Konohamaru was leading his team on a mission while thinking how stupid it was to have a D-rank when an obvious big threat was on the near horizon. Well, at least he would get paid. He needed the money for his apartment rent. At his back, Sarada was a little worried. She knew one of her teammates were about to do something incredibly idiotic: trying the Edo Tensei again. Mitsuki already had two special scrolls. He wanted to make things right for his past mistake, but he was only going to make things worse. The blond boy was completely oblivious of this, happy that for once the girl wasn´t calling him the most stupid member of the team.
"Hide" said the jounin, sensing something in the distance. They did, masking their chakra. After some time they saw two persons walking on the road, a boy and a girl. They recognized the male part immediately, it was Byakuya. He was carrying a bouquet, not worrying to check for nearby enemies with his Sharingan. "What are they doing here?"
"I don´t know-ttebasa" quietly answered Boruto. "But the chick is hot" he was practically drooling, fixating his eyes on her breasts. "She has the kind of boobs flat chest Sarada would never have and…"
"Too old for you, baka" said the glasses wearing female, completely red. She was tempted to hit the idiot, but that would alert the two missing nin in front of her.
"Uncle Byakuya…" said the woman, but she quieted. He shot her a glance.
"Yes?"
"We are… visiting their tombs, right? Shouldn´t I be the one bringing offers to…"
"You have been taking care of them and putting all the offerings in our altars all this time, let me handle it while I´m still in this world" he answered, smiling at her in a calm way. "And what did I said, Otohime? Just call me Bya, everyone in the family does… or did"
"Hai, uncle Bya" she smiled back and both of them wandered away. Once they did the team got out of the bushes and reassumed their path. Once the D-rank was done they started the way home, but were surprised by the night near the place they found the two rouge ninjas. Sarada knew the pale boy would use this perfect opportunity and tried to keep him on her sigh. Unfortunately, Konohamaru asked her to do something for him, she tried to do it the fastest she could, but when she came back Mitsuki was gone.
"Where is Mitsuki?" she asked. When none of the males gave an answer, the girl went to find him. She found him in the point where Byakuya and that Otohime lady were some days prior. They walked together back to the camp, she trusting that she managed to ruin his plans, he carefully hiding two scrolls with some DNA from two tombs he found further on the woods. They weren´t any names on them, something strange, but the big bouquet of flowers signaled that it was the place the older Uchihas has gone. The next morning Mitsuki woke up a little earlier than the others and took out three scrolls. He unsealed some more of Kabuto´s replacement bodies and then…
"Kuchiyose Edo Tensei!" was the sound that woke up the others. The entire team was blinded a few seconds after that and when they regained their sigh there was a young revived in there. They boy in question, because he was a boy, couldn´t have been more than twelve, eyeing them with big innocent coal colored eyes, but Konohamaru could tell that he hid some darkness in them. His hair was brunette and spiky, his skin sun kissed… in other words he was a cutie, as adorable as a little kitten.
"Eh… Mitsuki, what did you do?" asked the sensei without wishes of explaining the boy´s father what he has done. With his luck Orochimaru would use him on his next experiment for that.
"I don´t know, I don´t even know who I was suppose to bring back from death. I just figured out that he or she was important to the Akatsuki" answered calmly the albino boy, earning a confused look by his invocation. "Maybe we should get home"
"Yes…."
-Some hours later-
"Ready! With this you will feel a lot better! And with a few therapies you will regain complete motor functions in your legs!" explained cheerfully the little Edo Tensei. The other people in the room, including all seven Hokages, were looking at him completely astonished.
"Thank you, my friend!" yelled Guy with tears in his eyes, standing on his own feet and hugging Lee and his son. "I can feel my flame of youth returning to me!"
"Really? Izu is happy to be of help!" it was a big understanding. Since he arrived at the city, the young revived, who called himself Izu (in the way some three year olds do) put his hands to work on the injured or sick. Surprisingly enough he was a full trained medic nin… no, more like one hell of a medic nin. His jutsus were so amazing that he could even help Guy standing up again even when Rikudo Sennin´s power never could.
"Tsunade baa-chan, Shodaime-sama" Naruto called them. For once the blond didn´t notice it, having her eyes plastered on the smiling young brunette. "You… er… are medics… good medics. Did one of you ever…?"
"I´ve never heard of him in my life" answered Hashirama.
"Neither did I" said the busty woman, wondering how in the seven levels of hell could she achieve the title of the best medic nin if there was someone so amazing out there. And he was a kid who has no problem in helping everybody.
"This is really strange" said Tobirama, crossing his arms, eyeing the boy. "I think… I´ve met him before, but I don´t remember where and about his healing techniques… hey, you!"
