Ninja Day Care

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I hope that you all enjoy this chapter.

Team Awesome: Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara, Kisame, Itachi, Suigetsu, and Hidan.

Team Best: Deidara, Jugo, Konan, Pain, Kakuzu, Zetsu, and Sai

Cool Team: Obito, Sakura, Kiba, Karin, Temari, Shikamaru, Ino, and Mirai.

Dream Team: Hinata, Shino, Choji, Lee, Neji, Tenten, and Kankuro.

Chapter 14

The next day, Itachi watches his "classmates" with wary eyes. He supposed that was the most accurate term to address them by. That or comrades. After all, they had defeated the Sound Ninja together.

"Itachi, don't worry." Sasuke smiles at him reassuringly. "We'll figure this out and we'll make Danzo pay for what he did to our family."

The elder Uchiha Brother could only nod at that. He didn't want to spoil the other boy's delusion. The delusion that everything would always work out and that happy endings were a given.

Sasuke was young enough, that he was allowed to have such fantasies. Hell, they should be encouraged really. Not Itachi though. He was now old enough in this body to begin breaking away from the fairytale mindset.

Speaking of tails, it looked Kisame was making his way over to them. "Alright. I've convened the War Council." He grins at him. "So come on, Gorgeous. You can tell us what the heck is going on. No more cloak and dagger stuff!"

Itachi really didn't know why he and Sasuke were forever doomed to be called beautiful or some variation of that. Obito never was. If anyone commented on his looks, it was mostly to call him cute. Which had a slightly more masculine connotation at least!

Whatever. That wasn't his chief concern now. His chief concern was the War Council!

"Thank you, Kisame." He smiles at the other boy and kisses his cheek. "We really do appreciate it." He was very mindful of the gills, of course.

Kisame was quite the unique individual. Half the time, Itachi expected him to sprout a tail like a merman and swim off somewhere. The other half of the time, he was trying to convince Kisame that despite his luxurious raven locks and long eyelashes, he was very much not a girl!

Not that there was anything wrong with that, of course. Being a girl was okay, but he was a boy damn it! And he deserved to be treated that way!

Elsewhere Kakashi sighs as he rereads that last line for what seemed like the hundredth time. Not even his favorite book could fully distract him from what had happened earlier that day and sleep held no sway over him.

"Not again." He shakes his head.

Why did it seem that Fate had it out for the Uchiha Clan and all those children? Now, Naruto was utterly terrified and it was more likely than not that the Uchihas were as well.

That and what was he supposed to do about Obito? Obito didn't seem to remember anything, but that might not be the case for long. What if their memories returned when they changed back?

"Ibiki believes that they'll change back soon, but he doesn't know about their memories." And that was frankly disturbing.

Ibiki strolled into the Academy, just after the children had been put down for a nap. The grim expression on his face told Kakashi that the man probably didn't come baring good news. Still, he would gladly accept whatever news the man did bring them.

Anything was better than waiting. Waiting was the hardest part. Not knowing what was going to happen to these kids and feeling absolutely helpless.

"The good news is that they'll likely turn back in one day, if we're lucky." He shakes his head and sighed. "Three if we aren't. Of course, that's assuming the bastard is telling truth."

Guy looked at their colleague seriously. "Do you have reason to suspect that he wasn't?" Other than he was a criminal who had tried to take over the world, Kakashi mused to himself? "You probed his mind. Didn't you?"

Tsunade sighed and gestured for Ibiki to continue. Like Kakashi, it seemed that she was quite eager to get on with the business of fixing all this!

"I did a mind probe, yes." Several most likely, the CopyCat Ninja mentally corrected the interrogator. "It's rare, but someone with great skill could have outmaneuvered me. I believe the information to be accurate though."

Kurenai nodded in understanding. "When they change back, will they have the memories of their previous adulthood?" Well adulthood might have been stretching it a bit in some cases, but the silver haired ninja digressed. Her basic point was sound.

