Birthright

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. For anyone who is keeping track, here are the ages again: Arashi and Aiya are 12, the triplets are 9, Kenji is 8, and Hoshi & Shisui are 6. Anyway, I hope that you all enjoy this battle chapter because Chapter 25 will be the Revenge of the Parents Chapter.

Chapter Notation: I've taken some liberties with the Byakugan in this chapter to explain the blind folds. I'm not sure if it's cannon or not. Oh and if you think that Sagara got off too easily, wait until next chapter. Saskue and Itachi still have A LOT to say to him! I may also insert an explanation in the next chapter for why the battle went down the way it did, but this author's note is getting too long. Anyway, I did try to give as many people (and Summons) cameos as possible in this one! Happy reading!

Chapter 24

Sasuke, Hinata, Itachi, and Gaara all slowly made their way into the cave. At that moment, Itachi had never been more grateful that they were all ninjas. Being ninjas had allowed them to hone their stealth skills.

Skills that they were desperately going to need, if they were to save daughter and her team. Every footstep felt like crossing an ocean. Every second felt like an eternity. The walk inside the cave was pure Hell.

"I see." Itachi could hear a cold dark chuckle. "I bet you fancy yourself quite the chivalrous sort. A little Uchiha Prince?" Wait. Uchiha Prince?! "Well that matters not here. If you wish to save your sister though, I would advise that you sign the Contract." Not only had Aiya been kidnapped, but they had gotten Arashi as well!

Predictably, his foolish little brother was outraged. Itachi barely managed to stop Sasuke from flying at them. What was more disturbing though was the fact that Gaara had to stop Hinata from doing the same!

He felt the same way of course. Itachi wanted nothing more than to tear this man limb from limb, but rushing in wouldn't end well. They were just as likely to harm their children as they were the kidnappers!

"Believe me, Hinata." Gaara looks at her through Kami's eyes. "I understand how much you must want to kill that son of a bitch, but we have to thoroughly assess the situation first." His voice was scarcely more than a whiper, but Hinata must have heard him because "Tenten" nods slowly after a moment or two.

Itachi glances at Sasuke. "Did you hear that?" He didn't feel like repeating Gaara and every time they spoke, they risked being detected.

To his relief Sasuke nodded. What wasn't a relief was what Itachi heard next though. "Leave him alone!" I'm the oldest!" Oh yes, Aiya was definitely Sasuke's daughter! "I'm the one that you want!" She was very foolish, but brave. Just like his brother.

"And such a brave little princess." Someone laughs. "I almost feel guilty. I can scarcely believe the old fools were really this frightened of you that they were willing to pay me their entire lifesavings, just to ensure you never learned the Gentle Fist Technique."

"Kira and Kaiden." Itachi hears his wife his under her breath. "We should have killed them." That honestly shocked him.

He would have expected to hear Sasuke say something like that. Hell he had been thinking it himself, but not their sweet wife. Being a mother could change people though. It could make them extremely vicious when it came to protecting their children.

The real Kami seemed to be reading his mind. "You mean you went through all this trouble, just to get them to sign a Contract for a couple of dead people?!" Kami sounded just as shocked as he felt.

At this, even Gaara twitched. That was when Itachi knew that stealth wasn't going to be a factor for long. The normally stoic Kazekage was hanging onto his own self-control by a thread.

The leader just laughs. "Yes, I know it does sound rather irrational, but I can only get paid if they sign it." This was about money. Kira and Kaiden had paid this man to force their children to sign the Contract and to prevent them from learning the Gentle Fist!

Hinata's eyes scan the place. "They captured Team Seven and Team Eight." Thank goodness for the Byakugan. "They're all restrained. Chakra cuffs and blindfolds." They obviously weren't taking any chances.

This man was someone who was familiar enough with the Byakugan to realize it could see through solid objects, but chakra was necessary to activate it. Without access to their chakra, the blindfolds would work.

"Gaara, can your sand grab them and get them to safety?" Sasuke's eyes plead with the Kazekage.

The red head pauses, but nods. "I think so. It's worth a try." The chaos such an action would cause might be enough time to get them out of there, Itachi thinks to himself.

"Then do it." Itachi nods in consent and that's when all Hell broke loose.

