Naruto was almost finished with a small stack of paperwork. When he was finishing up a paper about the security of the communications tower there was a knock on his door. "Come in."
A nervous looking chunin came into his office. "Is there something wrong? What did you come here for?" he asked the chunin who was now messing with his vest. There was obviously something that was big enough for a chunin to get nervous about.
"Well lord seventh, It's about a baby,"
'A baby?' Naruto thought. 'Since when did the Hokage have to deal with babies?'
"Well, technically two babies. A young lady found them while she was taking a walk in the nearby woods."
"Well can you tell me what is so unusual about these… babies?"
"Yes sir. The odd thing about them is their physical appearance. One has white skin and one has black skin. They both have green hair and yellow eyes. Besides their skin color they are identical twins."
Normally Naruto would have noticed right away that this was almost an exact description of the akatsuki member Zetsu. Unfortunately his mind was very cluttered and he was preoccupied with the sharingan problem. Adding on to that he had gotten very little sleep last night because of work, and when he had finally gotten home, he had to talk to Sasuke about him and Choji's mission which didn't exactly put his mind at rest.
"I understand that this is very odd but I don't understand what I can do about it." Naruto said to the young chunin.
"Well, that young lady's father is also a chunin who fought in the ninja war. He looked at the twins and he said that the white one looked like something called a white Zetsu that he had fought in the war.
All of a sudden it clicked in Naruto's head. White and black skin, two halves in one body, green hair and yellow eyes. That was what Zetsu the Akatsuki member was described as. The descriptions of these twins were the same except for the fact that they were two bodies not one.
'What is going on? First there's a kid with the sharingan near the land of lighting and now there are twins that are almost just like baby version of Zetsu?' For the sake of the young ninja in front of him he put on a calm and composed expression on his face fit for the Hokage.
"I'll send someone over right away. Tell that man not to worry. Please keep the twins there until I tell you otherwise"
"Of course lord seventh" The young ninja breathed out in relief. He went out of the office and Naruto saw him running on the rooftops to get the information to the house with the twins.
Naruto used the Phone on his desk and requested an available Jonin to come to the Hokage's office immediately. After two minutes Sai showed up in his office. "Hello Sai how are you doing?" The seventh Hokage asked his old friend.
"I'm doing fine but Ino is stressing about how Inojin is playing too many video games." Sai answered with a laugh.
"Anyway I asked for you to come here because of a weird occurrence if that's appropriate." Said Naruto in a more serious manner
"What sort of weird occurrence do you mean Hokage?"
"Weeellllll" Naruto said slowly not knowing how to put this. "Sai do you remember how during the ninja war there were a bunch of white Zetsu?"
The Jonin nodded but had an expression saying 'How does this have anything to do with why you called me here?'
'Recently there was a boy on the border of the land of lighting and the land of frost who had the Sharingan. Now a Chunin is telling me that there are twin baby boys, one with white skin and one with dark skin that both have green hair and yellow eyes. This reminds me of Zetsu an akatsuki member. His white side produced all of the white Zetsu that we fought during the war."
"So you want me to check it out correct?" the Jonin ninja asked.
"Yes Sai. This is a really troubling situation and I really want some peace after all the Chaos our generation went through."
Sai wasted no time and immediately headed towards the house with the twin Zetsu lookalikes
After forty minutes Sai arrived at the house. He knocked on the spotless door of the clean white house and a teenage girl about sixteen years old opened the door for him. She saw the leaf headband on his forehead and let him in.
"The twins are here if you want to see them. Besides their odd coloring they're super cute. They're also very well behaved. They haven't cried once since I found them." She told him. She led him to the living room couch. Sitting on the couch were two babies that fit the description playing with a small rag.
He decided that he should take a picture and he took one with his phone. He didn't usually take pictures because he preferred drawing things to remember occasions but he had to admit that pictures were more accurate in the small details.
After taking a couple of pictures he looked at the twins more closely. They looked to be about a month old and the Chunin was right that the white one looked just like a baby version of the white Zetsu. They stuck close to each other so that he couldn't catch them without their skin touching.
