1 Prelude

The secret son of a young Hiruzen Sarutobi and Mizura Uchiha, Madara Uchiha's granddaughter, was taken outside of the village by a saddened Madara Uchiha after watching his daughter pass away. It wasn't even a full year since it was reported that his wife Mia Senju-Uzumaki-Uchiha was killed while on a mission near Iwa. This was the final straw for him, he had given up many things for the leaf village; his clan being ostracized, him being pushed out of his spot as clan head, his family looking like a disgrace to both the whole village and his clan, his wife passing away, and now his beloved daughter had passed away giving birth to grandson. He decided to give the boy a name from a far away country Anthony, Anthony Senju-Uzumaki-Uchiha-Sarutobi. He felt a little bad for taking away the child's chance at knowing his father and home village, but decided it was acceptable as he was going to be with his grandfather. They were out of the village before anyone had even awakened from their slumber.

Everyone but a young Hiruzen Sarutobi who was on his way to visit his young love and his unborn son. It had taken him a long while to convince the Sarutobi and Uchiha elders to not have his first son and love killed. He had pleaded and accepted as the heir of the Sarutobi clan to write up a marriage contract that would take effect the moment the child was born so that the Uchiha would get rid of their ties to Madara's family line, of course the Sarutobi elders were not all to pleased about the arrangement themselves. They relented when young Hiruzen told them the benefits of how they might receive the sharingan and some of the fire jutsu that Madara would bring to the family with him. When he reached the estate his love and family were staying in he walked into entryway and was greeted by the scent of blood and death, he walked into the bedroom only to find his love Mizura dead with her eyes closed and a dead med-nin by the foot of the bed. He feared for the worst and was worried when he couldn't find his child or Madara. He then thought about what he was seeing and a thought occurred to him, 'Madara could have been here when Mizura was giving birth, but why would the nurse be killed? Did Madara do this or was it an assassination attempt?' He put those thoughts to the side as he looked again at his dead love and started to grieve for her death and that he doesn't know what has become of their son.

A little over ten years later

A young ten year old boy could be spotted by the gate guards walking towards the village gates. He had strikingly blonde hair that was stung into a ponytail and hung towards the middle of his back (Like how Madara would wear his hair only slightly shorter and blonde), his skin was a smooth, unblemished, and slightly tanned. He was just slightly around 4'9" tall, slightly tall for his age showing he had an active childhood and from the looks of how there was a good amount of muscle on the small lean boy heading their way he was active in his physical training. The only truly strange thing about the boy was his eyes, they seemed to shimmer and show different colors depending on his emotion or how the light hit them, but as he got closer the guards clearly saw how they were an elegant mix of deep navy blue and golden-brown irises with a very pale almost lavender colored sclera. The guards asked the boy to halt and looked over him now that he was standing in front of them. He was wearing a navy-blue cloak (Minato's hokage cloak) with the Uchiha crest emblazoned upon both shoulders on the sleeves and on the back, it was situated beside the Senju crest and they were both only just above the Sarutobi crest and below the Uzumaki swirl. Under the cloak he was wearing a grey shirt (On one shoulder would be the Uchiha crest the other the Senju crest and on the back the Uzumaki and Sarutobi clan crests), over a mesh shirt, and his pants were were a solid black with a navy blue streak down both sides breaks to show his clan symbols again (Uzumaki crest near his left hip and Senju crests just below his knea on the left leg and the Sarutobi crest near his right hip and Uchiha crest on his right leg just below the knea.) Between the symbols on both legs where ninja pouches (though if one would look closely enough they would see kanji markings showing that there was storage seals to allow him to carry more things in the pouches and more all over the boys clothes and cloak.) His sandals were a mix of black, grey, blue. The guards were surprised at the number of clan symbols the boy was wearing, but didn't let it stop them from being cautious around the boy. The boy then spoke, "I am Anthony. I am originally from this village but taken away from it soon after I was born by my grandfather. He has trained and raised me for the past ten years, but sadly he has passed on now, but before he did he told me this is where I was born and that I would be able to find my father and families. I have traveled here all by myself with only that limited information and the name of my father, so may I please enter the village to speak to the Hokage whomever it might be nowadays. When my grandfather took me with him it was still his friend Hashirama Senju?"

