(A/N) TBNRkurama: *grins* You're welcome!

Approximately 2 months later

"Shisui-nii, it's fine," Naruto insisted, folding his arms as Shisui messed with his hair.

"It's your first day at the academy!" Shisui insisted right back

"It's not that important," Naruto muttered grumpily.

"Is too," Kyu and Kurama said at once, both out and lounging on separate chairs.

"Yeah," Shisui agreed, patting Naruto's head. "Alright, come on, I made a bento, and we can go meet Sasuke and walk with him."

Kurama jumped off the chair, stretching. "Come on Kit, let's go."

Kyu set aside the book he'd been reading and stood up. "I can drop you off, but then I'm on Shisui watching duty cause Itachi's on a mission."

Shisui pouted. "You make it sound like I'm a dog."

Naruto hugged Shisui around the waist, which was as high as he could reach. "You're much too tall for a dog," he told Shisui solemnly.

"Thanks," Shisui told him. "Come on, out the door," Shisui grabbed Naruto's bento from the counter, shoved it into his hands, and herded him out the door, Kurama managing to get onto his usual spot, Shisui's head, and Kyu close behind. Shisui shut and locked the door behind them, happily herding them off through the Uchiha compound.

"Hey Shisui," Sasuke said, waving from his spot leaning against the wall.

"Good morning Sasuke, all ready for your first day at the academy?"

"Hn," Sasuke grunted.

Shisui beamed. "Great! Come on, we don't want to be late."

"Hello Sasuke," Kyu said, nodding to the Uchiha.

Sasuke nodded to the other three, falling in next to them as they walked.

In no time at all, they were at the academy, children standing with their parents, all there for the first day of the new academy year.

Shisui said goodbye to the two boys and the fox, sighing as he watched them disappear into the crowd of children. "I'm gonna miss Naruto getting under my feet."

Kyu snorted softly. "You get him back at the end of the school day."

Shisui blew out his cheeks in a pout. "I know that."

Kyu shook his head. "Come on, we have things to do."

Shisui sighed again, looking forlornly at the academy.

Kyu sweatdropped, grabbing Shisui's shoulder and steering him away from the academy. "Come on, we are leaving now. Danzo's been more active, so summon a crow would you?"

Shisui bit his thumb, drawing blood. He slammed his hand on the ground, shouting "Summoning Jutsu!" One puff of smoke later, and Shisui had a good sized crow in front of him, looking at him curiously.

Kyu smiled at the crow. "If you wouldn't mind keeping an eye out for Danzo. We're trying to make it through the week without any missing eyes."

The crow nodded, and hopped up on the very distracted Shisui's head. It promptly pecked him, startling him out of his sadness at not seeing his younger brother. The fact that said younger brother was adopted simply did not compute to Shisui, who'd gotten hopelessly attached.

Danzo approached them fairly soon after they dropped Naruto off, claiming he needed to talk to Shisui. Kyu and the crow, named Kuro, insisted on coming. As they were in an isolated training ground, it quickly dissolved into a fight. Especially when ROOT ANBU started coming out of the woodwork. Shisui dealt with them, and Kyu and Kuro dealt with Danzo. Or tried, anyway. Kyu had, through hours of sparring and practicing with Shisui and Itachi, gotten really, really good at avoiding things. Especially things that would pop him. He snuck in hits when he could, and he and Kuro played an interesting game of keep away.

Shisui cursed as a ROOT nearly took off his arm. "We need some help!" He shouted to Kyu and Kuro.

"Can you summon a few more crows?" Kyu shouted back. "I don't want to attempt summoning on my own, I don't have enough chakra."

"I'm not going to ask," Shisui decided, trading a few blows with a ROOT, before jumping back to bite his thumb and draw blood. Another ROOT came after him, and Shisui just rolled with it, performing the summoning jutsu right on the surprised ROOT's chest, throwing the nin back as a small flock of crows emerged from the puff of smoke. "Right, You guys, half of you help me, the other half go help Kuro and Kyu."

