Inside a restaurant in the village, Mitarashi Anko, 17, and member of the ANBU, along with Uchiha Shisui, 19, her teammate, was sitting around sipping tea. Of course, Anko was just sipping tea, whereas Shisui had ulterior motives, like convincing her to go on a date, and this was his 78th attempt for the month. It was universally known that Shisui fancied her, and it was equally known that the brash girl had refused him every time, exceedingly violently at that that.

From a vantage point, Tenzo, their third teammate was watching everything with a gimlet eye. Shisui, you are one crazy son of a bitch, but you got guts, pal, I will give you that. No one, no one except you would actually dare to ask the Queen of the Vampires and the Bitch of the Century out to a date. Honestly, I think you must be as insane as her, if you believe she will go out with you.

Anko was dreaming about blood, gore and slaughter without even paying attention to Shisui who was cracking his knuckles in desperation trying to ask her out, while everybody in the restaurant was snickering watching the scene. Last time, in a desperate bid, Shisui had grabbed her and kissed her in public. For his troubles, Anko had beaten him senseless and then stripped him naked and hung him out for public display on the Village Flag pole. Needless to say, the Uchiha clan had not been very pleased. Everyone was waiting to see what shenanigans he would be up to this time.

Suddenly, their attention was diverted as they saw the Sandaime going to the tower being followed by none other than Jiraiya and Tsunade. Whispers began emanating heatedly from everybody around the area instantly. But Shisui was not watching them, he was rather busy watching Tsunade’s large breasts wobble in her dress.

“HOT DAMN!! THOSE FLESH PUMPKINS ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF GRAVITY DEFIANCE!!” Shisui blurted out when suddenly the room went cold. Realizing what he had done, Shisui jumped back in alarm as Anko stood up angrily. Taking a look at her face, Shisui lost ten years of his life while Tenzo used his Mokuton skills to cover himself in a wooden cocoon and vanished underground.

Shisui was cursing himself and his habit of placing his foot in his mouth. After all, he had just insulted her teacher. After the debacle with Orochimaru, it had been Tsunade who had taken her in. Anko and Uzuki Yuugao, the two had been Tsunade’s unofficial students of sorts, although Shizune was by then six years their senior and a Jonin in her own right and a sort of mentor to the other two girls.

“Shisui………,” she muttered sweetly as Senbon needles appeared between the gaps of her fingers in each hand. “Let me introduce you to my best technique, testicular acupuncture without anesthesia,” she grinned as Shunshin no Shisui lived up to his name and vanished with an extremely fast body flicker with Anko hot on his tails screaming obscenities.

Two hours later, Tenzo was tending to a bruised and beaten Shisui who was moaning in pain and rolling on the ground as Tenzo’s wood clone removed needles from the man’s groin region while Anko sat around eating Dango and cackling merrily.

Suddenly, their attention was drawn to a group walking down the streets. It was Kakashi, their team leader and he was giving a piggyback ride to a blond child while being accompanied by Shizune.

“Hey, isn’t that, that kid?” Tenzo quietly asked Anko who nodded grimly. She knew who the child was all right. He was the Kyuubi holder, and former outcaste of the village, but now, the son of the Yondaime, who was back, alive and kicking. For a second, she felt jealous, at how easily the village decided to forego its grudge at the kid just because of his father, but she shook it off. If anybody deserved to be happy, it was that kid. What she had undergone was nothing compared to what the kid would undergo his entire life. And she would not grudge him his little upswing in fortune.

Shisui was eyeing the child curiously. While he didn’t have any kind of negative feelings towards the boy, he didn’t have any positive ones either. As far as he was concerned, he was apathetic to the child, but his uncle, the leader of the clan, had stressed that if the clan’s position was to improve, they needed to gain the favor of the Yondaime and this boy was the key to it.

The younger generation of the Uchiha had protested the elder’s decision saying that they could take over the village regardless and that the Yondaime was nothing special. He was now a broken and spent man, with his glory days long behind him, and a shell of his former self after the fight with the Kyuubi, they had argued. They were of the opinion that with this takeover, they could end the discrimination of the Senju influenced council members. After all, with people like Itachi and him around, it would not be a problem, they had argued. But the elders had put them down, brutally.

