It was supposed to be a game

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[the academy ]
Hinata watched a sNaruto as brought back into the classroom by a teacher.

"Is this yours, I caught him spying on us," the teacher says to Iruka sensei, who smacked Naruto on the back of the head

"Sorry, I hope he didn't cause any trouble," Iruka says to the man who just waved it off

"No but all of the Missfits are having their day off, so we want them to enjoy what peace they have left," the man says to Iruka

"Naruto go take your seat' Iruka says to Naruto, who didn't answer him

"So what did you see," Shino asks Naruto

'Nothing they're just having a picnic and playing on the roof" Naruto answers him

"Man to think that the misfits manage to pass the battle and not get caught by the teachers," Kiba says before turning to look in her direction

"Hey Hinata arent you a part of the Whitjaws or something, I mean you use to wear their uniform and everything," Kiba says to her

'Yes, but I can't keep on wearing it because. my clothes" she tried to answer Kiba but speaking in front of so many people was starting to get to her.

'So what can you tell us about the Senju clan?" Shino says to her

"David is nice, but he works all of the time, he's the one you see running around working with his hands and talking with people"

"Mark is always reading papers or running back and forth because he has to look into something"

"Ana is usually helping me and Mark with whatever she can" she answers Shino

"Man it must be tough being the head of the clan when your our age," Kiba says as he listened to everything she said

"I see, so Mark deals with the paperwork and the council, while David deals with the internal affairs of the clan," Shino says as he thinks about everything she just said.

"So how did they manage to beat everyone, I mean they aren't even in the same classroom?" Naruto ass us

"They beat all of you because they used their numbers to their advantage" Iruka sensei answers Naruto.

"The misfit's classrooms are on the front of the school, while the cafeteria is located near the middle of the academy."

"Normally their plan wouldn't have worked and if all of you bothered getting to class instead of fighting, you would have passed too," Iruka sensei says to us as he begins to use a chalk stick to draw on the drawing board

"I'll break it down for you, they lured a small group with a clear entrance to the school and managed to get more than half of their numbers inside"

"When they noticed that the group was about to catch up to them they closed the door and split up into two groups"

"One group opened the windows and showed everyone the way in, while another went ahead and managed to get those left outside into the school"

"Knowing that the teachers were patrolling, they used them to deal with everyone else"

"Then it was just a matter of getting to class before everyone else rushed in, honestly had they made one mistake they would have failed" Iruka sensei explained to us

"Now everyone pleases," Iruka says to us when a knock on the door makes him stop and everyone watches as David walks inside

"Sorry to bother you, sir," he says to our teacher as he hands him a sheet of paper

Iruka sensei opens the paper and then he turns it over but it's empty.

"I'm sorry but what game is this?" Iruka says to David immediately reached into his coat pockets and takes out his mask but the black side is exposed this time.

He later puts on his headband and then his belt.

"I David, representative of the misfits hereby declare war on your class," David says to us before turning to look at Iruka

"When we win, you Iruka sensei must vote against anyone in the misfits becoming ninjas

Iruka sensei seems to be growing and the smile he usually has is gone now.

"I hope you understand what this means?" Iruka says to David and everyone notices that Mark steps inside

"As per academy rule, all teachers and students must comply with the results of a war between classes"

"Should a class be defeated on two occasions whatever terms are agreed between classes become permanent at least until after the school year ends"

"That means that when the day you have to vote if we become ninjas you must comply with our demands when we win" Mark answers Iruka sensei who is now grinning at him and David

'I see, what do we get if we lose?" Iruka asks them

"The misfits shall help your entire class with their homework- sparing and whatever they need while inside the school" David answers Iruka

'Okay, I agree, all that's left is for your teacher and me to discuss when our little battle will be held" Iruka says to Mark and David

"Oh David, I hope you understand that you have to win twice," Iruka says to David but the sound of his voice sens chills down everyone's spin

'I know, but sensei, we already beat your class once" David says to Iruka sensei, everyone watches as David walks away, he never turned to look at anyone in the room much less their teacher when he left.

"Alright change of plans we are going to war, our enemy is an invading force made up of people who have unusual chakra"

"They are a group that unlike you haven't been trained properly, however, there are a few amongst them that have some training," Iruka says to us

"Your job is to make them regret ever coming here and daring to declare war on us," he says to us with a voice that makes us all stand up

'Go ad make sure everyone else knows about this" he says to us and we all run out of our class to inform the other classrooms about our upcoming fight

"So what do you think?" Iruka says to the Mark and Davids teacher

"So when they realized they were cornered, they decided to invade rather than be on the defensive" he answers Iruka

"So have any ideas what our game will be this time," Iruka asks the other teacher who places his hand on his chin

"I have an idea, it's a little unorthodox, but nothing our student's cant handle," he says to Iruka
 
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[Davids point of view ]
Everyone watched us as we walked back, for some reason there were a lot more people walking around now>

"Somethings going on," Mark says to me as he looks at our teacher who is looking at us

Looks like he just heard about what we did.

'Ah Mark, David, good you're here." he says to with an overly friendly voice

"What's going on?" I ask our teacher

'Well, you see I stepped out for a moment to use the restroom when I ran into a student that running around screaming that the misfits had declared war on Iruka's class" he says to us but his voice despite it sounding friendly it seems to have an edge to it now.

'Now I know my students couldn't have done that because they don't want to be ninjas" he stopped talking and I can feel the hairs on my hands and back of my head standing.

"Then I heard about the rewards, your class would get should it win" Even now even though our teacher was still far away from us, we could sense the danger, and both Mark and I were about to run away when our teacher spoke again.

"Now, I know that I said that everyone could have the day off, but you see. I was hoping that the two of you could show us what you can do"

"What I mean is that Mark you and David will spar with one another, and just to make sure neither of you holds back we will be using special seals, to make sure that is either of you does hold back"

"Iruka's class becomes the automatic winner," he says to us before he stopped talking

I turn to look at Mark and he turns to look at me, we both slowly begin to grin, neither of us has had the chance to train in a while, but that doesn't mean we haven't been working on developing whatever tricks we can.

"So what do you say Mark want to fight me?' i ask Mark who just turns to look at our teacher

"Can you promise me, Ana won't be taken away or get hurt??" he asks our teacher who just closes his eyes.

"Where I ask our teacher who just points at the training ground on the other side of the school, the same place the bullies gather when we go outside for recess.

"So when do we have to do this?" Mark

'Right now" our teacher answers Mark asks with a cold stare

"Let's go I say to Mark, as we walked for whatever reason we noticed that people were starting to come out of their classrooms to look at us as we walked out of the school

We soon stood in front of everyone because it felt as if everyone had left their classrooms, to either look at us, through their windows- the academies roof, or outside of the academy.

I look at Mark and ask him.

"So how do you want to do this, do we go all out from the get-go, or do you want to slowly work our way up," I ask Mark who just gives me a predatory grin

"Innocentius!" I screamed

"Flare!" Mark screamed as we both felt our elementals wrap themselves around us and felt their power trying to consume us.

For a moment I wondered if we looked like the characters from Dragonball Z when they go Super Saiyan.

I didn't know if the ground around us shook or if electricity was flying around for some reason, no the only thing I can feel is Innocentius as he tries to burn me alive.

[Ana's point of view }
"Lili!" Ana called to her elemental, and instantly Lili made the trees around them grow to keep everyone safe.

She couldn't believe her eyes, Mark and David were going to go all out and that meant they could kill each other or the people around them.

