LC; Okay welcome back readers!

Naruto; You've talked with us about almost every topic under the sky.

Sasuke; What's left to talk about?

LC;...I found out that there is actually a church for a flying spagetti monster and it's accepted as a religion.

Naruto; A flying monster of noodles?

Sasuke; The perfect god for Naruto Uzumaki.

LC; That's what I thought when I read about it! Why would someone make a religion around it though?

Sasuke; Maybe they're addicted to noodles like Naruto?

LC; This suggestion warrents pondering. *Goes to thinking rock*

Disclaimer; I do not own Naruto or the religion for noodles. Did I even spell spagetti right?

Chapter 3; Lost and found, the fox's greatest deciept!

Minato's head felt foggy, like he'd been asleep for a long time but the Sun had seen fit to wake him.
Only strange thing was that he couldn't even feel the Sun's rays and he appeared to be in some kind of hospital bed. Next to him was the shocked face of Sandaime-sama who was wearing the hokage robes.

"What happened?" His voice sounded harsh and his first attempts at speaking were interrupted by coughing.
It was like he hadn't spoken in a long time.

"Minato-kun, do you remember what happened?" Hiruzen asked hesitantly. He hoped he at least remembered that the man had a daughter.
Otherwise this was going to be awkward.

Minato looked innocently at Sarutobi before his eyes grew wide and he remembered the Kyubi attack.
He recalled seeing his beloved so weak and fraile, soon to die, and how his beautiful little girl had cried when he sealed the demon away. He remembered it all.

"Where is she? Where's Naru?" This was going to be a long night.

The Sun rose just as it always did the next day and with it so did Naru and Kisu. Before the great ball of fire's gaze could reach them the duo were at the training grounds practicing their unique style.
Naru had finally found a name for it.

"Alright, now to get back to perfecting the newly christened Trickster's Dance taijutsu style!" Naru declared to her furry friend.
Kisu nodded and they set to work to find a pace that worked for them. When Naru bent forward to avoid an invisible enemy's thrust Kisu used her back as a diving board to pounce upon the enemy.

When time came for the academy to start, for the first time since joining her, Kisu came with her into the building.
Many students gave her weird looks and commented about her picking up dirty strays but they studiously ignored them in favor of going to sit with her friends.

"Hey guys!" Naru greeted them joyfully. Shikamaru looked away from the clouds floating past and grunted his own greeting.
It would be too troublesome to add anything else. The message got across anyway.

"Naru, your out of the hospital already?" Kiba had glimpsed the blonde and run over to his runaway buddies.

"How'd you know?" Naru asked curiously. She didn't know anyone had visited her.

"My mom and I visited you when we were there visiting my sister. I heard from these two nurses you had been attacked by these weird shinobi." He wanted to ask her about the attack but wasn't sure if she wanted to talk about it.

"Oh yeah, not one of my best nights." Naru said sheepishly.

"Who were they?" He asked.

"I'm not sure, I was too busy trying to shield kisu because they wanted to kill him first. I didn't get a really good look at them except for their eyes." Naru shivered unconciously.

"What was wrong with their eyes?" Chouji asked. He hated that someone had hurt his friend! Next to him Hinata was showing the world one of the few Hinata-glares.
One did not mess with the young Hyuga heir's friends.

"They had red eyes with these three black things in them." She described. It had actually freaked her out a little at the time.

"That sounds like the Uchiha clan's sharingan." Shikamaru muttered. As one the group turned their heads to look at Sasuke Uchiha where he was sitting next to a window.

"Did they get arrested at least?" Kiba asked, a subtle growl indicating what he would do if they got off scott free.

"Actually I think they're dead." Naru murmured, looking away from the depressing Uchiha boy. He always acted so much better than the rest of them.
She wished she could wipe that smug grin off his face!

"Well so long as your fine." Shikamaru sighed.

"Why do so many troublesome things happen around you?" He asked her. Naru couldn't decide if the question was serious or a joke.

"I don't know. I guess it's cause I hate it when things are boring!" She said cheerfully. If only she realized her life was about to make a turn for the interesting in a few short hours.

Minato looked over the village from the Hokage office windows. It had changed so much yet so little.
The paint on the buildings was a little darker, but they had all been rebuilt. Children played on the streets and people went about their daily lives. Somewhere in the village, at the academy, his daughter was studying to be a great shinobi in her own right.

