NARUTO 5

Carl sighed inside at his current circumstances. He was seated in a hard backed chair next to his father in the Hokage's office. The old man third Hokage was sitting behind his desk with his elbows resting on the desk and his hands were held over his mouth as he stared steadily at Carl in a stern manner.

'Like that bit of intimidation is going to make me nervous, old man.' Carl worked to convey his message through his body language and gaze, mocking him with his eyes.

He knew how much the old man doted on Naruko from seeing him interact with her over the past several months. He could guess how bogged down the old man had previously been with endless paperwork and problems thrown in his lap, such that he had allowed things to get so bad for Naruko in the first place. And that he was now being very much overprotective of her to compensate for his failure and guilt.

And Carl couldn't care less about all that. He wasn't the problem here, so he wasn't going to get all nervous and bow down before the Hokage because of a bit of a staring contest.

"So. I've gotten a report that you leaked an S-rank secret." The old man finally stated in a monotone voice.

Carl internally rolled his eyes and scoffed at the man's intimidation tactics.

"Pardon me, Hokage. But if that's what your report actually said, then you really need to re-train your information gatherers and reporters. Either that or, and excuse my language here, someone is blowing smoke up your ass."

"Carl!" Hiashi barked, scandalized that his heir would be so crass.

The Hokage, on the other hand, let his face relax a little bit as he motioned to Hiashi to allow Carl to continue talking.

"Cause I only skirted around the topic with someone who was already in the know about the secret. And if someone is trying to get me in trouble for what I said to Ko in order to try to change his mind about Naruko and treat her better, then I have to wonder about their motivation for tattling." Carl bluntly said while looking directly at the old man's eyes. This was a form of negotiation session with the old man, after all. He couldn't be weak. And the old man hadn't interrupted him, so Carl continued.

"It seems to me that they hope to cause trouble for Naruko. If they could get the Hyuga heir in trouble with the law in regards to that secret, then maybe they can get Naruko kicked out from the haven she has found in our home. And then they can continue to abuse her like they have been, or maybe…I don't know, turn her into a weapon?" Carl sarcastically continued as he tried to spread the seeds of distrust between the third Hokage and Danzo, who ran the illegal ROOT organization.

"And if you seriously think all those civilians are following even the letter of the law when they are constantly muttering things like "demon girl" and "kyubi brat" within our hearing when we're walking with Naruko through the streets, then you need to get your head out of…yeah, I probably shouldn't finish that sentence, Hokage." Carl cut himself off before he got too crude.

A leader's dignity could allow a certain amount of leeway for his people to give it to him straight. But crossing the line would cause them to have to levy some kind of punishment. It's just the way it was, and Carl didn't feel like dealing with the fallout that would happen if he got too direct and crude with the Hokage.

The Hokage gravely looked at Carl for a long few moments, judging and thinking.

"And what is your motivation in being nice to dear Naruko, Carl Hyuga?" The old man finally asked with a hard glint in his eye, probing for his intentions behind befriending Naruko.

Carl couldn't help it. He really couldn't. He deliberately and obviously rolled his eyes at the Hokage, just to let him know what he thought of that question.

"She's mine and Hinata's friend. She's a good girl that will grow up into a kick ass kunoichi. I saw what a bad hand she had been dealt and agreed with what my sister said. No one deserves to be treated like that or live like she had been here in Konoha. Not if we want to live up to the dream that caused our village to be founded in the first place. The Will of Fire that you go on about in your speeches dictates how we behave."

Carl allowed his face to show his determination and unwillingness to move on the subject. No hint of levity or uncertainty showed. He knew the Hokage needed to be reassured that they weren't simply using Naruko for their own advantage, so he allowed his determination to shine through to reassure the old man and motivate him to be in Carl's corner on this issue.

And it worked as Carl saw the perceptive old man relax a bit when he clearly saw the sincerity Carl showed in regards to Naruko.

"Very well. You have reassured me of your intentions. But you are still not allowed to inform Naruko about the secret you have chanced upon. I will inform her when I feel the time is right."

Carl relaxed at his success in convincing the Hokage. He knew that now wasn't the time to argue with him about when to tell Naruko the secret. Naruko was still not quite seven years old, so holding off until she was a little older and more mature before telling her the secret of what was sealed in her wasn't exactly the wrong choice. Maybe not the right choice, either, though. Only time would tell.

"Hiashi, I'll back you and your clan's efforts to provide a home to Naruko. If anyone tries to bring you grief about it, report it to me and I will deal with it." The Hokage stated while looking steadily at Hiashi.

"I will, Hokage. And I will chastise and correct my son's behavior for his…uncouth mouth." Hiashi side glanced at Carl, who played along and gulped nervously.

It didn't cost Carl anything to play the nervous kid that was afraid of getting punished by his father. It was kind of fun, actually. Especially because no matter what kind of punishment he was dealt, it wouldn't really impact him or hurt him.

Have him run all day until he collapsed? Hah! He would only "collapse" as part of the act of portraying a normal ninja kid. And he was anything but normal by this point, with his returning memories and perks. He could run for days on end and be fine!

Force him to write out the etiquette rules over and over all day long for a week? Hah! He could sit in one place and watch paint dry for a month and not be bored!

But acting like a smart and precocious ninja boy was kind of fun, so Carl embraced the role.

Carl and his father were released and made their way home in silence. He was idly wondering what his punishment was going to be as he walked home next to his father.

"I'll see you at lunch, Carl. Until then, get what training you can with the remains of the morning." Hiashi patted his shoulder affectionately once they arrived home and then turned away to go to his office.

"Wait, that's it? What about what you said to the Hokage, about 'chastising' me?" Carl asked, a little confused.

Hiashi turned to look at him with a faint smile on his face.

"Don't do it again, keep your language clean. There, consider yourself chastised." Hiashi turned away once more, and as he was walking away, his voice floated back, barely loud enough to hear. "You're not the only one who has wanted to use crude language to shock the Hokage out of the…rut he had gotten himself in. But don't make a habit of it."

Carl couldn't help himself, he started chuckling, then laughing out loud. His proud and stoic Hyuga dad, living vicariously through his foul mouthed son!

Wiping a tear off his face, Carl couldn't help but shake his head as he thought about it. The stoic Hyuga demeanor was a matter of training rather than preference. Pushing them into a confining box that limited what they could do or say for fear of bringing shame to the clan. It was obvious to Carl now that his father wanted to break that prison confining them.

It wasn't just the Caged Bird seal that was enslaving the branch family. It was the entire Hyuga system of rules, etiquette, and…everything. It all needed to be broken down and reforged into something better.

And his father was struggling under the burden to do something about it. He was making some small amount of headway, but within the clan he found opposition to change everywhere. It was all the little things that added up. A little bit of agreeing to his face and doing the opposite when out of sight. The teacher's continual teaching of the old Hyuga ways to the children, even when they had been instructed not to. The entitlement of some of the scions of the main branch elder's grandchildren that would gang up and bully the branch house family kids.