"Wood release'" her teacher said with a slight shock in his voice but there was no point in hiding what Lili could do anymore, there was no way they could hide any of this and there were already ninjas arriving to see what was going on.

The ground was shaking more and more as both elementals tried to eat their maters and she could hear Mark and David scream as they tried to force them to obey.

Then everything went quiet, Lili slowly unwrapped herself from the school, and everyone felt their eyes widen, there surrounded by armed ninjas were Mark and David.

David stood in a sea of lava, in his right hand he held one of the swords Mikoto gave him as a gift, the sword was on fire, but the fire was alive and she could see Innocentius trying to claw its way out.

Mark stood infant of David but unlike David, the area around Mark looked dead as if it had lost all of the life that was once there, the ground moved as if something was trying to claw it was out.

Ana knew that it was Flare, because the truth was, everything that was happening on the ground was also happening in the sky.

"So I guess all that's left is to decide which one of us is white and which one of us is Black," David said to mark as they both reached fr their masks and flipped them over.

They flipped their masks over and over again until they ended up with different colors, Mark was the Black side of the man and David landed on the White side.

She watched as both David and Mark looked at each other and charged without hesitating
 
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The entire Academy shook as David and Mark began to fight each other, Mark some sort of wall around him that stopped David from being able to hit him.

The same wall seemed to attack David whenever Flare tried to claw his way out.

Normally this would have been enough to stop anyone else, but Innocentius was burning away at the wall that protected Mark whenever David swung his sword and hit the wall.

Whenever Flare was about to hit David, Innocentius intercepted the attack, everyone watched as Mark and David tried to hit each other and failed until the wall that protected Mark finally fell, and then the two elementals met on the field of battle.

Flare had become two beings one that attacked from the sky and another that attacked from underground, neither one attacked without the other.

If one attacked with its left hand the other would attack with its righthand, while Mark attacked David directly.

Innocentius however had wrapped itself around David, but this time everyone could only see David burning alive, he didn't scream in pain or try to put the fire out, no he just kept on fighting, as if nothing was happening to him.

Mark used flare to create spheres of light to protect his fists.

And so as Flare tried to attack David Innocentius burned him away and flame sword collided with spheres of light.

Every time the two of them met it sounded as if it was thunder.

"Hey did you notice?" David asks Mark

"Yeah" Mark answers David

"What do you say, do you want to give them a good show?" David asks Mark and the two smirk at each other.

Ana felt her heart begin to beat faster as she felt Lilli begin to shy away.

'Teacher stop the,m!" she screamed to her teacher

"Mark and David they going to kill each other, look at Lili!" she desperately says to her teacher and the man turns to look at her elemental trying to pull the students away as it senses something was about to happen.

Ana watched ss her teacher turned to look towards Mark and David's direction and she noticed that he had begun to sweat, something was happening.

The first thing she noticed was that she couldn't hear the attacks of the two anymore, then she noticed Mikoto and Hana standing in the training field, but they weren't alone.

Saritobi the third Hokage stood between Mark and David who had their hands held by Hana and Mikoto, both women's eyes glowed as their chakra flowed through them.

They had felt and sensed the chakra coming from the academy there wasn't a person in all of the hidden leaf that hadn't felt it or seen it.

Hana and Mikoto both moved to stop their students knowing full well that by interfering they would cause more problems than they should, while the third simply wanted to punish the trouble makers.

"This fight is over," the third says to everyone before turning his attention to Mark and David, his eyes wor cold, and had the boys been older he would have struck them both without hesitation.

Perhaps he had given off more killer intent ten he had intended because both elementals reacted in a way neither Mikoto nor Hana could have predicted.

They spoke.

"You can control us for now, but you can not stop all fires," Innocentius said to them

"This form may be sealed away and manipulated, but all light will be your enemy," Flare said to them

"Harm them and we will retaliate," both elementals said to him

"Explain" he ordered the two boys and he could feel the headache coming as he heard their explanation

'So you were told not to hold back and so you did" it was ridiculous, it was idiotic, it was exactly what children would do

"Go to class' he says to them as he exhaled, there was no reason to punish them, after all, what was their crime obeying orders?

He stood there watching the two boys as they left before turning to look at the two women.

"Mikoto Hana, I'm ordering the two of you to train them, make sure they learn o control their power," the third says to the two women who were honestly surprised things had ended so easily.
 
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[change David ]
"So what do you guys want to do?" I ask Mark and Ana who are walking next to me

"We still have to do a lot of work, but let's put that off for now" Mark answers me

"So what do you want to do?" I ask Hinata who for whatever reason is walking next to us now

"..." however she just looks at me and doesn't say anything.

"Okay, then how about an" I was about to say when I suddenly see something I haven't seen in a long time.

It's small and it's covered in dirt from the fact that some else must have found it and started playing with it, whoever it was doesn't matter Mark- Ana and Hinata watch me as I walk towards it.

The color is a little bit faded but it's still red on one side and blue on the other and as I hold it in my hands I can't help but smile.

"Mark I challenge you for the right to do nothing all day."

"If I win we take a day off, if you win we go back to work!" I declare to Mark as I point the stick at him

Mark looked at me with a shocked expression before smiling and running up to me.

"No David, I challenge you, if I win you have to clean my room while we get to have a day off" Mark declared

We both turned to look at Ana who had an expression that screamed of pure joy, she rant up to where Mark and I were standing and took the stick from Mark's hands.

'Hinata I challenge you, if I win, I get to make cookies for everyone and I'll get to watch everyone eat something I made!" she boldly declared

We all looked at Hinata who hesitated for a moment before following everyone's example and taking the stick from Ana's hands.

"No A...Ana I challenge you. If...when I ....win Ill watch as everyone eats s....something I made" Hinata declared as she tried to stop herself from stuttering

Mark- Ana and I took off our coats and removed our masks they looked good, but having to walk with them all day did become a problem after a while, especially because it's hard to keep white clothes clean.

"What's going on here?" I heard Fugaku say to us as he walked up to us

"Nothing" we all answer him

"It looks as if you're all about to fight, and I would think that after what happened earlier today, the two of you wouldn't try two kill each other," he said to me and Mak

"We never tried to kill each other, we couldn't even if we tried" Mark answers Fugaku who just raised an eyebrow, but didn't comment on it

"So what are the four of you doing?" he asks us as he takes the stick and looks over it

"We found a stick and decided to play" I answer him but the man just stayed quiet

I watch as Fugaku exhales and turns to look at Mark and me.

"David, Mark while I understand that the two f you are still young please remember that you are still in the process of building your clan"

"While I understand that you three and yes Ana you're included in this, please remember to keep your elementals under control," Fugaku says to us before handing the stick back to Hinata and leaving

We just watched him as he walked away.

"Well I guess we can't play here," I say to everyone and I notice that my clothes are gone and then I realize that one of the guards hands them to me

"Thanks but you didn't have to do that," I say to him

"It wasn't any trouble sir" he answers me

As we walked we tried to find something to do, not because we needed or wanted something to do, it's just that none of us wanted to go home just yet.

Mark and I would have to go back to work and go back to our daily routine of paperwork and helping to rebuild something.

Ana and Hinata would be with Nenji training or Ana would be helping Mark with what she could, or the three of us would train if we had some time left.

"So David do you have any girls you like?" Mark asks me all of a sudden, but judging by the tone of his voice I can tell he's just wants to mess with me

"IYou know there are a couple of cute girls" I answer him before I turn to look at Ana

"So why are you asking, wait don't tell me you and Ana finally going to get married," I say to him and I immediately hear Ana make an Ip sound

"What! No! we're still too young and Ana doesn't want to get married yet right, Ana?' Mark asks Ana who is doing her best not to look at him at the moment

"So how about you Hinata, got any guy you like?" I ask Hinata who immediately starts to blush but didn't answer me

I want to tease her, I really do, but as I look up I can't help but make an evil grin.