Ibiki shook his head and looked more than a little guilty. "I'm afraid that I don't know the answer to that question." Damn it! "It seemed Saiden didn't even know."

Iruka blinked and looked more than a little panicked. Not that Kakashi could blame them. Ibiki had just given them ample reason to do so.

"We have several members of the Akatsuki here!" He flailed in outrage. "If they get their memories back, this won't end well."

That wasn't the only reason to panic though. Kakashi knew an even better one. The Uchihas.

"Why can't anything ever be easy?" The CopyCat Ninja sighs to himself.

Neji's eyes the other children who had gathered around in a very large circle warily. "Stick closely to me, Tenten." He didn't know what he would do, if anything were to happen to his friend.

"Alright." The brunette smiles at him reassuringly. "I will. Don't worry."

She really did have a pretty smile, but that was besides the point. Fate could be a cruel mistress sometimes. That was why Neji was always on guard about such things!

Perhaps not surprisingly, Sakura was one of the first children to speak. "Alright. So what's going on?" She looks around curiously. "Who called the meeting and why?"

"Yeah!" Ino nods her head in agreement. "Billboard Brow is right. We've all got a right to know what is going on?!"

Shikamaru shakes his head in annoyance. Girls could be such a drag sometimes. Why were they always so loud and fighting about everything? Well except maybe, Temari and even then that was a fifty/fifty situation!

"WHAT'D YOU CALL ME, INO PIG?!" Sakura snarls at the other girl.

Lee blinks and immediately gets between his Sakura Blossom and the other girl. This could get ugly and fast. Obviously, it was up to him to make sure that it didn't.

"Ino, that was not very youthful to make fun of the most beautiful girl in the whole world!" He beams at the pink haired girl. "And Sakura, that was not very youthful to make fun of Ino!"

Gaara shakes his head. "Sand Coffin!" To everyone's horror the sand starts to go after Lee.

"Gaara, what are you doing!" Hinata pleads with him. "Please stop!"

The red head looks at her in confusion. He really didn't get why his princess was defending that clearly very stupid boy? It wasn't bad enough that he had blindingly white teeth, bushy brows, a loud mouth, and wore spandex? Now, he was trying to pretend that his princess wasn't the most beautiful girl in the world?!

He looks at Hinata in confusion. "It would upset you, if I was to kill him?" The red head simply didn't understand that at all.

Hinata blinks and nods quickly. Yes, yes it would upset her a great deal. She didn't understand why violence was usually Gaara's first impulse, if it didn't have to do with her. Still, she knew deep down that he had a good heart and that was what she was going to show everyone.

"Yes, it would upset me." She nods again.

Gaara rolls his eyes at a flailing Lee and releases him. "Alright, but clearly he is either stupid or needs his eyes checked." He smiles at Hinata. "You're the most beautiful girl in the world. Not the bubblegum head!"

"WHAT'D YOU SAY?!" Karin demands as she glares at Gaara. "I'm clearly, the most beautiful girl!"

Konan raises an eyebrow. Honestly, she was surrounded by very dumb children. This was such a silly thing to fight about.

The answer was obvious, anyway. "I'm the most beautiful girl in the world." She smiles and gestures to Pain. "Don't you think so Pain?"

Pain smiles at his best friend and nods pleasantly. "Yes, I quite agree." He glares at everyone else. "And anyone who disagrees shall know Pain!"

Sai looks around in confusion. He didn't understand why everyone was fighting about this. The answer was clear as day, anyway.

"Well I am an artist and I believe that means my opinion carries more weight." He smiles cheerfully. "And I believe Ino is the prettiest."

Shikamaru yawns loudly as he shakes his head. "It's a drag that I even have to weigh in on this, but Temari is obviously the best looking." This of course, draws a smile from the feisty blonde girl and the lazy boy considered that a job well done!

"Yeah!" Temari grins. "He's totally right about that!"

