Chapter 4
Lost Children and Pointless Missions
It had been four days.
Four fucking days of being in the village without doing a thing.
Restless, the Konoha shinobi decided it was time to venture through the town.
As soon as they opened the door Kiba frowned.
"I'm going to stay in guys. Go on ahead."
Hinata frowned, "Are- are you all right Kiba-kun?"
He nodded and went back to his room.
There was a strange smell in the air as they ventured out into the city.
Children laughed somewhere in the distance.
"Let's go shopping!" Ino announced.
Some groaned while others agreed.
"To the market!"
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Naruto stared fondly at the passed out blond on the bed.
"Finally over. That was shorter than expected."
There was a knock at the door.
"Come in."
Tossing a blanket over the naked man Naruto stood, uncaring that he was nude.
"Take that stupid thing off."
A pale hand removed the mask.
Brushing aside red bangs the man stared at the unconscious blond.
Sniffing disdainfully the redhead focused on the taller blond.
His eyes slowly trailed down to his crotch before a cough brought back his attention.
Naruto smirked, "I should've let you stay as a puppet. You get turned on too easily Sasori."
A slight blush covered the other's features.
"Your guest are getting impatient and one of them seems to have picked up the scent of mating season."
Naruto shrugged on the button up shirt that the redhead handed over to him.
"I'll get to them soon enough. Besides," His smirked turned devilish as he grabbed the redhead's wrist and bent him over a chair.
He fingered the button of Sasori's pants as he nibbled on his ear.
"I've neglected you enough haven't I. I'll take care of you before I send you to retrieve them for me."
The pair of pants the redhead held dropped to the floor.
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Sakura held up a shirt to herself before turning to Ino.
"What to you think?"
"Too pink. Try this, it'll go with your eyes."
Sakura stared at the shirt with a pout.
Grabbing the pink one she turned, "What do you think Sasuke-kun?"
He stared at her blankly before Ino tore it away.
"It's too pink!"
Sasuke stared a moment before walking away towards the weapons.
It seemed as though every shop had weapons in them.
Along the isles of the market, weapons could be found everywhere.
Obviously this village wouldn't be under stocked when it came to war.
The door to the shop opened.
"Uh Akira, I think we took a wrong turn. This isn't the right shop."
"Yes-huh Masumi! They're over here."
Sasuke watched as two very small children looked around.
The Uchiha stared at the children as they stared beck.
What the fuck?
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Naruto stretched as he walked down the halls of his home.
The kage tower was large enough to house his large and growing family.
Suddenly, another guard came running by.
A loud roar caught both their attention before the guard hid behind him even though he was taller.
"Bee, what did you do?"
"I was supposed to be watching the brats for the runt and now he's on the hunt."
Naruto winced as he heard a wall being crashed into.
Gaara's demon state was quite reckless.
"You lost them…"
He felt the other nod.
"I'll take care of it."
"Thanks man I'm glad you're on my side cuz you just saved me hide."
The blond watched as the rapper sped off before there was another crash.
Rubbing his eyes he sighed, he was to young to be dealing with these kinds of things.
A blur of sandy brown and red shot past him but before it could get past Naruto grabbed and flipped the other onto his back.
"Gaara, calm down."
Golden eyes glared at him.
"He lost my children."
Picking the shorter boy over his shoulder the blond sighed, "They're in the market. I promised them before I left I'd let them chose a weapon for their training. You should be able to sense them."
Gaara dug his claws into Naruto's back.
"They're three and that's not the point. He lost them."
The blond started heading towards a door with the kanji 'kage' written on it.
"Akira and Masumi are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. To add to that, they are demons and are half mine. They know what to do in case of emergency."
Swatting at the tail that batted back and forth in agitation, the blond set him down in his office.
"Besides, they're to cute to say no to."
A growl filled the room.
"Fine. I'll send someone to get them and you can say no."
Golden eyes narrowed.
"Fine with me. They are not using anything without my permission."
The blond walked to his office and sat in his chair with the redhead following alongside him.
"You're to protective of them. They're strong Gaara. That's why they are alive today."
Naruto called someone in as he glanced at his paper work.
"Shit." He mumbled.
Gaara's demon ears twitched.
"What?"
"Nothing." I didn't tell baa-chan the secret.
"Oh well," He mumbled to himself. "That reminds me…"
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Sasuke stared at the two children who couldn't be more that four.
Brows furrowing, he stared at twitching ears and swooshing tails.
Even an Uchiha had to reach out a pull give a slight tug.
"Ow! Akira! He pulled my ear!"
"Meany-face!" Akira is seemed, yelled and pulled the other twin back.
They both glared at him with clear blue eyes.
Their eyes went to a spot beside Sasuke before an ANBU appeared.
"Akira? Masumi?" The two perked at their names but frowned when they noticed it was a familiar face.
"…You're Okaa-san wants you two back now."
Both their eyes widened.
Sasuke could see their red and blond streaked hair bobbing.
"Uchiha-san, the Otokage wants you and the other Konoha ninja to report to his office."
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Gaara frowned as he glared at the children who glared right back.
"Otou-san said we could pick something out for the academy!"
"I don't care what your Otou-san said. He's doesn't always think things through clearly."
"But Okaa-san!"
They glared at him before losing the glare and turning teary-eyed.
Lips pouting, eyes wide and watery, an expression of absolute betrayal.
Resolve level: weak.
One child let their tears leak.
Resolve level: Extremely weak.
The other let tears fall as well and they hugged each other.
Resolve level: Gone.
"Fine!"
He turned heel and glared at the blond.
"Your at fault just to let you know."
Naruto grinned as the children ran to him.
