"Trying to escape, now, huh?" The black-haired girl said, her eyes burning with an intense red color and a black pattern on it.
On the floor, a man was crawling, trying to escape with whatever strength he had left. But it wasn't an easy task, specially with the absence of his legs. His fingers, now bleeding from the desperate attempts to crawl as far away from the kunoichi as possible, started to give in.
The girl took her blade, tired of what she was seeing. She calmly walked until she was next to the man, who gave up when he saw how easily she reached him. And then, she stabbed his skull with the blade, instantly killing him.
She left the blade in his skull and turned around to go back from where she came. She walked past several huts and houses, but also past a bunch of corpses that were laying all around the town.
At the gates of said town, a couple of leaf-nin were waiting for her. And by the time she got to them, her eyes were already back to their normal black color.
"Welp, no answers I guess." One of them, a boy of slightly long, brown hair, said as he stood up.
"How can you just not react to what just happened?" The other shinobi, a green-haired girl of very pale skin, replied. They'd just witnessed a massacre, but her friend just acted as if nothing had happened at all.
The black-haired girl, who wore a green vest over her red sleeveless shirt, stared at the two as they discussed, unwilling to say anything.
"Do you really expect me to acknowledge something like that after Niwata's death?"
"When will you let him go?" She asked, her voice denoting certain annoyance.
"It's not even about that."
Sarada finally decided to step up. They were her students, and so it was better to keep things cool, especially during a mission. Personally, she never expected having students at such a young age, and especially she didn't expect her students to be just 2 years younger than her.
"Enough already, we've got to keep going." She smiled as she got a couple of nods in response, and then beckoned them to move forward.
They were her students, but she normally didn't see her. Often, their missions would be done by themselves or accompanied by a chunin. This was because she had other duties with her husband, the Seventh Hokage, apart from being a jounin. And the priority was always the Hokage. However, since the third student died, things had changed.
Niwata's death made her get closer to them and also she made the decision to not let them go on missions without her. This was supported by the Seventh, who also made sure to make the prohibition formal.
For now, however, she would be inactive in the next coming months, since she recently found out of her second pregnancy. And of course she had to make a plan for her students, so she decided to maybe let them have occasional trainings with the Seventh, since he told his wife about that possibility.
Back in Konoha, the Seventh had been busy in the past days. His hair was starting to fall, and for such he had to ask Shizune about Tsunade's techniques and jutsu to look younger. He didn't really want to go bald, so it was better for him to use jutsu to keep his image. And anyways, he was supposed to meet Shizune that day to get deal with Sasuke's eyes.
So when he finished that day's paperwork, which wasn't much, he left for the hospital to meet the once apprentice of the Fifth Hokage. The medical shinobi greeted them as they moved from one hallway to the next one, from the first floor to the last, until they arrived at the special room of the Hokage.
There, the Seventh asked the black-haired woman about her mentor's methods, and she explained a bit before starting the operation.
She wasn't sure of exactly why the blonde man wanted to implant Sasuke's eyes, it seemed out of character for him, but she, as the rest of the people of Konoha, trusted him. The procedure was successful, and soon enough Naruto's eyes had been substituted with Sasuke's ones. However, Shizune did modify the eyes so they kept the Seventh's blue eye color. What was important, in the end, was the ability to have the Sharingan.
"It should be done now." She said as she took off the gloves. It had been just a couple of hours, a quick procedure. "They should work, but try them so we're sure."
He had never used dojutsu, since he wasn't born with one and for many years he thought the only way of using them was being born with it. He'd been studying about dojutsu, and so he started by focusing chakra on his eyes. First, his eyes turned into the same they did when he activated his kyubi mode, but soon enough, the eyes finally adopted the pattern of a 3 tomoe Sharingan.
"Thanks, Shizune." He said as the two of them realized it worked.
However, before she could reply, he put her under a genjutsu. The Nine-tails, from inside him, had observed his shift, and finally decided to question him. However, the Seventh quickly put him under a genjutsu as well.
