Sasuke wanted to go see and report to the hokage, but decided that this time he would prioritize his family. It was early in the morning, thus the streets weren't as bustling as usual. Store owners were getting ready to open up shop, people were out on their balconies embracing the morning air, and birds sang in every corner of the village. This is perfect.

He hesitated as he unlocked the door to his own house with the key Sakura had given during his first visit. He was surprised to find both is wife and daughter in the door way waiting for him, and before he knew it they both jumped on to him and literally knocked him of his feet. There was laughter, tears, kisses all over. This is perfect. After the three of them were back on their feet, the greetings began.

"Sasuke. We weren't expecting you so early!" Sakura exclaimed.

"And I didn't expect you to be up so early." Sasuke smiled back. "Hey Sarada, how have you been." He knelt down, closer to his daughter's height.

"I'm great now that you're here Dad!" She was as enthusiastic as her mother.

"Come on let's all go sit down, and talk." Sakura led the family to the living room. On the way she explained how neither she nor Sarada could sleep knowing that Sasuke would be home today. "The excitement was too much." She had said. That explains why they're both still in their night clothes.

"Oh yeah." His daughter began. "Dad I'm a genin now, I'm officially a ninja of the leaf."

"That's my girl. I'm proud of you." Sasuke smiled at his daughter. His pride was actually so great that he didn't know how to express it. That was usually the case with is emotions.

"So what team are you on?" Sasuke asked.

"Team Konohamru." His daughter replied.

"As in Konohamru Sarutobi?"

His daughter nodded enthusiastically while Sasuke's heart sank. Why did Naruto put that moron in charge of training Sarada? He didn't speak his thoughts out loud. He was indeed afraid that his wife would pummel him for speaking like that, and even more so he had no desire to hurt his daughter's feelings. Besides, Sasuke's disdain for the Sarutobi was based on personal feelings alone. He didn't particularly hate him, but he wasn't too fond of him either.

"Sarada, tell your father who else who is on your team." Sakura cut into his thoughts. She must have sensed his reaction to 'Konohamaru news'.

"Sure. Dad the other two on my team are Boruto and Mitsuki" Sarada smiled at her father.

"Boruto huh, as expected. Mitsuki's a surprise though." Sasuke stated.

"What do you mean Dad?" Sarada questioned.

"I'm curious too." Sakura added. Sasuke sighed.

"The seventh would naturally put our children together considering our history. But Mitsuki's the one I'm worried about."

"Why because he's an immigrant!?" His daughter exclaimed. Sakura looked worriedly at father and daughter.

"No not at all." Sasuke softly replied. "It's just…"

"Just what? You know, our team would never have passed our exam if it weren't for him! So don't treat him like an enemy!" Sarada had gotten out of her seat.

"Sarada mind your tone with you father." Sakura's voice was strict but calm.

"No it's alright. Besides I'm glad sticks up for her team." Sasuke said. "I'm sorry, about the way I acted."

"It okay. I'm sorry too." Sarada replied. Sasuke looked over at Sakura who seemed relieved that this conflict had resolved itself as fast as it did.

"Well, how about we go out to eat. My treat." Sasuke announced after moment of silence.

"You don't have to do that Sasuke, I can make something." Sakura said.

"Don't worry, I want to go out with my family anyway."

"Alright." Sakura relented. Sasuke could tell anyway, that she no desire to cook right now so he didn't make her. Sakura directed Sarada to get herself ready to head out, and their daughter had left the room.

Sakura gave Sasuke a dark look. He knew all too well what it was about. "Look, I'm sorry about how I spoke about Mitsuki. I didn't mean anything by it." Sasuke said.

"I know you didn't, but there's no reason to act like a ninja when you're at home." His wife scolded.

"I know. I just haven't been home, or had much of family in long time, so I'm still getting used to it. I'm sorry."

"I understand." Sakura's voice softened. "Sarada's team gets along a lot better than our used to. I just don't want to give her any reason to doubt her teammates." Sakura finished. "I ought to get ready too." She smiled as he left. Sasuke sat back on the couch. His daughter's reaction was supposed to be expected. She has her mother's hair-trigger temper. He also knew that he could be overly cautious, as did his daughter. He still kept remembering how he'd mistaken his daughter for the enemy the first time they met. Still have to make up for that one. Sarada must think the same thing. He had regained his membership in the leaf, but he couldn't completely trust the village that wiped out his family. Though the village's current leadership made it easier to forgive, if only slightly. Thus, trusting Mitsuki became more difficult, especially since the hokage had refused to question the boy any further. I suppose I've lost the right to question Naruto's decisions though.

