"Naruto please wait after class," Iruka said to Naruto as he read something someone had brought to him
As the bell rang Naruto approached Iruka who just took his hand and jumped out of the window, Naruto didn't know what was going on especially considering that he recognized some of the buildings they were passing.
This was the way that lead him back to the orphanage, Naruto could feel his chest tightening and as he felt the fear inside him growing he soon found himself growing curious when he noticed the number of children standing outside of the orphanage.
'What's going on?' he asked Iruka who landed next t the group of children
"The Senju clan is taking you as well as the rest of these children in" Iruka answered him with a calm yet warm voice.
"But my things" Naruto began to protest only for Iruka to stop him
"Your things will be taken to the Senju territory soon enough" Iruka answered him before patting him on the head and leaping away.
Naruto wanted to cry as he felt everyone's eyes on him, some of the children were afraid of him, but the majority didn't seem to care about him.
"Come along," an Uchia said to the children and Naruto waited for everyone to leave before he followed behind them.
As they reached the Senju territory Naruto had to admit he was tempted to run away and hide, he was afraid that he would be treated like he always was, as an outsider that didn't belong.
Yet as he reached the Senju territory he found himself looking at something that shouldn't have been real.
adults were waiting at the entrance.
Even before the children had fully arrived the adults had started to separate the ones they liked from the rest, Naruto watched as siblings were adopted together and he watched as the size of the crowd he had arrived with got smaller and smaller until only he and a small group of children remained.
This was exactly like the times before, he had been ignored, he wanted to cry but he knew it was pointless for him to cry so he struggled to hold his tears in.
By now school was over and judging by the fact that Hinata- and the Whitejaws were approaching it just meant that he would soon be sent back to his apartment.
'What's this?" David asked one of the guards
"These are the children we couldn't find homes for" the guard answers David
"Okay then, everyone congratulations you're all coming home with me," David says to everyone and for a moment Naruto cant believe what he's hearing.
He blinked once, then twice before turning to look at the children next to him, who all looked at him with a combination of tears and smiles on their faces.
"Hey, can you guys do me a favor?" David said to the guards who immediately kneel to listen to the Senju clan heads request
'Can you go to the shop that made our coats and make an order for me, tell them I need two sets of the same uniforms we are wearing for everyone that came and if I can pay for it in the long run" he said to the guards who vanished the moment David stopped talking.
'Waite" Naruto said to David who looked at him
'Why?" he asks David
'Because your a member of my clan' David answers him
'No I mean, we never met and none of us had anything to do with you before" Naruto says to David who just walks up to him and pats his head
"Because your a member of my clan," David says to him before walking past him and the rest of the children
"My house is big, so all of you will have plenty of room to play in"
"Mark and I are usually working so unless you guys tell us things we won't know about it until we see it," David says to them as he leads the way to his house.
"Mr. Senju," a girl says to David causing him to stop walking
"Yeah," David says to her as he walks up to her
"But we're monsters," the girl says to David and Naruto quickly notices the girls green skin and the fact that she seems to be hunched over
He watches as David smiles at the girl and his elemental manifest behind him
'Good loo around you, we're all monsters, so go ahead and be monsters here" David says to her as the fire beginning to imitate him
'Stop that!" David yells at the fire spirit who waves its finger at David
This caused everyone to start laughing as both Ana and Mark had their elementals walking next to them now.
Naruto felt his eyes widen as they arrived at a huge mansion
"Okay everyone line up so I can explain the rules," David says to everyone ad they all do as he says
"Rule number one, call me David, not Senju, and if you have to call me that, do it when someone from outside is visiting"
"Rule number two if any of you have any dangerous abilities tell me now, so you can sleep with me, and your abilities don't destroy the house," David says to everyone and two children raise their hands
Naruto hesitated for a moment but he honestly didn't want to be kicked out for staying quiet.
"Okay that's four of you"
'Mark" Okay you and you, you're staying in my room and the other two you can sleep in Davids's room," Mark says to everyone that raised their hands.
"Finally everyone here carries their weight, so look for something you can help with other than that, let's eat something," David says to them as he opens the mansion doors revealing a building that seems bigger on the inside.
Everyone was about to enter the building when four figures jump out and tackle David- Ana and Mark along with Hinata to the ground
"Heku- Mini- Sonia- Maria!' all four of them said with smiles on their faces as a man Naruto has never seen before walks out along with a girl that's not that much older than he is.
Naruto and the rest of the kids with him watched the elementals stood between them and the strangers.
