A/N: I know it has a been a while since I last updated but it'll be a while before I can pick up a good pattern for updating my stories with school and everything. I know that this chapter isn't as long as the other chapters but the next chapter will be so much longer then this, I promise.

It felt weird not having his stepfather meet his teammates with his mother, Tsuna thought to himself as he watched his mother prepare her special homemade ramen for his teammates. For as long as he could remember, his stepfather had always been there for all the big events in his life and for him not to meet his teammates right after he officially became a shinobi felt weird. His father always planned those trips of his not to be anywhere near any special events but something important must have came up for his father to leave them like this. It had to be very important for him to leave them the way he did.

"What's on your mind kiddo?" His mother asked as she placed the noodles into the broth. She rubbed her hands on the apron, gave him a smile before taking a seat right in front of him. "Something has been on your mind since you came back home."

"Isn't it weird Papa left us the day before I officially became a genin? I thought he would have wanted to meet my teammates," he licked his dried lips, "Papa never ever leaves for his trips when it is close to a special event. So why did he leave us like that?"

His mother sighed. "I don't know why Sasuke left the day before you officially become a genin," she smiled, "But I know he wouldn't have left if this trip wasn't important to him because nothing in the world would have made him missed this. He wouldn't have missed this or the twin's birthday if he didn't think that this trip of his was important."

"What does he do in those trip of his?" He couldn't help but asked his mother as he laid his head on the desk. She raised her eyebrows at him. "I'm curious Mama! I've always been curious to know what Papa does when he goes on those trips of his! He's been doing them for as long as I could remember but I never asked because I wasn't a shinobi yet. Now I am and I want to know more about the other duties that shinobis have."

"Your father is a special type of shinobi," His mother pointed out to him, gazing at the pot of ramen. "Unlike most shinobi, your father will not listen to my commands unless it is for the greater good of this village. He always tries to find out information and for him to do that, he needs to catch up with his informants who don't live around here," she scowled, "He doesn't even tell me where they are! Or give me a week notice that he's leaving! If it wasn't for the fact I know your father I would drag his sorry arse here. I don't like the fact he's leaves us especially now that I'm..." His mother shook her head, "Never mind, I just hate the fact that he leaves us but I know he'll come back. He always come back."

"And if he doesn't then you will drag Papa home right? Just like you did after the war?" He asked, remembering the stories his Aunt Hinata used to tell him. "They say the only reason why Papa came back was because of you."

"I wasn't the reason why he came back," His mother said firmly. "Tell me do you think your father is the type of a man who would come back for a woman? Is there a man who would come back to a village who disrespected his family because of a woman? Your father is many things but when it comes to emotions, he's just like your brother. He can't deal with emotions...though he wasn't as bad as his brother."

"Itachi-ojiisan right?" His mother nodded. "Why didn't you name Ryo after him? I thought father would want to honor his brother by naming his first-born son after him."

She curled her lips into a smile. "We nearly did but I didn't want your brother to compare himself to his uncle, to have the same fate as him. I also didn't want Sasuke to look at our son and think of his brother instead seeing his son for who he is," she sighed, "Though I think he does that with Haruto."

"Why Haruto? Haruto looks like me and you!"

"He does, doesn't he?" She gazed at him and for a moment Tsuna thought he saw regret in his mother's eyes but as soon as it was there, it was gone, making him wonder if it was a figment of his imagination. "Haruto does look like us but he is a serious child just like Sasuke's brother was. He's just as bright as him too and it isn't a surprise that like you, he catches on quickly and unlike Ryo, he already knows why I can't always be there for him," she shook her head, "I worry that he's going to grow up too quickly."

"But Mama everyone is going to grow up eventually."

There was a strange look in his mother's eyes but it was gone before he could figure out what it was. "Yes eventually, everyone grows up," his mother stared out at the streets before giving him a smile, "but it doesn't mean I want you or your siblings to grow up. I still want you to be the same small boy who would rush into my room whenever he had a nightmare," he flushed red in embarrassment, "I still want you to say that girls were icky and that Mirai and I are the only exception to it," she pouted, "But you just had to grow up! Before I know it, you'll be going on dates and I'll have to find someway to test those girls."

"Mama!"

"What? I'm not letting you date any girls that don't meet my exception!" She declared hotly. "And you're not dating until you're thirty."