Outside the cave, the Uchiha Children were ready to put their plans into motion. The fact they all had Byakugans save for Akeno worked in their favor. They saw the Kazekage and Kaemon, but managed to avoid being detected.

"Now!" That was until now!

"TAKE THIS!" Akeno screams as she slams her fist into the ground, creating a large creator and causing the earth to shake for a few feet.

Shisui notes that it was nowhere near as large as her mother. It was probably about at modest five or ten feet in length, but the shock waves such an impact caused would be enough to get the guards attention. At least that was his hope.

"YOU IDIOTS! GO AND SEE WHAT HIS HAPPENING!" Shisui's ears hurt slightly from the screaming.

He didn't miss it when about forty people ran out of cave. That was a lot, but then again, it was a large cave. Thank goodness for the Invisibility Jutsu! He was able to hide most of his siblings and the ones that weren't hidden, were hiding well enough on their own.

"OVER HERE! YOU UGLY DUNDERHEADS!" Amaya steps out from her hiding place.

Dunderheads? Seriously? Well whatever worked. Shisui couldn't deny that they were ugly.

Of course, he knew that he shouldn't say that. That was mean. Mother always told him not to judge people based on their looks, but these people had kidnapped his big brother and sister. So Shisui felt more than justified!

"You've got to be kidding me!" One of them laughs. "Another of the brats wandered straight into our laps!"

That's when Mei and Kaemon notice Amaya and rush to help her. Though she didn't seem to need the help. "I might be a brat, but at least I'm not ugly and stupid. Tsukuyomi!" Her Sharingan eye flashes as she traps a few of them in her strongest Genjutsu. "Never make direct eye contact with an Uchiha!"

"YOU DAMN BRAT!" Unfortunately, she had only gotten three or four of them. The others were now coming at Amaya.

"GET AWAY FROM HER! LAVA STYLE!" What Shisui hadn't counted on was Kaemon and Mei being there. "You creeps!"

Kaemon could use his mother's bloodlines just as his father could use his sand. Though perhaps with less finesse. Not that lava was something that one could wield with much finesse anyway.

Mei's eyes widen in horror. "Kaemon! Be careful!" It was understandable really, no mother wanted to see their child take on that many adults at once.

He glances back at his mother. "Don't worry, mother! I can handle this!" Or not, one of the thugs slams into Kameon and manages to cut his forehead with a kunai before his Lava kicked in.

His Lava and Boil Style required some conscious thought on Kaemon's part. It wasn't as fine tuned as Gaara's sand, but he was more versatile. So Shisui thought it all balanced out in the end.

"Hey! Get away from my sister's boyfriend!" Kenji charges over as he fires up his trademark attack. "CHIDORI!" Smack! It collided straight into the thugs chest.

Kenji was now out of Shisui's range. He couldn't cover him anymore, but now that their cover had been blown…it was time to get Arashi and Aiya out of there. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" And with that, his clone races off into the cave.

Back in the cave Hinata's eyes widen in terror. "Did you hear that?" Had someone just fired off a Chidori? "A Chidori?"

As far as she knew, it was only Kakashi, Sasuke, and Kenji who used that move as a trademark any more. Sasuke was standing right next to her, so it hadn't been him. Kakashi probably wasn't nearby. So that could only mean one thing.

"Kenji!" Sasuke's eyes widen in recognition.

Itachi blinks. "You don't' think that Kenji was somehow able to track us here, do you?" Hinata was just as stunned as her husbands.

It didn't seem likely. Kenji was very bright, but she doubted any eight year old was going to be able to pull this off. At least not by themselves.

"Something got their attention and quickly." Gaara's eyes scan the place warily. "The sound of an earthquake. I don't think Kenji can do that."

Hinata shakes her head. No that wasn't one of Kenji's abilities. That implied he wasn't alone. She wasn't sure whether that was supposed to make her feel better or worse though.

"We have no choice, but to split up. Two of us can go and check on the battle." Itachi sighs and shakes his head. "Two of us can work on freeing Team Seven and Team Eight."

Hinata nods in agreement. It had been a miracle that they had managed to stay hidden when all the thugs had rushed outside. There had to at least two or three dozen of them. Maybe, more.

