Naruto Sedai 7, Puraimaru no tatakai (Battle of the primordial Forces)

by The Storyteller and his Books

World Wars, Natural disasters, supernatural assaults, what have they together? Death and destruction! And those who know what comes forth out of this combination, have already made their move to save the world. The war has finally begun, the worlds stands on the edge, will the Light win, or the Dark triumph? Will the Humanity be saved or will it perish in the flames of hell? ( 16)

9. Battles, Memories and the greatest Feels

Naruto Sedai 7

Puraimaru no tatakai

Battle of the primordial Forces

Chapter 9: Play, set and victory, old blood never dies only new one is added, memories of Future Past.

Part I: Side Uzumaki/ Yamanaka junior:-

Part 1/ more stories from the past and the next Battles to come.

Bolt´s Pov:

The Second battle wasn´t really mucht to tell of, since it was done in less than 20 minutes however now only the 4 strongest of the first segement remain.

Only an Hour, approximately, remains from fighting the last battle today for Team Yamanock, if they win, they will come in the ½ Final.

However this also means, that in aproximately 1 hour I will have to battle against Sarada´s Father.

"Geez you should have make it more interesting and also longer, i´m still not mentaly prepared to face Sarada´s father!" I whined as I looked at the plan.

"Sorry but I was tired of playing around, these guys were so easy to beat, also I finally want to be over with fighting!" Senpou stated.

"Guess you are right, after all you guys had to fight already two times!" I stated to her.

"But it seems to me that the requirements to become Chunin are really hard.

From the first 16 teams have only 2 managed to get the notification, of becoming Chunin, yet, Team 8 and Team 14, I hope we might get the notification in the next round!" Inojin stated, getting nods from Shikadai.

"It sure is, however a Chunin is after all different from a Genin, we even might get the command over an operation at some point, so it has a lot more of responisbility to be taken to become a Chunin.

Also one has to plan things throught without getting too much of damage on a mission.

So to say you must have skills, knowledge about strategy and leadership potential to become a Chunin!" Shikadai explained.

"Guess that´s true!" Sarada nodded.

"Anyways, are you eyes able to see again, Bolt?!" Inojin asked me.

"Yeah I guess so!" I replied, knowing what he meant.

"Okay, please begin to read in my blood, i´m already so excited!" Inojin stated, as he took a Kunai and gently cut in his finger, letting a bit of blood dripping on a paper.

"Here, is this enough?" He asked.

"Yeah thanks, alright wait a second i´m reading!" I said.

"Bolt are you really okay, don´t force yourself okay, no matter for whom, if it hurts you, don´t hide it, but tell us!" Sarada said.

"No fear i´m okay, it seems that it is a normal ability of the eye, I only feel some light pain in my eyes, like after reading till the evening and beyond, so no fear Sarada i´m okay!" I lied with a smile, ruffling her hair, before caressing her cheek.

She blushed and nodde still with that worried expression.

I looked down on the bloody paper and began to dive.

It was a gift, these eyes, truly.

They were outstanding, to even be able to read a bit of the history of the parents past, through only the blood of their Children.

Still they weren´t without a price, the hurting of my eyes is really bad to be honest, nothing from a light stinging as I told Sarada, since it really stings strongly.

I just hope I don´t lose some of my eye-sight, but I was as curious as Inojin, that's why I kept on doing it, even with the pain.

Still the way I could dive into the memories of the Blood, they remind me on something.

And yet again my concentration was gone.

"Soon we will be here no more

You'll hear our tale

Through our blood

Through my people

And the Eagles Cry!" I mumbled, as I remembered this song´s chorus.

"What do you mean by that?" Sarada asked me, having heard me anyways, damn her new sharp ears.

Ever since her time in Sora-ku, she hears things she not always shall hear.

"This is what Neherit sung, as we met him a month ago, he sung that song as you still couldn´t see him, it was the song I heard shortly before he attacked.

I think he meant this as a reference to the Nikkōgan.

I read the blood and it is as if it tells me a story, I practically take a dive into the past, through the memories, so in other words, I am able to hear and read the tales of other people through their blood!" I explained.

"This is truly amazing!" Sarada stated

"It is, still I think, just hypothetically, if Neherit has a Body, I would be able to read in his blood too, perhaps the memories of his Parents and so I would find out more about his clan, so I also could tell if he is lying or not!" I stated.

"Anyways I will now begin to read, so please stay calm whatever happens and don´t disturb me, I don´t know what will happen when I get disturbed right within the memory, okay!?" I stated looking at my friends.

"Sure thing!" they all nodded.

"Alright!" I said bracing myself, I inhaled deeply and let it out slowly.

"Here we go!" I stated, as I activated my Nikkogan and just like a dive, I fell into the memory, just like earlier.

In the memory of Inojin´s parents, 16 and a half Years ago:

It was a warm night of spring, as much as I could say.

I guess it was near summer.

Konoha was wrapped in a blanket of green leaves and it were many people outside, chilling in the coming summer warmth.

Though I couldn´t feel the warmth, I remembered the temperature all too well.

The first scene I saw seemed to have played itself off on an abandoned old Playground, many toys and constructions had been broken or didn´t worked anymore and it was bound to vanish someday.

It seemed to be a really old one, because I cannot remember there was one during my life, and I practically saw anything from Konohagakure already.

"Sigh!" I heard someone sighing with the deepest tone I ever heard.

I looked to see a young woman sitting upon a swing, head downcasted, wrapped in some legére summer clothes.

Golden-blonde hair, neatly done in a long ponytail, fell on the Back of the girl, dressed in a long, purple one-piece summer dress.

"Why do I feel so alone?" I heard her saying and recognized the voice.

Though the sound was clearer…, better said, younger, was this definitely the voice of Inojin´s mother, Ino-san.

"In the last time, everything seems to go downhill, my lessons with Lady Tsunade aren´t making any progress, and lately everyone seems to always be so busy.

Sakura is training to become the vice-head of the medical unit, to take some load of Shizune-san´s shoulders.

Shikamaru is busy doing important errands for Hokage-sama (Kakashi) or meeting up with other important people, like the daimyos or the other Kage.

Also he´s managing the Chunin-exams and therefore often teams up with Temari-san, he even spents time with her if they aren´t on a mission!" Ino-san mumbled her head in both hands.

"Haha, and still he claims that nothing is going on between them, hahaha….., huuuh!" Ino-san stated, laughing before sighing again.

"Even Choji isn´t avaiable, since he is mainly having duties in his clan to do, as being the soon-to-be-new head of the clan, or he spents his freetime with Karui-san, not that I mind, still, it´s a bit lonely without him.

Over all it´s really lonely without all of them, they all seem to have some kind of job to do and all I can do I sitting here an whining.

Even Naruto has no time to spent, so fully being occupied as a new Sensei and Sasuke is gone since about two and a half years, Kami alone knows where he is at the moment, or what he does.

Not that mom approves to my love to him anyways, not after he had complicity that this war started in the first place, and ever since my Father is dead, I too felt not like being able to fully forgiving him for what he did.

But I knew what hatred or what love could make, it was a bittersweet irony, if I shall be honest.

Ever after I felt and saw Naruto´s feelings and memories, I saw the concept of Love and hate in a whole new light.

Naruto, the boy who has been hated and avoided, became the one who was the kindest of them all.

The one who was friendly, carefull and who could love the most and who knew to cherish friendship the very most.

I saw that as I remembered on our friend Yota, Naruto was the first one to attack the Anbus that time, in order to free his first friend, the one who did not hated him, for something which was never in his power to change.

This was one of the things I learned, since I got to know Naruto better.

That those who knew only hatred and pain, must not always become evil, but they also can be the ones who will cherish your friendship the most, the ones who will never betray you.

And then there was Sasuke, the one who always was loved and admired by us girls, pitied by the people around town and honoured by the teachers.

He became the one who brought us the most pain, the one who helped to start a war out of pure own selfish feelings, feelings of hatred and the dark desire for revenge on everthing that ever had hurted him, be it his brother, or be it Konoha.

He was the exact opposite of Naruto, something I got to know through observing Naruto, I always thought, as I was a kid, that he was so cool, his hard to get and even harder to impress behaviour was what turned me on somehow.

Naruto instead was always only a nuisance to me, I thought of him as dumb…., oh how wrong I should have been and how stupid I felt myself being after I finally realized that Naruto was far stronger, far better and far nicer than Sasuke might ever be.

It gave times, after these years in which I asked myself what might would have happened, if I would have fallen in love with Naruto instead of Sasuke, maybe I would have now been together with him, instead of Hinata.

So I have to admit, I was and still am a little jealous about hinata, she got everything she ever wished for, recognition from her father and Clan and the boy she always loved, which she admired and never even intented to ever hate.

In a way I have to say that she is the one Naruto needs the most, not only because she loved himsince our childhood, no it was because she is his opposite pole, while he is loud and boastfull often was she shy and reserved most of the time.

No one of us ever thought that the two of them would become strong ninjas at all, oh how wrong should we have been, for both of them are probably two of the four strongest shinobis of our generation.

The other two being Sakura and Sasuke of course.

All four of them, are amazing, all four of them had their future being predicted by us, Hinata was seen as too soft to be a serious ninja, Naruto was regarded as too dumb for his own good.

Sasuke was seen as a prodigy and a strong adittion for Konoha and Sakura, she was, mostly from me, being called a simple nerd with no power, but they managed to surprise us all and to burst every scale we ever tried to put them in.

And what am I doing, what have I reached so far, nothing, right…?

Dammit I wish I too would be Jonin, to have Genins under me to train, so I would have at least something different to do than working in the Flowershop day in day out, but everything else I can do for now, is to trying effortlessly to become a better medical-ninja.

They don´t even really trust me with the errands as the new Head of the Yamanaka clan!" Ino-san mumbled to herself.

"Sigh, in time I met at least every second day Naruto at Ichiraku, so I had at least someone to talk to.

But ever since he became a Jonin, he constantly trains to become the next Hokage till late in the evening and he and Hinata are after all a pair, so she is cooking for him most of the time now anyways.

So there isn´t anything with hanging around in the evening anymore.

Sigh, everybody is just so busy and I, I have no real purpose in my life, no real plan for the future, I guess I will simply take over the Flowershop, become a lonely florist with a lonely life wearing that I´m single look while talking to these few customers who still come to us, I guess that´s all I can do anyways.

If we would at least have our shop in a better place but no, we had to make it right between a fishmarket and a butcher, seriously, what the hell was dad thinking.

Not that the men in my clan are thinking anything logical anyways.

They wont trust me with the work of the Clan´s heir, even though i am Dad´s daughter, why do they think I am not suited for that, I mean even Chouji is getting trained as the next heir of his Clan, so why does only my people have to block me off?!" She sighed again, thinking over and over again aout her misery.

She sat there in solitude for a while, before she heard the cracking of grass under a shoe.

"Hey, Ino-san!" We heard it and turned around.

"Oh Sai-san, how are you!?" Ino-san asked the newly arrived pale-skinned boy.

"I´m fine, just a bit lonely but fine!" The same stated.

"Believe me I can relate, it´s just so peacfully all of a sudden.

I mean, a few months ago, the moon treated to crash down on earth and ever since these days have ended, not one attack has been made on any of the 5 hidden villages and only minor mission are coming up, able to be done in less than two days.

It seems as if the world has fallen asleep all of a sudden.

As if it rests, from something!?" Ino-san stated confused and worried.

"Well to me it´s not like this!" Sai-san stated.

"So, how is it then for you?" Ino-san asked him quizzically.

"To me it´s not as if the world rests from something, but as if it prepares for something, like the calm before a storm, still I cannot feel any evil in the air, nor any shadows creeping somewhere in the darkness!" the tall grown boy stated.

"How would you even feel something like this, I mean I am a Yamanaka and with feeling presences, evil or not, I should be far better than you, shouldn´t I, but I don´t feel anything, just the warmth of the coming summer, so how!?" Ino-san asked confused.

"It´s true, you from the Yamanaka Clan are the best sensor ninjas of Konoha, still, I lived for almost all my live within the shadow, not only as a metapher for the Shadow-side of Konoha, the Anbu-ne, but also because I litterally lived within the shadow, within the head-quarter of the Anbu-ne, deep under the earth.

So I also have been trained to feel presences, especially when they try to hide their presence within the shadow.

Still what I feel also could be the coldness of the night, despite of it being still warm, there you are right.

But I honestly, am not sure what exactly I truly am feeling anyways, it´s just too confusing to think about such trivial things.

But anyways, what are you doing out here, so all alone?" Sai-san asked.

"Oh just trying to get my brain straight!" Ino-san stated.

"That wouldn´t be possible!" Sai-san replied.

"What are you trying to say with that, do you think I am dumb?!" Ino-san stated, looking with a dirty glare at the young man.

"Sorry it didn´t meant it that way, but I mean you cannot get a brain straight, unless you flatten it, but that would mean you would kill the owner of the brain!" Sai-san stated and even I sweat-dropped to this.

"Did you ever heard about sarcasm?" Ino-san asked, with a deadpanned expression.

"Ah, yeah, I think Sakura once said something about this, although I have no real idea what she meant that time, only that it is used to mean something different from what one actually says, wasn´t that it?" Sai-san asked.

"Yeah, like that time as you called me a Beautiful lady, but actually meant that I was an ugly scarecrow!" Ino-san stated with massive amount of venom.

"Well it wasn´t really meant like this, it was just…., I read in a book that giving nicknames based on the features of a person, would deepen the relationship between two persons.

But Sakura and Naruto said that most people, especially girls, don´t want to hear the truth, so it would be better to rather state the opposite of it!" Sai-san explained.

Though honestly, he did not even saved himself in the slightest with this statement, moreover he digged his grave only deeper.

"I see, well sorry for being ugly, you pale vampire-nerd!" Ino-san stated with venom before sighing, having not even the power to be all too mad at Sai.

"Anyways I guess Sakura´s right, I would not really have felt good, if you would have told me to be ugly right by the start, that's why it was good, in a way, that you said the opposite to me.

But honestly, I really thought that you meant it the way you said it.

But after Sakura explained to me what the truth was, I was really furious at you!" Ino-san stated, seem like she still was after all.

"I guess I can understand that, I may have gotten better, but it´s still hard for me to interact normally with people, especially with strangers and moreover with Girls.

All those years in which I was trained to kill every emotion I have, left me with nothing but misery in the end.

And now, since Sakura and Naruto are always so busy, we have close to no time to hang around anymore, so this also means that I have no one to help me to become a normal human again.

I though read many books, but I long have understood that one shouldn´t take everything for granted, what stands in a book!" Sai-san stated, sweatdropping in embarrassment.

"Indeed, for after all it's always only theory what stands in a book, in the praxis this is a whole lot more different, as it might seem!" Ino-san stated.

"Guess you are right, but even if, honestly in the last time I have close to nothing to do, there are no missions for me and I have no parents which I could help to, and with the way I am, I hardly can do any kind of normal work, without being fired in less than two weeks, still I hate it to be alone doing nothing all the time, having no one to talk to!" Sai-san stated, sitting himself on the swing next to Ino-san.

"Same here….., hey…., now that I think about it…., yeah…, this might be a good idea, why don´t we help each other out a bit?" Ino-san stated.

"Huh, what do you mean?" Sai-san asked confused.

"Well we both feel lonely right, and we both also don´t really have anything better to do, but you said, you would like someone to show you, how to interact with other people on a normal base, without offending them.

I on the other hand need someone of my age, to speak and spent some time together, or I might get nuts sooner or later, so why don´t you help me and my mother a bit in our Flower-shop, logically we will pay you.

We really could need a strong man in there, usually Dad always helped us, but since he…., well since he´s not there anymore, there is no one of the other males of the clan, who wants to help us.

Better said they don´t really care about us anyways, it was only because my father was the head, but ever since his death they keep pushing me away from Clan-business.

I thought I made my work good, but I guess I was not good enough.

Anyways, what do you think, you get money for helping us and for spending some time with me and I will teach you the best I can, how to act like a normal human.

Sounds good doesn't it, I mean as a salesman, or a florist in our case, you are always around people, so it´s ideal to train your social skills, right?" Ino-san asked.

"Well yeah…. I guess…., why not….., it´s not like I have anything else to do, so I will gladly take on your offer!" Sai-san stated with a smile.

"Really thank you so much, I will go and tell my mother right along!" Ino-san stated, before she bowed and ran away.

"This is going to be interesting!" I heard Sai-san stating, before the scene vanished and a new one was seen.

It seemed to be at least a week later, according to the date on the calendar and the date I saw on Ino-san´s digital watch.

"Hey, Sai, what are you doing?" I heard Ino-san saying, as she entered the room I was in.

Sai-san was sitting infront of a chair, where a flower arrangment was placed on.

"I try to draw that flower-arrangment, but somehow I don´t get it right!" Sai-san stated.

"Hmm let me see!" Ino-san stated, as she walked behind Sai and looked on his drawning.

"Neat, I think it´s perfect, I honestly don´t see where the probleme is, I mean it´s accurately towards the reality!" Ino-san mumbled.

"I know, but somehow I have that feeling that something is missing, geez I am drawing for 3 hours right now, but all I can do is drawing only the very same I see infront of me, and it is beautiful, that's for sure, but it´s nothing…., you know…, nothing special…., just a normal pot of various neatly decorated flowers, but that´s it!" Sai-san tried to explain himself.

"Argh I don´t get it, why cant it be more different what do I have to do to make it special?" He stated, while sighin in annoyance.

"I see, well still I think your drawing is neat, you should leave it like this, at least that´s my opinion, but do as you please.

Anyways if you don´t need it anymore I will bring it back in the shop, I got to water the flowers anyways!" Ino-san stated.

"Yeah do that, I will stop now anyways, i´m exhausted and my eyes are killing me!" Sai-san replied, trying to ease the pain by rubbing his eyes.

"I see, anyways thanks for helping us out today, I really was glad you came, so was mom!" Ino-san stated, as she took the flowerpot.

"Anyways, I really would appreciate if you come tomorrow too, we gonna get a new delivery of flowers and we really could need your help!" She said, as she turned around and faced Sai-san with a smile; being illuminated by the light of the setting sun from outside the window.

"….. Sure…..!" The same only stated blushing deep red.

"Well then see you tommorow, don´t forget to close the door when you go, okay?" Ino-san stated.

"S-s-s-sure!" Sai-san stammered.

"Okey-dokey!" Ino-san smiled, before she left the room, oblivious what she just did to that poor boy.

"This is it…., this is what I was talking about….., this is that special something I need!" Sai-san suddenly stated, before he turned the page and began to draw from anew.

I looked at it, only for him to soon, after at least a half hour, having drawn a raw sketch of Ino-san, how she smiled at him with the pot of flowers in her hands, being illuminated by the sun.

It was far from being done, but I was amazed how neatly Sai-san could draw, out of only seeing something once, it reminded me on Inojin and his photographic-mind.

No wonder, it was after all his father which I was watching drawing.

The scene vanished and we moved on to the next, summer has already arrived.

"I have a mission for you two!" we heard Sensei-Kakashi stating.

"What kind of mission, Hokage-sama!" Sai-san stated.

"An important one, it´s just that a good friend of Lady Tsunade, the famous jeweler Mr. Yasori Kunjirou, asked for a bodyguard for his son, Yasori Kunihisa, during his stay and meeting with several other Jewelers for an Auction.

Unfortunately has a treat of kidnapping being announced towards Mr. Yasori, the culprit will try to get Kunihisa-kun in his grasp.

Mr. Yasori thinks, it might be one of his fellow Jewler concurrents, who will try to keep him away from the auction, therefore your mission is to find out who is the culprit and his helpers and to catch him, but also to keep both Mr. Yasori and his son safe.

On this mission you will be lead by Naruto!" The Hokage stated.

"Really, by Naruto, is that a safe idea, Hokage-sama?" Sai-san asked and I frowned at this commentary.

"Yes, wouldn´t Shikamaru be better for this?" Ino-san asked.

"Shikamaru is momentarily on another mission.

I nominated Naruto as the Team Captain because he already knows Kunihisa-kun and Mr. Yasori, so he knows how to get along with them.

Also is it time that Naruto learns to lead a team, until now he only followed orders and even I can see that he longs for being the boss too.

You might be right, from the strategic aspect Shikamaru would be my first choice, still, Naruto is someone who never gives up and fights as long and as hard as possible, to keep his friends safe.

As for determination, Naruto is probably the one on whom you can rely on most.

So do not you worry either, I told him inculcated that the entire responsibility lies with him and that he will be punished should the mission go wrong.

For three years no noodle soup of any kind for him, should he fail as team boss!" Kakashi-sensei stated and I paled.

"T-t-three years long, oh god that would kill Naruto, I mean he hates it to not get any for one week, but three years long!?" Ino-san stated in sheer shock.

"I too think this is a little too harsh!" Sai-san stated sweat-dropping.

"Anyways, Naruto is waiting for you at the gate, so go quick, dismissed!" Kakashi-sensei stated smirking.

"Hai!" We said and so we jumped out of the window, over the roof tops to our houses, to get all the things.

"Wait here a second, I will just dress and get my things!" Ino-san stated, as she entered her house.

"Alright, I will wait, but get everything fast, we still have to go to my house, I too have to get my stuff and then we have to meet up with Naruto at the gate!" Sai-san stated.

"Sure thing, I will be done in a few minutes, got to go!" Ino-san stated and ran up her house, shouting a greeting to her mom.

"Oh Sai-san, nice to meet you again, I wanted to thank you for always coming for help, here take this with you, it isn´t much but I made it especially for you, Ino-san told me about your circumstances as an orphan and I thought you might would like to get something homemade for a change!" Mrs. Yamanaka, Ino-sans´s mother, stated with a warm smile, as she walked out of the house, a few minutes after Ino-san went in.

"Oh that's really nice of you, Mrs. Yamanaka, thank you very much, I bet it tastes delicious!" Sai-san stated with an honest smile, as he took the Bento, Ino-san´s mother offered to him.

"Anyways, I am really thankfull for your help and also that you spent so much time with Ino, she hasn´t been herself a month ago, I think she slightly felt left out by her friends, it has been a hard time for her, especially after her father has died in the war, it still is.

But I think now with you on her side, she feels a bit better, less left out and she also began to smile again, i´m very thankfull for it!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated bowing before the blushing young man.

"But I didn´t do anything, really, all I did was talking to her and helping a bit in the shop out, but that was it?" Sai-san stated.

"Yes, still these little things were what she needed, something to get her mind of the vision of the far-future, something to get her of the feeling, of having to take responsibility for everything all at once and all alone.

Something to show her, that she has to start living in the here and now!" Mrs. Yamanaka explained.

"I don´think I understand you, at least not fully, I know that Ino felt left out and that the loss of her father has struck her very deep…., that I know from herself…., but I thought the men of the Clan didn´t wanted her to take responsibility over the Clans activities, because they don´t trust her with it, because she did not a good job, although I cannot really believe that.

But so she said at least, but I rather got the impression, that the men of her Clan did not really do that out of a mood-swing, something must be behind it, and I think you know what, don´t you, Mrs. Yamanaka?!" Sai san stated.

"You are strong and smart, I saw this from the very beginning on Sai-kun.

Indeed, her work as the replacement of her father was neat and she worked much and hard…., however she did it too much.

Ever since my Husband died, Ino got it in her head that she has to take upon all the duties, as the new head of the clan….., she completely exhausted herself upon taking all the duties to herself.

She was near to a burnout, she worked way too hard, so much that I decided for the others of the Clan, to take her most of the load of her shoulders, she is still so young and she should still be able to enjoy her life before her 20th birthday!" Ino-san´s mother stated.

"What´s at her 20th Birthday!" Sai-san asked.

"At her 20th Birthday, Ino becomes officially an Adult and has to legaly take over the position of her father.

Until that day, I want her to be happy as much as she can, so I beg you, please help her to find her happiness back!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated bowing again.

"I see…., alright I will…., I promise…, I will make her happy again, somehow, I will do anything in my power to show her true happiness!" Sai-san stated and bowed as well.

"What are you guys doing?" Ino-san asked sweatdropping , as she was seeing her mother and Sai-san bowing before each other.

"Uhh nothing Ino, your mother just made me a Bento to thank me for helping you in the shop and I only thanked her!" Sai-san stated.

"I see, anyways, let´s get going, Naruto must be waiting and we still have to get to your house to get your stuff!" Ino-san stated.

"Sure thing, well then let´s go!" Sai-san stated.

And with these words they ran over the roofs towards Sai-san´s house, the same only took out an already packed backpack and his Konoha-west.

Afterwards they made their way to the main gate.

"Geez guys what took you so long, i´ve been waiting here since a half hour, c´mon we got no time to miss!" Father stated.

"Sure…, say whats in that giant backpack of yours?" Ino-san asked supsicious.

"My Ninja-tools?"Dad stated.

"Aaaand….., c´mon…., that´s not all…., isn´t it?" Ino-san stated with a smirk.

"You probably have heard that it´s my turn to finally lead at team and Kakashi-sensei stated in all seriousness to me, that if I fuck this up, I wont get any Ramen for the next 3 years!" Father stated.

"yeah…., and whats with that?" Ino-san asked.

"So as a precaution I buyd as much as ramen I could, to stuff me full before that happens!" Dad stated and even I facepalmed.

"Seriously?!" Ino-san stated in annoyance.

"This going to be a long mission!" Sai-san stated sweatdropping.

The scene vanished again and a new one took it´s place.

The time must have passed rapidly, the Trees started to lose their leaves and it was chillier, one could recognize this the way the people were clothed.

It must be around September or October.

"Alright Sai, why did you brought us here?" The Young version of Dad asked.

"I wanted to speak with you all about a special and important matter.

As you all know is the 20th of this month in 3 days and I think a few of you might know what this means?" Sai-san stated, as he looked in the faces of all the people around him, the Neo Konoha 10 (Konoha eleven minus Neji), as well as their partners.

"It´s Ino´s birthday!" Sakura-san instantly stated.

"Indeed, how do you know…, oh yeah I forgot, you and Ino….?" Sai-san asked her.

"Indeed, Ino and I, we used to be best friends, before becoming rivals in the love for Sasuke, years ago.

Logically we still are quite close, now after the war even more than before.

Lately she stated that you helped her during the spring and the summer in the shop and that you two did many missions together!" Sakura-san stated with a smug grin.

"Yeah, anyways, as a few might know, is Ino supposed to become the new head of the Yamanaka-Clan at the exact same day, unfortunately she does have her fears before this, thinking she is not good enough for this post.

I wanted to take her mind of that fact and to still make her enjoying her 20th birthday, that's why I want you all to help me organise a birthday party for her, to make her see that we all support her and that she has nothing to fear.

After all Shikamaru is becoming the new Head of the Nara-Clan and Chouji gets trained for the head-position of the Akimichi clan, this way you two should show her a bit how it goes and also take her fears a bit of it.

Anyways I hope you all agree with me that we should make this day the most enjoyable possible!" Sai-san stated.

"Sure thing, if there is a fellow commrade in the need of help, then it´s only logical that we going to help, not guys!" Dad stated excitedly, getting nods from the other.

"Alright, then lets get on planning this party!" He said and they all nodded wandering over to the banks, all beside of Sakura-san.

"Sai, can I have a talk with you for a sec!" She said.

"Woaaah, what did I do wrong this time?" Sai-san asked backing away, hands in defense.

