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The Sandaime waited patiently for the arrival of his students. It had already been almost a week since he had notified them through Konoha's fastest bird to come back to Konoha to talk about the matters of the war. The stacks of paper on his desk were piled neatly, all of which showing the names, date of birth, shinobi ID number, and picture ID of the many shinobi who died that day.

The Hokage grimaced when he thought of the tremendous casualties produced since the beginning of the second war. Hiruzen looked at his office clock and thought about the tragedies recorded that day in particular. Twenty-three dead, forty-five wounded.

Hiruzen could not get the fact out of his head that he was the one who ordered them to their deaths. From what he saw, all the shinobi who died that day had an average age of nineteen, with the youngest being fourteen. The Sandaime shook his head sadly. Not many of them had reached their peak because most of them were still chunin.

A knock from the door cut Hiruzen off from his thoughts. The aging Hokage anticipated the final arrival of his students. He sat up more straight and positioned his hat in a more comfortable position. "Come in," the Sandaime responded to the knock.

However, when Hiruzen read the four people's chakra signature, it was drastically different than Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya's. The door was opened to Sakumo, Kakashi, Naruto, and an Uchiha officer.

Hiruzen frowned, thinking that when Naruto was involved, serious matters would appear. "Is there anything wrong, Sakumo?"

Sakumo sighed deeply. Naruto's face was solemn. Kakashi expression was blank. The Uchiha's face stayed stoic.

The Sandaime took this seriously. He folded his hands on his desk after clearing the papers that were on it. Hiruzen repeated more forcefully, "What happened, Sakumo?"

Sakumo pinched the bridge of his nose. "This lady over here was to be sent to the Hokage for disrupting the peace in Konoha and destroying one of Konoha's properties."

A confused look flourished upon Hiruzens face. "Go on?"

The twenty-eight year old opened his mouth to say what had happened before.

"If I remember correctly, it's Naruto, right?" Sakumo inquired Naruto. Naruto looked at the taller silver-head and could not stop herself from gaping. Before, when Naruto had been interrogated, she had seen him when her vision was quite blurred, but she still saw the resemblance of him and Kakashi. Now, however, seeing him up close, they were almost like carbon copies.

"Y-es." Naruto cursed to herself when she stuttered a bit. By then, she had put her double, sixty-four egg packages on the tiled floor. The blond kunoichi sighed to herself mentally,'First, I'm just going to the super market to get eggs, then I'm caught up with Kakashi-sensei and his dad. Great.'

Sakumo now was next to Kakashi. An awkward silence began between them, with both unsure how to proceed. Naruto became annoyed as she did not like awkward silences and asked, "So he's your son?"

The oldest of the three answered blankly, "Yes." He then looked at Kakashi and sighed. "I heard what happened at the academy today."

Naruto couldn't help but overhear their conversation.

Kakashi did not answer Sakumo. Sakumo continued after a brief pause, "Kakashi, don't pretend you didn't hear me. I heard that you and that other boy—Obito, I think—got into a fight today." Sakumo shot Kakashi an unimpressed look when he did not answer. "You've been getting into a lot of trouble lately, Kashi-chan—"

A choking noise was heard from Naruto. Sakumo looked behind him and sighed when he forgot that he still had the whiskered blond behind him.

Naruto still could not get her laugher out of her system when she repeated the words her head, 'Kashi-chan, Kashi-chan, Kashi-chan...' Never in a million years should she think that her own feared sensei would be called Kashi-chan.

Identical navy eyes were now staring at Naruto. Kakashi, on the other hand, had a mixture of annoyance and embarrassment in his eyes. Naruto stopped laughing when a new type of awkwardness emerged.

Sure, she had no right to eavesdrop on the Hatake family matters, but she could not help it—it was inevitable. Both Kakashi and Sakumo looked at Naruto with unwelcoming stares. Naruto's smile became crooked.

Naruto accidentally stepped on the eggs on the ground as she tried to make her exit. She slipped on them and landed on the metal cabinet behind her. 'How the heck am I still a kunoichi?' Naruto asked and cursed herself. She knew that this wasn't going to end well, but still prayed to the gods that nothing drastic was going to happen.

Widened navy pairs of eyes saw the turn of events unfolding. Suddenly, as if all time was stopped, one after the other, the metal cabinets dropped as if they were dominos.

Never in his lifetime did Sakumo ever think that this would happen. It was like an unlikely and unrealisticcliché.

Everything grew silent as the fourth and last metal cabinet dropped. Tens of pairs of eyes were now directed on Naruto.

If things could not get any worse, the Uchiha Police Force soon became involved and went inside the local super market. "What happened here?" a policeman asked.

