Ninja's hero

Yumiko Musha sighed as she stood from the chair in her office. Her joints creaked as they took to supporting her armour again. Once again she had been on a short patrol due to her increasing age. Checking the clock one more time she attached her blade to her side and walked through her office. It was a Sunday today, meaning it was the day she would go to her roots. In the centre of her agency building was a garden area, it was a gentle area with bamboo, water features including a koi pond, a single sakura blossom and several rocky decorations. The square was the whole reason she had built the agency around the area. Well, maybe not the entire square, maybe just the stone decoration in the middle of it all. Arriving to it at a gentle pace, Yumiko once again took it in. It appeared to just be a regular stone arch decoration, not unlike a smaller version of Stonehenge in Scotland, Yumiko reminsced about her holiday there in her earlier years. It had been, in a single word, cold. However it was not as cold as what was the other side of the arch. Of course anyone with a quirk would argue there was nothing the other side of the arch, it was a stone arch in the middle of a plaza. But to Yumiko, to a quirkless, it was a gateway to the world she had learned how to be a hero, how to be a samurai. It was a gateway to the place called The Land of Iron. Moreso it was a gateway directly into the training grounds of the Samurai palace. Now that was cold and it was a place that helped her feel like a teenager again. Although even back then she had been too wild to compare to the two clashing teens in front of her. "Yumiko, it is good to see in you good health still,"

"Mifune-sensei," She bowed to him despite her aging hips groaning to her.

"Yumiko, I have not been your sensei for years, however I am honoured to still weild so much of your respect," He wore bandages around his head, hiding the uneven hair left after a battle with a man named Hanzo. His hair still flowed from the bottom of the wrapping though, with the wisened grey flowing down to his hips. Under his knowledgable eyes were wrinkles to show his age, under them sat his goatee and beard, both of which fell freely to his chest. He donned a traditional samurai garb, unlike his subordinates, the underneath a dark suit with matching gloves. A breastplate that turned into four plates protecting his upper legs and matching shoulder pads. His shins and lower arms were protected by identical silver guards and despite the cold he wore sandals to finish his look. "Time has treated you kindly if you are still able to carry such cumbersome armour,"

"Not as kindly as it treats you sensei, you still don't look a day over sixty," He laughed gently as they sat down on a nearby bench.

"If these boys keep up such fascination in what I can teach them, I am afraid I will look closer to two hundred from stress," The two he was referring to were still clashing steel, everytime Yumiko visited the boys would be fighting, testing their mettle. "I admire such dedication, even using a shinobi art to learn as much as they can quickly as they could, I ran out of scrolls last week, now I simply test them on their knowledge," They watched the two boys pause on the ground for a moment, "Honestly, I never thought I would see the day when two triple S ranking shinobi came knocking on our door humbly asking to learn what Samurai could teach them," Both wore outfits similar to Mifune, the only difference was the coloring, one was as forest green as his hair and his eyes when the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan wasn't active.

"I am still in shock the two revealed to be from my world, it seems so, bizarre when one has the Sharingan of the Uchiha, especially when all I brought here wished to stay, even to just be civilians and yet they wish to return ,"

"Izuku told me of that, he recieved them from his first sensei, Uchiha Shisui, as what he believed to be a dying wish for several years, in fact he only kept them after he learned of Shisui's survival because the Uchiha knew he would protect them, but to think they would both choose to become part of the Uzumaki clan," The clashing of metal rang out again and they peered at Izuku's opponent, a boy with ash blond hair, his armour orange as the sky during an autumnal sunset, eyes as red as the Sharingan yet he did not possess the dojutsu.

"It is an easy explanation to their inherent chakra prowess," They watched both boys leap apart and sheath their blades, crouching low. Each slid their right foor forwards as their right hand clutched the handle of their blades, in a second they had met in the center of the training ring. Waves of air accompanied the ringing sound, sending a wave of cold air over Yumiko, It was so much better than a stuffy office.

"Alright boys, that is enough," Mifune called out to them. She watched as the teenages stood up, relaxed and put their blades away, bowing to each other before making the shinobi sign of reconciliation, a habit the Samurai had begun to pick up strangely enough. It symbolized the saying 'no hard feelings' and to Yumiko it seemed a moot point with how much like brothers the boys were. They hurried over from the ring and bowed before kneeling.

"Thank you for overseeing our spar sensei, we know you like your meditation time so we appreciate you deciding to instead watch us," Izuku spoke, his voice was deeper than when she had met the pair, but that was to be expected, he was no longer the thirteen year old shinobi, now he was a sixteen year old hybrid, master of both Samurai arts and Ninja arts. "Yumiko-sempai, a pleasure to see you as always," He nodded his head in curt greeting.

"Time has been kind to you Yumiko-sempai, I still cannot fathom how you could ever wear armour so cumbersome,"

"You calling me old Katsuki?"

