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It was a totally normal day for team 7. They had just finished their mission and we’re now heading home.
“Kakashi-sensei! This mission was kind of boring can we get a more exiting one?” Naruto asks loudly as he walks in front of his team.
“NARUTO! You idiot! You know we’re not allowed to have missions more difficult than a milk run!” Sakura screeches.
“Especially after what happened in Wave,” Sasuke says while glaring angrily at the surrounding trees.
“They’re right Naruto, it was hard enough getting this mission. I doubt the Hokage will give us anything more exiting than herding cows to their new farm,” Kakashi drawls.
“I know that but-,” Naruto stops. Turning back he whispers loudly, “There’s someone on the road.”
“It’s a road, dobe. What did you expect.” Sasuke says.
“Teme! I didn’t mean it like that, I mean someone’s lying ON the road!” Naruto says pointing at a yellow and pale orange lump on the road. Kakashi straightens.
“All of you behind me, now.” Their teacher says, “Now stay there.”
At his serious tone they all nod and do as he says. They watch as Kakashi nears the lump. He crouches next to it and lightly pokes it with a stick. When it shifts they all let out a sigh of relief, glad that the person wasn’t dead.
Kakashi gingerly flips the lump over, revealing it to be a girl about twelve years old. Her blond hair tied into twin pompoms on the top of her hair.
Sakura inches closer studying her face. “She looks like Naruto.” The girl did bear a large resemblance to the boy, she seemed a bit more regal in facial features but they did look quite similar down to the whisker marks on her cheeks.
“Naruto is she a clone? Are you playing a prank on us?” Kakashi asks as Sasuke glares at Naruto.
“No! I wouldn’t do this sensei!” Naruto protests.
“One way to find out I guess,” Kakashi sighs. He proceeds to lightly shake the girl. She blearily rubs her eyes, and look up to Kakashi, revealing onyx eyes.
“Sakumi-sensei? When did you get so tall? And since when we’re you a boy?” the blond girl says.
“Sorry, I’m not you sensei,” Kakashi says as Sakura and Naruto giggle at her confusion.
“Oh who are you then? You look just like her, except you’re way taller and a boy,” She says. Kakashi looks puzzled at this, well as puzzled as he can look with a fourth of his face uncovered.
“My names Kakashi. These are my students and you are?”
“The name’s Akemi.” The girl, now Akemi, says cheerily. “I’ve seen you before but where?” she mutters staring intently at the man. Kakashi just stares shifty eyed at her.
“Wait a minute! You’re Hatake Kakashi!” Akemi exclaims, her eyes calculating as she looks around, stopping on the group of gennin behind Kakashi.
“Yes, why is that important?” Kakashi asks wearily, noting the look on her face.
“You’re from konoha! You can take me there!” she says as she stands up.
“Why do you need to go to konoha?” Sakura asks suspiciously.
“Cause konoha is safe. Everyone tells me that if I get lost or get teleported somewhere due to a faulty seal I should go to konoha and wait. And you guys are from konoha so hurray for me!” Akemi answers. At the words ‘teleported’ and ‘faulty seal’ Kakashi gets a confused look in his eye.
“We can take you but I cannot guarantee you entrance,” Kakashi tells her.
“that’s okay I just need to get close enough to be able to wait for the rest of my team to find me, and I can handle myself in the woods, plus if I need something I can always ask the foxes.” Akemi says. Kakashi and Naruto stiffen when she mentions foxes.
“There are no foxes in or around Konoha since the kyuubi attack, Akemi-san,” Sakura tells her. Akemi looks lost at this.
“Why would the foxes help you anyway,” Naruto asks, his eyes squinting.
“My mom’s clan has always had a connection to foxes going so far as to have them as summons,” Akemi answers. “There’s rumors that with the fox contract you can summon the kyuubi himself but no one’s sure if that’s true because no one has that much chakra, plus he hasn’t been seen in years.” Naruto shifts uncomfortably causing Sasuke to look at him in confusion.
“Can you summon foxes?” Kakashi asks her, with a calculating look. Akemi nods at his question.