The market clerk showed the chaos leading up to Naruto. Sakumo was still shocked at the predicament and Kakashi's eyes were still wide.

The police looked at trio and walked up to them. The raven-haired man stated, "You three are coming with me."

When Sakumo finished with the story, Hiruzen could not help but ask him, "If all of this was all Naruto-san's fault, why are you and Kakashi-kun here, then?"

Sakumo answered, "We're supposedly the witnesses."

Hiruzen nodded and finally noticed the raw eggs on Naruto's right leg. He lit up his pipe and stressed mentally on how much paperwork this will cause him. This matter will also include the civilian councils, leading up to another three-hour-long meeting.

He sighed into his pipe and asked the Uchiha officer, "And how much was the damage? Approximently...?"

The Uchiha stiffly said, "The manager of the supermarket gave me this." He handed the small sticky note paper to Hiruzen.

"Twenty-thousand for the metal cabinets, eight-thousand for the food, and two-thousand for the broken tiles. This all adds up to thirty-thousand ryo."

Naruto stared at the Hokage, astonished. The Sandaime could not help but feel sorry for the girl.

She was in a state of shock. Thirty-thousand ryo was about a little over a third of how much she had brought with her, all of which was combined and received from her friends. Naruto felt a bit guilty to her friends because during the time of war, it was hard for money to come by—especially if you were the one taking part of it.

If she could, Naruto would pay for the debt easily. However, this was not her own money.

The words finally came out of her, "Wa-wait. Is there any other way I could pay for this?"

The pity the Sandaime felt before grew when he saw Naruto's unintentional puppy dog eyes. He showed his sympathy by saying, "Fine then, you will participate in community service for three months. Ten-thousand ryo will be payed for each month you work." He then looked expertly inside his paper stacks and handed a paper to Naruto. Hiruzen inhaled, then exhaled,"Your debt will then be payed for in three months."

A look of agony took presence on Naruto's face when she saw the paper. Hiruzen chuckled a bit,"Ever since this war started, more and more D-ranked missions keep popping up for some unknown reason." He took out a large and thick book from one of the chestnut-colored bookshelves behind him. "This book here is the reservation book for D-ranks."

Naruto's jaw dropped. Never in her life had she ever seen a D-ranked reservation book that thick. The Sandaime continued,"Since these D-ranks keep on popping up, that means we need more shinobi, usually genin, to complete these missions. But, since a mission-boom appeared, that means that there is a shortage on genin teams doing these tasks."

The Sandaime looked deadly serious to Naruto. Then, judging by the whiskered blond's expression, Hiruzen stated,"I'm sure that you are familiar with D-ranked missions..." Naruto cringed. Sakumo smirked while holding back a chuckle. Naruto turned to him when she "felt" his chuckle and glared at him with narrowed eyes.

Even though Naruto dreaded D-ranked missions, she still felt eternally thankful to her "jiji." She took the paper wholeheartedly and asked Hiruzen, "So I'll start tomorrow in the morning?"

Hiruzen nodded to the blond. "You know the drill."

This time, Naruto nodded to Hiruzen and inwardly cringed again, 'I have been doing D-ranked missions in the beginning of my shinobi career, dattebayo.'

"Good, you are dis-"

The window on the Hokage's office opened fully and three armor-clad shinobi with three other figures appeared next to Naruto. Hiruzen's attention was now on the six arriving people. "Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Tsunade... and?"

Hiruzen waited patiently until Jiraiya answered,"They're orphans from Ame. I was thinking on taking them in as students." The three orphans were panting hard from the run from Ame to Konoha. Hiruzen could tell that the children were not of shinobi status by the way they had seemed so unfamiliar from running long distances.

Knitted eyebrows erupted from Hiruzen's face. Hiruzen knew that this was Jiraiya's doing. Of all the ideas and actions his white-haired student had done in the past, this was probably the most unwise. There could be a chance that those kids could be spies sent by Danzo. They could be secret weapons used to infiltrate Konoha. The possibilities were endless.

Before the Sandaime opened his mouth to speak, Jiraiya said in morse by tapping his armor, "I could barely sense a chakra signature in them. From what I heard from the one with the orange hair, all three of them are orphans wanting to learn how to be shinobi. I also don't sense any malicious intent in them."

Hiruzen nodded and noted the confused look on the three Ame orphans. They must have been confused on why Jiraiya was tapping his armor. If the trio had been shinobi, they would have been fluent in morse code by the time they would have graduated into genin.

The Third Hokage sighed deeply. He looked at Naruto as he blew out the smoke in his pipe. This wasn't the first time he had let someone from Ame inside his village for a refuge.

