Lee was on his way to find his son, eager to learn about how his test went. When all of a sudden, he was approached by a small orange toad hopping down the center of the road. The reality of the situation hit him suddenly as he watched the toad stick its tongue out to reveal Naruto's teleporting marking. Lee held his hand over the marking and felt the Hokage's chakra begin to flow into him, a second later he was sitting in the Secret Council Meeting Room which is only accessible via teleportation. Lee looked around the room, its walls covered with shelves housing thousands of scrolls containing every secret known to the village. Slowly, the other members of the council appeared in their chairs, except Naruto and Sasuke.

"Shikamaru, what's this about?" Lee questioned out loud.

"Wait for Lord Seventh to arrive" Shikamaru was passing out a blue scroll to each council member.

"It's just us here, you can call him by his name ya know" Kiba barked, with his feet up on the table.

"It is customary to refer to the Hokage as the Hokage, regardless of our prior relation to him" Shino noted, with his elbows placed on the table.

"Really? Does Hinata call him 'Lord Hokage' in bed?" Kiba smirked while glancing over to Hinata.

"Maybe that's his thing. Hinata?" Ino was laughing as she looked at Hinata for a response.

"Well... umm" Hinata's face was bright red from the question.

"Guys, let's try to get along here" Lee was attempting to quiet the situation before Naruto showed up.

Suddenly, Naruto and Sasuke appeared in their seats, and the Hokage glanced over at Ino before opening the scroll in front of him. The blonde quickly looked away, having realized that Naruto had heard what she said.

Konohamaru was standing behind the Twelth Chair, next to Mirai. He didn't sit in the seat out of respect of the person who was honorably given the position he was acting in. Still, he reached onto the table and opened the scroll that had been given to him. It was a basic list of points that would be hit on during the meeting with an instruction at the bottom clarifying that the scroll was at S-Rank Clearence.

"Okay, let's start" Naruto had his chin resting on his hands.

"What's this about?" Kiba asked, his feet still up on the table.

"Someone is targeting the Feudal Lords" Shikamaru announced to the group.

"That's Insane!" Tenten yelled from the end of the room.

"Someone is really doing that?" Choji asked, with a BBQ stick in his mouth. He must have been eating before being teleported.

"The amount of Intel you could extract from a Feudal Lord is... Scary" Ino said in a scared tone.

"What are we going to do about it?" Shino calmly questioned.

"Protect our Feudal Lord by moving him into safe keeping in the village and investigate the situation once we have secured his safety" Shikamaru noted.

"Have any other nations had... Issues?" Sakura asked from her seat across from Sasuke.

"The Land of Water had its Daimyo captured a few days ago..." Shikamaru announced, to the council's shock.

"Not exactly" Sasuke stood up and looked over to Naruto, who nodded. "I suppose the rest of you should know, he's dead"

Sasuke pulled a small black book out of his cape, and flipped to one of the pages.

Target: Daimyo of the Land of Water
Wanted: Dead
Bounty: 122 Million Ryo
Proof of Death: Head

Sasuke then flipped the pages, revealing the faces of all of the Feudal Lords of the Five Great Nations, along with some minor lords and their relatives. Some had capture orders, while others had assassination orders.

"They're just looking for the body at this point" Sasuke tossed the book to Naruto and sat back down.

"How did you find this?" Shikamaru asked while holding the book that Naruto had just handed over to him.

"Flip to the second to last page" Sasuke was smirking.

Konohamaru noticed that Shikamaru's hands were shaking as the Jonin commander held up the last two pages. It showed that there were bounties on both Naruto and Sasuke's heads as well... The amount was a staggering 300 million ryo each.

"So then... Someone came after you?" Sakura asked hesitantly.

"About 60 of them" Sasuke waved his hand, as to shrug off the amount "The leader had that on him"

"So they are even targeting the Hokage" Shikamaru placed his head in his hands.

"Odds are they won't move inside the village" Shino said.

"I'll be fine" Naruto stood up, placing his hands on the table. "More importantly, we have to keep the Feudal Lord safe"

"How?" Sakura asked.

"First, Konohamaru how many bodyguards can you assign to guard him?"

"Naruto-nii" Konohamaru coughed, realizing his mistake. "Lord Hokage, those guards are for your protection"

"Naruto, you aren't really going to assign members of your personal guard... are you?" Ino questioned.

"How many?" Naruto asked again.

Konohamaru gulped, going through the roster of 20 ninja assigned specifically to guard the Hokage in his head. "Seven, is the most I can do"

"Fine" Naruto next looked to Sakura. "Can you organize a medical team to be attached to those seven?"

"Yes" She responded immediately.

"Kiba" The Hokage turned his attention to the Head of Security. "I need you to arrange a safe-house somewhere in the village, preferably a highly patrolled area, but don't let the patrolmen know it's there"

"Got it" Kiba removed his feet from the table.