"Minato-kun you shouldn't over exert yourself." Sarutobi warned him from across the desk. Minato stole a brave glimpse at the desk and figured his old nemesis looked as unbeatable as ever.

"I've been asleep for six years, you can't blame me for wanting to get back up again!" He cried disbelievingly.

"Which reminds me, who all knows about my little nap?" He joked, half serious half not.

"Anyone who was already a ninja at the time and everyone above chunin level rank now." Sarutobi reported. He was rather proud that his shinobi had kept the secret so well that no one outside their gates knew it.

"Minato-kun, things have been far from easy while you slept." He'd told of Naru's situation, but there were many other problems.

Some problems for instance concerning the Uchiha clan and a certain crippled council member. At that moment, looking at the young blonde kage sitting in his chair, Hiruzen felt every one of his seventy nine years.

Minato listened with a stony face as the old shinobi before him told him everythat had transpired.
He'd have to do something about this. He didn't mean any offense to the old man, even within his own mind, but he was too old to rule properly. He was too tired.

"It looks like I have my word cut out for me." He muttered. He'd have to make some serious changes to protect his village.
It looked like it might be a little while before he could meet his daughter again. He only hoped she wouldn't hate him too much. He hoped he could make it up to her someway.

"I'll have to make up some plans, but first I want to meet this Itachi fellow." He said imperiously.
Sarutobi raised an eye brow at that but went to follow out his commands.

'Wait a little longer Naru-chan, daddy's got some work to do in the office.' He thought sadly, gazing at the imposing stacks of paper.

'Kami give me strength.' Why did the strongest of the village's ninja have to do all the paperwork again? He'd gone from killing machine on the battlefield to a politician!

Minato paused in his work as he thought that one through.

'There's a difference?' Minato was really starting to hate this job.

Itachi had always admired the Yondaime. He had been his hero in day's past and that had not changed as he slumbered in a jutsu caused coma.
He'd trained in order to become ANBU so that when the hokage woke up he could be of use to him and be near his hero. Today he would get to formally meet him!

Itachi walked into the office wearing his new ANBU armor, having recently joined before his brother had joined the academy.
His mask was that of the crow.

"Yondaime-sama, it's a pleasure to see you awake and aware." He greeted, kneeling before the blonde legend.

"Rise crow, and remove your mask Itachi." He ordered softly, wanting to gaze into the eye of this young Uchiha.

Itachi did as he was ordered and hesitantly looked up into the hokage's own eyes. It felt as though he was looking into Itachi's very soul with his piercing gaze.
He suddenly found himself very happy that this man was not an Uchiha or his sharingan would no doubt make him freeze in fear.

"I want your opinion on your clan's recent movements against the village." He declared. He did not have to order the young child to tell him, he just had to say what he wanted.
Itachi found his respect for the man reaching an even higher level.

"Yes Yondaime-sama." He told of how the clan was unhappy about being confined a single area and about the subtle accusations that the Uchiha clan was to blame for the Kyubi attack. He didn't leave a single detail out, giving everything that was asked and more.

"Do all of them feel this way or are there still some loyal to me?" Minato asked after getting the full story.
It was only through sheer willpower that he did not allow his stomach to growl, reminding him he hadn't had ramen in so long.

"The younger generation do not know of the plans at all. I only know because of my rank." Itachi informed him.
He prayed this wouldn't lead to where he thought it was leading.

"Itachi, when you go home today I want you to tell your father that I'm awake and have my eye on them and wish a meeting." Minato drawled, looking out the window to where the Sun said it was noon.

"Tell him I know who it was that started the Kyubi attack and I know he and his clan are innocent." When he didn't say anything else, Itachi took his leave.
He was surprised by the order, but was glad as well. Perhaps his family could still be salvaged.

"Oh and Itachi," The young remasked ANBU paused at the door.

"If you see Kakashi would you tell him he should get here as soon as possible and not to be late?" Itachi felt a smirk cover his face against his will and nodded his assent.
Things were going to be interesting around here again.

Itachi first went to the monument where he knew Kakashi always was around noon. Sure enough there was his commander, the only non-Uchiha to have the sharingan.
Another shinobi Itachi respected.