Slowly, his sharingan pattern transformed into Sasuke's mangekyo one, and then, his eye started turning purple. Once the black rings appeared all over his purple eyes, he spoke.
"Kurama, you should've stayed silent, but anyways, you were going to be put under my control," he grabbed the bandages Shizune had prepared just in case and put them over his eyes. "I couldn't risk any of you intervening."
A while went on before he opened the door of the room to leave, alongside the now hypnotized Shizune, as he started thinking about what he was doing. It didn't take long for the memories of Nagato started flying over his memory. The death of Jiraiya, the invasion, and all the other ways in which he caused pain. He then remembered his speech.
"Maybe he wasn't wrong." He said, before finally opening the door.
In a similar fashion to how Nagato did it, he was able to see through Shizune's eyes, since he had covered his eyes with a bandage.
This time, he ignored everyone that walked past him, and just exited the hospital. Then, he took Shizune with him to his office, and kept her there for a while.
Team Sarada continued their way back to Konoha, this time going through the Valley of the End. The statues of the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha facing each other never failed to captivate the attention of everyone who crossed the valley.
"I wonder why Madara betrayed the village in the end..." The green-haired girl asked as they stopped to watch the statues.
"Well, it's a long story," Sarada replied, "but it shows how important loyalty is."
The brown-haired boy frowned for a moment, but by shaking his head he went back to his expressionless face. "Yeah, we're taught about loyalty and how it's the base of our entire system, or something like that."
"Pretty much, without loyalty, Konoha wouldn't exist anymore." Sarada said, though remembering what her husband told her. "But anyways, it's time to keep going so we arrive today."
Her two students nodded. And soon, they were gone from the Valley of the End.
After a week out on a mission, team Sarada finally returned to Konoha. They headed directly for the Hokage's office, so to report about their mission. They found a bandaged Seventh, which scared the black-haired girl at first.
She ran to check if he was okay, but the man just laughed softly at how cute it was that she was worried. He removed his bandage for a moment to reveal his newly acquired Rinnegan. This surprised the girl, though she was happy he had gotten it. She hugged the Hokage and then kissed him, before going back to his students, who were waiting in front of the desk.
"Well, the mission was a success, except that we failed to gather any information on the whereabouts of the organization." Sarada explained, handing over a perfect sphere made out of emerald. "We did find this, however."
The Seventh analyzed it, not being able to tell exactly what it was. It was the same size of his palm, and the fact that it was a perfect sphere surprised him. He shook his head, guessing he would have to ask someone else about it.
"Any clues?"
Sarada shook her head, and then looked back at his students. The brown-haired boy shrugged immediately, but the girl did stop to think.
"If I'm not mistaken, I remember seeing a painting in the wall of one of the bigger houses, but it was burnt after the battle." She explained while she tried her hardest to recall.
"Any details you remember about it?" Asked the blonde man.
"A dragon along what seemed to be that sphere, but I'm unsure about anything else."
The Seventh submerged into his thoughts for a couple of seconds, then raised his head again. "Thank you very much, then, this can be very valuable information. You may go now."
The three turned around and left the room. One less thing to worry about, since his wife would be back home until their next child was born. But the sphere gave him a new worry, the concern for what probably was the key to an unknown power.
He wondered what it could be, and if those cloaked men were after them. Or if they were the owners of it. He could think about many possible options, but in the end it was useless since he had no clue to what it was and whether it was dangerous or not.
Those past months had been tough for him, so he decided to slow it down for a couple of months. He deserved some rest, and anyways, he had to take care of his children that were being born soon.
The Seventh was making an effort to create an elite of powerful shinobi, that inherited the best characteristics of not only him, but the strongest clans in the village. Which he ultimately planned to unite under the "Konoha Clan".
He stood up and watched through the window behind his seat. He was the Seventh Hokage, and his face had been sculpted into the Hokage Rock. Yet, he had failed to protect everyone once, and he didn't plan to let it happen again.
For now, he would keep going with his plan of the Konoha clan, but he needed to be ready for whatever could go wrong.