"Y'know you can't stop me from dating! And isn't it every mother's dream to see their son date and get married?"

"Do all sons have a mother who is a Hokage? Or get constantly stalked by almost all the girls in the village?" She pointed out to him. He smiled sheepishly at her. "Besides you're my little boy. You're the person who made me a mother, if I let you go then that means it won't be long before I've to let the others go."

"Even if you let me go Mama, I'll always come back to you. Nothing in the world could make me not go back to you because you're my Mama and that's all that matters right?" His mother smiled at him and before Tsuna could blink his eyes, his mother pulled him into a tight hug. He relaxed into his mother's hug but as he closed his eyes, Tsuna could see a younger version of himself silently watching a brown-haired woman hugged a blond-haired boy that looked so much like himself.

He shook his head and tightened his grip on his mother's shirt before gently pushing her away from him. His mother pouted but didn't complain about how he pushed her away, instead she gave him a bright smile and ruffled his hair. "Someday he might not think like that especially if he knows the truth," his mother whispered to herself, making Tsuna frown at himself. He opened his mouth to question her but the door ranged, stopping him from asking his mother about what she meant by the truth.

Shaking his head, he made his way to the corridor and opened the door, blinking his eyes when he caught sight of Satoshi standing there with his Aunt Sakura's daughter, who smiled widely at him. He raised his eyebrows at his teammate, who scowled. "Sakura ordered me to bring the brat with me," he said if that was reason enough for him not to question him. It was because no matter what his parents said, his Aunt Sakura was a terrifying woman that one should never argue with. "If she's causes problems then it ain't my fault!"

"Satoshi-ojiisan!"

"How many times have I told you not to call me that?" The older boy said gruffly. "Satoshi is enough!"

"Tou-san says that I've to call you ojiisan since you're his brother," the girl explained, pouting at him. "And you're his brother so that makes you uncle! Ichiro-ojiisan says the same thing! And Kaa-chan says you don't have to listen to what Grandma says! She's a meanie anyways."

Satoshi gritted his teeth but didn't say anything to the red-haired girl, only muttering curses under his breath about how his older brother should keep his daughter under control. It was strange, Tsuna thought to himself, how the boy seemed to manage his temper around the girl. The girl smiled widely at her uncle before staring at him. "Is Haruto home?" She asked, snapping him from his train of thought, "And Mio-chan? I want to play ninja with them!"

"Mio-chan is in her room," Tsuna flickered his eyes towards the staircase, noticing how his youngest brother was coming down the staires with a book in his hand. His brother stopped midway, furrowed his eyebrows and mouthed the words 'who's there?'. Tsuna smiled and mouthed 'Jun'. His brother paled and shook his head at him. He nodded his head. And Haruto is in the living room. I think he'll be so happy to see you Jun-chan."

"Really?" She narrowed her eyes. "He's not reading one of those big books again is he?"

"You know my little brother so well Jun-chan."

The red-haired girl scowled, shook her head and rushed inside the room, leaving Satoshi standing outside the house in bemusement. "Haruto is your brother? The boy that my brother's daughter likes to play with all the time? The one she can't stop talking about? He's your brother!" Tsuna nodded his head. "The brat won't live a day in peace if she continues like this."

"I didn't know you were Jun-chan's uncle...so her father is the leader of the Han-Dan clan. Does Sakura-obaachan know about this?"

"My brother isn't a complete idiot," Satoshi said, placing his hands in his pockets as he entered the house. "He knows it's better for her to know what he does for a living...it's a deal breaker for my brothers. If they think they're serious with a girl, they'll tell her...it never ends well."

"It seemed to end well for him," Tsuna pointed out as they entered the living room, where his brother was giving him a scowl for telling his teammate's niece where he was. He smiled sheepishly at Haruto before gazing at Satoshi, who simply stared at his family with an unreadable expression. "He did have your niece and Sakura-obaachan is pregnant isn't she?"

"Not everyone is like Sakura, my brother's first girlfriend was definitely not like her or so Ichiru would say when he told their father that Sakura still agreed to marry him even knowing what he did," Satoshi said distantly but Tsuna did not miss the way he said the word father with resentment or how he distant himself from his siblings. "Ichiru doesn't like Sakura or how my brother gave up on his first girlfriend."