“Yeah but the most I can summon are two-tailed foxes, they’re capable of talking but aren’t too strong. My sister has an easier time summoning stronger ones,” She says.
“Why are you trusting us with this?” Sasuke asks out of nowhere.
Akemi sighs dramatically, “I told you before. Konoha is safe, I can trust you. It also helps that Hatake-san looks like my sensei and that he-” she points at Naruto, “looks like a young blond version of my mom.”
Kakashi looks perplexed, shifting his gaze from a exasperated Akemi to a confused Naruto.
“You don’t believe me do you?” Akemi says, noting the looks of disbelief on the rest of team 7. Sighing deeply she takes off her pale orange jacket to reach into it, she pulls out two photos and gives them to Kakashi.
He takes them and studies them.
One photo is of what he assumes is her team they’re in a field picnicking, in it is Akemi gloomy picking at what looks to be ramen, a girl with long black hair and blue eyes happily slurping up the ramen, her cheeks also marked with whiskers although she is missing one marking on each cheek; between Akemi and the other girl sat a boy that bears a large resemblance to Sakura except his hair is platinum blond, he is staring at Akemi with a besotted look on his face; the last person in the photo causes Kakashi’s eye to widen because right there is a girl that could be his twin, to her wild silver hair, her masked face, and her single smiling eye. Next to Akemi’s teacher lay a large silver wolfdog with piercing red eyes.
While he was studying the photo his students clustered around him and peered at the photograph in his hand. “She could be your twin, Kakashi-sensei!” Naruto exclaims, “but who’s that other girl that has whiskers too?”
“She’s my twin sister, Miyako,” Akemi says, “Although I look and act like my mom, I actually take after dad. Miyako is the opposite. Of course we all have grandpa Kurama and Kurou’s whiskers. And don’t forget that me and mom(used to) have granny Minako’s hair.”
Kakashi shifts the photographs to look at the other one. “I suppose this is a photo of your mother’s clan?” At her nod he studies the photo.
On it were 8 people of differing ages. They all look youthful, even the people he assumes are Akemi’s grandparents. All of them were wearing formal clothing that were brightly coloured. Behind them was a familiar swirl. That and most of the people’s bright red hair caused Kakashi to come to a realization.
“Could you tell us who they are?” Naruto ask, almost pleading. Akemi nods.
Pointing to the blond woman in a pale blue kimon in the middle of the photo Akemi says, “this is granny Minako. She married into the clan.” Shifting her hand so that two of her fingers laid on the men bracketing her grandmother, both were wearing green kimonos, “These are grandpas Kurama and Kurou they’re twins and they’re granny Minako’s husbands. Kurama-jiji is the darker one with red eyes and Kurou-jiji is paler and has grey eyes.”
Team seven look at her in surprise at her grandfathers sharing a wife. Shrugging she continues pointing to a woman next to Kurama, wearing a purple kimono, “That’s Auntie Minami, she’s mom’s younger sister. Mom’s next to Kurou-jiji, she’s holding my baby brother, Menma.” Team seven turn their attention to said woman. She had long wild hair the colour of freshly spilled blood, clear blue eyes and a blinding smile on her whiskered face, in her arms was a boy about three he had spiky black hair and heterochromatic eyes, one blue and one black. If it weren’t for the woman’s age and hair, she may have well been Naruto’s female form, down to the bright orange kimono.
“What’s her name?” Naruto asks, his voice almost trembling.
“Nami, her name is Nami,” Akemi says softly. Naruto nods.
“Are you an Uzumaki?” Kakashi prods. Naruto looks hopeful. Sakura looks confused, while Sasuke stares at Naruto with a strange look on his face.
“I- yes. I have my dad’s family name but I am an Uzumaki.” Akemi says after a long silence. She looks away.
“I have a clan?” Naruto whispers, Akemi nods silently. At this Naruto gives a watery laugh, “I have a clan! I have a family!”
“I’ve never read about an Uzumaki clan.” Sakura says, being the party-pooper she is. Naruto wilts.
“Because they’re not a Konoha clan, they’re Uzushio. When Uzu was destroyed they went underground or were killed, they had no other choice.” Akemi says, glaring at the pink haired girl. Naruto looks saddened at this. Sasuke seems to see Naruto in a new light when he hears what happened to his clan.
