You know, it's weird waking up and seeing an old pervert talking cutesy with your little cousin. When I walked into the dining room for breakfast I saw Jiraiya sitting at the table with Tsuna on his lap. Tsuna was asking him all kinds of questions. Tsunade and Shizune were already in work mode at the other end of the table. I ignored our guests as I have a feeling I'll be talking to him later. Breakfast wasn't anything too great but I was interrupted by Jiraiya telling Tsuna to knock it off.

"What about here?" Tsuna asked with excitement. She then poked Jiraiya in his stomach causing him to wince in pain. Tsuna was poking him everywhere trying to get him to react. I looked across the table to see Tsunade with a grin as she pretended not to notice. That was all I needed to know that he did something stupid last night and got punished for it. He should know the best out of anyone how scary she is when you do something stupid in front of her. I went back to my breakfast listening to a plethora of "Oww!"s next to me. Eventually he couldn't take it anymore "Hey kid, have some mercy and you don't laugh at me like that it's not funny."

"Tsuna really takes after Auntie" I teased.

"It really is like having a mini Tsunade running around. I guess that makes her cute." said Jiraiya. Why does it irritate me when he says it? Whatever I'll just finish this up and head for my morning training. I was about to finish when Tsunade called out to me. "Before you go for training Jiraiya would like to talk with you Tobi. Is that okay?"

"I don't mind" I got up assuming that our talk wouldn't be proper here. Jiraiya put Tsuna on the ground and told her he'd be back in a minute. I took us out to the backyard where my training would be. There I saw Koko with her Zorua lazing about on the ground. Jiraiya caught a peek at the two but didn't say anything. I know Tsunade trusts him so I won't say anything. I'll just have to tell her to be careful later. I kept walking until we got further back in the yard. Soon we came to a forested area about half a mile away from the compound. This was still our land but Jiraiya said we should be fine here. He knows a lot more than I do so I can't refute him. We stood face to face with neither of us speaking first. I have an idea of what he wants to ask so I might as well tell him I'm not it.

"Tob.." Jiraiya had started to talk but I interrupted him "I'm not the person you're looking for."

"Wait? What? How do you know what I'm looking for?" Jiraiya was shocked. Did Tsunade tell him about the prophecy beforehand?

"I know of the person who can fulfill it but I don't know if that will still happen. Things have already changed from what I know."

"What do you mean the things have changed from what you know?" Jiraiya didn't expect to lose the upperhand in this discussion so he was already a little out of his element.

"I guess the easiest example to prove it would be the fact that Tsuna and I exist. Tsunade was never supposed to have a child. How am I supposed to know if the things I know are still right?" I really didn't want to talk about a future I'm uncertain will even happen anymore. I'd rather just go with the flow and react to things in the future. "I didn't want to tell anyone about what happens in the future. Knowing it will just cause pain, problems and only make everything worse."

"Kid you don't act your age at all you know that?" Actually I'm well aware of that fact. I wish I knew how to. Jiraiya then plopped down on the ground in front of me. "You're right about knowing the future. I was given a prophecy from somewhere and now I can't not think about it. Who it might be that fulfills it. That's why I came here today to see with my own eyes if you speak the truth about what lies in that scroll. Tsunade told me a bit about what you talked about the other day and I have to say I'm surprised."

I knew she would talk about the contents but why would she talk about me? I didn't shut down like usual. She wouldn't tell anyone about it right? I can still believe in her… I think. Jiraiya could tell I lost my confidence once he mentioned me. "Tobi? Are you alright?"

"Yeah...I'm fine." I stuttered more than I cared to admit. Get yourself back together. Jiraiya isn't an enemy or someone I should be scared of. I need to stop getting scared of how people perceive me. I need some self confidence.

"I figured this would be the case. You just had to go and ask about him didn't you Jiraiya." Tsunade stepped out from behind a tree. "He has problems with how people perceive him."

"I didn't even ask about him yet. All I did was mentioned that you talked about him."