After a while Sarada had come down. "Where's Mom?" His daughter asked.

"She's upstairs getting ready." Sasuke replied. Sarada had come down wearing a red sleeveless qipao shirt with the Uchiha family crest on the back of it. He is wife had insisted that the three of them wear the crest, to signal the rebirth of the Uchiha clan. Sarada was also wearing her leaf ninja headband. Sasuke couldn't help but smile warmly at her.

"What is it Dad? Is there something on my face?" Sarada looked flustered as her face went red.

"No, No. It's just that, your headband looks good on you." Sasuke spat out, not sure what to say.

"Oh." Sarada blushed. "Thanks. I'm just you know glad to be ninja, so I just felt like I'd wear it today." Sarada explained. The response I expected, perfect. Sasuke decided that it was good thing she was as proud of being a ninja as she was. Unlike myself, when I was her age.

"Say, Dad." Sarada interrupted his thoughts. "Where's your headband?"

Sasuke was caught off guard by the question. "Well, you see-"

"I'm ready!" His wife's announcement had interrupted his answer. Thank goodness.

"Let's head out." Sakura led the family out of the home. Leaving Sarada's question unanswered for the time being. Sasuke wouldn't know how to answer the question without lying, something he didn't want to do to his daughter.

The wind in her face her as she leaped from branch to branch was something she was grateful for. Not because it was hot, but because she simply hadn't been on any real mission in a while. Hanabi Hyuga was a woman who never enjoyed sitting around doing nothing. She was a ninja of hidden leaf.

"Keep up!" She called out at her the two jonin behind her. Their pace hastily quickened, clearly fearing her wrath. She wanted to go alone, but the hokage had ordered two jonin two accompany her despite that. "Can't leave my little sister-in-law alone in the woods now can I." Naruto had laughed after that. Hanabi wished he wouldn't do be so protective but knew that he simply cared for her. Big sis Hinata's still too good for him though. She never said such things out loud knowing her sister's love for the seventh hokage, and Hanabi had also grown fond of the man.

The trees began open up as the forest cleared. As she landed on the ground her heart sank, her nostrils filled with sent of decay, and burning heat struck her face. She found herself facing a ruined town, with flames still burning. She heard her two teammates land behind her. "What the hell is this?" One of them sounded scared.

"This is hell." The other one sounded the same.

"Quiet. Keep your guard up." Her voice was little more than a whisper. She was suddenly glad the she wasn't alone. They walked into the literal hell of a town, Hanabi, afraid of what she'll find. She activated her byakugan and began searching the area. She heard something crunch beneath her feet. A skull. It was charred black. "No survivors." She stated. Her two subordinates were whispering something indistinctly, likely regarding the horrors they were witnessing.

Hanabi couldn't tell whether they were walking on the streets of town or through what was once someone's home. Her byakugan could see no remaining traces of the enemy. Not even their chakra. "This didn't happen just recently, this must've happened weeks ago." Hanabi stated. "That is impossible." One of her subordinates exclaimed. "These fires shouldn't be burning for so long." The other added.

"My byakugan doesn't lie. The fires aside, it's clear that whatever happened here didn't happen recently. The smell isn't as bad as would be if it were fresh." She was sure about that much. Were it recent, the air would be far fouler than it was currently. Her two subordinates muttered in agreement. There was but one problem. There is no chakra. She should've been able to detect whose chakra had been here, for there was no way such damage could've been done without ninjutsu. Especially these fires.

"Let's report to the hokage." She addressed the two men behind her.

"Captain Hanabi?" The men question simultaneously.

"Our mission was simply to investigate what happened. All we've found is hell." She didn't wait for them to approve and began dialing the hokage's office, only to pick up static. Damn it, there should be signal here.

"Your phones and other communication devices won't work here." A grinning man stepped literally stepped from behind some ruins. How did I not see him with my byakugan? He had bright golden hair, and purple eyes. He was dressed in casual white clothing with gold on his wrists and his ears, and was surprisingly youthful. The only thing that surprised her more was that the she wasn't seeing him with byakugan but her ordinary eyesight. "I've put up a barrier, preventing electromagnetic signals from passing in and out within its area." That golden haired man explained.

"There is no barrier. I would've seen it if there was one." Hanabi exclaimed

"Indeed the eyes of Hamura Ootsutsuki and his descendants allow you to see better than most, but as you can see, or rather can't see, there are those that can hide from the byakugan." The man kept smiling mockingly.

