Minato Namikaze is a lot of things. a leader, a teacher, a preacher of peace and much more, but above all else a Killer, a liar, a loving husband and father. Because of all those titles everyday he goes through is one tough decision after the other between balancing everything in his life.

Lying and killing came with the job of being Hokage of course. Two more things that also came with the job were the constant headaches and the infinite paperwork and ever since a few months ago they just seemed to pile up in the hundreds and never seem to stop.

To start with the good news, the village is now back at its feet again after nine years of hard work after so many hours spent talking to other leaders and establishing new connections with other villages while relying on their allies to provide resources they desperately needed at the time.

Opposing villages like the cloud and the rock tried to take advantage of their weakened state but he wasn't known as the yellow flash for nothing so their plans all backfired on their faces including two kidnapping attempts on the Hyuga clan heiress and his own son.

Putting that topic off to the side did he mention that the bane of his existence came knocking at the door again? They only just recently rose to their former glory but it would seem like life wasn't done screwing with his village and it's people just yet.

He owes the credit to that to the appearance of this new strange anomaly that was occurring inside of the leaf with the people found unconscious scattered all around the village with no recollection of what led to that point was something that currently haunted the village and it was starting to worry him greatly.

Whoever it was, they were a professional, Fast and silent and he hated that. Even the victims didn't have any clues since every case documented was pretty much the same. The ones that weren't questioned for answers were still deep in a coma so he was basically chasing after a ghost, so now the question is more of why instead of who.

And to add to all of that, a genin squad was reported missing 2 days ago around evening. Their sensei by the name of Hiroki Muramoto said that they were supposed to meet up for a joint late-night mission with another squad of genin for a C rank but they didn't show up.

He had sent a squad of ANBU to investigate but so far, they had come back empty handed that is until their search lead to an interesting location. After questioning some of the bystanders at the time, the genin had been reportedly seen running in the direction of the forest of death.

When the ANBU had gone there their first lead was a piece of bloodied cloth and for some reason the piece of fabric looked very familiar to Minato but he couldn't pinpoint what it was exactly.

It was sent to the underground private laboratories inside of the Leaf village hospital for a DNA test, hopefully they could get something useful out of it when they find out who the blood belongs to. As of now there were a few dozen of ANBU squads patrolling the forest and he had been anxiously awaiting the search results of the blood test.

That's when his sensei Jiraiya, the toad sage, had come in through the window of his office. The man sure was stealthy he'll give him that, didn't notice him till he was too close.

"And here we find my favorite student!" Exclaimed Jiraiya with a wide grin putting both of his hands on his student's shoulders.

"Your only student Jiraiya sensei." Said Minato still focused on the paperwork.

The old sage smirked. "So it may seem." He winked.

"So, what brings you here? Especially after spending so long outside the walls." Inquired Minato, finally shifting all of his focus on Jiraiya, he had to admit that he was surprised when he noticed the guy didn't age a single day ever since his departure a few years ago.

"Is this the treatment I get for visiting an old friend of mine? Oh how times have changed! Just some years ago you were a cute little genin struggling on a b rank and begging for my wisdom and guidance!" Asked Jiraiya faking the look of hurt as fake tears streamed down his face.

"No offence sensei but last time I saw you, the leaf was struggling to make ends meet and I was drowning in paper work so I think it's only fair that I'm not in the mood for hugging it out." He folded his hands over his chest gazing deeply into his old teacher's eyes.

"Fair enough, if you must know I've been doing extensive 'research' hehehe…" He giggled that last part out as he gained a perverted look on his face but that soon disappeared when he noticed that Minato was not in the mood for jokes.

"Sensei out of respect for you I will let this one slide, I'm sure your network has kept you updated on current events yes?" Minato moved up from his chair and went past Jiraiya to stare at the landscape of the village he grew to love.

"That they have, looks like your village is dealing with one mean bogeyman. I can only imagine the paper work from all the documented incidents, flashes of white and then...well who knows?" Jiraiya Said leaning against the wall as he gazed into the village from the office's view.

"This guy was fairly harmless in the past but I do not like what he's doing right now one bit, up until now we were completely blind but we believe we might have landed a lead on them. One of our ANBU captains found a piece of bloodied cloth at the forest of death that could link to our culprit. It is being processed right now at the labs, the DNA results should be out in a short time, a day or two at best."

Jiraiya raised an eye brow and hummed in thought. "Hmmm and what if it isn't our guy? For all we know could be someone else entirely."

"Call it intuition, it was most likely there around the time Hiroki Muramoto's genin squad entered the forest, they haven't been heard from ever since."

"Yeah, I heard about that, some rumors are circulating around that they found the person committing the attacks and were killed off to cover loose ends" Jiraiya put a hand on his chin and closed his eyes carefully going over the details in his head.

"My thoughts as well, anyway let us get to why you're actually here sensei-." before Minato could finish he sensed an ANBU agent body flicker into the room.

"Lord Hokage. Master Jiraiya." The ANBU bowed down to his leader.

"What is it chameleon?" Queried Minato.

"Sir. We…Found two members of team Hiroki inside of the forest…their remains to be precise." Once those words escaped his mouth, he had Minato's full attention and likewise for Jiraiya.

"Elaborate." Was all that Minato his full attention directed to the ANBU.