Maybe Hiashi saw hope for the next generation being able to do what he couldn't accomplish? Maybe he hoped that Carl and his brash and crude ways that refused to conform to the Hyuga standards would be able to carry on his work and do what he hadn't yet been able to?

Carl smiled a bit at his thoughts, shook his head, and then made his way to the training grounds to get in what exercise he could with the rest of the morning.

Seeing Hinata, Naruko, and Neji hard at work in the training yard, Carl called a greeting and ran to join them in a sparring session.

Like what was said in the original show, there is an underneath the underneath. People had layers. And he was enjoying seeing the glimpses of layers he saw of the people close to him.

XX

Unfortunately for Carl, Naruko and Hinata didn't forget about what he said about jailers and prisoners, and it being the cause of why the villagers didn't like Naruko. They did wait a couple days to see if Carl would come to them and explain, but he kept his mouth shut. So they went to him to demand an explanation.

While he knew he had a lot of leeway in what he could do because he was the heir of the Hyuga clan, he knew that if he deliberately went against the Hokage's directly expressed intentions, then old man Sarutobi could make things difficult for him and his clan. He was the ultimate head of the ninja forces, after all. And if Carl showed he couldn't follow his leader's orders, then he wouldn't be trusted with more as a ninja.

So when he was cornered by Naruko and Hinata during their evening chakra control / Byakugan training time, he knew he couldn't just dismiss their concerns, since it would hurt his relationship with them; and he couldn't directly tell them what it was about without falling afoul the law to not divulge the secret about Naruko carrying the Nine-Tail Fox in a seal on her stomach.

"Carl, please tell me." Naruko was giving him the dreaded puppy dog eyes with welling up teary eyes. "It's my life. I have a right to know!"

Carl looked at her, looked at the pleading Hinata, and sighed. He wouldn't explain things in detail, but it didn't mean he couldn't give them some kind of explanation and hints. Running his hand through his hair, he grumbled at the position the damned old man Hokage put him in. He wasn't in Carl's position, having his sister and friend living with him to constantly beg him for answers, making him feel guilty for not telling them.

Carl decided he would have to get back at the geezer at some point.

"Look, the Hokage directly told me not to talk about it." Carl shook his head on seeing the crestfallen expressions on the girl's faces. "He said he would tell you when the time was right. There's an extremely strict law that says no one can talk about this S-rank secret with the younger generation or anyone who doesn't know. It has a death penalty attached to breaking it. So while I don't think the old man would actually carry out the penalty on me if I broke it, it wouldn't do me any favors to make an enemy of the old man."

"But that's not fair!" Naruko exclaimed.

"It's Naruko's life, she should know about it." Hinata firmly stated with a glare at Carl.

"I know! And I agree with both of you!" Carl sighed once more, exasperated at the situation. "Look, the Hokage said that he would explain it to you when you got older." Carl explained while looking at Naruko. "I might be able to give you some hints, and if you figure it out then that's not on me. But I can't flat out tell you. You understand my position, right?"

Hinata and Naruko exchanged looks for a few moments, determination to get answers evident in their eyes. At that moment Carl thought that the old man was being a fool by not explaining things to Naruko. It was a worse torture for her to not know why she was so hated by the population. At the very least, if the Hokage explained her role as the jailer and how she was fulfilling a noble duty to keep the village safe, she might be able to take pride in the important role that she had.

But leaving her to ignorantly swim in a sea of hatred among the villagers was just asking for things to blow up in the Hokage's face. Naruko could very well decide, after years of abuse, that she didn't care about the villagers and wouldn't even piss on them to help them out if they were on fire.

"So, give me some clues, then." Naruko said with a firm look on her face.

"Yes, brother. Give us the clues needed." Hinata echoed, also with a firm look on her face.

'They grow up so fast…' Carl thought with a momentary touch of humor at their determined behavior.

"Okay. You win. I'll give you some clues. But before I do, it's important for you to remember this, Naruko."

Carl took one of Naruko's hands in his own, and grabbed one of Hinata's. Hinata then grabbed Naruko's other hand, following his lead. He stared soberly in Naruko's eyes.

"Remember. You are Naruko Uzumaki. You are our friend, and nothing will change that. No. Matter. What. Got it?"

Naruko nodded her head soberly, hints of nervousness and fear in her eyes.

"Okay. First clue you already overheard when I was talking to Ko. I won't repeat it here, to give me even more deniability against the Hokage." Carl said. He could see Naruko and Hinata turning over his words about Jailers and Prisoners in their mind.

"Second clue. We have storage scrolls that can hold all kinds of ninja tools in a little pocket space. But the thing to remember is that no matter what kind of tool the storage scrolls hold, the scroll is different from what it stores. The storage scroll doesn't suddenly become a kunai just because it holds a kunai."

A little bit of re-emphasis on her not being the Nine-Tailed Fox wouldn't exactly hurt. Just because the kunai-storage scroll comparison had become a bit of a trope didn't mean it wasn't useful in explaining the situation.

"Oh, yeah. I was totally going to give you this on your birthday on October 10th. I know it's eight months early, but I thought I'd give it to you now. You know, it's odd that your birthday coincides with the day the Nine-Tailed Fox attacked Konoha and was defeated. Odd, that."

Carl handed her a box with fancy looking runes on the outside. The runes didn't do anything, but they were there to hint at and remind her of seals. Specifically seals to store things.

Looking a bit confused at his strange change of topic instead of giving her another clue, Naruko grabbed the box that Carl was handing her. She opened it up and out popped a stuffed doll of a cute Kyubi plushie that had nine tails. The Kyubi plushie was dressed in orange prison clothes. He didn't know how much more explicit he could make it without saying it outright.

Carl saw the exact moment that all the clues sunk in and made sense to Naruko and Hinata. Her gaze shot down to her stomach where a weird seal would appear whenever she channeled lots of chakra. Tears began falling down from her eyes. She sniffled a bit as all the clues suddenly made sense and she knew why the villagers hated her.

She had the Nine Tailed Fox inside her.

Hinata got the clues just as quick and immediately reacted and pulled Naruko into a hug to comfort her. Carl joined them a moment later to give her the support she needed to get past the moment of revelation. To reassure her that she wasn't alone, she wasn't the Fox.

Carl and Hinata whispered reassurances to her that they were her friends, no matter what. And that she was just Naruko Uzumaki, and no one else. That the villagers were stupid poopyheads, and other such bad names.

Eh, Carl wasn't even seven years old. He was totally allowed to be childish.

After some time, Naruko gave out a little bit of a laugh and scrubbed the tears from her eyes. She then turned to Carl with a mischievous grin on her face.

"Since you gave me this present now, it doesn't count for my birthday. You still owe me one in October!" She declared.

"She's right. You can't get out of giving her a present just because of a plushie doll." Hinata joined in.

