Hey y'all, I'm back. Thank y'all so much for reading my little story here! I'll just get to it now.
Neji would have agreed with Tenten, but the opening of the door stole both his as well as everyone else's attention. Neji's eyes almost popped out of his head when he set his sights on three people he'd never expect to see. Sasuke and Orochimaru were standing right in front of them, but what really got him was the man standing in between them. The sage of the six paths.
Neji swore he'd never thought a room full with so many people could be this quiet, but then again he never expected to see The creator of ninjutsu with his own eyes.
"I've never been so confused in my life," Neji heard Shikamaru whisper, and he agreed with the Nara one hundred percent.
Hagoromo walked further into the room, shocked faces all around. Orochimaru and Sasuke followed close behind. Neither would admit it, but they both were confused and a little nervous being surrounded by so many powerful shinobi. The sage of six paths walked over to Tsunade, all eyes in the room watching his every move, "Alright, now we may start," Hagoromo smiled, sitting next to the blond Hokage on the cold floor.
Sasuke tried to take a seat next to The sage, but Hagoromo stopped him by reaching his hand out, "You'll be sitting with your team," he said, referring to team seven.
Shock flickered in Sasuke's eyes for a second, "But, they're not my team anymore. I am Orochimaru's apprentice; at least allow me to sit next to him," he said with an unfamiliar waver in his voice. It was hardly noticeable, but Hagoromo noticed.
He shook his head, "I'm sorry Sasuke, but you'll do as I say. Orochimaru will be sitting with the other sannin. Orochimaru whipped his head in shock towards the sage but spoke not a word. Instead, he went to take his place between Jiraiya and his old student Anko. Orochimaru nodded off his student, with hesitation Sasuke walked over to team seven and sat between Sai and Yamato.
In any other circumstance, Anko would have jumped into the air, ready kill her former sensei, but even she stayed obedient to the sage. All in the room were surprised, shocked, and confused over all that was happening. Sai, being the ex-root member that he was, was the first to break the sage's trance. He looked over to the Uchiha sitting next to him, "You're Sasuke, right?"
Everyone in the room, besides Hagotomo and Sai himself, were shocked back into reality as they turned their attention from the ninjutsu creator towards the pale ninja. Even Sasuke was a bit shocked, but then proceded as himself "I am, and you're Sai. The one who replaced me,"
Sai nodded, his fake smile still on his face, "You know, they care for you very much. I'm still learning about friendship and I've learned that it's much more complicated and complex than I first perceived. Your friends here," Sai gestured towards both Naruto and Sakura, "They've proven that to me time and time again with their love for you,"
Both Naruto's and Sakura's eyes were as wide as saucers. Neither of them could believe such emotion (Even if the emotion wasn't detectable) could come from their emotionally lacking teammate.
Everyone else in the room was once again surprised (They just can't get a break can they?), even the sage was a bit surprised. Sasuke stared at the painter for a moment and then the corners of his mouth barely tipped upwards, "Hn," was all he uttered.
"Well alright then," The sage of the six paths smiled, "I guess we should begin," he looked over at the Hokage and nodded towards the blond woman, "I'm guessing that all of you have realized by now that this is no normal meeting,"
The members in the room all either nodded or verbally agreed with a, "um-hm"
The sage continued, standing back up and walking towards the only wall in the room without any bodies leaning against it. Opening his cloak just a bit to slip his hand inside he grabbed what looked seemed to a silver orb and sat it down on the floor, "This here is a memory orb,"
Finally opening his mouth, Lee scrunched his bushy eyebrows, "Memory orb? What is that?"
Inoichi finally took his sights off of Hagoromo and looked over towards the green jumpsuit ninja, "Its the memories of some being formed into an orb, it's pretty much what the name implies actually,"
"How are you able to take the memories of someone and put them into an orb though?" Tenten asked, eyeing the round object.
Ino kept her eyes on Hagoromo, not even taking them off the sage to look at the silver orb, "It's a Yamanaka clan secret ninjutsu; It's my dad's secret ninjutsu," She lowered her voice on her last sentence, but with the room so quiet, everyone still heard her.
"Yes, it is. That's why I had a certain Yamanaka help me with this one here," The sage nodded.
"A certain Yamanaka? How long were you here before you requested my presence? You must have been here for some time to have Inoichi perform such a task," Tsunade asked.
"I didn't ask for Inoichi's help,"
"What?" The room questioned, except for Inoich and The sage.
"Then Ino…" Asuma began, looking at his student sitting next to him, "I didn't know that you already mastered the memory globe jutsu," he said, surprised his student hadn't informed him of such feat.