To say the gate guards were shocked would be an understatement, but they managed to collect themselves to reply, "That was ten years ago Shodai-sama sadly passed away only three years ago and his brother Tobirama-sama has become the Nidaime hokage. If your grandfather was friends with lord first he must have been a great man can you tell us who he is?"

Anthony sighed and said, "I am sorry I swore to my grandfather that I will first tell the hokage and then we will see who he will allow to know of my family. Sorry guys.

The guards shrugged it off saying, "It's fine kid well do you need an escort to the hokage tower?"

Anthony nodded his head and the guards signaled to a passing ANBU who was patrolling the walls and asked the ANBU to escort the young boy to the hokage tower to meet with the hokage. The ANBU just gave a visible nod and turned to face the boy. The boy quickly spoke up and said, "Ne ne, Neko-san why do you have a genjutsu on your hair?" The cat masked ANBU's eyes hardened under the mask, but the only response the boy got was the ANBU turning on its heel and walking into the village. "Oh well guess she doesn't want to chat with me. See you guys later." Anthony said and gave a quick wave to the guards as he went to catch up to his guide. It was a pleasant silence that was held between the two as they made their way through the still slumbering town. The ANBU glanced at the boy when she heard him chuckling who caught her look and said, "It's just my grandfather told me we left the village while they were sleeping Neko-chan and now I'm coming back while they are sleeping almost as if not a moment has passed since I had left." The ANBU's stumbled a little when the boy called out her gender, but only raised a brow in acknowledgement.

It wasn't too much longer until they reached the hokage tower and the ANBU left Anthony, so that she could inform the hokage of the boys arrival. The hokage raised a brow at hearing of the boy and all of his claims and dismissed the ANBU. He gave it a few moments after the ANBU left before he called out, "ENTER!" The doors opened and the young child walked right in and sat in a chair across from the leader of the village.

The hokage was about to start speaking when the boy asked, "Why did you wait after letting Neko-chan leave before calling me in?"

This got Tobirama to raise his brow before asking, "So you're a sensor?" The boy nodded before Tobirama said, "I was preparing myself and allowing you to calm whatever nerves you too had at this early hour. Now I was told you needed to tell me of your heritage?"

The boy simply nodded and reached into the Uchiha emblem on his cloak and pulled out an item, which had all of the ANBU and hokage tense up. The boy sensing this chuckled a little before saying, "You need not worry hokage-sama and ANBU-sans I only have grabbed a scroll that shows my family tree and has a letter from my grandfather. Though hokage-sama I think he wrote it for his friend Hashirama instead of you, for that I apologize."

Tobirama nodded and opened them and looked at the family tree and glared hard at the boy before spitting out, "If this is a joke boy I will kill you."

The boy only raised a brow and said, "I don't even know what they say hokage-sama, I was only told to show them to you and then after you were done open the other copy jiji-sensei gave me to read, or you would tell me."

Tobirama merely nodded his head and continued to read only to snort in laughter at what he was reading in the letter. He looked back at the boy and said, "That man was something else wasn't he?" The boy nodded "Well if there was any doubt if this information was legitimate this letter clears it up. No one would be able to copy Madara's personality this well." With that both hokage and the boy started to laugh, much to the surprise of the ANBU in the room.

"Now," The boy began bringing them back to the meeting, "is my um father still alive and in the village." At the end the boy looked anywhere, but at the hokage.

If he had been he would have seen the grin forming on the hokage's features before he said, "Well firstly you should know it has been ten years…" This seems to put the boy down a little, "... so I do need to say it will be hard for Saru to recognize you boy." The boy looked up at the hokage and the tears in his face slowed before his eyes narrowed into a glare that only got a chuckle from Tobirama. "Yes, your father is alive, but… "At this his face hardened back into a serious face, "… I need to warn you he did get over your mother's death after eight years and has recently married another clan member called Biwako. She is in terms your stepmother, so I will ask you to not stir things up too much for them." I shall take you to the compound now and later we can discuss about your ninja training and schooling, is that fine with you?"

