Sasuke and Kakashi had sat for hours discussing their past as well how best to train a prodigy. Kakashi told Sasuke all about teaching a prodigy was boring since they would master whatever you showed them. But he also said that with Sasuke as Boruto's teacher, his experience might be different. Sasuke wasn't sure if he was to interpret that as a compliment or an insult. Sasuke was truly anxious about his new apprentice thus the conversation went late into the night. He didn't like being out from his family, but he had to learn all that he could about teaching a prodigy. Their conversation however was cut short by the village alarm. "Intruders have kidnapped the hokage's daughter. Lord hokage is engaged in combat with the enemy leader. All on-duty chunin and jonin and any off-duty ones, report for duty." The alarm kept repeating.
Sasuke and Kakashi both got up out of their seats. "What moron would dare take Himawari?" Kakashi growled. "More importantly how did they manage it?"
"I'll head over to the hokage residence." Sasuke declared, picking up his sword.
"Actually Sasuke you should go and take care of your family, we shouldn't worry about Naruto, he'll be fine. I'll go and retrieve Himawari." Kakashi stopped him. Sasuke had told his former teacher of his situation Sarada. He guessed Kakashi was simply trying to help him patch things up. Sasuke was hesitant to go though. "Sasuke, go to your family, let them know you consider them a priority." Kakashi must've been reading his thoughts.
"Fine." Sasuke relented. "Good luck Kakashi."
With that Kakashi leapt out the window and headed towards the hokage residence. Sasuke made his way back home.
He found both Sarada and Sakura already exiting the house. "Sakura, Sarada!" He called to them. Sakura looked at him with relief and Sarada looked at him with something resembling relief.
"Sasuke? What are you doing here? I thought you'd be helping the seventh." Sakura ran over to him.
"I came to check up on you, in light of the situation." Sasuke replied. Sarada seemed intrigued by his response.
"Hinata must be losing her mind. We have to do something Sasuke." Sakura declared.
"Don't worry." He put his hand on her shoulder reassuringly. "Naruto can fight the enemy leader, and the sixth hokage is going after Himawari."
"We can't just sit here!" Sarada was clearly anxious over the situation. She was close to the both Uzumaki children thus her worry over Himawari was understandable.
"It'll be fine. I promise." He tried to put a reassuring hand on her shoulder only for Sarada to pull away. Sasuke wasn't surprised by her response but it still stung. "We should stay inside the house." Sasuke said.
"Sasuke! Sakura!" Sasuke turned to see Hinata and her son Boruto running towards them.
"Hinata!" Sakura ran to take Hinata in her arms. Boruto came up to Sasuke and Sarada. "Old Man Sasuke, we need your help!" Boruto was in a rage. "Those bastards took my sister!"
"Do you guys know who it was?" Sakura asked.
"It was Haru Chinatsu. The chief of the town we went to on our mission!" Boruto spoke up.
"What? No way. Why isn't he dead?" Sarada suddenly sounded surprised and interested.
"Because he's the one that destroyed the town and the one that my Aunt Hanabi went to check out. That guy killed my Aunt Hanabi." The anger in Boruto's voice all to familiar. It was the anger that practically consumed Sasuke in his youth.
"This changes things. I'm gonna go help Kakashi retrieve Himawari. The rest of you stay here."
"No way!" Boruto snapped. "You gotta let me come with you Old Man! This guy killed Aunt Hanabi and took my sister, you expect me just sit here?!"
"I don't expect you like it, but yes, I expect you to sit here."
Boruto came forward to protest, but was held back by his mother. "Boruto stay here with Sarada and Aunt Sakura." She turned to Sasuke. "I am going with you. I have this duty as her mother." Hinata's eyes held anger, but not the blinding anger of her son.
"Alright. Let's go." He turned to his family and Boruto. "We'll see you soon and we'll have Himawari with us." Sasuke and Hinata ran off to retrieve the hokage's daughter, despite their children's protests.