"Kakashi-senpai, Yondaime-sama is awake and wants to see you." He heard the thump of his commander's book hitting the ground, but then he blinked only to find the space he'd stood previously empty save for the little orange book.

Itachi childishly looked around trying to locate the mask wearing nin and soon felt his signature making it's way to the hokage's tower at an amazing speed.
He indulged in one of his rare chuckles before taking the book with him as he headed to the clan compound.

Fugaku looked up from his lazy boy chair to see his elder son staring at him, not three feet away.
Managing to hide his surprise behind a carefully raised eyebrow, he lowered the book he'd been reading to address his son.

"Your home early." He commented. Why did this speak of nothing good?

"Yondaime-sama has awoken, and wants to see you." Fugaku felt as though butter wouldn't melt in his mouth at the moment.

"Yondaime-sama, is awake?" He repeated, stupified for lack of better word.

"He knows of the clan's plans as well." This just got better and better didn't they? He hoped that today wouldn't be his last on Earth.

"We shouldn't keep him waiting then." Fugaku sighed worredly, running a hand through his hair. Dare he even think that his son looked happy despite the lack of a smile on his lips?
Yes, he could see that light in his son's eyes that had been missing these past weeks.
Despite the fact that he may have been walking to his own funeral, Fugaku couldn't help but be relieved that his son was happy again.

Minato had gotten Kakashi to go on a ramen run for him so he could catch up on paperwork when he felt Itachi and another man he vaguely recognized as Fugaku approaching.
Finishing the last paper on his desk with a relieved sigh he called for them to come in.

"Yondaime-sama, it's good to see you back in your seat." Fugaku greeted him formally.

"Fugaku-teme how good to see you again!" Itachi was glad he was wearing his mask so no one could see the large smile on his face at hearing his father addressed so.

"Must you call me that Minato-baka?" Fugaku countered, his eye twitching slightly as his old teammate taunted him like he hadn't been in a coma for six years.
He had to admit, the man looked a lot paler than he had last he'd seen him.

"In front of my own son as well?" Itachi felt his lungs begin to ache as he tried to hold in his snigger. Hearing his father and hero talk to eachother like that was amusing to say the least but he didn't want to ruin his reputation.

"Yes, yes I must." Minato answered seriously. Itachi took a deep breath and counted backwards from ten to calm himself.

"And I think Itachi thinks it's funny as well." Itachi felt himself pale and stole a side glance at his father who was looking at him like he'd grown a second head.

"But this bickering, as funny as it may be, isn't what I called you here for." Where had the joking blonde from a moment ago gone?
Who was this deadly man before them now?

"I've been informed of your clan's less than loyal plans." He said, staring right at the clan head before him.

"I want to know your reasons behind them." He stated.

Fugaku had never been able to convincingly lie to Minato. It was like the man had a sixth sense for the untruth and always called him on his bluff.
When he had finally come to terms with the fact that he couldn't lie to the blonde teenager at the time, he'd decided to go with telling the truth as it usually didn't lead to humiliation.

Fugaku told him how the clan elders were unhappy about being treated as though they were less important.
They'd grown arrogant stating that the Uchiha were meant to be treated with respect merely because of their name. He told Minato about how they'd been angered when they'd all been forced to move to a single compound in order to be watched, as the original official reason had been seen through.

He especially told him of how there had been whispers that the Uchiha clan were responsible for the attack of the Kyubi no Kitsune.

"It was an Uchiha that caused the attack, but not one of ours." Minato sighed. He remembered the man who wore the black cloak with clouds of blood.
He remembered that orange mask and that one visible sharingan eye. He remembered the taunt about his long thought dead student being held by that man as a backup for his eyes.

"Madara Uchiha still lives." He could feel the temperature decreasing at an alarming rate.

"You see, I had been secretly married to a young woman named Kushina Uzumaki, and we were expecting a daughter." Here he would lay his life bare and hope that some good came out of it.

"Normally, she would give birth in a hospital but Kushina was unique, you recall Fugaku?" Fugaku muttered something about firery haired devil women.

"She was unique in another sense as well, in that she was the jinchuriki for the Kyubi no Kitsune." Silence erupted from his declaration and suddenly Fugaku could see where this was going.

