A/N: Hey everyone! Thank you all for your lovely reviews :D

To mayb: Some jutsu work a lot like magic spells (and btw jutsu in Japanese means spell as well as technique), especially the mind jutsu techniques, so it's not that far-fetched that a knowledgeable kunoichi would develop a jutsu that works like this, binding people's love through magic is something many people want (and attempt to do in our own world, tho I honestly don't think it works, the only people I've met who ever tried that didn't end up well). As for Hinata's fate... hmmm yes she did take Sakura's offer, but I honestly see Hinata as being more brainless and gullible than actually evil. She never seemed to possess the kind of cunning necessary to manipulate people on her own devices (and that shows in The Last, where Sakura has to push her towards Naruto).

Sakura, on the other hand... let's just say I'm having a lot of fun because she is a damn good villain to write, lol.

"Holy fucking shit Sasuke's gonna go nuts when I tell him what the Hokage did!" Suigetsu whispered breathlessly as he ran through the sewers clutching the squirming boy. "I wonder if Hinata-san found out about the yakuza schemes, that gotta be the reason for Naruto and Hiashi to do that!"

Bolt realized no amount of biting and squirming was going to get the strange man's attention: whatever he tried to reach turned to water. The guy didn't seem to want to hurt him, but on the other hand…

The Scumbag was the only family Bolt had left now. And despite the scumbag that he was, he was obviously being framed; that meant that if people caught him, Bolt would be alone against Hiashi. Who not only had just killed Himawari, but hated Bolt's guts.

Besides… even if his father was a scumbag, Bolt wouldn't act like one himself.

With that somewhat coherent thought in mind, Bolt concentrated and formed a Rasengann cocoon around his body, splatting Suigetsu's body all around him.

The Mist nin recomposed his body and gaped at the boy.

"It wasn't him," Bolt gasped, wiping dirty water off his face. "It was a henge. I saw through it," he said.

"Dude, I know he's your dad but what happened right now is really serious, your mother and sister -"

"The fucking Scumbag didn't kill them, damn it, I saw who did it! I have to warn him before they catch him!"

"How can you expect me to believe you saw it was a henge from behind glass doors? You're not even a genin!"

Bolt sighed. "You have fracture lines on your left radius, your right tibia and fibula, and at the back of your skull. That means your ability to liquefy your body isn't something you were born with," the boy said, and Suigetsu's eyes widened.

"You don't smoke, but your lungs show sign of chronic inflammatory disease. That shows that whatever was done to you to turn into what you are now has side effects that weren't accounted for. Your reproductive organs -"

"How the fuck do you know all that?" Suigetsu interrupted in an alarmed voice.

"I can see it. I see… everything."

Salad looked down from the giant hawk, up again at her father, who had just jumped from it and entered the small farm house in front of them, and swallowed.

She knew that the hawk was a summons and that it'd poof away soon, but… how did Papa expect her to jump from up there without twisting an ankle or something? The damn thing was ten feet high!

She sighed and gathered her courage. The worst that could happen was Salad breaking her neck, but that'd happen if she jumped or not. It didn't look in the least as if Papa was going to remember she was basically no ninja, anyway…

"Need a hand?" a voice called, and Salad looked down to see a very tall, strong man with ginger hair looking up at her. She nodded quietly, trying not to show her fear.

The man smiled kindly. "I'm Juugo. Just jump down and I'll catch you."

She adjusted her backpack and did as the kind man said, holding back an embarrassed tear. "Thank you," she muttered, with her eyes down.

Juugo pulled her chin up. "You don't have to be embarrassed," he said in a conspiratory whisper, "I was afraid the first time I traveled in one of those too. Would you like some tea? I'll bet your dad didn't stop all the way here."

Salad smiled, nodded, and then frowned. "Um… can I go to the bathroom please?"

Juugo laughed, and picked her up. "Sure! Welcome to Shin Farm, little Salad."

