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Prolouge:
Another chapter for you guys. Village of the Tenshi will be updated soon. Probably near the end of the month.
Wife and Mother
In village of the Mist the Mizukage was sitting at sitting at a long table at his house with the Hokage and our two love birds. The old father of the Mist had been interviewing Shizune about herself and how she came to be with Tsunade. So far the Mizukage had found nothing wring with the woman. The Mizukage was now bound to his last question. One that would test the mother in her, he did this so that he would ensure that his grandchild would be safe and well taken care of. He smiled as he watched the two little children play with Shizune who was now carrying Haku with the left are while she used her right fingers to play with Kimimaru who had seemed to have made a career of trying to catch the woman's hands.
"Shizune san, what do you think of little Haku and little Kimimaru?" the Mizukage asked as Shizune brought Haku and Kimimaru to the table placing the little children in front of them. She looked at them and tried her best to describe the two little children who were in front of her.
Haku was an adorable little girl with short brown hair wearing a rather cute little white kimono with the design of the blue wolves on it. She saw the Haku was looking at her with curious and expecting eyes. She raised her arms asking Shizune to hug her. To Shizune there was no way that she would be able to ignore such a cute little girl. She hugged Haku as the little girl giggled at her seemingly enjoying Shizune's attention.
Kimimaru was a rather different boy. He sported white hair and average looking eyes with a rather quite demeanor unlike Haku who seemed more enigmatic and energetic. Kimimaru raised his arms also as he wore a rather loose white shirt, a pair of blue shorts along with a pair of blue rubber shoes also wearing a pair of socks. Shizune looked past the calm and quiet demeanor of the child and hugged her with her other arm as she set little Haku on her lap as the little girl smiled waiting for Kimimaru to join her on their 'mother's' lap.
The Mizukage was smiling. He did not have to ask the girl to find out her answer as Naruto joined them making the children smile as he placed a kiss to Shizune's cheek. The Hokage himself smiled at his relative's good fortune. Neither of them was aware of the great joy that was already inside of Shizune.
"Shizune san, would you mind go with Haku chan and Kimimaru chan out to a restaurant? The children needed to feed too you know." The Mizukage said as Shizune left, but not before giving Naruto a kiss on the cheek while the two kages and the Mist ninja stayed there to have a talk with each other on the formalities of the arrangements.
Some where in the Village of the Mist
"Oi Tsunade!" Jiraiya shouted raising a bottle of Sake in his hands as a signal inviting Tsunade to join him and his Snake friend Orochimaru who enjoyed his snack and time with his good old friend. The slug mistress looked serious, but she decided to join her friends and team mates.
"You seem serious Tsunade." Orochimaru noticed as the Tsunade slumped to the seat in front of them. Jiraiya frowned at his friend's attempt to hide her problem and keep it from them.
"Nothing Oro-kun, I just discovered something that was surprising. Something which Shizune would faint if she ever found about it, but Naruto would jump for joy if he ever learned about it." Tsunade said as Jiraiya and Orochimaru raised their eyebrows as a rather bluish man with a large sword that was around with something and carried it over his shoulder as he approached.
"Ohayo! I am sure that you won't mind sharing with us that little information for our alliance's sake?" the man asked with a voice with authority ringing in every tone as Jiraiya and Tsunade's eyes narrowed. Orochimaru however just continued to eat as he spoke to the stranger.
"Yes, Hoshigake Kisame. Your other member is about to have a child." The Snake sannin spoke as the other two sannin looked at their Snake friend with surprised looks.
"Hoshigake Kisame?" Tsunade wondered. Orochimaru just continued eating as he answered Tsunade's question.
"A member of the Seven swordsmen of Kiri as well as the weilder of the blade Samehada which is the one wrapped with cloth and he currently carries on his shoulders. He is very young as compared to us. He would be Shizune's age I think." The Snake sannin mentioned as the Kiri swordsman looked at him with a rather impressed smile.
"As expected of Orochimaru one of the sannin of Konoha." Another voice called out as a shadow appeared itself to stand beside Kisame. Fortunately this one was well known to Tsunade.
"Zabusa san?" Tsunade wondered what he was pointing at. Jiraiya answered in Orochimaru's stead.
"Zabusa is one of the senior members of the Seven Swordsmen. Tsunade, he was the one who bought the treaty to Konoha when the Mist was attacked by the Iwa and the Cloud several years ago before Yondaime sama died. He was about just fifteen then and he was a prodigy of the former elder head of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, Raishi. While Kisame, here is the other legend of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist." Jiraiya said as the twenty six year old sannin remembered the lessons of his sensei Sarutobi.