"As you may or may not know, a seal holding a demon weakens in child birth, so I had taken precautions." He remembered the safe house he'd taken them to, his wife and unborn daughter.

He recalled the unit of ANBU and the Sandaime's wife, Choko being present as a midwife. He remembered being called away and returning to find the ANBU dead and his daughter's life being threatened.

"The birth was succesful, but it had complications. Kushina lost to much blood." Fugaku had remembered getting the news.
At the time though, he'd though that the demon's chakra had forced her into labor and the chakra had poisoned her and the babe. He hadn't even known if it were a boy or a girl.

"When I got there, a man wearing a cloak as black as night with clouds of blood stood holding my newborn daughter." He could see where this was going and he prayed he was wrong.

"He told me his demands. The baby for the Kyubi." Minato rubbed a hand over his face and tried to ward off the exhaustion of this moment.
He still felt weak after his long coma and needed rest, but first he had to finish this.

"I saw my chance and used the Hiraishin to teleport myself and the baby to a safe place, this tower." Itachi couldn't stop himself from looking around the room then, wondering if it was here that his hero's child had been brought.

"By the time I got back to my wife though, that man with the orange mask had already extracted the Kyubi from my weakened Kushina and she barely clung to life." He could remember the smell of blood, the great paw about to squish his love, how for the first time he performed the Hiraishin without it's seals.

"Kushina couldn't take the bombardment of the Kyubi's chakra after losing so much blood." He had to fight hard to keep his voice steady.
He hadn't really had time to mourn yet.

"She died in my arms within moments." While it hurt so much to acknowledge it, it also felt good to be speaking about it with his long time best friend.

"I didn't have a choice, I had to perform a suicide jutsu to seal the demon away into my own daughter." Here it was that Fugaku lowered his head in shame.
He remembered seeing both Kushina and Minato in the girl but doing nothing. He remembered how less than 24 hours earlier two of his men had attacked the girl. He should have done more for her!

"I only stayed concious long enough to name her." Naru Uzumaki Namikaze, his beautiful little girl.

"Fugaku, I need to know if I can count on you to have my back, just like back then." Fugaku had never seen the man so broken and defeated.
At the same time, he figured he wouldn't look much better if something happened to his beloved Mikoto.

"You can always count on me to have your back Minato." 'Yours, and your daughter's.' Tonight he'd enforce the laws of the village like the police were meant to and rid the elders of their positions.
It was high time he reminded them who was clan head and who the servants.

"I knew I could teme." There was the Minato he knew and despised, turning a serious moment into a joke!

"You should go home and rest, let Sandaime-sama take care of the particulars." He urged his tired friend.

"I know I should but I don't want to." Minato said childishly, wondering where Kakashi was with his ramen. Hadn't it been a good twenty minutes since he sent that boy out?

"You two get out of here, I have paperwork to defeat." Minato said hatefully, glaring at the stack of papers that had mysteriously appeared on his desk.

"It can't be that bad." Fugaku muttered, leaving the room with his son behind him.

"Oh before you go Itachi, I have a mission for you." Minato called back. Fugaku nodded to his son, indicating that he'd be waiting for him outside.

"Yes Yondaime-sama?" He waited with wonderment, curious about what mission there could be for him on such short notice.

"Sarutobi told me about the attack on my daughter and I've decided to give her a little extra protection." He stated.

"I want you to guard my daughter." Itachi would someday realize this was the moment his life had gone down the tube.
Protecting a kage's daughter, while a high honor, was torture in a disguise.

"I won't let you down Yondaime-sama." He swore, leaving to the academy where he knew the girl was in the same class as his little brother.

Word spread quickly that the fourth hokage was awake from a coma and the people were anxious to see their leader to see if it was true.
At the end of the week, Minato had almost fully recovered and was wearing his kage uniform. Today he would announce his presence to the rest of the village. After that, he'd go and see his little girl!

He soon stood atop the hokage tower facing the people who had gathered for this occasion. Every man, woman, and child had come to see their hero return to them.
Minato looked down at his village and felt pride and sorrow rush through him in equal measures.

He loved his home, yet at the same time was sad when he'd heard of how they'd treated his daughter.
Of course, he wouldn't be announcing her identity just yet, he'd save that for later. Besides, first he wanted to meet her, for the first time since the day she was born.