"I would never sempai, I am simply glad to see you in good health,"

"And I am to see my kohai train with such vigor," Izuku smiled bittersweetly,

"I am afraid we can't be your kohai for much longer Yumiko-sempai, we must return home to see our family and friends, upon a recent meditation we have felt a darkness rising over the horizon, one that we must return to Konoha to face, but before that, how is our homeworld faring these days? It has been quite some time since you last spoke of it,"

"I agree," Mifune nodded "It has been a while since we heard your stories," She sighed and nodded.

"Very well, although not much has changed since I last told you of it, Izuku, you were right about All Might's timer shrinking, she is down to six hours now, I have seen it myself, if unintentionally at the recent charting event," The greenette's face soured but she still did not know why. "The Midoriya's and the Bakugo's seem in good health, I still wish to know why you ask me to check in on your old families,"

"Just to make sure they have forgotten us completely, if we are to return, having them try to reclaim us would be, troublesome, as an old friend used to say,"

"The Iida family still do not talk of Tenya that much, Tomoko and Tenshi are always front and centre, Todoroki often brings her son around to train in kenjutsu with me, although after a recent issue with his twin sister breaking one of his most prized blades, he also trains more in your taijutsu, although I still can not find the right time to teach him of chakra, the Yaoyorozu's refuse to allow me to see Moku after they met with Todoroki, it appears Shoko is well versed in slander and deceit, Daisy Shield and her daughter Melissa did visit after a meeting with All Might and Todoroki, Melissa heard rumours of a vigilante duo, clad in black with decorated white masksa appearing randomly throughout the last three years, only being known as the Twin Kages" At this all three men looked elsewhere, "It is none of my business but be sure that your clones aren't discovered until after you are accepted into UA," Izuku and Katsuki rubbed the back of their heads. "They were clones correct?"

"I would give them a day or two off while I prepared more lessons for them over the years, they often took a month to learn what normally takes a year, I did not give them the idea,"

"But you did not stop them once you found out, Mifune-sensei, we spoke of this!"

"I know, however the boys were never discovered and no-one ever saw them come through your gateway," The eldest Samurai reasoned, "They knew how to slip in and out unseen, they were never tied to your organisation correct?"

"Apart from the shinobi-Samurai link no, there was nothing they could use,"

"This Melissa," Izuku changed subject, "Is she quirkless?"

"No, they claim she has Computing, a quirk which allows her superhuman intelligence," Katsuki scoffed,

"Anything can be 'superhuman' if trained up enough, we could slice a blouder if we wanted to with our kenjutsu, a mountain if we used our chakra avatars," He shook his head, "Forgive me, I did not mean to interrupt,"

"It is fine Kohai, I should think it is about time you began packing if you are leaving soon?"

"Actually we are leaving today, we'll be travelling nonstop to Konoha since we need to move through Lightning Country, Raikage was not pleased when he discovered we had been learning averything they had against his wishes,"

"Are you not clones?" Mifune gazed, "I would have thought after all you had decided to learn, a Shadow Clone for the Samurai would be,"

"A great dishonour to your legacy and a poor idea on our part, the Land of Iron is the furthest from Konoha, we simply journeyed up here slowly and left Shadow Clones behind at points of interest, the only place we truly could not access was Rain but I am sure we will access the knowledge soon," Izuku added with a smile, "We shall gather our items and prepare a meal before we leave, we know how much you adore me Katsudon," Yumiko smiled and looked over to their sensei, who's eyes shone like a five year old in a sweet store.

"Some days I honestly believe you are still but an infant trapped in the body of a one-hundred and thirty-nine year old man sensei,"

"You are only forty years younger than I am!" He barked playfully, "And you love the dish as much as I do,"

They soon bid the duo a cheeful farewell, watching them disappear into the snow. Yumiko then bid her own goodbye, promising to visit again in the next week as she always did. Upon reaching the gateway she found one of the boys' kunai attached to one of the stones, it had two seals on it and a not efrom the handle.If you ever need our help, don't hesitate to call us Sempai, you know how. Smiling fondly she added the kunai to her stores in her many plates of armour and trudged back into the weary world of Musutafu, hopefully she lived long enough to greet the two back despite the boredom of office life.

"We should be there any minute now," Jiraiya looked towards the horizon.

"Yes, should if we didn't have a doddering old fool leading us we would've gotten there yesterday," Izuku remarked teasingly. Naruto stifled a laugh, even though this version of his brother was a Shadow Clone, it had lasted the three years without fail, learning alongside the blond and growing attached to Jiraiya somehwere along the way too.

"You got something to say brat?" The white haired elder growled back.

"Nah, Boss and Katsuki are on their way back, they aren't stopping and will use Flying Raijin once they are in Fire country territory, you can make the last couple hundred metres without me right?" Both the blond and the Sannin nodded as the greenette disappeared in a puff of smoke and leaves.