"Wait a second didn't you teach Naruto and his brother Ken when they were younger?" Tsunade pointed out as Zabusa smiled and nodded as Kisame also smiled and asked if they could sit. Tsunade welcomed them as she sat beside Jiraiya who gave way for her as Orochimaru finished his dango and was now enjoying his peaceful tea. What was more he was about to get another discussion that was something that he would appreciate unlike all the fights his two team mates had which annoyed him to no end.
As the Mist nins sat down each gazed the three. Kisame and Zabusa were confident that along with Naruto they could level these three sanins that their Hokage like they were genin if they wanted to, but the rest of the Mist could not withstand the numbers of Konoha and for now they would focus on behaving themselves since neither had no intention to be their enemies.
"As you know Naruto is one of the Kiri's best and indeed it was my pride and joy to have taught the boy how to fight and be a shinobi. Although I have yet to unlock most of his natural potential given the fact that I am not his true father and if my belief his correct he resembles someone so explicitly that I swear the resemblance is uncanny." Zabusa said as Orochimaru stopped drinking his tea and resumed when he calculated the ages of the shinobis in his mind and when he did he nodded as he continued with his tea. Tsunade and Jiraiya glared at their devious and secretive team mate. Orochimaru finished his tea and explained.
"Twenty years ago the Yondaime and the name he carried vanished with him and it was said that the mother too died when she gave birth to the son that was his. It was thought that the child too died and was therefore never searched for by Konoha for over these years. Naruto is twenty then correct?" Orochimaru said as Kisame looked at Zabusa who had a rather solemn look. Orochimaru struggled to remember where he had last seen or heard from these two Mist legends in front of him. He couldn't help wonder where he had heard of them.
"Yes, Orochimaru san. Naruto is twenty and is therefore the contract that the Kiri had with boy's father will expire soon." Zabusa said as Kisame's eye widened as did everyone in the restaurant.
"What contratct! Why did you keep this from us!" Kisame said pointing an accusing finger at Zabusa who remained solemn as he did not look to this comrade.
"I promised to the Mizukage that I would take the contents of the contract to the grave. He did not dare trust his rather vindictive wife with the secret of the contract too. Kisame, before you even bother asking, yes, the council did approve of the contract seeing no harm for the Mizukage and the Kiri to have the boy. Even now they are dreading the day that the boy would fulfill his part in the contract and then be released from service as a Kiri nin and go follow his father to his village where he was born and where he shall stay until he chooses to leave or the secret of his family would be told to the child's ancestral home." Zabusa explained as Kisame allowed his anger to disappear. For years he had hated the Mist and it was only because of the Mizukage and most importantly it was because of Naruto that he was still in the Mist. If Naruto left then he would not be a member of the Mist anymore, but that was if the contract contained what he thought it would contain.
"Yes, I know what you are thinking and I know what you are planning. The Mizukage thought of that and then he decided that he would send us along since it is also implied in the contract." Zabusa said as several Mist nins in the restaurant as well as better for us to look after him and payback Konoha for lending us their shinobi." the sanin looked shocked. The only people that were happy were Zabusa who had a grin on his face and Kisame who had a rather wide and maniac grin on his face.
"Zabusa san what do you mean?" A Mist jounin said as the rest of the Mist nins looked with surprise and anxiety.
"Zabusa san, losing Naruto sama is bad enough, but to lose you and Kisame san? That would be horrible." Another stated as Kisame ignored him as he placed a hand on Zabusa who gave a sigh.
"The other Kiri Swordsmen are more than capable of stepping into our roles. That is assuming Lady Aoi does nothing unsavory. As long as it is Mizukage sama who rules then we shall have no problem. Besides Konoha controls the lands that have access to ports that could reach Kiri." Zabusa said as Kisame tried to remember something as well as the Snake sannin Orochimaru.
"Now I remember!" Orochimaru said slamming his tea down to the table while bearing a rather happy smile on his lips. The others wondered as Zabusa shrugged it off as he knew what the sanin just found out as Kisame then realized it too and just sat down there with an ever more pleased shark like grin.
"What was that about Oro-chan?" Jiraiya jibbed in as Tsunade placed her hand to the sanin's mouth to shut him up.
"Yes, Oro-kun. Tell us what you found out." Tsunade said as Orochimaru placed his hands under his jaw and looked at his tea contemplating on the history that he had long studied.