"Konohagakure, six years ago the Kyubi attacked and many lives were lost." He knew he had their attention in a second.

"On that day, a man came who could control the tailed beasts." The whispers were starting and he could see some glares pointed at the gathered Uchiha.

"This man I fought, and forced him to retreat. However due to being in a coma, I couldn't tell anyone his true identity." Some confused stares now, but he had 100% of their attention.

"This man was here when the village was founded, and his name is Madara Uchiha." In an unseen corner of a dark alley, a strange black and white plant man stood half in the ground half poking out.
The Yondaime Hokage was alive!

"That day I defeated the Kyubi at a great cost. My prredecesor, Sarutobi made a law about it I'm sure many of you remember." Here he allowed his eyes to scan the crowd.
She shouldn't be too hard to spot. There, he saw the golden head and that angelic face looking up at him.

He knew the girl had learned of her status little over a week ago, but could not tell how she felt about it from the way she was looking up at him.
He could however see how many of the adults were looking at her. He again had to restrain his KI from burning holes into the fools who dared look at his daughter cross eyed!

"I will be making another announcement soon but for now I have other duties to attend to." He said joyfully.

"I'm glad to see the Will of Fire has continued to burn despite the hardships we've faced." He said in conclusion.
A great cheer went through the crowd. They cheered for their leader's return, they cheered for a new future and hope for it.

"Minato-sensei, do you plan on speaking to Naru soon?" Kakashi asked him later in his office. Minato was glad to see his student so relaxed, but he was slightly perturbed when he saw the reading material he carried everywhere.
He wouldn't make a fuss about it unless he exposed his darling little girl to it though.

"I think I'll do it later today." He said, before steeling his resolution.

"She's not at the academy today, bring her to me would you Kakashi-kun?" Kakashi nodded before leaping out the window in search of the blonde vixen.

Minato finally understood why Hiruzen wished people would use the door rather than the window.
Shaking his head, he continued with a letter he was writing to his sensei to request he return to the village. He wanted to see the man who'd raised him again.

Twenty minutes later Kakashi came in carrying a shaken Naru through the window. Minato raised a brow but didn't comment on the fact his daughter was being carried under one arm like a sack of potatoes.
Kakashi was lucky he was Minato's only student left or he'd be even angrier.

"You can leave now Kakashi." He said dismissively, subtly pointing to the door this time to ensure no one interrupted.

He did a take back when he saw the fox kit in Naru's arms but after seeing it was a regular animal did not comment on it.

"Hello Naru-chan, my name's Minato." He greeted her, giving her a small smile.

"I know." She said quietly, still trying to figure out what this monster under her bed wanted with her and why she'd been practically kidnapped for this meeting.

"Sarutobi told me you'd learned about your status as a jinchuriki." He hated that he'd been the one to do this to his daughter.
Just a month before the attack he'd heard how the kazekage had done the same thing to his own son! He felt so bad doing it!

"Yeah, so what?" She asked defensively. This guy was supposedly fast enough that if he wanted you dead you wouldn't know you were dead when he chopped off your head.

"Are you angry with me?" He asked sadly, feeling his previous good mood fly out the window faster than Kakashi.

Naru had to seriously think of how best to answer. She'd been beaten often enough, treated like a disease and hadn't gotten friends for a long time.
However, if she hadn't had the demon within her and the hatred of the village, she wouldn't have such true friends. People who stuck by her no matter what.

She had felt betrayed when the old man had kept it a secret from her, but she'd had time to think it over.
She still wished someone had told her sooner, but she could understand it. She had often wondered why he had picked an orphan and had thought for some time he'd done it because he genuinely hated her or more practical, maybe her parents.

However, she loved this village despite it's faults. She couldn't honestly say she wouldn't do the same thing in his position.

"I don't know." She finally sighed, feeling too confused to think it through anymore.

"I was angry at the old man cause he hid it from me, left me to wonder why I was hated by so many." She went on, hugging Kisu close to her heart.

"I just want to know," Here she took a deep breath and for the first time since this meeting began, looking into the hokage's eyes.

"Why me?" There lying on the table now was the root of the problem.

Minato took a deep breath before starting. He told her the same thing he told his old teammate Fugaku.
He told her she was his daughter and the only one he thought capable of holding back the Kyubi at the time. He told her how even though he really didn't want to do it he couldn't ask someone to give up their own child when he could not.