Ino shook her head, "Well, I-I have mastered my fathers jutsu, but it wasn't me,"
Everyone in the room was confused, so confused. First, they were called to such a large meeting so suddenly, then not only did Orochimaru and Sasuke walk through the door, but along with them came The sage of the six paths, and now apparently some other Yamanaka can perform ninjutsu that only Ino and Inoich had the ability to do.
Once again Hagoromo smiled, "I really am sorry for confusing and shocking all of you so much today," He started, "Let me explain why I'm here,"
"What will that have to do with the glowing orb-thingy though?" Naruto asks, still as blunt as can be.
"Naruto! Cha!" Sakura shouted, hitting the poor fox holder on his head.
"Ouch! Sakura!" He cried, rubbing his sore head.
Hagoromo laughed at the blond Uzimaki's antics, "This orb has everything to do with why I'm here actually," He said, "You all know who Kumi is, correct?"
"No," Everone said
Hagotomo shook his head, "Of course Kumi would keep her identity under wraps," The sage sighed, "Kumi is a chakra being, to be precise, the chakra beast of time and dimension,"
"There are only nine chakra beast though, the nine chakra beast that were formed when the ten tails was separated though," Kakashi said questioningly.
"Only nine chakra beast were created at the deformation of the ten tails, but Kumi the wolf chakra beast was alive before even I. She's the reason why I could even get here in the first place. I'm here to show you the future, and with Kumi being the beast of time and dimension I can show you everything she has seen in all of you guys memories" (I'm from the south, so saying you guys instead of y'all is painful to write)
Everyone's eyes widened, "The future? That's why you're here? Wouldn't that break the time-continuum or something like that?" Konkuro asked.
"I can't tell you why I'm showing you the future just yet, but you'll find out sooner or later and for the whole time change thing. I can easily just whip your memory if I wanted to," Hagoromo said," Now you," He pointed towards Ino," Yamanaka Ino, would you sit next to the orb up here?" The sage smiled, motioning for Ino to sit on the other side of the orb.
The blond Yamanaka girl looked shocked, "What," Ino asked, looking at The sage, he continued waving her over, "I, oh, um sure," She stood from her spot and walked over beside the orb, taking a pace next to it.
"Alright now like I said, we'll be able to see everything Kumi has sen, but to activate this orb we must use a Yamanaka able to perform the memory jutsu," The sage gestured for Ino to turn on said orb, " Now, we'll first watch the Yamanaka who helped me with this orb. Her name is Yamanaka Inoakari, daughter of Ino and, well let me not get ahead of myself. You'll all find out her dad sooner or later,"
Ino set her hands into her jutsu sigh and the globe began to glow, light shot from the orb and onto the wall. Ino settled her hands back down to her lap, watching the screen on the wall.
A girl of about 15 with green eyes and brown hair popped on the screen. Her brown hair was up in a ponytail, with both sides shaved. She wore a black, vest hoodie with the Yamanaka symbol in purple on the back. The brunette had black drawstring cargo shorts that fell just above the knee, and wraps (The white bandage things) from the bottom of her shorts to the top of her black shinobi sandals. She also had wraps from her shoulder all the way to her hands. The earrings Asuma gave Ino when he gave all of team 10 their matching set of earrings were on her ears. Her Konoha headband was tied right below her knee. She carried a leather backpack, along with a simple ninjatō.
The green-eyed girl held three different bouquets in her hands. Each bouquet was the same with the same three types of flowers in each one; multi-color gerbera daisies (Cheerfulness), hydrangeas (Heartfelt emotions), and tiger lilies (happiness).
She was walking into the cemetery. There she set her stood at the first grave she'd visit that day. The headstone read "Sarutobi Asuma".
Everyone's eyes widened, "I'm dead?" Asuma asked.
Kurenai looked towards her lover, tears threatening to fall, Asuma held her hand, squeezing tightly.
The girl sat down and set one of the bouquets on top of Asuma's grave, "Hey Asuma-sensei. It's Inoakari here. It's Wednesday, so I came to visit,"
Everyone stared at the girl, "That's your daughter?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah," Ino smiled just a bit, "I guess she is,"
Iori (Inoichi's wife and Ino's mom) held her husband's hand, "She has my hair," she giggled, referring to her brown hair.
Inoakari brushed her hand against the grass, "I know I never got to meet you, but I feel like I know you, ya know? Mom always talks about you, so do Uncle Shikamaru and Uncle Choji. I even talk with Kurenai-sensei about you sometimes, you've been gone for so long now, but her eyes still light up when she mentions you. Big sister Mirai- oops, I mean Mirai-sensai is doing well. You'd think after five years I'd be able to call her sensai now"
They were all watching the screen, "How long ago had Asuma been dead? She never even got to meet him and she's like what, fifteen?" Choji asked.
"He died quite some time ago from this moment of Kumi's memories, Akari had been visiting Asuma every Wednesday for years now," Hagoromo said.