"Ten minutes into our a second sweep of the forest we came in contact with a dead Mitsuha Fujikawa south east of the central chunin exam tower, the cause of death seems to be a high voltage shock to the brain. A bit of searching later we found the mauled remains of genin Seiji Kojima, we have reason to believe there was foul play involved since the wild life is usually dormant around this time of year. We are still searching for the last genin and we suspect that he might be inside a collapsed cave just sout of the tower, our Earth specialists are digging into the cave as we speak, we'll report back once its done." and with that Chameleon concluded his report.

Minato rubbed his temple and sighed, He was really starting to hate this job. He stayed silent for a few seconds trying to collect his thoughts and thought about how he was going to proceed with this one.

"Orders sir?" Asked Chameleon hoping that he could leave the perimeter as soon as possible, the last thing he wanted was dealing with a pissed off Kage.

"Let Hiroki Muramoto and the parents of the genin know. then have your squad bring the casualties to Yamanaka Inoichi to salvage any information he can, after Inoichi's done round them up for a burial and invite friends and relatives to hold the funeral and keep everything tight, Last thing we want is to spread more panic over the entire village" And with those words the ANBU left the office.

"This is some grim stuff we got ourselves into." Said Jiraiya sitting down on the desk facing his student.

"Indeed. I have no option but to tighten the security around here considerably, We can't take chances anymore and as far as i'm concerned anyone can be our culprit, Sensei I will need your help on this one. Be my eyes in the shadows and if anybody slips through the cracks I want you on their case Asap."

"Alright I can do that. I'll notify my informants to keep their eyes peeled too, In fact i'll be meeting with one very soon."

"Thank you; for what It's worth…welcome back Sensei."

"Thanks kid. I actually came here to talk to you about something important at first, but seeing that you already have a heavy load on your shoulders I'll leave it for later, if you need me I'll be in the local bathhouse…I have 9 years' worth of research to catch up on hehehe…" and with that Jiraiya left the office via body flicker leaving a smiling Minato by himself.

"I guess some things never change…now back to the damned paperwork." He sighed and sat back down on his chair, it took a few moments for him to realize there was a note left for him at the desk and so he slowly moved his free hand to pick it up and read it.

'By the way, I'm coming by next week to let the little brat sign the toad contract for her birthday.'


-With Naruto-

He was currently sprawled over the ground barely breathing as he continued to sweat like a pig, He was pretty sure if he continued this hellish torture he was being subjected to by Shisui he'll die, His chest hurt, his head hurt, his limbs hurt, everything hurts!

"Get up short stuff we're not done yet." Ordered Shisui.

"No way…I'm toast!" Naruto managed to say between pained breaths.

"OW! SON OF A-" His screams of anguish echoed throughout the forest.

"No swearing! Or I'll keep hitting you with pebbles." Said Shisui.

He stood up on a pair of shaking feet and used a stick to support himself, Ever since a few weeks ago Shisui has been getting more and more brutal with his training methods and he wasn't sure if he liked that.

And it wasn't like he could tap out, the Raven had some sort of paper seals that could regenerate his energy and heal his wounds very fast, Credit to Tsunade Senju and his mother for working that out.

He heard a snicker to the side and snarled when he saw Satsuki Uchiha sitting on top of a tree branch laughing at his situation.

"Hey! What are you laughing about mole face?!" He shouted at her, the girl scowled and looked away. "That's right look away!"

It was weird training with Satsuki, they almost never talked, she just walked in with Shisui and trained following his instructions and never spoke a word to him unless absolutely necessary then left.

At the very least it wasn't like she trained with him every day, she'd come from time to time and he assumed those days that she did attend were when her older brother Itachi Uchiha was not around.

Now that's a guy he looked up to.

"Hey! Focus down here!" Shisui yelled for Naruto to which the boy looked down.

His eyes widened in terror. "HOLY!" He ran away and ducked for cover behind a rock, a giant flame burned his cover as it utterly destroyed the rock but he was relatively unharmed if you don't count the feeling of being very hot.

Without wasting time he jumped from his cover and rushed the Uchiha but the now 16 year old had more than enough time to react and after an exchange of fists and kicks the blonde found himself on the ground.

"Well, I'd say that you've improved over the course of the last 2 years, you actually managed to hit me this time around and utilized your kunai and shuriken more effectively." Noted Shisui looking down at his torn shirt.

"Yeah, yeah." Grumbled Naruto, He looked to the side and noticed that Satsuki jumped from the tree.

"Well, that concludes our training for today." Said Shisui.

"What? Already? But we only sparred once!" Whined Naruto.

"Sorry Blondie, I don't get enough free time nowadays and this little firecracker has to go home now." He ran a hand through his hair as he smiled apologetically. "Plus you're grounded so I can't keep you with me for long periods of time like we used to before."

"Pfft you're grounded? Serves you right!" chimed in Satsuki which Naruto chose to ignore but it did rile him up slightly.

"Okay I guess… when is our next session?" Asked Naruto bitterly.

"Sometime soon I'll let you know, here's a scroll by the way. There's a few techniques there for you and let me just say you'll like the third one a lot!" Said Shisui with a smile.

"Now we're talking! this makes up for it!" Smiled the blonde before pocketing the scroll.

"Good, let's get going Satsuki, lord knows hows pissy lady Mikoto is going to get if I don't get you back in time for supper." The older Uchiha motioned for the girl to leave.

Satsuki stuck her tongue out. "Later dummy." And with that she turned and walked leaving Shisui to stare at her with a frown. "Well you know how she is, see you Naruto."

"Yeah, sure thing Cya!" Waved Naruto as he was left staring at their retreating forms.