"Nothing, why do you think you made something wrong?" Sakura-san asked confused.

"Whenever you tell me, that you have to speak with me, I end up getting bulges on my head!" Sai-san stated, looking in suspicion at Sakura-san.

"Oh really, do you want some?" She asked with an annoyed face and a raised fist.

"Uuuuh…., no, not really!" Sai-san replied sweatdropping.

"Anyways, I wanted to thank you, I havent seen Ino so happy since a long time, ever since her father died during the war she has been suffering from the inside, hiding her own pain behind a mask, I tried my best to cheer her up, but I couldn´t.

I guess Sasuke was right, I cannot really understand nor emphatize with those who either lost their parents or never managed to get to know them in the first place.

Even though I knew Ino-san for so long, I didn´t know how to make her pain going away, even years after these days, I still saw that sorrow in her eyes, and I felt helpless.

I admit, Ino and I, we could start bitchfights in less than a sec, but I still cared much about her, after all she has been once my best friend, and she still is.

And still, I had no idea how to help her, so I am glad that you managed to make her smile again, I mean really smiling, it did good to me as well to see her doing that again.

It was as if you have re-awoken her life-spirits.

So for this…, thank you a million times!" Sakura-san stated and bowed before him.

"Nothing to thank for, after all she helped me much too, thanks to her I can act like a normal human again, she helped me to study much about human relations and behaviour.

It´s all thanks to her, that I am able to not being regarded as all too weird anymore.

Ino helped me to forget the years I had spent under Danzou´s rule, also she helped me to remember things of my past.

Many memories of my life, before my time by the Anbu-Ne.

Memories I have forgotten or which had been sealed away by Danzou.

Ino is an amazing girl, that's for sure, I saw that during our missions, but even more during our free-time in the shop.

The way she talks about flowers and the way she treats them, made me seeing her in a whole new light.

The way she smiles and the way she seems to dance while going around town.

And the way how happy she is during flower-search in the forest, this made me experience feelings, I never thought to ever feel!" Sai-san explained to Sakura-san.

"You love her, don´t you?" Sakura-san asked with a warm smile.

"….., Through Ino I am able to feel again what love really meant and I recognized after a while, that I did feel that way for her.

It has simply appeared, out of nowhere, unasked, unexpected, but honestly, it came welcomed, so if you ask me if I love Ino, than yes, I do love her!" Sai-san stated with a strong voice.

"Then I am glad, I like to see her happy and if that means that she will be together with you then I can gladly accept this.

Still, Ino is a good friend of me, so don´t you dare to make her crying, got it?!" Sakura-san stated with a serious voice.

"Of course not, I will make her smiling everyday, I promise!" Sai-san stated.

"That's a deal than, anyways we better help these guys, we make Ino´s birthday the best day she ever had, and then comes Shikamarus, but as I know he will not even appear to it himself, and I doubt he will have a party anyways.

But there is still something to look forward to anyways, after all do we have to soon celebrate the wedding of Naruto and Hinata, on the day of Naruto´s birthday, the 10th October!" Sakura-san stated.

"Yes, it really went fast between them both, don´t you think so!" Sai-san replied, looking at my parents.

"Indeed, but after all did Hinata loved Naruto already very early in her life, and Naruto swore to never let her slip away again, after almost losing her twice, if not even three times, when we count Neji´s assault during our first Chunin exam.

They dated for a few months and then he asked Hinata the question of questions, on the ladies night after that she cried the whole time, out of pure joy, and then that shock the next day, as her father stood before Naruto´s front-door and challenging him to a duel!" Sakura-san stated with a laugh.

"Yeah I still remember, he defeated Hisashi in less than 5 minutes!" Sai-san stated with a chuckle.

"I still remember that, after attacking Hisashi with many shuriken, the same shielded himself with his rotation shield jutsu, which was a mistake, Naruto teleported himself with Hirashin no jutsu, right into the shield and attacked Hisashi with a Rasenshuriken!" Sakura-san stated.

"Yes, ever since that moment I was cautious of giving Naruto my hand for greetings or out of politesse, since I could never be sure if he would not put an Hiraishin mark on it!" Sai-san stated.

This was important informations, maybe I can use it for my battle with Sasuke-kun.

"I even still remember how Naruto became Chunin a few months after the war, he managed to get throught he first exam with pure luck, again.

Then he and his team consiting of Moegi and Udon managed to get throught the second exam, because Naruto, in a battle, blew a large part of the forest up and like a wonder they found a needed scroll, which still was intact!" Sakura-san stated sweatdropping.

"Yes and in the last exam, he simply blew his opponent from Hoshigakure with a Chō Oodama Rasengan, through the walls, out of the arena, after the same pissed him off!" Sai-san stated chuckling weakly.

"Seriously…, this really happened?" I thought, as I remembered how Senpou, Sarada and I had joked about this a month ago, but hearing this now, I could only shake my head to it.

"Didn´t that guy said that it was a shame, that the hero of konoha still was being the only one of his academy grade, who still was Genin and that Konoha-ninjas must be rather easy to beat, if they let someone like him becoming a chunin!" Sai-san stated in thought.

"Indeed, it was the first time Hoshigakure send Genins to the Chunin-examen, everyone of Konoha was furious about that insult towards Naruto, probably more than Naruto himself, since all of us knew that no one had deserved it more to be called a hero than Naruto, who saved Konoha more than often!" Sakura-san stated and I was proud that everyone liked my Dad that way.

"And after that Chunin exam, he and the kids became the rank as a Chunin, and after many mission a few months ago, before the Moonfall-case he finally became a Jonin!" Sai-san stated.

"Yes this was sure a shock, after all Neji as well as Shikamaru and then now Naruto and now me, we all have been the only ones of our grade to have become Jonin by now, out of all 11 of us.

Everyone, me honestly too, thought that Naruto would be one of the last to become Jonin, I mean, I just never saw him in a leader position and still he was always walking many steps before all of us.

In the end he was the third one of the original Konoha eleven to become Jonin and now every Genin is hoping to get in his team.

And apparently even Sasuke is now a rank under him, I think this is what gives Naruto a small amount of victory, after always have been beaten by Sasuke during our Academy days!" Sakura-san explained.

"I guess that's true, anyways we should better help them now!" Sai-san stated and Sakura-san nodded.

The scene changed yet again.

Towards the 20th September to be honest, we once again stood within the Hokage´s office.

"Kid-kidnapped!" I heard Shikamaru stating, while he was paling as white as a sheet.

He, Chouji-san, Father, Mother, Sakura-san, Shino-sensei, Kiba-san and Sai-san were standing right in the office.

"Indeed, two days ago, some wanderers found her teammates for this mission, Ran Aburame and Shira Nara, lying unconcious in a forest under a tree with several severe wounds, left to die.

The wanderers treated their wounds as best as they could and then gave word to us.

We took them in our hopsital and an hour ago they woke up and told us anything, therefore, renegade shinobis kidnapped her and are trying to force her to cooperate, perhaps with some kind of threat.

We assume that they want her to take one of the kages in her possession and let him attack our village or any other of the 5 Hidden villages.

We don´t know with what they threat her, but it could be that they have more than just her as a hostage.

Anyways your mission is to find the renegades, defeat them and release Ino and every other hostage from their grasp, understood.

You built two groups, their mission has been here, so there are two routes they could have token, it is too much for one team to look upon the two routes one after another.

You need one day to get towards the location of Ino´s last sighting, we don´t know about their concrete goals or how many and what kind of shinobis they have in their group.

But in any way we have to hurry, whatever they want they want it fast, there is a new 5 Kage-Conference coming, in two days, so our time limit isn´t really big

The groups are as following.

Naruto, Hinata, Sai and Chouji are in group A, the leader is Naruto.

Shikamaru, Kiba, Shino and Sakura are in group B, the leader is Shikamaru.

You can keep being in contact through these high range speakers, and through these chakra transmiters from Yamato-san you wont lose a member of your team, they are able to detect your positions and project them to the brain of your teammates, like a navigation jutsu.

Anyways you better go, time is precious, bring Ino back and hopefully alive!" the Hokage stated.

"Hai!" they all shouted and jumped out of the window over the roof towards the front gate.

"Huh?" Sai-san suddenly recognized a person at the maingate winking up to him.

"This is…, Mrs. Yamanaka!" He stated.

"I will be right back guys!" Sai-san stated.

"Make it quick and then catch back up on us, we cannot wait on you, sorry!" Dad stated.

"I understand, thank you Naruto!" Sai-san said, before he dived down towards Ino-san´s mother.

"Hello Sai-kun!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated, her voice full of worry and sorrow.

"So I guess you heard already what happened?" Sai-san asked uncomfortably.

"I know, but I also know that my girl is strong, she won´t let herself being beaten down so easily, I know she is alright, I can feel it, in here!" Ino-san´s mother explained touching her chest.

"Still, I worry much about her and I hope you guys will find her, I know it´s much asked but I beg you, bring her back alive, no mother should have to watch her Child being buried!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated, tears streaming down her face.

"I beg you, please, bring her back, I won´t be able to bear to lose another person dear to me, I beg you Sai-kun, bring Ino back home, back where she belongs, no matter what!" She stated, as she fell to her knees.

"Mrs. Yamanaka!" Sai-san stated concerned, while rushing to her side, picking her up and placing her on a bench.

"I promise, I will bring her back, no matter what will happen, Ino will return back to you!" Sai-san said with ironclad determination.

"I thank you, already in advance!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated in tears.

"I will not dissapoint you, but now, I got to go, I have to save a princess!" Sai-san stated with a smile.

"Yes, go, go and save my daughter, I beg you, Sai-kun!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated, as she watched the young man running out of the village after his teammates.

The scene vanished and we saw us next within a forest, right before a giant fortress.

"You are sure that she´s here?" Shikamaru-san asked Sai-san.

"Of course, these locks of her hair, this colour I would recognize everywhere, also does the trace ends here!" Sai-san stated, as he looked forward.

"Naruto can you feel Ino-san?" Shikamaru-san asked.

"Indeed, between all these dark intentions I can feel two pure and innocent ones and one who is clear but a bit tainted, the same aura as Ino´s!" Dad answered the question.

"Hinata, can you approve Naruto´s claim?" Shikamaru-san asked.

"Let me see, Byakugan…, yes I can see her and they got also 2 kids as hostages, but they seem to be sick, I think they are poisened!" mom stated shocked.

"I see, so this is how they force her!" Shikamaru-san stated.

"What do you mean!?" Chouji-san, Shino-san, Kiba-san, Sai-san and Dad asked.

"They deny her to cure the kids, if she doesn´t help them.

A medical Ninja has sworn to help every innocent people, who are suffering on a sickness, no matter what, therefore Ino cannot simply ignore the state these kids are in, not even for a mission.

It must be a strong poision, or a poision which requires special treatment, treatment which Ino can´t really give them under the current circumstances, she may only be able to ease a bit of the pain, but if she has no right material, she is as well as helpless!" Sakura-san stated.

"I see, so we better get those kids out of there and help them before something worse is happening!" Dad stated.

"How many opponents are there?" Shikamaru-san asked.

"Around 50!" Mom stated, as she drew the positions of the opponents, on the plan Sai-san´s Ink-eagles have made after observing the whole area from the Bird´s eye-view.

Same as Shino-sensei´s Bugs, who investigate inside as best as they could, there were some Airthight security rooms in which not even them could go.

"51, one is behind a barrier through which your Byakugan cannot go, I only feel his present faintly but it is there!" Dad stated, being in sage mode, drawing the last one within a circle as to symbolise the shield.

"This has to be the leader of this group!" Shikamaru-san stated.

"How shall we go forth?!" Dad asked.

"We need a decoy, who draws the intention, then gets captured gets inside and then start a ruckus, you understand?" Shikamaru-san stated.

"Alright this will be me then, I will be the best for this Job, I am the one who attracts the least of attention!" Shino-sensei stated.

"Are you kidding, the way you look are you the most suspicious of us all!" Dad stated sweat-dropping.

"Indeed, I mean look at you Shino, High collar, and hood up, sunglasses on even though there is no sun, it would be for me pretty suspicious when someone like you would stand in front of my porch!" Mom stated and Shino-sensei sighed.

"Hey Shino, go on, call the firedefenders!" Kiba-san stated, chuckling.

"Why should I, there is no fire around here?" Shino-sensei asked confused.

"Because even they cannot un-burn you!" Kiba-san stated hollering.

"Go and suck your….!" Shino-sensei stated through grit teethes.

"Stop the bickering, Chouji will go, he is the only one, one would trust more, still you need a disguise!" Shikamaru-san stated.

"How about this one, Henge no Jutsu!" Choji-san stated, transfroming himself.

Out came a man in wanderer outfit.

"Perfect, you could tell them that you got lost in the woods and that your water is out and if you perhaps could get some from them!" Shikamaru-san stated.

"I will try it!" Chouji-san said determined.

"Alright, Operation: Rescue Ino is about to begin, everyone get ready!" Shikamaru-san stated

"Hai!" they all shouted.

The scene changed to the next one, it seemed to be right inside of the fortress.

"Be carefull, there are opponents around the next corner!" Mom stated.

"Leave it to us!" Shino-sensei shouted, as he and Chouji-san ran forward.

Shino-sensei´s bugs distracted the opponents before Chouji-san simply road-killed them.

"Ino-san is behind this door alongside of the children and four opponents!" Mom stated.

"Alright, leave this to me, I wanted to try it anyways!" Dad stated.

"What do you mean, Naruto-kun?" Mom asked.

"I will use the jutsu of the Second Hokage and my Dad´s, the Hiraishin no jutsu, still I havent used it ever before, but I am certain, with Kurama´s forces I can succeed!" Dad stated.

"Alright if you think you can do it, then please do it, but how will you get inside, you have no point fixed there!" Shikamaru-san asked.

"Indeed I have!" Dad replied.

"You have but where, when?" They all asked.

"Ino as well as Chouji and so also all of you, are wearing my Hiraishin-mark!" Dad stated.

"But how?" Shikamaru-san asked.

"The fistbumps, but of course, do you remember after we passed the gate of konoha, Naruto fist-bumped each one of us as we all did it, woving to bring Ino back!" Kiba-san stated.

"I remember but Ino hasn´t been there!" Shikamaru-san stated.

"But she has been on our first mission, with me and him, as Naruto had his first time as a team-leader!" Chouji-san stated.

"Indeed, this might be 5 months ago, but the Hiraishin-mark never leaves when it has been used on something or someone!" Dad explained, if this is true, I would be able to defend my friends far better than before, I could be in seconds at their side.

"Why didn´t you used it before?" Kiba-san asked.

"Because I didn´t know how many opponents would be in the same room with Ino-san and I can´t use dangerous jutsus, when there are already injured kids inside.

I had to first decimate the number to an amount I can simply knock out with Taijutsu without much effort.

That's why we attacked and managed to beat most of the opponents outside before going inside this room.

From the earlier 12 opponents, who were with her in the same room, are only 4 remaining!" Father explained.

"Anyways let´s go Kurama!" Dad shouted and was engulfed in Yellow-orange fire-like Chakra.

"Alright here we go, Hiraishin no Jutsu!" Dad shouted and vanished in thin air.

"Uaaargh!" Suddenly loud voice were heard from within.

Some noises were heard, before it all was silent.

"Alright you can come inside!" We heard Dad´s voice.

"Alright let´s go!" Shikamaru-san stated before Chouji-san broke the door open.

"Ino!" They all shouted.

"Alright you asshole, if you love your life, you better speak up, what did your Boss wanted from our Comrade and what is this for a Poison!" Dad asked the sole still conscious member of the opponents.

"Your friend has been poisoned by a virus, the Boss has long escaped with the antidote.

The person we wanted to control was no politician but a professor, who developps biological warfare agents for small land, inbetween the Land of Earth, Fire and Lightning.

The boss wanted to sell this poison towards an expensive price, to a certain someone who has a great interest in this virus.

It has a massive pandemic effect, still it is getting transmitted only through body fluids, like saliva, blood and sweat.

Still if it gets dumped into the water-pipelines, whole lands will getting contaminated!" The opponent stated.

"How awefull!" Sakura-san, Karui-san, and Mother stated in horror.

"A small land between ours , Kumo´s and Iwa´s, which developps biological warfare?" Shikamaru-san mumbled as he thought about it.

"Spontaneously, there comes only Otogakure in my mind!" Dad stated.

"Maybe but we cannot be sure!" Shikamaru-san stated.

"Still Orochimaru is since the war unable to be found!" Kiba-san stated while Akamaru whined.

"No matter what, we have to get this guy, also for the antidote to save Ino and the children!" Sakura-san stated.

"From what I can see, is this virus a fusionated and mutated aggressive version of an influenza aand a Malaria-virus, highly contagious and deadly quite likely.

However, I have no idea how much time we have left to help them, also do I not know how the incubation time is!" Sakura-san explained, as she nodded over to my Father.

"What do you mean?" Dad asked confused.

"You touched her, not?" Mom asked.

"…Wait you mean…., oh shit!" Dad shouted.

"Alright we have to stop this virus from further spreading, don´t get in direct skin-contact with Naruto, Ino or the Children.

Sai and I we will bring these children and Ino towards Konoha to Lady Tsunade, and perhaps we can create an antidote or at least ease their pain.

You guys have to stop that guy and get the Virus as well as the antidote back, no matter what, Naruto as soon as you got the antidote, use it on you, but you absolutely got to bring some of it back home, we have to analyse it and creating more of it!" Sakura-san stated.

"Alright!" They all stated, pefore they separated.

The scene vanished.

We arrived within a Hospital a few days later.

"How are they?" Sai-san asked Sakura-san.

"They are okay, as much as I can say, they are out of life danger…, still, they need many rest now, we don´t know how often Ino had contact with the kids, or how long they had been suffering under the virus.

The virus has stolen a lot of their forces, and we don´t really know how long it will take, for the Antidote to fully take effect; we already contacted the parents of the two children, they will arrive in 2 days.

Approximately in 2 weeks they will be over the dam and back up again, still it´s only a hypothesis.

However, Ino-san would want you to stay strong and to not worry so much!" Sakura-san stated to Sai-san.

"I understand I just hope she soon will be over the dam, after all there still is a party waiting for her, I promised to make this party the best she ever had!" Sai-san stated.

"I bet it will be!" Sakura-san stated, as she looked through the window into the quaranty-room, watching Ino-san sleeping on the hospital bed.

The scene-vanished again.

"Hello there Ino, I heard you finally are eating well again!" Sai-san stated, as he looked over to a weakly smiling Ino-san.

"Yeah I do, still it is mostly only soup I can eat, anyways is nice to see you Sai, Sakura told me that it was you, who found the bastion, that you followed my hair strains!" Ino-san stated.

"Indeed, I was really surprised though, as I saw the strains lying on the ground forming a trace, after all you always were so proud of your hair!" Sai-san replied.

"I got the Idea from Mom, she once told me about Naruto´s mother, her friend Kushina-san and how Naruto´s father once saved her.

As I remembered that, I used the same trick, I hoped that you might find the trace, I really hoped for it!" Ino-san stated.

"How would I have not, this golden colour I would recognize everywhere!" Sai-san stated softly, brushing a lock of hair out of her face making Ino-san blushing.

"Sakura told me, that you had been helping my mom out in the Shop and that you had been here everyday, i´m very thankfull for that, I don´t know how I ever can repay you!" Ino-san said.

"Just get well soon, that's all I wish for!" Sai-san stated.

"I will, no matter what, I will get well so I can be with you all again!" Ino-san stated getting teary eyes.

"Do that!" Sai-san replied, stroking yet again a strain of hair out of her face, smiling at her.

She smiled back, with love in her eyes.

"Hey Ino, you know what?" Sai-san asked.

"No what, what is it Sai!" Ino-san asked curious.

"I love you!" The same only said.

"…... R-r-r-r-really?" Ino-san stammered, as tears streamed down her face.

"Of course, so get well soon, so I can go with you on many dates!" Sai-san stated and Ino-san chuckled.

"I will, and Sai?"

"Yes, Ino?"

"I love you too!" Ino-san stated, as she embraced Sai-san.

"I will get well soon, for you and mom!" she stated.

"I bet she would love this!" Sai-san smiled.

The scene vanished and the next one came.

"Alright, now carefully and over this, watch out there is a step!" Sai-san stated, as he led a blindfolded Ino-san to a certain place.

"Where do you bring me, Sai?" Ino-san stated.

"No fear you will see, we are soon there!" Sai-san stated.

"…, you know, the last few weeks were really nice I am most thankfull to you, you had been at my side this whole time, even after work, I think only mom ever did that, as I was little!" Ino-san stated.

"Well it was really nice, and I did it with pleasure, so no need to extra thank me, all I wanted you was to not miss on something even though you could not leave the hospital.

That's why I came everyday, to keep you up-to-date, your mom said that it would also be okay to come once a week, but I insisted to go, I just wanted to be at your side!" Sai-san explained.

"I see…, hey Sai-say, what happened with the boss of these renegades?" ino-san asked.

"We caught him after three weeks, he had many complices who helped him to hide from us but in the end we could get him and the Antidote in our graps.

Naruto later had been shown to be highly resistant against the virus, but still he had to take the antidote, after all he still was highly contangious, even when the virus did not affected himself directly.

Momentarily the boss is beeing interrogated by Ibiki and some members of your Clan, we want to find the mastermind behind the plans and the Professor´s contact-person.

Naruto thinks it might be Orochimaru, it can be, but still we arent really sure about this, we have no real evidences by now!" Sai-san explained.

"I see, actually our mission was to bring the kidnapped kids back, I would have never guessed that there was more behind it, I thought it was just a simple kidnapping.

Who would have thought that the contact-person was one of these guys?

They wanted me, all along.

They stated that more than only the two Kids had been kidnapped and that I shall find out through mind-interrogation where the others shall be.

After they got to know that I indeed was a Yamanaka, they revealed themselves, overthrown me and forced me, by threating the kids, to get the needed informations about the virus and to force the professor to prepare the virus and the antidote.

I really thougth that I would die there, after they infected me with it, it was worse, I first felt bad and ready to vomit anytime, my stomach burned and I got high fever.

It more and more went worse, until you found me and brought me to Konoha in the hospital; on the way I lost consciousness, so I couldn´t even thank you!" Ino-san stated.

"Well all I can say is that i´m glad you finally back and fully over the dam!" Sai-san stated.

"Anyways we have arrived, so now close your eyes and don´t peak, until I tell you, okay!" Sai-san stated.

"Alright, I will!" Ino-san stated and Sai-san took of the blindfold.

"Alright and you can open your eyes!" he stated.

"Ah, Huh?"

"Surprise!" Everyone shouted.

The Old abandoned playground has been decorated neatly with fairy-lights, flowers and et cetera.

"Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy Birthday dear Ino, happy Birthday to you!" All of Ino´s friends and Clanmembers sang as they brought a giant cake over to her.

"You guys, I can´t tell you how happy I am right now!" Ino-san stated with tears of joy.

"This is all thanks to Sai-kun, it might be a month too late but still, Happy Birthday to your 20th anniversary Ino-chan!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated as she embraced her daughter dearly.

"Well, what are you saying Ino, this surprise is us quite succeeded, right?!" Sai-san stated.

"Sai-san, i´m so happy, thank you so much!" Ino-san shouted, before she flew-embraced Sai-san and kissed him tenderly on his lips.

"Wooooooohhhhhoooo!" Everyone hollered.

"Well then, let´s get this party started!" Sai-san stated and suddenly live-band started to play music.

"Wait is this…., no way, it´s Ninja-kun X!" Ino-san shouted in amazement.

"This is my totaly favourite band, how did you managed to get them to play for me on my Birthday?" Ino-san asked amazed and dumbfounded.

"I still had a favor owed, from a bodyguard mission, by the Leader of the group!" Sai-san explained.

"You are so amazing Sai!" Ino-san purred, as she leaned on Sai-san´s chest.

"Hey c´mon it´s present time Ino, Sai, don´t just keep her all for yourself!" Sakura-san stated chuckling, before she pulled Ino into the middle of the crowd.

"Alright, alright, the first package I open, will be Sai´s!" Ino-san stated.

"Well this would be this here!" Sai-san stated, as he gave her his present.

"It´s heavy, seems to be a book, well let´s see!" Ino-san stated, as she oppened the package.

Out came a book, clad in red leather.

"The queen of my Heart!" Ino-san read the Title.

"Hmm?" Ino-stated, as she looked inside.

"Wait no way, it´s a picture book/Dairy…, is this all drawn by you Sai?" Ino-san asked astounded.

"Indeed, how do you like it?" Sai asked.

"I love it, this is amazing!" Ino-san stated.

"Huh, umm Sai-san, not that I want to mock you or so but I think the book is not finished yet, there Is one page which has been remaining free….., wait, hold on a sec….., is that you in a Tuxedo?" Ino-san asked, as she recognized the figure in the book.

"Sai what has that to…..Sai?" Ino-san asked, before she recognized that it was extremely silent all of a sudden, looking around, she saw that Sai wasn´t there anymore.

"Hey Sai where…, what are you looking at guys…, huh…, oh my god!" Ino-san shouted, as she recognized Sai, who was kneeling infront of her.

"Sai…. Is this….?" Ino-san stammered as suddenly tears found their way into her eyes.

"Ino Yamanaka, I know you now since quite sometime, since the last months we spent together, I got to know you a whole lot better than ever before, you showed me sides of you I never had seen before.

You teached me how to regain what I once lost, my humaneness, and you also showed me what love is, during all this time, I recognized that the feeling I felt for you, actually has been love, true and honest love.

As you didn´t showed up for your birthday, and as they contacted us that you have been kidnapped, I died inside, I was afraid.

Afraid of maybe never seeing you again, of course I instantly knew what was to do, me and our friends, we had to save you no matter what.

I promised your mother too to bring you back and this promise I made becoming true, ever since that time I felt worse, I though that you might not survive and I worried a lot about it.

As you finally woke up and went better again, I told myself that I would never leave you alone anymore, that I want to protect you, to stay on your side and to go the same way as you want to go.

Therefore I drew this picture, for it is the ultimate question I have to ask you, a question created by the feelings deep inside of me.

Ino, my dear, do you want to marry me?" Sai-san asked.

"Y-y-y-y-yes, yes, yes, yes, I want to marry you so much Sai!" ino-san shouted and threw herself back on her newly fiancée, who slipped a diamond ring on her finger.

"It´s beautiful!" ino-san stated in awe.

"Well I know something far more beautiful!" Sai-san stated, as he tenderly carressed Ino-san´s cheek before kissing her.

The whole crowd whistled and clapped.

"And now comes the last thing to do!" Sai-san stated, befor he tipped with a finger on the empty page in the Book and casted chakra to run over it, suddenly the page was filled with a picture of Ino-san in a wedding dress.

"It´s beautifull!" Ino-san stated in glee.

"Still not as beautiful as you!" Sai-san stated.

"Awwww!" Every women on the playground stated.

"Sai-kun, I will give you my blessing, because I know you will make my daughter happy and that she will be protected on your side, I know my husband would have accepted you as well!" Mrs. Yamanaka stated, as she smiled with teary eyes, taking both, the hands of Ino-san and the ones of Sai-san.

"You think so?" Ino-san asked.

"I don´t just think so, I know so!" her mother stated with a warm Smile.

I knew I had seen enough.

"Kaizōdo no jutsu (Jutsu of the dissolution)!" I stated, returning out of the memory.

