Ninja's hero

Naruto tried to stretch as he woke up, only to find his arms pinned to the mattress. Ah, the mattress, truly a wonderful creation. After sleeping in the forests of a bed roll for three years, (Curse Jiraiya's frugality) Naruto's back felt more like a sixty year old's than a sixteen year olds. His arm pinned was also unfamiliar, since he'd not had bedmates sonce before he left. (No he does not ever count the Water country incident, Kurama and he never speak of it) The only ones willing to share a bed with him back then were Ino and Sakura, but those two had three years without him, surely they got partners already,

Right?

Because Naruto still hadn't had a relationship, ever. When they were younger sharing a bed seemed harmless enough, but as a sixteen year old, Naruto thought WAY too far into it. Pink hair shuffled in his vision and Naruto finally decided to look at his chest. Platinum blonde hair sat on the left of his chest and pink sat on the right. Ino and Sakur awere using him as a pillow yet again. Well they hadn't done it in three years, maybe they'd not find it as comfortable since he was more muscular than before. Either way Naruto was way to distracted by the two girls cuddling him. They both nuzzled further into his warmth and he did the only thing left in his mind.

He panicked.

Kurama was once again laughing at his suffering and being his regular unhelpful self while Naruto tried to move with the bodies on his arms. Sakura's leg lifted over his and he froze. Nope, not trying it, maybe he can fake being. "Oh, g'morning Naruto," Ino slurred smiling up at him.

Shinigami come take him now. Blond stared at blonde while she seemed to process where she was.

"Comfy, haven't slept so well in a while," She murmured before resting her head on his chest again. He could feel his heartbeat against her ear and counted down before Ino looked up at him in shock. Holding his breath for several seconds and he waited. Except she never lifted her head again, instead going back to sleep on Naruto. He rolled his eyes, just wonderful, exactly what he needed, she'd go to sleep again and forget he was here. She clung to his body like a monkey to a tree. Sakura stirred for a moment and rolled her face onto his chest. Oh god was that drool? He cringed silently, they were going to think he'd done something in the night. Sakura seemed to reach behind her and grab his wrist. 'Oh shit, she is waking up' He groaned mentally, until she simply rolled back into his chest with his arm now around her shoulders. Screaming into his mind he tried calling out mentally for Izuku, who sat and listened for a moment until. 

'Not my problem'

"Thanks bro," Naruto whispered, cursing his brother, he didn't even offer to send Katsuki or Sasuke for help. Even Itachi or Shisui would be useful, Tayuya would probably start a fight with them and Karin would lecture him on being a pervert. Kurama was still laughing childishly at him the entire time. Some fucking chakra beast he was.

'OI!'

Naruto sighed and decided to take the only course of action that would give a result. Gently waking them up. "Sakura, Ino, please wake up, I'm not sure my arms can last much longer without blood," He shook them in his arms gently. "Come on guys, time to get up and have breakfast," Before he could speak further, Sakura had pointed a kunai at him.

"I have waited three years for this Uzumaki, I am sleeping,"

"No you're not," He whispered "Come on, we can make pancake-oof!" Ino was suddenly up with both hands planted on his chest.

"Pancakes? I'm in!"

"Yo did someone say pancakes?" Sasuke's voice echoed

"We making pancakes?!" Katsuki was up now,

"Pancakes?" Karin.

"Pancakes?! Hell yeah!" Tayuya, only Izuku would be asleep now, if he wasn't already awake training. The greenette never stopped. Honestly it was concerning at this point but Izuku never let them worry for too long. Sakura grumbled into his chest while the house began cheering for pancakes and waking up.

"Yamanaka," She drawled, Ino froze and looked at the pinkette, "You're luck I'm comfortable or I'd kill you,"

"No you wouldn't," Naruto interrupted, squeezing her closer to him, "Because if you would I'd've died a long, long time ago," The kunai ended up in the wall and her fingernails scraped his chest. He chuckeld nervously before Sakura smiled with thinly veiled fury at him.

"You're putting blueberries in mine right? Thanks," She kissed his cheek quickly before leaving the room with Ino, leaving a very red, very confused and very aroused Naruto to sit in the bed, staring at the door.

"What?" His quiet voice could not oppose the screaming confusion in his head more.

