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"Katsuki Bakugo,"
"Just Katsuki right now, I'm not a Bakugo, just like you're not a Midoriya," Naruto was immediately on the defensive.
"Where did you learn that name?"
"It was his," Katsuki flicked his eyes to the greenette "Until he disappeared when we were seven,"
"And now you're here, which is very helpful since I have six years to train you instead of the few months I thought I'd have,"
"You've been doing it for eight years, I'm already a few months into their,"
"Yes but they haven't trained me for five years, my regime is much, much harder than it used to be, that's the routine you will be on from now on, Uzumaki Katsuki," A pointed glance and a heavy sigh,
"I'll deal with the paperwork once Orochimaru has given us answers,"
"Shisui-sensei," Izuku suddenly exclaimed, "Did you want,"
"No Izuku, I gave the eyes to you because I trust you with them, if the world thought I was back with my eyes then I'd just have that target on my back again, besides, I'm getting used to fighting without sight, just don't ask me to pour some tea,"
"He has no idea what he's doing in a fight and misses every mark even after trying to hone his other senses," Itachi grumbled,
"Hey don't give away all my secrets,"
"I, sensei my eyes are still good,"
"He's kept them in a jar in his nightstand," Naruto snickered "Honestly the creepiest thing I've ever seen,"
"Wait Izuku you don't have your eyes?!" Katsuki stepped backwards, "Isn't that, like a super complex surgery?"
"Not really," The greenette waved his hand slightly, "You just," With two fingers on his left hand Izuku mimed scooping out his own eye, "Then you," His palm splat against his face over his eye. "Leave a few bandages around the eyes for a while and then bang new eyes,"
"Although weirdly enough Izuku is the only non-Uchiha that could control the Sharingan, even when it's Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan," Sasuke added with the blond nodding in the background.
"I figured as much, Primal chakra is super complicated,"
"I'm not from this world, I'm not bound by its rules, seems pretty simple to me," A casual shrug, the sound of his eyes swirling filled the room, "But I recently saw in the mirror that the pinwheel has a diamond centre, was it like that for,"
"No I had a circle hence the four-point pinwheel," Shisui nodded "It's like you said Izuku, you aren't bound by the laws of our world, so you've got your very own Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan," The blind shinobi hummed, "Maybe you can use Kotoamatsukami as often as I could instead of like once every ten years or something ridiculous like that,"
"I don't know I don't use Kotoamatsukami, there hasn't been any need to yet,"
"At least Danzo didn't get hold of them," Shisui shrugged
"Danzo?"
"I'll explain later," Izuku shook his head to the crimson eyed boy. A throat was cleared loudly.
"Now that the reunion is out of the way, we need to see Orochimaru,"
"I'll stay here and fill in Katsuki abotu the goings on over the last few years," Izuku nodded as the rest of the group stood up and left, as the door closed Naruto could hear Izuku. "So remember when we were four?"
The snake sannin was sat in a holding cell among his underlings, they were all chained and had chakra restraining tags applied. The five all looked up as the cell door was grated open. Naruto, Sasuke, Shisui, Itachi and Grampa Third waited at the door. "Orochimaru, you recently had a ROOT seal removed meaning that you can actually tell me the entire turth now, when was the mark applied,"
"Shortly before you found my lab and exiled me sensei, you must understand I did not want to do those expirements, Danzo ordered me to find a way to use Senjutsu without Hashirama cells, he also ordered me to try and capture the last Uchiha so he could have the eyes since Shisui's disappeared with his body," The white skinned man nodded "Which I now know is a falsehood since I saw the eyes in young Uzumaki in our fight in the Forest of Death,"
"Danzo really got around didn't he?" Itachi growled "I was barely able to avoid getting it myself,"
"I must apologize for anything I said while we were working together after your exile Itachi, I was-,"
"Do not worry about it Orochimaru, I do not blame you for anything you did or said under Danzo's control," The older Uchiha lifted a hand slightly to placate the sannin. "His modified Bird Cage Seal is absolute, there is nothing you can't say that he doesn't want you to say," Orochimaru seemed close to weeping. "We need to ask a few questions about Danzo and his operations,"
"All I can tell you is what he had me doing,"
"Then that is all we ask of you," Grampa Third nodded. Naruto watched them for a moment before something caught his eye, it wasn't much, just a flash of red hair, but that was all that was needed to take the attention of the Uzumaki blond. He quickly moved into the cell, past Orochimaru and stood in front of the four ninja that had attacked them in the forest. The rotund man glared at him first, the silence bringing his presence to the other three.
