Naruto: World of Warcraft - chapter 62 (Patreon)

[1 year later]

I tried and tried, but no matter how much I looked around, I didn’t find Madara, and that troubled me, according to Tobirama’s intense study of the man, he was not one to make a move without being ten steps ahead of his enemy, meaning his talk with me was a calculated move for something I still failed to see.

Eventually, I stopped looking altogether, after all, if Madara was ever to make a move, his ego would let everyone know it was him making said move, so for now it was a waste of my time to look for him, because if I hadn’t found him it’s because he didn’t want to be found.

So, instead of focusing on that, I focused on the one thing that brought me happiness, my three months old baby, Itama Senju, yes, I named him after one of sensei’s brother, my little Itama, he was my little bundle of joy, the one thing that made me and Tsunade truly happy, forgetting about war, politics and possible annihilation.

It’s funny really, I loved Tsunade, I truly did with all my heart, but my baby boy Itama was the only one that made me forget about my worries, his charming toothless smile would swallow my pain, worry and uncertainty for a short but blissful moment.

Of course, I would always come back to the real world, but for that short moment, for that brief beautiful moment I wasn’t Raiden Senju, the man that had solve everyone’s problems, the possible future hokage, I wasn’t any of that, I was simply his dad, a dad, having time with his baby.

I think the same applied to Tsunade, because with Itama a whole new facet of her was there, alive and bright, making me fall in love with her all over again.

We were both different when Itama was there, and the sad part of all of this was, this beautiful gift the universe had given us would not last, soon he would grow up, and learn the harsh truths of this world, dimming his light to a dark forever more, like this world had done with our lights, and when it did, because it would inevitably happen, our light would forever disappear alongside his innocent smile.

I wasn't the only one worried about this dilemma, Tsunade and Sakumo shared my parental pain with this specific subject, Sakumo with his own kid, we knew this was a problem without solution, we knew if we stopped them from become a shinobi, they would become targets for our enemies, they needed to become shinobis to survive, we had doomed them with that fate, had we been civilians… their destiny would’ve been open to more paths, but we weren’t civilians, we were shinobis, world wide known shinobis, The White Fang of Konoha, The Undead Calamity of the Leaf, and the Slug Princess, three names that would forever follow us and our children, so all that we could do was prepare them, make them stronger so that they could live long prosperous lives.

“Sensei!” Someone screamed outside the door, and by someone I mean, Duy.

“Duy! You are a chunin, you no longer need to visit me every day,” I replied, jumping out of the window, delivering a violent chop to his head, “Also, Itama is sleeping, and god help me if you wake him up, because I will leave Guy fatherless.”

“I apologize!” and he shouted again, and three, two, one.

“WHO THE F*** WOKE UP ITAMA!” Tsunade roared, running to Itama’s room.

“I will give you a five minute head start,” I smiled.

“Thanks, I’m gonna need it!” Duy activated the first door of the eight gates, and disappeared. Today I would ‘train’ his body to survive twenty fractures in a single punch.

“WHERE IS HE!” Sakumo flickered in front of me, out of nowhere, two chakra signatures emanating from him.

“Who?” I asked.

“Duy! He came to my house to ask for something, and woke up Kakashi!” Sakumo hissed, “I will kill that bastard!”

“First of all, why do you complain, Kakashi never cries, like I’m sure that kid understands me, like I legit think he’s more mature than you, and two… I’m already on my way to kill him, wanna tag alone?” I chuckled.

“First… true, and auch, and second, yes, I would very much love to tag alone.” Sakumo nodded.

“Wait… how did he escape you?” I asked, Sakumo was leagues above Duy. Heck, he was so strong now, I wasn’t sure Hiruzen could take him, granted Hiruzen was old, but still, for a ninja like that, to allow a below average chunin to escape… was bizarre.

“Well… I… had to calm Kakashi first, as you can see…” At this he proceeded to show me what he was carrying in his backpack, no wonder I felt two chakra signatures.

Kakashi opened his eyes, looked at me, grabbed his blanket, covered his face up to his mouth and offered me an eye… smile, how… why… you know, don’t question it.

“Hmm, that’s one cool baby.” I nodded in approval.

“See! He’s devastated!” Devas… he was like always!

“Whatever, let’s go and beat Duy, or better… wake Guy up in the middle of the night.” I laughed, an evilllll laugh.

“Yes… haha, hahaha. HAHAHHAHAHA, MUAHAHAHAHAHAH.” Sakumo joined my laugh.

“I don’t care what we are doing but I’m in!” Startling the heck out of me, Nawaki appeared, hiding his chakra so well, I hadn't noticed him.

“How… Did you do that?” I inquired.

“Oh… well, you remember I was working on my seals right?” Nawaki said, as I nodded, while Sakumo continued to laugh evilly. “Well, I managed to crack a seal that hides your presence altogether, it was with the help of Fugaku, he said someone on his clan left a scroll on the Uchiha library before the founding of the village, and that the scroll was incomplete, so he gave me the scroll in exchange for two popsicles and the scroll once the jutsu is complete.”

“Two popsicles?” I snorted.

“Yes, and the scroll.” Nawaki nodded.

“So you completed the jutsu?” I asked.

“Oh no, it still has some awful side effects, like explosive diarrhea for some reason, I think it has something to do with bottling all the chakra leaving all that energy without conduct… so when you release the seal… bomb, you gotta go… in more than one meaning, I mean… you have no idea, I had to remodel my bathroom twice, it was everywhere, like emphasis on the explosive.” Nawaki sighed.

“Ok… cool, cool, cool, cool…. Now…. go as far away as you can from me, and don’t come back until that little side effect disappears ok?” I said, taking a few steps back.

“But I want to help!” Nawaki protested.

“I have enough shit,  literal with Itama’s… and every now and then Kakashi’s when I baby sit… so. Go. away.” I replied, taking even more distance between us.

“But… fine…” Nawaki rolled his eyes, walking towards his house.

“By the way, can you babysit Kakashi tomorrow?” Sakumo asked, finally stopping his laugh. “Date night and stuff.”

“Only if you babysit Itama next week, I want to take Tsunade to the new hotspring that opened close to the mountain.” I nodded.

“Deal,” Sakumo nodded, shaking my hand.