When he reached the table he found it was more full than he expected, Kakashi was sat talking to the two elder Uchiha, the three Sannin were also laughing as they swapped stories of the last three years with Katuski, Tayuya, Ino and Sakura were welcoming Karin into the folds of mayhem planning a day of shopping and trouing the village and whatnot. Sasuke and Izuku were stood in the kitchen, the greenette loading the raven haired teen with plates stacked with pancakes. Sasuke smiled at Naruto as they passed in the doorway. Izuku quickly handing more plates to him. "You're welcome,"

"What?"

"I'm making the pancakes, I take it Sakura is expecting blueberries in hers this morning?"

"Dude, we got back yesterday, how are you already so,"

"No, you guys got back yesterday, technically I never left, even if it was just a Shadow Clone I was still here," Izuku expertly flipped another pancake into a stack, "If you are referring to the fact both Haruno and Yamanaka were in your bed this morning, it's because while you were gone we did some reorganizing, hence why Katsuki and I were in another room, or were you too busy panicking to notice?"

"Panicking," Naruto nodded, "So what, is it me and those two in the fourth room?"

"Close, 'Tachi and Shisui have managed to get their own apartment, next door actually, just space for them y'know? Kakashi bunks with them most nights since it's closer to Tsunade's office, Jiraiya and Orochimaru currently live with Tsunade, Katsuki and I moved into Sasuke's room so we've still got two spare rooms," The math definitely checked out. "And now with Karin living with us, the girl's would've had four in a room which would be too much space, so really the move about benefits everyone,"

"Except me," Naruto hissed as he stuck a plate to his forearm with chakra, perfectly balancing it. "I have those two bunking with me and they're going to kill me one morning when it,"

"Naruto, why do you think they agreed to the move?" Izuku interrupted "They could've easily just said no and left Karin and Tayuya to a fourth room," With that bombshell Izuku put another plate on Naruto's head and sent him out of the kitchen. People began swiping plates of pancakes from him and digging in before Izuku exited the kitchen and swiped the second to last plate from Naruto's head. The blond found himself sat at the head of the table with Izuku on his left and the girls on his right.

"Uh, why am I at the head?"

"You're the head of the clan Uzumaki-dono," Izuku teased,

"You mean Uzumaki-sama," Karin harshly corrected,

"No I meant dono because number one I've known my brother since before the academy and two, he hates being reffered to in any way other than Naruto," Izuku didn't even look away from his pancakes as he drowned them in syrup. "And anyway, you're head of the clan so you sit at the head of the table," A fork was waved around before stabbing pancakes.

"But I thought we,"

"In a sense, yes, we are both heads, because you are the head of the main branch or the bloodline branch, anyone that has Uzumaki blood or marries someone with Uzumaki blood falls under your jurisdiction, I'm head of the side branch, the adopted or halfblood branch, anyone tht doesn't display Uzumaki kekki genkai or chakra reserves falls under my jurisdiction, however you can override anything I say since you are the main big head, did I get all that right Tsunade?" The blond Sannin nodded with syrup drippling from her chin before wiping the back of her hand to get it.

"Sounded right, I can't get involved in the affairs unless you nivite,"

"Tsunade, no matter what, if you think I'm doing something wrong with the Uzumaki clan, please tell me," Naruto smiled "So long as I am head of the Uzumaki clan, Tsunade Senju, fifth Hokage can get involved with clan affairs when she deems it necassary," He attacked his pancakes quickly as to eat something before talking again. "So who is actually in the clan right now?"

"Well, currently, us, Katsuki, Tayuya and Karin, there most definitely will be more and I have no doubt Kumo will enjoy hearing the Uzumaki are rising again,"

"And this time in Konoha," Tsunade rubbed her temples, "Oh the paperwork," Her eyes flashed open, "Shit I forgot to wake up Shizune!"

"It is fine Hokage-sama," Shizune's voice caught everyone's attention, Izuku quietly got up and turned the stove back on, "I knew you would be early this morning so I set an alarm," An extra seat was added to the table and Shizune was welcomed warmly, she thanked Izuku for the plate before everyone began chatting again and the atmosphere was back to lively.