“Konoha was Uzu’s sister village. When Uzu was under attack we went to help but it was too late, they were all gone. To honor them we wear their symbol on our vests. Naruto wears it too, as is his right.” Kakashi says.
“The swirl.” Sasuke realizes. Kakashi nods.
“But the question now is what are you doing here so far from home and separated from your team with little to no supplies?” Kakashi asks, studying her.
“I actually don’t remember. Last thing I remember was mom showing us a new seal she was working on.” Akemi says, “The seal may have transported me here if it somehow activated but I’m not sure, I wasn’t listening when mom was telling us about it. The type of seal she showed us was not one I specialized in.”
“Seals?” Naruto asks.
“Yup! The Uzumaki specialty, Uzumaki’s are known to be seals masters. I’m studying battle seals, mostly offensive kinds.” Akemi cheerily says, “actually my team is seal oriented. Sensei is a seals mistress, Miyako studies all kinds of seals, and Hideki-kun is specializing in healing and defensive seals, but we also double as a track and capture team.”
“That’s quite a team specialization,” Kakashi says faintly, thinking of all the possible explosions and mishaps. Naruto basically vibrates in place after hearing his clan has a specialty. Sakura and Sasuke stare at Naruto wearily, afraid he will spontaneously explode.
“Kakashi-sensei! I wanna learn seals!” Naruto pleads attaching himself to said man.
“Uhhh. I’ll teach you what I know then. We’ll start at the basics and you’re not allowed to try anything without me, ok?” Kakashi says, at Naruto’s determined nod he gives the blond an eye smile and pats his head like he would do to a puppy.
“I think we should be going it’s getting late,” Akemi interrupts with apologetic smile.
Kakashi seems to remember something, “You said you have a summoning contract, right?” At her positive response he continues, “Can you contact your teammates through them?”
“Oh Yeah! Good idea!” Akemi exclaims. She promptly summons a small two tailed fox, thing is that this fox was purple of all colours. “Ran-chan!”
“Akemi-chan! Where are we?” the fox, now Ran says. At Akemi’s shrug she sighs. “Of course. What do I expect from an Uzumaki. Who are these people and who’s the little Uzumaki?”
“We’re shinobi from konoha and we found Akemi on the road,” Kakashi answers.
“And I’m Uzumaki Naruto, dattebayo!” Naruto says, his hands on his hips. Kakashi face palms.
“Oh he’s definitely an Uzumaki. Just like Nami-sama eh?” the fox gives a raspy laugh. Turning to Naruto she asks, “wanna have a fox summons?”
“You want me?” Naruto asks, dumfounded, pointing at himself.
“Of course kid. Trust me you’ll feel right at home with us. We’re Uzumaki summons for a reason.” Ran says seriously. “plus we’re not just any old foxes, we’re Uzu foxes, we’ve been with the Uzumaki since the clan was started.”
“I don’t- I’m not sure,” Naruto looks conflicted.
“That’s okay kid you can think it over and tell Akemi, she’ll tell us what you decided. If you don’t want a contract that’s okay,” Ran says kindly. Naruto nods in understanding.
The purple fox turns to Akemi, “what ya need me for anyway?”
“Can you find Miyako, Sakumi-sensei, and Hideki-kun and tell them I’m okay and that I’m heading for konoha? Oh and mom too, we were with her last I remember, but mom can take care of herself so I’m not too worried.” Akemi asks her summon.
“Got it. Bye Akemi-chan, Naru-chan,” Ran says and poofs away.
“Naru-chan!” Naruto protests. Akemi and Sakura giggle. Sasuke just smirks like the fucking asshole he is.
“I wasn’t sure what I was expecting from a fox but that was not it,” Kakashi says staring at the place said fox was which was now covered in glitter and paint that spelled out various types of expletives.
“Yeah. They’re great, they’re basically Uzumakis in fox form,” Akemi says with a laugh, “I’m not a prankster like my sister or the rest of my my mother’s side of the family but I can appreciate their pranks.”
