Ninja's hero

 Tsunade nodded slowly. "On paper it sounds like a great idea," They were all gathered in her office, Naruto, Izuku, Hiashi, Tsunade (obviously) and even the Kazekage after a quick Raijin by Izuku. It had taken a few days of organizing and deliberating, especially with the Hyuugas to make the meeting happen. Now however, things were going almost perfectly.

"I mean, the people of Suna are all for it, having a member of the Hyuuga clan, not to mention the heiress herself guard Gaara? Temari is already getting ready to pack," The Kazekage shrugged "It did not take much deliberation,"

"While the benefits to both villages is quite incredible," Hiashi bowed his head, "I don't see why we must send Hinata, Neji or Hinabi would be better choices,"

"Hyuuga-sama," Izuku opens diplomatically, "The reason those Kumo nin came those years ago, was because Hinata in the heiress, they knew she would give them Byakugan wielders, as it stands the attack could happen again, of course we would all put a stop to it instantly, however if we were to make the diplomatic swap, we would have one of the Kazekage's children aiding our ranks, teaching them things we have yet to learn, while Hinata has the protection of Sunakagure and Shukaku's Jinchuuriki Gaara Uzumaki,"

"He is also Uzumaki?"

"Sunakagure does not put emphasis on clans within our borders, here it is your skill that earns you respect, not a family name," The Kazekage admitted "Gaara becoming an Uzumaki was of no consequence and with a bigger family he is better protected from both external and internal threats, should his demons come back to haunt him," Hiashi nodded again. "I understand as a father you are protective of your daughter and as a leader you worry for your people, however if Hinata was to come here, she would be welcomed with open arms and respected amongst our forces, if only because she is one of few able to pass Gaara's impenetrable guard, only myself a few others have ever been able to do it, and yet Hinata is able to do it regularly," Hiashi's eyes widened in surprise. "Even Uzumaki Izuku had difficulty doing it more than twice in a row," Naruto nodded, he knew how hard it was to break through the sand defence.

"I-if I may father," Hinata spoke quietly from her father's side. "Being able to strengthen the bonds between our villages and being able to share knowledge with Suna-nin seems like a worthy reason to trade, I am quite honoured that I was the first choice,"

"It was only logical," Izuku called out, "When combing the three-sixty enhanced vision with Gaara's defence, the two of you would become a moutain to move for anyone attacking from any range, the Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists that Neji, yourself and I developed, combined again with the absolute defence of Gaara's sand control, means you have almost insurmountable offence and defense,"

"You and Neji developed a technique together?" Hiashi turned to his daughter.

"A-after hearing what Naruto, I-I-Izuku and Sasuke were doing with t-the Rasengan, I could h-hardly sit by and watch them ch-charge ahead without me," The Hyuuga head rounded to the green Uzumaki.

"And you swear there are things we can learn from Suna we have yet to learn ourselves?"

"With Temari as a member of our forces we can also have Kankuro as an aide to diplomatic missions, he could teach puppetry to our own forces, Temari would be able to teach Konoha how to use weapons such as the fan blade she uses,"

"Alright, it was also mentioned that there would be a second sent with Hinata?"

"Yes, I wish to send Karin Uzumaki,"

"She is not,"

"I understand she is not a full chuunin of Konoha, yet she is a ward of the Uzumaki clan, which now has a branch house in Suna, after meeting Chiyo on my travels I discovered that Suna's medical corp and all around knowledge of medical ninjutsu is severely lacking and while I taught them as much  fuinjutsu as possible I was still learning medical ninjutsu on my travels, therefore I feel that sending Karin will work twofold," Izuku held up two fingers "Number one, she will advance Suna's medical knowledge and allow it to make great strides in medical abilities, possibly even using our team style of having a med-nin as a full member of each team, and number two, upon improving Suna's knowledge, she will also confirm her allegiance to the Uzumaki clan and thussly Konoha and Suna alike," Everyone else stared in silence as the Kazekage whisled.