Shisui had realized why the elders were behaving like that. The elders of the Uchiha clan were terrified of the Yondaime Hokage. If it had been the third, they could have been persuaded. But with the 4th back and alive, there was now no chance of them forcing an uprising. Shisui had studied the records of the man. He had tried to master the Shunshin in hopes of recreating the Hiraishin, but he had failed, his zeal in pursuing it had gained him an unprecedented mastery over the Shunshin, but even then, it was but a speck of dust compared to the abilities of the Konoha no Kiiroi Senko. And to add insult to injury, the 13 year old Itachi had surpassed him in the Shunshin, although that fact was known only to the two of them.

“Shizune-senpai, it is so nice to see you again, I didn’t think you were coming back,” Anko squealed as she ran and hugged her mentor.

“Kakashi, so, finally they found the perfect job for you, baby-sitting, huh?” Shisui laughed boisterously as he made his way to the man. As he reached them however, Naruto flinched upon seeing the symbol of the Uchiha clan and huddled closer to Kakashi looking at Shisui fearfully.

Shisui sighed, seemed like the boy still had some issues with his clan after all, specifically because of a few zealous members of his clan who had once attacked the boy, about a year ago; but they had then run into the misfortune of doing that crime right in front of none other than Ibiki Morino himself. Even Fugaku had not dared to protest their innocence after they had been arrested, as for the very first time since he could remember; old man Sarutobi looked more murderous than ever and had gone so far as to threaten banishment of their clan if they dared to interfere, and even Fugaku had been cowed into silence. This was not good, if the boy despised the Uchiha and the Yondaime learned of it, things would definitely go into the shitter, his uncle would not be pleased to hear about this. Kakashi, who knew of the details nodded imperceptibly and Shisui vanished silently while Kakashi tried to calm the boy down.

“Naruto-kun, not all Uchiha are bad, you know that, don’t you?” he asked the boy who nodded shyly as Shizune came next to the boy. Seeing the boy’s sad mood, Shizune tried to cheer him up, “Come on, there is the park, let us go, okay?” she smiled as the boy nodded enthusiastically and left with her.

As they left, Anko came next to Kakashi, “So, he still has nightmares about that, huh?” she asked quietly. She had been the one who had worked over the Uchiha involved in the attack in the torture room.

“Yeah, it seems that he has still not gotten over it, but, it will wear off, he is still young, he will soon forget it, I just hope sensei doesn’t learn of this, if he does……,” Kakashi sighed as Shisui who had reappeared spoke quietly, “Then our clan is in for a shitload of trouble,” he sighed while Anko snorted loudly, which suspiciously sounded like 'WIMPS'.

In the park, the others looked in surprise as Shizune brought Naruto in along with her. However, there was somebody else who recognized her.

“Mikoto, this is a surprise,” the medic spoke happily as she eyed the wife of the Uchiha clan head. Mikoto and she had been the members of the original genin team of Tsunade along with Kushina Uzumaki.

Mikoto smiled as she eyed her old friend, and the young blond boy.

“Shizune, so nice to see you, so you and sensei are back then?” she asked as the medic nodded.

“Oh, I am so sorry, here, these are my sons, Itachi and Sasuke,” she spoke as she introduced the boys who bowed quietly.

“You knew my mom?” Sasuke asked surprised, as he eyed Shizune who nodded, “We were teammates along with Yondaime-sama’s wife under the tutelage of Tsunade-hime, your mother and our other teammate retired from active duty while I didn’t,” she replied kindly.

“Wow, mom, you trained under a Sannin, really?” Sasuke asked in awe as even Itachi eyed his mother carefully. He had not known of that little fact.

“By your return, I take it that, Tsunade-sama has returned as well?” Itachi asked shrewdly as Shizune nodded.