"Um, excuse me?" A new voice was at the door, "I was told by Orochimaru-sama to come here after he sent word Konoha was safe?" Naruto whipped his head around to see a grey haired boy with large glasses stood fidgeting at the door, "My name is Kabuto, I'm Orchimaru's assitant? He recently came back to the lab I was stationed in claiming everything was getting shut down and we needed to flee before Danzo got us, unfortunately I was seperated from the group when ROOT attacked us," The blond nodded and Jiraiya, Orochimaru and himself stood up walking over to Kabuto. "Orochimaru-sama,"

"Kabuto, open your mouth," The shinobi complied and opened his mouth, Orochimaru puleld the tongue out and lifted it up. There sat on the underside of his tongue was a ROOT marking. "Jiraiya?"

"Five minutes, Naruto, put him?" The blond grunted and was suddenly behind the ROOT agent, swiftly delivering a hand chop to the back of their neck. Kabuto crumpled as Orochimaru caught him.

"Take him upstairs, use my bedroom, if you need to tie him up I can grab you some rope,"

"Won't need it, he shouldn't wake up before I remove it," Jiraiya and Orochimaru both moved upstairs.

"So, did he really behave?" Tsunade seemed to ask nobody, but everyone knew she was talking to Izuku, who simply sighed.

"For the most part yes, he oggled and drooled and flirted but never touched, never went to the bathhouse, never tried to get a prostitute either," Everyone cringed at the last part. "As far as I am aware Jiraiya has been able to mend his attitude, as well as deal with several of his demons that instigated such behaviour as an outlet,"

"Alright I suppose I shall have to talk to him about what happens next, now thank you for the breakfast but Shizune and I must get to work, Konoha can't run itself,"

"The civilian council proved as much," Itachi added sighing heavily, "I suppose I shall come with you to see if there are any missions I can do for now, Shisui, can you please take that blindfold off now? They all know you took Izuku's eyes,"

"He what?" Sasuke almost choked,

"Now everyone knows," Itachi nodded before turning back towards Tsunade, "Shall we take our leave?" The three nodded and bid their farewells before leaving. Sasuke was still staring at Shisui in shock, "But you said,"

"I know what I said but without eyes I might as well be dead, it was only a year ago, I asked Tsunade to do it, we figured I'd just be left without the Sharingan, as it were the Primal chakra also had more influence this time too," Shisui took off the hitai-ate to reveal his emerald green eyes, Naruto nodded, following along so far until.

"Wait, WHAT THE FUCK?!" Sasuke and Naruto did a double take as Shisui's eyes turned into a complete Sharingan, "You have the Sharingan again?"

"Yes," Shisui nodded, "I'm not sure how things will progress, if I can ever get the Eternal Mangekyou or even if I can get the Mangekyou, however the fact I have the Sharingan at all is a miracle," They all nodded in agreement, "Now I'd appreciate if this didn't go any further than the table, Kakashi, Ino, Tayuya," All three noddded in silent agreement.

"Awesome, now I have a few things to do around the house after breakfast, I believe you owe Katsuki a spar too Naruto, why don't you guys do that today? I'd be surprised if they allow you guys on missions after you got back so soon,"

"I suppose I'll got see if Itachi needs help on a mission or whatnot," Kakashi excused himself "Thank you for breakfast, Izuku if I could talk to you at some point today, even a Shadow Clone would do," The greenette nodded, "Wonderful, enjoy your days everyone," He disappeared in a swirl of leaves.

Naruto skid along the surface of the water, grunting. Katsuki really didn't hold back. Both blonds were fighting with their all in the regular training ground. They stood opposite each other at one end of the river running through the area. Slowly they began movign towards the centre until both were running at high speeds. Naruto leant towards Katsuki, his path curving into the cliff. The red eyed teen smirked and slowed down for a second as Naruto began climbing the cliff. They were as fast as the other, clashing as they reached the top of the cliff. The sparring continued as both boys flew into the air. Katsuki kicked out with his left, Naruto raised his arm to absorb the impact, using it to rotate and aim to strike Katsuki's head. It was stopped by his hand and pushed away, Naruto aimed a punch but it was deflected with a back hand swipe. His palm struck Katsuki's fist  down before it could land on his sternum. The two began falling and ran back down the cliff, occasionally clashing. Once they were on horizontal ground again Katsuki did some impressive gymnastics to put space between them. A bo-staff puffed into existence from a seal on the back of the boy's arm before it was snatched from the air. He spun the elongated stick before hopping into a stance. Naruto pulled out a scroll and soon held his own staff. They shared a moment of eye contact before charging each other. The wood met with a crack and the fighting began again each movement was creating an opening before trying to strike. Naruto swung it wide and let it bounce of Katsuki's defence. His hands released it for a moment as it spun around his neck and attacked Katsuki's other side. he grabbed it again and jabbed forwards, hopping on one foot. Once he'd forced Katsuki backwards, Naruto stabbed the end of his staff into the ground and kicked off, flipping over his blond brother. The staff stopped just shy of the boy's back. "I think that means I win,"