"Sure, sure. I'll be sure to get you something nice." Carl gave in to their demands. He only said the plushie doll was a birthday present to have plausible deniability for the Hokage anyway. It was a silly bit of fiction, but he would cling to it anyway. He had planned to get her something else for her birthday anyway.

Naruko then laughed a bit, smiling a true smile. And Carl and Hinata knew she would be just fine. At least now she knew. Naruko could get a handle on the big issue, now that she knew what the problem was. And she had some good friends to help her out.

XX

Three months before Carl's seventh birthday he recovered his memories of the Stargate SG1 universe. And with those memories he finally had the key information he needed to be able to access all the computers and technology he had seen in his Warehouse and pocket dimension but couldn't get to do anything without a password.

The fact that he had to use his magical signature as his password to interact with the technology would have never occurred to him without those important memories. All that time he was trying to find a password that he hadn't even written down anywhere!

The first thing Carl did, as he had done on so many other worlds but wasn't yet aware of it, was to pull out the Yamato and place it in orbit above Konoha. His farms had produced plenty of the metals and alloys necessary to continue to build his spy and survey satellites, so that was the next thing on the docket.

And with his communications network being set up, he finally got in contact with the managing VIs of his properties around the Elemental Nations. And information began pouring in about the state of the world.

Looking over the map of the world that the satellites now had, Carl wasn't exactly surprised to see that there was a lot of land outside of the Elemental Nations. From the show Carl only really knew about the five main lands that held the five Hidden Villages and a few of the smaller countries in the surroundings.

The Land of Fire was the home of Konoha.

The Land of Wind was to the south west of the Land of Fire and was home to the ninja village of Suna.

The Land of Earth to the north west of the Land of Fire was the home of the ninja village of Iwa.

The Land of Lightning to the north east of the Land of Fire was home to the ninja village of Kumo.

The Land of Water to the east of the Land of Fire across the Chigiri Sea was the home of the ninja village of Kiri.

And that was only the five big Hidden Ninja Villages and the lands they were located in. There were hundreds of other countries and lands around the world and across the oceans. Some of the countries were small islands in the oceans, or of a similar size scattered around the land masses. On the other side of the spectrum, some of the countries were even bigger than the Land of Fire.

As Carl looked over the map he was getting from his satellites of the entire world, he realized how small a part of the whole world the five Elemental Nations were. The original story had only been concerned with those five main nations and the numerous smaller countries that were surrounding them, because the story had focused on Naruto and his adventures as a ninja.

'Well, damn. The Yamato VI will have its work cut out for it in keeping track of the movements and politics of the various countries around the world.' Carl chuckled. 'Lucky for it, since I'm living in Konoha, I don't really care very much about those lands unless they impact on my life here. So I'll set the VI to just keep track of whether anything will impact on Konoha. Most of its resources will be focused in the immediate area.'

Carl put words to action and began detailing orders of how he wanted the VI to prioritize the spybots and information gathering. He was mostly interested in anything that impacted him and his life in Konoha, rather than the day to day minutia of a far away country.

He had already gotten his fill of politics from building his own Empire in the Stargate world. He was just going to enjoy his simple life as a ninja and clan heir as a sort of vacation. Sure the clan had politics, but it was the scale of it that made it different from what he had done in the Stargate universe. That had just been annoying, with planet after planet full of self-important people thinking they were entitled to chunks of his time.

At least in the cultivation world of ATG, the nobles all had their own cultivation progress as their priority, and knew that his wife, the Empress Caiyi had her own cultivation to take care of. They wouldn't dare frivolously demand the time of their Empress.

'Note to self: When I go back for my girls in Stargate, institute cultural reforms so they know not to mess with my time.' Carl nodded firmly.

So most of the VI's focus would be on the lands surrounding Konoha, which was a much smaller requirement for the VI to spy on. And there were several priorities that Carl knew he needed more information on.

For example, he knew that at this moment Orochimaru was probably building up the Hidden Sound village so that in about six years he could attend the chuunin exams and invade Konoha. Orochimaru wanted to punish Konoha for kicking him out, and he also wanted to get an Uchiha body to possess so he could use the Sharingan's ability to copy jutsu to gain even more power.

Carl made sure that the VI put priority to watching over and spying on the Sound village in Rice Country on the Land of Fire's northern border. It wouldn't do to be blindsided by some unexpected plot that Orochimaru cooked up early. Since this world was very different from the canon one, he couldn't rely on all the same plot points coming his way.

The other priority that Carl assigned the VI was to ferret out all of the secrets of Konoha.

Even more important than keeping an eye on Orochimaru, at this moment, was watching local developments. There was Danzo, his ROOT forces, and his underhanded plans. The Uchiha and their coup plans. The civilian council and their vendetta against his friend Naruko. Any of the other Hyuga Elders that might have similar ideas of usurping his and his father's place in the clan leadership.

And any other surprises that could hit close to home that might be detrimental to him, his family, and his friends.

After sending out orders to the VI, he didn't have any more time to browse his computer banks for information about the worlds he still hadn't regained his memories on. It was time to start his day, so Carl continued to follow his normal daily routine.

While he was training with Hinata, Naruko, and Neji, though, Carl tried to multitask. He mentally connected with the Yamato and began reading through reports and files of what he had been doing before in his hidden memories.

At first he found it a bit of a struggle to have his attention split in more than one direction. Mentally reading reports while also completely focusing on sparring tested his limits of maintaining control over his strength and powers while soaking up information. But it was good training for him and his control. Much more useful training, really, than simply following the basic ninja training he was doing.

During the following several days, Carl continued to explore the records of his time in the other worlds he had visited in the Jump Chain and what he had done in those worlds. Based on the timing of his past memory retrievals, Carl figured that he would regain his Game of Thrones memories on his 7th birthday.

Three months later he would re-experience the Cooking Show world that he had turned into a Gourmet Grounds world.

Three months after that he would have a couple hundred years of memories of being a Dinosaur to sift through.

Three months before his 8th birthday he should regain his memories of the World of Warcraft. And possibly about the Naruto world that he was currently in. Or more likely those would wait until his birthday, since that was a significant date.

Since he couldn't do anything to speed them up, Carl resolved he would just enjoy the time he had while not worrying about things too much. The only big event on the nearby horizon was the Uchiha Massacre, and he was already gathering the information he needed to make a decision on that event. So he wasn't in a bind to do anything special right now, and he felt the need to decompress after he had conquered galaxies.

So he focused on playing and training with his other almost seven year old friends. Being a kid again with no responsibilities was quite fun, and he subtly influenced the play time so it would be more training time. Even the less active games they played were designed to enhance their memory, observation skills, or their hand dexterity for making hand seals to do ninja magic.

Aside from those games that all of them, boy and girl, were playing, Carl was quite pleased at the progress his female friends were making in traveling away from the path to eternal horror that was known by the expletive: fangirl.

