Hey, guys! I'm terribly sorry for the late update. I'm really going through a lot. As it is right now, I'm grieving the loss of my dad and it is really painful for me to just find myself in a calm mood. For me to not give up on the story took a lot of effort, so I hope that I can write something great. For now, here's the new chapter. I apologize for the irregular updates.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. OC characters from Food Wars and Haikyuu!!

Warning: Not a crossover.


Konohagakure no Sato

Five years after the Kyuubi attack

In the Hokage Tower, an old but energetic (jittery, at the moment) man with a pipe in his mouth and a receeding hairline is pacing up and down his office in the hopes of calming himself down, but fails horrendously. His reason for all this?

"ANBU!" He called, firmly. Just then, two of his guards appear, already kneeling beside him.

"We haven't been able to find him, let alone the person that instigated this mess. Permission to increase the radius of our search, Hokage-sama." mentioned Neko as the kunoichi answered the question before it reached her.

"Very well. By the way, rendezvous with Ryu at the southern section of Senjū park. I believe that he found something of importance, and having an idea of what that is, give him authorisation to proceed." Hiruzen commanded.

"Understood, Hokage-sama."

With that, the guards left in a smoke-less shunshin en route to Senjū Park.

"I really hope Tobio-dono doesn't chew my hair off after this incident...he could be just as menacing as Kushina-chan, Kami rest her soul...ugh!" thought Hiruzen with a shudder as he thought of the mini-war that might come with this incident.

"Naruto, Shoyo... sorry for not being a good grandfather figure to you" he said softly as he sat down on his chair with a sombre face on him.

What happened, you ask?


Walking around the street with a white shirt with an orange swirl in the center, and khaki pants on, we stumble upon a red-haired boy with whiskers on his cheeks. The body is a mess. Unconscious and bruised, he was assaulted by a mob of angry villagers who then proceeded to beat the crap out of him.

"Kill the demon boy!" they shouted. Unable to get away from their clutches, the boy just gave up and let the villagers have their way. To the boy, it had been like that for as long as he could remember.

With the mob, everything was coming full circle. They lost loved ones during that Kyuubi attack and decided that they needed a scapegoat for it. Who better than the child who became the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki? As they were about to wrap things up, they were cut down by a few masked ninja, each donning a black attire with a white mask with coloured accents. These were the ANBU Black Ops.

One named Karasu decided to approach the unconscious boy and take him to the village hospital, knowing full well that the child would not be immediately helped. Funny how a village can preach peace but decide on eradicating the very reason (or one of the reasons) they have this peace. With that thought, he shunshined first to the Hokage tower. The other ANBU followed suit after disposing of the mob.


Hokage Tower

We now enter the office of one of the most powerful figures in the Elemental Nations. Behind the desk, we see a frail old signing a gigantic pile of paperwork with his right hand and holding a smoking pipe with his left. Grey hair with a receeding hairline, with three lines tracing each of his eyes to his cheeks, we see Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sandaime Hokage of Konohagakure and the Professor.

"I really wish this village could see what a blessing the Yondaime left for us. I'm sorry, Kushina. Your boy is really not living the way you wished he would. I failed." he said in depressing thought. He sensed a presence approaching him and uttered,

"ANBU!"

Suddenly, five figures including a young boy appeared.

"Report." he ordered.

The one with the Karasu mask replied, "He was attacked by a mob of villagers who were hell-bent on killing him with digging forks, knives and other household tools. I sensed a disturbance in his chakra network, I then came to the conclusion that he was put under a genjutsu. Before the mob could do any further damage, we dispatched them."

"Usagi, bring me a medic from the hospital who is on standby. I need them to come immediately."

"Hai!" the one named Usagi vanished in smoke-less shunshin.

"ANBU, dismissed! Karasu, Inu, stay." Hiruzen ordered. He figured there was more to the report.

