"We just can´t let this happen again" growled Butsuma, looking angry at the sloppy security measures his son put for his pregnant husband. Hashirama, for his part, was more worried about how the secret was let out. When he interrogate the shinobi that started the gossip, he started suspecting that there was more than he let out.
"You are right" he said, biting his lip. The strange thinking pose he was making scared his father a little bit. Did the brunette know what had happened? "For the moment I will put the new formed ANBU to guard my house and Madara won´t be alone for a second"
"Do you… want to tell me something? I there something the matter?" Tobirama was in the room too, now more suspicious about what had happened. "I remember… Madara was a bit upset about having children shortly before the pregnancy started"
"Yes, it was because of the Tsuchikage" stated Hashirama, but he didn´t think that man was to blame… at least not entirely. A dark voice and yellow eyes came to his mind. Zetsu, the Will of Kaguya. The demoness that gave birth to Rikudo Sennin. He remembered before when he made Madara do those terrible things… he won´t let something like that happen to his baby. "I… do we have any spies in Iwa?"
"A few, but they didn´t informed about suspicious movements" said the albino and put one of his knives in the table. "Is there something else we need to know?"
"Before I tell you, I need Izuna here… and Tajima-sama. There is more than usual greed for power here" once they were there, the Hokage, crossed his arms and looked at them seriously. "This doesn´t leave this room" and proceed to tell them about the Doujotsu the baby would have, inheriting both of their DNAs.
"Do you think Iwa knows… about the Rinnegan?" asked Izuna, scared of the danger his older brother and future nephew or niece were in.
"We can only guess" answered the brunette, looking at his family. "It was the reason I didn´t want anyone besides us to know until the pregnancy was too notorious to hide. But somehow one of the ninjas managed to find out and apparently transmit the information to Iwa"
"We have spies?" asked Tajima.
"I´m afraid so" Hashirama lifted his head. He wasn´t going to make the same mistakes as before, he would pay more attention to his people this time. "Tajima-sama, Izuna-kun, the Sharingan can see through any henge, no?" they both nodded. "Then I will leave it up to you to find the spies. And do it fast, we can´t risk this to get to Kumo or Kiri"
"Don´t worry, we will" both Uchihas disappeared and left the Senju in there. Butsuma didn´t like it at all. Iwa or Kiri won´t content themselves with Hashirama´s and Madara´s baby. If they even suspect that the Senju and Uchiha DNAs combined produced the Rinnegan… "Maybe you and Izuna were right about waiting"
"Glad you understand" answered the albino. "What do we need to do? I can use my sensor skills to help Izuna search for the spies…"
"Leave that to the Uchihas, reunite with the sensors outside the village and try to investigate what of the villages sent that missing shinobi. If all of them couldn´t sense another chakra besides the time space traveler, then assume it´s contact was Mu and return immediately. We would need to prepare for an attack from Iwa"
"An… oh, I understand" and he retired immediately. Butsuma said goodbye too and went to his wife, who was taking care of the pregnant man. Namie held her sword when she heard another shinobi coming, only to relax after realizing it was her husband.
"What is happening, Butsuma?"
"You are not going to like it" answered the man and proceed to tell her everything.
-In a cave-
A dark skinned man was counting money in silence before lifting his head and attacking with threats at the white figure in his doorstep. The intruder didn´t dodge, but the black things passed through his body as if it was made of thin air.
"Wow, Kakuzu, you need to relax" joked Ryusei, giving his fellow missing nin a wide smile. The man grunted and sheltered his money. "I see some things never change"
"Everything is money" answered the Takigakure ninja. "What do you want? I don´t do anything for free, you should know, even listening will cost you"
"Oh, scary" the white shinobi pulled out his wallet and took out all the money he had. "I´m here to propose you an alliance… for a work."
"What kind of work?"
"I need a baby"
"I´m not the indicate for that. Haven´t you tried going to a prostitute and having sex with her? With enough money she surely would have your damn spawn"
"I´m not talking about that, I have a wife if you want to know. She is a cute girl with big magenta eyes… she kind of worship a God from destruction that… well, it doesn´t matter" he stopped his mouth before the other could ask him for more money. "The thing is that Iwa is going to give me a lot of money for stealing a baby from their enemies" he licked his lip. "Do you want to hear the amount?" he whispered and green eyes widened. "Let´s split it in half"
"70, 30 or no deal" he proposed. They fought for some minutes until Ryusei have to give in. "Give me the details. The village?"
