1Hey peoples! Here it is the first chapter of the winning story of my story poll: Son of the Uchiha. I apologize that this chapter is later that what I said it would be, but I hope you all like it since I worked really hard on it. Also I'll try to update weekly with this story but, I'm just not sure how long the chapters are going to be.

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Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto I wouldn't be writing fanfictionnow would I? However, I do own Yoshi Haruno, Haruki and Usagi Uzumaki, Ronin Hyuuga, Taro Nara, and Aoi Shiami.

Enough ON WITH THE STORY:

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SON OF THE UCHIHA

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Prologue

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"Look. There he is."

"Okaa-san, who is that boy?"

"Don't look at him I don't want you to associate with people like him."

"I don't know why the Hokage allows that boy to live in the village."

"I know. I heard the Hokage and the boys mother where on the same genin team when the were younger. And you already know that she was the previous hokage's apprentice."

"Teammates, apprentice, whatever! The Hokage is responsible for the protection of this village, and having that boy running around is a huge danger. I mean could you imagine the chaos that would ensue if he became as powerful as his father? Not to mention if he became as strong as his mother!"

"Hush! Don't give the boy any ideas. But you do have a point. If he ever wants to become that powerful, I bet you he would. You know how determined and narrowminded both of his parents are. His mother is an immature women who was obsessed with his father, and his father has been messed up since he was a small boy. It would only be natural if he would have the same mental problems."

"Yeah. After all, he is his son."

A lone figure walked down the streets of Konoha, jaw clenching as he ignored the all of the worried glances and harsh whispers of the villagers he passed. Since he was use to this he was able to block out all of the things the people said. Well, most of what they said anyway.

Shifting the weight of the grocery bag in his arms he sprinted the rest of the way home.

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"Yoshi-kun, your home. Did you get all of the groceries?"

"Hai, Okaa-san. I got everything on the list. Just like you asked." a large smile appeared on Yoshi's face.

"Good job. I'll put this food away while you go get a shower and change out of you training outfit. Then we'll go over to Uncle Naruto's house so you can play with Haruki-kun and Usagi-chan before dinner."

Yoshi nodded before running down the hall of their small apartment. Yoshi Haruno is eight years old with emerald green eyes and midnight black hair. He is often very quiet and doesn't like to talk much. He is incredibly smart and has the highest grades in the entire academy. He also prefers to be alone than with other people, besides his friends and family.

His four best friends are Ronin Hyuuga, Haruki and Usagi Uzumaki, and Taro Nara.

Ronin was the son of Uncle Neji and Aunt TenTen. He had the same pale colored eyes as his father and the same brown hair like both of his parents. He is said to be a prodigy. Like Yoshi, he was one of the quiet ones, never taking unless force to or to insult someone. However, even though he acts like he has a stick in a very unpleasant place, he is a very loyal friend and always willing to help the people who mean a lot to him.

Haruki and Usagi where the children of Uncle Naruto and Aunt Hinata. Haruki has bright blond hair and light blue eyes. He isn't what you would call a genius, but he is one of the greatest people you could call a friend. He wants to become hokage like his father. And like his father, seems to not have come with a mute button. Usagi has the same dark colored hair of her mother and the same light blue colored eyes as her brother. Most people usually think that she and Haruki are twins because of the color of their eyes, but Usagi is actually seven years old, a year younger than her brother. She doesn't say much unless she wants to, but if she ever put her faith into someone, you would always know that she never stopped believing in that person.

Taro is the son of Uncle Shikamaru and Aunt Ino. His brown hair was styled the same way as his fathers with a single streak of natural blond hair hanging in front of his eyes. The guy is a real coach potato, never wanting to do anything if it required moving or using an ounce of energy. Even though the guy could be the next Albert Eienstein if he wanted to, since he has an IQ of like 200. The same as his father. But he is a really great friend.

None of his aunts and uncles where related by blood since his mother was an only child, but they where close enough to be called family.

Taking off his sweaty training cloths he took a quick shower and changed into a clean black high collar t-shirt with the Haruno clan symbol on the back, a clean pair of black shorts, bandages on both of his calves and his black ninja sandals.

His mother was already waiting for him at the front door. They would often go over to Uncle Naruto's or even Aunt Ino's house for dinner at least once every two weeks as a big get-together for his mothers friends. However, since Aunt Ino was eight months pregnant with her second child she was having seriously bad mood swings. So Uncle Shikamaru suggested that they eat at Uncle Naruto's until after the birth. And since Uncle Shikamaru was so lazy, Taro had to stay and help his father control his mother. Yoshi almost felt bad for Taro since he knew how Aunt Ino sure could yell when she was angry.

