"My Ex-Best Friend"
Okay, just so people know, I added more Digidestineds from different seasons to play as the children of the ninjas of Konoha, but I used their original Japanese first names. Please enjoy and review!
Daisuke Uzumaki frowned up at the tree in front of her, looking it over as she held a three pronged kunai in her hand.
She had decided to try training her ninja skills other than practising the Rasengan and wanted to do what her parents could do; climb walls and walk on water.
That all started with tree walking.
At the moment she was at school and the other students were all playing or eating in the yard.
"Okay, I can this." she muttered to herself.
Focusing on the chakra flow to her feet, she then tried running up the tree, but when her right foot touched it, her foot slid off making her stumble back onto the ground.
"Not enough." she told herself.
Adding a bit more chakra to her feet, she took off for the tree yet again, unaware that she was being watched by a group of children.
"Hey Taky, what's your cousin doing?" a heavyset male with spikey copper brown hair and brown eyes dressed in a yellow shirt and blue pants with navy sandals asked.
"It looks like she's trying to run up a tree." Takuya Inuzuka answered the Akimichi heir.
Junpei Akimichi was munching on a bar of chocolate as he watched the mahogany haired girl place her foot on the tree, but there was a small explosion and she was forced onto her back.
Ryo Hatake smirked as he watched the girl mutter in anger as she stood up again and ran for the tree once more.
"It's called tree walking. It's one of the basic things a gennin learns. Once you accomplish it, then you can work on water walking. Then you'll be able to fight from the tree tops, buildings, along the side of mountains or even on the ocean." Ryo explained.
A blonde haired girl beside him with emerald green eyes and fair skin dressed in a lavender dress over a blue long sleeved shirt and navy sandals blinked curiously at this.
"Wow. But why is she trying to learn it now?" Izumi Yamanaka asked.
"She's dead-set on being a great kunoichi. It's her dream after all." Ryo shrugged.
Flanking him were two other boys, one being a blue haired boy with tanned skin and eyes the color of steele named Jenrya Lee and he was dressed in an orange t-shirt with brown shorts and navy sandals.
The other boy and final member of their group was Takato, a boy with sun kissed skin, crimson colored eyes and caramel hair dressed in a blue shirt, green pants and navy sandals.
"She sure is working hard." Takato commented as he watched the girl with a blush on his face.
Takato admired Daisuke for how confident and driven she was which amused everyone around him since they all knew of his crush on the girl.
"She's a stubborn one. It must be a common trait with the Uzumaki women." Jenrya said.
The group watched as the girl was able to run up the tree and smiled in awe as she made it about five feet up the trunk before she slipped.
Before she fell though, she used her kunai to slice at the bark to mark how far she had gotten up the tree and twisted her body so she fell in a crouch on her feet.
Even though the girl was part Inuzuka, she appeared more like a fox and even had the grace of a fox much like her mother.
"Hey, maybe we should join her!" Izumi suggested.
"What? But I don't wanna." Junpei whined as the blonde gave him a stern look.
"Junpei, stop being so lazy. Come on." the blonde grabbed his hand and pulled him over.
The Yamanaka heir had inherited her mother Ino's commanding personality and she was proud of it.
The boys all sweat dropped at this, but sighed.
"I'll go join her too." Jenrya said as he walked over.
He was already a determined fighter who trained in different styles of fighting such as taijutsu, but he prefered tai chi.
Jenrya focused on his fighting skills more because he was a pacifist child who hated violence and didn't have a normal amount of chakra reserves to perform jutsu.
"Oh, um, Jenrya, wait for me!" Takato called as he chased after his friend.
Ryo then turned to Takuya, smirking at the Inuzuka heir in a challenging way.
"Shall we?" the Hatake asked.
"Well, everyone else is already doing it." Takuya chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.
With that decided, the two boys ran over to join the rest of their friends to start learning how to tree walk.
"Hey, Daisuke!" Izumi called making the girl look over at the group.
"Hey guys. What are ya doing here?" Daisuke asked as she brushed her bangs back.
"This is the school yard. We're always here." Junpei stated making everyone roll their eyes at him in amusement.
