The Moon shined over the ocean, making it look like a silver field in the quietness of the night. Small waves moved the sand and wet the feet of a 20 years old man wearing a blue night robe. His hair became silver with the light of the planet. The sound of the waves worked as a relaxing song from someone calling for a long lost love.

"Now what...?" Naruto whispered and rose his eyes to the Moon. "Is it going to end up like this?" The ANBU remembered Mirai's expression with her beloved one dead on her arms. "Will Hinata's face carry that expression when I die?" He stared the water at his feet again. "Maybe I should have listened to her... and give her the child she desires so much..."

There was the noise of someone walking on the sand and crying. Naruto recognized the cries and slowly turned back, seeing Sakura hiccupping.

"Sakura-chan?" He called. She startled and then lowered her head, trying to hide her tears. "What's wrong?" The kunoichi walked near him and stared the sea.

"I could have catch Chi... but my anger took me..." Sakura confessed. Naruto put his arm around her. "I couldn't hold myself. When I saw Sasuke, I..." The Jinchuuriki hugged her and she started yelling. "Why did he have to appear? I hate him! I hate him!" Sakura held Naruto's robe tightly. "How dare he look at me after all he has done to me?" Naruto caressed her hair, trying to make her feel better. He knew she couldn't say those things to Kiba, it would hurt him, so Naruto decided to heard everything she had to say. All that was locked within her heart... "He lied to me! He said he was coming back! He... How could he? I trusted him! I thought we could be together... finally together. He leaned me in that cherry blossom tree... He... I... I was so blindly in love... Why did I...? I was always so prudent... Naruto, why did I do that? He was so tender, so fond... so... so the Sasuke I always dreamed he could be... Why did I let him lean his hands on me? Why did I let him take off my clothes? Why did I give myself to him?" Sakura was really mad with herself, remembering her weakness. "What did he think I am? Some toy he can use and then left in that tree... to fight with you, Naruto, after we did it, as if we haven't made it and then to use his disgusting eyes on me and to take Chi from my arms." Naruto closed his eyes and remembered when he fought Sasuke. He had no memories of how the battle ended and how his friend took Chi, only Sakura's words. "He put me in such bad situation. Because of him, I was almost accused from Chi's missing by the Hidden Moon. Mirai-sama sure hated me in that moment. We almost entered in war with the Hidden Moon... all because I was weak... All because Sasuke and I..."

"Sakura-chan..." Naruto called and gazed her in the eyes. "We will find Sasuke and Chi. Then; you can give her back to Mirai and give Sasuke the

punch you promised you will give him." The man smiled, making Sakura feel better.

"Thank you, Naruto." She cleaned her tears. "You have so many things to be worried about and I'm here annoying you."

"You're not annoying. You're my friend. Better having a friend annoying me than none." He said. Sakura smiled. "Kiba must be missing you. Come, let's get inside."

...

In Orochimaru's hideout, Sasuke and Chi continued looking for someone, but their efforts were futile. The place was as empty as a ghost town. Sasuke's arms continued bleeding and his head was aching as if the weight of the world was all put upon it. Chi was walking in front of him, checking every door.

"Not even dirty pig Karin is here." She said and then looked at Sasuke, who's vision was getting fuzzier by the minute. "Maybe they have changed hideouts and are waiting for us, daddy. What do you think?" Chi stared him with a cute face, but Sasuke took a long time to answer.

"No..." Sasuke said, while the world started to wrap around him. "I..." The man vomited all out, filling the ground and then falling.

"DADDY!" Chi put her small hands in Sasuke's face. "Daddy, are you ok? Daddy? Your cheeks are hot. Daddy!" Sasuke was panting.

"My arms hurt... my head..." Sasuke whispered, with no strengths left to speak. "Chi... forgive me..."

"Daddy! I'm going to put you in a bed." The girl grabbed Sasuke's arm and pulled him with lots of effort. Sasuke smiled, happy for seeing she was worried with him. "Almost there, daddy!" The girl continued and they reached a bedroom. "Try to get up, daddy. There is a bed in here. Please, daddy." Chi was also panting, sweated by the effort she has made, but it was very hard for Sasuke to get up without the help of his arms. "Don't give up, daddy!"

"Chi..." Sasuke stared her and smiled again. "If I could tell you... how much I..." Chi went near him and put his head on her lap, caressing him.

"Daddy..." She cleaned the sweat and blood from his face with her jacket. "Just sleep, daddy. Chi will be your pillow." The child was nervous for seeing her strong father weakened like that. The blood continued to come out from the runes craved in the arms of the Uchiha. 'Mirai...' Sasuke remembered her Jutsu. 'What the Hell have you made to me? It pains so much...' Sasuke closed his eyes and decided to sleep, but Sakura's image screaming at him appeared in his mind. 'Why do you hate me? Is it because of what we have done the last time we met? I thought you loved me... I thought you would wait for me... Sakura, did you misunderstand me, or was I who misunderstood things?'

