Chapter 3
Sasuke Uchiha began to wake feeling the back of his neck throbbing and he was in a particularly bad mood. He kept his eyes shut and didn't move sensing two people in the room with him, judging by the faint breathing he could tell they were both female, one was the person he begun to hate almost as much as his brother, mostly for her total lack of loyalty to her own clan.
"Well that's done, dattebane," a cheerful sounding female voice stated closer to him. "Orochimaru is so sloppy, honestly using a corruption seal, with a venom based chakra boosting seal, and a subliminal mental seal, would have turned my poor godson into either a raving lunatic or a vegetable. I shouldn't be surprised though that baka couldn't seal his way out of the chunin exams when he was genin according to Mito-obasan." Sasuke cracked his eye open to see who referred to him as their godchild. What he saw was arguably the most beautiful woman he ever seen in his life, the long red hair and violet colored eyes, athletic curves hidden underneath a skin tight kunoichi outfit. Her face while cheerful looked vaguely familiar, like he seen it before.
Mikoto sighed, "Will he be alright though?"
"Stress from the seal and whatever corrupting effects had been placed on him are still present can't do anything about that, brain chemistry is not my forte ask Inoichi, dattebane," the red-head stated making the Uchiha male frown slightly at the verbal tick, which was remarkably similar to the one Naruto used. "Most likely he is a flight risk, he got a taste of that foul crap and according to Anko, Orochimaru intended it to be addictive so the heaven's curse seal will be used. I essentially forced Sasuke to go cold turkey."
"I see, if Fugaku hadn't been bad enough instilling him with all the arrogance and elitist bullshit that got our clan in the wars with the Uzumaki and Senju back in Madara Uchiha's day now we got to deal with Orochimaru messing with his mind further outside of the Tsukuyomi that Itachi nailed him with before leaving, I'm surprised Lord Hokage even allowed him to be a shinobi I'm sure he's not mentally right for it," Mikoto stated causing anger to rise in the Uchiha male. "What do I do Kushina-chan, regardless of the circumstances I still love my sons," Mikoto frowned sadly. "Though I may have given him the impression that I hate him, because of his father."
Kushina chuckled sadly, "Still tactful as ever I see, is it any wonder why I did all planning when we pulled those pranks."
The Uchiha matriarch pouted turning her head, "So I suck at tactics, I had Minato-kun and Teuchi for that on my team."
The red-head snickered before giving the other woman a sad smile, "I'm not one to give advice on raising kids, Mikoto-chan. I never got to raise my sochi, I died remember and not once since being revived have I not regretted what happened to my son." The red head had tears in her eyes. "Naruto as ever right to hate Minato-kun and I, but he doesn't if anything because of the memories he absorbed through Vegeta-sama he said he understood where we were coming from, gave us both hugs," she then giggled, Sasuke raised a mental eyebrow at the mention of this Vegeta. "But he did punch his father in the gut."
Mikoto crossed her arms over her chest looking depressed, "he forgave me as well, after the third explained to him the reasons why I wasn't allowed to raise him after your death's," the Uchiha matriarch began sniffle, "h-he forgave me how can anyone be that compassionate or forgiving."
Kushina wiped her own tears away, "I guess he inherited his grandfather's soul, my dad was always like that, I bet he forgave Kumo as he lay dying after they attacked my home village." The women held a companionable silence while Kushina went about cleaning up.
Sasuke however held an even lower opinion of Naruto now than he did before. Forgiveness and compassion I knew the dobe was weak but this just shows much. I'll never forgive that woman for abandoning me and father, or condoning Itachi's actions. But the dobe's mother got rid of the seal and now I'm weak again I'll leave the village once I become chunin. This place is for the weak anyway, all I need is to kill one of the stupid fangirls to get Mangekyou Sharingan, I would kill the annoying pink haired one but I'm not strong enough to take on the dobe right now. Speaking of which who is this Vegeta and what did he give Naruto to make him so powerful even I could feel it coming off of him in waves.
"You awake gaki," Kushina lightly tapped the male Uchiha on the forehead causing him to scowl and open his eyes. "Wow, really grumpy when you wake up, yeah he's definitely Fugaku kid," the woman stated in a cheerful chirp, reminding him so much of her annoying son.