Another powerful kick flew at Naruto's head which he barely dodged. He retaliated with an elbow only for Haru to sidestep it. Haru then threw a punch directly for Naruto's face. Naruto dodged this attack quite expertly but was shocked to find himself still blown back and his face stinging as if he had been hit. What is with this guy? Naruto thought as he wiped the blood from his mouth. It takes someone incredibly strong to be able to draw blood from the seventh hokage. "What's wrong hokage? Your movements are getting slow." Haru called out mockingly.
"I'll teach you to mess with grown-ups kid." Naruto growled. Easier said than done. Naruto formed several shadow clones. Together with his clones Naruto fought Haru throughout the hokage residence decimating it in the process. Naruto saw an opening. Windstyle: Rasenshuriken! A fast glowing windmill shuriken with a rasengan at the center of it went directly at Haru from behind. Game over pal. However, a powerful shockwave came off of Haru, destroying Naruto's clones, leveling the hokage residence, and knocking the rasenshuriken off course. Naruto himself was forced back by it as well. "That's a shame." Haru said. "I thought I'd destroy that loud, flashy attack of yours and send you flying. But I suppose the kage title really isn't for nothing huh?" Haru sighed. Naruto on the other hand was shocked that this young man accomplished as much as he did.
"Just who the hell are you really?" Naruto wasn't asking.
"You heard your kid. My name's Haru. Who I am, is just a guy doing what he loves."
"Kidnapping little kids?!"
"No, I'm not a pedophile. I've got more class than that you see. But I do need your little girl for a little something. It's nothing personal."
"Well it's personal now pal!" Naruto charged at his foe with two rasengans. Haru blocked and dodged everytime Naruto tried and tried to strike with the rasengans in his hands, but Haru was caught off guard by the third rasengan in the chakra arm he sent at Haru which sent him flying backwards. Naruto hoped to see that some damage had been done. Haru stood up to reveal that he barely suffered any injuries at all. Damn. Haru cracked his neck and maliciously smiled at Naruto. "That was a nice solid hit, but as you can tell, I'm sturdier than you think." Almost immediately, Haru blew an incredibly fast orange-red beam from his mouth at Naruto. It was all Naruto could do to dodge the attack. The rubble that was behind him wasn't so lucky. As soon as Haru's attack hit, it burst into a great blaze. These flames were far hotter than normal flames and didn't give off any smoke, no doubt that was how he destroyed the two towns. That's some impressive firestyle jutsu. "That wasn't firestyle jutsu hokage." Haru paused. "Come on, you must've noticed by now, what's odd about me."
Naruto did feel these was something strange about him. For all the power Haru possessed, there wasn't the faintest hint of chakra coming off of him. "You don't use chakra." Naruto figured it out.
"Correct. I was born without chakra, but as you can see that doesn't mean I can't stand on equal terms with likes of you."
"So it seems." What is this guy doing? If he has no chakra then how is he able to do all these things? Realization suddenly hit him. This was what he'd been feeling the whole time. "It's natural energy. You can passively take pure natural energy into your body and use it directly. It's also what allows you to counter any chakra based attacks."
"Bravo." Haru mockingly clapped. "You're getting closer to figuring out my abilities. As a reward, I'll tell you that I'm not the only one who can do this."
"The rest of you team!" Naruto's fear suddenly rose. There are six more guys like Haru.
"You look scared hokage. That's a good look on you actually. Very soon everyone will be wearing it."
"There! I see them!" Hinata announced. Sasuke followed her lead.
"How many are we dealing with?" Sasuke inquired of her.
"I can't see."
"What're you talking about? The byakugan can see everything."
"Well these people are somehow able to hide from my byakugan. But I can see Hima and Lord Sixth, that's how I know where they are." Hinata's pace quickened unbelievably. It was all Sasuke could do to keep up with the scorned mother. Sasuke guessed it should be expected. He'd seen how strong Sakura could become when their daughter was in danger; he wondered how dangerous Hinata could be. They quickly reached the battlefield. Many shinobi were already dead. The ground stained with their blood. Kakashi was firing purple electricity from his hand to combat six foes. One of them, carrying Himawari. Sasuke and Hinata quickly jumped into the fray. "Let my daughter go!" Hinata yelled as she sent a blast of air from her palm towards the kidnappers blowing back three of them.
