Naruto Shippuden Fan Fiction / Fencer Of Minerva Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto Shippuden: Shinobi of Minerva ❯ The Coming Storm ( Chapter 5 )

Well, so far in the story, we have Kaguya gone and the Shinju purified, Obito and Madara gone for good, and Orochimaru is out of the picture too! There is only the rest of the Akatsuki, right? Wrong! You should have paid attention to the last part of the last chapter, folks! I believe that most likely you’ve already figured out who that was and what my plan is the final part of the plot of this story is, but you are going to have to read and review to find out, everyone!

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Warning: This story contains intense violence, blood, gore, and possible death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including mind-control and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and X-rated limes, lemons, and other adult themes/situations!

Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in this whole story!

Age of characters:
Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze: Age 19
Hinata Hyuga: Age 19
Kiba Inuzuka: Age 19
Shino Aburame: Age 19
Fina: Age 19
Sasuke Uchiha: Age 19
Sakura Haruno: Age 19

Naruto Shippuden: Shinobi of Minerva

Chapter 5: The Coming Storm

Within the Land of Gor, there is a group of three two-headed flying dragons in which each of the two headed dragons, there is a large seat-like saddle in which there are three people in which all of them have black hair and onyx eyes and all three of them are wearing armor bearing the Uchiha fan crest with the one sitting on the back of the center dragon of the three dragon formation looks a lot like Sasuke and Itachi in which he looks to be 18 years of age.

The one that looks a lot like Sasuke and Itachi says, in a deep strong male voice, “My father must be waiting for us!”

One of the guards reply, “Of course, Marlon-sama.” Later on, we find ourselves within the inside of a combination of European Medieval and Japanese Feudal castle where they are a group of guards, all of whom have active Sharingan eyes, standing around none other than Fugaku Uchiha himself, the father of Sasuke and Itachi Uchiha and the leader of the clan when they were planning to take over the village, who supposed died with his wife and the rest of his clan, minus Sasuke and Itachi, when Itachi, with aid from Tobi/Obito Uchiha, who Itachi thought was Madara Uchiha himself, destroyed the clan due to the attempted coup and Itachi was ordered to destroy it.
Fugaku says, “Sasuke, you knew what the true story behind us was and you attempted to make it right. You planned to do what we failed to do.”

One of the guards asks, “Fugaku-sama?”

Fugaku says, with a serious tone, “I want to know the full details! How could have Kushina’s and Minato’s brat have done in one night that not even any of the enemies of the Leaf, not even Orochimaru, and not even, we, from within, could have ever done and defeated the Leaf?! And how could he have killed my son so easily?!”

Another guard tells Fugaku, “We still don’t have full details, Fugaku-sama. All that we know is that he did so with the aid of nomads from this land and allies from Sand and Mist.”

Fugaku asks, “How did he gain the aid of Mist?”

A third guard tells Fugaku, “It isn’t known how, Fugaku-sama.”

Fugaku yells out, annoyed, “I would be better off with a Nara or Jiraiya-sama himself than any of us when it comes to intelligence!” The guards winch back in fear and Fugaku says, looking at Sasuke’s picture, “Sasuke, you made all of the excellent moves. And with the Hyuga heiress under you control and the Hyuga clan, you ascension to Hokage would have been unstoppable and that wretched Uzumaki had to get in the way! It is the same as before! Just like when we were young and that wretched woman from Whirlpool making a mockery of the Uchiha especially me! And Mikoto-chan had to become friends with her! Do not worry, my son, he will pay for your death and your defeat.” Just then everyone hears doors opening and they look to see the Sasuke/Itachi look-a-like, Marlon, enter the room with his two guards.

Marlon tells Fugaku, “Father, forgive me for my lateness.”

Fugaku says, with a nod, “Not at all, Marlon. Your mission was important, so, it isn’t surprising that you are late.”

Marlon tells Fugaku, “Thank you, father. I have completed my negotiations with the merchants of Avion and those nations with the Elemental Countries that are important to Whirlpool for their prosperity there.”

Fugaku says, “Excellent. The Leaf has no allies and they are greatly weakened economically and politically thanks to their stupidity. I must admit that I don’t like the boy for my own reasons. It was stupid to let him out of the village since he contained the Nine-Tailed Fox and would have been the greatest ninja in their defense. He also gained them the trading partners in Wave and Spring in which they stupidly threw away. Their new ‘power base’ shall be with Whirlpool and since Whirlpool has made the Leaf ‘subservient’ to itself, it will need to develop Leaf in order to have a strong position in the Elemental Countries. We must take out Whirlpool to get to Leaf and we can’t do it with military power alone.”

Marlon says, with a nod, “You are quite right, father.”

When Marlon looks at Sasuke’s picture, Fugaku says, “Your brother was a true Uchiha, Marlon. When he knew the truth, he planned to return the Uchiha to greatness in the Elemental Countries. Your mother wanted to bring him with us, but it would have been too suspicious if he ‘mysteriously disappeared’ despite us coming to this side of the world. However, I knew that he was a true Uchiha and he was strong. He would bring the clan back to greatness once he became the only Uchiha in the Elemental Countries and we couldn’t let his resolve waver at all.”

Marlon says, “Then the Namikaze done him in.”

Fugaku says, “We don’t have all of the details, but the two of them fought each other in the Valley of Ends when Sasuke tried to gain the Mangekyo Sharingan and he was beaten by Kushina’s brat. When the Namikaze invaded the Leaf, in which he somehow defeated it in one day, Sasuke died that same night. It is too much of coincidence.”

Marlon says, “Well, the Uzumaki will pay with his blood for my brother’s blood.” Marlon and Fugaku look at Sasuke’s picture as the two of them think about getting revenge for the death of Sasuke which they believe was caused by none other than our blond haired heir of the Six Path Sage, not knowing that it was actually someone close to him that did the deed.

(Elsewhere; Later on)

On a hillside overlooking a massive seaside town, Naruto, Hinata, Fina, and Sakura are overlooking a huge town in which Naruto and Hinata are riding Naruto’s two legged horse-like creature while Fina and Sakura are riding another one.

Hinata says, “This place is huge.”

Fina says, “This is the port city of Avion and it is an important trading center, Hinata.”

Naruto says, with a nod, “This is important trader center between Gor and the Elemental Countries for all sorts… of goods through Whirlpool doesn’t trade in ‘certain goods’.”

Sakura says, “I still can’t believe that there that are places like on the other side of the world in the Elemental Countries.”

Naruto says, with a plain tone, “Our world isn’t as ‘civilized’ as you think. They can be ‘rough and tough’ areas and even in our ‘civilized nations’, there can be such things ‘under the surface’ in which, with such egos, not even ninja can see since they forgot the lesson ‘look underneath anything under the surface’.”

Sakura thinks in her mind, “Ouch!”

Hinata tells Naruto, with a smile, “Master Naruto-kun, let’s go!”

Naruto says, with a warm smile, “Whoa, Hinata-chan! What’s the big rush?”

Hinata tells Naruto, with a blush, “While I’m not a fan of ‘certain goods’, some of their goods are just incredible!”