"You'd think wouldn't you?" His grunted and swept the staff under his shoulder, knocking Naruto's up. Now he was off balance Katsuki took the time to turn around and spin the staff around, perfoming serveral attacks in the mean time. Naruto managed to avoid or deflect most of them and charged his pole at Katsuki.

"Enough!" Both boys paused, their staffs inches from the other's neck. "Katsuki you're coming on in leaps and bounds, I thought it'd take a lot longer for you to get so skilled, Naruto," Izuku folded his arm, pking the inside of his cheek with his tongue, "You're still holding back,"

"I would've killed him," The greenette shrugged,

"Fair assessment, Katsuki don't take this as a loss or a pity victory, yours skills are lightyears beyond expectations and you should take pride in that," The red eyed boy stood up a bit straighter. "Now, you and I need to go brief Tsunade on the things our clones found, Naruto you've got some visitors," The sly grin Izuku gave before he and Katsuki disappeared wasn't helping Naruto's sudden nerves. Sakura and Ino began walking over to him, oh his nervers got worse, is this what a panic attack felt like.

"Uh, hey girls," His calm voice betrayed his overheating brain. "What, um, what can I er, what can I do for you?"

"Naruto," Sakura began, "I just, I wanted to say sorry for this morning, it's been a long time since I've slept as well as I did last night," She bowed, "I understand if you don't want us in the house," The blond stared at her before looking at Ino, who shrugged, his gaze back on Sakura and Naruto couldn't help the bubble of laughter that escaped his chest. Then again, and again, until he was fully laughing at the confused pair.

"Why would I ever want you guys out of the house? You pointed a kunai at me because I woke you up, sounds like a decent reaction to me," He sighed and continued "Look I don't know why you seemed to sleep better but,"

"It's because you're with us again," Ino interrupted, "I mean, we've missed you the last few years, we genuinely didn't know if you'd died or if you'd ever come back," Her lower lip quivered, "We're just, we're glad you're home," They both hugged him tightly.

"Hey, so, I think I'm about to make things awkward but um," He waved a finger between the three of him. "What is this? Us? You two?" Both girls flushed for a minute, he could almost see the steam leaving Sakura's ears, Ino just gaped before shaking her head.

"We, uh, we were, hoo, okay," Ino tried, "We, gah!" Covering her face with her hands Ino seemed to refuse to look at him. "I can't say it," She mumbled, "Sakura,"

"WHAT?! I CAN'T DO IT!" The two engaged in a silent contest of wills.

"Do what?" They froze as if they'd just remembered he was present. "Look just, say whatever it is quickly and I'll see if I under-,"

"Wewerehopingyou'dbeourboyfriend!" Sakura clamped a hand over her own mouth as her eyes widened, his brow furrowed.

"Our boyfriend?"

"We, spent a lot of time thinking about it, uh, oh Kami I can't believe I'm saying this to you," Ino had gone bright red, "We, figured instead of," She gulped "Of competing for you and driving ourselves apart again, we could, we uhh, we could....Share...You?" Naruto blinked, once, twice, Kurama gave him a bit of chakra and nope, definitely wasn't a genjutsu. Naruto gazed at both of them, but they refused to meet his eye, looking everywhere else.

"So, let me get this straight, I was gone three years, in that time you've rekindled your friendship?" They both nodded "Both decided you loved me?" Nods again, "And you discussed that instead of driving another wedge between you, you'd ask if I minded dating both of you?"

"We know it's sil-,"

"Yeah okay," He shrugged

"What?" Ino deadpanned, "You mean, just like that?"

"Yeah, I mean, you already sleep on me, live with me, I make you guys breakfast, take you out to dinner, I've been helping you cope when things got too much," Listing it off on his fingers he smiled "Shoot there's really not much we haven't done, Sakura kissed me this morning," The pinkette looked inches away from passing out. Ino had somehow gone even redder, now bordering on going scarlet. "Besides I get two beautiful girls to call mine and they're both okay with it?" They snapped back up to look at him in surprise, "What guy wouldn't want that?"

