It was a quiet day in the hidden leaf village, and Naruto was signing some papers in his office at the famous Hokage building. He was estimating the amount of time that it would take to finish the two feet high pile of papers when his old friend and skillful strategist came in through the door. "Hello Shikamaru, don't you at least have the decency to knock?" Naruto asked in a light and slightly playful voice.

"That isn't important right now lord seventh." Shikamaru replied in a serious tone.

"Geez, I was only joking, you don't have to take it so seriously. Anyway I have loads of paperwork. You came in at just the right time, because I really needed a small break." replied the Hokage.

"Now isn't the time to be joking, and you know very well that I wouldn't come here just to give the Hokage of all people a break from his responsibilities." said Shikamaru in the same serious tone that he had used earlier. At this the seventh Hokage straightened his back and assumed a more serious manner. He knew how much the lazy Jounin hated work, and unless the person that he had known ever since his academy days had decided to change his values 180 degrees, there was absolutely no way that he would volunteer to do paperwork or entertain anyone.

"So, what's the problem? You must have come here for some important reason." Shikamaru nodded, walked over to Naruto's desk, and placed a thin yellow file with a few papers sticking out in front of Naruto. Naruto looked at the file with a curious expression on his face and picked it up. When he looked at the first paper he saw a child's birth records and an identification picture. 'I wonder why this is important enough to talk to the Hokage about?' he thought.

The file showed a four year old boy with black hair and pale skin. His birthday was on June 9th and he had been born in a small farming village on the border of the land of lighting and the land of frost. He was the only one in his known family with black hair while the rest had light brown, and was currently living with his father, mother, grandmother, and little sister. This was a very normal report and was even more puzzled.

"Shikamaru I don't see anything abnormal in this report and what's more not only is this report from outside the hidden leaf, this child is not even from the land of fire! he lives on the border of the land of lightning!"

"I understand why you're confused about why I would give this to you, but it will make more sense if you listen to what has Choji told me earlier." answered Shikamaru.

'I remember now. I think I heard from somewhere written down that Choji and his family are going to go visit the hidden cloud village because that's where Karui, his wife is from. She wanted Chocho to see the place that she grew up in.' Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts when Shikamaru continued talking.

"Choji and his family were on their way back to the hidden leaf after about a month in the cloud and they decided to take a break from traveling in a small countryside village. As they entered the village they saw two punks push an old lady and a four year old and started demanding money."

Even though he still had no idea what this had to do with his work as the hokage, Naruto got upset that there were still people around that took advantage of those weaker than them for their own benefit. "Go on. I want to hear the rest" said Naruto to Shikamaru.

"Choji told me that when he was about to help the old lady and chase the punks away he saw the four year old all of a sudden have a sharingan!"

If Naruto had been drinking something he would had sprayed it all onto Shikamaru. This was ridiculous! the only surviving Uchiha from the massacre was Sasuke and Sasuke, Kakashi sensei, and Sarada were the only living sharingan wielders left in this world. Or so we thought. Naruto contemplated on whether or not an Uchiha could have moved somewhere else and the sharingan hadn't shown up in that family line till now. But even that sounded far-fetched.

"Have you told Sasuke about this yet?" Naruto asked Shikamaru.

"No I have not, and I told Choji not to tell anyone either."

"Good." This was going to be a big deal to Sasuke. He believed that it was his duty to restore and rebuild the Uchiha clan, but if there was another with Uchiha blood, Naruto didn't know how his close friend and rival would react.

"Shikamaru do you have any suggestions as to how we should tell Sasuke about this 'interesting' event?" he asked with a stressed expression on his face.

"Nope, I have no idea. He's your friend not mine lord seventh."

"I'll go to Sasuke immediately. I will have to try my best."

"Yes you will lord hokage and it just happens to be Sarada's birthday today. It's one of the lucky days that Sasuke has decided to show up in the hidden leaf village."

Thirty minutes later.

Naruto arrived at the Uchiha household and heard the loud noise of a birthday party. He quietly walked in and saw Sasuke watching Sarada cut the cake with the ghost of a smile on his old friend's lips. His arrival did not go unnoticed by Sasuke and Sakura and he hand-signed them that he needed to have a talk with Sasuke. Sasuke excused himself and Sakura started to hand out the cake slices keeping all of the children busy enough not to notice that the Hokage was there.

Naruto and Sasuke walked out of the living room and went outside into the house's backyard. "So, what is it Naruto? It must be something important seeing that you've come all the way here." Sasuke was as blunt and straight to business as always.

"Well I don't know how to tell you this but…" Naruto used both hands to scratch his head in frustration. "Look can I just be really blunt and direct with you Sasuke?"

"Sure Naruto. Now what is it?"

The hokage let out a deep sigh and he started to talk really quickly "So Choji told Shikamaru about something crazy that happened on his trip to the hidden cloud and Shikamaru reported it to me. Apparently there's a four year old boy living on the border of the land of lighting that has the ability to use the-the-…. the sharingan." There was a pause of three very full seconds.

"Sorry Naruto I think I heard wrong could you say that again?" said Sasuke with a disbelieving expression on his face.

"No Sasuke. If you can't believe it then you probably heard right."

"But there was no one else that survived!" he exclaimed in disbelief.

"I came to you, Sasuke, to ask you if you wanted to leave first thing in the morning tomorrow with Choji to that village where they found this boy."