"Remind me again why you did not wish to become an aid of the Hokage?"

"I don't like paperwork," Izuku shrugged, much to the humour of Hiashi and the Kazekage. Both of whom chuckled mildly before the head of Sunagakure continued.

"Both guests will be residing in the Kazekage estate of course, under the further protection of our ANBU, where would Temari be staying?"

"With the Uzumaki's," Tsunade shook her head, "Honestly at this point their house is more protected than my own, with two Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake next door, Uchiha Sasuke residing with Uzumaki Izuku, Naruto, Tayuya, Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino and all three Sannin often visiting, you'd be hard pressed to find a place with more A and above class ninja in one space at one time, in the Land of Fire,"

"Or the Land of Wind," The Kazekage admitted, "The headquarters for ANBU don't have that many people in it for more than five minutes, not to mention these boys have now defeated three of the Akatsuki members, honestly when Izuku would study under me the ANBU took it as time off, even in my office Izuku would be the only one in the room," A gentle laugh. Naruto felt somethign in the back of his head and coughed,

"Apologies everyone, I have to go and deal with a pressing matter," He gave a grave look to Tsunade, "It appears team ten found some rather unsavory rogues," She nodded as he disappeared in a flash of yellow. Everyone looked at Izuku.

"What? He can handle himself,"

At Ino's side he stepped forward, pushing the blonde back and down, out of the way from a scythe. His hair brushed against the blade before his fist dug into the gut of the attacker. The earth was torn up as they slid back on their heels. "Hoho? Another sacrifice for Lord Jashin?" The rogue had slicked back grey hair, wore the Akatsuki robe, opened enough to reveal no undershirt with grey pants.

"Who now?" Naruto stood up straight, eyeing the man, "You aren't referring to yourself in the third person right?" The figure seemed to seeth.

"No, I am Hidan and you're going to die painfully for not knowing of Lord Jashin!" They charged at him,

"Oh, it's a religion," He flickered behind Hidan and rubbed his chin, "Alright well, you do you, I personally don't believe in anything except the sage of six paths,"

"You heretic! I shall destroy you entirely, as is Jashin's will!" Hidan frothed at the mouth turning back to Naruto, one look into his eyes told the blond everything. Hidan was insane, completely and utterly.

"Alright well, uh, no thanks," Naruto threw several kunai towards Hidan, who raised his scythe to deflect them. Naruto returned to Ino and silently attacked HIdan's exposed back, driving a kunai into the man's heart. Jumping away he pushed the body to the floor and ran over to Ino, "Are you alright babe?"

"Babe?" She raised an eyebrow and smirked at him

"What don't like it?" He offered a hand to help her to her feet.

"Love it babe," As they got ready to leave they heard a low growl.

"That hurt bastard," They froze and turned around to see Hidan getting to his feet, reaching around with his arm to pull the kunai from his back. "What you thought stabbing me would kil me? ME? Immortal servant of Lord Jashin?" Naruto closed his eyes, throwing a kunai out of the field. "Now I'll destroy you both!"

"YOU TWO, LOOK OUT!" Asuma Sarutobi suddenly charged into the fray, intent on pushing Ino and Naruto out of the way, the jinchuuriki however, had other plans, cursing as he grabbed hold of both ninja and disappearing to his thrown kunai. They crashed uncerimoniously to the floor hidden by trees. "Naruto, what did?"

"We moved with my Flying Raijin, who is that guy?"

"Missing S class nin Hidan, he's someone gained immortality from a ritual sacrifice, it gives him the ability to activate an array of voodoo style jutsu," Asuma clutched his left arm, "Bastard got me when I got confident, luckily Ino helped enough to throw off the attack that would've killed me and took his attention, whatever he was doing was undone after Ino transfered her mind to him, I still don't know how he did it," Naruto frowned and thought for a minute.

