"What's this?" asked Tsunade.
"Ah... they were found in Konoha's forests, so we figured they came from here. They all looked hurt, so as medic nins, we cured them. But it seems that they would be out cold for a least another hour..."
Tsunade stared at the kid beside her. He looked so weak. His tomato red hair covered his whole face, so it was hard for her to see if she knew the boy. It took time for her to try to recognize the kid, but the child beside him looked familiar. Too familiar.
He had long, raven-black hair, wich covered most of his face. His skin was pretty pale, and he had tear troughs under his eyes. All in all, the young, frail boy looked calm. No one would ever think, that maybe... he was one of the most dangerous missing nins of Konoha.
"This boy looks so much like Itachi..." she blurted out.
"Yes, and all the other kids look a lot like dangerous missing nins too."
She stared at the next bed, where two seemingly innocent little girls were hugging each had blue hair, while the other was a blonde. They were covered in blankets, so it wasn't so clear if both were naked.
On another bed, the hokage saw something strange. There was this boy, and his head was at the wrong side of the bed. He had blue skin, and his teeth were dangerously sharp. What's even more dangerous is that he was about to chomp the foot of a certain silver-haired kid. Silver seemed to be mouthing some words, despite the fact that he's unconscious. He also had a pendant of an inverse triangle inside a circle. The pair was too wriggly, and their movements removed the sheets that once covered them.
Tsunade roamed around to see another pair covered in sheets. This time, their was a dark-haired boy hugging a redhead. Their face were so close together that if one more careless movement is done, both would kiss. They seemed to be behaving under the sheets.
"Tsunade-sama... All in all, we found 8 kids..."
"And they all look exactly like the previous members of Akatsuki... supposedely dead Akatsuki. "
"Yes, hokage-sama"
Tsunade let out a heavy sigh, and continued to stare at the seemingly helpless children. They look so much like the akatsuki, but .. it couldn't be them right?
"After all, they are all supposed to be dead..." thought Tsunade.
She came near to the raven-haired boy, and touched him on the forehead. She felt a strong static once she came in contact with the boy.
"His chakra energy is so high... not at all like an average genin. His chakra is somewhat even higher than Sakura's!"
She did the same to all the children, and finally concluded that they were the real Akatsuki.
"All their chakra levels are too high for their tiny bodies to contain," she told the medic nin.
"That's true, Hokage-sama. Most of us are thinking that maybe... they are the Akatsuki, and not just look-alikes."
"Hmm"
She sat down on a bench to collect all of her thoughts.
"This is something big" she thought. "If they really are the Akatsuki, then the first thing they might think of is revenge against the person who killed them, and that' would not be good at all."
"Um, hokage-sama," called a young, female medic nin. "What are we going to do with them?"
The female hokage thought for a while. She closed her eyes and gained a pose.
"Looks like I'm going to have to use it after all," she thought.
After a few minutes, she stood up, and opened her eyes.
"I'm going to use that jutsu."
Before she left the place, she sternly told everyone that once she comes back, all the children were cured, and that no medic nins would be left in that very room.
"And remember: Never tell this to anyone. What happened in here, stays in here."
They all chorused a 'yes, hokage-sama' and continued to heal the hurt children.
With that, she left the place hurriedly, and ran to the last room of the topmost floor of the Hokage's building.
She ran to the room of the forbidden jutsu scrolls.