Hiruzen paid attention to the injured boy for more than a minute and what he saw left him numb. The boy's eyes were open but weren't responding to light or any presence in the room, almost like he was in a coma or just...dead but, that was not what he saw. At least, not the only detail to this mess. Upon very close inspection, he saw what appeared to be a seal on the boy's forehead, clumsily covered by a henge that was clearly sustained by foreign chakra. This had something to do with the slight shaking they saw once the boy entered the office. Judging by that, it was clear that it was a very painful experience for the child if the constant amount of tears was anything to go by.

As he was about to snap at the remaining ANBU for such a blunder, the doctor he sent for arrived in a shunshin alongside Usagi, already trying her level best to keep her composure under the circumstances of being summoned suddenly by Hokage-sama.

Checking on the boy's vitals, she noticed that the woulds were slowly closing themselves, so she checked for signs of chakra poisoning, which weren't apparent.

According to the checkup she just did, the boy was slowly recovering, but she couldn't find the reason as to why the boy was still shaking. All she could understand was that the boy's mental activity was intense. She relayed the information to the Hokage and the rest of the audience.

Just then, Neko entered, with a scroll in hand. Hiruzen took it as it was and began to open and read the scroll.

It read:

"We found a hole covered with what appeared to be Mokuton chakra and sealing array that Neko managed to decipher and release upon finding it to be a moderately strong barrier fuinjutsu. Upon entering this hole and traveling approximately fifty meters below the surface, we reached a makeshift tunnel and split into pairs once we entered it and found multiple pathways to certain places. I myself followed one certain pathway that led to an underground tomb. Hokage-sama, I do not know for sure if whatever that is in the tomb has a sort of fail-safe in the event that someone tried to ransack it but for some reason, it resonated with my chakra and the tomb cracked a little bit and stopped.

Again, I do not know if this should stay hidden or not but something tells me that I just stumbled upon the very first S-rank secret since the founding of this village. As of writing this report, I was outside of the hole, monitoring it for any suspicious people or, in the case of the seal and primitive Mokuton created, someone who decided to call it home. Awaiting orders.

Ryu

The report was very short and did not have a whole lot of details or insensitive information but judging by how Sandaime looked like he lost all hope, meant that something big happened, or something that even he was not supposed to know, just decided to rear its bothersome existence in Hiruzen's face.

"Everyone except the Iryō-nin, you are dismissed." he said with a growl.

Not wanting to hear it twice, everyone left in their own shunshin and left the doctor to the patient.


Mindscape

The redhead finds himself walking through a maze in what could be a sewer. He did not know how he got there. He only had an inkling of what might happen. Nevertheless, he needed to get out of here.

He walked, and walked until he was just a few meters from a cage, with a paper written "fuin" in kanji.

Being a child, he was obviously curious as to what was in that cage but for some reason, he decided to just sit down. He looked at the cage for a few seconds before closing his eyes, relaxing, all the while controlling his breathing.

"What's this? My jailer finally decides to visit?" he suddenly heard, coming from the cage.

"Pleased to meet you. My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I'm not sure if I'm being forward or not but I'd like to ask a question, or rather confirm something. Is this my mind scape and if so, are you the being the villagers confuse Shoyo and I with?" asked Naruto, sitting in a seiza position with his head bowed down.

He had so many questions he wanted to ask but he felt like he could ask these ones first, as they were the most important.

"What an odd mortal you are. At least you're more polite than the other red chatterbox and royal pompous asshole of a lady. I am known as the Kyuubi no Kitsune and as you mentioned, I'm confused with you and you little brother. Judging by how relaxed you are, you knew all of this already and probably realized that I'm the Yang constituent, not to mention, you learned about us Bijū from your home studies." Kyuubi stated.

Naruto was floored, but tried his best to not look the part. Part of the reason was because this was one of parts of the Deidarabotchi, or Juubi in layman terms. He tried to say calm and was managing.

"Quick question, though. What brings you to your mind scape and how did you get here?" asked Kyuubi.

"Well, I don't know how I came here, Kyuubi-san. I was just trying to get back to Sho-chan back at the Uzumaki complex when I was suddenly attacked by a lot of people. I assume that I'm now unconscious, so that's probably how I came here. As to what brings me here, hmm... I don't know. But I'm here. Might as well get some questions in myself." offered Naruto.