"I'll deal with you in a minute, Jiraiya. Tobi come here." I walked over when she called me. She picked me up and started to rub my back telling me it's alright. "I just told a little about you so that they could understand why you would want to make the deal you did."

I looked up at her "You didn't.." My voice trailed off at the end and she just smiled at me. "Of course not. I told you already that you could trust me. That's for you to tell other people if you want or if you want me to do it for you. It's your secret to tell afterall."

Thank you was all I could mutter before crying on her shoulder. Why is this so difficult for me? why did I have trouble believing in her? I honestly hated myself right. I wanted to do so many things but all I am is a crybaby with trust issues. How can I do anything later if this is all I can amount to now. Tsunade let out a long sigh before she scolded Jiraiya. "This is why I didn't want you to question him. He's still afraid of people changing their views about him and betraying him. Do you know how hard it was for him to open himself up to me? I swear to god if he gets any worse because of this."

"Hold on Tsunade. I didn't mean to do this to him, I honestly didn't know he was like this." Jiraiya did his best to try and defend himself from her wrath.

"Fine. Let's go back besides I need to tell Koko that Tobi will need a few minutes before his morning training." Tsunade held me the whole way back and only let me down once I had collected myself again. When we arrived Koko had tried to hide Zorua behind her back but it didn't work. Everyone clearly saw what she was hiding but she still continued on like we hadn't seen anything. She probably would have gotten away with it too if someone's innocence didn't destroy it. "Look how cute it is. Koko can I touch it? Can I? Please? I'll be a good girl."

Koko's face changed in an instant. Just a second ago she had confidence proudly displayed but now it looked like someone had taken all her money in a scam. Tsuna had ran over and grabbed Zorua right out of her hands. Zorua didn't seem to care as it called its name out a few times and then jumped out of Tsuna's hand running over to the frog pond before laying down on one of the stones there. Tsuna gave her a chase and soon the two were playing. Tsuna kept trying to catch Zorua but it didn't work as it was just too fast for her. It reminded me of the training a certain tailless person did trying to catch a monkey named bubbles. Honestly it might not be a bad way to gain some stamina.

"Does anyone mind explaining what kind of animal that is?" Asked Jiraiya as the rest of us didn't even bother to try. Tsunade lost her patience as she looked at Koko. Her eyes showed her displeasure about this. Koko didn't know what to do she just stood there like a plank. I could empathize with her since Tsunade is really scary when she's mad.

"It has only been a day Koko. A day and someone has already seen them from outside of the clan. I expected better from you. Jiraiya these are a special type of tamed beast that Tobi found. How he found them I'll leave up to his discretion to tell you. Koko I'll be giving you a punishment for this later."

"It kind of looks like one of Kakashi's dogs to be honest. Is that the only kind?"

"No, I'm sure you'll find we will soon have some unique ones. I ask that you won't speak of this to anyone else."

"Sure but I'll take a payment for it in advance." He was laughing before even asking what he wanted. I could only see his head working to get something from Tsunade as a price. A date maybe? Honestly they should just get together finally. "Hey Tobi before I go do you mind telling me what you know about Tsunade?"

I wasn't sure if I wanted to. I mean I want her to know how much she's changed from where she would have been but if she doesn't want to hear it then I won't say. I looked at Tsunade who was thinking about it. "I guess it doesn't hurt to hear it. Do you mind telling us Tobi?"

"Are you sure?" I was hesitant because I wasn't sure how to do this. Do I tell her the truth of how weak she was before meeting Naruto? Do I tell her the reason why she became the fifth? Let's just see how this goes. If it gets bad I'll stop it. Tsunade had Koko go take Tsuna and Zorua away for a few minutes so we could talk.

"I don't know how some things occured or why so just bear in mind there are some questions I won't answer even if I can. So I guess I'll start with this, in less than ten years you would be the 5th Hokage Tsunade."

"Oh I see Tsunade became a big wig in that version as well."

I shook my head before "There was no one else after you refused Jiraiya. So you went to recruit her yourself with a new student."