Back to reality:

My eyes stung a little but not as bad as before, seems like I get a little more used to use these eyes.

"Bolt are you back to your senses?" Sarada asked me worried.

"Yeah I am and I got some interesting facts, but as I said, the rest is mostly a suggestive story, which I imagine based on the informations I have gathered together, so it might not be the real happened story to 100%, do you understand this Inojin!?" I asked.

"Yes I understand!" The same said, with determination to hear my words anyway.

"So okay I begin.

Imagine that your father, Sai-san and your mother Ino-san, know each other since before the fourth war, which is true, since Sai-san was in my father´s team after Sasuke-san vanished!" I said and they all nodded.

"Well as we all know, was Sai-san a member of the ANBU-Ne, which means that he lacked as much of emotions as possible, due to his gruesome training.

He was, badly spoken, a blank, emotionless Ninja Doll, without someone there to tell him right from wrong and good from bad, sorry about that Inojin!" I told and bowed before Inojin.

"No, no that´s alright, I mean Dad still has some quirks where I only can shook my head too, anyways go on!" Inojin said, amazed by my abilities of reading the stories of his parents.

"Well, after the War he happened to lost his teachers in things of interpersonal behaviour, for Mrs. Uchiha becoming the head of the Medical unit, Dad has becoming Jonin and also the personal Bodyguard of Kakashi sensei, to the time of Kakashi-sensei being the Sixth Hokage.

So Sai-san also had no real clue what to do, since he had, thanks to his social inability, no real friends but a few.

Meeting one day, per chance, on an abandoned Playground, Sai-san explained his dilemma towards your mother, Mrs. Ino Yamanaka.

She sat there sighing and musing over her own fate, which arrived after the war.

While watching the clouds together with Sai-san, she explained her own dilemma, being more and more separated from her friends as well.

Since Shikamaru-san had become the tactical forces head and second assistance of Kakashi sensei in his time of being the sixth Hokage, while Chouji-san spent more time with his fiancée Karui-san after work.

Also was Shikamaru now the official head of his Clan, and in the case of Choji, he still was trained by his father to someday officially overtake this position.

Sakura-san was busy with learning for the medical unit leader position.

Sasuke-san has been vanished since 2 and a half year without a trace, which resulted for her own Crush to being complelty out of reach for her, also due to her mother being against her love to that ex-Nukenin, so she suffered under being left out by her friends.

Your mother, having thought about it, then asked your father for him to help her and her mother in their flower-shop, in order to keep her some company.

She promised him to help him earning real and many emotions, being able to differ everything, wherever it is good or bad, in return he should keep her company and help them, as much as he can and want.

Your Father being grateful for this opportunity, agreed to keep her company without much hesitation.

And so, both became significantly closer over the months they spent together, more and more, also doing errands for the shop or even many missions together as a tag team or with others.

I assume that they had their ups and downs too, during studying over months on how to act like a normal human, but with the time, your father was able to act just like everyone else, his emotions returned, his social skills raised better than ever before.

Being grateful to your mother, your father decided, that he had to somehow show your mother his gratitude, so he decided to organise a Birthday party for her 20th birthday, however Ino-san never showed up.

Neither before nor on the day itself she had been seen by anyone of the friends, this was supicious to Sai, so he asked by the Hokage about her whereabout, learning that she has gone missing during a Mission, he was eager to retrieve her.

He can save her in last second together with her friends, Chouji-san, Kiba-san, Shikamaru-san, Sakura-san, Shino-san, Mom and Dad.

Together with Sakura-san and the other hostages, he was bringing her to the hospital in Konoha, she was sat in an artificial comatose, to treat her severe wounds and the viral infection she suffered after being infected by her kidnappers.

Fortunately did the rest of the team managed to get the antidote in time to make more of it.

Even after she was out of danger, Sai-san stood at her side, every day and every night, until she woke up.

Learning from Sakura-san that it was Sai-san, who found her whereabout, thanks to her Kushina-trick, Ino-san thanks him dearly.

Sai-san decided to stay at coming every day to the hospital, to keep Ino-san some company, for her not to feel lonely again.

Being happy about this, Ino-san thanks him for saving and caring so much about her.

Several weeks later, as she finally is able to get out of the Hospital, Sai-san comes to get her, blindfolding her, he led her to the same abandoned Playground where both met each other the first time a month ago, chatting for the first time, saying more than just a few words, getting to know each other better.

Taking of the Blindfold, Ino-san is presented by all of her friends and family, who had built everything up for a big Birthday Party, with her favourite live band and all things.

Baffled about his kindness and friendship, Ino-san loses all social and ethical restrains and practically jump-kisses Sai-san, which results in the cheerful hollering of the whole crowd.

The time for the presents had come and Ino-san decided that the first Package to open would be Sai-sans.

Into the package she finds a big picture book, opening she finds herself, being drawn in various everyday situations, secretly, without her even knowing, keeping her pure nature, without trying to pose.

Amazed of how fine he had drawn her, every single hair on the right place, she happily looked through book, admiring the pictures.

Every page was filled with her, only in the middle there was a page blank, next to him where he was draw in a magnificent Tuxedo.

Asking of what would come on this page, Sai-san said that she alone would be able to tell this, if she would be able to answer his question positive.

And then he asked her if she would like to marry him.

Moved to tears and saying yes, in front of all her family and friends, Sai-san gives her a diamond ring.

He fills Chakra into the empty page, which let the picture of Ino-san in a Wedding dress appearing, next to Sai-san in the Tuxedo.

The party goes round yet again.

While partying, Ino-san is asked by Sai-san if she wants to dance with him and of course both dances till late afternoon.

After getting her mothers blessing, Ino-san thinks to have seeing the ghost of her father, telling her that she made the right choice, and so Ino-san happily awaits the wedding bells to ring.

Several months later, she is known to be pregnant with you Inojin, so I think!" I told them and them all looked in awe at me.

"I wish I had that ability, anways thank you very much it was awesome, I really can imagine it to me, thanks a lot Bolt!" Inojin stated to me.

"Indeed, thank you so much Bolt-kun that was a sweet little reminder into the past and yes, you got it all right, Bolt!" We looked, to see Inojin´s parents have joined Chouchou´s parents, who were sitting behind us listening to my story, they must have arrived during those few minutes, as I was in the memory.

Part 2/ The C.E.F., the first Day´s last `official´ battle:

The bond of love and faith and the big announcement.

Bolt´s Pov:

"Okay before I begin to read about Senpou´s parents, are they perhaps here as well?" I asked with a sigh upon seing the newcomers.

"Here we are!" Both said, as they appear from behind the Akimichis.

"Sigh, well then, we still have some time before the final battles begin!" I said.

"Well then, let´s go on, your blood please, Senpou!" I said.

"Here!" She said, giving me a Cloth with her blood on it.

"Her we….!"

"No, stop it, Bolt!" Sarada suddenly cried out, taking the cloth away from me.

"Huh, Sarada, what is it, why are you interrupting Bolt, I want to hear my parents story!" Senpou asked the girl angrily.

"Then go ask them, Sen.

Anyways Bolt, you got to stop for now, you need to rest, soon Senpou and Inojin´s last battle comes up, so we have to further analyse any possible opponents for our battles.

Also is our battle coming soon as well, so we have to be fit for it anyways, you can´t afford to have hurting eyes during a battle on life and death!" Sarada stated with narrowed eyes.

"But Sarada, I…!" I tried, but was interrupted harshly.

"No buts, Boruto Uzumaki!" Sarada shouted.

"Oh…., full name….., critical minefield has been set in motion….., don´t mess it up Bolt, or she might explode!" Chouchou stated with a chuckle.

"Sigh, guess you are right, I do have to rest my eyes for the battle, you are right!" I explained and Sarada nodded with a huff.

"I will tell the story tommmorw during the pauses between Chouchou and Shikadai´s battles, alright?!" I stated.

"Hai!" Senpou stated, a little dissapointed but understanding.

"Alright everybody, get ready cause the next battle is coming soon!" Sarada stated.

"Yes, no fear we got this!" Senpou stated and Inojin nodded.

"I hope you are right there!" I mumbled.

A Half hour later, Senpou´s Pov:

The time has come, our last Battle, also the last Battle of today, beside of the one from Bolt and Sarada´s father, but after all this is no real part of the Chunin-exam, right, I really hope that both of us, My team and Bolt will make it through.

"Alright Senpou be carefull, they use Katon and Fuuton jutsus on a long range, so as soon as you got them in a close combat you can deal with them.

Still, don´t let your guard down, they also could kidding us, showing only long range attackts but are as well in this as in close combat.

Whatever you do, don´t underestimate them!" Inojin explained.

"Got it, trying to get on close combat but still being carefull cause they could have hidden abilities, roger!" I stated.

"Guys, you got this!" We heard our friends shouting from above.

"Go for it Team Yamanock, show us the power of youth!" Dad and Mom shouted.

"The last official Battle for today, Team Yamanock against Team Arachena, until now Team Yamanock has won every battle so far, if they win now too, they will be nominated to enter the ½ final.

Team Arachnea lost in their last Battle, but managed to advance forward because Team Shuron, their former opponent, has been nominated as Chunin.

Through this match Team Arachena has a second chance to still come under the Top four, still only one can win, so please enjoy this last Battle of the first Day of the Chunin exam finals.

"Sensei-Aburame, if I may ask for it?" The Hokage stated and looked at us, I thought he had gave me a wink.

"Alright guys, this is the last Battle for today, so the rules have been changed a bit, the time-limit lies by exactly 40 minutes, that is all there is!" Shino-sensei stated.

"Why so?" I asked.

"The last Battle only lasted for 20 minutes, we are now exactly 4 hours and 20 minutes at fighting, so to even the number the fight lasts exactly 40 minutes, so we come on a total of 5 hours of nonstop battles.

Anyways I hope I don´t have to tell you the rules again, do I, so we make this fair and square, when I say go you begin when I say stop you stop, easy as that, well then, are you ready?!" Shino-sensei asked.

"We are!" Inojin and I shouted.

"We too!" Our Opponents stated.

"Well then…., begin!" Shino-sensei shouted and so we jumped away from each other.

"Siiiirrrrr!" I heard the noise of incoming Shuriken.

"Shit!" I stated, as I was still in the air, I tried to get my kunai but it somehow was stuck within my pocket.

"Dammit!" I shouted.

"Pliiiing!" Before the shurikens could reach me, they had been shot of by a kunai of Inojin.

"Thanks, Inojin!" I shouted.

"Always again dear!" He shouted, as he looked back at his opponent.

"Well then, let´s get this started!" I thought, as I faced my Opponent, a young girl which had something dangerous at her.

"Eat this, Hitsugi no ori no jutsu (Jutsu of the Coffin-weaving), the Girl shouted before she let some sticky net-thing out of her mouth, just like a Spider.

"Too easy!" I stated, as I dodged the attack.

Meanwhile Inojin´s opponent used Kuchiyose and some strange wind style Jutsu.

My own opponent meanwhile chased me with the same attack backwards but I always could escape.

"Senpou watch out!" Inojin´s voice shouted.

"Huh…, oh dammit!" I shouted, as I recognized that I was inches away, of landing right on one of the shurikens the girl attacked me with earlier.

It would go straight through my foot with it´s edge.

"Gottcha!" The girl shouted.

"Huh, oh noo!" I shouted, as I was caught in her net, falling to the ground.

"Dammit!" I thought, as the sticky net completely wrapped itself around me.

Dammit, this one single milisecond of carelessness was enough for her to capture me.

"Senpou!" I heard Inojin´s faint voice.

"I´m here!" I tried to shout, but I could not bring out one single word.

"Shit they attack with sand-storms, Senpou where are you!?" I heard Inojin shouting.

"Inojin, I`m here!" I tried to shout again but still, no word came out.

"I´m here, Inojin!" I heard a faint voice shouting.

It was my voice.

"Oh no, this is a trap!" I thought, as I recognized that my echo was not quite correct.

"Where I cannot see the hand before my eyes!" I heard Inojin´s faint screaming.

"I´m here, Inojin, follow my voice!" I heard the faint fake voice of mine.

"No, Inojin, this is a trap!" I tried to shout.

"Forget it girl, this net is enforced with Chakra, you cannot rip it through, it will feed on your chakra as you try it!" the girl stated.

"First we going to defeat your friend and then it´s you!" she chuckled.

"Dammit, dammit, Inojin, don´t go, this is a trap!" I shouted in my mind.

"Senpou is this you!" I heard Inojin in my mind.

"Yes, don't go to the voice, I cannot speak right now, so this is a trap, you got to find me over sensor, or else you will fall right in the trap!" I explained.

"Inojin where are you, i´m here!" I heard it faintly.

"That voice, it´s the enemy, try to knock him out!" I thought.

"Alright, no fear I got this Senpou!" Inojin thought back.

"I count on you, I meanwhile try to get me out of here!" I thought.

"Alright, no matter what we will win this, Senpou!" Inojin encouraged me.

"Of course!" I replied.

"Alright, he´s running to the trap…., soon he´s in it…, wait…., no way!" My opponent shouted, being distracted.

"Now!" I thought.

"Seimon, Gate of Life, release!" I shouted in my mind after assembling my forces, to release the first few gates, creating an overload of chakra.

The net hardened until it begant to break as my mucles began to stretch and force piece of the net from the inside giving me room to used my arms again, with wich I broke the net fully open.

"Baaaammm!" The cocoon ripped open in a massive shockwave.

"Waaaaattttthhh, how is that possible, the net shouldn´t have been able to be broken!" My opponent shouted, after being blown away a few metters, along with the sand.

"Shit, Shina, get out of there!" We heard my opponent´s Teammate screaming, but it was too late.

"Haaaaaa!" I screamed, as I punched her right in the face, making her flying right across the whole arena in the opposite wall.

The rush of my attack as well as the impact blew the Sand-storm cover away, revealing the opponent of Inojin, who was flying on a giant Dragonfly.

"Dammit, got to take Cover, Musha, let´s go!" the opponent shouted.

Suddenly the sandstorm came back and blocked my view.

"Inojin?" I shouted.

"Got it, here!" Inojin shouted, as he transmitted the position of the enemy to my brain.

"Gottcha you sucker, don´t mess with my Inojin!" I shouted, as I ran towards the arenas wall, and ran up on it with help of Chakra on my feet, before jumping towards the opponent, and kicking his giant Dragonfly right in it´s stomach sending it up flying.

"Inojin!" I demanded, as I fell backwards down to the ground.

"I´m here!" Inojin shouted, as he came upwards, with one of his giant Ink-eagles.

"Thanks and now for the finishing touch!" I shouted, as I jumped back up, after we chased after it, right above the flying dragonfly.

One of its wings was damaged, making it flying uncontrollabily.

"EAT THIS!" I shouted, as I kicked them back to the ground like a meteor.

He crashed right onto his Kuchiyose animal, which shattered to dust, vanishing in progress.

"Ha, this shall be it!" I shouted, as I landed back on Inojin´s eagle.

"Ha we did it!" The same applauded.

"Watch out!" I shouted.

"Baaam!" suddenly our eagle had been shot off by a spidernet, sending us flying to the ground without any protection.

"Dammit this bitch is still active!" I stated, as I looked down to the ground.

"My muscle are hurting like hell, I can barely move anymore, but it guess this shall do it!" I stated, as I used some of my blood, which flew out of my nose.

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" I shouted, as I summoned my Kuchiyose partner.

"Come to me Konga!" I shouted as out of the dust a kanagaroo appeared, wearing boxing gloves.

"Defeat her please, I can´t move right now, but be carefull!" I commanded.

"Arroooo!" Konga shouted, before it has been brought by one of the two Eagles Inojin created.

The other one brough us to the ground.

"This sure has been a hard Battle, do you think your Kuchiyose partner is getting it done?" Inojin asked.

"Belive me there is no way that he can lose, he has some strong surprise for Shina-san in it´s Bag!" I stated with a snicker, as we watched how Shina-san, the opponent, managed to trap both hands and the Tail of Konga with her nets.

She just wanted to finish it off with a solid punch, as she suddenly was struck down by another fist, coming out of the Bag of Konga.

"Nice right hook, Kon!" I shouted, while the joey smiled with a nice guy pose before both of them vanished.

"The Battle is over, winner is Team Yamanock and as such they move on to the ½ finals!" Shino-sensei shouted in the mic and the crowd went wild.

"Guys you were awesome!" We heard Bolt and the others running up to us.

"We sure were, geez but now my bodies hurting, I had to use my limit twice in a day!" I stated.

"It saved us so all I can say is thank you for using it, well anyways let me heal you!" inojin stated.

"I will too!" Sarada stated.

"Thanks Sarada!" I said.

"Hey you, Inojin was it not, how did you knew that it was not your friend, I mean the voice in the sandstorm!" Shina-san asked from the plank-bed over to us.

"Yeah and how could you see, where I was, as I covered myself with the sandstorm!" her partner asked us as well.

"Well that's the Bond of love and faith we have in each other!" I stated with a blush and a smile while I was snuggling up on Inojin.

"I see you have not only recently gotten together as a team not, you have been friends before the exam already, this way you could trust him blindly!" Shina stated and I nodded with a victory sign

"Attention, the First segment of the Chunin exam finals is officially over, our first two finalists are Team 1, the twins Sarumir and Arumir Aburame and Team 10 Senpou Rock and Inojin Yamanaka.

After a lot of thought and a mutual decision do we from Konoha have nominated Team 10 for possible Chunins, the final decision will show itself in their next fight, against Team 1, on the third day, so I hope they take the time to get well soon The Hokage stated.

"Nominated…!" I stated in disbelieve

"…., for becoming Chunin!?" Inojin asked dumbfounded.

"Way to go guys, you must have made a real good impression to the council of Konoha, as your ex-Sensei I am proud to have taught such good students!" Shino-sensei stated.

"Anyways, in the next ona and a half hour we will have a special surprise for you all!" the Hokage stated.

"Now he´s going to announce it!" I said and Bolt as well as Sarada nodded in nervousness.

"The official Half-time-show between the Chunin-exam´s first day and the Starlight-festival at night, the demonstration-Battle of two of the approved strongest 4 Jonins of Konohagakure versus the strongest Ninja-offspring of the last 10 Years.

The battle between Sasuke Uchiha and Boruto Uzumaki…!" The Hokage shouted and the crowd went wild, wilder than ever before, since the start of the finals.

I looked at Bolt and saw him being worried.

"…And the simultaneously broadcasted battle of Hinata Hyuuga versus Sarada Uchiha!" the Hokage spoke further as the cheers flawed off.

"Wait.., hold on a second.., what!" I shouted, as I looked at Sarada and Bolt, both were paling, being suddenly as white as a sheet.

"The ultimate Battle in which everything is allowed, beside of guns and firearms, which are not allowed by the U.N.W. Law. (United Ninja World)

You might ask now, why that is so, why the two kids, even as strong as they are, will have to fight against these two Jonins.

It´s because they have been challenged but not because of nothing…., it has been the Tradition, in all three Clans, the Hyuuga clan, the Uzumaki Clan and the Uchiha Clan, that the Son- / Daughter-in-law will have to survive a battle against the Father- / Mother-in-law.

In order to prove their worth and their reliability towards the Clan of their chosen one!" The Hokage explained.

"Has he gone nuts or what, how can he simply decide this without asking us!" Bolt stated through gritt teethes.

"A Battle…., against Lady Hyuuga…., the fourth strongest Konoha-Jonin of the Before-War Generation!" Sarada stated, before she feel unconscious.

"Sarada!" we shouted in concern.

It was no wonder to faint by that, after all it was approved that, together with the Hokage who formerly was the strongest of them all, Mrs. Uchiha, Lady Hyuuga, Mr. Uchiha and after a while also our Sensei Konohamaru, were the strongest Jonin of their generation so far.

Konohamaru-sensei had later in his life become the unofficial Student of the Hokage before Mirai-sempai, who then again was the official one, he was alongside of Kakashi-sensei the only still living person out of the Hokage´s family, who can use the Rasengan.

This and his strong abilities from the Sarutobi clan made him to one of the Konoha´s Mighty 5, as they got called from the inhabitants.

The People and even the Hokage often said that he would make a good Hokage, a title he had trained for ever since he met the Hokage as both were younger, before the war.

The four strongest Jonins and their Hokage, no one, not even the formerly elite could defeat them anymore, this had been proved in various tournaments.

These four were the U.N.B.T. (Ultimate Ninja Battle Tournament) Champions, also called the `Unbeaten´ and this since 5 years, formerly it was with the Hokage and without Konohamaru-sensei, who is only since 6 years a Jonin.

"TheUltimate Ninja Battle Tournament, appears twice a year similar to the Chunin Exam, only for proving the power of the Jonin from every land.

20 Jonins from each of the 5 lands, are allowed to fight and proving their worth and power under each other.

100 Candidates, 25 teams with each 4 members and in the end, only one team can win and their members have to fight to show their ranking in the top 4!" I thought, as I looked up towards the very elite, that sat under the tribune where the Kages sat.

"Mr. Uchiha, the number 1 and Lady Hyuuga the number 3, how are Bolt and Sarada supposed to fight them, when not even Jonins from other lands are able to defeat them!" I mumbled to Inojin and he nodded.

Not even Shikadai´s father, with his brilliant tactics could beat them, for Konohamaru learned to fight as unpredictable as the Hokage sometimes; and the rest of them was just simply amazingly strong.

"Geez what he hell was he thinking, that stupid idiot!" Bolt stated, breaking my trail of thoughts, as he picked up Sarada and brought her away to the medical room.

"So please enjoy yourself, until we are right back and live here at the Konoha Arena, and now Spot on for Ninja-kun X!" The MC of the festival shouted in his microphone, as he introduced the favourite band of Inojin and his mother.

Part 3/A heart that can´t be fooled and the heart that spirals in the darkness, Katsuo´s fortune of birth.

Sarada´s Pov:

We were sitting in the waiting room all alone.

Not that the others didn´t wanted to be at our side but right now, I only wanted to be together with Bolt, I was sure this might be the last hour we would be able to spent as a couple.

"But we only started dating, serisously, why is that happening?" I thought to myself.

Honestly, I was at the verge of crying, even Bolts gentle embrace could not help here, the same was meanwhile in deep thoughts.

"What are you thinking about, Honey!" I asked him after awhile.

"I have a mental war right now!" He stated.

"I am searching for any bit of information I can find about my mothers battle style, but honestly, I don't think I ever saw her fighting seriously, I have no memories about eventual weaknesses of her!" Bolt stated with a stern glance to the ground, even though he did not seemed to even see the ground.

"You would even betray your mother, only for our love?" I asked.

"I´m not betrying her, I only don´t want you to suffer, I want you to be as safe as possible and if you know how to easily beat my mother, then I can assure this.

Also, my mother is probably to blame herself, since she challenged you indirectly, without really telling you, so that you could mentally prepare for it, so it´s only fair for us to get you an advantage!" Bolt stated.

"But you know, I think your mother only does this, to ensure that my Father does not accidently kills you!" I stated.

"Probably, but that shall not mean that i´m gonna hold back either, he challeneged me and I was waiting for an Opportunity to make him pay for what he did to you.

Honestly if my father would be like yours, I would rather long time have abandoned him!" Bolt stated and I sighed.

"I know, hell I was glad that he finally was there, back home..., but if I shall be honest..., I rather was glad for Katsuo than for myself.

If it weren´t mostly for him and mother, I would have allowed you to shoot Dad to the moon, because actually I hated my father for all the pain he brought us.

I don´t even felt anything as i looked in his eyes, only sorrow and pain, after all he didn´t even recognized me back then, hell until that day he never even knew that i existed.

I admit, I hated him to the deepest of my heart, because I never had the chance to experience what you experienced, before your father had become Hokage!" I said.

"What do you mean?" Bolt asked me confused.

"You still remember..., as we were kids..., long before we came in school..., your father always played with us, he laughed with us, kept us company, helped us when we needed him, he always had an open ear for our problems.

And he never took back the hand he had directed towards us, he treated us just like you and Himawari, as if we were not the kids of another man..., it truly felt to me as if I had a father..., I loved to be with you guys, because I felt really home somehow; not that I didn´t loved my mother, mind you.

But I really missed something like that, a loving family, a family in which not always stress ruled and in which I not always had to hear my mother crying herself to sleep.

For this I hated my father the most, not because of my own self but because he dissapointed Katsuo and made mom crying!" I stated my voice growing weaker, and my tears thicker.

"He never gave me anything to be happy about and now he wants to take me the only thing, which brings me the most happiness..., being with you!" I stated as I rolled myself together, tears were crawling over my skin, carving incurable scars into my heart.

"No matter what, I won´t leave you, honestly I don´t care if I win or not, I will stay at your side anyways, such a dumb challenge is nothing that can force me away from you.

However I only fight and beat your father, for my own selfish satisfaction.

I want to make your father pay, for all the tears you ever spent, while thinking about him, all the breath he had stolen you, when you were cursing him and every time you were mobbed, beaten and mistreated only because you were his child!" Bolt stated, his voice got a dangerous tone.

"Bolt!" I stated worried.

I didn´t wanted him to lose himself in revenge-feelings, after all it is on me to take my own revenge.

"Do you think you can defeat him so easily, I know you are strong, no doubt about it, but he is far more experienced than we are.

He has probaly also killed far more people firsthand, unlike us, which we always try to avoid senseless deaths, the most enemies who died during our missions, were dying out of coincidence or collteral damage that we brought, like accidently blowing up forests, causing avalanches, forest fires and so on.

Still it´s nothing to be proud of, not in the slightest!" I stated.

"I don´t know if I can defeat him or not, unless I try to, still he´s not for nothing the strongest of the top 4 Jonins, so I have to be carefull anyways and I should never dare to underestimate him.

Unfortunately, I can only look in the past with these eyes, at least by now, so I cannot tell what might come, but I promise you, that I will use every ounce of power in my body to defeat your father.

I will make him see that you are better off with me, than anybody he ever could chose!" Bolt stated, as he looked in my eyes and I saw burning determination.

"Alright, I will go get Inojin!" I stated.

"Huh what do you mean?" He asked.

"We have to get infos about your mother and my father, therefore I will take a dive with you in your own parent´s memories, I will be at your side, forever, no matter what, when or why!" I said and I saw him nodding in awe.

"Alright, and afterwards we dive in your memories to get informations about your father!" Bolt stated and I nodded.

"That's what I thought too!" I said and so I ran out to our friends getting Inojin.

"I will not let him being taken away from me, never again!" I stated with my own burning determination.

"I will find her weakness out and I will beat Lady Hyuuga, if this is wath it takes for me to be together with Bolt, then I will take upon this challenge, I will face it and I will be victurious.

I will make her see, that i´m the only girl to be with Bolt!" I though, with the fire of passion in my eyes.

"Inojin!" I shouted, as I found him and the others.

"Hey Sarada, where´s Bolt?" Chouchou asked.

"Still in the waiting room anyways, we need your help Inojin, you have to do something for us!" I stated.

"Sure thing, what can I do for you!" Inojin asked me corious.

"Bolt is going to take a dive and...!"

"Hey didn´t you say he should not do it right before the battle!" Senpou whined.

"Cut it out Senpou, this here is serious!" I yelled at her.

"Pah!" She pouted, which I simply ignored.

"Anyways we decided that Bolt is going to take two dives..., together with me!" I stated.

"Wait what?" They all asked.