“Very good, Itachi-kun, but not just Tsunade-sama, even Jiraiya-sama has returned as well, they are in a meeting with Sandaime-sama and Yondaime-sama, and asked me to look after young Naruto here,” she replied towards Naruto who shyly huddled towards her.

“So, is that……,” Mikoto asked quietly as she eyed the boy. She had known that he was the prisoner of the Kyuubi, but not the fact that he was Kushina’s son.

“Hai, this is Naruto-kun, he is the son of the Yondaime Hokage,” Shizune replied as both Sasuke and Itachi’s eyes went wide at hearing that.

“Itachi-kun, you are ANBU if I recall properly, why aren’t you in uniform?” Shizune asked the 13 year old boy who grimaced. Wearing a black T-shirt, and white shorts, and without his Hitai-ate, he looked like a normal boy instead of the deadly ANBU he was. Nobody who looked at him could tell that he was a shinobi capable of fighting on par with Sharingan no Kakashi, if it came to that.

“I am off duty,” the boy grudgingly spoke as Shizune giggled at the obvious discomfort of the boy.

“Well then Itachi, why don’t you take Sasuke and Naruto and introduce him to the other children?” Mikoto asked Itachi who nodded and took the children away towards a group of playing children.

Once they left, Shizune turned towards Mikoto coldly, “we have much to discuss about,” she spoke coldly as Mikoto winced. She knew that Shizune would ask why she hadn’t stepped up to help their teammate’s child, and frankly speaking, she was rather ashamed to answer correctly; that her husband and clan elders had forbidden her and that she had never even bothered to find out whether he was related to Kushina in the first place, despite them both having the same last name.

Meanwhile, Itachi had taken Naruto and Sasuke over to the other children who had been playing in a corner. There were two Hyuuga’s and a blond and pink haired girl, along with a boy with pony tailed hair.

“Hello, Sasuke-kun, come to join us?” the blond girl asked instantly to the annoyance of the pony-tailed boy. Troublesome, the child muttered and turned to watch the newcomer silently.

“Who is that?” the blond girl asked as she pointed towards Naruto with curiosity. Naruto, who had until then, never associated with children of his age did not know how to speak with them, and was shuffling awkwardly.

Sasuke, who neither knew nor cared, however decided to introduce his new friend, “This is Naruto. Naruto, this is Ino, that is Sakura, and that lazy one is Shikamaru. And the other two are Hyuuga’s. Hinata and Neji, if I remember,” he spoke as the two Hyuuga’s came over as well. Itachi was watching everything with an amused glance.

“Hi, I am Naruto,” Naruto spoke shyly as the others gathered around.

“So, I haven’t seen you around much, are you new?” Shikamaru asked in curiosity as Sasuke burst out laughing.

“What?” the Nara asked in annoyance at the Uchiha at which the said boy laughed even more.

“What is it, Sasuke-kun, why are you laughing so much?” Ino asked huffily as Itachi cracked a smile.

“He is surprised that you don’t recognize the son of the hokage,” Itachi spoke out as all the children turned incredulously at Naruto.

“He is the son of the hokage?” Ino asked incredulously as she eyed Naruto who blushed.

“But isn’t the hokage too old to have children?” Shikamaru asked as Sasuke finally unable to control himself roared with laughter.

“That would be true, if it was the Sandaime, Naruto here, is the son of the Yondaime Hokage,” Itachi replied as all the children stepped back in awe as they eyed the blond child.

“NO WAY!! HE IS THE SON OF THE 4th!!!” Ino muttered in shock as everybody turned to look at the blond.

However, at the precise moment, the area around them was rocked with explosions as screams erupted.

FLASHBACK

4 DAYS AGO,

IWA SAFEHOUSE, INSIDE KONOHA,

Takeda Ito, the chief of Iwa’s hidden intelligence unit in Konoha, was smiling at his luck. Today, he had learned something of monumental importance.

Not only was the thrice damned Namikaze alive, but he had a son. He grinned cruelly. Once they captured the boy, they would break Namikaze down like glass. All the pain and suffering he had caused to their proud nation would be visited tenfold upon his son, who would spend the rest of his days languishing inside the prison cells of Iwa.