"Come to gloat how you defeated our sensei?" Naruto just pointed to the red-haired girl.
"Uzumaki," Her eyes widened and stared at him, "Born into the Uzumaki clan," She sneered at him,
"And what are you,"
"Uzumaki Naruto, son of Uzumaki Kushina," The four gaped at him.
"Tayuya Uzumaki, my parents never told me their names, they died when I was younger,"
"I'm sorry, my parents died when I was born, I only know because I broke into records the Hokage wanted me to never find," Several heads perked up.
"Sensei, you kept the boy's lineage from him?" Orochimaru stared wide eyed.
"I believed it was necassary at the time, however he and his adopted brother, along with Sasuke here disproved that quite easily," Grampa Third sighed, "Are you sure your home has enough space to take another member Naruto?"
"It doesn't need it," Izuku's voice made them all jump as the green and red eyed duo stood at the door. Izuku was rubbing his jaw mutedly, "I had a Shadow clone go out this morning, the lease is sighed under Naruto's name thanks to transformation, we move in this evening, nice house on the edge of the village, nice garden, many rooms, larger living space, better kitchen, just generally an improvement,"
"Very well, I'll organize the paperwork once their sentences are decided,"
"There isn't any paperwork, Hokage-sama," Itachi interrupted, upon recieving several glances he continued, "She has admitted to being an Uzumaki, that makes her a ward of the Uzumaki clan, of which Naruto is currently the head, her punishment is a matter for only you and he to decide,"
"Well I'll be,"
"After the Kyuubi's attack I studied several laws pertaining to clans and criminals, since it was a long running theory an Uchiha controlled him," Naruto nodded,
"Kurama told me it was, a one-eyed Uchiha, with a swirling maks around his eye, Kurama is the Kyuubi's name by the way," Itachi and Shisui nodded in understanding, they had both been missing while Naruto and Kurama grew close.
"If that's the case her fate can be decided much sooner than the others, with their co-operation and Orochimaru's admittance of the seal on his tongue, the shinobi council will see this as a victory,"
"But what of the civilian council?" Shisui questioned.
"Disbanded, Danzo used them to go behind my back far to often, the curriculum in the academy was the change I needed to remove their power entirely"
"Yes!" Itachi suddenly cheered, surprising everyone, immediately he regained his calm demeanour. "Apologies, it is just the civilian council has always been my biggest means for annoyance," Izuku suddenly coughed and moved next to Naruto.
"A blood-born Uzumaki you say? Rare to stumble across one after the fall of Uzushiogakure, you can call me Izuku, I was adopted into the clan many years ago," The greenette bowed to the redhead, "It is a pleasure to meet you, I am sure you are in shock over this development, however I am sure that Naruto and I are of the same mind and would love to have you join us in our home, the new one I mean, it has plenty of room,"
"Yeah, yeah, absolutely," Naruto nodded feverently.
"But we do not wish to pressure you into this decision, please think it over today, we will return this evening to either take you with us or further discuss your sentencing, rest assured however, since your own leader was being manipulated like a puppet it will not be severe," Izuku stood up giving a megawatt smile. "As for you three, your fighting in the forest was incredible, if you are so inclined, having you in our forces after the probation periods end would be stellar,"
"W-wh," Tayuya began,
"Why am I trying to help you?" Izuku smirked, his shoulders bounced once with a small laugh, "Because I want to be a hero, and a hero helps everyone in need, even those that were enemies at one point, now if you will excuse us, my brother and I have some things to pack," As they left the cell, they were stopped by Shisui and Itachi. "Senseis?"
"You really want to be a hero?" Shisui was pensive, "Even if it means helping those from your home?"
"Shisui, if you take anything from this encounter, know this, that place is not my home Konoha is, and if I do decide to return, it will be to save those that need it, even if I think they do not deserve it," Itachi raised an eyebrow, "If they are beyond saving then so be it, I am a shinobi first and a hero second, now Naruto really must go and let Sakura know we are moving," Naruto prepared to say something when Izuku grabbed him and they whisked away to their small apartment.
"Wait seriously?" Sakura sat down on her bed, "Izuku really got us a house?"