"First in his own Memories, to find something out about his mother´s strenghts and weaknesses, afterwards he does the same with my blood to find something out about my father´s strenghts and weaknesses.

We do not have any other options therefore we got to take what we can get, to get us an advantage in this battle, after all we have to fight against two top Jonins and I am sure they are getting serious in this battle.

Bolt and I we bet that Lady Hyuuga has only challenged me to ensure her son´s safety and that my father does not accidently kills Bolt, I bet she will take revenge on me for every scar Bolt gets, during his fight with my father!" I explained.

"I see and understand what you mean, but are you sure this is even possible, I mean to litterally take a dive within your own mind is something I have never even tried to do, it could get completely wrong and then you are trapped and perhaps mentaly ill for the rest of your life, do you really think it´s worth the risk?" Inojin asked.

"I know what you mean and I appreciate your concern, really, but for my love to Bolt, no wall is high or thick enough to keep me away!" I stated.

"I see, well then, it´s worth a try but as I told you, I won´t take any guarantee that it works!" Inojin stated.

"I know, anyways let´s hurry, we got no time to lose!" I said and so we rushed back to the waiting room.

"Bolt I´m back!" I stated.

"Hey guys, nice to see you, Sarada told you guy's what´s going on, I assume?" Bolt stated and they all nodded.

"Alright, I will now connect Saradas mind with Bolts and you will then take a dive and then we hope that Sarada tags along!" Inojin stated.

"Alright, I will take my blood!" Bolt said and bit in his finger.

"Alright I will connect your minds, Chouchou please support Sarada, I don´t know what will happen when she is inside!" Inojin ordered and Chouchou did as told.

"Alright, are you ready sweetheart?" Bolt asked me.

"I am, let´s go!" I said.

"Alright , here we go!" Inojin stated and in the next second I saw myself in a dark lit room.

"Bolt, Bolt where are you!" I asked.

"He´s here Sarada!" I heard a voice, however it seemed not to be Bolt´s.

"Who are you?" I asked afraid.

"Have no fear Sarada-san, it´s only me, Kyūbiko!" The voice stated, before a giant Nintailed fox appeared before me.

"Bolt is over here, no fear I have him!" The Fox said and I looked at the Boy, who was sitting between the front paws of the giant Fox.

"Bolt and I, we are a born entity, however are we still two separate minds, therefore I can connect you towards him, even when he is not concentrating on his inner conciousness to meet me, this way he can concentrate on diving and we both are coming with him!" Kyūbiko stated.

"I see, well then please do so!" I stated and the giant Fox nodded, before he closed his eyes.

The room around us changed towards a completely different scenery, I looked around to see Bolt standing there.

"Bolt!" I shouted but he did not reacted.

"He cannot hear you, his concsioucness is concentrating on diving, we are connected to his conciousness, still can´t we interact with it and we only can see what she can see!" Kyūbiko explained.

"I see, so this is what Bolt is seeing in his own blood, but where are we here?" I asked.

"Dunno, this is only a random memory, and we also don´t know how far we have been dived, this could be only a year ago, but it also could be shortly after the birth of his parents; I don´t know it.

The only thing I can tell you, is that Uzumaki blood is very strong, as you might have experienced yourself once, as he gave you blood over transfusion during that mission, as you almost would have died on blood loss.

Anyways, what I want to say is, that this means it can be, that you see more of the past of Bolt´s father than of his mother, the same goes for Uchiha blood.

It´s common sense that Uchihas and Senjus have been the strongest clans in Ninja-history, therefore are the sucessors of these two clans still today blessed with this strong blood.

Also are Uzumakis, as much as we now know, born out of the, to that time, two strongest living Clans, the Mezakans and the Senju´s.

So perhaps, only perhaps, you also might see some fragments from the past of the Mezakan-Clan!" Kyubiko stated.

"I see, you are quite acknowledged!" I stated.

"I´m born out of my father Kurama, therefore do I also hold most of his memories and even if he claims that he never wanted to have anything to do with Humans he learned much about their history by simply observing them.

A Bijuu is being created out of the force of Hagoromo Otsotsuki, so it´s only logical that a bit of his soul lies in each Bijuu.

Therefore we also know things which happened long before the concept of Chakra and Ninjutsus have been existent!" Kyūbiko explained.

"I see!"

"Anyways let´s see what Bolt´s seeing okay, after all he´s the one who digs!" He stated curiously and I nodded.

"Yeah let´s do this!" I replied, before I looked at what Bolt saw.

Bolt´s Pov:

I was seeing the past of my father, I was sure about it, he told me a bit abut his childhood, and it always sounded so weird and somehow unbelievable.

After all everyone liked my father.

So I thought..., but after seeing all of this here, I didn´t knew what to say.

It were many scenes I saw, and I could not say nor think about anything, that would be in the slightest enough, to describe the rage inside of me.

"What a lot of Bullshit..., how can they?" I stated in wrath, as I saw how my father has been mistreated as a child, beeing kicked out of the orphanage at the age of six years without any means to live and without belongings but the clothes on his body, living 2 years long on the street with no money, only eating what he finds in the garbage a night, when no one was there to scold him for it.

I saw the nights in which he starved to total exhaustion, I saw the tears he shed, whenever he told himself to stand up, to not give up and to pull himself together.

I saw how he tried everything to get noticed, stealing, and making trouble, simply to be scolded, simply to be noticed somehow.

I saw how he said himself, that beeing seen and hated, would still be better than not beeing noticed and not have his existence beeing acknowledged at all.

I saw how the people looked at him, it were those damn eyes, the same damn eyes with which they always looked at Sarada during her childhood.

This silent hatred against someone they want to vanish.

I even saw how my father asked the third Hokage for answers about his parents and how the same simply turned around and left the room without another word.

"How was he able to take all this injustice?" I thought having long broke down in tears.

It was impossible for me to comprehend, how my father could not get crazy because of all this, his entire childhood had been a hell so far I could see.

"Hey, stop this will you, don´t pick on innocent people!" I heard my father shouting.

"What he still is defending them, how can he...!" I shouted, as I looked up, only to look into the Childface of my mother.

"This..., this is what she told me..., the day she met my father the first time..., the day she fell in love with him!" I though, as I saw how my father defended my mother and how he fought despite of being cornered and too weak to defeat the three bullies.

I saw how they began to mob him, destroying his scarf, it was the only scarf I ever saw him wearing.

As I found out it has been the one of his father.

He found it as he got the room his parents had lived within before they died.

According to the Hokage, who came one day towards the Cartonage house my father lived within, after being thrown out of the Orphanage, the room shall have been paid for all these years by him to ensure that someday Naruto would get it.

The Hokage and his escort brought my father to the room and simply left him standing on the porch with only the words, `Go in, it belongs to you, your parents left it for you, if you take it or leave it, it´s up to you, we don´t care either way, its up to you to decide´, as if taking out the garbage and giving it the choice to staying or being eaten by wil animals, like stray dogs.

Of course was the inside of the room full with dust and dirt, after all it had been 8 years since someone was inside.

So the first thing my father would had to do, was to clean up most of the dirt without suffocating on it.

Under the bed he found this old Scarf, full of dirt and cobwebs, as if someone simply had forgotten it; there was beside of the furniture, the dirt and that scarf nothing else in the room, not even any photos of my Grandparents.

It was an empty, dirty hole.

Of course my father ran out after a whie, feeling that there was nothing there anyways, it would be just like living on the street, no one would wait for him anyways.

He ran out with that Scarf in hand, he only took it because it was freezing outside.

After a while he arrived on that very same Playground, where he sat himself on the swing in all solitude.

He sat there for a while thinking about what to do.

A while passed and he was about to rise to go back to his new home, as he suddenly heard these loud voice.

"Hey don´t run away you monster!" He heard and instantly turned around, trying to see who had called him.

But it was not him which the voice was directed, at least not this time.

No this time it was a young girl which was bossed by three older bullies.

Father easily could tell that the girl was more than afraid for her safety.

She looked around in the need of help, and then for a few seconds their eyes met, while the bullies were laughing.

She looked straight at father, not shifting her glance, perhaps she didn´t knew who he was, or she didn´t cared for the moment.

But it was clear to see, that her eyes filled with tears and her expression called out for him.

"Please..., I beg you..., help me!" I read out of my mother's expression.

It was a call not even my father, who usually didn´t cared what happened to others, could ignore, so he did the only thing that came in his mind.

He butted into the ruckus and tried to defend her no matter what.

And so I saw the brave and protective side of my father the very first time.

The way he shielded my mother was amazing, his eyes blazed with fury.

So to seeing his only piece, that might connected him, knowingly, to his parents, being destroyed by these guys, made me furious.

"Uhmmm, thank you for your help, Naruto-Kun!" I heard the cute voice of my mother.

I looked to see how my father cheeks heated up and I almost could hear his thoughts.

"She said thank you..., and she looks at me..., without shifting her glance..., she also is kinda cute!" I read in my father´s expression.

"Na no need to thank me, it was nothing, and anyways I got to go!" Dad stated and I could not believe that he simply was about to run away.

"Naruto-Kun!" I heard my mother mumbling, I looked to see her smiling with a blush.

Suddenly the scene changed.

"Hinata-sama where have you been?" I saw a man asking my mother, he seemed to be from the Hyuuga clan.

"I was out playing in the snow, then I got bullied and ran away from them!" Mom stated, I bet she never lied in her entire life so far.

She just looked so innocent and cute, and honestly, if I would not know that she´s my mother and if I would not be in love with Sarada already, and hell if I would be in her age, I think I would have fallen in love with her.

"Geez what the hell am I thinking!" I shook my head.

"Did they hurted you, how did you got away without a scratch, did someone helped you?" The man said.

"Yes there was a boy on the Playground nearby, he helped me and defended me!" My mother replied.

"I see, thank god, well to whom shall I send my gratituded then, did he said his name?" The man asked.

"Yes, he´s called Naruto-kun!" Mom stated with a shy smile and a blush.

"He´s so strong and good-looking!" Mom mumbled in languish.

"Naruto-kun..., as in Naruto Uzumaki!?" The man asked loudly.

"Yes..., what´s the matter Kou-san?" my mother asked confused.

"Hinata-sama it would be better to not get involved with this individual, the dealing with such a creeping thing, is not fit for the next heiress of the Hyuuga clan!" Kou-san stated and his expression was merciless, it was the same as the one of the people in the village.

"That bastard, how dare he gets involved with the heiress of the Hyuuga-clan, I can´t believe it, if anyone will know about this I will get a lot of trouble.

Anyways Hinata-sama, I want you to stay away from that brat, he´s not good enough for you!" Kou-san stated.

"How..., how can you say this..., he helped me..., he defended me..., why would you insult him..., why would you be so mean to him..., he did nothing wrong..., he helped me!" Mother stated trying to be brave but fidgeting and mumbling, due to her shyness.

I heard this from my father, but seeing it now, if only she would be fiercer, maybe she would have make Kou-san seeing, that she would not take this crap.

"It doesen´t matter, anyways we now go home, instantly!" Kou-san stated and the scene changed.

"Hinata-chan!" I heard the voice of grandpa Hiashi.

"Yes Ootoo-san?" Mom asked.

"I heard from Kou-san that you met a boy called Naruto Uzumaki?" he asked.

"Yes, he helped me when I needed help..., he defended me form three bullies!" Mom stated, blushing again.

"I see, anyways, Kou-san is right, getting involved with such an individual is bad for your image as heiress of the Hyuuga-Clan.

Therefore, from now on you keep your distance to that boy, don´t deal with him and don´t speak with him either!" Grandpa stated and I must say I like him now lesser than before, after witnessing all this.

"But why..., why do I have to..., he did not hurt me..., he only helped me..., is that such a bad thing?" Mom asked.

"No that´s not it..., its just..., complicated, anyways I forbid you to ever meet him again!" he shouted and I saw the shock in my mother's eyes.

She looked down and shed two single tears.

"Yes father, as you wish!" she said submissive.

The Scene changed.

I was back with my father, in a hospital room, it seemed that some years had passed.

"This Salve is really incredible, I really should thank Hinata with a gift!" I heard my father saying.

"But what to give such a shy person like her, she´s kind of wreid..., with all this blushing and stammering and all..., yeah..., wreid..., but in a clumsy and cute way!" He stated, as he looked at my mother´s sleeping self in the hospital bed.

"You went so far..., got hurt and mistreated..., all because of me..., because I encouraged you to go through it..., because I pushed you only out of selfish feelings.

You wanted me to look at you, and I did and I saw myself in you, somehow..., I just didn´t wanted you to give up on trying to defeat him, and I also didn´t wanted you to give in to his heartless speech...!

But in the end..., I was the one who hurt you the most..., because I forced you, to let Neji do this to you!" I heard him saying, as he took my mother´s Hand in his, she stirred a bit but remained sleeping.

"I swear..., to everything that´s holy to me..., I will defeat Neji for you..., I will make him pay for what he did to you.

I will make him see..., that you don´t need to listen to fate, to tell you what you can reach and what not!" Dad mumbled.

"Naruto-kun!" I heard my mother saying weakly, stirring in her sleep.

"She´s kinda cute when she´s sleeping!" Dad stated with a smile.

"Oh Naruto-kun!" We heard it and turned around.

"Kurenai-sensei, nice to see you!" Dad stated, at the sight of Mirai-sempais mother.

"You are here again I see, just like last week!" she said.

"How do you know?" Dad asked.

"The Flowers, every week fresh ones are being added and old ones have been token out, even though not one of the nurses know something about it.

Also, somehow the window is always open, even though the nurses closed it before going out.

Still it´s kinda strange, why don´t you come in through a normal way?" Kurenai-san asked.

"How this would look like?

After all, I am still regarded as a nuissance and as soon as I would get in here through the reception, the Hyuugas will known and I will be chased out again anyways.

Still, I have to be here, how I could let her suffer all alone, after all she let this being done to her, only because I shouted to her to keep going.

I know I should have told her to abort the battle, but I couldn´t, I saw how determined she fought, if I would have said, that she should give up, I would have insulted the efforts she took to get so far!" Dad stated.

"Indeed, let me tell you something, I never saw Hinata fighting fiercer than three weeks ago.

Even though she got beaten I know she was happy!" Kurenai-san stated.

"Why would she being happy about being beaten up?" Father asked.

"Because you looked at her during her fight, you saw how fierce she was and how determined she fought, you complimented her, this was all she need to bear through the pain, even if she was defeated!" Kurenai-san said.

"She was glad you were there, you see Hinata likes you, a lot!" She continued.

"Why would she, I am the boy with the fox-spirit, why would anyone being happy that I look at them, why would she even like me in the first place.

I am no one, only Naruto Uzumaki, I am not so cool as Sasuke is, and I am not so strong like Neji or like Gaara.

I am a nobody, who just happens to have had a lot of luck to come so far.

All I can do is hurting others making others feeling worse because of my sole existence!" Dad lamented.

"Naruto you are a lot like Hinata you know, she is striving for being acknowledged by her Clan, for who she is, she trains hard to be really seen by the people she cares for, and you are one of these people.

So hearing you cheering her on, seeing how hard she fights and how strong she can be, was for her more worth than winning that battle, because it told her that you noticed her, that you looked at her properly and that you weren´t disappointed in her.

She knew how strong Neji was and she knew deep down that she had no chance against him, but alone the fact that she was determined to go through it, to have you calling her name, was worth for her to go through every pain.

She took you as her idol, as the ideal shinobi, someone who never gives up, no matter how hard something seems.

Wanting to follow the same way as you, changed her a lot since the days I knew her, so in a way I am thankfull that for, she has gotten a lot more selfesteem thanks to you!" Kurenai-san stated.

"Anyways i...!" She stopped, as she heard voices infront of the door.

"Naruto quick..., through the window!" She stated and dad nodded in understanding.

"Sure thing, cant have it that they will put up guards in here, anyways if she wakes up, tell her that I will definitely win for her!" Dad stated.

"I will!" She said and so my father vanished outside.

The scene changed to a typical view over konoha, the way it looked before it has been destroyed by Pain.

"Home sweet home!" I heard dad saing as he looked up on a pole.

"I ask myself how the others are, how Sakura is, how Sensei-Kakashi, Granny Tsunade and Shizune-san are, and Konohamaru, Moegi and Udon... and how Hinata is!" I heard dad saying whispering the las t part.

"It sure has been a long time, but I hope she has gotten stronger, the way she had promised to herself, I know she will be, after all she´s a Hyuuga and I know Kurenai-sensei would not have let her slacking off!" dad mumbled with a bright smile.

"Anyways it sure is awesome to be back again!" He shouted out loud.

The scene changed.

"Hinata sure hasn´t really changed much, she still is shy, she still blushes much and fainting does she too, even though more grazefully than that one time as she hit me unconcious.

Yeah she hasn´t really changed at all..., although, ...she sure has gotten pretty I guess and she has also grown a bit..., at least so it seems..., especially around the chest..., oh well it´s still worse that they cannot help me, I really would have liked to see her progress!" Dad stated, as he walked through the town.

The scene changed again.

This time it seemd to be a memory of my mother.

"I won´t allow you to lay another finger on Naruto-Kun!" I heard her mumbling as she was attacking Pain.

"Hinata flee you have no chance against him, he is too strong for you!" I heard my father shouting.

The same was pinned with some strange rods to the ground while mom fought against Pain, in what seemd to be ruins, this must have been shortly after he destroyed the whole village.

"You should listen to him, you have no chance to win, but you are brave enough to get in my way, so I guess you are prepared to die!" Pain hard glance was so easy to read, that he did not even needed words to tell her what he meant.

"I will not die here, as long as I have not somehow helped Naruto-kun, I cannot give up or die!" Mom mumbled.

She attacked Pain with a row of taijutsu attack but the same always dodged so long until there was an opening.

"Now´s my chance!" I heard mom stating, as she jumped over to Dad and destroyed three of the rods, before she suddenly was dragged far up in the sky.

"HINATA!" I heard my Father screaming, at the sight of mom crashing back down to the ground.

"Stay down and you will live, stand up and you will die!" Pain stated calmly.

"As I told you, I will not die, not yet, I have a mission to do!" Mom stated as she tried to stand up again.

"Why do you stay here, flee, he´s going to kill you, why would you throw away your live!" Dad shouted, as mom crawled over to him.

"Because it is my Ninja-way..., I will never give up, I will save you, somehow..., until I have not managed this, I cannot, no..., I will not die!" Mom stated.

"But you will, he can easly kill you, flee as long as you still can!" My Father shouted.

"I have no fear of dying, because I was usefull to you, because you looked at me truly and because you acknowledged my effort.

I helped you as best as I could and even if I die here and now, I hope that you won´t forget me, because I will never forget you Naruto-Kun.

I used to always cry and give up… I made many wrong turns… But you… You helped me find the right path… I always chased after you… I wanted to catch up to you… I wanted to walk beside you all the time… I just wanted to be with you… You changed me! Your smile is what saved me! That is why I'm not afraid to die protecting you! Because… I love you…Naruto-kun!" mom stated and I saw how my father seemed to be shocked.

Suddenly it was as if I could hear his thoughts.

"She..., she loves me..., but how..., why..., why would anyone love me..., I am still the jinchuriki I had been all my life, even though I get less hated perhaps.

Why would such a fine and beautiful girl like Hinata fall in love with me..., what did I do to change her and when did I change her..., does she meant that time at the Chunin exam..., as I cheered her on despite her being beaten up by Neji.

Or as I woved with her blood to defeat Neji.

Or that time as I complimented her on defeating Suzumebachi.

Or was it... why, why does she cares so much about me, wait..., this look, this look I saw once somewhere..., this look as if saying that I am a hero..., I saw this once but where...?!" Dad´s thought flew towards me.

"Yeah..., I remember..., there was this girl..., this little girl that was bossed around on a winter day 8 years ago..., she was mobbed because of..., because of what..., why was she mobbed again?!" Father shouted in his inner self, as he watched how Hinata got ready to attack Pain.

She activated her Byakugan, right for my father to see.

"Here eyes, now I remember..., that girl was mobbed because of her eyes..., she had the same eyes as..., no way..., could it be..., was this girl...Hinata?" Dad´s thoughts finally managed to process what was happening and what has been said.

"So this would mean..., she liked me ever since that day, almost my whole life long..., she liked me..., could she perhaps been the first who didn´t saw me as a monster..., if this is true, this would also explain what sensei Kurenai once said.

That Hinata liked me for who I was, not what was sealed within me, that I was like her..., striving for being acknowledged by people..., that she trains hard to be really seen by the people she cares for..., that I would have been one of these peoples she cares for.

That being seen by me..., acknowledged by me..., being cheered on by me..., simply that I would have noticed her, then and now..., that it would be more worth to her than winning a battle.

That I was seeing her and was proud of her.

She knew how strong Pain was and she knew deep down..., that she had no chance against him..., but alone the fact that she was determined enough to have been able to help me..., even at the cost of her own life, was worth for her to go through every pain.

Kurenai-sensei stated that she took me as her idol, as the ideal shinobi..., someone who never gives up, no matter how hard something seems.

Wanting to follow the same way as me, changed her a lot since the days Kurenai-sensei knew her, so in a way she was thankfull that for, it was the second time someone said thank you from all his or her heart to me.

She said that Hinata has gotten a lot more selfesteem thanks to me and if I remember the way she always stuttered and was shy around me, and then her fierceness during her battle...!

I admit, I was impressed that time, in a way she really had changed, to the good and she had more selfesttem, but I never would have though, that this would have been thanks to me.

And I would have never guessed that she would have started to love me.

Hell I am not good for her, I am a target, and as long as there are people who want to kill me or capture me, those on my side will always have to suffer..., so even if she says she loves me, and even if she wants to be with me..., I cannot accept her feelings, even if I like her too a lot.

As she laid in the hospital during that month, I swore to myself to never let her getting hurt through my doing again.

I have to close my heart..., I have no right to love somebody, as long as there are people who try to kill me for the Kyuubi..., for the power to destroy everything that means something to me..., as long as they are hurting my friends to get me, I cannot think about starting a family.

As long as I cannot defeat them all, I have no right to start a future with anyone.

I´m sorry Hinata!" Dad thought.

"Naruto, don´t give up..., I fight for you..., because I love you!" I heard mom mumbling, as she packed the rod which was stuck within Dads hands.

"I don´t understand!" Pain stated, looking at how Mom approached my father falling, standing back up, falling again, and crawling over to my father.

"Why would you resist..., why would you choose to fight me..., knowing you will die?" he asked.

"I will stand by my word!" Mom stated and I saw the spirit of my father´s younger self how it said the very same words with every ounce of determination.

"Because that's..., my Ninja way!" Mom stated.

Suddenly she was lifted high up in the air, and being dropped by Pain, before the same took out a rod and stabbed her.

"HINATA...; NOOOOOOOO!" Father shouted internally.

"Dammit..., if only I could be stronger..., I could protect her..., why..., why am I so weak..., why can´t I even protect the girl..., which has been fallen in love with me..., with me of all persons?" Father asked himself, while Pain said something unheard.

The moment my father saw blood flowing over stone, Mother´s blood, he lost any control he ever had.

I litterally could feel his wrath, the same was mine as well.

"MOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!" I shouted as loud as I could.

Sarada´s Pov:

"What´s happening!" I shouted, as suddenly the whole room shook.

"Bolt´s psyche has been attacked, seeing his mother almost dying was too much for him to stay mentally sane right now..., the exact same thing happened a month ago during the assault on you all!" Kyubiko stated.

"This seems to be one of the most intesive of all memories Bolt´s father has been bearing, so strong that even the memories of that day let Bolt´s heart shuddering in pure wrath and hatred!" He explained.

"Why couldn´t I recognize it earlier..., why did I ran after Sakura..., if I only would have had to turn around and grasp Hinatas hands..., pulling her out from my shadow..., towards he same light, she had pushed me into.

Maybe I could have saved her..., maybe she would not be dead!" We heard The Hokages thoughts echoing through this space, so loud it was near unbearable.

But I was shocked..., mom never told me that the Hokage once had been in love with her, not that it is relevant right now, but i´m just saying.

"This is the moment as my father almost took over Naruto-sama´s body, his wrath merged with the one of Kurama, the same wanted to be free, to destroy everything which brought his host pain!" Kyūbiko stated.

"Destroy everything… Erase everything that hurts you… Entrust your heart to me… I will save you from your pain…!" We heard a mighty voice, darker than Kyūbikos but definitely similar.

The whole room changed again.

This time we saw the Hokage standing in the middle of destruction.

"Katsuyu-san, was that me?" The Hokage stated in terror, looking around.

"Pretty much, but no fear, you have not harmed anyone!" Katsuyu-san stated.

"Oh thank you lord!" The Hokage stated.

"Wait what about..., Hinata..., I can feel her, so she´s...?"

"Indeed Hinata-san is alive!" Katsuyu-stated.

"Thank god, this takes a lot of my shoulder, I thought I killed her as I was in Kyuubi-mode!" The Hokage sighed in relief.

The shuddering of the room stopped appruptly and also Bolt seemed to have calmed himself.

The scene changed again.

"Neji!" Lady Hyuuga shouted, as she held her cousin in her arms.

"Hinata-sama was willing to die for you Naruto, so keep in mind that your life is not your own any more.

It also includes mine now as well!" Neji-san stated.

"Why did you do that, didn´t you wanted to change the Hyuugas?" The Hokage stated.

"A long time ago, your words freed me from the chains of fate!" the Hyuuga´s prodigy only said.

"Why would you go so far from me, even die for me?" The Hokage asked in pain.

"Because you called me..., a genius!" Neji-san stated and suddenly his breath stopped.

Silence, beside of the nonsense Obito-uchiha was talking there was silence rling.

"How could it come this far..., why did this had to happen..., why did Neji had to die..., only for my sake..., only because I didn´t give in..., my existence has and still is..., ever since my birth..., causing everybody only pain.

Is Obito right..., does a world without pain be better..., than one with pain but also with true love?

What if the next attack takes again the lives of those dear to me?

What if the next attack will take Hinata away from me, or Sakura, or Kakashi-sensei?

What if it takes away my life..., then all those who have died did that in vain..., is it right to keep on going and perhaps let more people die..., if I kill myself here and now..., this war will end, right?

It will be bad and a betrayal towards Kurama..., but I bet he will understand..., if I die with him..., he will be revived in a few years but so long the war would have end..., Obito and Madara would not be able to finish their plan!" We heard the thoughts of the Hokage.

Before suddenly another voice was speaking, louder, clearer than Obitos rambling, strong enough to reach through to the Hokages heart.

Accompanied was it with a light slap to the cheek, strong enough to get the Hokages full attention but not strong enough to hurt him in anyway.

"Neji just said… that your life is not just your own anymore… Do you understand what he meant? Your words and desire to not let your comrades die… Neither of them are lies!

What inspired Neji and carried him this far were those very principles! It's not just you, Naruto… we all hold those same words and feelings within our hearts.

They're what bind our lives together and make us comrades. If we all give up and discard those words and feelings now, Neji's sacrifice will have been for nothing… And that is when your comrades truly die, for you are no longer comrades then.

That's how I feel… Therefore… stand up together with me, Naruto… Because never going back on one's word… is my ninja way too!" Lady Hyuuga stated and the Hokage looked straight in her eyes.

Eyes full of sorrow, but even more filled with love and determination.

A Hand which laid on his cheek, burning hot from the determination and love, those feelings wich mixed, fuelled Lady Hyuuga, to protect the one she loved the most, outside of her family.