"What are you two doing here?" Kakashi asked, even though he didn't sound surprised.
"Isn't it obvious? Hinata's here to slaughter her daughter's kidnappers and I decided to come along so she doesn't go too far." Sasuke gestured over to Hinata who was engaging their six foes by herself utilizing her Gentle: Step Twin Lion Fists. Sasuke and Kakashi dove back into the fray. Sasuke utilized his sword combined with chidori and sharingan while Kakashi used his personal purple electricity with both hands. He was surprised their attacks being blocked the enemy's bare hands, albeit they were still being pushed back but not taking much damage. One of them was blocking them quite flawlessly. The one carrying Himawari under his left arm. The one whom Hinata was engaged with. After Sasuke kicked away the one he was dealing with and went to go aid Hinata. Sasuke slashed at him avoiding Himawari, only for him to be dodged. Sasuke then tried to use Amaterasu on his right side so as to avoid Himawari. The man's right side became engulfed in black flames, causing him stumble and drop Himawari. Hinata immediately ran, grabbed her daughter, and returned to Sasuke's side. Mission accomplished. "Hima! Hima! Are you alright?" Hinata frantically spoke to her daughter. "hmm. Mom?"
"Oh Hima." She hugged her daughter tight with tears in her eyes.
"Hinata, head back to my place. The sixth and I will handle the rest." Sasuke said to her. He felt an attack coming at him from behind and blocked. The right side of this man's poncho was burned. He's the guy I hit with my Amaterasu. He smiled maliciously at Sasuke from under his hood as he found himself being forced back. "Those flames of yours were unexpected, but as you can see I manage to throw 'em off." The man gestured over his shoulder where that black flames were literally lying on the ground. Distracted by this new development, Sasuke was thrown back. "Now if you don't mind, I'll be taking the girl back." He approached Hinata and Himawari threateningly. Hinata put her daughter down behind her and looked as if she was ready to use herself as shield for her daughter. No way that's happening. Sasuke sent out a great Susanoo arm that grabbed the attacker, while causing his hood to fall off revealing his long brown hair. Sasuke moved on to crush his adversary only to find that his Susanoo's hand was struggling with the deed. The brown-haired man smiled at Sasuke's obvious confusion. "Is this all you can muster?" He smiled as glowing cracks began to appear in his Susanoo, and the man jumped away once Susanoo's grip was loosened enough. How did he do that? He put in more of his chakra to repair the Susanoo. Sasuke turned to see Hinata and Himawari make their escape and Kakashi just barely holding off the foes he was facing using his shadow clones. What is going on here?
Boruto hands began hurt from his clenched fists. I should be out there, damn it. The thought of his mother and sister put in harm's wasn't something he could stomach. Boruto turned his head up to see Sarada offering him a cup of tea. "Thanks." He took the cup from her as she sat down beside him on the couch without saying anything. "Where's your mom?" Boruto asked.
"She's upstairs preparing medicine and supplies, for any injuries when my dad and your mom come back."
"You think their actually going to?"
"Of course I do. Despite what I think of him, My dad is super strong and so is your mom." Sarada didn't say anything that Boruto hadn't already realized.
"You don't get it. I have to be out there." Boruto said looking her in directly her onyx eyes.
Sarada gave him a scrutinizing look. "I do get it. Your pride won't allow you to just sit still regardless of what the logical thing to do is."
"What was that?!" Boruto shot up and put his tea cup down roughly. Sarada got up to meet his challenge.
"I know you're pissed because you couldn't protect your sister. But what do you think you'll be able to accomplish by going out there?!" Sarada scolded him without mercy.
Boruto wanted to yell something back. He wanted say that he'd be able to save his sister, but he couldn't, no matter how much he wanted to. He sat back down on the couch with Sarada doing the same. Boruto gritted his teeth at the idea of not being able to do anything. He looked down at the teacup sitting on the table, wondering what to do, what he could could do, what he would do. Suddenly the front door to the Uchiha household flew open and saw his mother carrying sister run in through it. "Mom! Hima!" He ran to see their condition, and Sarada ran up to get her mother. His mother had suffered minor injuries, and Hima was asleep in her arms. "Are you two alright?" Boruto was frantic.
