I heard my bedroom door open. I didn't bother to roll over or open my eyes because I knew who it was. The door shut and hen the person jumped onto my bed. "Daddy!" Yoshi shouted. "Wake up!"

I rolled over to see Yoshi looking right at me. "I'm awake," I laughed.

"Guess what today is!" Yoshi yelled jumping up and down.

"What?" I asked already knowing.

"My birthday!" Yoshi shouted clapping his hands. I threw off the covers and scoped Yoshi up in my arms.

"Really? It is? I thought it was my birthday!" I said surprised.

Yoshi looked at me shocked. "It's not your birthday Daddy! It's mine!"

"I know silly!" I said grabbing my now six-year-old son. "How 'bout I make you some breakfast?"

"Yay!" Yoshi shouted clapping his hands with excitement.

"What would the birthday boy like?"

"Ummm...?" Yoshi said thinking hard. "Ramen!"

I smiled excited now. "That's my boy!" I scoped up Yoshi again and carried him downstairs to the kitchen. I started the ramen and turned to Yoshi. "Go get dressed birthday boy."

"But Daddy, what about you?" Yoshi asked pointing to me.

I realized I was wearing my shorts and had no shirt on. It didn't matter that I didn't have a shirt on because I lived with a six-year-old. "I will after I take a shower. Now go get dressed Silly," Yoshi ran out of the kitchen. I turned to the ramen and realized that I hadn't been stirring the noodles. I picked up the wooden spoon and quickly stirred the noodles. I threw in the seasoning and put it into five different bowls. Two for Yoshi and three for me. Yoshi may be six but he eats like an elephant. "Yoshi!" I yelled putting the bowls on the table. Yoshi came downstairs in nothing but shorts.

"Yay! Ramen!" Yoshi shouted shoving ramen into his mouth. I cleared my throat. Yoshi stopped with the chopsticks half way to his mouth. "What?" He asked.

"What about your shirt?" I asked pointing to his shirtless chest. I wasn't the one who should have been talking; however, he was only six.

"I didn't have time to put my shirt on when you called me to breakfast." Yoshi said eating his ramen. The doorbell then rang and I walked to the entrance hall. Inoichi was standing at the door when I opened it.

"Yes?" I asked questioningly. Inoichi never came to my door.

"Tsunade wants you," Inoichi said and that was enough for me to understand. After months, I had finally gotten an answer.

"Did she-?"

"Yes," Inoichi said cutting my off.

"Let me get Yoshi," I said walking into the kitchen.

"Don't forget a shirt!" Inoichi called after me.

I was still shirtless. "Thanks! I called over my shoulder. "Yoshi, get a shirt on." I said walking upstairs.

"Why?" Yoshi asked confused.

"We're going to see Tsunade."

"Why?" Yoshi asked again. Why do six-year-olds have to be so curious? I thought to myself.

"Just get a shirt on," I said walking into my room and putting on my blue sleeveless shirt with my Jonin vest. I walked into Yoshi's room and he was putting on his green shirt. "Ready?"

"Yep," Yoshi said while I picked him up and carried him to the front door.

"Ready," I said to Inoichi walking out of the house with Yoshi in my arms.

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"Did you find him?" I asked Tsunade shutting the door behind me. I had left Yoshi outside with Kakashi. He was helpfully at times like these.

"I think," Tsunade said looking at me straight in the eyes.

"No, I want a straight answer," I growled.

"Naruto, all I got was a lead."

"Tell me then."

Tsunade handed me a paper. "He is in Waterfall."

"Alright, I want to go there now," I said throwing the paper back on the desk.

"Naruto, you are not going anywhere," Tsunade said sternly.

"You told me where he is and I'm going after him."

"No, you are not going alone," Tsunade said. She had me confused so I kept my mouth shut. "You are going with a team of your choice."

"W-what?" I asked shocked. Tsunade throwing something unexpected at me.

"Pick people you work well with and take them with you to Waterfall," Tsunade explained to me again.

"Anyone?" I asked curious.

"Yes. Pick them by two this afternoon," Tsunade said again.

"But its Yoshi's birthday," I said thinking of Yoshi for the first time I had come in here. "I didn't even get to eat my three bowls of ramen," I said pouting.

"I'm sorry Naruto but you know the life of a ninja is like this." Tsunade said. "Life is going to get a lot more chaotic once you're Hokage. Besides you're a Jonin now."

Tsunade was right, I wasn't acting or thinking like a Jonin. "Alright, I have a rough idea of who it's going to be; however, I will have everyone figured out later," I said leaving the office.

