Originally Posted on: Feb. 27, 2019

OKAY, LETS READ THIS SHIT! I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR ANY OTHER ANIME/MANGA REFERENCES I MAY USE!

"Hey" = Speaking

'Hey' = Thinking

'Hey' = Memory

"Hey"= Tailed Beast

Chapter 3:

One month later, Tavern…

Tsunade called for another drink as Shizune and Tonton watched.

"Lady Tsunade," Shizune said nervously. "I think we should pay and leave."

Tsunade ignored her apprentice and continued to drink.

The door opened and in walked Itachi, who scanned the area with his sharingan and saw Tsunade's genjutsu covered form sticking out like a sore thumb.

He walked over and sat down.

"What are you doing?" Tsunade asked rudely, red in the face with an aggravated look.

"Tsunade Senju?" Itachi asked.

"Yeah, what's it to you."

"I've been ordered by the Third Hokage to bring you back to Konoha, with the offer of letting you teach Medical Ninjutsu to the younger generation like you wanted in the past."

Tsunade took a swig of her sake.

"Piss off." She said angrily.

She went for another drink but stopped when Itachi slammed his hand on the table.

"I don't have time for games." He said activating his sharingan. "Come back now or I'll force you to."

"As if you could."

Itachi's eyes became Mangekyo and he activated Tsukuyomi on Tsunade.

Shockingly, Tsunade resisted. Until she saw blood leak from Itachi's eye, breaking her thoughts with fear and that gave Itachi the opening he needed and soon Tsunade was asleep.

Shizune saw Itachi's eye bleed and stood up.

"Are you alright?" She asked as she checked him with a diagnostic jutsu.

"I'm fine." Itachi murmured. "I have been trying to find you under stress with what is about to happen. I was in the wrong to do this to her."

Tonton oinked in agreement but Shizune shakes her head.

"No, Lady Tsunade needs to face her fears." Shizune said as she placed Tonton on the ground. "I'm alright with this."

"But before we go, I need to ask you a favor." Itachi said as he looked at Shizune, who nodded. "I need you to perform a specific surgery on me when we get back to Konoha."

Konoha…

It had been six weeks since Hiruzen had assigned Anko to watch Naruto and Hokuto and have the Yamanaka clan rehabilitate the Root Anbu.

Most of the younger members were able to be helped quickly and many returned to their homes and most stayed in the normal Anbu.

However, the most loyal followers were being difficult and so in response, Hiruzen asked Ibiki to get information out of them on Danzo and all he had done.

During the last six weeks, Anko adopted Hokuto and Naruto. She hated having to watch over them, but after a while, she grew to care about them and decided that if she keeps getting paid S-class mission salary for looking after the kids then why not keep them both?

Selfish yes but reasonable to a degree.

Currently, Naruto and Hokuto were following Anko to her acquaintances house.

"I'm going to be gone for a few days." Anko said to her children.

"Really? Why?" Naruto asked as he held his mom's hand.

"Because she can't take us with her." Hokuto informed her friend as she held his hand.

"Oh, then who is going to be watching us?" he asked.

Inuzuka Compound…

Tsume Inuzuka and her ninken Kuromaru were relaxing on the porch deck in front of their home, enjoying the peace and quiet. Her daughter is attending school (Entrance age 12, Grad age 16), her son was asleep, and her niece was reading in the living room.

'This is so peaceful.' Tsume thought as she petted Kuromaru's only ear.

"Is this the place?"

Tsume perked up and Kuromaru raised his head as they both saw Anko walk up to the porch with her kids.

"Hey Anko." Tsume said as she stood up and hugged her friend before she turned and looked at Naruto and Hokuto. "So these are the two?"

"Yep these are my brats." Anko said as she put a hand on their heads. "Sorry for having to make you watch them. They lived alone for two years but the Hokage told me to find someone to watch them."

"Oh don't worry about it, just pay me back later with some sweet booze." Tsume said with a smug smile as she knelt to Naruto's and Hokuto's level as Anko released them and vanished.

"So pups," Tsume said as she looked at them, Kuromaru walking to her side. "What do you want to do today?"

"Can we practice cooking?" Hokuto asked. "Anko said we need to learn for when she starts leaving us in the forest when we start training."

Tsume blinked and looked at Kuromaru.

"Don't look at me." He said shaking his head. "She is your friend not mine."

He was soon hugged by Naruto.

