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I know…a certain someone's hair is dark pink but for this story it will be red. Also pardon the poem inside; it's part of the story.

CHAPTER 9

08:14AM

Sunagakure no Sato

Naruto's godfather always told Naruto and Naruko of his plans to create a specialized group of ninjas that were to personally serve under him s his enforcers.

He called them his Sound Four, though the group was never really created because the snake man wanted to take his time to pick out who would be in the group. He chose to use four of the slaves he was brainwashing, namely Sakon, Ukon, Kidomaru, Tayuya and Jiroubo. At that time Naruto and his sister were eight and the chosen four were six.

The three males were fairly easy to mould but Tayuya was a girl that was known to have a very thick skull and a stubborn attitude that far surpassed anything Orochimaru ever thought to see.

She would spit venom and shriek mercilessly if she was being dragged into the conditioning room, never sitting still to listen or watch those that were hypnotizing her. It was remarkable that she had kept up this attitude for two years while the boys broke after six months.

Even with this the snake man yearned to have the girl loyal to him for the reason that her strong mental resolve would make her a good servant, so to accelerate this he administered what he called the Cursed Mark of Heaven on all four candidates.

Dark brown eyes squinted through binoculars and the owner of the pair of eyes made sure that she was stock still on her stomach, her whole body hidden under a camo blanket spread at the top of a roof of an apartment complex. Her shaded binoculars were peering off a building in a position that made sure that the sun didn't ping off the glass 'eyes' while still keeping her hidden from sight. Under the camo blanket and the light layer of sand that had blown on her blanket from hours of lying in the same position, was a girl that looked to be about fourteen years old wearing ANBU grade brown and white desert camo pants, a midriff light brown shirt with shiny silver under armour covering her body underneath her clothes, from her finger tips to the very base of her chin to her toes, where she wore heavy looking silver boots that were in fact very light for the trained ninja and also connected to her silver rank under armour. Around her nose and her mouth was a long desert camo scarf to block out the sand that wanted to enter her nose and her blood red hair fell down her shoulders, but a long, thin bang fell down between her eyes and touched her chin with white bandages tightly wrapped around her forehead. Her hair didn't distract her though, even as she squeezed her binoculars, zooming in on her target.

Beside her was one of her weapons of choice, of which she had two; a seven foot long black barrel with a handle and a trigger, it had a long, powerful scope at the top with a grip at the bottom close to the trigger and two stands at the front, a foot away from the nozzle. Stacked at the side of the weapon were three cartilages full of six inch long blue and black senbon and another stack beside that one with gold and red senbon. The second weapon weighed fifty pounds and that was without adding the powerful scope and the cartridges; it was made up of strong irons and plastic but the girl had been trained to heft it expertly. She even had a long brown bag to hold the weapon which was usually slung on her back if she was to move. Her master had it made, inspired from a plan Orochimaru had. He called it a Sniper Rifle, the only one in existence so far.

The silver ranked spy of the King of Sukai was observing the Sand Siblings as they sat in the Kazekage's office and discussed what they had discovered concerning the recently invaded countries. Temari was waving the letter in the air as she yelled, the spy read her lips.

"This 'King of Sukai' sounds like a dangerous guy but he's ordering us to submit to him."

Gaara sighed and rubbed his forehead tiredly. They had been in his office for the past three hours, yelling about what to do with the new piece of information they got from their ninjas in Spring. The Sukai Forces were one of the most powerful he had ever heard of, it was providence that the king didn't order for the deaths of everyone there, including his citizens. That would have been a big mess. "Temari, sit down."

The girl sat back in her chair in a huff and threw the crumpled letter to Gaara. "Are you saying you are just going to lie down and let this guy walk all over you?"

"I did not say I will lie down for anyone, but will you deny you haven't heard from the reports what this man and his army of, and I quote, monsters can do?"

"People tend to exaggerate when their lives are in danger-"

Kankuro, who had formerly been busy tinkering with one of his puppets, cut his sister off without looking at her. "I was there, you know."