But how, if he's just concealing his chakra, I understand why I couldn't see him before, but now that he's in front me I should be able see his chakra network. Something's wrong. Realization suddenly hit her as her jaw dropped.

"So you've figured it out." The golden-haired man seemed to have seen that look of realization upon her face. "I don't have chakra." His grin got wider.

"So I guess you're the one who destroyed this town." It wasn't a question.

"How'd you guess?" the man smiled at her.

"It's clear that whatever leveled this town wasn't an ordinary ninja. And now you've appeared in front of me, a man with no chakra. After that I just put two and two together." She nervously grinned at him, while his smile disappeared.

"You're partially correct. Your right in that ordinary ninja could never have done this, but have you considered that it wasn't a ninja at all?"

Not a ninja? Then what? He is clearly not a samurai. "Why did you destroy this town?" Hanabi questioned.

"You're actually trying get answers from me?" His tone grew darker. "A descendant of the moon is actually trying to gain answers from me. HaHaHaHaHa! Well Miss. Unfortunately I have no desire to talk to you." The golden hair man laughed.

That was all I needed to hear. Eight Trigrams Air Palm! A shock wave cleared distance between them and sent the golden-haired man flying into the distance. "Retreat. I have no intention of trying to fight his guy." She called two her two subordinates who were sweating like pigs. They obeyed without hesitation. They had reached the forest and were flying through it in matter of seconds. Since he had no chakra, there was no way I could gauge his power. But I still got an ominous feeling from him. Hanabi and her two subordinates were side by side, as they fled from their unknown enemy. We must return the leaf. Naruto needs to know about this. She pulled out her phone to dial again, only to be met with the answering machine. Where could that moron be now! She and her subordinates kept moving forward. Stopping was out of the question

Hanabi came to a dead halt, as in front of her, standing upside-down on a branch was the golden-haired. "Did you truly believe you'd get away from using an attack like that? I expected more from the sister of the Byakugan Princess." The man had a devilish grin on his face. He knows Hinata? But how?

"Captain Hanabi." One of her subordinates had stepped in front of her to face the man. "Please run."

"You don't honestly think I'll run and leave this to you."

"Yes we do captain." Her other subordinate had stepped up as well. "This man has no chakra, and therefore no chakra network for you attack. Please run." She looked at her two subordinates. She had assumed they were cowards, when Naruto assigned them. She had been almost offended that her brother-in-law would assign them to her. Now she was grateful for them, but still could not run. "You're right. I can't attack his chakra network, but I'm not completely useless. We will return home together." She proclaimed. She could not return home leaving her subordinates to die in her place.

Her two subordinates charged the man using firestyle jutsu. The spot where he was standing was completely ablaze, along with the tree. Impressive. So Naruto didn't saddle me with losers.

"Is that all you can do?" A shock wave dispersed the attack. The golden-haired man stood on the ground, with area around his position sprinkled with flames from the attack. How did he survive? Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of blood splattering. Her two subordinates been sliced half. Their corpses fell to the ground beneath them. "Now it's over." She heard the golden-haired man's voice directly behind her. Hanabi hopped away to another tree. Her opponent stood there with a sword that she didn't know he'd been carrying her. "You will pay for what you've done to my comrades!" Hanabi activated her byakugan, and prepared to fight. I can't us my gentle fist on him directly, but I can still put up a fight. She felt something hot in her abdominal area. She put her hand on her stomach and found it to be wet. What is this? She was shocked to see that she was bleeding. Her head felt light. Suddenly pain spread throughout her body. As she knelt on the branch she was standing on. When did he cut me? She wondered.

"Hanabi Hyuga." The man said with a straight face. "My swordsmanship allowed me to cut you so cleanly you didn't even realize it happened."

"What?" Her voice was hardly a whisper.

"Don't bother trying to speak, descendant of the moon. Consider your death a declaration of war against ninja. A war against humanity." Those were the last words she heard as he disappeared. A powerful man with no chakra. A war against humanity. I'm sorry Naruto, Father, Big Sister. I couldn't even let you know of the danger to come. She felt death sink in as she allowed her body to drop from the branch to blazing ground below.

"This hunk of scrap wood is all you found?" Naruto complained as he held up the talisman trying to make sense of it. Sasuke had eaten lunch before leaving to see the hokage. When he told his daughter as much, Sarada had been understanding, simply glad that her father was now home. Sasuke however was reluctant to leave his family at home, for work again. Nonetheless this issue can't be ignored. "I don't see what the big deal with this thing is Sasuke. There are partial eclipses on both sides. One opposite of the other." Naruto said

"I found this in one of the other dimensions. Given the Ootsutsuki clan's affinity for the moon, I looked into various, ancient ruins and pertaining to it. I found a ruined shrine hidden in the Land of Wind. It clearly wasn't hidden on purpose simply buried by the centuries of disuse. Anything that could've been of use in the shrine has been wiped out by the sand. So the next thing I did is I teleported to the desert dimension, to the same coordinates I was at in this one, and came to a similar ruined shrine. That's where I found this thing." He finished his story as he gestured to the talisman.

