They finaly meet the JoeKage
The villagers whisper as they see the White Fang lead a group of strangers through the village. Men and women stare at the silver-haired beauty that walks next to Sakumo. They turn away once they catch a glimpse of the redhead’s glare and murderous intent. Children stare in jealousy at the five children riding large dogs
“We’re here,” Sakumo says as they stop in front of the Hokage’s tower. With that the children climb down from their canines. The dogs sprint off in different directions.
“they’ll stay in the village and won’t cause any trouble or get anywhere they shouldn’t be,” Kasumi answers Sakumo’s silent question.
“Kit, I suggest you change,” Kurama tells his brother. At Naru’s nod, Kurama releases a seal on his arm and retrieves a kimono and two ribbons that end in bells.
“You can change in the tower,” Sakumo says leading them to a restroom. Kurama and Naru enter.
“Why is Naru going to change?” Obito asks.
“Remember when he told you guys that sometimes he’s a girl,” Sakumo says.
“Yes,” Kakashi says, “Why is it important?”
“Well, when he’s a girl, she looks like Kurama. She’s doing this to prove that she’s an Uzumaki due to them mostly having red hair.” Kasumi answers.
“And when Naru is Narumi she like dressing pretty. So that’s why Kurama got the Kimono out,” Saku adds.
Obito and Kakashi nod, understanding the situation now. From the room they suddenly hear screaming.
“Kurama-nii! Not like that! You’re doing it wrong!” they hear from the door.
“Shut up, kit! I know what I’m doing! I do it all the time!”
“On what? The dogs and foxes? Cause that’s what it looks and feels like. Kasumi-sensei! Kurama-nii’s doing my hair wrong! Can you come fix it?!”
Kasumi sighs, a smile in her voice as she answers, “Yes, I’ll be there in a moment.” She disappears into the room.
“Does this happen often?” Sakumo asks worriedly, eyeing the door.
“Yeah, Kurama and Narumi tend to squabble a lot, but they are also fiercely protective over each other,” Sasuno says quietly. Sakumo nods.
“There goes his weekly quota of spoken words, we will no longer hear from him for the rest of week,” Saku says jokingly not looking up from the knitting they got out since they stopped to wait for Narumi.
“You wish, you pink spider,” Sasuno shoots back.
“That was terrible, Sasu,” Saku shakes their head, somehow not messing up their knitting.
“Pink Spider?” Obito whispers to Kakashi who shrugs.
Sakumo just stares at the weirdly mature children for a while. He shrugs, he’s not entirely sure how children are supposed to act, the only samples he has are Kakashi, who fits in with them, Obito, who is four years older than Kakashi, and Hiro who was a mature if a bit feral kid.
Suddenly Kurama stomps angrily out of the room with a giggling Kasumi behind him.
“That’s the LAST time I help you with anything, Kit!” Kurama yells at the small girl that leaves the room he was just in.
“I’m sorry Nii-san. Please don’t be angry at me,” Narumi, now a red head, begs with large watery eyes which she rubs now and again.
Kurama catches a glimpse of teary eyes and he crumbles. He crosses his arms and looks away muttering, “I’m not angry at you, you brat.”
Narumi’s tears disappear in an instant. “Yay!” she says as she hugs Kurama.
“I feel like I just got played,” Kurama mutters.
“You did,” Kasumi tells him.
“This happens every time,” Saku whispers to a chuckling Sakumo, as they watch the spectacle.
“Narumi is a master manipulator and interrogator. And she’s Kurama’s weakness,” Sasuno adds.
“Interrogator?” Sakumo asks in disbelief.
“Yup! Put anyone in front of her and in a few minutes, they’ll spill their life story and more,” Saku chirps.
“How?” Sakumo asks.
“We’re not too sure, but it just might be a bloodline ability. She just talks to them. She has converted many people to our side just by sitting with them and talking.” Sasuno says seriously.
“That’s terrifying,” Sakumo says at the horror at the thought of someone so young having that sort of power. Obito and Kakashi nod in agreement.