"Is it weird I forgot that was a Shadow Clone travelling with us for the past three years?"

"No, but it was starting to get hard to ignore the fact he wasn't growing," Naruto shrugged, after the first few months travelling it had become apparent that Naruto was gaining height on his brother's Shadow Clone. After three years he was looking down on the greenette, physically at least, Izuku would always have him beat in the intelligence category. It didn't matter though, the journey had been fun, Naruto had actually learned so much. Jiraiya had stayed true to his word and kept away from bath houses and generally being a pervert. Of course he slipped up and occasionally stared but honestly, the blond had expected as much, people don't just change, it took time and a lot of self control. The old man was still going to perv out occasionally, but he wasn't trying to peep anymore, his eyes would just wander up and down a particularly attractive woman once and a while. Naruto sighed, at least he didn't drool when someone mentioned boobs.

"That does make me feel a bit silly," Jiraiya rubbed the back of his head, "Honestly the boy actually helped me get some of my head together and I didn't even notice he wasn't growing,"

"I'm sure Izuku won't mind, he's the patient type remember?" They grew closer to the gates when two Jounin stopped them.

"Identification," The duo hande over their plastic slips and smiled. "Naruto? You've gotten so tall since we last saw you, you'll need to update the card since you've grown up,"

"You got it Ibiki,"

"Alright guys, go on ahead, we'll notify Lady Hokage to expect you in her office," The duo nodded and walked into Konohagakure.

"Alright, you go and catch up with your friends and find your sister if you can, no doubt she'll want to see Sasuke and Orochimaru return, I'll go talk to Tsunade,"

"Still got the kunai?" Jiraya dangled it from his open hand, around the handle was a parchment holding the technique formula for Naruto's Flying Raijin jutsu.

"Anything goes amiss or we need you just push a bit of chakra into it and you'll come teleporting," They shared a chuckle before Jiraiya disappeared in a swirl of leaves. naruto meanwhile finally allowed the reality to catch up to him. In boyish excitement he ran up the nearest electrics pole and stood on top, gazing over the hidden village.

"Watch out Konoha, Uzumaki Naruto is back!" He cheered lifting his arms up in celebration. He jumped towards the rooftops and bounced around with joy. Even though he'd moved houses just before he left, he knew the house he was looking for. Even if he forgot the path, the garden they'd specially made, the way they'd painted the walls shortly after moving in to feel more like a home, even if he had forgotten that (Which he didn't thank you very much) he'd never forget what was inside, who was inside. Konohagakure was a muddle of chakra signatures, chakra he hadn't really been able to sense when he'd left due to his poor control of his own, and Kurama's but that's a different story.

'Oh I bet it is Kit, just keep the noise down, after all that training to get your Rasen-whatever I need a nap'

There he was, the old sleeper. The nine-tailed fox and probably closest thing to a father figure Naruto had while it had been him, Sasuke and Izuku. The greenette from another world had been an older brother to the duo of then orphans, (Recent in Sasuke's case) but it had been Kurama that had reminded the three of them to bathe, taught them reading, writing and mathematics, after all living in people for a coupld decades teaches you things. Naruto knew without both he wouldn't be the knucklehead ninja today.

'I am touched Kit, but keep the noise down'

Yup, Kurama was a saint and even if he denied it for eternity, Kurama had gone soft on the boys. Training together had proven it, Naruto could sense the hatred that had once been in the great fox was now absent. Just like he could sense every chakra signature in the area individually, whereas before it was difficult to sense them unless they were at close range. As soon as he had entered the village, he'd latched onto the two most familiar in seconds, followed by the two he knew best. As if by fate, three of the four had been in the same place while one was out in the village, most likely at a shop. 'So she finally got a job,' Naruto laughed to himself, closing in on the other three but flaring his own slightly to aler the fourth. Landing in front of the door Naruto pulled back his sleeve to reveal a small seal halfway up his forearm, the result of an expirement Izuku and he had tried. Pushing a small bit of chakra into the seal caused a key to pop from it. Swiping it quickly he gently opened the door and stepped inside, taking a deep breath of the smell he missed so much.

The smell of home.

"I'm home," He called out jokingly, only for a pink blur to crash into him as he shut the door. "Hey Sakura!"

"Naruto, god I missed you," She squeezed his chest in her arms, surprised him with the amount of strength she had hidden in her oddly thin arms.

"Sakura, breathe, uncle, uncle!" He cried before his ribs could crack, "You've sure gotten a lot stronger since then,"

"And you've gotten a lot taller, now I have to look up to you, not fair,"

"I'm sure you'll get used to it," He chuckled  "Man the stories I have for you guys," The two seperated and began walking further into the house, it was almost exactly as when he'd left, only real difference so far being the new paint on the walls.