Hidan rolls his eyes and smashes his fist on the ground. "Listen up you Losers, we've got something more important to focus on!" He'd had it up to hear with hearing everyone fight over who was the prettiest girl. "You're all being stupid! So whoever called this meeting, can you shut them up?!"

Gaara nods in agreement as his sand whirls around the War Council, making sure the adults wouldn't be able to stumble on them. After all, that would negate the entire point.

"He's right." The red head smiles. "Besides, Mr. Squishy agrees with me that Hinata is the prettiest, so that settles that, anyway!"

Meanwhile Tsunade sighs as she goes to check on the children. After everything that had happened recently, she didn't feel safe letting them out of her sight for even a moment. So that was the reason why she was sneaking around the Academy in the dead of night. Someone had to do it.

"Hmm." It looks like they're still asleep.

That was a good sigh. Maybe, things would finally go back to normal soon. The children were supposed to transform back soon and if that happened, well she was sure they'd all be alerted immediately.

She rubs her temples just thinking about it. "That's a migraine waiting to happen, but at least we'll have the element of surprise on them." If worse came to worst, they could just dart them.

Little did Tsunade know that those bumps underneath the sleeping bags, weren't actually the children. The child geniuses had all gotten together and stolen some pumpkins from a nearby field.

They had swiftly put the pumpkins underneath the blankets where their heads would be. "I'm really glad that I never became a mother." She shakes her head and sighs. "If this is what it was like, it's positively exhausting and I have no idea how anyone could do it for years at a time!"

She had only been at this a few days. This was insanity. "Then again, it's not as if these are ordinary children." Maybe, that was why.

Perhaps, it wouldn't have been so bad, if she didn't know that at least nine of these children were going to grow up to become deadly criminals in the Akatsuki. Oh and four more would be members of Taka! And that was before she even factored in that two of them had possessed a Tailed Beast.

"Maybe, I should get another drink." Yes, that sounded like a good idea!

Back at the War Council, Shino had decided he'd had quiet enough of this foolish nonsense. So he had his insects swarm everyone until they settled down. It had been getting pretty ridiculous to say the least!

"There." He sighs heavily. "Now, that everyone is quiet…will someone please tell everyone what is going on?"

Kiba blinks at all the insects which were now disappearing. Shino could be pretty scary sometimes. One minute, he was all quiet and the next minute he was sicking a hive of bees at you or something!

"No idea, but the whole bug thing is getting pretty creepy." He clings to Akamaru, who barks in agreement.

Shino twitches. "I can send some fire ants down your pants, if you don't leave me alone!" Gggrr. DogBoy really annoyed him.

Zetsu blinks at all this. Things were rapidly getting out of hand. Perhaps, it was time to step in?

"Everyone stop fighting." He smiles. "We're all friends here. There's no need to fight."

"QUIET FLOWERBOY!" Kiba and Shino both hiss at him.

Upon being called Flowerboy again, Zetsu sighs and an anime cloud of gloom hangs over his head. Not again! Why did everyone call him that?!

Itachi shakes his head. Well he supposed it was now or never. Things were starting to get more and wild.

"It seems that when we were transformed into children, our memories were lost to us." Itachi sighs and continues on. "It's uncertain if this is a permanent or temporary situation, but we've discovered something very important that may be of interest to all of you." He gestures towards his family members and Naruto to explain who we was in this context.

Naruto nods energetically. "Itachi is right!" The blonde flails around in a rather energetic fashion. "There's a new bad guy out there! His name is Danzo and he had the other Uchihas killed!"

It was probably best to leave out the part where Itachi was the killer, he decides. Naruto might not have been a prodigy, but well that just seemed like the smart thing to do to him. Mostly because he didn't want to get Sasuke's brother in trouble!

There were gasps heard from the other children and it wasn't hard to figure out why, Jugo determines. They were all shocked that someone had wiped out nearly an entire Clan. That was genocide (and genocide was very, very bad)!

"Well that's just not cool!" Deidara's eyes narrow. "Killing our friends' family is not cool!" He flails dramatically. "We should show them how much of an explosion art is and teach them a lesson!"