The boy nodded and was nearly bouncing off of the walls at hearing of how he will get to see his family soon. It wasn't that far of a walk to go from the hokage tower to the Sarutobi compound in fact it was the closest compound and only a twenty-minute walk. The guards at the entrance to the compound weren't too surprised to see Tobirama and so were relaxed and easily allowed Tobirama and little Anthony to enter to compound and walk to the clan heads house where Tobirama knocked on the door. They didn't wait long before hearing a grumbling voice on the other side of the door along with a few locks being undone. A man opened the door and seeing who it was opened it wide saying, "Sensei? What do I owe the pleasure of you coming to my house at eight in the morning?" He catches sight of Anthony, "And who's the brat?"

Tobirama grins and Hiruzen starts to worry, his sensei doesn't grin like that unless something bad is about to happen. "Well Hiruzen I just wanted to introduce you to someone important…" they both glance at Anthony who is looking at the floor, "this boy is the grandson of Madara Uchiha and Mia Senju-Uzumaki, and son to Mizura Senju-Uchiha and one Hiruzen Sarutobi. This is Anthony Senju-Uzumaki-Uchiha-Sarutobi."

Hiruzen's mouth dried up immediately as he looked from the boy to his sensei and back again. He looked down and said only loud enough for the others to hear him, "Is it really him sensei?" Tobirama nodded and handed Hiruzen the letter and family tree that Anthony had given him earlier. Hiruzen looked over the papers before tears filled his eyes and he looked over at Anthony again, this time he rushed over and hugged the boy. They both soon became a weeping mess that in turn woke up Biwako who stomped into the room ready to make heads roll. The young medic-nin was about to start yelling when she saw her husband and what appeared to be a small child holding each other crying while the hokage sat next to them drinking some tea.

She raised a brow at the hokage who in turn just said, "Family reunion." as he shunshined from the house.

This left a very confused Biwako who waited for a few moments before she disturbed the 'family reunion' by pulling the two apart and asking, "What did the hokage mean by family reunion?"

The boy laughed a little and answered for his father, "It is as he said I am reuniting with my family after not seeing them for the ten years that I have been alive. Let me introduce myself I am Anthony Senju-Uzumaki-Uchiha-Sarutobi, grandson of Madara Uchiha and Mia Senju-Uzumaki (who is direct cousins of Hashirama and Tobirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki-Senju), also grandson of Sasuke Sarutobi and Mina Sarutobi, and finally son of Hiruzen Sarutobi and Mia Senju-Uzumaki-Uchiha. I have just returned from living with my recently deceased grandfather." At this a few teardrops fall from the boy's eyes, "Although I am glad to be home and finally meet my father and stepmother." At this Both older Sarutobi are proud and astonished at the level of maturity the young child has shown. "I only have one last request from Madara-jiji to fulfil and that is to go to the ninja academy to become a ninja. So please otōsan and Biwako-okasan?" The boy's eyes widened dramatically, and tears readily appeared in the corners, a dramatic spotlight hit, and if all that wasn't enough his bottom lip was quivering.

Both older Sarutobi were caught off guard and unaware of the dreaded puppy-eyes no jutsu so they quickly caved into it. The boys smile nearly split his face before he ran up and hugged them both saying, "Thank you otōsan, thank you okasan."

The two now parents look at each other and realize they were played, but not too much as they would have let him go anyways. They just shrugged their shoulders and hugged the little boy back.

Three and a half years later

Anthony had graduated from the ninja academy and was assigned to a ninja squad with his friend Ria Namikaze and Shiki Aburame. They worked very well together and it was painfully obvious that two of the members were crushing on each other, well obvious to all around them. The two new genin were completely oblivious to the others feelings and it was starting to annoy the usually calm Aburame, so during their graduation ceremony Shiki managed to push his friend into asking Ria out on a date. Of course the girl said yes and they were almost inseparable and somehow the friends teamwork went from good to the best teamwork ever seen before in the history of the hidden leaf village. With the awkwardness ironed out between the two members the team was able to function much more smoothly. The combination attacks that would have been messed up became perfect and the timing of their best friend shiki was always there when needed. Each was smart and very skilled separately, but when they combined their knowledge and strategy making even a Nara would have been hard pressed to out think their plans.