Tsunade laughed this time "That sounds exactly like you to be honest. Someone offers you a job and you just decided to not do it. You probably declined it because it cut into your research."

"Hey hey. Let the boy finish." Jiraiya said to change the topic.

"Tsunade refused your request. She wasn't exactly in the best state and if it wasn't for your student then she might have taken an offer she would regret."

"Kid your not making this sound so good."

"Its not. If I tell you what's next then I'm afraid it'll change most of your plans in the future. Do you still want to know? Once you hear it you can't go back." I looked at both of them before they nodded in unison.

"What was the deal I almost took Tobi? It couldn't have been that bad could it?"

"Just know that you're a different person now." I didn't know how else to word this. I knew that this would be a huge blow to her pride. I took a long pause thinking of how I would say this "If you could bring back the dead would you?"

"I didn't. I couldn't have possibly wanted to" Tsunade started out mad but she pieced it together rather quick. Although her words weren't quick to come out she had already rationalized it. "Even if I did how could it be possible."

"It is possible you even named me after the man who created the jutsu. The thing is it needs a life to be exchanged for its use. Jiraiya and his student were the price to bring back the dead."

"I wouldn't. I couldn't do that. Why would I ever believe someone who said they could bring them back."

"I don't think I should say anymore. I probably shouldn't have said what I already did." I felt guilty about going this far. I know they're not the same person but she could see the road that led to those decisions.

"Tobi you better not be stopping." I flinched at those words her eyes were serious.

"I think it's for the best that you continue as well. Who did she make the deal with and who could learn that jutsu?" Jiraiya said showing his agreement for me to continue.

"Fine. I'll talk just stop looking at me like that." I wasn't filled with fear but she did scare me. She was dead set on getting everything out of me this time. "Orochimaru was the one who made the deal. He wanted to destroy the leaf village, badly."

"Why would I ever believe him?" I looked away since I knew I was going blab about the third if I looked at her.

"Tobi?" I tried backing up, one step at a time hoping I could make a break for it.

"Tobi." It was no longer a question for her she wasn't going to let me go.

"If you don't start talking I guess we'll just have to spar all day" I turned to look at her and she just stared back at me. She had a beautiful smile on that anyone could appreciate except for me. I don't know why but I shivered when I saw her like that causing Jiraiya to burst out with laughter. "Tobi you're not going to stop here right?"

"Of course not. I mean I was just thinking is all." I said trying my best not to stutter or bite my tongue. All I could hear from Jiraiya was him muttering poor kid under his breath. "Orochimaru had already used it before so he had credibility."

"I know he had raided the archives that day but I never expected him to learn that one." Jiraiya said shocked at what he heard. "What else has he managed to master from then?"

"Who did he summon Tobi?" Asked Tsunade.

I really don't want to answer this but I knew I had already dug my grave. Might as well jump in head first. I took too long to answer as Tsunade was about to call my name again. "He summoned the first and second hokages and used them to kill the third. The third gave up his life to seal Orochimaru's hands so he could never cast another jutsu. His death is what lead you to become the hokage." I had practically screamed by the time I was done. My hands had balled up to become fists. My fingers were digging into my palms enough to draw a little blood. These were no longer characters in a story to me they were family. Although I might not have known them long I depended on them for everything now.

"Calm down Tsunade." Jiraiya was trying to calm her down. This is why I didn't want to say anything. If I told her that he trampled all over their graves then I knew she would be mad. At least it might have her avoid thinking about how horrible of a place she was when Jiraiya found her. I decided to take my chance and retreat a bit to let Jiraiya handle her. I heard Tsunade call my name from behind me so I stopped and slowly turned around. "Thank you. I know you were just trying to protect me but it won't change anything I plan to do from now on so you don't have to worry."