"Why'd you go to the desert dimension of all places?" Naruto questioned.

"It was simply the dimension that found to be most habitable out of all of them. It was natural that it was the first one I'd try."

"Of course. That makes sense." Naruto said. "So why'd you come back with this? It's not much, just a step in the right direction."

"Let explain it to you moron. The Ootsutsuki and thus Kaguya, have affinity for the moon. So the enemy she was raising an army no doubt has an affinity for the sun." Sasuke was getting annoyed by how slow Naruto was.

"Alright, I get it." Naruto was held up his hands trying to calm him down. "So why the partial eclipses?" Naruto showed both sides of the talisman.

"My guess is that it tells a story. On neither side does it show either celestial body completely eclipsing the other. That means that means that the battle the Ootsutsuki were fighting wasn't finished."

"So you I take it you didn't just come here without an idea of who the Ootsutsuki were fighting do you?"

Sasuke nodded. "Hm. I don't know who they are exactly but I know that they came from overseas. I traveled there to the island across from this continent discovered all kinds of ruins and shrines pertaining to the sun. They more numerous than the ones we have on our continent"

Naruto was clenching his fists of his desk. "Sasuke let's be honest with each other so we can save time and you can return to your family."

"You have a family to return to as well. Naruto." Sasuke growled out.

"That's none of your business." Naruto gritted his teeth. "You think Mitsuki might have some connection to this threat we're facing." Naruto's voice grew louder.

"That's right. One thing I've learned when fighting against the Ootsutsuki, it's that nothing is impossible. And one thing I've learned from my travels is that coincidence isn't as common as people like to think. You and I are prime examples." Sasuke finished.

Naruto didn't argue; something Sasuke was glad about. It was no coincidence that I and this loser wound up as powerful as we did. And it's no coincidence that we chose the paths we did. "Seventh hokage. Like you I don't believe that Mitsuki has ill intentions. But it's time we got some answers from him." Sasuke stated firmly. Naruto flinched at being called at his title. Sasuke knew that reminding him of his position always unnerved Naruto.

"Sasuke. The boy has partial amnesia. Medical ninjutsu can't recover lost memories." Naruto was calm again.

"My sharingan can see through whatever trauma has afflicted him. I will be do able what the medical ninjas can't, and the interrogation division can't." Sasuke said.

"Very well." Naruto sounded resigned. "You can use your sharingan to find answers in Mitsuki. But only after Team Konohamaru's first mission."

"Fair enou-. Wait Sarada's team is going on a mission? When?" Sasuke was surprised.

"Right after the weekend." Naruto was smiling now. "I decided to send them out of the village to carry out a mall errand for me. Seeing how catching cats around the village will be way too easy for them."

Sasuke was speechless. My little girl out there with two idiot boys and that pervert Konohamru? Never.

"I know how you feel leaving your little girl with two idiot boys and that pervert Konohamaru, outside the village. But Konohamaru has matured over the years. And he'll keep Boruto and Mitsuki in line. So don't worry." Naruto was almost laughing now. Sasuke was flustered. Damn. There's no way I can stop this I suppose. Sasuke resigned himself, no longer complaining.

"Looks like mine and Sarada's roles have been reversed, huh." Sasuke smiled. Naruto laughed quietly at the irony. Sasuke couldn't help joining in. My Sarada's first mission. I'm glad I made it home for this. Sasuke turned to leave. He didn't bother saying anything further to Naruto. I've said all I had to. Sasuke had reached the door when heard Naruto speak behind him: "Sasuke."

"What is it Naruto?" Sasuke didn't turn to face him.

"It's been over 10 years since the 4th great ninja war. The world changed so much. Do you think that nature of the ninja has changed as well?" Naruto sounded melancholy.

"Naruto. This era is different from the one you and I grew up in. The era in which hatred was practically a religion. This era is dominated by love and cooperation. The ninja's place has changed indeed. But I believe that no matter what era, the ninja will always be those who endure." Sasuke exited the hokage's office to return to his family. He thought about how far he and Naruto had come since they were children. Ninja are the ones who endure indeed. But we're still human Naruto. How much more can we endure?