He imagined the glory that would await him if he handed over the son of the Yellow Flash. Why, they might even make him the next Tsuchikage, if that were to happen!!!

He was one of the members of the 4 Pillars of Iwa, the equivalent of Konoha’s Sannin in Iwagakure, and as such he was given greater lenience in acting upon his own. Besides, nobody but a member of the 4 pillars could be trusted with managing an assignment of this magnitude, establishing an intelligence outpost within Konoha was no small feat, after all. They had been extremely lucky that Konoha had been in desperate need of manpower after the Kyuubi attack and under the guise of skilled laborers they had managed to infiltrate Konoha, and had been staying there for more than 2 years.

He summoned one of his men and ordered them to increase surveillance on the blond boy, whose picture on the wall was full of Kunai stuck within it.

However, in his exuberance he forgot one thing. Namikaze was still alive, and what he would do when somebody attacked his son, that he didn’t even bother to think about, which his subordinates futilely tried to point out to him much to their horror. He didn’t have the flee on sight order upon him for nothing after all, and they repeatedly tried to bring it to his notice, but he was too busy thinking ahead, instead of thinking upon the present.

HALF AN HOUR BEFORE THE ATTACK UPON THE PARK

Ito looked upon his subordinates. There were four of them in total, apart from him.

“All right, you have all been observing the brat, know this; this is a simple snatch and grab. I will capture the brat, you distract the rest, and I will take him to Iwa. Once you lose your trailers, meet up with me in the secondary safe house,” he ordered as he walked out.

“Is he fucking nuts? He wants to kidnap the son of the Hokage within the Hokage’s village?” Fudo, one of the men asked angrily as their superior walked out.

“We can do nothing Fudo, he is one of the four, we have no choice but to obey our orders,” Rikudo, another of the men pointed out.

“Still, this is the kid of the yellow flash we are talking about, and he is here as well, alive if I may point out; Rikudo, if we do this, we are dead,” Renji, another of their number spoke out angrily.

“It matters not,” Hiro, the last of their number pointed out, “to refuse also means death, besides, he is said to be the equal of Orochimaru of the Sannin, let us see if it is true, our job is to ensure that the brat is captured, that is all, besides, we are ninja, if you wanted to live, you should have signed up for something else, not this,” he grunted as he walked out.

Resignedly, the men walked out as they reached their leader.

Soon, they began to follow the target, and Rikudo spoke in his radio as he relayed the information, “We have a problem, the kid is being guarded by Sharingan Kakashi, and Shizune, the student of Tsunade,” he grunted as the others halted.

“Shizune?? What is she doing here? Didn’t reports say that she left with her teacher? Shit!! If she is here, it means Tsunade is here as well,” Fudo growled as others became silent.

“That is not all,” the voice of Hiro came as he began to speak, “there are two others with him, Mitarashi Anko, the former student of Orochimaru and Shunshin no Shisui of the Uchiha clan,” he added as everybody but Ito groaned.

Fuck, now don’t tell me that Jiraiya will show up as well, that is all that is left to ruin this party, Rikudo groaned in despair.

“It doesn’t matter, the boy is with some other children, and we are lucky, the heiress of the Hyuuga clan is with him as well, you will distract the others, and I will take both of them, there is only a young kid guarding them, and he appears to be a civilian, do your jobs and leave the other’s jobs to them,” Ito’s voice came out as everyone nodded and shifted into position.

PRESENT

As soon as the explosions occurred, Itachi sprang into action and jumped near the children as a man jumped in front of them. Without wasting any time, the man made some seals and yelled, “Doton: Doro Domu,” as he plunged his hands into the ground and instantly a dome of earth covered the children imprisoning them all.

Iwa ninja? Inside Konoha? What the hell are they doing here? Itachi’s mind raced frantically as the young ANBU activated his Sharingan.

“Nii-san, what is going on?” Sasuke asked in a fearful tone as Itachi looked at him sharply.

