Akashi Uzumaki

After his official high-level mission, Akashi with his team continued to complete missions around the country. 

There were always ninjas from big or small countries, attempting to infiltrate the nations, steal secret informations, try to sow discord in the country, and many other things.

So of course there was no shortage of missions to complete.

Akashi with the support of his clan used all those ninjas as living training dummies after all facing dangers and facing powerful enemies is how a ninjas get stronger.

Of course, all that was under protection, and even though it didn't last for a long time it gave Akashi a lot of practical experience, more than what he gained in simple practice. 

Three months later 

Akashi was swinging his Katana in the training ground sending sword slashes flying with practice ease when his maid arrived "Young master," she called 

"Yes what's up, Hitomi," he said stopping his training it was uncommon for his training to be interrupted

"Your parents are waiting for you, in the in," she said as she bowed toward him 

"Ok," he responded and made his way toward them.

"Crack"

The massive throne room door opened revealing Kana and Yanagi on top of the stairs.

The traditional tatami often used by high-ranking nobles in official matters had been replaced here by a soft and comfortable cushion large enough for the both of them to sit and lean on.

"Hello family, your favorite son is here," 

"You mean only son," Yanagi said chuckling 

"Also," 

"Leave us," Kana ordered and seconds later only the three were left in the room 

Walking on the stairs Akashi noted how Kana no longer had any reservations when commanding Yanagi's samurais, they too no longer looked for his approbation before obeying her.

The same things happened with the Uzumaki.

'I wonder if they are really in love now, or is this just an act, I can't see through them at all, even with the mind's eyes, is it because of the difference of power or the mastery of their emotions' he thought as he walked up the stairs

'With them being so close it was obvious that the others would follow suit' 

'Plus nobody would ever even think of upsetting her in her current state,' 

"Sit down," Kana said and in a cloud of smoke another cushion appeared beside their own 

"Why did you call me? Don't tell me you already know if I will have a little sister or a little brother!" he said with a happy smile

Putting a hand on her stomach she smiles brightly at him 

"That is still too soon for that,"

"Those old men are finally going to give us a little more peace," Kana said with a sigh 

One of the clauses of the contract that they made before their union was to give birth to Yanagi's children after all, it was the only way to permanently cement the union between the two factions. 

"It was your choice to wait remember, You know that you Uzumaki have a hard time getting pregnant," Yanagi interjected 

"Yes, wait two years so we can get to know each other better before starting, I guess that because of him I thought it would be faster," 

"I'm not complaining, we can even try again later if you want..."

"Cof, cof, don't talk about that in front of me! You call me and know you are ignoring me, seriously," 

"Sorry, let's get serious," saying that Yanagi took out a scroll and gave it to him,

"What is it?" he asked 

"Open," was all they said 

"Puff,"

"Is that..." Akashi looked at the transparent ball that he took in his hand with excitement 

"This is part of the Zero-tail," he finally said looking at the snake-like creature floating inside the special glass ball.

"This is a completely different entity, but it indeed comes from the Zero-tail," Yanagi said looking at the creature with satisfaction.

It was barely as big as Akashi's finger and looked more like a worm than the massive monster that feed on negative emotion and was used to power the entire capital of the sky.

"How did they do that, that look, it feels like the ratio of yin and yang is perfect, is it a real tail beast? Why did you give it to me?" he asked perplexed, after all even if he is their son something like that a prototype of a tail beast is not something that anyone can be given like that.

"It's yours, we are giving it to you," 

"What?! You can't be serious!" he looked at them like they had lost their mind for a second before Yanagi smiled and put his hand into his sleeve.

From there he took out another ball similar to the one in Akashi's hand 

"How?!" 

"Close your mouth you're going to swallow a fly," his mother joked 

"They come from the Zero-tail, you can consider them the children of the beast, we split its essence using your clan technique and with everything that we learned during the previous years we made those two," Yanagi continued "I'm always impressed by your prowess,"

"This is your clan too now," Kana replied 

"I know,"

"And what happened to the Zero tail, It was already unstable and hard to control," Akashi asked as he carefully stored the baby Zero tail back in its scroll and stored a

"It is sleeping, having part of its essence removed greatly weakens it," 

"It is for the beast to be honest it will allow us to work on it more easily, and in a few years we should be able to safely kill it," Yanagi said nonchalantly surprising Akashi

"You want to kill it!!" 

"Of course, it is a monster that feeds on negative emotion and can also influence people, and we use that energy to aliment the city, we are keeping it trapped while using it, at the slightest mistake a catastrophe can happen," 

Akashi couldn't help but nod understanding where he was coming from

"We have been trying to find a way to kill it while keeping some of its property, and we finally have a way to do it..."

"...Let's change the topic, the question is how do we nurture those two creatures to the level of a tail beast,"

After thinking about that for a while Akashi came up with a few ideas 

"We can use the power bellow that country in the sand, Roran i think it's the name,"

"Roran, huh, yes that's an independent nation hidden somewhere in the sand country we will have to find it, but it's a good idea," 

Yanagi said quite satisfied with the Idea of his son 

"And we can even try to capture some tail beasts and use them," Kana proposed another plan 

They continued to discuss and came up with many different ideas, after all, there are numerous methods and hidden places in the world that we can explore.

After that, the little family continued to discuss peacefully for hours about everything and anything that came to their mind, from serious subjects to their plans and plots for the future, the goals of his travel to the land of fire, and their goals different life expectancy between Uzumaki and the other and much more. 

The talk lasted for a long time. 

The next days 

Akashi and his team consisting of Arima and, Karin were on the dock of the Skyport, saying goodbye to their respective families.

Ashina was giving instructions to his son hoping that he would behave in this mission, after all this time he was also a representative of the Uzumaki clan.

The same thing was happening with Karin who was given a few instructions by one of the old instructors taking care of her.

 "Unfortunately, you can no longer come with me, but don't worry, I will take care of everything flawlessly," Akashi said

"Yes yes, we know that everything will go well," Kana said pulling her son into a hug "Those old men are following you for a reason after all,"

Akashi looked behind at the businessmen and administrators, a few elders, and the hundreds of Samurais and ninjas waiting on the massive modern boats years ahead of their time.

Each of them had their roles, business negotiations with the official of the Daimyo to himself whose role was to be a representative and to establish a closer relationship with their nobles.

Well, time to go he said jumping into the boats in one move.

As the massive structure left Akashi was a little excited other than a few things such as the negotiations that had to be done by the professional, he was given nearly free reign of movement, of course, there was old man Kuroko who was there for protect, but he was the one in charge. 

It showed that he had the complete confidence of his parents. 

"I wonder how it is?! The land of fire, and Konoha, I wonder how long it will take to achieve all of my goals." he said with a wicked smile