"Ino" Sasuke stood up. "I left a present for you in the holding cells at the Intel Building"

"How many?" She asked.

"The leader and a couple of the stronger ones" Sasuke sat back down.

"Other than that" Shikamaru stood up. "It's business as usual, we don't want to alert any other nations to our current predicament."

"Meeting Dismissed" Naruto announced, a second later Konohamaru found himself sitting behind his desk at ANBU Headquarters. He decided to assign the members to the Feudal Lord and direct them to see Lord Kiba. He looked out the window of his office, which overlooked the underground interior of the ANBU HQ. There were currently about 100 ninja training in the facility, Konohamru picked up the phone on his desk and called out for the seven members he needed.

Once they had all arrived in his office, he assigned them their mission.

"Report to Lord Kiba at the Security Center immediately, await his instruction on the safe-house's location"

"Yes, Sir" Each of the seven operatives said in unison before exiting the office.

Konohamaru looked to the door, to see Mirai walk in looking rather worried.

"Are you sure about this, Konohamaru-senpai?"

"Not much else I can do" The older-Sarutobi sighed while looking at his cousin.

Sakura found herself standing back in her living room, where she had been before Naruto's toad had come to teleport her. She looked over to see Sasuke walking in through the door.

"So, that was eventful" He was smiling.

"That it was..." Sakura looked down, worried about what was happening with the world.

"So, want to go out for dinner?" Sasuke poked Sakura on the head.

"After all that... You want to go out for dinner?" She would laugh if it didn't seem so insane.

"I haven't been home in three months" He frowned, Sakura had forgotten how sensitive he could really be.

"Too busy fighting off bounty hunters?" She quipped, both to lighten the mood a little and to see if he would reveal anything else to her.

"Anyways, shall we go?" The dark-haired man held out his hand.

"What about Sarada?" Sakura asked, concerned about what their daughter would do for dinner.

"I'll be fine!" Sarada yelled from upstairs, that girl had some killer hearing. Sakura was hoping she hadn't heard the part about bounty hunters, she had been careful to whisper it.

Sakura and Sasuke walked through the bustling nighttime streets of Konoha, It was a Friday night so the festivities were in full swing. Sakura picked out a small restaurant to eat at, and the two were quickly seated after the hostess realized who they were.

Sasuke looked up from his menu at Sakura "So... It just had to be his son..."

"Did you expect any less?" She giggled at her husband's obvious displeasure with their daughter's choice in boys.

"Not really" The dark haired ninja sighed, as he flipped to the next page of the menu.

"Are you really upset over it?" The medical-nin asked, as her husband turned his head to face out the window.

"No" He was smiling. "Bolt's probably just as much as an idiot as his father was... That also means he would go to the ends of the earth for someone, and that's exactly what my daughter deserves."

"Correct" Sakura responded, pleased with her husband's conclusion.

Bolt was currently picking through the scrolls in his father's study. There were hundreds of them, filled with every elemental style of jutsu, along with all sorts of sealing techniques that Bolt had no clue how to use. He was picking through a few different Water Style scrolls when his father walked in.

"What are you doing?" His dad asked, with his hands placed on his hips.

"Looking for a new jutsu" Bolt said, while looking at a scroll that read 'Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu'

Naruto looked over Bolt's shoulder at the scroll he had.

"Too difficult" His father shook his head.

"Why?" Bolt looked up.

"Look at the hand seals" Naruto pointed to the scroll.

"Woah... next" Bolt knew he had no chance of memorizing forty something seals. "Hey, dad?"

"Yes"

"Can you do all of these" Bolt asked while looking around the room.

"Most of them" Naruto nodded. "I started collecting them before I officially became Hokage, because I realized that the jutsu I had, while powerful, wouldn't be enough"

"How?" Bolt asked, intrigued by his father's reasoning.

"If a fire were to start in the village, It would take a certain type of Water Style jutsu" His father explained. "If a flood happened, I would need an Earth-Style technique to build walls to protect the village. As Hokage, I had to have tools at my disposal to protect the village as quickly and efficiently as possible."

"What's a good one then?" Bolt asked, after hearing his father's reason for learning so many types of jutsu, Bolt was curious to see what his father thought he should learn.

"Hmm" Naruto looked around the room. "This one" Naruto pulled down a green scroll.

"I'm bad at Wind Style though" Bolt argued, he never understood how it worked.

"You have an affinity for it, trust me" Bolt felt his father placed his hand on his head, as he passed him the scroll.

"Wind Style: Air Gun?" Bolt was confused. "What does it do?"

"I'll show you" Bolt heard his father say that, and a second later they were in the middle of a forest. There was a weird marking on a rock nearby.

"Where are we?" Bolt asked, not sure where his father had taken him.

"A forest that needs to be cleared for a new housing project." Naruto removed his Hokage hat.

"Why?" Bolt didn't get what that had to do with him learning a new jutsu.