"A TALKING DOG!" Naruto shouts as he rubs his face into Kuromaru's rugged fur, giggling at the strange feeling.

Kuromaru blinked multiple times and glared angrily at Tsume when she laughed at him. Soon they entered the house with Naruto on his back.

Tsume led the two into the kitchen and after some time, the enticing smell of food filled the room and the house.

"What smells good, Auntie Tsume?"

Naruto turned and felt his heart leap.

A girl about his age walked into the room. She had long red hair in two braids, some toughs on top of her head looking like wolf ears, and her skin was a healthy and attractive brown color and she had bright amber-gold eyes that shined with playful friendliness. On her cheeks were the same red fang tattoos all Inuzuka had. She was wearing a grey long-sleeved shirt that had a cartoonish wolf head on the front, green shorts that went nearly to her knees, and wore plain sandals.

Naruto blushed as he looked at this girl.

"Afternoon Lupus." (1)Tsume said as she sat down with the food the three of them prepared. "Go get Kiba and we will eat."

Lupusregina nodded and walked away.

"Tsume who was that?" Naruto asked timidly.

"That was my niece, Lupus Regina Inuzuka." Tsume said cocking her head with a smirk. "Why do you ask?"

Naruto blushed. "No reason."

Hokuto pouted and pinched his side, hard.

Naruto reacted normally and soon quieted down as Lupus and Kiba entered the room.

"Who are you?" Kiba demanded with a nasty look in his eyes.

Tsume bonked Kiba in the head.

"OW WHY'D YOU HIT ME?"

"Because you were rude to our guests." Tsume informed her son. "Kiba, Lupus, this is Naruto and Hokuto Uzumaki. They will be staying with us until their guardian picks them up in a few days."

"Sup." Naruto said waving at them before he got his cheek pinched. "CHokuto…"

"Be polite Naruto." Hokuto said before she let him go.

Naruto whined as he massaged his cheek before Kiba and Lupus sat down and started eating.

After eating, Tsume and Kuromaru took all four kids to the park.

Tsume sat on the bench with Lupusregina next to her and Kuromaru lying next to her.

Tsume watched Hokuto, Kiba, and Naruto play and have fun while Lupus read a book, ignoring her cousin and his new friends.

"Lupus, why don't you go play with them?" Kuromaru asked as he scratched his ear with his hind leg.

Lupus looked up from her book before returning to it.

"I just don't want to." She said sadly, her eyes showing said emotion. "Who would want to be friends with an outsider?"

Kuromaru and Tsume sighed.

'What my sister was thinking when she slept with a Cloud ninja I'll never know, but this is really bad.' Tsume thought. 'Kushina had the same problem. Well, until Minato saved her.'

It was true.

Lupus Regina Inuzuka was the daughter of an Inuzuka mother and a Cloud shinobi father, thus her tan skin and bright yellow eyes being different from all the others in the clan who were mostly 'Pure-bred' clan members.

Tsume's sister had died shortly after giving birth to Lupus, leaving Tsume as her parent figure. She did not care for her mixed heritage, once an Inuzuka, always an Inuzuka.

"Well, this would be a good time to make some friends." Tsume said encouragingly.

Lupus stayed quiet as she read her book.

Tsume gained a tick mark on her forehead.

Naruto, Hokuto, and Kiba heard a scream and stopped what they were doing to see Tsume dragging Lupus across the playground and dropped her in front of them.

"Lupus, these are your new friends, play nice alright." Tsume said sweetly before she walked back to the bench, watching her niece stand up and massage her hurt butt.

"Lupus, why didn't you want to play?" Kiba asked as he looked at his cousin confused. Usually when his mom brought them to the park, she would play with him and Hana, but with Naruto and Hokuto she stayed out of it.

Lupus pouted and looked away.

"Because I did not want to." She mumbled then gasped when her hand was grabbed.

"Come on." Naruto said with a bright smile. "Let's play."

Lupus felt a blush on her face as he held her hand. She slowly nodded her head and was gently pulled to the swings.

Hokuto pouted, her cheeks puffed out in agitation, but shook her head and followed Kiba to the swings.

Tsume saw this and smiled.

"Now she has some friends." Tsume said as she glanced at Kuromaru. "They will need to get their own Ninken soon, they are of age."

"Yeah, and I have a pretty good idea who will get who." Kuromaru said as he eyed Lupus. "That girl, during training she showed a very brutal approach to the task, so I think she will get Warwick's pup."