"Remember the Great Shinobi war, the one that ended when several villages were burned to the ground and both Konoha and the Stone were severely weakened by the constant fighting between the villages. The Mist in an unusual way began attacking not the villages of their enemies, but their nearest village neighbors in the south east of Fire country and then suddenly stopped. We wondered why they didn't bother attacking Konoha seeing as they and the Stone had us in between them. When we noticed that the Kiri was not going to continue with their attacks we focused on the Stone. Once we did we regrouped and strengthened our defenses. When the Stone decided that it could not continue on fighting they signed a treaty with the Mist, Konoha, Suna and the other villages as well. The strategists thought that it was time to retake the southern part of Fire Country, but Sunkagakure outdid us and attacked the territory controlled by the Mist. Then we were surprised when we heard that the Mist had decimated the Sand while destroying every last boat and wagon they had carrying both troops and supplies considering that the Suna had twice the man power that Kiri had in that area as they dedicated everything to that attack, which failed that cost the lives of ¼ of Suna's total shinobi force including the genins as well as the number of defections that arose. During that time the Kiri and the Seven Swordsmen defended that area vigorously seeing as that was the shortest route that one had to take to reach Kiri. Any other option would be crazy since it would need a very long and dangerous trip from any other area. In these times both Kiri and the Suna as well and the Rain village began engaging each other in open warfare. During that time the Seven swordsmen known as Kisame, Zabusa and along with a third member baited the Suna forces and the Rain forces and set the entire forest on fire trapping the shinobis in the forest forcing it's commanders to surrender, but not without losing a large portion of their men. Thus once again the Suna had suffered losses at the hands of the Kiri which took losses, but not much as compared to any other village that joined in the great Shinobi war. It was then that Konoha joined in and against Sarutobi's sensei's will the council as well and Danzou launched an ill fated attack that was to be called the 'Deluge'. " Orochimaru ended as Jiraiya frowned as well as Tsunade.
They had remembered that fiasco well. When the shinobis moved in waves so that they would not fall to the same trick as Suna and the Rain did. Thankfully the burned part of the forest still had years to go before it was fully restored. This gave them much more safe ground to move in, but then things got worse after that.
It started when a long wall of ice suddenly appeared in the front of the army as well as behind the army. It was a disaster as several seconds later large amounts of extremely cold water suddenly gushed out of nowhere effectively drowning or killing most of Konoha shinobis. It was the worst thing that ever happened to them as the death of a large portion of their army. Thankfully very few shinobis joined and that no genin under the Hokage's insistence joined that attack.
"It was a young blond haired boy that started that jutsu along with two other Mist jounins." Orochimaru began while he looked at Zabusa and Kisame.
"Are you telling me that the Naruto that we know and the one that did the 'Deluge' is the same Naruto that we have been interacting with for the past few days?" Tsunade began.
"Yes, Naruto and the two jounins here in front of us were the ones that that started that 'Deluge'." Orochimaru said while he looked at the two Mist jounins which showed different emotions. One had a proud smile while Zabusa merely nodded and smiled at the recognition.
The other two were shocked at what their teammate had told them. They could not believe that the same one ninja that cause so much grief to Konoha would join their former enemy. Not only that, he would be married to one of their own shinobis. Tsunade thought for a moment and remembered something.
"Zabusa san? Can I ask you something?" Tsunade directed to the silent shinobi while Kisame sat there in a serious manner when he saw Jiraiya become serious as he looked at Tsunade while the said blond woman had her head hung low.
Nodding the Mist jounin was asked about the list of casualties that the Mist shinobis reported to Konoha after the war. She asked for one name in particular and as a matter of chance Kisame was the one who remembered that name. Tsunade did not put her head up when Kisame answered.
"Dan? That idiot of a shinobi? He was one of the Vanguards of the attack against Kiri. I remember him especially because Naruto fought him and killed in him in a fair fight to decide if Konoha would withdraw from the battle." Kisame explained as most Mist shinobis wondered what Kisame was talking about. All of them knew that no such meeting had taken place nor did an agreement even enter the mind of their Vice commander. Orochimaru of course studied the entire thing and as such knew that there was no such agreement. The sanin knew that Tsunade forgot to read all the details of that battle and focus on the casualty list.
"Oh I see." Tsunade said as she settled down. All other shinobis breathed easily, but Zabusa was worried as to why Kisame had lied about the fight between Naruto and the man called Dan.
