Note: I am still continuing my 'Parenting 101' story, I'm just uploading this along with it since I got the motivation for it. Updates for that story will continue as usual. Edited ages in this story as well. Takes place a few months after the Uchiha massacre.

Sasuke- 6

Naruto- 6

Gaara- 6

Hinata- 5

Neji- 8

Itachi- 15

Deidara- 15

Kisame- 17

Pain- 35

Konan- 35

Sasori- 24

Other ages remain the same. Thanks to all for reading, please review with any constructive criticism or tell me how you're liking it if you wish.

Note: I do not own Naruto

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The entire Akatsuki sat, lined up on the couch in their hideout. They all shared similar looks of skepticism, hell, even Itachi didn't seem to think this was a good idea. After all, they were a group of S-Class criminals. How could she possibly think this was a good idea? Tobi, of course, was the first to speak, excited. "Tobi loves children! Children love Tobi too!"

"Wouldn't all the...ya know...murder be a bad influence on the kid? Not to mention it would be easy enough for them to leak information of the Akatsuki by accident. Kids aren't too good about being quiet when it comes to this sort of thing." Sasori noted, looking up to their leaders.

Itachi nodded slightly, not liking the idea of bringing children up in such an environment. "Yes, will all due respect Pain, this could do serious damage to a child's mind. Plus children are much easier to manipulate than one of us. I would not put the seven nations above torturing children for information."

His shark partner nodded, rolling his neck tiredly. "Yeah, I wouldn't put it above us not to hurt the kid either. Not all of the members have as good of restraint as Itachi. You know our tempers can be wild." he pointed out. "Not to mention it would be easy enough for one of us to accidentally them as it is. Then if we didn't hurt them, the giant shark or mutated hands might scare them enough for them to go into panic themselves."

Hearing the mutated point Deidara glared heavily at Kisame "My hand's aren't mutated! They're amazing, and I bet a kid would be able to see that. I'm all for the kid thing because for once I have to agree with Tobi. Kids love me." he smirked.

Kakuzu growled lightly, leaning back on the couch "You only say that because you are a child, Deidara. And like you most children are noisy, messy, and above all else, expensive. This would cut into not only our time for Akatsuki base missions but also our time for our free time where we earn most of our own cash." frowning heavily.

Deidara glared at the man, about to say something when Hidan grinned "The kid won't be scared of death once they learn of my god's greatness! They can become worshipers of Jashin with me! They'd love it." he grinned. The other's sweatdropped, and the look on Konan's face told him he wouldn't be working on the kid's conversion under their watch. Hidan pouted, slumping back in his chair "Fine, fine, but if the brat gets into it on its own then I won't be at fault."

Zetsu said nothing for a moment before agreeing "Perhaps it would be good to have a child around. if half the Akatsuki agrees at first glance, it can't do any harm." going along with his carefree side as he spoke. After all, he figured if worse came to worse they were all extremely powerful ninja. Why wouldn't they be able to help the kid if it got into trouble with the other nations?

Konan smiled thinly to Pain "See, only four against it. Add us in and that makes six for it. So I guess that settles that." glancing over at the four disagreeing members and offering a warning smile "And if they don't like it, they're free to leave."

Itachi shook his head, agreeing with them easily. After all, he had a mission to think of. He hadn't been their long, and he knew Danzo would have his head if he returned so soon as a failure. Kakuzu slowly agreed, not ready to let go of the good money he made as a member of the Akatsuki.

Sasori sighed in annoyance but agreed. He didn't want to be kicked out as it would really be more trouble than it was worth. The Akatsuki gave him food and a roof over his head, so why worry about the fate of a kid. That, and he had to admit he knew the pain of losing your parents wasn't easy. Kisame nodded slowly, figuring at least it would be interesting this way.

Pain nodded in confirmation, "Alright. So this means we need to find a kid now. Konan and I have found the perfect match, and everyone besides Itachi will most likely be fine with this. Itachi, you'll get past it eventually. Hopefully, you'll be reasonable about this." he glanced at the ravenette for a moment before turning to the others.

"Sasuke Uchiha. He won't be affected by the killing as much due to him seeing his entire family dead. He can keep things quiet as he is an Uchiha, and Uchiha are known to be about how Itachi is. Itachi is the prime example of everything an Uchiha is. Intelligent, quiet, brave, strong, and mature from a young age." he explained. "He is Itachi's younger brother, the only living Uchiha besides Itachi that we know of." not mentioning Tobi for obvious reasons.

Deidara gave a loud whine "No, not another Uchiha! If the kid is anything like his brother he'll just be a snot-nosed, arrogant, bastard!" he objected, Itachi reaching over on reflex to knock Deidara over the head lightly. The teen glared at the other, "Well it's true!" he pointed out.

Rolling his eyes lightly, Itachi corrected "Arrogance is not a trait of the Uchiha, it's a trait of the foolish. Much like yourself." glancing at Pain and Konan "If you truly believe this is for the best, I understand. Though, you seem to be misunderstanding what he will be like." he corrected lightly.