"In my name too, it's so weird," Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "I mean, we're not even thirteen and here I am with a house to my name along with like a few million ryo, do you know how much ramen that could buy?!" Sakura just shook her head.
"You can take the ramen from the boy," She muttered, laying down. "It's just, I mean, yay, new house, bigger room, better space, a proper kitchen, maybe even a second bathroom but it's just,"
"Strange? Scary?"
"Yeah, I, when I ran from home, this was the place I came to, because I knew you were going to answer the door, but you're not going to answer this door anymore, none of us will," Her arm moved up to her face "Does that make me sound weird?"
"Not at all," Naruto sat down next to her, "This is the only place I've ever know, first thing I asked Izuku to do was help me save enough to outright buy this place, which we did, but now he's gone and put another place down in my name, I know, we'll never answer this door again, but you should know by now," He nudged her ribs with heir lower arm, "I'll always answer the door when it's you knocking,"
"Thanks,"
"No problem Sakura, that's just what friends do,"
"Yeah, friends," Her voice seemed slightly dejected as she turned her head away from him. "Do you ever hate me for what I did? How I treated you?"
"Back in the academy?" A small nod, "No, not really anyway, honestly I envied you sometimes, getting to be so carefree, innocent, hell you even had two more parents than I ever will, even if they are shitty people,"
"You can say that again,"
"But no, I never hated you, and I never will, absolutely I used it against you in your training to get you to listen and hell yeah I will give you shit for it when you get snappy, but hate you? No," He leant back on his arms. "This place was where we brought Sasuke after the massacre, it's the first place someone cooked me food other than ramen, no Izuku wasn't the first, that was Itachi, fried eggs and bacon, after training for a few hours and discovering I had no-one at home, Itachi and Sasuke all but moved in, cooking for me every night, coming to get me every morning, even packing me a lunch," A heavy sigh, "It's where we dragged your stuff in from the rain, where Ino discovered there was more to us than she thought, where Kurotsuchi and Izuku suggested we had the movie night that one time,"
"This apartment is special," Naruto let himself hit the mattress,
"No this apartment is nothing more than brick and mortar, it's the people, the memories, the stuff we brought into it, and it'll be the same for the next place and best part? I'll be right across the hallway,"
"You mean?" Sakura sat up and twisted to sit against the headboard of her bed, facing Naruto.
"Yup, we got five rooms, Shisui and Itachi are probably going to move in, so it'll be an Uchiha room, and Uzumaki boys' room and a girls' room, leaving two spare rooms to storage for now,"
"An Uzumaki boys' room?" Her foot poked his side.
"Well you see, Danzo was pulling the strings behind the attack, he was controlling Orochimaru through a seal, so Orochimaru's underlings were essentials a puppet's puppets, they're going to get off a lot easier than we thought they would, which is good because one of them is an Uzumaki,"
"It's the redhead chick isn't it?"
"Yeah, her name is Tayuya, we still don't know if she's going to move in or not though,"
"Hopefully she does, honestly it's going to be a bit strange if I'm the only girl in a house with what, five guys in it?"
"I mean, Ino could always move in if she wants to, she's here all the time anyway," Sakura squealed.
"Seriously? She was going to ask Izuku about it soon,"
"Izuku was the one to suggest it, he said and I quote, Yamanaka is here all of the time anyway, might as well give her a room and save time, it also means her training can be monitored better too,"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Remember when you came to get us because she passed out in the training field?" His head rolled to look at her, "It's because she was putting in extra training at home and overworking herself, ever since Izuku has been really strict about it,"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, it's just how he shows he cares, remember, he never had a supportive family, so he's trying to figure it out as he goes,"
"I guess, but you never had anyone either until you had him right?" Her feet crept onto his chest
"Well, that's not entirely true," Naruto lamented, "He didn't live here until he was actually seven, but we met when we were four, Itachi and Shisui were like older brothers to me, since I saw them everyday, but Izuku could only see them on the weekends, or a week if his academy had holidays, but it was only after we lost Itachi and Shisui that Izuku moved into Konohagakure,"
"Oh,"
"Yeah, but he's not let that get him down, if anything, now that they're both back he's got more reason to smile than ever!" His arm, which had been pointing at the ceiling with a closed fist fell gently around her ankles. "Hey Ino," Sakura gasped and looked over somewhere Naruto couldn't see.
"You guys are having a cuddle pile without me?"
