A/N: Well time for another chapter. Before I get started I want to thank everyone for reviewing. I also want to encourage everyone to keep review. Like most authors say, the more reviews I get the sooner I'll review. I want to reach 15 reviews before chapter 5. So keep them coming. Now to answer some questions:
White Evergreen asked how Ryo could expect "his" children to not notice the differences between them. Well the answer is in this chapter. Shii and Itachi will ask them this. White Evergreen also asked why I stressed Shii hating Naruto if I was going to have this happen. Well I can't answer that without giving away what I believe will be chapter 8 (that might change).
Well I now only have a couple more things to say. One last thing that I forgot in the last chapter is that I wanted to tell you how the jutsu could be disarmed. One way is to have the person affected by the jutsu to come in contact with something for their actual past like people, places, and I guess feelings too. Another way is dreams. The person could dream about their actual past, but I don't really like that idea so I'm not using it. It is now a month later so ages are as follows:
Shiisin: age 6
Naruto: age 1
Sasuke: age 1
Hinata: 10 months
Neji: age 2
Itachi: age 6
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I just own the plot and Shiisin. I don't care about my other characters. I can't care about them all! (evil grin)
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Chapter 4
It was your typical rainy day in the Village Hidden in the Clouds. Itachi and Shiisin had gone to the ninja academy. Neji, Sasuke, and Naruto wanted to go play in the rain, which was much to the dismay of their "mother". Little Hinata was content to nap, which seemed to be caused by the weather for rainy days were the only time Hinata liked to nap. Ryo was doing his usual Raikage business when Shiisin and Itachi ran in on him giving an assignment to a team of genin.
"Dad! Dad! Dad!" yelled the two boys before they noticed that they weren't alone. " Oops! Sorry!" they said embarrassed by their own rashness. They had never burst in on their Dad's business before.
"You're dismissed," Ryo said to the group of snickering genins. He waited until they left before he addressed his sons. As soon as the door was shut he asked his sons, "What is so important that you burst in like that? Couldn't it have waited at least a minute?" The boys shook their heads no in unison. "What is it that you want to ask?" he asked noticing the look that they gave him was based on that of questioning.
"Dad, are we real brothers?" asked Shii-chan.
"Wah?" asked their dad shocked by the question. After a moment that he let the question sink in he continued, "What do you mean? What gave you that idea?"
"Well, these kids in class told us that we couldn't be real brothers cause we look so different…" answered Itachi-chan.
"…Even though we have the same last name. That and we look so different from you and mom while all the other kids look at least some what similar to their parents," finished Shii-chan for his brother.
Their father chuckled at the brilliance of mere children before he decided to explain. "Both of you were adopted by your mother and me. You see, both of yours' real parents died an honorable death of a ninja. Your mother and I aren't able to have children of our own so your mom hates the idea of children growing up without parents when we so desperately want to be parents that we took you both and all of your siblings in. First, we took in Itachi-chan and Sasuke-chan, who are real brothers, for their parents died first. Then, we took in Shii-chan and Naruto-chan for your parents died next. Finally, we took in Neji-chan and Hina-chan whose parents died last. You'll get more siblings if any child of a shinobi is left an orphan. Do you both understand?" Both boys nodded. They each had tears in their eyes from hearing about their real parents.
"Don't worry about what other kids say. You both and the rest of your siblings are still siblings. No matter what, nothing can change that."
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One year later…
A man and his three children were in front of Ryo. The man was tall with sandy brown hair. He was wearing the robes of the Kazekage, leader of the Village Hidden in the Sand. The oldest of his children was holding on to his hand. The child was a young girl of the age of four. She had long blonde hair and green eyes. Her name was Temari. She was holding the hand of her youngest brother, Gaara. Gaara had flaming red hair and bright green eyes. He might have been holding her hand, but he stood behind like he was afraid. That made sense since he was two years old. Holding their father's other hand was his middle child, Kankurō. He had messy dusty brown hair with the same green eyes as his siblings.
"You made a wise choice Kazekage-dono," said Ryo. "Giving up your children for the sake of your village is the biggest sacrifice a Kage can make for his people."
"Raikage-dono, you are a bastard," replied the Kazekage. "No man should be forced to chose between his village and his children." He would've continued on accept three small children running into the room interrupted him.
They ran to the Raikage crying "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" When they say the guests they stopped in their tracks. "Daddy, what's going on? Who are these people?" they asked. Making up this group of children was a blonde haired boy, and raven black haired boy, and a girl with hershey brown hair.
The Raikage then motioned for the three children to come join him before their guests. They slowly walked forward and joined their father; they were now scared for their father usually motioned them to leave the room when they interrupted his business, but he had just made an exception that never happens. Ryo slowly answered his children's questions, "This is the Kazekage. He is the leader of another ninja village. His job is just like mine. He is here to form a 'friendship' with us."
It was when the children stood by their father that the Kazekage put a past event together with this. These were three of the six children kidnapped from Konaha. He had realized this by the girl's milky white Byakugan. The Raikage had been behind the kidnappings. Why would he do that? His thoughts were interrupted by a voice he wasn't expecting. "My name is Sabaku no Gaara," said his youngest child. He then noticed that the Raikage's 'children' had asked his son his name. What was going on?
"There you three are!" said a young woman that had just entered the room. It looked like she was the children's nanny. "How many times do I have to tell you three to not bother your father while he is working? Never mind. Say good-bye to your father. It is time for your nap." This remarked led to a whine from the three children as they left the room with their nanny herding them through the door they had entered from.
"Those were three of the kidnapped children of Konaha. Am I right?" asked the Raikage as soon as all three children had left the room. Without waiting for an answer he continued, " I believe I've changed my mind. Why should I hand over my children to someone who would just steal children instead? I would rather have a war start between our two villages then that."
"That's a foolish thing to say when you are in the halls of that village," replied Ryo with a smirk. "Very foolish indeed." As soon as he said this the newly closed door reopened to have three children with kunai pressed to their necks. Holding the kunai were three sand ninja.
"Do you really think I would travel into enemy territory with my children and not bring bodyguards? If so then you are very foolish."
"Do you think that I am the only ninja in this entire building? If so then you are the foolish one. For I had planned for such a thing to happen," replied Ryo as the three sand ninja were killed from behind saving the three. "Now finish him!"
The Kazekage was so shocked by what had happen that he reacted too slow. A kunai grazed his shoulder. He had to find a safe place for his children to hide. He had to protect them. Just as that thought pierced his mind, he realized that a shuriken was head towards Gaara. He reacted with out thought taking the mortal hit. The last thing he ever did was smile at his youngest son.
A minute latter Miki entered the room to find a couple of strange dead men, a sea of blood, and six crying children. She grabbed her own children and held them close. Glaring at her husband, she picked up Hinata and Sasuke in her arms and Naruto was carried out of the room in piggyback style. It was the normal way that they had come up with to carry the three. She then told a servant girl of hers to take the other children to the hospital to make sure they were all okay.
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A/N: Well that is chapter four. This coming up week and the next is going to be very busy so I don't know when I will be able to update. I'll try to make it as soon as possible if all my readers review. If you have a question, ask it. There are no stupid questions. Thanks for reading! Mel.