...

Far from everything, in a land where only heroes and the ones who were worthy and forgiven go, a beautiful woman with a wonderful white kimono

was staring at an eight corner mirror while a soft breeze made her long black hair float. She noticed someone and looked back. A man with long black hair tied on a pony tail appeared behind her. He was dressed as a king and wearing an adornment on his head with a moon.

«Oh, long time no see, Tsukiyomi nii-chan.» The woman said. «Was your stay in Earth profitable?» The god took a while to assimilate things.

«Amaterasu?» Tsukiyomi recognized her, making her smile.

«I erased your memory after you have slain the Uchiha clan as you asked, possibly it must have been a shock for you to remember everything back. After all, we are talking about an eternity.» Amaterasu explained. Tsukiyomi continued staring at her. «In case you haven't remembered yet, you just got killed.»

«What a charming way to welcome me back.» Tsukiyomi said, with his hand on his head. «I guess I'm starting to remember... Mirai...»

«Oh!» Amaterasu trickily smiled and touched with her finger in Tsukiyomi's arm. «You've fell in love with a human, just like Rikudou.»

«She was crying so much... it's the last thing I remember...» Tsukiyomi took the mirror out from Amaterasu's hands and saw Mirai sleeping in her father's arms. «Mirai...» His heart started beating faster for seeing his beloved one crying because of him, but also happy to see she was alive.

«Well, now that you're back we can discuss some serious business.» Amaterasu remembered, catching her brother's attention. «I have the feeling that Pein and the rest of Akatsuki are going to free Skuld in about no time. If they do that, then we will have to grant their wishes.»

«What do you suggest? You know that without Skuld we, gods, have lost all of our foreseeing powers. If you try to interfere again it may end up in a disaster like when Kyuubi attacked Konoha and Minato doomed himself to an eternity in the belly of the Death God.» Tsukiyomi alerted.

«True... but what chances do we have left?» Amaterasu said. »We need to do something. If it continues like this, Naruto will perish in no time.»

«But Pein assured me that he was not going to hurt Naruto.» Tsukiyomi said, but Amaterasu sighed.

«It's not Pein who Naruto has to fear, but his own self...» Amaterasu confessed. Tsukiyomi stared her, waiting for an explanation. After all, 26 years away from Heaven's affairs sure was long and enough to make him feel a little bit lost. «Remember when you were caught by the Konoha's ANBU and Mirai was near death, a little after our cute younger brother kidnapped Chi? Well, if Mirai died in that night, Kyuubi would be freed from Naruto's belly and it would destroy Konoha, once Naruto was immortal.»

«Was... why... he is no longer?» Tsukiyomi asked. Amaterasu stared him in the eyes.

«Let's just say... our beloved one is doing his best.» Amaterasu said and looked back at her mirror. «What will you do after you know, uh? Pein?»

...

In the Tsukikage's palace, Mirai woke up, feeling someone cuddling her hair. She took a while to start her brain's engines, but then she looked up, seeing her father's odd ripple pattern eyes. After that, Pein sent her a smile; she hid her face in his arms, hugging him tightly.

"I've made you your breakfast." He said, but she didn't answer. "You can't stay like that." She started crying. "Come on."

"It pains so much..." Mirai hiccupped calmly. "Not being able to see the one we love again." Pein closed his eyes, while a bitter memory flashed in his head. "I've lost my daughter... now Itachi... Itachi! He always supported me. Always." She rubbed her face in Pein's chest again.

"The pain of losing a child is something I got to thank the gods for not making me feel... but the pain of losing the one I loved the most... I sure suffered from it." Pein confessed. Mirai stared his eyes. "When your mother died... when I saw her body filled with blood in Yellow Flash's castle... It truly hurt." Mirai got up and went to her bathroom, taking her clothes out and entering in the tub. Konan and Mikhail entered to check on Pein.

"How is she?" Konan asked, but the leader closed her eyes. "I see... So, what now?"

"First, let's bury Itachi, then..." Pein opened his eyes and got up, catching a pink towel. "We will fulfil our wishes." The Leader entered in the bathroom and put the towel in the Tsukikage's head, cleaning her hair.

"You don't need to do that." Mirai said in a monochord tone. "I'm fine... in the limits of what you can consider fine." Lying was something Mirai knew it didn't work on her father, but even like that, she decided to say it. It looked like she also didn't like to show her feelings to him. The water on her face hid her tears that haven't ceased of falling. Only good memories of her and Itachi appeared in her mind, making her cry even more. She dived in the water, but not even the shampoo and the bubbles in the water hide her cries.