"Little bro!" Naruto was so busy talking to Sakura he didn't even have time to fully turn before something black crashed into him. Or more precisely, jumped into him. Quickly the blond was taken down by an older teen wearing a blindfold that sat over short black hair.

"Shisui," He laughed as they both got up, "It's nice to see you again, didn't go for Izuku's eyes while we were gone?"

"He did," A much more controlled voice came towards them from the kitchen. "But there was an, interesting development to say the least," A taller teen smiled softly and hugged Naruto, "At least one of my former students decided to come home,"

"Itachi, don't be like that," He regarded the tallest Uchiha with a smile. He had been Naruto's first sensei and first authority figure he could respect or even listen to. Shisui had of course been a teacher as well but the two were the stereotypes to a T. Itachi was the work harder than you play teacher, constantly testing them, pushing them to improve, while Shisui was the workd hard play just as much teacher that goofed off with them occasionally. Not saying Shisui didn't give them the drive to improve, but it was always easier to make Shisui laugh than Itachi.

"And pray tell, why wouldn't we come home?" That voice behind him was a voice Naruto didn't need to recognize, because he'd spoken to the user less than five minutes ago. A soft whack around his head, "You shouldn't have put that glitter bomb in his seals," Of course Izuku would know, Izuku always knew. The fact his Shadow Clone gave him information was pointless because Izuku just knew like a sixth sense when it came to Naruto's antics.

'Because I can read your mind idiot'

'Noise, down please, trying to sleep'

'Apologies Kurama,'

Izuku's presence was no longer in his mind, the blond that had appeared with him was hugging the Uchihas. "Heya guys, you didn't forget me did you?"

"How could we Katsuki? You left quite the impression, challenging Naruto before you all left for your own journeys," Itachi smiled, "You can tell us all about your travels soon alright? We are just awaiting one more," Naruto felt a buzz in the back of his mind, meaning only one thing.

"We might have to cut that short, Jiraiya's using the kunai I gave him," Grabbing onto the greenette and fellow blond, Naruto smiled and disappeared in a flash of yellow. Yes nothing had truly changed.

They promptly arrived in the Hokage's office to see a furious Jiraiya with a face full of glitter, along with sparkling hair and Tsunade currently losing her shit in a fit of laughter. Izuku smirled while Katsuki laughed wildly, joining Tsunade after long. Naruto tried his best not to laugh, his cheeks puffing while some chuckles escaped. Jiraiya's eyebrow twitched slightly as he glared irately. "Would it help if I said you weren't supposed to open it so close to your face?" Tsunade and Katsuki paused to listen before breaking down again, Jiraiya twitched several more times as Izuku began laughing as well.

"Does it help if I," Jiraiya mocked his student's voice, "OF COURSE IT DOESN'T HELP BRAT!" 

"I mean on the plus side, you look fabulous darling," Izuku drawled, Katsuki hopped on the spot clutching his stomach. Tsunade just kept trying to avoid falling from her chair.

"Oh my stomach, I'm going to throw up dango," She wiped a tear from her eye before looking at Jiraiya again and laughing some more.

"How do I get this off?"

"Wash your face, spend several minutes in a shower, brush your hair a lot and repeat for a couple days," Naruto summarized "Otherwise you'll see sparkles in your hair for a few months," Tsunade wheezed.

"Alright brat that's enough, go home, I'm going to try and restore my glorious appearance,"

"Can't restore what you never had," Izuku sang before grabbing his brothers and disappearing. Even from their house they heared Jiraiya hollaring

"UZUMAKI!!" Shisui flinched and Itachi simply sighed

"You've been home five minutes and already you're causing chaos," The taller Uchiha shook his head "Do I even want to know?"

"I may or may not have hidden a glitter bomb in one of Jiraiya's seals that he may or may not have taken directly to his face," Shisui roared with laughter while Itachi cracked a small smile. Sakura just stared catatonically until the door burst open and a thid blonde appeared, colliding directly with Naruto.

"YOU'RE BACK!" Ino cried hugging him, "I felt your chakra pulse while I was in the shop and rushed over soon as I could!"

"You're manning your families flower shop now huh?"

"Yeah, it's a nice time waster when not on missions with Sakura and Sai,"

"Sai?" Izuku looked around for the owner of the name.

"He's a former ROOT agent, according to Tsunade they were able to corner him recently but he managed to weasel his way out again, Sai was the one they managed to catch, luckily they removed the seal with the instructions you left behind," Sakura placated.

"You found Danzo and didn't tell us?"

"Because he got away,"

"I was here!"

"As a Shadow Clone," Itachi intervened, "Had you known you and Katsuki would've dropped everything to get back here, we weren't doing that," The greenette sighed and nodded in acceptance before his body straightened. "What's happened?"