Even though the walk to Uncle Naruto's house wasn't very long, the fastest way to get there they would have to walk through the open market that Yoshi had just returned from. Shoppers glared at the small family. Fathers stood protectively in front of their families, mothers pushed their children behind them, the children, blissfully ignorant of the heavy tension hanging in the air, stared at Yoshi and his mother with great curiosity. It was only mer seconds before the whispers could be heard.

"Geez. I can't believe they would have the nerve to show their faces in public like this."

"I heard she's been sleeping around with other men again."

"Someone should do something about people like them."

Yoshi's gaze remained locked on the ground as he walked, head hung low. His hands buried in his pockets as deep as they could go. 'Why do people always have to talk about us like that? What did we ever do to them?'

Seeming to sense his distress his mother placed her hand on his shoulder and squeezed it tightly. 'Okaa-san.' Looking up he saw his mothers eyes stared straight ahead of her, full of determination, a pleasant smile on her face. On her outside she looked beautiful, strong, and composed. However, Yoshi was not fooled.

He knew she was just as mad as he was at the villagers gossip, if not more. He was always able to tell the difference between her real and fake smiles. And every time he looked hard enough he could always see the deeply hidden sadness in her eyes. It seemed that not even his mother's friends could see it. But no matter how hard he worked at his grades at the academy to make her proud of him, or tried to make her happy by behaving as best as he could, that sadness never disappeared.

They were almost at the Hyuuga compound when a very tall man stepped out a dark alley in front of them. Holding a half-empty sake bottle, and sway slightly one his feet.

"Hey! Y-your that Haruno-o bitch aren't y-you? And thaz his zon izn't? He'z the zon of a murder! That man...killed my brother! And you zlept with him and gave birth to that little bastard! YOU WHORE! I'm going to make you sorry. I'll make him pay ... BY KILLING HIS SON!!" The man, who was obviously way too intoxicated to really focus on anything, jumped toward them, fist pulled back and ready to launch.

But Sakura, being one of the best ninja in the village, was more than ready for his attack. Pushing Yoshi behind her, she hit a pressure point in his neck. Causing him to blackout before hitting the ground with a solid thud sound.

"Yoshi-kun, are you alright?" Sakura asked as she checked over him, making sure he didn't have any injuries.

"I'm fine, Okaa-san, but what about you?" He patted some dirt off of him, while his mother did the same to herself.

Yoshi walked over to the unconscious man. Yep. This guy was defiantly down for the count. He was going to wake up with one hell of a hangover. Seeing his mother was fixing her slightly messed up hair, Yoshi gave the man a good strong kick in the side. Unfortunately, his mother saw him.

"Yoshi Haruno! Why on earth did you do that?" Sakura's emerald eyes gave her son a hard serious look. Yoshi had to resist the urge to flinch under his mothers gaze. Some times his mother could be the scariest person on the planet.

"But, Okaa-san, he deserved it. This guy is an ... um, what was the word. Oh yeah! This guy is an asshole." Yoshi didn't have any warning before Sakura's index finger and thumb latched themselves to his ear, tugging hard.

"OW! Okaa-san, let go! It hurts! Okaa-san!" He tried to free his ear from his mothers grip, but with her superhuman strength it was impossible.

"YOSHI HARUNO what did you just say?! I don't ever want to hear you say that word again. Do you understand me?" She rubbed her forehead with her free hand in an attempt to sooth a painful headache she was getting. "What has gotten into you lately? You haven't been doing your school work, arguing with teachers, and threatening to beat a few of your classmates up. You've never behaved this way before. I don't understand why your acting this way. And I know I've taught you better than that."

Sakura released Yoshi's ear and placed a firm grip on his shoulder. "And what happened at the academy today. I got a call at the hospital this morning from Iruka-sensei at the academy saying that you were causing a bit of trouble in class. Do you want to tell me about it."

Yoshi didn't say a word and just look away from his mother unable to look her in the eyes. He was thankful that Iruka-sensei hadn't told his mother what really happened.

Flashback

Everyone in Iruka's class had just finished a weapon identification test and were reading their book on chakra and chakra control for homework. Yoshi was sitting in the first row all the way to the left, closest to the windows. Haruki was sitting to his right doodling a picture of his face on the hokage monument next to his father, with Ronin sitting next to him quietly reading. Taro was sitting behind Yoshi with his head down on the desk sleeping, again.