When he finished, he watched her, trying to gauge her reaction. Somewhere in the middle she had dropped Kisu and he was now looking between the two of them.
If he had to describe it, he'd say her reaction was stupified.

"You have my colouring but your bone structure is Kushina's, your mother's." He said, letting his eyes get their fill of her.

"You've grown so much, I can barely believe it." Naru let this information sink in as she realized Hokage-jiji had lied about something else.
He said he hadn't known her parents. Why was she always being lied to?

"Why are you telling me all this!" Naru demanded of him.

"Why now when no one would tell me before?" She knew her voice was rising but was to upset to care. Tears began to fill her eyes.

"I hate it when people lie to me! First Hokage-jiji when he said he didn't know why I was hated, then again when I asked about my parents!" She declared before glaring at him.

"So what changed? Why am I allowed to know something I should have known forever now?" She asked, her voice barely over a whisper as the tears finally began to fall.
Minato made a big mistake then. He didn't stop her when she left the room with her kit.

Naru wiped away the tears as she walked down an empty alley as she headed for a training ground.
She needed to take her anger and frustration out on something before she exploded. In the span of little over a week she'd gotten two of her biggest questions answered. Why she was hated, and who her parents were.

Instead of being happy, thrilled, she was sad though. She was dissappointed that they hadn't seen fit to tell her before now.
That they'd found it necessary to lie to her. She understood not telling everybody, but it was her life. She should know these things!

She and Kisu trained until long after the Sun had fallen.

"Let's go home." Naru muttered, feeling a little better now that the training stump resembled a toothpick.

Kisu nodded and as thunder boomed overhead they turned towards home. The rain began to fall as they walked, soaking them to the bone.
With her head bent low, Naru didn't see the drunkard until he had bumped against her as he staggered home.

"Apologize demon brat!" Naru clenched her fists and turned to see who was talking. It was the man she'd bumped into not a moment before.

"My apologies." She said sarcastically.

"I'm sorry you could find no better way to forget your loss than by drowning yourself in alcohol!" She added, turning to continue her trek.

She hadn't taken three steps before the man had grabbed her by the back of her shirt and lifted her into the air.

"I'll teach you a lesson brat!" He stammered in his drunken stupor.

"Yeah, get your ass kicked 101!" Naru cried, twisting in his grip to round house him in the side of the head, knocking him out.

"Are you alright Naru-sama?" Kisu asked anxiously.

"I'm fine." She answered, picking up her friend.

Itachi watched with a detached gaze as the girl beat down the drunk. He'd been about to step in when she had surprised him with her move.
It didn't look like a normal kick though, and from what the fox did, it was like it was a teamwork excercise.

When she had kicked him, knocking him off balance, Kisu had taken a position behind him to trip him up.
He had hit his head when he fell, knocking him out.

It was a simple enough maneuver but he was impressed that a now seven year old had been able to perform it.
She had talent, that much he could admit.

Making a note of the face of the drunk, he followed after the young blonde as she walked home in the rain.

Naru had used up all her anger, now all that was left was a sort of sadness. Young as she was she hardly understood why she was upset but knew she was.
The tears came unbidden to her eyes as she realized she'd found the family she'd always wanted, only to find she didn't want them around her.

After seven years she was a little too independent, a little to self-reliant to accept the care of another person.
In time, if she gave him a chance, she knew she'd see him as the father he claimed to be. When that time came though, inevitably she would lose him and it would hurt.

She didn't understand why she was so reluctant to accept help from him or anyone else. Maybe subconciously she was afraid of relying on someone only for them to turn around and lie to her face or leave her.
She was only seven, but had seen the worst humanity had to offer gift wrapped.

Naru cried in silence on the way home for the childhood she never had a chance to enjoy. She wept for the pain she had felt time and again.
She sobbed for her mistrust in others and her inability to open up to them. But she didn't understand then why she was crying. She was only seven after all.

"Naru-sama, we'll always be there for eachother right?" Naru turned to look Kisu in the eye from where he was trotting beside her.

"Always." She said, a small smile on her lips and her eyes open to the world. This was a true smile of hers, one as rare as her friends are.