"Sasuke," Naruto felt himself pale, the only way Izuku would know is if his Shadow Clone was dispelled, "Back to Tsunade, now," Naruto nodded and disappeared as Izuku reached for Katsuki.

Orochimaru burst in as the boys materialized. "Izuku, I'm so sorry," The grey Sannin almost fell over his own feet in his rush. "I know you trsuted me, I tried doing everything,"

"Orochimaru, what happened?!" Tsunade stood up from her chair, Jiraiya appeared in the door, having wiped most of the glitter from his face. The snake Sannin fell to his knees and Tsunade began healing his wounds.

"I don't know, we were on our way back, I had Karin, Suigetsu and Jugo from the prison Danzo forced me to keep them in, when ROOT attacked us, on my order they began hurrying straight here, Sasuke was the only one to stay behind with myself and Izuku's Shadow Clone, we were almost winning until Danzo himself appeared, he distracted Sasuke and must've put him under some sort of genjutsu because next thing I know, Sasuke has started killed Izuku's Shadow Clone and had disappeared with Danzo," Naruto's knuckles turned white. "Have the other three,"

"They are here Sensei, I could sense them arriving so I went to deal with them at the gate," Naruto's only blood relative appeared in the doorway. Tayuya led in a boy with purple eyes and sea foam white hair, a bespecaled girl with red shoulder length hair and a boulder of a man with short orange hair. "This is Suigetsu Hozuki," The purple-eyed boy smiled with a sharp toothed grin.

"Greetings,"

"Juzo," He nodded silently, a flat smile on his face. "And Karin Uzumaki,"

"I was told I had family here?" She seemed nervous. Tsunade rubbed her left temple.

"Orochimaru, you are helping with the paperwork to get them in as shinobi, Karin, meet Naruto, Izuku and Katsuki Uzumaki, orange is bloodline, other two are adopted, Tayuya is also an Uzumaki, however due to the fact you seem to have had limited interactions I'm guessing you didn't know that, brat, she's your responsibility now,"

"Karin you're going to shadow Tayuya for a while as probation, then you can do as you please once we've decided you're not planning on betraying us anytime soon," Naruto nodded, "I would love to give you an official welcome but at this point in time, my brothers and I were about to go and hunt down Danzo,"

"You can't,"

"You did not inform me you had found him, finding him led us to this situation, we are doing this Tsunade, Katsuki, Naruto get moving, you two are fastest without Raijin, I'll warp to you with Sakura," The blondes nodded as they ran towards the window and leapt away. He heard Izuku shift and face the Fifth Hokage. "I'm disappointed,"

"Been a while eh blondie?" Katsuki barked as they leapt from branch to branch, "Last I saw you we were pipsqueaks," Naruto laughed as they jumped.

"Heh, yeah, guess we all grew up,"

"Still a prankster though, Jiraiya proves it," Trees races passed them, "So how have you been? Izuku told me you don't like being alone a lot, so travelling with Jiraiya and a Shadow Clone,"

"It wasn't as bad as you think if I'm honest, we visited Wave country to see how they were doing after Gato, we visited Sunakagure and had some time with Gaara, only issue was Lightning country, even Stone was more welcoming, even after Kurotsuchi and Izuku broke up, there didn't seem to be any bad blood,"

"There won't be, Izuku told me how the relationships weren't so fragile a relationship issue would snap them, and she did dump him after all, it'd be kinda hard for them to blame us," Us, Naruto had to get used to that again, when it was Jiraiya, Izuku and him it wasn't hard to know who was talking about who. Now there was a whole village again and his clan was what? Five people strong now, and his family was, Sakura, Ino, Shisui, Itachi, Tsunade, Sakura, wait no he'd listed her twice now, Jiraiya, Gamabunta and Gamakichi, Ma and Pa, Itachi, wait fuck, did he say Itachi already? Nevermind. Suffice to say his family was large and it was getting larger again.

"How was your time in the Land of Iron?"

"Got used to the cold, but damn do those Samurai know how to make a bed, feather stuffed mattress, silk duvets, every night was heaven," Katsuki weaved around a particularly nasty branch. "Gonna miss them but I might send a Shadow Clone to Mifune sometime with a thank you gift, he adored Izuku's spicy katsudon,"

"Oh did he finally get it down?" Katsuki barked out a laugh.

"Nope, btu the Samurai surprisingly love spicy foods more than I do, so the more chilli he put in the more they wanted," They continued in silence for a second, "Y'know I think this is one of the first times you and I have hung out together exclusively," Naruto's eyes widened.

"Seriously? Has Izuku always been around when we hang out?"

