Every day for the past five months, Moegi saw this woman sitting on the bench that overlooked the old village of Konoha. For the first month, Moegi would just walk past as she walked up the steps heading to her apartment in the city. Actually, for the first week, Moegi paid the woman no mind. Yes, she was pretty and it was odd to see a woman wearing such old, traditional clothes but many of the old timers did in fact dress like that...although her robes seemed even older than the old timers still alive in Konoha. Old clothes, new clothes-it simply didn't matter but every day when Moegi checked out from her missions, she would see the woman sitting there. Then one day, Moegi had a mission that took her away from Konoha. It was a mission where she pretty much just had to check in on her students to make sure their training was going okay. Even still, when she came back a month later from her travels, the woman was still there.

It was the third month Moegi gathered the curiousity to find out why this woman was parked on this bench what seemed to be twenty-four hours a day. She had walked to the woman and asked to sit next to her on the bench but the woman remained silent. After she had stood there for some awkward amount of time, she decided to sit anyway. For one, the sun had been about to set and Moegi remembered thinking she wanted to see it for once. It was that moment, Moegi finally got a good look at the woman.

She was beautiful.

The sun rays radiated off her skin in such a depressing way that made the air around seem sorrowful yet astonishing at the sametime. The woman had red lips, the eyes of a Hyuga, the hair of a light violet snow fox that was to her waist. She seemed old due to the maturity lines on her face yet Moegi simply couldn't pin point the age. Again, the clothes the woman wore seemed centuries old, like 300 years old. The woman also seemed sad. That sadness never truly went away no matter how many times Moegi came to be with the woman on the bench; in fact, the woman showed very little emotion or expression at all.

It was present time now and Moegi had two bags both filled with hambugers, fries, and two drinks. After five months of seeing and interacting with the woman, well, sort of interacting with the woman, Moegi would be bringing her something to eat.

Kaguya waited for the orange haired woman to come as she did every day. When Kaguya first met this young woman, she sensed right away she wasn't a threat. Her chakra level simply was no where near the level of Kaguya's. To be fair, no one on the planet had the level of Kaguya's. Even so, Kaguya could sense seven indiviuals within Konoha who had levels that were noticable to her. One level was of the Uchiha she met 14 years ago. The other was the Uzumaki; he was stronger now since he had the nine tails back in him, stronger yet weaker at the same time. His level of chakra was slowly fading but that came with age. Those two levels of chakra were no concern to her still.

There were two other levels of chakra; both have been given to each male. The chakra was from the Otsutsuki clan. One was given to the offspring of Uzumaki and the other was the plant, a boy who apparently was lost at the moment. His chakra was in Konoha though-that she knew. These two chakras were the reason Kaguya was able to seep out from her seal to begin with. Still, these two chakras weren't her concern either. No, the chakras she was intriqued by was the chakra that came from three infant children: an Uzumaki, and two Hyugas. So small and yet she could sense every inch of chakra that flowed through their tiny bodies.

"I bought you something to eat." Moegi said. "It's probably going to be different, but I'd say try it."

Kaguya didn't take the bag nor did she look at the woman.

"I wish I knew your name. I'd love to speak directly to you," she said.

Without hesitation,"Kaguya..."

Moegi stopped the process of opening her bag to get the food out. "That clan is..is gone. I didn't realize they still had descendants." Moegi laid out her food on the bench in between her and Kaguya. She was demonstrating how to eat the food but Kaguya didn't really seemed to care. "The best way to eat is to have the items spread out, like this." The hambuger was in one corner, the fries in another and then the drink. "Oh, my name's Moegi. I don't really have much of a clan..."

"What is an Orochimaru Girl?"

Moegi turned violet with the question. "Umm," she started. "It's a woman who was affected by the experiment." Moegi mentally punched herself; the woman-Kaguya-must have heard some people talking about it. It was all over the city about how the girls and women were becoming angry. Husbands and boyfriends were seeking assistance since it was said domestic violence had gone up; the city did its best to keep it on the hush though-something the Hokage actually disagreed with. Something Naruto had to learn very quick when becoming the Hokage...the Hokage had the last say in almost everything, and if the Hokage disagreed with the elders and council then they'd just end up miserable. That was why Jiraya didn't want to be Hokage and why Tsunade was forever bumping heads when she was the Hokage. Either way, Sakura had been given the task to find out what exactly was going on, but no one didn't really know when she would be back with solid information.

