Hello!I started writting this while having a writer´s block of my other Naruto fanfics. hope you like it!
Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto
Zetsu returned to hi cave after his defeat in the Fourth Shinobi War, grunting and cursing those shinobi for defeating his mother. Now he had to search for a way to wake her up again! Thank Kaguya he had a second plan if Madara was a failure. He went to the deepest pits of his cave and found there a girl in suspended animation… or sort of it. She couldn´t be more than ten years old, but she was in fact almost as old as Tsunade. He took out a vial from his body and with a syringe he injected the girl and took her out of her coccon, putting her on the floor.
"Are you awake, Uchiha Otohime?" he asked in his deep tone, waking the female. She opened her dark brown eyes and took her long black straight hair away from them.
"Yes… Zetsu? It´s that you?" asked the confused raven. "What´s happening? Where is my grandfather?"
"I finally found a cure for your ailment, Hime-sama, but I´m afraid to tell you that Madara Uchiha is dead. He was defeated and killed by Konoha, the village he himself helped to found, with the help of all the other ninja villages"
"It… it just can be" a tear down the girl´s cheek and the black goo felt like smiling. This Uchiha was just as stupid as her grandfather, easy to fool too. Just tell her about her last familiar´s death and she will go into avenger mode and try to follow his path. "Why? Why didn´t you just let me die? I have nothing to live for now!"
"Of course you have, Hime-sama. You have your grandfather´s Will to follow. Complete what he couldn´t… and you will be allowed to see him again. And not only him, but the rest of the family that you couldn´t met. Didn´t you want to meet Izuna, your mother?"
"Hum…" she said to herself and remembered Madara. Since she was a baby the older Uchiha have been her only family, her mother and uncles passed away when she was too little to remember them. Even so, the former clan head showed her some pictures of his sons. She lowered her head and asked why someone would want her grandfather dead, he was a good person. He seeked peace, told her histories before bed, sing to her (he was a pretty good singer) and battled her illness right with her. She missed him a lot, but the only thing she could do for him now was… "Alright, tell me what I have to do"
"Of course, Hime-sama" smiling the being in the darkness. "I expected nothing less of the one that inherited the powers of two of the greatest shinobi…"
"Don´t remind me of him" she growled. "Him" was a delicate theme for all her family. "Start talking now"
"Alright, Hime-sama" he bowed. "Madara-sama´s wish was to give the world eternal peace by activating the Mugen Tsukuyomi. For that he needed chakra from all the bijuu, so he created an organization called Akatsuki of rouge ninja whose principal objective was to capture the tailed beasts. Then he needed a Rinnegan to cast the illusion"
"Which I don´t have" she said. "I need to train to get one and can´t work on that at the same time that I hunt tailed beasts, I need some idiot to do that for me"
"It´s good to hear, because I did some personal research on the organization members and I found out nearly all of them had children. It would be easy to recruit them once they heard the history about their parent´s deaths"
"I like that" she said. They kept on planning while a little boy with green hair listened from a tunnel in the cave. The ten years old was concerned and that was saying something. When the black being retired he searched around him for some time.
"Rin, I know you are in there. Quit hiding and come here" ordered the Will of Kaguya and the boy, trying to hide his fear, walked to his encounter.
"Yes, father?" he answered, shivering. He didn´t like his father one bit, but he had no choice but to obey him. And talking about parents… where was his mom? Obito said he would return soon and that everything was going to be perfect when he returned.
"Prepare yourself, boy, we have another chance to complete Mother´s wish"
"C… can I ask you where my mother is?" Zetsu growled and slapped his son on the face. The child landed on the ground rudely, yelping in pain. He repressed the tears and got up as soon as he can. He wanted to run to his mom, but he needed to find him first. "W…where…"
"Dead!" spit Zetsu cruelly, making the young child cry even more. "As every fool that think this world could go on without Mother´s guidance should be! Including you! So do what I say and stop crying for mama, you are not a baby anymore and need to help me to regain true peace in this world"
"Yes, father!" he screamed and ran away, forgetting about fussing with the stones. Once he was out, he let himself cry on a dark room. Obito, his mother, his only light, was dead. He cried himself to sleep. Believe it or not, the Uchiha wanted to make a better world so his child wouldn´t have to suffer what he did. Rin lifted his head after hours of hiding, missing his mother already. He didn´t want to be alone with his father, he was evil. In front of Obito he behaved like a good father, but behind closed doors he always hit him and made him do horrible things. But then again, he did the same thing to the Uchiha. "Mommy, did he ever really loved you at least once? Or was he just using you?"
