Skyfall007: Hi guys! I'm alive! I just want to say that updates will be even more sporadic with school, golf season, work, and my boyfriend (*cue girly scream*). I have been trying to write as much as possible, but that doesn't happen when you have something after school every FUCKING day of the week. Enough of my whining, let's get onto the disclaimer and the review responses.

Animelover0115: Well technically Pein isn't the true leader of Akatsuki... that's all I can give without ruining the whole series for those who haven't gotten that far and even that little bit is a spoiler. If you want more details then you can pm me.

RamenGodReborn: First of all, that is an awesome username. I will keep writing. Haha that's hilarious.

Guest: Thank you. The broken nose part is from experience. I may have or may not have broken my brother's nose and that would've been how he would've sounded should I have broken his nose...^-^U

Dzerx: I'm still trying to decide on that one and how I would work it into the story without turning it into one of those super-harem stories (no offense to those who do write that stuff). Everyone's favorite tanuki is most likely going to be one too. But relating to the Konoha antagonist scheme, it's more like there are certain people within Konoha that are the antagonists. The village itself is an unwilling accomplice.

NarutoKushina: Yep...that wasn't supposed to be there...^-^U It was a reference for me to determine who was in the clan. The reactions are coming (hopefully) next chapter and will be for sure hilariously ridiculous and painfully serious/angsty.

bloodbrother18: No one does...

Now that the review responses are done, I can do the disclaimer.

I, Skyfall007, do not and never will own the Naruto series. I only own the OCs that I have created in this story and my laptop.

"You know, when I decided that I wanted to reestablish our clan I had no clue that it would involve so much writing." Naruto sighed as he watched his Kage Bunshin sit at a table and fill out paperwork.

"Why don't you make more of those copiesand do your homework faster Naru-nii?" A redheaded five year old girl asked from Naruto's shoulders.

Naruto looked up at her peering face and smiled, "Nariko-chan, if I do that then I'll get a big headache when they finish and go away. That means I can't play with you or Aki-kun afterwards."

Nariko was an orphan who had been abandoned as an infant in Nami after her parents had been murdered. A kindly couple who couldn't have children of their own took the young Nariko into their home and raised her as their own for five years. When news of the Uzumaki clan's revival spread, they knew that there was a chance that she could have a life far better than what they could provide for her. The couple made the journey with Nariko to Kumo. When the little girl's status as an Uzumaki had been proven, the couple was prepared to leave their child in the hands of the Uzumaki clan. Naruto, on the other hand, had different plans. He insisted that the couple move into the clan compound and be made honorary clan members for taking in someone else's child. They put up a good fight, but Naruto's stubbornness came out victorious. Nariko adored Naruto and made him her Naru-nii and followed him around nearly every moment she had when she wasn't playing with the other children.

Nariko puffed out her cheeks and frown when Naruto mentioned not being able to play after doing all that "homework" the Raikage gave him.

Naruto chuckled and crouched down, "How 'bout I put you down and we can walk to Ichiraku's to have some ramen, dattebayo?"

Nariko hopped off of Naruto's shoulders with a huge smile, "Really Naru-nii?!"

"Yeah! You've earned it!" Naruto took Nariko's hand and let her tug him towards the new ramen stand. The ramen stand owner had packed up and left Konoha after receiving a message from Naruto, offering him a place to expand the business in exchange for coming to Kumo. Naruto walked into Ichiraku's and took a seat at a booth with Nariko.

"Hey old man! Get me my usual and Nariko-chan an Uzumaki special!" Naruto shouted to the kitchen.

"Coming up!"

"So Nariko-chan, tell me about your new friends at the Academy."

"Ok Naru-nii! We learned about the ninja ranks and about the history of Kumo! I got paired up with-"

*In Konoha*

"Has it been confirmed?" Sarutobi Hiruzen coldly stared the man down.

The man tried to spit out an answer, "W-well–"

"HAS IT BEEN CONFIRMED?" He roared.

"H-hai. The Uzumaki clan has joined Kumogakure."

"Get me Danzo!"

"H-hai! Hokage-sama!"

*Two days later in Kumo*

Takaoka Yoshi was not ready to be a jounin sensei, especially the jounin sensei of a clan head. He wasn't prepared period. But the Raikage bullied him into leading the team with the greatest amount of potential to train. He was sharing this responsibility with Kirabi… he might as well be their only sensei.

Normally that would be great, but he was experiencing enormous amounts of pressure from the expectations of training what could possibly become the greatest team in Kumogakure. If he didn't meet that expectation… well he could kiss his shinobi career goodbye.

Today was the day that he met his new team.

He had a teenage and hormonal female jinchuuriki, one man-child jinchuuriki, a teenage clan head and also hormonal jinchuuriki, and an extremely stubborn and high-tempered girl with a slightly emotion-based bloodline that gives her pyrokenesis. If they could make it past their genin years and not kill each other then they could rival the Sennin, if not, then they would have the potential similar to an Iwa nin who loves Namikaze Minato surviving at home.

He was hoping they would be able to work well together.

Yoshi was a tall and slender 45 year old man. He had cleanly kept black, grey-streaked, wavy hair, brown eyes, tanned skin, and a trimmed moustache. He wore a grey long-sleeved shirt under his flak jacket and black pants. His kunai and shuriken pouch were tied to his left thigh and her wore his hiate on his left bicep.

He sat at his kitchen table as he pored over the files on the shinobi he would be working with. Kami give him strength to handle the insanity to come. He would need every last bit of it.