"I'll go with Itachi to the front." Gaara looks at Hinata and Sasuke. "You rescue the others." And with that, Itachi and Gaara head off towards the front of the cave.

"He is such a Kage." Sasuke rolls his eyes. "Making decisions without consulting us about it."

Hinata shakes her head. "That may be true, but do you disagree with the assignments?"

"Well no, but that's not the point. He's become so bossy." Sasuke shakes his head as he flits towards the back of the cave with Hinata.

Back outside, Miya was ready to fight. "SCORCH STYLE!" Several series of strange colored fireballs are hurled at the enemy.

One of them makes impact with a thug and it soon became clear what Scorch Style meant. The combined fire and wind techniques heated up the attack to such a point that it literally evaporated all the water in that person's body, leaving a lifeless and very dry husk behind.

"YOU STUPID BITCH!" A thug hurls dozens of kunais at Miya striking her.

Kaemon's eyes narrow at that. He was about to go and help the middle triplet since Kenji had managed to get him out of trouble, but Nara was on the case!

"Earth Style: Rock Gun Technique!" Nara opens her mouth and bullet-sized bits of rock were ejected straight at the ninja attacking Miya. "Take that!" When they landed, the bullets transformed into large boulders, crushing her sister's attacker to death.

Kaemon blinks. "I thought that was a Stone Village Technique?" Where did she learn it?

"It is." Nara smiles serenely. "I copied it!"

Miya beams at the youngest triplet. "That's my sister!" She hugs her, but that didn't last long. The battle was still raging on.

"What the Hell is going on here?!" Kaemon's eyes widen as his father comes out with Itachi, but with no one else.

Where were Sasuke and Hinata? Where was Team Seven and Eight? And most importantly, where was Aiya?!

Meanwhile Arashi squirms. There was a lot of fighting going on outside and he was almost positive he heard a Chidori being fired off in the distance. That meant either their father or younger brother was out there.

"Oh thank God!" A pair of loving arms wraps around him tightly from out of nowhere. "You're alright." It was his mother!

Sasuke nods. "Lets get you all out of here." He quickly heads over to Aiya and begins undoing her bindings as Hinata frees him.

"How did you find us?" Arashi was rather stunned.

He couldn't believe it! They were free! They were finally safe, but how?! How had they found them?!

"Thank you, father." Aiya sighs in relief as she snuggles close to Sasuke's embrace for a moment, before he nods and starts helping the others out of their restraints.

Suddenly, someone materializes out of thin air! It was Shisui! Had his brother been the one who was responsible for their freedom?!

"Mother! Father! You made it!" Shisui smiles at them.

The smile wasn't returned though. Hinata's and Sauske's eyes narrow. Probably because Shisui had done something very stupid by coming here. He could have been hurt or killed!

"Shisui Uchiha what are Earth are you doing here?!" Sasuke glares at him.

Shisui eeps, but manages to answer. "Well I heard you guys talking about Arashi and Aiya. So we decided to come and help!" He smiles at them nervously. We? Who was this we? Uh oh. Arashi certainly didn't like the sound of that! It sounded like his little brother was in big trouble.

"Please don't tell me that you brought all of your siblings with you." Hinata sighs.

The youngest Uchiha pauses. "Okay!" He smiles. "I won't tell you then, but we should probably go now!" Shisui rubs the back of his head sheepishly. "My Invisibility Jutsu probably wore off by now! So the bad guys can see them!"

"Nevermind." Aiya was up and walking around, helping to free their teammates. "There's a battle going on outside! You can yell at Shisui later!"

"That's right!" Shisui smiles and then blinks when he hears the next part. "Hey! Wait! A minute! You can't yell at me!" He flails comically. "I was only trying to help!"

Tenten and Shikamaru spring to their feet as do the other members of Team Seven and Eight. "What a drag." Shikamaru sighs. "She's right. I just never expected to be ambushed on a Survivalist Training Mission right outside the Leaf's borders."

Arashi nods in understanding, but his parents definitely seemed less understanding. Oh well. They'd just have to deal with that later.

"Right! Well let's go!" Kami grins. "We've got some payback to deliver!" And with that, the excited youth darts off.

"Wait for me!" Kitzu wasn't fair behind and Tenten rubs the back of her head sheepishly.