'So miss how about you, I mean are you married or do you have someone you like?" I ask Hinatas maid

"No I haven't had time for things like romance" she answers me

"I see, you know I have a bunch of guys living in my territory, I'm sure a beautiful woman like you can find a guy in a heartbeat, or how about" I was about to say Mark when the guy used his hands to keep my from saying anything else

"Lord Senju please," the woman says to me, and from the corner of my eye, I could see Mark giving me a look that screamed don't do it.

Honestly, I have no idea what he was thought I was thinking about but regardless I ignored him.

'Too bad, cooking- cleaning- a good fighter and you're good with taking care of children plus the fact that you're good with dealing with people"

"Not to mention the fact that if I do say so myself you are quite the beauty," I say to her as I walk and I suddenly become aware that the only sound I can hear besides the usual sounds of the village is the sounds of my own two feet.

I turn to look at everyone and I notice that everyone including our guards is looking at me with wide eyes.

'What," I ask them but no one answers

'Oh come on it's not like I lied!" I said to them with a voice that was a little too loud

"David do you like older women?" Mark asks me

There's a long moment that passes as we both look at each other, but in the end, I did the one thing that can keep me from making this one small thing into anything bigger than it should be.

I probably should have kept my eye on Mark because I soon heard the sound of feet moving quickly towards me.

'Waite, David, hold on this is too interesting which do you like more you know how Mikoto and ana have different eyes than most people which one of them do you like more"

"The eyes not Itachi's and Hinatas moms, the eyes, I repeat the eyes," Mark says to me

'How does that relate to me liking older women?" I ask him and Mark immediately shrugs at me

'Neither"

'The eyes don't mean anything to me because I don't like either of them, I mean why would I even do with that kind of power?" I answer Mark as Innocentius manifests himself and lets out a playful grow

The fire elemental begins to change his form until he has taken a feminine figure.

"Grrr" Innocentius says to me and I can't help but look at the guy with wide eyes he even sounds like a woman now

"Hahahahha" I hear Ana laugh

"What did he say?" Hinata asks her

"He said David only has the hots for him" Ana translated to Hinata as Lili and Flare come out and begin to laugh, I watch as Flare whispers something to Mark and I watch as a smiles forms on his lips before he starts to laugh too.

"I'll kill you!" I say to Innocentius as the elemental starts to run away acting as if he was scared

As I was about to catch up to him Lili graves him and pulls him underground before Ana jumps onto a nearby tree that turns into Lili.

I watch as the two of them run off with my fire spirit and I chase after them.

I throw a couple of papers on the ground ad summon a red eyes Black Dragon and a couple of spells just in case I need to defend myself.

Yett as I was about to catch up to them Mark and Flare blind me with a flash of light and I lose sight of them.

So I'm left completely alone and not even my guards are insight.

I can't help but smile, today is an okay day, and just for now were nothing but kids.
 
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I look at Mark who is still reading a couple of papers and I can't help but think about what he's doing, like it or not we have to work but no matter how long we doit work never seems to end.

If it's not having to meet with Itachi's parents so we can buy a lot of food from them so we can feed everyone, it's deciding if we should form another seal to speed up the restoration process so that we don't have to spend whatever money we have left on buying new materials.

"So what are you looking at?" I ask Mark

"It's the list of the orphans I'm trying to see if a couple of them come from bloodlines" Mark answers me before he puts the papers down and hands me on

I take the sheet of paper and I immediately notice the red lines he used to ark certain names.

'What are these?" I ask him

"I think I know why there are so many orphans" he answers me with a dark expression, as he hands me another sheet of paper this one, however, has names marked with a different color

"These are the ones whose parents gave them up, the reason doesn't matter, the fact is they have families that didn't want them" he hands me another sheet of paper and I can't help but raise an eyebrow.

"What's this?" I ask him as he hands me two more sheets of paper

"The first one list is a list of children that were born with certain traits that ake then stick out more, you know how Itachi and Hinata have their eyes and we have our elements yeah things like that"

"The second one was the children ninjas gave up, the one after that are orphans that are living in apartments on their own or in a group for one reason or another"

"And finally the last bunch I gave you are the names of regular children" Mark explains to me

"Okay, so what's with the stack next to you?" I ask him and I notice how quickly his expression darkens.

"These are all missing kids, I couldn't find anything. Hell Heku and the girls had their names listed as living in the streets, but these bunch, there's nothing, it's as if someone wanted them to vanish' Mark says to me

'And because they're orphans who is going to bother investigating their disappearance" I say to him

"Tell me the truth is this a good idea, I don't have to tell you everything we lack, but do you think this is a good idea?" I ask Mark who lets out a frustrated breath

"No, if you want me to be honest nothing makes sense anymore, we only started working because we wanted to take our minds away from everything, but now it feels as if we..... " I watch as he struggles to put his thoughts into words

'It feels like if we're being traped by this place and we cant escape' I say to him and he just closes his eyes in response.

"Fine let's do this, whatever happens, happens," I say to Mark as I sign my name on the form Mikoto gave us, tomorrow Mark and I will go to the orphanage and pick up all of the exes' children.

"Let's take a break," I say to Mark as I walk out of the room and unsurprisingly I find Ana sitting outside

Mark immediately sits next to her and the three of us look at the quiet village.

I notice that our guards are standing nearby but they don't say anything.

"So David you have a thing for Hinatas nanny," Mark says to me with a teasing tone in his voice

"Yeah she's really pretty" Ana adds

"Hey I just said what I've seen," I say to them for a moment I weigh my option and I know this is going to come back and bite me but dam it if I can't help myself from playing at least a little bit

'Yeas she's hot, but have you guys sen those legs, come on back me up here" I say to the guard that's closed to me

"You have to admit she does have great legs" the man looks at me for a moment

"I'm sorry sir I can't" he tries to weasel his way out

"No, no you have to answer," I say to him

The man puts a hand on his chin " I have to say that she does train her legs quite well but her chest is lacking, I prefer a woman that is well stacked" he answers me

"How about you?" I hear Mark ask his guard who looks at him with wide eyes then relaxes when he realizes he has to answer.

"I haven't noticed, if I'm forced to be honest, Id have to say that her hair that's what I like most about her, a woman with great hair is someone that makes sure everything is well kept" he answers mark

"Hey, how about you two?" Ana asks the last two guards

"Miss Ana we shouldn't be discussing this in front of you" one of the men answer aAna but she just waves him off, causing him to give up his attempt to not answer her

'I...I like the way she takes care of the girl and can maintain the area they are both living in" he answers Ana

"Her cooking, the woman is a great cook, show me a woman that can cook and I'll show you a happy man" the last of the guard's answers ana without hesitation, the man has his priorities.

I can hear Innocentius let out a small grow.

"David, they're rats hiding," Mark says to me

"Yeah I know" I answer him

"Let them hide, it's better if they think we don't know they're there," I say to everyone.

And so the night passed and as usual, we got ready to go to school, except we would have to make one quick stop before going to the academy Mark went to deliver his copies to the council while I headed to the orphanage.

Thankfully neither of us had any problems and the receptionists just took the papers from our hands.

This time however we Ana went with Hinata but the two separated when they reached the academy, it was at the entrance that we found Ana talking with t the rest of the misfits.

