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Chapter 11

Six Years Later

The doors of the Hokage tower opened and there walked out a woman around the age of 26, she has ankle-length, auburn hair, a top knot tied with a dark blue band, and with four bangs at the front. Two bangs are short, with one covering her right eye, and two are long, crossing each other on her chest, just below her chin. Her eyes are light green. She was dressed in a long-sleeved dark blue dress that falls just below her knees. She was Mei Terumi the new Godaime Mizukage of Kirigakure along with her two bodyguards Ao and Chojiro.

Now as the newly appointed Mizukage, she was trying to get new allies to further Kirigakure regrowth in strength and as well to erase the name that tainted it. The talks were going well with the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf and a couple more meetings meant for sure, there would be a strong alliance between the two countries, which brought a small smile upon her face.

She sighed deeply and smiled sadly at the village, it had been 6 years since she was last here but still her heart tightened from her loss of the four most important people in her life, Minato, Kushina, Akiko and her beloved newborn son Naruto.

Ever since that night, she had lost her child after only holding him once since then she had a soft spot for children from newborns to the age of 12, however she vowed to herself to never adopt a child since it would never be able to fill the void in her heart.

She remembered waking up that day after the attack when the doctor told her plain and simple that that all children under 1 week had died during the night of the attack due to all the deadly chakra in the air. When she was finally released from the hospital after a week, she could not believe her eyes even if she was seeing the village in ruins.

Mei clenched her teeth and hands making a fist; her eyes began to fill with tears as she fought them back from spilling. After six years, she had to accept that they were gone and never to return but the same could not have been said for Mikoto her other best friend.

Rumor has it that her second heir Jet Long was taken from the village by a mysterious hooded stranger whom the ANUBU believed to be the prime suspect was never heard from again, a true stab in the heart to a mother even worse than losing a child to the nine tails. After trying for five months to comfort her, Mikoto truly went cold right after and smiled very little anymore to anyone, the young Uchiha woman did her daily chores and went about her business, often times she wouldn't acknowledge the red head at times frustrating Mei greatly. Even her family members began to worry about her, she has gotten so depressed that she stopped eating to maintain herself.

Fugaku who rarely showed any emotion grew very concerned for his wife. Finally, Mei gave up and left her alone leaving the Hidden Leaf heart broken. The last she heard was that Mikoto had fallen very ill and into a deep coma after a year.

The physical wounds healed but the emotional hurt was still there. Very lost in her thoughts her two body guards looked at each other then back at her. Ao walked up to her placing a hand on her shoulder breaking the Mizukage from her thoughts.

"Lady Mizukage…is everything alright?"

Taking a deep breath and exhaling she put on a fake smile, "Yes Ao I'm just thinking about this new alliance between Konoha and Kirigakure."

She lied but Ao nodded in understanding seeing to buy this white lie. She told Ao and Chojiro that they were free to roam through the village and meet back at the Inn in three hours.

The two men nodded leaving their leader alone in the middle of a crowed street. Mei started walking towards the inn in the Centre of Konoha when a sound caught her attention, when she turned she saw three angry older men chasing a boy no older than six years old.

"What in the world?"

A brow was raised and curiosity got the better of Mei so against her better judgment she followed them from a distance.

Naruto was not having a good day today; first off, his day at the academy was hell to say the least Mizuki-sensei had made him spar with him in a one on one spar and from the bruises, he got it looked like he wasn't holding back. Second, he was on his way to get his bowl of ramen when suddenly three civilians started calling him out and throwing rocks at him and chasing him throughout town and now he was exhausted from all that running.

"COME BACK HERE DEMON!"

"WHEN I CATCH YOU I'LL TEAR YOU APART LIMB FROM LIMB!"

"DOG TAKE YOUR MEDICINE LIKE THE DEMON YOU ARE!" they shouted after him.

'Damn what did I do this time...' he thought as turning the corner at high speeds and looking back to see three civilians running at him. He made a left into an alleyway silently praying it was not a dead end, unfortunately if there was a higher being they had a very humorless sense of entertainment.

"We've got you now brat!"

"Nowhere else left to run." The three men laughed darkly cracking their knuckles as they started to pound him into a bloody pulp.

Too say Mei was shocked was an understatement to say that she was furious at what she was seeing was perfectly on how she felt right now. Three grown men were beating a little kid no older than six years old and probably a child that was not theirs were not holding back in the slightest. That wasn't the worst bit though she took in the fact that they took pleasure in doing it.

Mei had enough appeared in front of the attackers stopping them from continuing from hurting the defenseless child. They glared at her trying to raise killing intent Mei brushed it off returning her own dosage.

One of the men glaring at the woman yelled at her while trying not to faint from the killing intent that radiated off her, "Why are you helping that spawn from hell?"

"Why are you attacking a defenseless child?" This lifted Naruto spirits a bit finally someone was actually defending him or were they?

"He is no child!" the second one spoke, "He is a demon disguised as a child!"