His friends were all reinforcing their good development when they met up at the park on a biweekly basis. The girls were more focused on talking about their training and boosting each other up as kunoichi than focusing on the purely social aspects of being a girl/woman.

Not that they didn't talk about girly things, they were still girls after all. It was just that the priorities of girls that were training to be kunoichi were very different from those civilian girl's priorities. They, as kunoichi, were becoming more practical in nature.

Even talking about fashion was not just about how to "look the best" anymore. The various aspects of ninja requirements were taken into account: the toughness of the cloth, the cut of their clothes that allowed for maximum movement, the colors that could also blend in to both urban and natural environments.

And they treated the word diet like a four letter curse word.

Carl was proud and happy to see them so motivated to train and avoiding the route to damnation that was the fangirl, praise the Log.

Even Sakura, with her civilian background, was figuring out what she needed to do physically on a daily basis to start meeting the kunoichi standards by asking them a lot of questions. It was slow going at first for her, since she had never had adults in her life direct her "play" in her earlier years into being trained as a kunoichi. So she was far behind the progress of everyone else, but she was very determined to catch up and not fall behind.

Carl thought it was a very good thing, because in the original story Sakura had been the weakest member with the least amount of skills of anyone in the rookie 9, at least for quite a while until she became Tsunade's apprentice and finally got serious training. But now that she had friends that were focused on training, and she really desired to be that kick ass kunoichi, all her natural talent, intelligence, and drive was focused and motivated to build up her physical skills as part of the whole.

So while he was going through his daily routine and training occasionally with his friends in the park, which was their version of relaxed play time, Carl was also learning all the secrets of what was going on around Konoha due to the flooding of mini spy bots into the village.

One of the things that changed Carl's opinion on what he was going to do was the recorded conversations his spy bots overheard in the Uchiha district and verified by going through their clan's records.

He learned that the Uchiha were definitely behind Yakumo's poisoning and possession. And that the Uchiha elders who did the deed were upset to see her physically recover. They were planning on summoning another demon to possess her, since either the previous one was gone, or it wasn't enough to ruin her.

Carl began planning further ways to protect her from any more actions by the Uchiha. While she couldn't be possessed anymore, it wouldn't stop the bastards from taking a different approach when the possession failed once more.

Those same Uchiha elders were quite pleased with how the rest of the Kurama clan had succumbed to the poison and could no longer utilize their bloodline. It was only a matter of time before they ceased to exist as a ninja clan, according to the Uchiha plotters.

Carl also heard hints from the conversation of the elders that they had done similar hit jobs on other ninja clans or upcoming and powerful ninjas.

After a search of their records, Carl found out some of the examples they were talking about. He was somewhat surprised the Uchiha kept records of what they did. It wasn't exactly smart to keep that kind of evidence around.

'I suppose they want to make sure their future generations of Uchiha know all the tips and tricks of underhanded dealings for power?' Carl mused. 'Can't have the future generations fail to live up to their potential, right?'

The records Carl found showed that Kakashi's father, Sakumo Hatake was one such ninja that had been getting too powerful for the Uchiha's liking. So they used a fortuitous happenstance to assassinate his character.

In one particularly difficult mission where Sakumo's team faced ninja opposition, he was faced with the difficult decision that he could either choose to save his teammates after they were captures, but at the cost of failing his mission; or he could complete the mission at the cost of his teammate's lives, since the enemy ninja who captured them would have escaped by then.

Sakumo Hatake had made the decision to save his teammates at the expense of failing their mission. The Uchiha had worked overtime to inflame opinion against Sakumo. They had instigated the civilians and even other ninja to bring social shame to him for failing as a ninja, for failing their village.

They had even used their Sharingan eye's abilities to hypnotize others to cause Sakumo's own teammates to heap scorn on him for rescuing them at the cost of the mission.

The Uchiha were so successful in their campaign at shaming the man, especially after the friends and teammates he had saved turned on him, that he eventually committed suicide in an attempt to make up for his perceived failure and keep the shame from following his son through his life.

The Uchiha plotters had been ecstatic in their success.

Another huge case the Uchiha had been involved in was the downfall of the Senju clan.

The Uchiha had worked together with Danzo to set up the ambushes that killed Tsunade Senju's brother, Nawaki Senju, and her fiancé, Dan Kato.

The Uchiha never got over their hatred of the Senju clan, and were more than happy to ruin the last remnants of it.

Danzo wanted to gain power in Konoha, and breaking down the various clans as powerful political entities would open the way for him to rise in power.

So Danzo and some of the Uchiha elders plotted the ambush that would kill off Nawaki's whole genin squad. They couldn't have the young Senju heir grow up strong and repopulate the clan they had worked so hard to decimate.

Later on, when Tsunade and Dan were dating and gaining prominence in Konoha for their medical skills and renovation of teams so there was always a medic present, Danzo and the Uchiha elders didn't like how much recognition Tsunade Senju was gaining.

Especially as it looked like Dan would marry Tsunade, join the Senju clan, and help restore it.

So the Uchiha and Danzo got the band back together and plotted his death by leaking information to the enemy during the Second Shinobi War. Their actions resulted in Dan's death that seemingly broke Tsunade and gave her hemophobia. Her fiance Dan bled to death in her arms, and despite all her medical expertise she couldn't save him.

Tsunade was pretty much broken from the deaths of everyone she cared for. She took Dan's niece, Shizune, as her apprentice and departed from Konoha. Which was a situation that both Danzo and the Uchiha profited from, to have the last Senju broken and abandon the village, even if she wasn't labeled a missing ninja.

Carl shook his head in disgust at discovering the sabotage by both Danzo and the Uchiha. If those two forces hadn't been working so assiduously to destroy up and coming powerhouse ninja, or destroy the ninja clans of Konoha for their own power, then the village would be a lot stronger than it was now.

And yet Danzo and the Uchiha clan claimed they were doing everything for the good of Konoha. If they actually believed that, they was more…insane? Stupid? Deluded?

They were more [All of the Above] than Carl had previously suspected.

Sakumo was easily an A-rank ninja at the time of his suicide. By now he could have been an S-rank and possibly even the fifth Hokage. Heck, he could have been the fourth Hokage instead of Minato Namikaze. Who knows, right?

Dan Kato, along with Tsunade Senju, could have helped completely revolutionize the medical ninja corps, as well as add to the numbers of the Senju clan. And from the story, Carl knew that Dan was aiming to be the Hokage so he could have the power to enforce the changes in the way the medical ninja operated. He could have been the fifth Hokage, maybe.

And if the Senju clan members hadn't been killed off over the years, especially Nawaki who had signs of possessing the Mokuton wood element bloodline, then there would have been many more skilled bloodline holders that would have made the village strong.

There were many more examples of the traitorous sabotage by Danzo and the Uchiha that made Konoha weaker in the long run in order to make themselves stronger. So any of their justifications about doing the dirty deeds they did to strengthen Konoha was just a load of lies.