"What kind of experiment?"

Moegi became red in the face, her ears, her lips, she even felt her neck get hot. There was no easy way to tell what the experiment was about; if the woman was asking though then that meant she wasn't an Orochimaru Woman. Then again, although Moegi had only seen Kaguya for five months that didn't mean the woman wasn't around an year and a half ago when the airbone experiment took place.

With a big breath of inhaling and exhaling, Moegi did her best to explain what an Orochimaru Girl was. When she was done, Kaguya wasn't blushing, she wasn't confused, or surprised-she wasn't anything. Her facial expression was still the same. The woman simply stared at the now starry sky.

"Where can one obtain a loin cloth?" Kaguya finally spoke.

If she needed a loin cloth-a traditional garment worn by men to keep their lower regions from going all over the place then-

For the first time she could recall, Moegi's nose began to bleed.

After Moegi had left to tend to her nose while also taking her western food with her, Kaguya took the bag that was her's. She took out the food, and laid it on the bench just like the younger woman did. She took the hamburger out and sat it to the edge, then she took the fries out and sat it in the center, and then there was the soft drink. She placed the soft drink on the corner of the paper.

She first started with the hamburger; she unwrapped it and took a bite. It was new and different, had a lot of meat. She chewed slow to get a good taste of the meal. Something told her though the meal was filled with unnatural flavors and ingrediants, and probably wasn't the healthy option for people to eat. Regardless, it was good especially when ate with the fries and the slurping of the sugar liquid drink called soda. The soda was a bit too much sugar for Kaguya but she finished it anyway.

For the remaining days of the week, Moegi came to visit Kaguya, even providing her with the loin cloth. The conversations were often Moegi leading them, barely did the older woman say anything or even make a gesture. On Thursday evening before Moegi was going to go to her apartment, she informed Kaguya she would be a bit late because she was going to be having a meeting with someone. Truth was, she was actually going on a date with some man.

That Friday evening, Moegi sat on top of the Hokage's office with Hanabi. Hanabi had just come back from a mission, and was about to head off home but the two girls decided to hang out with one another. Moegi was wearing a beautiful black dress with thin stripes along with black heels. Her hair was straight unlike it normally being up, her hair was down due to using a flat iron that morning. A little bit of modest make up was also worn by the orange haired woman. The date went okay but it wasn't the date she was talking about to Hanabi.

"I want you to meet this woman," she told Hanabi.

"Is she a friend?"

Moegi shrugged. "She's more of just a woman I've been talking to everyday. I don't know much about her. She doesn't really talk but she has your eyes."

Hanabi gave her friend a questionable look for a moment. "My eyes?"

"The eyes of your clan but her hair is like a shade of white and light purple."

Hanabi knew there was no one in her clan with such a phenotype. It was true the Uzumaki kids were official members. Hamawari was the one who processed the ability to use the Hyuga's abilities, Boruto didn't seemed to process any special ability from the Hyuga clan nor even the Uzumaki clan, come to think of it. The power he did have was given to him from the clan from outer space.

Moegi was a strong and smart woman, Hanabi wasn't going to insult her by implying she may have mistooken the woman for another clan. Instead, she decided to follow her friend.

Hanabi walked up the steps behind Moegi, and already she felt the amount of chakra coming from this supposed friend. When they got to the level where the bench was that over looked the old village, there she was sitting as usual.

"Kaguya, this is my friend, Hanabi. Hanabi, this is-"

There was no time for introductions, Hanabi ignited her byankugen and so did Kaguya. Moegi wasn't sure what the cause was but when she saw Kaguya lift her body up to attack Hanabi, Moegi placed her hand on Kaguya's chest to stop her. Her hand was soft and kind that Kaguya actually didn't go further. Once her feet was back on the ground, it was that moment Moegi realized how tall Kaguya was. Standing before her, she was like a princess-no, a queen.

Kaguya looked down at Moegi and Moegi looked up at her. Moegi, out of reflex, placed her hand on Kaguya's cheek. The woman was simply gorgeous.

