A/N: I am terribly sorry for the way to long delay, I had plans on updating a LOT sooner, but other things (such as tests in school and writers block) came up... /

I also apologise for the fact that the chapter isn't longer, despite the delay.

It is something… unnerving about seeing grown men cry. And I don't mean fake crying like uncle Gai does all the time (though that is disturbing as well) but real, sad crying.

I it gets even worse when it's a great, historic hero doing it.

We all stood there, perhaps a block or two away from uncle Gai's apartment and watched the Hokage cry. It was strange, okay, most of what I've written down so far has been strange, and it will be kind of strange later on as well, but anyway, he just cried with one of his eyes.

Oh, of course, sorry. Tsunade just told me that perhaps I should tell you the reason why he started to cry. Or, what happened before.

We had left Gai's apartment at maybe ten in the morning, heading to my and Naruto's place. We had decided to tell our parents where we'd really been and what happened and then ask if the Hokage could stay with us for a while – we do have a big guest room. We had asked the Hokage if he'd prefer to stay at uncle Gai's place or with us, since our 'uncle' had also offered to house him. He had then said that Gai would drive him nuts and besides, the small apartment is hardly large enough to house two people for a period longer than a day or two. Of course it could be done, but I think the Hokage, after sitting (as stone…) at a hard floor for more than a hundred years would prefer a real bed before Gai's too short and not very comfortable couch.

Most people had already gone off to work and there was not many people seen out in the streets. While we walked, the Hokage started to look like he'd come to think of something. After a short while he said that he'd like to try something and stopped. We all looked at him in interest, maaaybe he'd do something very cool and Hokage-ish.

He pulled out a kunai and made a small slice in his thumb – which has to be one of the most stupid places to cut yourself in. I mean, you use your thumb for like everything, and the cut probably reopens really easy and everything you do must hurt. And still, the thumb or palm is the place were people (in movies and stuff, at least) cut themselves most.

Before any of us really had time to react he slammed his hand into the ground and a puff of thick, white smoke appeared. The smoke disappeared in a moment and left sat a small black pug.

We just gaped. The dog narrowed its eyes at the Hokage.

"Who are you and how have you gotten a hold of this contract?" the dog snapped. I felt like screaming something in the lines of 'WAAAAAH!! IT'S TALKING! IT'S TALKING!'. I didn't. I would have expected the first one to talk to be Naruto or Obito, instead, it was Sasuke.

"Did that dog just talk?" he asked, and he sounded a bit shocked, which for Sasuke is equivalent of screaming what I just wrote above. The pug averted it's stare from the Rokudaime to Sasuke.

"Of course I talk, Uchiha", the dog said in an annoyed voice. Sasuke looked even more shocked, a look that looks really stupid on his face. The dog turned back to the Hokage, who had opened his eye fully; I guess that in a normal person it matches an expression where the eyes look like they're about to pop out of their sockets. "You still haven't answered my question", the pug stated.

"Where's Pakkun?" the Hokage asked. He sounded lost. And small. It didn't match him, or his title. I realized that he so far hadn't done much very Hokage-y stuff, but he still had an air of authority that couldn't be questioned. But in that single moment, that authority wavered, and he seemed more like a scared child than anything else.

"I am Pakkun."

"No, you're not. Where's the real Pakkun, my Pakkun?" the dog narrowed its eyes again.

"Are you talking about the first Pakkun?" The Hokage looked confused. "I am Pakkun the third, the first Pakkun was my ancestor and the companion of the Rokudaime Hokage, the great last of the Hatakes himself." The Hokage looked faint.

"Was?" he asked with a weak voice. The pug put his head to the side.

"He died well over a hundred-and-twenty years ago", Pakkun the third provided.

I think that was when reality finally caught up with the Hokage. He knew what had happened before this, of course, but this was when the consequences really hit him. His whole body started to shake and he sunk to his knees on the asphalted sidewalk. He pulled his hitae-ate off and held it in his hands. Tears streamed from his left eye, the famous sharingan, down his cheek, making his dark blue mask almost black on the left side, as he stared straight out in front if him.

Sasuke and Obito stared at his eye with something looking quite a lot like morbid fascination. They both do have Uchiha blood and I know that pretty much their whole lives they've both dreamed about activating sharingans of their own. Sasuke's more likely to succeed though, not only is he more 'pureblood' Uchiha than Obito, but he's also trained martial arts pretty much his whole life

The creepiest thing was that Obito's left eye cried as well. He didn't seem to notice. It cried blood.

A few hours later we left the hospital, and the very confused hospital staff, to continue back to mine and Naruto's place. Apparently no one in the entire Konoha medical centre (which is the name of the hospital…) could figure out what had made Obito cry blood, anyone would guess that there was something wrong, but even the best doctors in the whole land of fire didn't get it.

And Obito had barely noticed, his eyesight was fine and it didn't hurt, the weird feeling that had made him rub his eye so much was gone for the moment. Perhaps that was what made him cry, I mean, he had practically squashed his eye constantly for the last… uhm… many hours. That's weird, I mean, his eye was all fine, according to the doctors, but come on. There had to be something wrong with it if he kept almost digging it out and squashing it and then cried blood.