Both of his siblings shut up after being reminded of this fact. After their brother had returned from a simple A rank escort mission to Spring and encountering the Sukai forces he had never been the same. He had described what happened to him; he had been taking a walk through the market before he had to return home but then dark figures dropped down from the sky and surrounded him, before he could bring out his puppet he felt a vicious punch to the back of his head that knocked him to the ground but not out cold. He heard the soldiers around him say that they recognized him as the brother to the Kazekage and that 'their Lord Naruto' would not be pleased if an emissary of the Sand was killed. So they picked him up by his arms and forced him to watch as they skilfully took over the village, receiving little to no resistance.

Temari and Gaara were concerned; all Kankuro had been doing was fixing and improving his puppet arsenal. The puppeteer then said. "One of the ninjas…he said that he didn't care if he had to soak the ground with blood…as long as it made their king happy he would do it…without hesitation." He slowly looked to his silent brother and sister, his eyes haunted and wide. "They…they laughed…they killed people like they were squashing flies and they laughed."

Gaara coughed. "Kankuro, how about you go and rest at home, we can handle this."

Here the puppeteer dropped his tools. "Handle this? Two hours of bickering with the council and one hour bickering without the council and you're 'handling it'?" he stood up and put his foot down. "No I will not go home and 'rest', that monster is coming. I don't have time to rest." His body quivered with supressed emotion.

The eavesdropping spy smirked and mentally praised her king. 'Damn, sir, you've got this guy pissing in his fucking panties.' She giggled under her breathe and adjusted her binoculars. Three hours of spying and she still wasn't tired; she had been through worse as training in the Sukai academy and once she had been buried in scolding hot sand by Orochimaru as 'an experiment'. This was nothing to her. She felt a buzz in her ear and she tapped it twice. "Who's this, I'm fucking busy."

"Well, fucking busy, this is Shinikora." The voice of the king's personal maid spoke back to her in a smooth, almost even amused voice.

The foul mouthed girl beamed as she squinted into her binoculars. "Oh hey there, bitch, how's it going?"

"I'm good, I'm good…oh hey, I'm coming over to visit." The soul of the fox in human form said idly, already anticipating the outburst, but the outburst was more muffled because the spy wanted to keep her presence hidden.

"What the hell?!" the girl said hotly, grinding her teeth to hold down her voice. "You old as all hell piece of beetle dung, why the fuck are you coming here?" she didn't particularly hate Shinikora; she would admit she was salty that the maid was closer to the king than she was and this was a big sore spot for her. It mostly was that she didn't want the combat maid to throw her off her concentration.

The spy could basically feel the pride of the maid as she said the next words. "Our master sent me here to assist you."

"Don't you dare lie to me with his name." she spat.

"I will never lie with master's name." the fox spat back, infuriated that the girl would even think that. She regained composure and straightened her clothes, the standard uniform for a platinum rank soldier of the Sukai Kingdom, Combat Maids department of the Civilian division. The sly fox smirked. "You're just jealous master allows me into his confidence." She then gave an exaggerated pant. "He lets me into more than his confidence, little girl."

"Listen here you old hag, if master wanted me in his bedroom then all he has to do is ask. He even gave me my rank himself. Do you get me you nasty ass cum slut? Lord Naruto trusts me." she clenched the binoculars tightly. "Now if I see you here, you motherfucking bitch in heat, then-"

"Then what?" Shinikora whispered into the red haired girls right ear, making the spy throw down her binoculars and whip out a senbon from her wrist to hold it to the higher ranked woman's throat. The fox giggled and swiped the needle from the girls hand and stabbed it into the roof under them.