Naruto says, with a giggle, “I’m not surprised since Gor does supply some of the most incredible fruit and greatest jewelry that you have ever seen. Stuff that rivals Granny Tsunade’s necklace through her necklace has practically as well as value due to it being made of a very rare chakra mineral.”

Fina says, “It is worth just as much back home as well as the Elemental Countries.”

Hinata asks, “Naruto-sama, how do you think that they are doing back? How long has it been since you defeated Orochimaru and Kabuto?”

Naruto says, “About three months ago.”

Sakura thinks in her mind, “No joke! And you took care of the Akatsuki in record time!”

Flashback; Around three months ago

Right now, we find ourselves within the Hidden Rain Village, the home of Pain and Konan, in which Naruto, with his Six Path Senjutsu Mode active along with his Rinnegan, are facing such heads of the Akatsuki in a two on one situation. Actually, it was more like seven to one since Pain brought out five more bodies with the same orange hair, Rinnegan eyes, and piercing in which Naruto realized that it was a Six Path technique in which the real Pain, Nagato, is using the chakra rods, which are somehow still active despite the fact the Shinju was purified of Kaguya’s spirit thus ‘destroying’ the Ten-Tails, to animate six bodies in which one has a special power of the Rinnegan. But by this time, Naruto has already destroy the Preta, Naraka, and Animal Path bodies which render Pain unable to absorb chakra, via the Preta Path, summon animals via the animal path, and restore his other bodies via the Naraka Path. Konan was also very haggard and her clothing torn.

“Almighty Push!”

Both Naruto and Pain, via his Deva Path, unleash their powerful gravity attacks, but since Naruto isn’t dividing his powers between six animated bodies, his gravity attack is much more powerful and the Deva Path body was sent into another building while the building that the group was fighting on shook violent and was greatly cracked.

Konan says, shocked, “No!”

Naruto says, “That’s the problem of dividing up your Rinnegan powers between six corpses. They are greatly reduced, believe it.”

Pain says, through his Human Path, “Even if you defeat me, this world will never see peace.”

Naruto says, “When you are gone, the world has a better chance, Pain-teme. You should have never trusted an Uchiha especially one the technique of an ancient fossil who tried to kill her own sons.”

Pain says, “Despite these originally being Madara’s eyes, like you say, they are mine now and Madara or his student would have been taken care of once he has served his purpose.”

Naruto says, shaking his head, “Are you really that blind even with Old Man Hagoromo’s eyes? You think that Madara wouldn’t have taught Obito a way to counter his own eyes.”

As Deva Path body of Pain’s returns, with its coat torn and showing some nasty ‘damage’, Pain says, “No matter what you say, you will pay for stopping the way to true peace.”

Naruto says, with a sigh, “I thought that as one of the few Uzumaki left, I thought that our blood can help you see reason.”

Pain retorts, “Whatever blood relationship that we may have had, it no longer applied since I became a god.”

Naruto responds, with a smirk, “If you are a deity, why are you broken and beaten in front of me?”

Pain says, with a sneer and losing his ‘cool’ façade, “I am far from beaten!”

Naruto retorts, “Yes, you are. You just don’t know.” Just then all three remaining of Pain’s bodies then grow wide eye and collapse in front of Konan and Naruto.

Konan yells out, “Pain!”

Naruto says, with a plain tone, “Done.”

Konan asks, “But how?”

Just then Jiraiya appears and he says, “We’re how, Konan.”

Naruto asks Konan, with a plain tone, “Did you really think that charging in alone wasn’t a distraction?”

Konan responds, “But we had…”

Jiraiya says, “Naruto already knew that the rain acted as a security system, so, we found a way in under the water to make sure that we didn’t disturb the rain.”

Naruto asks, “Is it done?”

Jiraiya says, solemnly, “Nagato is dead.”

Naruto says, “Remove his Rinnegan eyes. I don’t want Madara’s eyes to fall into anyone else’s hands.”

Konan yells out, strongly, “No! You won’t touch him!” Konan unleashes paper shuriken at Naruto and Jiraiya in which they easily dodge, Naruto gets behind her, and knocks her out with one strong chop to her neck.

Jiraiya tells Naruto, “Did you really have to do that?”

Naruto responds, with a glare, “I don’t pull my punches on a man or woman, Pervy Sage. She is an enemy until we can convince her otherwise.”

Jiraiya asks, “Why did you kill Nagato?”

Naruto says, shaking his head, “He was too far gone, Pervy Sage. And you know it.”

Jiraiya says, with a solemn sigh, “Yeah.”

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Back with Naruto, Hinata, Fina, and Sakura, Sakura says, “I’m still amazed on how you managed to convince that woman to end the Akatsuki.”

Naruto says, “She really didn’t like this place in the first place and she only went along with it due to Nagato being her best friend in which her love for Yahiko, who was like a brother to Nagato, made her continue on since both of them felt they couldn’t allow any more suffering that they had went through.”

Sakura says, annoyed, “What kind of bullshit is that? Creating a jutsu that could be used for genocide on a scale of hundreds of thousands to millions?! That’s not peace! That grand scale massacre!”

Naruto says, “For once, I agree with you. That’s a level of hypocrisy that Konan admit that they knew it was true.”

Fina says, “It is sad, but it is good to know that those people are now gone, Master Naruto-kun.”

Hinata says, “You’ve just saved the world from Madara’s ‘Eye of the Moon Plan’ and stopped Orochimaru.”

Naruto says, with a nod, “True enough, Hinata-chan.”

Sakura asks, “Is that why you left to go running around the world again?”

Flashback; One month ago

At the gates of the Hidden Leaf Village, Naruto, Hinata, Fina, and Sakura were assembled together looking at Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Kurenai, Shino, Team 10, and Team Guy.

Jiraiya asks, “Do you really have to go, gaki?”

Naruto says, “I said that I would be Hokage until the Leaf was back on track and thanks to my plan, the Leaf is starting to get back on its feet.”

Shino says, “Only due to the fact that Whirlpool is trading with us now and it has extensive trading partners which allowed us to gain the economic strength that we had before you left the Leaf Village.”

Shikamaru says, “Added to fact that with all of the information that he had gathered from Orochimaru. Cloud is falling into same straights that we were when the idiots kicked Naruto out of the village and the Stone village just loved the fact that the Fourth Hokage’s own son beat the village into submission.”

Tsunade says, drolly, “I’m not surprised if that old bag of bones, Onoki, died of laughter and if he did, he still has that smile on his face.”

Kakashi says, “Knowing that Naruto is so powerful along with the fact that both of his parents are alive and well and can get to the village instantly, I doubt that he will make a move against.”

Kurenai says, with a nod, “And with Orochimaru and the Akatsuki destroyed, we are at peace at least for the moment.”

Naruto says, with a smile, “Which means my work is done.”

Tsunade tells Naruto, “Geez, Naruto, with all of the work that you did, no one will dare attack you. I mean, if anyone even calls you the ‘d-word’, they will be outcasts of society.”