"Why isn't anyone going inside?" I asked them

'The doors are locked" Ana answers me as a teacher walks out and begins to look around

"So it wasn't just yesterday, they're going to do this from now on," Mark says as he looks at the teacher walk away

"Well we don't have to worry about it, after all, we know that they're going to open the doors snd all we have to do is get in our classes before everyone starts to fight" I hear someone say.

No one answers considering that they're right, the only thing we have to do is be the first ones inside so we can void all of the fighting.

The door opens again and another teacher walks out.

"Flare" I hear Mark call out to flare and I briefly notice the elemental flash next to him before leaving his side.

Again the teacher leaves but this time the click that happens whenever the door closes didn't happen.

"Let's go," Mark says to us and we all run towards the door, as Flare opens it for us.

To our surprise, nothing happens and no one bothers trying to fight us, we're all soon standing in front of our classrooms and we're about to go in when we notice something that isn't right, the doors are locked.

"Lili" Ana says and Lili extends itself and begins to open the doors

We didn't do anything after that we just waited for the teacher to come in and as we listened to everyone else enter the school and rush to their respected classrooms, I couldn't help but feel that something wasn't quite right.

The third listened to the report nothing was happening with the boys except for their petition to take in several orphans, this action wasn't out of the ordinary after all a clan usually did this in an attempt to restore their numbers.

He could deny their petition of cores but for what reason, being unpredictable.

No, if anything the boys were entirely predictable, nothing they had done wasn't out of the realms f possibilities.

Even their burst of power that had happened yesterday was expected.

He agreed to allow their petition but he hesitated when he noticed one particular name amongst the group of orphans.

the council would have a problem with it, but what were his options, Naruto was still a member of the Uzumaki clan, which was a faction of the Senju clan, which meant that he would fall under Davids direct supervision.

Still for two boys to be working the way that they were and managing to maintain a working relationship with the Uchiha clan wasn't anything less than incredible.

"Perhaps its time that their loyalty is tested," he said to himself as he looks at the papers in front of him

Pining the boys against each other would only cause unnecessary damage to the village and making them face against members of the village guard or Ambu would only make the boys fester a greater resentment for the village a resentment that could easily turn to hatred towards the people that only manipulated them.

Unfortunately, the boy's actions are already causing an unnecessary rift between them and the rest of the village.

By publicly voicing his support for Fugaku, David had caused the Uchiha head to have a voice amongst the council, something that many were against, him having, and had made sure he couldn't do.

Yet with the boy's support, Fugaku had more than one vote in his favor, thereby allowing his choices to matter.

By restoring the Senju area they not only began to enact a needed change in the village, as such many are now turning to David for a chance to make a better life for themselves.

Unfortunately, the Uchiha as the boy's most trusted allies had been the first one offered these opportunities and creating a greater rift between the boys and the rest of the village.

Then there's the restoration of the farmland, while outsiders are usually untrusted, both David and Mark were surprisingly welcoming to the newcomers.

Yet the Hidden leaf is a village of Loyallist and as such the newcomers are seen with distrust by everyone else who isn't an Uchiha or the boy's parents.

The third had to admit that even he was starting to believe that both David and Mark could and would betray the Hidden Leaf if given a reason to.

Even Ana who was by for the calmest one of them seemed to only be loyal to Mark and David to a lesser extent.

"Itachi," he says to the boy who just entered his office

'I want you to test Mark and David, make them think that you are an enemy, choose any member of the Hyuga clan to help you" he orders the boy, and he can't help but notice that Itachi hesitated for a moment before leaving

The boy is a friend of the two boys but he is loyal and will do as ordered.
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Hana listens to Hinatas maid and she can't help but smile as the woman tells her about the conversation she heard the night before.

"It seems he's finally entered puberty," the woman says to her, and Hana can't help but agree

"Perhaps the two of you should have an affair" Hana jokingly says to her friend but the woman doesn't take it as a joke

"Miss please f anyone hears you say that"

"I know," Hana says to her friend before taking a sip of tea

Davids's firstborn will be the next head of the Senju clan as Tsunade is well past her childbearing years.

"So tell me do you dislike the idea?' she asks her friend who just exhales and answers

"No"

Hana takes another sip and enjoys the sweet flavor for a moment before swallowing

"Why don't the two of you try to pass some time together," she says to her friend before taking another sip, the two of them may be friends but she has to think about the clan first.

Even if David rejects the woman in front of her, he nonetheless will be forced o keep her by his side, and thereby the Hyouga clan will have a hold in the Senju clan.
 
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"Naruto please wait after class," Iruka said to Naruto as he read something someone had brought to him

As the bell rang Naruto approached Iruka who just took his hand and jumped out of the window, Naruto didn't know what was going on especially considering that he recognized some of the buildings they were passing.

This was the way that lead him back to the orphanage, Naruto could feel his chest tightening and as he felt the fear inside him growing he soon found himself growing curious when he noticed the number of children standing outside of the orphanage.

'What's going on?' he asked Iruka who landed next t the group of children

"The Senju clan is taking you as well as the rest of these children in" Iruka answered him with a calm yet warm voice.

"But my things" Naruto began to protest only for Iruka to stop him

"Your things will be taken to the Senju territory soon enough" Iruka answered him before patting him on the head and leaping away.

Naruto wanted to cry as he felt everyone's eyes on him, some of the children were afraid of him, but the majority didn't seem to care about him.

"Come along," an Uchia said to the children and Naruto waited for everyone to leave before he followed behind them.

As they reached the Senju territory Naruto had to admit he was tempted to run away and hide, he was afraid that he would be treated like he always was, as an outsider that didn't belong.

Yet as he reached the Senju territory he found himself looking at something that shouldn't have been real.

adults were waiting at the entrance.

Even before the children had fully arrived the adults had started to separate the ones they liked from the rest, Naruto watched as siblings were adopted together and he watched as the size of the crowd he had arrived with got smaller and smaller until only he and a small group of children remained.

This was exactly like the times before, he had been ignored, he wanted to cry but he knew it was pointless for him to cry so he struggled to hold his tears in.

By now school was over and judging by the fact that Hinata- and the Whitejaws were approaching it just meant that he would soon be sent back to his apartment.

'What's this?" David asked one of the guards

"These are the children we couldn't find homes for" the guard answers David

"Okay then, everyone congratulations you're all coming home with me," David says to everyone and for a moment Naruto cant believe what he's hearing.

He blinked once, then twice before turning to look at the children next to him, who all looked at him with a combination of tears and smiles on their faces.

"Hey, can you guys do me a favor?" David said to the guards who immediately kneel to listen to the Senju clan heads request

'Can you go to the shop that made our coats and make an order for me, tell them I need two sets of the same uniforms we are wearing for everyone that came and if I can pay for it in the long run" he said to the guards who vanished the moment David stopped talking.

'Waite" Naruto said to David who looked at him

'Why?" he asks David

'Because your a member of my clan' David answers him

'No I mean, we never met and none of us had anything to do with you before" Naruto says to David who just walks up to him and pats his head

"Because your a member of my clan," David says to him before walking past him and the rest of the children

"My house is big, so all of you will have plenty of room to play in"

"Mark and I are usually working so unless you guys tell us things we won't know about it until we see it," David says to them as he leads the way to his house.

