Yeah, so. Everything's re-written. Yoshi was a girl before reincarnation and is now the proud owner of a penis and retains the he/him pronouns that usually come with such a package. Everything's in third person.
I don't own Naruto, I apologize if you find anything familiar that belongs to someone else, it's unintentionally, give them some credit if you recognize anything (it really is unintentionally I don't know where things come from inside my brain).
That's it, I think.
So, ROOT is totally a babysitting service.
...
Just saying. Cause it was mentioned a time or two as an option.
Called it.
But that's a conversation for another day. There are bigger fish to fry at the moment.
Politics. Yay.
"He won't cause too much trouble for the emotionally-repressed creepers. Some trouble, of course. But! An adequate amount of trouble, he shouldn't be too much of a hassle. And maybe the little emo-rule-followers will socialize him some! He hasn't been willing to talk to any of the other kids, which is understandable cause practically all the other kids are little shits, but he still needs socialization."
Yeah, jiji gave dad the most deadpan look Yoshi's ever had the pleasure to see after that statement. Yoshi isn't pleased with the statement either if he's being honest with himself. He did not need socialization, thank you very much! And was Shiro really going to trust emotionally repressed child soldiers handle his son's socialization? How would that even work?
"I'm sure they can handle a five-year-old."
Umm, hello? "Do I even get a say in this?"
They both blinked before looking at said five-year-old. Apparently, they keep forgetting Yoshi can talk. Which is weird cause while he didn't bother to talk that much and would rather use hand gestures to let people figure out what he wants, he was capable of speech and had a decently broad vocabulary. That and it's been a year since his first words. (Yoshi knows it's strange that he was four when he started talking, and anyone who has anything to say about it can fight him.)
Dad shook himself out of the stupor and swept him up off the ground where he had been standing by the Japanese-style sliding door. Jiji has been around more lately since he was closer to his son than his daughter-in-law, so the three were actually in Shiro's own house right now. Yoshi's pretty sure when Midori got back from the seamstress' Shiro and her were going on a date and that's why he's being left with the old man.
"Sorry, my cute little tantō. What would you like to do while tou-san and kaa-san go out?"
Yoshi tilted his head against dad's shoulder. To be honest, he could totally have some fun messing with ROOT members, but he didn't really want to get involved with them so soon. They probably have totally different standards about how to handle five-year-olds considering how young some of them are when they start their training. Yoshi had no wish to be physically or mentally harmed at the moment if it could be avoided.
Yoshi hasn't noticed any other shinobi or civilians around the house so his parents probably don't have a lot of close friends that they would trust with him. Or maybe they just don't trust anyone with Yoshi. Jiji probably (totally, considering, ya know, it's Danzō) has a lot of enemies, so it makes sense that his parents would too.
"Why can't I just spend the day with jiji?"
Danzō blinked. Yoshi did as well.
Dad, however, looked like he had just gotten an expensive set of chakra conductive kunai for free. And let Yoshi just say, that shit don't happen. "That's a wonderful idea, Yoshi-kun! I'm sure Otōchan would just love to watch over his only grandchild, whom he shall obviously love and care for and personally watch today, isn't that right?" Dad's beaming smile was blindingly bright. Yoshi had the feeling he had just stumbled onto an age old argument these two had been having for a while.
Oh dear, Danzō just twitched. That's not a good sign.
"After all, nothing is more important than family, right Otōchan?"
Jiji's smile was more of a grimace than anything else really. "Of course," he responded in a tight voice. Jiji didn't do strained, as far as tone and body language went, it was supposedly proof of old age.
Welp, only one way to dissolve tension. Yoshi beamed at jiji. Small children are supposed to be happy and excitable, didn't you know?
Eh, who is he kidding. He's making this shit up on the fly.
Jiji's eyes lit up with unholy glee. Oh no, what are you gonna do you crazy codger?
"However," (and it is with that one simple word that Yoshi knew something drastic was about to go down. Essentially, this was the moment knew he had fucked up.) "There is a Shinobi Council meeting today."
Yoshi blinked. Oh, that's not too bad.
He was so wrong.