Naruto says, “Yeah, but remember I was the one that beat the village into submission. It doesn’t matter that I was one hundred perfect justified and I helped the Leaf start to regain prosperity, they are going to be people in the village that will hate me, but this time, it won’t be for Kurama, it will be because that I had completely destroyed the pride of the Leaf. Remember, the vests don’t have my clan symbol anymore.”

Asuma and Kakashi look at their Jonin vests in which the back no longer has the red whirlpool spiral, the insignia of the Uzumaki clan, and Asuma says, “Well, the ninja don’t exactly blame you for that one.”

Naruto says, “Yeah, but the civilian assholes are another story since I have, more or less, stripped them of all political power in the village and plenty of them will feel that I turned them into ‘second class citizens’. And personally, plenty of the ninja hate the civilian and the civilian council and proud that I did that in the belief that they had gotten what they deserve. And despite it being true or not, it is going to cause trouble in the future. And that trouble may enhance with me still being there, believe it.”

Jiraiya says, “Don’t shoot the messenger, but you have a point, gaki. The civilians are not exactly happy with you especially with Sakura’s mother.”

Naruto says, with a shrug while looking Sakura, “Do you think that I have a choice with this? But my mom put a special seal on her and if she isn’t close to me, her family or at least her mom might get the axe.” Naruto says, looking at Sakura, “And I might have a problem with you, but I’m not going down to the civilian’s level.”

Sakura says, lowly, “Thank you.”

Tsunade says, with a groan, “However, I don’t get is how Mebuki managed to profit from all of this.”

Naruto says, with a shrug, “You have to remember that she and her husband are ex-Jonin as well as merchants and they had many ‘connections’ during their ninja days. It isn’t surprising since those ‘connections’ got her into the civilian council in the first place, believe it.”

Jiraiya says, “Well, she can’t get into the ‘civilian advisory board’ for the Hokage and ninja council.”

Asuma says, “It doesn’t mean that she won’t become a ‘prominent civilian’ once again, Jiraiya-sama. She is already building up again and heck, she might have regained three-quarters of her fortune already.”

Tsunade says, with a serious tone, “She won’t mind then that I could keep a close eye on her ‘assets’ and see where they are coming from.”

Naruto says, with a smirk, “Don’t worry, my mom and I are already on it. You are going to get reports on her every single week from now on.”

Tsunade nods her head and she tells Sakura, “I’m sorry, Sakura. Your mother makes one wrong move and this time, she won’t have the ability to protect herself and neither will your father.”

Sakura says, solemnly, “I understand, Lady Tsunade.”

Tsunade tells Naruto, “Better take care of her brat. She pissed me off on what she did to you, but she is the best darn apprentice that I even had other than Shizune.” Sakura smiles at Tsunade and Tsunade nods her head at Sakura as Naruto brings out two of the two legged and web footed horse-like creatures for the start of Naruto’s journey.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Soon enough, Naruto, Hinata, Fina, and Sakura, riding down towards the huge port of Avion, and Naruto says, “It was nice to get to see Inari and the others in Wave.”

Fina says, with a smile, “Through you had to cover Hinata and me up and explain what that ‘thing’ was on Sakura’s neck.”

Sakura says, “Personally, I was shocked to learn that you had promised to the daughter of the head of the Nadeshiko village.”

Naruto says, drolly, “Don’t remind me. You can thank Pervy Sage for that when he beat the head of the village when she was younger and promised his student to her heiress.”

Hinata says, “Your mother wasn’t too happy about that.”

Naruto says, with a grin, “Pervy Sage learned that just after the invasion.”

Hinata says, winching, “I didn’t know that people could bend THAT way, Master Naruto-kun.”

Naruto says, with a nervous grin, “They usually don’t, Hinata-chan. Mom invented the way to do that.”

Sakura asks, “Ouch! Did she…?”

Naruto says, with a wide blush, “No, mom gave my dad his ‘punishment’ in a more ‘unusual’ way.”

Fina says, with a giggle, “They weren’t seen out their bedroom for four long days.”

Sakura thinks in her mind, with a blush on her cheeks, “Okay, TMI!”

Hinata says, blushing, “Oh my.”

Naruto says, nervously, “Yeah. It is the way that my mom got pregnant with my new little sister.”

Sakura tells Naruto, with a major blush on her cheeks, “Okay, Naruto… Naruto-SAMA, too much information.”

Naruto says, “Anyway, I hope that Granny Tsunade and the others are doing okay.”

Fina says, “I’m sure that they are doing fine, Master Naruto.”

Hinata says, “Lady Tsunade seemed very glad about someone after she wasn’t happy about being forced back to being Hokage.”

Naruto says, with a grin, “That’s simple. I showed her how to defeat paperwork.”

Sakura asks, “How?”

Naruto says, “Shadow Clone Jutsu, that’s how. All the information that you clones get goes back to you. My dad was the only Hokage ever to use a solid clone jutsu during his time in office.”

Sakura becomes wide eyed and she asks, “How come none of the other Hokages used a Shadow Clone or solid clone jutsu for paperwork?”

Naruto says, with a smile, “Got me. However, with paperwork done, I bet that Granny Tsunade is living a boring life as Hokage since she is having the clones do all the work while she drinks sake all day.”

Hinata giggles and she says, “That’s not nice, Master Naruto-kun.”

Naruto says, “I know, Hinata-chan, but if the shoe fits.” Sakura was annoyed and want to retort, but she didn’t want to face the wrath of Naruto’s mother for one thing and two, Naruto had a point.

(At the Leaf; Around the same time)

Within the Leaf Village itself, which is starting to thieve again and the ninja are quite happy in that respect since they are getting trade for one thing and what the ninja feel are ‘corrupting influences’ have been mainly purged out of the Leaf, we go into the Hokage’s office where we find Tsunade Senju, granddaughter of the First Hokage and heiress of the Senju clan, enjoying a sip of sake while her clones are doing all of the work with the paperwork.

As her assistant, Shizune, enters the room, Tsunade sneezes and Shizune says, “Bless you, Lady Tsunade!”

Tsunade says, “Someone must be talking about me.”

Shizune says, with a smile, “Maybe it is Naruto.”

Tsunade says, with an annoyed expression, “Yeah, live it up while I continue with this job.”

One of Tsunade’s clones says, with a snort, “Having us do the hard work while you sip sake!”

Tsunade retorts, “Hey, when you dispel I’m going to get the experience and I mean the whole experience!”

Tsunade’s clone says, with a nod, “Good point.”

Shizune says, “Well, the village has finally got back on its feet after the recession.”

Tsunade tells Shizune, “Only because of Whirlpool and the knowledge that most of the ‘corrupting elements’ in the village are long gone thanks to Naruto. Without the trade from Whirlpool, we still be in major economic straights and with Orochimaru and the Akatsuki gone, we don’t have to worry about them. It is taking time for missions to come back, but we’re out of the recession, however, we are dependent on Whirlpool for our economy.”

Shizune tells Tsunade, “By the way, Kushina is making her way to visit.”

Tsunade yells out, shocked, “What? Shizune, why are you only giving this information now?”

Shizune says, nervously, “Because it just came in.”