"I haven't gotten hurt serious and Hima's just asleep. Don't worry." His mother reassured him. Boruto looked his sleeping sister, she didn't seem injured, but the fact that someone had dared to lay a hand on her was enough to warrant anger war. His thoughts though were cut off by Sarada and her mother's entrance. "Hinata! Are you and Hima alright?" Aunt Sakura sounded as frantic as Boruto. "C'mon I'll take you two upstairs." Aunt Sakura practically dragged Boruto's mother and sister upstairs to be checked up on and Boruto moved to follow them. "Boruto, you and Sarada stay downstairs." Aunt Sakura ordered with a look in her eye that said: "Don't mess with me." Boruto grumbled as he went back downstairs, wanting to be beside his family.
Boruto sat down with Sarada again. "Thanks." He said to his friend.
"For what?"
"For letting my family stay here."
Sarada looked down at her feet. "It's my mom you should be thanking. It was her idea."
"Yeah, but still." He looked away flustered as Sarada smiled at him. "I wonder where Old Man Sasuke is." He suddenly said.
"Why are you worried about him?" Sarada's response confused Boruto. Did she really say that?
"Huh? Why aren't you worried about him?"
"Because he's super strong! I don't see what the big deal is! Go ask you mom if your so worried about him." Sarada was clearly annoyed. Boruto decided to drop the matter before it got out of hand.
The hokage wasn't letting up. Every attack thrown at Haru was as powerful as the last and quicker. Haru was able to keep up though. With every attack thrown at him Haru neutralized and blitzed the hokage with his fists, though the hokage was able dodge those, albeit barely. Though this was not an even fight. Haru made sure to not show all his skills and exhaust himself too soon. He could tell however, that the hokage thought that the two of them were evenly matched. I'll disappoint him later though. After blocking a another rasengan from the hokage with his hands and then sending him flying back, Haru took air into his body, locked on to the hokage, instantly blitzed and sent him crashing into the wall. The hokage got back up, his chakra cloak still active but blood dripping from his mouth. "Haven't seen anyone as fast as you since my old man." The hokage said as he wiped away the blood. "Even more impressive considering that you're doing it without enhancement or space-time manipulation."
Haru was actually quite intrigued by the compliment, but he could also sense the hokage's fear in his voice. "Haru, you there?" Jet's voice voice spoke in his earpiece. Haru quickly upturned the earth and hid behind newly created wall. "What's going on?" He spoke into his earpiece.
"Well, we lost the hokage's daughter." Jet could hear fighting in the background.
"Well that sucks. I guess you're facing some powerful opponents over there."
"Not too impressive, but annoying for sure. Look, I think we have to resort to Plan B."
"Alright, so long as your sure. See ya later Jet."
"See ya." The conversation was cut off just in time, for the hokage to blow the cover Haru was hiding behind. Haru however managed to escape from the damage quite easily. He turned to face the hokage. "Whoa, time out!" He held up his hands in a T formation. "It just so happens that your allies have successfully retrieved your daughter from our evil clutches." He said sarcastically, while grinning at the hokage.
The hokage's demeanor didn't change. "You expect me to believe that?"
"Well, I was hoping you would but I don't need you to believe me. Now if you don't mind, I will be making my dramatic escape now. You can have the other members of my team." All in one instant Haru took natural energy to his fingers, snapped them creating a huge flash of light, blinding the Hokage while Haru bolted away. "See you later, descendant of the moon!" He called to the confused hokage as left him, the village, and his team behind.
Naruto ran back to the Uchiha household after Haru escaped and they'd destroyed the hokage residence. Though that was the least of his concerns. Naruto was baffled by his opponent's power. He was able to use pure natural energy to mimic ninjutsu and his physical combat skills were on par with the likes of Rock Lee. Haru Chinatsu. Just who the hell are you? He had never heard of anyone or family with such a name, nor of anyone wielding that sort of power. Maybe it's the enemy greater than Kaguya Sasuke was talking about. He pushed those thoughts away as he reached the Uchiha household. He flung the door open to see his wife and daughter safe, sitting with Uchiha family, his son, as well Kakashi-sensei. His daughter came running into his arms. "Dad! Dad!"
