Chapter 6:

Back in Konoha

"Welcome back you two." The silver white haired man said, as he kept reading his book. then he noticed the other girl and her child "and, I welcome you to. The newcomers." He put down his book" I am Kakashi Hatake, the sixth Hokage." Ayame was getting bored of introducing herself, every three minutes.
"We'll Sasuke, Hatsumi." Kakashi smiled under his mask "you must be tired, come back in a week for a mission." The two made their way out of the office. "If I may, I came here to find Tsunade." Yumiko was surprised at the way Ayame said that, it was more of 'I don't care who you are but get me Tsunade.'
"As you wish" Kakashi had called in Naruto "take them to see Tsunade" The blonde smiled "Granny Tsunade! " He led the two out the building "Yumiko" he had gotten the honey blonde's attention "please help Kakashi while I am gone. we're going to see granny." Just like that Ayame was following this fool around until, from shops to house. "You know she doesn't like people, calling her that. Or implying she's old." The three made their way to a small pub. They entered and they were met with the smell of smoke and alcohol.
"COME IN!" a voice said from the other side of the bar. Naruto was the first one to enter, then it was Ayame with Ichiru in hand. "Granny Tsunade!" Naruto grinned and yelled out. Which was pretty pointless since she was sitting at the bar. "I keep telling you not to call me that, It's Lady Tsunade or the 5th. Got that!" Ayame had taken in her appearance. This was her Tsunade. "I see you're still the same."

Sasuke had walked Hatsumi back to her compound. The village hadn't changed one bit since the day she saw it, almost a year ago. "Thank you" before she walked into the gate she smiled at Sasuke "meet me, tomorrow afternoon. where I first met you." With that Hatsumi walked into the gated area. "Lady Hatsumi" a guard called out to her "your father would like to see you." Hatsumi looked back to see that Sasuke was already gone. "Alright"

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'What to eat.' Sasuke was starving, it was already lunch time, as he was thinking about eating. Someone had pounced on him, he looked back to see it was his blonde friend. "Nar-uto" his anger seeped past his lips. "Sasuke, care to join me and Yumiko? We are going to eat Ramen. She just finished Kakshi's paperwork. And Grandma wanted to be left alone with that blue haired girl." he started to feel creeped out " with red eyes"
"Naruto I never agreed to join you". Yumiko blushed lightly, "you know Hinata, wouldn't approve." Naruto chuckled and reassured her "why not, he's my friend." Like always the point went over his head. Naruto was dense, even Sasuke could see what yumiko meant, but Naruto had both people in hand and dragged them to his favorite ramen shop.

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"Father?" trying to get the older man's attention. . "How was your mission?" His stare never left his papers on his desk. "It was amazing." Hatsumi remembered that the answer was too bold: "It is successful, without a flaw." He placed his paper down "what was 'amazing' about playing babysitter to outlaw?" she felt the weight of that question, it had been a year without this "we completed some side missions in different villages were amazing. I even got to see mothers village. Did you know that there are machines that record your voice in a song."

Hiashi could see the sparkle in her eyes. It's been so long since he saw those violet eyes light up. "If I get bored of being a ninja, I would be a singer" he nodded and went back to his paperwork "you may go."

"It's you" the blonde woman said as she took a drink of sake "I was wondering what happened to you." She noticed the child "put him in that room" she pointed across to her "it's my spare room. That bartender set up for me"
Ayame nodded, and put her child in the bed. She came out to see the bartender pouring a cup "after these years, I thought you would stop drinking. "The blonde smiled. "Drink up" she had seen the bluenette shake her head "so what happened to you? And who's the kid"
Ayame sat on the small bar stool "my parents and I made it to the desert. We took cover in a cave, for shelter. My parents both went out in a dust storm. In short. They died. Kankuro found me and took me in." She had told Lady Tsunade about her work at the herbal store. "I found Ichiru in the same cave, and a year later I decided to leave."
Lady Tsunade spat out her drink "don't tell Sasuke convinced you to come back?" Which she earned a no. "Then? I sent several messages to have you return" Lady Tsunade had been intrigued "what made you come back?"

Ayame shrugged, "You could say I started seeing how much I relied on Kankuro and his family." She had asked the bartender for a cold cup of water "I'm here now. I need to find a place to stay. I also need to find work." The two stayed up talking, Tsunade even agreed to let her stay in her house rent free.