Uchiha Change

Chapter 2- Suna's Missing Kage

"Back to baby chores," Natsumi sighed. "I thought we were Chuunin? Don't Chuunin get you know C or B rank missions?"

"Wait... I thought you were Genin?" Tsunade said. She hadn't looked at their files, she looked at Kushina's since the girl was her student. "So Hiruzen made all three of you Chuunin then?"

"Yes, Tsunade-sensei," Kushina said. "If you don't believe us, then you can look at their files or ask grandfather yourself."

"No, sensei is getting old and is nearing the end of his life."

"We'll have to visit him soon, it was nice seeing him yesterday," Naruto said he didn't understand why Hiruzen wanted him to call him grandfather, but it seemed Kushina had started doing it. "So do we train for a bit longer?"

"Hokage-sama," someone yelled from the door opening it. Kushina knew her from the messaging room, but she and Naruto still stood in front of Natsumi. "Suna has requested help from the leaf, Gaara has been kidnapped."

"What!" Natsumi screamed. After Suna attacked the Leaf she had become one of Gaara's friends one of the few the two had. She wanted to get stronger to protect her friends and now one of them has been kidnapped.

"Team Kushina, this is an S-rank mission. I want you by the gate in an hour," Tsunade said looking at the three of them, she would have... no he was on a mission, along with Zabuza and Haku. "What's with that smile?"

"We can leave now," Natsumi said. Kushina always packed for a mission, since none of the food went out, you could use the same bento for years (if left in the seal). With the fact that they all knew the storage seal made it easier for them to carry around years of supplies, ready to go a heartbeat. "It's an S-rank, so we'll leave now. Don't worry about supplies we have enough for a few years."

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"Do you think we'll meet Temari on the way?" Kushina asked her brother and sister, who just looked at. "Shikamaru's in charge of the Chuunin exams, so Temari has been talking to him about Suna's entre, cause of what happened last time, no wants a repeat."

"I see," Natsumi said. She liked the blonde Suna shinobi, since she was one of the few females who took this life seriously, not thinking someone will come safe them. "She's ahead of us."

"If you say so Natsumi."

"Kushina, she's like Tobirama a sensor," Naruto told his sister. They were going to tell her, since Natsumi could get some training from the man. He was more likely to train her then them, since she didn't have any Uchiha blood in her. "So maybe he'll be willing to help her."

"That would mean pulling her into the Miranda," Kushina said looking ahead of her, stopping when she saw the blonde Suna shinobi. "It doesn't matter now, we'll have to talk about it when we go back to the village."

"Temari!" Natsumi shouted making the fan wielder stop. Temari looked at the three, she didn't sense them coming, but then again, she was thinking about the broken tea cup. "I didn't know you were in the village, but we have troubling news."

"Troubling?" Temari asked looking at the three.

"Gaara's been kidnapped, we're going to Suna to help," Naruto told her with wide eyes she nodded and they were off. "Don't worry, we'll save him. One way or another."

"We won't let him suffer for something out of his control," Natsumi told her while they leaped from tree to tree, getting closer to the edge of fire country, nearing the border of wind. "Besides we're friends, and I'll protect my precious people."

"I agree with Hashirama for once," Kushina muttered under her breath. "There's always conflict no matter the era. It's also his fault that this is happening."

"One day you'll need to stop blaming him," Naruto told his sister, while Temari and Natsumi talked about what their plan is, once they got to Suna. "I beat his getting depressed."

"I wouldn't know."

"Miranda and your mind space is two different things."

"I want to keep it that way."

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"Who are you?" an elderly women asked looking at the teens. "Kankuro has been poisoned and Konah sends teenagers? This is why Suna shouldn't have alliances."

"I can look at Kankuro," Kushina said while walking to the medical bed. "Can you tell us what happened, so I know what I'm looking for?"

"Kankuro went after the ones who kidnapped Gaara," Baki said Naruto and Natsumi nodded while Kushina looked at his bandages. "He fought one of them. Sasori of the red sand and he was poisoned. We would've asked Tsunade-sama to come look, but she's in charge of the leaf, isn't she?"

"Kushina would be able to do it," Natsumi said smiling at him. "But we have to find a way to track them. Frogs don't track, bats don't... Kushina, do any of your cats track?"

"Natsumi, Naruto has been trained in tracking," Kushina told her younger sister, while checking to see how much poison was in Kankuro's blood. "So why don't you two make a start, while I get the poison out of his blood, then I'll have to make a cure to get rid of the rest."

"Only Tsunade has been able to find cures for my poisons," the old lady said. Naruto looked at her, she was most likely one of the elders. Her grey hair was in a bun on her head and her clothes were a simply grey robe. "I've never heard of you."

Chiyo wasn't happy that the raven didn't answer her, instead she just started to ask for things from the medic's around her, the elder couldn't do anything, since even she didn't know the cure for the poison and she didn't trust anyone from the Leaf to do it.

"Don't worry... sorry I don't know your name," the blonde one said while she played with the ends of her hair. "Kushina's Tsunade's student. I'm her teammate, Natsumi and that's her brother Naruto."

"Chiyo."

"It's nice to meet you."