"We are going to bury Itachi this afternoon in the Hidden Moon's cemetery." Pein said. Mirai emerged and stared him. "After all, in the end, my men belong to this village and not the ones where they were born." He rose is hand to Mirai. "Come..."

In another house in the Hidden Moon, Naruto and his team where having breakfast, with a blond man and woman about Mirai's age and a little girl about four years old with ginger hair.

"Thank you for letting us stay in your house, Kimi-san." Shikamaru said. The man smiled at him.

"Well, you couldn't stay at the palace with Akatsuki inside." Kimi said. The woman served them some Mead. "Poor Mirai. She loved Itachi so much. I was the one who told her she was waiting his baby. She was so happy." Naruto lowered his head. He also remembered the look in Mirai's eyes every time she

spoke about Itachi and then he recalled all the moments he argued with her because of him and Sasuke.

"Mirai always caught herself into trouble to see Itachi-san." The blonde woman said. "I remember that they used to come to our house so they could hide from her father and to be alone together."

"Yes, Usagi, but..." Kimi closed his eyes. "Mirai always hoped that in the end she would be able to live happily with Itachi. She must be feeling very bad right now."

"We were on our way on a mission when we took a detour through the Hidden Moon. We heard howls on the forest and decided to check. That's how we have crossed Mirai-sama and Itachi." Shikamaru explained.

"But... When will we be able to check on Mirai?" Naruto quickly asked as he got up, very concerned. "She needs somebody at her side!"

"Calm down, Naruto." Sakura warned him. Kimi stared him and then lowered his eyes.

"Mirai's cousins are with her, along with Akatsuki. Fear not, she's safe." Kimi granted. Naruto sat down, but he was not convinced yet. His partners were looking at him. "It's better for you to take a walk through the village and wait for Mirai to come with a resolution."

"Kimi-san is right, Naruto." Shikamaru agreed. "Come, I'll go with you." The two left, but Sakura and Kiba decided to stay. The kunoichi was staring the little girl painting in the table, which was noticed by Kimi.

"She is growing very well." Kimi said, wakening Sakura from her lost thoughts. "Sorry for the last time, I haven't found a cure for Kirika's decease and only a compatible medulla transplant would work on her and spare her life." Sakura lowered her head.

"Don't feel guilty, Kimi-san." Kiba intervened. "You've helped us a lot."

"Come, Kaoru-chan. It's time for your lessons." Usagi took the little girl and the two left.

"How funny, your daughter has the same name Mirai-sama's baby." Kiba noticed. Kimi smiled.

"We always loved the name Kaoru." Kimi explained, but then he realized Sakura wanted to ask him something. "Yes?"

"Could you check up on Naruto?" Sakura asked, catching Kimi by surprise.

"Why? Aren't you a medical nin too?"

"Yes, but... you are far more experience than I and... Naruto may look healthy from the outside, but in the inside... he..." Sakura explained.

"Ok..."

In the roads, Naruto was walking with Shikamaru, who noticed he was not fine, as forward, decided to start a dialog.

"I know that having such a short life span must be troublesome, but..." Naruto stared him. "maybe you should start to think more about yourself and less about Konoha and Mirai-sama."

"I can't..." Naruto answered, making Shikamaru knit his brows. "I gave up my life for Konoha, if I stop thinking about it... then everything I've been doing will be for nothing." Shikamaru sighed and stared a toy's shop in front of them.

"If I were you, I would spend the rest of my days with my family... in your case with the ones dear to you." Shikamaru confessed. "It's impossible for you to become Hokage in six months."

"No!" Naruto stated. "I will be Hokage! Even if it is only for a day, I will be Hokage!" Shikamaru could see in Naruto's eyes that there was no doubt in his words and convictions, but the ANBU Leader didn't share his certainty.

"In my heart, you already deserve the place." Shikamaru confessed, making Naruto blush. The man put his finger in the glass of the shop, staring a deer soft toy. "Thanks to you, my kids and my wife have a place to live. If we have died that night, Shikaichi and Nishika wouldn't even be here today. I owe that to you. If everybody in Konoha knew what you have done, you would have been the one nominated as Hokage."

"I haven't made that to become Hokage..." Naruto said. "I've made it... for my friends and for the ones dear to me." The Jinchuuriki leaned his head in the glass. "Even sacrificing my life... I don't regret it... the village where I've grown up is safe, that's what it matters. Even if I die as a mere pawn, our king will remain solid."

"But you want to live a little bit longer, don't you?" Shikamaru made the only question Naruto didn't want to answer. Of course he wanted to live longer. He wanted to see how things would end up. To see his friends getting married and having kids and their children would go together to the Academy. Naruto wanted to have the life he was presenting them with, but now it was impossible. "Ah?"