"Hn," Sasuke grunted.
"Okay Mikoto he's all yours, the grumpy gus," the red head pouted. "Yeesh." The Uzumaki woman picked up her sealing brushes and left the room. This left an infuriated son and a chagrined mother behind one glaring and the other raising her eyes letting out a tired sigh.
"I hate you," Sasuke growled Sharingan activated the tomoe's spinning wildly.
Mikoto closed her eyes activating her own full evolved Sharingan, "You are my son and I do love you regardless of whose sperm was donated to conceive. But know this sochi, if you so much as think of running off to Orochimaru I will not hesitate to track you down and kill you, he will not get the Sharingan that is a promise."
"I'll make one of my own, when I'm finished with Itachi you will be next," Sasuke stated coldly.
"Don't start something you won't be able to finish sochi, because I guarantee there will be a lot of obstacles that will get in your way. I don't shy away from my friends and I'd gladly take their help in a heartbeat," Mikoto's own tomoe's begun to spin. "Don't go this route, sochi please it only ends in tragedy for both sides."
"You turned your back on the clan and were willing to raise that dobe, that makes you both a traitor and weak. My mother died during the Uchiha Massacre loyal and in her proper place. You are nothing to me," the Uchiha male explained.
The corner of Mikoto's eyes teared up slightly but that was all her face looked like it was chiseled from stone, "I see, very well I'll leave you alone Sasuke Uchiha, seems I was mistaken on who my sochi was, turns out he died during the Massacre as well, farewell." With that the Uchiha matriarch left the room without a backwards glance however tears fell from the woman's eyes as she walked down the hall. Damn you Fugaku, I hope you're burning in whatever hell you are in.
XXX Flashback two hours before XXX
Minato and Kushina were waiting in the shadows while the civilian and shinobi council members began taking their seats, What caused Minato to frown most was the amount of civilians on the civilian council it had increase by three since he had been Hokage, glancing over at his wife who was clenching and unclenching her hands.
"This meeting is called to order," Sarutobi stated puffing on his pipe, "A miracle has occurred."
"What the demon died in the forest of death?" one of the civilians stated looking hopeful only for a second then his head came off his shoulders and a fountain of blood exploded from his neck.
Everyone jumped back fear evident in the civilians eyes, Sarutobi sighed, "Kushina?"
Said woman appeared in the light followed by her husband both glaring at the civilian council. The woman question bent down and wiped her kodachi on the corpse before sheathing the weapon. "Next person uses that derogatory statement about my son again I'll fillet them alive with a dull rusty kunai."
"Why dull?" Minato asked with a raised an eyebrow.
Kushina smiled sweetly at her husband, "because it'll hurt more Minato-kun, you silly."
"That's Kushi-chan alright," Tsume barked with a smirk. "The question is how?"
"Blame our son," Kushina stated with a sad smile. "And before you baka's," she glared at the majority of the civilian council who looked like they were going to protest. "Get any ideas of bad mouthing him or denying he did such a thing, the fox has been dead for thirteen years. Matter of fact it died two hours after it had been sealed inside Naruto." she turned to the shinobi council. "How many of you remember the huge surge of chakra that night," she then turned to civilians. "How many of you ingrates felt the intense pressure in the air that night. That was the death of the fox."
Mebuki tentatively raised a hand, "I remember that night, it felt like everything was pushing me to the ground for a brief moment and it woke up my Sakura-chan."
"Troublesome, Lord Hokage why weren't we informed or why didn't you have Inoichi do a mind walk?" Shikaku Nara asked. They all heard a meaty smack as the old hokage slapped himself on the forehead.
"The old man went senile for thirteen years," Kushina snorted crossing her arms glaring at the old hokage.
Sarutobi nodded sadly, "I should have then Naruto would have never endured the hardship he did."
"You're lucky Vegeta-sama stated all the physical abuse sochi endured gave him what is called a Zenkai boost," Minato explained.
"What would that be?" Choza asked.
"For every assault Naruto endured or near death experience he had, when he recovered actually made him stronger. If the academy hadn't sabotaged his shinobi training he would have been on par with me after his second year of the academy," Minato explained causing the civilian both internally sigh in relief and cringe in fear, as most realize they were actively helping the demon get stronger.
