(A/N) Hello! TBNRkurama: I'm glad you like it! Shisui will be getting a lot more screen time, trust me. Fox summoning contract, I was planning something of that sort, perhaps. When he's older. And er, Naruto's not gonna be a mini Kakashi for a few reasons… *whistles innocently*

"Lord Third, I wish to request that Naruto stay with me," Shisui said. "And if Danzo says no, I'm gonna go ahead and do it anyway."

Hiruzen smiled fondly at the three. Well, four, as Kurama was perched on Shisui's head. "I will allow it."

Shisui smiled. "Wonderful!"

Itachi nodded to Shisui. "Clothing shopping."

Shisui grinned down at Naruto, ruffling his hair. "Come on, let's go find clothes. And Ninja supplies. And groceries. I'm gonna need some more."

Naruto grinned up at his new guardian, then followed him out. Shisui made a shadow clone to remain in the room, knowing what was going to happen.

"Did you want to speak to me about something, Shisui, Itachi?" The Hokage asked.

Itachi nodded. "We discussed it with Kurama."

Hiruzen sighed heavily. He activated the privacy seals, and sent the ANBU out. "What did he have to say?"

"If negotiations aren't opened soon, we may not be able to do anything short of massacring all adults that know about it," Shisui's clone said darkly.

Hiruzen sighed again. "I was afraid of that. I am doing everything I can, but nothing is working."

Shisui frowned. "Should it come to that, I request that both me and Itachi are held responsible. We'll become missing-nin, and protect the village from the outside."

Itachi shook his head. "No. Shisui, you can help me kill them, but you can't take the blame for it."

"I can and I will," Shisui said firmly. "What are friends for?"

"Shisui," Itachi sighed.

Hiruzen sighed. "Should that need to occur, I leave it to you to make preparations for what you will do once you have left."

Shisui's shadow clone nodded. "Is that all?"

The Hokage nodded. "You may dispell."

The shadow clone disappeared with a soft poof of smoke, sending the memories to the real Shisui, who was arguing with a storekeeper about prices. He didn't even miss a beat as the memories came, filing them away quickly. "Fine, I'll just talk to Fugaku. Or Mikoto. She wouldn't be happy about this." Shisui smirked at the shopkeeper, and left, four-year-old Naruto in tow. Kurama had decided to dispell, as foxes were not smiled upon in Konoha. Especially by the civilian populace. Not to mention seeing one with Naruto, who was still considered the demon in human form.

Shisui shooed Naruto into an alleyway and crouched down in front of him. "Naruto, to make this go a little faster, I'm going to show you a jutsu. It's called Henge. It makes you appear different."

Naruto smiled brightly. "Will it make people not glare at me?"

Shisui sighed. "Yes, it will. Here are the hand signs." He showed Naruto the hand signs. "Picture yourself with black hair and black eyes, that way they'll just think I somehow picked up a stray Uchiha orphan. Or that I took Sasuke shopping for some reason. Silly kid refuses to socialize, so almost no one knows what he looks like anyway."

Naruto nodded, doing the hand signs, and ending up as a very cute little black-haired, black-eyed kid. "Did I do good?"

Shisui smiled. "Yep, come on, let's go try that place across the street. I thought I saw some orange inside."

Naruto's face lit up, and they crossed the busy street, Naruto running in immediately to look at the shirts, finding an orange one almost immediately. He held it up, and Shisui smiled encouragingly. He grinned and ran off to find some more orange things. Shisui followed him, selecting a couple of other clothing options, mostly in black and dark blue, both colors that went well with orange. He also grabbed a couple of burnt orange shirts, to contrast the neon orange Naruto was grabbing.

Finally, they managed to get enough clothes to last a week, plus a couple of extras, and paid for it.

The weapons shop was next, more so for Shisui, as he was running low on Kunai, but he grabbed a blunted set for Naruto to practice with.

Itachi joined them as they walked towards the actual grocery store, intent on getting actual groceries. Shisui had realized he did not have nearly enough food in his cupboards to feed himself, let alone him plus a growing kid.

They managed to make it out, and then into the Uchiha compound before Naruto's henge fell, startling an Uchiha who'd been walking around.

"Well, Naruto, why don't you go see if you can put most of your clothes into the closet in the room you woke up in. Keep one out to put on, though," Shisui instructed, putting food away. Itachi was helping him, organizing the fridge.

Naruto nodded, running off to put some better clothes on, clothes that weren't basically rags.

"He's such a sweet child," Shisui noted. "Really too bad the civilians can't tell the difference between a storage seal, and the kunai sealed inside, and have no respect for the Fourth's sealing abilities."

Itachi grunted.

"I mean, really, he's just a kid."

Itachi grunted again.

"I think we should take him with us, should the worst-case scenario occur."

Itachi grunted, then stared at Shisui in surprise. "Did I hear you correctly?"

Shisui nodded solemnly. "You probably did. He's hated by Konoha, and honestly, his new affiliation with the Uchiha clan isn't going to help anything."

"Lord Third won't like it," Itachi cautioned.

"So? He can't really stop us. And besides, we can bring Naruto back to be a genin for a little bit, if he really insists."

"The life of a missing-nin really isn't for children."

"Haven't you heard the rumors? I caught them from an Iwa jounin I ran into. He muttered something about one of their jinchuuriki not checking in, and the stupid guy being caught by some organization."

"Are they killing jinchuuriki? If so, why on earth are you considering them?"

Shisui shrugged. "We might as well look into it, maybe see if they're just catching jinchuuriki, not killing them."

"Asking Jiraya next time he's in town seems the best course of action."

Shisui nodded. "I agree. Kakashi might know some, he's one of the elite. We may also want to warn him of our departure with Naruto, should it come to that, we don't want him freaking out."

Itachi nodded. "Of course. Perhaps a note for Lord Third though, no?"

Shisui nodded, smiling wryly. "Don't want him stopping us. We would need some way to communicate with him, so we can pass information on."

Itachi nodded, and was about to say something, but was distracted by Naruto sliding into the kitchen in a neon orange t-shirt and dark blue pants.

"What are we doing now, Shisui-nii!" Naruto asked loudly, running up and looking at what he was doing, which was putting food away in cupboards.

Shisui pretended to think about it. "How about, Itachi, why don't you go pick up your little brother, and we can teach the boys how to throw kunai and shuriken properly."

Naruto's face lit up, and Itachi silently slid out of the kitchen.

"See you at training ground 45," Shisui called after him, naming the training ground they usually trained at.

Naruto bounced around Shisui, his mouth going nonstop. "Have you had ramen? It's only the greatest food in the world-" Shisui stopped him, a hand over his mouth.

"Never say that in front of Itachi," he warned. "Itachi will take it as an insult against his precious pocky."

"What's pocky?" Naruto asked, tilting his head.

Shisui blinked. "Never say that in front of Itachi either. Here, I should have a package of it around here somewhere." He dug around in his cupboards, simultaneously putting food away, and searching for the box of Pocky he kept around the house, should Itachi end up at his house cause he had another disagreement with his father. It had been happening with alarming regularity, and the Konoha police force even assigned him to keep an eye on Itachi.

He found the box, pulling it out, and handing a stick to Naruto, before putting the box away again. "Itachi loves the stuff."

Naruto basically inhaled the stick, and nodded. "Not as good as ramen, but it's okay."

Shisui laughed. "Just don't say that in front of Itachi. He'll take it as a personal insult."

Naruto cocked his head. "Why?"

Shisui tilted his head. "Well, he really likes pocky, and basically worships the stuff. Either way, we should get going, It's longer to the training ground from here than from Itachi's house."