UCHIHA JOURNEY TO MULTIVERSE

A dark curtain of clouds hung low above Konoha.

Inside the Hokage's private council room, no one spoke for a long minute.

Danzo finally broke the silence.

"They're alive. Village nurtured them and what they give back, killing three anbu and running with junchurki!! " Danzo said.

Sarutobi stared at the table. He didn't nod. He didn't argue.

Koharu tapped her finger on a folder. "Minato. Kushina. And the child. They are traitors, Hiruzen we have to capture them , otherwise any other village knew about this, it will become dangerous for us "

"The boy is the container of the Nine-Tails," said Homura flatly. "We have to act. Not just as a village… but for the entire Fire Nation, and what about chunin exam which were going to held "

"They didn't run," Shikaku muttered from the side. "They saw their child bullied for months, and left with 12 years child ."

Danzo didn't care. "They threatened stability. The boy is unstable, and if he falls into the wrong hands—"

"The weapon was sealed inside him by Minato himself," Homura said.

"And now he stole that same weapon," Danzo added. "Put him on the same level as a rogue tailed-beast smuggler."

Sarutobi finally raised his gaze.

"I'll do it."

Everyone looked at him.

"I... Will send my root to capture them"

Danzo's eyes were cold. "Post it to Fire Nation centers. And contact the black market informants."

Koharu agreed. "Pay them well. The bigger the bounty, the more reach we have."

Sarutobi stood. " Individual with yellow hair and red hair with 12 years brat. Alive or dead."

He didn't sit down again.

"They must not talk. That's what this is really about," Shikaku muttered.

Hyuga Hiashi said nothing but placed his hand over the report scroll. "We should have protected that child."

Later that same evening, a quiet shadow entered the empty hospital room. Kakashi had come alone.

He stepped inside and stood still.

Red. The color hit him first. Bright red, smeared in long lines across the lifted wall tiles.

A single message, written in thick strokes of fresh blood:

"Revenge will come. Be patient."

He wasn't sure why, but his hands started trembling.

He turned away from the wall… but the words stayed.

A nurse passed in the hallway. Two shinobi walked past whispering.

"They say the Fourth returned from the dead and stole the jinchūriki."

"Then vanished like a ghost."

"They were family, I think."

"Family or not, they're enemies now."

Kakashi's breath grew shallow.

He walked through the corridor, past the records room, and up to the roof without a word.

He stood at the edge of the building. Nobody was there.

"I didn't know," he whispered.

His voice cracked at the edges.

"I didn't know he was your son, Sensei."

He dropped to his knees.

"Why didn't I ask? Why didn't you tell me?"

His voice disappeared in the wind.

"Please don't abandon me again…"

Far away, above the Fire Nation river border, three people sat beside a small fire. Naruto still held a rice dumpling in both hands. He hadn't finished it yet.

"Mom?"

"Yes, baby?" Kushina looked down. Her hands brushed through his hair.

"Did I do something wrong?"

Kushina flinched. "No... Why would you say that?"

"They're chasing us. Doesn't that mean we were bad?"

Minato lowered his head.

"No," he said calmly. "It means they were afraid."

"Of me?"

Minato looked into his son's eyes.

"No," he repeated. "They were afraid of what you could become."

Kushina wiped Naruto's eyes gently. "You are a good boy. You didn't deserve what they did."

Naruto hugged her tightly without speaking again.

In Konoha, just past dawn, an old man in orange robes arrived—covered in dust and travel stains.

Jiraiya didn't smile as he entered. His presence made even ANBU straighten up.

He walked into the tower. Sarutobi sat alone, waiting.

"You found them," Jiraiya said sharply.

Sarutobi nodded once.

"You marked your own student as an S-rank target?"

Sarutobi didn't answer.

Jiraiya reached into his coat and threw a bounty print onto the desk.

Large letters:

WANTED – yellow hair and uzumaki clan and 12 year child knonoha traitors – Dead or Alive

Reward by Fire Daimyō

"I picked this up in Lightning Land. A kid had it posted near a vendor stand."

Sarutobi didn't pick up the paper.

"You didn't protect the boy," Jiraiya said. "You watched and did nothing."

"I couldn't stop the pressure from the Fire Court."

"I didn't ask about the Fire Court!" Jiraiya's voice didn't rise. But it hardened. "You sealed the Nine-Tails in your apprentice's child… then watched them fall apart."

Koharu arrived in time to hear only the last sentence.

"You still see him as your student?"

Jiraiya didn't even look at her.

"He's more than a student to me."

Sarutobi spoke again. "What will you do, Jiraiya?"

"I'll look for them."

Koharu scowled. "Will you bring them back?"

"No," Jiraiya said. "I'll ask him what he wants."

Hours later…

In a carefully guarded room, deep in the Lightning stronghold, Raikage ran his finger along the edge of a map.

Mali stood opposite him, arms crossed. Behind him, two of his own Mangekyō-wielding elders waited silently.

"Confirmed—Orochimaru and Sand will go loud in the first stage of the exam," Mali said. "Explosions, panic, confusion."

"And under the smoke?"

"We send fifteen infiltration teams." Mali tapped the map once.

"Five will raid Fire noble estates directly. Target: gold, data, clan scrolls, bloodline children."

Raikage grinned. "And the others?"

"The rest spread through the exam arena and key storage points. If anything goes south, we vanish fast."

Raikage leaned back. "Your people are serious."

"We don't fight for glory," Mali replied. "We fight for survival."

In the forest, the last logs of the campfire cracked and split.

Minato unfolded a crumpled flyer quietly. Even under weak firelight, he could still see his family's names.

It didn't hurt anymore.

It was just noise now.

He tucked it into his scroll pouch, beside a kunai.

"I'll teach him," he said to Kushina, softly, watching Naruto sleep. "More than they ever taught me. Not just jutsu... but how to stand."

She smiled. But it faded fast.

"Minato?"

"Yes?"

"If the world comes for us again…"

Minato didn't answer immediately.

"They'll meet all of us this time," he said. Calm. Not angry. Just ready.

Kushina closed her eyes. For now… they had peace.