AN: Just a reminder guys. This is a fanfic and AU as well. So there are tweaks with their ages. Iruna and Itachis' ages are the same and you'll know how old they are from reading. Don't get angry at me if I tweaked it, it was necessary because of the plotbunny that made that bloody hole!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

POV: IRUNA

After taking a shower and changing into the only remaining set of clean clothes I had, I stepped out and into the hallway of the house. They had showed me the room I was going to use earlier, it was just across Kakashis' room and it was the same size as my old room at the compound.

Minato-san told me that I was not to make seals and scrolls in the living area, which is Narutos' play area it seems with the toys lying around. He showed me his study room, and it was as large as the living area. He told me I could use the other half of the room to make the scrolls and tags. I would need a table though I told him, and he said he'll have the anbu take care of it.

It wasn't the same house Minato-san and Kushina-sensei stayed in though, he must have moved in the previous months or his old place got wrecked during the Kyuubi attack. I walked back to the living, dining and kitchen area.

I sat on one of the dining table chairs leaving Kakashi to his cooking and I watched Minato-san play with Naruto. Minato-san was holding out a stuffed reindeer to him. Narutos' eyes were wide crawling towards the reindeer and ultimately settling into his fathers' lap. I smiled watching them it was cute.

"Iruna" I heard Kakashi call my attention.

"Yeah?" I turned to him.

"Can you help me for a bit?"

I nodded and helped him set the table. Once the table was set Kakashi pulled out a baby bottle from a pot and wiped it with a cloth before he called out 'dinner.'

"You hear that Naruto, it's dinner!" Minato-san said cooing Naruto who burbled out which his father took as an affirmative. "You must be hungry by now Naruto. Let's hope what Kakashi made this time isn't just eggplants and more eggplants!"

I giggled at Minato-sans' antics it was cute and Naruto burbled more his hands even going up. He's going to be an energetic brat when he's older. I glanced at Kakashi though he had a disgruntled look on him.

Dinner was pleasant. Minato-san ate while keeping an eye on Naruto who was on a baby chair with his baby bottle. Kakashi ate his curry and there was a small dish next to him that seemed like eggplants. I ate on my own pace and while eating somehow I wished there was some leafy vegetables in it. I've taken a liking to green vegetables it seems.

I was the first to finish eating and Naruto it seems had taken notice of me. His eyes were on me while he held his bottle. I returned the look and tilted my head to the side which he imitated and I slowly moved my head to the other side which he followed.

"Iruna-chan" Minato-san said and I turned my attention to the other bright yellowed haired person. "since you'll be staying here there are some house rules I want you to follow aside from what I mentioned earlier."

I nodded.

"You're staying here with us. Meaning you will have to take a turn on making dinner and breakfast, that is if you are not in the middle of survival training. Be sure to mention that Iruna-chan." So, he knows that I was in the forest for days. "We'll be alternating on who cooks—"

"Drruu" came from Naruto.

"—and I expect that you also keep the place clean like all of us. You're room is your responsibility as well, but we keep out of the others room. And we each have to do our respective laundries too."

"Bwah!"

"What about Naruto?" I asked turning to the said baby who was speaking in burble.

"Well, when I come back here that means Kakashi is off from his mission for a while. I handle Naruto when he cries in the night and morning before I go back to the office. Kakashi for the rest of the day."

I nodded. "Who cleans the dishes?"

"When Kakashi cooks I do the dishes. I'll do them this evening and I'll be the one to cook the next day. We can make it that who washes the dishes will cook breakfast and dinner the following day. How does that sound to the two of you?"

"Fine with me." Kakashi replied.

"Good for me." I nodded. "But what about the grocery?"

"I'll have the anbu do that for us."

I glanced at Kakashi and met his gaze.

"Iruna-chan why don't you watch Naruto while Kakashi prepares his bath." Minato-san said getting to his feet and piling the plates on top of the other.

Kakashi got to his feet too and went to the bathroom leaving me with Naruto by the table. I also got to my feet and went towards Naruto holding out a finger to him. He looked at it and grabbed it before he moved his hand up and down then a giggle came from him. Am I glad Sasuke was born, or I wouldn't know what to do with a baby.

After Minato-san washed the dishes he grabbed Naruto and went to the bathroom. Kakashi didn't return to the lounging area, but I did hear a door sliding close. I entered my room then and took out some of the scrolls I had in my bag. I placed the scroll containing my dirty clothes so I could start wash them tomorrow or maybe two sets of clothing for this evening. I didn't have any clothes for tomorrow and from the clock in the room it was only seven. It was enough time to wash up clothes before going to bed, so I at least would have something to wear tomorrow.