Tsunade says, with a nod, “Oh.” Shizune hands Tsunade a note and when Tsunade looks at it, she sighs and she says, “Just like Kushina. Anyway, I’m not taking any chances with Stone and Cloud knowing that Naruto’s family is still alive, Shizune. We are going to increase security for Kushina’s visit.”

Shizune says, with a nod, “Yes, my lady.” As Shizune prepares to take Tsunade’s orders, we go into the village itself and we find a young man of 18 years of age with black hair and onyx eyes with a lovely young teenage woman of 17 years of age with long violet hair, onyx eyes, and deep, full, and lovely violet lips.

The woman says, “You think that this place would have better security.”

The man tells the woman, “You have to remember that it only has been three months since the Namikaze defeated this place and they are still recovering from the recession these fools put themselves through by banishing the one that gave them those trade routes, Hanna.”

The young lady replies, “Anyway, now, they are depending on Whirlpool for its trade, brother.”

The man tells the young lady, with a nod of his head, “That’s right, sister. You know what we are here to do.”

The young lady replies, “Get rid of the Whirlpool Daimyo for revenge against the Namikaze and the Leaf for the death of Sasuke-sama.”

The man says, with a nod, “Right, Hanna. With the Whirlpool Daimyo gone, plenty will blame the Leaf and their recovery will collapse.”

The young lady, Hanna, says, “Yes, but Fugaku-sama said that she is dangerous.”

The man responds, “Yes, Hanna. She is the wife of the Fourth Hokage and heiress of the Uzumaki clan and the throne of Whirlpool. She is known as the ‘Red Hot Pepper’ among other things and she is the only one to rival the Sannin and the Kage in strength and ability. One of us might not come out of this alive, Hanna.”

Hanna replies, “Don’t say that Alberto.”

The young man tells Hanna, “You know that this is the danger that we face as ninja, Hanna. And we have to do this for the honor of our clan and our nation.”

Hanna says, with a nod, “Right, brother.” Soon enough, Hanna and the young man, Alberto, blend in with the crowd in which the ANBU hidden away keep a close eye on them for a moment, but ‘write them off’ for now.

(Later that day; Back with Naruto)

Deep within the trade city of Avion, Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and Fina are wandering the streets in which they are looking around and Hinata and Sakura can’t help to be amazed at all of the stuff that they are seeing.

Sakura says, stunned, “Geez! These are pieces that are rare back home! And that metal is rare here!”

Naruto says, “Unlike here, the lands of Gor are rich very gems and ores especially those of rare types of chakra metal.”

Sakura says, “No joke, Naruto. We have chakra metals that can be used for chakra blades, but these types of chakra metals are specially designed for elemental chakra and combining elemental chakras together including ways like you have a bloodline.”

Naruto says, with a nod, “Yes, like if you have water and earth chakras, but no Wood Style bloodline, you can use it to create your own wood style.”

Sakura says, “That kind of chakra metal is worth more than gold here!”

Naruto says, with a smirk, “And it is among the reasons that this center has become so valuable due to the fact that these metals and gems come from Gor to the Elemental Countries via this ‘secret port’.”

Sakura says, “Doesn’t seem so secret to me.”

Naruto says, with a shrug, “They call it a ‘secret port’, but it is only because ‘other goods’ that are traded here is why people try to turn a ‘blind eye’ to it.”

Sakura nods her head in understanding and Fina tells Hinata, “Oh, wow! Look at that!”

Hinata says, looking at a stand, “I wonder what kind of fruit this is.”

Fina says, looking at something else, “That’s beautiful.”

Hinata says, looking at what Fina is and smiling, “It is, Fina-chan. I wish that I had a necklace like that.”

Naruto tells Hinata and Fina, “Easy, you two. You had better stay close to me.” Hinata and Fina look at Naruto and Naruto tells them, “You are both the most valuable ‘product’ around here.”

Hinata and Fina point to themselves and Hinata asks, “Us?”

Naruto says, with a foxy smile, “If you get too far, pirates like the ones that kidnapped you before might take you and Fina-chan away from me. If you are put on a ship, even I might not be able to save you, despite our ‘link’.”

Fina and Hinata panic, grab onto Naruto’s arms, and Fina says, fearfully, “No! We don’t want that!”

Naruto makes a motion to an alleyway and he says, “Even a great city as this has its ‘villains’.” Fina, Hinata, and Sakura look into the alleyway and they see a gang in which they lustfully leer at the three women.

Hinata says, nervously, “I see, Master Naruto-kun.”

Sakura thinks in her mind, nervously, “Why do I feel like a side of beef?”

Naruto says, “Don’t worry, I doubt that they will try anything.” Naruto unleashes a powerful KI at them in which makes the gang nervous causing them to run off into the distance.

Sakura thinks in her mind, “No kidding, Naruto.”

Kurama tells Naruto, in his mind, “That’s right, kit. No one messes with your mates and gets away with it!”

Naruto tells everyone, “Anyway, we’ve got all of this money to spend, let’s eat.”

Hinata says, with a smile, “Okay.”

All of them walk off in which Hinata and Fina remain latched onto Naruto’s arms and Sakura asks, drolly, “Really?” Fina playfully sticks her tongue out at Sakura and Naruto smirks at this in which Sakura crosses her arms as well as give an annoyed look, but she can’t help to feel a bit jealous of Naruto. Later on, Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, and Fina enter a well-furnished restaurant and they see a large crowd gathered around a table between two men playing shogi in which one of them dressed like someone from India while the other is a tall and very muscular man with brown hair, grey-green eyes, and looks to be in his 30s through he is more middle aged, but he is very good looking male for a female’s point of view.

As Naruto and his three female companions come in to look, the tall man asks, with a sly smirk, “Do you surrender?”

The man dressed like someone from India shouts out, “No, don’t rush me!”

Hinata tells Naruto, with a kind smile, “Actually, he has a good chance to win, don’t you think, master?” The tall man gives a glance at Hinata and Sakura and Naruto notice that causing them to be nervous. When the India-like dressed man plans to make a move, Hinata shouts out, “No, you’ll lose with a move like that!” Immediately, attention focuses on Hinata and she quickly puts her hand in her mouth.

The tall male shouts out, sternly, “You! What did you just say?”

Naruto thinks in her mind, nervously, “Oh, man! Hinata, why did you do that?”

Kurama retorts, with a sly tone, “Yeah, kit! Doing something like that is your turf! Guess you are rubbing off on her and not in a good way!”

Naruto retorts, annoyed, “Shut it, fox!”

Kurama responds, “Don’t shoot the messenger, kit! Now, if you don’t want to attract unwanted attention, you know what to do!”

Naruto yells out, “You are not fucking serious!”

Kurama retorts, “And if you care about her, you’ll do it!” Naruto gives a mental groan and he slaps Hinata down to the ground surprising Sakura and Fina. Sakura wanted to yell at Naruto, but Naruto glares at her with a look that says ‘Don’t mess with me right now’ which scares Sakura and causes her to clam up.

Naruto thinks in his mind, “I’m so sorry, Hinata-chan. I’ll make it up to you.” Naruto tells the tall man, “I’m sorry for my slave’s bad manners. I ask your forgiveness sir.”