"That was interesting." Ada made her presence known startling Naruto. "Could you not? You scared me!"

"My apologies."

"So what did you think?" He asked his new companion as he opened up the scroll to view it's contents, his eyes read along the lines then widened.

"Sweet." He commented as his lips turned upwards.

"I think you didn't utilize your new abilities well enough." Ada said as he looked up from the scroll.

"I mean… I'd like to but they're kind of hard to manage currently, especially during a fight. Have to make sure i'm all sneaky about it and all!" Noted Naruto.

"Understood, would you like to head over to the training facility and brush up on your techniques?" Suggested Ada, the blonde didn't mind.

"Of course, that sounds good right now."

"Lead the way."

-The next day-

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Naruto woke up staring at the ceiling of his bed room then shifted to turn off the alarm clock, he slowly got up from bed with a yawn and a stretch of the limbs then lazily stood on both feet, He had about 35 minutes to get himself ready for the day then head to the academy and he wasn't wasting any time, He took notice of Ada's temporary absence but decided to not think much of it and opted to go wash up and change attire then head down stairs for breakfast.

He looked back to look at his sister who had been sleeping next to him, looks like the alarm didn't wake her up at all, she looked very peaceful and pretty in that position, he just couldn't dare to wake her up.

Come to think of it Shiro did look a lot like her mother, she was a bit shorter than him and had a mop of silky smooth red hair that reached her shoulders, a set of two blue eyes and pale rosy skin decorated by 3 whiskers on each cheek, which made her unique from the rest of the family even himself.

He was more like his father of course; Blonde sun kissed spiky hair with 2 bangs on each side of his face, Fair skin and a pair of Amethyst eyes so all and all he cleaned up pretty good. He wore an orange shirt, a pair of black shorts and blue sandals.

Entering his personal bathroom, he climbed up a wood step so that he could be at the same level with the sink and the mirror. He started washing his teeth all while observing himself in the mirror. Going through his visual abilities, He noticed that it was way harder to maintain them outside Ada's virtual training Facility.

Maybe it would be best to just use one eye for now to lessen the stress on his body after all it could lead to some serious damage if he overused his gift. He noted that his eye color changes depending on what he's using for example Night vision made his eyes go completely dark brown, infrared made his eyes go purple which was very convenient since it was his original eye color and thermal vision made his eyes all gray.

"That does look super freaky though, I should definitely keep it to myself for now" He didn't notice that he said the last bit out loud and he'll come to regret it shortly.

"Keep what to yourself Naruto?" Suddenly asked someone who Naruto identified as Shiro Namikaze.

Naruto almost choked on his own liquids as he struggled to maintain balance on the small wood step, but to no avail he fell down backwards with water spewing from his mouth around his face.

Shiro smirked and quickly changed back to her innocent face as she stepped closer to him.

"Naruto! Are you alright? What were you talking about anyway?" She asked entering the bathroom and crouching down to his level.

"W-Well uhmm…." At a loss for words Naruto's brain started racing thinking of ways to get out of dodge.

"Are you okay? You didn't hit your head too hard did you? 'Or maybe you did, poor brother'…" her eyes started to water as she did the infamous puppy eyes which unfortunately for Naruto, he had absolutely no resistance towards whatsoever.

"NO! No! I'm okay! You just startled me that is all..." He said wiping his mouth clean with a towel.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Brother! I really shouldn't have been so nosy!" she felt terrible but deep down she knew he had already forgiven her.

So, doing the most logical thing she thought of she hugged the life out of him and snuggled deep into the crook of his neck with tears threatening to fall, hoping he'd accept her apology and maybe even hug back.

'Oh wow, okay I can't breathe, how do I get her to let go…' "It's alright, really! You don't have to feel bad. It was my fault in the first place for not paying attention."

Much to her disappointment she was separated from the hug but she wasn't complaining since he held both of her shoulders with his hands and gave her a handsome smile something which made her a bit rosy in the cheeks.

"Now how about we just get ready for the academy? It's getting a bit late!" To her enjoyment he ruffled her hair a little bit then got back on his feet and washed off the toothpaste from his mouth.

"Sure thing brother!" She cheered and ran off to her own room giggling innocently.

The next few minutes were a blur as he left his room, ate breakfast and left his house, life for Naruto Namikaze was weird; his interactions with his family were even weirder. It wasn't something a regular person would call 'normal'.

His way of spending quality time with his father nowadays is to be dragged off into his office by 2 ANBU and getting an hour-long lecture about why he shouldn't do this or do that if he wanted to be a good ninja… it would probably benefit the both of them if he just stopped the pranks which was probably for the best given how a prank of his turned his world upside down.

Things were a bit better on his mother's side but like every other child he was just really awkward when interacting with his mother not to mention that she scared the living shit out of him sometimes mainly because of her somewhat unpredictable and brash nature.

Other than that he did notice that they would sometime favor his little sister over him in certain situations which mostly involved training and whatnot but he didn't let that get to him, not yet at least.

He couldn't really hate them, sure they've been distancing themselves a little bit from him in favor of Shiro but they had given him a life, food and shelter and more importantly a loving sister, he was grateful for that currently. Most of the red head's time is either spent training with their parents or out with her friends, but she still found time for him so even when she steps over the line he couldn't really stay mad at her.

Speaking of which he had to find something good to give her for her upcoming birthday otherwise he'll look like a total tool.