Homura leaned forward, "This isn't the point of this meeting, but I see the real point and it's null and void anyway none of us on the Shinobi council will deny who you are Minato, Kushina simply too much evidence on hand to say otherwise. My question is what happens now; will you retake the mantle of Hokage, Minato?"
"Not so sure I want to," the blonde former hokage states, "I entrusted my son to the village to be raised with love and affection, all he got was mental abuse and scorn on good days, with assaults and assassination attempts on bad days. I'll need a lot of convincing."
The civilian council glanced at each other looking desperate mostly because they knew that for their beloved fourth to retake his position it would involve the demon in some way. Mebuki however snorted in disgust at her fellow council members, she harbored nothing but sadness at her inability to protect Naruto, she had even been disappointed with her daughter's actions against the orange haired boy. "What would you like, Minato-sama?" she asked aloud getting glares from her fellow council members.
"Public apologies would be nice for a start then we work on restitution for my son, and finally the civilian council removes two more people from this governing body I don't how there are twelve civilians and ten shinobi council members, there should only be the clan heads with the two advisors for the shinobi side, and ten civilians eight representing the civilians branches three for trade, three for commerce, and three for health and well-being, with Danzo as civilian advisor where did the other two come from," Minato asked.
"We represent the voice of the Daimyo," the fat female representative haughtily.
"In other words these are false titles no brought in by Danzo to try and undermine the Hokage by forcing to compromise too much, no doubt to protect Naruto," Minato sighed heavily crossing his arms glancing at Kushina who was glaring at Danzo. "I will take back the mantle of Hokage."
"What if we don't want you back?" asked one of the more quieter council members.
Mikoto frowned noting his voice was off; she activated her Sharingan and looked around the room. "Hiashi can you activate your Byakugan I can see chakra distortions in the room but can't pinpoint them."
"What are you doing we made a rules about this," the fat woman stated glaring at the Uchiha. "Who are you anyway?"
"Mikoto Uchiha," the female Uchiha smirked at the shock in civilian faces. "No I did not die with my stupid power hungry clan that was a blood clone. Hiashi your Byakugan please?"
A faint nod he activated his own kekki genkai and what he saw shocked him, "Danzo," he growled glaring at the man, "what have you done?"
Before the old man could react several chakra chains encircled him preventing him from moving. The man grunted glaring at the source, "So it's true you have one of the Sage of the Six Path's gifts Kushina."
"The Uzumaki, the Senju, and the Uchiha are all distantly related to him Danzo so it shouldn't surprise you. Now what do you see Hiashi?" Kushina asked.
"Sharingan implanted all up and down his left arm, and one in his left eye," the Hyuga clan head stated in anger and disgust.
Mikoto's own eyes narrowing in rage as they morphed into her Mangekyou Sharingan surprising everyone. "How dare you, I may despise my clan's arrogance and elitist attitude but to have my son murder them to stop a coup de tat and for you to swoop in and take what is not yours," a second later a flash of pitch black flames ignited Danzo who screamed. "DDIIIEEE!" This caused everyone near the old warhawk to jump back in fright. Kushina dropped her chains then ran over pulling out a seal tag the moment it came in contact with the flames and burning corpse they vanished.
"Hmph didn't tell us you had that Miko-chan," Kushina pouted.
Mikoto winced as blood leaked from the corner of her right eye she closed it taking out a rag, "It was activated when Lord Third told me of your death Kushi-chan, the grief of losing my two best friends was too much for me."
Sarutobi sighed heavily putting his hands under his chin closing his eyes thinking once his thoughts began to sort however he smirked, "with both councils possibly being compromised I motion that it should be disbanded until evaluations are done on the mental competency of said council this will be my last act as Hokage."
"And as my first act as returning Hokage I'm putting the motion forward immediately, you will all report to Ibiki in the morning," Minato smirks at Inoichi who groans. "Yes even you Yamanaka, your old boss is perfectly suited for this."
Only few civilians complained this time mostly because they all felt utterly confused even Mebuki who wondered if her own thoughts had been invaded. She stood up and walked over to Kushina, "I apologize to you Kushina-sama I tried to curve my daughter's abuses on your son."
