Child of Mine

Contemplating Retribution

[I am so sorry for how long this took. Life at the moment for me has become rather chaotic and leaves me with no time to write.]

Fai sighed as he tucked the now sleeping Naruto into the crooked bed. Brushing a thumb across the lines of the boy's facial scars he looked toward Kurogane who stood at the door watching them. Fai walked out of the room, shutting the door as quietly as he could.

"Those scars...they're old." Kurogane mentioned, his arms folded into his sleeves.

"Yes, they're probably the first scars they gave him." Fai said quietly as his fists clenched tightly.

Syaoran sat on the couch with Mokona napping in his lap. He looked at the two of them with a determined expression on his face. They both looked at him as he spoke,

"We need to investigate this place, find out just who did this to him."

Both older men nodded their heads. Kurogane tapped his sword with his fingers as he spoke.

"Can't kill the innocent ones after all, Naruto did mention a few people that are kind to him. Starting tomorrow we go see this Hokage he spoke of and get what we can from him."

With the plan decided the group pulled out sleeping bags, given to them by the Tomoyo of Piffele world, and went to sleep.

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Naruto sprang out of his bedroom in excitement and happily greeted his father with a hug. Kurogane, who had been sitting on the couch waiting for breakfast to be finished, was slow to hug back. It had been so very long time since he had received affection from anyone that he was out of practice.

Syaoran smiled at the child and greeted him as Mokona waved from the kitchen counter. The two had been working together to cook up breakfast while Fai dutifully set the table.

After getting a hug from his father Naruto all but leaped into Fai's arms after he had finished seting up the table. Fai easily hugged back and kissed the top of his head.

"Good morning to you too Naruto, ready for breakfast? Syaoran and Mokona fixed up some lovely eggs and bacon."

With a large smile and a nodd the family all sat at the table and began to eat, once Syaoran handed out the food anyway. The brunette looked at how the boy scarfed down his food and fought to hide his frown. It was not a healthy way to eat at all. Instead of commenting on it he decided to ask,

"Naruto we've been thinking and we've decided that we should talk to the Hokage. We do need to tell him that we've come here for you, as well as explain how we got here. It wouldn't do for us to get kicked out for not having a pass after all."

It made sense to Naruto so he agreed to take them there.

Meanwhile Sarutobi was stuck in an early meeting attempting to calm the council members both Ninja and Civilian. Luck was not on his side as he listened to the lot of them scream at each other about the newcomers. The old man sighed, rubbing temples, as he attempted to block out the noise and relieve his migraine.

The civilian council members were all in a panic. They feared retribution would come swiftly at the hands of the warriors that came just yesterday. The people claimed to be the boy's parents and they had abused the lad for years.

The ninja council, while not as panicked as the civilians, were also worried about retribution. Not about the abuse, yes some of the more...intellectually challenged ninja did hurt the boy, but they feared their wrath over turning the boy into a jinchuuriki.

All while this panic was occuring one by the name of Danzo was silent. He was not panicking, worried yes but not panicking, he was plotting. He knew his root were no match for the brats family, but perhaps he could orchestrate an accident...

Somewhere in another dimension Watanuki was laughing himself silly at the stupidity of the people within the meeting. It would be a pleasure watching them dig their own graves.

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Sarutobi nearly collapsed behind his desk. He was glad that meeting was over, they hadn't come to an agreement on anything, and was close to laying his head down on his desk.

He was instead interrupted by a ball of energy called Naruto. The now black haired boy bulldozed into his office with his family following behind him.

"Hey old man! I told you they'd come to get me!"

Sarutobi looked at them and shuddered at the look in their eyes. Dispite the smiles on their faces, aside from the swordsman with red eyes who was not smiling, their eyes showed rage.

'I really should have stayed retired' he thought to himself as he listened to Naruto's introductions.

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At the end of the meeting with Naruto's family he waited for them to leave before pulling out sake. He didn't even grab a cup as he took a large swig from the bottle.

A samurai, magician, and magic using samurai were family to Naruto. They were family, Kurogane and Fai being the true biological parents, and they were pissed.

"We are doomed."

Well, at least they won't kill the WHOLE village.

The old man groaned and took another swig while ignoring the figgiting his hidden Anbu were now doing. Honestly if they can't handle him drinking on the job they should retire too.