(A/N) I have figured out what movie! The second one will be Lion King! Just have to figure out what quote to use… Also, anyone remember my entire spiel about the stars in… uhh… whatever chapter it was? Yeah that comes back into play. I'm not one to forget details after all. Especially not after rereading that chapter to remember how long I said it took them to reach Uzushio.

"Trust me, they'll be safe with me," Mito assured Mikoto.

"Oh, that I trust," Mikoto agreed, huffing. "It's Sasuke's obedience I don't trust."

Mito chuckled, patting Mikoto's shoulder. "I can handle rowdy children. Do you forget who my husband was?"

Mikoto snorted. "Right. I suppose you'll be just fine then."

Mito just smiled, absently tugging on one of Naruto's backpack straps as he passed her. "Don't keep your backpack straps that loose unless you want to lose it, Naruto."

"Sorry Kaa-san!" Naruto shouted, racing for Sasuke, who wasn't paying attention, and was about to get ambushed by an over excited Naruto.

True to her prediction, Sasuke was not expecting the surprise hug from behind, and stumbled, attempting to hit Naruto automatically before realizing who it was.

"Naruto!" He sounded so affronted that Mito had to laugh. "Don't do that!"

"Sorry!"

"He doesn't sound very sorry," Mikoto noted, holding a hand up to her mouth to hide the smile.

"Of course not," Mito replied, shaking her head. "He's never sorry when it comes to surprise ambushes."

"Well, I should probably let you go," Mikoto said, stepping back. "You have a long way to go before you reach Uzushio after all."

"We'll stop halfway there like we did last time," Mito agreed. "But we should get going as soon as possible. I'll mobilize the boys. Have a good day, Mikoto."

"Have a safe trip Mito," Mikoto replied, before turning to the children. "Sasuke! Come over here and say goodbye to me!"

Sasuke shook Naruto loose, and hurried over to hug his mom. "Goodbye Mom."

"Goodbye Sasuke," Mikoto said, patting his head.

He turned and ran back to Naruto, likely intending to start a fight.

"I'll handle them," Mito assured Mikoto one more time before striding over to interrupt their impromptu wrestling match. "That is quite enough, you two, we need to go, we're losing daylight."

They separated reluctantly, still glaring at each other. She strode between them, and Naruto quickly ran to catch up with her once he noticed she'd continued walking.

"Are we stopping midway through again, Kaa-san?" He asked, running up beside her.

"Yes we are Naruto," Mito agreed, noticing ROOT agents from the corner of her eye. She quickly activated her sensing field. Yep, four ROOT agents were trailing them. She'd have to dispose of them as soon as they stopped for the night and Sasuke and Naruto fell asleep.

"Right, right, so can we pleeeaaaaase show Sasuke how cool the constellations are!? He refuses to believe there are pictures in the sky! And we can't see them in Konoha!"

Mito stifled chuckles. "Alright, but we can't see most of them properly until we pass the alarm seals halfway there. And there's a full week of traveling ahead of us."

That night, once the boys were asleep, Mito left the camp, hunting down a rabbit quickly for the next morning, then sealing it away, pausing in the clearing.

Without warning, she lunged for one of the ROOT signatures in the trees around her, easily slapping a paralysis seal on him. She would not stand for a tail, especially not to Uzushio. She was fast, she could easily drop the agents in the path of an ANBU patrol and be back before sunrise. The second one went down just as quickly, still somewhat frozen in surprise. The third put up more of a fight, but was dispatched quickly.

Fourth appeared to be slightly more skilled, and met her tanto with one of their own. A quick exchange and the ROOT shinobi was dead.

Mito cleaned her blade of blood with a spare piece of cloth, already stained with blood. That shinobi would still be dropped off with the others, an easy warning to Danzo. She sheathed the tanto, sliding it back into its scroll.

The four shinobi went into scrolls next, Mito sliding those scrolls into her sleeve storage seal, then racing through the forest, stretching out her senses to find where a Konoha patrol was, calculating where they'd end up.

Upon reaching the appointed area, she not so carefully dumped the four shinobi in a heap, then carefully wrote out a note for the shinobi who would pick up the ROOT agents.

With that complete, she slid back to the camp, remaining on watch for the rest of the night. She could survive without any sleep. She had done it many times before, and could do it again.