"Un. Lemme see if I understand, so my body was gonna die and you guys saved me, and now you're part of me?" Menma asked.

"You didn't notice your body was dying?" Shukaku asked, and Menma shook his head. "Ever since I know who I am my body hurts a lot, so I made this place. In here, it doesn't hurt. I only come out when the moon is up in the sky, then it doesn't hurt so much," the little boy explained.

The baby beasts looked up at the crayon sky, and nodded. "Aaaaahh," they did in unison.

"That was a really good idea," Son Goku said, and nodded. "But… you shouldn't be in pain now that we mixed up our bodies with yours," he frowned.

Menma looked at them pensively. "Hmmmm… ok lemme see," he said, and disappeared.

At the Hokage's private quarters, a child's cry was heard, and Naruto ran to Menma's side.

"Menma! Please please help us help you out, we can't hold you or give you medicine, can you control what's happening?" Naruto asked.

The little boy tried to open his eye, but it was as if his eyelids were fused to each other. His whole body burned, and he could feel things moving inside him. He took a shaky breath.

"They said it shouldn't hurt," he whispered, and fainted.

Menma appeared beside the baby beasts again. "Owwww…" he complained, and pouted. "It hurts so much out there, sorry… I had to come back."

"Do you think one of us could go out and see if we can help you?" Kurama asked. "I once did that with your Papa, maybe it'll work."

Menma sat down and pulled baby Choumei into a hug, and the beast squeaked, before shrugging. "You do what you want, but it really hurts a lot. I can pet you when you come back to make it better," he said, and Kurama smiled. He hadn't been wrong about the kid.

The fox closed his eyes and focused on his body. It had been the way he had been able to come forwards with Naruto, so maybe…

"Yowch! Damn the kid was right, this hurts like hell!" Kurama yelled.

"Kurama? What the fuck did you do to Menma you stupid fox?" Naruto yelled back at him.

Kurama focused his attention on what was going on the child's body, and shuddered. 'Whoops…'

"We had to merge with him to change his body enough so that his chakra pattern would change, you were killing him baka," he growled through Menma's lips. "His cells are mutating to accommodate our chakra."

"We? What do you mean we?" Tsunade asked, coming close to the bed.

"All of us, all the bijuu!" the fox snarled in pain.

There was a collective gasp.

"Brat, you have to find a way to give him food so his body can metabolize the chakra, that's the only way his body won't be consumed in this process. I'm going to divert the excess chakra so you can touch him and feed him, but I can't talk while you do it, it will take all my concentration. Oh," Kurama said, "Find a way to tell B that Gyuuki is fine, we're all alive and a part of his mind now. Hurry!"

Tsunade was already calling Shizune and telling her what supplies she needed, and Naruto sat on the bed beside the little boy, stunned.

"Shikamaru," he said after a few minutes, "send an email to B informing him that Gyuuki is fine and he doesn't have to worry. Tell him I'll talk to him as soon as we can."

Shikamaru nodded and hurried out to his office.

When the Hokage's assistant got there, though, he was greeted by a bizarre sight.

A puddle of water in the middle of his office was turning into a man.

He quickly took hold of the man through his shadow. "Who the hell are you and what do you want?"

"Hey hey! Calm down man, I'm not your enemy!" Suigetsu yelled, and Shikamaru's door opened behind him.

"Let him go, Shikamaru," Bolt's voice was heard after the door was closed quietly. "He's with me."

"Bolt? Uh, what are you doing here? Your father," Shikamaru started, and his eyes bulged as he felt his throat constricted by a ring of water.

"You will not make any stupid excuses for the Scumbag and you will listen to me because this is fucking important. My mother and Himawari were killed and the people who did it along with my dear," Bolt snarled, "grandfather will be coming to get the Scumbag next, so be a good fucking assistant and take me to him, we have to leave this place right now."

With that, Bolt released the Nara, and crossed his arms, giving him an icy glare.