"Um, well, we saw you training and we wanted to know if we can, you know, join in." Takato blushed.
"Seriously?" Daisuke blinked.
"Yeah, of course!" Izumi smiled.
"There's no way I'm letting you get stronger than me." Ryo said.
Shaking his head at the amusement the brunette took in always challenging the Uzumaki heir, Jenrya stepped forward.
"We think it could be fun. Can we join you?" the bluenette asked.
Looking her friends over, the girl smiled at them and nodded her head.
"Yeah, sure!" she gave a foxy grin at them.
"Great!" Takato smiled.
"So, what do we do?" Junpei asked.
Ryo stepped up beside Daisuke and pulled out a kunai from the pouch he wore around his waist.
"You add chakra to your feet and walk up the tree. Too much and you'll be blasted off like what happened with Daisuke. Too little and you'll fall." Ryo quoted from memory.
Kakashi Hatake had told Ryo and Daisuke about this when they were having a play date at the Hatake home and asked how he could walk up the sides of walls or climb up a building.
He had told the two when they were five years old what he had told Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno when they were gennins fresh out of the academy.
"Right, and you use the kunai to mark how far you've gotten up without falling off. It'll show your progress." Daisuke said as she spun the kunai around her finger.
"So, who's ready to try it?" Ryo smirked at the group.
"I am!" Takuya stepped forward.
"Me too!" Izumi raised her hand.
Soon enough, the group of six year olds were all trying to run up the trees in the field, training until the bell rang.
Unknown to them, the Rokudaime was in her office watching the children train from her crystal ball with a smile on her face.
Beside her was the Kazekage, the tall red haired man with teal colored eyes outlined in thick lines of black staring into the orb curiously.
He was dressed in the same red shirt, pants and black sandals from years ago and he had his sand goard on his back.
"There's something special about that daughter of yours." Gaara no Sabaku commented.
"Oh, I know. After all, she's my little girl." Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze smiled.
Shaking her head, the woman then turned her full attention to her former Jinchuriki friend.
Gaara had once been the Jinchuriki of the One Tailed Racoon-Dog Demon until he was kidnapped by the Akatsuki and had his demon ripped out of his body.
He would have died if an elder from his village who had sealed the demon inside of him named Chiyo hadn't sacrificed her life to heal him.
After all, Suna needed their Kazekage to protect them and it was her way of apologizing to the boy for her part in the horrible life he had.
"Anyway, what did you want to talk to me about, Gaara?" Naruto asked.
"I have some news about a former shinobi from your village." the redhead stated as he walked in front of her desk.
"A former shinobi?" Naruto's eyes narrowed.
Any missing nins from her village had been killed in the war, all except for one who had disapepared after the fourth great shinobi war was over.
Looking into her fellow Kage's eyes, she then knew exactly who he was talking about and had to hold back a snarl of anger that was building in her throat.
"Where is he?" she asked quietly and darkly.
"He was found hiding in Kumo, but my guards found him and apprihanded him. He is currently contained in a jail cell in my village, his chakra reserves sealed off for the time being. I came to inform you of this since he is a former member of your village. His punishment is in your hands." Gaara informed.
Finally after all these years he was captured, but she wondered why he didn't put up a fight.
She knew his power now, he was almost as powerful as she was, so he would have been able to kill the Suna's top shinobi forces with ease.
Why hadn't he put up a fight?
That just wasn't like the troublesome bastard at all to go down without a fight.
"What else do you know about him? Was he injured before he was apprihanded?" Naruto asked.
"No, he appeared to be in full health. I believe he was being careless. Also, he had two travel companions with him." Gaara said.
"Companions? Who are they?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
The Kazekage reached into his thigh pouch and pulled out a photograph which he handed over to the woman.
"This is them." he told her.
Grabbing the picture, the blonde looked over the image of the two companions and her eyes went wide in shock.
"They-They're children!" she gasped.
Glaring at the picture as she then knew what this meant, she shot up from her seat and spiked her chakra.
As soon as she did this, Kakashi appeared in a cloud of smoke in front of the woman, curious as to why the woman appeared to be enraged.