"Her hands are so warm..., like that time as I held her hands in the hospital.

It are the very same hands that always reached out for me..., I regreted once to have ignored them..., but this time I will turn around and grasp them!" The Hokage thought and put his own hand on Lady Hyuugas.

"That's right..., it was never only my life..., so many people gave their lives to protect me..., now and then..., so it´s only logical for me to protect their legacies..., when I can keep them save..., I will be able to assure the generation after me, to have a better future than the past I had!" We heard the Hokage thinking.

Now I knew where Bolt got this attitude from.

"Well like father like son!" I thought

Bolt´s Pov:

"Thank you Hinata, it´s thanks to you standing at my side, that I can stand up again and keep on fighting for what is right!" Dad stated towards mom as both stood up and he took my mothers hand.

"I will stand with you Naruto-kun, we will win this war and we will make sure to have a free future!" Mom stated.

"Of course, we gonna win this Dattebayo!" Dad shouted and was engulfed in Kuramas chakra, same as my mother.

The scene changed yet again, towards a few years later.

A forest, illuminated by shining butterflies and the moon appeared.

"Hinata?" My father stated.

"Yes Naruto-kun!" Mom asked curious looking at him.

"I love you!" Father stated, with all the honesty of the world.

"Wait he..., he loves me..., oh god..., is this a dream..., if it is please don´t let me wake up..., I don´t want to hurt him..., I don´t wanna!" My mother shouted in her mind.

But before she could say anything, someone appeared.

"You, what are you doing here!" Dad shouted, at the sight of this strange men.

"Toneri-san!" Mom stated in horror.

"I came, to hear Hinata-san´s answer!" Toneri-san stated.

"No..., why now..., why did you have to come now..., why, I don´t want to...,I cannot..., but I have to...!

Even if he might hates me..., I have to go..., after all..., it´s for Hanabi´s sake..., so please..., forgive me Naruto-kun..., forgive me for hurting you!" My mother tought, before she stepped towards my father, pushed him the scarf she made in his hands and walked towards Toneri, her glance casted to the ground, for no one to see the purest sorrow in her eyes.

The man and here flew away on a strange plateform.

"Hinata..., why!" My father shouted, as he jumped after them.

"You will not further interfere here" Toneri-san stated as he attacked my father with some strange jutsu, which let him falling right into a huge explosion, which let the ground disappearing, getting a good view at the earth, down below.

"We are here on the moon, so this must be the Moon-fall Case!" I thought to myself.

"Why did you do that?" My mother asked with pain in her voice.

"No man should stand between us!" Toneri-san stated as he used another jutsu to make my mother unconcious.

"Naruto-kun..., i´m so sorry..., please forgive me!" my mother thought, as she drifted into unconciousness.

The scene changed yet again.

"Naruto, you are an idiot!" I heard the voice of Sakura-san.

"Huh?" My father asked.

"Do you honestly think that Hinata would so easily leave you behind without a better reason, I bet there was something behind her decision, something she could not tell you at that circumstance!" Sarada´s mother stated.

"But she went with Toneri and...!"

"Dumbass, as if this counts, Hinata is not the kind of person who jumps from one person to another in seconds, as I said there has to be something bigger behind her decision.

Believe me Naruto..., a polite and proper girl like Hinata, does not easily turns on the one she loves, she loved you for so long..., so why should she now stop doing it, I bet that deep down she loves you over everything..., and it must have hurt her more than yourself, to hurt you this way.

Hinata is a kind and loyal girl who does everything to keep her friends safe, same like you, and yet.., in my opinion she is way too good for you!" Sarada´s mother stated.

"Yeah I know, you don´t have to tell me that!" My father mumbled.

"She is way too good for anyone..., but me, I will always remain a target..., but I long know that I cannot bear that alone..., as I always thought...!

I need someone, to hold me back when I get too angry..., I need someone, who can cheer me up when I am down and I need someoe, who loves me, always, honestly and without any prejudice.

Hinata..., I said I love you..., because I meant it that way..., therefore..., wait for me, I will get you and Hanabi back..., I will defeat Toneri and ensure that our world will not be destroyed..., if all of this misery has finally been solved..., I will say these words again to you..., I hope this time, you can freely accept them.

For you are what I need to have a future, you are the one I want to walk by my side!" I heard my father thinking.

"Hinata... This big idiot finally understands... The real meaning of the scarf you gave me when you went with Toneri...

I know now, from the scarf you painstakingly knitted and took so long to finish, that your love can't be unraveled so easily...

Wait for me... This whole time, you always loved me for the way I am... Now, as a man, there's something I must tell you... Hinata, I swear I will save you!" Father shouted in his mind.

"Will you give up..., Naruto?" Sarada´s mother asked loudly.

"Never, I will bring her back, Hinata and Hanabi, I will defeat Toneri and stop the moon and when everything is alright, I will ask her again!" Father said with the purest determination in his eyes.

"That's right, that's how you shall sound, go for it Hero of Konoha!" Sakura-san stated with a smile.

The scene changed towards a strange den, illuminated by floating spheres.

I saw how my Father and my mother jumped from sphere to sphere while holding hands, while the den began to cave in.

Around us in these illuminated spheres we could see many of the memories I had seen with my father and my mother together.

"Hinata... Remember back in the Academy, when we were asked, `If the end of the world came, who would you spend your last day with? ´.

I couldn't write anyone's name down.

I didn't know my parents, and I didn't have any friends... But now, I know exactly whom I'd choose. I want to be with you. Now and forever, until I die... I want to be with you, and only you, Hinata!" Father stated and mother broke in tears of joy.

They dived out of the den, which was a lake, with Father shooting themselves high upwards in the sky with a Rasengan as jetpack.

"Nice idea!" I thought at the same time, as I witnessed how my father had mom in his grasp, holding her bridal style.

"Hinata, I have to tell you something!" Father stated, as they flew up in the sky.

"I love you and I need you to stand by my side, will you accept my love?" Father asked.

"Of course Naruto-kun, I always wanted to stand by your side, ever since we were kids, ever since you saved me that day in the winter!" Mom stated.

"Naruto-kun, I love you too!" Mom stated and then both kissed each other.

The scene changed yet again to the happiest day in their lives.

Mom and Dads Wedding.

"Hinata, I used to always be alone as a child, and there were rarely moments, where I told myself that it was worth to live on.

I was hated, feared and avoided for something, I never even knew off.

As I got the room of my parents from the third Hokage, I was not really glad, even though I had a warm home for once.

But there was nothing in it, no pictures, no memories, only an empty room full of dust and an old cobweb covered scarf under the bed, being left and forgotten just like myself.

As I realized that this room represented my heart, an empty hole with nothing inside, with no one who would wait for me anyways, I decided to run out and go back living on the street.

Between garbage and dirt, there, where I thought myself to belong.

I took the scarf because I wanted to believe that it might have belonged to my parents, but I didn´t felt anything while wearing it, as if I found it in some random garbage.

Something which never belonged to any person I knew, something which I simply found and which I could use, to shield myself from the cold outside.

Even if it wasn´t, I wanted to believe, that it would also have been able, to shield me from the coldness inside of my soul!" Father stated, in his long wedding speech.

"It was in the very same evening as I met you, you were being teased and mobbed for something you weren´t and something you had no power to change, similar to me.

That´s what I thought as I saw them hurting you mentally, there were no feelings of heroism, like saying `I save you, now you have to be my friend or something´!

I didn´t even intended to get your friendship at some point.

All I thought in that moment was that you were like me and that it would be enough when only I would suffer this way.

I learned the hard way that most people did not care about wether I die or not, no one ever seemed to have needed me.

So I told myself, even if I get hated afterwards again, that the first person who might ever need me truly, would be the one I would help, with the most of power I could bring up.

Then there was you, you looked at me with that expression full of sorrow and the need of help, I could not bear it to see you crying, so I butted in, even though I never knew you, or had anything to do with you.

As the bullies finally vanished and left us alone, I stood up and was about to go, leaving the destroyed Scarf where it was, since I didn´t have any bonds with it anyways, so I thought until now.

It was in the very same moment, as I had been thanked for anything, to the very first time of my life.

You looked at me, without fear nor disgust, you looked in my eyes and I had no idea what to say, but suddenly the world didn´t seemed to be so dark anymore.

I said goodbye to you, because I didn´t know of how long this feeling might last, or how long it would last until one of the Adults would come and crush the little bit of happiness I felt that moment.

I ran away and made my way back to my new home, telling me that just like this girl, which name I never got to know until a few months ago, I had parents who lived, here who might have loved me, needed me but who could never tell me.

Ever since this day I swore to myself to never give up on fighting for my right to live, to become strong and beeing acknowledged by the people!" Father stated.

"You once told me that I changed you Hinata, but in reality, you were the first to change me.

You never stopped to admire me, often from affar, being shy, blushing and stammering when ever we spoke.

I admit it found it strange and also thought of you to be a little clumsy..., but I also found it cute and loveable at the same time..., I liked you for you did not tried to ever put on a mask, unlike me, who always did brave, even when I honestly wanted to run away from everything.

When I thought, that still after all these years no one liked me, it was you who looked up to me, you never casted your eyes away in disgust or annoyance.

I had a hard time to finally get all the hints you sent me, I was a dense and incompetent idiot, incompetent to understand the concept of love and to grasp the hands you had reached out to me.

But now I know that it always has been you that helped me to keep on going, as I was worrying about my battle with Neji, as I was shortly from giving up, you gave me the strenght back, to step against him.

As I was suffering..., because I thought we might never find Sasuke back..., you always tried to help me with everything..., to help me to reach my goal.

As I was pinned down by Pain, it was you, no one else who came to my rescue, even ready to sacrificing your life for me.

You said to love me, something I couldn´t comprehend, why you would have been fallen in love with a living target, I asked myself.

I told myself that as long as I was hunted, no on would ever have a peacfull life on my side.

But even as we fought side on side in this war, I felt your hands on mine, even as you were trapped in the genjutsu.

Hands which never wanted to let me go, which never backed away in disgust or fear, but who grasped me strongly and who where there to comfort me.

Still, it was not until I finally understood what love truly meant, that I recognized that I held the very same feelings for you.

I told them to you on that one night and I hoped you to accept them, but you went with Toneri..., I admit I though that you suddenly would have turned around with your feelings.

I had never loved before, not purely to be honest, so I also never had been rejected before.

It was a shock to me, and I said to myself that I had no right to then try to force you back.

But Sakura said to me, that a girl never easily gives up on the one she loved once, that there had been bigger plan behind your rejection, and then I found out that you only did it so you could get closer to Hanabi, I was an idiot, the way I always had been one.

After we finally managed to stop all the ruckus that tried to break us appart, I told you again, and you accepted my feelings for you freely, I think I never was happier than at that moment..., only beside the moments, where I finally met my parents the first time.

No matter my feelings to you, this will always be my favourite moment, I have to be honest there as much as it might pain you.

You always claim that we are a like, something which is real, and as such you also know that I cherish friendship very much, you were the first one who didn´t looked down on me, who instead looked up and idolized me, the first on who truly fell in love with me, that made me happy after I realized it, after I realized my own feelings.

I swore after we stopped the moon from falling, that I would never leave your side again, that I would always stay by you and hold you close to me.

That I would honour your feelings forever; that I would always think about you.

In good as well as in bad times I want to step with you on my side, into the future.

I wove to you that on my side you shall never suffer, never starve and you shall never feel worse!" My father stated before he shut up to listen to what my mother wanted to say.

"Naruto-Kun, it´s true, I always looked at you and I always admired you from afar.

I hated myself that I was not brave enough to tell you how I feel straightforward, that I was so shy that I could not even really speak, but only stammering to you.

I felt myself not worth of your acknowledgement, but then you cheered me on during my battle with Neji, you cheered me on and you looked at me, acknowledged my very self the way I stood before you, in that moment I told myself to be strong, to step against the danger bravely, to no dissapoint you after you finnaly noticed me.

I thought that someday, you would lose any kind of interest in me, if I would have given up right on the spot.

I mentally beated myself to finally become strong enough, to be even more noticed by you and to someday be able to tell you how I felt.

But it was not for until you almost died in the battle with Pain, that I could tell you how I felt, that I could be of true use to you.

I stepped in, not afraid and ready to die to protect and help you.

You finally looked up to me and that made me happy.

But then I lost Neji during the war, I was for a moment down on the ground similar to you, but after I let Neji´s speech sinking into me I understood, that there was no time to suffer, at least not in that situation and that moment.

I understood that we had to be strong, in order to guarantee a life in freedom for the future generation.

I understood that as I remembered the baby in Sensei-Kurenai´s belly, a child which hopefully can live in a free world, a world of piece.

But to achieve this goal, we would have to grab the evil by the horns and send it back to where it came from.

I understood this in these few minutes, in which I blend out Obito´s speech.

But I also understood how much this would have affected you, Neji was next to Kiba and Sakura the first of our friends, to acknowledging you strenght, he became your friend, and to now lose him this way...!

I knew you would make yourself responsible or this, but I also knew that I had to show you that Neji sacrificed his own life, not only for you or me, but for the future.

I had to slap some sense into you, making you listening to me rather than to Obito´s words.

I needed to make you understand, that we fought not only for you, but to ensure a future for our friends and the generations after us, to make you understand what Neji meant.

That we should never forget, what someone did for us, especially not when they sacrificed their life for us, to keep on living.

As I tried to destroy the tenseigan on the moon, I failed, not because I was too weak, but because I only wanted to destroy Toneri´s power.

After I failed, I quickly realized that this simple though was not enough to do so, as I connected with you, I knew that we had to destroy it, to ensure Hanabi to be saved, so the world and everyone within it, for the moon to stop being destoyed and for not letting anyone suffering anymore.

Your feelings mixed with mine, so did your power and together we were able to destroy the Tenseigan.

You managed to defeat Toneri, because you did not stopped to keep on believing, that we can someday change the future to a better one.

And this is what I want to do, I want to help you to make this world a better place, I want to stand by your side when the future will change.

That´s my greatest wish Naruto-kun, I want to stand at your side in good as well as in bad times, witnessing everything with you, while being able to hold your hand!" Mom stated.

"With the power of my position as the Hokage of Konohagakure, I Kakashi Hatake, Rokudaime Hokage, am witnessing this bond of love between Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze and Hinata Hyuuga.

Shall anyone have anything against this bond of love the two want to be sharing, he shall speak or remain silent forever...!

With the power of my position, I declare you two as husband and wife, may your fortune of love remain forever.

You may now kiss the bride!" Kakashi-sensei stated with a serious face, before it broke into a smile.

Still he wore his mask, so we could not really see his face anyways, dammit.

The next scene appeared it was in the hospital.

"He so beautiful, my little Boruto!" My mother stated while she looked at me as a baby.

"Damn, did I really looked like this as a Baby..., wait a second, Sarada I still watching this, oh Dammit!" I thought.

"No nude memories of me, please I beg you, Mom and Dad, please not!" I internally screamed.

"He´s going to be a strong Hokage for sure, I can feel it!" My father stated.

"He sure will be, I hope he becomes good friends with Sarada-chan!" my mother stated, as she looked over to an exhausted and sleeping Sakura-san, her stomach had grown significantly.

"I still cannot believe that Sasuke simply vanished, I tried to contact him, I even let the Anbus search for him, but until now there has no message come, that he has been found!" my father stated.

"If I would not lay here in bed, I would go myself and drag him here by his ears, I don´t like to see Sakura suffering so much, she works way too hard!" Mom stated.

"I know right, if only I could help her somehow..., I know I will ask Kakashi-sensei to give me more missions, I will work for both, our family and her, after all I have plenty of depts to repay to Sakura, this might be the least I can do for her anywas, what you think!?" Dad asked and I was in awe, I never knew this.

"I know how much you feel for Sakura, she was like a sister to you, in a way.

I know that you would do it anyways, even if I would not approve to it, still, Sakura is my friend as well, and seeing her suffering because of Sasuke, who left her behind, is no option for me.

I will help as best as I can, during raising Boruto, if she ever has problems, I will be there to help her!" Mom stated.

"You are right, after all Sarada shall be born 3 months from now, so there have to be made a lot of preparations anyways, I guess the first thing I will do is to prepare a room for the baby, what do you think?" Dad asked mom.

"This would be nice for sure!" She replied with a smile.

"Although I will need your help, since it´s going to be a girl's room, it was easy for me to do Boruto´s room since he´s a boy, but i´m not so sure of my skills for decorating a girl´s room!" Dad stated sweatdropping.

"No fear, Naruto-kun, I bet, as long as Sasuke is away, you will be a good replacement-father for Sarada, I hope anyways that both, Sarada and Boruto, will become close friends.

Wouldn´t it be nice to see Uzumaki and Uchiha to be connected on a better base than ever before, who knows, maybe they will fall in love with each other!" Mom stated.

"Yeah that's what I hope too!" Dad stated with a smile.

The scene vanished and a new unfolded.

"He left her alone again, the poor thing!" Mom stated as she looked after Sarada and Sakura-san as they went home.

"Yes, alone and pregnant again..., this asshole..., oh how I long to punch him to hell!" Dad stated through grit teethes.

"Naruto-kun, please..., I know how you feel, I too hate the thought of her having to shoulder everything just because Sasuke can never stay here because of his own habit, still, we should not forget that she need us now more than ever before, it was luck that we could talk her out of aborting the child.

I know she don´t want to but she is full of doubts, I want to help her, as best as I can, maybe I am selfish?" Mom asked.

"No you not, every kid has a right to be born, no matter what even if their parents would be worse, not that Sakura would be, but I swear, if Sasuke comes here the next time, I gonna beat him to the hospital and pin him here towards Konohagakure, before he can vanish again, and if I have to treath him!"Father stated his voice full of wrath and hatred.

"I once swore myself, that she never will have to suffer thanks to Sasuke again and now I let her down again, I am pathetic I know, I cannot even ease the pain of my best friend!" Father stated.

"Stop it Naruto-kun..., you are already doing so much, Sakura knows that..., no one is making you any allegations!" Mom stated before she leaned on my father.

"At the very least me and Sakura!" She said with tears in her eyes, Dad but a hand on her head.

"I know, i´m sorry!" He said.

"Don´t be , you are doing your best this is as much as we can ask of you!" Mom stated.

"I just, feel so helpless, I want to help Sakura more, so that she does not have to suffer, but I don´t know how!" Dad stated with tears in his eyes, before the same were wiped away by a gentle hand.

"Just be yourself and help her the way you want to, I bet she will appreciate this too!" Mom stated with a lovinly smile.

"You are the best Hinata..., you always understand me, I am glad to have married you!" Dad stated.

"I am too, Naruto-kun!" Mom replied kissing him.

The scene changed again, I was curious about what might come next.

"Sarada be careful..., don´t take this in your mouth..., Boruto stop it..., nooo..., his is nothing to play with Katsuo...,oh c´mon, not you too Himawari!" I heard and saw my father, as he ran in the garden around, after each of us four who we plaid and fooled around, we must have been 3 years old, Sarada and I and Himawari and Katsuo were 1 years old by then.

"Haha, this looks kind of funny, but a little I am sorry for Naruto!" Sakura-san stated, as she chuckled.

"Indeed, he is just the perfect father, even if he always has to work so much, he still finds time to play with the kids!" Mom stated.

"I wish I could help you more with everything, but I have to work for myself, I cannot afford to always only count on Naruto, even when I like to see him playing with the kids.

Sarada is soon in the age to take upon caring for Katsuo alone.

So I can go working again, I have been lived long enough as a freeloader for you, I appreciate your help mind you, but you already did so much for me, I don´t know what I would have done without you!" Sarada´s mother stated.

"Well we did it freely and with pleasure, you don´t need to feel worse, after all we are friends and friends are supposed to help each other!" Mom stated.

"Yeah sure, but I mean, you spent so much time in helping me, that you did not even had that much time for yourself.

I kinda feel I like I have stolen Naruto from you, in a way, I mean, isn´t it strange how we share him?" Sakura-san asked in thought.

"No not really, I mean after all it was Naruto-kun´s idea of doing this, and I mean it's not as if you fell in love with him, am I right!

Also did I aggreed to it too after all, I know you like Naruto like a brother, so no fear, I never thought about something like this.

Naruto knows how it is to not have parents, friends or siblings, to be fully alone, and even if Katsuo and Sarada have you as mother, there is still missing a father.

Naruto told himself to fill into this position, as long as Sasuke is not coming back and after all, the kids do not complain about it, not?" Mom stated.

"No, that's not it..., but I see it in their eyes, whenever they are coming home from a sleepover..., their shining eyes are vanishing and they change back to the emotionless ones, knowing that there is no father like Naruto waiting for them.

Sarada even started to close herself away from me, she started to built walls around her soul, walls too strong for even myself to break.

She does not speak much anymore and she constantly reads books insead of having fun, not that this is a bad thing, but she is always in her room.

I fear that she tries to hide that fact, that she has no friends in the pre-school, there was one time as there was a girl who often came over.

I think she was called Maya or so, but this lasted only for about 2 months, before she stopped to come over and in the end she never came back over again.

I tried to speak with Sarada about it, but she completely blocks my questions.

I tried to speak with Sarada´s teachers, but they only always say that everything is alright, I came to the assumption that they do not care what happens to Sarada, I even thought of teaching her and Katsuo at home, but unfortunately do we have a duty to send our kids to school.

I really fear that she will be outcasted by her classmates, the same way Naruto had been outcasted as we were kids, as the parents always only stated to us to not get invovled with him!" Sakura-san stated worried with a sorrowfull glance.

"I know what you mean, my father and the rest of the clan also always said that during my childhood, I could not comprehend it that time, to be honest even today I cannot comprehend it in the slightest!" Mom stated.

"If only Boruto would be in her class, then she would at least have one friend, I hope they will at least come together in elementary class!" Sakura-san stated.

"I hope so too, but Boruto is saying that he has recognized it too, that Sarada smiles lesser, as soon as Naruto is not in their surrounding!" Mom stated as she looked worried over to a playing Katsuo and Sarada, who laughed out of full heart.

"They really like him much!" Sakura-san stated nodding.

"Well he always could get along well with kids, I saw that on Konohamaru-kun, Moegi-san and Udon-kun, or all the kids we encountered, he simply has a way to emphatize with them!" She explained.

"Yes guess that's right!" Mom stated.

The scene vanished and a new unfolded.

"So this is where you brought her, and you think you can keep me so easily away!" I heard my father mumbling as he looked at the Hyuuga quarter.

"Alright then, here we go, Kagebushin no Jutsu!" Dad stated.

And so a row of clones appeared.

"Henge no Jutsu!" The shouted and each one transformed into a masked no name Ninja.

"Go forth and start a ruckus, I will go and save Himawari!" Dad shouted, as the only one who was not disguised.

He glowed in Kurama´s Chakra before he vanished in thin air.

The scene changed and we saw how he appeared right next to Himawari.

"What the, how is this..., argh it´s your father jutsu not!?" The Hyuuga Elder stated.

"I will come back, belive me, I am not done with you!" Dad threated with a jigsaw of a voice, ripping through every fibre of the Elder.

With Himawari in his grasp he vanished again.

"Naruto-kun!" I heard the voice of my mother.

"Hinata, please take Himawari in your custody, I still have to do something!" Father stated.

"Nii-san, take me with you!" I heard a young Konohamaru-sensei´s voice.

"Are you sure?" Dad asked.

"They kidnapped the niece of my fiancée and my goddaughter, what the hell are you expecting me to do!" Konohamaru-sensei stated.

"I will go too!" Hiashi stated.

"Are you sure, I mean I am going to break every single bone within your fathers body, I don´t think this is something you will have to see, Hiashi-sama!" Dad stated.

"They Kidnapped my Granddaughter, I am well aware of how you feel, I felt the same way as my daughter had been kidnapped once, however I made the mistake to kill the opponent and so my brother had to be killed, I don´t want you to make the same mistake and get the whole Clan taking revenge, I allow you to defeat my father, but I cannot allow you to kill him!" Grandpa stated.

"If this is your sole condition then I am all fine, as long as I can beat this asshole to the moon!" Dad stated.

"Konohamaru, please be carefull!" 19 years old Aunt Hanabi stated.

"Sure thing, no fear, just keep everyone safe together with Hinata-san, and make sure that Salia is sleeping peacefully she has her big day tommorrow!" Our 20 years old sensei stated.

"Will do so!" Aunty stated with a smile.

"Well then, hold on tight!" Father stated.

"Hiashi-sama´s father belongs to me, you can have everyone else!" Dad shouted before they vanished.

The scene did not vanished but I guess it shifted now in mom´s memories.

"That was safety in last second I would say, thank god she has been asleep the whole time!" Aunt Hanabi stated.

"Yes, but if Bolt would have not woke up to use the bathroom, we would have not recognized it!" Mom stated.

"He is with Salia right now, am I right?" she asked.

"Yes he makes sure she sleeps peacefully, after all she has soon her first day of school!" Hanabi-san stated.

"It´s really nice of you that you take care of her, after what happened to Natsu-san...!" Mom stated.

"I know, Salia is brave but she still needs a hand to lead her, and after all has her mother been always there for us even more for me, so it´s the least I can do to repay her kindness, to take care about her daughter.

It´s awefull what has happened to Natsu and her husband.

Still, i´m glad that Salia and Konohamaru are getting so well along, she knows me so it was easy to convince her that I would now take care of her, but Kono had been a full stranger to her, so all I can do is to feel gratitude to him!" Aunt Hanabi stated.

"Seems like you like him now more than before, you guys have been dragged into an arranged marriage, but if you can find love in each other on your own, it is not that bad I would say!" Mom stated.

"Yeah, I admit, it was a shock to me, as I heard from Grandpa, that I had to suddenly marry Konohamaru.

I mean, before my 18th birthday, we had been more or less rivals, he for being the prodigy of the Sarutobi clan and me the prodigy of the Hyuuga clan, and then suddenly we were forced to marry.

I thought that Konohamaru might disagree with it, but I had to witness that he actually found the idea appealling.

Ever since he was so nice to me, I saw sides on him I never knew of and now, since about two years, Salia is living with us, and it truly feels like we are a family!" Aunt Hanabi stated.

"It is fortunate that Salia has similar hair to her father, Kou-san, black, same as mine, so there is no one who asks too much questions, at least out of the clan, and she is still small for her age, so it´s also easy to hide her true age of 5 years.

Honestly I really find it worse that no one wanted to take upon the custody of Salia-chan but me.

As if she had a deadly, infectious decease!" Aunt Hanabi stated, with a sorrowful glance.

"No one knows what has happened, but I think both wanted to flee, after all Salia is not having a cursed seal yet, also thanks to the new Law, which has been made since a year, by the Hokage, Kakashi-sama.

So it could be that they wanted to spare her from that fate and run away with her.

Naruto has still the suspicion that Salias parents had been killed by members of the Hyuuga-main-family, I never believed this, or better said I didn´t wanted to, but after tonight, I have my doubts.

What if Naruto was right and the main family really killed Kou-san and Natsu-san..., you know..., I always had been proud of being a Hyuuga, but in the last years they brought me nothing but pain, they had tried to once to debate with Naruto, about giving Bolt the cursed seal.

But Naruto and me, we fought for our right since Bolt was part of the Uzumaki Clan and Naruto being the righteous Heir, they had no right to do anything, so they left the matter.