Shikamaru gaped, and turned to Suigetsu, who had been able to recompose himself in the meantime.

"Is… is this true?" he whispered, and Bolt let out a derisive snort as the former Taka member nodded. Leave it to adults to never believe in anything children said.

"Yeah. I was there too, and I got Bolt out. I was going to take him to somewhere safe because it looked like it was Naruto who killed his mom, but he insists it was someone else using a henge," Suigetsu said, and scratched his elbows.

"And… and he's right, I've been with Naruto the whole time. Couldn't have been a clone either because he's… he's been…" Shikamaru hesitated, but shook his head. "You guys better see for yourselves, but how can we walk around the building without alerting the ANBU?"

"I've put them under a genjutsu," Bolt said, and Shikamaru gaped again. Bolt sighed. "I can do any jutsu I see people doing first," he explained. Shikamaru's eyes widened even further, and the man looked at Suigetsu.

"Don't you fucking ask me, dude, I don't know nuffin'," he said.

Hiashi and Sakura, meanwhile, shared tea in the Uzumaki household.

Sakura felt uneasy. Not due to the corpses laid down next to them - as a medic nin she had gotten used to death long ago - but due to the Hyuuga's calm demeanor.

"Tell me what you want from me," she asked wearily.

"I and the people who have backed the Council's decisions for the last decade have in our best interest that the political situation in the Fire Country remains the same. To be honest it was quite interesting to meet Naruto-kun after the mission to retrieve Hanabi and see that he had become… quite pliable to our clan's - mine, that is - interests. With the help from our associates we have secured peace and prosperity for ninja everywhere. However, with Naruto-kun's… awakening, I am afraid he would again try to meddle into our business due to unfortunate side effects they have in the life of the… lower castes. That would be unacceptable," Hiashi explained, and took a sip of his tea. "And so I would offer you a chance to not only escape judgement over your actions, but to also gain what you want the most… seeing as your husband's dramatic end of your marriage is obviously not something you agree with."

Sakura's eyes narrowed. This was actually interesting for her. "Go on," she said.

"You see, you are in a respectable position, as the Godaime's pupil and her successor as the new Slug Sannin," Hiashi said. "If Naruto-kun was charged with the murder of his family, he would obviously be removed from his position as Hokage, and I do not doubt that, with the Council's help, you would easily be nominated to his place."

Sakura smirked.

"With you as the Hachidaime Hokage, you could easily order the imprisonment of the Uchiha for his past crimes - seeing as they were only waived due to the previous Hokage's direct intervention - and with him detained in Konoha, for your help with maintaining the status quo, the Council would gracefully relegate his fate to you - alone," Hiashi stated, and smiled at her.

"I think, in face of the current events, that you want an immediate response from me," Sakura said calmly, and Hiashi nodded, still smiling.

She knew that she was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Not accepting the Hyuuga's offer would mean fighting with him, and fighting with the Hyuuga clan leader on his grounds would definitely call attention, which would expose Sakura as Hinata and Himawari's murderer - of that she had no doubt.

On the other hand…

Accepting his offer would give her a chance of getting Sasuke-kun back, and, this time, without any means for him to leave her again. Sure, if the Council was caught doing something wrong it would be her head on the line… but then again, if what Hiashi had said was true, they had already been ruling behind the scenes since the early days of Kakashi's term as Hokage. That meant they must have built a solid foundation on where to stand on.

And Sakura had really nothing to lose.

"I accept your terms, Hiashi-sama," she said, standing, and bowed to him. He stood and returned the gesture.

"What would you require of me?" she asked.

"Please leave the compound with your henge on, and after dropping the henge at an appropriately secure location on the way to the Hokage Tower, go directly to your house. To all effects Naruto-kun will have done this tragic deed after finding out about the jutsu casted by my unhappy child, and murdered her in a rage. In twenty minutes after you leave, the bodies will be discovered and the alarm sounded. We will contact you when you are needed then," Hiashi said, and Sakura again disguised herself as Naruto, before leaving the house.

