Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 5

In the village

Tobirama walked through the streets, now a little irritated and annoyed at the new development. His plan to go straight to the boy and meet him to clear of the prior confusion had went completely down the drain.

The guards at the Uchiha clan compounds gates had notified him that he had left the compounds in the morning but hadn't returned as of yet.

He would have used his sensory abilities had he memorized his chakra signature at first sight. But he hadn't done so.

So here he was doing the searching in the old fashioned way.

"Have you seen a six-year-old blonde haired, blue eyes boy around here?" he asked, stopping by a stunned vendor who shook his head nervously. Not having words to see the emotionless Hokage asking him such a weird question.

He let out a sigh and walked away, asking himself why he wasn't having an ANBU search for the boy. But he already knew the answer as to why.

Pride.

It would hurt his pride that he, a Senju clan head, the current Hokage and probably the strongest shinobi in the Land of Fire couldn't find a six-year-old boy by himself. Plus, it was better that being stuck all day in the office, rummaging about his paperwork.

"That surely must be the bane of all Kage. I could already feel my skills dulling if I neglect my training in favor of all that in a few months more." he sighed tiredly and stopped at another vendor near the edge of the village towards the Hokage mountains.

"Have you seen a six-year-old blonde haired, blue eyes boy around here?" he asked yet again, and this time relief washed across his heart when he got a nod from the man.

Frankly, he felt quite stupid to find him like this. But it felt nice for a change to interact with people normally again.

Only now did he realize how right Kagami really was. He had told him that he was far too engrossed these days in his work. And now he was agreeing seeing how much of it was true.

He walked up the mountain in thought, not realizing when he had peered past the monument and towards the back clearing of it.

"Meewww!" a soft mewling sound reached his ears making them perk up instantly. So there were signs of life here after all. He walked into the bushes and followed the soft purring and mewling sounds to their source.

"Kiara! Come on you have to eat this too!" a soft voice, no doubt a young child was admonishing someone called Kiara for something concerning food.

He spread the last bush into the clearing by his hands and peeked in to see the same mop of blonde hair he had been looking for so long sitting there with a small white cub in his arms.

Well that was the source of the mewls an purrs he deducted logically. His foot accidentally stepped on a twig making a small cracking voice.

He rose an eyebrow when he saw the blonde child in front of him perk up and scoot back instantly. He was completely on guard with the cub now wrapped up protectively in his arms.

"Meewwwww!" he tried to muffle her mewls but couldn't stop from giggling when the cub was licking his cheek softly much to his protests. Tobirama once more had to smirk at the adorable scene in front of him.

Though his amber eyes narrowed in on the cub when he saw something out of place with it. His eyes widened momentarily and he realized what was wrong truly in the first place.

"That is no ordinary kitten, it's a white tiger cub!" he drawled on in his mind and saw the boy curl the cub in his arms into a little ball of fur and now completely out of his eyes.

"Please don't take her from here, she lives here and I take care of her…" he said in a guarded voice once more surprising the ever stoic Senju.

"So he knows the cub does not belong here yet he takes care of it and keeps it hidden from everyone. Smart for his age, no doubt about that…" he concluded and stepped out of the bush, dusting his clothes gently.

Tobirama crouched down on one knee in front of the boy who was now rocking the cub a little to calm her down. Tobirama was quite surprised that a cub of a species such as his own had taken a liking to a human child no less.

His eyes met the boy's baby blue ones that were still guarded and completely defiant making him a bit proud at his protective nature.

"I'm not her to take the cub child." he stated blankly and watched the boy blink innocently before nodding and relaxing completely.

"Though it is rather easy to convince him otherwise…" he deduced silently and watched the boy smile and settle the ball of fur over his lap. The cub curled up in a small ball and let out a cure yawn, her ears twitching cutely at that moment.

Tobirama watched the boy brush her back and get small purrs out of her and couldn't help but be surprised at how comfortable the cub was around him.

"Why are you here mister?" he heard the innocent question of the blonde and gave him a curt nod of acknowledgment. He pulled out his folded form from his pocket and handed it to the boy who took it hesitantly, no doubt wondering what it really was.

Naruto unfurled the folds and had wide eyes when he saw that it was his admissions form. But more than that he was astonished to see the stamp that was now marked in the blank square he needed to have filled in the first place.

It was the official stamping that donned the Kanji of Nidaime Hokage over it along with it saying it was approved. He looked at the man with a bright and grateful smile.

"How did you get it signed mister? I thought the Hokage didn't have any appointments for two weeks. Did you have one earlier and get this signed for me?" he asked making Tobirama purse his lips in thought.

So the boy had a dream to be Hokage but was still so innocent and oblivious to the fact that the current reigning Hokage was sitting in front of him?

That was…amusing to say the least.

"Yes, you could say that." he said simply, and saw the blonde too happy to notice his slight hesitance in words. Naruto put his finger on the cub's nose and gave it a soft rub, only to make said cub scrunch it up in irritation.

"Meeewwww!" the cub mewled softly and Naruto kissed her head in an apology for disturbing her nap, getting yet another purr out of her. But he had to show her this.

"See Kiara this mister got it signed for me! Now I can go to the Academy too…" he whispered to her and Tobirama saw now the slight tear marks on his fare cheeks.

The child had been crying her no doubt.

"Meeewwww!" the cub mewled in a hurt like manner making him chuckle at the pouting blonde, who had bonked her softly when she tried to lick and bite his form instead of reading it like he wanted her to.

"You don't have to eat everything you glutton!" he scolded her half heartedly, before scooping her up and kissing her nose to make her lick his own softly.

Tobirama chuckled at the boy's antics making the boy turn a bit sheepish and stick his tongue out childishly.

The Stoic Senju wondered just how long it had been since he had had a laugh like this. He was now becoming socially inept, not that he normally wasn't but now he would be even more.

He sighed when he saw the confused looking Naruto and Kiara blinking at him innocently, wondering what he was thinking no doubt.

"So you want to be Hokage?" he asked to take their minds of his behavior and saw him look at him surprised before looking down at his form and then back at him with a small smile and nodded happily.

"Hai! I'll become the hokage one day." he said making Tobirama smirk ever so slightly. The boy had said 'want to become', it was 'will become' which left only the argument of when he would become one.

"Hmm and why is that if I may ask?" he asked in a hint of curiosity, eyeing him calculatingly to discern his incoming answer.

"Because my Kaa-chan told me how awesome they were…" he said happily making his eyebrow shoot up in surprise.

Now this was a new one he mused and urged him to go on, this he would like to hear.

"…she said that he is the strongest shinobi in our lands, one who each one every other respects and our enemies fear.

He looks after each and everyone regardless of who they are, maybe if I become one everyone will love me too…" he whispered the last part in a faraway voice making Tobirama's eyes soften ever so slightly.

"I see…" he said in affirmative. He knew of the child's scorn but he could implement that the child be treated fair in every possible way.

For which there was his decree in place, but he could not make them accept him, that only came with time. He had even tried to adopt the child by himself but the clan laws he himself had placed once had stopped him.

Oh the irony, his own laws working against him now.

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