“How did she even do that?” Sakura asks wide eyed at the new words she just learned.
Akemi shrugs, “they’re Uzu foxes, no one knows but everyone accepts it.” Naruto gets a glint in his eyes that bodes well for nobody. Seeing this Kakashi panics and proceeds to usher all of the children down the road and towards Konoha.
Miyako is silently sitting in a tree as she watches a large blue sharkman and Uchiha Itachi watch her.
“Who the hell are you?” asks the sharkman. Miyako says nothing as she gets a rock from her pocket and ties a piece of paper to it. She then proceeds to chuck it at the sharkman.
He of course being a ninja catches it. He looks at the paper and reads out loud, “Miyako.”
“What should we do about her, Itachi-san?” Kisame asks his partner. Itachi says nothing and just stares at the girl in the tree.
“Ugh it’s like having two of you,” He complains but stops, “Wait! Are you related to Itachi-san?”
Itachi stiffens imperceptibly. Miyako just shrugs and throws another rock.
“Doubt it. I would know if I was related to THE Uchiha Itachi,” kisame reads. Itachi relaxes.
“Okay good I guess. That just means I get the luck of meeting two of the most silent people on earth. Such is my luck.”
Kisame catches another rock, “Konoha.”
“You’re from konoha?” he asks. At the shake of her head he sighs, “then why give me the word konoha.”
Rock, “Take me?”
“What the hell?” Kisame looks at her wierdly.
“She wants us to take her there,” Itachi says.
“Oh.”
Another rock, “Ramen?”
Kisame looks lost and turns to Itachi for help. Itachi closes his eyes, “She wants ramen.”
“Oh. There’s a ramen shop around here I guess. Where the hell do you get all these rocks you’re in a tree for god’s sake.”
Rock, “pocket.”
“I mean I guess.”
“We’ll take you. Not all the way but close enough for you to get there by yourself.”
The girl nods and jumps off, “good because I’m out of rocks. Now for that ramen you promised, dattebaya.” Her voice is soft and soothing.
She proceeds to say nothing the whole way there. This extremely awkward with Kisame not knowing what to do with these silent bastards. Once in the ramen shop she does not stop talking about and to the ramen. She eats a total of ten bowls.
Kisame is sobbing dramatically as Itachi stares intently at the girl who is patting the sharkman’s back solemly, as she refuses to talk once more and stares back at the Uchiha. The ramen shop owner is Concerned.
Hideki stares at the slug Sannin, with stars in his eyes. Tsunade is a little freaked out at this tiny blond child staring at her.
“You’re Senju Tsunade, the slug Sannin!” he says.
“Yeah what of it?” she asks wearily.
“You’re my hero! Of course, after my dad. You’re a world renowned medic-nin who can punch through anything!” he says.
“Uh thanks, I guess?” Says Tsunade. “Where are you from, kid?”
“I’m from a tiny little village too far away from here, but I got separated from my team. And our plan for this type of situation is to head towards Konoha and hope for the best. I was actually heading there when I saw you.” The boy says.
“Huh, strange plan you guys have but it’s not like I care. What’s your name?” Tsunade asks, arms crossed over her ample chest.
“Oh sorry! I forgot to introduce myself! My name is Hideki, I’m my team’s medic-nin although I can’t punch even through a wall. I can make it explode though.” Hideki blushes.
Tsunade chuckles, “I like you kid.”
Hideki looks like Tsunade gave him the moon itself. Tsunade shakes her head and leaves beckoning him to follow.
“Konoha’s that way, good luck.”
“Ah, I was hoping that you could lead me there?” he asks shyly.
“Nope, not gonna happen,” Tsunade says. Hideki wilts, at his expression Tsunade sighs. “Tell you what, you can follow me until we find someone who can take you there.”
“Really!? Thank you so much!” he says. “I won’t be a burden!”
“And while we’re traveling you can tell me how you blow up walls,” Tsunade gives him a little grin.