"The hand seals are: Tatsu, Tori, I, Inu" His father explained while forming the seals. "Wind Style: Air Gun" Naruto leaned forward and blew air out of his mouth, Bolt watched in amazement as a violent gust of wind rushed out of his father's mouth tearing the trees in front of him to shreds. When he was done, there was a fifty foot wide path about 400 feet long cut through to the end of the forest.

Bolt gulped as he saw the resultant in front of him "Whoa"

His father smiled. "Now imagine that combined with Sarada's Fire Style"

Tatsu, Tori, I, Inu Bolt focused his chakra to his mouth and blew. He watched as some of the leaves rustled, but nothing else happened.

"Imagine two gusts of wind rubbing up against each other in a shearing motion, then spin your chakra as you blow" His dad instructed.

That advice didn't help much, but Bolt was thrilled that his father was actually teaching him something, so he tried as hard as he could to follow the instructions as closely as possible and tried again.

This time, he managed to chip some bark off of one of the trees and snap a couple of small branches.

"Not bad" Naruto placed his hand on Bolt's head. "Let's go home, you've got your first mission tomorrow.

"I want to practice some more" Bolt looked up at his father, who was smiling down at him.

"There will be plenty of time for that" Naruto put his hat back on, and seconds later Bolt was standing in his room.

"Good night Bolt!" His father said as he left the room.

"Good night, Dad" Bolt changed into his nightclothes and set his alarm for 5AM.

Sasuke was in the process of carrying his slightly inebriated wife up the stairs to their bedroom, which was proving difficult with only one arm. He hadn't expected his simple idea for a romantic evening to get so out of hand, but before he knew it Sakura was on her seventh drink. He could hear her mumbling.

"Are we gonna rebuild your clan tonight?" She asked, trying to be flirty but slurring her speech in the process.

"You're a bit... Drunk" Sasuke chuckled lightly, this wasn't how he had expected the night to go.

"What's that have to do with having sex?" Sakura questioned while being placed down on the bed.

"You're about to pass out" He could tell by her eyes that the woman had about had it.

"You're right... I am" Sure enough, she was out cold.

Sasuke tucked his wife into bed, and went to check on his daughter. He made his way down the hallway and peeked into her room through the open door. Sarada was fast asleep, she was practically falling out of bed while holding a book in her hand. Sasuke picked up the book, careful to place a bookmark to save her place. Then, he tucked her carefully into bed and kissed her on the forehead. He flicked the lights off and shut the door.

Sasuke went downstairs and poured himself a drink, which he needed at this point. He looked around the room and thought about when he first came back to the village, to find out Naruto and Hinata had been married while he was gone. He had to admit, he was jealous that Naruto had found someone to share his life with at the time. The Uchiha was also embarrassed to admit that it took him months to garner the courage to speak to Sakura, he knew he had been horrible to her over the past years and never expected himself to be worthy of her forgiveness. When she said she had forgiven him, he vowed to himself to always work to earn that forgiveness that he never felt he really deserved. He swirled his drink in his glass as he thought about the past that had led him to where he was sitting right now. Sasuke was certain of two things; one, he didn't deserve the wife and family he had but was eternally grateful for them and two, he didn't deserve the forgiveness of Sakura or the village but he would protect both of them with his life.

Kiba was sitting behind his desk at the Security Office, late into the night. He had finally picked the perfect location to hide the Daimyo and was waiting for the Lord's arrival. He was alerted of it when one of Konohamaru's bodyguards ran into his office.

"The Feudal Lord has arrived" The Eagle masked ANBU member announced.

"Lead him to the safe-house" Kiba instructed, while grabbing his coat and mask off of the rack. He had decided it was best that all operatives tasked with guarding the Feudal Lord conceal their identities due to the bounty on the man's head. It was best to dissociate him from anyone. He went out to meet the Lord while he was en route to the safe-house.

"Oooh, are you the leader?" The Lord questioned upon Kiba's arrival.

"Yes, we will be using code numbers as to protect you from association" This was a lie, it was really to protect the operatives from association with the Feudal Lord. "Call me, Zero"

"Yes, and what about the guards?" The lord held a fan up to his face.

"One through Seven, their numbers are painted onto their masks" Kiba pointed the Eagle masked member, who was number 1.

"Okay!" The Lord slapped his fan shut as he was escorted into the safe-house by Member 6.

"One through Four, erect a barrier around the house" Kiba instructed and the members scattered to the four corners of the property.

Once the medical team and the remaining members of the Feudal Lord's entourage had made it inside, an invisible barrier was erected around the house making entry impossible. The bodyguards would have to switch around so that they could sleep, Kiba decided to leave that up to them, they were the professionals after all.

"Report?" Another ANBU member appeared at Kiba's side, and he realized from the smell that it was Konohamaru.

"All clear for now" Kiba waved his hand as he walked away.

Not quite the "Romantic Night" Sasuke was hoping for, was it?

Special Thanks to: Angel-Rei-chan1 (Editor)