Naruto: The Way of the Great Lord
Chapter 60 The Great Awakening

7 year. For parents to move so for a loving mother it feels like forever, every day without her children she worries about their safety. 'Do they eat well? Asleep? Are they still alive?' On earth, the last question doesn't even cross the minds of most parents, but this Shinobi world is full of unexpected surprises and dangers. So to see her children safe, she smiled broadly and said to the newest family member, "Saskue, Sayomi, that's your big brother. Ichizo, how did you grow so big? Why do you look so different from Itachi ?"

Ichizo smiles at her mother's question no matter how much her status, strength, or appearance changes, she still has the same warm attitude that she missed. While her sisters are lost and confused at the two strangers in front of them, so as they walk back to their home, she and Itachi tell their mother about all the events that have passed. From arriving in the Land of the Night, meeting the daimyo, Creating Hidden Darkness, war with the samurai, Ichizo awakens Zettigan, and the upcoming Chunin exam.Hours passed while Mikoto listened intently to her sons summarize all the events since they separated from the Hidden leaf. His children had become leaders of a force that could compete with the old villages, proud not even to describe exactly the feelings he was experiencing at this time. They created something from scratch, ended 2 wars, as well as brought honor to the Uchiha clan while creating a power that could not be ignored. Hokage had told Jonin of the leaf that they should not be hostile to the Hidden Darkness but seek to build a relationship with them in any way. Hidden Darkness as well as the Empire where he lived had become a giant that no one could disturb.

"Ahh Ichizo, look how much you and Itachi have grown! Your father spent his days bragging to the clan elders about the two of you. Without stopping! 'You wish your children were as talented as me? Oooh Your son just activated his Sharingan? How old is he? 10? My kids did that on 2!' He kept talking so much that Hokage had heard stories about the two of you every day!""Haha it's great I'm glad we made him so proud but, now there's something serious we have to discuss. When I left Leaf originally I told you my dream, step by step we paved the way to make that dream come true." After so many years of separation, it would be nice for our family to be together again, I want you and dad to move to the Night Kingdom together with my brothers where I can give them life, education, education, and better education.Operances that are not available in the Hidden Leaves."

Mikoto looked at her son with a complicated gaze to have a child capable of achieving the amazing thing that her son had was the dream of every parent, after all a good one. Not only that, he had many years to witness all their achievements. His vision became cloudy as tears began to form in his eyes, she looked up to all her smaller children then back to the twins she got up from her seat and did the standard Shinobi tribute to Lord Yorukage.

"Lord First, It's an honor to be the shinobi of Hidden Darkness!"

Ichizo is confused even though he stands on the same level as Hokage, he does not expect his mother to humble herself before him.

"Mom, there's no need to be so formal! In the Empire you will become the Queen Mother, therefore you need not humble yourself before me. When father comes home you have to tell him the news but now Itachi and I have to meet Fourth Master after our meeting, we will return to the Capital together."

With that said the Twins disappeared from Mikoto's sight.

"My son is really an adult."

In the Hokage's office, a shinobi sat at the reception desk doing nothing, he sat there fiddling with the kunai as two figures appeared before him. Don't even bother to look at the shinobi she said."This is the Hokage's office if you don't have an appointment, this isn't a place you can just walk into."

"The plot seems to have been between the time we left Leaf and now the shinobi have forgotten their basic politeness. When a Kage appeared in front of them, they forgot about their training!"

Hearing the exchange between the two, the receiving shinobi looked towards the two Shinobi of Hidden Darkness. Her beautiful blue Sharingan in the smaller eye while the taller one had a dojutsu she had never seen before. The Night Symbol has been engraved on the Higher Shinobi Flak, something only Kages can do. At that moment his eyes widened, 'THE YORUKAGE!!'

'Hokage once said that he was a major player during the Third Great Ninja War and to accept him directly into the office if he ever stopped but I never thought he would actually do it"First Master, please forgive my behavior, I will immediately take you to Lord Hokage!"

He quickly got up and respectfully led the way to the Hokage's office in his heart he cursed his stupidity for being so bad to Lord Yorukage. The Harbinger of Two suns, the man was basically a walking Shinobi Division, not even that was an understatement.

He quickly walked into the Hokage's office then excused himself like he saw a ghost, Inside Minato's office sat in front of a pile of documents reading each one before signing it, Inside Minato's office, in his heart Ichizo is very happy that he has completely overhauled his government or it will happen.

"It's good to see you again Minato, I hope I'm not interrupting anything too important."

Minato looked up to see the Good Night Kingdom King Emperor now.

"Absolutely not Ichizo, what brings you to konoha?""The peace we have built has really changed the way the world is, however much the peace we have may be threatened. During my time as Anbu, I took steps to prevent an impending war and during my time as a Yorukage, I continued to carry on with my duties. That is why the Tailed Monster now lives within my borders under 24-hour supervision even with the "Freedom" I gave them to grow. During the birth of your first child, who do you think attacked the leaves?"

"Fugaku and I decided that Madara Uchiha wanted-"

"If it really was Madara, a shinobi hailed as one of the strongest shinobi who ever lived, do you really think that it would end so simply? You are a powerful shinobi, my father is a powerful shinobi but you two will have a hard time conquering Madara Uchiha in his prime or even now. Although it might not be Madara, he was the person behind the scenes who orchestrated the entire incident. The goal is to make the false instructions on the Uchiha stone tablet revealed. To do so he would do anything including endangering the lives of children and the safety of the 6 Great Nations. If I hadn't taken the steps I've had so far maybe we wouldn't even have had this conversation, maybe you and your wife wouldn't have done it again. Become this world.To prepare for war, to prepare for war, we as a whole need to strengthen our country. Therefore, we need the First and Second Hokage Lord!"

Minato listened intently but the last line jolted him.