Suddenly they are interrupted by a polite cough. Everyone turns to see an unassuming chunin, who is looking at them in amusement.
"The Hokage is waiting for you and your 'guests', Hatake-san." The chunin says as she gives a smile promises bloodshed, "Your group is blocking the hallway so I urge you to hurry."
"O-Of course Kohari-san," Sakumo stutters and ushers the group forwards and away from the woman, picking up the smallest of the children in his arms. In his panic he doesn’t see Narumi's giddy face at the woman's name or Kasumi's wide eyes, nor does hear Kurama's mutterings of dolphins and inheritances.
Sakumo sighs when they arrive at the doors to the Hokage's office. Deeming it a safe distance he places Narumi and Kakashi down on the floor. Kakashi puffs up in childish anger at being picked up like a sack of potatoes as Narumi laugh at his face.
"So, who was she to have you so scared?" Kasumi asks a knowing glint in her eyes and a laugh in her voice. Sakumo pouts at her.
"That was Umino Kohari. She rules this building with an iron fist and punishes those who turn in messy or late paperwork," Sakumo whispers looking around suspiciously. Kasumi giggles.
"Dad's scared of her because he forgets to turn in his mission reports," Kakashi says with a bored expression. Sakumo gives his son betrayed look. Obito's laughs at Sakumo's expression.
In unison Narumi, Kurama, Sasuno, and Saku turn and stare at Kasumi. "Sounds familiar," they say at the same time.
Kasumi chuckles nervously and looks shiftily to the side as she scratches her cheek. Her other hand twitches, reaching for something in her kimono.
Sakumo now done pouting stares at his newly adopted sister as she retrieves a small book from the folds of her kimono. Kasumi opens the book and starts reading, her body relaxing into a slouch as she is absorbed into her reading.
"Uh... Is she okay?" Sakumo stares at Kasumi weirdly.
"She's fine." Narumi says.
"She does that sometimes," Saku continues, still knitting.
"When she doesn't want to deal with people." Sasuno finishes.
"At least she's not reading her smut." Kurama adds.
Now, Sakumo stares at the whole group with Obito and Kakashi joining him. He doesn't know what's weirder: the kids and Kurama finishing each other's sentences, the bored way they said it, learning that his new sister is a pervert, or Kasumi's sudden nonchalant attitude.
Kasumi suddenly looks up, "Hm.. Weren't we supposed to do something?" She says in an unbearably bored tone.
"I believe you were supposed to intoduce yourselves to the hokage," says a voice.
They all, except for Kasumi who looks down at her book once more, look to see the Third himself at the now open doors of his office looking at them with laughter in his eyes.
"Ah! Hokage-sama! I apologize for getting distracted so easily," Sakumo bows respectfully as they all move into the office. Kakashi leading Obito to sit with him on a sofa out of the way.
"Understandable given your," the Third says as his eyes rove over the still reading Kasumi, the cocoon of knitted material with a pink haired head popping out of it, the angry redhead, with no shoes, an equally redheaded... princess? Mini blue-eyed Mito? child attached to his back, and lastly a bored looking boy that looks extremely Uchiha like. "guests." He finishes.
Sakumo laughs nervously, rubbing his head sheepishly. "I met them on the way back and they had been looking to settle down. I offered to bring them here."
"I see," The third says, "You do realize we are in the middle of a war. They could be spies and you led them right to Konoha." Sakumo's eyes harden.
"I respectfully disagree with you Hokage-sama because two of them are Uzumakis," Sakumo says seriously. "and frankly we both know Uzumakis are terrible liars and I would have been able to tell I they were lying anyways with my heightened senses."
By now the group has straightened out, the cocoon unraveling and being stowed away to reveal a pink haired child, the redheads separating and standing straight, the teenage girl paying attention, the book no longer visible, and the boy schooling his face into one of interest.
"If they cause any trouble, Sakumo you WILL be held responsible," The third says seriously, "but I will allow them to stay with a week's probation." Sakumo nods relieved.
"Now, I believe introductions are in order," The third says kindly, turning to the new members of his village, "I am Konohagakure's Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen."