"We can't kill him by regular means, but I'm guessing his wounds still need time to heal," His mind reached out for answers, "What if we cauterize the wounds before he can heal from them? Asuma-sensei, if I take his arm off, could you use fire style to burn it and stop the arm from growing back?" The jounin blinked at him before nodding.

"It could work, the problem is getting close enough, with his scythe he just swings when you're in range, too far in and you're gonna get sidelined instantly,"

"Alright well, let's see how Ino and I fare getting close and if we can't give you an opening for five minutes, we'll think of something else?" Asuma looked out at Hidan for a moment.

"Just, watch out, can you put a marker on me for now?" Naruto nodded and the two clasped hands. "When either of you are about to get cut, get out to me, punches and kicks don't seem to do anything," Naruto nodded and turned to Ino, who frowned at him.

"You will Raijin out right?"

"Of course,"

"Good, be careful," She kissed his cheek before they ran back towards the psychopath.

He stopped running and pulled his gut back, barely avoiding getting his side impaled. "We could really do with that opening!" Asuma yelled as he tried another hit and run, being forced to retreat yet again as Hidan used the end of his scythe's handle to stab the jounin.

"Working on it!" Naruto snapped, "Motherfucker,"

"Language!" Ino and he cried interrupting his speech, "is too randomized and wild, he's just swining with intent to draw blood, makes it infinitely harder to deflect in a way that won't just curve back around on me!"

"There is no order to complete annihilation!" He cried proudly as he twirled yet again, swining his scythe in a wide circle. Naruto was getting sick of him quickly, holding out his hands he created an army of Shadow Clones that just kept charging. Hidan cackled madly as he dispelled each one. The blond twitched with each death of a Shadow Clone, they weren't there to over power him, they were there to analyze. Hidan's scythe was on a coil, that moved up his sleeve, swinging his arm, he'd let go of the handle and flip over it. Originally it just seemed like fancy handwork and gymnastics, but in truth Hidan would flick his wrist and cause the scythe to twist around for him to catch it. Analysis revealed that Hidan's fighting style, whatever is was, was dependant on that coil, almost every other movement required to coil to bring the scythe back or prevent it from falling from Hidan's hand. If only he could get close enough to cut it, then the battle would turn in their favor. 

"Asuma, Ino, on me for a second," The three retreated out of Hidan's reach. "There's a coil, going up his sleeve, he relies on it, we take it out he'll lose the scythe,"

"I'll give you an opening to get him," Asuma grunted,

"I could use,"

"We damage the body while you're in there and you might not find your way back to your body, no chance," Naruto shook his head, "Whatever you're planning Asuma, you better not die,"

"Is that an order?"

"Asuma Sarutobi, before I left, I spoke with Hiruzen, I told him that he'd better be alive when I come back why? Because I did not give him permission to die on me, I now extend that to you, you do not have my permission to die and if you do I will revive you and kill you again myself," Asuma laughed,

"Alright, let's do it then," The elder shinobi charged ahead first, Ino following him and Naruto behind her. They watched Asuma get blown to the side, blood splattering in the air before Ino flipped over Hidan and sliced the cord running from his sleeve. The rogue-nin suddenly fumbled with his weapon and Naruto struck him in the stomach yet again. The blond growled and kept striking the rogue in rapid succession, without the cord to hold his scythe Hidan was suddenly a lot less wild than before, swinging with both hands and using more basic moves than before. A bo-staff stopped his next attack as the curved bladessat behind Naruto's head. Hidan glared with barely concealed fear as Naruto growled ferally.

"Only fools claim to be masters while using training equipment," The scythe was shrugged off and Naruto jabbed his chest. The staff was swung upwards and collided with his chin before strikign his chest again, thoroughly winding the man. A Shadow Clone appeared and sliced off Hidan's arm at the bicep, the man yelled in pain before Naruto put his fingers below his lips and blew a stream of fire towards the stump, ceasing any bleeding immediately. He glared at his now sealed wound before facing Naruto.