"Fine. I'll let them stay," Hiruzen said. Jiraiya's cheers were cut off when Hiruzen continued, "But, who'll take care of them when you three will be gone for the next mission I'm assigning you?"

All three newly made Sannin looked confused at their leader. "We'll discuss mission matters later," Hiruzen said lowly. "But anyways, who'll take care of them? You can't take them to the orphanages because they're all filled. I don't know anyone who want to have three other mouths to feed—especially because we're in war and money is hard to come by." The Sandaime looked down at his papers. "And I know for a fact that you won't let them live in the streets."

The three children next to the sannin looked at Jiraiya. The white haired Sannin gave them an assured look. "Of course I won't, Sarutobi-sensei."

Throughout the Sandaime's and Jiraiya's discussion, Naruto saw this as an opportunity. "I'll do it!"

Everyone in the room have Naruto their full attention. She continued, "Well, I'm also from Ame..." The three Ame orphans looked at Naruto with delight. "So, I guess it feels like I'm the one who should be taking care of one- I mean three of my people."

Jiraiya saw hope in Naruto and winked at her. Before Jiraiya could do any more to Naruto, Tsunade punched him hard on the head and hissed, "I thought you said you'll stop with this disgusting behavior?"

Jiraiya whined, "I said I'll stop researching for a whole month!"

Tsunade's knuckle dug into Jiraiya's skull, causing him to writhe in pain. She whispered lowly, "Don't smart mouth me, Brat." Jiraiya managed to squeak out a "yes."

Naruto, on the other hand, was looking disgustedly at nothing in particular and could not get the fact out of her head that Ero-sennin just practically flirted with her.

The Sandaime coughed again to get the attention to everyone in the room.

All three sannin stared, puzzled, at the Hokage. Hiruzen coughed again and signaled that there were extra bystanders in the room. "I'm sorry, but we need to discuss now. Sakumo, Kakashi, and Naruto-san with the three Ame orphans, you're all dismissed. Oh, and Naruto, you'll be taking responsibility for the three orphans until Jiraiya comes back. Everyone I didn't call, stay here."

The ones dismissed saluted to the Hokage and left. When they left, Hiruzen turned to the Uchiha Officer and said, "Anything suspicious?"

The Uchiha shook his head. "No, Hokage-sama."

The Sandaime looked the raven-haired man in the eye. "Okay then, I need you to tell this to Karou immediately after I dismiss you. Tell him to assign three times as many spies as possible to Naruto-san." He continued after puffing out smoke from his pipe. "You're dismissed now."

The Uchiha saluted to Hiruzen and body-flickered out of the office.

Hiruzen blew out his smoke and set his pipe down on his desk, placing it upright so that it won't topple on the desk. "Mission report?"

Orochimaru spoke up, "All of them were killed, except for us." Hiruzen's eyes slightly widened. The number of shinobi he sent had been sixty-four, and all of them were dead. The Sarutobi sighed. More deaths would be reported that day; ninety-seven dead. That held the record of the most shinobi casualties in one day, and counting, in the second war.

This time, Tsunade said, "Hanzo was impressed, so he let us free with the exchange of one title: Sannin. Our new title is Sannin now, Sensei." Tsunade handed her ex-mentor the scroll that Hanzo gave them.

The wide-eyed look that Hiruzen showed told the Sannin everything. Hiruzen came out of his surprised gaze and said slowly, "This is too good to be true."

"That's what I thought also, but that's the official decree of Ame," Jiraiya said.

Then a bright and hopeful look cast on Hiruzen's face appeared. "From the beginning of this war until now, I think I'm now confident to say that I think we just might win the war, my students."

Yahiko looked amazed at his surroundings—Konoha looked gorgeous. Unlike his last home, Ame, Konoha was brimming with citizens. In Ame, the citizens had always kept to themselves and stayed indoors from the rain.

Another fine feature that Konoha had that Ame did not was that Konoha also had clear blue skies. Sure, Yahiko found out the rain in his hometown comforting, but he would honestly pick blue skies over murky rain. He couldn't help but smile.

Konan also had an amazed look on her face. She noted the liveliness of the village, thinking almost as if it was an impossible feat because of the current war. She questioned on why the village seemed so open, so light, and even so friendly. Comparing Ame and Konoha, Konan saw the major differences between both villages and continued on the road to where the blond woman was taking them.

Even though Nagato's bangs covered his eyes, he could could still see what his new village was going to be like. A small smile crept up on his face thinking about how everything will be different for the better.

Nagato was interrupted from his thoughts when he collided with a lithe body. The smile on his face vanished when he stuttered, "Sor-sorry."