"But first we should get home before we get sick!" She joked, jumping in a puddle before beginning to run for the warmth of her bed.
Kisu yipped in surprise behind her, chasing after her with his bedraggled coat.

They reached their apartment without any more delay and dried themselves as best they could. After eating a hearty meal of ramen and dog food, the two fell asleep in Naru's bed, all but dead to the world.

Itachi watched from outside as he contemplated what he would tell Yondaime-sama in his report.
Stifling a sneeze before it could potentially give away his cover, he began cursing his new assignment.

He was certain that in his nice warm bed in his big warm mansion Minato Namikaze was laughing at him.

Minato rolled over in his sleep and sneezed all over his pillow. That night he dreamt of giant weasels yelling at him about rain and tiredness as he ran without any clothes on from them.

Rearing into a sitting position after almost being eaten by the giant black haired weasel king, Minato tried to catch his breath.
That was the last time he went to sleep after eating ramen with chili sauce mixed in!

The next day dawned hot and bright with a few clouds in the sky. Contrary to the day earlier, which had been downcast.
Naru rolled over in bed, nearly squishing Kisu, before landing on the floor. She took a moment to realize she'd fallen from the bed again before sitting up and yawning.

"Morning Kisu!" She yawned, her mouth threatening to split her head in two.

"Mornin' Naru-sama." Kisu barked. Why did humans have to get up so early anyway? Even if foxes didn't need as much sleep as humans he enjoyed it and didn't like waking up in the morning.
To quote the pine-apple haired student, it was too troublesome!

Itachi rolled his shoulders before sensing another presence coming up from behind. He turned with his sharingan blazing behind his mask to see another ANBU, one of his teammates actually.

"Karasu, your presence is requested of the council elders. They sent me to temporarily relieve you until your return." He said formally, tossing him the black scroll which held his summons.

After making sure it was real, he made a clone and left it with his comrade. It wasn't that he didn't trust the man behind the Neko mask.
It was that he didn't trust the council members when it came to Yondaime-sama's secret-for-now daughter.

Entering the council room, he wasn't surprised to find the hokage himself missing. He was surprised though, to find only the hokage's old teammates and Danzo Shimura present.
Something smelled fishy about this, but his clone hadn't dispelled yet so he would wait. For now.

"Itachi, it has come to our attention that your clan is planning against the best interests of Konoha." Danzo said formally.

"Therefore we have a mission for you in order to prevent a civil war from braking out." Homura stated, holding out a scroll with red trim.
Itachi knew it was an assassination mission, and hesitantly he took the scroll from the offered hand of the elder.

Unrolling it he felt his stomach plummet to the ninth level of Hell. This was a mission to decimate the entire Uchiha Clan, down to the last man, woman, and child.
The hokage couldn't have sanctioned this! His father was dealing with the problem!

"You as a loyal nin must know the risks of letting this continue and we expect you to complete this assignment tonight."
No, he wouldn't let this happen. Yondaime-sama would help him surely.

"Did Yondaime-sama sanction this?" He asked coldly, clutching the scroll in one hand, threatening to snap it.

"He does not wish to make such a hard decision so we made it for him." Danzo said cruely. After the massacre he would take the Uchiha eyes as his own to replace the one he'd lost.
This was for the betterment of the village.

"I will complete this mission after the hokage has added his seal of approval." He said, turning to leave the room.

"You do not need his seal for every mission Itachi!" Danzo snapped angrily. He'd expected the boy to follow his mission like a loyal shinobi.

"You cannot turn down this mission, it is S-rank." Homura glared at the impudent young man who's back was still turned to them.

"I am ANBU, I answer not to you, I take no missions from you." Itachi said, allowing his KI to reach the dried up old prunes before him.

"I will see if the hokage approves of this before I consider it. You understand, it is merely procedure." He said it with a calm so unlike what he truly felt at the moment.
He wouldn't let this happen if he could avoid it!

THE CHAPTER IS OVER NOW GO AWAY UNTIL NEXT TIME BYE BYE!

LC; Okay, now that is what I call a good read.

Naruto; It certainly keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Sasuke; You could make a major motion picture with this thing.

LC; I could couldn't I? Of course, under a different name than Naruto.

Sasuke; What did we just unleash into the world?

Naruto; A new anime involving shinobi and demons?

LC; Bye bye till next time!