Iruka stood up, his chair making a scraping noise, breaking the silence causing a few of the students to jump.

"Alright everyone, I need to drop these files off to another sensei before class is over. I want all of you to behave while I'm gone. That means you too, Haruki." He left the room and not even before the sound of his footsteps had disappeared down the hall, the room erupted into mayhem.

Boys grouped together talking about the newest weapons, while the girls grouped together to talk about the latest makeup and hairstyles, fashion, and of course ... boys. Mainly Taro, Haruki, Ronin, and secretly Yoshi. Since, even though all the girls in class had been forbidden by their parents to ever speak to Yoshi Haruno, that never seemed to stop the numerous amount of secret admirer letters from showing up on his seat every morning.

Yoshi was staring out the window when suddenly a book hit him in the back of the head. He turned to glare at a smirking Aoi Shiami.

Aoi Shiami was the biggest jerk on this side of the planet. He may not have been the sharpest kunai in the set, but he was the heir to the Shiami clan, one of the top ten clans in the hidden leaf village. He wasn't the best ninja in class (which was Yoshi, by the way), but he sure did act like he was Kami-sama himself. He was also always trying to one up Yoshi in absolutely everything. And when he couldn't do that he would rub in the fact that Yoshi didn't have a father, and how everyone in the village seemed to hate him and his mother.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Yoshi Haruno. I didn't think you would ever come out of that tiny little shit hole you call an apartment, of course I wouldn't know how to live in a little place like that. I bet I wouldn't even be able to fit all of the great weapons and ninja scrolls my father gave me. In fact, I wanted to show you the new kunai set my father gave me. Sure, he did give me a new set just last week, but you know the newer they are, the better they are. And this set has the Shiami clam symbol engraved on them. To show how strong the Shiami clan is. Aren't they great?"

Aoi tossed one of his new kunai into the air before catching it. Letting the lights shine off its polished edges. He pointed it at Yoshi trying to intimidate him. But Yoshi's face remained indifferent.

"What's the matter? Don't you have anything to say? Or do you have a speech impediment? You want to know something? Me and my father where talking the other day while the two of us were training together - we do that a lot you know - and he told me that your father raped your mother. But what I think really happened was your father drank to much sake one night, had sex with your mother, and when he woke up in the morning he was so disgraced that he had slept with such a common whore, that he left the village and became a missing ninja just so he wouldn't have to deal with the shame of calling your mother his wife and you his son."

Aoi laughed his stupid high pitched girly laugh. A few of his sidekicks laughing loudly with him. Yoshi had to grip the desk just to make sure that he didn't jump onto Aoi and start to beat his brains out. Haruki had to be held down by Ronin to make sure he didn't do the same. While Yoshi, Ronin and Taro, who was awake now, all firmly glared at Aoi.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! In fact, I'm surprised that your mother still puts up with you. And with your father, I don't blame him. I mean how could anyone stand to call you his son, and that bitch-" the second Aoi had said that word, Yoshi just couldn't hold back anymore. No one called his mother a bitch without having a broken jaw afterward. Yoshi pushed Aoi to the floor, repeatedly nailing Aoi in the face, not allowing him to defend himself. Yoshi would have done this all day if he could, but he felt himself being lifted off Aoi by Iruka-sensei, who had just returned to class.

"THAT IS ENOUGH! Stop it this instant! I want all of you to go outside and practice throwing your kunai and shuriken. I will take Aoi to the nurse's office. Yoshi, stay here until I get back." No one moved, still to shocked by the fight that had just occurred. All staring at Aoi's now broken nose and bleeding mouth. His eyes already starting to turn black and blue. "NOW!"

The students walked outside all whispering to each other about what had just happened. Ronin, Haruki, and Taro stalled wanting to stay with their friend, but finally left when Yoshi nodded and told them that they could leave.

Yoshi sat in his seat staring out into space, thinking of how much trouble he was going to get into this time. He didn't even notice that Iruka had walked back into the room.

Neither braking the silence; Yoshi waiting for the usual lecture and punishment, Iruka thinking of how to handle this situation.

"Yoshi, ... you know that you shouldn't be getting into fights like that. No matter what someone says, you should be the better man and just walk away, not stoop down to their level."