"You really think,"

"We're beautiful?" Naruto frowned,

"Why wouldn't,"

"We're kunoichi, we'll be covered in dirt and blood and sweat and bruises and,"

"And it sounds like all of that can be taken care of with a nice hot bath, besides, who cares? You could be covered head to toe in mud and I'd still say you were pretty,"

"Even with her inhumane strength and my, well, almost psychotic knowledge of torture?" Naruto laughed,

"That means you're both badass kunoichi and kickass women, makes it even better in my book!" Their eyes began watering as they smiled and jumped at him.

The three were walking back to the house together, Ino had taken his right hand while Sakura held his left. Something had been tugging at the back of his head so they decided to try and find Izuku to help. Naruto was also waiting for Kurama to wake up to see if he could identify the issue. The sun had almost finished setting when they reached the house. They walked in to see Shisui, Itachi, Izuku and Sasuke playing cards while Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Katsuki held their own game. The Sannin and Katsuki were complaining about 'Sharingan users and their stupid bluff reading', gazing over Naruto found that yes, the dojutsu users in fact had their Sharingans active while playing. Itachi spared him a glance and silently nudged Shisui under the table, nodding to the door. While Shisui was distracted Izuku leant round to read his cards. "So you finally did it," Shisui grinned "About time you asked him," Tsunade looked over too and smiled at the three. 

"Naruto, this goes without saying but," Her face became stern, "Don't hurt my students,"

"Hai, hai Tsunade," Naruto sighed, "Izuku are you done yet?"

"Almost, I raise you all ten thousand,"

"Fold," Itachi and Sasuke mumbled at once, putting their cards down on the table. Shisui grinned and looked at Izuku.

"Sorry little buddy," The cards were put face up proudly, "Straight flush with a King high,"  Naruto peered at the cards, a nine of diamonds, ten of diamonds and the three picture cards sat gazing at the ceiling. Izuku just sighed and went to put his cards down. With a smirk he flipped them over.

"Royal Flush in Spades, Ace high beats King high, read'em and weep sensei," Shisui slammed his hands down on the table and groaned staring at the cards in hatred. "What's up Naruto?" The greenette scooped the chips towards himself and began stacking them neatly.

"I've head this thing in the back of my head, pulling on my mind," Naruto let go of the girls' hands and waved a finger behind his head, "If it was a Raijin I'd recognize the chakra," Izuku hummed for a moment. Rubbing his chin he paused long enough to smack Sasuke's hand away from his pile of Ryo. 

"Have you spoken to Kurama?"

"He's not woken up yet, little fox needs his nap time,"

'Oi! I heard that!' Naruto shook his head at Izuku.

'Then can you recognize the chakra that's trying to summon me?'

'What? Oh, yeah, that is Shukaku' Naruto froze.

"Shit! Gaara!" Naruto ran over to Sasuke, "Tsunade get a squad to Suna asap, Sasuke, Izuku and I need to go rescue Gaara," The older blonde nodded as the boys disappeared in a flash of green and yellow light.

"Anyone gonna tell me who Gaara is?"

Gaara was unconscious on a table as the boys arrived, surprising a blond with a weird device over their right eye and a second redhead, both of which were dressed in black robes with red clouds dotted over them, "Hi," Naruto punched the blond away, "I'd really appreciate if you didn't hurt my friend," Quickly taking in their surroundings revealed they were in a sort of cave. "Sasuke, can you use Susan'oo?"

"Only the ribs really, I need to build up chakra to put into it,"

"That's fine, if this place collapses, get Gaara underneath it," Izuku nodded, he was alread yin his ANBU gear, the mask over his face. "Fox, remember codenames, Raven, keep close to red, this is Deidara and Sasori, rouge nin, Stone and Sand, in that order," Naruto looked down to see he was now clad in the same ANBU gear as Izuku, looking over to Sasuek revealed he was dressed the same too. "Fox, did you hear me?"

"Keep close to Sasori, Deidara specializes in explosives and he can't explode us without exploding puppet master, the hard part is keeping away from the puppets at close range," Sasori pulled out a scroll and a thousand puppets were suddenly behind him, connected to his fingertips by almost invisibly thin, sky blue strings. Chakra threads.