"I'LL DESTROY ALL OF YOU,"

"Oh shut up!" Naruto swung powerfully with his staff and it collided with Hidan's temple, making the man crumple in a second, "You talk too much,"

"ASUMA SENSEI!" Ino's voice called him back to his wounded team mate. Both ran over to his side in moments, Naruto assessed the damage quickly. There was a nasty gash in the man's ribs that seemed to need the most attention. Ino had her hands to it immediately and they began glowing softly green. "Come on Asuma sensei, just hold on please," She begged him. Naruto knelt by the man and looked at his face. The Jounin was definitely unconscious but judinging from the wound and the colour of his face, he wasn't in imediate danger of dying.

"He'll hold out long enough to get him to a hospital,"

"But we,"

"Raijin remember?" A Shadow Clone appeared and disappeared in a flash of yellow. "I'll stay on guard and try restraining Hidan, you focus on healing Asuma," NAruto turned around the the still body and pulled out rope, frowning heavily. "You are not going anywhere ever again, oh mighty immortal," The single hand was bound to both ankles and the fingers tied together. He held the man in one hand and sent him away with a flash of yellow. "You better appreciate it Tsunade," He growled as memories moved into his head. "Ino, get ready, we're dropping off Asuma and then getting Shikamaru and Choji," Lifting up the injured captain Naruto felt Ino hold his shoulder with one hand. They appeared in the hospital room next to Tsunade, the clone saluted and puffed into smoke. Naruto laid Asuma on the hospital bed gently. "He got struck with a scythe, I sent it with the body of the rogue to your office, the guy claims to be immortal and try as I might, nothing lethal actually killed him," 

"He'll be a lovely present for T and I," Tsunade nodded as she began assessing the damage. "Ino, did you try and heal him?"

"Yes sensei," 

"Well you did a good job, but the attack punctured his lung, on top of that he's also had heavy chakra exhasution and high blood loss, while he'll live, I doubt we'll see him wake up in the week," Naruto nodded slowly, "But he will wake up, that much I can promise,"

"Good, we need to go and help Shikamaru and Choji now," Naruto grabbed Ino and they disappeared again. Cursing himself for not marking Shikamaru they reappeared by the first kunai he'd thrown before Asuma leapt in. "Do you know which way they went?"

"Um, Shikamaru said about moving their enemy to the Forest of Dead Trees," 

"Wonderful, I know where that is, come on, we should get moving!"

They burst into the battlefield and landed by their friends. Shikamaru was on one knee, dressing a wound to his left arm. Choji hunched over, breathing heavy with multiple wounds decorating his body. "Guys!"

"We're, nggh, we're okay," Shikamaru groaned "Whoever he is, he refuses to go down,"

"What do you mean he refuses to go down?" Ino began healing Choji, who just grunted.

"We stabbed him in the chest, sliced his neck, stabbed his head, cut every artery we can think of but he just doesn't die!"

"Another one working for Lord Jashin?"

"You think I would follow that lunatic? No, I am simply a god to you people and you are nothing to a god!" The man laughed, Naruto stared at the man and growled.

"Well, let's just see how long you last mighty one," A Shadow Clone army charged him, he needed to analyse this one quicker than Hidan, he seemed less psychotic but even more dangerous, looking at Shikamaru and Choij. There didn't seem to be any weaknesses, the Akatsuki cloak around his body was in tatters and then quickly ripped off from the sheer volume of attacks coming from the clones. Naurto's glare hardened as he kept getting information, four masks on his back, each of a different shape with different colour markings. Red, light blue, dark blue and yellow. They were attached to his back, so they had to be important. A clone snuck around the rouge as his attention was on the massive onslaught of ever coming Shadow Clones. A kunai sailed silently through the air and impaled the dark blue marked mask. It shattered into pieces and the rogue roared in a mixture of pain and anger. "Weakness, on his back," The rouge ninja began moving and the masks seemed to peel from his back. "Ah, okay that's irritating," Izuku appeared by his side in a second,

"You took down Hidan? Do you have any idea how stupid that is?"