"And you?"

"I was barely seven when Kenji announced his engagement," he shrugged his shoulder, "I never even met his ex-girlfriend though I wonder what kind of woman she would have been to make the all mighty Ichiru angry with Kenji." He said his brother name with spite and Tsuna had to wonder why his teammate hated his family so much.

"You really don't get along with your family do you?"

His teammate narrowed his eyes. "Family is family, you can't chose your family even if you wish it."

"How about your mother?" Satoshi froze at his question. "What's she like?"

"She was a very nice woman," His mother said, appearing out of nowhere with a wide smile, "Satoshi right? My name is..."

"Uzumaki Naruto, I know," His teammate said gruffly, glaring at his mother, who didn't look one bit fazed that his teammate was glaring at him. "Sakura talks about you so does my brother."

"Which one? And if it's Ichiru nothing what he says is true! I was a perfect little angel, ate all my vegetables and never did any blackmail on anyone!"

"You know his brothers?"

His mother grinned. "Sure I do, I stayed with his family for a while before I got my own place..."

"Kenji," Satoshi said curtly, stopping his mother from saying anything else. "And how do you know my mother?"

His mother smiled. "I did a mission with her once. You look exactly like her, the only thing you inherited from your father is his green eyes...everything else screams your mother."

"You're not the first person to say that," Satoshi said gruffly but Tsuna couldn't help but smile when he heard the sound of pride in his teammate. His teammate gazed at his mother then to him before glancing at Haruto, who had an annoyed look on his face as he tried to explain the plot of the story to Jun, before finally gazing back at his mother. "Where's your stepfather?"

"He's my father," Tsuna said, narrowing his eyes while his mother shook her head, not looking one bit annoyed that his teammate looked as if asking about his stepfather made him want to puke. He never did understood how his mother could stand it, how she could stand people talking about his father or the whispers they made about him.

"He's not the man who helped make you was he?" His teammate gazed at his mother, who simply smiled wider at him but Tsuna knew from experience that his mother was holding herself back from yelling at him. "And where's shaggyhead? I thought she would be the first here, seeing how close she is to you."

Tsuna shrugged his shoulder before clenching his hands into a fist. How dare his teammate remind him that Sasuke wasn't his biological father? He was his father even if he didn't make him with his mother. He was the one who taught him to fight, the one who gave him advice on how to deal with fangirls and the only man that had ever scolded him for doing anything wrong. Uncle Lee would never scold him, saying it was his youth that made him do these things while Uncle Kiba would laugh and give him a high-five for doing those things. Uncle Shikamaru would just shrug his shoulder and just say how troublesome he was. It was only his father who do those things for him.

Yet Tsuna could not help but wonder who his biological father was, the man who was able to capture his mother's heart for a brief moment of time and made her see another option then his stepfather. Everyone always thought his mother would only ever see his stepfather or so Uncle Kiba would say whenever his mother wanted someone to babysit him whenever he was younger. He must have been something for her to look at someone other than his stepfather, his uncle would say whenever he asked him about the kind of man his biological father was.

He never once asked his mother about his biological father, not out of fear but out of the fact he knew if he asked about him then his mother was going to break down.

He never wanted his mother to break down.

Sicily, Sasuke thought as he walked pass a couple making out, was not a city he ever wanted to go ever again. With its hot weather, the way the girls eyed him and the fact he couldn't find a decent place to eat food, he could not ever see how a Japanese man would like to live here. He could be bias because of the fact Naru's ex-boyfriend was from here. The same man who told him if he wanted his wife, he should try to get her and not allow another man to steal her. If it wasn't for the fact he knew they were going to leave, Sasuke was certain he would have burned that man alive for daring to say he didn't have any courage to keep Naru by his side.

Okay maybe he didn't at the time but after the war, after everything that happened between them, Sasuke didn't believe he deserved to have the blond by his side. He still doesn't believe the life they had was something he deserved but he loved their life, loved the children they had and how things were between them. The only regret he had was leaving Naru to get his revenge, for doing the things he did and making her suffer for his actions.

Though he had a lifetime to repent for his actions towards her.