"It is an honor to meet you, Hokage-sama. My name is Hatake Kasumi." Kasumi bows and the Hokage smiles at her with a raised eye at Sakumo, who blushes.
"Uzumaki Kurama," Kurama says curtly. The hokage nods.
"Sakumo of the Spiders, named after Kasumi-sensei's role model," Saku says with a smile on their face. Kasumi blush is visible over her mask, Sakumo grins stupidly, and the hokage smiles softly at the pink haired child.
"Sasuno of the Hawks, don't know where sensei got that name from. I doubt it's even a name," The dark-haired boy says, muttering that last part. Kasumi is back to reading, as Sakumo and the hokage chuckle.
"I am Uzumaki Narumi and I wanna be a Ninja! Can I call you jii-chan?" The little girl says rapidly as she rushes around the Hokage's desk and proceeds to hug a very surprised Hokage. Kasumi drags her hand down her face and sighs.
"Sorry about her she's excitable," Kasumi says weakly.
"That's quite alright," He tells her.
Sarutobi looks down at Narumi who is clinging to his clothing and looking at him with a hopeful face. "Narumi-chan, to be a ninja you need to graduate the academy first," he tells her. "Why do you want to call me jii-chan if I am old enough to be your father?" He asks.
Somehow climbing up his Hokage robes Narumi manages to pull herself into his lap. With a mournful look that had no right to be on a child she says, "You look like my Jii-chan but jii-chan was old. Jii-chan's gone but you're like him so you're my jii-chan too."
At the child's confession he closes his eyes. Opening them again he gives her a small smile, "I can be you jii-chan if you like but on one condition."
Narumi widens her eyes, "What?"
"Even when I'm you jii-chan, don't forget your other jii-chan," He says. At this Narumi burrows her head into his chest and nods giving a watery "Okay."
"Kit, come here," Kurama says in a surprisingly soft voice. Narumi nods again and with a sniffle, jumps off the Hokage's lap and shuffles over to her brother. Picking her up he whispers a something to her that makes her smile. He puts her down and she is soon swarmed by her two friends. Kakashi and Obito drag the group to the sofa so they could all cuddle.
Sakumo looks at the puppy pile on the sofa and gives a light smile.
After some silence the Hokage regains his composture. "Now about living arrangements where do you plan to be living?"
Sakumo butts in, "I was planing to have them live in Hatake compound with me, if that is okay with you sir?"
"That is fine Sakumo." The Hokage says. "If that is all-"
Suddenly the doors slam open and a redheaded teen bursts in.
"I heard there were redheads! Are they Uzumak- KURAMA!!" The teenage girl screams throwing herself at said boy.
"Kushina! The hokage could be in a meeting!" A blond teen walks in behind her. He stops when he sees Kushina choking the life out of a redhead about his age.
"GET OFF ME, WENCH!" Kurama screams his tan skin turning a violent shade of red and his hair appearing to float around him. The blond teen pales, "Oh no. There's two of them." He whispers to himself.
"NO! I THOUGH YOU DIED!" She yells back, her hair doing the same. Her voice softens, "Last I heard you were in Uzu when it fell."
"I was on a "Training trip" with the old man. We got home too late, mom was the last one to fall trying to buy us and other people time to escape." Kurama says, his voice soft and vulnerable. He whispers to her, "I'm glad you were very far away, Kushina." Louder, "Even if you are the biggest headache I ever had."
"Oh, wow back to the insults, now are we?" Kushina says with a grin and a sad glint in her eyes.
"Nii-san who's that?" Narumi says. Kushina spins around to see the cutest girl she's ever seen.
"Who's that?" Kushina echoes pointing at the little girl.
"I apologize but could this reunion move somewhere else?" Says Kohari, who just walked in through the door with a stack of papers, "The Hokage has work to do."
"Yes mam!" Sakumo quickly says chucking Kurama and Kushina over his shoulders and running out of the room. Everyone else is quick to follow, leaving the Third to sob internally over stacks of paperwork