He almost didn't notice that Shiro took a hold of his left arm with both hands and was guiding him through the village with the most content smile ever, the bystanders thought it was cute, He thought that his blood circulation was being cut off.

He tactfully scanned the area for prying eyes then activated his own eyes to look at the village in a literal new way, He later regretted that choice when they passed by male side of the local bathhouse.

"Naruto!"

He paid no attention whatsoever and instead he opted to go over the menus that were in front of him courtesy of the hunter's eye, His sister was guiding him through the streets what's the worst that could happen?

"HEY YOU DEAF ORANGE LOVING IDIOT!"

"eh?"

Suddenly he became aware of his surroundings, he noticed that he was currently inside of his class, and around him was his small circle of 'friends' which consisted of Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, Inuzuka Kiba and lastly Shino Aburame. How did he get here? wasn't he out on the street mere seconds ago? where did Shiro even go?

"Oh hey guys what's up?"

"What's up?! We've been trying to get your attention for almost 2 minutes now but you were completely out of it fish cake!" Fumed Kiba to which the dog on his head that goes by the name of Akamaru barked.

"Sorry I've been just thinking about a lot of things lately; it's been an interesting weekend after all! and don't call me that dog breath!" he put his hands on the back of his head and looked up at the ceiling thinking about his coincidental meeting with Ada a while back.

He's hasn't forgotten what happened, he shuddered whenever he recalled the events and even had reoccurring nightmares which was something the hunter sight helped him suppress.

"What a drag, knowing you it's just another prank." Commented Shikamaru putting his head down on the table to sleep.

"*Munch* Man you're so *munch* lazy Shikamaru-kun but I have to agree, Naruto-kun is easy to read when it comes to these things *munch*" Chimed in Choji enjoying his bag of fried pork strips.

"So, what is it huh?" queried Kiba inching closer to Naruto excitedly.

"What is what dog breath?" replied back Naruto

"Your next prank! What is it going to be? Maybe a glitter bomb like that one time with Mizuki sensei or! Or! You're going to dye Iruka sensei's hair pink again, or maybe you'll set some paint booby traps for the chunins that patrol the academy corridors! Man that would totally rock!"

That last one made a shiver go down Naruto's spine and he didn't exactly know why. and why couldn't he remember doing any of those things?

"Calm down Kiba and no! No pranks, not anymore." Sighed Naruto not noticing the shocked looks on everybody's faces, even his sister seated at the opposite side was looking at him like he had grown a second head.

'Oh there she is.' He thought to himself, the red head was seated next to one Hinata Hyuga and Satsuki Uchiha.

"Who are you and what did you do to my friend Naruto!" Exclaimed a shaken Kiba pointing an accusing finger at him, Akamaru barked in agreement with its owner

"Well what do you know pigs might as well start flying now that you quit those foolish habits of yours Namikaze, I'd say congrats but it's just hard to believe." said a new voice that belonged to none other than Sasuke Uchiha prompting some of his fan girls to squeal in delight at seeing their knight in shining armor, Naruto had a tick mark on his head as he tried to contain his anger.

"Well if it isn't my favorite Uchiha! Oh wait my bad! that's your brother not you!" fired back Naruto causing those around to giggle except for those dedicated to the Uchiha.

"Huh weird is it just me or do I smell fried fish cake?" retaliated Sasuke as he tensed up in case of a fight getting the full support of his fan girls to kick Naruto's ass.

"That's maelstrom for you duck butt." it was at this point that Naruto went down the steps towards Sasuke; everyone tensed up as they waited for a fight to break out, Shiro was cheering for her brother to kick the Uchiha's ass.

But before they could witness the fight break out someone entered the class and defused the situation.

"Alright that's enough out of you two! get back to your seats and stop acting like a bunch of brats! Lesson's about to start!" Commanded Iruka entering the classroom which made all the students groan in annoyance including Satsuki who was disappointed she couldn't see how Naruto measured up to her brother.

"Yes, sensei." said both of Naruto and Sasuke still glaring coldly at each other.

"Whatever happened to you Naruto I like it, you're way cooler now thought that news is a bit disheartening." said Kiba offering him a spot next to him to which he accepted, Iruka having heard the last line almost tripped on his feet and stared up at Naruto in shock.

"Thanks for the backhanded compliment, you're a great friend." said Naruto faking a look of hurt on his face.

"You're welcome man! Oh wait! Sorry you know what I meant!" he grinned at him to which prompted Akamaru to bark happily.

"Troublesome blonde…" muttered Shikamaru still sleeping with his arms folded over each other.

Shortly after a piece of chalk connected with Shikamaru's head courtesy of Iruka, forcing him to get his head off the table but he did it lazily which successfully irked the scarred chunin and amused the rest of the class causing the Nara to smirk slightly,

It was at that point that the blonde zoned out and pretended to listen and automatically answer any question thrown at him which got Iruka off his back for a while but the teacher couldn't help but feel nervous being in the same room as Naruto. Mainly because of his unpredictability.

He looked up at the clock and noted that a full hour had passed and that there was still 4 more hours to go, He sighed and looked down at the chalkboard and noticed that the lesson was about the 3rd ninja war,

Mainly the events that had transpired at the kannabi bridge with the involvement of team Minato, his father's old team. The first assault on the bridge was led by Kakashi Hatake who was the squad leader at the time.