"Mr. Senju," a girl says to David causing him to stop walking

"Yeah," David says to her as he walks up to her

"But we're monsters," the girl says to David and Naruto quickly notices the girls green skin and the fact that she seems to be hunched over

He watches as David smiles at the girl and his elemental manifest behind him

'Good loo around you, we're all monsters, so go ahead and be monsters here" David says to her as the fire beginning to imitate him

'Stop that!" David yells at the fire spirit who waves its finger at David

This caused everyone to start laughing as both Ana and Mark had their elementals walking next to them now.

Naruto felt his eyes widen as they arrived at a huge mansion

"Okay everyone line up so I can explain the rules," David says to everyone ad they all do as he says

"Rule number one, call me David, not Senju, and if you have to call me that, do it when someone from outside is visiting"

"Rule number two if any of you have any dangerous abilities tell me now, so you can sleep with me, and your abilities don't destroy the house," David says to everyone and two children raise their hands

Naruto hesitated for a moment but he honestly didn't want to be kicked out for staying quiet.

"Okay that's four of you"

'Mark" Okay you and you, you're staying in my room and the other two you can sleep in Davids's room," Mark says to everyone that raised their hands.

"Finally everyone here carries their weight, so look for something you can help with other than that, let's eat something," David says to them as he opens the mansion doors revealing a building that seems bigger on the inside.

Everyone was about to enter the building when four figures jump out and tackle David- Ana and Mark along with Hinata to the ground

"Heku- Mini- Sonia- Maria!' all four of them said with smiles on their faces as a man Naruto has never seen before walks out along with a girl that's not that much older than he is.

Naruto and the rest of the kids with him watched the elementals stood between them and the strangers.

'he watched as David- Mark and Ana turned to look at the elementals that stood next to the other white jaws who were wearing the same uniforms the three of them did.

"What do you mean you made her younger?" David asked the elementals

Naruto watched as all of the elementals began to grow before puffing up their chests proudly, it was as if they had told Daviddwhat they had done and were proud of their actions.
"Turn her back!" David says to the elementals who immediately deflated

Naruto couldn't help but think about how weird it was seeing the elementals disinflated before turning to the girl before walking around her and making her older.

"So what brings you guys back?" Mark asked the stranges as they helped each other to their feet.

"We heard about everything you have been doing here," Jiraiya says to Mark, and immediately Flare splits himself into two before he stands between Mark and Jiraiya

Mark didn't answer the white-haired man he just look at him before turning to look at Ana and David.

"Ana can you show everyone around please, it looks like this is work," Mark says to Ana who immediately stopped smiling but quickly regains her smile as she looks around

"Come on," she says to everyone and they all follow her.

"Well let's hear it," Mark says to the two

"We know about your alliance with the Uchiha clan and even if we didn't, it's hard to not notice how nearly everyone living here s a member of their clan," Tsunade says to David as Tonton runs to her side

"Not only that but you elementals have caught the eyes of other villages and they might, no they will start targeting you for the secret to controlling them," Jiraiya says to them

"So what I'm hearing is that you want to take control of this place again," David says to Tsunade before smiling and walking u to her and patting her on the back

"Okay officially I hand all control of this place back t you, and we're getting a divorce"

"Mark I'm a free man again!" David says to Mark who just smiles at his friend's words

'That's not what I'm saying!" Tsunade says to David

"What don't tell me that you do want to be married to me, you know I'm eleven now and I'll be a teenager soon," David says to Tsunade who in turn just gives him a cold look

"What you're a woman and my wife why wouldn't I want to do what adults do," David says to Tsunade who can barely contain her anger after hearing his words.

"Take this seriously!" Tsunade angrily says to David

'We are, we aren't you" Mark answers her

"Look around you, we don't know what happened to your clan but this place was nothing but ruins when we arrived"

"As for why the Uchiha are here, in exchange for helping us repair everything they got to live here"

'Tell me how many people are willing to work without getting paid?" Mark said to Tsuanade his words held more anger than David thought possible

"The two of you show up, force our friends to leave, force David into a marriage that he didn't want, and forced him to live in a place filled with ruins"

"Now that things are starting to get better you have the balls to show up and tell us that you don't like what we're doing," Mark says to Jiraiya and Tsunade as Flare begins to grow around him

As David looked at Mark he felt split in two, on one side the adult that he once was wanted to keep Mark away from any danger, but the boy that he is now felt nothing but pride at knowing Mark was on his side.

"mark relax, since they're here we get to leave everything to them," David says to Mark before turning his back to Jiraiya and Tsunade.

There are a bunch of papers that need to be looked into" he says to them as both he and Mark walk inside

Jiraiya and Tsunade walk into the room one of the guards showed them to and were led to a stack of papers that were on the floor, Tsunade was led to one, and Jiraiya was led to another.

"What!?" Tsunade screamed as she looked at the bills that were staked on top of each other from all of the debts she had acquired over the years

Jiraiya on the other hand was growing more and more concerned about what he was finding.

"Hey look at this," he says to Tsunade as he placed one paper after another on the floor next to him.

As Tsunade looked at the papers Jiraiya placed on the floor she couldn't help but feel herself becoming angrier and angrier as she read.

Her family fortune had been disappearing while she was gone, meaning that someone in the council had been stealing from her.

Yet one small stack of papers only led to another that made her stomach turn, it was a list of missing children, half were children that were living on the streets, the other half were children that vanished from the orphanage and a few were ninjas that mysteriously vanished in one mission or another.

Some papers detailed the mixing of the Uchiha clan with the Senju clan, to help bring the Uchiha closer to the people of the leaf they would be allowed to live in the Senju clan's territory and move to the area where they had been forcefully relocated freely.

the same paper detailed how the Hyouga clan would be offered the same option so that their lower classes wouldn't have to obey their clan heads without options.

Tsunade and Jiraiya didn't doubt that the boys had been looking for a way of removing the caged bird seal from those that wished to live in this part of the village.

Tsunade returned to her stack of papers and began to look for anything that might catch her eye and she soon found red circles marking several purchases that she obviously hadn't done.

there were poisons, ninjas hired from outside of the village, and even a couple of parties she had never attended.

The only reason these had been circled was that they didn't match her usual spending habits.
 
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"You sure about this?" Mark asks David

'Let them handle the council, it's not like can go against those old people, besides we have bigger issues" David answers Mark s they enter the dining room for the first time.

"Wow," Mark says as he sees the dining room table and how big it is

'How many people used to live here?" he asks David who just shrugged at him

As they walked to the empty chairs they found their parents already eating along with everyone else.

David and Mark looked around and noticed that everyone ate in awkward silence, too afraid to accidentally do something that might get them into trouble.

David just closed his eyes and smiled, eventually everyone would get used to living here and they won't be so worried about getting into trouble.

"So can you guys tell me what you've been up to," David says to everyone but his words were directed to his friends?

"Nothing really" Heku answers him as he placed a spoonful of rice into his mouth

'We learned how to do math in class" one of the new kids says to David as she reaches for a hot bun

"Cool," David says to her as Innocentius lets out a small grow

'Damm it" David says as he excuses himself and walks out of the room

To his surprise he finds Fugaku waiting for him outside of his house.

'Hey, Fugaku what brings you here?" David asks the Uchiha head

'We need to talk" Fugaku says to David who just smiles at him

'No, you know what anything that's wrong you can just tell my wife' David says to Fugaku who just looks at him

"I guess by that look on your face you didn't know she was here," David says to Fugaku as he points to the mansion.

