"So how was our new collection?"
Kankuro sat with his siblings in a room with a teasing smile as he waited for the compensation for his job well done in Konohagakure.
"Its great thanks to you guys, I'd dare say now that our group can be ranked amongst those with the greatest collection of jutsus within and beyond the five great nations."
Gaara spoke with a smile on his rarely unmasked face. He is also wearing the garb of Kazekage. The process of inheritance quickened when his siblings relinquished their rights to the seat and the session this time only lasted for eight hours. A pain in the ass in a literal sense.
In truth Temari mostly preferred bloody battles instead of sitting around doing paperwork. Kankuro being himself expressed his disinterest in messing around with the complications of politics and would instead like to spend his time in research on the 'perfect puppet'.
"Hehehe don't be too humble, we have acquired almost every jutsu there is within Konohagakure, we should have the greatest collection now and in the future if we combined that of Sunagakure's collection. Those tree huggers would puke liters of blood if they ever found out that we made digital copies of their secret arts and made them available to every member of Yggdrasil who has enough contribution points."
Temari had a naughty smile as she imagined the reaction of Konohagakure Shinobi to their act of sharing. Selling. Whatever it is, she found it fun. Too bad it is a once in a lifetime opportunity for her who did not have enough strength to take on Konoha herself. A savage gleam flashed in her eyes that made Kankuro and Gaara feel a tingle in their spine.
"Ahem! Didn't you find anything strange in all this?"
Gaara asked with a forehad full of beaded sweat as he changed the topic. Temari pondered on the question and her intent retracted her face looked lost. Kankuro was the same, he who didn't even know what scroll he ran his scanner on during the mission finding something strange is actually strange in and on itself.
"What? I didn't? Should I? I guess I will do better in the future hehe."
Kankuro asked in confusion and then back to his carefree self.
"According to known history, the annihilation of the Uzumaki is due to the combined forces from the major villages excluding Konoha.
I find that weird because if they did not partake in the attack, why is it that they have the 'hiden' of the Uzumaki in addition to the thousands of fuinjutsu seal formulas in their repository?
I could be wrong of course, but my gut tells me that something is wrong with the known history of this world, after all, the victors are kings and the losers are villains."
'Or they could be really such good friends that they didn't mind giving them jutsus away without limits. Sharing is caring? F*ck that!'
Gaara explained his point as he pondered in his own head.
"That... I read from the history of Kazekage clan that Uzumaki actually had familial ties to the first generation Kazekage clan. In fact, some families in Suna have Uzumaki roots. Its too bad that the bloodline on them thinned and the Uzumaki traits became less apparent. This is the reason why the Shinobi of Suna actually helped ferry some of them out of Uzu no Kuni when the massacre started. Is it possible that when we focused on the people, Konoha focused on robbing their repository like we did in theirs?"
Temari shared what she knew of their history while nodding at how plausible her deduction actually is.
"Talk about karma. Hehehehe. So we're what? The 'avengers' now? I'm Ir*n Man for sure."
'I still think someone is adopted in this family. Why else would we look nothing alike?'
Kankuro didn't really give a damn about all that. What he wanted is a simple life with lots of wives beside him. Why else would he practice micromanagement with his puppets for?
"Ivan Vanko is more like it. This is important to us actually. Do you remember the blond haired boy in the Chunin exams?"
Gaara turned to Kankuro with a poke before asking.
"Ha ha ha. Yeah sure, that dumb looking guy with whiskers? We talked a little. What's up with him? Isn't he a jinjuriki just like you?"
Kankuro actually quite liked the little guy who seemed to be very fun to hang out with. Gullible too.
"Can you recall his name?"
"Umm... Naruto something... I don't really know his full name. I didn't pay attention."
'I'm sure I've heard his name being announced by the proctor.'
Kankuro answered while picking his ears while deep in thought about Naruto's name.
"His name is Naruto Uzumaki. You... are you actually planning to use him against Konoha like you did with the Uchiha?"
Quick as usual, Temari came with another one of her very own deduction. And she was right in the most part. Because Gaara never really cared if Konoha prospered or perished.
"Dear sister, you know me all too well. We will simply just let a poor soul bask in the beautiful light of truth, I see nothing wrong with that. Hehehe"
The siblings smiled to one another with praise
"Oh my freaking Kami you guys are evil. Hehe I like it.
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Sasuke flew backwards from a kick.
'Fucking monsters.'
"You have to do better than that for me to acknowledge you as the new family head Sasuke oniichan."
It has been a few days since he came to this place and found out one of its hidden secrets. A group of Uchiha clan members lived in its castle with the village head who formally admitted to be their nanny and her daughter who blushed whenever she saw him. Not that he cared about her.
What he cared about right now is that his ass is getting handed to him by a snot-nosed brat no older than four years of age. Shiro, Kuro, Aka, Midori, and Ao are simply monsters in human skin who can already activate four of the eight gates without repercussions. Sasuke on the other hand can just activate the first gate so far, which means that fighting these guys in taijutsu is just like asking for a beating.
"You can do it Sasuke oniichan! Beat the ugly mug from Kuro's face!"
The cheers from the side made Sasuke sigh, these kids who didn't know what a life and death battle will not win against him who waltzed with it for a long time now. He used clones and substitution to keep up with the overwhelming speed of Kuro. Sneaking behind the guy also doen't work easily as if the little runt had eyes at the back of his head.
'Could it be?'
He barely dodged an incoming punch, the winds around the fist threatened to tear his skin. He rolled to the side to evade a spinning kick then surrounded himself with ball of flames, they exploded in the air after a few seconds as they are just too slow to catch the little kid.
Another punch landed and Sasuke was sent flying much to Kuro's satisfaction. Then Sasuke exploded into smoke mid flight while another appeared below Kuro already poised for a kick. Much to Sasuke's shock the kid's eyes spun like a wheel and a sharingan with one magatama appeared in his eyes. He quickly dodged the kick and prepared to attack when Shiro kicked his face.
"You are cheating, why the hell are you using sharingan in a spar? Sasuke oniichan please don't hate Kuro he is just very competitive whenever we all spar."
Kuro who landed like a frog on a wall sprang back down and landed on his feel like a pierrot on a circus. He had an animated pout in his face which looked like it still burned from that kick. The eyes of the kids began to converse before Kuro relented and bowed to Sasuke.
"Oniichan are you considered strong outside the village?"
Before he knew it, he is now surrounded by little kids who had gleaming eyes.
"Is it true that outside Takamagahara people had to work for most of the day just to have enough food for their families?"
"What? People had to what?"
"Work! You don't even know that much? I heard from someone that people will give you something similar to points after rendering service or selling things. That's how outsiders live."
"That's awful! I'm never going out of Takamagahara."
"Shhh... Sasuke oniichan hasn't answered my question."
"Oniichan let's go outside after training, you can't stay cooped up in this training room every single day. We will show you our favorite spots in the village."
"Yes oniichan pleaseee."
"He is my oniichan move your paws away."
"Why don't we bring sister Karin along while we're at it?"
The children just spoke and spoke to basically anyone that Sasuke could only sigh and smile as he finally relented into going outside fo a change of phase. He wouldn't be able to bridge the gap between him and the kids that fast anyway so might as well get himself familiar with the place. Two children with naughty grin on their face dragged a red haired lass with them. Now she's red faced too.