So first off I'd like to apologize to everyone. I was super confused about the timeline and Time Parad0x helped clear it up with me. This was all supposed to be happening during the Second Shinobi war where Kushina and Minato are children and in their early teens. I will be going back and changing the lines etc, and the summary. Once again my apologies for such a huge screwup.

Also a huge shoutout to Time Parad0x he's been a huge help with this Fanfiction.

So as for their ages in Chapter 4 to after the 3 year time skip

Kenshin: 62-65

Hoshiko:60-63

Akane:28-31

Satomi: 25-28

Mayumi:20-23

Naruto:12-15

Hisana:11-14

Ken:11-14

Kushina:11-14

Misaki:2-5

Uzushiogakure

It was early in the morning and Uzushiogakure was already thriving with activity. The Fishermen were bringing in the daily catch from early in the morning. The market was bustling with activity ranging from restaurateurs searching for the best goods, to simple housewives looking for ingredients to make lunch and dinner with.

Though in a grandiose building centered in the village. The tension was high in the air, people were scrambling around to tend to their many duties at hand. While the village was still thriving there was a war going on amongst the Elemental Nations. There had been for two years, and Uzushiogakure had not been idle. They were allied to Konoha and had to support them against both Iwagakure and Sunagakure. Kirigakure and Kumogakure both had been silent in the past two years and that's what worried Kenshin the most.

Reading a disturbing report, his grip had tightened on the parchment containing the written report. His grip had crumpled the edges of the parchment. Kiri and Kumo both were silent no longer.

"Strengthen our borders and put us on high alert! Order any Shinobi of Uzushiogakure back to Uzushio now!" Commanded Kenshin with a booming voice. The report he had just read informed him that both Kirigakure and Kumogakure were mobilizing their forces. A large portion of Konoha's forces are deployed along their Western front. Uzushiogakure herself had around 500 experienced Ninja on her Island still.

The Second Shinobi War had begun two years ago. They've been assisting Konoha by sending them some of their Shinobi as reinforcements to help combat the enemy. A considerable amount of their forces had perished as well. A single Uzumaki could very well change the tide of the battle if they were experienced enough. Though that acted as a double-edged sword, they had also been prioritized as targets. Leading to the downfall in many proud Uzushiogakure Shinobi.

The cause of the war was the economic disparity going through the Five Great Nations it had become an increasingly large problem between them. Many Nations including the Great Five had begun forming factions amongst themselves. All of them had begun building up their Shinobi forces after their heavy losses after the First Shinobi War to try to regain their strength.

As many of the Council Members had begun to do their duties. Kenshin let out a deep breath. Konoha had long been Uzushiogakure's Ally, though their foolishness had started this war. The months before now they had been Konoha had started a war with Kagerou Village. A small Nation bordering the Land of Fire, whether it was over Land disputes or resources it no longer mattered.

Hiruzen Sarutobi and some other Konoha Ninja had launched a surprise attacked that swiftly ended the war with a cease-fire. After a couple of weeks, another smaller Nation Takigakure attacked Kaguerou Village completely decimating the already weakened Nation. Other Nations had viewed this as Konoha becoming more imperialist. They too had decided to expand their borders, to take more land and resources as their own.

Iwagakure, Sunagakure along with Konohagakure herself had already mobilized their forces long ago and had many conflicts had been going on along each other's borders. Though they had mainly been fighting in Amegakure. Unfortunately, there was a considerable amount of crossfire with the civilians living there.

While their Whirlpools that along with their Fūinjutsu had become a great tool to prevent other Nations from attacking them out of fear. Their whirlpools had kept countless invaders out of their Village for years. Though he just had a gut feeling that something unfortunate was going to happen.

Taking out some parchment he quickly wrote orders onto it. Sealing the scroll he handed it to a nearby Chūnin. "Take this to Mayumi Uzumaki, you should find her in training ground 6." ordered Kenshin with a firm tone while staring at the young man.

"Yes, Uzukage-sama!" Exclaimed the Chūnin while giving a salute to Kenshin. After that, he was gone in a Shunshin. Kenshin let out a deep breath, he couldn't shake off the feeling that something unfortunate would befall his Village soon.

30 minutes before

Training Ground 6

Dashing to the right to dodge a hail of shuriken. Naruto's breathing was even, already on the move as to not let his adversary corner him. He just had to keep leading her onto the rendezvous with his team. Dashing through the forest for a couple of minutes, he spun on his heel and threw two kunai with explosive tags attached to them.