He stopped walking when he reached a large villa overlooking the sea. It was beautiful with its simple white walls and red tiles and statues in front of the gates, not the kind of place Sasuke would have imagined that boy's grandfather to live in but not everything was what it appeared. The boy's grandfather must still be an important figure in the mafia, Sasuke thought wearily, noticing that there was a black limo standing in front of the gates. He eyed the security guards, who were too busy talking to each other and then to the gates, wondering how good his odds were of not tripping the alarm of alerting the guards that someone infiltrated their employers home.

Looking at the guards, he supposed it wasn't going to take much for him to get in there. Nodding his head, Sasuke made his way towards the edge of the gate, leaped over it, landed gracefully on his feet before making his way towards the doors. He turned his head, staring at the guards that were still talking, shook his head before opening the doors.

Bastard, you'll never know when you need a bobby pin! It's a lifesaver when you need to break into a house without actually breaking the lock! Those were Naru's words when he questioned her about why she was using a bobby pin to break into a house. Those were the days before they came back to Konoha, the days when Naru tried to make him act ridiculous like she did and the good times before they had kids. Not that he would tell his kids to do this though he had no doubt Ryo knew how to do this, that boy knew more then he should when it comes to breaking rules.

He stopped his musings when he heard the sound of someone walking through the corridors. Stepping into the shadows of one of the statues, Sasuke watched as an old man (no doubt Naru's great uncle) walking with a blond-haired man with sad eyes.

"It has been nearly ten years since your wife lost your son and till now you found no sign of your son," The old man said gravely as he stared sadly at the blond-haired man, "Maybe it's time for you to give up searching for him. If you cannot find him in these past ten years then you'll never find him just like my brother never found his son."

"My cousin ran away from home! My son was kidnapped! There's a difference, Father!" The man snapped, making Sasuke curled his lips when he realized that this man was most likely Tsuna's father. He could not see any similarities between them, Sasuke thought, perhaps the eyes but everything else about his son must screamed his mother. "And I'm going to find him! I'm going to find my little Tuna fish."

If Tsuna complained about Naru and me calling him little lion then he'll definitely will complain a lot more about Tuna fish, Sasuke thought, remembering how his oldest son would whine about how he wasn't a small lion.

"Iemitsu don't talk to me like that! Your mother and I taught you better then that! Now listen to me Iemitsu, it had been nearly fourty years since your cousin ran away from home," The old man spoke, placing his hands into his pockets. "Nearly forty years since he left and your uncle never found him and died never knowing where his son was. He died without knowing if your cousin got married and had kids of his own, never got to know anything about him and he had the same thoughts as you and you know what happened to him?"

"He wasn't very close to my other cousins," Iemitsu stated, "And didn't even mourn their deaths like the way my aunt did but I'm different from him! I know who took him!"

"Really? What's her name? What does she look like? Do you know her nationality? Did you even ask Timoteo if he knew anyone who could track her down?"

"I can't ask the Nono about this! If he gets involved then people in the Mafia would target my son if they did find him!"

"It concerns him as well especially now that all three of his sons are dead," The old man rubbed his temple and stared at the statue that he was currently hiding in. "There're two heirs for the Vongola Family and don't even bother saying Xanxus because that cousin of mine should know I'm no idiot! Tsunayoshi is the eldest of your two kids and is the one who is to inherit the position of the boss!"

"I'm not making him the boss!"

"Oh, why not?"

"Because Nana deserve to have one of her sons near her!"

"That's why she has Daichi-kun isn't it?" The blond-haired man narrowed his eyes at him, earning a laugh. "If that wife of yours could pretend for three straight years that Tsuna didn't exist then it's clear to everyone which child she prefers to have by her side."

"It was a mistake...it's only because you sealed her flames."

"Do not give that woman an excuse!" The old man snarled. "I may have sealed her flames but sealing a flame would not be a cause for someone to do what she did! Your mother warned you! I warned you! But no you took a year worth relationship and made it into a marriage! Did you even tell that wife of yours what you did for a living?"

"No! I'm not getting her involved with this!"

"The moment you married her was the moment she got involved in this. Why do you think most people in our business chose to marry people who know about this? By marrying her, you painted a target in her back," The old man rubbed his forehead, "One day son, this is going to bite you in the ass and I'll be the one to tell you so."

The blond-haired man stared at the old man for a good long time before finally saying. "I'm sorry for being a disappointment and marrying a woman you disapproved but I love her! She's the mother of your grandchildren!" The old man pursed his lips at him. "Anyways, if your informants tell you..."