He then asked, "How did you get sealed inside Shoyo and I?"

Silence brewed for a few seconds and Naruto was starting to feel tense. The beast jus looked at him with one eye, released a grunt and said to Naruto, "Well, I'll admit that you're quite mature for your age but you're still not ready for the reason why I'm sealed here. It's simply because you have no means to act upon the answer."

Confused, Naruto tried to argue for an answer but he noticed that the fox was feeling agitated by that particular question. Reluctantly letting the issue go, he decided to just leave.

" How do I leave?", asked Naruto.

"Just release a little amount of chakra from your body to shake yourself. That little bit of movement will wake you up. Now, leave me alone." growled Kyuubi.

Remembering the lessons on how to sense chakra for the first time as taught by his grand uncle, he pulled some chakra and released it. Suddenly, he vanished in a swirl of water.

" That should also cause a commotion, wherever he is right now" thought Kyuubi.


Real World - Hokage Tower

Neko was busy checking the seal placed on Naruto's forehead and found it to be a seal designed to knock someone out and rewire their senses. A fuinjutsu version of the Temple of Nirvana. With just two fingers placed on his forehead, Neko released a chakra pulse on the seal and it broke. She was surprised when, just a second later, chakra just spread throughout Naruto's body. A huge amount, if the sudden appearance of five more ANBU men was any indication. Giving them the sign to stand down, Hiruzen approached the slowly awaking child to see if anything had changed in him.

"Naruto-kun, are you alright?" he asked, visibly worried.

"I'm okay, Jiji. At least, I hope I am." Naruto replied, as tired as he was.

For someone who went through a mob attack, and survived, he was as weary as one would expect him to be. For Hiruzen, it was a sign of blunders that came with poor decision-making.

He sighed. This was never an easy job to have, especially when he had to consider the livelihood of every one in the entire village. You have people trying to kill or "eradicate" the one reason they're safe, and they don't even back down from it. Not even when you put a law against harming the child. The bruises and sloppy seal on the forehead are telltale signs of that.

"While I'd want to know what happened in that attack, you have to go back to your house. I'm sure Shoyo is waiting for you." said Hiruzen.

Naruto could only nod to this. The redhead had a long list of thoughts running around in his mind but all of it would have to wait until he went back home. Safely.

With a hand ruffling Naruto's hair, Hiruzen kneeled, looked at Naruto with a tender smile and wished him a good night, before Neko carried the boy on her back and used a shunshin to escort him to the compound.

Hiruzen went back to his desk and faced the nearest window.

"How would you have handled this situation, Minato, Tobirama-sensei, Hashirama-sensei? The village basically hates those two, save for a few individuals. The rest are just indifferent." thought Hiruzen. "I really need to protect those two. For the good of everyone. Especially those two. Wouldn't you agree, Kushina?I think having Yugao live with them is a plan. She's an Uzumaki by birth, so it makes sense to assign her to those two. A little political scuffle shouldn't be a problem but those two will finally have a semblance of a childhood."He smiled as he looked at a letter with the Uzumaki swirl in red as the insignia. He could make out the words "permission to adopt the Uzumaki twins"

He wrote a little note, saying:

"Enjoy your time with your family, Uzumaki Yugao."He looked at Ryu, who had just come back from his investigation, handed him the note and told him to take it to Yugao. With a shunshin, Ryu left and there was a little bit of pleasant silence in the air for Hiruzen.

There was something bugging him about Ryu's report but he forgot what it was

"Better think about it when I'm more calm." he thought.


Senju Park - Underground

The tomb Ryu found looked a miniature war zone. The coffin was blown to smithereens and next to it was a little sapling growing.

Whose grave was it? What does this all mean for Konohagakure?

To be continued


I know that the chapter feels rushed and not what you expected after waiting for several months on end, but as I said, I've been mourning. So I tried my best to write a chapter that could get the story going.Check y'all soon! Ja ne!