"I, yeah I think so,"

"Man that is weird," They jumped apart for a couple seconds before moving back to the same path. "So what do you wanna know about me? I met Izuku when I was six, we started training together, when we were seven things went sidways,"

"I was seven when he disappeared," Katsuki nodded "Lines up, didn't see him much after we turned four, weekends he went missing and weekdays we were just tormented by our fam- I mean, our old genetic donors and replicas," Naruto knew that for Katsuki to talk so clinically about the Bakugos, they must be horrible people, which is why he made the decision to be one of the best brothers Katsuki could ask for, second only to Izuku, because Izuku was the best brother ever, period. "Anyway, if you want to know anything about me, there isn't actually much to know, I'm the second adopted member of the Uzumaki clan, third member overall, second Primal chakra user, recently I discovered my favourite colour is orange,"

"What, no way, mine too!"

"Mine's more muted than yours, like a dark orange instead of your, and I'm quoting Izuku here, 'kill me orange jumpsuits of not-hiding', but I can respect that you changed out the blue for black," Naruto grumbled about Izuku's decription of his jumpsuit, there was nothing wrong with it. He liked orange, least he didn't have Sasuke godawful bangs, (yes he remembered the word from way back when) then again bangs with his blond hair would look atrocious. "Anyway what's the old perv been like?"

"Not bad, he actually managed to stay away from the bathouses, still eye fucks,"

"Language," They both muttered before laughing.

"Anyway, still does that to the occasional babe but the shoot downs are glorious," They kept moving as Naruto felt something familiar in the air, "Sasuke's close, whatever Danzo did to him, we shouldn't Raijin in," Pushing his chakra around he alerted Izuku. A flash of green and Izuku was beside him with Sakura just behind them.

"Situation?"

"Nearby, not alone, aren't going to Raijin in,"

"Good, don't, let's get the drop on them," Izuku nodded, "Sakura, I know you've improved greatly so we aren't going to protect you, you need cover call for it otherwise we're all busy,"

"Understood captain,"

"Naruto, focus on Sasuke, I'm going to try get Danzo, Katuski and Sakura, whatever ROOT agents there are," They saw the large group moving through the trees just below them. Sasuke was among the large group, including one wearing Akatsuki robes and an orange mask with a swirl leading to the right eye. Danzo was also among them, leading the group next to the Akatsuki member. "Change of plans, Katsuki you're on Danzo, primal chakra can help genjutsu, Naruto stay on Sasuke, if you can either knock him out or push your chakra into his system, Sakura take out as many of those bastards as you can, I'll take Akatsuki man, understand?"

"Yes captain," The three nodded to him.

"Good, go!" They sped up and cut of the group in a clearing, immediately Izuku used his Primal Ice Mirror jutsu to trap them in the clearing. "Either give us back Sasuke Uchiha or preish where you stand," the Akatsuki member knocked his head with his knuckles.

"Aw poop, the Konoha ninja found us Danzo, looks like we hafta fight!" Izuku was gone, in front of the Akatsuki member in moments.

"Tobi, you are to take care of him, be careful he is deadly,"

"Flattery from a traitor," Izuku growled as the now revealed Tobi leapt into a section of the clearing, "I'll make your death just a little less painful for it," He disappeared to fight the masked man. Katsuki was next, charging forwards to attack Danzo, who also leapt away to a new segment.

"Get them!" He yelled to the ROOT agents, who Sakura readily met while Naruto carved a path through them to Sasuke.

"Oi dope! Break out of it!" The raven haired teen silently dodged his attacks. "So you're not talking to me are you?" The jaw remained clamped shut as his fist connected with it, sending Sasuke flying across the clearing. "Talk you bastard!"

"He can't!" Izuku yelled across the clearing, "Danzo's got him under orders to not reveal the seal under his tongue, so the mouth ain't opening unless we force it to," They heard Danzo laugh "It's his insurance policy, we won't kill him so long as the seal keeps Sasuke alive, we can't kill him unless we're okay with Sasuke going too," Naruto growled and frowned at the ravenette.

"Katsuki, swap partners!" The blonds swapped positions and Naruto began an onslaught against Danzo. "I will make you pay Danzo," Red chakra bubble over his body. Fury he had not felt filled his very being.

"How will you do that Jinchuuriki? You can't hope to defeat me demon," Izuku and Katsuki laughed as Sakura paused her fight to shake her head.

"You just pressed the demon button," She sucked her teeth as another ROOT member fell at her feet. Danzo snorted and eyed Naruto, who's skin began peeling away to reveal a scrambled mess of dark red chakra with eyes and a white smile. The distance between them was crossed in the blink of an eye.