'Huh, come to think of it, they remind me of "Senator" Kinsey back in the Stargate world. Anything to gain power and influence, even if they make the enemies and problems themselves that they use to justify their actions.' Carl snorted in disgust.

So after having ferreted out all those dirty secrets of the Uchiha, Carl was no longer planning to do anything to stop the Uchiha Massacre. He was more than happy for the leadership and adults of the clan to die out. It really served them right for their actions against Konoha and the other clans. The bunch of traitors.

The only thing Carl was debating was whether he should save the very young children of the clan. Those who haven't been steeped in the arrogance and evil culture of the Uchiha.

How much of the Uchiha's treacherous actions over the years was learned behavior? And how much was inborn because of their Sharingan bloodline?

Normally Carl wouldn't ask something like that. But in the case of the Uchiha, he wondered. Did the need for extreme emotions to evolve their Sharingan eyes cause them to subconsciously set up situations where they could fulfill those needs?

The Uchiha thought that in order to evolve their eyes to the Mangekyo, they had to kill someone very close to them. Their best friend, lover, or family. Living in a clan that believed that the path to power was through the murder of a loved one was bound to twist them to something inhuman, especially if all their family were obsessed with gaining power by any means. As evidenced by what they had been doing in sabotaging the very village they helped found.

So Carl was debating the idea of saving the young children to have them be raised in a better environment so they wouldn't be taught the poisonous culture of the Uchiha. Maybe do a wipe of a lot of their memories of living in the clan?

Carl wasn't sure if he would go that far. But he also didn't want to see the children he was thinking of saving grow up into power hungry Uchiha traitors who would backstab him for his good deeds.

And he was pretty sure he could accomplish reforming them here in Konoha as a nearly seven year old. He would have to set them up in a different location than Konoha to discover if they could be changed with a different upbringing.

In the original story, after the Uchiha Massacre the people of Konoha treated Sasuke as some kind of tragic prince. They gave him everything he needed on a silver platter. But he ended up being an ungrateful traitor to his village, even though they bent over backwards to allow him anything he wanted.

So Carl didn't trust this village not to treat any remnant Uchiha kids the same way. Through their actions the people of Konoha would end up twisting the kids into a parody of the same arrogant Uchiha that went before them by treating them like they could do no wrong. Growing up in that environment would convince the kids that they really were privileged elites that couldn't do wrong. That kind of attitude would have them making the most appalling choices at the expense of others.

While Carl was continuing to gather intel and debate with himself about just what he wanted to do, he continued with his daily training.

He was really enjoying his days of no responsibility as someone who wasn't the leader of an empire. All he had to do was train daily and spend time with his friends.

After a few weeks, half the time that they visited the park, he found that Yakumo would follow him over to the guys instead of joining the girls and join in on making Shikamaru and Choji play something active. Most of the time she brought the rest of the girls too, which led to a large group playing tag or hide and go seek re-labeled as playing ninja.

Carl had spent some time talking with her and found that as long as she could remember, Yakumo had wanted to be an active kunoichi and restore her clan, which had been in decline for many years. Her months spent wasting away in what they thought was a sickness had been the most horrible time for her. Her dreams were slowly slipping away the weaker she got.

As a result of his exorcising the demon and healing her, she was completely loyal to him as a friend, since he gave her back her dream, her goal in life. Another result of her recovery was that she wasn't so content to just sit back and not be active, now that her health had been restored. So she got along great with Naruko, who was a bundle of energy at any time, and Hinata, who had been training with said bundle of energy for months now and could mostly keep up.

Ino and Sakura were surprisingly on board with the active games, even the ones that got them dirty playing them. Carl was only really surprised because he remembered their behavior from the show being much more girly, afraid to ruin their hair or nails. But then again, they had been warned off the path leading to the fangirl side in this life, so it was understandable.

All these different personalities combined together in the park to add up to a fun time for Carl. Even if some of that time was spent chilling with Shikamaru, Choji, and Shino while certain members of their group argued for dozens of minutes about what game they were playing that day.

Most of the time those arguments were between Kiba, Ino, Naruko, and Yakumo, who all had very definite ideas about what kind of games they should be playing. Hinata, Shino, and Sakura often joined Carl when he would pull out some card game or other to pass the time until their friends got it out of their system and decided what they would be playing.

On one particular day, they kept arguing until half their time was spent uselessly.

Seeing the frustrated faces of the four most forward personalities, Carl shook his head and stepped in at that point with the suggestion to rotate who got to decide what they would play on a particular day. Everyone in the group got a chance to do their favorite thing on their day to pick.

If they missed a day, they would be skipped and the next time they showed up they could decide. Everyone generally agreed to the idea, and a roster was made.

The days that Shikamaru got to pick their activity would have been torture for the more active among them if Carl didn't always bring some kind of card or board game to keep them distracted while they stared at clouds.

Carl kind of assumed it was Shikamaru's revenge for being forced to be active all the other times. It did amuse him a bit to see the subtle Nara at work.

XX

The big day finally arrived. It was a couple days before his seventh birthday that Carl found himself with no more time to debate about the issue and was forced to make the choice on whether to save the little Uchiha brats or not. His spy bots had spotted Danzo ambushing Shisui and stealing one of his "precious" eyes before Shisui managed to get away. Shisui fell into a river and died in his escape.

Danzo moved fast after that, seeing that the window to deal with the Uchiha clan was closing. Before the Uchiha clan realized that Shisui was killed, Danzo went to Itachi and conned him into believing that the Hokage wanted him to kill his clan so that peace could prevail.

Itachi fell into Danzo's rhythm and allowed himself to be convinced that it was for the best for Konoha, since an open rebellion from the Uchiha could lead to the obvious weakening of the village which would lead to open attacks from their enemies and the start of the next Shinobi War.

Itachi held out just enough to extract the promise from Danzo that his brother Sasuke would be saved and protected as he was raised in the village.

Carl thought he had until near his eighth birthday before these events would play out, but it turns out that the massacre was happening in the next few hours.

'Tch. That's what happens when I rely on vague cartoon timelines that don't give any actual dates for when events happen while I'm living in an alternate world where those dates probably wouldn't do me any good.' Carl thought about the suddenness of the approaching massacre.

As he sat at the dinner table with his family, looking at the two year old Hanabi that was shoving food in her mouth so adorably, Carl made his decision. The young kids were still innocent. He would save them and work on raising them away from the negative influence here in Konoha so they at least had a chance to avoid becoming the arrogant power seeking Uchiha.

But he had to smuggle them out of Konoha in such a way that there was no suspicion that they survived. Otherwise, it would kick up an ants nest. Too much chaos happening. Too many questions asked.

Once dinner was finished, he made his way to his room, set up an SEP field, and reached out for his profound energy. Activating the Time Pearl, he found himself appearing in the world of the Time Pearl.