"How did you get in here?" the spy whispered, gritting her teeth in rage as she gingerly picked up her binoculars and continued her observation of the Sand Siblings. The blanket she had been lying under was a creation from a collaboration between the Fuinjutsu division and the Espionage and Infiltration division, where the material was thick but not heavy and filtered cool air or warm air depending on the environment to those under it. It was littered with subtle chakra suppression seals to perfectly hide the presence of those under it from detection and for the most part sensors. The material had five layers to it, the middle layer of which held the brunt of the seals and the outer layers to filter in the temperature and make the spy under it more comfortable, like now it was fairly cool under the blanket instead of being in blistering heat. The blanket was standard issue for every Sukai Spy. Other standard issue equipment was the binoculars, senbon launchers, senbon cases to hold the senbon, quick cooking ration packets and a few other smaller things. Spies were meant to be long range experts and they were trained to be so. The rifle the girl had with her was the only one in existence and Naruto wanted it to be so because it would give the secretly fragile and insecure girl a feeling of individuality. Naruto knew each and every one of his people and what they needed and in order for them to better serve him he needed to make them aware that he could also care for them.

Now the Shinikora the platinum rank had found a way under the blanket.

The older red head lay on her back and propped her hands behind her head, looking at the spy beside her with playful eyes. "Magic. That's how."

"Don't fuck with me, damn hag."

"I won't." Was the sharp response.

"Fuck you."

"I thought you said I shouldn't."

The maid covered her mouth when a cackle bubbled out, the blankets silencing seals were not air tight. The red haired spy though was not amused. "Just-just shut it…and don't get in my way." Since Naruto had sent her then she would have to tolerate Shinikora.

"But seriously, is there anything to report?" the spy was quiet, until the older red head prodded her cheek. "Tayuya."

The girl named Tayuya hissed and looked at the maid from the corner of her eyes. "They're leaning more on tearing up the letter. Stupid dick heads." The fox nodded in agreement and relaxed a bit more. "Does Lord Naruto want me to put them down as soon as the letter is shredded?"

"He ordered us to wait six days, five days as of today, before we can take care of them. Didn't division head Yu (of Espionage and Infiltration) tell this to all spies in a general order?"

"I might have zoned out here and there." The fox only tutted at the girl's attitude. "I heard you were with Lord Naruto in Lightning and Water country." She said to make idle conversation as Kankuro was hit on the head with a battle fan by his sister because of how dark and gloomy he was getting.

"Yes. Master was very commanding, all three countries bowed to his might."

"As they should." Tayuya said. The simple fact was that all of Sukai Kingdom and its people were loyal without fault to their king, Tayuya was not an exception. When she was defiant to bow to Orochimaru and resisted with all her might to be controlled like a puppet she worshipped the ground her master, and her hero, walked on. The girl had spent three years in the Sukai Kingdom's Academy learning from the best teachers and had chosen to be a spy because she felt that it would best serve her master, seeing as spies were the ones that supplied the kingdom with useful information that further strengthened her new home. It was either that or she applied to be a maid or work in Intelligence but she could do neither because, for the former, she was not much for keeping a place orderly, her apartment in Suna could testify that, and for the latter she was not patient enough to sit through classes of code breaking, encryption, computer science and mathematics. Besides, spies were seen as a vital part of the kingdom's forces and even though she was stationed to Suna and made to leave for her post two years after graduating from the academy, the years spent preparing for life in the desert as well as partial independence, she didn't regret her decision.

"I don't think Gaara's Imperial Defence can be brought down so easily so you should probably take down Temari and her brother, leave Gaara for me."

"And what makes you so sure that I can't handle him and his siblings?"

"His defence is automatic, even after losing the one tails." The senbon bullets loaded in the cartridges were strong compared to usual senbon, able to cut through half a foot of pure, solid lead and still a few more inches of steel, the standard issue senbon bullet for spies were not to be trifled with. The rifle too was able to shoot at impossible distances only regular long rangers could dream of but even with these amazing combinations the bullet would still have a tough time penetrating the sand defence. "We want this mission done quickly and cleanly; kill the leaders so that subduing the followers would be easier. That means we don't have any margin for a long drawn out fight. No space for mistakes or fuck ups." They had the option of forcing the fight faraway from Suna, but for now they chose to do any assassinations on the spot and swiftly.