"You fought him before?"

"To a standstill yes, I could never kill him or," Izuku turned to the rogue ninja, "Kakuzu, of course you'd be here as well, the zombo combo goes everywhere together,"

"Zombo combo?"

"Both of them are unkillable by normal means, Hidan did his sacrifice thing to survive getting killed but he will die if left unfed, Kakuzu however is more of a pain, in each of his masks is a heart he ripped from a living person's chest, feeding them to the masks extends his lifespan, they went after Yugito Nii and Fu, luckily I was able to help both but I still couldn't kill either of them,"

"Brat, you're here again, finally I get to kill you," Kakuzu growled Izuku's face darkened,

"Naruto, do you think you can kill him?"

"Uh, maybe? can we destroy the masks and I'll get back to you on that one?" They watched as Kakuzu's body began falling apart, grey tendrils writhing between the segments until Kakuzu became a mass of tendrils will parts of his body thrown around it.

"Ugh I'm gonna hurl," Ino held her stomach, "Oh god that's just disgusting," Izuku groaned.

"Okay, Naruto, you're going to fight him, Ino is going to heal Choji and Shikamaru, I'll cover her so just focus on taking him down,"

"Why can't you?"

"Because I won't win, both times I fought this guy we end up in a standstill and both sides retreat, if he retreats now he could rescue Hidan in future, that's not somethign we want now," The blond nodded in understand and got to work, the fight mainly consisted of him avoiding attacks while throwing kunai and various jutsu at him. 

"Fire style, Great Flame Dragon jutsu," A massive orange dragon formed from the flames coming from his mouth, he quickly weaved more signs. "Wind style Roaring Wind Dragon jutsu," A second dragon formed, so pale it was almost invisible. The two dragons swirled around each other and began to combine into an even larger dragon. "Wind and Fire combo, Great Roaring Dragon jutsu!" The enormous dragon swirled and struck Kakuzu,

"Naruto!" Izuku called out "If you can try and sever whatever these threads are! They seem to heal him whenever we damage him!" Naruto rolled his eyes, another thing to try and do. He leapt over a spear of tendrils and rolled along the floor. He had a jutsu, well he and Izuku had a jutsu that might be able to help. "Izuku, I need help with the,"

"LITTLE BUSY!" He yelled back as he deftly deflected all the tendrils that tried to attack Ino. "You're going to have to do it on your own!"

"But I can't do both at once! I need a second set of hands!"

"And you've got them!" Naruto froze for a second, no, it couldn't be that simple could it? The answer can't have been staring him in the face the entire time, Naruto isn't the best but even he can't be that bad right? Right? A Shadow Clone appeared by his side as a Rasengan formed in his hand. A small breeze began swirling around the blue orb, slowly getting faster and faster until it whined. The clone dispelled and Naruto lifted it above his head now an invisible four pointed blade spun around the Rasengan. "Atta boy!" Izuku cheered, still fighting off the tendrils. Naruto charged forwards, holding the new jutsu in front of him, it sliced the tendrils without slowling down. He planted it firmly into Kakuzu's gut.

"RASEN-SHURIKEN!" He yelled, letting the orb go. It continued to swirl, taking Kakuzu away with it. The two began to rise in the air, the Rasen-shuriken leaving small vapor trails until it exploded in the sky. Naruto covered his eyes with a hand as the blue orb became hard to look at. The hand he'd held the jutsu in both ached and had pins and needls travelling up his arm. Kakuzu's body fell to the ground, where it crashed in a cloud of dust and laid, unmoving. "And that deals with that," Naruto pouted and turned his head away.

"Alright tough guy," Izuku walked past him and began sealing the body away. "Go see your girlfriend before she freaks out," Naruto turned and ran over to the blonde, who was helping Shikamaru to his feet.

"You guys alright?"