But now that they aren´t allowed anymore to do that seal, they tried to get Himawari in their grasp, to set an example I guess, that dispite my children to be part of the uzumaki Clan, they would not give up on their traditions.

And this all comes from our Grandfather,..., honestly I don´t like to be a Hyuuga anymore, at least not one of the mainfamily.

If being the heiresss means to have to cope with all the cruelties in the clan, than I rather will be an Uzumaki!" Mom stated with determinded eyes.

"I know what you mean, I also don´t like to have the Mainfamily looking down on the branchfamily anymore.

I admit, in my childhood this had never really bothered me, but as I became older, I began to witness the cruelties, like that time at the Chunin examen, as I heard the story from Neji´s father.

I mean if one of us would have to wear such a seal and the other being forced someday to kill the cursed one..., I would rather kill myself, than ever even thinking about something like that!" Aunt Hanabi stated.

"Same here, I could never hurt you only for my own sake, you know that!" Mom stated.

"Yeah, that time as we fought for the position as heiress, you didn´t wanted to beat me down on the ground just so you can be it, you never wanted to hurt me, I know that.

I never used the seal on someone, I never wanted to, even when I was taught how to use it.

I had to witness how father turned his back on you, how he let you fall, as if you were of no worth to him anymore.

I was afraid of being let fallen the same way, so I did everything they wanted, but to be honest, in my heart I always wanted to be like you!" Aunt Hanabi stated.

"I always wanted to be a worthy older sister to you, but in the end all I could do was to let you down and do all the duties of the clan, I often asked me if you might hated me for it!" Mom stated.

"But I never could hate you for it, this was all thanks to Grandfather, he tried to make me like him, but watching you rise and becoming so strong on your own, made me wanting to be exactly like you and I think, I finally have become this way!" Aunt Hanabi stated with a smile

"Zzzzuuummm!" Sudenly we heard the noise of materialising.

"Naruto-kun!" Mom stated, as she looked at the group of three.

"Konohamaru, are you alright?" Aunt Hanabi stated worried.

"Yeah I got some cuts here and there, but overall i´m okay, no fear Hana-chan!" Konohamaru-sensei stated, with a lovely smile and a hand to Hanabi-san´s cheek.

"It was ruff but I think he has learned his lesson.

Never, never ever mess with the kids of an Uzumaki, especially not with their daughters!" Dad stated with a smile.

"Grandpa´s not dead, isn´t he?" Mom asked worried.

"Naaa, he´s not..., more or less..., just note that he will have to eat his misou-soup through a straw, for the next few months!" Dad stated with a gleefull smile making everyone else shivering.

"Dammit you are hopeless, when you are angry, Dad!" I thought.

"That's what I like on you, I truly want to become like you, so strong to even defeat the strongest in the Hyuuga clan!" I thought as I witnessed all this.

The scene changed yet again.

I remembered that day it was around 5 years ago, to the same day as Sasuke-san appeared.

"Bolt, stop this right now!" I heard the voice of my father shouting.

"As if, if I do this, you finally spent time with me!" I shouted from high above the Hokage mountains.

"Geez he´s doing it again..., that boy´s only causing trouble for the Hokage..., he should not be that way..., after all he is the son of the Hokage!" the crowd shouted and dad only smirked.

"You are so much like me at your age!" He mumbled before he jumped upwards.

"Uaaah dammit, not this time, I will break our record and this time nothing is going to get in my way!" Bolt shouted, before he jumped up in the upper town.

"Geez that boy, if I would, I could stop this ruckus right by the start, but that would be against the whole purpose of Bolts action, I do understand that, so I might as well play a bit with him.

He´s right after all, thanks to taking on any job I can do personally as Hokage, I can get a lot of money, which enables me to not only held my families living, but also to help Sakura out with her living.

But ever since I do that, I have close to no time to play with Himawari and Bolt, less to spent time with Hinata, it is peace after all, and that means that not much difficult missions are coming in anyways.

And I cannot simply give her money too, or else I would make an abuse of office as Hokage, that's why I try to get her through her job, as medical head, enough allowance to be able to do anything.

But I still hope that Sasuke will finally come back home and help her with everything, and I hope for him that that guy brings with him a giant bundle of money.

After 9 years of traveling, I expect him to have a massive bank account.

I might have been Hokage only for a month right now, but it was harder than I always thought, especially now in times of peace!" Dad thought.

"Geez it´s a Kagebushin, is he kidding me?" Dad shouted, as he caught me, or better said only my Clone.

Honestly only now I can really understand how unjustified my claims were, after all this time, Dad had no time because he helped not only us with money, but also Sarada´s family.

I really was a worse brat that time, I can now freely admit that, I did not in the slightest was able to comprehend what my dad was for a great man.

"I´m sorry Dad, I truly did you wrong!" I thought.

The scene changed again, it seems to be Moms memory, and it seems to once again be a few years ago.

"You think you easly can attack our kids and think you still get away alive!" I heard moms voice, her hair rose up in fury and her byakugan showed.

Chakra was spiraling around her like a tornado.

Next to her stood dad in his Kyuubi-mode, eyes blazing with the same fury.

This was what I understood under gods of war.

"Jūhō Rasen Sōshiken (Gentle Phoenix Spiralling Twin Lion Fists) Mom shouted as she pushed the enemies with a Hakke Kūsho away, before using Gentle step Twin Lion Fist and father a Rasengan, combining both jutsus together.

With a massive sprint the two of them rushed at the enemies and hit one of them with the attack, causing a giant Chakra dome out of spiraling wind to appear, killing each oth the enemies.

"No one is trying to kidnapp and hurt our children ever again, you hear, no one!" Mom screamed at their corpses.

She completely was out of mind.

Or at leat in never saw her this way.

"Retreat we got to retreat!" The leader of the Enemies group shouted.

"YOU THINK I LET YOU GO AWAY!" Mom screamed, as she jumped high up in the air, engulfed in father's chakra.

"Ryūsei no tenohira no jutsu (Jutsu of the Meteorite-palm)!" Mom shouted, as she used a massive Hakke Kūsho with almost her entire force, both her own and the one Dad gave her.

"BBBBAAAAAMMMMM!" The noise was even here in the memory eardeafening.

"Rot in hell you suckers!" Mom shouted in fury, as she kept on kicking the corpses, I never heard her taking such words in her mouth, less did I ever saw her reacting this way, this was not at all how I know her.

"Hinata-san calm down, they are dead already!" Father stated, holding her back.

"Let me, they are not dead enough, I will kill them so hard they will die to death!" Mom screamed her eyes full of tears.

"Hinata stop, you are making no sense!" Sasuke-san stated.

"They hurted my son, my poor son, their souls shall never rest in peace!" Mom shouted, as she broke together.

"Hold on a second, was this, from two years ago!" I though in awe, as I saw Senpou and the others all grown up.

"We know but calm down, Sakura is with him and Tsunade-san will soon be there too, there is no way he´s going to die, your son is strong, he is stronger than you think!" Sasuke-san stated.

"Are you sure, will he really be alright?" Mom asked being supported by Tenten-san.

"Of course Hinata, Bolt is strong, he won´t die so easily, trust us, after all we managed all to shape him to what he is today!" She said.

"Anyways let´s go to the hospital now, the others can take upon the corpses!" Sasuke-san stated, as he nodded over to Anbu´s.

"Alright, we got to hurry guys, so everyone who want´s to come along, we are going now!" He stated.

The scene changed again.

"Tsunade what has happened to my Son, please tell me!" mom asked.

"Now I can tell you guys what I think about, I think that the Kyuubi in your son managed to enforce the skeleton, transforming it into its own to some point.

The Skelleton of a Bijuu is hundred times harder than that of a Human.

It seems that, in order to save his host, the bijuu managed to fill his chakra into the skelleton and compress the bone-mass, making it as hard as rock, however this effect had a worse side effect, because the Skelleton lightly expanded.

Only microscopic, but enough to give pressure on Bolts brain, which let´s him fall into a seemingly dead state and probably might as well result in chronical amnesia, as long as the Skelleton is left expanded!" Lady Tsunade stated towards Dad, Mom and Sakura-san, Sasuke-san was nowhere to see.

"But there is nothing that might kill him anymore?" Mom asked.

"No beside of the amnesia nothing might happen again, the Skeleton has again started to constrict, step by step.

The process to expand it, had been made roughly and rather quickly to shield him, it must have been put him through a lot of pain, but it saved him from death!" Lady Tsunade stated.

"Oh thank god, with amnesia I can live, but I would never be able to bear when he would die!" Mom stated sighing in relief.

"Beside of Salia Hyuuga and Himawari does no one of the kids knows about Bolt´s secret, and this shall remain this way, therefore we should see to somehow find a solution to what to tell them.

They all saw how Bolt took two bullets straigh in his head, to simply tell them that the bullets were stuck in his skull will not be able to cover up, we got to have a more credible explanation!"Lady Tsunade stated.

"I know what you mean, I won´t say that the kids would suddenly turn on him, but I know how it is to be regarded as a monster.

I never wanted my kids, and especially Bolt, to be seen this way, that's why I forbid Himawari and Salia to speak about this and to accidently tell Bolt.

However, I don´t think Bolt would still be oblivious about it at this point, I think he already knows himself, that it´s actually an own Bijuu in him, rather than only a fragment of Kuramas power.

Still I have no idea in which way, the others might react to such news, you are right, for the time being let´s keep this fact a secret from the kids!"Father stated.

"Hai!" They all said.

The scene changed again.

"Hokage-sama, i´m here!" I heard the voice of Sarada.

"Ah wonderfull, please close the door and take a seat!" Father said, I was curious about what my dad would have to speak with Sarada.

"Anyways you know, as I said yesterday I wanted to ask you some questions, no difficult ones only a few normal ones.

Anyways here we go.

Question 1. How do you stand to Bolt and what did you do during yesterday evening?!" Father asked.

"Bolt an I used to be team mates not more and not less..., so I thought at least before a few years, but I have long understood that Bolt means to me more than most other people do.

I came to the conclusion, only this late afternoon before the festival that I am definitely in love with Bolt.

As for what we did, well we enjoyed the Festival so far till late in the evening, then Bolt had to use the toilet.

As soon as I was alone the People began to pick on me mobb me and mistread me, Bolt interfered, screamed and took his rage out on the mob.

Then we fled and landed on the crime scene, where he confessed his love, so did I, we kissed and made out for a while before Bolt abruptly stopped, turned around and casted a shield-jutsu to shield us from the bullets.

But the bullets managed to get through the shield after some time, Bolt was wounded and exhausted, I tried my best to heal him, but my force was not enough, even with using the rombus seal,

Bolt killed two of the attackers with the help of our friends, before a third one, a sniper managed to shoot through Senpous leg on Bolt´s head and then you found us!" Sarada stated and Dad nodded.

"I see!" He stated before he looked aside to think, then he looked back at Sarada.

"Question 2. How would you describe the whole situation out of the view of a third person?" Father asked her.

"The whole situation was awefull, we were so occupied with kissing that we completely let our guard down.

And even afterwards as we hade been attacked, did the shock stole me every logical mind, I was suddenly so afraid of Bolt´s safety, that I could for a moment not think rationally.

The whole case showed me that I had completely lost the control and that I need to learn even more about medical ninjutsu and self-control in dire situations, I am long not ready to be a Chunin.

My skills are still not high enough to safe Bolt or Senpou or Sensei-Konohamaru, I have to become stronger!" Sarada stated and Dad nodded.

"Oh Sarada, it´s my mission to keep you safe, not vise-versa!" I mumbled.

"Question 3. You told your father that you cannot be together with Bolt anymore, why?" Father asked.

"Because I know, that as long as I am hunted as a target, Bolt would never have a safe minute at my side.

He would always have to look around to make sure no one wants to attack me, my existence is causing only pain to those I love and like!" Sarada stated.

"I think I can tell you that I once thought the exact same way, but I also knew, that I was not able to go through this world, without someone on my side, a shoulder I can lean on whenever I feel sorrowfull, when I need advice, or simply someone to talk to.

Your mother once said to me that Hinata-san would be too good for me, and I knew she was right, still Hinata chosed me over all the people in the village.

Same goes for you and Bolt, even though you tell yourself you will only hurt him, can´t you live without him on your side, am I right!?" Dad asked.

"You probably right, even if I will tell this to myself, I cannot ignore my feelings all too long, before they will break through anyways, still, we don´t know how far this amnesia is going to reach, maybe he will forget about me, so it´s better to not force something on him.

If he should remember on his confession to me, then I will tell him again how much I love him, if not..., I will wait as long as he is ready, to confess again to me!" Sarada stated with a sorrowfull glance.

"I see, anyways there is only one question left that I wanted to ask you..., can you imagine to marry Bolt, become his wife and the mother of his children, how far would you go to protect him?" Dad asked.

"I would willingly die to ensure his safety, but as I know him, he will never allow me to do this, still, I also don´t really want to die, because I love Bolt, I want to have a future with him, my dream is to become his wife, his one and only and I long told myself, that I would never give up on that dream.

I will defend him as long as there is breath and blood in me, I will fight everyone who tries to keep me away from him, be it friend or foe!" Sarada said with ironclad determination.

"I see..., well that's good to hear, I look forward for your wedding then, and I expect a lot of cute children from you Sarada, I bet Sasuke will love this thought!" The Hokage stated loudly.

"Baaamm!" The door was broken open.

"No I will not allow this, I won´t allow this boy to touch my sweet princess with his dirty fingers!" Sasuke-san stated loudly.

"Carefull Sasuke, that boy you are talking about is my son!" Dad threated with an angry glance.

"That´s what worries me the most, that my daughter might come together with one of your attitude, or worse that my grandchildren will look like a mix of you and I!" Sasuke-san shouted in horror.

"Oh please, it´s Sarada´s choice after all, if she choses to love Bolt and only Bolt, why anyone should..., and especially you of all persons..., interfere there!?" Dad stated with a dirty and serious glance at Sasuke-kun, to which the same only flinched.

He had a hard time being pardoned by anyone of his friends, or better said fellow comrades, but especially not by Mom and Dad and Sakura.

"Anyways, Sakura has long accepted my marriage proposal for our kids!" Dad stated.

"Whaaaaat!" Sarada shouted in sheer shock and surprise, while her father exploded and chased after my father who jumped out on the roof.

The Scene changed yet again, Mom and Dad were sitting at Ichirakus, and it seemed to be only recently, perhaps yesterday.

"So Sasuke has challenged Bolt for a duel..., geez it´s just the same he had announced two years ago..., if Bolt should remain to date Sarada.

In the end everything came different, but I bet their bond has even more being strenghen today, than before 2 years.

It sure is a pity that Sasuke misbehaves like this, after all Sakura had long time agreed, for our Kids to marry if they ever would fall in love with each other, ever since they were 3 years old.

And anyways..., what the hell is Sasuke even thinking..., he comes back home 5 years ago, after 11 years of absence..., and then he suddenly thinks he can butt into Saradas love life..., seriously..., Sakura was furious as she heard about these news from Sarada.

She instantly phoned me and asked for a plan but until now we could not find anything, at this rate Sasuke will stomp Bolt into the ground, especially when the same is being exhausted from the battles.

Naruto-kun can´t you do something there as Hokage?" Mom asked dad.

"Unfortunately not, a duel between representatives of two clans is one of the few things even a Hokage cannot change.

Kakashi-sensei already stretched his abilities, as he, thabks to my doing, forbid the Hyuuga-Clan to use their cursed seal on kids of the branchfamily anymore and still even today they manage to simply ignore that law and bend it to their advantage.

There is unfortunately a leak within that law which said that they are not allowed to use this ritual here in Konoha anmyore.

But instead of obeying, they simply kidnapp the kids, bring them outside of konoha and use the seal on them, before smuggling them back inside.

All of this happens under extreme secretivity, and we never were able to catch them inflagranti, therefore I have nothing concrete against them in my hand, no real evidence.

The only times they could not do it was with Salia, Bolt and Himawari!" dad stated.

"Anyways about that battle, I will see what else I can do, maybe I can make sure that Bolt will not have to fight on that day.

Gaara and I, we thought about of stretching the exam finals over three days anyways, since we still have so much participians.

Maybe I can get Bolt somehow to only fight on the second day, after all Sasuke especially asked for fighting tomorrow, so if Bolt is topfit, Sasuke might not be able to defeat him so easily.

Bolt asked me if I can do something about that challenge but I told him the same, anyways all we can do is to hope that Bolt will not be slain to the Hospital, somehow I have to keep Sasuke from doing that..., but what to do!" Dad mused.

"Ha if this is anything, than leave it to me!" We heard Sakura-san stating as she bursted through the door of the restaurant.

"Sakura-san, did you eavesdropped?" Mom asked.

"No on purpose though, anyways, how about you going to Challenge my Daughter!" Sakura-san asked Mom and I was buff, same as Mom and Dad.

"Wait..., what..., are you serious, Sakura?" Mom asked dumbfounded.

"Positive, I admit I hate the thought of my daughter being hurt, still I also don´t like the thought of Bolt being hurt, and I can tell that Sasuke will not go easy on him, no matter what..., unless..., there is one thing which makes him retreating on the idea of hurting Bolt too much.

When Sarada is put into the very same danger as well, also it will be the perfect opportunity for you to see, that my daughter is worth to stand by your son´s side, that she is strong enough to defend Bolt from everything!" Sakura-san stated, and i paled, but I bet not more than Sarada right now.

Sarada´s Pov:

I could not believe what I was hearing, being already said and allowed by mom, to marry Bolt, as I was only 3 years old.

To hear that the Hokage only worked so hard for our sake, that the very reason he spent so less time with Bolt, Himawari and their mother, was because of me and my family.

To learn that it was her who suggested Lady Hyuuga to challenge me in order to keep my father from hurting Bolt, just the way we imagined it.

But especially to see how much Lady Hyuuga could craze out, if she knew that Bolt was in danger.

All what I saw was deeply private things and I bet that most of what I see was not meant for me to see.

But it was now too late.

I saw how awesome the Hokage really was and how strong and cool he had been, ever since he became a Genin.

I saw how he lived before all of this, what for a sorrowfull live he had been living.

It broke my heart to see all this.

But then there came something new, a new scene, but it had no familiar feeling in it, it was cold and Dark, far colder than all the other memories before, no matter how awefull they had been.

Somehow I knew that this here was no memory of Bolt or his Parents.

(Scene music: Xandria- prohpecy of worlds to fall / Neherit´s theme)

"What is this here, where the hell am i?" I asked myself.

"7 Children near the same time, 10 have to be born!" I heard a voice and suddenly I saw something giantic walking up to us, hundres of strange red eyes looked at me from high above and million others looking from the same level towards us.

I looked around and I almost had to vomit.

I was standing on ground, but the surrounding, as I had assumed to be hills, were actually a field of corpses and skeletons, everywhere fires raged, of all shades of firered.

Death and destruction ruled this place, that was clearly to see.

"10 Children be the worlds spine, after 7 times of mourn!" The voice said again.

"Everyone, focus!" I heard a strange voice, a voice somehow familiar yet different.

A tall boy with pointed ears stood next to me, he had heterochromia as much as I could see; one eye was green with a strange symbol in it and the other one was blood red with a slit pupil.

Behind him stood a giant skeleton dragon.

"Sarada be strong!" I heard Bolt´s voice, I looked next to me, to see him standing ablaze, a giant phoenix behind him.

Looking closer, I saw that there were many other persons, Children I had never seen before, but also some familiar faces.

I saw Himawari standing infront of her father on the opposite side of the strange man, Lady Inari stood right behind her.

Sarin-san who stood infront of the strange boy.

I saw also my Father standing right behind me, while Nekomata stood behind him, I saw myself to be surrounded by strange dark mist, I saw myself that I was in sage mode.

I also saw the Bijuu and their Jinnchurikis standing right behind us.

"We are the last hope of mankind, here on earth, we, the 9 Bijuus and Jinnchuriki, the 5 Kage, the 10 elements and their Wild sages and the 3 High-sages of Light, Darkness and Spirit.

We 27 have to defeat the three demon-gods or else this world is doomed to be destroyed and this time once and for all.

All I could do to save humanity was to bring a portion, around 40 %, of them, on the Island, alongside various animals, from then and now.

But they are to be awoken only in a 100 lightyears, until then their bodies are lying conserved into crystals, same as the History of the world, The Eromea Ruhkari.

They are the last hope, if we shall fail, for humanity to survive here on the earth, so I had to bring the Island far, far away, into another galaxy, maybe they will be able to survive.

I really hope for it!" The man behind Sarin stated, his glance was sorrowfull, same as Sarin´s.

"My son, I hope you will have a better life, a better one I ever was able to live..., you are the last of us, should I die, the last Edema Ruh!" I heard the man mumbling with a hand on Sarin´s shoulder, the same patted the hand with her own, before sharing a few tears.

By the way now I saw that she looked older, at least two years, same as Bolt and Himawari.

Could this be..., the future and this man..., was this,...?

The earth suddenly shook massively.

"They are coming, be prepared, there is no backing down anymore, for we are the last with the power to fight, so stay strong.

This is the end, so we shall not be afraid, even if we should die tonight!" The Man shouted.

"Kyuubiko, please get me out of here!" I stated in terror.

"As you wish Sarada-san!" Kyuubiko stated, before he casted a handseal and dispelled the mind jutsu.

"Arrghh!" I stated as I stirred, after I was pulled back into my own body.

I sweated buckets..., if this what I saw will happen in two years, then we stand before the end of the world, before the end as the man rightly said.

But why, why did I saw the future, or was it just a future-memory, what I saw could have happened more thn once, according to Neherit and we how we stand there, could this mean that we are the sole defenders of the world in the end.

"Sarada, is everything alright?" Inojin and the others asked worried.

"Yeah, i´m feeling just a little light-headed and a small headache, how long was I away?" I asked faking cheerfullness, even though I was terrified to no end.

"Around 10-20 minutes, longer than the usual dive of Bolt, did everything succeded?" Inojin asked.

"Yeah, though I have seen more from the Hokage´s past than from lady Hyuuga, but what I saw shocked me, his life, it has been just like mine.

Hated for something we could not change, striving for every single bit of friendship, and fearing that as soon as we have it, we might lose it again.

Being happy about every single bit of happiness, we got from others and never taking it for granted, holding it precious!" I stated weakly, as the memories and the terror from before drove tears in my eyes.

"Hey no fair, why do you cry the tears I should have to cry!" I heard the gentlest voice of all times, before I felt myself lifted, placed on something hard and being taken in an embrace.

"Bolt, I...!" I stammered.

"Ssshshh, I know, I know!" Bolt stated with a soothing voice.

Honestly I was pathetic, this was actually Bolt´s moment to cry, yet here I am sitting, opening the flood gates with no end in sight, taking away all the sorrow he wants to feel.

"Guys tell us what has happened?" Senpou asked worried.

"You know how the Hokage told us about his past or how others did, we always found these stories awefull, right..., but honestly, we had no idea, how awefull his life really was.

Until that moment as I saw this, I though my life was a hell, but the Hokage, he has been living in the same hell, far longer than me and far lonelier than myself!" I stated, as I tried to dry my tears.

"He is so strong, to go through such a life and to still be able to smile today!" I stated.

"That's because he had friends on his side!" We heard a voice.

"H-H-H-Hokage-sama?!" I shouted in shock, as I recognized the voice.

"Dad?!" Bolt exclaimed surprised.

"Geez you two..., I knew you would try this..., ever since Choji told me about Bolt´s abilities, how you read in Chouchou-san´s blood.

I kinda knew, that you would try to get some informations about Hinata´s battle style on this way, still Hinata had some serious battles in her life I admit, but there´s nothing there, what she didn´t teached Bolt or Himawari.

So instead of taking risks like this, you should have simply remember on your sparring with Bolt, or the sparring of Bolt against Himawari, there you see everything you need to know.

Still I thank you, that you cry so much for what happened to me, I knew how you felt for a long time and though I could not erase your pain, I tried to ease it as best as I could, with helping you, being kinda like a replacement father for you, I always hoped to have made a good job.

And when I see you guys now, I can only say that I did well on that!" The Hokage smiled with an honest smile.

"You know what happened to me, was nothing so rare to us Jinnchurikis..., we had been treated this way throughout the history, still, what differs us from the past ones, is the fact, that some of us managed to find dots of light in the darkness.

Holding on these dots, we were able to expand their numbers, step by step, until we were bathed in light.

Killer B, Yugito-san, Gaara, Fuu-san, even my mother and Lady Mito as well as me, we managed to find such dots and we managed to someday have been able to find more and more of them, even creating some of them!" The Hokage stated, as he ruffled Bolt´s hair.

"So don´t cry for what happened in the past, you should let it rest and instead look forward into the future!" The Hokage wisely said.

"Yes Hokage-sama!" We said.

"Sarada-san, can I talk to you for a moment under four eyes!" The Hokage asked, I blushed.

"Me..., s-sure!?" I stated, as I jumped from Bolt´s lap, on which I had been lifted by the same earlier, as I just recognized, which made me blushing even a little more.

"What do you want to talk about, Hokage-sama!?" I asked, but I had a prediction of what he wanted to ask me.

"You saw that about Kyūbiko I assume, as you rightly have seen does beside of you, your mother, Himawari and my wife as well as Lady Tsunade knows no one else beside of the other Kages and now also the other Bijuus about this, and this should remain for as long as possible!" The Hokage stated.

"No fear Hokage-sama, in our group the secret will remain!" I stated.

"Huh, but what I meant was...!"

"I know, still Bolt has already told them all about Kyubiko, beside of Shana and Hiro, do we all know about it, even Katsuo!" I stated.

"How did they reacted?" The Hokage asked worried.

"At first they paled, still I think that was more on the idea of a second Kyuubi at all, rather than Bolt being a Jinnchuriki..., but after they saw how cute it actually was, they quickly came to love it as well!" I stated with a smile.

"Then I am glad..., I knew I should have trusted all of you..., but I would have felt worse if Bolt would have suddenly beeing avoided..., for what he is...!

You saw how I grew up..., and I guess I feared that Bolt would have to experience the same by other children..., that's why we kept that fact a secret..., from most of the folk of Konoha!" The Hokage explained himself.

"No fear, I understand how you feel, I do that really!" I stated, with a sorrowfull glance.

"You asked me earlier how I could overcome all the pain in my life, but actually, you did the same didn´t you...?

You found friends who were and are always there for you..., who always got your back..., finding friendship is the most valuable you could ever experience in your live..., this is a fact which I had seen proved very often, be it with myself or with others!" The Hokage stated, as he ruffled my hair.

"Anyways you should rest now, your battle is coming up soon!" he said.

"Ah and another thing..., I cannot forbid it to him, but there are things in the past of Sasuke Uchiha, which no one should ever have to witness.

I tell you this because I know that Bolt is strong, but I don´t know what he will do, after he has seen it, so whatever happens, stay at his side.

Will you promise me this?" The Hokage asked.

"I will, no fear Hokage-sama, Bolt is save by me!" I said.

"I know, anyways I have to meet up with my fellow Kage comrades to speak about important matters, I look forward towards the battle..., i´m sorry that I surprised you with it, but honestly I was surprised with it myself!" The hokage-stated chuckling.

"I know, I saw that, but shouldn´t you rather cheer on your wife?" I asked confused.

"She knows I will, still, we do this for Bolt and your Love, so it´s only logical that we also will cheer you and him on, well beside of your Father, unfotunately.