'Nice job, uncle pervert.' Noted the blonde mentally.

they were tasked with destroying the bridge which would have cut off the main supply line of the hidden rock village, the first assault had cost them one of their team members Uchiha Obito, he was believed to be killed in action after being incapacitated and crushed by a landslide courtesy of the rock ninjas, thinking about that brought a shiver down his spine and he couldn't figure out why.

it was eventually destroyed by the help of his father, the official leader of team Minato and with the bridge gone, it brought a massive advantage for the leaf even though they lacked a lot in manpower, but they ultimately won the war none the less.

Iruka looked up from his desk and up into his students.

"Alright now, we all know about the rock village and their history, can someone tell me who were their prominent earth users?"


"The rocks flattened the poor guy like paper..." Said a blank porcelain masked ANBU.

"Yeah, hey he's missing an arm here! let's try and find that." added a second ANBU, His mask also blank like the first guy.

"Doesn't it sort of look like rubber now?" Said the other one..

"Reminds me of my border shift, some idiot thought she could get through to our side of town without being detected" He confirmed.

"I found the arm boys!" Shouted a 3rd female ANBU as she walked in through the bushes.

"There you have it, How did he lose it?" Asked the 1st Operator.

"Maybe some creature tore it off, ooooh! Maybe it was this boogeyman guy!" Chimed in the 2nd guy a bit too cheerfully.

"That's enough chit chat rookies, we do the job quietly," Said a boar masked ANBU with an amused tone.

"Roger that sir!" said all three of the ANBU in unison before cutting the chatter.

"Status update." Ordered Boar as he lazily observed the cave in front of him.

"Sir. we cleared all of the rubble inside of the cave, we've found some scorch marks near the back of it, from the looks of it Misaki must have hit the place with a fire jutsu since his chakra is still present around there and what happened next is history" Said a dog masked operative crouching on a giant rock next to the captain.

"That looks to be the gist of it but now the million-yen question, who was it aimed at?" wondered a rat masked operator.

"We'll find out in due time, anything else, Dog?" asked Boar.

"No sir." He replied.

"Alright, Rookies guard the area. Rat, Get the body to the hospital and tell the units stationed there to double up on the security, I'll be sending out 2 more squads to patrol the forest, as for you Dog you'll report our findings to the Hokage, dismissed!" Said Boar before body flickering out of there.

"Yes sir!" They all shouted in unison before leaving the 3 freshly graduated ANBU to guard the surrounding area.

"Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on here?" Asked a new comer, they all turned to see none other than Anko Mitarashi walking into the scene with a couple two other Jonin.

The first ANBU operator stepped up. "We just got done digging through this cave, collapsed during some kind of altercation. We suspect it was the doing of genin Misaki but it is unclear who was he fighting so for now we're just guarding this place while the other agents inform the Hokage."

"Hmm, Okay let's take a look at you shall we?" She asked taking a few steps in a seductive manner towards the man as she swayed her hips in a sexy fashion, Her choice of clothing did not help either as the long coat, skirt and fishnets she wore barely hid her ample breasts and hips.

Her eyes gleamed smugly as she herself felt the tension rising, her alluring figure hypnotizing the two male operators, without a single word she coldly walked past them as she stepped into the cave and glanced around before licking her lips barely able to contain a smile.

"Anything else big boy." She looked down at his pants then looked back at him seductively licking her lips in the process, she loved to mess around with these sort of people.

The three operatives were taken back by this as the 1st one answered in a stutter. "W-We only recovered the bodies of the three missing genin alongside a bloodied cloth that didn't belong to any of them, it's being sent to the underground laboratories for analyzing, that's all."

She walked up to him and when there was only a few inches between the two of them she pressed her breasts against his chest as she took a sniff of his neck.

"Thank you for the information, you did very well." She simply said before pushing him off harshly as he barely recovered his footing.

She walked away taking out a stick of dango from her sleeve, she ate it in one go and threw the wooden pick at the ANBU making him tense up slightly as the impact only served to scratch the surface of his mask.

"We'll be leaving now, good luck!" She motioned for her assigned men to follow her as the three jumped off from the area.

"What the hell.." Muttered the ANBU in question.

"You just got toyed with just now you know that right?" Asked the sole female to her squad mate.

"Get bent." He shot.

From the shadows of an overgrown tree a small spider watched the entire interaction before crawling away from the scene.


He slowly walked through the front door not bothering to look at his sister and mother who were warmly greeting each other like every parent and kid around, he just gave a small wave to his mother and left.

He wandered through the busy streets of the leaf, noticing that everybody was on edge, did something bad happen? Could they have possibly found out about those three idiots that chased after him? He detected ANBU all around the place thanks to his sensory abilities, one of them were even trailing him, he figured they were a body guard.

The streets were littered with jonin and chunin alike, those who weren't here were probably either at the gates or at the surrounding forests patrolling.

Ada had presented him with a live map of the entire village in the form of a wrist watch that projected a hologram only he could see, what made it special was the fact that he could see anyone on the map, even himself and Ada and that also included every nook and cranny of the massive village.

He's yet to utilize to its maximum potential but it was god damn useful that was for sure, in fact he was using it at this very moment to avoid the ANBU trailing him, Map or not he had experience doing that before.

'Everybody is so tense today, wonder what happened? Do you think it had something to do with us?' mused Naruto inside of his mind.

"It seems that the village is currently on lockdown, Security tightened up considerably. My sensors are picking up large amount of heat signatures all around patrolling the areas surrounding us." Ada said.

'That ANBU guy is a pain in the butt, I think i'm going to shake him off.' He thought looking down at the ground while secretly activating the hunter sight.

