Chapter 21

"I've got to say, neither in my wildest dream, would I ever thought that I will see my kids while I still don't have them."

"Right, right, dad. You said that the younger you will surely say something like this."

"Of course, I'll mention that. Only a real bastard understands what a bastard thinks. By the way, I have no idea what your names are or what the names of your companions are."

"Ah! Sorry about that dad. We are just excited to meet your younger self. My name is Himawari Yoshida while as you may have already guessed my mother's Hinata Yoshida while he's my brother, Ashima Yoshida."

"As my sister said, my name is Ashima Yoshida, and I think you know who my mother is, dad. As for the duo that comes with us, they are our sensei and his daughter. You already know him, his name is Sasuke Uchiha while the girl is my…our teammate,Sarada Uchiha."

When Ashima introduced the duo, Sasuke walked towards me and when he was three meters away from me, he kneeled.

"My lord, it's an honor to see you again."

"My lord? Did my older self, made more troubles for me?"

"Not really, my lord. You just revived the Uchiha clan, the better half of the clan, at least. Then you revived the Uzumaki and Senju clan and with the majority of the clan heads on your side, we made you the new lord of the Konoha, and yes, we made Konoha into a new nation, though it was your idea to remain allies with the Fire Daimyo. Your exact words were: Too much trouble, even when I have the Hokage to rule the city while I just spend my time with my kids and just as Nara would say, what a drag."

"For god sakes, I just become some sort of royalty, didn't I?"

"Something like that, my lord. While at first the other villages and the Daimyo were against our decision, when you fought against Madara Uchiha and killed him while the Kages of the other villages were trashed by him, that earned you enough honor and reputation to do whatever you want, my lord."

"Of course, the snakofil will succeed in making Madara alive once again. When will that happen?"

"After a week, after Tonori Otsutsuki attacks the village to kidnap Hinata-sama. Orochimaru will show up with an army of white Zetsu at his disposal, but you, my lord just used your own army and fought them for a short while, and then you killed them easily."

Unfortunately, it seems that there will be no Kaguya, but maybe in the future I will be able to resurrect, or best put, awaken her. Let's leave that aside for the time being; after all, if future me hasn't done it yet, how can I, the younger and less powerful version of him, know what to do? Hmm, let's see... Sasuke's daughter is really shy, and my spider senses tingle.

"By the way, Sasuke, your daughter, why's she so shy around me?"

"Ahem, how should, I say, my lord… she's in a relationship with your son, Ashima. That's why she's so shy in your presence, my lord."

I was stunned to learn that my thirteen-year-old son had a girlfriend, let alone a good one. I turned my head towards him and nearly burst out laughing because he was embarrassed that I found out he was in a relationship, but as a good parent, I decided to give him a thumbs up and return my attention to the faithful and kind of creepy Sasuke.

"Good for them. What can I say? After all, I'm not some bastard that will sell his kids for some alliances or things like that. They are free to love whoever they want. Now my question is who your wife is?"

"Uchiha Sakura, my lord. She's the right hand of your wife, Karin. While Karin-sama oversees the hospital and treats the worst injuries, Sakura deals with most of the injuries that require an expert or someone more knowledgeable than the majority of the medics ."

"That's good, after all, it's better to divide the work and as you said if both of them are working nonstop they will collapse from overwork. So, now that I managed to find out, your identities are, can you enlighten me, why did you guys come to the past?"

"Dad, mother told us to come and help you save her from that pale kidnapper and help you…bond faster with her."

"Well, my dear daughter, I already dealt with that Otsutsuki, quite a weak fellow, unfortunately."

"WOW, that's awesome, dad, but you told us that you had to go to the moon to save mom."

"Himawari-chan, it seems that we stumble into a parallel universe or maybe dad just did something strange again, after all, he …revived Haku-obasan for the seven Hokage which was quite a sight, seeing Naruto-san so embarrassed, unfortunately that led to Boruto being born... Not to mention when he took us to fight with the goblins and left us to tend for ourselves."

To say the least, Ashima's stories about me were fascinating. According to what they said, my older self was very protective, and he made them learn from a young age so that both of them would be ready for whatever would appear or have to fight in the future.

We talk for a few hours more, but as I previously said, I took care of Toneri and will most likely be more than enough to battle Madara. So I had to say my goodbyes for the time being and after I told them not to mess with time and to go back in time to fix things, they returned to their timeline.

After they had gone, I began walking towards the village, and as I walked, I remembered something... White Zetsu was not under my influence, implying that the one we caught was a clone...

I sped through the security check and dashed towards the Hokage Tower.

Tsunade was taken aback when I burst into her office.

"What's happen, Haru-kun?"

"Orochimaru happen, Tsunade-san. He will attack the village."

For the first time in my life, I witnessed a serious Tsunade. She ordered the ANBU to gather the clan heads and jonins as soon as she heard my words. I even sent a skeleton to bring my "foster" father here, after all, he and Sebastian were the ones who kept the Root functioning properly and even expanded it. Although I disagree with Danzo's use of the Uchiha eyes, I have to admit that he was correct in using Shisui's power to mind control or influence his minions, better said my new minions, after all, who wouldn't want an army of loyal soldiers?

Half an hour later all of the clan heads and jonins were waiting for Tsunade to start the meeting.

"I'm sorry to inform you all, but Konoha is once again under attack or the correct term should be Konoha will once again be under attack by Orochimaru. As for how I know about this, I will have to thank Yoshida Haru for providing this information, he was the one that was hunting down Orochimaru and he stumbles across this information from the ninjas that worked for Orochimaru."

When she announced the bad news, the first person to respond was, unsurprisingly, Nara Shikaku. He gave me a brief glance before shifting his attention to Tsunade.

"Tsunade-san, we should prepare for the worst. I don't know and it will be too bothersome to even found out how Haru found about the attack, but we have to be ready."

"I agree with you, Shikaku-san. The only thing that remained to be decided is how will lead the defenses? To be fair, I will remain with the medics to treat the injured while you will most likely take the position as the Chief Strategist."

I raised my hand in the air, which made all of the people in the room turn their gazes on me.

"I want to propose something. I will lead the first line of defense. That line will be made out of my summons so that we could minimize the casualties of the village and I'm quite sure that I could take on whatever Orochimaru has for us."

Soon after they heard my words, the people in the room agreed with my decision and I was made the commander of the line of defense.