'he watched as David- Mark and Ana turned to look at the elementals that stood next to the other white jaws who were wearing the same uniforms the three of them did.
"What do you mean you made her younger?" David asked the elementals
Naruto watched as all of the elementals began to grow before puffing up their chests proudly, it was as if they had told Daviddwhat they had done and were proud of their actions.
"Turn her back!" David says to the elementals who immediately deflated
Naruto couldn't help but think about how weird it was seeing the elementals disinflated before turning to the girl before walking around her and making her older.
"So what brings you guys back?" Mark asked the stranges as they helped each other to their feet.
"We heard about everything you have been doing here," Jiraiya says to Mark, and immediately Flare splits himself into two before he stands between Mark and Jiraiya
Mark didn't answer the white-haired man he just look at him before turning to look at Ana and David.
"Ana can you show everyone around please, it looks like this is work," Mark says to Ana who immediately stopped smiling but quickly regains her smile as she looks around
"Come on," she says to everyone and they all follow her.
"Well let's hear it," Mark says to the two
"We know about your alliance with the Uchiha clan and even if we didn't, it's hard to not notice how nearly everyone living here s a member of their clan," Tsunade says to David as Tonton runs to her side
"Not only that but you elementals have caught the eyes of other villages and they might, no they will start targeting you for the secret to controlling them," Jiraiya says to them
"So what I'm hearing is that you want to take control of this place again," David says to Tsunade before smiling and walking u to her and patting her on the back
"Okay officially I hand all control of this place back t you, and we're getting a divorce"
"Mark I'm a free man again!" David says to Mark who just smiles at his friend's words
'That's not what I'm saying!" Tsunade says to David
"What don't tell me that you do want to be married to me, you know I'm eleven now and I'll be a teenager soon," David says to Tsunade who in turn just gives him a cold look
"What you're a woman and my wife why wouldn't I want to do what adults do," David says to Tsunade who can barely contain her anger after hearing his words.
"Take this seriously!" Tsunade angrily says to David
'We are, we aren't you" Mark answers her
"Look around you, we don't know what happened to your clan but this place was nothing but ruins when we arrived"
"As for why the Uchiha are here, in exchange for helping us repair everything they got to live here"
'Tell me how many people are willing to work without getting paid?" Mark said to Tsuanade his words held more anger than David thought possible
"The two of you show up, force our friends to leave, force David into a marriage that he didn't want, and forced him to live in a place filled with ruins"
"Now that things are starting to get better you have the balls to show up and tell us that you don't like what we're doing," Mark says to Jiraiya and Tsunade as Flare begins to grow around him
As David looked at Mark he felt split in two, on one side the adult that he once was wanted to keep Mark away from any danger, but the boy that he is now felt nothing but pride at knowing Mark was on his side.
"mark relax, since they're here we get to leave everything to them," David says to Mark before turning his back to Jiraiya and Tsunade.
There are a bunch of papers that need to be looked into" he says to them as both he and Mark walk inside
Jiraiya and Tsunade walk into the room one of the guards showed them to and were led to a stack of papers that were on the floor, Tsunade was led to one, and Jiraiya was led to another.
"What!?" Tsunade screamed as she looked at the bills that were staked on top of each other from all of the debts she had acquired over the years
Jiraiya on the other hand was growing more and more concerned about what he was finding.
"Hey look at this," he says to Tsunade as he placed one paper after another on the floor next to him.
As Tsunade looked at the papers Jiraiya placed on the floor she couldn't help but feel herself becoming angrier and angrier as she read.
Her family fortune had been disappearing while she was gone, meaning that someone in the council had been stealing from her.
Yet one small stack of papers only led to another that made her stomach turn, it was a list of missing children, half were children that were living on the streets, the other half were children that vanished from the orphanage and a few were ninjas that mysteriously vanished in one mission or another.
Some papers detailed the mixing of the Uchiha clan with the Senju clan, to help bring the Uchiha closer to the people of the leaf they would be allowed to live in the Senju clan's territory and move to the area where they had been forcefully relocated freely.
the same paper detailed how the Hyouga clan would be offered the same option so that their lower classes wouldn't have to obey their clan heads without options.
Tsunade and Jiraiya didn't doubt that the boys had been looking for a way of removing the caged bird seal from those that wished to live in this part of the village.
Tsunade returned to her stack of papers and began to look for anything that might catch her eye and she soon found red circles marking several purchases that she obviously hadn't done.
there were poisons, ninjas hired from outside of the village, and even a couple of parties she had never attended.
The only reason these had been circled was that they didn't match her usual spending habits.