"A what?" Naruto lifted his head up slightly to try and see the blonde. The girl had already made her way over to them.
"A cuddle pile, Sakura has her feet on your chest and you've got your arm over her ankles,"
"I wouldn't call this a cuddle pile Ino," Sakura flapped a hand, "We're just talking,"
"Uh huh, well move over, I'm joining in," Naruto huffed as Ino's head fell onto his stomach while she laid the opposite side to Sakura, her legs felling off the bed. "So what're we talking about?"
"Well we're moving out of this place," His hand moved from around Sakura's feet into Ino's hair, while his arm still rested on the pinkette's legs. "And you are cordially invited to move in with the group, as Sakura's roommate, since there's going to be five guys in the house, Sakura needs a bit of backup,"
"There's goign to be another Uzumaki as well, her name's Tayuya and she's one of the Sound we fought, Naruto's going to be meeting with Hokage-sama to discuss her punishment,"
"Let me talk to Dad about it, the clan's never been big on staying in the compound anyway, it's more of a communal space for the clan to train and work together,"
"Speaking of clan compounds, what about the Uzumaki one Izuku wants to build?"
"That's all him, far as I'm concerned we could live in an apartment complex, the Uzumaki clan isn't going to be a blood clan for a while, since I've got two adopted brothers now,"
"Two? Where'd the second come from?"
"His name's Katsuki, he's from the same place as Izuku and he knew Izuku before we all did, he's got primal chakra too,"
"So it's just another Izuku?"
"Nah, Katsuki's a blond and he's got bright red eyes that aren't actually a Sharingan,"
"Wait, that means there's going to be six guys in the house!" Sakura exclaimed, "You three in the Uzumaki boys' room, the three in the Uchiha room,"
"And three girls, that's nine people in a house, is it big enough?"
"Izuku said it'd be big enoug, it's bigger than this place anyway, we shouldn't have too much problem,"
"But still that's nine people in a house," Ino stated, "It's going to be crazy dinners I'll say that much, Sakura can you please move your feet from my head?"
"I was here first,"
"And? Move your feet!"
"But I was,"
"Technically I was here first," Naruto interrupted, ending the impending argument, "Sakura could you please just spin around so your feet aren't in Ino's or my faces?" The pinkette groaned softly.
"Fine," Her feet swung over his face as her head barely missed colliding with Ino's and Naruto found the lower half of his vision filled with pink. His arm was lifted and draped under Sakura's chin as his fingers found Ino's hair again. "Is this better?"
"Very much so," His free hand came up to run through her hair.
"Good cuz it's comfy and I'm not moving again," Her head seemed to lean into his hand as he caressed her hair.
"Is there any reason you two like to use me as a pillow?"
"Reassurance," Ino rested her hands on her chest, "Since you are somone important to us we subconsciously keep close in order to make sure you're okay,"
"Studying psycholody? You may have to protect your books from Izuku if he finds out," Sakura snorted,
"Who do you think got her started on it?"
"When he found out I was overworking myself he told me to read a book instead of exercise, he loaned me all the books I needed to start and then suggested i go over the clan stuff, I let him read a book or two every now and again as thanks, turns out he just wanted me to be productive instead of exhausting myself,"
"Yeah that's him, although I didn't realise that's how he curbed your training,"
"What do you think he did?"
"I don't know?" Naruto shrugged, "We were talking about it when I was carrying you back from the training field the third time we found you out cold,"
"Really?" Ino's head lifted off him and landed on the other side of his chest, moving his arm in a similar way to Sakura.
"Uh, you two know that I don't have enough space on me for you to do that right?" Pink and platinum blonde filled his lower vision and he suddenly suppressed the urge to sneeze. Instead, with an arm around each girl, he managed to get his hands together and summon a shadow clone. It poofed into existence besides Ino and immediatly the platinum shifted to the other chest. Laying over Naru-clone entirely, gently moving his arms over her back as her head rested against his sternum. Sakura mimicked the movement on the real Naruto curling up happily. The blond smiled and rested his head back, closign his eyes for a brief minute. Just a quick nap and then they'd be.