“It seems that we are under attack by Iwagakure, I need all of you to stay calm and focused, do not panic, I will get us out of here, besides, they can’t do a thing, soon, entire Konoha will be upon them, those idiots have just signed their death warrants,” the ANBU muttered as the children became silent.

“But, why now? Why attack us?” Ino asked fearfully as Itachi narrowed his eyes. He could guess. The answer was a blond boy standing next to them.

“I don’t know,” he lied as everybody seemed to huddle together while the young ANBU began to search for weaknesses in the barrier.

Meanwhile, on the outside, at the first sign of explosions, Kakashi and his team raced in. Anko, Shisui and Tenzo raced in, while Shizune and Mikoto were fending off four Iwa ninjas, while the fifth was around a dome, creating a seal of some sort.

“Iwa nin? What the fuck are they doing here?” Anko shouted as she targeted a Iwa Nin and barreled in.

“Kakashi, they are after Naruto, he is trapped in that barrier,” Shizune shouted as Kakashi narrowed his eyes and charged in.

How the hell did they know? It has been just under a week since the truth about sensei and Naruto came out, and they are already here?

“You will not go any further, Sharingan Kakashi,” a man stepped forward as he took a stance and eyed Kakashi who stopped and raised his forehead protector revealing his Sharingan.

“Ah, the Sharingan. A gift from your late teammate, isn’t it?” the man taunted as Kakashi stiffened.

“How do you know that?” Kakashi asked quietly as the man smirked, “Why, because it was my brother who killed your teammate, after all, too bad that I wasn’t there, I would have gutted you myself,” the man replied as he rapidly made some seals and spoke quickly, “Doton: Iwayado Kuzushi,” (Rock slide) as the ground crumbled and boulders began to slide towards Kakashi who used a Kawarimi to escape.

“So, you are Kakko’s brother?” Kakashi asked quietly as the man growled.

“My name is Hiro, and by the end of the day, I swear you and the brat of your sensei will perish,” he growled as he pulled a boulder from the ground and threw it at Kakashi who barely rolled away in time and escaped.

On the other side, Anko was fighting with Rikudo and Renji who were trying to go to the aid of Ito.

“Seneijaashu,” she roared as snakes came out of her sleeves and raced at the men who barely rolled away.

Renji brought out a kunai and threw it at her and made some seals, “Kunai KageBunshin no Jutsu,” and instantly, the one kunai multiplied into two dozen and flew at her. However, as soon as they hit her, she turned into mud as Renji growled, “Mud clone, damn, this bitch is good,” he swore as a poison bomb exploded at the place he was standing. He instantly used a Kawarimi to escape and made his way to Rikudo who was panting after fighting Shisui who was looking winded.

“Rikudo, they are too good, we need to team up,” Renji spoke just as a kunai thrown by Anko grazed Rikudo’s cheek drawing blood.

Meanwhile, Shisui had joined up with Anko whose eyes were gleaming maliciously as she smirked at Rikudo which incensed him further.

Looking at his cut cheek, Rikudo growled, “That’s it, I don’t give a shit about the mission anymore!! Tits McGee over there, is going down,” he roared as he charged forward towards Anko.

Meanwhile, Shisui stepped back in fear as he heard the man’s words. He did not just call Anko that, did he? Fuck, even I know where to draw the line when the situation calls for it, that guy is so boned!!

He cringed as he looked at Anko. Anko was almost glowing and it looked as if a pillar of flame appeared around her.

“You shit-eating son of a bitch!! Oh, it is so on,” she roared as she made some seals and yelled, “Kuchiyose no Jutsu” and instantly a 40 meter tall snake appeared in the ground as Rikudo skidded to a halt, with jaws wide open as he stared at the huge snake in front of him.

The huge anaconda opened its jaws wide and crashed upon Rikudo who gave a scream as the beast swallowed him whole, alive. Shisui winced as he heard the man’s bones break as he slid down the snake’s gullet. Man, she is vindictive, but that is what makes her so hot!

