"You know, that threat you made earlier when we first arrived is an empty one, right?" Uzumaki Masao said after he'd set his stuff down in the run-down apartment that had been allotted to him as his living space. The gate guard had been going around with his shirt off, and he had spotted a certain seal he hadn't entirely been sure had been there after the man had made his threat when he and his family had first arrived.
"Haku." the gate guard called.
"Yes Zabuza-sama?" a rather feminine looking boy responded after appearing seemingly out of nowhere.
"I know that you don't like violence, but if they even so much as look at Naruto the wrong way..." the gate guard ordered, not finishing his threat, but not needing to because the intent was clear.
"Understood." the boy named Haku said before vanishing once more.
After settling themselves in their respective apartments, Masao and his family gathered for dinner in his son's apartment later that evening. Rather than all of them being crowded in the same run-down apartment as he'd expected they'd be, he'd been given his own apartment, his son and his wife had been given their own apartment, his daughter and their husband had been given their own apartment, and each of his daughter's children had been given apartments of their own. He had thought that giving each of his grandkids their own apartment had been rather strange, until the new clan head pointed out that it would still be their apartment when they grew up, got married, and started having kids of their own. He'd just been giving them the apartments now to get that out of the way. The pint-sized Clan Hed hadn't seen any problem with them having their own apartments, because he'd been living on his own in one of the upstairs apartments since he was six.
"What do we do now?" his son Koyo asked once the meal's over.
"We stay." he replied. "What's done is done. If we leave now, we will have both Iwa and Konoha after us. There is also no guarantee that the situation we will find ourselves in if we do somehow manage to resettle elsewhere will be as good as the one we are currently in. We currently have a roof over each of our heads, a relative that more than likely won't let us starve, and the opportunity to find jobs. There is no guarantee that we will find such conditions again for a good long time."
"But the new head of our clan is..." His daughter started.
"The son of Uzumaki Kushina, and most likely her successor." he cut across whatever the girl was going to say. "He will of course be needing advice in the future considering his age, and will not be inclined to take it from us instead of his gate guard if we behave hostilely."
"About that "Gate guard" of his..." his son started.
"What?" he asked.
"I could be mistaken, but I'm almost willing to swear under oath that that man is Momochi Zabuza." Koyo replied.
"Momochi Zabuza?" he asked. Whoever this Zabuza fellow was, he was after his time, and therefore he wasn't familiar with the name.
"Missing Nin from Kiri nicknamed the Demon of the Mist." his son replied. "He was one of the Seven Swordsmen."
"You're right." he said after a moment's thought. "If you don't remember, back in Wave, Naruto's name was mentioned most often in conjunction with Zabuza's. The man is Naruto's first cousin. It's more than likely that the man defected just as we did."
"Great. So we're stuck here with the spawn of the Yellow Flash, and a Missing Nin from Kiri." his daughter's husband commented. He could understand why the man was upset, since he had lost a good number of relatives and his family's inn during the last war. "Why do you even allow the boy to be the Head of the Clan in the first place? Either one of you three could easily take the position from the boy and..."
"Get ourselves and your children killed, either by Konoha or by Iwa. If you remember correctly, it had been our former home that killed Koyo's son." he replied, talking some sense into the man despite the fact that he himself had thoughts along similar lines earlier. "The boy - who is the only natural born Konoha citizen amongst us - is the Clan Head for legal reasons as Zabuza stated before. Konoha and the Senju who founded it were the Uzumaki Clan's closest allies, and for as long as we do not "turn traitor" to the clan head and mark ourselves as renegades, they will protect us with their lives. The red spiral on every Konoha ninja's uniform that you so despise is the symbol of our village, the heart of the symbol of our clan, and the sign that the alliance still stands despite Uzushiogakure's fall."
His entire family stared at him when he'd finished his statement. It seemed that certain things had been forgotten when he had put away the Uzumaki spiral for the last time at the beginning of the Third Shinobi War. The red spiral that many had forgotten was the symbol of Uzushiogakure, as it had been most frequently seen on the Konoha uniform, had nearly marked his son and daughter as the enemy. The Uzumaki Clan symbol which had the red spiral of Uzu in the middle of it had been removed from his children's clothing for their safety when they were young. While his grandson had tried to revive the Uzumaki sealing arts, he had not worn the clan symbol even once in his entire life.
"You do realize what will happen if word gets out about who our clan head is son of." Koyo finally said after processing his statement. He clearly didn't like the situation that the family was stuck in if his expression was any indication. He didn't have to like the situation, none of them did, but they all would have to accept it and do their best to survive.
"What would you think would be the worst fear of anyone from Iwa?" he asked, already knowing the answer as a plan had formed when he'd come to the same realization his son had about their new Clan Head.
"The Yellow Flash returning from the dead." Koyo, his daughter, and his son in law replied automatically without hesitation.
"So, what do you think would happen if a blond from Konoha started popping about randomly on the battlefield?" he asked, remembering the plan he'd come up with to potentially keep his family safe from their former home. The plan that was so insane that it might actually work.
"They'd probably shit themselves and run, but..." Koyo replied, apparently not seeing where he was going with this.
"But what?" he asked.
"But, nobody's been able to recreate the Hiraishin. Thousands have tried. Even some of the best Seal Masters on the continent." his son said.
"All we've seen about the move is seals." he replied. "Seals are the Uzumaki specialty. If we can't make it, we can damn well fake it so well that nobody'll notice the difference."
"Why would you do that though?" his daughter asked, clearly not catching on.
"I'm not going to let us lose our home so soon after we got it, and that could happen if our new Clan Head dies." he replied. "He won't be dying on my watch. Not if I can help it."
Edited 2-27-17.