He looked around himself and found a scroll. Strange, there was no scroll there before. He picked it up and found out it was from his mother, written at all speed with his own blood.
"To my beloved Rin,
I´m afraid I´m not going to be able to return, I need to correct my mistakes, but you are still in time, my dear. If you are reading this, please escape immediately. I admit I made an even worst mistake searching for love in a man that only wanted me to destroy the world, but you are the most wonderful gift I could have been given and don´t want you to share my fate. Go to Konoha and show this scroll to a man called Hatake Kakashi, he will understand
Your mother"
"Kakashi" he quickly hid the scroll and escaped the cave. Once in the open, the little kid started searching for a path to Konoha, the village that saw his mother being born. After two days, the exhausted and nearly death of hunger child reached the gates. Chuunin quickly surrounded him, noticing his similarities with Obito, but once he said he was there to talk to Hatake Kakashi they took him to the Hokage´s office.
"What do you want with Konoha?" he asked to the kid that appeared to be a copy of Obito with green hair. The child gave him the scroll and after finishing reading the secret contents of it, he looked at the little one in surprise. "What… what is your name?"
"Rin… Uchiha Rin"
-In another place-
Sasuke was walking towards the little store after receiving a letter from the old cat lady that owned it. He entered the room where a lot of cats were walking between the products and mewling everywhere.
"What is it, neko baa-san?" he asked, not wanting to spend more time there. After the war he returned to Konoha and was trying to put his life on course again, even if he still hold a little bit of grudge against the village. At least the counselors were keeping themselves away from again, for their own safety.
"I have something of Itachi that you must see, after all you will have to take charge of it someday" she said, signaling a curtain. The young ninja peered inside it and found… two black haired babies with blue skin. "They are twin females, the older is Kazumi Uchiha, the younger´s name is Tsubaki. Itachi was here a few days before you killed him and left them with me, saying that he was not sure that him or the father of the babies would survive what was coming next"
"Itachi… had a family?" Sasuke looked at his nieces, identical to each other. He felt more guilty than before. He didn´t just take his brother´s live, but this girl´s chance to… "Wait, did you said the father of this babies?"
"Yes, Itachi was the mother, his partner in Akastsuki, Kisame Hoshigaki, was his boyfriend and father of this young girls"
"Why? Why did he let me kill him? This babies needed him more than me!" he practically screamed, tears failing down his cheeks. He wanted to beg for forgiveness, but his brother and brother in law (apparently) were not anymore in this world and the twins were too little to understand him.
"Sasuke, Itachi was dying anyway and it was very unlikely that someone from the Akatsuki was going to survive. Wash your tears and move on" the old woman signaled the girls. "I can take care of them for a time, but after that you have to take them to Konoha. My word is final"
"I know" he extended his hand touch one of his nieces but immediately took it away. "How old…?"
"One and a half, and don´t wake them up! It took me years to put them to sleep again after the last time. Little Tsubaki won´t stop calling for her mother…" she realized her mistake too late. "I mean…"
"I know" he got up after one more look to the twins and left. He would visit… regularly.
-Away-
In a village where it never stopped raining was a girl with long red hair, sitting in a building. She was Nagato Uzumaki´s and Konan´s elder daughter, Yurika. She looked at her little brother in his crib, just seven months old and already an orphan, thanks to Madara… no, to Obito Uchiha. The redhead sighed and retired, wondering what to do. She somehow knew that the battle with the demon rabbit was not over, she could feel it inside her.
"What are going to do, Yurika-sama?" asked one of the many ninja from the rain that tried to kill her. With their former leader dead, this was the way the Amegakure people thought a new one should be elected. And the answer was always the same, after evading the hits and using all the knowledge his parents forced into her so she was able to take care of herself and her brother Seiji.
"What is necessary" she answered. The seven years old picked up her brother and left the room only with him. She needed to be fast and reach Konoha before other enemy showed up. Her mother told her last time she saw her that in Konoha was a member of her father´s clan that could protect them and in case of anything, they should run to him without hesitation.
