An armed woman is found lurking around Konoha a few months after the Forth Great Ninja War. She is quickly captured by the Anbu and taken into custody. The young blonde fully cooperates with procedure and questioning. She reveals that she is looking for the last remaining member of her family, a man she believes is living in the village. She explains that she is Umino Bri, the daughter of Umino Ikkaku, a man which she never met but received news of his death many years ago.
Raised by her mother in a small village in the Land of Fire, she would often hear stories from her mother of Ikkaku. Bri's mother Chisai adored Ikkaku, but she was a very lonely and weak woman. Chisai had no problem overlooking his obviously unfaithful ways. After Ikkaku learned of Chisai's pregnancy (afraid news of his adultery would reach his wife and now three year old son) he stopped his monthly visits to the village. All Bri knew of her father was that he was a Hidden Leaf shinobi, and his family name which (because of her mother's slight obsession with Ikkaku) she was raised under.
Bri explains that her village was decimated before the war by the notorious Akatsuki. At the time Bri was away for the village looking for supplies. Having returned to her home to find everyone dead, including her mother, she left the village. She had since been wandering not sure what to do with herself. During this time she learned of the war hero Naruto from a wounded shinobi discharged from the war. This man had heard all about Naruto's life from a man that knew very much about the war hero first hand, Naruto's own sensei Umino Iruka. Extremely intrigued, Bri left at once to find Konoha and the man called Iruka…
"What the hell is this and where did it come from?!" Tsunade was close to tears looking at the two weapons brought into her office by the Anbu shinobi.
"These are the weapons taken from the woman we found on the outskirts of the village; Tsunade-sama is there a problem?"
"Yes! Yes there is! Bring that woman in right now!" As the Anbu shuffled out of her office Tsunade pushed the katana to the edge of her desk. The other weapon was of much more concern. The Hokage had never seen anything like it before, it was heavier than expected. A cold, metal … miniature cannon? It had some type of trigger and a hallow barrel around 8 inches long. It fit easily in her hand, and the metallic surface reflected her obviously distressed face right back at her. It wasn't the weapon itself that concerned her but the small engraved letters at the bottom of the handle. The same two initials were also engraved on the tamahagane blade of the katana. "M.K" Meruto Kinzoku. Tsunade was sure of it. Only he could make a weapon this intimidating, and she hadn't even seen it in action yet.
Just then, the doors of the Hokage's office burst open and a slender blonde woman around 23 years old entered, she was accompanied by Yamato and three other Anbu shinobi. The woman looked completely dehydrated and exhausted; she must have come a long way in a short time.
"What are you doing with these weapons?" Tsunade spat out before she could even ask who the blonde woman was.
"They're my only possessions…" The woman said, barely audible. "If you give them back I will leave. They're very important to me, more important than finding Iruka." Her yellow hair is wet from sweat and tears.
Iruka? The Hokage is quickly becoming more impatient. "Okay… we will get back to the weapons, first of all who are you? And what to you want with Iruka?"
After a slow deep breath the woman said "I already explained everything to these men, but to make a long story short I believe he is my brother and just wish to meet with him, that is all." a short pause and then "My name is Umino Bri, my village has been destroyed and I no longer wish to be alone…actually, I never wished to be alone, but shit happens."
Tsunade is stunned; she looks around at the Anbu team, the blank expressions of their masks starred back at her. What an interesting day this has become.
"Alright, this is news to me but I'll accept it for now. What I really need to know is how you acquired these weapons from Kinzoku." Tsunade sounds angry and desperate at the same time
"Kinzoku was my sensei." Bri said with a small amount of concern in her voice as she analyzes Tsunade, who still looks like she is about to start crying.
"Was your sensei? So he's dead." Now everyone in the room could see the tears brimming on the edges of the Hokage's eyes.
"Yes, did you know him?" Bri said with a voice so soft it was as though she trained her whole life in consoling.
Tsunade sat straight up and looked the blonde directly in the eye, her face now hard and determined. "Of course I did, he was the best ninja tools craftsman to ever live in the village…and he was my younger brother's sensei as well."
The slender woman looked down and closed her eyes. Of course, Kinzoku-sensei had a life before me. It would be silly of her to think otherwise, but he had been a mystery to her and to her village. Bri had always been a very passive person when it came to her sensei. He spoke about the situations at hand and the future, but never his past, and Bri never pried. It wasn't that she was afraid, it was more so out of empathy, she could tell that he came for a life of great pain, maybe even loss. No one is just born with the compassion that Kinzoku had, the blonde learned this first hand. So, for all Bri knew he was born and raised in her tiny village selling weapons to the great nations. That was the reality that she accepted.
She felt a slight pain of jealously towards the Hokage. This woman obviously knew Kinzoku on a level Bri had never reached, and now never will. She suddenly wanted to know everything.
"I'm sorry; I don't know much of anything about his past." Bri was still looking at the floor. He was from Konoha of all places? As she processed this information, Bri realized that it all made sense, people from villages outside Konoha were never top par ninja, and Kinzoku-sensei never mentioned where or how he became so proficient.
"He disappeared after my brother died," Tsunade suddenly interrupted Bri's thoughts. "No one could find him; Anbu had been looking for him since the second Hokage was in power". Bri looked up blinking. Was sensei really that important? Tsunade continued "I knew he was still alive, his weapons kept turning up around the world, I even went to go look for him myself after the second Great War."
Bri's eyebrows crinkled, her face contorted in confusion, she started "He was a good man; I could never see him hurting a child. He loved children more than he loved himself." Bri sounded a bit desperate at this point.
"I know that. We weren't pursuing him because he hurt Nawaki; it was because he loved him." Tsunade put her elbow on the desk and rested her forehead onto her hand, looking down "All I wanted was to hear stories of my brother, I needed someone to comfort me, it was because of my selfish request that the mission had been going on for so long." Tears started to pool on the desk in front of the Hokage, she didn't look up "Please put this woman in a cell, then return for your orders".
A girl raised under Kinzoku was most likely worth trusting, but then again the same girl could be a very dangerous threat to the village. Kinzoku was a top notch ninja, not just anyone gets appointed to be the sensei of Senju children. A person with this much potential cannot just be left to roam the village alone, even without her weapons. Tsunade wanted to believe the girl, she saw Kinzoku's will in her eyes, or at least she thought she did. It was a gamble, but that's something Tsunade couldn't resist.
After a while, Yamato and the rest of the Anbu team come back for their orders. "Alright, I'm going to let this girl stay and meet Iruka."
Yamato stood up straighter and scratched his head "Tsunade-sama, are you sure about this? She could very well be lying about Kinzoku, it's not like she knew much about him."
Tsunade looked as stern as ever as she pretty much ignores Yamato's comment "If Iruka doesn't wish to meet with her, then that is that, I won't force him into an uncomfortable situation." Tsunade stands up "I think the boys should meet her first, if they feel she is a threat we can call this whole thing off, alright Yamato?"
Yamato relaxes a bit "I agree, what are the official orders Hokage-sama?" As Tsunade walks toward her office door she turns and says in a relaxed tone "You three, gather the boys. Yamato, stay with Bri-san and take her downstairs when they arrive."