After recovering from the shock of getting slapped by Naruto, Hinata goes on her hands and knees, bows her head, and she says, pleadingly, “I’m very sorry! It wasn’t my place to make such remarks! Please forgive me!”

The tall man responds, “No, I will not! You, a lowly slave, interrupted our game! You not only insulted me, but you insulted my opponent as well! It isn’t just something that your master can apologize for!”

Naruto gives a solemn mental sigh and he says, in a plain tone, “What can we do to earn your forgiveness, sir? If it would satisfy you, I would punish my slave right here.”

The tall man replies, shaking his head, “No, I am the merchant Sennca Gilman, a member of the elite Gilman family of Gor, who have for generations built a merchant empire through hard work, honesty, and fair prices. I will not shame my family name by causing a scene in public!” The tall man, Sennca, looks down at Hinata and he says, with a confident smirk, “You! You feel confident about this game. Do you think that you can win from this stage?”

Hinata says, pleadingly, “Disregard my earlier remark!”

Sennca responds, with a sly smirk, “Sorry, but you already said it! I think that everyone else heard it, right?” As the crowd cheers in agreement, Sennca says, “And now, you will take over this game!”

Fina asks, surprised, “Huh?”

Sennca asks the India-dressed male, “Is that okay with you?”

The male responds, with a nod, “Okay.”

Sennca tells him, “Naturally, you will take your bet back due to the fact that our game was interrupted. It is the honorable thing to do.” Sennca tells Hinata, “And for you, you will put yourself on the line in this game!” Hinata gives a gasp of shock and looks up at Sennca in which he says, “If you know this game as much as you think and you win, you can have my slave as your prize.” Sennca then motions to lovely young woman of 19 years of age with tan skin, long blue-black hair, green eyes, and dot mark on her forehead in which she is wearing a slave collar and a red one-piece bathing suit like clothing in which she gives a solemn look.

Sakura thinks in his mind, with a sneer, “Bastard! He is treating like a piece of clothing or food!”

Sennca says, with a sly smirk, “But if you lose, you will become mine.” There are multiple gasps from Fina, Sakura, and Naruto and the crowd cheers in which Naruto clasps his hands into fists, but then Sakura whispers something into his ear in which Naruto’s eyes widen causing him to look at Sakura and then glance at Hinata in shock. Hinata gains a determined look and she nods her head.

Naruto tells Sennca, “If that’s what’s required for forgiveness, then I will have Hinata play the game with you.” Naruto asks Hinata, “Is that okay with you?”

Hinata says, with a nod, “Yes, Master Naruto-kun. If you allow me to, I will play.”

Sennca says, pointing to the seat that his opponent in the shogi match had sat in, “Good. Take a seat right there.”

Hinata goes over to the seat and she says, “It is an honor to be playing this game with you, sir.”

When both Hinata and Sennca sit down, Sennca says, “Now, picking up from the last move.”

Hinata says, “Of course, sir.” Hinata then makes a move causing Sennca to gasp in shock when Hinata does that and the crowd is amazed.

One of them says, “I wouldn’t have thought of that one!”

Another one says, “That’s incredible!”

Hinata says, with a kind smile, “I believe that it is your turn sir.”

Sennca responds, “Shit!” Sennca says, trying to regain his composer, “Of course.”

As Hinata and Sennca play, Sakura thinks in her mind, with a mental smirk, “Good luck asshole! Hinata really sharpened her mind with stuff like this! She played so many times with Shikamaru and Asuma-sensei that she managed to beat them before all of this started!”

Another of the crowd says, “Wow! She is good!”

Yet another of the crowd asks, “How can she know this game so well?” Sennca become more and more irritated as Hinata is outmaneuvering him with every move.

Another member of the crowd says, “She is playing this like a pro!”

Sennca says, annoyed, “Shut the fuck up!” He makes a move and he asks, with a smug look, “How about that?”
Hinata asks, with a kind smile, “Sir, are you absolutely certain of that move?”

Sennca responds, “Yes, I am.”

Hinata responds, “Then three more moves to checkmate.”

Sennca yells out, flabbergasted, “What? It can’t be!” Sennca then looks over the board and he knows that Hinata is exactly right in which when Sennca glances over the crowd, they motion for him to thrown in the towel. Sennca says, with a sigh, “You win.”

The crowd is amazed and Sakura whispers, “The baka didn’t know who he was messing with. Hinata trained in everything to strength her body AND her mind in which she learned shogi from Shikamaru and managed to beat him a few times before that mission with the pirates.”

Hinata tells Sennca, with a bow, “Thank you for the good game, sir.”

Sennca says, “You are a great player. I… really enjoyed that.” Hinata gives a cute smile, Fina does the same, Sakura gives a sly smirk, and Naruto gives a foxy smile. Sennca tells Hinata, “I was overwhelmed. Tell me Hinata: How did you learn this game?”

Hinata responds, “You see, sir, I originally came from the Elemental Countries, but I was ‘taken’ a long time ago and brought to my new home in Anatolia before the Namikaze-sama united his ancestral kingdom and turned it into the Anatolia in which my former masters were part of the Anatolia court where I had learned a lot during my years of service there.”

Naruto is surprised by this lie, though he doesn’t show it on his face, and Sennca says, “Anatolia, huh? That explains everything. You must have met the father of the ‘Wayward Emperor’, the legendary Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze.”

Hinata says, with a smile, “But of course!”

One of the members of the crowd then asks, “She met the Yellow Flash and his son, the Kitsune Blur?”

Another of the crowd yells out, awe-struck, “That’s incredible!”

Sakura whispers to Naruto, “How famous are you AND your dad?”

Naruto whispers back, nervously, “Enough to make it annoying, believe it.”

Sennca asks Naruto, “And you, sir?”

Naruto responds, “N-I mean my name is Arashi, I’m a traveling Ronin ninja since my village has been destroy long ago and I’ve wandered both the Elemental Countries and Gor. I don’t wish for this to be known, but I am very close to the Yellow Flash and the Kitsune Blur.”

There are plenty of gasps and Sakura thinks in her mind, drolly, “No joke, Naruto! Since you are this ‘Kitsune Blur’ and the Yellow Flash is your dad and our former Fourth Hokage!”

Naruto says, “However, I haven’t heard about my friend for a while, but I did hear that he defeated his former home in just one night.”

A member of the crowd responds, “You heard right, Arashi-dono! Emperor Namikaze-dono crushed the Leaf Village in one night! Ha! So much for being the ‘greatest ninja village’ in the Elemental Countries!” There are plenty of laughs at this and Sakura’s right hand balls into a fist, but she doesn’t do anything when Naruto gives a glare to say ‘Don’t even think about it’ and not wanting to cause a scene, she stops.

Another crowd member says, “But you can’t blame them for losing! They were going against the best that they foolishly kicked out because he wouldn’t be their weapon!”

A third member says, “He is the legendary warrior that created the greatest empire in Gor in its history! They were real fools to kick out such a warrior! He went from nothing to being the greatest!” Sakura can’t help to gain a solemn look in which she knows that they have a point in more ways than one with Naruto.