"Yeah, yeah I get it." the spy to the King of Sukai said idly. "After that we can go back to the kingdom, right?"

"When it's all said and done Lord Naruto has already assigned the Civilian Division to prepare for another celebration after the world has been conquered."

Tayuya bit her bottom lip in excitement. "With how everything is going that'll happen for sure." Her fingers twitched on the binoculars, much too happy and jittery to stay in place. "Lord Naruto sure knows how to make a plan huh."

The maid wholeheartedly agreed with the younger red head. "He has a plan for every outcome." The people of the kingdom saw their king as nothing less than a genius.

"They don't stand a chance." Tayuya grinned evilly. "What about the jinchuriki? One of the moles in that S rank organization, the Akatsuki, told me when he was here that they have four beasts and I heard the two, three and eight tails are in the kingdom now."

"King Naruto wants to turn them to his side, but if they remain adamant then it is just a simple matter of sealing them into more willing people." And there were hundreds, if not thousands, of people willing to have the beasts sealed in them, all for the sake of better serving their lord.

"Ah, so the one, three, four, five and six tails are going to be re-sealed but the two and eight tails have a chance to live?" the maid nodded. "Damn."

Shinikora chuckled. "I know."

Tayuya was about to make another comment but stopped. She scoffed and relaxed her arms, though not removing the field glasses. "They signed the Fealty Agreement Scroll. I was hoping to kill them." she sighed in disappointment. "What now?"

"We are to stay until the six-five-days are up and watch them. If they decide to shred the Agreement then we take them down when the time comes." She shared a knowing look with the younger red head. "But don't worry, you can use your rifle or your flute later if master sends us to Fire country or to Earth country." Both daimyos, Fire and Earth, had torn the letter to shreds, along with the Tsuchikage, Oonoki, and the Hokage, Minato. A notification came up immediately after they did so and those that worked in the Intelligence and Interrogation Division noted them down, feeding the information to Naruto as the list piled up. At the moment Hidden Star, Hidden in the Darkness and Hidden Fang had shredded their letters, but Chill, Marsh, Waterfall and Hidden Tree villages, along with their respective country daimyos, signed their Agreement Scroll.

Tayuya lovingly rubbed her hands on her gun. "I want to use this puppy to blast holes in people, for our king." She finished and both nodded. Shinikora returned to making bored conversation and Tayuya went back to watching the Kazekage's office.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

S rank library in the Kage's Mansion

The Hokage's Mansion

Konohagakure no Sato

Fire country

"You did WHAT?!"

A terrible yell rocked the Kage's mansion.

A bored voice answered Jiraiya. "I ripped it up."

The toad sage grabbed his iconic spikey hair in tight fists and pulled it. "Why would you do that?!"

"I don't make deals with the devil." Minato's bright blue eyes didn't bother to look up from the scroll littered on his desk. He tapped his sealing brush on his chin. "That beast needs to be taken down."

The Hokage's former teacher groaned and smashed his fist on the Yondaime's table, throwing off more than a few pieces of paper and tipping the ink pot across the others. "Why didn't you wait for Kakashi's report? Why didn't you wait for me to get back to you?!"

The Namikaze glared at the older seal master. "Last time I check I AM THE HOKAGE. I make the decisions for this village. ME. Not you, not the council, not even a fucking referendum." Both men stubbornly kept glaring at each other.