"YEAH!" A chorus of yeahs is heard and Deidara grins.

He knew that eventually, everyone would catch onto his way of seeing things. It was wonderful that that they were all beginning to appreciate his style of art and manner of speaking!

Kakuzu nods in approval at this. "Yeah. We should kick their butts." He pauses and adds as an afterthought. "If they could do this to one family, they could do it to any of us!"

Meanwhile Saiden was panting. He was half mad, tormented by horrifying images. He was only barely aware of someone coming into his room.

He was too far gone too care though. "Eh, he's a mad dog." A member of ROOT glances at the pitiful excuse for a ninja.

"Yeah. Best to put him out of his misery." A second ninja nods in agreement.

So that's precisely what they did. Almost before he knew what was happening, Saiden felt himself picked up by one of the ninjas. He was still chained to the wall, so it wasn't as though he could escape.

"NOOO!" His senses return to him just enough to realize what was going on. "You can't kill me! I'm leading a glorious revolution in Lord Orochimaru's name!"

The idea that he could die was just unfathomable. There had to be a way to escape this mess with his life. Perhaps, he could offer them posts after the Leaf Village was overthrown?

"Sorry about that, pal." The first smirks. "Not every revolution is successful and think of it this way, you're now a martyr for Lord Orochimaru." And before he could issue a retort, the second slashed his throat.

"Hey!" The Nira protests.

Nira was the first ninja who had entered the room. Not only had Tai spoiled his fun, he had also thrown away the chance to get more information out of the idiot!

Tai merely rolls his eyes in response. "You were dragging it out too much." He mutters in disgust. "Lord Danzo said to kill him. Not to humor his delusions of grandeur." He smirks at the pouting ninja. "So let's go." And with that, the two men Flickered off…leaving Saiden's bloody corpse behind for someone to find in the morning.

"That's true." Kankuro observes back at the War Council. "This guy sounds like very bad news!"

If the guy was capable of killing an entire family, Danzo was capable of doing anything. And he damn sure wasn't going to let anyone hurt his family!

Sure, Temari was bossy and Gaara was scary, but they were still his brother and sister! That meant something!

Choji nods in agreement as he munches on some chips. This guy sounded even worse than the Sound Ninjas and those guys had been awful. So that meant they'd have to deal with him.

"Well if we can beat up a whole village, one guy shouldn't be too hard." He looks around. "What do you guys think?" Though obviously, the more of them that ganged up on this evil person, the better their chances of success would be!

Was it possible that battles were like potato chips? Was it impossible to have just one? Hmm. That was an interesting thought.

He'd have to ponder it more later. Maybe, he should ask his parents about that later! When they were back to normal!

"I think that we should kick some butt!" Suigetsu grins merrily. "I'm more than willing to serve in the Explosive Division again!"

There were echoes of agreement from everyone. Obito couldn't help, but smile at that fact. It seemed that their friends were more than willing to come to their aid. Now, they just had to use that to their advantage.

"Good. Then it's decided." Obito smiles more. "We'll kill Danzo!"

Tenten looks at Obito. There was really just one big problem in her mind. Well actually, two.

"Um do we know where Danzo is and how we're going to sneak by the Senseis again?" She rubs the back of her head sheepishly.

Obito deflates a little bit at that and shakes his head. "Well no." Not yet, anyway.

Gaara smiles and walks over to Hinata. "It seems that we're going to be fighting again." He hands his most prized possession. "So I want you to take Mr. Squishy." His teddy bear. "He will protect you. He's a good luck charm and very soft too!"

Hinata smiles and takes Mr. Squishy. "Thank you, Gaara." She then tilts her head to the side. "Though shouldn't you be focusing on helping us win the fight more?"

He shakes his head. His princess came first. Everything else came second!

"I will." He looks at them. "I'll have the sand break open the windows and we can get out that way."

