Hi everybody!

I just looked at everything I've been writing for the story and realized it was time for an update so, here it is! ;P

BTW For anyone that doesn't know 'Rai' will be used as a nick name for Jiraiya, pronounced just like in the name Ji-'RAI'- ya

Chapter 5: What about Sasuke?

Tsunade tried to compose herself after she dismissed the tracking team that she had sent after her most powerful Genin… and one of her most powerful ninja in general. Kakashi was in charge of the mission so he gave her his verbal report, telling her everything they'd found.

Flashback

Kakashi, Sakura, Hinata, Kiba and Akamaru were jumping from tree to tree toward the fire nation's border following Kakashi's summon tracked dog Pakkun. Kiba and Akamaru were getting déjà vu from the Sasuke retrieval mission and going in the same direction wasn't helping either. None of the group said much as their worry, anger and confusion settled in their minds about what their comrade had done. Kakashi was also having a bit of déjà vu; he just hoped he wasn't too late this time.

They arrived quickly as Pakkun led them to where most of them had been expecting since heading in the direction for so long, The Valley of the End. They all stopped swiftly though as they saw the damage and stared in awed horror. It looked like a bomb had gone off. The sides of the valley were mostly destroyed, the statues were the only things that looked to be intact almost as though the two monsters that had been fighting agreed to leave them be, only a few cracks here and there.

It was the largest crater that caught their attention though; Kakashi ordered everyone to spread out and search, including all his ninja dogs that he summoned as he examined the crater. Despite all the scorch marks over most of it he caught sight of some blood. He was about to call one of his dogs over to check if it was his student's blood but as he blew away some of the dirt around it, he stopped suddenly. It was a blood seal.

Flashback End

The team had stayed there for hours looking around for any sign of their comrade. They found a few scraps of his jacket and the blood seal that all the ninja dogs and Kiba agreed was Naruto's. Along with a few bits of blood that was confirmed to be Sasuke Uchiha's. But there was no scent leading away from the scene, or any other trail. They even tried looking at the bottom of the lake and found nothing more, and so had to return with the bad news. That all they knew was Naruto had met Sasuke at The Valley of the End, they fought, Naruto used a blood seal and now Uzumaki Naruto was MIA, Uchiha Sasuke had disappeared again and both could very well be dead.

Naruto Unknown Town

"Ugh come on! How can there be so many different kinds of baby food!" Naruto called out exasperated. A dark haired girl nearby that worked there heard him and giggled to herself before walking over to help.

"Can I help you sir?" the girl asked smiling. As he turned to her though she blushed taking in his appearance. He had sunny blond hair that spiked up cutely and sapphire blue eyes that were deep yet cheerful as if had been through too much but still had the heart of a child.

"Um yea." He replied brightly. "I was looking for baby food but… um I don't really know what kind I'm supposed to get…" he chuckled a little embarrassed. She smiled wider holding back a laugh.

"Well do you know how old the baby is?" she asked trying not to giggle at him. 'Sixteen.' Naruto thought smirking but decided to go with the more believable and more helpful answer.

"They were born earlier today." Naruto said keeping the 'more or less' off the end. The girl seemed to brighten at the news though.

"Really that's wonderful!" the girl chirped happily. "Well then this should be good." She said pulling down a canister of formula that said 'newborns' on it. Of course Naruto almost smacked himself for not seeing it. "You don't want to feed them baby food for a least a few months. Wait how many are there?" she asked realizing he'd implied there was more than one.

"Um two." Naruto said now looking at the diapers. The girl smiled widely.

"Twins! How sweet. Oh here you're going to want a few of these." The girl grabbed an extra canister of baby formula, a few packages of diapers, some bottles and a pack of pacifiers, then loaded it all into Naruto's arms. He had stopped when she said 'twins'. Where the two babies really twins, he really needed to get their DNA checked.

"Uh thanks." He said as he walked quickly to the checkout before he dropped anything. On the way out he spotted some stuffed toys and after thinking for less than a second grabbed two teddy bears. He got himself summoned back to Mount Myoboku within a few minutes, and quickly read the directions and made bottles for the two crying infants.

"Finally." Naruto sighed feeding the baby Sasuke, while Shima was feeding little Rai-chan. 'Man was that weird to think about, he was feeding his best friend turned traitor that had been trying to kill him turned innocent day old baby.' It was obvious Sasuke didn't have any memories from before; but since the jutsu had gotten a bit messed up Naruto had been watching both babies to see if they were acting weird. Neither showed any signs of any higher intelligence yet.

After having diapers put on, being bathed and bottle fed though Naruto was sure if Sasuke or Rai had any conscious memories from before they would have done something by now. It had only been a day though so Naruto had agreed with the two old toad sages to keep an eye on them for a little while just in case.

With Tsunade

The Godaime had summoned the entire rookie 9 minus Naruto and Sasuke, the old Team Gai, their sensei, and Iruka. Basically everyone that had been close to Naruto, luckily they were all in the village. She hadn't spoken yet preferring to act like she was looking at her paperwork as she tried to find the words she needed.

A few of the sharper ones like Shikamaru, Shino and Neji seemed to realize one of them that would normally be there was missing. Sakura and Hinata were looking down they already knew what it was about. Kiba knew as well since he'd been on the mission too but for once he said nothing. While Kakashi was actually waiting for the Hokage to speak without pulling out his perverted book.

However Ino, Chouji, Tenten, Lee, Gai-sensei, Kurenai-sensei and Iruka-sensei didn't seem to have any idea what was going on. Finally Tsunade spoke.