"Yes, my Lady?" he asked.
"I'm calling a meeting. Pass this information on to the others." she ordered.
This stunned the Copycat since this was the first time the woman was angered, yet so serious when she became Rokudaime five months ago.
In this moment she looked so much like her father that it stunned him, but he shook it off and nodded to the woman.
"Of course. I'll get it done right away." Kakashi said as he jumped out the window.
When he was gone, Gaara turned to his friend knowing that this was a very personal matter which was why she chose to have a meeting.
"You want the council to decide his fate." Gaara stated.
"Exactly. We'll put it to a vote on what will happen to him." Naruto said.
Lifting the photograph, her eyes softened when she looked at the faces of the two boys.
They appeared to be only a year older than her daughter and it made her heart constrict painfully in her chest.
A few hours later Daisuke and Ryo were being walked home by Shizune since their parents were busy with a meeting.
"But why did Mom call a meeting?" Daisuke asked.
"Oh, it's nothing you need to worry about." Shizune smiled down at the girl.
"If my dad's involved in it, then I think it is. I heard from Junpei that his dad was going to this meeting too. That's means that everyone from the shinobi council is getting together. What's going on?" Ryo asked with narrowed eyes.
Shizune was mentally cursing the boy for having his father's deduction skills and brains.
"Your parents will tell you later." she assured.
Not satisfied with this, the two friends shared a look and nodded as they then masked their charka and took off when the woman wasn't looking.
Noticing that it was suddenly quiet, the black haired woman turned around and saw that the two six year olds had disappeared.
"Oh, great. This can't end well." Shizune groaned as she held a hand on her head.
Meanwhile, in the council room everyone was seated at the table.
When the war was over, Tsunade abalished the civilian council, stating that they were of no use to a village filled with shinobi.
They also tried to bully the Hokages and thought they were more powerful and important than the people who protected them, so they were thrown out.
Sakura Haruno, Rock Lee and Tenten were now members of the council since Naruto trusted their judgement and they all came from civilain families.
As for Danzo, Homura and Komura, they were killed during the war by Sasuke Uchiha who was taking revenge on them.
The rest of the council consisted of Hinata Hyuuga, Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame, Choji Akimichi, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Konohamaru Sarutobi, Kakashi Hatake and Tsunade Senju.
Unknown to them, Ryo and Daisuke were both hiding behind the door, listening in on the meeting to find out what was wrong.
"All right, we're here. Now what's the big deal?" Ino asked.
Sighing, Naruto stood up from her seat as Gaara stood behind her.
"Gaara here has told me that his guards have located and captured Sasuke Uchiha." she announced.
Everyone in the room gasped, shocked by this news.
"Now, Sasuke has had his charka sealed off momentarily and is being held at Suna's prision. This meeting has been called to decide his fate." Naruto explained.
"Kill him!" Kiba yelled as soon as his wife was done talking.
"Kiba, my friend, that is such an unyouthful thing to say!" Lee said.
"I don't care. He defected from this village and tried to kill all of us. He's a danger to everyone. He should be killed. That's the punishment for his crimes and treason." Kiba slammed his fist on the table.
Akamaru barked in agreement.
"Kiba has a point. Sasuke could turn his back on us again and destroy the peace in our village." Ino spoke up.
She had once had a crush on him, but she had gotten over it since she knew he was now the enemy and he had tried to kill them.
Ino looked over at Sakura, hoping her friend wasn't still in love with him because it would cloud her judgement over what to do with Sasuke's punishment.
"I agree with them. Sasuke should be killed for his crimes. Everything he's done should lead to him being excecuted." Tenten said.
"What a drag. I think it's obvious you know my vote. I don't care what happens to Sasuke no matter what. As long as he's no longer an issue, I'm fine with it." Shikamaru sighed as he leaned against the table.
"I think it's a little cruel to want him dead, but he did willingly go to Orochimaru for the sake of power. We tried to get him back peacefully, but he attacked us and went anyway." Choji added.
"And he tried to kill you, Naruto! Even before he left, he still tried to kill you!" Konohamaru yelled.