-The ANBU's POV-

It has been a boring shift so far, like any other shift he's had, his mission for the last month was to monitor Naruto Namikaze and keep him safe at all times but surprisingly. even though he was the son of the 4th Hokage, who was possibly the most hated man in the elemental nations by both Iwa and Kumo, no attempts have been made to threaten his life whatsoever ever since his shift started.

The last attempt was well over 4 years now.

He only had 1 more month till the next person will switch off with him, then he could got back to going on more missions full time; The cat masked operative thought that constantly watching over the kid would be fun and exciting since it's not every day that you get the opportunity to guard the Hokage's son and even get to watch him develop as a ninja.

He was there watching when he trained with the Uchiha prodigy otherwise known as Shisui Uchiha and he had to say he was impressed, the kid was showing signs of being a strong capable ninja with lots of potential. He cursed his luck that other time when the whole fiasco in the forest of death happened, of course he had to be away from the Hokage's son because of a damned 'report' he had to give.

What would have happened if he wasn't there to save the Hokage's son had the threat set their sights on Naruto?

Right now, he was tailing the kid out of the market district and was currently on his way towards one of the training grounds, he assumed but that's when he started noticing something was off.

Naruto stood still for a few moments not doing anything other than looking in front of him when suddenly another kid about his size ran into him and knocked both of them to the ground, for a moment the ANBU lost sight of the blond as the crowds obscured his line of sight so acting quickly he changed his position and finally got a visual of the boy again, after they both got up and dusted themselves off the kid apologized to the son of the fourth as each went their separate way with the ANBU tailing the Namikaze or so he thought.

Once he reached his destination he chuckled a bit to himself before dropping his disguise, Unknown to the ANBU operator he switched places with the 'kid' that bumped into him a few minutes ago, man was he awesome.

In reality that was just a simple clone.

*ZAP*

"OW! WHAT THE HELL!" he cried out loud after getting hit by electricity.

"I'd advise you to keep it down; we still have a second stalker, pay attention to your surroundings."

"what are you tal- what you're right. Wait what? Satsuki Uchiha? What the hell is she doing following me of all people?" He wondered to himself quietly.

He didn't really know that much about the girl since they barely talk to each other, His knowledge of Satsuki's personality and what she's like are basic, she was related to that bastard Sasuke for sure but she wasn't anything like him, in a way she reminded him of her older brother and mother which were two people he had the pleasure of meeting once, but she did keep that smug attitude of hers.

He had always known her as the cold and reserved girl who only talks to his sister or Hyūga Hinata and most of the time it was only about training progress or academy related stuff so he didn't think they'd get along very well…not that's he going to befriend her, they were just training buddies at best and all he wanted was to find out why she was after him.

When she realized she had been made, her heart started racing in panic. She decided to make a run for it and forget any of this happened but it was already too late, there he was standing in front her looking at her with a curious and amused face with only a bush separating the two of them.

She thought about the boy that was Naruto Namikaze. Why was she following him again? Oh yeah that's right, she had caught something strange happening to him during class when he was zoning out again, His eyes had flashed red numerous times during Iruka's lesson, her twin brother Sasuke was about to go talk to him but Iruka came into the class and told everyone to get seated before her twin could get a chance to 'talk' to the blond.

"Hey mole face you're gonna keep hiding there or are you gonna step out?" asked Naruto waving a hand in front of her eyes.

"Tsk, Fine! I'm out idiot." Her face flushed with embarrassment as she stood up to face the boy.

"Why are you even following me? if you wanted a rematch so bad you could have just said so at the Academy, what? I kicked your ass too hard?" He taunted putting his hands inside of his pockets.

"You wish! I already beat you multiple times fish cake so if anyone's looking for a rematch it's you!" She said folding both arms over her chest; her smug attitude came back full force it seems like.

'She's hiding something.' Informed Ada.

'Obviously.'

"Yeah right, As if you could beat me. I was just holing back mole face!" Said Naruto with a hint of amusement in his voice.

"You want to get punched you idiot?!" exclaimed Satsuki with a light blush on her face.

"No, so why are you really here.." He said calmly and she felt taken back as a surprised look flashed across her face.

She stared back just as fiercely but then ultimately sighed in defeat as she gave in to his demands.

"Alright! I was just curious about your eyes so I decided to follow you here and ask you about it ok? Are you happy now?" Confessed Satsuki looking down at the ground all flustered.

He snorted and contained a laugh. "My eyes? Even I could come up with a better lie than that."

"Well yeah it sounds strange when I say it like that but your eyes were glowing red, almost like you were an Uchiha, what was that about anyway?" She said making his blood turn cold.

"She must be taken care of." Said Ada in a far more cold and monotone voice.

'Woah woah hold your horses I'm not going to kill her! What are you crazy? I'll be dead before I even get back home!' shouted Naruto inside of his mind.

Before Ada could do anything Naruto grabbed Satsuki by the hand which caught the girl off guard.

"Here let me show you!" he told her quickly before Ada could do anything.

When she looked up he was still grinning with his eyes closed when he opened them up they flashed a bright shade of green but she didn't have time to question him about.

"Those are-" She couldn't continue because she fell limp in his arms, he grabbed her and set her down on a tree then stood nearby waiting for her to wake up again.

This was one of his new abilities, by capturing the eyes of his opponent he could engage a few of his Nanites to hypnotize his target and depending on the strength of the technique he could erase as much as he wanted but it all came back to the fact that the more he erased the more tired he'd become, He just needed time to get better control.