Naruto, as was usual with him, somehow managed to tell she hadn't slept that night. "You good Kaa-san?"

Mito smiled, patting his head. "I just had something to take care of. Nothing for you to worry about, I'll be just fine."

Naruto eyed her for a moment, he really was getting so big, then nodded, going back to helping pack up their camp.

He really was growing up too fast, Mito reflected. In three years he'd be a genin. Speaking of which, she needed to remember to have Hiruzen set her up as an active jounin in the next year or two. It wouldn't do for her to not have anything to do while Naruto was off running missions. And she couldn't possibly let her skills get rusty. That certainly wouldn't do.

"Are we past the alarm seals yet?" Naruto asked, for perhaps the fourth time that morning.

"Not yet," Mito replied calmly, having said the same thing the last four times he asked. "Soon though. You'll be able to tell when we pass it, trust me Naruto."

"Why are you so excited to be past them anyway?" Sasuke grouched. "That's the fourth time you've asked this morning. I don't see what's so exciting about some alarm seals. They just sound annoying and loud."

"The alarms aren't for us," Mito corrected gently. "We won't hear them at all, but Uzushio will be alerted to who we are. They are to keep Uzushio safe."

"And besides, after the barrier, the stars'll be distorted properly and we can see the stars!"

"We can already see the stars dobe," Sasuke disagreed, flicking Naruto's forehead.

"That is true," Mito said, grabbing Naruto's shirt when he went to fight back. "However, the seals that protect the area around Uzushio distort the night sky just slightly, brightening some stars, dimming others. The Milky way is far more visible in this area."

Sasuke just gave the traditional Uchiha grunt, falling silent.

Mito smiled as she sensed the barrier of the seals coming up. Time to see if Naruto would pick it up when they passed it.

Gauging by his stiffening in surprised, she guessed he had, although Sasuke seemed blissfully unaware.

"Was that the alarm seal barrier?" Naruto asked immediately after passing the barrier.

"That it was," Mito replied, smiling. "We are now within a week's travel of Uzushio."

Sasuke looked rather confused. "What? That's all?"

"I did say the alarm seals were for alerting Uzushio, not us," Mito agreed cooly. "I am a sensor, and Naruto has the potential to be one as well, so we both sensed the barrier. Although he only realized that was what it was until it passed. The fact that you didn't sense it merely means that if you wanted to be a sensor, you'd have to work a lot harder then say, Naruto, who has the genetic potential to be a sensor from both sides of his family."

"I thought cousin Shisui was a sensor," Sasuke said suspiciously.

"He is," Mito agreed. "And a very good one. While Kagami, who I suspect is either his grandfather, or great grandfather, was a very good sensor, I'm fairly sure a fair amount of Shisui's skill with his sensing is through hard work and practice."

"Uchiha are kinda pushed towards being able to do it at least a bit," Sasuke admitted after a moment. "Makes it easier to do genjutsu without the sharingan."

She patted his head. "Uzushio has the best sensors in the elemental nations. I'm sure any Uchiha there will have plenty of assistance if they so wish on their sensing."

Sasuke gave a noncommittal grunt, and fell silent.

"Haven't seen Uzushio whole and above the surface in a while," Mito mused as they approached. "It's interesting."

"It's big," Naruto decided. "And super pretty."

Mito had to agree with Naruto on that one, the houses of Uzushio glittering with thousands of seals on them, reinforcing them against the wind, water, and weather. Walls were kind of redundant, with the tidal waves and whirling tides that gave Uzushio its name protecting it from harm.

A single bridge spanned the ocean, rebuilt once more, stretching high above the whirlpools. People were crossing it, and Mito spotted two people with black hair waiting at the base of it.

"Look!" Sasuke shouted, pointing to the two people. "Nii-san and cousin Shisui are waiting for us!"

"That they are," Mito agreed calmly, smiling softly. "On we go to meet them."

(A/N) Okay so I'm kinda moving, and therefore won't be replacing this as soon as it finishes. I'm going to leave it blank until we're properly settled at our new house. In the meantime, feel free to check out the rest of my still updating stories, wink wink nudge nudge… Depending on a few things, including when exactly we're going to the new place, UMN's spot may also have a short pause. I'm merely warning you now. I was thinking about it, and decided to tell you before I forgot. Also I refuse to tell you plans for Lion King, I'll hint, but no plans for you.