"Naruto," An impassive voice made all four individuals jump, Naruto looked over to see Gaara stood at the door, "I know this may seem presumptious but may I request you correct my seal sooner rather than later? Shukaku has been muttering about sleeping ever since you suggested it,"
"Yeah, yeah, sure bro," The Naru-clone got up and walked over to Gaara, "Let's do it now, should be done by dinner if Izuku drops a clone to help,"
"Wonderful, Temari and Kankuro are eager to return home swiftly, Temari claims there is a small boy pestering her about knowing a 'Boss',"
"That's just Konohamaru, Third's grandson, I was his little teams leader for a while in the academy when I'd give them pointers and such," Gaara simply nodded in understanding while Naru-clone chuckled, "Let's get this seal done then," The two walked off chatting amicably. Sakura sighed and shifted of Naruto's chest, resting her head on his shoulder while keeping the same arm around her shoulders. Ino seemingly took this as an invite and rested on Naruto's other shoulder, wrapping said arm around her shoulders.
"Should you have left the seal to the clone?" Ino looked up at him innocently.
"It'll be fine, my Shadow Clone will have all my knowledge so I don't see any problem," He laid his head back, getting ready to take a quick nap.
"Oi," Izuku's voice drawled, "Either get your stuff packed or it's going to be given away, you haven't got time for your little cuddle session," The girls said nothing but shuffled further into Naruto's hold, "Alright, I guess I'm using your stuff as kindling,"
"Don't you dare!" Sakura sat straight up, almost dragging Naruto and Ino with her. They watched her steely gaze get returned tenfold by the greenette.
"Then pack it up, now," He walked out of sight. Sakura climbed off the bed as Naruto groaned and sat up.
"It shouldn't take too long, Ino if you want to go and talk to your dad before packing your things I'll come get you when we've got things there,"
"Got it," The platinum blonde smiled and began walking away, "Since Sakura's getting a hand, could I get a Shadow Clone too?" Naruto smirked and a Naru-clone followed her away.
"The house is nice," He leant forwards in his seat, clasped hands leaning on the table. It was, the door opened straight into a living room space, a staircase on the left wall onto a wall seperating the living area from the kitchen. The main room itself stretched across the house, the sitting and dining areas divided by a counter built into the room. Just before the staircase stood a door to a properly designed bathroom, unlike the semi-tiled barely functioning, endlessly repaired bathroom of old. Upstairs was five rooms, three of which had been turned into bedrooms, the other two left as storage for the moment. There was also a second bathroom to match the first one. Behind the house laid a great garden, part of which Izuku had already turned into a forge to care for their weapons, including a furnace to reamake anything that was broken or beyond repair. At the very end of the garden stood a target range for obvious reasons Izuku has already taken the liberty of using Wood style to grow several trees as well for chakra control training, getting the other two to make a pond in the middle of the trees for the same reason. It had seemed peaceful and tranquil when they first entered.
It last all of five minutes.
Once Ino crossed the doorway and everyone began relaxing, it was unleashed, something that Izuku, while cackling evilly, named chaos. And chaos it was. In several minutes Ino had put plants in almost every corner, Shisui had spilt no less than five cups of tea, Sakura had got herself stuck in the attic and Izuku was chasing Sasuke and Itachi through the property, hollaring after them. "GIVE ME ONE MORE DAMN EXCUSE AND I'LL KNOCK YOU OUT AND SWAP YOUR EYES WITH A RUSTY SPOON!" And Katsuki, poor, poor Katsuki had barricaded himself in the upstairs bathroom. Naruto still had several Shadow Clones trying to organize the mess before Tatyuya decided to join them. Speaking of, he dragged his mind back to the redhead in front of him. She was sat on the other side of the table, Orochimaru stood behind her pensively, only present due to her request. The small room they were in had a mirror on one wall to hide the window that the members of T&I were stood at watching carefully. "There's plenty of room, you'd be bunking with some friends of mine, they'd be happy to share the space, there's a garden with some space for chakra control, training, even taking care of your weapons, the only thing is you need to be good with chaos, because that's what the house is," Tayuya shuffled in her seat not looking him in the eyes. "Like we said back with Gramps, you can either come with me or stay here, you won't be tortured or attacked or hurt either way, this is completely up to you but I would really like it if you came with me," Glimmers began running down the girl's face, a bittersweet smile plastered her features.