During the chunin exams they were able to pass the first exam given by the torture and investigation head Rance Uzuki by being able to think of a plan by gathering the answers to the test from the other test takers and being brave enough to sit through the tenth question. They set an all-time record for completing the second stage of the exams in the forest of death that was proctored by Zen Mitarashi. The number of participants that actually passed the second stage was only four genin teams and a few of those quit leaving only eight participants all three of team 3(Anthony's team), two from a team of suna ninja, one Iwa ninja, and two kumo ninja. It was a harsh exam and the four ninja who quit only did so because of the injuries that they received during the second stage.

The hokage looked at the participants and decided that they wouldn't need to have a preliminary round and that in a month they would proceed to fight in the final stage of the chunin exams. He made a quick speech of the importance of the chunin exams and what to expect during the final round. After he was done he dismissed all of the ninja so that they could leave training ground 44.

Anthony and Ria trained together through the month off and developed their relationship more. It was a good sight to see for the citizens of Konoha especially seeing as the Namikaze clan were going extinct in recent years, Ria was actually one of the slim few remaining Namikaze and the very last of the main line. The main line of the Namikaze clan were gifted with the swift release or jinton. So when it was discovered that she was dating someone the village was ecstatic with the good news that maybe one of their famous clans would make a great comback in the near future.

A month later

The chunin exams were once again back and the stadium was jam packed with villagers and ninja from all over the Elemental Nations, even the daimios came from all of their nations to see the spectacle and the future of their nations. The first of the fights was between Shiki and one of the suna ninja. The battle didn't last long as Shiki easily dominated the battle by keeping the short ranged fighter away with his assaults of kikaichu beetles that continuously drained his opponent of his chakra. It wasn't long before the suna nin passed out from chakra exhaustion, his reserves weren't as large as most of the other genin in the exams so for Shiki he was the best person he could have faced.

The next was a battle between one of the Kumo ninja and the Iwa ninja, which resulted in the Iwa nin using a strategy and pulling out a win.

The next battle was between a Kumo ninja and Ria, it was an easy battle for Ria considering her family's swift release techniques and wind element against the Kumo ninja's lightning element. The start of the fight started and both fighters went through a quick series of seals and called out their jutsu Wind Style: Great Breakthrough/Lightning Style: Electromagnetic Murder. The techniques battled it out in between the two and then cancelled out and the fighters met in the middle in a taijutsu confrontation Ria was using the Namikaze's Hummingbird style while the Kumo ninja used the thunder fist style. Ria was no slouch when it came to taijutsu, but the thunder fist style was made on strength and speed while the hummingbird style was made for speed and nimbleness of its fighter, so the kumo nin was able to push Ria back until she was forced to use her jinton. Swift Release: Flash Step. In a flash she went from in front of the kumo nin pinned against a wall to behind the nin and going through seals and calling out Wind Style: Wind Dragon the dragon that came from her mouth slammed the kumo nin into the wall and knocked him unconscious. The Raikage could be heard cursing about how easily this year's shinobi were good and his were becoming weak and cursing about the Namikaze clans Jinotn.

As the raikage was calmed down it was time for the final two fighters to make their way to the arena floor to finish the first round of final stage of the chunin exams. The suna nin quietly walked down the steps and arrived in front of the proctor Ken Hayate, but his approach was not reciprocated by the final contestant as a kunai stuck into the ground in front of the two and in a yellow flash Anthony appeared standing where the kunai was. The raikage could be heard yelling about another Namikaze, but was hushed when the hokage yelled out, "YOU BRAT THAT'S MY TECHNIQUE!"

This got the ground to laugh as the boy looked up at the kage box and at his hokage before shouting back, "BUT HOKAGE-JIJI I MAKE IT LOOK BETTER… not to mention you made me recreate it by myself."

He mumbled the last part, but the hokage still heard him and yelled, "OF COURSE I MADE YOU RELEARN IT! JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE FAMILY DOESN'T MEAN I'M JUST GOING TO HAND YOU EVERYTHING!"

This had the boy wave his hand in a dismissing gesture before he said, "Yeah, yeah, hokage-jiji. Now if you don't mind, I have a fight to win." He said with a small pout at the end causing many to laugh at his childish actions, but the hokage just grumbled as he nodded to Hayate and retook his seat. The fight began and was almost ended as quickly as it started thanks to the match up of elemental jutsu they sent at each other. Wind Style: Great Breakthrough/ Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation, this caught the attention of many as one of Madara's jutsu was once again released upon the world and this time it was fueled by the suna nins jutsu as it devoured him completely erasing his existence not even ash remained the crowd was stunned at the powerful jutsu that was used. That is until an Uchiha stood up and yelled, "That is an Uchiha jutsu we demand to know where you learned it from boy!"