The doctors had made Obito promise that he'd go right back home and rest for the rest of the day, since they hadn't been able to get hold of his parents (his mom was in an important meeting and his dad was on a business trip to Mist). Obito had protested, and eventually one of the nurses decided to follow him home.

When we got out of the hospital and started to walk again the Hokage returned, he'd been waiting outside, and managed to not attract too much attention. Either he hid or people just ignored the strange way he looked. Probably the latter, he didn't look like he'd been hiding, and there is a mental institution for 'the psychologically challenged' – as Tsunade calls it, anyone seeing him would probably guess that there's where he came from. They probably have a whole floor reserved for uncle Gai at that place.

He seemed to have recovered a bit since the 'Pakkun' thing and was now reading his romance novel again. I don't get how he managed to read and walk at the same time. I'd trip in a second. After maybe a minute or so he looked up from the book.

"Where did Obito go?" he asked. Ino explained what had happened at the hospital and the Hokage looked thoughtful, then he gave a one shouldered shrug and continued to read.

"Heeeey…" Naruto said slowly. "How could the dog know that Sasuke was an Uchiha?" We all (not Ino, she stared at the clouds) looked at the Hokage, I realized that it was kind of weird that the dog knew his family name, I'm pretty sure it had never seen him before. The Hokage flipped a page.

"He does look like a typical Uchiha", the Rokudaime said calmly. "But it was probably the smell."

"The smell?" Naruto asked and looked at Sasuke. "You smell?" he made a very funny face and leaned away from his friend. "Eeeeeew!"

Sasuke just rolled his eyes.

"Everyone smells, Naruto", he said and smirked.

"Exactly", the Hokage said absently. "And especially the greater clans, or, what used to be the greater clans, I guess – those with kekkai genkais, all have quite distinctive scents to them", he gave a nod towards Ino. "She is definitely Nara, Obito and Sasuke very much smells like Uchihas and that guy", he inclined his head towards a fat guy walking on the other side of the street, "Is Akimichi."

"What about us?" Naruto asked in an exited voice.

"Yeah, do we smell like we belong to any big clans?" I added. It would be so cool if we were, since we never knew any of our biological family.

"No", the Hokage said and both our faces fell. Then he made our day, or maybe month. "But the Uzumaki and Namikaze clans were never any big." Naruto and I looked at each other and started to scream and jump and run around like crazy. Sasuke looked shocked, again, that has to be a record, more than one time in a single day! The Hokage just smiled, or, Ino said that the Hokage just smiled. I didn't really see it; I was too busy being happy that I smelled like my greatest idol. That sounds pretty weird… anyway, y'know that that might mean that we're related, right?

A short while later the four of us - Ino had decided that it was to troublesome to hang around, she probably knew that we were going to get yelled at, stopped outside the Rock family's house, the place where I, Naruto, Tsunade and our parents lived, if you hadn't figured that out yet.

We decided that no one but I and Naruto should go inside alone first, to like… slowly drop the news I guess. We didn't want our mom to freak, after all.

We didn't even have time to go up all the steps (there are like, two) to the front door before it was slammed open and Mom came running out. We later found out that Uncle Gai had already called her and in a not so sensitive way told her everything mixed with exited cries of happiness.

I can't really write down what she yelled, 'cause I don't remember it, but trust me – our Mom is good at yelling. It's easy to see (or actually hear…) from where Tsunade's inherited her vocal resources

Mom's rant kept going for another five minutes or so before it stopped – that is a very good thing about our mother, she has her yelling attack, then rant and then it's over, she doesn't hold a grudge and has practically never really punished us hard. And she still managed to raise us into (somewhat) normal people.

When said rant was over she immediately hurried over to the Hokage, who had just raised his eyebrow when the door burst open, and then gotten back to his book.

"I apologise, Hokage-sama, for my outburst," she said with a bow. "You are very welcome to stay in our house for as long as you like." She threw his book a disapproving look (hey! That rhymed!), and he put it away with a sheepish smile – I think that's what it was, before he thanked her. Mom confirmed that Sasuke was staying at our place for dinner and we all went inside.

We gave the Hokage a tour of the house – the living room (he seemed quite interested in our flat, widescreen TV), the kitchen where Mom was already starting dinner, the downstairs bathroom (interesting, huh?) and moved up to the second floor. We simply pointed out which door led to Tsunade's and our parents' bedrooms, showed him mine and Naruto's room (yeah, we share, it's not like we need separate rooms or anything, since were always together, and barely ever inside anyways), for reasons I'm pretty sure we all can understand, he refused to touch the Akatsuki computer. By now we were all pretty bored with this tour (and you probably are too…) so we simply pointed out the upstairs bathroom and the guestroom in which he'd be staying. He didn't seem too interested so we all went downstairs again and watched an old ninja-movie about the journey of a genin team destined to save the world. It is actually a pretty lame movie, but it's funny and the Hokage seemed to enjoy it.

Later, when the whole family was gathered for dinner and introductions had been made, Mom brought up the question of rent. What can I say? Our Mom is greedy. And I was really ashamed, come on? Who asks the great leader and hero of the village to pay to stay their house? And as it were, we were practically the only ones who knew who he was, and he'd probably be forced to pay more at any other place, if they'd even let him in – considering he always keeps his face covered. Though I suppose Uncle Gai would probably let him.

The Hokage paled a bit.

"I'm going to have to get a job, won't I?"