He decided to ask the family some questions. "Are you going to keep the twins or will you entrust them to the Konoha orphanage? You don't have to make your decision right now."
After sometime, the daughter managed to convince her father that they should raise the twins.
The old Chunin sighed. "I'm pathetic aren't I? I can never win an argument with my daughter."
After confirming that the twins were going to stay in this house, he prepared to ask the next question. "Sir you are a Chunin am I correct?"
"Oh please don't call me sir. Just call me Akira." Sai nodded.
"Then please call me Sai" the artist answered. He was glad that things had gotten a little more casual between him and the other party. Even if he was supposed to be a professional he still didn't mind being able to stop the formalities.
"The next question that I wish to ask is if you would fill in these blanks. We don't need much information from you to make the records." He handed Akira the two small papers and an ink pen.
Akira looked at the paper. "This is simple enough" He told the artist and began to fill it in.
Name: .
Birth Date: / / .
Guardian(s) / .
"Hey Amy, what should we name the two?" Akira asked his daughter.
"Oh, you're going to let me help?" She squealed obviously greatly excited by the thought of giving two babies names.
"Of course, and if I didn't let you then you would probably throw a fit until I let you." This made her think a bit
"True I would have done that. I guess dads really know their daughters well."
"Of course we do! Now Sai is it ok if we give this to you a little later. We're going to need some time to decide on names." He paused a bit and sighed. "How in the world did I end up adopting two kids? The white one still makes me uneasy too…"
Sai decided that one week should be long enough to decide a name. "Would it be ok if I came back I one week to collect the papers?"
"Yes that should be enough time." Amaya answered.
"Well then the last thing we have to do is get them a good health check-up. Even if they may look fine we don't know if they are sick or injured." The ninja told them.
"Oh, they looked so healthy that I completely forgot about that! They might be hurt because they were found in the woods of all places!" Amaya exclaimed. She now seemed to have completely forgotten about choosing names and was very worried.
"Don't worry Amy. There probably won't be any problem with them. This is just a precaution. I'll go with Sai to the hospital and get them a quick checkup while you can stay here and look up some good names on that laptop you bought last month." This seemed to calm the girl down a bit and she nodded to her father. "Well then if I'm a little late then you can give me a call ok?"
"Sure Dad. I'm going to pick the cutest names ever!" Amaya said with great enthusiasm.
"Make sure the names aren't too cute. They'll grow up someday too you know." Akira reminded his daughter. "Bye, I'll tell you exactly what the doctors said when a get home ok?"
"Sure, bye dad, bye Mr. Sai." She said. She already had her shiny lavender laptop open and appeared to be searching different names.
After a short period of time the cheerful man and the quiet thoughtful artist arrived at the Konoha hospital. Akira was pushing the twins in a big stroller they had borrowed from the lady next door. They had been planning on getting to the hospital a little faster by carrying one baby each; however the two had started to cry as soon as they were separated.
Not wanting to deal with the noise all the way to the hospital, Akira had volunteered to push the stroller all the way there since he was going to be raising them anyway.
At the hospital, they met Miss Haruno Sakura in a doctor's gown. "Hello Sakura. I didn't know you would be here today." Sai said to his old teammate.
"I'm not always here but working at the hospital is my main job you know." She answered not rudely, but not kindly to the pale ninja. "I'm a little busy right now due to a little accident that happened while a wild bull found its way into the farms."
"I'm sorry Sakura," Sai apologized not knowing what he was apologizing for, "but right now we need to get health checkups for two infants that the Hokage asked me to watch till this is over.
"Naruto asked you to take care of infants? Why?" She questioned him. "Oh hello sir, are you the father of these two babies?" she asked Akira only just noticing that the man was there.
"Yes I am. Sai here just came over by lord seventh's orders because of the peculiar place they were found and their odd appearance." He answered. His facial expression changed into one that could not be specifically identified when he said the word "appearance".