That is, until Jiraiya sighed and slumped into a chair. "You don't understand, kid. Naruto has the rinnegan, the strongest of the three doujutsu and the most powerful eyes on the planet. The eyes that can bring about creation or destruction of all life as we know it." The toad sage looked to the still glaring Hokage without fear. "I trained a kid with the rinnegan once, and I learnt so much about it you won't even begin to understand, but I will try my best to break it down so it can get into your thick skull." He spat, fire broiling in his eyes and his teeth clenching. Minato's jaw tightened. "Nagato had perfect control of his massive chakra reserves; he could easily control and master all five nature transformations, including the Yin and Yang release. Do you know how many years it Sarutobi –sensei to master all five?" he didn't wait for a reply, nor was he going to get one but the sage was far from caring as he yelled. "It took sensei ten years to truly master it but Nagato had already mastered all five before I met him. And he was only six when I met him and the others." The Yondaime's lips tightened and his eyes hardened, still glaring hatefully at his teacher, who had disrupted what he had been doing by toppling the ink pot over his work. "His rinnegan was able to make use of six-maybe seven-miraculous abilities he called paths and each one was overpowered at best and mid S rank at worst. His fucking weakest attack was fucking ripping out your soul!"

The younger toad summoner stood up in a flourish and walked away to another section of the library. Jiraiya hurried after him persistently. "If you think all that is going to change my mind-"

"Naruto's rinnegan is much more powerful than Nagato's!" Jiraiya yelled as he threw his hands into the air in frustration. This news made the father of the King skid to a halt and scowl over his shoulder.

"How do you know that? How are you so sure?"

Jiraiya answered the questions with his own spitefully hurled questions. "Did you not watch the video? The reports? What more proof do you need? Naruto can pop heads with an idle thought." He placed a strong hand on Minato's shoulder. "Listen to reason, Minato."

The blonde man shrugged off the white haired man's hand and turned to him, jabbing his fingers into the older man's chest. "That shit stain is not a threat; he's just a pest that refuses to die." He pointed at himself and snarled. "I'll be the one to kill him."

It looked like Jiraiya was about to explode over his student, but he barely contained himself. "And how do you plan on doing that? Naruto can use all six paths, has perfect chakra control, control of all five nature transformations, a naturally large chakra reserve and he is pissed as all hell you threw him to that damn snake!" then a memory came to the sage and his shoulders slumped heavily at the mounting grave situation the world had suddenly found itself in. "You indirectly killed his sister…everyone knows how much they loved each other…it was obvious." Jiraiya placed his hands over his eyes and rubbed them, deep regret immediately running over him like a stampede of bulls; the kids never did anything to him, matter of fact the little children were nothing but friendly anytime they saw him. No one wanted to be their friend, even their supposed babysitters Shisui and Itachi, but the kids still smiled. The whole village stayed away from them but the twins still always smiled. They were being bullied by the kids and they still smiled.

They behaved so much alike that they might as well be the same person.

And Jiraiya had every opportunity to bring them closer but he had allowed his student to throw them to the snake without any thought.

The twins never demanded for friends. They had each other and it was plain as day that that was more than enough.

But Naruko had been killed in the most painful way a child should ever have to be put through…and Naruto had been made to watch…

The white haired man held a book shelf for support and his eyes closed tightly to hold in the tears, Minato watched for a few seconds before he turned to the shelf on his right and began riffling through the books.

If the village had only treated them better this whole global threat could have been averted.

"They are the reason the love of my life lost her mind." the Yondaime said in a low, solemn voice. "They are the reason junior has to live without a mother."

"No." the sage muttered as he cast a disgusted look to his student. "The one to blame is the person that unsealed the Kyuubi sixteen years ago. The hate you have for those sweet children…" he tapered to a stop at his own words and his eyes drooped as he continued. "The hate you have for that boy and that girl…is unfounded, baseless, useless…and disgusting. They did not ask to be born. They did not ask for that man to attack. They never even asked to be given the nine tails. They were just born into your hate. Now Naruko is dead and Naruto…Naruto has the rinnegan…face it Minato, He is the Child of Hate."

Minato could hear slow footsteps walk closer to him but didn't turn back, keeping his eyes on the books with his hand frozen over one about sealing away doujutsu.

"The Toad Prophecy." The older ninja simply said.