I nodded and walked away again. I met Koko off to the side leaning against a pole waiting for me. She had her eyes closed with Zorua on the deck next to her. Tsuna was no longer around so I guess she was off goofing around somewhere else. Once I approached she opened her eyes. "Are you ready for today's training young master?" I nodded and that's how my day passed. At some point Jiraiya had left but he didn't even say goodbye. Tsunade said he had something important to do. I wonder if I can take him to some pervert's dream of another world I think that would be a great vacation. We could call it "secluded training" or something I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

Training that day was pretty uneventful since I'm just doing basic exercises to build my strength right now. Koko and I spent a day inside of the rift where we went into one of the other entrances, Hoppip Meadows. We saw a few interesting grass pokemon once we got through the endless meadows of splashing hoppips. Our pokemon got into a few battles which was pretty fun. Koko looked a little reluctant to let her pokemon battle but they were adamant about it. Zorua wasn't very happy that Growlithe was fighting more than it was. Eventually we let the two of them go at each other which satisfied the both of them. Looks like we have a rivalry brewing here.

At night I was using the information about the place to formulate a plan and to think of potential targets for our clan to catch. I was basically planning on writing my own version of a pokedex on paper. I tried documenting as much as I could using both my memories and what we learned about the village in the rift. I didn't have much else to do at night so this was a way to pass the time. I made a team with and without legendaries for myself since I wasn't sure they could be in there. No one had seen one in the dungeon. The Adventurers' club had a wall dedicated to pictures of pokemon captured inside of the dungeon and their locations. I thought it was pretty amazing when I saw it the first time. Most of the wall was filled but I recognized the numbers that we're missing. They were some of the second evolutions and legendaries. I didn't see Venusaur on the wall in the third spot or Charizard in the sixth. Once I get this information the way I want it I think I'll make a copy to give to Tsunade. That way she can use it to help others with what they would like as a partner.

Time passed quickly after that day and three months had passed. In that time I had completed a few new quests and finished up a few ones that had unlocked after I had woken up. Once Tsunade had taken me to explore around the village I had found over a dozen different rifts. Most of them I could recognize as light novels or anime but one was a chinese novel I had read, Tales of Demons and Gods. It was at the Yamanaka flower shop which kind of confused me since I thought it would be something else there. The rift at the academy was My Hero and the rift at the Ramen place Naruto liked was SAO. Dragonball was at the training field and Berserk was at the memorial for the third shinobi war. Highschool of the Dead was where Itachi and Kisame visited Konoha.

I found where I would bring the pervert which made me laugh. I think he'd really enjoy a trip there if we got along in the future. I only found it because Tsunade had taken Tsuna, Shizune and I to the hot springs. In the bushes outside of the fence I spotted someone doing research. I figured I'd mess with him by throwing him into the rift I saw nearby but when I read the name I decided it would have been a reward instead of a punishment. The prompt read [Would you like to travel to the town of Axel? Yes/No]. If that guy managed to find the succubus cafe there I'd never be able to drag him back to this world. So Instead I called the nearest Uchiha police officer and told them it was that guy right over there. I think that this isn't an uncommon thing for them since the guy looked at him and muttered "again?". I now had the most quests active that I've ever had. Finding all those rifts gave me a few new missions and some came with a mission to bring people into them. I had to be careful in doing so since I have to work on the assumption that they would be trapped if something happened to me.

I looked at the quest log to see

[Learn shadow clone jutsu before becoming a chunin Reward: Small increase in chakra Failure: Possible decrease of chakra. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Learn transformation jutsu Reward: Small increase of chakra Failure: Unable to graduate on time. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Learn a new wood style jutsu Reward: A medium increase in chakra Failure: none. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Create one jutsu. Reward: Various Failure: Possible damage to chakra system. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Create one water style jutsu. Reward: Varies Failure: Possible damage to chakra system. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Create one wood style jutsu. Reward: Varies Failure: Possible damage to chakra system. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Create one earth style jutsu. Reward: Varies Failure: Possible damage to chakra system. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Help Tsuna train her chakra control Reward: Tsuna's gratitude Failure: Unknown. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Teach Tsuna wood style jutsu Reward: Large increase of chakra for both parties Failure: Multiple injuries to one sibling. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Befriend one member of a clan's main branch (Five different clans required) Reward: More favorable impression from each clan. Failure: Future political problem. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Evolve two pokemon in the next year Reward: 5 great balls Failure: Unable to find rare pokemon for seven months. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Evolve 15 Pokemon in two years Reward: 3 Ultra Balls. 2 Stones of your choice Failure: ? Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[? Reward:? Failure: ? Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[? Reward: Hidden quests are now available Failure: ? Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Recruit one rift resident Reward: Vaires Failure: Possible closure of rift Do you accept? Yes/No?]