"Yes, scary old man?"
"I´m not that old!" yelled the enraged albino.
"Then why do you have white hair?" asked the kid. "Only old people and bastards have white hair! My nii-chan told me that!"
"So he told you that, eh?" he grumbled under his breath. "Well, where did you learn that? Which village do you come from? Who was you sensei?"
"Let´s see" he put a finger on his chin in deep thinking. "First question… There and there!"
"There and there?" repeated Naruto.
"Exactly!" laughed the boy. "My family never settled on one place since I was born… I think" he frowned a bit, then relaxed. "Nup huh, we didn´t. We were always moving from one place to another."
"What were you and your family?"
"What a silly question, we were ninja!" he answered sincerely.
"So they taught you medical ninjutsu"
"Nope, that was all my doing" said the little Edo Tensei. "My mommy and brothers… they were great shinobi on their own, but… none of them knew how to heal themselves! When they came back from missions was a disaster. So when I found out I had a natural talent to heal injuries I just keep experimenting on it for the sake of my family."
"Really? Nobody taught you how to heal? You learned that all by yourself with just basic chakra control training?"
"Um-hum!" Izu nodded happily. "And they were lucky I did, because then mom got sick from a bad injury from his past and…"
"We don´t need the whole history" stopped him Tobirama. He was frowning, but then he thought about something. "Did your family ever told you about a village they used to be part of or a clan?"
"Hum…" the brunette thought. "In fact, they did. The name was… Kohana or something like that"
"Konoha?"
"Yes, it was! Do you know where it is? I have something important to do in there"
"Here" said Sarutobi, face palming. That boy didn´t knew in which village he was and was helping? He should be some sort of saint.
"Here? It definitely doesn´t look like last time I saw it"
"Last time?"
"Yes…" his eyes narrowed a little and he started to look awfully familiar to Hashirama. "I was searching for the father of my daughter"
"The father of your daughter? You must be…" they couldn´t keep talking, because a huge fireball erupted in a distant part of the city. Tobirama and Minato used the Flying Thunder God to reach the place in seconds… without noticing that Izu was brought with them too. He immediately and silently went to work on the injured people. From the smoke a figure appeared… it was Byakuya. He was wearing a wicked smile.
"It can´t be" said suddenly the tiny brunette. "Bya? Bya nii-chan?"
"What the…" the wicked expression on his face changed to one of astonishment. "Izu… is that really you, Izuna?"
"Izuna? He couldn´t be Izuna, the real one was totally different… and I killed him" something clicked into place in Tobirama´s head and suddenly he remembered why this boy was so familiar. "That´s it, I killed you. It took me no more than a few seconds"
"You did?" asked Izuna, confused.
"Of course he did!" yelled Byakuya, jumping to be nearer to his little brother. "Don´t you remember the last minutes of your life?! Don´t you want revenge?!"
"HHuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum…. No, I don´t really remember" said Izuna in an innocent way. "You know how bad I am to keep grudges"
"Are you sure you are an Uchiha?" asked Tobirama. This boy was a bubble head who forgot whatever wrong you have done to him in ten minutes, there was no way he was one of the cursed eyes bunch that tried to take over Konoha once.
"Yes!" he happily answered, showing his Sharingan.
"Okay… but there is still no way you are Izuna Uchiha, he was a… little different"
"He is not the Izuna you are thinking of" growled Byakuya, glaring at both Tobirama and the boy. "He is my younger brother, who was named after my uncle"
"Wait, you are Madara´s son?" asked Hashirama.
"The youngest"
"How… how old are you?"
"Fourteen" with that answer the Shodaime started counting with his fingers. Tobirama stared at him with a confused face, as well as the other Hokage.
"Ahh… nii-san? This is not the time to do mats or…"
"Don´t distract me!" yelled at him the brunette and continued with his task. "Around the time you all left Konoha… were they already expecting you?"
"Of course we were!" finally screamed Byakuya. "We won´t let you take anyone else of our family away, so we left! And you!" he turned at Izu, who practically had a big question mark on his head. "Aren´t you going to do something?! That white monkey killed you and didn´t let you see your daughter grew up!"
"I broke into the village without permission and started following one of the shinobi, so… I guess it was my fault" he thought for some seconds. "Yes, totally my fault"
"Izuna… I really don´t understand you" said Byakuya before Hashirama finally finished counting and demanded an explanation. Nobody understood, except the Uchiha, who gave him a glare before leaving. Once the danger passed, they all turned around to see the missing nin´s younger brother, who was scanning the damage.
"This will take me just a few minutes…"
"Did Madara dropped you in your head when you were a baby?" asked the Niidaime, who couldn´t really find any similarities between his old enemy and the boy. He was a ball of sunshine, ready to help people. Madara was… well, Madara. Just say the man tried to conquer the world.
