I do not own Naruto, this is a fanfiction only.

As I finished my meal and again thanked the chef and his son for the wonderful time and the tasty ramen I began to walk towards the place the Hokage has written as my new address. For some strange reason this place almost seemed familiar, it was until I so Kagami and Mikoto that I realized where the supposed new apartment of mine was.

Big surprise, the Hokage obtained my new apartment in the part of the village that would later be called the Uchiha District. Why did it not surprise me this would happen, a place in the village where you could not throw a stick and avoid touching a house owned or rented by a member of my clan.

Kagami had been the previous Clan Head before Fugaku, and I knew plenty of the man because for some reason Fugaku never tired in complaining about him. He always had the belief that the clan should participate more in the daily activities of the village, to make ourselves more closely connected to the village.

Fugaku became the Clan Head and what was that he first did? Why throw everything Kagami attempted to do by building a wall around the lands that were owned by the members of my clan. Yea, nothing makes the village feel like we were a part of it than a gated wall.

What I really didn't understand why was the Head of our clan and his daughter doing standing in front of my newly assigned dwelling? A welcome to the neighborhood? That would be nice I will not deny it, but that was normally done by the neighbors that lived around your place, not the Head of your clan, and most certainly not with the clan heiress with him.

I began to imagine that Kagami would pretty much tell me he didn't consider me a member of the clan, and thus he refuses me the right to live in my newly assigned home. I don't have what some would call the same bloodline traits as they did, even if I knew I did. As I walked towards them, I began to plan a contingency plan.

If things went as bad as I thought I could live in one of the rooms that existed in the basement of the ANBU Headquarters. This was rooms for the use of ANBU who found themselves needed an emergency domicile in emergency situations. This clearly qualifies as such if things played out the way I thought it would.

As I reached the apartment I placed my hand on my chest and did a traditional bow of respect that was due to the head of my clan and to the future head as well. "I apologize Lord Kagami, I have just returned from a mission, and thus I was assigned a new apartment. Hence this new apartment does not have much to offer."

"I would welcome you inside, but I am afraid that there is not even furniture in the place, much less anything to eat or drink that would be suitable for you and our clan heiress." Kagami began to laugh and for some reason, Mikoto was hiding her mouth with one of her hands.

"Hiruzen pretty much told us of your long term missions, and about this apartment. This is one of many properties that are actually owned by my family. That is why I am waiting for you, Mikoto here has been helping me put the final touches to the place. Why don't you come inside and see if it's to your liking."

I took my key and opened the door, I was speechless. The place looked about a thousand times better than my old apartment. I had a full working kitchen, bathroom and laundry room. The kitchen had everything I could ever need and more. I waited for them to enter first, I could see everything just from outside thanks to my eyes.

"As for formalities, I am not too big of a fan of it, and neither is my daughter. You are a member of our clan, and as far I am concerned if you are a member of our clan you are family. It's good to have you return to the village and know you are safe Kisaru, be most welcomed back to your home and by your family."

If I had this treatment when I was younger I would be crying my eyes out, I swear I would be crying none stop after hearing this. No one, I mean no one ever treated me with this much kindness in my entire life.

"Thank you, I truly appreciate what you have done for me. Be sure that I will return the favor if I am able." I did a simple hand sign and three shadow clones took off into the kitchen. "Since you clearly been waiting for me for long, would you like some lemonade? My clones are preparing some for us."

Mikoto looked at me and smiled, "How can you offer lemonade when there are no lemons in the kitchen?" I walked with them and pulled two chairs for them to sit on.

"It is quite simple, there are lemon trees all over the forest out back, it is a gated forest but that shouldn't be much of a problem. The sugar is being bought a local grocery store thanks to the money our Lord Hokage set aside for my use. I will not buy that many groceries, to begin with."

"Like I said that forest is a practically endless grocery store if you know where to look. I honestly never understand why they keep giving such a wonderful and useful place the morbid name of the forest of death. It was my favorite place to play as a child."

Two clones brought the pitcher full of lemonade and three glasses, with some ice cubes in each glass. "You mean to tell me you actually played there as a kid? Wasn't it scary with those vicious animals? The poisonous plants and snakes didn't scare you?"

I began to pour the lemonade when I smiled, "Of course not, that place is a wonderful place to play in. Those animals kept me on my toes, and those plants and snakes are beautiful to look at, you only need to leave them alone and you had nothing to fear from them. In fact, they would have more to fear from us than we fear them."

I guess I must appear strange to them, but with the things I was seen, how in the world could I not be strange? We talked about many things but the thing they both wanted to know most was who was my grandfather and how he was?

I should be a little bit sadder that they seemed to be happy that Madara was my grandfather, but even happier to hear that he was dead. I guess the fear that he would one day return to as they called it to exact his revenge on them was not a new idea to them at all. Most people believe he died in the fight that made the Valley of the End, but no he didn't die.