The leader gave an interested look, motioning for him continue. "What you say is true, but only of first-born Uchiha. Second born Uchiha tend to be much different as they are raised for different purposes. Firstborn are raised to become powerful shinobi, and second born and on are raised as spares. In the Uchiha clan, you need to swap eyes with a close relative to gain strong visual power and unlock a special technique for the Sharingan."

Even though he had to sound casual about mistreating his brother to keep up his cover, he still felt terrible. But he knew this would help his case to get Sasuke away. "For years parents went after the eyes of their children and vise versa, siblings after each other, even cousins would spill each other's blood in the rare hopes of getting this power at the cost of a loved one's life. So eventually the clan stopped treating second born as children. They are trained to be ready to give blood, eyes, or even their lives for firstborns from birth on."

Unfortunately, Itachi didn't speak of lies either. Hence their father's distaste for Sasuke and their mother's slight coddling. "So you'd be receiving a boy who is severely underdeveloped in all ninja skills as well as most likely broken mentally. He wasn't raised to deal with what happened. That or now that our clan is dead he'd do a 360 and become a power hungry demon now that he has no one to serve."

There was complete silence for a moment before Deidara spoke "Fuck, I knew the Uchiha were cold but that's just brutal man." the others agreeing with Deidara for once. Itachi mentally facepalmed as he saw Konan, even more, determined to get Sasuke now.

"Then we will take whatever he has become. All the more reason to pick him, he's one of the few people who could heal you if your eyes go further down the road they are taking. If you Uchiha would grow up and just do a medical eye swap then no lives would be wasted at all." she pointed out with a light scold.

Well, Itachi couldn't disagree there. He had pointed this out to his father a number of times, actually. "Well, that is true." he frowned. He knew there was now no changing her mind, and he would have to live with it. Hopefully, he could change his plans a bit.

Pain glanced around "Itachi, Kisame, Tobi, and Konan. You four will go, treat this as any other mission. Konan is in charge." he narrowed his eyes "Any insubordination will be punished severely." figuring it couldn't hurt to make Konan happy. How hard could one kid be?

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Sasuke was sitting in the park, using his kunai to draw pictures in the sand. His recent friend, Gaara, sat beside him. Gaara was using his own sand to make faces in the sand, much to Sasuke's amusement. The six-year-old watched as four figures came closer, quickly able to realize they were coming directly towards them. Gaara began to look nervous as they came closer, a female kneeling down to smile at them.

The Akatsuki members were all disguised, but Sasuke quickly felt his older brother's chakra and leaped to his feet as they approached, trying to motion Gaara along with him. Konan reached out, however, taking hold of Sasuke's sleeve lightly. "Hey there, you must be little Sasuke?" she greeted warmly.

She was surprised however as the sand from the box quickly moved up to wrap around her arm in a crushing grip. The sand easily went through the paper, but she still had not been expecting it. She glanced over at the now frightened redheaded boy, whose eyes welled up and sand began attacking Konan's paper body. "Let go of him!" he demanded, clutching his bear tightly to himself.

Tobi moved closer, feeling the chakra of the one-tailed beast and becoming interested "Ooo~ We have a scary little monster here don't we?" he playfully spoke. The slight widening of Gaara's eyes did not go unmissed by the Akatsuki as the six-year-old's sand circled Tobi's body, attempting to squeeze him to death.

Tobi actually chocked for a moment before Naruto ran over. The blonde looked at Gaara, raising a hand and pointing to him "No Gaara! No attacking with your sand, you're in control, remember?" the child instructed fiercely, leading Gaara's sand to loosen before falling completely. The tears had sprung up by now and Gaara pointed at Tobi "But he...he...called me a.. and she touched...Sasuke..."

Naruto immediately understood and stormed towards Tobi, hand on his hips. Tobi also sensed the chakra of the ninetails, and became twice as interested as the little blonde barked "You all better get out of here, or else!" he warned, though none of the older ninjas seemed impressed.

Tobi broke the slowly creeping silence as he pointed to the two tailed beast holders "Konan! We should take them with us too, they look like fun!" he hummed, giving the underlying order Konan wasn't expecting.

Konan glanced at him with an unsure look "We can't just take them away from their parents, Tobi. People would come looking." she pointed out lightly. "we agreed on Sasuke because he wouldn't be missed. It's dangerous to up and take two children. Who knows how powerful their families are. Especially the one with the sand." she argued.

Itachi by now had gone over to pick Sasuke up in his arms, the child too scared to make any noise. Kisame noted "Well, actually the blonde kid is kind of one of the most known orphans. His parent's died of...special circumstances." glancing at the blonde "I'll even tell you who they are if you don't try to run. Though you are right Konan, the kid with the sand does belong to a powerful bloodline. Son of the Kazekage. The man ordered me to kill his son once. The kid nearly ripped me to shreds with that sand of his. After a few tries, I said fuck it and got bored." the shark waved it off.