Sennca tells Naruto, “Anyway, Arashi-san, you have a great slave and take good care of her. She is a bit rambunctious.”

Naruto responds, “Thank you for your compliment, I think.”

Another member of the crowd responds, “That’s our Sennca! A true gamesman!” As the crowd cheers, he goes over to dark skinned female, his slave, and he gently pushes her towards them.

Sennca says, “As promised, she is yours.” As the young woman looks back at the retreating Sennca, she doesn’t notice the solemn look on his face.

The young woman kneels in front of Naruto and she says, “My name is Shiera.”

Naruto responds, with a foxy smirk, “I’m afraid that you won’t be my slave.”

There are plenty of surprised looks and the young woman asks, “Huh?”

Naruto says, looking at Hinata with a sly foxy smile, “You see, Hinata-chan won the game.” Everyone then looks at Hinata and she gives a look of shock.

Hinata says, showing an annoyed look, “Wait, master! I can’t believe… you can’t mean… but I’m…” Naruto doesn’t lower his smile one bit and Hinata says, giving an annoyed pout-like look, “All right, you win, master. I’ll take her.” Hinata then kneels down in front of the young woman, Shiera, in which she kisses Hinata on the cheeks in which the crowd starts to mumble and talk in amazement at this event causing Sakura to gain a confused and annoyed look.

Sakura thinks in her mind, “Does Naruto have to cause a ruckus everywhere he goes?”

(The following day; Within the Leaf Village)

In the streets of the Leaf Village, Kushina Uzumaki, Karin, and Jugo are walking through the streets of the Leaf in which they are seeing the businesses especially the ninja owned and businesses that serve ninja are getting back on their feet.

Jugo says, “It seems like the Leaf is getting back on their feet.”

Kushina says, with a nod, “They are. As long as they remember that who it was that allowed them to get back on their feet and who decides their future from now on.”

Karin says, “Basically, the Uzumaki and Whirlpool OWN the Leaf Village.”

Kushina says, with a grin, “As my son would say: Believe it, Karin!” Kushina and Karin share a laugh and Jugo smiles at them.

Karin asks Jugo, “Anyway, Jugo, you aren’t feeling any problems today?”

Jugo says, shaking his head, “No. Thanks to the seals that Kushina-sama gave me and the Senjutsu training that I went through, I can completely control the absorbing of nature chakra now.”

Kushina says, “I’m glad, Jugo.” Just then Karin, Kushina, and Jugo notice the ANBU guards all around them.

Jugo tells Kushina, “Lady Kushina…”

Kushina tells Jugo, “I already know, Jugo.”

Karin tells Kushina, “You can’t be surprised, Lady Kushina. You are the Daimyo of Whirlpool, the nation that now controls the economy of the Leaf now.”

Jugo says, “Anything goes wrong here, it could mean problems for them in the future and they don’t want to go through that again.”

Kushina says, “Tsunade must have sent them.” Kushina then says, “And you can come out, Tsunade-sensei!” Kushina, Karin, and Jugo then turn to see Tsunade and Shizune flanked by Yugao and other ANBU guards walking up to them.

Tsunade says, with a smile, “Same as ever, Kushina.”

Kushina tells Tsunade, with a grin, “Most likely, you were planning a ‘big ceremony’ to welcome me. Sorry I had to ruin those plans.”

Tsunade tells Kushina, “Yeah, right, Kushina. Most likely, you snuck in to test our defenses.”

Kushina says, with a nod, “I find them ‘lacking’.”

Shizune tells Kushina, “We have been in a recession for seven years and it has only been three months since… the invasion in which we are just recovering from the recession.”

Tsunade tells Kushina, “Not to mention that you have gotten better over the years and it is hard to train the ninja without the right equipment.”

Kushina tells Tsunade, “Well, the village should have learned not to mess with the Uzumaki.”

Tsunade says, with a nod, “Oh, yeah. They learned that big time, Kushina. Your son made sure of that.”

Shizune says, “We have to make sure that the Uzumaki are a big part of the courses at Academy along with more extensive physical and mental training.”

Kushina says, “Good. The civilian assholes really lowered the training standards since our day.”

Tsunade says, “I agree with that, but the civilians don’t like it.”

Kushina says, with a plain tone, “That’s tough, Tsunade-sensei. They made a mess of the village and betrayed my family and clan, they have to pay for it.” Kushina says, with a sneer, “In which I can’t believe that after we made Mebuki-whore pay through the mouth and more, she managed to regain her fortune.”

Tsunade tells Kushina, “She made plenty of connections during her and her husband’s days as ninja. She played it smart for the day that she would retire and go into business. However, her days in politics are over since her voice has absolutely no clout and despite getting her business back on the road to success, she isn’t as trusted as she used to be since it was made sure that her actions are well-known to public, but she made sure that wouldn’t affect her too much, Kushina.”

Kushina says, with a snort, “She has a big brain, I give her that much. Her daughter inherited her brain in which she wished that was all that she inherited from her mother.”

Tsunade tells Kushina, with a nod, “When I was done with Sakura, she wished that too, Kushina.”

Kushina says, with a smile, “Anyway, let’s go eat! I hear that Old Man Tenchi did well despite the recession!”

Tsunade says, “And doing well more than ever thanks to you and your gaki of a son, Kushina!” Soon enough, Tsunade, Shizune, Kushina, Jugo, Karin, and the ANBU head off to Ichiraku Ramen, which has become a good sized restaurant in which Tsunade, Shizune, Kushina, Jugo, and Karin enter while the ANBU remain outside to guard them, but what they didn’t know is that Hanna and her brother, Alberto, are waiting for them.

Teuchi, coming out of the kitchen personally, says, with a smile, “Nice to see you, again, Kushina!”

Kushina says, with a smile, “Nice to see you, again, too, Teuchi! And your daughter has become a lovely woman!”
Tenchi says, with a smile, “Thank you, Kushina-sama. Anyway, since your son isn’t officially married, maybe my daughter would like to become his princess!”

Tenchi’s daughter, Ayame, age 24, says, with a blush, “Dad!”

Kushina tells Tenchi, with a smile, “I’m not sure about that. Fina-chan and Hinata-chan are well ‘beloved’ by my boy.”

Tenchi says, with a nod, “I’m not surprised, Kushina-sama.” Soon enough, Tenchi took their orders and goes back to the kitchen to get their orders ready. On the meanwhile, Hanna and Alberto glance at them while making sure not to draw the suspicion of anyone especially the elite ninja in the restaurant with them.

Alberto tells Hanna, in a whisper, “If anything happens to me, use your jutsu to get back to Marlon-sama.”

Hanna whispers, with a nod, “Understood, brother.” They remain still and make sure that they haven’t attracted any attention to themselves for the moment in which both Hanna and Alberto shake their legs slightly in which causing small metal spheres clack onto the floor causing the more attentive people in the building, namely the ninja especially Tsunade, Kushina, and their group, snap to attention, but it is too late as the small spheres explode causing an immense amount of smoke to fill the room and causing panic throughout the inside of the restaurant.