"I have reason to believe you misunderstood my meaning but good job none the less Naruto."

"From where I was standing, it sounded like you wanted me to put her six feet under. jeez." Breathed the blonde tiredly in a crouched position.

He took a moment to look at her, her right eye was covered by a bang that hung loosely over her face, he didn't know for how long he was staring but he thought she was pretty cute, when he caught himself being a creep he looked away with a small blush on his face.

"So how long until she wakes up?" he asked

"A moment or two."

"Whatever…" he looked down at the Uchiha again and noticed she was stirring up.

She slowly opened her eyes, she felt terrible, almost like someone bashed her head with a rock. she realized that her memory was blank, her latest memory being in class and then that's it she just blacked out, looking around her she noted that she was now in a forest resting under one of the trees she looked at the ground and saw two feet in the corner of her eyes when she looked at the owner of those feet she froze then started to freak out.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Fish cake? Why did you drag me out here all alone?!" she got up off the ground and closed the distance between both of them then grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.

'Woah, very feisty!' He looked at her freaky blushing terrifying mess of a face and slightly shuddered.

"You got some nerve mole face! You were stalking me then just fainted in the bushes and I just made sure you're okay!." He defended himself removing her hands off his collar.

She sized him up with her eyes before they went wide realizing that he was right. "I-I did? Th-thanks I guess." she let go looking down at the ground with a small blush on her face.

"Thanks for what?" he asked genuinely curious.

"Never mind just forget about it!" she yelled, her eyes found the ground very interesting at this moment.

"That was strange...it was almost like a flash of white happened back at the academy and then nothing..." Satsuki muttered quietly to herself though both other parties heard her mutterings.

"Uhm yeah I guess you should probably go home or something, your family might start to get worried." He fixed his collar and looked back up at the Uchiha girl.

"Worried? It's only 2pm; you think I'm some fragile girl who can't take care of herself?" She asked in a threatening tone.

"I didn't meant it that way! You can take of yourself just fine, I already know that." He quickly corrected himself remembering how hard this girl can punch.

"Well you're right I should get back home, I have important things to tend to other than talking to you." She said brushing it off quickly.

"Like what?" He drawled raising an eye brow.

"Studying and training obviously." She replied lifting two fingers in the air consecutively.

His mouth made an O shape then he asked again "Is that really all you do?" drawing a surprised look from her before she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Why do you care? It's not like you take your training seriously, unlike you I don't skip the academy and value my training as a ninja." She told him smugly giving him that arrogant look of hers.

"What is there to study? I already visit the old man ex-Hokage so I don't need Iruka to tell me what kind of brush he uses for calligraphy, plus I leave for Shisui so who's the loser here huh?" He asked in a bored manner.

"Well it's still very irresponsible, how can you hope to become a ninja if you're so insubordinate?" Scolded the Uchiha folding her arms over her chest.

"Copy pasting information on a test sheet isn't that big of a challenge plus I think the academy is not meant to be taken all that seriously in all honesty." Answered Naruto in a nonchalant manner lifting his hands up to the back of his head and interlocking his fingers.

'Especially when you can memorize everything with the help of a talking, flying metal ball.'

"You're an insufferable person to talk to!" groaned Satsuki then proceeded to look anywhere but his direction.

"I am insufferable? Look at the pot calling the kettle black!" He threw his arms in the air angrily.

"Big words! Did Shisui teach you that?" She taunted with a smirk.

"You learn from Shisui as well!" He barked in annoyance.

"Not all the times! Unlike you, you leeching dummy!" she fire back.

He sighed and ran a hand through his smooth spiky hair, "How about I just walk you home, it'll save us the headache." He offered to the Uchiha.

She closed her eyes and scoffed. "And do what? Continue talking to your insufferable face? i'll walk myself." She barked scornfully feeling offended at the thought of her needing him to walk her home.

"I guess? So? Are you just gonna stand there and whine?" He offered to her nonchalantly.

"I don't whine!" She pouted weakly hitting him on the side, she was cute for a second the blond thought.

And like that the two of them walked towards the Uchiha district of the leaf village in uncomfortable silence, without even trying they managed to become the hottest scoop of the leaf village when news spread like wildfire about the Hokage's elder son escorting Satsuki Uchiha back home. When they finally reached the front gate of the Uchiha compound they both turned to face each other.

"Well, all things considered. Thank you for the kind gesture idiot." She told him quietly to avoid anybody that might hear her.

"You're welcome, you obnoxious firecracker." before he could turn around she grabbed his arm bringing him at a full stop.

"Would you like to train together sometime in the future?" she asked him but she didn't mean it in the sense where he had a choice on the matter, he simply had to accept.

He sighed then stared her straight in her coal black eyes. "Okay, how does Saturday afternoon sound?" He asked hoping her schedule wouldn't interfere with his.

"Sounds perfect, later dummy." And with that she entered the compound shutting the gate behind her.

"Well, that went nice."

-A few hours later-

"Honey! I'm home" Announced one Minato Namikaze entering through the front door.

"Welcome home darling!" Answered back Kushina, walking out of the kitchen.

The smell of the delicious food infiltrated his nose, that's when his wife walked out of the kitchen towards him dressed in an apron which was covered in all kinds of substances, from behind her walked out his precious little princess and from the looks of it they were both teaming up for a family meal.

"Hope today wasn't too stressful love" Said Kushina closing the distance between herself and Minato wrapping her hands around his neck.