"Moegi!" Hanabi called. "Get away from her!" When Moegi didn't move, Hanabi called out again and this time, she stepped forward and pulled Moegi's arm, taking Moegi from Kaguya. This upset Kaguya and she raised her chakra, and opened her third eye about to slice Hanabi apart. Before she could, she felt a surge of chakra coming straight for her. She knew immediately who it was. Not wanting a fight, she opened a portal and stepped through it. Just as she did, Naruto using the power of Kurama landed upon the ground before the two women.

"Naruto?" Moegi wondered.

"Where is she?" Naruto asked, concentrated.

"Who-?"

"She went through a portal. I thought all of the Otsutsuki clan members were defeated two years ago before the second Chunin exams, when Boruto and them were 12?" Hanabi said, not mentioning how Moegi was a just about to lie to the Hokage himself.

Naruto didn't say anything. He seemed lost in thought. There was no way she could have escaped the seal.

"Otsutsuki?" Moegi continued, "No, she was just a woman."

"A woman that has the ability to go through time and space and you know, Moegi, so few people can do that." Hanabi argued.

Naruto knew this was true. Sasuke was the only one. Naruto and Kakashi had their moments but it wasn't like Sasuke. Boruto may be able to in the future due to his right eye being able to see such portals and chakra but that was a ways away.

Moegi stepped in between Hanabi and Naruto; her hands spread out. "Please, she was just a woman who I've been talking to for five months. If she really was apart of the clan then she would have caused some kind of trouble, right?" How could Moegi not see it before? How could she be so dumb and why, why was she protecting this woman? This woman that caused so much pain just less than twenty years ago.

"She's lying." Karuma said.

"I know." Naruto said. "She's protecting her."

"Naruto!" Karuma growled.

"All it takes is that one person to not give up on someone. Like how Iruka didn't give up on me or how I didn't give up on Sasuke when everyone else did...even Sakura. What if-"

"So you think your love for Sasuke is equivalent to the love this woman has for my creator?"

Naruto looked at the women ahead of him. He wanted to believe maybe Kaguya could change, Sasuke did. Sometimes all it took was time. So many people were forgiven such as Orochimaru, the Orphan Man, Sasuke...maybe she could also. She was also extremely powerful and it took three of them to take her down. Even then they could only seal her away. Naruto wasn't as powerful as he was when he was younger, and even Sasuke was aging as they all did. If she did come out of line, it'd be the new generation who'd have to set her straight.

"Maybe we're all just really tired. It was a long day of work, plus training Sarada. It was a lot. Moegi's friend was probably just an Orochimaru Girl and she felt threathen when she saw you, Hanabi." Naruto exclaimed.

"What..." Hanabi whispered, confused by him going along with this falsehood.

"Moegi, tell your friend she's welcome here. Tell her, hopefully, we can all live in peace." He smiled at them while Karuma shook his head within Naruto's inner being. Upon mentioning he had to get back to Naruko and Sarada, he jumped off into the air.

Later on, Naruto entered into the Hokage's office through the window. He walked over to Naruko who was playing with some blocks on her blanket. When she saw him, she spit out her tongue and threw a couple of blocks at him. He ducked and picked his daughter up. Naruto turned to face Sarada; she stood before his desk. Her hands balled and eyes straight forward. Her face stern, her sharigan unleashed.

He sighed. There was so much anger in the city of Konoha. With Naruko in his hands, he went to his window to peer out. Naruto hoped Sakura would be back in time but something told him, Sakura's journey would take a while; the answers she was seeking on behalf of Konoha would take a while, months, years-Naruto was unsure. He was older though and no longer head strong; he simply would have to wait. Simply put, he'd have to wait...

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SAGA 1: Complete.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Birth of a Lord Saga 1 Chapters 1-11: Complete

Birth of a Lord Saga 2 Chapters 12-etc, etc, etc: Shall continue to upload toward the end of 2022 or mid 2023; I need to catch up on Boruto and they(Sarada and them) need to age up. I prefer the story and characters to be as canon as can be, and do not desire to write sexual situations of those under 16.

Birth of a Lord: Rewind: Beginning of 2022. One to two chapters per month will be uploaded(if the sun don't set and the creek don't rise). Story will tell Birth of a Lord Saga 1 through the eyes of Tenten, Temari, Hanabi, and Ayame. The story will be under these four characters for those who are interested.