(A/N) So, I was feeling the need for time travel, and more adorableness, and so this happened. Also, I went on a 'I must make up a culture and history' thing for Uzushiogakure, so I really wanted to display that, so yeah. If Mito's OOC, sorry, actually, scratch that, I'm not sorry in the slightest. We don't get much of her personality anyway, so there.

Mito woke up slowly, the sound of a forest filtering in through her ears, the dry taste of not having drunk water before she slept, the slight scent of decaying leaves topped with the scent of healthy ones, dappled patterns of light dancing across her closed eyes.

"Hey, lady, you alright? This isn't a good place to sleep," a kid, young, perhaps five. No slight rasp that would've already been there if he'd been an Uchiha, not that they would have a five-year-old out on patrol.

Mito finally managed to properly open her eyes, finding a small yellow-haired child with blond hair leaning over her. She blinked up at him, and he smiled brilliantly. She gently smiled back, noting the lack of baby fat on a face with three whisker-like markings, or were they scratches? Either way, a sure sign of lack of food for extended periods of time. Baby fat was not easily lost, and she was very dismayed at what that implied. "Hello child," she replied gently.

"Uh, yeah, hello and all, but this still isn't a good place to sleep. S'mthin might eat you!"

Mito managed to sit up, sensing the barest traces of chakra in her system. She'd be wiped out for a while more, unable to perform any jutsu. Well, maybe she could do the clone jutsu now, for once in her life. Being an Uzumaki meant she was pretty much guaranteed to never do a standard clone. Tobirama's shadow clone, however, was easy as pie. "What do you mean something might eat me?"

"Well, the crazy snake lady said there are big thingies in here that wanna eat people! I've never seen one though," he added the last bit as almost an afterthought.

Mito frowned, extending her senses a bit. The guppy, something Uzushio's people tended to call their children, had a lot of chakra for someone his age. Heck, he had a lot of chakra for people twice, or maybe even three times his age. "Guppy, what's your name?"

"Naruto Uzumaki!" the guppy chirped, grin dimming a little as if he expected a negative response.

Mito blinked. Oh, that explained the large amounts of chakra, but there was something else, something not quite there, but still quite influential. She was not as good of a sensor as Tobirama, but she could sense the Kyuubi in the child. An impressive seal indeed to hide the creature from even her.

Apparently emboldened by her lack of a negative response, the guppy forged ahead. "What's a guppy?"

Mito's expression changed into horror. The guppy, an Uzumaki child, didn't know what a guppy was? "It's a baby fish."

Naruto tilted his head cutely. "Why'd you call me a fish?"

Mito composed her expression, forcing a soft smile onto her face to hide the horror, and wish to go strangle Hiruzen, who'd clearly left the guppy on his own. That teenaged brat would know her fury for this. "It's a fond nickname the Uzumaki use for their children."

Naruto wrinkled his nose, confusion was written across his face. "There are more Uzumaki?"

Mito was taken aback. "Guppy, where are we?"

"In Konoha!" Came the bright reply.

Mito spread her senses just a bit, finding that it was her husband's chakra in the trees, marking this spot as one of the many parks he'd set up. Why would it be dangerous, her husband wasn't exactly fond of putting people in danger. "Who's the Hokage?"

"Jiji!"

Mito frowned. "What's their name?"

Naruto shrugged. "I dunno, I forgot. I've always called him jiji."

Mito frowned deeper. "Would his name be Sarutobi Hiruzen?"

Naruto squinted and tilted his head. "I think? Maybe?"

Mito narrowed her eyes. "Come guppy, I believe I need to have a chat with your Hokage. A very long chat."

"What's your name?" Naruto asked, blinking up at her innocently.

"Mito Uzumaki," she told him kindly, smiling at him. She stood up, brushing her robes off. Idly she noticed her hair had come undone and was now cascading down her back in a stunning shower of bright red.

Naruto smiled back, bright as the sun itself. "Are you related to me?"

"Possibly, I will have to check with Hiruzen to make sure," Mito allowed. "If you must, you may call me nee-chan."

Naruto beamed, offering her two of her three clips, one of her hairpins, along with the mostly ornamental golden crest that actually hid her fuuinjutsu supplies. She clipped her bangs back with the clips, tied the crest around her waist, and stuck the hairpin in a hidden pocket in her right sleeve.

"Come guppy," Mito commanded. "Do you know the way out?"

Naruto nodded happily. "This way!" He led her out, ducking between trees, jumping over the occasional log, and generally being a child. Mito followed and watched him fondly. Her children were no longer this small, hadn't been for a while, they'd been self-sufficient for what felt like ages, doing missions, and generally earning their own keep.

