Tsunami stayed quiet but turned her head to stare at the young couple who were across the kitchen table from her. Her eyes read that if it weren't for the distance between them and the fact that there was a need for secrecy she would be strangling someone.
Kaiza was looking at the small baby in his arms. While not his biologically he had taken Inari and Tsumani into his heart as his family and was willing to die for them. The fatherly rage he felt was fierce. But it paled to the storm inside Tazuna.
Tazuna felt everything in his body tense and fill with anger. He barely managed to contain it. His face was stiff and his body tense. The ninja would be able to tell immediately that something was off. And no matter how much fuckery was going on he wanted answers and he knew that if he let the brats be found out he'd never learn anything.
Tazuna swallowed harshly. "Only six? Were they kidnapped?"
Iruka smiled sadly and shook his head. "Hiashi Hyuga, Hinata's father, is adamant that they left under their own power. He would not go into detail but has made it known that Hinata and Naruto were prodigees."
Tazuna was going to break his neck fighting the strain to keep looking at the ninja and not reveal the brats. He nodded tensly.
"We have not seen any kids fitting that description or appearance. We will definitely keep an eye out. Almost all traffick to the land of Waves comes through our port. Main reason for the bridge. Keeping trade up in bad weather."
Iruka nodded sadly. This was only his second solo mission ever and he was sad to have to report it as a failure. The Land of Waves had been a last resort. Hiashi would now be forced to move forward with clan buisness and declare his daughter officially missing. Due to their age and the fact that the kids had not recieved any formal ninja training in the academy and had no status as ninja they were not declared rogues.
Iruka sighed and rubbed his face. "If you ever do see them. Even if it's years in the future tell them that Konoha will always welcome them back with open arms."
"I will let them know should I ever see them." Tazuna maintained his composer as Iruka took out a copy of the pictures and left them on the table. Tsunami showed Iruka to the door and then he left with a weary goodbye.
More silence. This one filled with rage, confusion, and an undertone of irritated curiosity.
"Who are you?" Tazuna finally managed to spit the question out.
Hinata and Naruto shared a look. Naruto could feel their sensei's chakra heading straight to the dock where they had left his boat. They would give it till Iruka was out on the water.
"Three minutes. Just till Iruka-san is fully gone." Hinata let her disguised transformation go. Reverting to her adult form. Naruto followed suit.
"There is so much to explain and so much is not going to make sense but please listen and understand." Hinata's clear voice soothed Tsunami but Tazuna was left unaffected.
"UNDERSTAND! LISTEN! WHAT IS THERE TO LISTEN TOO! YOU ARE SIX YEARS OLD! YOU RAN AWAY FROM A SHINOBI VILLAGE! TO DO WHAT!?"
Iruka was gone. The small motored boat was out on the waves. Naruto rubbed the back of his head. He so didn't want to do this. But he was done running. He couldn't make Hinata live on the run.
He dropped his adult form and glared up at Tazuna from his six year old body. Hinata dropped down too.
"We are Naruto Uzimaki and Hinata Uzimaki- Hyuga. Physically we are six years old. Mentally we are twenty." Blank stares from the three others.
Hinata took the lead. "Many of the things we told you are true. They just happened in a different life in a different time. A disaster occurred and Naruto and I decided to make things end differently. For many days we planned and meditated. Gathering chakra and creating a jutsu that eventually brought us back to a morning when we were five."
"We know you are probably angry and confused but please understand that everything we are doing is for making a better future to avoid a disaster that destroyed the shinobi world."
Tazuna stared at then before falling forcefully down onto a chair and putting his head in his hands.
Kaiza handed Inari to Tsunami. He walked over and knealt infront of the couple. "Let me double check some facts. Are you two really married?"
Naruto nodded seriously. "The anniversary we celebrated really was our first. We had been married only a few months before the disaster happened."
Kaiza grasped Naruto's shoulder with one hand. "Why did you not tell any of this to Hinata's father. From your stories he is a wonderful man."
Hinata squeezed Naruto's hand. "My father went through a major shift in his outlook on life in our original life. My father though improved is still not the man who became Naruto' father-in-law."
"We couldn't risk telling him. He was getting to stressed by our skill levels alone. If he knew our plan he would have had a heart attack."
Hinata stared at Tazuna. "We are only telling you because we are done running. We can't leave here with the bridge not even half done."
Kaiza sighed. "What is your true story? No hiding anything anymore."
Hinata smiled sadly. "It's a long story."
Tazuna grunted and ground out. "We have plenty of time."
Naruto nodded.
"But first." Tazuna glared at Hinata and Naruto. The young couple scooted closer together.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW IRRESPONSIBLE YOU ARE! HOW STUPID THIS WHOLE PLAN WAS!"
They stppd pressed against each other as Tazuna seethed.
"HINATA! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH PAIN YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR FATHER THROUGH! HE MUST FEEL AWFUL! I DON'T CARE WHAT SECRECY YOU WANT TO KEEP BUT YOU WILL WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR FATHER AND LET HIM KNOW YOU ARE ALIVE!"
Silence rang throughout the kitchen once again.
"Nothing." A shuddering gasp. "Nothing is worse than thinking your child is in danger. Tsunami can tell you the same. Kaiza too. Nothing is worse. No fate in the world is worse than not knowing if your child is safe."
Tears dripped down the hardened old man's face as he knealt by Kaiza. Tsunami shifted her hold on Inari and sat down on the floor with her father and fiance.
The pain etched on their faces. All their faces. Hinata felt her heart ripping. Naruto felt like his heart was missing.
Why did everything have to turn out this way? They just wanted to make things better. Why did so much pain have to come with?
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Time Travel Lovers **BEING REWRITTEN/EDITED WITH MAJOR CHANGES**
Fanfiction**Okay, dear readers. You all know I've been dead with this story. I've got no excuses other than when I try to write something new for it I can't. I wrote myself into a wall and to fix my mistakes I'd need to rewrite almost everything after chapter...