The redhead looked up at who he bumped into and feared for the worst, only when the most amazing thing happened—the lady he bumped into patted his head and smiled.

With a gaping mouth, Nagato came up with the conclusion that the citizens—if not all of them—in Konoha had more morals than they did in Ame. In Ame, when someone like Nagato were to bump into someone more older, the younger person would either be yelled at or cursed to.

The three Ame orphans now had their hearts set on Konoha. Of course, a large chunk of their heart will still lie on Ame, but for now, Konoha will be their new home.

Naruto glanced over her shoulder to check on the three orphans. Nodding in approval, she then turned her head to her left and glared at the silverheads next to her. She could not help but ask, "Are you two following me?"

A chuckle escaped Sakumo's mouth, causing Naruto to narrow her glare. Sakumo finally answered, "No actually, our house is right there." He pointed to a large, one-story house. Naruto ignored him. Sakumo raised a silver brow and sighed.

That action seemed to get on Naruto's nerves as she finally said, "Humph, why're you so talkative now?"

"What do you mean?" Sakumo queried.

Naruto groaned. "In the supermarket, you were always answering me like 'yes' and 'no' It made me feel awkward!" She pointed rudely at him, "That's why I tripped!"

Sakumo looked down at her, making her more agitated. He sheepishly scratched the back of his neck and lazily eye-smiled to her. "Heh, sorry then. I was probably irritated because of someone's behavior today," Sakumo answered, obviously talking about Kakashi.

A gasp came out of Naruto's mouth as she gaped with narrowed eyes. 'What the hell! Kakashi-sensei?!' Naruto looked at the currently young Kakashi and back at Sakumo. How did that—she looked at Kakashi—turn into that?—she looked at Sakumo.

It was mind boggling to think that The White Fang was —she supposed— a lazy bum, just like Kakashi (in the future). She looked up at Sakumo and sighed with a slight sadness. It was almost like talking to Kakashi.

Passing by the academy, Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko looked in awe as students were playing in the playground. Konan could not help but tug on Naruto's shirt and ask, "Is that place a shinobi academy?"

Looking down, Naruto saw Konan and widened her eyes. 'Aww, she's so cute!' Naruto kneeled down and smiled gently to her, "Believe it."

The violet-haired nine year old glanced back at her two other friends and told them the news. That seemed to spark a large interest upon the group, causing their eyes to shine.

Kakashi, who was now on Sakumo's shoulders looked at Naruto boringly. His silver bangs framing his face got caught in front of his eyes. Kakashi struggled to place his bangs out of the way, causing Sakumo to sigh. The older Hatake placed Kakashi's hair behind his ears and then patted his head while seriously saying, "Next time this happens, I'm going to use bobby pins in your hair, Kashi-chan."

For the second time that day, Naruto spluttered as she heard the father-son duo's conversation. 'Kashi-chan... bobby pins?!' She laughed out loud while staring at the Hatakes.

Identical navy eyes were now staring at Naruto. Kakashi, on the other hand, had a mixture of annoyance and embarrassment in his eyes, very similar to the expression on his face earlier. Naruto stopped laughing when the same type of awkwardness emerged from the supermarket that day.

Then the whiskered blond pointed accusingly to the pair. "See! That's the awkwardness! This was all your guy's fault, dattebayo!"

Sakumo rolled his eyes and turned to the corner, finally reaching his house. He said, "Whatever."

Naruto gaped with her hand still pointing to where the two Hatakes were at. She exhaled longingly and groaned stressfully. Yahiko tapped Naruto on the back and said, "Ummm, weren't we going to your place or sumtin'?"

Konan gaped at Yahiko and slapped him across his head. "Owie! What was that for!?" Yahiko yelped while aiding his head by cradling it which his hands.

The purple-haired girl said,"Don't be rude and vulgar, Yahiko."

Naruto smirked toothily to the orangehead and violet while saying, "It's okay, and by the way, I was just getting to that, you little rascals!" She then coughed to clear her voice. "Now I heard that you guys wanted to become shinobi." The three orphans looked with anticipation to the older blond. Naruto continued, "Well, for step number one for becoming a shinobi: you must run like a shinobi. So last ones there is a rotten egg!"

Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan looked at each other and smiled. But just when Yahiko was about to run, he said, "But that's unfair! We don't know where you live!"

A smirk was produced from Naruto's mouth. She then added, "Step number two for becoming a shinobi: prepare for the unpredictable!"

And with a streak of golden light following behind Naruto's path, Naruto ran in a golden flash.

(A/N: For anyone that has questions for this chapter or anything that relates to this fanfic, please feel free to ask away. I'll try to answer all the major questions in the coming chapter or through PM. Anyway, thanks for reading!)