"Minato-san?" I peeked inside the bathroom Minato-san was just drying Naruto. He answered with a hum. "Erhm, is it alright for me to wash some of my clothes this evening?"

"Sure. I don't think Kakashis' going to do his. You can use the laundry room it's next to this room right at the end of the hallway." He replied.

"Can we get my desk at my house?" I asked recalling that maybe the anbu can get my desk at home instead of buying a new table.

"Your desk?" Minato-san turned to me confused.

"My seals and fuinjutsu equipment is in it, along with my seal notebook." I replied.

"Alright. I'll see if I can have it placed in the study room."

It felt like staying in a boarding house and I lived with different people. Kakashi liked eggplants the most and often made dishes that had eggplants. Minato-san liked carrots and sometimes there were carrot sticks during dinner. They both did have something in common in their taste about food.

It was my turn to cook dinner again, and I decided to make a bit of pumpkin soup instead of miso soup together with fried meat.

"What is this?" Kakashi asked when he looked at his bowl of soup.

"Pumpkin soup" I replied.

"Oh"

Kakashi stared at his bowl and Minato-san made small sips. They didn't tell me, but they're faces were showing.

"You don't like it." I said.

"No!" Minato-san said.

"Bwuh!" came from Naruto.

"I mean—" I don't know what they saw on my face, but I cut him off before he could say anything else. It was disheartening to know at the same time annoying to know they didn't like what I made.

"Too bad I made it then, but we can't waste food can we?" I excused myself then and went to the study room to continue with the rest of the tags.

For a couple of days, I was still miffed with them not wanting to eat what I made.

"Iruna" Kakashi said from the doorway of the wash room.

"Yes, Kaka-nii?" I replied blankly as I turned to him.

"You're not still angry with us are you?"

I didn't reply and turned back to what I was doing.

There was a sigh. "It was just food, Iruna."

Just food? "I'm going to camp out in the Forest of Death tomorrow." I replied. It was my turn to cook tomorrow.

I came back after ten days of stay in the forest. I just came in time for dinner too. I didn't know who made dinner, but it was omelette with lettuce and some meat mixed in. It was what I often made for breakfast. There was even dango near my plate together with pumpkin soup.

"You two can have the pumpkin soup and the dango. I don't want to eat it." I said when I sat down with them, even if I did like those two foods.

I was the first to finish eating and left for my room. I was just getting ready to sleep then when there was a knock on my door. I opened it to find Naruto was right in my face, I looked up at Minato-sans' face.

"Can we come in?"

"No."

"Iruna-chan, we're sorry about how we reacted. I should have told you that I don't like pumpkin so does Kakashi."

I stared at him, while Naruto stared at me wide eyed.

"I'll be sure to make it when I get annoyed with you two again." I said closing the door. They could have just told me instead of reacting the way they did!

I was already in the second month of my probation and after one more month I'll finally get back my weapon pouch along with my hitaite and other shinobi gear. My training continued as it should Guy didn't show up in front of Minato-sans' house as I asked him to meet me by the main gates of Konoha. When he wasn't present it meant he was on a mission.

Obito-nii sometimes comes over at Minato-sans' when he heard from their sensei I was staying with him and Kakashi. He played with Naruto, even though he pulled on Obito-niis' hair. Naruto found it enjoyable pulling on his black hair.

My only interactions were with Obito, Minato-san, Naruto, Guy and Kakashi that meeting a familiar face felt foreign.

"Well, well, it's the pipsqueak." Anko said next to Hayate as they approached me.

I paused in my stance and held the bokken to my side watching them as they approached me.

"Hello, Anko-san, Hayate-san." I said politely looking at them each. "Are you training here today?"

"Something like that." Anko replied indifferently. "How is it being an ex-Uchiha?"

"Anko!" Hayate glared at Anko.

"Aside from losing rights to live in the Uchiha compound? I can't speak to an Uchiha unless it was about a mission, but I suppose everyone knows that? There are also the glares but you get used to it. Overall, it's okay."

A tense silence fell on us as I stared back at Anko.

"I didn't know you were learning kenjutsu." Hayate said changing the subject. I turned to him wondering if he still thinks of me as his friend or not.

"My sensei taught me." I replied coolly. I looked up at the sky then, it was close to eight. "I will take my leave." I tilted my head to them before sealing away the bokken into a scroll and making my way back.

When I got back, Minato-san was just leaving and Kakashi was on babysitting duties already. It was my turn to wash the dishes and my breakfast was left on the table like the usual. Kakashi had Naruto by his play area while I ate watching them.