Naruto blinks at that idea. "Won't they hear the windows breaking though?" That seemed like a plan that might not end well.

Sasuke also blinks. Holy smokes! It was a miracle! His lovable dumb blonde had actually had an intelligent thought!

He couldn't help it, he glomps the other boy. "Loser, that's the smartest thing that I've ever heard you say." He grins at him. "I'm proud of you!"

Naruto blushes. His Bastard was actually proud of him! That made him really happy!

So he did what most people did when they were happy. He kisses Sasuke's cheek and suddenly there was a loud thud! Oh. Apparently, it wasn't only girls that had that power.

"The Kiss Knockout Jutsu strikes again." Kisame laughs and looks at Itachi. "Do you think that it would work on you?"

Itachi shakes his head and sighs. Honestly, why was everyone so obsessed with kissing? Didn't they have more important matters to focus on?!

"I keep telling everyone that is a very powerful Jutsu." Gaara nods sagely.

Lee bounds over to the red head. Apparently, he had already forgotten that Gaara had tried to kill him. Mostly because he was on a mission for his precious Cherry Blossom!

"How do you defeat the Jutsu?!" He poses heroically. "I must do it for my Cherry Blossom!"

"Sand gag." Gaara rolls his eyes as he gags the other child again.

Konan shakes her head. Well at least the Sand Villagers knew how to use their talents wisely. She had to give them that. Still, that didn't answer Naruto's very good questions.

"Does anyone actually have a plan to deal with the fact that if Gaara shatters the windows, the adults will come running?" A plan seemed a bit necessary once that factor was considered.

"I could put chakra earplugs in them." Jugo suggests merrily.

Sai blinks at that as he considers it. "Well if you think you could sneak into that many rooms without getting caught, that seems like a good idea." Though the artist wasn't sure how he would ever manage that.

"We'll just have to divide up the task." Obito shakes his head. "Send our sneakiest people. Itachi, Konan, Temari, Shino, and Neji will probably work." He pauses as he does the math. "We need Kakashi, Guy, Tsunade, Iruka, and Kurena all taken care of. So that's five kids for five adults." Obito finishes, feeling enormously pleased with himself.

Suigetsu nods. Yeah. That seemed like a good idea. He would have liked to go on this high profile mission, but he just wasn't sneaky enough. He preferred being more direct, really!

"Alright. Well we've got that straightened out." There was just one other problem. "How are we going to find this Danzo guy though?"

Shikamaru yawns and stretches. "What a drag. We'll need to do some scouting." This was going to be really troublesome! "Jugo and Itachi can send their birds. Sai can send some paintings. Gaara can do his sand eye and Shino can send his insects." He pauses and adds. "And we also have two Byakugan Users who will come in handy at a time like this!"

Temari squeals and glomps him. "You're so smart!" And women were weird!

He never would have pictured Temari as the glomping type, but apparently she was. Shikamaru wasn't even ten yet, but he doubted that he would ever understand girls if he lived to be a hundred!

"Um thanks." The lazy ninja shakes his head. "So let's do this?" He places his hand in the center of the War Council's circle.

Soon enough, everyone places their hand either on top of his or on top of someone else's. "YEAH!" There was a chorus of agreement and with that, Shikamaru supposed the matter was settled.

It was going to be a drag, but they were going to kill Danzo. It was really the only way to keep everyone safe. It had to be done.

"Ewe!" Sakura makes a face. "Gross! I felt a mouth against my hand!"

Deidara laughs loudly. "Sorry! Yeah?" He grins and shows his hands. "I've always had them!" And with that, Lee punches the blonde to protect his Cherry Blossom!

"That wasn't very youthful!" He twitches as he makes his way over to Sakura. "Are you alright, My Love?" Hearts and sparkles appear in his eyes as he approaches her.

"Yes, I'm fine." Sakura smiles. "Thank you, for protecting me."

Itachi just smacks his forehead. Oh boy. This was going to be one very long mission! These people couldn't focus on anything other than fighting and kissing!