Title: Namikaze

Summary: In a world that is slightly different from the one we know Minato and Kushina live. Now the children of this world must grow up to become the amazing Shinobi we all know and love - only a little differently. Joined by a few new faces can the rookies navigate a world full of blood, politics, schemes, and mysterious enemies intent on killing them?

The twins weren't surprised to find out that Team Eight was called into the Hokage Office early that morning. There were a specialized tracking team - few people could escape the combination of Hyuuga, Inuzuka, and Aburame skill sets. What did surprise the pair was to find their own teams also being called in. Team Seven's specialty was having no specialty at all - aside from using all out force maybe. Team Five's focus had become seals - all three of them could use them to some extent.

After all of them gathered in front of the Hokage they could barely stand still either from excitement or nerves. None of them had been assigned to a mission of this magnitude - Team Seven's mission in the Land of Waves non withstanding.

Minato surveyed them critically making them slightly more nervous, "Finding Iyashi isn't going to be easy but I have faith that you can all handle it. Team Eight will be the spearhead of this mission. It falls on you to track him down. He hasn't been gone long and he isn't a shinobi so his trail should be easy to pick up."

Once he was certain the first three kids understood Minato continued on, "Team Seven will work as back up for the search team. I want you all to stick close together - we don't know what tricks he does have up his sleeve even if he isn't a shinobi. Those two teams are dismissed."

Minato was sure the kids could handle the task especially with their Jounin instructors with them. Akane watched them go quickly followed by their teachers. She had to admit she was a little disappointed they wouldn't be able to track the jerk-wad down too. Kogeki also seems a little let down if the the slump of his shoulders is anything to go off of. Rin ruffled the boy's already messy hair good-naturedly.

"What will we be doing then, Hokage-sama?" Yasashi has the good sense to ask.

Minato smile was light, "Glad you asked. You three will be joining Kushina-san."

"We're working with Mom?" Akane had to ask.

Minato nodded, "Right. Head over to T&I and they will direct you from there."

T&I wasn't really as scary as people made it out to be. In reality it was fairly lack luster. A simple gray building located far from the village proper. A tall fence surrounded it and the air practically buzzed with energy from all the chakra barriers and seals surrounding the building.

"Most of it must be underground." Yasashi said as they entered.

Kogeki gave him a curious glance, "What makes you say that?"

Yasashi shrugged but an embarrassed flush covered his cheeks, " It's just I doubt the whole of T&I could fit into such a small building."

Kogeki gave him an agreeable nod like he'd had the same thought all along. Rin lead them along a dim hallway never saying a word instead she opted - as she often did - to let them talk and figure things out for themselves. She really only ever interjected when they started veering in the wrong direction. Eventually they reached an cage like elevator made out of gray and yellow steel - it looked incredibly suspicious. Elevators were rare contraptions put to good use in a place like this. It was hard to escape in a slow moving thing like an elevator.

"Rin-sensei do we really need to get in that?" Akane questioned.

"Is it safe?" Yasashi added.

There were probably stairs somewhere, the building just wouldn't be safe without a set of emergency stairs.

"Ah, stop worrying kiddos. It's perfectly safe. Now get in." Rin chuckled shoving the two nervous Genin into the potential steel death trap.

Compared to their trepidation of the thing the ride down into the main part of T&I was uneventful. The elevator stopped once to pick up a nondescript chuunin who said nothing to them as he entered or exited at the next floor. Akane and Yasashi shared a look but Kogeki was just jazzed to be in an elevator.

They went down another set of floors before Rin said, "This is our stop."

Naruto yawned as his team made their way toward the Great Gate. Currently it was closed given the situation but Izumo and Kotetsu - a set of Chunin and the usual daytime guards - were there. Team Kurenai was shuffling about the place trying to pick up a trail.

"Why are we starting here Kakashi-Sensei?" Sakura asked.