"Hey, but she's holding three sets of flowers," Temari pointed out.
"You'll see,"
"Akari?" A voice questioned her. Inoakari turned around to see a red-eyed kunoichi standing behind her. She smiled and stood up from her spot.
"Mirai-sensai," Inoakari said, walking over to her sensai.
"I see you're visiting my dad," Mirai said, hugging her student.
"Dad?" Asuma questioned. Kurenai looked down at her stomach, cradling it. She hadn't told anyone yet, not even Asuma.
"Oh, yes. It's Wednesday after all, I visit all of them each week," She said, walking away from Asuma's grave and towards another. Mirai follows close behind.
"Oh, I know, and each week I find you here. It's a good thing I set the time for our training back today. You're a bit late, you know?" Miria added, stopping at another grave, standing beside Inoakari.
Nara Shikaku
"Shikaku?!" Inochi said, almost choking.
Sachi (Shikaku's wife and Shikamaru's mom) looked at her husband and back at the screen. Her heart dropped and she didn't know what to do.
"Dad," Shikamaru said, almost in a whisper.
Once again Inoakari sat beside the grave, laying her second bouquet of flowers down, "Hey uncle Shikaku, how are you?" Inoakari asked the grave, "Uncle Shikamaru is doing really great, so is Aunt Sachi. Uncle Choza is still as hungry as ever," The brunette laughed.
Everyone else laughed as well, even Choza, who was smiling fondly at the tiny brunette.
"Shikadai is doing well, of course, and then Ino-Shika-Cho three is doing well. Shikanori is great too, and Ino-Shika-Cho four is even doing better then Ino-Shika-Cho three. Miria-sensei's doing great," Inoakari said, bumping her sensai playfully, "Although I think she's a bit sad that we're not genin anymore,"
Miria rolled her eyes at her student, "Oh don't listen to her Shikaku-san, they haven't been genin in four years,"
"Four years?" Tsunade asked.
"She would have been about eleven when she became a Chunin then!" Inoichi proclaimed.
"Shikadai? Shikanori?" Shikamaru questioned.
"Ooh, looks like Ino wasn't the only one from team ten to have kids," Tenten said.
"I'll see you later Uncle Shikaku," Inoakari said, standing from her spot on the ground, Miria following.
"Last one," Miria said, her eyes soften, "Want to hold my hand?" she asked, holding her hand out.
Inoaskari stared at the last bouquet of flowers in her hand, "I never meet any of them, but even so, it still hurts," She said, turning her attention back to Miria. Her voice wasn't full with sadness, but confusion, "I just don't understand,"
"Wait, so dad had been dead for a while?" Shikamaru asked.
Hagoromo just nodded.
"My dad died before I was born," Mirai said, taking the green-eyed girls hand, "But coming here hurts too, but there's also this peace in me. As if my father is here with,"
"I die much sooner than I ever guessed," Asuma said.
The others stayed quiet.
"Let's go," Inoakari said, walking towards the last grave she was to visit that day.
Inochi sat there in shock. Where his granddaughter stood was his grave.
Yamanaka Inochi
"Daddy?" Ino said, looking towards her dad. Both her, her father, and her mother had unshed tears in their eyes, but none fell. They all knew the risk of being a shinobi, but it didn't mean it didn't hurt any less.
Akari sat down on the grass, still holding Mirai's hand and set her last set of flowers on the grave, "Hey papa, how are you?" She asked, smiling," Mom's doing good, she's been teaching Inoto a lot lately. He's now an official genin ninja, just passed the exam Monday. I'm doing well, and so are the others. Metal hasn't come off his mission yet, so Inomari is pretty upset that she can't see him. Inojin's great, he's been training with dad a lot, and Inokai is still as cute as can be! I still can't believe he's four! Seems time truly goes by to fast," She sighed, " Just like Asuma and Shikaku, you've been dead for a very long time. I wasn't able to meet any of you, but sometimes I wish you three were here," she said sadly.
The dames broke and all of team ten had tears streaming down there eyes, along with Kurenai, Sachi, Iori, Shikaku, Inochi, and even Choza and his wife Chao. None of them were balling, it was a silent cry.
Guess the three of them really didn't have they much of a future left, well at least not a future with them alive. There kids and grandkids would become their future.
"I have grandkids," Inoichi said, smiling through his tears, holding his wife close to him.
Mirai stood up and pulled Inoakari up with her and into a hug, "Let us go, it's time for training," she said.
"You're right,"
Ino stared at the screen, so much had happened. She found out she had a daughter and then she found out her father was dead in the future. She didn't know how to feel, and how did her daughter do all of that without even crying?
Alright y'all, thank you so much for reading and I hoped you enjoy. If you would, please comment. I truly enjoy reading your feelings and thoughts. Thank you!