“Yes mam! Okay so my team is composed of aspiring seals masters, but in different catagories. I focus on healing and some defence.” Tsunade hums in interest. “and I decided I wanted to make a seal that makes blood staunch easier, but I maaaay have messed up the seal so when I tried it on a fish it imploded. Not sure how though. It was supposed to be a simple seal, but now I was covered in fish guts and blood so when Miyako-chan found me she laughed at my missfourtune.”
Tsunade shudders slightly at the mention of blood but laughs at the boy. “When did you figure out about the wall thing?”
“A few minutes later when Miyako tried the seal on a tree. It basically shattered it was sooo cool but sensei panicked and forbade us to use that seal on anyone or anything in the village. So on a mission we had to make a distraction, so Miyako had the great idea to put the seal on a wall and activate it. The wall imploded.”
Tsunade laughs, “So you made a seal that was supposed to help staunch bleeding but came out as one of the most destructive seals I’ve heard about. Honestly, I’m impressed.”
Hideki blushes brightly.
“You’ll be traveling with me and my student Shizune, I hope you’re not uncomfortable being the only boy.”
“That’s okay if you don’t count sensei’s dog, I’m the only boy on my team.”
“The one boy in an almost all girl team and you’re the medic? Color me surprised,” Tsunade says looking at him with a raised eyebrow. He blushes.
“Well my dad’s a medic too, and as I’ve said before both you and him are my heroes,” Hideki says with a blinding smile.
Sakumi wakes up with a blinding headache.
“Did Kai challenge me to a drinking contest again? I love him I do but I’m not sure he understands that I’m small and can’t handle a lot of alcohol.” She mutters to herself.
“I doubt it Sakumi. Last thing I remember is sensei showing us that new seal she found,” a deep voice answers her. Sakumi looks up to see her partner splayed out next to her, although his front paws are neatly tucked under his head.
“Sharinu! Where are we? And why is my hair brown?” Sakumi says, looking around she notices she is in a small cave underneath a tree with the silver wolfdog covering the entrance beyond Sharinu is a bush covering him. She can also hear the faint sound of rain hitting leaves.
“No clue but if had to guess we are somewhere between near Ame, it’s been raining non stop and I had enough trouble getting us in here without the possibility of you getting a cold. I resorted to dragging you by your foot so your hair got dirty,” The dog tells her. Sakumi groans and lays back down.
“I hate Ame, I know dad likes to hang out here a lot but water get everywhere,” Sakumi groans.
“It’s a good thing you’re always prepared for these types of situations of getting randomly teleported somewhere because of sensei,” Sharinu says.
“Don’t forget mom’s paranoia makes him want to make sure I have everything I have everything I would ever need.” She says. “Did the kids get teleported as well?”
“No doubt about it, I had Ran pop up a while ago to tell me that Akemi was heading towards Konoha with Kakashi-san,” at the mention of the copy-nin Sakumi groans even louder.
“Thank god I had the ‘our kage accidentally teleported us to another dimension and/or time’ talk with them,” Sakumi says.
“Thank god they always carry those fake photos, so they have a believable background,” Sharinu mutters.
After some comfortable silence they hear someone knocking on the tree above them.
“Hello, Tobi saw a big doggie drag a pretty lady in here. And Tobi wants to know if pretty lady is okay.”
Sakumi blushes at being called a pretty lady. If a dog could roll his eyes that is exactly what Sharinu would do.
“Thank you for your concern Tobi-san but everything is okay,” Sharinu answers.
“Oh. So pretty lady does not need help?”
“Actually yes. Tobi-san can you tell me where I am?” Sakumi says as she fights her parter for the exit. Popping her head out she sees feet, looking up she sees an orange swirled mask staring down at her.
“Yes! Tobi can tell you where you are! Pretty lady is near Ame!” Tobi says excitedly.
“I told you were near Ame!” Sharinu says, also popping his head out.
“Big doggie can talk! Wow!” Tobi says.
“Uh yeah. Thanks.” Says the dog awkwardly.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you Tobi-san my name is Sakumi,” she says. “this is Sharinu, my parter.”
Tobi nods and sways on his feet. Sakumi looks at him weirdly but shrugs him off, she looks around and finds water pouring from the overhang of the tree she’s under. She takes off he jounin vest and puts her head under the pouring water to wash off the mud from her hair.