"We want to make sure he didn't get out of the village already. Since Iyashi isn't a shinobi he'd mostly likely have tried to go through the gate. There are other ways in and out but only Shinobi can access those." Kakashi explained in a tired tone.

Team Eight seemed to have come to a conclusion while they were talking because the three genin convened with their teacher. They seemed to discuss something working through a few question each of them had before joining Team Seven.

"Hey hey! Did you find anything?" Naruto was excitable as ever.

Sasuke grabbed the orange clad boy and by the collar and dragged him back out of Kiba's personal space. The trio only shook their heads in answer. Apparently Iyashi hadn't even made it this far which meant they'd need to start at the building he escaped from. Six kids eyed their teachers because now that they thought about it Minato hadn't told them where Iyashi was being held.

"I guess we're all headed to T&I then." Kurenai sighed.

"Oh, Joy." was Kakashi's deadpan answer.

Apparently T&I wasn't a welcoming place even in the main offices. A couple little cubicles had splashes of color to liven up worker's personal spaces but mostly the place was just gray. They were greeted a by another Chunin who looked vaguely familiar. The young man looked around in a shifty paranoid manner and stuttered when he spoke.

"Oh," Akane though to herself, "it's the guy from this morning."

Regardless of his odd duck behavior he was polite and led them down a series winding halls which eventually led into tunnels. It got darker the further they went and their guide only seemed to get jumpier. It felt like forever before their reached their destination. Akane knew they'd made it though when her mother swooped out of nowhere to snag her and her teammates - including Rin - in a bone crushing hug.

"Aw, look what you brought me Isamu! A team of cuties!" Kushina cooed

The chunin jumped at the mention of his name he might have responded but Akane complained, "Mom your crushing us."

Kushina gave them one last good squeeze before releasing them. The Genin wheezed but after years of Kushina's special brand of love Rin seemed to be made out of iron. She didn't even seem short of breath. They'd barely caught their breath back when Kushina shuffled them toward a table. Before they knew it they were seated in plain metal seats and something was shoved under their noses.

"Can you guys guess what these are?" Kushina asked.

Yasashi and Kogeki instantly shot Akane perplexed looks. Akane looked down at the paper before her then back up to the boys equally confused. All three looked at Kushina for an explanation.

"Aw, not even a guess? C'mon." She prodded back in return.

Yasashi reached down and picked up his piece of paper. There was a design on it perfectly centered on the long rectangular strip of white. It was blocky, made of all straight lines, filled in with black ink. Kogeki twitched his identical sheet sideways and the symbol almost looked like a set of glasses - or handcuffs.

"Detainment seals?" He guessed.

Kushina smiled, "Bingo."

"I feel like whatever we were sent here to do is already done." Yasashi said.

"Mostly. Still it's a good learning experience. Especially for you three." She offered placating.

"Should we move on to next thing then Kushina-san?" Rin said.

Kushina nodded the affirmative and the two women led them to a long hall of cells. The hall was a bleak dark gray and barely lit. The place smelled too - a nasty mix of something foul and something like disinfectant. Thankfully they only wandered about halfway down before stopping in front of ruined cell.

"This," Rin said indicating behind her, "is the cell that Iyashi Teizoku was in."

Immediately all the kids could see one thing wrong with the cell. The bars were broken and bent into the cell. Akane wandered into it's confines Yasashi close behind. Kogeki remained outside the cell looking at something. Yasashi reached down scooping up a shredded sheet of paper.

"Hey Kushina-san what is this on the outside?" Kogeki question.

"Ah, good eye. Thats a a barrier seal - for keeping things out." Akane heard her mom say distantly.

She wandered to the back of the cell barely listening. Carefully she inspected the wall - her fingers tracing into the cracks that had caught her attention. A huge impact crater dented into a cement wall bigger than her head. She thought someone had broken Iyashi out but this thrashed that idea to pieces.

"Mom. Is someone after Iyashi?"