"If they tell me where Tsuna is, I'll tell you where he is."

Sasuke watched as the blond-haired man left before gazing at the old man, who stared sadly at the man's back. What would Naru do in this situation? He asked himself, watching the older man's fading back. Would she go to the man and explained her actions? Or would she just let him go before going to the old man? She probably would chase after the man and explained her reasons before letting Tsuna go and meet him. She was selfless like that but he was selfish and he wasn't going to let his son meet this man.

Still Naru would kill him if he did that.

Shaking his head, Sasuke waited till the blond-haired man left before stepping out of the shadows.

"Sawada Ietsuna?" The old man blinked his eyes, opened his mouth to scream but Sasuke quickly covered the old man's mouth and slowly forced him to walk towards one of the empty rooms. Sasuke kicked opened the door, shoved the old man inside before locking the door, where the old man glared at him. He should feel guilty for doing it to an old man, especially to the old man that was related to his deceased father-in-law but it wasn't like anyone was going to kill him for this.

Naru would but she would never know what he did.

"Who the hell are you!"

"Uchiha Sasuke!" He said curtly, curling his lips into a smirk when the man pulled out his cell phone into his pockets. "And if you call security, I'll kill them all."

"You seem pretty confident you can kill them all," The old man stated, flipping the phone open. "Tell me why shouldn't I call them? For all you know I don't care about their lives, the moment they work for me is the moment their lives become mine. Why should I not call them?"

"Sawada Minato."

"What?"

"I know about him."

"You know where my nephew is."

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't but you won't know if you call security."

"And how do you know him?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

"You're not going to tell me anything until I put the phone down aren't you?" Sasuke nodded his head, making the old man sighed. "You're lucky young man that I wish to know where my nephew is or else I would call security on you...not that they would do any good since they didn't even notice you were inside! Where were the days I could get good security guards?"

He snorted, causing the old man to sigh. "Tell me how do you know my nephew? Is he doing fine! Why hasn't he called us in the past forty years? That boy isn't the kind of man not to call his family after so many years."

"He's dead."

"And how did he die?" Sasuke didn't answer, causing the man to become irritated. "How did my nephew die? And how many years has he been dead! Why didn't anyone tell us this? I know the boy was desperate to leave home but surely he had a thought of someone to tell his father! That boy was never thoughtless to do this!"

"He's been dead for nearly thirty years now," The old man stopped in his rant and looked at him in shock. "He died protecting his newborn daughter and didn't want his daughter to grow up in the world you lived in."

"And how do you know this?"

"I'm married to his daughter," The old man flickered his eyes to his ring finger and raised his eyebrows. Reluctantly, Sasuke pulled out a recent picture Tsuna helped him take of his wife sleeping with the twins on either side of her laps and Haruto in front. Surprisingly, Tsuna didn't want to be in my the photo but maybe the boy knew that this was going to be useful for him, it wouldn't surprise him if he did. The old man shook his head in acceptance. "But that isn't the reason why I came here."

"Oh? I feel obligated to get to know my great-niece's husband," The old man stared at him then to his sword before nodding his head and grabbing the photo from his hand, "Good to see my great-niece picked a husband that's strong and pretty. It must be tough for her to deal with all the girls looking at you then again she must be a pretty woman after all the woman in our family were known to be quite the looker."

He wanted to growl at the man but stopped himself from doing it. "I'm here to talk about your nephew, you're the only person that seems to know him well," the old man raised his eyebrows at him. "You're the only person that can tell me why would he just run away from home, why he wouldn't let anyone know that his daughter had a family that was willing to raise her."

"Surely her mother..."

"She lost her mother the same day she lost her father," The old man took in deep breaths at hearing this confession, "Until seven years ago, my wife didn't even know that her father's last name was fake."

"I did tell my brother there was a chance he would change his name," The old man muttered, earning a scowl from him. The old man rolled his eyes at him and gestured for him to take a seat in front of him. Sasuke raised his eyebrows, making the old man shrugged his shoulders at him before nodding his head at him. "So my nephew changed his name, moved to a different place and build a new life for himself. Tell me why am I only learning this now? We've contacts in every place in the world! For goodness sake, my own son put some people in the North Pole so he could send a picture to his wife about his fake job."