"Okay, what's going on?" David says to Fugaku as he sits down and signaling the older man to sit next to him

"I'll make this as short as possible, the council is considering putting sanctions on you and your clan," Fyugaku says to him with a cold voice

'Okay"

'What?" Fugaku says to David with a shocked voice

'Yeah, I mean what are they going to sanction. I mean I don't sell or import anything yet, everything that I have here is things I buy from you or restore here" David says to Fugaku

Fugaku looks at David with a cold stare, it wasn't cruel nor did he mean any ill intent by it, he just wanted the boy to understand the gravity of the situation.

He watched as the smile David usually had quickly vanished.

'That bad" David asks him

'They are intending to take your elementals away by curse seals and forcing the Jutsu that you and the Whitjaws have developed to be given to the council and force you and everyone living in your territory to separate themselves further from the village" Fugaku says to David as the door behind them slams open

'I see" Tsunade says to Fugaku as she walks out of the mansion her rage in clear display

'Calm down and sit down" David says to Tsunade as a maid brings him a plate of food, before leaving and returning with four more plates.

"Can you handle it?" David asks Tsunade who doesn't answer him

"Fugaku thanks for the warning," David says to Fugaku, before the three of them eat their meal in silence
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Tsunade watched as the group of friends began to chase one another and act like the kids they are, next to them were the new arrivals to the Senju clan's main house, who had quickly gotten used to the elementals that acted like children.

For a moment she forgot that the same summons were the very same ones that nearly killed the ninjas that had tried to kidnap the children when they tried to run away.

There wasn't any point in delaying the meeting between her and the third.

'let's go" she says to Jiraiya as they head to their old teacher's office

After eating Fugaku had gone straight home, but she hadn't thought much about it, and would have forgotten about it had she not noticed the ninjas that were keeping a watch around her family's territory.

She turned to look at Jiraiya and the two of them began to make quick work of the spies, t their surprise they found that all of them were members of the Ambu.

"Explain," Tsunade said to them

"The Uchiha are to be kept under watch, this is public knowledge" one of the Ambu answers her

"Yet you have no right to spy on anyone in my families territory," she says to them

'You haven't been here, and the council has decided that the WhiteJaws are a danger to the village and should be kept under watch" another one of the Ambus answers her but steps back as he senses her killer intent

She didn't bother attacking the Ambu, knowing them she could kill all of the ones here and another group would just replace them the next day.

"Explain this to me," Tsunade says to the third as she slams the evidence that showed that someone had stolen from her clan

'What's this" Hiruzen Sarutobi asks her

'There should be a lot more money from my clan put away, yet someone has been embezzling from it.

"We also ran into several Ambu, that claimed that the three children were considered a danger to the village," Jiraiya said to his old teacher

"The boy's connection to the Uchiha is considered a problem by any, also there was an incident that occurred and made several people question if the boys could control their elementals" the third answers his student

"I'll have this investigated," he said to Tsunade as he looked at the evidence in front of him, but he stopped when he noticed Tsunades didn't bother moving

'Get those Ambu away from my clan's territory, because if you don't the Senju clan will separate itself from the leaf" Tsunade says to her old teacher.

"Tsunade those words arent taken lightly" the third chastized his old student but Tsunade dint backdown

'A part of our deal was that the three children did would be left alone, it was all of you that went back on your word" Tsunade answered the Hokage

The two of them looked at each other and finally the third blinked.

'I'll inform the council but they will take your threat seriously and might revoke your ability to leave the village" the third says to her, but Tsunade wasn't fazed

'They can't force me to stay if I'm not a part of this village anymore" she said to the third
, who just kept quiet

"Do you think you and Jiraiya alone can fight off the leaf's nin and protect the children
" The third asks Tsunade

'We don't have to, you said so yourself, the boys made allies with a clan that is already disliked by the leaf"

"Can you honestly say that if the Senju clan leaves now, that the Uchiha clan won't go with them?"Tsunade asks her old teacher but she doesn't bother stopping

'Then we are to look at the children themselves, its no mystery to anyone that they are hiding their true abilities, can you afford to fight them, their elementals, along with Jiraiya- me and the entire Uchiha clan" she asked the Hokage who is now looking at her with eyes that screamed he was now considering her a threat.

"I see' the third said before walking out of the office
 
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Tsunade and Jiraiya looked at each other they had backed themselves into a corner, no matter what decision the council made it wouldn't be in their favor.

They just looked at each other as they waited to hear from the Hokage.

In the council room, the Hokage informed the elders about his two students' return to the village, something he had no doubt they knew about already, regardless he had to tell them.

he told them everything his students had sad and presented the council with all of the debts that Tsunade had, but pointed out all of the marked purchases that had been charged to her clan

The council reacted just as he had expected, but it was Fugaku who wanted to take a closer look at the evidence.

"This doesn't make any sense," Fugaky said as he handed a sheet of paper to one of the elders who immediately raised an eyebrow

A clan that didn't exist in all but name didn't need to spend thousands on meat, much less ninja gear.

one by one the elders began to take the meeting seriously and soon the third had everyone's full attention.

He informed everyone about his student's threat about leaving the village, but it wouldn't just be them but their entire clans as well.

he informed Fugaku about the threat that if the Senju clan left the Uchiha clan would follow it.

As the rest of the elders turned to look at Fugaku, the elder just stayed quiet before answering.

'Yes" Fugaku answered the council

His response was short but direct, and it caused no shortage of accusations to be directed towards the Uchiha head.

Fugaku just remained silent even as he was accused of molding David and Mark to his liking and infiltrating the Senju clan so that the Uchiha clan could take it over from within.

The third watched as the man just remained silent and let everyone talk when the accusations finally sopped the third continued and brought his student's demands to the council, and reminding them that it had been the council that had broken the deal they had with his students and the children.

The third listened to the council talk amongst themselves and try to think of a way to tighten the noose around the two boys and the elders and he watched as they all reluctantly accepted Tsunades demands.

However, they added one clause to it, Tsunade wouldn't be able to leave the hidden leaf for as long as David was still in the academy.

Jiraiya would be allowed to continue to do what he usually did, but he was expected to keep the council informed about his son's training, even if he decided not to train the boy.

The third did not doubt that the only reason the council had placed these restraints was to simply show that they still had some control over the situation, however, he also knew that the elders wouldn't dare push his two students further than this unless they had anything they could use against them.

'Now there's the matter of Jinchuriki as well as several bloodlines that have been taken in by the Senju clan" Danzo said to everyone as he pointed out that Naruto along with several other children had been adopted by Davi

'Naruto's clan was a sub-faction of the Senju clan, he should have gone to live with David the moment the boy was wed to Tsunade" Fugaku said to everyone

'As for the rest of the orphans, they are now under the supervision of David- Mark and now Tsunade" the third pointed out silencing the elders who had begun to murmur amongst themselves.

The third returned to his office and informed his students and for a moment he left them alone to talk amongst themselves before the three of them began to talk about everything that has happened since the last time they had seen each other.

The third informed Tsunade about David and Mark's fight in the academy and how Naruto has been behaving, he pointed out how the boys have been working to restore the clan's territory and how there's been a growing divide between him and the rest of the leaf.

Tsunade and Jiraiya told the third about the children's training and the fight that the elementals had with enemy ninjas when the children were almost kidnaped.
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"Okay, David said to the guards that had gone off for the clothes he had asked them to get and he watched as they brought out a pair of scrolls that immediately released their contents the moment they were opened.

"Sorry to bother you guys again but can you tell everyone that took in one of the new kids to bring them here," David asked the guard and they immediately began to gather everyone that had agreed to take in one or more of the orphans.

From the side Mini- Maria- Sonia- Heku and Shizune along with Tonton watched as Mark -David and Ana handed sets of cloths similar to the ones they were wearing.

