team and he jumped in front of the Jutsu at the last minute. I couldn't stop him and the Jutsu take too long to prepare…."

"Excuses," The deep voice stated with venom in his word. "All excuses. I gave you a simple task and you failed, you could have at the very least brought the Uchiha!" The voice spat.

The ninja stiffened up, "I'm sorry, I was rendered unconscious," He said preparing for his punishment.

"What a shame," The voice muttered not sounding at all sincere. A haunting silence well between them and the ninja started worrying he was already dead. "I'll let you live if you accomplish a mission for me," The man said. The ninja quickly glanced at the man surprised but quickly avoided his eyes and looked back down almost forgetting his respect rule of rarely looking at him.

"What mission?" The ninja asked seeing as the man was waiting for the question.

"Bring me Uchiha Sasuke, and if not get me the jinchuriki. If you return with both you will be handsomely rewarded. Now get fixed up and leave immediately! Don't return empty handed!" The man ordered bringing the discussion to an end.

"Of course Junzo-sama!" The ninja bowed further in thankfulness touching his forehead to the floor. He pushed off and left with a smirk, he would get at least one.

AN: Tell me your thoughts and ideas! I want suggestions on where to go, I have a vague plot, but I want to see where I can take this! I hope you enjoyed! reviews are bae!