"We are now, thanks to Ino," Choji grinned, "How's Asuma sensei?"

"He lived but he's comatose right now," Naruto shook his head, "Tsunade knows he will wake up, but she doesn't know when," Shikamaru sighed,

"At least that's something, alright, we'll go with Izuku to fill in Tsunade, you two go and rest up, you've just fought two more Akatsuki members," Naruto nodded, feeling the chakra drain from all the Shadow Clones, normally it's not that bad but after creating a couple thousand of them in such a short time, he was really feeling the burn, and that was saying something.

"God I must've made like a million of them," He yawned, "Need to work on that," Ino stood by his side.

"C'mon think you can manage one more jump home?" Her hand grabbed his.

"Easy peasy," The two groups disapeared in flashed of light.

"Oh so you met Kakuzu and Hidan?" Itachi was busy helping Izuku cook, "I take it things didn't go well,"

"I took of of Hidan's arms permanently and killed Kakuzu with a new jutsu, but Asuma did get put into a coma so I guess it kinda cancels the win out," Itachi nodded slowly as Naruto leant on the counter, watching the duo.

"At least you only suffered one injury instead of a casualty, the Akatsuki now have seven losses, with Orochimaru and myself included, you took out Juzo, Deidara, Sasori,"

"Add the two more ad we're at five deaths, two defections," Naruto grinned "Man we are tearing through their ranks,"

"I wouldn't push it Naruto, right now Jiraiya and Orochimaru are on a mission to Rain to see if they can find the leader, for all we know those guys aren't going to come quietly, we may lose a lot of battles soon, Izuku can you pass me the salt?"

"While there are many battles to come, I spent the last three years personally training with the group known as the Konoha twelve, meaning Guy's team, Squad seven, team eight and team ten," Izuku added as he passed along a container, "Plus I helped Tsunade fix the academy system, it's going to be a lot more rigorous and give us a lot more qualified shinobi in our forces, even if they start as civilian families," His hands scooped up diced chicken, dropping it into the pot Itachi was stirring, "And then you add the might of the Uzumaki clan, working alongside the other clans of the village, myself and Katsuki are walking armouries in our own right,"

"We do have a pretty strong force," Shisui admitted from the main room as he, Katsuki, Sakura and Ino played cards "But look at how well it went while Danzo was around, Katsuki, any eights?"

"Go fish, but Danzo and the elders that thought like Danzo aren't here anymore, not to mention the fact that Izuku and Naruto single handedly managed to strong arm Third into facing his mistakes, got Fifth to take the damn hat and learned everything Fourth did, I'd be surprised if they weren't consulted to help pick the sixth,"

"Like Tsunade wil ever give us that much power," Izuku laughed as he began rythmically dicing up some vegetables "Naruto go answer the door would you?" The blond raised an eyebrow before there was a rapt knock at the door. Walking over he opened it to see Tsunade stood almost awkwardly, "It Tsunade?"

"Yeah, you invite her over?" He moved out of the way to let the Hokage in.

"With Orochimaru and Jiraiya out of the village I figured she'd get lonely, so I've invited her for dinner until they come back,"

"Ah, alright, well, you can either join the card game or come chat in the kitchen Tsunade," Naruto smiled shutting the door behind her, "I'm sure Shisui will deal you in,"

"Hokage-sama! Come on, we'er about to start another round of go fish," Katsuki smiled as he shuffled the cards, before handing them back to Shisui.

"It's just a stew tonight, Hokage-sama," Itachi called out,

"Boys, I'm off duty, you can just call me Tsunade if I'm not wearing the hat or sitting in the office," Both nodded in understanding. "Is Sasuke not here?"

"He's just in a shower, while we were gone he's been training with Katsuki and the girls, Itachi's been going through the Sharingan with him as well," They heard the stairs creaking as Sasuke's head peered over teh bannister.

"Someone say my name?"