"Change of plans, stick with Deidara, I'll cut Sasori loose, be on guard there may be backup nearby," Sasuke and Naruto nodded, Izuku charged forwards as he drew his tanto, the blade starting to glow light blue. Naruto grinned as he focused on Deidara. The rogue-nin was cackling madly about making new art while throwing explosive clay at the dup. "Sasuke, how do we want to do this? Incapacitate or decapitate?"

"Well, Izuku didn't specify, but I'd like to test my kenjutsu, Orochimaru taught me well," The ravenette grinned as he drew the tanto, "It's smaller than I'm used to but it should work," Naruto drew his own and smiled, "Plus Izuku taught me the Flying Raijin, I can't use it as often as you two but I should manage this battle,"

"Your forte is Genjutsu so a Time-Space jutsu will destroy your reserves,"

"OI! I'm still here bastards!" Deidara shouted angrily "Don't ignore me, assholes,"

"Language," Both boys snapped, "By all means," Naruto swept an arm forwards, "Lead the way," Sasuke shimmered and was running straight at Deidara, who threw small white creatures at him. Naruto was i nfront of him in a second, matching his pace and swiping to catch the clay, disappearing to a nearby kunai and throwing them back at Deidara. As his hand made the sign the clay exploded around him.

"Motherfucker!" Deidara gave Naruto his attention, a mistake he quickly rectified dodging the silver swipe of a blade. The rogue was now on the defensive, trying to throw any explosives he head at the Uchiha, which Naruto would Raijin away. It quickly became a game of cat and mouse, with Deidara constantly on the back foot, avoiding every swipe and stab Sasuke launched by merely millimetres. Eventually Deidara reached into a pouch and molded two large handfuls of clay together. Sasuke closed in yet again as Deidara winded back to throw the clay. Naruto warped in again and planted a hand on Deidara's chest instead of grabbing the putty. The Sharingan user noticed the movements immediately and put space between himself and the blonds. Deidara laughed as he threw the igniting clay towards Sasuke and turned to watch Sasori and Izuku fight. He froze when he felt something tap his shoulder.

"I think this is yours," Naruto dropped the clay at his feet before retrating to Sasuke.

"Oh fu-!" The rogue blond was cut off as an explosion sent him to the ceiling of the cave in seconds and then fell straight back to the floor. Naruto walked over quickly and gently searched for a pulse. Sasuke looked over at him and he shook his head. Deidara was dead. They began sealing away the body and watched as Sasori fought Izuku, the pair were surrounded by limp puppets, the redhead looking livid as Izuku kept sliving through the chakra strings with his tanto. Sasori was using his puppets carefully, hit and run tactisc of failing to land attacks and retreating faster than they charged. Izuku deftly dodged the attacks and pulled out his own scroll.

"Puppet style: Silent army!" Izuku put away his sword as chakra strings stretched from his fingers tips, connecting to a hundred different puppets floating in the air. "A puppet master in Suna taught me everything he could and then let me go through their catacombs, you were quite the spectacle Akasuna no Sasori," Izuku's fingers began weaving intricately as he conversed with the rogue nin, "Twenty years ago you departed from Sunagakureon a mission to create something that exists forever, you turned your own body into a puppet to use with a core retaining the last of your humanity, allowing you to live on in the body, your other body Hiruko, was destroyed in your confrontatioin with Gaara when your overconfidence in the defensive ability of the body caused it to be crushed in a Sand Burial, my clones learned everything there is to know from Suna before dispelling the day before yesterday," Izuku smirked at puppets tore each other apart. Suddenly Sasori's puppets dropped to the floor as the redhead's arms went limp. Izuku turned into a puff of smoke, revealing it had been a Shadow Clone for a time. The real Izuku was stood in Sasori's shadow, his tanto piercing through Sasori and coming out the front of his cloak. "And I will use all of my knowledge to defeat those that threaten my family," The sword was dragged back with a high pitched whine before the greenette expertly swung it around in his hand and put it away. Izuku then pulled the cloak away to reveal that, yes, Sasori's body was a puppet and his tanto had speared the core in the centre of the chest. Naruto and Sasuke began to walk over as he removed the core. "I suppose it'd make a nice gift for Kankuro, he is technically the best puppet master in Suna now," The body was sealed into a scroll and he made a single hand movement. All three boys were suddenly back in their regular clothing. Gaara shortly began stiring before looking around.