At the hospital when Sasuke was supposed to be resting, he challenged Naruto to a fight and was going to use his Chidori on her and it would have not only killed her, but also him since he couldn't control it.
If Sakura hadn't cried out for help, Kakashi never would have shown up and stopped what would have been the death of two of his students.
"That brat needs to be put down." Tsunade declared.
"I, too, agree." Kakashi spoke up.
"Sadly, I must agree. How unyouthful of me." Lee sighed sadly.
"He should be excecuted." Shino said.
"He can't be allowed to live. I know he helped us in the war, but that was for his own benefit." Hinata said softly.
Everyone seemed to have given their vote for Sasuke's death, but Naruto turned her attention over to Sakura who had her head down.
"Sakura, what do you think?" Naruto asked gently.
All eyes were on the pinkette, Daisuke and Ryo stunned by the meeting, but kept silent.
The two children also thought that it was best for this horrible criminal to be killed so that he could never hurt anyone again.
"Sakura?" Ino asked.
Sakura clenched her fists tightly as she looked up at everyone, shocking everyone by the hate that filled her green eyes.
"Sasuke should die." she declared.
It was deathly silent in the room when they heard those words come from the medic nin's mouth.
"Sasuke said that he went to Orochimaru to gain the power he needed to kill Itachi and regain honor to his clan. But he killed both Itachi and Orochimaru, yet he never came home. He tried to kill us for over a year. He doesn't care about any of us. The only one he cares about is himself. He's a danger not only to us, but to himself. It would be for the best that he was put out of his misery." Sakura stated.
Silence filled the room, though many of the shinobis were happy that she had moved on from Sasuke and wasn't blinded by him any longer.
Smiling sadly at this, Naruto shook her head.
"I would have agreed with all of you if I hadn't have seen this." she said.
Everyone looked at her confused until they saw her pull out a photograph.
In this picture were two 7 year old boys who were identical twins with raven colored hair, fair skin and sapphire colored eyes.
One boy had chin length hair with his bangs brushed to the side and was wearing a purple t-shirt with a black long sleeved shirt underneath, black pants and navy sandals.
The other boy had long hair that was tied back into a ponytail and had a blue bandana wrapped around his head to keep his bangs out of his face while he wore a blue t-shirt, black pants and navy sandals.
What shocked everyone in the room was that the two boys were wearing matching pendants that were in the shape of a red and white fan.
"It appears as though Sasuke has fathered two sons." Naruto said.
"What?!" Kiba shouted.
"No way!" Ino gasped.
"Great." Shikamaru sighed in annoyance.
The council errupted into shouts of outrage and confusion, unsure of what to do with this new information.
Daisuke and Ryo both had their jaws hanging open at this news.
Sasuke had fathered two sons, meaning that the Uchiha clan wouldn't die out with him and those evil eyes, the Sharingan, would still be passed on to the next generation.
Naruto rubbed her forehead as she watched her friends yelling at this news and growing tired of it, she decided to calm them down.
"SHUT UP!" she snarled.
At the feel of the killing intent sent at them, the shinobis all turned to see their Rokudaime had blood red eyes and her whisker marks had darkened.
She had tapped into Kurama's chakra to silence them all.
Once she had their attention, she calmed down and her features returned to their normal state.
"Now, I know that this causes trouble for us. There are now two heirs to the Uchiha clan. And I for one simply can't make these poor boys grow up without their father. They don't deserve that cruelty." Naruto shook her head sadly.
Tsunade looked down sadly since she also didn't want that to happen or make the boys hate the village for taking their father away from them.
"So, Sasuke will have to live then?" Choji asked.
"It seems like it." Tenten sighed.
"But Sasuke still needs to be punished for what he's done." Ino reminded.
"He will be." Naruto agreed.
Setting the picture down, the woman faced her council as they all stared at her, eager to hear her words.
"I propose that Sasuke and his sons be brought back to the village. Ino, you will check their minds to see what they have been through and what their intentions are. If the boys are pure and innocent, then they will be put into the academy. Sasuke on the other hand will have his charka channels closed off. Permenatly. He will never be a shinobi and he will never use his Sharingan ever again. Do we have an agreement?" Naruto asked.