She hears a gasp from behind her. Turning she sees Tobi standing completely still.
“Tobi-san are you okay?” Sakumi asks, worried.
“Sakumi-chan has pretty hair!” Sakumi blushes picking at the silver hair over her eye. Sharinu sighs.
“Thank you Tobi-san, I got it from my mom,” she says.
“Your mom must be a pretty lady too!” Tobi says bringing his clasped hands up to his cheek.
“Yes she is, she’s beautiful, even with her mask on,” Sakumi says.
“Oooooo can I see her?” Tobi asks. Nodding Sakumi reaches into one of the pockets of her vest and pulls out a laminated photo.
“Those are my parents on their wedding,” she says. Tobi takes the photo and seems to study it.
In the photo there is a long white table and behind the table were a Sakumi’s parents. They were both laughing and turned towards each other. Sakumi’s mother was on the left while her father was on the right. Her mother had short silver hair that was pinned with a flower although the pieces that were not pinned were sticking up. Even with the angle she was in and the mask that covered half her face you could tell she was breathtakingly beautiful. Her father was equally as handsome with his spiky black hair and rugged good looks even the hints scarring on his face acentuated his looks. At the edge of the photo was a woman with brown hair and kind eyes who is wearing a mischievous look on her face as she holds two slices of cake in her bare hands.
“Wow! They- they look very happy,” Tobi says, his voice changing and gaining a wistful tone. Sakumi and Sharinu stare silently as he looks at the photo for a long time.
“If you like the photo Tobi-san, you can keep it, I have a lot of copies at home.” Sakumi says gently. Tobi nods silently and pulls the photo towards his chest.
“Thank you, Tobi wishes he had a pretty wife too.” He says.
“I’m sure you’ll find one, Tobi-san! Don’t give up!” Sakumi tries to cheer him up.
“I-yes Tobi will find a pretty wife!” Tobi says at the encouragement. He puts the photo somewhere inside his plain black cloak.
Sakumi nods and unseals a raincoat from a pocket seal, putting on she releases another seal and gets another raincoat, although this one is shaped differently. Seeing the cloak in her hands Sharinu backs off.
“Oh no. You know I hate that thing,” Sharinu growls.
“And I hate bathing you after you get soaked in water,” Sakumi growls back. Sharinu readies to run, “Tobi-san catch him!”
Tobi proceeds to tackle the dog and wraps his arms around him. He stands up taking the dog with him. The wolfdog whines deeply his paws hanging limply. Sakumi is impressed with Tobi’s strength.
“Whine all you want but you are wearing this mister,” Sakumi says tying one strap around his neck and one around his chest.
“I hate this,” Sharinu huffs as Tobi giggles.
“Thank you Tobi-san, you can put him down now,” Sakumi says. Tobi does so.
“Alright! Tobi-san do you know which way is konoha? My students are heading that way,” Sakumi asks Tobi over the sulking hound.
“Yes! Tobi can even take Sakumi-chan there!” Tobi jumps.
“Thank you! Lead the way then!” Sakumi says, following the other. “You know you kinda remind me of my dad. Dad is really silly sometimes, although mom says that he’s just being an idiot, especially when he wakes us up in the middle of the night to tell us his ‘brilliant’ plans of conquering the world using rabbits.”
“Well fuck,” an older version of Naruto says as he stares down a not dead of old age Jiraiya of the Sannin. Who might I add looks to be between heartbreak and suspicion.
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. Gotta go! Yeet!” Naruto says as he hiraishins away.
“God that was a close one,” he says to himself not realizing he just used a very identifyable jutsu to get away. Also not realizing he briefly popped into the third hokage’s office to get away.
The third looks down at his pipe and whispers, “what the fuck have I been smoking and where can I get more?”
Back with Jiraiya
“What the fuck!? Was that a red headed minato?” he looks down at the drink in his hand, “I’m going to need something stronger.”
Back with Naruto
“Now to look for the kids and hope that Sasuke find us soon.”
Naruto nods and wanders towards the direction that he believes konoha in, but he’s actually heading towards Orochimaru’s lair of Otogakure.