"No, just telling Tsunade you've been training today, go put a shirt on," Izuku called out before Sasuke went bright red, "Oh and before I forget Temari has been touring the village for a while with Tayuya , she's been excited to see everyone again, she'll be here in a minute," The door opened and Tayuya greeted everyone proudly Temari walked in shyly. Naruto watched her gaze move around the area before landing on Sasuke and going scarlet.

"U-uh, h-h-hi, e-e-everyo-one," She averted her gaze to a suddenly interesting wall. Tayuya followed her in confusion and blinked while staring, her face rising in colour.

"H-hey Sa-sa-sasuke," She looked the other way quickly, looking everywhere around the room.

"Hi," Sasuke tried before they heard him turn and flee back up the stairs. Shisui began laughing while Itachi chuckled almost silently as his brother's expense. A door slammed and they heard a muffled scream of embarrasment. Everyone else just shook their heads.

"Temari, Tayuya, you want in? Or you want to talk in the kitchen?"

"Why don't you play Temari, I need to talk to Naruto for a second," The readhead sauntered into the kitchen before falling against the wall by the doorframe and steaming from her head. "Oh kami," She whispered "Naruto quick, help me," She whispered

"What?" She dragged him through the kitchen and into the back garden.

"Help me, he's hot!"

"And?"

"He's an Uchiha, he's not meant to be hot!" She hissed,

"Why not?"

"Because, because," Tayuya tried in vain to think of a reason, "Because the Uchiha and the Senju have a blood feud and the Uzumaki are related to the Senju so we have,"

"Tayuya, I've called Sasuke my brother before now, his brother and cousin were my first teachers, my first protectors, my first taste of family, the Senju might have head a blood feud, but the Uzumaki do not, moreover if you like him just kunoichi up and ask him out, there's a nice dinner place a few blocks down the street and I know Sasuke isn't doing anything this Friday, ask him to it, I'll cover your bill too if you need it,"

"But if he says no?"

"Big whoop, you'll find bigger and better men,"

"And you guys won't stop being friends? You won't get rid of me?"

"Look, I'll be honest, I'd like it if everyone got along, I would, and if you like him, go for it, but if it doesn't work out, you're still both going to be allowed in this house, both going to be able to eat at the dinner table, just don't make it awkward for everyone else," His relative seemed to relax, "Now get inside and play some cards," She nodded and walked back into the house, Naruto stood out there for another minute, "She really needs to pay more attention, I know your windows been open this whole time, I told you she'd still give a damn after you came back," A soft whump as a window was slammed close. He just laughed to himself as he walked back into the house, not worrying about whatever may be on the horizon just yet.

Shouka grumbled as she opened the door to her apartment, she didn't want to deal with Nemuri's most recent break up story at four in the morning. She had just finished a night shift dammit! Instead of her overly dramatic and emotional friend, on the other side of the door rested a small cot with a baby sleeping quietly inside. Attached to the cot was a note, stuck there by, wait was that a fucking kunai!? Pulling the weapon off the basket she carefully read the note.

Hello Eraserhead,

This is Eri, she is a baby, she was taken by the Yakuza gang after her quirk activated a few months ago and she rewound her noncarrier mother into an amoeba. They have been using her blood to create a drug that erases quirks, that isn't good.

Oh so they want to fucking patronize her now? Of course a quirk erasing drug would be a problem.

Now I have decided to give you Eri after I quite literally took her from under their noses, maybe keep her inside for a few days, I chose you to be her protector, because you can erase her quirk if she begins to panic and use it while she is with you, just keep out of arms reach when it starts before you can erase it. The second reason I chose you was because I know you will protect her. She needs that, love and protection. I chose you because I believe you will be the one to do this best don't disappoint me Aizawa Shouka.

To let you know I'm serious there will be a supply of foods suitable for her dropped off tomorrow night, if you decide to accept, leave the bedroom light on during the day today. Do not try to find me, do not try to figure out who I am, I do not exist and I can not be found. Take care

Midorikage.