Ino and Hinata nodded as they stood up, then Sakura did as well knowing that they had a greater part to serve in this plan.
Hinata would use her Byakugan with the help of Sakura to close off all of Sasuke's chakra channels and his jutsu using ability along with his doujutsu.
Kiba then stood along with Tsunade, Kakashi, Konahamaru, Choji, Tenten, Lee, Shino and Shikamaru, showing that they agreed.
"Then there we have it. We are in agreement. Gaara, have Sasuke and his sons brought to the village. Kakashi and Shikamaru, I want you two and Sai to go with him to Suna to help escourt them here safely." Naruto ordered.
"Understood." Kakashi nodded.
"Troublesome. All right." Shikamaru agreed.
"Good. Now then, how about our little spies come in and join us?" Naruto smirked as she looked at the door.
Hearing that they had been caught, the two kids tried to run, but were caught when Gaara's sand reached out and grabbed them.
Kakashi and Kiba frowned at their children for spying on an important meeting making Daisuke and Ryo grin nervously.
Ino, Hinata, TenTen and Sakura giggled in amusement at the children for sneaking into the tower and spying on them.
"Well, well. It looks like you two would make great information gatherers." Tsunade smirked at them.
"Uh, sorry." Ryo looked down, his ears turning red as he blushed.
Kakashi sighed as he walked over and picked his son up.
"I assume Ryo and Tsunami will be staying with you while I'm on this mission?" he asked the Rokudaime.
Tsunami, a woman team 7 had met on their first mission out of the village, became Kakashi's wife and moved to Konoha after the war.
Her father Tazuna decided to stay in Wave country while her son Inari had become a samurai for the Daimyo.
Whenever Kakashi left the village for a mission, he would request that his wife and son stay with the Inuzuka/Uzumaki family to protect them.
"Of course." Naruto nodded as Akamaru picked up Daisuke by the collar of her shirt and walked over to Kiba.
Kiba had his arms crossed as he gave his daughter a stern look and she gave a grin to him to make her father calm down, but he didn't waver.
Sighing, she looked down at the ground, dejected.
"Everyone can go home now. Some of us have to deal with our naughty children." Naruto said.
Standing, everyone left the room, grateful that the Uzumaki and Hatake children had given them some relief from the tense atmosphere.
"Come on, let's go home." Kiba said as he jumped out the window.
Akamaru followed with the little girl curled up as the dog carried her and Kakashi left in a puff of smoke with his son.
Shaking her head at the way how things have turned out, the blonde woman jumped out the window as well, leaving two Shadow Clones to deal with the paperwork.
Why no other Hokage had come up with the idea of using Shadow Clones to deal with paperwork was a surprise to her.
But then again, she was the Queen of the Shadow Clones, so of course she would come up with this idea before anyone else.
Once back at the Namikaze compound, Daisuke was sitting on the couch with her parents standing in front of her, Akamaru sitting on the sidelines as he watched.
"Young lady, what were you thinking spying on a meeting between the council and Hokage?" Kiba scolded.
"I-I was worried! When Shizune came by to pick me and Ryo up, we both knew something was wrong. We wanted to know what happened. I'm sorry." the girl looked down sadly.
Sighing, Naruto walked over to her daughter and sat down beside her, brushing her hand through the girl's shoulder length hair.
"Sweetie, we would have told you what happened when we got home. You didn't have to spy on us, but I understand that you only did it out of consern." Naruto smiled softly.
"She still needs to be punished though." Kiba spoke up.
"And punished she will be." Naruto assured him.
"Ho-How?" Daisuke asked nervously.
Her mother then gave her a foxy smirk which made her worry.
"No dango for a month." Naruto chirped.
It was silent then before the Daisuke shrieked in horror.
"WHAT?! Mom, that's cruel!" the girl whined as she pulled at her mother's sleeve.
Akamaru snickered at this while Kiba sighed, running hand through his dark brown hair.
These Uzumakis were such strange creatures, but he loved them dearly all the same.
To be continued...