"As some of you know Uzumaki Naruto left the village three days ago either late at night or early morning to meet and possibly retrieve Uchiha Sasuke." The ones that didn't know looked stunned, but she continued before they could ask any questions. "A rescue and retrieval team was sent after him later that morning before nightfall they'd followed his trail to the Valley of the End and found traces of both him and the Uchiha there. However the trail ended there." The Godaime stopped for a moment letting everyone take the information in.

"Two days ago I sent another team out to examine a seal that the first team found." She had everyone ones full attention, but some looked more concerned as others looked annoyed the blond went without telling anyone. "What they discovered was the seal that Naruto had made was unlike anything our sealers have ever seen. Despite the fact most the seal had been burned off they could still tell it had been activated but don't know what it did. However they found one more thing, some blood samples that we thought were from Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha seemed to be… different."

"Tsunade-shishou, what do you mean 'different'?" Sakura looked up more, a small spark of hope that the anomaly would be a clue to finding her missing teammates. Kakashi was also curious what had slipped passed his ninja dog's noses. Tsunade frowned.

"I'm not sure yet. I've been looking the samples over and while each sample seems to have a full set of DNA for either Naruto or Sasuke it's almost like part of each them is clinging to the opposite's genetic makeup." She turned to Kakashi. "Which is most likely why your summons didn't notice a difference, they would mistake it as some of Naruto and Sasuke's blood accidently mixed into each other instead of something different." Kakashi nodded and the Hokage turned back to everyone else.

"Anyway I've called you all here because, you all know to some extent Uzumaki Naruto. Therefore I thought you should be the first to know he is as of this moment MIA." Most the people in the room felt their hearts sink, as they all knew that meant he could very well be dead. "Dismissed." Tsunade called and everyone started shuffling out of the room in a daze until everyone was gone but Sakura. The Godaime looked at her waiting for an explanation.

"Hokage-sama, I request permission to examine the samples that were found." stated the pink haired girl bowing her head slightly in respect. Tsunade would have smirked if the situation was less important but it was Naruto who was missing. He was the one that got her to come back to the stupid village, and she wasn't letting him off the hook that easy. They would find him.

"Permission granted. But be careful we only found a limited amount of the blood anomaly." Tsunade replied.

"Hai." Sakura said as she gave a quick bow before leaving to look at what she hoped would lead her to her last loyal teammate.

At Mount Myoboku

Naruto groaned; he was so tired. It had only been three days and he was mostly healed from his fight with Sasuke and his own seal sucking the life out of him. No it was those damn chibis'! They had started screaming at four in the mourning… again. Normally Naruto wouldn't be so tired but a combination of his body trying to heal and being woken up so early every morning and kept up late every night, well he was ready for a long nap. And it was only noon.

'Finally, they're both asleep.' Thought the blond teen as now both babies, Rai and Sasuke were sleeping peacefully together in their make shift bed made of pillows and blankets in the old toad sages hut. Figuring it was the only quiet he was going to get for a while he took a nap with them.

A few hours later Naruto awoke to Ma toad whispering his name. "Naruto?" she called trying to get his attention without waking the babies. The boy sighed and rubbed at his eyes yawning as he sat up.

"Yea?" The blond yawned again as he stopped rubbing at his eyes to look at the old toad. She smiled at him thinking about how young he seemed.

"You need to feed the babies they'll be up and hungry soon." Shima told the teen nodding to the boys cuddling up to each other in their sleep. Despite how tired he had been Naruto smiled happily at the babies, they were truly innocent. Without a care in the world other than to eat, poop and sleep, never thinking something bad would happen or they would be hurt. As he got up to get the bottles ready Shima asked him something that he wasn't so sure of.

"Naruto-chan? What about Sasuke-chan? You wanted to keep Rai-chan but are you going to keep him too?" The old toad asked watching him making up the bottles. Naruto slowed in making them as he thought.

"… I don't know… I mean in the beginning I was going to change the way Sasuke looked and give him to a family to raise away from ninja and was going to check in on him while I hid from the Akatsuki, but now he still looks the same. I mean he's younger yea, but if anyone recognized him they would either know it was him or think he was Sasuke's son. Either way they might want to kill him for revenge…" Naruto didn't speak for a long moment and the old toad left the boy to his thoughts as he fed the infants.

After he fed the boys they were already back asleep laying on their backs and leaning against each other. Naruto just sat there and watched them sleep thinking. 'What am I supposed to do…? I could still give Sasuke to a family away from the ninja villages and probably no one would find him, but if someone did he'd be defenseless… They'd kill him and this all would be for nothing. But I can't raise him… I already got the other me to take care of and I'm only 16 and I'm hiding from a terrorist group of S-class missing nins… and he's my best friend, as stupid as that sounds.

How could I even think of raising him, he's Sasuke.' Naruto pulled himself from his thoughts to focus on the infants sleeping in front of him, more specifically the small boy with dark hair. The boy looked so peaceful just like when he was sleeping earlier. Naruto had never seen the Sasuke he knew with such a content look on his face, even while sleeping he noticed on missions his friend looked troubled.

The teen sighed; honestly he had no idea what to do, what was right or wrong in this situation. Everyone was now calling him 'The Prophecy Child' the one that could bring peace to the world, like he was supposed to know all the answers. Yea right, but he knew one thing he didn't go through all this for nothing, and no matter where or how the two small boys in front of him grew up that he would keep them safe.

AND CUT!

For ppl that don't know Jiraiya means "Young thunder" Rai means "Thunder" :P

To

hedwigfan : Thank you and no they will not grow up with the toads, but they will know the toads :) However they will grow up as brothers you'll see! (And don't worry about your English, it's much better than my Spanish ^_^')

narutofan5 : lol thanks and yea the surprise is what I was going for, after all Naruto always was more likely to do something and have the outcome 'unexpected' than what he was trying to do :P The most surprising ninja an all ;)

rrdfhdtg : Thanks! :D