"I am supremely grateful for your offer Uzumaki-sama, but I'm afraid,"
"You do not owe me anything Tayuya," Orochimaru voiced quietly, "I took advantage of you and brainwashed you into thinking I was a saviour, I'm not, I was just a puppet collecting more puppets, there will be no vengance if you decided to go with Uzumaki-san,"
"No-one will go after you if you come with me either, once the village knows you are under my protection, no-one will mess with you, there's a lot of controversy surrounding me right now, so don't worry, no matter where you are you'll be under protection," Tayuya seemed to cry openly now, hiccuping as she tried to talk. Naruto calmly stood up and walked around to her side offering a hand to her. "Now what do you say?" Tayuya just cried harder as she stared up at his smile. Her mouth opened but Orochimaru beat her to it.
"She will go with you, regardless of the decision she makes, she must go with you," The blond nodded at the white skinned man, who then turned to his unwitting subordinate, "Go, go with them," His voice was impeccably soft, "It will be better for you, you do not deserve to rot in a cell because of what I manipulated you into doing, what I was forced into making you do, responsibility lies,"
"With Shimura Danzo and Shimura Danzo alone, Orochimaru make no mistake, Gramps, Izuku, Sasuke and I are all giving the village the tongue lashings they desperately need, you won't be trapped in here for very long," Once again the two shinobi nodded to each other in a mutual understanding. Tayuya sniffled from her chair.
"In that case, I would love to cmoe with you Uzumaki-sama," She took his hand smiling widley past her tears.
"So I take it this is just formality?" Izuku spoke from the chair he was lounging in, "Like I could just leave a Shadow Clone if I wanted to?"
"Yes Izuku, you could," Grampa Third sighed "We simply need a witness for the decision," Tayuya was stood nervously fidgeting behind Naruto as the blonde stood discussing what would happen with Grampa Third. "So we are in agreement of what is next?"
"Tayuya is under house arrest for a week after which she will be under ANBU supervision for a further three weeks, if she has done nothing suspicious or anything that could be taken as a sign of disloyalty or planning of attack she will be recognized as a citizen of Konoha and given the chance to become a shinobi as a part of the Uzumaki clan," Naruto nodded, "Are you okay with the Tayuya?"
"Of course Uzumaki-sama, this is far more than I could've prayed for," Izuku groaned from his seat.
"Please, please stop calling him Uzumaki-sama, it'll go to his head, just call him Naruto, he's head of the clan in title, I'm head in all but considering I deal with all the affairs,"
"You volunteered to do it,"
"Of course, because I couldn't have you wasting time you should be using to train, Uzumaki-sama,"
"You've made your point," Naruto conceded, "Tayuya, you don't have to call me that, just Naruto will do, I'm not above you alright?"
"I understand Uzuma- Naruto,"The redhead nodded. Izuku suddenly sat up in his seat and dashed over to the window. They watched the greenette throw the window shut in time for a white haired man crash into it. His eyes flicked around the room as he comically slid down the window.
"You can stand down Izuku, that's just Jiraiya, one of my students, in fact he was Minato's sensei,"
"Oh I know, but I didn't close the window because I didn't recognize him, I closed it because I did recognize him," The window was thrust open before Izuku could continue.
"Sensei, I got your message,"
"Oh my god, please tell me you didn't actually make him come here," Izuku whined, the white haired man glared at the greenette before continuing.
"Orochimaru is here?"
"Orochimaru is no longer a threat, Uzumaki Izuku here dealt with the ROOT seal we found under your teammates tongue," Naruto eyeed the man after his Sannin status was revealed. "In fact we discovered that one of his subordinates was in fact a relative of Naruto,"
"That's the blond one, in case you didn't know," Izuku spat with heavy venom, the second Sannin eyed him once more.
"So where are you from then Izuku?"
"I am from a world you should never be allowed near, pervert,"
"Then how are you,"
"Adopted brother of Uzumaki Naruto," The greenette growled "I've been taking care of him for a few years now, y'know, somethign you should've been doing," Naruto's jaw dropped "As his godfather,"
"Wh-,"
"Itachi Uchiha told me everything about you since you were Minato's teacher and we knew he was Naruto's father," The blond in question just gazed into the distance, "About how you are a world-class pervert, trying to peak on every bathhouse you come across among many other deplorable actions, and how you were supposed to be Naruto's guardian but decided to run away because he looked too much like Minato,"
"Can you really blame me?"
"YES!" Izuku cried, "YES, I can and will, because you were a coward! No shit he'd look like his fucking father! You catastrophic dumbass!"