"Hima. I'm so glad your safe." He embraced his daughter, as he did his best to hold back his tears. Hinata came up to him as well. "Oh Naruto. Are you hurt?" His wife looked worried.
"It's nothing too serious. What about you guys? Are you okay?"
"Mostly. None of the injuries are serious." Sakura answered back. Naruto looked around to see his wife, Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei showing signs of having had treatment.
"Naruto. You aren't gonna believe what happened." Sasuke said to him. "All six of the enemies we were engaging surrendered."
"Is that right?" So this is what Haru meant.
"It seemed unnecessary as well, considering how powerful they were. They weren't ordinary ninja." Kakashi spoke up.
Sasuke turned to speak again. "Naruto those guys-"
"Weren't using chakra?" He finished for his fired. "I noticed. I'm guessing you saw how they're able to nullify our ninjutsu with their bare hands."
Sasuke, Kakashi, and Hinata all nodded in agreement. "I couldn't use my gentle fist to my fullest extent." His wife said. "There was no chakra system or chakra points for me to attack."
"One of 'em was able to overpower my Susanoo." Sasuke said. Naruto was surprised to hear that. He had to purposely keep his jaw from dropping. Susanoo wasn't easily overpowered.
"So what did you do with them after they surrendered?" Naruto asked.
"We handed them over to the interrogation division." Kakashi-sensei answered. Naruto nodded in approval. It seemed like the best course of action, thoguh he doubted the interrogation division would get any answers out of them.
"How'd your fight go?" It was Boruto who'd asked after being quiet for awhile. "What happened to Haru?"
"He escaped." Naruto solemnly replied.
"What do you mean he escaped? How can he escape from you?" Boruto sounded upset.
"Well he was a superhumanly powerful ninja. Never seen anything like him, and I've seen a lot of things."
"Why'd you just let him go? After what he did?" Boruto voice grew louder, as all eyes passed between father and son.
"Because I had to come check on my family." Naruto kept his calm. "Boruto. We'll catch him. I promise."
Boruto grumbled at his response, it was clear that there was more he wanted to say, but guessed that his mother's glare was enough to keep him quiet. However, the anger on his son's voice was all too obvious. It worried him that his son could be so angry at such a young age. "Well, I suppose we'll go see the prisoners tomorrow. Right now there something else we need to settle." All the adults in the room agreed. Sakua came over to him and began treatment on his wounds.
Once she had finished, Naruto turned to Sasuke and Sakura and asked the question he'd been dreading to ask them. "So can me and my family stay with you guys for a while?" He asked nervously.
"Why?" Sakura's tone scrutinized him and her face had an incredulous look on it.
"Well you see. My fight with Haru kind of, leveled the hokage residence."
"WHAT?!" Naruto's wife, daughter, and son all yelled in unison. Naruto simply laughed nervously. Kakashi simply smiled at the scene. Sasuke simply seemed uninterested. "I'm not staying here with Sarada." His son said getting out of his seat clearly flustered.
"Oh. You mean you're getting shy around you crush?" He teased his son, as both Boruto and Sarada went red in the face.
"Crush? What crush?" Sasuke suddenly sounded interested and very deathly serious. Boruto turned pale in the face as the protective Uchiha father bore his sharingan at him. Naruto smiled at the beautiful scene.
"Oh it's no big deal Dad. There's nothing between us." Sarada said defending Boruto. She glared at Sasuke with the same sharingan eyes. Sasuke stared between Boruto and Sarada before finally relenting.
"Fine. But if he makes any moves on you, it'll be be the same digging his own grave." Sasuke gave one last glare at Boruto before deactivating his sharingan. Boruto sat back down, his legs still shaking. Sakura sighed at her husband's over-protectiveness. Sasuke was glad that despite the tension between Sasuke and Sarada, Sasuke still cared for his daughter.
"OK. So it's settled. For the time being, the Uchihas and the Uzumakis will be living under the same roof." Naruto loudly declared with a laugh with no one joining in. On the inside he wondered about Haru's words as he left. Why did he call me "descendant of the moon"?