"Well, Seiji, say goodbye to Amegakure, let´s go" and she left, leaving no trail behind for those bastards to follow. As expected, when they first reached Konoha the shinobi there were weary of them, but after some analysis the girl proved she was telling the truth and was conducted to the great hero of Konoha.
"Who are you?" asked the blond to the girl, who looked at him in a way that he was reminded of Konan.
"I´m Uzumaki Yurika and this is my brother Seiji, we are the children of Nagato Uzumaki" she explained. "And we want asylum"
"Why? Isn´t Amegakure being good with you?"
"Sir, they wanted to kill us, we couldn´t stay there. Please talk to the Hokage and explain him the case, I´m sure he will understand…"
"Leave Kakashi sensei to me, I will convince him" by the end of the day, both Uzumakis had a little apartment next to Naruto´s to live in. Yurika, knowing the kind of place her parents grew up on, didn´t complain.
"Let´s start a new life in here, otouto"
-In the deserts-
In a hidden place beneath the sand covered ground was a young boy not older than six with two newborns by his side. The little blue eyes redhead was making a puppet while his siblings looked at him interested… or something like that…
"Those babies always gave me the creeps, you know…" said the plant man, popping out of the earth. The redheaded boy gave him a glare, but then continued with his own things. "They are always like that, always observing as if they were adults…"
"They didn´t have anything else to do" he sighed, leaving his puppet. "Don´t get too close, they can already use ninjutsu and won´t have mercy on your soul"
"I know…" Zetsu gave the twins a look, before shuddering. "But you are different, the kind of person I would like to rebuilt the organization with… you could be our artist, like you parents were…"
"My parents?" he smiled wickedly. "You mean the selfish assholes that left me alone with the newborn monsters they created, that by the way they couldn´t control? I´m pissed with them, enough to ditch whatever that linked me to them, even the last name Akasuna…"
"Akasuna no Kai, tell me that in their position you wouldn´t have done the same. Artists can be quite… selfish, including you"
"Touchee" he answered. "Maybe I will accept your offer, to make all the world see that my art is better than everything they ever created…" he laughed and got to the back of the den. "I will be back in a moment with an answer" he left. Once he did, Zetsu gave a glare to the twins. He would recognize that chakra everywhere, just as distasteful as the first time Kaguya sensed it when she obtained the power of the Shinju… and met her worst enemies.
"Hana, Ryuuren, I don´t like this… to use you. I know exactly the kind of monsters you are and…" two figures appeared, materialized from the babies bodies.
"Who is using who, un?" said the blond blue eyed boy in his adult form, with his typical stoic face, while his redheaded brown eyed twin sister laughed at the plant man´s surprise.
"Don´t be like that, we are one and only in every time, un" she answered. "Recruiting nii-san for this? Sounds good, get him to kill a lot of people for our entertainment"
"Why are you helping?"
"Don´t take it the wrong way, once we get bored we will kill them and move on to the next step, un" she said. The boy nodded, not being a talkative one. "And you should know what we want to achieve, un. Art is destruction after all"
"And you can´t achieve that without the key to your main chakra sources, no? It was good that my mother managed to seal you two" he said, trying to provoke them. But the forgotten Twins of the Bicolor Obelisk didn´t react, disappearing instead. He sighed, for his mother he would do anything. Even following those crazy psychos game. "Just hope they never found the key"
"What do you think, un?" asked Hana to her twin trough the natural mental connection they had. He didn´t answer, but moved his fingers a bit. "Yeah, it will take time. And divert the world´s attention towards them will give us time to finish our artwork, un. Ryuu-nii, you are a genius"
"So are you, Hana-nee, un"
-In another country-
"Riho…" called the plant man to a little girl with long silver hair and bloody green eyes. She was an eight years old jashinist training to be priestess, but at the same time taking care of her brother Ryoga.
"Heathen, you made a mistake coming to one of Jashin-sama´s sanctuaries and believing you will get out with your life"
"I´m Zetsu and belonged to Akatsuki. Don´t you want the chance to avenge your parents? To sacrifice their killers for their eternal rests?"
"Tell me more" asked Riho, frowning. Once he struck a deal with her, the man left satisfied. He didn´t went to the Hidden Rain, knowing full well that Yurika Uzumaki knew the truth and will try to kill him. Well, at least she didn´t possess the Rinnegan. He left laughing, knowing that he would have a second chance even if he needed to wait a few years.