"Naruto?" The redhead sat up slowly, "What happened?"

"As far as we know Sasori and Deidara were able to kidnap you from Suna in the night before Shukaku could send out chakra via the Flying Raijin marker in your seal, after a time Naruto and Kurama were able to figure out it was Shukaku's and that the pair of you were in trouble, the cloak around," Izuku turned to where Deidara had been before coughing into his fist, "The remains of the cloak from Deidara's corpse show that they were both part of the Akatsuki and most likely after Shukaku, and probably planning on killing you in the process of extracting him," With the direct explanation aside Izuku smiled reassuringly.

"And we showed up to save you! It was awesome y'know!" Naruto beamed. Gaara shook his head and smiled,

"I am truly blessed to have brothers like you looking out for me, Father sent word immediately then?"

"Dude were you not listening?" The blond shook his head, "Bro, Shukaku pushed some chakra into the Flying Raijin part of the jutsu to let us know you were in danger, your fastest shinobi probably haven't even made it halfway yet," Naruto smirked widely, "C'mon let's get you home,"

"Which way is home exactly?"

"Don't worry, I had my clone place a marker in your dad's office remember?" Izuku grabbed Sasuke and Gaara while Naruto just put a hand on his shoulder. The four disappeared in a flicker of green light.

"SWEET KAMI!" The Kazekage cried as he leapt from his desk, immediately Suna ANBU were ready to attack. Upon recognizing Izuku and Gaara all stood down and relazed though. NAruto grinned and raised a hand.

"Hiya Kazekage-sama, you lose this?" He patted Gaara on the head. The Kazekage simply gazed.

"To think Tsunade was able to send aid so,"

"Tsunade didn't send aid, hell I don't even think she got the message yet," Izuku hummed casually.

"Then how?" Izuku walked over to Gaara and lifted up the teen's shirt,

"Here," He pointed into the seal, "When we restructed Gaara seal we also added the technique formula for our Flying Raijin jutsus, once he was taken and rendered unconscious, Shukaku pushed Tailed beast chakra into the seal, notifying us that Gaara was in trouble, we were by his side by the time your messenger would've gotten halfway to the border,"

"You marked my son?"

"I told you we had plans in case events such as this one happened, I asked for you to place your trust in my judgement and that it would be proven if the time ever unfortunately came," Izuku rationalized to the Kazekage "I have applied a formula to each Jinchuuriki I have come across, if at any point they ever needed my help, I have been there, so far I saved Fu of Takigakure, aided Yagura Karatachi and rescued Han of Iwagakure, as well as recently rescue Gaara Uzumaki of the Uzumaki Suna branch house,"

"Dad? We heard yelling?" Izuku lifted a finger as if suddenly remembering something.

"Come in guys, it's just Izuku, Naruto and Sasuke, they already got Gaara back," The older Sand Siblings burst into the room.

"Gaara?!" Temari immediately took up her younger brother in a bone crushing hug. "Kami we were so worried about you!" Izuku tapped Naruto's shoulder and took a seal before he walked over to the Kazekage's desk.

"The rogues that took him were part of the Akatsuki, rogues Deidara of Iwakagure," The body was unsealed on the floor. "And puppet master Subaku no Sasori of Sunakagure," The puppet body was unsealed on the desk of the Kazekage. "Konoha shinobi Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke were able to work together to defeat Deidara while I took down Sasori alone using the puppetry skills taught to me by Kankuro, that being said, here you go," Izuku handed the body to Kankuro "As thanks for teaching me all the skills to bring him down, I have already destroyed the core, so there is no need to fear it coming back, nor his soul being reanimated," Izuku smiled as Kankuro gazed at the body, "Good luck mastering it, sensei,"

"Alright boys, you can go home, I shall send another messenger to tell Tsunade to stand down,"

"Oh, actually, just a second," Izuku disappeared and reappeared holding a very confused Suna shinobi by the shoulder.