All were forgotten however when Shizune appeared carrying a little girl named Haku and a young boy name Kimimaru. Each of the children squealed as they jumped to attach themselves to their favorite uncles.
"Uncle Fishy!" Haku squealed as she lunged for Kisame who surprised everyone by showing an old softie inside of him that no one knew existed.
"Ahh! Has little Haku chan been good to her mommy?" Kisame asked the little girl as she nodded her cute little brown head making Kisame ruffle her little hair. Kimamaru however did not talk to Zabusa who took the white haired boy's head to his lap making the boy sleep with peace bside him.
"Have a seat Shizune san." Kisame said while he looked at a Mist nin that offered the medic apprentice a chair, which she took and sat carefully and silently with a smile.
"How was the discussion with Mizukage sama and Hokage sama?" Kisame asked, bit was surprised when she shook her head in a negative manner.
"Hokage sama, Mizukage sama and Anata asked me to leave to further discuss things." Shizune said making them wonder what they were going to talk about, but Jiraiya was giggling on having something to tease Shizune with.
Inside himself Orochimaru calculated the amount of power Konoha would represent and the potential things he might 'learn' from the new visitors. However he was even more concerned when he remembered that the Hokage would be protecting them and if the 'disappeared' they would immediately searched for. He would have to plan better for the future.
Tsunade thought that she would finally discover what had happened to Dna that fateful day that he died and left her alone. There was no denying the fact that she wanted to know what had happened to Dan. He was her love and she would do anything to find out the truth.
Jiraiya despite himself was worried. He knew that Tsunade had taken Dan's death harshly, but he knows that she might do something rather drastic with Naruto if she ever had chance to question him about Dan's death which was a secret known only to a very few shinobis.
"…………………………………………………" was all that Kisame thought now while Haku was resting in the exact same position as Kimimaru. Zabusa for the life of him had the same thing going on in his head while he watched Kimimaru sleep peacefully.
Shizune was also wondering why the Mist jounins kept treating her to food and drinks. Kisame and Zabusa also forced her to partake of some barbecue. Tsunade just smiled and told the rest to tell her when the wedding actually took place.
On the way towards the Mist formal clothes store
"When will you tell her?" was all the Mizukage asked while Naruto and him were trying to find a suitable suit for him and a suitable wedding dress for his soon-to-be-wife. Naruto just stared at the tuxedo while the Hokage brought the store manager to them.
"Hokage dono? Do you have something in mind?" the Mizukage asked as the Hokage smiled while the store manager seemed distressed at being called by such high level customers.
"Indeed. Since the manager here has mentioned that his men can have the wedding clothes done in three days if they focus on it and four if they do it at a normal pace I thought we would ask for his services for the wedding dress for the bride and the groom." the Hokage mentioned while Naruto turned to look at them and much to everyone in the store's surprise he answered.
"This is one of the best shops of the Mist and it has a very good track record of being on time and precise in their works. So yeah I think I can take them up on their offer. What do you think dad?" Naruto mentioned while the Mizukage turned to the store manager.
"Very good idea son, perhaps today we should find your beloved and then bring her here to have her measurements taken. Is that alright sir?" the Mizukage directed to the store manager who was also the owner and decided that he could die happy at that moment as every last person who was part of that store fainted with excitement at such a high class order. The other people inside merely stood there surprised and found they should spread this news to the Kiri two hours later after Shizune came in to have her measurements taken.
Epilouge:
Dual Weddings
It was a wonderful day for the Mist as several days later after some time of planning everyone joined in the event of the century. It was a day that everyone in the Mist was invited as everyone rejoiced at the wedding that would make Konoha and the Kiri life long allies.
"I now pronounce you man and wife!" the entire village along with their Konoha visitors rejoiced at the wedding of two lovers.
In Konoha
"I now pronounce you man and wife!" was the announcement that the Shinto priest made as the two people that were once boyfriend and girlfriend were now a couple. It was then that many people were surprised that the two were now married, but the female seemed to hate the male.
"Kurenai chan?" a young brown haired man was about to say while turning to his 'wife'.
"Shut up Iruka. Just shut up." The red eyed woman whispered to him as the brown haired chuunin just scratched the back of his head and nodded. Kurenai sighed as she just allowed herself to rest on Iruka's shoulders while Iruka made sure to make she was comfortable by moving still. In the crowed a certain Snake jounin was smirking she sat and was eating some dangos.
Author's Notes: Hope you guys enjoy this one.