"But Iruka-sensei, Aoi said-"

"I know what Aoi said. I was standing outside the door practically the whole time. I saw Aoi throw that book at you, how he was deliberately provoking you. I just wanted to wait to see if you could be a better person than he was. But you let your anger get control of you, and you started fighting him. And I'm not happy about that. I'm going to have to call your mother and tell her you were causing some trouble in class, and I want you to stay after school for a little bit. I want you to stay in here until all of the other students leave, then I want you to go outside and practice throwing your kunai and shuriken for a little while. Got it?"

Yoshi was shocked. "But Iruka-sensei, I got into a fight, that means that I should be expelled for the rest of the day! Getting into a fight isn't causing a little bit of trouble in class. Not to mention Aoi's parents are going to be furious and are definitely going to tell the hokage, everyone in the village, and my okaa-san. I'll be in so much trouble, I'll-" Yoshi had to stop taking because while he had been speaking, he forgot to breath!

"Hold on. Just breath. I already talked to Aoi's parents. I told them Aoi had aimed a kunai at you, and your actions were in self-defense. You can't get into trouble for that. I also told them that aiming a weapon at a fellow student while in class, unless it is sparing, could result in expulsion. And if they didn't want to have Aoi kicked out of the academy then they were not allowed to say anything. I sent a short report to the Hokage explaining what happened, so don't worry. Just promise me that you'll won't get into anymore fights while in school, ok?" Iruka smiled kindly, while Yoshi did the same. This was the reason Iruka-sensei was Yoshi's favorite sensei. He didn't look down on him or his mother like so many other people in the village.

"Thank you, Iruka-sensei. I promise."

End flashback

When Yoshi didn't answer Sakura decided that they would talk about this later.

"OH MY GOOD KAMI-SAMA! WHAT HAVE YOU PEOPLE DONE?!" Both shocked, by the sudden outburst, Sakura and Yoshi both turned to see a little old lady, apparently out for a late night stroll standing there pale as a ghost, pointing to the passed out man on the ground that they had both forgotten. 'Not good.'

"HELP! SOMEONE HELP! THE HARUNO'S HAVE KILLED SOMEONE! HELP!" The little old lady was running up the street as fast as her short, old legs could take her, yelling at the top of her lungs screaming for help. The once dark windows of the neighboring houses shined brightly as people looked out their windows to see what all of the commotion was about. Doors opened and people came out all seeing the man on the ground. A women screamed.

Hearing all of the noise outside, the occupants of the Hyuuga household came out. Pushing his way though the crowd was the Rokudaime, Naruto Uzumaki, himself. Followed by the rest of the Uzumaki family, and the Hyuuga family.

Checking to make sure the man on the ground wasn't dead as everyone believed, Naruto asked, "Sakura-chan, what happened here?" Sakura told him of how they were on their way to the Hyuuga compound when the man came out of the alley and yelled at them before attacking them. She said that she had only been acting in self-defense.

A random person from the crowd yelled, "That's a lie. Everyone knows how people like you act. Now we finally have some proof, enough to get you kicked out of the village. Hokage-sama do something."

Everyone in the crowd started to yell things for Naruto to do to them. Like kick them out of the village, or have them both thrown into jail. Once or twice someone even mentioned execution.

Yoshi, only being a kid, nervously held onto his mothers hand, the only calm thing in the storm.

Naruto had, had enough of the villagers bad mouthing his dear friend. "ENOUGH! EVERYONE BE QUIET! NOW!" All of the villagers, the Hyuuga family, and Sakura and Yoshi were all stunned by Naruto's sudden outburst, having never heard the hokage yell like that.

"Neji, TenTen," both said persons straightened at the sound of their names, "I want the both of you to handle the crowd. When your both done, take this guy home. Sakura, I want you to come with me to my office. Yoshi and Ronin will stay with Hinata until we get back. Alright?"

Sakura nodded in agreement as Neji and TenTen started directing everyone back to their homes. Ronin, Haruki, Usagi went back inside of the Hyuuga compound. Hinata waited for Yoshi even though he didn't move.

Looking down at her son, Sakura said, "Yoshi-kun, I want you to do what Naruto says and go with Hinata. I'll be back later. Ok sweety?" She gave him a reassuring smile, but it didn't work.

"Bur Okaa-san, I want to stay with you." He tried as hard as he could to give his mother the puppy eyes look that Haruki always used to get ramen when ever he wanted, but not having to much experience at it, his mother was not moved.

Shaking her head she gave her son a small kiss on the forehead before handing him over to Hinata. When they both went into the compound and everyone in the crowd had gone back to their homes. Her and Naruto walked to the hokage's office.