“Fuck this!! They don’t pay me enough for this!!” Renji growled as he turned to run, when he gasped and sank down to his knees. In front of him was Shisui, with his kunai embedded in Renji’s gut as he disemboweled him.

“How? You were there, you couldn’t have possibly moved so fast!!” he gasped as he turned around to see the Shisui next to Anko slowly fade.

“I was never there in the first place,” Shisui’s voice was surprisingly cold as he spoke. “That is just an after image left by my Shunshin, I was long gone, even before your friend got himself turned into snake chow,” Shisui shrugged as he replied quietly.

An afterimage? He moved so fast that it appeared as if he was still standing still!! No wonder he is called Shisui of the Mirage, Renji gasped as he fell down twitching as he breathed his last.

Meanwhile, Fudo was going up against Shizune and Mikoto who were trying to get past the man. But the man was ridiculously strong, and began to lob boulders at them as if they were made of Styrofoam.

Finally, just as a boulder was about to hit them, a ANBU came in front of them and made some seals and instantly a wooden dome surrounded them while the boulder crashed into it.

Shizune and Mikoto raised their eyebrows. The young ANBU was using Mokuton, but that wasn’t possible, was it?

Soon, the barrier cracked under Fudo’s assault as the ANBU fell down to his knees, sweating with exertion. The women tensed as Fudo pulled a particularly large boulder out of the ground and hurled it at them.

However, as it neared them, a voice came out, “Hakkesho: Kaiten” and instantly a huge blue dome of chakra surrounded them as the boulder glanced of harmlessly against it and crumbled.

As the smoke cleared, the figure of Hiashi Hyuuga was visible standing in front of Fudo, firm and resolute. Before Fudo could retaliate, a gigantic fireball scorched the area he was in, and Fugaku Uchiha jumped in next to his wife, glaring at the man.

Shizune fell to her knees and took a look around and sighed in relief. Reinforcements had arrived at last.

Ito glared as he eyed the Konoha ninja pouring in. He had known beforehand that he could never have extracted the children like that. His only position was to create a hostage situation and exploit it.

He gave a signal and instantly Hiro and Fudo, the two surviving members of his cell raced back to him. He eyed carefully as more than 500 Konoha Ninja raced in and surrounded his group. The ANBU, The Uchiha Military police, and even the Hyuuga, Uchiha and Nara clan heads were present.

However, he still held the cards. He had the son of the Yondaime and the Hyuuga heiress as hostages apart from the other children, and he would be damned if he had to surrender. If he went down he would take the children down with him.

As the highest ranking members present, Fugaku and Hiashi stepped forward and met with Kakashi; “Report,” Hiashi ordered and Kakashi began, “They attacked suddenly, and their intention it seems was to take the children hostage. They have your daughter as well as the Yondaime’s son, along with some other children as well,” Kakashi finished.

Hiashi’s eyes narrowed as he eyed the Iwa ninja and growled.

“Wait, we need to resolve this in a delicate manner,” Fugaku spoke as he stopped Hiashi from moving. Hiashi glared at the man, “My daughter is in there. Give me one good reason as to why?” he asked as Mikoto surprisingly smiled in return, “Don’t worry, they won’t be able to hold them as prisoners for long,” Mikoto replied as Hiashi turned to face her, “And how can you say that?” he asked icily as he looked at her.

Mikoto shrugged, “It seems that you have all apparently forgotten, Itachi is inside that barrier as well, I am sure that he will be able to break through it,” she replied as small smiles appeared on the faces of the other ninjas.

“So, we need to stall until he breaks it, troublesome,” Shikaku Nara sighed as he eyed the Iwa ninja who were growing more volatile by the second.

Suddenly, there was a loud poof and a lot of smoke appeared on the ground. As it cleared, everybody’s eyes widened.

Standing in the middle of the park was the Yondaime Hokage and boy was he pissed.

“Fuck, this is bad,” Fugaku muttered silently as Hiashi nodded, “My sentiments exactly!!” while everybody else gulped in fear wondering what would happen next.