Sakura noticed the change of facial expression and took this as 'There is something wrong with the way they look.' She thought 'Maybe they have a deformity that needs medical attention. If it's so weird that Naruto noticed it then I should at least take a look.'
"Here let me see them. They're in the stroller right?" A nod from both men. "Well, let's see… oh my!" She exclaimed in shock. "They look just like…"
"The Hokage was saying that they are nearly the same as baby versions of Zetsu an akatsuki member." Sai explained to her.
"He's right! Well this is odd." She got a little lost in thought for a couple of seconds before snapping back into reality. "Well their still just infants that need a health checkup. Even if this worries me a bit a medical ninja must do what she can do." Her Medical nin instincts kicked in and immediately she barked out a few orders to the nurses around her. They nodded probably already know exactly what to do.
"All you two have to do is wait ok? What should I call you sir?"
"Akira. Just Akira will do."
"Well then Akira could come back in about an hour? If you wish to stay then there is a waiting room to the left of here."
"My goodness, I didn't know health checkups took an hour. I think I'll just wait here, thank you." He answered.
As Sai walked down a hallway with Sakura he informed her of everything that he knew, including where and when they were found. What family they would be living in, so on. Then he asked her "Do health checkups usually take an hour or is this just an exception due to the peculiar circumstances of these twins?"
"Yes this is just an exception. Usually it could take twenty to thirty minutes, but certainly not an hour."
"Might I ask what extra things we will be doing? I think the Hokage would like to know." Sai informed her.
"Well after we do all of the normal health checkup things, we will be doing three other things. First we will test the chakra levels. Second we will do some tests to see the age. Last we'll do a DNA test. These are all just precautions to see if anything is abnormal because Zetsu of the akatsuki was a very dangerous ninja." Sai nodded in understanding.
"I will inform The Hokage about all this."
*Ring ring ring, Ring ring ring*
"Hello Sai? Why are you calling now? Is something wrong?"
"No nothing is wrong. I was just going to inform you that Sakura will be doing three extra things during the health checkups as a precaution."
"Oh, Sakura will be doing it? That's good because she won't make any mistakes. What three extra things?"
"Chakra level testing, age testing, and DNA testing"
"That should be alright. Anything else? If not tell her I said hi."
"Very well."
*Beeb beeb beeb*
They stopped in front of a door. "Sai you wait here on that bench over there we'll be out in about thirty minutes."
Sai sat down on the nearby bench as the door in front of him shut. After sitting down for about five minutes he decided to pass the time with some drawing. He started to draw a picture on a landscape paper. Not knowing what he was going to draw, he let the brush decide.
After fifteen minutes he took a close look at his drawing and was shocked at the outcome.
On the paper was a drawing of ten people standing in a line. Sai had used black ink so there were no colors, but it looked as if they were standing in front of a huge sunset. They were all wearing robes that were colored in black except for small dots that looked like clouds on them. They each had different faces and it looked as if there were two? No, that one was a man, so there was only one woman.
The realization hit him like a tidal wave. He had painted the akatsuki. He didn't know why in the world he would have drawn them, and in such detail too. If he looked closely, he now realized that one could identify each of them by face and characteristics.
What could this mean? Did this have something to do with the twins reminding everyone of Zetsu, or the Hokage mentioning child with the sharingan? Sai wasn't a superstitious person that believed in ghosts and spirits, but the idea and question that had been hiding in the back of his head the whole time popped out.
What if the akatsuki were being reborn?
This is the longest thing I have ever written and posted or turned in! I'm so proud of myself! I know this 2,500 word chapter is nothing compared to some authors who post 5,000 to 10,000 words per chapter, but to me this is a huge achievement.
The next chapter will be about Sasuke meeting Mamoru a.k.a Itachi's reincarnation. If I feel like a super long chapter than the next story will be about deidara, but that will most likely be in the fifth chapter.
Names and meanings:
Akira: Clear, Bright, Intelligent
Amaya: Night rain
Mamoru: the Protector