"You know just the usual, nothing big." He smiled wrapping his arms around her waist, it was in that brief moment that their lips brushed against each other, they enjoyed each other's embrace before quickly separating and warmly staring at each other's eyes with a loving gaze.

"EW mom! Dad! That's so gross! Yelled Shiro covering her eyes in disgust.

"Oh come on Shiro! It's natural between couples to love each other like this! Maybe one day when you get your own husband you'll finally understand!" Said Kushina not noticing the distraught look on Minato's face.

'Shiro?... husband? She's still too young, I'm too young to be having grandchildren too! What the hell am I saying! No, she's not getting married until I'm at least 60 or 70 yes that's final!' Thought Minato desperately trying to think up ways to protect his little sunshine from the inevitable crowd of boys that'll flock to his precious diamond.

"H-Hey how about you two go finish up dinner! I'll go upstairs and slip into something more comfortable alright?" He said trying to change the topic.

"Okay, sure thing! Come on Shiro I'll tell you all about it in the kitchen!" Said Kushina making both her husband and daughter go white in the face.

"Please don't mama! we already talked about this my head's gonna fry!" He froze when he heard his daughter say that.

"Oh, so something did happen back in the academy! Come on you really have to tel-"

He zoned out and didn't catch anything of what they were saying after that, instead he was thinking about the girl from jonin Hiroki's team, dammit he really needs to catch the culprit responsible for all this trouble, either way he'll protect his people and his family no matter what.

He sighed and decided to just go back to what he was doing and try to ease off the stress for today, His wife and daughter didn't have to be weighed down by his problems. Still between all of that he felt like he was forgetting something important, whatever it may be he didn't have a clue.

Naruto slowly walked behind his father to reach his room without bringing attention to himself he couldn't afford to be seen right now and it was for a good reason too, He could barely hold up the cloak he had on right now and his head will explode at any time. While that was somewhat not true he still felt very exhausted.

He just got back from another day with Ada and that thing isn't exactly fond of the word mercy so of course his clothes were in tatters.

Luckily Minato wasn't paying attention so he was able to sneak by easily...way too easy for a Kage level ninja, he reached his room once again and did the same routine from yesterday except this time he decided he'd go downstairs to eat.

But first he had to rest up a bit, He laid down on his bed facing the ceiling, He thought about Satsuki for a second and then suddenly found himself not able to think of anything else,

Something about the way she was acting was strange to him, it was weird how they just sort of clicked together like that even if their conversation was a dry as a sand ninja's mouth.

"Naruto! Are you there? Dinner's ready!"

And that was his Que to get up, slowly making his way downstairs he was greeted by the sight of his family waiting for him to come down, they weren't alerted until he reached next to the table and grabbed a plate to serve himself some of the food.

He didn't notice his parents looking at him with wide eyes or the excited look on his sister's face, He took a seat and started to dig in while everyone around him watched.

"N-Naruto you're here, didn't notice you walk in!" Minato managed to say nervously.

"I live here dad plus both of us walked inside at the same time" He said before quietly slurping down ramen.

"We did?" He asked himself trying to remember.

"Well that doesn't matter now! How was your day sweetie?" Said Kushina trying to lighten the mood.

"Hmm, it was interesting, didn't really pay attention to Iruka sensei's lecture though it was too boring" He said before resuming his dinner feeling a little bit of dread.

"What?!" Shouted Kushina in disbelief with her hair floating dangerously behind her with anger written all over her face, Naruto felt like he was going to die.

"Naruto we already spoke about this in my office, we don't need a round two do we?" Asked Minato.

"No we don't dad, its fine I already read about the lesson; I'm not missing anything important." He replied, taking a few glances at his mother's twitching eye and menacingly floating hair as he feigned ignorance.

"Naruto, sweetie. It's a hundred years too early before one of my children start slacking off. Pay attention or you'll regret it okay?" she told him in a sickly sweet tone, creeping out everyone at the table.

"Y-Yes mom." He stuttered, it just seemed impossible to eat in peace.

"Uh mom" said Shiro joining the conversation.

"Yes dear?" Answered Kushina smiling doing a 180-mood swing.

"Brother Is actually ranked third in our class so please go easy on him, Of course I'm ranked second! And that dumb Satsuki is first but still!" She said defending her brother, He welcomed the gesture.

"Well…that's good! But we should really do something about his clumsy habits, right Minato?" Said Kushina trying to get her husband's word on the topic.

"uh- yes yeah what?" He answered to his wife in a startled fashion further irking the red headed mother.

"Looks like it runs in the family then huh, guess we're going to have issues if nothing's done about it, right Minato?" Threatened Kushina in a dark tone with a bitter sweet smile on her face.

"Righ- right my love." Minato was now sweating bullets, he silently begged his daughter to help him out, he was going to turn to Naruto but he was already leaving.

"Thanks for the food" And with that he stood up and put his plate in the sink then went back upstairs, both of his parents noticed his clenching hands and looked at their only son in concern, they looked at each other and nodded in silent agreement.

He locked his door and went towards his window, He sat there on the edge for a few minutes admiring the view of the stars and the bright full moon, and a thought suddenly crossed his head which concerned that Uchiha girl.

'She ruined my damn shirt.'

He thought to himself taking notice of a missing button on the collar, or the spider watching him.


Edited on 01/06/2019: fixed some grammar mistakes, removed a few unnecessary scenes and rewrote some dialogue.