"Konoha"
"The father?"
"The Hokage, Hashirama Senju"
"The mother?"
"The Uchiha clan former leader, Madara Uchiha"
"Hum, impossible to steal it once it´s here. Have you tried anything yet?"
"Yes, last week I tried to sneak into Konoha and grab the idiot, but some bitch with time space travelling ninjutsu stopped me" Ryusei let his back fell on the wall. He needed money urgently, he and his wife already have a daughter that needed to be taken care of. "Namie Senju, the Hokage´s mother. Apparently she was placed as a guard for her grandchild"
"I see, this is not going to be easy" Kakuzu lifted his eyes and turned around. "I would need more than the money you are offering me."
"Oh? And how many do you want?"
"All" the green eyed shinobi attacked and managed to hit the white haired male with one of his rock fists. Ryusei, taken by surprise, was killed in the moment. A moon pendant felt from his neck as he died, getting to Kakuzu´s feet. It has a photo of a silver haired woman holding a baby. "Stupids like you won´t last long…" he said and took the pendant. It would be worth some money.
"So you killed him" said a voice he couldn´t detect getting out of the shadows. A mummy. "Let me introduce myself, I´m Mu from Iwagakure and will pay you when you finish you mission"
"Then… how many months along is the Uchiha?" he asked, looking at the photo.
"Not many, maybe a month or two"
"I will check by myself" he said before going to his desk. "Ryusei was an idiot, he should have waited until he was full term. The closer to the due date, the weaker the mother is, easier to abduct if you want to say"
"The I will go… but mind that the Tsuchikage is not a patient man and…"
"He would have to wait for the brat to be born anyway" answered the man and started searching Ryusei´s belonging until he found out what he was looking for. "This time space traveling jutsu will be enough to help me scape"
"You will know how to use it?"
"Yes, there is no jutsu I couldn´t make" answered the dark shinobi and let his new employer leave. Mu, for his part, was relieved that there was someone that will make the work.
-Back in Konoha-
"Hashirama? Are you finally back?" asked Madara a bit sleepy, when his husband arrived to sleep. "What happened earlier? I only remembered that your idiot of a brother got me out of the house when I was…"
"Zetsu is back" answered a tense Hashirama, something seemingly impossible. "I´m not sure but… I have this gut feeling that tells me I´m right. And you know what he wants"
"The baby…" Madara hugged his midsection and cried. The brunette put his arms around him and let him cry on his chest. "I knew it, I knew this would happen! Someone will come to get our baby! If it wasn´t the Tsuchikage, it will be Zetsu… or… or…"
"I think that serpent´s tongue is manipulating Ishikawa Kamizuru, just like he did to you" the raven growled when he remembered that. "He desperately wanted to get the baby to revive Kaguya"
"Not again…"
"Indeed" answered Hashirama, putting one hand on his husband´s belly and rubbing it. "I won´t let some idiotic goo to take our baby" he smiled, calming down the other male. "Now, don't worry, stress is no good for the baby"
"I get more stress from your mother trying to teach me how to knit than from everything Zetsu could do. She is nuts! But I have to say that I admire her, even if she had four kids and worked as a healer so much time, she didn´t lose her touch in battle"
"She was always scary, that missing nin learned it too late" commented the brunette, shivering. "Prepare, she is going to watch you with hawk eyes from now on… with the help of a bunch of the best ANBU"
"Am I even going to be allowed out of the house?"
"Tajima-sama and my mom suggested that no, but I managed to get them to agree to let you some freedom… if you promised to stay in their visual range"
"I don´t need a babysitter!"
"Just think that the sitter is for the baby…" Hashirama took his hand to the back of his head and the former Uchiha calmed down a bit. He let himself fall asleep in his husbands shoulder and the brunette laid him down. He quickly changed into his night robes. He was so tired that he was out cold after some seconds. The Hokage woke up after some hours, when he felt someone land on his window.