Kushina simply giggled and waved it off, "please if I had a chance to raise Naruto, he would of gotten a lot more lumps on his head for being a baka than the ones your daughter gave him. If anything I'm going to be thanking her, she kept him in line. According to Vegeta-sama she reminded him of his own wife and knows she'll be good for him."
Mebuki smiled faintly, "I'm glad there is no animosity towards my daughter Kushina-sama."
Kushina put an arm around the blonde woman smirking, "Meh, water under the bridge Mebuki-chan, dattebane. Besides if my son has his way we'll be in-laws by the time he turns sixteen."
Mebuki nodded and sighed. "Rather it be your son than Mikoto-sama's he strikes me as unstable."
"Baka," Kushina muttered thinking of her godson. Patting the blonde woman's shoulder she walked over to Mikoto ushering the Uchiha matriarch out of the council chambers. "Minato-kun see you at home, I'm going to take Miko-chan out to get her drunk I better see you in your boxers when we get home."
Mikoto blinked, "What are you doing Kushina?"
"You need a drink to get your mind of what you just did, and you need a threesome to unwind and I'm more than willing to share, dattebane," Kushina giggled watching Mikoto's nose explode in a fountain of blood. "Still perving on my husband, Miko-chan."
"Um, Kushina?" Minato asked looking uncertain. "What is this all about?"
The red head rubbed the back of her head much like what her son did, "There's too much drama Minato-kun, plus with how things have been since we got revived. I want ta help my best female friend find some comfort, dattebane."
"But a threesome?" Mikoto asked blushing. "We're not part of Jiraiya-sensei's pervy books, Kushi-chan."
"Meh, details I want hot steamy sex with my husband and best friend besides we're still kind of the last of our lines Miko-chan. Itachi is off doing whatever I doubt he's sowing his wild oats and as far as I know Sasuke is either going to get himself killed or is gay so no help for you on that front. We're both still young and I love to give my son a baby brother or sister," she leaned biting Mikoto's ear gently while whispering. "And I bet you still have that fantasy about me and Minato-kun, don't you, dattebane."
Minato sighed shaking his head; he knew he couldn't argue with his wife regardless of how sudden this all was. "When did this start?" he muttered to himself.
"Three words Minato-kun, Clan Restoration Act," Kushina stated with a shrug. "Naruto-kun falls under it, Miko-chan falls under it, I fall under it."
After a few seconds Minato nodded, "I thought you and Mikoto already fulfilled that, both of you have male heirs."
"True but in Miko-chan's case her heirs aren't viable, one is borderline unstable and the other is listed as a rogue-nin. While I have an heir to the Uzumaki clan I want to give you one for your clan, Minato-kun," the red head sighed heavily. "That and I can't raise Naruto anymore he grew up without us, I love him with all my heart but he doesn't really need us. I feel like we're just in the way."
"I'm sure he doesn't think that," Mikoto stated.
"He'll probably even think us invading his life will at first feel like a luxury to him, caring about his every little moment, like leaving the house, cooking for him, making sure he dresses right, asking him to be safe on missions," Minato explained.
"Alright I get it, and that is only one motivation for the CRA, the other is I want my best friend to be happy. Fugaku was a grade A asshole and wherever he is I'm hoping some demon spawn is raping him right now. So what I'm saying is," Kushina paused looping an arm around Mikoto looking up at her husband. "I want Miko-chan to be my sister-wife Minato-kun."
Minato knew he wouldn't win this argument matter of fact the only argument he did win backfired on him, he turned to his long time teammate on Team Jiraiya, he had to admit in terms of beauty Mikoto was on par with Kushina, he had always thought so just Kushina had always been number one in his mind. Still with Mikoto no longer burden by the Uchiha elders it was solely up to her now. "This is something you'll have to decide Mikoto. I can't win an argument with Kushina to save my life and the one I did win made things worse."
The red head was torn between smirking and looking depressed which made her expressions the Uchiha matriarch thought kind of funny. "Allow me to wait and make a decision until after I talk with Sasuke again I want to clear the air between us if he'll let me."
"Take as much time as you need," Minato smiled before a tick marked appeared above his right eye. "How long have you been there Jiraiya-sensei?" the two women turned to see the perverted toad sage crouched on the window seal scribbling away in his research book.