Blood would soak the ground like a monster even the heavens cannot sate,

Earth will tremble under the iron boots of the heralds of fate

Who faithfully serve the master of every path,

One who wields creation and destruction, but will be a god of wrath.

The Child of Hate, sired by demons blood and light.

From the sky all will bow at his sight.

It all made sense now…

"I was always a sceptic when it came to prophecies anyway." Minato said frostily as he pulled out the theoretical book on sealing away doujutsu. The only reply was a deep sigh. "Leave killing him to me; just take care of sending my message to every country that hasn't signed his damned Agreement Scroll."

The man looked with disappointment at his student. "Hai…Lord Hokage." He made to leave but stopped and spoke without turning around. "What…of the Akatsuki? They already have four tailed beasts and I suspect they are the ones that took the two, three and eight tails. Surely we can't ignore that threat."

The Yondaime too didn't spare a look at his former teacher. "At the moment they are far less important that the Sukai kingdom and their…" he ground his teeth and spat. "Their king. After we finish with them then we can go back to the Akatsuki."

Jiraiya nodded slowly, sullenly, and left to his new mission of coercing the other countries to allying with Konoha and Fire country to fight the Sukai kingdom.

'I need to find a way to get a Hirashin seal on him. His head would roll before he knows it.' Minato thought as he dropped his books on a different table. He pulled out a fresh sealing scroll, a pot of ink and brush and began refreshing himself on the more complex aspects of Fuinjutsu. It wasn't that he had forgotten, it was that he wanted his son to die at all costs; there was no room for any mistakes.

He had sent a letter to all the countries about meeting together for an alliance to fight the Sukai Kingdom. Now he had to wait for Jiraiya to return with the news.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

08:00PM

Konoha's Psychiatric Institution for the Dangerously Insane

Konoha Hospital

Fire Country

Naruko adored her older twin, Naruto. Not because they were related and it was her obligation to but because she genuinely loved him.

If anyone was to look at them, even if they were in opposite sides of the room, then it would be plain as day that they were related; they were identical twins. The same height, an extremely similar body build, same shoe sizes, the same shade of red hair, the same shade of eyes and, this was something most identical twins didn't have, a shared mentality.

Though there were slight differences in their behaviours or manners the twins could more or less be seen as the same entity.

Naruto's rinnegan, and the buff of first absorbing Orochimaru's memory, didn't make him suffer to train his body or mind, and even if he did it wouldn't make much of a difference on the surface because the Asura path, the path that could augment his body, kept his physique the same as every other average ninja, the only difference being his black with ringed eyes. This was the same with Naruko; though her shoulders were slimmer and her hands and feet were slightly smaller, she was more or less the same build as Naruto.

Their single mindedness could not be emphasized enough; they could sit in a dark room and still find a way to have a long, silent conversation. Shisui, the playful Uchiha, had said that their 'twin-ness' was too creepy to handle sometimes and Itachi, the silent Uchiha, said that they essentially behaved like a married couple.

Both Uchiha former babysitters strongly believed that the twins were always holding hands but with their souls. Hell, Shisui once ranted that they were born holding hands.

The red haired twins silently ran down the pristine and squeaky clean corridor of the psychiatric institution, their arms flying behind them and their heads lowered with narrowed eyes in concentration. With how the ninja (and samurai) arts came easily for Naruto given that he had an amped up version of the most of the most powerful doujutsu, Naruko was able to keep up with her brother fairly well because despite seven years of being dead her mind and body still had the memory of her 'training' with their dead godfather. When she was six she was able to bench press three hundred pounds due to the chemicals being pumped into her. Needless to say she was capable of keeping up with her brother, but only to an extent.

Like her brother her chakra and her body was very different than those of regular people (grounders).

Like her brother, Naruko was a mutant.

Though there should not be any misunderstanding; Naruko wasn't nearly as strong as Naruto, but the girl wasn't remotely weak either.