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"This isn't looking good, Sakura-chan." Naruto sat in the large hokage chair, Sakura sitting in one of the few chairs in front of his desk The office was filled with piles of paper work that Naruto had neglected to do earlier that day.

Sakura sat still as a statue in her seat. She knew that Naruto wouldn't punish her since she had done nothing wrong, but she was worried about Yoshi and what could happen to him if the villagers got to angry about this. "So what are we going to do about it?"

Naruto rubbed his forehead in frustration. This was a huge problem. If people in the village started to say that Sakura had killed someone or even attacked them, even if it was in self-defense, the entire village and the village elders would want him to take action. He was the 'Rokudaime' after all.

"I had planed on giving this to you in the morning tomorrow, but now is probably a better time." He opened one of the drawers in his desk and took out a mission scroll. Handing it to Sakura he explained, "This is an A-ranked mission, Sakura-chan. It should only take you about a week to complete it. I want you to do some snooping around in the village hidden in the mist. There has been some powerful ninja reported in the area. And I need someone to see if the rumors are true."

"This seems like the usual jounin kind of mission, Naruto. And I am Anbu. Just how powerful are these ninja are we taking about?"

"Akatsuki powerful." Naruto said the word akatsuki as if it had left a bad taste in his mouth. "That is why I wanted to send you. I know you can handle yourself if you run into any trouble with them."

Sakura glared. "Don't even joke. The Akatsuki organization was ended a long time ago. You and I both know that." There was no possibility the Akatsuki could still be around. She and Naruto had both worked so hard to make sure that there was never any trace of the Akatsuki left. They both wanted the memory of the organization to fade from society's mind. And theirs.

"I'm not joking. You know that the Akatsuki always had a stash of replacements ready just in case if one of the members died. And we never got all of the original members. I believe that their up to their old tricks and are out for world domination again. That's why I'm sending you out to investigate.

"And with what just happened earlier, I think this is a good opportunity to go. Yoshi is just a kid so no one would think that he could have attacked someone, but you're an adult Sakura-chan, and one of this villages best ninja. Everyone will be pointing the finger at you. But if your not here, that would give a chance for everyone to calm down. So that way when you get back I'll have the entire situation under control. No worries." He gave her a reassuring smile like she had given to Yoshi before, but Sakura was unaffected.

"I can't do that Naruto. Yoshi might be in danger if I leave. Even though I wouldn't be here he would, and the villagers might try to take their anger out on him. I won't let-" Sakura had tried to explain, but Naruto cut her off.

"Don't worry. I'll have Yoshi stay with me while your gone. No one would even think of hurting him if he's in my care. And I'll even have one of our friends watch over him while he is not at my home. He'll be perfectly safe."

Sakura looked like she wanted to disagree again, but she finally did agree with Naruto. Yoshi would be safe with him and if the Akatsuki were back this was serious. She would have to go. And maybe he was right. If she wasn't here for the villagers to get mad at, and gave him a chance to get the situation with the knocked out man taken care of, then maybe people would forget. Not right away, but eventually. Besides she would only be gone for a week, Yoshi could handle being at Naruto's house for that long. Apparently when Naruto became hokage, his brain finally decided to turn itself on.

"Alright I'll go. I'm going to pack, then I'll say goodbye to Yoshi before I leave. I'll see you at your house later."

Naruto smiled one of his large, classical smiles. "Believe it." His typical old saying that never got old.

She gave Naruto a small smile before doing a few hand signs and disappearing into a puff of smoke.

-I-

At the Hyuuga compound Yoshi sat on one of the small window seats next to the large windows over looking the front yard of the compound. Everyone had already eaten dinner while Yoshi had just picked at his food the whole time, not really eating anything.

Haruki, Usagi, and Ronin had tried to get him to play with them after dinner, but he had refused saying that he was going to stay sitting at the window seat until his mother got here. Eventually, Aunt Hinata, Uncle Neji and Aunt TenTen, who had both arrived a little while ago had made the three of them go to bed. Aunt Hinata had left a small tomato sandwich and a glass of milk for him to have, saying that if he need anything else to not be afraid to ask, before going to bed herself.

Uncle Naruto had come home at 11:00pm, without his mother. He said that his mother was going to go on a mission so she was packing and would be coming over before she left. And while she was gone he would be staying with him and Aunt Hinata in the usual guest room that he slept in when ever he stayed the night. Naruto ate some of the dinner leftovers before he went to bed.