"Good morning, brother" greeted him the albino. "It was as you said, we couldn´t find another chakra. It has to be Mu"
"So I was right, Ishikawa Kamizuru is behind this"
"Do we send a war declaration to Iwa? This is clearly violation to the peace treatment that was signed by all the Kages"
"Not for now, it would only give him more opportunities to take the baby. At least wait until it is born and older to defend himself" answered the Hokage, getting up from bed. "Or try to solve this politically, as much as I despise it, I hate war even more"
"As expected from you, brother" said the albino, getting on the room and taking a look at the sleeping man. "How did he take it?"
"He wasn´t surprised" sighed the brunette, getting into his dresser to change. "Kamizuru was looking at him in a suspicious way when we get to the Kage Summit… it was obvious that he was going to try something nasty sooner or later."
"I understand" the red eyed male didn´t show any emotion when he said this. "One of our spies contacted us, saying that Mu was still on Iwa, training his little brat of a student. But with the man´s ability to duplicate, it wasn´t strange if he was fooled. Should have detected him sooner"
"Iwa has great shinobi, just like us… don´t feel bad, that mummy is undetectable even for the best sensors" the Hokage finished dressing up in his formal robes. "Tobirama, not a word to anyone. We need to keep peace with Iwa for the moment"
"Too late for that" informed the younger Senju and followed to explain. "Some stupid gossiper from your guard last night told everyone that some missing ninja tried to kidnap Madara by orders of an enemy village and now everyone is preparing for war. I even saw some of our fellow clan members dressed in their full armors and Toka… well, you know how she is"
"I can practically saw her in the first line or trying to infiltrate Iwa" Hashirama sweat dropped when he thought about his protective cousin. Yes, the woman could be a problem. "I will tell them that for now there won´t be any war, as we aren´t really sure the Tsuchikage is behind this mess."
"That´s not going to stop them"
"But it´s a beginning" stated Hashirama. "I will deal with Kamizuru and the other kages, you only focus on tracking the kidnapper. Have Izuna found some espies, by the way?"
"After an analysis of the chakra signatures in the village, Uchiha Hikaku and Tajima-sama found three strange chakras that dragged their attention. Unfortunately, they belonged to Kiri shinobi, not Iwa. The Yamanaka are entering their minds right now"
"Another thing?"
"No, Izuna will send more of our ninjas if there are any more news" he dismissed Tobirama and the white haired male went home to reunite with his husband. He was in the middle of the way, when he crossed a ninja that was reading some book. His usual jounin uniform didn´t fool the albino, that chakra didn´t belong to Konoha.
"Izuna…" he tried to locate the Uchiha, but they weren´t nearby. He sensed some of them around two other chakras… oh, so the companions of this spy were distracting the Sharingan wearers. The Hokage´s brother followed the man and stopped him out of the village.
"Tobirama-sama! Is there something the matter?" tried to fool him the man.
"Cut the crap, I know every chakra signature in this village and yours isn´t from here" said Tobirama, entering to battle stance. The man look taken aback for a moment before undoing the henge, revealing a Kumo attire. "So you were about to deliver a message to A"
"Raikage-sama would be so pleased if I could deliver it without causing a political problem with Konoha… but it seems like it wasn´t possible" he took out a kunai and entered battle stance too. "You better give up, Senju, I have not difficulty against a ninja that lost his touch while acting as a housewife"
"What?!" a vein popped in his forehead. "I will teach you who is a housewife, brat!"
-After some minutes-
Hashirama was in his office when his brother dragged a half dead ninja by the hair. The Hokage raised an eyebrow before going over to his brother and started healing the poor soul that angered the albino to the point into being beaten to… this.
"What did he do?" asked the calm brunette.
"He called me a housewife" grunted the younger Senju like a brat. "I´m not a housewife!"
"Okay, I get it" Hashirama lifted his arms in surrender, then looked at the ninja. "Poor suicidal fool, not even Izuna can got away with calling Tobi that"
"With a good reason" the red eyed male let go a breath and then turned serious. "Byakuren and A are too after the baby, they wouldn´t have sent their shinobi if they weren´t. And we could be sure that Reto knows too…"
"Tobi, what did I said? Leave the Kages to me, I will convince them that they didn´t want a war with us" said Hashirama trying to sound convinced, but he wasn´t so sure of achieving it.
"I have to do this… I can do this" he told to himself in his mind. "My soul is the soul of Ashura and of Naruto too. If he could unite all the villages under his light of friendship, so can I."