Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 27

A week later...

Konoha Hospital

In a seemingly simple room, slept Naruto with a whole lot of flowers and gifts stacked around him. His eyes finally flickered open and he came to, his vision blurring before it focused completely to stare straight into a pare of hazelnut eyes.

He blinked and the eyes blinked back at him.

He caught the girl in a bear hug a moment later and buried his face in her neck with soft sigh of relief passing his lips.

"I'm glad you're okay…" he whispered and Tsunade smiled, hugging him back equally tightly. He broke off the hug to check for her injuries while he had cupped her cheeks when she stopped him with a giggle.

"I'm 'kay baka. You're the one who was out like a light for a week…" she said and Naruto rubbed his neck sheepishly with a nod. Though he was surprised when her arms wrapped around his chest again and she placed her head on his shoulder.

"You scared me Naru…" she whispered and Naruto smiled and hugged her tightly.

"You scared me too Tsuna…" he whispered back and she nodded, saying nothing else.

Both taking a moment to let it absorb that the other was alright.

Meanwhile Outside the room…

Mito looked on through the small glass window on the door with her hands clasped over her heart and a fond smile on her face.

"Aww they are so adorable hugging like that…" she cooed softly, getting smiles from the two men sitting by her side. Sasuke's fingers twitched due to not being able to smoke in here and it annoyed him to no end while Tobirama had a can of coffee which he sipped on calmly.

Sasuke popped a chewing gum in his mouth to take his mind off getting a smoke while they waited until Mito had given the Hokage permission to disturb the moment between the children inside.

It was really unbecoming of their legendary status to get scolded by a women, but still…

"I'm so getting them married when they grow up…" she whispered with an aww and the reactions were instant.

POOF…

Tobirama sprayed a nurse completely brown by spewing off coffee onto her and Sasuke had choked on his chewing gum and was patting his chest to get it to go either way and was rolling on the ground in agony.

"Men…" Mito pouted and watched the scene inside with sparkling eyes.

...

Inside…

"Jiji told me you jumped off a cliff…" she said sternly making him gulp seeing her angry eyes and looked around for an escape.

"Well, it wasn't a jump. It was merely falling expertly… and safely with a lot of speed behind it…" he explained lamely making her narrow her eyes and bonk his head softly while she caught his collar in her hand.

"Baka don't you dare do anything so reckless again, you get me?" she asked him and he said nothing this time, staying silent for a moment.

"Won't you do the same for me?" he asked her calmly, and she fell silent with all her anger washing away. She looked down and played with her bed-sheet, a small dust of pink on her cheeks from his words. She had no answer to that, she would do it in a heartbeat too.

"Whatever, don't take this on me. You're the one who's stupid…" she mumbled lamely and just sat there on his lap with a small bout of silence falling between them.

Naruto's eyes widened when she pressed her lips on his cheeks and quickly retreated back as if he were poisoned. He rubbed his cheek where he had felt the kiss and looked at the girl who had turned around with her arms crossed, her back facing him so he couldn't see her embarrassed face right now.

"Arigato…" she whispered and he nodded dumbly, not that she could see him.

"And don't tell this to anyone or I'll kill you…" she threatened quickly and he smiled, poking her forehead like usual much to her annoyance. He was glad she was still the same impulsive idiot like always.

"Hai!" he said before he saw her sparkling eyes looking at him in wonder and he let a soft sigh escape his lips.

"When did you learn those new jutsu? You never showed them to me, I'm so seeing them later on…" she started her barrage of questions and answers by herself while he listened on patiently to the obliviously blabbering girl.

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Outside…

"Aww she kissed him, they're so cute…" Mito cooed barely containing herself from going in and scooping those two in her arms.

THUMP…THUMP…

She sweat dropped seeing the two unconscious men by her side and her eye twitched dangerously.

"Perverts, it was an innocent kiss on the cheek…" she grumbled and waited for them to come to consciousness before she sent them back into it. Though she was startled when Kagami came in and looked on confused at their unconscious Hokage and his trusted friend unconscious on the ground.