Arashi shrugs and glances at Aiya. The two of them soon follow the other children who were all racing back towards the battlefield. "Kids." Sasuke groans, just as they were all almost out of earshot.

"What a drag." Shikamaru nods and with that, the adults Flicker to the battlefield.

Sasuke blinks as soon as they were out on the field. Their children, the Kazekage Family, and Akeno were all fighting the thugs. Shisui had been right. His Invisibility Jutsu had worn off and damn, everyone was putting on one Hell of a show out there!

"Crystal Style: Prison!" A large crystal formation appears and encases an enemy ninja in what looked like a massive ice cube. (Though an unusually pretty one). "Ha! Gotcha!" Hoshi was apparently fighting and fighting well.

"Boil Style!" Mei blows one of her trademark techniques at a small group of attackers.

Gaara and Itachi were watching in shock. "We have to help them!" Sasuke glares at them, trying to spur them to move.

"This is good practice for them." Itachi smiles at Sasuke. "If things get out of hand, we're more than capable of ending it with ease."

Hinata didn't look too thrilled at that, but she nods. Sasuke sighs. Well it looked like they were winning. Though he saw far more cuts and bruises on his children than he would have ever liked to see.

"CHIDORI!" Kenji slams his fist into another's back. The sounds of crunching bones was heard. "Take that!"

Well that was his boy, Sasuke thinks smugly to himself as he watches the battle rage on. "It looks like someone hired low level thugs." There were a lot of them though and obviously, someone had figured they were dealing with children. Sasuke doubted most of them were even ninja.

They could have easily overpowered civilians or even a small team with stealth, but not this. "SCORCH STYLE!" There went Miya with her hot flames wrapping around another person and literally sucking them dry by evaporation.

"Whoa!" Kami blinks. "Remind me never to make her angry!" He glances at Aiya.

"That would be a wise idea. She'll boop the Hell out of you." She nods sagely as she joins the fray.

Safa smirks in a way that reminded Sasuke far too much of Suigetsu. "Time for some payback! Water bullets!" And soon she starts firing off water bullets." Taking a disturbing amount of glee whenever they hit a target.

"Fireball Jutsu: Phoenix Flower Style!" It surprised him that it was Kami and not one of his children who was using that technique, but Sasuke wasn't' going to argue with the results and Miya looked unnervingly enchanted by the display of flames.

Akio was even getting in on the act. "Get them!" He had drawn some ink tigers. They were far cruder than what Sai could have managed, but apparently the beasts did the job well. That was if the screams of the thugs were anything to go by.

Kitzu was now literally bowling over a few of the enemy. The boy was quite proficient at his Clan's trademark techniques it seemed.

"Should be help them?" Tenten looks at them in confusion.

Sasuke shakes his head. "Not unless the tide of battle turns significantly." Itachi was right.

He didn't like it, but they were all going to or were already ninjas. Their parents couldn't protect them forever and as disturbing as it was, he'd at least have to give them the chance to stand on their own two feet. (No matter how tiny those feet might be).

Clash! Boom! Smack! Swish! Crunch! Even Sasuke's eyes were having a hard time following the battle. Kunais were flying. Jutsus were flying. Fists and feet were flying. Bodies were flying!

There was far more blood and bruises than he would have liked to see on his children. Maybe even a broken bone or two, but they were clearly winning. It was so hard to keep track of the chaos, that he didn't notice when Aiya and Arashi slipped off after a certain red head.

"Water Style: Twin Dragons!" Aiya wasn't going to let Sagara get away and she knew Arashi felt the same way.

"Great Fireball Jutsu!" Her twin joins in.

They were going to make him look at them! Aiya might not be as good as Amaya when it came to Genjutsu, but together she knew that they could do it.

She and Arashi had always been together, ever since they were born. Even after being put on separate teams, they were still twins. That meant something. Both sentimentally and practically. They were so much alike, that it was easy to combine techniques.

"You damn brats!" Sagara snarls at them as he dodges the attacks. "Why couldn't you just sign the Contract?!"

"Because our family doesn't respond well to threats!" Arashi hisses.

Sagara was a lot stronger than them, but that didn't matter. As long as they could force eye contact. Arashi taunting him did the trick. Aiya could feel her eyes turn red and lavender. She could see Arashi's doing the same.