"Ooh, you got two out of him, that must be a record,"
"Don't patronize me Sarutobi, or you can join this fucking failure of a guardian in a tongue lashing," Naruto stepped back to Tayuya as the greenette continued yelling at Jiraiya, who made the mistake of yelling back.
"Does this, does this happen often?"
"No, he rarely gets mad like this, he never swears normally so getting one out of him is a rare achievement, his highest record at somebody is three when Sakura got caught by a poisoned blade on our mission to the Land of the Waves," His voice became a dull hollar at the Sannin with few parts standing out to him.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE ME BRAT!"
"YES I FUCKING DO YOU GODDAMN ABSENTEE GODFATHER! DO YOU KNOW THE HELL HE WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH WITHOUT ME?!"
"HE SEEMS PRETTY FINE TO ME!"
"BECAUSE I WAS HERE FOR HIM, I ENCOURAGED HIM TO KEEP GETTING UP AFTER THE BEATINGS, DEFENDED HIM FROM HOME INVADERS! I WAS THE ONE THAT MADE HIM READ EVERY BOOK IN THE LIBRARY AND TRAIN DAY AND NIGHT!" Jiraiya visibly shrank "AND WHERE WERE YOU? GALAVANTING AROUND THE LANDS PEEPING AND PERVING AND MAKING A NUISANCE OF YOURSELF," The sannin reeled back again. Izuku took a deep breath through his nose and just glared. "Avoiding the one responsibility you had left, letting him get beaten and neglected by the village his father sacrificed his life to save," Naruto watched his brother turn to Grampa Third. "I am officially requesting whatever mission he is on with Naruto is given to Orochimaru or any Jounin or ANBU," Grampa raised his eyebrow, "Just anyone except Jiraiya, not without my supervision or that of someone trustworthy, no Kakashi is not one of them, he's a closet pervert, his loyalty can be bought with the porn this one makes," Jiraiay was about to puff his chest and boast when a side eye from Izuku took all the wind from his sails. "I will not scorn or debate your skills as a shinobi, but as an all round person you suck,"
"Preventing me from being on a mission with Naruto won't help fix the relationship,"
"What relationship?" Naruto voiced bitterly, silencing the others, "If Grampa Third hadn't introduced you I still wouldn't know your name, and if I don't know your name how would I know what you look like? Even your chakra is alien to me," The sannin seemed to break internally as he stared forlornly at Naruto. "Grampa I'm not doing any mission with someone that flakes on a single responsibility, if there's something important going down I'll go with Izuku, if it requires a Sannin, Orochimaru can come with us,"
"You would choose the traitor over the Toad Sage?" Jiraiya cried
"That traitor has given information willingly and freely ever since I was able to not only notice but remove the seal from underneath his tongue, he's also slated to join the intelligence corp once his probabtion is over," Izuku responded in kind "He was also under the control of one Shimura Danzo since before he was exiled," The sannin gaped like a fish for a moment. A cough brought attention back to Gramps.
"Considering how important this mission is, I will assign it to Orochimaru as well as you three, my first plan originally sending just Naruto and Jiraiya," The sanninseemed ready to pass out. "Izuku you will be going unofficially as Orochimaru's watcher, officially as the leader,"
"Sensei you can't be,"
"Uzumaki Izuku was trained by Shisui and Itachi Uchiha, he inherited the eyes of the former as well, when combiend with his Primal chakra and already Jounin level skills, Izuku is a more than capable leader of this mission, considering his request as well as his compartmental analysis of your flaws, many I was too eager to turn a blind eye to, you should be grateful I am allowing you contact with your godson and his adoptive brother, I slighted them once due to my unchecked idiotic sentimentalism, it cost the three Uchiha's their clan, Naruto an actual childhood and the three boys any social life, I am still working towards a point where I can deserve their forgiveness, regardless of if they have forgiven me already," The blond felt his features soften, "I am only sending you along with them to increase the chances of success, otherwise I would simply send Orochimaru in your original stead, do you understand?"
"Yes sensei," Jiraiya nodded his head before leaving quietly.
"Boys I hope you are feeling up to travelling for a while,"
"Why's that Lord Third?" Izuku turned around formally, still winding down from the argument. "What does the mission entail?"
"You are going to find the third Sannin, the person I wish to have as my successor," Tayuya spoke up, reminding them of her presence.
"You mean her?" Gramps nodded slowly.
"Senju Tsunade,"