They got out of the park soon enough, and Mito narrowed her eyes at the rock face that had been empty last time she saw it. "There are four faces up there."

"Yeah, the Fourth Hokage died fighting the fox. He's a hero! I wanna be just like him!" Naruto beamed at the monument. "I'm gonna be Hokage, believe it!"

Mito smiled kindly at him. "I'm sure you will."

He looked taken aback as if no one had told him he could be Hokage.

"Come along, guppy, let us find your Jiji," Mito moved off with a slight rustle of her robes. Naruto quickly moved up beside her, holding tentatively onto her sleeve. She permitted it, knowing that the guppy needed the extra reassurance.

As they walked through the village, Mito got a lot of odd looks, and the guppy got looks of hatred and disgust. A quarter of the way to the Hokage's Tower, Mito bent down and scooped Naruto up in a single motion, bringing him up to rest on her hip, almost half hidden by her hair, which she hadn't bothered to try pulling up again. He didn't protest, just held onto the collar of her kimono. She would probably have to exchange it for something that leaned more towards mission wear, as that seemed to be what most people favored.

She made her way into the Hokage's office, keeping her head high, and wrapping Naruto in a protective blanket of chakra that kept him from sensing the pointed blasts of killing intent and powerful chakra that let her into the tower. No one was with Hiruzen at the moment, except for what she assumed was ANBU, at least not what her rapidly improving senses told her. She opted to storm right into his office, hair lifting slightly around her head and waving in an imaginary wind. Which reminded her why she usually had her hair up. Women from the Hogo Uzu branch of the Uzumaki clan were notorious for their bloody red hair, powerful chakra, and how their hair seemed to act of its own accord when they were angry.

Hiruzen looked up as the door crashed open, and Mito was happy to see the horrified look spread across his face before it was carefully hidden. The ANBU were clearly going to try and protect Hiruzen, but she quickly eliminated any thoughts of that with heavy oppressive chakra and killing intent together. Naruto she left wrapped in calm chakra, keeping him in his own little bubble, immune to anything happening outside.

"Hiruzen Sarutobi, you have a lot of talking to do," Mito said, dangerously low. She switched her attention to Naruto for a moment. "Guppy, I'm going to have some very strong words with your Jiji. I can make it so you can't hear it, would you like me to do that?"

Hiruzen seemed to only now recognize that she had Naruto balanced on her hip. One of the ANBU, a Hatake, if her sensing of his chakra was right, defied all logic, and jumped down, making a move for Naruto before she stopped him with a very pointed glare that had him freezing in place again.

Naruto shook his head, burying his face in the shoulder of her kimono. "No, I'll hear."

Mito smiled softly at him. So much like her husband, and it was adorable. She turned back to Hiruzen, and the fierce kunoichi she had never stopped being was back to the surface. "Sarutobi, you are in so much trouble. Why was an Uzumaki kid, and a Hogo Uzu one at that, if Tobirama's teachings about sensing bloodlines, clans, and relatives through chakra is correct. The guppy should be in Uzushio. Why isn't he?"

Hiruzen gulped. "Well, Mito-sama, you see, Uzu was destroyed at the beginning of the Second Shinobi World War."

Mito raised an eyebrow. "Did you not assist them?"

Hiruzen winced, it was clear he did not want to talk about it. "We didn't get the news until it was all over. There was nothing we could do."

Mito glared daggers at him. "I am of half a mind to take Naru-chan here there myself, as most of the seals will most likely be active, and we would be safe there."

Distress started rolling in the Hatake's chakra. Good, the emotion-sensing part of her sensing was coming back. He clearly wasn't saying anything, but Mito could tell he wanted to.

Hiruzen stared at the guppy as though he wished he had been deafened. "You can't do that, Mito-sama."

"Oh? And why's that, Hiruzen-kun?" She placed sarcastic emphasis on the suffix, and he winced. "I'm in my prime, you clearly are not. Clearly, you can't force me. Was there something about the guppy you don't want him hearing?" She was absolutely smashing any calm and dignified air she'd put up before, but right now, she just didn't care. The guppy was clearly alone, and not doing well. That calm and dignified persona had been at least partially to counter Hashirama's boisterous cheer anyway.

Hiruzen actually winced this time, distress, a sense of 'she's right', and fear running through his chakra. The Hatake twitched, distress tainting his normally white chakra a darker color.

(A/N) I like the Zoo. We went to the Zoo today. Also, it's Danzo's birthday today, so do what you wish with that. Curse his name, celebrate, I don't care. Either way, HIIII!