Shizune yells out, “What’s going on?”

Kushina shouts out, “Karin! Jugo! Help protect Tsunade-sensei!”

Karin asks, “What about you?”

Kushina responds, “I’ll be fine…!!” However, she doesn’t get to finish as she cries out in pain as a knife impales itself into her right shoulder causing her to collapse to the ground.

Karin yells out, “Kushina-sama!” Immediately, the ANBU that rushed into the room the instant the smoke filled the inside of the restaurant use wind jutsu to blow the smoke away and immediately, Hanna and Alberto come into view.

Yugao yells out, “Stop!” But then Hanna grabs Alberto and they are seemly goes into a vortex that forms in Hanna’s right eye in which Yugao then sees a flower-shaped Mangekyo Sharingan in Hanna’s eyes before the two of them vanish into the vortex. With them gone, Kushina lies on the ground with the knife in her shoulder.

Jugo says, going over to her, “Lady Kushina, hang on!” Jugo quickly removes the knife from her shoulder causing her to winch and he then sees noticing something on the blade in which he yells out, “This blade has poison on it!”

Shizune shouts out, “Poison?!”

Tsunade says, strongly, “Shizune, help me!” Shizune nods her head as Tsunade rips the clothing around Kushina’s wound away and Shizune quickly does her best to suck out the poison. Tsunade then commands, “Get that blade to hospital and find out what poison has been used!”

Karin says, “Let me go as well! I have knowledge on poisons, Lady Hokage!” Tsunade nods her head in which Karin, putting the blade inside of a storage scroll, races off with most of the ANBU to get the poisoned knife to the hospital to find out the poison while Shizune spits out the blood that she sucks out of Kushina’s wound and doing it in the way that she has the best chance NOT to get poisoned herself.

Tsunade says, “Let’s get her to the hospital now!”

Jugo uses his powers to dark skinned massive arms, putting Kushina in them bridal style, and he says, “I’ll do that, Lady Hokage.”

Tsunade says, with a nod, “Okay.” Tsunade makes a motion for Shizune to follow in which Shizune nods as Jugo, holding Kushina carefully, runs off with Shizune while the remaining ANBU minus Yugao remain here.

Yugao tells Tsunade, “Lady Hokage, I saw the people that did this!”

Tsunade asks, “Who were they?”

Yugao says, “I don’t know, but they teleported away in a similar manner as Obito Uchiha and… the woman had a Mangekyo Sharingan.”

There are gasps and Tsunade yells out, shocked, “Are you sure, Neko?”

Yugao responds, with a nod, “Very sure, my lady. However, I would like my memories reviewed to make sure that I wasn’t under some kind Genjutsu.”

Tsunade says, with a nod, “Done, Neko.” Tsunade then shouts out, “This is a crime scene! The Whirlpool Daimyo was attacked here! No one leaves until we know what’s going on!” Immediately, Tsunade and Yugao start to ask the other people about what they saw as a new group of Leaf ANBU arrive on the scene to assist in the investigation.

(A day later on; back in Avion)

Inside of an expensive luxury multi-bed sweet hotel within Avion, Naruto, Hinata, Fina, Sakura, and Shiera are standing in front of Sennca as he tells Naruto something.

Naruto asks, with a smile, “I see. You wish to buy her back?”

Sennca says, “And it won’t be cheap offer.” Sennca says, opening a small chest that he brought with him showing it filled with gold coins and jewels, “And this is what I will pay.”

There are plenty of amazed looks and Shiera asks, amazed, “You will master?!”

Naruto says, with a smile, “That’s a lot of money, Sennca-san. You seemly really attached to her.”

Sennca says, with a nervous smile, “I…”

Naruto asks Shiera, “Shiera, would you like to go back to Sennca-san?”

Shiera responds, with a smile, “Yes, if you would be so kind to allow me to.”

Sakura gives a surprised look at this and Naruto says, “Sennca, I would like for you to take her back. And no, I won’t accept your money.”

Sennca gives a surprised look and Hinata says, with a warm smile, “Actually, I was hoping that this would happen. He seemed quite distressed when he left her.” Hinata then pushes Shiera back to Sennca and she kneels in front of him.

Sennca tells Shiera, “I’m sorry, my Shiera. What I did was wrong. I should have never made you the prize. Forgive me.”

Sakura is wide-eyed and she thinks, “What the fuck?! Does this mean… he really loves her?!”

Shiera says, “No, master. I should be the one to be punished since I allowed Hinata-sama and Fina-sama to touch my body when it belongs to only you, master.”

Sennca asks, surprised, “Huh? But Shiera, you are so… innocent!” Sennca then looks at Hinata and Fina in which they wink while Sakura gives a major hue in her cheeks. Sennca tells Shiera, with a sly smile, “I see. I’m going to have to check to see how ‘loose’ you have become in my absence.”

Shiera says, blushing madly, “Yes, master.”

Sennca tells Naruto and the three females with him, “I would like to thank you. To be honest, I never touched her despite her wishing to ‘take her’. Shiera is different from the other slaves that I had since my wife, who was my first slave, and she is precious jewel worth more than my empire.”

Naruto says, “I see, Sennca.”

Sennca asks Hinata, “By the way, Hinata, you mentioned that you originally came from the Elemental Countries. Your eyes are ‘unique’?”

Hinata says, with a nervous smile, “You see, I have a bloodline with the famous Hyuga clan and it isn’t known that a Hyuga actually got out of the clan since they are so proud and wouldn’t let it be known that someone with the Byakugan was out of their reach.”

Sennca says, with a nod of understanding, “Oh, yes. I know well of the Hyuga. They claim to have ‘moral high ground’, but they, in fact, enslave half of their clan even worse than the slave system back on Gor. It may not seem like it, but we do take care a lot better than the Hyuga take care of their own clan members.”

Naruto thinks in his mind, drolly, “No joke, Sennca-san, believe it.”

Sennca says, “However, speaking of the Leaf and you must know that in my line of business, information does come fast and while this isn’t wildly known yet, but there was an assassination attempt on Daimyo Kushina Uzumaki in the Leaf Village just yesterday.”

There are multiple gasps and Fina says, horrified, “Oh no!”

Naruto thinks in his mind, horrified, “Mother!” Naruto says, panic evidence in his voice, “We need to go now!” Naruto then races down out of the room and in which Fina and Hinata bow before they follow with Sakura right behind them leaving a surprised Shiera and a very thoughtful Sennca.

(The next day; In the Land of Gor)

Within the continent of Gor, Hanna and Alberto, both of whom are wearing armor with the Uchiha crest on it, are standing in front of Marlon and explaining about what happened.

Alberto says, “Forgive us for our oversight, Marlon-sama.”

Marlon responds, “It doesn’t matter. With the Namikaze about, it would have been only a matter of time before they knew about this.”

Hanna asks, “But Marlon-sama, they will know that Itachi didn’t wipe us out, thanks to the last ditch plan made by Fugaku-sama which still cost us half of our clan.”

Marlon says, with a nod, “And it is all right, Hanna. It is time that they know that the plans of the Leaf failed and the Uchiha still live. But your words of wisdom do have merit. We will have modified our plans carefully.”