"Kazekage-sama? I just arrived in Konoha and was briefin Lady Hokage," They looked around the room to see Gaara sat in a chair, smiling and waving. "Kami they work fast,"

"No, the three boys here were able to react faster than us, they knew he was in trouble before you met the border and then rescued him before you could get to Konoha, Uzumaki Izuku here just saved you the return trip of what is now a moot mission,"

"If I may Kazekage-sama," Izuku stepped forward again, "I have a suggestion that could benfit both of our villages,"

Itsuka crept along the shadows. It was late at night and her dark clothing helped her remain hidden. Who was she tailing? A group of criminals that seemed to be dealing in various drugs. Should she be doing it? No she's sixteen and hoping to get into UA university, but can she do it? Absolutely, these wimps had barely dangerous quirks. "You guys suck at sneaking around," A voice made all five inhabitants of the alleyway jump, "Including you Miss Kendou," Crap someone knew her, but who? Actually, nevermind, she now had four criminals staring at her ready to kill. Her knees began wobbling at the amount of murderous intent the criminals leaked towards her. "Wow, that really all you guys got?" The voice seemed disappointed, suddenly one of the four collapsed, fainted from what appeared to be fear as a further two fell to their knees and began throwing up. The last criminal  waved their hand around wildly, pieces of metal flying around them trying to find the source of the voice. There was a sudden breeze down the alley as a figure appeared behind them. "Boo," They whispered, the woman screamed and turned around, only to fall flat on their back from a punch directly to the face. The two throwing up were knocked out by swift kicks to the temple. A second figure appeared in a puff of smoke and began tying up the criminals while the original moved towards Itsuka.

"W-who are you?"

"Irrelevant, I don't exist here, technically," Itsuka opened her mouth to talk, "No records of birth, death, criminal charges, jobs, bank accounts, addresses or otherwise," Arms were raised from a cloak placatingly, "And I also mean you no harm,"

"But you,"

"I incapacitated foes you greivously underestimated that surely would've killed you without hesitation, mercy, remorse or difficulty," She grabbed the wrists of the stranger and pushed them against the wall, pinning the mysterious person. "My my, so forward, at least buy me dinner before pinning me down," Ignoring her rising blush Itsuka glared at the finger,

"Who are you?" She was suddenly holding a trashbad as the figure put a hand on her shoulder.

"No-one of consequence, just a passerby that saw you were about to do something incredibly stupid, your outing last night ended in disaster and I wanted to make sure you made it home alive this time,"

"Y-you," She turned around and began going pale.

"Know where you live? Yeah, because as I just said you suck at sneaking around," The figure moved their hands back into the cloak, "But I mean no harm, I will do nothing with the information, I merely needed it to make sure you were safe tonight," She was suddenly in a bridal carry as the figure walked up the wall.

"How are you,"

"Trade secret, but I'll give you a hint, same way I made the clone,"

"Multiple quirks?"

"Nah, cop a feel, it'll confuse you even more," She looked down to the chest she was resting against, shyly resting a hand against it. As she explored the muscle hidden under the thin clothing she inhaled softly, almost unaware of the fact they were currently leaping from rooftop to rooftop.

"Male?" She had never met, never seen one before, not even in books or on social media.

"And I believe this is your stop," They landed on the wall next to Itsuka's bedroom window, her open bedroom window. Then in a blink, she was stood inside of her bedroom, having gone through a window that was clearly too small to fit them both through. The figure laid her on her bed and seemed to pause, before softly exhaling from their nose. "I know you won't stop your little escapades, so here," A small knife like weapon was put on her desk, "Try and activate your quirk on it and I'll be able to come help you if you need it, and please, for the love of Kami," (The fuck's a kami?) "Do not prevent your pride from calling for help," They He turned to leave, Itsuka scrambled up quickly and grabbed their sleeve.

"Will you really come and help me?" She whispered softly.

"If I believe you need it, you are strong willed Itsuka Kendou, it is a shame your body can not match your mind,"

"Can I ever see you again?" Already he had left an impression on the ginger teen.

"I will answer your call if you truly want it," He spoke cryptically.

"And how will you know?"

"Because the summon will be stronger," A heavy pause "You should rest now, tonight will shake rattle your nerves," Itsuka mumbled something barely loud enough for him to stop and chuckle silently. A second popped into existence as the first disappeared in a draft and several green leaves. "If you need me to stay until you fall asleep," The man spoke quietly as he pulled her chair from her desk. "Then I will,"

"And you have no name for me to call you?" Itsuka yawned as she hid below her covers. He pndered for a moment before whispering.

"For now, you can just call me Kage," His arms were folded as he crossed his feet. Itsuka smiled as she felt warmth radiate from her room as she felt safety leak from Kage as he guarded her.