"Yeah, now step aside lady unless you want to get hurt too!" Right when the man was about to strike Naruto Mei growled at this punching the third man in his chest and sending him flying into the opposite wall of a gift shop.

The two others were shocked, afraid and trembling after seeing their comrade unconscious on the floor. She looked at them growling dangerously they got the message and grabbed there fallen friend and ran for their lives.

Naruto giggled a little but soon he stopped when he saw that woman was staring back at him. He gulped as he started to shake like a rattlesnake's tail, she frowned but her expression softened as she kneeled in front of the boy.

The boy she had saved was sitting with his back against the wall trying to push back, she looked at his body, only to see his was malnourished and so skinny you could see actually see his bones. She got up to him slowly, only for him to push against the wall harder desperately trying to escape. She stopped a few inches away from him.

"It's ok little one. I won't hurt you…" she said in a small sweet voice as she smiled warmly at him.

She reached caressing his cheek while he flinched at her touch.

Naruto looked at her studying her until he replied "No need to lie, just get it over with so I can go home already!", she stared at him with calculating eyes wondering what kind of cruel village would treat one of their own like this.

She smiled again, "Were your parents? I'll take you to them."

He scoffed and looked down at this and replied "Demons child don't have parents".

Mei flinched at this confused, "Why do you call yourself that?"

"Because that what everyone keeps telling me!" he shouted with angry tears rolling down his cheeks

"And do you believe it?" She said softly pulling the young boy into a hug; Naruto relented at first but soon in enough buried his head in her chest.

"No…"

Mei picked up the blonde boy carrying him away from the alley, "Here let me take you to the hospital."

Naruto did not say anything as he clung to her neck as they walked away from the alleyway. When he looked up into the eyes of the Mizukage, he could see protection written all over her expression.

As they walked on the main road to the hospital, many eyes of the villagers gazed at them in disgust. She felt the intense glare from them, which she returned equally.

Whispers began to spread like wildfire,

"The demon brat has the woman under his control he's getting stronger!"

"Damn she is one hot sexy mama!"

"Maybe if I kill the brat she will thank me for freeing her."

"The demon is getting stronger we must corner it and kill it now!"

After hearing that she hugged Naruto closer to her chest, Naruto unaware of what was going on rubbed his head into her shoulders; Mei blushed sensing the pressure on her right shoulder.

"Poor thing fell asleep…" she brushed his hair out of his face. She stopped looking closely at his face.

'He looks like Minato...' She shook her head, the villagers thought she was seeing the child for who he really but were dismayed when she kept on walking, 'What am I thinking? My son is dead. But I wonder…'

Just then, a ball was kicked to her feet, two girls ran towards her. When she looked at them, she noticed that one had pink hair wearing a long-sleeve black shirt with tan pants while the other had red hair with a green short sleeve wearing pinks shorts.

They stopped right in front of her as the pink haired girl retrieved the ball that was at her feet. When they looked up, they saw Mei carrying Naruto when they were about to say something a woman voice was heard interrupting them.

"Sakura and Akiko Haruno come here this instant!"

Mei was taken aback, 'Akiko? But that's impossible she died during the Kyūbi attack…didn't she?'

Still clutching on to Naruto she looked closely at the red head girl when she turned her head looking at her parents. Mei breath was caught in her throat, 'This girl looks almost identical to Kushina! But if she's Akiko then the child that I am holding…must be…Naruto…my…son…'

The Mizukage didn't quite get a good look at the young boys face when they first met or when she was carrying hime just a glimpse but if she was right and the boy she was holding was her supposed son, then that means what she's been told six years ago was a lie.

'I can't jump to conclusion...yet.' She thought, 'I have to confirm my suspicious first.'

Quickly she ran catching up after the girl's mother cutting her off abruptly annoying the woman.

"Excuse me miss but I could not help but overhear is one of your daughter's name Akiko?"

"What it's to you?" she asked sarcastically

Mei narrowed her eyes. Looking at her from head-to-toe, she noticed she was a blonde-haired person with shoulder-length, hair with a single bang, which falls down into her face. She also has green eyes and wears a white qipao dress with three red circular designs at the bottom of the front of her dress as well as the back; the woman placed her hands on her hips.

"Well I'm waiting."

Keeping her irritation in check Mei gave her the cold shoulder, "Never mind I thought it was a child I knew, pardon for taking your time."

"Humph! Don't let it happen again I'm an important person in the village and I have not time to deal with interruption from foreigners." She looked at her two daughters, "Come along children."

The blonde woman noticed Naruto, "You shouldn't touch that trash people might stare." She said walking past them, she did not notice the death glare she was receiving from the Mizukage.

Looking at Naruto pale face Mei rushed to the nearest hospital.

LXD: And I am back after a few weeks of recharging my batteries from all the stress from college, I had three weeks off so I guess I owe you guys two chapters from before. Anyway, I decided to do a time skip because I did not want to spend too much time dwelling in the past. Hoped this chapter was enjoyable and worth the wait. Let me know what you readers think of this chapter till the next chapter. R&R