That day, her daughter Himawari came back from her months long mission. She was very happy to see her father after a long time, and so was him about seeing his daughter.
He took her to the Hokage residence, where Sarada had fallen asleep taking care of the baby. And for such, they went to the second floor, as to not bother the wife of the Seventh Hokage. From there, they went to his room.
Once there, he was curious as to how much his daughter had improved, so, having noticed she became more muscular with compared to when she left, he grabbed her arm to check how strong it had become. He guessed that the nine-tails chakra he transferred to her was the explanation as to why she looked to be of a similar age to Sarada, though she was three years older.
"You have become quite strong!"
"Yep!" She started punching the air. "Soon I'll be at your level!"
"I'm sure you will, Himawari!"
However, he noticed how her posture when punching wasn't ideal. For such, he beckoned her to do it again. She made several tries, while her father corrected her from behind. It took her a while, but in the end the got the correct posture. Though it didn't change the fact that he was embracing her from behind.
"You're just as beautiful as your mom, Himawari." He said while he sniffed her hair. "I missed you."
"I missed you too, dad." She turned around to hug her father back.
He kneeled as to be on a similar height as her, and then placed his head on her shoulders. He slowly started licking her neck, while she blushed.
"I used to do this with mom because I loved her." He stopped licking her neck to whisper on her ear. "And I will do it with you because I love you."
"Do I really remind you of mom, dad?"
"You're just as beautiful."
"I love you dad."
He grabbed her by her butt, which had toned up with her recent exercise, and put her on the bed. There, he gave her the first kiss, and then her first tongue kiss. In no time, he had taken both her and his own clothes away, and both were laying naked on the bed kissing.
The Seventh stopped kissing her and licked all the way towards her clitoris, going through her neck, chest, nipples and abdomen. He knew penetrating her right away could be rough, so he made sure to prepare her with his tongue.
Then, however, he placed his tip over her vagina, and all of a sudden, he was all in. This caused her to bleed slightly, but soon her father started thrusting at full strength. Pain quickly turned to intense pleasure as he infused nine-tails chakra in her.
He finished five times, and as he always did, inside. For such it wasn't surprising when a couple of weeks later her pregnancy was confirmed. But it was far from bad news at this point, since it was received as joyous.
The future of the village depended on the newer generations, that needed to be always stronger than the one before. For such, he had to fulfill his Konoha Clan plan, since his descendants, the members of the Konoha clan, were the ones that would become the elite of the village, the ones that would lead it.
He had nailed that same way of thinking into everyone around him and the people he reigned over, either through speeches or through the influence of the genjutsu of his newly acquired rinnegan.
He failed once, but he would not do so again. He would maintain peace, at all costs.
"So, where is the last one?" The man of the golden eyes as his partner came out of the room.
He was standing in a hallway that took to the room of the council, who were their leaders. The Council are the people they have to report their achievements to, and the ones that give information and instructions to them.
"It is in Konoha..." The muscular woman answered. "And they told me to reunite all the members since we have to plan another invasion."
"What?!"
"So that's why they called us." A silver haired, very tall man spoke from behind them.
Next to him, a pink-haired girl was dragging the body of a shinobi that clearly had been tortured recently. The green vest suggested he was from Konoha, but you never were sure.
"Ryu, Tsuko! Long time no see!" They waved at each other. "It seems you've been busy."
"Yeah, we found him nearly dead on the border between Suna and Konoha, and well we took him." Explained the pink-haired girl. "Problem is he hasn't spit a slight bit of information apart from his name. That's why the council asked us to come with him, but they also told us they needed something from us."
"And it is to give our lives against the rinnegan." Added the silver-haired man, with a cynical tone.
After some seconds of uncomfortable silence, the muscular girl spoke up. "And what's his name?"
"Ah, his name?" Tsuko turned to look at the man she was dragging, before turning back the tall woman. "He is Konohamaru Sarutobi, and yes, he is the grandson of the dead Third Hokage."