"I was immortal..." Naruto smiled ironically. "I could have lived as long as I wanted... and I..." Shikamaru saw that his friend was in pain and decided to change the subject.

"I want to buy a present for my children. Help me. I always find this very hard." Shikamaru said. Naruto stared him for a while, until he realize he wanted to cheer him up. "Maybe I should buy something that could catch Shikaichi's interest. He seems to be more uninterested than me." Naruto smiled.

"Make him play with you." Naruto advised, but Shikamaru answered with a sigh. "I'm also thinking of what to buy for Kaoru."

"Buy him a dragon with a red flower." A cute voice said. Naruto and Shikamaru looked aside and saw Kaoru-chan staring at them with her ripple pattern eyes.

"Kaoru-chan?" Shikamaru was surprised.

"Why do you say that?" Naruto asked. The little girl smiled.

"Because I like dragons with red flowers." Kaoru-chan answered and ran to her mother, who was leaving the shop next to them.

"What an odd girl... How troublesome." Shikamaru said. Naruto continued staring her.

"A red flower..." Naruto said and then remembered something... "Kaoru's drawings... there was one he made when we were in Konoha this last time. It had a big lake and it had red flowers floating in it."

"A lake with red flowers?" Shikamaru tried to remember something with that description. "What more?"

"I don't know... he never finishes his drawings." Naruto said and gazed Shikamaru. "How does she...?"

"She has Rinnegan... but... how could have she guess?" Shikamaru put his hand in his chin, thinking. While he was duelling about that, Naruto noticed there was a dragon soft toy in the shop. He closed his eyes and remembered something that happened with him some years ago.

In his memories, Naruto, about 16 years old, was on his bedroom, staring the stars by the window next to his bed.

§Hello!§ A male voice said, scaring Naruto. §It's me, Kurogane. Remember?§

"Yes..." Naruto was a little distrustful. "It's just... I'm still not used to see a ghost."

§Heroic soul.§ Kurogane corrected him with a smile. §I'm an heroic soul.§ Kurogane was just like Naruto. They shared the same blonde spiky hair, the same blue eyes, the same smile and even the same face traces. The spirit was wearing a black coat with red fair in the neckband and he still had his forehead protector with the Hidden Moon's symbol. §I saw you were having troubles to sleep, so I decided to make you company.§

"Why would I wanna have the company of a ghost?" Naruto asked.

§You're mean.§ Kurogane cried. §Well, returning to the subject. Why can't you sleep?§

"I broke with my girlfriend..." Naruto said. "I was so stupid."

§You broke?§ Kurogane seemed surprised.

"Why?" Naruto was upset. "Have you never break up?" Kurogane smiled and pointed at himself with his thumb.

§I've dated only one girl in my entire life and she ended up being my wife. Meaning she is your great-great-great-many-times-great grandmother.§ Naruto continued to be sad. §She even wrote me a song to sing for me every time I came back from a mission. It was called 'The Höfn af Vindur og Veifa.'§

"Lucky you..." Naruto laid down on his bed, turning his back to his ancestor.

§You're mean. Don't turn your back on me!§ Kurogane said and Naruto stared him, smiling.

"Ok. I won't." Naruto said, making Kurogane smile. "After all, you're the only person from my family I've ever known. I'm happy... to know you." Kurogane put his hand in Naruto's head.

§I'm happy too. You're a great kid, Naruto.§ The two smiled at each other. §So, do you wanna hear the song?§

"No, thanks." Naruto mocked, causing Kurogane's eyes to cry like a waterfall.

§You're mean.§

Back in the real days, Naruto was already with the dragon soft toy in his hand. 'Kurogane...' Naruto bound his hands. 'What have I done to you? Sorry... I'm so sorry.' Shikamaru noticed he was not fine. 'You were so look alike me... I was so happy to meet you... yet I've...'

"Naruto?" Shikamaru called.

"Where is he? Is he in Heaven? What have I've done?" Naruto asked. Shikamaru realized he was talking about his ancestor once he was staring at the dragon on his hands.

"I'm sure he is fine." Shikamaru answered, making Naruto look at him. "You've said it many times; Kurogane is a Heroic Soul, loved by every God in Heaven and Hell. He is fine." Naruto smiled.

"Yeah. His personality is a lot like mine, so, he wouldn't give up without a fight." Naruto said, feeling better. "You're right. He's fine."

In the Tsukikage's palace, Mirai was leaving her house with Akatsuki. Her cousins were staring her, unused to see her so sad.

"Are you going to be ok?" Kyo asked. She forced a smile.

"It's a funeral. I'll be fine. Plus, daddy is with me." She said. Pein stared her and then his men, caring a conspiracy look. "I'll be back in no time. Plus, if Naruto comes here or if you find him, tell him I'll search for him."