'Now´, thought Hiashi, 'all I need to deal with is that bothersome Bolt child. No matter. The curse seal shall deal with him satisfactorily.'

Suigetsu entered the Hokage quarters in a bundle of nerves. Damn his stupid inherently good nature and Sasuke's influence in making it flourish, he was now stuck right into the lion's den. And there was no way he would be able to pretend he had just been wandering around the Hyuuga compound, even the kid had noticed he was a spy.

"Who the hell sent you to spy on my family?" Bolt had asked as they navigated through the sewers.

"I, I… I'm not a spy, I was just passing by and..."

"Cut the crap, waterworks. Nobody could hear what was going on inside, I only know what they talked about from reading their lips," the boy interrupted, glaring at him. "Did anyone send you to kidnap me or something?"

Suigetsu had scratched his head. "No," he answered truthfully, "I was there to investigate the Hokage's participation on a corruption scheme," he said, and waved his arms as Bolt turned on him. "I didn't find anything on your dad, kid! Or Nara. That's what was strange about it, cause we got dirt on almost everyone else in the Council and the clans," he explained. "Since it was so damn strange, my boss told me to stay and watch, he thought surely something would come up."

"It was a jutsu," the kid muttered. "My mom and… the person that killed her were talking about it. Mom put the Scumbag under a jutsu and that changed him, or something like it."

"Genjutsu?" Suigetsu asked, and Bolt shook his head negatively. "If it were a genjutsu I'd have seen it. It was something I've never seen before," he said, "I hate him, but I'm not a scumbag like he is, and I know if he isn't warned about what's going on he'll do something stupid like he always does. But if I can get the idiot to listen, then maybe, just maybe, you and your boss, whoever that is, can find out exactly what's going on and I can escape Hiashi putting the curse seal on me, or worse. Will you help?"

Suigetsu had stopped and looked at the boy's stricken face. He was amazed at the child's ability to think at all, let alone communicate in such an articulate manner after seeing half his family get killed right in front of him. But his blue eyes suggested maturity beyond his years, and Suigetsu was used to seeing kids that, as he himself was, had had to recover quickly from trauma, so he sympathized with the boy. Besides, his reasoning was good. Sasuke would indeed be very interested in this development.

So he had agreed, and here they were.

Shikamaru opened a door, and they entered a spacious living-room with a kitchen in a corner.

Shizune was there, preparing a high-energy concoction to feed Menma, and he raised a hand at her. She gave Bolt a startled look, but said nothing.

"Wait here, I'll call him," Shikamaru said, and moved on down a hallway.

"Wait here my ass," Bolt muttered, and stomped after the Hokage's assistant, passing him and shoving the door the man had touched on open.

"You fucking scumbag you better listen to me now if you want to live WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?" Bolt screeched as he saw Naruto and Tsunade beside a double bed, in which a small child's body cracked and moved trying to rebuild itself over.

"Bolt…" Naruto whispered.

"That is the reason your father is in possession of his faculties," Tsunade said. "What the hell are you doing here, kid?"

Bolt sighed, suddenly feeling the weight of what had happened to him.

"Mom is dead. Himawari is dead. That asshole Hiashi killed her. He snapped her neck like she was nothing," he said in a broken voice. "You weren't there. You were never there, and now they're dead, you son of a bitch. And now they're coming for you, and that motherfucker is gonna put the curse seal on me."

Naruto blanched. Hinata was dead? Himawari? How? When? Hiashi had killed little Himawari? Why?

"Who killed Hinata?" Tsunade asked at the same time Shizune and Suigetsu entered the room, and Bolt turned red-rimmed eyes at her. "That stupid Salad's mother. Uchiha Sakura."

"The one under the Naruto henge was Sakura?" Suigetsu yelled, his eyes almost popping out of its sockets. "Holy shit Sasuke's gonna have kittens!"

Everyone turned to look at him.