Chapter 3: Return to the Leaf.

A six year old boy with silver-white hair and striking red eyes and red marks on his cheeks and his chin, with a torn blue jacket that was many sizes to big for him and white shorts entered the ninja village known as The Village Hidden in the Leaves, or Hidden Leaf for short. The village had taken a hit when six years ago when the Nine-tails fox had been released in village. It was through the power of the fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze that the fox was defeated and peace returned to the village. The price for peace was steep however. Not only did Minato die stopping the fox but so did many other countless ninja and civilians. Along with the loss life was the destruction of buildings and countless other things. The village had been weekend but thanks to the reinstated third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi the village had survived and was starting to rebuild. The boy walked over to a female ninja and tugged on her sleeve,

"Excuse me Ms. Ninja I was told to give this letter to a ninja." He said with a smile. The ninja took the letter and as she read it her eyes widened. She grabbed the boy's hand and with a hand sign they both disappeared and reappeared in front of the Hokage tower. The boy looked at her with wide eyes.

"That was awesome can we do it again?" He asked.

"Maybe." She replied with a smile.

In the highest room in the tower sat the third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi trying to finish the mountain of paper work, his pipe in his mouth. A knock on the door broke him from his thoughts.

"Enter" he said

The female ninja and the boy entered the Hokage's office, and the ninja handed him the letter.

'If someone is reading this we can only hope that Toshiro has made it to the Hidden Leaf village. What I will tell you may seem hard to believe but know that it is the truth. Six years ago I and my wife came upon a young woman who was heavily pregnant, but also heavily injured. My wife who herself was a med-nin could tell that see was in labor. Toshiro was born on the side of a dirt road. His mother lived just long enough to name her child, tell us that she was from the Hidden Leaf village, and that the Nine-Tails had attacked the village. She then died and we buried her there on the side of the road. It was my wife that recognized the symbol she had on the back jacket that she wore as the symbol of the senju clan. We had wrapped Toshiro in it for warmth. The next action was purely selfish on our part, but we had been trying to have a child of our own but we could not. We thought that with the Nine Tails attacking the village you had enough to deal with. We thought that he could return to the village at a later date, but one year led to the next and that thought drifted farther away. But all good things must come to an end; recently the Mizukage has started a bloodline purge in Water country. Toshiro doesn't know his origins but for his own safety me and wife have given him this letter in case the worst should happen. If the worst has happened then I hope the village treats him well.

"Toshiro how did you get here?" Hiruzen with a smile on his face.

Toshiro bowed his head. "Ninja came to the door and then dad started yelling, then mom told me to run so I ran. I hid from the ninja with a camouflage justu. They left but I saw mom and dad's bodies there was blood everywhere and- and I –I." Toshiro had tears in his eyes.

The Hokage put his hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay Toshiro. You've said enough. Please take Toshiro-kun to the hospital and have him checked out, tell the nurses to include a blood test as well. Then please contact Kurenai Yūhi she is too watch over the boy. This is an S-Class secret and you know the punishment for breaking it."

"Of course Lord Hokage." The ninja replied as she and Toshiro left.

As the door closed the Hokage spoke to the ANBU hidden in the room. "Get me my advisors please we have quite a bit to talk about." With not even a shadow they had left the room to carry out the order.

Toshiro had just gotten his blood drawn, and was about to leave the hospital when a beautiful woman approached him. She had black shoulder length red lips and light red eyes.

"Toshiro my name is Kurenai. Are you hungry? We can go get something to eat.?"

Toshiro nodded as they left the hospital.

Night had descended on the village as Toshiro and Kurenai walked toward a place to eat. As Toshiro looked toward a back alley he saw a flash of red hair running from a mob of people. He looked to see that Kurenai was distracted and with a hand sign he had left her side and was on a roof tracking the flash of red hair. He tracked it to a side alley where the blonde hair had stopped to rest well the mob had lost sign of it. The red hair turned out to be a girl his own age with bright blue eyes and dressed dirty clothes. As he jumped down the girl nearly bolted but stopped seeing it was a boy her own age.

"Why are they chasing you?" He asked.

"I don't know" The girl whispered fear evident in her voice.

"I heard it the demon is this way!" A voice shouted

Toshiro grabbed the girls shoulder and whispered, "Camouflage justu" They melded into the wall of the alley, and waited until the mob ran past.

As the justu ended Toshiro turned to ask the girl her name only to see that she had left. He felt a presence to his right and looked to see Kurenai with a look of annoyance on her face.

Toshiro rubbed the back of his head embarrassed.

Kurenai rolled her head, "It's late so I'll make you some dinner at my home." With that they both left the back alley.

While this was going on the Hokage was meeting his advisors Homura Mitokado, Koharu Utatane, and Danzō Shimura. Danzo had just finished reading the letter, and threw it back on the desk.

"This had to be faked. We would have known if a senju had left the village." He said slamming his cane on the ground.

"Actually since the fox attacked the senju the heaviest it is not out of the realm of possibility one escaped." Homura said as Koharu agreed with him.

"Well than we should go and arrest these people for keeping a clan child from the village." Danzo replied.

"I'm afraid that would be impossible Danzo, if the child is to be believed then they are dead. Killed by water ninja under the order of the Mizukage." As the Hokage finished speaking an ANBU appeared and handed him a file. Hiruzen smiled as he read the file, "It appears Tobirama-sensei wasn't as much of a monk as he appeared. The boy is indeed the grandson of Tobirama Senju the second Hokage."

"Tsunade must be informed immediately." Koharu urged

The Hokage nodded, "I have already sent a message to her. I expect her to be here by midday tomorrow."

"So the senju clan is once again alive and well." Said Danzo. All four elders stood in silence wondering what this meant for the village.

Meanwhile Toshiro and Kurenai had ate and were preparing for bed. Kurenai slept in her bed and Toshiro took the couch. He wondered what his life would be like here in the village but he shrugged he would deal with it tomorrow.