Cousins of Uzu
Chapter One: NEW ARRIVALS
Naruto is not mine, but some of his new companions are. With their arrival who knows how the Fates will weave the storyline...
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In the predawn haze two man were joking about how easy their night shift of guard duty had been. "Hey Izumo it doesn't get any easier than this." Izumo said with his feet kicked up on the admission table in front of him as he reclined in his seat.
"I don't know how you can be so relaxed. You fell asleep for half our shift." Kotetsu replied.
Izumo gave chuckle, "whats going to happen? Rarely do any merchants or clients arrive this early. We have another hour before they usually start coming through."
"Yeah, that maybe so, but you were lucky the shift commander never caught you."
Waving his hand Izumo commented, "Yeah, Yeah, she never comes by more since her secretary went of medical leave. All the paperwork from the latest Uzumaki pranking spree will have her busy for the next week."
"Did you see the one where he set off the that orange paint bomb in the academy sensei office."
"I liked the one where he put ground hot peppers in the mission room coffee pot. It was the perfect excuse to get a new and better one."
"Yeah that was a good one. How about the one... Hey it looks like we have some activity, so get your ass up out of that chair." Kotetsu kicked Izumo's chair out from under him.
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Four figures slowly emerged from the foggy hazed shrouding the forest edge. The two figures in the forefront shorter and cloaked. One in red and other in dark blue. As they neared the gate Izumo noticed something off with the rear two...they have hoods over their heads and looked as if their arms are restrained.
Kotetsu saw this as well and sends a silent signal to the nearest ANBU squad on patrol.
As the four reached the admission table the Andu squad got in position surround the quartet while staying hidden unseen in the shadows.
"Hello wandering strangers what brings you to Konohagakure." Izumo said with a smile.
The taller of the cloaked figures stepped towards Izumo and Kotetsu oblivious a second Andu squad taking a secondary position around the first squad.
"We seek a private audience the Hokage." a female voice stated from the concealed red cloak.
"We brought these two C-ranked missing-nin sweeten the deal. Although your T&I will probably need to clean them up. I swear the one shit himself a few miles back. Between you and me, I think i went a little overboard catching them." said the smaller cloaked female voice cackled as she handed over ninja-wire leads tired to the missing-nins. A wolf masked ANBU appeared to take the leads and disappeared with the two missing-nins.
"Hey what about our seeing the old fart." the smaller shouted. Red punched the shorter blue on top of her head.
"What your mouth," red said.
"Tess that hurt," blue whined.
Kotetsu had a struggled grin trying not to laugh as Izumo had to look away.
"It'll take a litt.." Kotetsu stuttered as a bear masked ANBU appeared towering behind the two cloaked females.
"If you come with me we'll meet with the Hokage shortly," he place a hand on each of girl's shoulder, then shunshin the three away.
"Well that was unexpected," Kotetsu commented as Izumo sat back down and kicked his feet up. Kotetsu could only shack his head at his duty partner.
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In a blink of an eye they went from the village gate to appear in the center of a large dimly lit office. As their senses adjusted to the sudden change of location they saw an elderly man sitting behind a huge desk in front of an equally huge window, with view of village and stone edifice of four faces carved in the cliff. the man was dressed in red and white robes and hat that had the kanji FIRE embroidered for all to see.
Upon regaining their barrings red made the motion to bow, but stopped to place a hand on blue's back forcing her to bow when red resumed her original motion "Hokage-sama," they unison. they righted themselves in silence.
After a few moments in a calm voice Hiruzen spoke, "So what could bring you two young ladies to Konohagakure in such a dramatic way...oh and thank you for your 'gifts', hopefully we can find some uses from them."
Blue stepped forward, "We gave them with a request of a private audience, which this is not it is six people too crowded."
"Six?" Hiruzen was confused.
"Yes.." Blue Purred, "Five are alike," she continued as she slowly turned her couled head, "but one is unlike the others," with that her hand made a sudden motion to the ceiling throwing a kunai up and tugged back on a wire once the kunai found purchase.
Suddenly the room was full of movement as a blank masked Andu fell to the floor with said kunai baried in his thigh. Landing in front of blue. the remaining five animal ANBU visible surround the three in the middle of the room with weapons drawn, but halted at Hiruzen's raised hand, speaking. "It seams you have a third 'gift' for us. How about we continue in private."
Hiruzen gave a nod and the ANBU grabbed the prone man and vanished from the room. Red took a step then slammed her hand to the floor. Where a triple swirl of black kanji writing crawled out from the paper in her hand to cover the floored than spider up the walls to meet on the ceiling encompassing the whole f the room.
At the moment red righted herself and discarded her cloak revealing a teenage girl with flaming red curly hair pulled back on thick ponytail that descended to the middle of her 5'-6" frame dressed in red and green attire. "My name is Tempest Uzumaki, Tess For short. And this is my cousin Nekomi Uzugado."
At this blue removed her cloak to show her 4' darker complection in navy and black attire with short wild black hair that had bluish sheen. Hiruzen chuckled at her cat-eared hair piece.
"Uzumaki you said?" with raised eyebrows
"Yes, we were raised by our 'Ji-san', until he recently passed away." Tess replied.
"That is sad to hear."
Tess stepped up to the large desk and reached across to hand Hiruzen a scroll she had pulled from a bag strung to her back, "He had instructed us to bring this to you upon his death and to seek out my other cousin Kushina Uzumaki, who came here before the fall of Uzu."
Hiruzen took the offered scroll and opened it. With a stoic face he began to read the scroll. It took him several minutes to read. As he finished, "do you know what this scroll contained?"
"No, but i can venture a guess Hokage-sama." Tess replied.
"It is a good thing that that you placed that privacy seal so we may discuss this freely, but first I must express my sympathy to you not only for your Grandfather's passing but to tell you that Kushina Uzumaki sadly passed away ten years ago during the Kyuubi attack."
With a sadden face Nekomi turn away, "All alone still" and flopped unceremoniously on the office room couch. All the while hiding her tear rimmed eyes.
After a moment Tess steeled herself, "Is there by chance anyway Kushina-sama had any kids before she passed or any other of our kin here. We happen to heard mention of an Uzumaki form your gate guards as we approached and I thought..."
With a tired sigh Hiruzen spoke, "This is a sensitive subject to discuss is there by chance a away to accommodate you for the day and pick this up tomorrow i have a feeling my schedule for today is suddenly filling up."
With reluctance Tess replied, "If you would so accommodate us i see why not, but before we leave is there any way we could collect a few bounties for some other missing-nins we've collected on our journeys Ji-san seem to of piled up a few." as she emptied dumped twenty Bond Seal Scrolls on to his desk and Nekomi tossed eight more on to the heap. Hiruzen sat stun at this.
Once Tess canceled the privacy barrier from the room Hiruzen busied his secretary to find a hotel for the girls. A few moments later a staff chunin arrived to escort the girls to they lodges for the night.
After his office doors close, "Bear" the ANBU from before appeared. "Take a squad and shadow those girl make sure nothing happens to them, nor that they cause any trouble." With that the ANBU vanishes once more Hiruzen swiveled around in his chair to gaze out his window when he spots a plume of orange smoke rise up from the market district. At this he raises a hand to rub the bridge of his nose, "I'm getting too old for this job and having to deal with the childish antics of an Uzumaki let alone there being three in the village."
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Next Chapter: New Arrivals Part 2