Sasuke raised his eyebrow, causing the old man to scowl. "Tell me that my great-niece isn't as stupid as my son?" He asked, rubbing his temple. "Sometimes I wonder how Iemitsu survived in the world we lived in...it wasn't his duty to..."

"It was Minato's duty right?"

The old man sighed and gazed at the photo in his hands wistfully. "Yes it was his duty, from the moment he was born my father made sure that he was trained to be a part of CEDEF? And for what? Because of some stupid bet he made with Timoteo's mother. Y'know he was barely older than your oldest son before he left home? Barely five years old when he left home. My brother says he was kidnapped, same goes for his wife? Y'know what I say? That's bullshit and everyone in the Mafia knows that."

Sasuke didn't say anything, just stared at the old man who made his way towards the fridge and pulled out a bottle of whiskey. He poured two glasses, giving one to him before drinking the other glass. "He may have been five but he was a smart five year old," Ietsuna took in a deep breath, "Until Iemitsu was born, my wife and I didn't have any other kids but if we did have one before my son, it was Minato. My brother wasn't around a lot, too busy with work while my sister-in-law was too busy running her own company to pay much attention to Minato. I knew that boy wasn't going to stay for much longer, knew sooner or later he was going to leave."

"You did?"

"The boy always loved a sense of adventure," Ietsuna laughed, "He always wanted to be one of those characters in the books he loved. He wanted to be the hero and for him to know that he was going to be a part of this world killed him. Tell me what did Minato do for a living?"

Sasuke gazed darkly at the old man, wondering whether or not to tell him the truth before deciding that it wasn't going to hurt anyone if he knew. "He was a shinobi, one of the best shinobis that our village created!" He felt like he was repeating the words the Academy used to force kids to say, "He was the first and only foreginer to become the Hokage."

"Shinobi? They still exist do they? And Hokage? Really now!" Sasuke scowled when the old man started to laugh, causing the old man to laugh even harder. "Why are you giving me such looks? The last time I checked shinobis didn't exist until you came along, I've never heard someone claiming to become a ninja! Though looking at you, I'm not surprised. That boy surprises me! Tell me what is his daughter like? I can see she's very pretty and by the looks of it, I can see that you love her very much."

"She can be an idiot," Ietsuna blinked his eyes, "She loves eating ramen to the point that I think if none of the kids would complain, she would eat it every day. She doesn't like to admit that she's wrong and likes to swear but ever since our oldest son, she has learnt to control it," The old man smiled softly and Sasuke didn't know why he couldn't stop talking to him, "She accepts everyone who she meets and can't hate anyone. She's overprotective over our kids and is so stubborn over her ways. She's so childish at times that you've to wonder if she ever actually grew up. She hates seeing abused children and will never turn a friend down even if it means she can't be there for the kids."

"She sounds like one hell of a woman," he said softly, staring down at the picture. "Your two oldest have your looks but your youngest son...he looks almost exactly like Minato and my grandson," Ietsuna traced Haruto's face, "Tell me what are their names? And my great-niece names?"

"The boy with the black hair is Ryo, the girl is Mio and our youngest is Haruto," He answered in a heartbeat, "And my wife name is Naru."

"Naru...Sawada Naru," The old man chuckled. "I bet if Minato was alive, he would have murdered you for dating his precious daughter."

He grunted and winced as he remembered how the Fourth Hokage jumped to conclusion about his relationship with Naru at the time. "Haruto, Mio and Ryo," he gazed at them and then to him, "You won't mind if I send this to my sister-in-law would you? It had been so long since Minato left but I think she would be happy to know that she has great-grandchildren."

"It's no problem," He knew that it was something Naru would have wanted and knew one day when everything was settled that his wife would want to come back to this world. "But Minato isn't the only reason why I'm here."

"Oh?"

"Did you know anyone by the name of Giotto?"

From the looks on the old man's face, Sasuke knew he hit the jackpot.

Q&A

Q: Will Tsuna learn any of Minato's jutsu?

A: Yes he will learn some of them especially during the Namimori's Arc.

Q: Does Naru know any fuinjutsu?

A: Yes she does and some of it will be taught to Tsuna.

Q: Does Naru have the tailed beast sealed inside of her?

A: Yes she still does.

A/N: Please review