So a vigilante decided she would be a good mother? Yeah, no, that's not how any of that works. But the child was on her doorstep, and she did seem very cute. Scooping up the basket Shouka smiled at the sleeping baby before whisking her away inside the warmth of the building. She'd give it a chance just the once.

"If you're going to jump, just do it," A voice startled her. Mina looked around the empty rooftop, she was stood at the top of a building above a very busy entrance to a highway. "I can tell you're not serious because you've spent the last five minutes stepping back and forth of the edge,"

"What do you know? Where are you anyway?!"

"Me? I'm right here," She heard a swirl of wind and suddenly a tall figure stood behind her. "And I know a lot about being lost and having no hope, in fact I spent a lot of my childhood looking down at a view like you are now," They approached her.

"Who are you?"

"Deja-vu," They muttered, "My name is nothing for you to be concerned with, I don't exist and am dead to this world, but that doesn't mean you have to be," They grumbled for a moment.

"You don't hear the whispers, don't feel the looks, whoever you are you can't know what's it's like to be different," She looked away at the floor, her eyes watering. From what appeared to be a cloak, a hand emerged. Mina was about to slap the hand away as they reached for her, only for the figure to react quicker and grab her wrist, pulling it to their chest.

"I know better than anyone," They, he muttered darkly. "To be ignored, harassed, mocked, attacked, I know more than you should ever suffer through,"

"You're- you're a male?" A sigh,

"Everyone's a critic," He mumbled, "Yes I'm male and that's all you need to know about me,"

"That doesn't change the fact," Mina was suddenly grabebd and pushed backwards. She cried out as she found herself tilting very far back off the edge to the point her heels were teetering off the edge. "Ah no, please,"

"Please what?" He threatened, "Do you want me to drop you? Just say it, just say please let me go,"

"No, please, please pull me back!"

"Why?"

"Because b-b-b-because,"

"Bu-bu-bu-because?" He mocked.

"Because I don't want to die!"

"What?"

"I don't want to die!" She screamed, before slowly repeating, "I don't want to die," Slowly he pulled her back to the roof "I don't want to die," The figure gently pulled her to his chest as she clung to him. "I don't want to die," Slowly she began crying in his chest, her fingers searching for something to hold on his back. "I... I don't want to die," She cried while sniffling.

"Shush, shh, shhh, it's okay," He gently pat her back as they rocked side to side in the dark of the night. "It's okay,"

"W-why? Why did you save me?"

"When I was younger, I hit a low point in life, people always called me mature for my age and it never felt more real than then," He scooped her up into a bridal carry "I was stood on top of a cliff, miles high and I walked off it, I purposefully allowed myself to fall towards the rocks that would've killed me,"

"What, happened?" The world tilted as they began jumping between rooftops.

"Well, my brother and my best friend called out to me after I dropped from the cliff, looking over the edge at me, fear and sorrow written on their faces, so, I realized that even in my darkest hours, when I was carrying on my lowest, they would be there beside me, ready to help me if ever I needed them and I decided I would do the same until the day I died,"

"How did you stop yourself from falling?" He shook his head and Mina barely made out the slightest of dark green curls.

"I stabbed the cliff with my knives and held on for dear life," They landed on the roof of her house, "Before I walked back up the cliff," They neared the edge of her house and slowly began walking down the...wall? "Now this is your stop," He let her down and she could see the living room light was on. "Before you go," A small old style blade was put in her palm, on the handle was somethign similar to scribbles, "If ever you need an ear to talk to again, focus on that, I'll be by your side before you open your eyes," He clearly saw the desperation in her eyes as he let her go, "Go to them," Mina didn't need another word as she bolted into the house, leaping into her parents' arms, bawling apologies and 'I love you's. As she calmed down Mina saw the figure stood in her garden still, although she couldn't see his face she swore he seemed, almost wishful. Before she blinked and he was gone, some leaves falling gently where he had been stood.