Seriously, I would like to punch him myself for butting into your love life, but unfortunately can´t I do that as Hokage, so I have to trust on Bolt, in him lies not only his own wrath but also ours!" The Hokage smiled with an evil gleefull smile.

I could only sweatdropping to this.

"Anyways I guess they are waiting for you, you should spent some more time with Bolt, before the big Battle!" The Hokage stated.

"Yeah that would be better, but no matter if we win or not, we will still date, Fathers opinion to me is quite a shit.

I won´t let myself being dragged down, by what that A**hole is thinking about my love to Bolt!" I stated with venom on my tongue.

"Well then you feel the way your mother, my wife and myself are feeling, after only being five years long here, he thinks he suddenly can butt into whatever is concerning to his family, geez, I really would like to punch some sense into him!" The Hokage stated.

"Anyways go to go!" He stated with a wink.

"... Hokage-sama!" I stated.

"Yes, what´s the matter Sarada-san?" He asked me with a smile.

"... In the Memories of Bolt..., I saw what you did for my family..., I thank you deeply..., and I´m very sorry that you could not spent so much time with your family..., because of what my Fathers absence did to us!" I stated with a bow.

"No need to thank me..., I did it freely and after all I still could see of what wonderfull young shinobis and people you kids have become..., this is more than I had ever imagined myself to be able to see..., ever since I began dating Bolt´s mother!" The Hokage stated with a smile and a Hand on my shoulder.

In that one moment I really wished that he was my father..., even when this would have meant that Bolt would be my brother and I would date a family member..., but after all..., we already had been like family before, not?

"Sarada!" I heard Bolt´s voice shouting.

"... Haha..., I´m coming!" I stated, as I smiled and ran back to my beloved boyfriend, hugging him in a flying embrace.

I was sure that whatever we see in my father's memories, will help us to defeat him..., even if it only would fuel our rage against him, at lest so I predicted the reaction of Bolt´s father.

(To be continued in the next chapter)

Bonus Story:- Sarin´s Adventures N°1:- Part 1/ The future Team Karin and the Island of Re-origin.

Meanwhile, far from Konohagakure, in the mountains:

Sarin´s Pov:

I was running back to my position, I had left it during my break, but now I would have to take upon my duty again.

"Hey it´s me!" I said to my father as he went in battle position.

"No fear it´s her!" Our partner in this mission stated, whithout even turning around.

"Ah Sarin-chan, good to see you!" Dad stated.

"How is it so far, Salia-san!" I asked the Hyuuga Genin which came with us, as support.

"Unchanged since an hour!" she only stated while observing the den in which Neherit seemed to be.

"He hasn´t come out since he went inside, but I can see a massive forecefield behind these mountains, still the Anbus have not reported anything strange by now!" Salia-san stated.

According to what I heard, Salia Hyuuga was Bolt and Himawari´s maternal cousin, the Daughter of Bolt´s Sensei, Konohamaru Sarutobi and Lady Hyuuga´s sister Lady Hanabi Hyuuga.

As much as I could get, by the Hokage´s talk yesterday evening, it could be that Salia and I would come into a team toghether, however am I not really sure, if the last member really shall be Himawari-chan, I mean after all she would then be the only 14 years, I rather think that it will be someone I haven´t met yet.

Unfortunately for Salia, arent there anymore 16-17 year olds to form a team, well beside of me as it seems.

To be honest, from Bolt´s grade were only 4 teams being formed, the two Team Sarutobi´s being two of them.

Salia was one of the few Children, who did not had a team by now, but got private advanced-Genin lessons together with me in a special class held by Sensei Tenten, Sensei Lee and Sensei Ebisu.

Still, even though she was from such a reowned clan as the Hyuugas, she was really nice and friendly and not at all snobby, as most of the others of that Clan.

I think neither are Lord Hyuuga and his two daughters, it´s mainly the rest of that clan, be it main-family or branch-family, which looks down on other people.

Still she and I, over the last month as we kept on observing Neherit and while studying in that class, we came good along and soon became friends, so I really could see me in a team with her.

I heard that Karin-san has been asked yesterday, by the Hokage, to lead a team of her own, with me and Salia under it.

I still rember the conversation which I heard by chance last night.

Flashback, a night ago:

I stood up as I had to use the bathroom, it was convenient since this villa has two giant bathrooms and even a private Onsen.

Ever since I was here in Konohagakure I somehow felt home, the atmosphere here in the villa was nice, and with everyone, means all the Uzumakis and the few Hyuugas as well as Konohamaru-sensei, it really felt like Family somehow.

I was glad that Dad accepted the offer of the Hokage, to become an official Ninja of Konoha, same as me becoming a Genin, all we had to do was to do this mission and succed in my exam next week and I would get my headband, than I am equal to my cousins, though they aim to become Chunin already.

"I hope I can participate in the next Chunin-exam!" I thought, as I wandered throught the villa, it was nice to not stand under observation anymore, so a little I was sorry for Neherit.

One cannot do anything wrong, or else it easily could get misinterpreted.

"Still I feel bad anyways, even though his methodes seem to be rather harsh and rushed, does he himself seems to be quite a nice guy!" I thought about it.

"After all he saved me, as I wandered between being and not, through the oblivion of the Grey Dimension.

As I treated to be consumend by hatred, my very self would have been overtaken by darkness, if he would have not rescued me out of there.

If this wouldn´t have happened, I would never being able to get my revenge on the murderers of my mother, my family, my friends and my Clan back in Uzushiogakure!" I thought, as I looked at me in the mirror in the bathroom.

"This body, it is my own, I am not a zombie, nor am I an Edo-tensei, and yet I had been dead for 23 years!" I mumbled, as I looked at my naked self.

I still rembered the moment as I heard his voice, calling to me in the Grey dimension.

I met him there and he seemed to be surprised that I still was here and hadn´t vansished already.

He asked me if there was something I still wanted to do, and I told him that I wanted to find out who killed my mother and my friends, who destroyed the clan of the Uzumaki´s.

Then he asked me the strangest question I ever heard.

"If I had the power to bring you back to life, would you help me prevent the world´s destruction, when I help you getting your revenge on the murderers of your Clan?" I mumbled as I remembered.

Logically I said yes and so I made an unbreakable bond between two souls.

While we ran towards the light, I could see a lot of his past, the whole pain he had been in and I wanted to embrace him, easing his pain, but I couldn´t, he simply kept running, not stopping once.

And then I was out of the grey dimension, brough into the light.

The first moment I opened my eyes in the world of the living ones again was amazing, my first breath felt like after an eternity; even the rain on my skin felt magnificient.

And then, his eye looked at me.

As I looked into these eyes, so full of wisdom, strenght, but even more, so full of sorrow, I saw an immense coldness, not that he intented it though, but it made me understand that I actually was not meant to be brought back, but that I also was not unwelcomed in the end.

I also saw this later as we wandered with him around to get towards Konohagakure, as he resurrected, Lady Mito, Nagato-san and the Ex-Jinnchurikis.

Those he wanted to ressurect where people with exceptional powers, but me, I was just a klutz to him, a necessary evil to get the cooperation of my father.

Still, I was gratefull to him, and that also why I hate to have to work behind his back against him.

"Sigh, I better get to bed, tommorow will be a busy day again!" I mumbled, as I dressed again and left the Bathroom.

"I have only 10 months to live anymore, before I would die again, so I have to make the best out of the given time, now that I know that the murderers of my Clan are perhaps the same Neherit tries to stop!" I thought, as I looked at the Stigmata on my hand.

A symbol in form of a clock, which shows the remaining time, twelve numbers for twelve months, carving a symbol of a skull into my hand; the Clock as well as the skull was however something only I can see, or only the ressurected around me.

"So what did you asked me here for, Hokage?" I heard Karin-san´s voice coming from the Hokage´s office.

I did not intent to listen, but this sure picked my curiosity now.

"I asked you here, because I wanted to recruit you for a post…., as a Jonin here in Konohagakure!" I heard the Hokage´s voice.

"Wait, why in the world would I join your Village?" Karin-san asked, confused and also annoyed as it seemed.

"As you know does Neherit needs the help of every Uzumaki he can find, wherever dead or alive, still, does the opponent likely controll also an even larger number of Edo-tensei zombies of our Clan-members, so we need every man we can get.

Do you rather want to go through the world as a hunted Nukenin…., I think you underestimate the wrath of people…, Kumogakure still knows and searches about you, so does Kirigakure and several other nations.

Also, if they find out that Orochimaru is behind all of this attacks and kidnappings in other lands lately, then belive me you will be instantly targeted as well.

We Konoha-ninjas are already intensively searching for him since a month and so also after every of his helpers, so you better don´t get involved with him anymore, or else I will have to list you too on our to-do-list.

And if you still want to go, all I can tell you is to be carefull Karin.

There were a lot of people during the war, who saw you and your friends standing together with Orochimaru, and if they will find you, I too cannot help you anymore, at least not the way I want to help you!" Hokage-sama stated.

"Why would you help me, I was two times with the enemies and also do I have more or less a little amount of debt on the last war, as my team tried to catch the Hachibi, so why do you care so much about me?" Karin-san asked the Hokage curiously and also a bit supicious.

"Sasuke said some interesting things about you, you are quite strong, I saw that also during the last month, as you trained by yourself in the forests, you think no one sees you, but I have my ways to gather information!" The Hokage stated with a grin.

Its not that I could see it, but I heard it, my ears are extremly sharp and I have an incredible audiovisiual sense, which means that everything I hear, I also can project before my inner eyes, wether I can see it in real or not.

I call it the Bat-sense.

"As if I still care what Sasuke says, almost 20 years long he abandoned us, first he threw me away, even stabbed me, then he denied us to rejoin as a team and then he did not even got in touch with us all ever since!" Karin-san stated, through grit teethes, with a furious tone and a little I heard the hurt speaking out of her.

"I know, but it´s not only because of Sasuke, I mean you are an Uzumaki same as me, and I think, especially since we are so less who are still really alive, we should all get along with each other and try to build up the Clan again, and learn what our ancestors left behind for us.

I know my arguments aren´t really that interesting for you Karin but still, it would be an honor for me to welcome you here in Konohagakure!" the Hokage explained.

"You are quite crazy to trust people so easy!" Karin-san stated and there was a long pause between them two.

I heard the sweatdrops and the noise of an accelerated heartbeat.

"Okay….,I think I will have a night to think over this, after all, as you rightly say, I could be under your protection if I join.

For if I don´t, we can be falsely accused to still follow Orochimaru, which we don't.

Also do I and my team had and still have nowhere to go.

In order to not be lonely, always hiding and always running, so fully alone, I even sucked every bad feeling, commentary or thought down and kept myself in the company of Jugo and Suigetsu, after Sasuke left us all alone on the Battlefield!" Karin-san stated.

"Why didn´t you went to Orochimaru, not that I wanted you to do that anyways mind you, but i´m quite curious, you had been so loyal to him, as much as Sasuke told me!" The Hokage stated curious.

"Going back to Orochimaru would have been an option, I know, but honestly I don´t really wanted to go back, also because Suigetsu absolutely didn´t wanted to.

And me too, I hated the thought of having to go back all alone in that Jail, hell I was so used to Suigetsu´s bickering, that I would have felt lonely to not fight with him everyday.

But the main reason why I didn´t went back to Orochimaru all these years, was because in one of the old Hideouts we had been seearching refugee, I found files about myself, written by him, which told about, that it had been Orochimaru´s henchmen, who actually burned my village down and killed my parents.

And letting me being chased around Kusagakure, to weaken my spirit.

He heard about me being an Uzumaki, so he manipulated me from the very start of my misery!" Karin stated with a sigh and a pained voice.

"Yes experimantations and manipulations, that´s what that sly snake is made of!" The Hokage spat in disgust.

"Indeed you are right, anyways, Suigetsu and I, we beated it as soon as the war seemed to be over, and Jugo, he somehow simply trailed after us.

We kept ourselves away from towns and Villages most of the time, not to get captured by anyone, after all we were still wanted as Nukenins and Akatsuki members, by practically every befriended ninja-Clan and bounty hunters of the five Villages.

We three bickered, we laughed, we stole, we camped and we wandered around, always together.

But there came times where I had to get my head clear from all of the bullshit, so I vanished from time to time for a few days or weeks, but I always went back to them.

After all they aren´t as bad as a company, mind you, at least I am used to be around them by now, but at first it was tiring to control Jugo´s outbreaks.

Suigetsu and I, we had much problems to keep him in check, and more than once I wanted to simply leave him behind!" Karin-san told the Hokage.

"Why didn´t you?" He asked curious.

"Whenever I wanted to decided this, I always saw myself in him, I had been robbed of everyone, my parents, my former village, my Clan and the boy I had loved.

Same like me, even though he did it to himself, leaving his place because he seeked salvation from his intense, life-dangerous moodswings but actually has been only kept as a guinea-pig and a prisoner, nothing more and nothing less.

Suigetsu´s reason was that he didn´t, after all, wanted to leave me to deal all alone with Jugo, since I too am not strong enough to defeat Jugo all alone.

Also did he too saw himself in Jugo in a way, so I think at least, I mean, after all, Suigetsu too was the last remaining member of his clan after he and Mangetsu went to become swordmans of Kirigakure, Orochimaru killed every single one of his clan, in an experiment and later captured Suigetsu.

In a way I could relate my own situation to them, all three of us were in the end used by Orochimaru, for only his own benefit!" Karin-san stated.

"I see, that's what I thought as Sasuke told me about all of you!" The Hokage stated.

"He seems to have told you a lot about us, how come he staid here anyways, isn´t he a Nukenin as well?" Karin-san asked.

"He had been reprieved because he helped to save the world after all, still this mostly only was able thanks to my and Kakashi-sensei´s influence during this time, still he had no sense of unity and of gratitude.

That bastard vanished on his journey, before he arrived during and around a year after the Moonfall-Case back in Konoha.

He came, spent a night with Sakura, and then the next day in the early morning he had been vanished again, 2 weeks later Sakura explained to me and my Wife, that she was pregant, I thought my brain went on a voyage that day as I heard that.

It was like out of a bad novel.

We had no real ability to contact Sasuke, but we sended him some Anbu´s who should catch him and bring him back.

But they always came back with empty hands.

It lasted two to three years after that day before he came back again.

He surprised Sakura in the evening, her daughter Sarada-chan was sleeping-over by us, because Sakura had to work till late.

She told him to stay longer than last time, because she had a surprise for him.

She wanted him to stay for Sarada´s birthday the next day, she instantly called us and told us to tell Sarada that her daddy would come to her birthday.

As much as I know, he shall have said his usual yeah-yeah and you´re annoying-speech, once again he spent a night with her, and as you can think, in the next morning he had been vanished yet again.

Sakura was shocked and full of sorrow beyond believe and also furious about his habit, same as me and my wife.

In the end I had to play the role of Sasuke, being under Henge no jutsu, who came for her birthday, in order to cover it up.

Sarada faked to be happy, but she saw right through it, she always had a good eye, even without sharingan!" The Hokage told and I heard Karin-san gasping in disbelieve.

"She asked us, on her birthday, if her father perhaps hated her!" The Hokage stated and his voice was so full of sorrow.

"It ripped my heart sheer appart, because I knew exactly how she felt.

Before I got told, that my parents died at the day of my birth, I too had a phase in which I thought that I simply had been abandoned by my parents, that they hated me just the same way like everyone else did!" The Hokage stated and suddenly both broke in tears.

I got a bit teary eyed too I admit.

After a while they caught themselves back again and the Hokage continued.

"It was hard work to convince Sarada of the opposite.

It was a great shock for both, Sarada and Sakura, as she found out that she yet again had been pregnant and she was inches before aborting the Child, because she did not knew what to do anymore.

But thanks to Hinatas help, Sakura decided to go through this pregnancy together with my wife, which had been pregnant with Himawari during the same time, a week later.

It was hard work and Sarada often slept over at our house where Bolt kept her company and befriended her.

This took Sakura one burden off.

I meanwhile took a break from my duty, to care about them both, Sakura and Hinata.

During their pregnancy, she lived with us in the Hyuuga villa.

Himawari and Katsuo were born both in the same night.

It was rather awkward for the nurses to see me holding hands of Both pregnant women, getting the one by Hinata squeezed to disfunction, and the other by Sakura, well…, she actually really broke my hand, better said litterally crushed it with her grip.

She had a grip like a concrete-crusher, believe me.

We helped her as best as we could to later rise both Sarada and Katsuo, making me the Godfather of them both.

I had not much time for playing with my Children, because I trained to become Hokage and was busy to make much money, both for my own living with my family and also for helping Sakura during the raising of Sarada and Katsuo.

I told her to not think too much about it, but to simply take the money, I would ask Sasuke, if he ever comes back, to pay me back.

This was his debt to pay towards me, for leaving his wife and family all alone and often suffering.

However, whenever I had the time, I spent as much time with my own as well as Sakuras kid´s, when they came for a sleep-over, even trained them all at some point.

So much that they often even considered me as their new father, a little it made me happy I have to admit, still I always saw their sorrow when they went back home, realizing that there would no father waiting for them, only a distressed mother who tries her best to get their life on the right path.

The sorrow of that constant realization, which shown itself in their eyes, ripped my insides appart.

Both Sarada and Katsuo never had many friends beside the few Children of our own friends, means Inojin-kun, Senpou-chan, Shikadai-kun, Chouchou-chan, Hiro-kun and Shana-chan, as well as my children.

Still with the time of growing up, they seemed to come more and more appart.

Bolt as well as Inojin-kun and Shikadai-kun managed to get in one class from the very start on and they came well along together, but the other three, Chouchou-Chan, Senpou-chan and Sarada-chan, all were in different classes.

So it happened, as much as Sakura and Bolt told me, that as Sarada came in the Kindergarten, she instantly was outcasted by the kids, she could at first not understand it.

I felt myself connected to her fate, after all this once also happeend to me.

But different as from me, she was not hated because she was seen as a monster, at least not then already, it was only for being Sasuke Uchiha´s kid, that the other parents kept their Children away from her.

The same then also happened in elementary school, only a note more aweful, so long until the kids started to mob and hurt her, casting her even more out.

Bolt tried to help her as much as he could, but still he was in a whole different class as her.

The mobbing and outcasting happened so much, that Sarada soon began to simply blend most of her surrounding out, creating tall and strong walls around her soul.

Walls which not even Bolt reached through anymore to her and Sakura was quite lost too, she wanted to help her but had to care about the house and Katsuo.

During that time I told Bolt to keep on trying to get throught to Sarada and befriend her and to never give up helping a friend, even if it last long for them to accept this help.

After a while Sarada warmed back up out of her icy shell, breaking the wallls apart and soon she managed to find back her happiness.

She laughed again and had much fun with Bolt as well as the other children, who came step after step together until they formed the Konoha 8, a sworn group which always was together, laughing, crying, simply having fun together.

I saw them all brighting up again and it pleased me, maybe even more than their own parents, I loved Konoha and it´s people and to see the future generation being without pain and living a life in happiness made me happy too!" The Hokage stated and I got a good picture about how much Bolt-kun must mean to Sarada-san.

"I see, I heard some things about you as we still were Team Hebi, I always only heard insults from Sasuke, so I thought you would be some strange idiot, who does not know to ever give up and who always does everything for his own benefit.

But then, as I saw you the very first time, as I was caught by you Konoha-nins, I couldn´t find you in that description, not in the slightest!" Karin-san stated.

"To me you were a weird but loveable guy, and your Chakra was as bright and warm as the sun, but you too had a darkness inside you, a darkness I couldn´t explain to that time.

Now I know that it was the Kyuubi I felt, but today all I can feel is that bright and warm Chakra, which has intensified!" She continued.

"Well nice to hear that, anyways I am trailing off.

So Sarada finally found her life-spirit back, it made me happy to see her being happy, and I also was happy about the strong friendship and the love wich began to bloom between her and my son!" The Hokage stated and chuckled.

"Yeah…, and then that night arrived, five years ago, as Sasuke suddenly, like out of thin air, appeared yet again, right before my front door.

As I saw him I felt this wrath in me, I wanted to punch him to a small lump for letting Sakura, Sarada and Katsuo suffering.

But beyond all the fury I felt, I somehow was glad that he finally was back.

I just had become Hokage and I intented to nail him down this time, once and for all.

But before I could say anything, Bolt came, all politely he shook Sasuke´s hand like a good boy…., so I at least think, but a second later, Sasuke was send flying right into the wall of the opposite house!" The Hokage told and I was buff.

I heard much about Sasuke Uchiha, ever since I am alive and to me he seemed extra hard to beat, at the very least with a surprise-attack.

"What happened?" Karin asked, curious same as me.

"My son, Bolt, managed to surprise Sasuke with a massive Hakke Kūsho right in his stomach.

My wife and I, we were too buff about what just happened, to get between what happened next.

Both, Sasuke and Bolt, fought right on the street, before both almost killed Sarada, as she went between two attacks of them, to stop them both.

It was same as Sakura once did, as Sasuke and I fought, long ago, to the time before Sasuke went to Orochimaru.

Only the courageous interfering of my Wife and Sakura managed to safe her.

Scolding both, Bolt explained himself, he wanted to drive Sasuke back out of the village, because he was after the assumption, that Sarada won´t need a father like Sasuke, who never even cared about her, who did not even really knew that he actually had kids.

As Sarada went between the attacks, he did not even recognized her as his daughter, he even insulted her as a stupid fool, so long until we explained it to him in the best form we could.

Means Hinata and Sakura slapped him twice across the face and I punched his backhead.

As soon as he knew she was his daughter, he thought he could go all, you know…, protective on her all of a sudden, but no one bought it, the very least Bolt and Sarada herself.

She accused him to never have took the interest to see her anyways.

But honestly, it also was because Sakura never straight-forwardly told him, that he had a family.

So to a minimalistic amount, it is also her own debt.

After the Battle ended and things calmed, Bolt and I sat Sasuke an ultimatum.

He would stay here and finally take on his paternal duties, or else he would have to vanish from Konohagakure once and for all and be declared a Nukenin to the whole U.N.W. again, which would get him the same state Orochimaru is now in!" The Hokage stated and I was in awe.

"So he had the choice, paternal duties or his reprieve is revoked and he´s being free to be hunted again, no wonder that he seemed to be in a bad mood as I met him!" Karin stated.

"Also there is something else, the same day, Sarada had a meltdown, because of identity crisis!" The Hokage stated.

"Yeah and…., what´s with that…., why are you telling me this?!" Karin-san asked confused.

"Because Sarada had seen the picture of Team Hebi, wich made her believing for a short while, that you would be her mother!" The Hokage stated and I almost could see Karin-san´s face.

"Wait what…?" Karin stated unbelievingly.

"Yes I had the same reaction as Bolt told me this, but she had only that picture of her father, and she thought to have no resemblance to her mother at all, also she noticed that neither Sakura nor Sasuke ever wore Glasses; but you did.

She simply saw the foto and instantly saw those few similarities you two have, this and her family situation, made her believing that bullshit.

Fortunately my son could get her out of that funk that time, before it was too late, stating that even if you would be, Sakura, after all, dedicated her entire life to raise her and Katsuo and that she would have the most right to be called Sarada´s mother.

Still we had to make a DNA-test a day later, to completely shatter her fears, for the last five years at least.

That´s why I also tell you so much about her life and her psyche, because even today she is not 100% convinced, until she finally met you herself!" The Hokage explained.

"I see I wondered why she stalked me for a few days with your son, I thought it was you who made her observing me!" Karin stated being in thought.

I heard her hand raising up to her chin and her heart pumped more blood up to her brain.

"Well as said, at the evening she finally saw her father, after 11 years, for the very first time.

And as I said before she had only a 13 years old photo of her father as he was as old as her now, which had no similarities to his current self that time.

But ever since this Night, Sasuke finally stayed here in Konoha, after that I made him taking the Chunin exam and I rubbed it under his nose, that he still was a Genin while I had already become Hokage!" The Hokage stated chuckling and I sweat-dropped.

"Anyways, after he was a chunin, I made him taking an S-rank mission and then I promoted him to Jonin and made him a Sensei, this way he had and still has to train his son as a Genin and Chunin.

So long until the same will be a Jonin himself, no matter what, Sasuke will only get out of being a sensei when he´s dead, I will make sure of that.

So now you know, how a family-life with Sasuke Uchiha looks like, the woman has all the work and the man goes traveling to unknown lands, leaving everything behind.

Coming back once in a while to get the woman pregnant before leaving again, not even speaking once with his children!" The Hokage stated.

"Yeah I think I really would hate this, after hearing all this, I truly have to say, that I am sorry for his family, but glad to not have managed to start one, with him, of my own.

Also thank god we could bring Jugo from chasing after Sasuke, I swear, he always tried to get us towards Konoha, because he wanted to be with Sasuke, saying it was his destiny.

That only sounded Gay to me, in a way.

He really was thinking all along that Sasuke would stay in Konoha after the war, but I knew he would not, after all he often wanted to destroy Konoha and his hatred to the village, mostly the elders and the third Hokage, would not fade away so fast.

We always kept Jugo away, saying that firstly, Sasuke don´t need us in his surrounding anymore anyways, and secondly, also because we could not let Jugo run freely in Konohagakure.

As you rightly said, we still were in the Bingobook of Konohagakure and several other lands and with Jugo´s attitude….., well you know!" Karin explained.

"Is it then save to leave him alone now, with only Suigetsu on his side, for an entire month!?" The Hokage asked sweat-dropping.

"Well yeah it is I guess, over the last few years now, Jugo finally learned to control himself to a level, where it is even safe for my son to be in his surrounding.

But still, if it really boils down to what you are saying, then I don´t really would like to have my son in the crosslines of fiend attacks and having Jugo going berserk!" Karin-san stated sweat-dropping.

"Wait…, hold on a second…., you have a son?" The Hokage asked dumbfounded.

"Yeah, sure….., why not…, it´s not that big of a deal, after all you have even two children, so does Sasuke, right?!" Karin-san replied.

"No, that's not what I mean, i´m just surprised, that you of all people dares to raise a child by yourself, I mean, not that I want to mock you now, mind you.

But the way you acted during the times I met you, before the war and during it, didn´t showed me any sight that you would ever like to have kids in the first place!" The Hokage stated.

"Yeah, some things happened during the last few years, giving birth to a child was for me always as unlikely as to ever fall in love with Suigetsu, but in the end I did.

Don´t ask me how, it just someday happened!" Karin explained.

"Wow, you and Suigetsu…., I mean you guys were truly like fire and water, even more than Sasuke and I had been.

We were more like Wind and Lightning, lightning always comes with a storm, and still the lightning always cuts through the storm!" The Hokage mused poeticaly.

"Yeah it is crazy, still, if someone would have told me, years ago, that I ever would come together with that idiot, I would have killed that person…., really, no kidding.

But you see…., I felt lonely after Sasuke left us and then all of this seek and hide game with the Anbus and bounty-hunters, someday I simply started to drown my sorrow in Alcohol.

And well, Suigetsu…., he just…., was there…, always, so it happened….., though not that often in the beginning…., that he and I got in bed together… and let me tell you…., he is not that bad as he looks like, at least when you get to know him.

Well and out of one of these nights I got pregnant.

At first I wanted to abort, but I was uncertain, I somehow could not bring myself to kill this growing child.

