Riddles unanswered,

Questions unsolved.

Hints required,

Suspects involved.

To answer the question,

To solve the riddle.

A suspect's session,

A hint in the middle.

Once you've finished

You get to the end,

You've solved that mystery,

With a family to mend.

-noelicoan

Natsuki dropped the last of the men on a massive pile in front of Marine Ford, smirking at the thought that there were no more millions or billions in Alabasta.

"Time to take off guys. Shall we go on another adventure?"

"Yeah!" The seasons joined their hands, and reappeared on board of their Kazoku-gunkan. Though something glitched when Natsuki did so. They landed safely, but it was a much weirder experience. The atmosphere changed from ocean to forest for a second, but the problem was, that Natsuki recognised the place.

"No! No. Not that place again..." She ran to the side of the ship, ready to throw up, thankfully keeping it in until the last minute. Uki tried to run to her, but Fuyuki stopped her.

"She needs to figure this out first, or she'll sulk for days again, like she did when we answered that riddle she was trying to answer a year ago." He joked, but the seriousness never left his voice. They just watched her as she mumbled, her palms and forehead sweating badly. Though when night fell, she calmed down, walking into the kitchen for a midnight snack.

"Better?"

"Still confused."

"Wanna talk about it?"

"Sorry, but I want more time. Sorry Fuyu. Where are the others?"

"They're all asleep."

"Is it already that late?"

"It is midnight Natsu."

"Time flies when you're having fun... The problem is, that it also flies when the problem is too big." She grumbled, munching into a piece of cake.

"I'm sure you'll find the solution Natsu."

"If that solution involves you guys coming to another world, would you say the same?" Fuyuki seemed slightly taken aback.

"That's what the glitching was?"

"Uh huh." She began the mumbling again, and Fuyuki decided to leave her alone.

The next morning, she walked into the kitchen with circles under her eyes.

"Woah. You've slept well." Haruki said sarcastically, and Natsuki didn't even have the energy to whack his head.

"Did you get a solution?" Aki asked knowingly, as she was in the crows nest last night, accidentally listening in on her captain and vice-captain's conversation.

"Yup."

"Wait, a solution to what? World poverty? If so, then you're amazing to have been able to solve that in a night." Haruki said again, and this time Uki hit him.

"Will you just shut up and listen for once?" Kanki grumbled.

"Alright, alright." Haruki smirked, he hadn't made the calm Kanki irritated in a long time.

"So, you guys know how I come from another world."

"Really!? Never knew"

"HARUKI!" Kanki yelled, and Haruki laughed at his success.

"Sorry... So?" He said once he calmed down after his laughter.

"As I was saying, so that glitch which happened yesterday. That's my last world. For some reason, it's trying to take me back. So, I'm going to try and go back to that world, but what I spent the last whole night doing, was developing a new seal which allows us to travel between the two worlds freely. So that we can come back here, even after going there. What do you think?"

"I want to go!"

"May I please kill your parents though? I know what they did to you."

"Nah, though what I will be doing, is to disguise myself as Naruto again, but much older. 28, if I were gone for that long in that world as well. If they react any differently from before, I may forgive them, but if they are the same, then we're leaving for good, no matter how bad their situation is. Good plan?"

"Yeah! Are we going in disguise!?"

"Well, you don't really need one. Nor do I. So, all we need is, well, your weapons, and perhaps a few snacks, but just in case, let's all take hoods. We can go back anytime after all." The all nodded, and Fuyuki retrieved his Shepheard's stick, Aki got her pouch of seeds. Haruki got his sword and gun, and Kanki took his gloves from the wardrobe, putting them on. Uki was checking for snacks, and Natsuki placed security and invisibility seals around the ship. The invisibility seal was something she made with the help of Haruki's blood, with his ability to camouflage things.

"Everyone ready?" Natsuki drew out a massive seal on the deck of their ship, and the six seasons held hands, standing around it. "Jump onto it, in three, two, one!"

With a flash of lightning, the seasons disappeared.

~o0o~

Six people came tumbling out of the sky on top of the country of fire. They landed perfectly on top of the Hokage rock of the fourth Hokage, and watched the destruction in awe.

"I never thought I'd see this much carnage, and if I did, it was when we had seen the whole of the world, but never thought I'd see this sight so early in my life..." Uki said before she threw up her breakfast in a bush.

The place was soaked in blood, with more blood, and to top it all off, even more of the thick red liquid. The faces of the Hokage's were taken off, and the houses were destroyed. Natsuki's hardened face looked at the claw marks on the ground with worry.

She used her haki and the population beneath them, hidden from something, or rather someone.

Jumping down from the head of the kage's, she located the secret door, and pushed it open.

The seasons first heard a shrill scream before anything else. They looked down, to find thousands of people staring at them tiredly, all hope gone.

"Who are you?" A boy with a tight, pineapple-shaped ponytail asked.

"What happened? There used to be such a beautiful village here. Bright sun and smiling children..." Natsuki, recognising Shikamaru, decided upon a new plan. She discreetly made a shadow clone, disguising it as her sixteen year old self as Naruto.

"Have you been living under stone? These past thirteen months have been a living hell for us. The..." Another boy, with red markings on his face rubbed Shikamaru's shoulder as the he wiped his eyes.