Konan quickly turned around to look at Kisame "His father did what?" she asked. She took a moment to process it before shaking her head "Okay fine Tobi, fine. But we have to hurry before anyone else sees us. It isn't safe to be out in the open like this." she sighed. Tobi giggled, opening his arms and motioning for the child to follow.

Gaara slowly stood up, inching his way towards the man but keeping his sand up just in case. He ended up standing beside Konan, finding her chakra to be less threatening than Tobi's. He looked up at her slowly "Sasuke and Naruto will be there too?" he asked quietly, holding his toy close to him. Konan smiled and nodded. They soon all headed off, towards the exit of the village through the back.

They got a few glances, but as they had changed their appearances no one took great notice of them. That, or they simply didn't care. After all the great nations weren't exactly known for being protective of their orphans or children for that matter.

Their attention was pulled away from the gate when they heard a small clearing of the throat. Their attention turned to a little girl with dark blue hair. She was fidgeting with her fingers, and they could tell easily she was nervous. She seemed to force the words out "Where are y-you going with N-Naruto?" she asked, and they could easily see the girl's silver eyes and identify her as a member of the Hyuuga clan.

Beside her was a boy a bit older, arms crossed and head held higher in pride. He wore a band around his head, and of the four ninjas, only Itachi knew what it meant. After all, the Hyuuga clan didn't go around shoving the fact they enslaved their own kin in others faces. Itachi only knew due to the close relations of the Hyuuga and Uchiha. Sasuke by now had come to his senses and was beginning to squirm in his brothers hold. "Let go!" the younger growled.

The boy from the Hyuuga clan spoke, voice full of authority. "I am Neji Hyuuga, and this is Lady Hinata. By order of the Hyuuga clan and the village, let them go." he demanded calmly, hand in front of his nervous cousin. Naruto looked confused, not sure why Neji and Hinata were so against them going with the men and woman.

Itachi sighed and tossed his brother unceremoniously towards Kisame who caught the kicking boy without any troubles. All the other Akatsuki members were surprised by Itachi's gentle but strong voice as he spoke "I know who you two are. It's been quite some time since I saw you two though, Lady Hinata was just a baby at the time." he smiled "I also know that order holds no influence over us for two reasons. One, we aren't from your village. Two, you aren't a member of the head household."

The eight-year-olds face flustered with embarrassment, glaring at the teen "I don't care if I know you or not! Let Naruto and the others go. Or I'll tell my uncle. He'll have you caught by dawn." he spoke despite the terror of being outnumbered and overpowered.

Itachi by now had moved to stand just in front of the two Hyuuga children, the girl shyly moving back. Itachi reached down and slide the boy's headband down, revealing his seal mark. The brunette's hands flew up to hide it in shame, but Itachi easily caught the smaller hands. He leaned in slightly to look at the prodigy "Will he now? I presume you'll be ready to be laying sick in bed with a headache while all this happens too then. I know how your uncle is. He'll use this as a reason to activate your seal, won't he? After all, you didn't fulfill your master's wishes, nor did you stop her from running face first towards a group of deadly S-Class criminals."

The boy's eyes widened slightly, tugging away from Itachi. He hated to admit it, but Itachi was right. His uncle would activate it for minutes on end for allowing her to go into such danger. Not to mention she would be severely punished and forced to pack on more training for months.

Itachi's eyes now gentled "Now, how about you two come with us. That way you don't have to worry about being punished any more and Lady Hinata can live without all that terrible stress and her father's mistreatment. Then it'll be best for your clan too since your uncle can focus on her younger sister to become heiress freely." he suggested.

Konan went wide-eyed "Itachi! Pain is already going to react badly to two extra children, but four? We really shouldn't do this." she scolded quickly, not sure she could handle five children anyways. That, and she would at least like to be asked first.

The older Uchiha glanced back "Would you rather us kill them, Konan? We can't let the information leak. So it takes them with or we kill these two. Which would create chaos in the village, and both being from the Hyuuga, risks Konoha thinking it was another village or clan. Leading to war." he warned coldly.

The purple haired girl hesitated, sighing heavily and nodding in agreeance. She didn't want war, nor to kill innocent children. Sasuke had calmed down by now, though he still clutched the Akatsuki coat of Kisame with a slight shake of fear. He was too smart for his own good much like Neji, not knowing what the criminals wanted with them. Naruto gave a clueless look, not understanding Neji's fear and busy focusing on the fact his parents would soon be revealed.

Gaara looked nervous but didn't want to send his only two friends to their deaths alone or without help. Neji was nervous as well with Gaara, not willing to sacrifice Hinata's life despite his growing resentment to her side of the family. The promise of not having his brain abused was also an added hope. Hinata slowly inched towards Itachi, who lifted the little girl up in his arms. Neji slowly moved to stand beside Itachi, nerves hidden as he walked by the teen back to Konan. The woman sighed, this would be fun to explain to Pain.