"Daddy?" Yoshi said when he saw come out of the office.

"I'm right here Yoshi-kun," I said picking up my son.

"Can we do something together?"

This killed me when Yoshi asked questions like this. It killed me even more since it was Yoshi's birthday. However, a duty of a ninja came first. "I'm sorry Yoshi-kun but Tsunade gave me a mission today; a very important mission." I saw the disappointed look in his eyes. "I'm very sorry Yoshi-kun, but it has to do with Momma..." The look on Yoshi's face changed.

"Really Daddy?" Yoshi asked.

"Yes really." I said. We were then at our mansion for two people. "Yoshi, will ou be okay here by yourself if I leave a shadow clone and a toad?"

Yoshi's face lit up at the mention of the toads. "Yes! Please can it be Gamakichi?" Yoshi asked jumping up and down clapping his hands.

"I'll try," I said biting my thumb. I went through the hand signs and slammed my hand on the ground. Once the smoke disappeared, a toad the size of a large dog was sitting on the ground.

"Hey Boss," the toad said waving its webbed hand.

"Hey," I muttered. "I need to do something for Tsunade, can you watch Yoshi if I leave a shadow clone?"

"Sure Boss," the toad said turning to Yoshi. I quickly made a shadow clone when Yoshi was excited about Gamakichi being there.

"I'm leaving. Have fun Yoshi," I said to my son.

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The six people I had chosen were standing in Tsunade's office. Neji, Kiba, Shikamaru, Ino, Rock Lee, and Kakashi were all standing in the room with Tsunade and me.

"You six have been chosen by Naruto for a mission," Tsunade said to everyone.

"What's the mission?" Kiba demanded.

"You are all aware of what happened six months ago and before that six and half years ago?" Tsunade asked as everyone nodded sadly but me. I stood there with my teeth clenched. "I have found where the killer of Hyuuga Hinata and Haruno Sakura. You all are going to capture him and kill him with any means."

"Where is he?" Neji simply asked.

"Waterfall," I said blankly.

The most important question was asked by Shikamaru, of course, "Who is he?"

Tsunade looked at me first and I barley nodded. She then looked each of them in the eyes. "Uchiha Sasuke."

The only person who didn't react to anything was Kakashi but then again he never reacts to anything except his perverted books. "Are you sure it's him?" Lee asked.

"Yes, we're positive," I said with no emotion. Kakashi looked at me but didn't say anything; however, I knew what he was thinking. I knew how I was acting.

"Go to Waterfall, leave in the next hour," Tsunade said telling us to and get ready. I stayed after to ask Tsunade a personal question. "Yes Naruto?" Tsunade asked opening her desk drawer. She pulled out a bottle and a small glass. She poured the liquid into the glass. She drained it on one gulp.

"Really?" I asked when she was pouring her second glass.

"What? Trust me, you are going to need it once you become Hokage," Tsunade said once she drank her third glass. "What do you want?"

"Can you watch Yoshi for me? I would ask Kakashi but he's coming with me." I explained to her. I thought she was going to say no.

"Yeah sure, why not?" Tsunade said slurring her words after he fifth glass of sake.

"Really?" I asked shocked.

"Yes, I love Yoshi and I love you," Tsunade said with more slurs. She was defiantly drunk because she never acted like his unless she was drunk.

"Great, I need to get myself and Yoshi ready," I said leaving.

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I ran back to my house and dismissed my clone. Yoshi came funning to the door and yelled "Daddy!"

"Hey Yoshi," I said hugging him. I put him at arms length away, crouching down, saying, "I'm going on a mission and I don't know how long I'm going to be gone."

"Whose watching me?" Yoshi asked confused.

"Grandma Tsunade."

"Oh...why not Kakashi-niisan?" Yoshi asked upset.

"Yoshi-kun, Kakashi-sensei is coming with me. I need his help very much," I explained to Yoshi.

"Oh, Okay."

"Now go get packed," Yoshi ran off to his room. I went into mine and packed everything I thought I was going to need. I pulled out a box full of tri-kunai and put them in a scroll. I had mastered the jutsu that my father had made up himself. I would need to begin to teach Yoshi that jutsu and justu's in general. When I get back, if I come back, I will start teaching Yoshi everything about a ninja, I thought. "Yoshi you ready?" I said going into his room once I was packed. There he was sitting on his floor with Gamakichi. I thanked him and he then left. "Let's go," Yoshi got up, put on his backpack and grabbed my hand. We walked hand in hand all the way to the gate.