"Tsukuyomi!" In unison they both activated the most powerful Genjutsu they could do!

Sagara was a lot stronger than them physically, but once they got him inside the Genjutsu, that wouldn't matter. As soon as they were inside the black, red, and white world, Aiya smirks.

"This is the Tsukuyomi! How did you do that?!" Sagara demands as he stares at a mismatched pair of demonic ruby red eyes and hypnotizing lavender ones.

"It's our birthright." Aiya smirks at him. Knowing it was important to keep him distracted. "You really should do more research on your opponents before challenging them. Our last name is Uchiha, but our mother was born into the Hyuga Clan." And with that, the twins attack!

Both inside the Genjutsu with a not so gentle fist to his gut and outside the jutsu. Outside the Jutsu they punch him as well. Knocking the air out of his paralyzed body and slapping Chakra Cuffs onto him.

"As is the Gentle Fist Style!" Arashi glares at him. "Bet your wishing that our fists were more gentle now!"

That wasn't bad. Though Aiya really needed to teach him to work on his trash talking. Oh well. That was a matter for another day. "Release!" They couldn't hold that Jutsu nearly as long as Amaya, let alone their Father Itachi.

"You'll both pay for this!" Sagara glares at them hatefully.

Arashi shakes his head. "I doubt it. You're the kidnapper." He frowns at Aiya. "How on Earth are we going to carry him back?"

Oh right. That was a good point. This was going to be awkward. Could they just leave him here and get the others?

"Master Arashi!" A voice hisses out. "Mistress Aiya!" A very familiar voice!

"Aoda!" Aiya smiles joyfully as she races over to the giant snake and hugs him.

The snake smiles at her and so does his Mate. If Aoda and Kara were here, they might have brought some of their "hatchlings." The smallest of which was about the size of a horse.

"Man is it good to see you guys!" Arashi sighs in relief. "We need some help bringing him back. He's going to be difficult." Arashi crosses his arms.

Kara swats Sagara rather forcefully, knocking him out. "He shouldn't be nearly as difficult now. My Love, would you be so kind as to carry him?"

Aoda beams at his Mate. "I love this woman!" He waits and allows the twins to shove Sagara's now unconscious body onto him and the group head back to the others.

What they found was rather interesting to say the least. Several, if not the majority of the thugs were dead. Though several were unconscious or trapped in something like earth or crystal.

"Are our parents just watching it?" Aiya blinks in confusion.

"It looks like it." Arashi sounded just as confused as she did.

Aoda shakes his head good-naturedly. "They're allowing the hatchlings to fight." He smiles. "Teaching them how to hunt on their own terms, as it were."

Aiya blinks. She hadn't expected that. Oh well. "You ready Arashi?!"

He nods and with that the twins charge right back into battle. It was amazing to see all the attacks. The earth, the crystal, water, fire, scorch, Taijutsu, Boil and Lava Style, kunais flying, and everything else.

By the time the battle ends, Aiya collapses in exhaustion next to her twin and Kaemon. Sagara was still unconscious and laying on Kara as their parents walked over.

"I'm really sorry about Mr. Bear." She looks at him apologetically. "They broke him."

Kaemon smiles. "That's okay. I'd rather have them break Mr. Bear than you." He pauses and adds as an afterthought. "And I can always get you a new one."

Sasuke gives Gaara a dirty look. "Gaara…" The red head rolls his eyes at that.

Well actually, there were a lot of red heads. Sagara, Gaara, and Kaemon were all on nearby, but Aiya digressed.

"Don't give me that look." Gaara glares at Sasuke. "They're twelve!"

Parents were weird sometimes. Aiya didn't understand why their fathers were so upset about Kaemon offering to get her a new bear, but whatever. They had won!

"Well I'd say that Hinata should have a look at everyone." Itachi sighs as he surveys the damage to the field. "And after that, I want our children taken home." His eyes narrow at Sagara. "We'll deal with their leader afterwards."

Aiya shudders as her mother goes around the field, checking on everyone's injuries. She wasn't sure that she really wanted to know what their fathers would do to Sagara. Though honestly, he had it coming. He should have known better than to mess her family! They were as Safa said, "Badasses!"