After all it was mine and it was also Suigetsus, an adition to the last member of the Hozuki-clan, that's what I told myself, and also finaly something of worth and of my own and so I decided to tell Suigetsu about it.

Believe me, I never saw him happier and somehow it also got me excited.

He told me that he would always take good care about me from that day on and he did, he always protected me ever since, even after my son was born.

I never knew it to be possible, but actually Suigetsu is quite an awesome father.

Call me crazy and phatetic, but I actually also wanted to see what could become out of such different genes and personalities, such as Suigetsu and mine.

Guess Orochimaru´s love for experimentation somehow rubbed off on me!" Karin-san stated blushing.

I couldn´t see her but I could hear her swallowing, the gratting of her finger at her cheek and the munching on her lower lip, so I imagined that she must also blush.

"I see, and how is your Child, how´s its name?" The Hokage stated, interested, shifting his body lightly forward in his armchair to hear her.

"He´s called Akito Hozuki-Uzumaki, he´s in your son´s age and a lively and kind boy, still he has a strange faible for the skeletons of animals, also does he loves to swim, wether he liquifies or not, he can be choleric but that happens only rarely, also is he open for the contact with new encounters and he likes to cut things in two, well like father like son I think.

He is also well versed in kenjutsu, so also in Ninjutsu, he has a lot of experience in dangerous situations and he is strong no doubt about it!" Karin-san boasted with glee.

"Nice to hear that he´s such a healthy boy, I would love to meet him…., how about it, if you decided to take upon my offer, I gladly will take Suigetsu as well as your son under the protection of Konoha, also Jugo-san if he wants to….., your son could become a Genin of Konoha, being Protected by a Sensei and so he as well as you three are also officially out of the Bingobook of the U.N.W.

Which means that as long as you remain on our continents, you will have no fear anymore, to be assasinated by any of the 5 Ninja-villages.

Also would your Son, perhaps complete a team I wanted to create, together with Shigure´s daughter Sarin-chan, and My wife´s niece, Salia Hyuuga, both strong prodigies as much as I can tell!" The Hokage stated and I was buff, I could get in a team.

"And who would be their Sensei?" Karin-san asked worried.

"Well we have some quite capable Jonins here in Konohagakure, I bet there will be one for them!" The Hokage stated.

"No, I had been with Akito all my life, if he´s in a team then I want to be their Leader, I cannot leave him, I mean i´m his mother after all and also I am and don´t want to become one of those mothers, who waits at home not knowing what´s going on.

I am a proud Kunoichi, even with a child in my belly I had been, I didn´t gave up on that, nor do I intent to do that now!" Karin-san stated with a huff.

"I see, well if you decide to come fully towards Konohagakure with your friends, then I promise you I will make you a Jonin.

Still you will have to show me your loyality and also I cannot simply make you to a Jonin, unless you would have had the same rank, during the time as you had been a member of Otogakure.

Suigetsu has according to my informations already reached the offical rank of a Jonin, by Kirigakure, during his childhood.

About Jugo we have no real informations about any missions he ever officially did, but his force is strong enough to be a Jonin as well.

You seem to be a chunin yourself, at least during your time as a Kusagakure Kunoichi, so I could promote you to become a Jonin, but still you will have to take the special Jonin test alongside the other candidates, for only as an offical Jonin I can then later make you a Sensei!" the Hokage stated.

"I see and how many Candidates are there!" Karin-san asked.

"By now 7 candidates with you and Jugo, if he wants to participate at least; the test will be held in a month and belive me it will be anything but easy.

So if you want, I can make you tomorrow, before the Chunin-exam, to a provisonally Shinobi of Konohagakure until you take the test of Loyality?" The Hokage stated.

"Alright I say yes, not because of your arguments, but because I also don´t want my son to someday have been taken hostage, by one of the 5 villages, in order to get me.

But I still have to speak with Suigetsu and Jugo, as well as with my son, about this, I cannot make this decision for them, I can only speak for myself here!" Karin-san stated.

"Also I am tired of running away, hiding and camping under the open sky, only because we made some wrong decisions in our life!" Karin-san stated with hard voice.

"Well what do you expect, most of your decisions destroyed and cost the life of many families and people, so don´t expect them to go soft on you, what I am giving you is not a simple repieving, but an opportunity to make up for these mistakes you made!" The Hokage stated with a merciless tone.

I heard Karin-san flinching, her heartbeat accelerated drastically, I heard the sweat-drops rolling over her forehead and her arm wiping the same away, I bet the Hokage threated her with an evil glance.

"Still as I told you, if you can show me that you really mean to become a Ninja of Konoha and when I am sure to trust and believe in your loyality, then you and your son, as well as Suigetsu, also will stand under my protection and the one of the entire Shinobi corps of Hi no Kuni!" The Hokage stated, with a more soft tone.

"A false decision can be made by every human, the true strenght is, to know and accept your mistakes and failures and to try to make it better the next time.

To apologize, try to make things unhappen or something different instead and to take the right decision the next time, at least, as long as you have the chance to do that!" He explained.

"Guess you are right, also shall my son not to have to pay for mine and Suigetsu´s mistakes.

I want him to have a better life than I did, with friends, love and happiness, rather than the darkness an the constant feeling of beeing hunted, which he had to witness everyday by now, 16 years long!" Karin-san stated with a long sigh.

"Well then guess this is a deal then, the only thing to do is to bring your son and your friends here and to offer them the same!" The Hokage stated.

"Well you could do this right now or in the next few days, they are waiting and camping since a few days nearby in the forest around the Town, you would know that if you would get out of your office sometimes.

I mean didn´t you were supposed to feel presences while being in Sage mode, also you knew that I was training all alone in the forest, on the opposite side of the town?!" Karin-san stated with a blank expression.

"I guess I really should get out more often, hahaha.

(Geez she´s starting just like Bolt)!" I heard the Hokage saying and muttering under his breath.

"Anyways it´s getting late so I will go back to sleep if that was anything!" Karin-san stated.

"Sure that was anything, for now, have a good night Karin…., although there still is one thing, it´s soon Grave-visiting Day here in Konohagakure and I decided with my Family and Shigure-san, as well as Lady Mito and Nagato-san, to visit Uzushiogakure as well, to pray for all the souls who lost their life during the destruction…, so I wanted to ask you if you and your friends would might like to come along!?" The Hokage stated.

"Hmmmm, sure why not, I think I also should pray to my parents and their family, I think the least we can do is to show them our respect and our pride in being Uzumakis!" Karin-san stated.

"Exactly what I thought too, well then, have a good night and don´t forget, tommorrow is the final of the chunin exam, maybe you want to visit it with your son and Suigetsu!" The Hokage stated.

"I will think about it, tomorrow early I will speak with them all and then we going to inform you how we decided.

Anyways, i´m tired and I will now go to sleep, so good night, Hokage of Konoha!" Karin-san said.

"Of course good night Karin-san!" The Hokage stated and I heard steps.

I took cover in a niche.

"You don't need to hide, I can feel your Chakra, Sarin-chan!" Karin-san stated, as she walked past my hideout.

"Dammit!" I thought, as I got out of my hideout.

"Heard something interesting?" She asked coldly.

"Well only that it seems, that you soon will become my Sensei.

And I found out more about Sarada and Bolt and their relation to Sasuke Uchiha, but that's all.

Karin-sensei…., sounds nice, I look forward to meet your son!" I said.

"Woaaah, heeeyyy missy, if you try to hook on my son, you better prepare to go through my hellish trial for future Daughters-in-Law!" Karin-san stated with narrowed eyes.

"You mean like Sarada, who has to battle with Lady Hyuuga for the hand of Bolt?" I asked.

"Huh, how do you know, not that such a thing picks my interest, but I thought that was a secret by now?" Karin-san stated.

"I have, if I may say so myself, an excellent over-average hearing sense, quite like a Bat, I can hear 100 times better than a normal human, also I can whistle on ultra-sound, like an echolot, to see my surrounding in several kilometers away through Audiovision!"I stated.

"Anyways, I picked up their talk, as I was training for my official F.S.U.-Genin exam next week, by running over the roof tops at top speed; trying to break my records.

The Exam is where I can take upon the test for advanced Shinobi-children or normal people with exceptional abilities, who came from Clans or villages, with no internal ranking systems!" I stated.

"Wait what?!" Karin asked confused.

"The Hokage explained it to me this way, that there are often coming talented Shinobi and kunoichi-children or even adults here towards Konohagakure out from everywhere in Hi no Kuni.

Children and adults, who might not have been in a Ninja-academy but who might have been taught by their clans and who have no official rank, but are too strong to be called simple Genins anymore.

Konohagakure has actually a strict Ranking system, but you cannot send someone with Jonin-abilities, towards the Academy or having to start the normal Genin-apprentice of 5-6 years, just because one never has gone to an Official Ninja-school to get an offical Ninja-rank.

Therefore it gives the special tutoring courses, for the several higher Ninja-ranks like Chunin or Jonin, ever since five years thanks to the revolutionary reign of the Nanadaime Hokage, Naruto-sama.

These prodigies, which have to take such courses to get an official rank, are coming in the Firestorm Unit, where they learn Bukijutsu and the elementary and essential Ninjutsus of the Village.

After a first exam, to differ them after abilities, they are trained in various other categories, like Sensors, Attackers, Barricade-breaker, Sealers and Defenders et cetera.

After this exam they are called Kōdo-Genin/ Chunin (Advanced Genin / Chunin)

Normaly the Genins which are in this Team are able to become Chunin earlier, than those who have to take the entire 5-6 years of Genin-apprentice.

This means that we could get in the next Chunin exam, but more likely the one next year.

I bet your son will come towards us same as Salia is, after all also those kids, who have no real matching team compatibility by now, are in there.

By now we have 18 Children which are 11-13 years old and 2 Children of 16-17 years, means me and Salia!" I explained to her.

"I see, well I hope you will get good along with my son, but be carefull, he has some quirks inherited by his father, which are not quite safe most of the time, so be extra careful, just as a warning!" Karin-san stated and I nodded.

"And now back to the bed, if you have a busy day tomorrow you will need your force!" Karin-san said and I nodded.

"Alright, good night, see you tommorrow, Future-Karin-sensei!" I said and so I went back to bed.

"See, I told you I will be a good Sensei!" I heard Karin-san saying to the Hokage, I smirked as I turned around the corner.

Flashback end:

I´m sure excited to meet Karin-san´s son.

"Guess this is going to be another boring obervation night, honestly I wish I could go to the Starlight festival, but we are stuck here, observing a phantom I cannot really see anyways, unless he´s wearing a body.

And then this forcefield behind this den, I really would like to know what´s behind there!" Salia stated sighing.

"Just another effortless night is expecting us!" she mumbled.

"Well it´s a direct order from the Hokage, so all we can do is to remain sitting and observing!" Dad stated.

"Yeah but honestly, I guess the Hokage wants to have results on his report, so I guess we should simply go into that damn den and find out what Neherit´s doing in there, the faster we do, the faster we are done with observing him effortessly, what do you think?" I asked.

"Well that would be an option, but we first have to ask the Hokage!" Dad stated.

"Good thing I already did!" I stated, as I showed them the letter from the Hokage.

"Well then, guess we should go then!" Dad said sighing.

"Yeah let´s bring an end to this bullshit of an observation!" Salia stated annoyed.

And so we went into the Den, always focused on possible dangers.

It sure was a real big Den.

We walked for what seemed to be hours until we arrived in an illuminated corridor, illuminated by strange, tiny, floating fire-balls.

"Are these I think what it is?" I thought.

"They look like Ghost-light!" Dad stated.

"Well I don´t see anything, even over my Byakugan!" Salia stated annoyed.

"Here let me help you!" I said, as I took her hand.

"Geez, what are you doing, didn´t knew you swing that way?" She asked angrily, as she ripped her hand out of mine.

"Am not, just trust me okay!" I said, as I took her hand again and gave her my Chakra.

"Wow this sure is something, what did you do?" Salia asked.

"If we give our Chakra to others, they can see what we can see!" Dad explained.

"Ah yeah, I think I heard that somewhere?" Salia mumbled.

"A month ago, during the Uzumaki Beat-`em-up tournament, Neherit explained it!" I told her.

"Ah yeah there!" Salia replied.

We wandered through this corridor until we arrived at a giant Den, seems like we are right in one of the mountains.

"Huh, hey guys don´t you feel warm all of a sudden?" I asked, after a while as I recognized that it went hotter.

"Yeah it feels indeed warmer, like in the summer sun!" Salia stated.

"Salia, can you see something?" Dad asked.

"Hmm seems like there are trees and flowers and such things, I think I see a large lake!" She replied.

"Wait you think?" I asked.

"My vision is somehow interrupted!" Salia explained.

It got warmer and warmer, near a tropical clima, the humidity also began to intensitify, also did we recognized that the further we went inside of the den , the more moss and mushrooms were spreading out of the Ground.

"Hey there is a light!" Dad stated.

"Let´s go!" And so we ran towars the light, only to stop dead in our tracks.

"Oh…., My…., F****CKING…., GOD!" I said, losing every sense of eticett before the sight I was seeing.

"Is this…., an Island!" Salia asked dumbfounded.

"Gyyyyaaaaaahhhh!" Suddenly a giant flying being flew past of us, even though it looked right at us, it made no attempt to attack us.

But we had a magnificent view at it.

"What is this for a being?!" I asked myself.

"An Aerodactyl!" A voice came from out of the Shadow.

"Who are you?!" Dad asked, as he went in fighting positon with a kunai.

"Get this thing out of my face, i´m no enemy, my name is Rughian, I am an Eterna Rugh-On!" A Tall man walked out of the Shadow, he had long black hair, red facial markings and long red nails.

He wore a Hakama, but the most irritating features were his pair of Blood red Eyes with Slitpupils and his long, pointed ears.

"What are you, you are no human?" Salia asked.

"I said I am an Eterna Rugh-on?" The strange Man stated.

"What?" We asked.

"Ah…, oh yeah I forgot…., you young people have no idea about us anymore…., anyways I am an Eterna Rugh-On, or Eternal Soul-guardian in your language.

I am a being in which a piece of the Soul of another being is embedded, through this doing, the being, whos piece remain in this world of the living, is able to return back to life, even if the original soul vanished, but for the cost of the destruction of that containment, did you understood?" Rughian asked.

"So basically, you are to a part someone else, who uses you as a storage for a piece of his soul.

Should the original Soul or body of that person gets destroyed, you would be destroyed as well, to allow that part of a soul to become that person again?" I asked.

"Oh you are quite sharp minded not.

Exactly, however, as long as the person, who´s soul is within me, doesn´t dies, my own soul cannot die as well, even if my body gets destroyed, so it's quite convenient this way!" Rughian stated.

"You are Neherit´s Eterna Rugh-On, am I right?" I asked.

"Indeed!" Rughian stated.

"And what happens when I kill you?" Dad asked.

"Nothing, my own body will vanish and the piece of the soul and my own remains and wanders back to Neherit, still, it gives in this world only 2 beings able to kill an Eterna Rugh-On.

A High-sage, as well as a Wild sage of Spirits, are the only beings able to create as well kill us, so basically only a Mezakan member with the needed knowledge can kill me.

Also since over 1.500 years, Neherit has been the only High-sage of spirits so far, beside of Grandmother Chika, but she´s like 20.000 years old and not so active anymore, she´s more the teacher type, than the active type.

Anyways killing me, would be rather contraproductive for Neherit, am I right!?" Rughian asked.

"I see, anyways, what is this for an island and what are these for strange creatures?" I asked.

"Really, you young people have absolutely no idea about the prehistory, am I right?

Anyways, this Island has been created by Neherit, it´s called, Isla Jura, and these beings are Dinosaurs, the dominant race, which had been living on the original World long before the humans!" Rughian explained.

"Wait, which Original World?" Salia asked.

"Neherit told us that three Demongods once destroyed the entire planet and that only a small piece survived, out of which his clan later created the new planet, our current earth!" Dad explained.

"Well look at this, there was one, who has not slept during Sensei Neherit´s lessons.

You are right, unfortunately has that piece of land, in your language called Gensan no Kuni (Land of Origin), thanks to the constant rewind and destrucion, died completely out, there is no life inside this piece of rock and soil.

All there is, is a Canyon and desert landscape, with no Flora and close to no Fauna anymore.

The valley where Neherits Clan lives is called Musei tamashī no tani (Valley of the silent souls), but just like the rest of the continent, it is a dead land.

Therefore a new anchorpoint, for a new world, had to be created, for when the world gets destroyed, this will create a new one, which let us start from point 0 on!" Rughina explained.

"And this is this Island, Dattebora?" I asked before blushing.

"You mean?" Rughian asked confused.

"Sorry is a verbal tic in my family, I meant to say, am I right?" I explained.

"Indeed you are, this is the Island of Re-Origin!" Rughian stated festivily.

"Anyways where´s Neherit!" Dad asked.

"Down there!" Rughian stated and pointed at a small Stone building right in the middel of the Island.

"Well we got some business with him, how can we get down there?" Dad asked confused.

"How about you try to fly one of these!" Rughian stated, pointing at the Aerodactyls up in the sky, only now I saw that the sky was open.

"No not really what I would call a safe flight!" Dad stated.

"Don't they fly away?" I asked.

"No, there is an invisible Shield around the Island and the Sea and a bit of the Mountains!" Rughian stated.

"How is it possible that there is a sea and an Island anyways, what is this for a place?!" Dad asked.

"This is a Crater, created during the Moonfall-Case 17 years ago, by the largest piece that had fallen on the earth, formerly there has been a large array of Mountains here.

But after these days it has been a giant hole in it, the crater is several 1000 miles large and several miles deep.

Neherit flooded with his Ocean-tamer-forces the crater, around the remaining piece of the meteorite and gathered the shattered mountain-pieces and created an Island with his Continent-tamer-force.

Afterwards, with his Jungle-tamer-forces he created the entire Flora and with his Life-creation-forces, he created these dinosaurs!" Rughian explained.

"Wait Neherit created…., all this!" Dad asked dumbfounded.

"Yes quite awesome not, even though he can only use 25% of his original forces by now, this is sure impressive!" Rughian said, shattering a bomb in our face without knowing.

"All this…, with only 25%!" I said in awe.

I admit, I was quite astounded, I knew Neherit was strong, one could see this at the reaction of the Bijuus, a month ago during the Uzumaki tournament.

But now I finally saw the entire extend of his powers, even thought he is only to ¼ as strong, as he actually really is.

"Yeah, his forces had been cut in a half once and then again as he created me, cutting another half of his soul to embedd within my being.

Before I had been an ordinary Crow, but through this transformation, Neherit gave me the power to shapeshift myself to a human and back at will!" Rughian explained.

"Impressive indeed!" I said ,as I looked at the Island.

"Well it´s modest if you know that Neherit´s ancestors once created the Continents and shaped our world with their forces!" Rughina told us and we were in awe.

"Anyways Neherit has been waiting for you to decide to enter the den, so for this time only, I will take you over, but note, this there and back again transport is a one in a lifetime opportunity.

And you better hold on tight, I won´t make a detour for picking up any lost lambs, understood?" Rughian stated and we were all confused.

"Wait he´s awaiting us?" Dad asked.

"Indeed, Neherit…., well he can see anything I see, we are connected after all!" Rughian explained, before he jumped of the cliff.

"Oh shit!" I shouted, as I looked only to see something giantic and black rising up to us.

"What in the world?" I thought to myself, as I witnessed this giant being, how it simply landed on the cliff.

"Well what are you waiting for, c´mon, hop on, and let´s take a ride to meet Neherit!" Rughian´s voice was heard, while the giant Crow before us looked with red eyes at us, it seemed to grin evily, even though it had no teethes.

"What in the world is he really?" Salia mumbled.

And so we all went up on Rughian´s back.

"Are you guys ready, hold on tight, cause here we go!" Rughian stated before he spread his mighty wings and took of, right through the shield.

The warmth of this tropical place instantly was to feel, around us some strange flying creatures flew, looking at us, still not one of them tried to pick a fight with Rughian.

"How come they don´t attack us?" I asked him.

"I am the biggest being in this area right now, so they know to not pick a fight with me or I rip them in shreds, however you should never mistaken their respect with fear, they could easily attack me in a pack, but they simply don´t risk it!" Rughian stated, I nodded in understanding.

On the landmasses under us, as well as in the sea, we could see many other strange creatures, I maybe only have seen these beings once in a picture book, as much as I can remember at least, I had lost many memories from my childhood.

Neherit said, that it might be an effect, from being so long in the Grey Dimension

"Pretty awesome here not?" We heard Rughian saying.

"Indeed!"

"After the dinosaurs died the first time, due to a meteor crashing down on earth, the earth had long time no master to rule over.

The meteor´s impact created a giant cloud of dust, which hid the sun for 100 years, creating an ice-age.

After this cloud vanished and the world heated up again, the melting ice flooded the entire planet, on that 70% has been set under water.

Then, several millenia later, the first humans were born on a small island, and some of them had the power to create things by manipulating the elements.

After learning how to use their forces and how to build up a civilication, these humans began to expand the land they stood on.

So they shaped step after step our current world. Creating landmasses or letting them rise out of the Ocean.

The Human spread over the world like a virus, but the humans with the powerfull abilities stood together and under one name, they traveled across the world to bring wonders, creating other civilizations and expanding our world.

Creating language and script, the strongest of them began to write down the history of the world, for the future generation and ever since these days, these few people had been called the Edemah Ruh, or in your language, Jinkan no Senkensha, the Seers of Time.

The world we know has been created by them and it never was to be destroyed.

But the Three Demon-gods, send from the deepest pit of Hell, came to simply destroy the world, not to conquer, but simply destroying at destruction´s will!" Rughian explained.

"Yeah Neherit told us the Story.

So he want´s to create a new world with this island, should the old one we currently have being destroyed, am I right!" Dad asked.

"Indeed, if he still lives after the war wich might comes, he will safe a few humans and as their leader he wil build a new world in another attempt to finally start fully over again.

Unfortunately can he only do this if the three Demongods are killed once and for all, still it´s not that Neherit wants the world to be destroyed, mind you.

He tries everything to not let that happen, but he also wants to be prepared if it happens, that's why he already created this world so early, but I guess he better tells you this by his own self!" Rughian explained before we were flying towards the Stone-building which was, as much as I could see, also being protected by a massive shield force, which let it look as if there is a large and deep abyss around the building and the rest of the Island.

The building itself was large and had many towers, also it seemed to have a large court and a giant garden.

"Alright I will go down, hold on tight!" Rughian stated.

And so he circled always deeper until he finally touched the ground, he let us climbing of his back before shrinking and shifting back to his human form.

"Ruuughiaaann!" We heard a loud voice shouting and saw a little boy running up to us, I instantly saw the Death Clock Stigma on his hand, it was 3 months old as much as I could see.

"Heeey Yota, how are you!" Rughian stated as he picked up the boy, he was at least only 10.

"I´m fine, Neherit is saying that the next few members will be soon ready!" The boy said.

"Really that's good, how is your mother?" Rughian asked.

"She´s okay, but Neherit says that she might have at the very least only a month to live anymore, but he said I could live here as long as I want!" The Boy, Yota, stated with a smile.

"Who is this boy Rughian?" Father asked.

"Oh where my manners are, Yota, these are Salia Hyuuga and Shigure Uzumaki with his daughter Sarin!" Rughian ignored the question and instead introduced us to the boy.

"Hello nice to meet you miss Hyuuga, Mr. and Miss Uzumaki!" The Boy stated, as he politely shook our hands, before he stopped by mine, looked at it and smiled up to me.

"You are like me!" He said and smiled.

"Indeed!" I smiled back.

"I´m three months old and you?" He asked.

"Two months!" I replied.

"What are you talking about?" Salia stated, I totally forgot that she still didn´t knew about me, same as the other´s like Bolt and his group, not even the Hokage knows, but I think he slowly guesses what I am.

"Oh nothing really, just an insider under friends!" I stated.

"This our secret, not Yota!" I stated and the boy smiled.

"Of course, Sarin-san is my friend, yurrayyy, kon, kon, kon!" He shouted in happiness and suddenly it started to snow.

"But how is this possible!" Salia asked, as she looked upwards.

"I mean we are on a tropical island here!" She said.

"Yota has the ability to control the weather, either at will or unintentionally with his mood-set, Neherit, stated that this ability is very strong and that Yota´s clan must have been far related to the Mezakan Clan.

According to him he found the last member of the Clan in a Den he had searched refugee, during his travel to find the Uzumakis.

He accompanied her for a while, where she also told him about her Clan´s special powers, she was however a week old women who was near dying.

Neherit asked her if she would have a last wish, she said that she wanted to once again see her dead son smiling.

So he resssurected him, logically she was at first shocked but also extremly happy, well and this son is Yota!" Rughian explained.

"Wait so you mean he is a ressurected, like these Edo-tensei zombies!" Salia asked in horror.

"Not at all!" We heard a voice behind us.

"Ah Neherit, here are your guests!" Rughian stated.

"Thanks a lot Rughian, welcome on Isla Jura, Shigure-san, Sarin-san, Miss Hyuuga, it´s nice to see you, although I really wondered when you might dare to enter the den, rather than effortlessly observing it!" Neherit stated with a chuckle.

He was looking like a normal man, beside of his long nails, his blood red eyes and his pointed ears, he looked quite similar to Rughian to be honest, they could be siblings, only that Neherit hat two red lines on each cheek.

"Where did you have that Body from?" Dad asked going in Battle stance.

"I have created it, through Shinju material and Rughian´s as well as a bit of my own blood.

It has no organs, it is so to say an empty shell!" Neherit stated casual.

"Hah you have no body so where the hell shall you have blood from yourself, you stole it from someone didn´t you!" Dad shouted.

"Hey, I might be a lot of things but I am not a corpse-thief, I don´t go around and steal bodies because I like to, if I do, I do it out of need when the situation is calling for it!" Neherit shouted with narrowed eyes.

"Also you know close to nothing about me, Shigure Uzumaki, so don´t go around and spread false rumors about me, understood!" The tension between him and my father was amazing.

"Don´t forget you are still in debt to me, after all Sarin is only her thanks to my forces, so you better know your place!" I heard Neherit whispering to my father.

"Anyways, you came to spy on me for the Hokage, well I actually cannot really be mad for it, also do I not really have anything to hide, he could have simply asked me, but he didn´t, so I do am a little disapointed though.

I, after all, want too also only for our world, as we know her, to survive!" He stated, as he patted Yota´s hair.

"And also it´s inhabitants of course, but I can only do this with the help of all of you, so I really am disappointed about this mistrust, which openly gets directed towards me!" Neherit stated his red eyes narrowed at us.

"But I will not be so once, so, come in and relax you a little in the castle, I'm sure you are hungry and thirsty, and probably not very well rested.

Feel free to make yourself a living, marun corose eras yarun corose, this means, my house is yours, in my language!" Neherit stated, before he turned around and walked together with Yota and Rughian to the giant building, called castle, it was totally different as the palaces I know.

"I will tell and show you what I am doing in here!" Neherit stated, as the giant gates opened to let us in.

"Have no fear and enter!"He said, with a mysterious and a little mockingly tone.

To be continued in the next Chapter…..

A/N: and a new one is here, I know you all anticipate the Battle of bolt and Sasuke and Sarada and Hinata, still, you also want to know what happens inbewteen, not.

But no fear, for in the next Chapter things are finally standing on Battle-storm.

So tune in again, when it´s called, Let´s get ready to rumble!