Over the past several days as he was debating whether to save the kids or not, he had his spy bots gather the needed genetic material to clone a body that would replace each of the kids that were under eight years old.

Once he was out of time compression, he would have the Yamato's VI replace the actual kids with the bodies which would be rigged up with animation charms, illusions, and holograms to fake them moving around on their own until Itachi went around "killing" them.

He was making use of the time pearl to create all these bodies in the short time he had available. There were over 100 of them. Not all the Uchiha kids became ninja or activated their Sharingan. Some of them were from subordinate branch families that acted as merchants and servants. But they all had the Uchiha blood in them, and the potential to awaken the Sharingan.

Once the bodies were grown to the same size as the original, Carl exited the Time Pearl. The Yamato VI immediately began making the switch, teleporting out the kids, sedating them, and putting them in suspended animation until Carl could arrange for their care.

A short time later, the massacre started. Carl watched over the spy bot's feed as Itachi, Madara, and a number of ROOT agents were running through the Uchiha compound, killing everyone.

And just like in the show, Itachi killed his own parents and put Sasuke in that horrible three days compressed into seconds illusion hell.

Carl shook his head at the stupidity of Itachi. Using the special illusion from his Mangekyo Sharingan, he could pack three days into a few seconds. Instead of torturing his kid brother to instill hate in the kid, Itachi should have packed some training montages or just spend time with the kid. Maybe even, dare he say it, explain what the hell was happening so that Sasuke wouldn't become such an emo prince.

He thought Itachi was even more stupid for doing what he did to Sasuke because of the supposed reason he was killing his clan in the first place. He was trying to maintain peace to limit the number of people killed in war, right? So why would he act in such a dumb way to instill hatred in his brother? Did he not figure out after all these years that many atrocities in war were perpetrated by people that were filled with hatred?

If his goal was peace, then why didn't he work on instilling some of that philosophy into his brother?

Was it all because Itachi wanted Sasuke to grow strong and come after him so he could be punished by his brother? Itachi could then gift Sasuke with his evolved Sharingan eyes, the Mangekyo, so that Sasuke's eyes would upgrade to the Eternal Mangekyo eyes that wouldn't go blind with usage.

Yeah, that plan was all kinds of dumb.

Itachi was treating his brother similar to a tool in many ways. He felt guilty over what he was doing, so he made his brother a tool to enact his own punishment for the act of killing his clan. Itachi certainly wasn't doing what was best for Sasuke. He was fulfilling his own selfish desires.

And that was why Carl didn't think of Itachi as some kind of hero to admire. He was a twisted wreck of a person that made things worse through his selfish actions. First killing off his clan at the orders of Danzo, then torturing his brother into a twisted hate filled boy, and then living as a spy in the ranks of the Akatsuki organization that was trying to end the world, before finally dying at his brother's hands.

Tragic, yes. But not worthy of admiration.

Well, Itachi was what he was because he was raised in a power hungry clan. And it didn't help that Danzo was there to push his buttons. So many different forces pulling and twisting him.

Nope, Carl wasn't going to feel sorry for the guy. He was still willing to kill off his parents, his clan, and all the innocent kids rather than finding another way. He still tortured his brother who he "loved".

Calr returned his attention back to the spybot feed that was showing the aftermath of the massacre.

Itachi was "escaping". In other words, he was being escorted out of Konoha by ROOT forces.

Carl turned his attention to another cancer in Konoha and tsked at seeing that Danzo couldn't help but get in on the massacre and act personally while monitoring the job done by his ROOT forces. Carl saw the man's gloating face as he oversaw the medical ninja extracting the Sharingan eyes for his personal use.

Danzo was planning on using those Sharingan eyes to implant into himself to give himself extra lives through the use of Izanagi. One of the fully grown three tomoe Sharingan eyes could be sacrificed and destroyed to basically bring someone back from a death strike. With the number of eyes that Danzo had, he could have at least a dozen life saving eyes, ensuring his survival.

While Carl thought that the Uchiha deserved to be killed off in the same manner they had been secretly killing off loyal ninjas and clans of Konoha, seeing Danzo acting so smug and pleased with himself irritated Carl to no end.

So he sent an order to the VI to have any Sharingan eyes that Danzo stole from the Uchiha be ruined or replaced with duds. Many of the eyes were injected with a formula that would break down the eyes in a manner of minutes by the nano spybots. He couldn't afford to have a bunch of white flashes of light happening around Danzo, since that was the telltale sign of his technology's teleport, so he used the spybots.

If Danzo saw multiple small flashes of bright white light, he would think someone was doing some jutsu and would become even more paranoid. Better to just have the eyes get ruined so the despicable old man couldn't make use of them. Including the one he stole from Shisui Uchiha earlier, that Danzo hadn't had the chance to implant in himself yet.

Hours later when Carl saw the video feed of Danzo getting news that all of the Sharingan eyes had melted and were useless, he had to hastily cast a silence spell around his room before he busted out laughing, rolling on the ground.

"The look on Danzo's face when he found out his oh-so-clever scheme had netted him exactly zero Sharingan eyes!" Carl howled in laughter. "It's like he tasted the combination of ultra pure concentrate of lemon and shit! How does that fecal-ade taste, Danzo? Hahahaha!"

"Ah, that was so worth it." He muttered while wiping away the tears of laughter after having calmed down from his hysterical laughter. "It couldn't happen to a more deserving asshole. I gotta do this kind of thing more often."

XX

The next few days saw great changes in Konoha. One of the largest clans was wiped out overnight. There was only a single survivor, Sasuke, who was in the hospital.

Carl watched the aftermath through the reports and videos from his spy bots while he was training. And it was interesting to see the repercussions of the massacre play out over the days and weeks.

The Uchiha clan had been in charge of the local police force. They had almost total control of such an important and integral aspect of Konoha's daily running.

Thinking about it, Carl pondered about the Uchiha's plans and plots. Being in control of the Police Force gave them a lot of power over the city, and allowed them to get away with their plans to sabotage and kill off any competing powers in the village.

And in times of war, the Uchiha had most of their clan members safe back in Konoha "keeping order" while the bulk of the wartime forces were sent out from other clans and the civilian born ninja to die in the war.

Carl shook his head at seeing just how insidious the Uchiha were in their plots and plans. While the other clans and ninja would lose plenty of their members through missions and wars outside the village, the Uchiha kept growing their numbers and gaining control of more and more aspects of the village.

And now that power base that the Uchiha built over the years was suddenly gone, just like that.

So with such a huge void in the power structure being left behind because of the massacre of the Uchiha, things were a hectic scramble for a while. The Hokage was too busy for his regular visits and tutoring of Naruko.

Old man Hiruzen Sarutobi had to adjust and redeploy ninja to cover the duties of the police force that was almost completely wiped out. And at the same time he had to keep up the pace of the missions and patrols of their lands so Konoha didn't appear weak to their enemies. Looking like they were hurting was a good way to invite attack from their enemies.

