Mikoto stood in front of the Senju Clan's main house, had this been any other clan and any other place in the village she couldn't have just walked in and made it this far, but all around her were her people and the owner of the house and his subordinates were her students.

She had to admit that all of this made anyone that looked at David wonder if her clan had planned to control David long before his marriage to Tsunade.

To her surprise, it was David who answered the door, the boy had put n quite a bit of muscle, she was about to say something when Mark walked out, both boys smiled at her and signaled to her to come inside.

They were like brothers, both boys have light brown skin that loses it's pigment when they stay inside for too long, both boys eyes were a dark brown that borders on being completely black.

She immediately notices that the atmosphere in the main house has changed and long gone was the nearly overwhelming silence and unwelcomed solitude.

Both of the boy's eyes have regained the life that they lost and Mikoto can't help but let a small smile slip as she sees Ana walk into the hallway and bow to her as she opens the room for her to walk in.

She hasn't seen her former student since that day, the girl's light brown eyes hold a hint of sadness in them as Mikoto looks into them.

"It's good to see you again," Mikoto says to Ana who gives her a bright smile that lights up the entire room.

Mikoto has to admit that the girl despite her young age is becoming quite the beauty, her thin figure, red hair, and light skin all join together and grant the girl an unnatural beauty, that's almost breathtaking.

"So what brings you here Mikoto, today is our day off, or do you have some special training" Mark began t ask her when they heard a knock on the front door.

Mikoto listened to someone walk down the hallway and open the front door, her suspicions had been confirmed someone else was living with the boys, most likely it would be their parents, but Ana being here means that her family was here as well.

None of them said anything as they listened to a group of people walk down the hall and towards their room, as the door opens, Mikoto immediately notices Ana's and mark's irritated expression.

Hana stood at the entrance alongside both Hinata and Hanabi who she carried in her arms.

She turns to look at David, his expression wasn't clear, for a brief moment Mikoto swore she saw so much pain inside David's eyes, but just as briefly as it had shown up, it had vanished.

"Come on in," David says to the three of them and all three visitors sit next to Mikoto.

"So what's with the occasion?" David asks the four of them

"We came to see how the three of you were doing" Hana answers David before Mark suddenly stands up and leaves the room.

"...We are doing better than before, we could have used your help" David answers Hana, but as Hana was about to answer David, the boy stopped her from saying anything.

"We never bothered to ask you for help, Fugaku explained tome that you couldn't do anything even if you wanted to because we never asked you for help," David says to Hana, recognizing his error in judgment

Mikoto watches as the boy gives Hana and Hinata a smile even as tears fall from his eyes.

"So hey Hinata, long time no see, so did Neji come with you, or is he training?" David says to Hinata who just lowered her head.

"It's okay, I understand," David says to Hinata before Hana answers him.

"Neji couldn't come with us, because we are both clan heads and he is from a branch family, he will come on his own later"

"I'm sorry Mikoto I completely ignored you, so what brings you here?" David asks Mikoto and Mikoto wastes no time in handing David an envelop containing her son's plan.

"Your clan needs to grow, Itachi has made up a plan to help you grow it."

"Right now your clan only consists of three people, the people inside your territory are people from my clan and eventually they will return to my territory."

"I'm sorry David, I know it's still too much fr you to think about, if not now, later when you're older," Mikoto says to David before excusing herself and saying goodbye to Hana and her two daughters.

A heavy silence settled inside the room and Hana looks at the boy who stayed at her house, he had changed a lot, he was broken but was getting better, which meant he was perfect for what she needed him.

"David, I'm sorry for not visiting or helping you during this time."

"What I'm trying to say is please allow Hinata to stay with you and help you," Hana says to David, she hadn't even finished talking when Mark violently opened the door

Hana looks into Marks's eyes, the boy's eyes were glowing she could swear she was looking at the boy's elemental instead of the boys.

"Sure but it's going to be hard for us to act like we did before" David answers Hana.

Hana immediately walks out of the room and two maids and three guards enter the room, they were accompanied by the four men that acted as David's guards when he and his friends had gone to pick up their elementals.

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Tsunade watched all of this happen, it was more than obvious to her that both the Uchiha and the Hyūga clan were attempting to manipulate the boy.

She didn't like it, but she needed to return to the Hidden Leafe Village, she turned to look at her three pupils, the girls still resented her for destroying their room, so seeing their old friends might help them trust her a bit more.

"Okay, I have news for you three. If you promise not to try and run away again, we can go back and see your friends again" Tsunade says to the three girls who look at each other and immediately smile at her.

In all honesty, Tsunade didn't want to go back, but all this tie the girls both hated and resented her, they had run away from her during the first few days they had spent together.

She had kept watch over the girls during the entire time and watched them as they wrote on cardboard to make themselves a makeshift house.

The girls were experienced in living on the streets and so they found ways to either get money or find food. They ate anything they found and even if something was rotten it wasn't off the table if they were hungry enough.

The girls could even defend themselves using a combination of strange seals and a basic Uchiha fighting style along with a kind of variation of the Hyūga clans fighting stile.

The only reason the girls were even with her at the moment was simply that she told them that the only reason she had gone to get them, was because of the clans they belonged to and that people were planning to do to them horrible things to get to both their clan's influence and secrets.

She also revealed to them that David had sacrificed himself for them to be safe.

The girls still hated her, and if Tsunade was honest she wasn't very fond of them either, but at least they tolerated each other now.

She even trained the girls in controlling their chakra, but whenever the girls felt overwhelmed they all had panic attacks leading to two of them losing control of their chains, and one of them losing control of her elemental, who wouldn't let anyone get close to the girls and tried to keep them safe.