"Ok." Byo answered. Mirai left, along with the organization. In the Heavens, Tsukiyomi was staring her, very concerned and sad for seeing her feeling so bad.

«Mirai...» He whispered, watched by his older sister. Mirai was remembering all the good moments she passed with Itachi. «We used to believe that nothing was stronger than love, as if we were a bunch of lovers from a fairy tale.»

"Itachi..." Mirai whispered. Her Tsukikage's hat covered her tearful eyes and her big white dress was floating with the wind. She was staring her beloved one's tomb in a lonely place in the Village's Cemetery. It was like a small shrine, with four stone pillars sustaining a four arched cupola. The Tsukikage placed a bunch of white roses in the grave. "We used to believe that love was a gift from the Heavens."

«A good so great that was more valuable than all the treasures on Earth.» Tsukiyomi completed.

"Something that we could keep forever." Mirai confessed, heard by the Akatsuki. "But... even knowing that this love probably never meant to be..."

«We continued fighting for it... believing in it.» Tsukiyomi bound his hands. «Even knowing we were eventually going to hurt each other...»

"We continued... always believing and certain, that even if we know that our love was going to end up like this, we would do everything again, just like we did it." Mirai cleaned her tears. Tsukiyomi was feeling so bad. He wanted to tell her he was alive and well, to take her with him to Heaven, but for now, he could only watch her tears falling in the grave of his human body. "I may cry today, Itachi, but tomorrow, I'll no longer do it." Pein stared her. "You've sacrificed yourself for me. You've told me... I have so much to offer. If you... sniff... if you did that believing in me, then... I'm going to offer as much as I can... so your death can have a meaning." Mirai smiled in the middle of her cries. "I will, in my clumsy way, offer everything I can... thinking in you... offering that to you. My Itachi, I will be happy as you wanted me to be." Mirai stared the Heavens, as if she knew that up there, Tsukiyomi had his eyes set upon her. "Itachi... you are my one and only, that will never change. We fought against so many things. My grandfather, my father, my aunt, Konoha... your brother... none of them wanted to see us together... and now... you're far away from me... The memories of you will lie forever in my heart. I may cry today... but... Itachi..." The Tsukikage fell on her knees, crying even more. "I promise you... I won't cry more... I won't... Itachi..."

"Shall we do something?" Zetsu asked.

"Wait for my orders." Pein said and went inside the shrine, biting his thumb. He kneeled down near his daughter and hugged her, comforting the woman's lonely heart. "Come. You should rest a little." Pein, without her daughter notice, touched on the scroll she had on her waist with his bloody finger.

"Daddy... Itachi's dream was... to see the stars with me..." Mirai said. Pein got up and walked outside. "In the night where they shine the most... The night the stars shine the most... it's a New Moon night. I'm a Skuld... the angel sealed within me would get free in a New Moon night and, cursed by Susanowo, she would destroy everything unless a Kurogane's heir appeared and asked her to stop. I could only see a night like that... if Skuld gets unsealed. Itachi's biggest dream was to free me." Mirai got up, but her eyes quickly turned blue, which was noticed by the Akatsuki. "Konoha... Kakashi... Kaoru!" The Tsukikage appeared to be very shocked with her prediction. "Konoha is going to be attacked. I need to warn them." Mirai was about to run, but she hit something. "What?" She touched with her hand in something that appeared to be an invisible wall. "What's this?"

"Sorry, my daughter." Pein said, catching her attention. "But as you've just said, you will not cry again." The Akatsuki Leader started making hand seals and the scroll on Mirai's waist started floating and opened. The runes

written on it began to shine, causing the ground to shake, as the scroll surrounded her body.

"But... daddy, why?" Mirai screamed, knocking incessantly with her fists on the invisible wall that surrounded her. "What are you doing? I need to go to Konoha. Kakashi and Kaoru are in trouble! Konoha is going to be attacked. I need to help them. Daddy, it's your grandson!"

"Konoha was going to fall one way or the other." Pein stated. Mirai's eyes opened wide. "This is just the beginning, my child. I will extract Skuld from your body... and fulfil my wish."

"No way... Daddy!" Mirai continued struggling, but soon she felt her body becoming weaker. "What's going on? Does your wish cost so many lives? Daddy? What are you doing?" Mirai sniffed again. "Kaoru... my baby... I can't let him d..."

"You see, my daughter, Skuld is one of the most important beings in Heaven. Her powers granted the Gods the ability to foresee the future. Ever since she was kidnapped by Gamma and Omega, all the gods, except the Great God, lost their ability of foretelling. Being Skuld a Seraph, her existence or missing can mean all the difference. Skuld is one of the three Norns who define the flow of time. Can you imagine, what would happen if she got frozen?"