In the power vacuum Danzo, the Hokage's advisors, and the civilian council were perfectly positioned to grab up more power under the guise of "lightening the burden" on the Hokage. And since he was an old man that trusted his advisors and Danzo, very foolishly in Carl's opinion, Hiruzen was actually grateful for their assistance.

Carl shook his head at the results. Old Man Sarutobi thought that the various factions were coming together in the spirit of the Will of Fire to ensure that Konoha continued to run and survive in the aftermath of a great tragedy. When the reality was more like the vultures were swooping in to pick the choice bits of meat for their meal.

The Hokage's advisors were Homura Mitokado, an old man with graying hair and glasses, and Koharu Utatane, a wrinkly faced grey haired old woman. They were part of Hiruzen's genin team back in the day, so he trusted the two greatly, which allowed them to make use of that trust to solidify their own power bases.

With more responsibilities and powers that should be the province of the Hokage being foisted off onto the civilian council, Danzo, and the Hokage's two advisors, Carl could see how the old man's power as the Hokage was being eroded.

Danzo had a large, officially illegal, organization of ninja called ROOT that was his version of ANBU. So Hiruzen was no longer the sole commander of the ninja forces, which meant that in reality he didn't have complete executive and military control of his village, even though on paper the Hokage was the ultimate authority.

Carl thought it really was foolish of the third Hokage to allow Danzo so much leeway in how he operated. Hiruzen was basically allowing Danzo to brew a schism in the military chain of command and organization by giving him free reign to recruit and control his own military forces. Nothing good could come from such a schism.

And now with the civilian council and his advisors taking on more responsibilities and powers, it was no wonder that the powers of the Hokage were greatly diminished in the original story by the time Tsunade was convinced by Naruto to return to the village and take up the Hokage hat.

So even though on paper the Hokage was the ultimate authority, in practice it had been many years since the third Hokage basically gave that power away to various people. And those schemers had placed their own people in key positions to entrench their power. So even if the Hokage gave orders, if they didn't want to carry out said orders they could just come back with all kinds of false reports that showed his orders were being carried out. How would the Hokage know differently if the people reporting to him never told him?

Even with the presence of loyal Konoha ninja, the Hokage would have to have some clue that things weren't right in order to start an investigation and find out just what was really happening.

And with the vultures being very well practiced in telling the Hokage what he wanted to hear, how would he ever suspect that the reality was different from their reports?

But all of that was happening in the shadows and background; it was mostly hidden from the majority of the villager's sight.

What the majority of villagers actually saw and heard was that the Uchiha clan that ran the police force and made sure they were safe in their beds at night had been cruelly massacred by one traitor of that clan: Itachi Uchiha. The despicable scum!

And that the very wealthy and powerful clan that kept them safe was survived by only one seven year old boy: Sasuke Uchiha. The last loyal Uchiha!

The hearts of all the civilian mothers went out to the poor boy. And their talk of the poor, tragic boy was overheard by their daughters. Their talk about how Sasuke was the heir to the vast wealth of the Uchiha was also heard by those same daughters. Their talk about how the girl who caught Sasuke would have access to those riches were also overhead by those same daughters.

The possibility of gaining control of those riches Sasuke was set to inherit caused the figurative dollar signs to appear in the eyes of those civilian mothers. If their daughter could manage to snag the last Uchiha, their circumstances would immediately change for the better. They would be rich!

And if those civilian mothers didn't have a daughter to throw at poor Sasuke, but only a son? That's too bad they didn't have a daughter, but their son could still become poor Sasuke's best friend.

And if their son could succeed in getting close to the Uchiha they could only benefit! Surely poor Sasuke Uchiha would make sure that the family of his best friend that helped him through his personal tragedy was taken care of. His best friend did so much to help him in his time of grief, it was only right that he repay them in any way he could.

Suddenly masses of mothers started teaching their daughters what they would need to do to snag the most eligible underaged bachelor. And sons were taught how to flatter and cozy up to him.

The conflicting idea of how an under-aged boy could possibly be an eligible bachelor didn't have to make sense in the minds of gold diggers and fangirls. They be crazy like that.

All those civilian mothers knew that Sasuke would be entering the Ninja Academy in a little over a year. And the best way to get their daughters close to him was to enter them into the Academy to have a better chance of catching him.

But they also knew that their daughters really didn't meet the standards of ninja, having not trained a day in their lives.

A simple fact like that couldn't get in the way of their daughter marrying the last loyal Uchiha and bringing home all those ryo!

So they talked to their husbands, who talked to the civilian council members, who offered their services to the third Hokage to oversee the Ninja Academy so he could focus on more important things that were overwhelming him in the struggle to stabilize things in the aftermath of the massacre.

And over the next year the curriculum of the Academy started changing, and not for the better. If all those civilian gold digging daughters were failed out of the academy in their first year, then they would never have a chance to get close to their precious meal ticket er…precious Sasuke. So the curriculum had to be changed, to allow them a chance to be able to stay enrolled so they could continue to get close to their golden ticket.

It was sneaky, it was insidious, and it would be the single biggest reason that the next several classes of ninja that graduated from the academy were filled with those who were weak and ill prepared for ninja life and would be failed by their prospective jonin sensei.

Many of those would have gone on to be in the genin corps, and eventually die out in great numbers due to lack of skill in the invasion that Orochimaru planned years in the future.

If nothing was changed, that is.

All because the Hokage trusted his people too much and the gold digging women of Konoha saw a meal ticket in a seven year old boy who had just had his whole world destroyed with the murder of his family by his own brother.

And speaking of Sasuke, he of the unstable psyche. He came from a proud ninja clan. He came from a massacred ninja clan. And the single biggest motivation he had at the moment was getting revenge on Itachi, his once beloved brother.

To do that he needed strength.

Sasuke knew that his brother was a genius. He had bragged about his older brother's talents often enough. So he needed to get strong, and he needed to do it as fast as possible.

Those gold digging civilian women never realized that the very actions they took to ensure their daughters stayed close to their precious Sasuke also completely tanked any chance their daughters had of actually gaining his regard, due to his mindset of strength being important above all.

Sasuke was only interested in getting stronger. The weak fangirls and gold digging civilians playing at ninja were only an irritant to him. They didn't help him get stronger, and only tried to distract him from his goal.

So without their realizing it, the civilian mothers that were desperately throwing their underage daughters at an underage boy who wasn't old enough for his balls to drop were doomed to failure by their own actions.

The honeypot trap didn't work very well when both sides hadn't even gone through puberty and had no sexual desires. It was just an exercise in crazy greed fueled madness.

When Carl put all these pieces together that gave him the full view of the situation surrounding the last Uchiha, he couldn't stop chuckling in amused disbelief for a good several minutes. Half a dozen parts comedy gold, five parts exasperation at the sheer madness of the gold digger and fangirl combo, and one small, very small, part pity for Sasuke's situation caused him to find the situation so ridiculously humorous.

