"I need you to go to the Leaf Village and obliterate it. Leave no survivors. But take heed, you will be facing the Seventh Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki." The Mizukage looked at his most trusted ninja bowing before him.
"Yes my lord. They shall fall before the might of the Hidden Mist Village!" With that, Akiko Daruma's mission had had begun.
Two black eyes watched the retreating figure, 'you better not fail me' the Mizukage thought.
Sakura awoke enveloped in warmth. She cuddled closer to the source until her back hit a solid object. She lazily looked back to see her blonde hair husband wrap his hands around her, causing the amount of heat to skyrocket. Just then the alarm went off. She wanted to avoid him waking so she hit the alarm, destroying the table in the process.
"Damn it Sakura. If you want me to stay in I'm sure that I could take a day off." Naruto had been awake the whole time and he actually planned to take today off. The paper work can go a day without him. He had already made plans with the Council to have Nabitora step in for a day. Now he had the day with his family.
"Now where is our son?" With perfect timing Hotaru came bursting through the door to leap onto the bed, his emerald eyes full of mischievous gleam.
"Mommy, daddy hide me, hurry!" Hotaru quickly jumped under the blanket as his parents heard a knocking on the door. Naruto dragged himself out of bed and made his way to the door. The sight that greeted him caused him to double over in laughter. Sasuke stood in the doorway with a variety of different paints staining his close. Naruto stepped aside to let his friend in and, still laughing, went to gather his son. When he returned Hotaru took one look at Sasuke and turned to his father.
"Daddy you are a traitor!" He then turned to his "Uncle" and began to apologize when Naruto stopped him.
"Why are you apologizing? I brought you out here to tell you how proud I was!" They both broke out in renewed laughter at Sasuke's expense when Sakura's voice rang out from the room.
"Sorry Sasuke." The 2 Uzumakis said, still grinning. Sasuke remembered all of the pranks Naruto pulled when they were kids. Now it was like another Naruto had emerged from the ashes of the first. God have mercy on Konoha! Sasuke turned to leave before he muttered, "Like father like son." The Uchiha walked away with a smile on his face.
"Hey Ino do you have something to get out the stains?" Sasuke held out his ruined clothes to his wife. She just shook her head at the state of his clothes.
"Let me guess: Hotaru?" Sasuke nodded. Ino just chuckled at the mischief the young Uzumaki caused. Even then Hotaru was Misaku and Riku's best friend, besides for the hawk Sasuke had gotten for Riku. Riku had named the bird Yuki and now the 2 were inseparable, even in the academy.
"So where are our little 'monsters'?" On cue a hawk swooped down and pulled Sasuke's head band over his eyes.
"Damn bird!" Sasuke attempted to move the headband back into place only to hear 2 sets of laughter. When he could see again he noticed the 2 kids in front of them.
"Haha we SO got you!" Sasuke was confused until he tried to move. At that point the strings around his legs were pulled together and he fell flat on his face. Everyone broke out into laughter, including Sasuke.
Outside, a figure watched the whole thing happen.
'It's a shame that's all going to end soon' Akiko thought to himself. He moved quietly throughout the village waiting for night to come before he faced the stand-in Hokage. He needed to be completely prepared for the fight ahead.
Naruto and Sasuke sat with their respective wives as their kids played a game in the park. It was getting late so they decided to go their seperate ways. Meanwhile at the Hokage Mansion 2 figures now stood on the roof.
"Why are are you here? You should know this won't end well. Your in the middle of an enemy village." Nabitora glared at the man before him, Akiko Daruma otherwise known as the Knight of Darkness. Nabitora knew he was in for a fight as he began to summon up chakra for a signal flare to warn the Village. Before he could a bout of taijutsu erupted between the two combatants. Nabitora quickly ducked a roundhouse kick and swiped the feet out from beneath Akiko. Suddenly Nabitora shot Naruto kunai made of light at Akiko only for a box of metal to enclose Akiko.
The 2 men fought well into the night. Finally they broke away both panting heavily.
"Well Nabitora I am impressed you can keep up with me. I guess that is why you were able to compete for the title of Hokage. But it's not good enough!" With that several chains shot out of the ground and binded to Nabitora's arms.
"Darkness Style: Dark Fusion Jutsu!"
Nabitora watched as a river of darkness broke off of the night sky, much to his shock, and began to pour into Nabitora's open mouth. Everything began to get progressively darker as more and more of the night fused with Nabitora's very essence.
"Your mastery of light is astonishing but lets see what happens when darkness is thrown into the mix." With that said Akiko disappeared in a swirl of darkness. Nabitora went limp and began to fall, only to find a set of hands holding him up.
"Oh god no. Nabitora I'm so sorry I wasn't here I'm..." Nabitora smiled in knowing his friend had found him in time. He passed out before Naruto could finish his sentence.
"My Lord" Akiko bowed before continuing, "I was unable to destroy Konoha due to Naruto finding the tags but I was able to to severely hurt their military power by eliminating Nabitora." The Mizukage turned in the chair, allowing the the Total Transformation Jutsu to disappear. The place Mei once sat was now occupied by the Reaper. Unknown to the rest of the world, the Reaper had long overthrown and imprisoned the former Mizukage. He chuckled at the thought that her prison was inside the Realm of the Sealed. It was only accessible by using the Eye of the Reaper.
"No you didn't. Although you attacked Nabitora, he was able to survive due to the interruption of your jutsu. I want you to go back and finish him off. Do not bother to return if you fail this time!" With that the Reaper reactivated his jutsu and sent Akiko on his way.
'Prepare yourself Naruto, it is now just a matter of time!' The Reaper thought with a smile.
AN: Well here it is, another chapter is out. Please would you favorite the story and review if you like, I would love to hear your thoughts as they are a huge motivator. Also sorry about not posting the review responses. I just haven't been able to recently but I'll try my best to remember next time. Enjoy!