A/N: The full truth begins to emerge while we get a glimpse of what led to this. Enjoy.

9. To Ransom a Girls Spirit

"I must say, your timing couldn't be better. You did need to be…"

My growl at him was enough to shut him up. As I helped Sarada and Boruto ease the weakened body of Sayuri onto the table he looked closely at me as if waiting for me to finally address him. Which I only did to once again get him to stop.

"We need your help…" My relationship with My parent although not plausible was strained at best. Usually I end up only speaking to him if need arises. Just like now with Saradas friend being unconscious.

"And this person is?"

"Sayuri Midoriya…" Sarada began to explain while we got her hooked up to the monitors. "She said she has a disease that causes her to age rapidly. Somehow if you can believe it, she was born only 9 months ago yet physically we look around the same age."

Now I stopped in my tracks in realization. "Sarada didn't you have that run in with the bear around the same timeframe."

Now both her and Boruto stopped dead in their tracks. "The bear?"

"Oh yes, we had gotten back from a mission involving bears. We got to the village and you had gone limp like Sayuri here."

The faces on them were processing while Blood started pouring from tubes now attached to Sayuri.

"I don't remember that bear at all. This just reminded me of when I vanished for a month."

"Sarada do you mind if I were to take a sample…" He was behind her…I was all set to retort when Boruto held me off.

"Mistuki, let him…"

"You need not worry…Just want to see if what you're proposing might be…well accurate."

Boruto went with Sarada while I just kept staring at the limp body of Sayuri, the tubes seemed like one simple ideal, having to keep her stable and recovered. Whatever disease is causing her to rapidly age in 9 months must be really serious if she is in that rough shape.

Sarada let out a small screech as I now knew what he had done. "Blood sample of course…"

The duo walked back with Boruto applying antibiotic and a Band-Aid to her arm, while I could see him with the extracted blood walk over to Sayuri and get some from her as well.

"Unlike that oaf Suigetsu, my results are more the 100% accurate." I now then realized what he had been referring too thanks to my talks with Chocho.

We stood by the body of Sayuri as the centrifuge began to rapidly spin. A computer began to display data involving genetic markers over and over until one screen flashed.

DNA RESULT

4 of 6 GENETIC MARKERS IDENTIFIED DNA MATCH 87.4%

"Hmmm…How could this be possible…" His gleeful smile now made me want to slap him hard. Boruto wisely once again held me back as Sarada nearly dropped to her knees knowing the truth.

"I'm her Mother…"

"Sarada forget the DNA results how can you have given birth to Sayuri if she's the same age as us…"

"Boruto, she did say that Sayuri had a rapid ageing syndrome that will cause her to die quicker. If she was only born 9 months ago and Sarada did vanish for a month then…"

"NO!"

In complete shock she began rapidly screaming over and over.

9 Months Ago. Hidden Leaf Hospital

We now stood in the Hospital meeting room in disbelief at what has now transpired. She had a child and we're grandparents.

"I don't care if we wiped his memory, we need to find him…"

"The circle is gone we wiped it…"

As Naruto tried to calm me down all I could do was look at Sakura with a blank stare on her face as she was talking with Tsunade.

"Now we know why she was with him. Now we know why she didn't want to go back She's only 13, most babies take 9 months to develop yet. 8 weeks after she vanished into that world."

The door now opened and Tsunade popped into frame easing Sakura down into the chair while she stared slack jawed at us.

"The baby is healthy, no signs of prematurity at all. Its as if she carried her for the full 9 month term."

Now Naruto turned to face her… "How can that be."

"Rapid aging is possible due to the timeframe you guys are suggesting. Also I happened to glance over at the report the geezers were looking at when you met just after coming back. It mentioned the other world and the guy in the mop haircut quite a bit."

"So rapid ageing would that mean…"

"If my numbers are correct. We have a fully mature 9-month infant conceived 31 days ago. If the multiplier increases by a rate of 1.5. They'll be near the same age in barley a 10-month period. The infant will be lucky to only live 3-4.5 years total."

Sakura looked as pale as Sarada did on the day we came back. I poked her in the forehead like I would usually do in comfort, but somehow even that wasn't cutting it.

"Naruto what do we do…"

He looked at all the options on the table and without even saying a word he motioned for the door to open.

"Lord Seventh?"

The one who opened it was brunette and had reminded me of my own late mom, a warm and loving presence flowed through her. Even I felt at ease just by looking at her.

"Midoriya, we need to ask you for a major task. You will be compensated accordingly for this." Naruto looked at her and then back to me where at that point I could now tell what he was asking of her. I nodded in agreement. There is no way Sakura could find out about this.

"Tell me what I need to do…"

All of us including Tsunade now looked on at the infant nearby, beautiful and yet a part of something none of us wanted to see bigger.

A/N: The trio now finally heads off on thier perilous journey in Chapter 10. The Snakes Lair. As Always Subscribe for more.