"Y̷̡͚̰̩͌o̶̢͚̘̜̞͊̑̍͌͠ų̸̦̼̰̰̇͆̉̌͆ ̴͍̝̦̖̘͇̃s̷͉̭̠͍̽̓͐͑ͅͅh̴̨̨͍̥̥̙̍̂̒ȯ̸̪̘͎̖̲̆̓͂u̶̦̝̭̣̦̇̔͊̃͝l̸̬̭̦͈͆̾̅d̶̢͓̤̞̮̝̎͛̉͘n̸̼̪̰͔̓̍̈́͜'̴̧͎̰̹̙̉̈́͂̀̋t̸̰̙̋̂͛͂͋̾ ̶̧̮̹͕̋͐å̸̢͉̺̮̹͊̓͊͋̓ ̵͎̜̫͔͈̾͐̉͘d̵̡̹̭͕̊̃í̴̡͓͎̹̙̈́̉ḍ̶̙̼̳͙̞͛͂̓̇̅ ̴̝͒͆̾͜t̴̰̞̤̓͋̀̓h̷̨̤̖͓̮͑̉̒̊̊̎ä̶̧̢͙̲̣́̅̑̚t̶̗͙͖͖̙̐́̊͐͠ "

His voice warped into something unrecognizable, the words being the last of understandable speech. He dropped to all fours and began attacking Danzo wildly, causing the elder to go onto the back foot, simply concentrating on survival. "You can't kill me! Not unless you want the Uchiha to join his treacherous clan!" Naruto just roared and upped his attacks.

"He's not going to kill you," Izuku barked, "He's just going to make you fucking hurt!" Sakura had dispatched all ROOT agents and had begun helping Katsuki with Sasuke. Naruto zeroed in on Danzo and screamed a bone-chilling, blood-curdling sound. 

"Danzo, I think it's time to run away," Tobi cheered depressingly, "Now the nine-tails has come out to play we'll surely go home empty handed,"

"You may well be right, Uchiha!" Danzo called, only to see the ravenette unconscious between Katuski and Sakura. He grit his teeth and growled, "Next time you will either perish or join me,"

"Not likely Shimura!" Izuku yelled, trying to charge Tobi one last time. The man suddenly began swirling around his eye and disappeared into nothingness, Danzo leapt away, disappearing in the same manner. Naruto raged around the clearing, the waves of his chakra began shattering each mirror. "You two, get clear," Izuku began storming over to the raging Naruto.

"Izuku, no, it's too!" Izuku raised his arm while Naruto roared at him.

Whap

Naruto's head shook in confusion as it looked at Izuku, who was holding a rolled up newspaper in his hand. Katsuki and Sakura deadpanned as they watched Izuku beat Naruto over the head with it. Everytime Naruto screamed or growled was another whack around the head. The chakra beast began shrinking against Izuku before it grabbed his wrist and screamed in his face. Izuku pursed his lips and glared impassively. The red began to recede from the blond as he regained his self control. 

Whap

"Oi, what was that one for?"

"Losing control,"

Whap

"That's for being stupid enough to give me this power," Izuku tapped the paper to his thigh and it disappeared into a seal. "Alright Squad, we need to get back to Konoha with Sasuke now, Jiraiya can hopefully remove the seal before we break the genjutsu over him," They grouped together, supporting Sasuke between them, before disappearing with a flicker not even disturbing the wind.

The ravenette groaned as he sat up from the hospital bed. "Ugh," 

"Welcome back to the world sleeping beauty," Izuku teased,

"Shut it I-z-u-ku," Memories pelted the boy, "Oh my god I am so," He was tackled by a small red blur that pinned him down to the bed.

"Do you have any idea how worried I was?!" Tayuya Uzumaki clutched him tightly, "Orochimaru comes flying back telling everyone Danzo managed to ambush you and then get you under his control! I was so worried you were going to leave!" Naruto felt his heart warm at the scene, so far he'd just stood and watched silently as Izuku manned the doorway.

"We removed the seal while you were out of it and then Naruto shot a burst of chakra through you to break you out of the genjutsu they'd put you under applying the seal," The greenetted shook his head, "And all is forgiven, except the fact you were stubborn enough to stay behind even though they were after you," He chuckled nervously. 

"Heh, yeah, sorry abotu that, are the others?"

"Everyone is home, Itachi and Shisui are going to give you an earful for being stubborn, Ino and Sakura are just relieved you're okay, Katsuki is nursing that nice bruise to his ribs you gave him, Orochimaru is happy you're back, along with the other two Sannin, Kakashi is worried but he's being his childish self and not talking about it, don't worry I'll get it out of him eventually," The greenette shook his head, "They've all missed you both terribly, everyday my Shadow Clone was hearing how much they wanted you to get back, oh god Sakura had one clone try make ramen with her for a surp- y'know what? Forget I said that,"

"I kinda forgot you had a Shadow Clone back here while we were gone," Naruto shrugged

"I had several, learning all the hidden jutsu and listening out for kekki genkai for me to nick, by the way, Sakura has a dual affinity for earth and water, we might had a third wood style on Squad Seven if Tsunade approves my request to train her, I've had a Shadow Clone be an unofficial therepist for Kakashi for a while now and I think he's catching on, just, don't be surprised if he's more affectionate from now on, 'kay?" Sasuke whistled,

"You're a busy man Uzumaki Izuku," The greenette frowned.