Anthony looked op into the stands and many were taken aback as they stared into a pair of fully matured sharingan. He stared down at the Uchiha who had spoken a moment ago and said, "That stopped being an Uchiha jutsu the moment you kicked my family from the clan, but if you insist on knowing where I learned it from it was personally taught and drilled into my being from my grandfather MADARA UCHIHA!" This caught many of the Uchiha off guard as none thought about the repercussions of getting rid of Madara and his family and here it was glaring at them from the arena. A chorus of "Hn's" was the only response Anthony was given as he made his way back to the contestants booth.

The next fight was quickly started and it was Ria versus the Iwa nin, which she ended with in the first few moments of the fight by using her jinton to get behind the Iwa kunoichi and knock her out, thus ending the fight.

Shiki and Anthony walked to the arena and as the match started Shiki sent out some of his kikaichu beetles to test out how much chakra Anthony still had remaining and after receiving his answers from his beatles he turned to the proctor and said, "This match is over, why you might ask. It is simple because Anthony-san still has a large portion of chakra remaining and he would be able to destroy my kikaichu beetles thus ending the fight anyway." He fixed his dark shaded glasses and started to walk up the steps to the contestants booth saying, "good luck Ria-san, Anthony-san."

Anthony looked at his friend before saying, "That was a good decision Shiki, though I wish I did get to fight you. Oh well, that just gives me more chakra to battle it out with Ria-chan. Hey Ria-chan you should hurry up or else you won't get your reward I promised you."

Before he even finished his words a yellow flash was in front of him trying to shush him with a bright red flush covering most of her face. He chuckled at her reaction before saying, "Don't worry Ria-chan I'll still give it to you, but now I get to keep it a secret. I won't tell you unless you beat me or else I won't tell you until I finish the preparations." This caught the attention of many in the crowd, but the hokage only kept a sly grin.

"Well then I'll just have to beat you so that you have to tell me then." Ria said with a big smile.

The fight started and Anthony reached into one of his pouched and threw a kunai into the air and formed a few hand seals and calling out Ninja Art: Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu and the kunai quickly became thousands of kunai and landed all around the arena. He looked at Ria as he said, "Now that that's out of the way we can test out which is better your jinton or my Hiraishin ."

The hokage's eyebrows scrunched up in annoyance as he called out, "OI BRAT IT'S MY TECHNIQUE!"

The Blonde boy looked up to the kage box and shouted, "IT MIGHT HAVE STARTED THAT WAY JIJI, BUT THIS ONE IS ALL MINE! I IMPROVED YOURS AND NOW IT'S MINE!" Then he was making rapid jumps amongst his kunai to avoid Ria and her as she called out Swift Release: Dance of Hermes this allowed her to continuously perform the flash step and allowed her to keep up and almost outclass Anthony's jutsu, but he made her falter when he changed up his jumping pattern and hit her and almost knocked her unconscious. Even with her still up she would have to take a break from using her jinton so he quickly flashed and engaged her in a mutated version of her hummingbird style and was able to pin her in a corner with one of his kunai at her neck and his other hand forming seals for an uzumaki jutsu. Ria saw this and forfeited the match, just as he finished the seals.

She called, "Proctor I forfeit, I still need a few more moments until I could use my jinton properly again, which before that he would have used his paralysis seal on me."

Hayate was shocked at what Ria thought Anthony was doing he only knew of one person who could use fuinjutsu with hand seals and she was Lady Mito. Mito just so happened to be in the stands and was very worried for the young boy because his hand seals were almost all wrong. She would have to teach that boy some more about their family seals. She refused to blame herself for showing him some of the more correct ways, but she fully blamed Madara for telling him about them in the first place. She sighed and sat back into her seat a little more, waiting for the tournament to be over so she could congratulate her cousin. Tobirama stood along with the Tsuchikage to announce the four genin that would become chunin and to congratulate Anthony on his winning the tournament.