Entering Sakura's home, Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke gathered at the dining area while Sakura proceeded to the kitchen to make some tea. Settling the kettle and three cups on a tray, she carried it to the table where the men were sitting.
She sat in front of Kakashi while Sasuke was on her left and Naruto on her right.
"So? Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura started, permitting Kakashi to tell what he knows.
"Your parents, Sakura, are Minato-sensei's personal guards. They're always the ones who goes with him whenever Minato-sensei has to leave the village."
"Your parents has a lot of similarities to Minato-sensei—being born in a clan of normal citizens but slowly climbed the ranks to be well-respected shinobis."
"But my parents are jounins, Kakashi-sensei. How can they be the 4th's personal guards?" Sakura asked. She was born knowing her parents were jounins.
"They are when you were born. But they weren't prior to that. You guys know how every hokage has their own ANBU squad that answers to them, right?" Kakashi waited for them to nod before continuing. "Well, Kizashi-san and Mebuki-san were one of them."
"The thing is, Minato-sensei is the strongest hokage Konoha had, so it's a given that his ANBU squad was the strongest as well."
"But what made the 4th's ANBU squad different from the other hokage's ANBU is that Minato-sensei taught them sealing techniques he learned from Naruto's mum, Uzumaki Kushina."
"That was his way to strengthen the team he has chosen. But when Naruto's parents passed away..." Kakashi gulped at the mention of their death. "...an unknown group started seeking for Minato-sensei's ANBU squad."
"What did this group want, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"The knowledge of sealing techniques. People wanted this information that was only made and excelled by the Uzumaki clan, passed on to the 4th hokage, and later on shared to the 4th's ANBU. One might've thought that it was Orochimaru who started seeking this but upon inspecting his lair and questioning him, he doesn't have a lot of information as well."
"The only information Orochimaru has are the names of the sealing techniques and what it does, but he never got to the hand signs on how to activate any of it." Sasuke spoke.
"That's right. And the only ones who has knowledge about this are—"
"Are Lord 4th's ANBU." Sakura said, finishing Kakashi's sentence.
"Hai. That's why there are criminals hunting for the 4th's ANBU. This happened while your parents were relieved from their duty temporarily because they just gave birth to you. Because of the murders, they requested Lord 3rd to demote them as jounins."
"What was the scroll they were trying to retrieve in the Hidden Village of the Mist, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked, finally figuring out what is happening.
"Before the Uzumaki clan went extinct, they scattered 10 scrolls consisting of all their sealing techniques to different villages and countries."
"Since your parents are the only ones left in Minato-sensei's ANBU squad, they decided their life mission in retrieving these scrolls."
"But... isn't better to let the location of those unknown?" Naruto asked.
"It was your parents' goal to retrieve those. They're just continuing it." Kakashi said, looking at Naruto.
"I see."
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The Two of Us
Fanfiction"Sakura." Shocked with the voice who called, she averted her attention towards the door. There stood the man who left the village three years ago; the man whom Naruto promised to bring back; and the man she only loved-Uchiha Sasuke. • Canon Complian...