"Kaka-nii, do you still train?" I asked. "I know you're on orders to watch Naruto-kun, but won't your physique be strained?"

"I train early in the morning before Minato-sensei wakes up."

"Earlier than I do?"

"Yes."

I snorted, of course, he's an anbu. "Want to spar in the morning?" I asked.

"Guy isn't good enough?"

"He's good, but he won't always be around."

"Sure." He shrugged.

After breakfast and washing the dishes I went to the study room to make the scrolls or tags, but if I'm done with those I do chakra exercises in the backyard or do my stances or go to the library or get cracking with seals. My desk was in the study room two days after my first night at Minato-sans' house. I was glad to finally have my seals, along with my equipment and notebook with it.

Within the week I saw Hayate and Anko again, but I was headed to the Forest of Death then.

"Where are you off to?" Anko asked me.

"Training" I responded.

"It's late in the afternoon." Hayate said.

"I know."

"Won't anyone look for you in the night?" This was Anko, but there was no trace of worry on her face. There was just wonder. Still, tactless, couldn't get that in her mind that there aren't a lot that would care where I am. Maybe my family, but why would she even ask?

"Why would anyone look for the ex-Uchiha?" I asked her. "Some of the villagers and some shinobi don't like me."

Anko looked affronted and gave me a level glare. I laughed humorlessly.

"I don't see why you even speak to me. You have no business with me. If you'll excuse me, I have other things to do and you might as well not waste your time with me."

My goal is to get stronger and to be strong enough that Itachi doesn't have to sacrifice himself and ultimately screw up Sasukes' thinking.

That wasn't the last I saw of Anko though. She showed up in the training ground me and Guy use for sparring and where I do my kenjutsu stances. She would throw kunais and shurikens at me in the middle of my stances or just interrupt me. While it was a great way to train in a way, she had done that a number of times it got annoying.

I decided then to place a banishing seal just by the entrance into the clearing. Anyone who shows up would get sent to the main gates of Konoha. Of course, Anko while she was also rash caught on eventually and avoided the obvious entry into the training ground. She didn't limit it to the training grounds though.

I was on my back to the house from the library. There were some kids playing in the street I passed in, I was just near them when I saw a couple of kunais thrown my way. I made to move, but realized the kids nearby were in the pathway of the kunai. I could have deflected them, but I didn't have anything to stop the incoming kunai. I could try a seal, but with my restrictions I didn't try and gritted my teeth as the kunai hit my arm and shoulder.

I looked at the person who threw the kunais as I pulled on them and glared.

"You were supposed to dodge that!" Anko shouted from the roof.

I jumped to the roof Anko was on. I stood right in front of her.

"What?" She asked after a moment of me staring at her.

"Do you think?" I asked her.

"What?"

"Do you have a brain?"

"I do."

"Then, what kind of brain do you have if you think you can just throw kunais at me and not even think of who can get injured aside from me?" I asked coldly. "You could have hurt those kids."

Anko glanced over at the kids in the street oblivious to what happened earlier.

"So?

"Anko-san, I don't care if you try to hurt me or get back at me, but leave others out of it. Do they deserve to get hurt too when like those other kids don't know anything?"

"You're also a kid."

"I am a kid, a seven year old that is a chuunin on probation. Those kids aren't shinobi like me or you." I said dropping her kunais at her feet. "Did you forget about the shinobi code?"

"I…"

I didn't stay to listen and left. I don't have to listen to her excuses. I went back to the house with Kakashis' eye widening at me. I looked down at myself and saw there was blood on my shirt by the shoulder area and there were small trails of blood on my arm. The kunai had been sharp and left a small wound.

"What happened?" Kakashi asked me.

"I couldn't avoid two incoming kunais and got hurt." I replied passing by him and going to the bathroom. I had to clean the wound and patch myself up.

Kakashi sometimes glanced and narrowed his eyes at me. He was curious that was obvious, but he didn't ask further.

Anko at least had listened to my words and only came at me with kunais when I was the only one present in the street. I have to thank her though, because of her constant appearances and her always getting in my face. I figured out a way to place seals onto a person's clothes or someone close, of course she wasn't the best of the best so I would need a bit more of practice there.

A small brush of my hands onto her clothes was enough to place a banishment seal on her and send her away with a small push of charka onto the seal. Once triggered the seal disappears from the surface I placed the seal on. The other point of the banishment seal which I call 'the gate', Ankos' destination is the lake. She held a grudge by then because I kept sending her away.