They had broken into the psychiatric institution at night because that was when the patients were herded back into their rooms and security would be focused mainly on the entrances and exits but the inside was left alone for the most part, only to be patrolled every once in a while. The doors were all muffled but that was only because the patients were either strapped down to their beds, in strait jackets or wore mouth guards to prevent them from biting their own tongues or biting others.

In Naruto's opinion, the Psychiatric Institution back home was much better manned and even more humane; it was like Konoha had given up on restoring sanity to those that have lost it. He felt a pair of warm eyes on him and he turned to her, his black with red ringed eyes glowing back to her as he sent her a brief thumb up. The institution had three floors with a flight of stairs going upwards in a zigzag connecting all the floors. Currently the siblings were speeding through the second floor upwards. They had gained entry simply by throwing an illusion over them to look like workers.

Naruko hissed lowly and skidded to a stop behind a corner leading to a separate wing of the hospital reserved for 'Special Patients', her brother stopped as well and hide across from her behind an open white janitors room door. He looked to her and she flashed one finger at him, pointing it down to the ground and then over her shoulder. Naruto nodded, understanding that there was only one person approaching and that they should just take him out without necessarily killing him.

ROOT was exterminated, Danzo was dead and Tsunade was much easier to handle than he thought, Jiraiya wouldn't be any different, but he still wanted Konoha to put up a fight that would at least entertain him and his sister.

Naruko didn't really mind; she was more used to listening and doing what he said, with just a few excepts when they nonverbally formed plans.

"Get them!"

Hurried panting could be heard in the forest behind the academy. Four tiny feet quickly pattered over the dry leaves, making their pursuers track them by the sound. The two prey being tracked ducked behind a tree, forced to separate their joined hands so that they could hide behind different tree, three feet apart.

Two bright purple eyes, large as dinner places and frantic like cornered wild animals, found themselves and they gulped. The male swallowed and tried to steel his gaze, his eyes mirrored off the female, his twin sister, and she added her own courage to the one he was trying to build. Their almost spiritual connection added this together and the twins were now staring steely eyed at each other.

Naruto nodded and the girl closed her eyes lightly, before she opened them again and flashed five of her left fingers, closed her hand and flashed two more.

Seven bullies.

Naruto tapped his right fist on his left elbow twice and the girl tapped her knees, the boy replied with a clenched fist tapping his neck, his chin and then his groin. The girl wavered in place and Naruto sent the message again of what his side of the attack would look like. The girl eventually caved in; she didn't really like attacking bathing suit areas but Naruto didn't really care about kicking groins. Naruko rolled her shoulders and clicked her heels.

A pair of bright red, sharingan eyes hidden above them furrowed and tried to decipher the quick succession of messages between the twins, but dropped it in favour of watching the agreed upon plan unfold. Itachi and Shisui were exposed to the secret language only both siblings knew and even as they compared it to standard sign language they still couldn't find much of a meaning behind the signals and motions.

Naruto and Naruko counted down with their fingers.

Three, two, one…

Naruto's right elbow jutted out abruptly and crashed into the first bullies belly, he repeated it with his other elbow behind the boys head to knock him out. The three year olds movements were clumsy and very sloppy but the Uchiha jounin could not deny how effective it was in taking out the five year old boy. As Naruto slid back to his feet Naruko thrust her fist into another bullies neck, scurried away from a blow and punched the other aggressors chin. The leaves almost made the three year old girl trip but before she landed onto the ground her foot rose up quickly and cracked against the groin of a fourth bully. All four were down for the count, either writhing in pain or out cold. The twins' fists weren't even fully developed yet, so a punch should be pretty tame but somehow they had connected with sensitive parts of the children's bodies. Naruto helped up his sister but was shoved back down by the fifth and sixth bully while the seventh ran back to the academy to report it to the teachers that the twins were looking for trouble.

None of the children were academy age yet but that didn't mean they couldn't hang out there when school was out.