Warwick was a very aggressive ninken, being of wolf and dog decent, in the Inuzuka who never chose a partner. She died a year prior after giving birth to her own litter of half breed pups with only one survivor that was a kind creature but should great potential for aggression when she was older.

"I see." Tsume said as she looked at the four children play. 'I seriously hope that that never happens.'

What she was referring to was the Inuzuka Trait Similarity Bond between them and their ninken.

Kuromaru was a rough a vicious fighter, thus he looked and would only accept a partner with the same traits thus Tsume was his partner.

If Lupus continued to show this intense bloodlust, then Warwick's offspring would choose her.

"I pray that never happens." Tsume said seriously.

Lupus was swinging on the swings, enjoying herself.

'So this is what it is like to have friends.' She thought as she looked at Naruto, Hokuto, and Kiba who watched her swing. 'It feels so warm.'

That night…

"… the end." Tsume said as she closed the picture book she was reading.

The day had gone by fast, and before she knew it night was upon them and they needed to eat dinner. After that and brushing their teeth, Naruto, Kiba, Hokuto, Lupus, and Hana got into their pajamas and were around her listening to Tsume read a story.

"I hate that story." Lupus said angrily as she glared at the book.

Tsume had a puzzled look on her face.

"Why do you say that?" Kiba asked as he looked at his cousin. "It's a great story of a hero who saves everyone."

Lupus continued to look at the book with distain before looking up at Kiba.

"The hero is treated poorly by the people of his home. They are mean to him just because he is different. Yet when they are in trouble they beg him to help them. He does and then forgives them." Lupus stated angrily. "I think the hero is stupid for accepting them. They didn't accept him in the beginning so why should he?"

Lupus was taking deep breaths as she finished her rant.

"I feel the same."

Lupus looked up and saw Naruto with a solemn look. He was sitting cross-legged with Hokuto's lead on his lap sound asleep.

"The hero… he should have just let them suffer."

Lupus felt her heart race and her tan tattooed cheeks became pink.

Tsume felt her heart skip a beat when she saw intense, mutual hatred in Naruto's and Lupus's eyes.

"Alright pups, that's enough of that." Tsume said clapping her hands. "We are going to bed now so let's get everyone settled in."

Kuromaru, who was off to the side, walked next to Naruto and asked him to put Hokuto on his back.

Naruto agreed and soon, Naruto followed Kuromaru upstairs with Hokuto on the One-Eyed dog to his room that he was going to share with Hokuto.

Kiba and Hana went to their rooms and that left Lupus with Tsume.

"Lupus," Tsume said as she knelt next to her eight year old niece. "I know things haven't been easy for you…"

"And it never will be." Lupus snapped, gripping her aunt's pajamas as tears started to fill her eyes. "Just because my dad was a foreign shinobi, I'm treated like garbage by everyone but you, Kiba and Hana."

Tsume stayed silent and hugged her crying niece.

"It's going to be okay sweetheart, I promise you." Tsume whispered as Lupus clung to her mother figure tightly.

Kage Office…

Hiruzen tapped several pieces of document papers together and stapled them and put them to the side of complete forms.

(Relax Sigh) 'Now I can go home, relax, and then sleep.' The elderly Hokage thought as he started to stand before there was a knock at his door.

Hiruzen mentally groaned and sat down.

"You may enter." He called.

Itachi entered the room with Shizune.

"Mission complete." Itachi said with a bow.

Skip, Inuzuka Compound…

Tsunade groaned and opened her eyes.

"She is waking up."

Tsunade's vision cleared and she turned to her left to see a blonde haired boy with blue eyes and dulled pink haired girl looking intently at her with Tonton in her arms.

"Where am I and where is Shizune?" Tsunade demanded as she shot up angrily.

"Anbu said he and the other woman were going to talk and then spend some time together in… Sergee?" Naruto said confused with an adorable expression.

Tsunade huffed, took Tonton from Hokuto, left the room, found her shoes and left the building to go talk to her sensei.

Kage Office…

Hiruzen was sipping some tea when the door slammed open and Tsunade, who was holding Tonton, barged in only to get a face full of tea spit from Hiruzen in surprise from the sudden entrance.

"Sorry Tsunade." Hiruzen apologized as he coughed while Tsunade angrily dried her face off.