A figure blurred away from the explosions at an impressive speed. Naruto dashed away with equal sped away towards his teammates. After a couple of minutes, Naruto found his teammates crouched behind a tree.

"She's coming..." Voiced Naruto calmy to Ken and Hisana. The three of them were crouched in a circle, taking cover behind one of the many trees in the area. All three of them had grown considerably within the last three years, physically and mentally.

While Naruto was the strongest and tallest out of the three. He still retained his lean build fit for a Shinobi while standing at around 5'9". Extremely tall for an individual his age, Ken was just around 5'7", and Hisana followed them up at around 5'5". While Naruto was a prodigy, Ken and Hisana weren't very far behind him in some aspects. Sure his Taijutsu, and Ninjutsu skills were excellent. Yet, Ken's strategy had won them many engagements, and gotten them out of a pinch many times. Hisana's Iryō ninjutsu had saved both of them when they got injured. Kushina and Her would probably get along he thought, their medical skills were practically on par.

Early on in the training initiative, they discovered that Naruto and Hisana were both Sensor type Shinobi. Both of them were able to sense individuals' chakra signature from great distances. Though Naruto was able to differentiate who they were if he had encountered them before. He was even able to completely conceal his chakra signature from other sensors. That didn't mean Hisana was completely useless by any means. Unlike Naruto, she was able to tell if the individual in question was lying by fluctuations in their chakra.

Naruto's eyes widened when a reign of shuriken and kunai came from one of the many trees in the forest around them. They were coming for both Hisana and Ken. The three of them scattered to dodge the hail of weapons. 'She's faster than usual.' was the three young shinobi's consecutive thought.

Naruto rushed at Mayumi at full speed intent on taking her on and buying time for his team to execute their plan.

Delivering a quick punch towards her face, it was deflected and she swung back at him in retaliation. Taking a quick step backward he dodged the jab and drew a kunai and went in for a slash across her chest.

Mayumi quickly drew her katana to guard herself against the oncoming kunai. Naruto's kunai had impacted her katana as he had planned. Kicking her blade and using the force of it, he launched himself into the air just behind her. Mayumi wasn't idle by any means and lashed out at him with her blade, though a quick kick to the face rendered that useless.

Grabbing her and throwing her onto the ground with tremendous force. The sheer force of her slamming into the ground had flung her katana a meter away.

"Mou that hurt, couldn't you have gone a little easier..." Said Mayumi with a pout while rubbing her sore back. Standing up and coming face to face with a grinning Naruto.

"Are we done Sensei? I thought this was a test..." Voiced Naruto with frustration lacing his voice.

"We're just getting started!" Exclaimed his Sensei with a maniacal grin he and his fellow teammates had known well. Sweating now Naruto took a defensive stance and awaited the oncoming attack.

Present Time

"Well, you three have definitely grown." huffed Mayumi proudly. Their teamwork had been beyond excellent.

In the three years that they were her pupils. She had raised them from the ground up in their Shinobi skills. Well all of them except for Naruto, he was in a league of his own. She was sure he would become a force to be reckoned with in the future. If she was honest with herself he was already a Jōnin tier Shinobi. They hadn't gone on any missions she deemed crazy. They'd only done two B ranked missions and that was without her interfering with anything.

All of them were exceptionally well skilled. She was confident in all of their abilities. Yet sheer skill could only get you so far. For instance, an untested Genin with incredible power couldn't match up to a Jōnin simply because they were strong. Nine times out of ten the Jōnin would win from sheer experience alone. The only one with live combat experience was Naruto. Shortly after they had augmented him. That damned Council wanted to see what the individuals they were pumping money into were capable of.

After he had come back she could tell he wasn't the same anymore. He spaced out more often, always deep in thought. Everyone else he spoke with couldn't see through the mask he had created. She was certain whatever he went through must have been hell, he was only 13 for Kami's sake. Sure they mentally conditioned him for that lifestyle, but reading and being taught about war. Then experiencing it are two different things.

"Thanks, Sensei." voiced Ken and Hisana. Proud smiles on their faces. Both of them were taking deep breaths, that sparring session had taken a lot out of all of them. As the wind blew by the two had realized Naruto hadn't said a thing and was just staring at the sky.

"Mou Naruto Sensei was congratulating us you know..." Even at this Naruto didn't move a muscle, it was like he didn't hear any of them at all. Hisana had started reaching out with her sensory abilities, she could roughly tell how a person was feeling now. She felt lots of pain and sadness. It was horrible, she had no idea as to why he was feeling like that.