"No, I don´t have past injuries"
"Okay…"
"Wait, you had a daughter? Is her name Otohime?" asked Konohamaru, that arrived to the scene to help. "We saw a young woman with Byakuya going to somewhere just before Mitsuki summoned you. I think it was her"
"Did you saw Hime-chan?" smiled Izuna. "How was she? Was she okay? Is she happy?"
"Who has a daughter at fourteen?" commented the albino being petulant. "It´s another proof that Madara never could be a good father…"
"Shut up!" yelled at him Izu. "I could not be good at holding grudges against people, but I will never let anyone talk bad about my family! And the thing about getting pregnant at fourteen… it was entirely my fault"
"How could that be your fault? It was Madara´s for not keeping an eye on you…"
"Are you joking? I had like three pairs of Sharingan on my bad my whole life and the first time I got away from that… well, you know" he sighed before continuing. "I just needed to get away from my family once and… not feel so inferior"
"What could make you feel inferior?"
"Mom was drop dead gorgeous" he begin. "Even with his massive attitude, Byakuya had his own fans club that thought he was the best thing since water. And let´s not talk about Sorato… Mr. Devilissius has men and women throwing themselves at their feet. Every time when I saw myself in the mirror and saw that the only thing I could achieve was being adorable… I was soooo jealous… when I finally managed to get away from them, I felt head over heels for the first guy who said to me that I was beautiful and made a mistake"
"You are being surprisingly mature over this, no many teens your age act like that" said Hashirama. "I surprisingly wasn´t"
"Yeah, you weren´t mature enough even for taking out the garbage alone at age thirty" commented Tobirama.
"I came here looking for the father of my daughter, I never thought it would be a great deal"
"You want that guy to take responsibility for what he has done, good…"
"No, I just wanted him to see Otohime once. I had enough help with my family if he didn´t want to be responsible…"
"Okay…"
"But he went somewhere, so I had to use my Sharingan to track him down… and suddenly someone… I think it was the white haired one… came up behind me and pushed a sword through my chest" ended the history the boy.
"Why didn´t you just came to the Hokage Tower and tell your case?" asked Tobirama. "I bet you would not only got that guy to see your baby but take full responsibility for what he has done… even if it was being used for a target practice for Katon jutsus"
"Probably" Izuna answered and finished the conversation. He put his hands to work on the healings, helping Sakura to put the victims out of danger. The strange thing was that he was even better at that than her, much to Tsunade´s and the own pinkette´s amazement. He could even heal fatal injuries that for them were impossible to close.
"You know, if I had this kinds of jutsu before, maybe Dan and Nawaki…" she couldn´t finish, but she knew it was true. Izuna´s jutsu was like a better version of her grandfather´s. For his part, the little Edo Tensei looked at one dead shinobi that hasn´t cooled completely yet. He made some hand signs and put his hand in his hearth.
"Asklepius no jutsu" the shinobi immediately started breathing and the medics couldn´t help but drop their jaws. "It still works"
"You can revive people!" yelled Sakura.
"Not really, it´s just… a high level healing jutsu that works only if the body hasn´t completely cooled yet. It´s useful to keep your patient alive while you are treating him"
"You treated patients?" asked Shizune.
"Do you know how much things costs outside the villages? A lot! Living is not cheap, specially for shinobi that are only prepared to fare in battle. So we all do what we did best to put food on the table… except Sorato, he didn´t want to help much."
"You do know things would have been easier if your family stayed in Konoha, right?" said Hashirama. His brother groaned, when was this idiot going to understand that Madara leaving was the best thing that ever happened?
"Not really"
-In the lair-
Otohime saw her uncle entering the place with a scold on his face. Instantly she didn´t like it, her family never put that face unless something bad happened. She quickly set her work aside and went to ask him for some answers.
"Izuna is back"
"My mother or uncle?"
"Mother" answered Byakuya, groaning. His niece raised an eyebrow. "It´s just that… I never understood that brother of mine. He couldn´t held a grudge even against the guy who killed him!"
"That´s just who he is, uncle Bya" she said. "Is he going to be problems?"
"Could be, he is the only medic nin that was able to turn his medic techniques into a weapon to use in combat if needed" he remembered. "He isn´t a guy to be taken lightly, no member of our family is. But for now, he is passive, he won´t make anything to help us or them, he will only watch and heal the injured after the battle"
"So we better rush"
"You are right" he walked away. "I will have a last chat with Maki… at my mother´s tomb. No more secrets, everything will be known… but first things first: let´s have a few games of poker!"
"Of course, gambling is food for the soul" and both of them got away.