I know this for a fact that he did not die at all. He spent the rest of his days living with an outcast of the Uzumaki Clan. She was the only person who truly ever loved him, our that is what I told them. My supposed father was their love child, and I was the son of another member who was made to leave her clan, this time, I was the love child of a Hyuuga lady that met my dad while he was out hunting for something to eat.

"It seems you family really likes hunting don't you Kisaru? So tell me what do you plan on doing here in the village. From how you are dressed you could find work or do some trading." Kagami was rather nice to think about my situation and I have to admit it felt nice to see the head of my clan show such concern.

"Actually I am going to go and get my gear tomorrow at Headquarters. The Quartermaster will have my gear and mask ready for me when I show up to pick it up. So there really is no problem at all. I am a member of ANBU."

Mikoto smiled for a bit and then began to laugh as I finished saying that. "So Kirasu now that you told us what mask you were? Probably something like Dog right? You seem family oriented after all."

I began shaking my head as soon as Mikoto finished saying that, "No, I am family oriented, but no it's not a dog. It's actually supposed to be a secret, we wear those masks for a reason after all. Oh well, I don't think the head of my clan would tell anyone what mask I wear, and I am not the only one. I wear a Weasel mask."

Now Kagami began to laugh as I began to notice the blush on Mikoto's face. "What a coincidence, My daughter also wears a Weasel mask herself. So now that we crossed the line into the personal, do you have a special someone you are carrying a torch for?"

Ok, I was wrong he was the head of my clan and apparently the clan matchmaker too. "Well there is a young medic I like, I just hope that one day she likes me as much as I like her. She was the young woman that took care of me. She has no clue I had a crush on her for years."

Mikoto laughed and I mean really laughed as I said that, "You sure like to suffer it seems Kisaru, I happen to know her quite well. She is the granddaughter of the first Hokage, and since your grandfather was Madara Uchiha, I don't think she will resist the urge to try and check your combat prowess."

I smiled at them and told them that I didn't mind a little dance with her. "Dad always said that sometimes fighting leads to some unusual results. That is how dad and mom met after all."

Kagami looked at me a little confused, "You said he met her while hunting, why would they be fighting?" I told him they both wanted the same deer, so they ended up fighting because she would not accept that the kill was his. They ended up settling for each taking half.

"Dad cooked it on the spot using a Fire Jutsu, mom could not use fire chakra that well so he cooked her half too, a little meal together, they got to talking, and a few hunting trips later and they were man and wife. Two years after that I was born and mom died from complications during childbirth."

Kagami seemed a little sad as I finished telling him that, "Indeed having a child can be dangerous for women, thank goodness our village developed techniques recently to help during those difficult births."

As I walked them to the entrance of my place, I thanked them both for doing all this for me and they both thanked me for the delicious lemonade. "If that lemonade was anything to go by, Tsunade better claim you for herself soon or she might have some competition later."

"I will see you at the office later Weasel. Be sure not to be late, the commander told me he wants to assign you to a special response squad." Mikoto went with her father as soon as she told me that. Maybe I could be wrong but for some reason, I felt like she was hitting on me just now.

Too bad for her I had a mission, and I never quit my missions. Yami would drag my soul out of my body if she ever thought I had lied to her. Come to think of it I better make contact with her and see if she has anything to say about what happened to me so far.

I walked towards a mirror and bite my thumb. With the blood, I made a circle and a star on it. I concentrated my chakra on the mirror and called her name. Sure enough, she appeared right as expected.

She was actually expecting my call and did not look that happy to me. I told her of my progress and what had happened, she flat out said there was no guessing about what Mikoto did, she told me she basically declared that if Tsunade didn't get a moving and claimed me, she would.

"I guess the tradition of marrying members of our clan is a lot older than I thought. No problem Lady Yami, I will keep my promise and I need to ask permission to use this summon mark I have on my wrist. I don't know what it supposed to summon."

She smiled, "That mark is indeed a mark of a summoner, but you are right to ask me permission before using it, it is the summoner mark for the Spirit Hounds, also called the Grimm Clan. I always have some of them find people that nearly died that would be interesting. One found you and she bite your hand. That is why you have the summon mark after all."

She went away and I decided to get to sleep early, many things to do tomorrow. I needed to find who would be in my squad, probably finish a mission or two and then try to figure out how am I going to make Tsunade feel the same way I feel about her. Who knows maybe I will get lucky and she will accept my invitation of having lunch together.

That means I really need to go to sleep since I also need to prepare two box lunches. Got to wake up early to buy the things I need from the clan grocery market it seems. I am going to be this busy and I am just getting started. "I did promise Yami I would make both Tsunade and Naruto happy and I always keep my word dattebayo!"