"Sensei, Naruto he's..." started Hisana with a worried expression on her face.

"You two go on ahead, we'll catch up. Don't worry about a thing." She said as the wind had picked up around them. The rustling of leaves could be heard throughout the forest.

"If you say so Sensei..." said Ken as he gave a quick worried glance at Naruto. Naruto was usually pretty joyful most of the time. Ever since he was missing for an entire week months ago he had changed a little bit. He had secluded himself most of the time now. While none of them had been able to visit their families. They had no idea if it was the same way for the other teams, maybe that was what is wrong with him. Just homesickness... Summarized Ken.

As the two had started to walk away Mayumi just looked at Naruto with concerned eyes. Walking up to him she placed her hand on his shoulder to get his attention. She felt him tense up almost immediately.

He had calmly turned to her and she felt him loosen up when he came face to face with her. His eyes showed a deep sadness though he still gave her a small grin.

"Hey, Sensei where'd Hisana and Ken go?" voiced Naruto as he looked around trying to find the two in question.

"They just left, are you alright Naruto?" Mayumi's voice full of concern, her eyes just staring at him. He may have been forced into the military but he was still her student. A student she cared deeply about.

Naruto just stared at her questioningly for a moment, contemplating how he would answer her question. Naruto sighed before deciding to respond to her inquiry.

"I'll be fine Sensei, it's just considerably more different than I thought when I was a kid. I knew the life of a Shinobi wouldn't be pretty, yet I still wanted to do it. Yet when you're on a battlefield, and you see what a man could do to another man. When you're the man committing the acts, it changes your output. Voiced Naruto with varying emotions filling his voice, his face downcast as the wind continued to blow around them. "I'll be fine Sensei, I just need some time." Naruto finished a wistful smile forming on his handsome face.

Mayumi had listened to everything he said intently, whatever kind of mission he went on must have been bad... The wind had died down and as she was just about to respond to him, a Shunshin had interrupted her. Naruto and Mayumi both had immediately adapted a face blank of emotion. If someone was coming to them, something big was going on. The individual who came out of the Shunshin was a young man, he was a chūnin they could tell because of his vest.

The man had cleared his throat before speaking in a clear tone.

"Uzukage sama wishes for Elite Jōnin Mayumi Uzumaki to report to him with haste." finished the individual.

"Understood report back to him that I'll be on my way in just a moment." voiced Mayumi with a firm tone, her face devoid of any emotion.

With this, the Chūnin gave a nod before he was gone in a Shunshin. Turning to Naruto, she gave him a smile that conveyed to him that everything would be alright.

"Well go ahead and head back to our team quarters, I'll talk to Uzukage-sama about something to help you out." Mayumi promised while smacking him on the back still giving that radiant smile.

Naruto blinked at his pretty Sensei. Shrugging he just couldn't help but return her smile. She was one of the few people he thought of as family. She was like an older sister sometimes, and a ruthless Sensei when required.

"If you say so Sensei, also just forget anything I said earlier. I'll be fine." giving her a thumbs up and a confident smile.

Mayumi gave him a questioning look, seemingly studying as to why he changed his mood so quickly. Shaking her head she just returned a small smile.

"We'll talk later Naruto." She voiced with a no-nonsense tone, her eyes seemingly staring straight through him. Naruto just gave a nod, both of them had gone through some hand seals before Shunshining out of the training grounds.

Konohagakure Hokage Tower

Like Uzushiogakure the Hokage tower in Konoha was also bustling with activity. People tending to the hawks that were used for communication from there to the frontline in Amegakure. Though in one of the rooms it sat four individuals the now Elders of the village. Hiruzen Sarutobi the Third Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves was sat with his three advisors and teammates. They were all in their late 30s now, though in the Shinobi life they were considered veterans. Having fought in the First Shinobi War alongside the Second Hokage.

"Is it true that Kirigakure and Kumogakure are finally on the move Hiruzen?" questioned Koharu a contemplating look on her face.

"Yes, it appears they've finally mobilized their troops, the only thing standing between Konoha and them is Uzushiogakure." Answered Hiruzen deep in thought on the matter at hand as well.

"We should rally some of our Shinobi to reinforce our Eastern Front." Voiced Homura.