The red haired twins tried to support each other back to their feet but were viciously kicked in their sides. Naruko's head bounced against a tree trunk and Naruto struggled back to his feet with grit teeth to catch his sister before she hit the ground. He caught the girl in his arms and rolled with her, using his body to protect her, even when his back hit a strong root. His arms didn't move when the bullies cackled and approached them. The red haired girl beneath him closed her eyes and her fists tightly held his shirt, trying to roll them over so she would be the one to take the attack but a strong look from her brother and her arms weakened.

The blows hit the boys back and he stubbornly refused to let them reach his sister.

Finally, before the fifth and sixth bully could rain more blows onto the younger children the Uchiha dropped down and took the twins away.

People might have seen the twins as angels but their children saw their red hair and their deep connection as an oddity and oddities, as far as child logic went, were bad.

The corridor was narrow enough for three average sized men to walk through shoulder to shoulder but only if their shoulders scraped the wall. Naruto pointed a single finger to his left foot and to his upper back with his thumb and Naruko nodded, pointing to her groin and her neck.

Quick, nasty smirks mirrored on the twins faces as their plan had already been created and both of them counted down in silence with their fingers.

Three, two, one…

Naruto jammed his foot down on the chunin guard and Naruko bashed her fist into the poor man's groin, this made the ninja bend forward to grasp his aching manhood and that was when Naruto delivered a mind numbing chop to the chunins upper back, just under his neck, and to finish it all off Naruko lifted her right knee and connected it against the gasping older ninjas throat, knocking him backwards onto his back and spread eagle.

The two grinned deviously and shared a strong fist bump.

"Wicked." The girl said to her brother. Naruko threw her arm over Naruto's shoulder and whispered to her brother. "Seven years apart and-"

"-We've still got it." Naruto finished as he too placed his arm over her shoulder. His rinnegan told him that there were no more guards and as they stepped over the chunin his gravity control shifted the man into the janitor's closet.

"Why did you want us to be subtle again? Just us two can burn this village to the ground!" his sister said as she pulled away but only to hold his hand and peer into the small windows high up on the doors, briefly looking at each mental patient. She skipped gleefully and swung their hands between them while Naruto chose to walk normally and use his rinnegan to track the chakra network of the person he wanted to go to. Despite still being a nine year old in the body of a sixteen year old girl trying to grow up quickly for her brother she still had her quirks.

Naruto pursed his lips and nodded. "Believe me sis, I know. No one stands a chance against us, not even father." He looked to his sister and the happiness that had been filling his formerly empty soul gushed out through his godly eyes as he smiled sincerely. "But remember all the plans we made back when we were staying with godfather? Force the world onto their knees and take Konoha last."

The girl pouted but didn't falter in her skipping. "I know, I know, but I'm getting impatient bro. Father is just a few hundred feet away right now. We can leave Konoha for now but let's just cut off his head. Pweeeeaaase…?" her eyes enlarged and Naruto pulled her cheek with his free hand.

"Trust me on this sis, if we let him cook in his hate and madness then ending his life would be all the more enjoyable." She sulked and the male patted her head. "We can still go for ice cream."

She looked at him from under her straight bangs, Naruto's smile twitched up and she sighed in defeat. "…Fine…"

He stopped walking and she stopped skipping as they reached the very last door of the corridor of the second floor. Naruto and Naruko swallowed thickly and the boy raised his left hand and placed it flat on the door, a seal matrix lit up with blue chakra and his sister watched, intrigued, as the seals moved at Naruto's mental command, shifting aside and breaking apart until the door was devoid of any seal and no alarm had been set off. The girl did not know any seals, or jutsu for that matter, so watching her brother display the fruits of making full use of the Rinnegan's ability to master ninja (and samurai) techniques mystified her.

There was a click and Naruto eased the door open.

Authors note

I'm not too sure if I'll be able to update any time soon, personal reasons, but I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

Tell me what you think, if you please :)

Stay safe, wherever you are in the world, and I will see you when I see you.

Foy.