"Frozen?" Mirai asked. Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu were hearing everything, trying to realize what Pein was planning. "What do you mean? You know you can't defeat Skuld. You were the one who said she was one of the strongest beings in Heaven."

"Skuld is one of the angels who live in the Tree of Life. If I summon the Tree and seal your body within it, Skuld's spirit will be frozen and the pass between Heaven and Earth will be blocked." Pein said. "Remember that yesterday was a Full Moon night and that now it's precisely midday. The powers of the sun goddess and the moon god are at their prime. Skuld can't fight or use any technique to avoid this."

«What? Where did he learned that?» Amaterasu asked, very surprised. «We need to stop him.»

"Why are you doing this to me? I need to save my child... Please. I beg you father..." Mirai was so weak that she fell on her knees, with her hands in the invisible wall. Her tears continued falling, showing her despair for not being able to save her child. "I don't wanna lose another child. Please, father... how would you feel if you lose me? Daddy?" She begged with all the strengths she had left. Pein remembered when, five years ago, not even Tsunade believed that Mirai would survive. It's was very painful. The only daughter he had was suffering and he could do nothing to save her, but... now he could something to help her save Kaoru. "What am I to you, daddy? Why did you have me if it was to leave me desperately crying for my children without helping me? Uh? Why was I born? Why did you have me? You're my father! If you don't help me... who else will?"

"I had you..." Pein said, staring his daughter's eyes. "Because I loved your mother." Mirai's eyes opened wide, seeing in her father's all the care he still carries towards his fallen wife. "Even being only a 16 years old boy, I loved your mother so much I had to marry her. We were so happy and when you came to us, our happiness was complete. Mirai... I named you that way because I believe our future was going to be wonderful. Even when it was only the two of us, it was wonderful." Pein put his hand in the invisible wall, as if he was trying to caress his child's face. "You look so much like your mother... and you have as much courage and guts as I do. Mirai... if I'm doing this, it's because I love you."

"How can you call this love?" Mirai asked, indignant. "Freezing me as my child is about to..."

"You can turn your dreams reality... if you collaborate with us." Pein said.

"No!" Mirai said. "It would take long... Kaoru won't... Konoha's attack... I need to..." The Tsukikage no longer had strengths to maintain her hands in the barrier. 'I'm weak...' She thought. 'How weak can I be? Losing like this...'

"You're not weak." Mirai heard a voice in her head. She recognized it. It was Skuld. "You're strong. You've said it before..." Skuld appeared in front of her medium inside her mind. The place looked like a green fjord with the waves of sea spreading its soft fragrance through the air. A huge lotus flower was in the middle of the landscape, where Skuld was resting, imprisoned by a golden chain that bound her neck. "You've fought against so many things to achieve your beliefs. You've become Tsukikage, thing that no other woman in your village can claim."

'But I...' Mirai was crying. 'Why are you so calm?'

"Because I have faith." Skuld said as she opened her hands. A small white sphere of light shined, illuminating the place. Mirai was surprise.

'What?'

"Go." Skuld said, letting the sphere float in the air above them. The ice started feeling the place, making icebergs appear in the sea and blizzards blew. "Save your mother and your father. Shine like you've never shined before. Oh soul who departed without saying goodbye to your beloved one, the time has finally come when you will be able to fulfil your wish. Go. Shine!" The ball of light shinned so much that ended up disappearing. "I believe in you."

Mirai's body started floating and butterfly wings appeared on her back. Her mind began falling asleep, while Skuld's spirit started to freeze.

"Kurogane..." the words came out from the angel's mouth along with the smog from her breathe. "Naruto... I love you... save me..."

"Veit ec at ec hecc vindga meiði a netr allar nío," Pein started making some hand seals, making the scroll bind Mirai's body. "Geiri vndaþr oc gefinn Oðni," Mirai started screaming as if her body was being stabbed over and over again.

«Mirai!» Tsukiyomi screamed, but was hold by his sister. «Mirai! He is hurting her! My Mirai! I need to help her!»

«Come to your senses, Tsukiyomi!» Amaterasu alerted. «You're a God and you know what will happen if you interfere, Mirai will perish. Stay calm.» Tsukiyomi stared her and then looked back to her mirror, where he could saw everything that was happening in that cemetery.

The clouds started to cover the sky and the cold made the spines of the living shiver.

"Sialfr sialfom mer, a þeim meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn." Pein continued and roots of a tree emerged from the earth and surrounded the body of the Tsukikage, who continued screaming. "Við hleifi mic seldo ne viþ hornigi, nysta ec niþr," The runes of the scroll shined once more. "Nam ec vp rvnar, opandi nam…" Mirai stopped screaming and her body was now floating peacefully on the air. The scroll closed itself and the roots disappeared, along with the Tsukikage. "Fell ec aptr þaðan."