"No, it would take to long to muster that many Shinobi. Hiruzen we must send a squad of Elite Shinobi to secure the Jinchūriki for the Kyūbi. Mito-sama age may start to affect the seal. We don't need a rampaging Bijū while we're in this war." Finally voiced Danzō his lone eye closed and a calm look on his face.

At this Hirzuen, Koharu, and Homura all nodded in agreement. While all of them wanted to keep the Village prosperous and its inhabitants well defended. Hiruzen and Danzō both wanted to make it the strongest Nation. So none could oppose her, and with a younger Jinchūriki one they could indoctrinate with their values surely Konoha would remain the strongest.

"We will send out Sakumo Hatake along with an Elite Team of Anbu to secure her, Uzushiogakure is our long-time ally. I will muster a force of Shinobi to protect our Eastern borders and should anything happen to her. To possibly assist in any evacuations." Commanded Hiruzen looking unfazed at the matter at hand. Hiruzen Sarutobi may seem like a very kind man, though that was all deception.

He was a Shinobi through and through, their Sensei Tobirama Senju was probably one of the most ruthless Shinobi to walk the face of the planet. The Second Hokage was respected for his prowess, but he wasn't very well-liked. Hiruzen as his successor saw that this ruthlessness didn't play well with some of the Villagers. Though they didn't care, Hiruzen figured that perhaps a more polite approach would help his reputation. It did as well not only was he liked and well respected the villagers wouldn't believe that he would commit cruel acts during times of war. When he did though he just blamed it on Danzō since he was viewed as a considerably more darker version of him. This Kushina Uzumaki that they had been informed of by Kenshin had the same Chakra chains that Mito-sama had used to restrain the Kyūbi. They had to extract her and he may have her fall in love with one of the individuals of her generation to produce a child loyal to Konoha.

While Hiruzen was deep in thought as were the rest of them. Though Danzō was thinking very hard. If Kirigakure and Kumogakure entered the war, Konoha would be fighting a war on all fronts. Surrounded, no matter how strong they were. They would more than likely suffer even heavier casualties which would take years to recover from. Uzushiogakure is renowned across the Elemental Nations for both their Fūinjutsu and Shinobi alike. Perhaps if Kumo and Kiri attacked Uzushiogakure. It would buy Konoha enough time to muster enough Shinobi to be able to fight them off, and if Uzushiogakure lived up to its reputation.

Kiri and Kumo both may lose a considerable amount of Shinobi trying to get rid of them. Though if some of the Uzumaki clan were to survive and make it to Konoha. It would bolster her power even more thanks to their incredible Fūinjutsu and vitality. If a Male and Female Uzumaki were to survive the better, a full-blooded Uzumaki child would be much better than a Halfbreed Danzō summarized.

"Perhaps Hatake's team should rescue not only Kushina Uzumaki but a Male Uzumaki as well. This would bolster our Military strength if we have full-blooded Uzumaki loyal to Konoha." added Danzō his lone eye staring at Hiruzen awaiting his response.

At this Hiruzen thought about it for a moment. It wasn't a bad idea, surely he could manipulate them both to become extremely loyal to Konoha and produce extremely strong Shinobi bolstering Konoha's military strength even more.

"When Hatake arrives I will tell him of this, though extracting Kushina Uzumaki takes priority no matter what. With this, we shall adjourn our meeting." Voiced the Third Hokage with a tone of finality.

Koharu, Homura and the Third Hokage had left the room leaving Danzō by himself. Danzō had made a signal and a masked Shinobi had appeared beside him. It was an ANBU from his ROOT division.

"You will give Kirigakure and Kumogakure this information regarding Uzushiogakure defenses." commanded Danzō to the masked Shinobi, only receiving a nod from the Shinobi before they were gone to do their given duty.

Uzushiogakure

Appearing on a knee in front of the Uzukage in his office was Mayumi. She had just been informed that she and Naruto would be his daughter's family guard. While she wasn't opposed to it, she was the one that brought up the idea that Naruto should be able to see his family. She had also tried finding out what mission Naruto had gone on, even the Uzukage himself looked disturbed at that.

"Is there anything else you require of me Uzukage-sama?" politely requested Mayumi still on one knee.

"No that will be all, thank you Mayumi-san. You may return to whatever I interrupted you from," responded Kenshin with a kind yet respectful tone, they were both from the Uzumaki clan. Mayumi was also one of his best Whirlpool ANBU operatives.

"By your leave Uzukage-sama," said Mayumi. With that, she Shunshined to her team's quarters to tell Naruto the good news.

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter sorry for the long wait.

-Kiege

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