In a strange way it reminded him of the cartoon chases between a certain cat and mouse, or a coyote and roadrunner. None of it made sense in the context of the real world, but that didn't deter those caught up in the madness from continuing on no matter what. And no matter what they did, they would never, could never succeed.

And they couldn't even take a step back and realize what they needed to do to change the paradigm they were stuck in. They were stuck in the endless chase for something they couldn't catch. They couldn't even conceive of giving up; thus failure was their only option.

It was almost too funny.

But once Carl got over the laughter he spent the next 15 minutes complaining about the situation. He had just realized it was his sister and his friend's education that was going to be sabotaged by those damned gold digging whores and their pathetic chase of Sasuke.

And while it wasn't fair at all to the boy himself, Carl couldn't help but dislike Sasuke a little more because of the fact that his precious sister and his good friends were being sabotaged because of those who wanted to chase the anti-social twit.

Even before the massacre Sasuke never came to train and play with them. So Carl didn't have any feelings of friendship for the kid. And now, after the massacre, the little emo only had revenge and power on his mind, making him even less appealing as a possible ally.

He really wanted his sister and friends far away from the last Uchiha. The powder keg that would one day become a traitor and go missing nin if the canon plot was within sniffing distance of this world.

And now it was even more likely that Sasuke would go missing nin because the Academy was dumbed down and not teaching him how to get stronger. Sasuke would definitely recognize that he wasn't being pushed to grow as much in the weakened version of the Ninja Academy.

About six months before starting the Academy, Carl would finally come to a conclusion that he didn't really want to come to.

He would have to at least offer to help Sasuke train in order to curb his traitorous leanings.

It was likely that there would be two of Carl's precious people on Sasuke's team, so he needed to work on keeping the boy from exploding and turning traitor in order to keep his people safer. And the best way to keep Sasuke from turning traitor was to offer him actual training to get strong so he would see no reason to escape to another village.

If the power obsessed boy didn't get what he wanted in Konoha, he would leave in an instant to find what he sought.

'The things I do for family.' Carl sighed, depressed that he would have to interact with Sasuke. 'Maybe I could just kill him instead?' Carl mostly joked with himself. Mostly.

He wouldn't actually kill the boy unless if he did something unforgivable. But he was tempted…

Oh, so tempted.

XX

But all that happened over the course of several months. Going back a little bit in time, on the morning of Carl and Hinata's seventh birthday, Carl regained his memories of the Game of Thrones world.

After the flood of memories, Carl spent a few moments remembering the time he had spent on his vacation in the land of Westeros with his girl Lyanna. It was a good time.

With his newly restored memories, he thought about the magic he learned in Westeros. Some of the blood magic he learned made him think of experimenting with the chakra conducting metal that he could find here in the Naruto world, to see how it would react to magic.

'Come to think of it, why haven't I placed some orders for those metals yet?' Carl asked himself. It had been three months since he gained access to his technology. He was slacking!

So he sent out the order to the Yamato VI to start gathering samples of the various new beasts, plants, and metals of this world so he could add it to his farms. And if there were any interesting gems, crystals, woods, or anything else that was of use to add those too.

The sooner he added them to his Farms, the sooner he could produce his own goods to experiment with. And the sooner he could make some nice toys to play with. Ninjas needed weapons and toys, after all.

XX

Omake:

A few days after the Uchiha massacre while Carl was walking towards the park, he overheard a couple of civilians talking about it. That wasn't too unusual, since it was a huge deal and everyone was worried about the fallout from the sudden depletion of their military force. But it was the contents of the discussion that captured his attention.

"Have you heard news about the little Uchiha boy?" The early 40s brown haired civilian lady said to her black haired late 30s good friend after they hugged and kissed each other's cheeks.

"Yeah, he's the only one to survive the clan. He's going to be rich from inheriting all the property."

"No, that's outdated news. When the ANBU forces found him, they rushed him to the hospital where it was found out that his eyes melted from his face. He's blind!"

"No way! How's that possible?! He'll never become a ninja now, especially without his amazingly magical eyes that can do anything!"

"I know, right? Without their magical eyes that can trump anything and make them super powerful, he's just a normal boy now. A normal blind boy. Nobody will care about him now."

"Cruel, but true. Oh! But what happens to the Uchiha estate?"

"Of course he can't access any of it. The Uchiha were so proud of their eyes, anyone who doesn't have the fully mature Sharingan can't inherit."

"So what happens to all that property?"

"Well, the estate is supposed to be in the charge of the Shinobi council until someone can inherit. Which means any of Sasuke's children who gain their mature Sharingan eyes will inherit…"

"This changes everything."

"I know, right? I was going to wait for my little Chitsu to grow up and snag him as her husband. But now I'm thinking…"

"No way. I thought of it first! I'm going to be the first one to have dear Sasuke-kun's children, you hag!"

"Not if I get to him first, dead fish!"

The pair of ladies looked like they were on the verge of tearing each other apart as they hurled insults at each other, when they were interrupted by a lady that looked like she was in her early 70s.

"Ladies! You're arguing for no good reason. You should stop it!"

The two "good friends" backed off from their fight for a bit to see who was interrupting them. It was the butcher shop owner's mother-in-law.

"Why? Thinking your daughter is going to be able to get there first?" The black haired lady cattily spoke.

"No, it's just that there's no use fighting now. Sasuke-kun is only 7. He won't be able to father children for at least 5 years, maybe 6 or 7. So squabbling in the streets, it's unbecoming of you."

The two ladies sheepishly looked at each other in apology.

"Sorry, Riki, I don't know what came over me." The brown haired lady apologies with a sheepish smile.

"Don't worry about it, Raira, I'm sorry too. I was a bit hasty and rude as well. Why don't we go get some tea and settle down?"

"That sounds perfect."

The brown and black haired ladies departed arm in arm while Carl shook his head in disbelief. Since Sasuke couldn't inherit his estate without a child, it looked like the gold digging mothers of Konoha weren't content with waiting for their daughters to get old enough to marry him. They wanted a child off him now. What would their husbands say? What would their children say?

"Heh, suckers." Carl's attention was suddenly drawn to the old and wrinkled lady who looked like she was in her 70s who was saying some unusual things. "Ninja clan members mature earlier than civilian born, so Sasuke will be able to have children in 1, maybe 2 years. And I'm only in my early 50s, so I've got a good chance of popping out one more sprog, which will net me the prize! I've got 2 years of competition free time to prepare! Come to me, dear Sasuke-kun!"

And off she walked, crooning in what she thought was a sexy voice but that reminded Carl of cats going at it in the back alleys. He shuddered at the imagery now in his head. Maybe he should have been a bit more specific to the VI about just which Sharingan eyes should have been melted so Sasuke didn't go blind? Maybe Sasuke would appreciate a mercy killing right about now?

Oh well. Not his problem.