At the end of my probation, I went to the Hokages' office wearing casual clothes. It was only a meeting didn't mean I was on a mission.

"I'm here Hokage-sama." I said mirroring the smile Minato-san had on him.

"Glad to have you here Iruna-chan. You're probation has ended and so far you've been on good behavior."

Not like I can if I stayed away from the village center, spent my time in the library or indoors. The library is one place most of the villagers seldom go to. He pulled out two storage scrolls from his drawer, one was a bit longer and the other was smaller, and held it out to me.

"It's not going to explode is it?" I asked, because the last time I took a scroll from Minato-san it exploded.

"No." Minato-san said. "I kept this one safe until you're probation is over. This contains your weapon pouch and your wristband. The other one is from Kushina. Tomorrow, I want you to come to my office at nine in the morning."

I was in my room unsealing my weapon pouch and wristband checking that it contained everything I had before I fell into a coma. The wristband I checked seemed frayed, meaning I had to replace them. I didn't want to throw them away it had the seal Kushina-sensei placed for me to gain speed. I suppose I can replicate them, I just hope I can do that.

I unsealed the other storage seal, and was I surprised to find a wooden box that was half the size of my desk. There was a seal on the lid and it was a storage seal. Just like with what I did with my desk. I unsealed the contents of the storage seal and another box came out. I opened it and found a tanto, the handle was black and the blade, when I pulled it from its cover, looked like glass but there was a faded color of red close to the guard. There were four scrolls inside the box the tanto was in and a book.

I lifted the lid of the larger box and I blinked at the large scroll inside. There was a piece of paper attached on it, and it was addressed to me.

Iruna, if you're reading this then I'm not on the same plane as you anymore. You have seen the storage seal on the lid of the box, right? If not, what kind of apprentice are you not to notice it?! If you did then you already know the contents. I'm leaving a scroll of the Uzumaki style to you, and the other scrolls are styles I think that would suit you. The book contains theories on seals from my clan. I'm passing that knowledge to you, I trust you with them. The tanto was gifted to me by the Sandaime when I became a genin, and now I gift it to you. The large scroll you see was in the box we found back at my home village. Jiraiya-sama confirmed it for me that it is a summoners' contract scroll, one I didn't know our clan even held. Make good use of it, if you decide to sign your name. Take care and don't show up on the same plane as me too early or I'll kick you back to the living.
—Uzumaki Kushina

I laughed at the last sentence, count on Kushina-sensei to threaten me. I folded the paper and looked at the large scroll. Kushina-sensei didn't mention what animal contract scroll this is, but what the heck it was a summoners' contract. I was thinking of asking Kakashi to let me sign a contract like him, but this is so much better!

I unrolled the scroll and found there had been eleven summoners before me and all Uzumakis. I signed my name, just my name next to the last one who signed. Now, I—

"You are Iruna-san?"

I stood on the roof of one of the houses in the residential area looking for a stupid cat. I'm a chuunin and I get D-ranked missions meant for a team consisting of three genin plus their sensei. I can remember what Minato-sans' excuse was when he gave me the mission scroll.

"To get you used to missions and help with your training."

I don't know which training, but it's annoying and I had no choice. If it weren't—a shadow casted over me then I looked up to find Mirus, the hawk I've met days ago flying in circles above me. I held up my arm to let her land on it.

'The cat you're looking for is sleeping on a terrace.' Mirus said, but to anyone else it would sound more of a screech. It was only me who can understand her.

"You could have nabbed the cat by its neck and dropped it to me." I answered.

It was felt like it was just yesterday that she appeared by the window of my room.

I stared at the hawk on my window sill.

"Did you just talk?" I asked feeling a bit silly while I said that.

The hawks' beak opened and I anticipated hearing a screech not a female voice. 'If you can understand me then yes.'

"Err, are you…ah… is this your summon scroll?" I gestured at the scroll I had just written my name in blood.

'It is in fact of ours, and you are our new summoner. I am Mirus, Iruna-san once called Uchiha Iruna.'

"How do you know that?"

'Word gets around easily, even to our realm. I am your guide.'

"Guide?"

'Yes. I will be teaching you what it means to be our summoner, and how you will gain your flock.'

"Sorry, what? Flock? I don't follow."

'You will once I've explained it to you. Now pay attention.' She said and a bit sternly too.

Mirus flapped her wings and flew away, but not before she told me. 'I will show you where it is.'

AN: Hmmm... a notebook filled with fuinjutsu, scrolls about other kenjutsu styles and a summon? What next then? A choice comes up and a challenge is handed, but there are still restrictions that chain our dear Iruna down.

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