"Judging by the amount of notes he's taking and the trickle of blood on his lip I'd say since I made the threesome comment," Kushina sighed shaking her head then began cracking her knuckles in preparation to dish out punishment. "It's been a long time pervy-sage let's see if I can remember the art of putting you in traction, dattebane!"
Mikoto followed her Sharingan spinning wildly, "Yes it has been awhile hasn't it pervy-sensei time to scream like a girl," she smiled overly sweetly.
"Crap," the toad sage muttered stuffing his research book into his jacket before leaping from the window.
"Come back here and take your licks like a man!" Kushina growled leaping from the window Mikoto following her.
Minato sighed, "Glad someone hasn't changed much," as several ANBU in the council room chuckled.
XXX End Flashback XXX
Mikoto walked quietly into the room she designated herself to and felt two gentle hands on her shoulders looking up Kushina gave her a sad smile gently pulling her into an embrace. The Uchiha matriarch promptly let all her built up angst and frustration pour out into deep racking sobs burying her head into her best friend's shoulder.
"Too far gone?" Kushina whispered getting a faint nod. "I'm sorry Miko-chan I had hoped he be like sochi."
Mikoto took a few seconds to gather her breath wiping her eyes angrily, "He's too much like his father, I even suspect he'll ignore my warning. First moment he gets he'll go looking for Orochimaru," she replied sadly. "Would he be different if I actually raised him?"
"I don't know like I said before I'm not the best person to ask about raising kids Miko-chan my one shot at it to date and I died on him, your chance to raise him was shot down by circumstance but look at how well Itachi turned out for the most part being raise by you for seven years granted he's been branded a traitor for doing something for the good of the village but still he turned out pretty well outside that," Kushina explained.
"I take it Minato-kun can't officially remove Itachi's missing-nin status," the Uchiha woman asked.
"No he's spying on this Akatsuki group and if they found out might put him in danger however the hunter-nin's have been called off except for two and they been told only to appear like they are hunting him to alleviate suspicion, ya know one of pervy-sage's back up plans," the red head explained.
Mikoto walked over and sat gingerly emotionally she knew she was a mess, her son disowning her. "Must be nice to have a son that loves you even after all the shit that's come to light."
"Remarkable is more like it," Kushina said sitting next to her friend putting arm around her again. "I was being serious Miko-chan earlier; I want you to with me and Minato-kun."
"Would it be so bad to get Naruto's approval first I already lost my son in all intents and purposes, I really don't want to alienate my godson to," the dark haired woman stated.
"Yeah be a good idea, hopefully I won't be as awkward this time," Kushina giggled slightly. "Of course if he's making out with that pink haired girl we might have to wait."
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Author's Note: Sasuke fanboys or girls I don't care which know this up front encase you make asses of yourselves commenting about my cliché Sasuke bashing. I hate Sasuke with such a passion as a character, he's the Anakin Skywalker of Naruto, a whiny self-important little asshole who got off scott-free when he should be doing jail time for the attempted murders, the attempted abductions, and going rogue, Danzo as much an asshole as he was did right by the village in ordering hunter-nins after the little fucker. Tsunade was way to fucking lenient in this regard basically letting Naruto deal with it. Then let's get into his relationship with Sakura he's tried to kill her and Kishimoto just throws it off as a misunderstanding, I'm sorry but borderline abusive relationships of any kind hits way to close to home. Granted Sakura wasn't any better with Naruto but that was played up as comedy and not be taken seriously. Sasuke wanted to kill her and if Naruto had been a second late Sakura would be DEAD. Sasuke/Sakura have blinders on and Kishimoto is a complete idiot for even allowing this to happen. Naruto is just Harry Potter with a different skin and Hinata is simply Ginny less fleshed out, it doesn't work regardless of the fucking confession, they talked a grand total of three times during the original series all during the chunin exams and that was it. And talked ONCE before the big confession and at the end of the series they are together WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? So to answer why I'm even including Hinata since my previous rant should conclude otherwise its simple I like her as a character granted she's not as fleshed out Sakura but at least she is likable unlike Sasuke who needs to have his skin peeled off with a dull rusty spoon while dragged across broken glass, to face Kung Lao's blade hat up close and personal while getting a hot iron rod rammed up his ass.