A FINE DAY ON KONOHA ( Mostly NaruHina )

24. The ultimate winter diet

Naruto stared at the kids who were doing their homework in the living room, while Hinata was helping them. It was a sight he rarely saw due to his late arrival at home. Though before he became the hokage, he never did help the kids with their homework, he did help, but he got most of the answers wrong and Hinata who did the final check ended up teaching the kids plus her husband.

"Mommy, my button fell off.." Himawari gave a button from her shorts that fell off.

Naruto then noticed something different from his fairy. "Hima-chan... is your cheeks usually this chubby?"

"Now that you mentioned it.." Hinata stared at the kids. "Boruto.. your clothes are a bit tight?"

"Hima-chan's belly didn't use to be this..." Naruto stared at Hinata.

"Did you two get fatter?"

Sarada tried to wear her skirts, but she couldn't pull the zipper, no matter how strong she pulled the zipper.

"No way..." Sarada stared at herself in the mirror.

"Hey, Sarada.." Sasuke knocked on her daughter's room, a new rule that Sarada applied to his father which upset her dotting father for a week.

"Papa?" Sarada opened the door.

"Woah.. Sarada.. did you gain weight?" Sasuke un-illmaneredly asked his daughter.

Sarada's eyes became teary, "PAPA IS AN IDIOT! I HATE YOU!" she closed the door leaving Sasuke dumbfounded, then he went to his wife, crying.

"INOJIN..."

"Yes, mom?" Inojin ran to her mother, hearing the scary voice, he wondered what he had done that upset his mother.

"Have you gotten fatter?" Ino asked her son.

"I don't know.. why?" Inojin asked.

"YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT BECOME FAT LIKE CHOUJI!" Ino yelled. "Go exercise and no dinner for you tonight!"

"Huh? But mom.." Inojin stared at himself on mirror, he froze. He really did get fatter...

Himawari-chan can't see me like this...

Tenmari stared at her son sleeping under the kotatsu with the TV on and a bag of steam buns in his arms. Then she stared at her son's potbelly popping out from his tight t-shirt. Since when did her son gain so much weight? She did see him coming home with dangos, steam buns, or sweets in his arms, but Shikadai wasn't the type that buy things on his own accord, he was supposed to think that it was too troublesome.

"My speed went down during the marathon today-ttebasa!" Boruto grumbled.

"And I felt heavier, it's becoming more tiresome to walk.." Shikadai laid himself on the grass.

"My mom is putting me on a tight diet.." Inojin sighed, feeling his stomach grumbling, asking for food.

"Don't you think.. we've become fatter?" Sarada asked, remembering the unzipped skirt she was wearing.

"I can't face Himawari-chan like this!" Inojin sighed.

"Hey, zombie boy! Don't drag my sister into this!" Boruto hissed.

"Hey guys!"

"Uncle Iruka!" the kids greeted their parents' former teacher.

"And Hima-chan!" Boruto added, seeing the little girl holding Iruka's hand.

"Look what I brought today.." Iruka grinned, showing them a bag of sweet potatoes.

"SWEET POTATOES!" the kids shouted happily in unison.

"Let's gather the woods to roast the sweet potatoes.." Iruka grinned.

"Inojin-niichan, aren't you coming?" Himawari asked as Inojin was preparing to leave. He didn't want Himawari to see him with his potbelly and chubby cheeks. Though the young boy didn't know that Himawari too, got a similar potbelly.

All the kids split up to gather the woods and it didn't take too much time before they came back with lots of woods. With the justu Sarada learnt from her father, she lit up the woods on fire, and they all waited in circle. After that, Iruka took out the roasted sweet potatoes and gave each of them one. They all enjoyed the sweet potatoes, except for Inojin who distanced himself from Himawari. Then Iruka had to leave first, while the kids thanked him and enjoyed their potatoes until..

"WAIT!" Sarada got up. "This is why we got fatter! THIS is why!"

"Sit down, girl! Did't your mama teach you table manners?" Chouchou scolded Sarada.

"Shut up fatty! We don't want to end up like you!" Sarada yelled.

"She's right.." Inojin also got up. "Uncle Iruka had been feeding us snacks and we skipped our practice because of this.."

"And we've been doing this for 3 weeks.." Sarada added.

"Don't give a damn about them.." Chouchou grabbed another sweet potato.

"My speed has indeed slowed down.." Boruto mumbled.

"And my clothes feel smaller.." Himawari looked sad.

"My body feels heavier.." Shikadai added.

"If we continued living like this, we might become..." Sarada and the others turned to Chouchou.

"What? Can't you see I'm enjoying my life to the fullest?" Chouchou grinned annoyingly.

The next day, Iruka came back to the park with a bag of taiyakis, "Hello kids.." But he was surprised to find Chouchou was the only one welcoming him (his food actually).

"Where's the others?" Iruka asked, handing over one of the taiyaki to Chouchou.

"In Lee-sensei's dojo, they're training today.." Chouchou answered as she enjoyed her treat.

Iruka decided to go visiting the kids in Lee's dojo.

"Ah, Iruka-sensei.." Lee welcomed him. "What brings you here?"

"I heard the kids are training here?" Iruka asked.

"Yeah, there they are.." Lee showed the kids doing 100 push-ups. "They're really in high spirits, that's the spring time of youth!"

"Then I'll wait for you guys and we'll have these taiyakis together.." Iruka smiled and cheered them.

"NO!" Inojin was the first to shout between his push-ups.

"We've become fatter because of your treats, uncle Iruka!" Sarada added.

"You'll have to stop feeding us-ttebasa!"

Iruka was saddened by the kids, he was enjoying his time eating the snacks every afternoon, watching them play and fight. He did miss those times when he was the teacher of Naruto and the others, watching over them and all of the sudden, those kids had grown up, achieving their dreams and built their own family.

"Hey! Don't be rude to Iruka-sensei!" Lee scolded them.

"No Lee.. I guess I'm feeding them too much, it's bad if their nutrition is unbalance.." Iruka smiled sadly. "I guess I just miss those times, playing with children.."

"You can always play with us, uncle Iruka!" Sarada stopped her push-ups and ran to Iruka, realising that her words have hurt Iruka's feelings. "You don't have to bring foods when you see us.."

"Yeah, or you can help us with our trainings!" Inojin joined them.

"We also likes spending time with uncle Iruka!" Boruto grinned.

"It's troublesome if these kids are left without you.." Shikadai added.

"You guys.." Iruka smiled, embracing the sweet children.

"This is what I call spring time of youth.." Lee wiped his tears.

And the next week, the kids managed to lose their weight back to their usual. The clothes were not too tight any more and Boruto got back her form speed, while Shikadai.. he was still lazy. Sarada managed to pull her zipper easily, and Inojin gained back his confidence.

"So why aren't you losing weight too, Chouchou.." Karui sighed, looking at the other children.