"Well, I want to know why you had an Uchiha force me back and where is Shizune?" Tsunade stated angrily as she sat down in front of Hiruzen's desk with Tonton in her lap.

"Well, to answer your second question, Shizune has just finished performing surgery for one of my shinobi and is helping him home now." Hiruzen stated calmly, putting his cup down.

Uchiha Compound…

"BROTHER!" Sasuke shouted when he saw his older brother holding a stranger woman's hand with bandages over his eyes enter the compound grounds.

"Is that you Sasuke?" Itachi said as he knelt down and opened his arms.

Sasuke jumped into his older brother's arms.

"What is all the racket?"

Shizune looked up and saw Fugaku and Mikoto walk through the door.

"Mom, dad," Itachi called out. "I'm home."

"My god, Itachi what happened to your eyes?" Mikoto asked worriedly as she rushed to her oldest and helped him up.

"I had an accident on my last mission." Itachi lied with a nervous chuckle. "I just had Shizune here, who is Lady Tsunade Senju's apprentice, perform a surgery to help my eyes."

Mikoto and Sasuke hugged Itachi while Fugaku glared at Shizune who was unnerved.

"You better pray my son's eyes don't have any bad side effects." He said rudely as he walked back into the compound.

Shizune had a tick mark on her forehead.

"I'm sorry about that." Mikoto said as she watched Sasuke lead Itachi into their home. "He is just worried and that is how he shows his emotions."

"No, its fine, I've dealt with worse." Shizune answered calmly while being very upset.

"Well, I'm very happy he will still have his sight, even if he has problems, and I believe Itachi is grateful too." Mikoto said with a bow before she bid good bye.

Shizune left and made herself to the Dango shop, ready to relax and pull a Tsunade.

Kage Office…

Tsunade nodded.

"Then why am I here?"

Hiruzen folded his hands.

"Two reasons." He stated. "I would like you to start teaching Medical Ninjutsu to the students at the Academy who want to learn."

"So you are finally willing to grant my request from the Second War?" Tsunade said sharply.

"Yes I would appreciate my Shinobi knowing the basics and would like it if you took head of the hospital also."

"Those are some selfish reasons."

"That is only one."

Tsunade raised an eyebrow in question.

"Then what is the second request?"

"I would like you to help one of my Shinobi raise some very special children."

Dango shop…

Anko had a large smile on her face as she entered the store and started to feel saliva pool in her mouth as she smelled the scent of the Food of the Gods.

However, this mood was slightly undone when she saw a woman sitting in her spot, and there were four bottles of beer on the table.

Trudging over, Anko slammed her hand on the table.

"Hey, you are in my spot, move." Anko demanded.

"Fuck off."

Anko blinked.

The people in the shop heard a scuffle and soon saw Anko grabbing Shizune by the shoulders of her kimono.

"You have some balls to tell me to fuck off like that." Anko said with an evil grin and a dangerous look in her eye.

"At least tell me I'm pretty before you rough me up." Shizune muttered before bashing her head against Anko's, causing both of them to grab their heads in pain.

"Need a beer!" Both exclaimed at the same time before looking at each other.

Anko smiled as did Shizune.

"You're pretty good for a drunk." Anko stated.

"Learned…. From the best." Shizune said, having to stop to collect her thoughts.

Both sat down and tapped their bottles together and downed the sweet nectar of the gods.

"BARKEEP, MORE DANGO FOR ME AND MY SEXY FRIEND!" Anko shouted.

With Tsunade and Hiruzen…

Tsunade and Tonton waited half-patiently as they waited for the Anbu to bring the children Tsunade was to help look after.

Hiruzen calmly did paperwork as he waited.

There was a knock at the door.

"Come in." Hiruzen called as he put his pen down and moved the paper to the side.

Tsume entered with Naruto and Hokuto behind them.

"Gramps!" Both children shouted happily as they jumped over his desk and hugged him.

"Naruto, Hokuto." Hiruzen chuckled as he sat them down on his lap and ruffled their hair. "How are you two?"

"We are doing good." Hokuto answered. "Miss Anko though."

Naruto nodded in agreement.

"Well, she will be back soon." Hiruzen assured them. "But I have someone very important for you two to meet."

The children blinked and turned and saw Tsunade, who had a awe-shocked face.

"Naruto, Hokuto, meet your great cousin."

Chapter 3, DONE!

1 Lupusregina Beta from Overlord, she is an Inuzuka and I love her like I love Hokuto.