(Author's Big Note: The text in ancient Nordic means, "I know that I hung on a windy tree nights all nine, wounded with a spear and given to Odin, myself to myself, on that tree of which no man knows from where its roots run. No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn, downwards I peered, I took up the runes, screaming I took them, and then I fell back from there".)

The scroll tangled itself and went to Pein's hands. The dark clouds rendered snow.

It was the beginning of the coldest of winters.

"It's done." Pein said. His comrades sighed of relief. A drop of blood fell from the Leader's mouth and he fell on his knees.

"Pein." Konan went near him and noticed his hand was bleeding. "Did something go wrong?"

"This wound..." The former Tsukikage could saw a name wrote in runes in his hand. "It's a sealing technique..."

"Sealing technique? Mmm...?" Deidara asked.

"What happened?" Kakuzu asked.

"Mirai... she must have sensed what I was doing... she had her hands on the barrier... she was sending a jutsu over it and when I touched it I was hit." Pein explain. "That woman... humph!" He smiled. "She is just like me. Performing that entire crying scene so that I would have pity of her and touch the barrier, getting hit by her technique. All to protect her child." Pein got up and put a curative in his hand.

"Is it fucking serious?" Hidan asked. Pein stared his hand again and then sighed.

"Mirai sealed my life along with her child's ones. If Kaoru dies... I will perish with him." Pein said, leaving the rest of the organization worried. "Fear not, he will not die."

"How can you be so sure, leader?" Tobi asked.

"Skuld told me, when she was sealed up within Mirai, that my daughter would lose both of her children. Chi is not dead, although Mirai lost her... so, Kaoru will not die either." They were about to leave, when they noticed a white sphere shining above them.

"What's that?" Kisame asked. The white sphere moved quickly and travelled through the sky, resembling a shooting star. Pein knit his brows.

"I've summoned Ragnarok." Pein explain, catching his comrades' attention. "No spirit, god, angel or demon will walk the Earth until Skuld's spirit wakes up again. Only beings attached to humans or earth things will remain on earth, all the other spirits will go back to Heaven or Hell."

"Isn't that playing a little too high? And if Kaoru dies?" Tobi asked.

"Be a good boy, Tobi and don't distrust your leader. Come." Akatsuki left.

In the village, everybody was going inside their houses, due to the cold of the snow.

"What the fuck?" Kiba asked, entering Kimi's house and taking the snow out of his hair. "It was such a beautiful morning."

"Does it snow in the Hidden Moon in the Spring?" Sakura asked.

"It's very normal. The only time of the year that it doesn't snow is summer." Usagi explained, seeing the snow through the window along with her daughter.

"Kimi-san, Sakura!" Shikamaru entered with Naruto leaned in his arms, bleeding from his mouth, surprising everybody.

"Naruto?" Sakura ran at him. They put the Jinchuuriki in a bed and started healing him. "What happened?"

"Naruto simply puke out when it started snowing. He bled a lot; my arm got completely filled with it." Shikamaru explained. Kimi was using his medical ninjutsu on the Jinchuuriki when he noticed something weird.

"Does Naruto have any degenerating decease?" He asked. The Leafs made a questioning face. "You see, his internal organs are much deteriorated, but it's odd, because he is completely fine in the outside."

"Could it be...?" Sakura realized what is was it, just like her comrades.

"What?" Kimi asked. They couldn't tell him what was going on, because for that they need to reveal that Naruto was Kurogane's Heir and being Kimi a person from the Hidden Moon, they would want Naruto to take charge of the village that was built by his ancestor. "Do you know the reason of this, Sakura-san?"

"I..."

"I'm fine..." Naruto woke up, breathing hard, startling his friends. "It must be because of quick regeneration process that I have thanks to Kyuubi. Once my cells are quickly substituted by new ones..."

"Oh, I see. That explains a lot." Kimi said. "But even so, it would not let your internal body as wounded and old as it is." Naruto looked a side. "I'm not

a Jinchuuriki specialist... but I think you should be more careful about yourself." Naruto closed his eyes, feeling his belly hurting.

Inside his cage, Kyuubi was bleeding from his mouth too, painting the water of the sewer in red.

"I never thought... I would witness another Ragnarok." Kyuubi said. "I'm lucky to be inside Naruto, otherwise, I would have to go back to Hell... Even though, the power of Ragnarok was enough to wound me. I wonder... who will claim the price and have its wish fulfil?"

...

In the Heavens, all the Gods were summoned there, angry for not being able to be on Earth or to see what was going on. Amaterasu's mirror only showed stormy clouds.

«Now what?» She asked, sighing. «I wonder how Pein has so much power within his body...»

«He is Rikudou's heir, remember?» Tsukiyomi said. «Now, how are we going to know what's happening on Earth?»