It was a few minutes to midnight when his mother finally got to the compound. Yoshi must have fallen asleep because when he opened his eyes his mother was smiling at him. Unable to control himself he latched his arms around his mother neck, in a tight hug. Not wanting to let go. At first slightly shocked by his actions Sakura returned the hug.

"Yoshi-kun, were you good for Hinata and Naruto while I was gone?" She pulled back slightly, enough to look at his face. Seeing one little tear streak down his face she wiped it away with her hand. He must have been really worried about her or tired, probably a combination of them both for him to cry. Even if it was only a single tear.

"Okaa-san, your not really going to leave on a mission are you?" After what had happened today and stay up so late, he was both physically and emotionally tired and didn't care if he was acting like a little kid. All he wanted was his mother near by.

Sakura sighed, knowing this was going to lead to the usual argument. Even though Yoshi knew she was a ninja that didn't mean that he liked her leaving to go on missions.

She put her hand on his head and ruffled his black hair affectingly. "I'm sorry, Yoshi-kun. But don't worry. Naruto said that you can stay with him while I'm away. I'll only be gone about a week-"

"A week! You can't leave for a week." Yoshi's voice rising to a yell. Aoi's words from earlier that morning of how he was surprised Yoshi's mother still put up with him replayed themselves in is mind. His face turned into a scowl. "Don't lie to me. I bet your not going on a mission at all. Your just going to leave me and never come back!" He pushed himself off of his mother, standing defiantly in front of her. His hands clenched into fist at his sides.

Sakura looked angrily at her son. "Yoshi, don't say such nonsense. I'm going on this mission, and I will be coming back in one week weather you like it or not."

Yoshi closed his eyes in anger before shouting. "I HATE YOU. YOU'RE SO ANNOYING!"

He ran from the room into the guest room he would be using, slamming the door behind him. Completely missing the heart clenching look on his mothers face as he said those cursed words.

Naruto having been awoken by all of the shouting walked into the living room, rubbing his eyes in a sleepy manor. He was surprised to see Sakura kneeling on the floor almost on the verge of tears.

"Sakura-chan, what happened?" He placed one of his arms around her in a half hug.

Drying her eyes with the back of her hand, she stood up saying, "Nothing. Don't worry about it Naruto." She walked over to her pack that she had left near the door and put it on her back. Sliding the door open, she turned back to Naruto before she said. "Bye Naruto. Say bye to everyone for me will you? Tell Yoshi that I love him, and the two of us are going to talk when I get back."

Naruto nodded while waving goodbye. Sakura closed the door behind her before leaping into the darkness.

-I-

The next morning Yoshi was still angry with his mother leaving. But his anger was soon forgotten by the third day. He waited patiently at the village gates in his spare time.

However, a week had come and gone without his mother returning. A week turned into two and a team of Anbu ninja was sent out to look for her. Without finding a single clue to her location. Yoshi's grades started to slip at the academy. He was often found staring out into space or waiting at the village gates. He hadn't meant what he said when he said he hated his mother. And he was fearful that his mother had really left him behind.

When three weeks was about to turn into a month Yoshi was summoned to the hokage's office.

Yoshi sat in the same chair that his mother had sat in about a month ago. The hokage was sitting behind the desk with a look of angst on his face. His wife standing by his side with tears threatening to fall in her eyes. This caused Yoshi to worry. Something terrible must have happened. Maybe something happened to his mother ... No. Yoshi shook his head to rid himself of those thoughts. Nothing could have happened to his mother. She was one of the strongest ninja in the village. Nothing could have happened to her.

Clearing his throat, Naruto began to speak. "Yoshi, a few days ago. One of the Anbu teams that I sent out to find you mother reported finding something."

Yoshi's heart beat faster hopefully. "They found Okaa-san? When is she going to get back? Today? Or tomorrow?"

Naruto's heart clenched painfully. This was not going to go end well. "No, Yoshi, you misunderstand. The Anbu ninja found ... blood. Lots of blood. All of it belonging to your mother. You know the human body only had a certain amount of blood in it, and if the body doesn't have enough blood in it, it doesn't survive."

Yoshi's hands griped the armrest of the chair to the point were his whole hand was turning white. His heart beat racing in fear.

'He's lying. He has to be.'

"Yoshi, I'm sorry I have to tell you this..."

'No. He's not going to say it.'

"This is really hard for me to say this, but I have to..."

'He's not going to say it'

"Yoshi, I'm sorry, but ..."

'He's not going to say ...'

"Your mother is dead."