"You have no idead,"

It had been a quiet night. Momo and her family had gone to yet another grand dinner and oh sweet christ were they getting old. Her mothers just kept introducing her to all these chicks that didn't understand responsibility. "Do you understand it though?" A voice startled her as she looked around until in a whirl of air, a figure was stood in front of her. Dressed all in black with a hood up. The only thing Momo could really discern was the fact they were wearing black sandals.

"Who are you?"

"Me? Nobody, less than nobody, technically I'm dead here, but also technically I don't exist since records of my existence have been erased,"

"What do you want with me?" She reached into her bag for the pepper spray.

"Oh nothing, they however," The figure pointed over her shoulder "Have been following you on your little walk for the last five blocks, recognize them?" Whirling around she saw two onimous figures leering towards her.

"No,"

"Are they the reason you're walking?"

"No, I just needed some fresh air and got lost, I don't know who they are but they look like thugs," The figure simply hummed and put a hand on her shoulder, an alien warmth spread through her system. "I figured as much, well whatever, ladies can I ask you please back away from us and go about your night?" A predatory smile in return, there was a gentle sigh, "Very well, if I could ask you turn around for this Miss," Momo turned around as the figure strode past her. The eerie part was the silence that followed, no sound of a fight, nothing being fired, drawn, transformed.

Pure silence.

"Don't turn aorund,"

"GAAH!" Momo will deny to her dying breath that she in fact jumped three feet forwards once the voice was over her shoulder.

"I guarantee you won't like it,"

"Are they dead?"

"No," The figure admitted "But I'd be hard pressed to say you'd understand what you were seeing," Against the figures wishes she turned around to see two more figures with the duo that had followed her. One had their hands to the ground as saplings sprouted from the concrete while the other was poking certain points on the bodies at high speeds. Both thugs were silent, their mouths seeming to refuse to open. Once that once done each figure looked the would be attackers in the eyes and the struggling bodies went limp. "Alright all done boss," One saluted before disappearing in a puff of smoke. The other tapped the trees that restrained the unmoving bodies before attaching a note to one and looking up. Momo stepped backwards as fire raced from their mouth into the open night, forming a blazing dragon that roared into the silence. It disappatated and the figure turned to smoke as well. "As I said, you won't understand, at least not yet," Momo was suddenly scooped up in a bridal carry and impossibly they were walking up thew wall to the rooves of the highrises around them. "Now to get you back to your party," They reached the roof and the figure began bounding forwards. Momo could feel the heartbeat through their chest and oddly enough began feeling comforted by it.

"How do I know this isn't all a ploy?"

"You don't, but you'll almost certainly never see me again and once I'm a mere memory you can't thank, then you'll realize I'm just trying to help," They quickly returned to the estate the party was being hosted on. Her mothers saw them approach and began dashing over. The figure's face was still masked in shadow despite the light shining at them. Momo barely made out dark green hair.

"Momo!"

"She is fine, unharmed, I intervened before the thugs drew close, I'd advise getting something ready to help deal with the shock that will settle in a few hours," The figure allowed her to stand, "Missus and Missus Yaoyorozu, I'd like to thank you for hosting such a lovely party, I wish my mothers would take me to such extravagant outings, unfortunately they believe I'm dead already," There it was again, if this person was dead there'd be missing posters or something.

"Is there any,"

"I'm classified as dead, I went missing over a decade ago, you have no chance of finding me as the recordsd were destroyed to cover up my disappearance and supposed death,"

"Are you quite?"

"My mothers are very thorough, if rumor got out that I was dead it would look very bad for my mother," The one he had the worse connection with.

"Ma'am,"

"I'm no madam I'm afraid Missus Yaoyorozu, now if you'll excuse me I must get back home, but before I do," A small blade was handed to her, she recognized it as a kunai. Around the handle was parchment covered in complex symbols. "If you ever need help again young Miss, please focus on that, it will alert me and I shall be by your side in second you do, now I really must be off," The figure was suddenly gone in a swirl of wind that reminded Momo oddly of a forest and where those leaves floating to the ground? Her mind faltered as she processed the last part. I'm no madam. In her mind's eye she pictured the figure again, wide shoulders, standing taller than her, thick arms and strong thighs, flat chest. Except it wasn't flat, Momo could feel the muscles under the shirt figure wore. It all lined up, even Moku, her twin brother had always seemed bulkier than her, not to mention the difference in hip width, the figure definitely had a masculine stance. Looking around the rooftops for any sign of the figure she mumbled to herself.

"Was I just saved by a man?"