"Okay because of how the village does things everyone has to wear these clothes when your outside of the clan's section, other than that feel free to not wear them when you're in here," Mark said to everyone that stood in front of him

"Everyone else, I'm sorry, but for some reason, I still don't understand I can't give you clothes like ours," David said to the Uchiha who just nodded and smiled at him

Luckily for David, everyone that was older than ten understood that by giving the children clothes that were exact copies of the Whitejaws uniforms, David had unwillingly made the white jaws clothing the standard uniform of the Senju clan.

Meaning that if anyone saw anyone else wearing clothes similar to Davids they would immediately assume that the person wearing them was a member of the Senju clan.

"Wow," Heku said as he looked at his old friends acting like adults

"They changed," Sonia said as she looked at David as she noticed someone walking up to her

'Hinata!" she said to Hinata before running up to her and hugging her

Hinata had separated from everyone when they had gathered to eat together and she wasn't able to see her because Hinata had to train.

'Hellow Sonia" Hinata struggled to say as she felt Sonias bear hug threaten to break her spine

"David!" Heku called out to his friend as Shadow manifested itself next to him

"The last time I was here I challenged you and Mark," Heku said to Mark and David causing both boys to look at each other

Immediately Mark and David began to smile and called out to the girls to join them.

'Okay Heku wants to be the leader of the team, all in favor say I" David say to everyone

"Everyone that says no says I," ark said

"I" a pair of voices answered, everyone was shocked to see a couple of people that they haven't seen in a while

Nenji and Itachi had finally come back but for whatever reason, the two of them didn't look too happy.

"Nenji," Hinata said to her cousin but Nenji just ignored her

"David- Mark, I'm sorry to say this but the two of you need to hear this" Itachi said to them and he waited to make sure that he had everyone's attention.

"I'm sorry to say this but since the moment David married into the Senju clan he was always the leader of the Whitjaws"

"Normally this wouldn't mean anything after all it's just a group of kids, but look around you if you were to give up your position or be voted out of your position" Itachi tried to explain to his friends

"Politics, it's always politics," Mark said in an exasperated way

'Can we all agree that Heku is the leader of the team, but I'm still the leader of the clan?"David said to everyone and immediately everyone nodded i agreement, he turned to look at the two boys and reluctantly they agreed

'Okay boss what now?" David asked Heku who just rubbed the back of his head

'Nothing" Heku said to David before walking past him and standing in front of Itachi
 
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"What's going on?" Heku asks Itacho who doesn't react to Heku's complete disregard for his personal space.

"My mother has extended her hand to Mark and the rest of his team and is willing to train her side of the Whit Jaws if you're all willing to accept her offer," Itachi said to Mark

Immediately without needing to be asked Nenji looked at David and began to say his message.

'Lady Hana extends her offer to train your half of the team" Nenji said to David while completely ignoring Heku

'Sorry it's not up to me anymore, the leader of the White Jaws is that guy in front of you" David said to Nenji

"Sorry, I can't answer you're going to have to talk to Heku" Mark answered Itachi, who just smirked

'I see, so that's how it is" Itachi said to Mark

"Heku, do you want to train with Hna again or will you reject her offer," Itachi asked Heku who just folded his hands

'Sorry, I can't say yes to both of their offers" Heku said to Itachi and Nenji

'Hold on don't get mad, the girls and I won't be in the village for long and we're all going to leave in a few days or hours so even if we do accept there wouldn't be a point in doing so for anyone"

"We would just be wasting the ladies time," Heku said to both Itachi and Nenji who just looked at him with blank expressions

Both boys accepted Heku's response and immediately left to report to Hana and Mikoto.

'It's strange don't you think?' Mark said to Heku as he walked up to him

'We haven't seen either of them since you know, but it feels like time hasn't passed" Mark said to Heku as they watched the two boys walk away

"What do you mean?" Heku asked Mark

"Don't tell David but I know why Hinata is living here," Mark said to Heku, and Heku couldn't help but look at Mark with curiosity

"Hinata was removed from the Hyuga clan, she was considered too weak to be the heir and to keep her clan from putting that seal on her, Hana sent her to live with David" Mark explained to Heku

Heku didn't turn to look at Hinata he just kept his eyes focused on Nenji.

'So why hasn't he come back?" Heku asked Mark

"Hana has another daughter and so Nenji's her guard now" Mark answered Heku before putting a hand over him and hugging him

"Relax, life is complicated for everyone"

"I don't have to tell you why Itachi hasn't been around, because it's the same reason he disappeared all of the time," Mark said to Heku as the sounds of laughter reached them

As the two turned to look at where the sound was coming from Heku found himself looking at several children running around wearing the same clothes he was wearing.

'Come on, let's forget about the world for now" Mark said to Heku before letting go of him and joining everyone as they ran after each other.

Tsunade and Jiraiya walked back into Tsunade's part of the village ad for a brief moment they couldn't help but stop moving, the third Hokage took in a deep breath as he looked at the sight in front of him.

For the briefest of moments, the sun had placed itself in a way that it lined itself perfectly with the scenery.

The three of them watched as both adults and children simply passed the time without a care in the world and for a brief moment, both the Tsunade and the Third felt as if a small sliver of the past had been brought forth before it quickly vanished.

'Lady Tsunade, please this way" a pair of Uchiha women said to Tsunade before graving her hand and pulling her to the Senju clans main house

Both women bowed to the third before they continued what they were doing.

The Third watched as the newly adopted children quickly became used to their new clothes and realized that they now belong somewhere.

Granted they still had to earn their place in the Senju clan but considering that they were the only real members besides Tsunade, the Third didn't doubt that they would all soon find themselves quickly becoming a part of the revived clan.

The third watched as David- Mark and Ana looked around before turning their masks over, he watched as the rest of the boy's team did the same and he smiled when the rest of the children imitated their actions.

The third turned his head when he noticed that Jiraiya was whistling and looking at something not too far away.

The third had to force himself not to smile as he watched Tsunade walkout out of her house.

She wore a blue kimono that had a pink obi around her waist, her light blond hair was down and somehow it seemed to make the form-fitting kimono look as if his student had always worn it.

"I'm sure lord David will love to see you wearing it," One of the women said to Tsunade, as she stood next to Jiraiya and the third

The three of them stood there silently and simply enjoyed the scene in front of them even when they caught sight of Naruto who was now wearing the same clothes as everyone else.

It was no mystery to any of them that most if not everyone stayed away from Naruto but for the moment the boy was happily playing with everyone else.
 
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"So I was thinking maybe having everyone running around with white coats might be the wrong idea," Mark said to David as they walked to school

"So what are you going to do now?" Ana asked David

"Nothing, I'm leaving when I grow up" David answered Ana and immediately noticed that both the guards Hinata and Naruto stopped walking

'What?" he asked them

"You're leaving," Naruto said to David

"Yeah, I mean I'm not a ninja and since my wife is back I can leave" David answered Naruto before he turned to look at the guards

"Come on guys I never tried to hide this from you," David said to the guards who accepted his answer

Tsunade graved her head as she started to do her job, she knew that this should have been her job, not Davids but back then she couldn't bring herself to do it.

There were stacks upon stacks of papers that needed to be looked over and the fact that the council had opened some sort of vault and had brought even more work for her to do since before the sun came up.

The work was split up into four groups, Jiraiya- Shizune and the accountants the council had sent to investigate her finances and find whatever purchases shouldn't have been there.

As she worked she began to wonder why the council hadn't provided the boys with any help, neither of them should have worked so much alone and should have had not one but several people aiding them, but they didn't they were working alone all of the time.