A few moments later Tobirama straightened out his clothes and looked at his ex-subordinate with a curious look.

"How goes the interrogation?" he asked the Uchiha seriously, who smirked knowingly at his sensei making him smirk back.

Tobirama had assigned him in charge of cracking the abductor up, and Uchiha's were viciously known for breaking their captive's mind during interrogations when they were done due in prompt to the severity of the mind tricks they used and Tobirama had told him to go all out, just that he got the information from him before the man was turned into a vegetable.

"He cracked this morning sensei, your hunch was right. It was Kumo." he answered his unasked question, making his eyes turn cold in the empty hallway of the hospital and he leaned back while rubbing his temples.

That Sandaime Raikage's coveting for their Kekkei genkai's and hidden techniques wasn't lost to him. But for him to go this far…

"Why Tsunade then? She doesn't even have a bloodline?" he asked stoically and Kagami looked around.

"We should talk in private." he answered making Tobirama nod at his need for privacy, the matter must be urgent then.

The three men disappeared and Mito said nothing but knew what it meant and what fate her granddaughter had just been saved from.

She moved in to meet the children while the men went to go and talk about serious matters regarding international affairs while she had a couple of blondes to coddle and hug them to death.

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In the Hokage Office…

Tobirama sealed the room up, with Sasuke falling down on the couch by the side and finally lighting up his much needed cigar while Kagami took a chair in front of Tobirama. The Hokage sealed up the room for privacy and nodded for him to go on.

"They wanted to use her to be turned into a jinchuriki seeing how compatible a Senju's body is with a bijuu since Uzushiogakure is fortified beyond belief for them to infiltrate.

They want a weaponized and perfect jinchuriki for use as a deterrent."

He spoke seriously, making Tobirama cross his fingers in front of his mouth. His mind racking it's gears and all came down to only one simple possibility.

"You know what this means Tobirama, no point in going about it. A stable jinchuriki is only needed so badly under one condition…" Sasuke spoke from the side with a puff of smoke and Tobirama said nothing. Kagami too knew where this was headed.

"Today was much too close for comfort…" he finally broke the silence and the other two nodded.

"…if Tsunade had been taken or even Naruto for that matter, we would have had a precarious situation on our hands with one or even both our clan's heirs in the palm of Kumo for a factory to be made into a new clan in their village." he drawled out making the two nod at his words.

"Naruto needs to be questioned as well Tobirama, he was no where near where Tsunade was taken from. Far from it.

Yet he got her location even before we realized she had been abducted in the first place, something doesn't add up." Sasuke spoke his mind and Tobirama nodded, Kagami added his two cents too.

"That is besides the point that the jounin knew of our internal security's working as if he were one of our own. We have an internal leak on our hands too." he spoke and Tobirama knew it couldn't get any worse than this.

"What do we do sensei?" Kagami finally asked and he let out a sigh.

"Nothing…" he spoke finally while laying back in his chair and got a raised eyebrow from Sarutobi.

"Nothing?" he asked incredulously and got a nod from Tobirama.

"We have no evidence he was on direct orders from his village other than his own statement. He didn't even have a piece of identification on him.

Kumo can deny he was even one of their own right at this moment and we have no evidence other than the interrogation reports to say otherwise." he spoke, his years as a leader kicking in and both men by his side fell silent, knowing he was right.

"But…"

He finally spoke the word they were rearing to hear.

"…it is a big step from Kumo, no doubt for the start of something much bigger than just a kidnapping. Sasuke take charge of our spy network for now and keep an eye on them and Iwa.

I have a hunch that mummy Mu must have had a hand in this too. Kagami, draw out the leaks in our forces, we have spies ladden in every branch if we were infiltrated so cleanly in broad daylight while the infiltrator left without a trace.

I'll take care of questioning Naruto myself and get to the bottom of this." he spoke and the two nodded, agreeing with his words but Tobirama knew what this was and what it marked.

It was the calm before the storm.

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