The crows split, half beginning their assault on the ROOT nin, the other half beginning an assault on Danzo.

All of a sudden, three of the nin fell, staring off into nowhere. A dark shadow emerged from the forest, a glinting tanto in his hands. "This is what happens when I leave you alone, Shisui," Itachi sniped, cutting down a very surprised ROOT.

Shisui pouted, ducking under a swing, and stabbing the owner of the sword in the gut. "It's not my fault!"

"This time!" Kyu shouted, ducking a hit from Danzo. "Itachi! Get over here and help me with this guy! I can only do so much damage!"

Itachi glanced at Shisui as he took out a few more ROOT. Shisui nodded, and Itachi went over to try and stab Danzo.

They fought for a couple more minutes before Danzo called a halt. He stepped back as the flock of crows circled above his head. "Do not think this will work again," he said ominously as he disappeared into the shadows.

Shisui cursed colorfully. "That son of Orochimaru," he spat.

"That's not technically possible, Danzo is older than Orochimaru," Itachi pointed out blandly.

"Also, that's totally an insult to Orochimaru," Kyu agreed, smirking widely.

Shisui snickered. "Right, sorry. My bad."

"Care to explain how this happened?" Itachi asked, watching the crows desummon themselves.

Shisui rubbed the back of his head. "Uh, Danzo was following us so we decided to try and see what he wanted without any casualties?"

Kyu nodded, then sighed. "I am low on chakra. As Itachi is here now, I can safely dispel. See you later."

Both teens nodded to him, and he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Itachi sighed, rubbing his face. "And here I was, hoping to just crash in bed for the next day and a half."

"We can go get dango," Shisui offered.

Itachi stared at him for a moment, then sighed again. "That's not going to substitute sleeping for a day and a half straight, but it'll do for now. That, and some coffee."

Shisui nodded amicably, and the two headed off.

Needless to say, Sasuke was surprised when his brother came with Shisui to pick him up. Naruto wasn't, as Kyu had told him Itachi had gotten back and taken over for him. Kyu and Kurama had agreed with Itachi and Shisui that they were going to avoid informing Naruto of this, if at all possible.

Itachi was holding a cup of coffee, but didn't look to bad, he was walking on his own, so that was good.

Shisui was rather harried, hair going everywhere, well, more than usual.

"Shisui-nii!" Naruto shouted, bouncing up to him. "We got to show off all our cool ninja skills!"

Shisui smiled tiredly. "Did you now? How'd it go?"

Naruto bounced up and down excitedly. "I think it went well! I showed off my shadow clones, and the teacher got this funny wide eyed look, like the one you got when you first had me create as many as I could!"

Shisui smiled, and ruffled Naruto's hair. "Good for you, the more surprised your teachers, the less they'll bother you."

Naruto grinned, and nodded.

Itachi ruffled Sasuke's hair, and glanced tiredly at Shisui. "Can you manage for a few hours while I drop my report off at Hokage Tower?"

Shisui nodded. "You can even sleep for the next day and a half when you're done."

Itachi sighed slightly. "We both know that's not going to happen."

"Never hurts to be optimistic," Shisui said, grinning. "Alright boys, come on, we should get you home. Sasuke, I think your mother is making Tomato soup for you."

Shisui was sure Sasuke got stars in his eyes. "Yummy," he muttered reverently.

"And Naruto, we can go get Ichiraku's tonight," Shisui allowed, smiling at Naruto.

Naruto cheered, and started jumping around as Itachi walked, well, a bit more like staggered, away.

Shisui sent a shadow clone after Itachi, half to make sure he got to the tower safely, and half to see if the Hokage had anything to say about Danzo's attack.

Naruto continued bouncing around Shisui, babbling on about anything and everything. Shisui just shook his head and walked the two back to the compound.