If all of the papers Shizune showed her were real, it was no wonder the Uchiha were the ones that received so much from the boys, they were the only ones that offered to help them in any form.

Then there was the situation that was already showing its ugly head.

She had already rejected more than one invitation to visit or have someone visit her home to welcome her back, this was an issue because as much as she looked around she couldn't find any of these invitations for her husband.

Normally she wouldn't have cared, but for better or worse David was her husband, and the fact that he had the entire village turn its back to him, meant a lot, yet those very same people that didn't even look his way acted as if they had never done such a thing.

Normally she couldn't have denied the invitations but she had the perfect excuse, she simply said that she had too much work at the moment before showing the messengers her office and enjoyed the looks the messengers had when they noticed the stacks of papers.

Jiraya was quickly readying everything in front of him and knowing him he was putting everything into two stacks the useless stuff, which were things that needed to be thrown away and things that needed to be looked into.

"Here," Jiraiya said to her as he placed a stack of papers in front of her before graving the other stack and setting it on fire

"What are you doing!?" Tsunade said to him despite knowing why he did it

"It was nothing but red tape, things that didn't have to be done, the council was doing everything it could to slow them down" Jiraiya answered Tsunade

'Anyway look, there are a lot of scrolls missing from your clan's vault, and you need to sign these papers to have this investigated" Jiraiya said to her before he started looking at another stack

after a while, Shizune was finally done and brought to her what she found and Tsunade immediately began to grind her teeth in irritation.

A lot of people had investigated her family line, not in the way that they wanted to experiment on her family's corpses but someone was looking for children that had been born out of the eyes of the village.

The investigation was stopped because Mark had stood up to the council and demanded that if any children were found they would immediately fall under David's protection.

Her own investigation revealed a lot more than she ever wanted, there were a lot of things that had been done behind her back.

She was aware that her clan farmland had only recently been opened once again but there was no reason for it to not have been used to help the entire village, yet for whatever reason, it wasn't.

She now knew why, the reason was that if the village used her land to grow crops they would have to pay her for the use of it, as well as provide some of the funds from the sales of the crops.

There were a lot more issues than they found such as the materials that should have been provided to the boys free of charge to be able to rebuild the Senju clans territory free of charge, yet the council had wanted to charge David for everything up to the smallest nail

Not to mention forcing the boys to give up their Jutsu, but considering that most of what the boys developed only worked for them meant that everything the council got their hands on was useless to them.

She needed a drink, but she couldn't drink, not yet anyway.

She needed to meet someone from the orphanage because the agreement the boys had with them was that the Senju clan would take in the orphans every couple of years.

If the orphanage ran out of room, then the clan would take in the majority of the children, so she needed to find teachers and caretakers for them.

Then there was the issue with the Uchiha, like it or not but the other clan had set itself up in her territory.

Getting them to move would cause them to either consider her an enemy or worse try to take her part of the village by saying that they were owed the houses they were using because they were never paid for their work.

it was a good thing that she didn't need to do that for the moment and if she needed them to leave would be an issue for the future.

She felt Tonton lay on her lap and she gently stroked the piglet back as he thought about everything she had learned.

There wasn't any doubt that someone had taken advantage of her mental state but to think they had gone as far as to interfere with everything to the point that they had almost completely stopped her clan's restoration.

It was only because Mark and Davi thought of creative ways to get around the roadblocks in front of them that they had made any progress at all.

The fact that most if not all of the elders of each clan were more than aware of this irritated her even more, then a thought entered her mind.

She was aware why Hana couldn't help the boys the Hyuga wouldn't ever allow it, not without getting anything in return and the fact that Hinata was living here at the moment, was seen by them as making David pay for making their clan waste their time with him.

The door to her office opened and she found one of the maids walk in, the young woman placed her lunch in front of her before putting Jiraiyas and Shizune's in front of them, yet the young woman didn't leave.

'Tell me what's wrong?" Tsunade asked her and the woman simply struggled to say what she wanted to

'Forgive me princess, but a couple of us want to, no feel that you should know" she said to Tsunade and Tsunade noticed how the girl was using all of her courage just to talk to her

"Okay," Tsunade said to her

'First please know that we're grateful for you and lord David for allowing us to lie here, but how should I say this without sounding..."

"Okay you can do this Tsunade heard the girl say to herself

'Lord David ha started looking at us with the eyes of a hungry beast" the girl said to Tsunade and Tsunade nearly burst out laughing

"Princess, please take this seriously," the girl said to her with a slightly panicked voice, no doubt noticing Tsunades amused expression

"Whenever someone is working near him and her legs show more than they usually do, w can feel him looking at us"

"There are times that we even caught him staring at Lady Hinatas maid and if it wasn't for Mark, pulling him away David would have laid his hands on her more than once," the girl said to her

Tsunade wanted to laugh now, not just because of David's age, but the fact that the girl wanted to tell her this for a while now.

"There's more isn't there," Tsunade said to the girl

"Sometimes the young lord will have his spirit make hot wind and use it to blow our skirts"

This caught Tsunade's attention, especially considering a certain someone that was in the room with her.

"And later when the young lord had time to train..." the girl took a deep breath

"I don't know if this is true but there are rummers that he's been using the boys older than himself what tricks they use to peek on girls"

Tsunade processed everything she just heard took a deep breath.

'Don't worry I'll take care of it" she said to the girl before letting her leave her office

'So what are you going to do?" Jiraiya asked her

'Nothing, he's just reached puberty, stoping him now would just hinder him, and it's not as if there's something between us" she answered Jiraiya

"Excuse us we found more than a few issues with your funds, it seems someone has indeed been stealing from your clan," One of the accountants said to her

"We will take this evidence to the Hokage and the village will return the amount stolen from you, as for everything that was withheld from your husband we can assure you that will no longer be the case," the man said to her before leaving

It took three hours before the supplies began to arrive and the Uchiha immediately began to do their job, Tsunade didn't even have to say anything as rebuilding her clan's territory was their job from the beginning

She was honestly impressed about how fast they worked and it wouldn't be long before they were done if anything she would be surprised if they took longer than a week to finish.

She watched as her old home was completely restored right before her eyes.

Yet she couldn't believe her ears when she heard the workers say that they were done, it hadn't been more than a few hours when they finished and when Tsunade asked them how.

The workers simply said that they lacked the necessary materials and had to restore old ones and use them to fix the buildings, now that they no longer needed to do this, the job was quickly done.

Tsunade met the representative of the orphanage and the other guests and agreed to have not one but several schools built in her territory, not only that but she promised herself that she could teach healing techniques to those that showed promise.

With everything out of the way she now had time to move and see where she landed.

"Alright everyone, look closely because you have to earn this too" she heard Jiraiyas son say to a group of children, all of whom were wearing the same clothes he was

"Look," he said as he placed a stick in the ground and used a string he had tied to it to make a circle around the stick.

'Your enemy is always going to have to be in the center" heku said to them as he put several other sticks around it

One to the north- one to the south- one to the east and finally one to the west.

the sticks began to give off a dark glow before a bam of chakra shot from each other and surrounded the stick that was in the center.

'All of the energy from you, the world around you, and even your enemy is used o this technique" Heku explained to the children as let a small drop of dark glowing chakra fall from his hand

Tsunade watched as a small burst of light flashed before her eyes before a small explosion occurred

"See, its easy" heku said to them

'Maybe its time that we start accepting those invitations" Tsunade said to herself, as she started thinking of a plan
 
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