Hanna tells Marlon, “I live to serve, Marlon-sama.”

Marlon tells Hanna, “Live not to serve me, but for our clan that we were born in. Remember, all of us are the future of our clan. We are among the first to be born after the Leaf attempted to destroy our clan when we rose up against their oppression and my father’s last ditch plan using near perfect blood clones deceived even my former elder brother, Itachi, and even the Third Hokage and Danzo. Our clan came to these lands to start anew and we created this kingdom, the kingdom of the Uchiha, Gupta, the kingdom of elite ninja warriors.”

Alberto tells Marlon, “But of course, my prince. However, it was Fugaku-sama that leads our clan and saved it from the Leaf’s actions in the form of using your former elder brother as their tool and you are the heir to the clan and heir to the throne of our nation.”

Marlon tells Alberto, “My father will thank you for your praise, Alberto. Now, I wish to speak with your sister alone.”

Alberto asks, surprised, “Marlon-sama?”

Hanna responds, “It’s all right, my brother.” Alberto isn’t sure, but he leaves the room in which the guards close the door behind him.

Marlon tells Hanna, “You have a Mangekyo Sharingan?”

Hanna responds, with a nod, “Yes, Marlon-sama. You know how I got it, my prince.”

Marlon says, “You ended your best friend’s suffering. You know that she would have died a slow and painful death if not so under the enemy’s cruelty.”

Hanna says, with a nod, “The mission came first and I also thought of my friend when I did. I refused to let her suffer.”

Marlon says, with a nod, “You have done well, Hanna. However, I am getting reports of you ‘acting strange’ when around me.”

Hanna says, trying to hide her blush, “Strange? Don’t believe everything that you hear, Marlon-sama.”

Marlon says, “Well, your next mission will require me to find out for myself.”

Hanna asks, surprised, “Marlon-sama?”

Marlon tells Hanna, making her look at him eye to eye, “You are to report to my bedroom for the start of your training.”

Hanna asks, shocked and with a blush, “Your bedroom for training?”

Marlon asks, “Did I stutter, my dear?”

Hanna responds, with a wide hue on her cheeks, “No, Marlon-sama. Of course.” Hanna stumbles back, bows, and she leaves the room.

Marlon thinks in his mind, “I guess that father was right about her. And he was about me. In order for our bloodline to continue, I must ‘invest’ in a woman and Hanna is perfect. She is lovely, but more than that, she is powerful. However, I will need to see her ‘strengths’ up close and personal.”

(During that same day; Within the Leaf Village)

Inside of the Leaf Village, we are inside of the Leaf Village hospital where we are in the heavily guarded room where Tsunade, Shizune, Naruto, Hinata, Fina, and Sakura are looking down on Kushina’s sleeping form on the bed.

Hinata asks, “Will she be okay?’

Tsunade says, with a sigh, “Shizune managed to extract much of the poison from her body and Karin managed to identify the poison used on her.”

Sakura asks, “What kind of poison was it?”

Shizune says, “Not native to our land, Sakura. Karin-san says that it comes from a poison lizard from the other side of the world.”

Tsunade tells Naruto, “It is a good thing that you developed an antidote for it.”

Naruto says, with a nod, “Yeah, but it will take time for her to full recover from it.”

Fina asks, “But why attacked your mother?”

Naruto says, with a serious tone, “Someone wants to start trouble for the Leaf and Whirlpool. They know that Whirlpool is the reason that the Leaf is recovering and added to the fact that with Leaf, Whirlpool has become much stronger as a nation with the added trading routes from the Land of Fire and from the Leaf with the Leaf military added to Whirlpool’s own military.

Hinata says, “They must want to damage those relations in order to weaken Leaf and Whirlpool.”

Sakura says, “Force Whirlpool to back out of its support, though not its control, of the Leaf. However, Whirlpool is strong on its own.”

Tsunade says, “True, Sakura. But the whole situation can cause problems for Whirlpool if a village that they have conquered can have such a weak defense when it is Whirlpool reinforcing those defenses since we are under its ‘control’ now and this will also cause our Daimyo to look back since he taking a ‘greater interest’ in our affairs to have his counterpart and ally in Whirlpool attacked so easily in his nation’s hidden village, weakened or not.”

Shizune asks, “But who?”

Karin enters the room and she says, “I can answer that, but you aren’t going to believe it.”

Naruto asks, “What is it, Karin?”

Karin displays something inside of a thick cloth blanket and she says, “Take a look at this.” Karin reveals the knife that struck Kushina in the shoulder, but the hilt is gone to reveal the metal handle that goes into the hilt of the knife in which the metal handle has the Uchiha clan crest engraved with another symbol beside it.

Shizune says, looking at the Uchiha crest, “That’s the crest of the Uchiha clan!”

Tsunade says, “That’s not possible! Itachi wiped out the clan and he, Sasuke, and Obito are gone!”

Karin asks, “True, but do you think that Fugaku wouldn’t have a backup plan?”

Naruto asks, “What do you mean Karin?”

Karin says, “I looked over all of the reports of what happened to lead to Itachi’s mission to destroy the clan. If Fugaku suspected something of his son, don’t you think that he might have had an idea about what Itachi’s true intentions were and planned for such an occasion? Fugaku might be an arrogant asshole from what I read, but what I read, he wasn’t stupid.”

Naruto tells Tsunade, “Granny, I think that you had better check those graves especially the one belonging to Fugaku-teme.”

Tsunade tells Shizune, “Take a detail and do as Naruto says.”

Shizune says, with a nod, “Right away, my lady.”

Shizune takes her leave to do as her teacher commanded, Tsunade asks, “Even if it was true, how could they have fooled us?”

Karin says, “Blood clone.” When everyone looks at Karin, she says, “I learned that there is a blood clone jutsu and it requires a lot, but if Fugaku suspected something, he started to suspect it a good time ago for one thing and two, he knew that his attempt to put Itachi as a spy in ANBU was tough in which before he started to suspect his son, Fugaku might have thought of a back-up plan if the coup goes wrong.”

Tsunade says, “You have a good point, Karin-san.”

Hinata asks, “But why now?”

Naruto says, with a serious tone, “The death of a certain teme, Hinata-chan.” Hinata gasps and Naruto says, “And they hold me responsible and something tells me that my final fight has just begun, believe it.” The others look at Naruto and Tsunade can’t help to mentally agree with Naruto in which Hinata can’t help to feel guilty and solemn because if it is true about who it is and why they are doing this, she is the one responsible for this trouble due to the fact that she had killed the one that they are taking revenge for: Sasuke Uchiha.

And that’s the end of the chapter! Anyway, I’ve seen plenty of fanfiction stories in which the Uchiha clan managed to figure out a way to escape the destruction of their clan by Itachi and Obito with some kind of ‘scheme’ that managed to fool even the Third Hokage and Danzo, so, I’ve taken my hand into it. And by the way, the whole Uchiha clan didn’t escape as you have read in this story and the half that got killed is where Danzo got his Sharingan eyes for his arm. Please read and review and later and best wishes, fans!