Placing his hat on Akira he ruffled Masumi's short locks.
They were both identical.
Red highlight in golden locks, cut short enough so that it could pass for a boy or girl.
Clear blue eyes that they were both named after.
Chubby baby faces to go along with their small pre-pubescent bodies.
High voices that got higher with excitement and lips curved to show long canines.
The only differences were their tails and ears.
Akira had gold with red tips and Masumi had red with gold tips.
Gaara's scowl turned into a small smile as he picked up Masumi.
Akira played with the hat before Naruto tried to take it.
"No! I want to wore it."
"Wear it Akira. I need my hat though, I'm the Otokage."
"For now." The twins muttered.
"Scary. Fine, you're going to have to stay here until I can go home though and that might not be until dinner and you know how Okaa-san is."
Both twins shuddered.
"Okaa-chan is scary!"
Gaara frowned before pinching Masumi's cheek and then Akira.
They both pouted.
Naruto laughed and Gaara smiled slightly.
The door opened.
"Otokage-sama, the Leaf ninja."
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No one knew what to do or say when they saw Naruto in the Otokage seat with a child on his lap and the redheaded psycho that had helped on the Sasuke retrieval mission holding another identical child.
Sasuke noticed it was the brats he saw in the store earlier.
Iruka finally broke the silence, "You really are the Otokage."
Gaara snatched the hat and placed it on Naruto's head before grabbing Akira by the shirt collar and dragging them both out of the office like a mother dog carrying pups by their skin.
Iruka stared in awe, as did everyone else before they started yelling and asking questions.
Ears twitching, he growled dangerously.
Everyone quieted down as stared at him.
"Naruto," Iruka reached over and poked a golden fur covered ear.
"What's this?"
With a deep sigh the blond motioned for them to sit and get comfortable.
"Obviously I wasn't a normal kid in Konoha. When I was younger my body contained the nine tailed demon fox. Early on I started slowly merging and eventually I merged completely but not without side effects." He pointed to his ears and widened his eyes to get their attention.
"Got some fancy looking tails and my chakra is different too. I'm a lot stronger too. I bet you noticed my villagers have them as well… My village is a demon haven."
They all stared at the blond.
A bombardment of questions was asked before a blond ran in.
His long blond hair was tired up and his bangs covered one eye.
Blue eyes looked irritated as he slapped something down on Naruto's desk.
"You officially suck."
Sharp ninja eyes caught what the item was and stared in wonderment.
"?"
The question going through most of the people's heads; Why does a male have a positive pregnancy test?
"Congratulations." Naruto muttered.
The shorter blond growled before suddenly flinging himself at the Otokage.
"I'll kill you!"
Amusement filled red eyes.
He leaned forward and pecked Deidara's nose.
"I was kind of in the middle of something. Can we discuss it later?"
Deidara's tail twitched in irritation.
"No! I'm never speaking to you again."
The Konoha ninja frowned before Sakura spoke up.
"Wait just a second! What do you mean she's raising you children when you have one with Akane?"
Sakura had obviously missed a bit of information.
Naruto waved it off and Deidara stomped out the room.
"We can get to know each other later. I really do have official business to get to."
Sai suddenly spoke, "You're harbouring a missing-nin."
Naruto's eyes narrowed.
"I am not. Every ninja nation knows he is here. Every Kage and Daimyo knows as well. Well, not every kage it seems. Anything against another village makes his punishment death. You have an outdated book ROOT member. And if your… master does anything to my village I will know about it."
The sound of a drawer being opened and shut echoed in the silence.
A small black book was tossed to the boy before the blond continued while fixing his hat.
"Anyway, you are all going to be tested and ranked. Konoha and Oto do not have the same ranking system. Some of you will be teaching in the academy because many of the teacher's aren't going to be there for a couple of weeks. Obviously you won't have the same team but if you're that uncomfortable I can put you with the person requested. If, at any time, you wish to go back to your village tell me and you will be sent back. A certain amount of money will be given to you every week. Housing, food and clothing with be given. Eventually you'll be allowed to take missions for Oto if you want extra money."
He paused to see if they were following, assuming a yes, he continued.
"Any crime committed here will be punished by both Konoha and Oto unless it is thought Oto will be unreasonable."
He snapped his fingers and an ANBU seemed to melt out of the shadows.
Handing out small books he took a breath before saying, "These are the laws and how they are punished. If you try to leave Oto without permission then you will be hunted and jailed until Konoha deals with you. And these need to be signed."
The same ANBU handed out sheets of paper.
"After adjusting for a couple of days you will chose whether to sign them or not. I see one of you is missing so I'd appreciate if you told him about this. His sense of smell will bother him here at this time of the year. Dismissed."
The professional tone had everyone leaving with confused looks on their face.
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Sai flipped through the pages of the new bingo book.
Many faces added and many faces were gone altogether.
Danzo had asked him to join this team so he could find and kill the missing-nin Uzumaki Naruto.
But it seemed as though his assignment had been removed with the approval of the other Kages and Daimyos.
Along with that, it seemed as though some of the more dangerous people had been tamed by the new Otokage enough to be allowed to stay here.
Brows furrowing, he decided he needed to speak with the Otokage and Danzo.
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The Konoha ninjas were in a daze as they entered their luxurious for-the-time-being home.
It seemed as though Kiba were taking a shower from the sound of it.
Deciding they should get to it, they opened the small booklets and remembered the laws of Otokagure.
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Naruto cloned himself multiple times and sent each one to a different room.
The real Naruto sighed as he stayed in his office to take a nap.
The clones hurried to other rooms.
Mating season was not a thing to be taken lightly, especially with more than one mate plus he had to check on a few friends.