«I can help.» A male god with ginger hair, dressing an orange and green man kimono appeared. His eyes were grey and had a ripple pattern, just like Pein's.

«Rikudou?» Amaterasu said. «How are you planning to solve things? After all, this is all happening because you fell in love with a human being.»

«That slapped you in the face.» Tsukiyomi completed, embarrassing Rikudou.

«Come on, that was centuries ago.» Rikudou said. «Pein has my eyes, as forward, I can see everything he can sees.»

«But that would only allow us to see what Akatsuki sees...» Amaterasu noticed.

«Then we will need to ask for help with the only gods that don't suffer Skuld's influence...» Rikudou said. «The Birth God and the Death God.»

The three gods departed to another temple in Heaven, where a small kid was having tea with his teddy bears. The kid had soft purple skin and two red horns, hid by his cute hat. He noticed the gods and went near them.

«Oh, hello Tsukiyomi, here again?» the kid said. «I went to pick you just a day ago and you already miss me. I feel flattered.» the kid noticed Rikudou. «What's that on your face?»

«What?» Rikudou asked, passing his hand on his face.

«That red mark on your face... oh! Wait! It's the mark of being slapped by a female human. Ha-ah!» the kid mocked.

«Come on! That was more than 600 years ago! How can every single God mock with me about that!» Rikudou was angry, shouting smoke from his nostrils.

«We need your help, Death God Lord.» Amaterasu explained. The kid stared her. «You see...»

«I know, Ragnarok was summoned on Earth and you need me to tell you what's happening in Earth.» The kid answered, surprising Amaterasu. «No problem, I'm going down right now.»

«Now?»Tsukiyomi asked. The kid smiled.

«Oh! Today I'll bring the shadow of fire with me to the Hall of Heroes.» The Death God said. «What a wholesale slaughter will it be, ah, Konoha?»

...

In the next morning, Kimi woke up with someone knocking on the door. The snow continued to fall without ceasing, freezing everything.

"Who?" Kimi saw Pein in his door with his child in his arms. "Akatsuki-sempai? What?"

"I need you to look over my child for a while." Pein left Mikhail in Kimi's arms. "Don't worry, baby. Daddy will soon come for you."

"Daddy..." Mikhail said with his finger on his mouth.

"Be a good boy and don't annoy cousin Kimi." Pein said and then stared the medical ninja. "Don't go searching for Mirai, she is safe."

"Search? Safe? What are you talking about?" Kimi asked, worried. "She is our Tsukikage! We need her. No one can substitute her!"

"I know, but fear not, she will come back to you. Take good care of my child and look over the Village. It's only for some days. Bye." Pein vanished.

"What the..." Kimi sighed.

Two hours later, the Leafs were having breakfast with Kimi's family and they all got curious with Mikhail's presence.

"How did you get another kid in just one night?" Kiba asked, seeing Mikhail playing with Kaoru-chan.

"He is the child of a cousin of mine who went on a mission and left him to my cares." Kimi explain. He couldn't be more sincere.

"When can I see Mirai?" Naruto asked. Kimi looked down.

"She..."

There was a knock on the window. An eagle was there with a message on its back.

"A message?" Kimi opened the window and took the bird out of the cold. He unravelled the message and started reading. His eyes opened wide. "What?" He was as shocked as he was worried.

"What, honey?" Usagi asked. Kimi stared the Leafs.

"I have bad news for you..." Kimi didn't know how to say it without pissing them off. "Konoha was attacked yesterday afternoon."

"What?" The four got up, much worried and with their hearts jumping so fervoursly that almost took their breaths away.

"This must be a request for help, but due to the weather conditions it was delayed. We have to go there, they need us! But I'm sure that now they only need us to heal the injured ones..." Kimi explained.

"And Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.

"Kaoru? How is Kaoru?" Naruto was very nervous. Shikamaru was also worried with his family, such as Kiba.

"The message must have been sent in the beginning of the attack." Usagi said. "There are no reports about the village situation or the number of losses not even the damages."

"But... for Konoha to send a request for help right in the beginning of the fight, it was because it was a massive attack." Shikamaru realized. "We need to go back."

"But, it will take us three fucking days to get there!" Kiba remembered very pissed.

"It will take us half of a day if we go on my owls." Kimi explained. "Come, let's go."

...

Hello! This is the first chapter I publish after being graduated. Finally, university is over. Yeah!

Is Mirai going to be fine?

And Konoha? Was that attack so bad? How are Kakashi and Kaoru?

Will Pein really survive now that his life is attached to Kaoru?

Conceal yourselves for the next Jutsu "Summoned Saint"

Next chapter will be a flash back of what happened during Konoha's attack, meaning, lots of butt kicking action! Hell Yeah!

"Long have I waited to come back and save the ones I love... that moment has finally come..."