[Get married (Unlimited uses) Reward: Spouse is rewarded Failure: None. Do you accept? Yes/No?]

Yep, just going to gloss over those last few. I'm pretty sure that goddess just added that last one to watch me lose my head a bit. I want to ask but I don't at the same time. The thing about these quests is most of the time they don't influence me. They pop up once I had done something for instance if I learn a water jutsu I might get a quest to master it and rewarded for my effort. I had already planned on helping Tsuna learn whatever she wanted but those penalties shouldn't be ignored either. She has a lot more potential as a shinobi than I do. I'm sure in the future she will be the strongest of our clan. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm a guy Tsuna would most likely have been the clan head. I honestly wouldn't have a problem with it even if Tsunade decided that in the future.

Back to the quest at the end, I've never seen a quest pop up with such forward thinking. Sure I thought someday I might be married but I haven't thought about it yet. Actually scratch that my marriage will most likely be political so I may as well not think about this for the time being. This will be more of a headache for Tsunade than it will be for me.

The recruitment one makes it sound like I can take characters from a story back. How is that going to work? The goddess is hoping for that if she is the one suggesting that through the quests. I never thought about it since I didn't have any plans of visiting rifts anytime in the future. Most of the stories I know won't be that enjoyable for a kid to experience. Then there is the problem if I take someone from their world. Do they just disappear or do I get a copy of that person. Does their world readjust for the loss of that character? I didn't know how it would mess up their story so I haven't wanted to venture into another rift. I've already messed up this one so I'd feel pretty bad if I ruined another one. I wonder if the other people she choose are in similar situations to me.

A lot of commotion coming from the main entrance of the compound. It threw me out of the thinking I was doing so I got up from my bed. Thinking about all this wasn't going to do much to help me so I decided to get up and play with Tsuna. If she's in the mood I could probably get a quest or two out of the way too. Opening her door I saw my cousin playing with some stuffed animals. She looked so happy sitting there playing that I was hesitant to interrupt her. Her auburn eyes meet mine and she immediately stopped what she was doing. She ran over to her door and hugged me. I put my hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "Calm down Tsuna. There's no need to crush me each time you hug me."

She let out a cute giggle as she looked up at me with a cute smile. "Did you come to play with me?"

"I did." I sat down next to her showing some interest in what she's doing. She told me about her elaborate ninja fight that she was orchestrating. It didn't make any sense to me but I tried my best to understand. I watched her play for a few minutes before I started to get a headache. It's not that I didn't like spending time with her but I couldn't keep up with her imagination. I used opening the window as an excuse to take a break hoping my head would calm down. On the other side of the window was a man in an ANBU mask. What the hell?

All it took was that split second thought before a sword was stabbed into my chest. I moved at the last second to prevent it from piercing my heart. Blood rapidly started to fall from the wound. I wanted to use a wood style jutsu to fight back but I was tossed aside before I could do anything. The ANBU masked man came into the room and grabbed Tsuna. He left as quickly as he had came. The only thing left in the room was a sword and myself. I didn't take the sword out since I would just bleed out. I didn't know the first thing about medical ninjutsu so I was going to have to find help.

It took me everything just to get up and head to the door. I couldn't move anymore and it felt like my body had shut down. I felt so weak so with my last bit of strength I thought to try and seal the bleeding with a wood style jutsu. I'm still not very good with this but if I can just plug the space around the sword maybe it can help. I fell back against the wall. It hurt like hell and I didn't want to die again. How can life be so shitty? I figured I'd leave a message for whoever found me in blood. Tsuna Pig AN… was all I could write before everything went dark.