"About a year ago, our leaders made a grave mistake. They let go of a boy, which let a beast go on a rampage. The beast destroyed everything. Killed every single anbu, except the Hokage and his wife. He keeps them as prisoners." Kiba told them.

"That old fart... I knew he cared for me!" Naruto the clone yelled.

"What?"

"Oh, sorry. I forgot to tell you. This is Winter, this is Spring, Autumn, Rain, and Sand, and I am Summer." Natsuki interrupted 'Naruto'.

"And you?" A girl with pink hair and green eyes asked, pointing at a shadow right at the back.

"How sad Sakura-chan! You forgot about me!" Naruto smiled, taking off his hood, revealing spiky blond hair and whiskered cheeks.

"Na- Naruto?" Sasuke asked, and the whole of Naruto's generation came forward.

"Dattebayo! Did you guys forget about me!? How rude! Can you believe it Winter!" Fuyuki grunted, not liking this really loud persona his captain adopted.

"NARUTO!" Spring and Rain jumped to the defensive when the people surged forward, but relaxed when one of them, the one with spiky red hair and a plump body carried their captain on his shoulders, a smile on his face.

"Naruto has come back! He's come to save us all!" The crowd cheered and cried, leaving a smudge of disapproval in the Season's hearts.

The cheers died down and Naruto was set on the ground when Choji released him.

"Where have you been for this last year?" Sasuke asked his teammate, and Naruto silently debated whether or not to tell a full lie, or the twisted truth.

"I lost my memory. I only retrieved them a few days ago."

"How did you lose your memory?"

"Oh, my parents didn't tell you?"

"Parents?"

"God's sake... My father is the fourth Hokage. Don't recognise me from the face?" Naruto waved at his head obviously, and the citizens of the village hidden in the leaves all gasped. Then the one they tortured was...

"What?" Shino asked, trying to make sense of the situation.

"Yup, so long story short, my father and mother are the leaders of the village, but the villagers hated me so much, they decided to try and kill me, and convinced my parents that I was dead. Then, my parents forgot about me for ten years, found me, adopted me, then forgot about me again, and they wiped my memories a year ago, when I was fifteen." He summarised. The rest went slack jawed, and three people coughed behind Naruto, hiding obvious laughter.

"Where did you meet these people?" Neji asked from the side, walking forward.

"They were the ones who helped me for these past months. They taught me things I never would've learnt here, provided a place to sleep and food to eat. They are my family."

"Then how come they didn't tell you what was happening here? Besides, what's with the hoods?" Naruto nodded at Winter, who was the first to take his hood off.

"We have our own reasons, sir. My name is Winter, and I come from a clan which controls snow."

"Like Haku?" Sakura asked with poor understanding. Winter shook his head.

"I'm sorry, but I do not know who he or she is. Anyway, everyone wanted the power of my clan, so I migrated to the woods when I was young, when Summer found me." Fuyuki gestured for his captain, who waved in return. "We collected similar children like me, and we each forgot our names, naming ourselves with what our clan jutsus were associated with. Like myself, as I am Winter. I became the vice head of my small orphanage when Naruto came along, with absolutely no memory. We helped him get back on track, and trained with him, when just the other day, he remembered everything."

"That doesn't answer why you didn't know the situation Konoha was in though." Shikamaru asked.

"Doesn't it? A group of children hunted by the most elite of ninjas for their blood lines. What did you expect? To just go around the kingdoms, knowing everything happening around us?"

"Sorry. I wasn't thinking properly."

"It's alright. Seasons?"

"My name is Autumn. My bloodline is to grow things up until the age of harvest."

"Shouldn't you be spring then?"

"Is it springtime that is called the season of harvest? I think not. Besides, he's Spring." She pointed at Haruki. "My bloodline is to grow things until the age of harvest, and I will not be repeating it a third time just for the sake of your poor understanding." Aki said, taking off her hood as well.

"Geez Autumn, scare them off will ya?" Haruki exclaimed, and Aki glared hard at him, silently rendering that she was creating a different persona. "Meh. Well, I'm Spring! I can disappear out of sight." He did some fake hand signs just for show and used his devil fruit ability to camouflage himself.

"Show off." Uki sighed.

"Shut up Rain!" Uki scoffed, taking off her hood.

"Shut up Spring. You're embarrassing all of us. Anyway, I'm Rain, and as my name suggests, my blood line lets me control where, when, and what rains." She took a step backward, and Kanki stepped forward.

"I am Sand. I do not have powers of Sand, but I can dry all the liquid from someone's body, or anything with water in it. My powers came with a curse, and it makes me dry things with just a touch, so please don't try to take my gloves off if you don't want to die."

"And finally, I'm Summer. I don't have any bloodlines, but I have trained in the many styles of ninjutsu. My mother died when I was born, and my father likes travelling, leaving me to get stronger." Natsuki said, and the rest smiled up at her, or in the boy's case, smiling down at her; because she was the one who made their family, and was there for them when things were hard.

"How old are you all? You seem so civilised compared to some of the brats here." Ino chimed in, instantly forgetting that she herself was still rather young.

"Well, I'm 22, and in order of Winter, Sand, Autumn, Spring and Rain, they are 25, 21, 20, 18, and 14."

"Enough on us. Why on earth are you all cooped up here?" Haruki asked without hesitation.

"It all started a year ago, when Naruto disappeared, and the demon beast appeared." Shikamaru gravely started.