Hokage Chronicles: Namikaze, Minato.
In between the time of Minato Namikaze's jounin days and his days as hokage lay several stories.
Many, many hardships and close situations were encountered. In these chronicles we will re-visit the hidden missions that are not currently exposed to the general public.
In honour of his skill and victory in securing the village's safety after the kyuubi attacked and was sealed in none other than the fourth hokage's unheard of son…
6:07AM – Hidden cloud peak outskirts
There was a rustle in the bushes as the cold morning frost carried the scent of the pine trees and anticipation. "IDATE!" Genjuro proclaimed, as he crawled out of the bush unsettlingly. "I couldn't find their trace but they left behind a resource caravan" Idate responded.
Idate and Genjuro were both Jounin rank shinobi, they were both successors of the sharingan but specialised in sabotage and weaponry.
As the morning grew on the sun started to radiate out of the tree canopies and large stone pillars where the Cliffside met the bush trail's forests.
"Let's regroup with team wind and water so we can inform them of the cloud's status" said Idate. "Right".
As they pressed through the dense forest canopy they encountered group wind, although they seemed slightly disorientated. It appeared that someone had already found the wandering group which was purely there to create wind genjutsu. This jutsu is said to have originated with a certain clan of the leaf village where large spiralling winds were created in such a way that leaves would follow the path and then lead off into perplexing patterns. It was used mainly in forests as it could easily be mistaken for a breeze.
Idate and Genjuro continued after releasing the genjutsu, the entire group of the wind division hadn't even a single idea of what happened.
"WATCH OUT!" Screamed the captain of the wind division
Dead silence reached over the group as fear was instilled in their hearts, sound dropped from the trees as the birds flew out in a scurry
Rabbit. Dog. Boar. Ram. Rat
A voice boomed "RAITON: KANGEKIHA!" (lightning release: wave of inspiration)
An intense blast of lightning passed through the very centre of the group as all the shinobi there but a few jumped backwards out of the way.
Upon seeing this Genjuro screamed with anger at the sight of his fallen comrade, Idate.
"IDATE! IDATEEEE!"… "This is… this is unforgivable" Genjuro remarked.
"Oya, you shouldn't be so quick to jump the cannon" came a whisper from the dark cliff side.
"Stupid Uchiha, 3 generations later and you still think that you can defeat every shinobi out there on your own" came another.
"I hear that they're actually just like light bulbs" came a third.
"Why's that sis?" said the second voice. "Because they know how to make some light but they shatter with too much power" the two began laughing hysterically.
"Shut the hell up!" Genjuro responded
Horse. Tiger. Ram. Monkey. Boar. Horse. Tiger.
"KATON: GOKAKYU NO JUTSU!" (Fire style: Grand fireball technique/Fire release: Great fireball jutsu)
An immense stream of fire eventually cultivating in a huge ball blasted through the woods, destroying all the trees in it's path as well as setting the remains of the trees on fire.
The three unidentified shinobi leapt away leaving the fireball to crash into the cliff side and causing it to landslide.
"See what I mean, so full of anger, you just want to watch the world burn" said the third voice.
"I'm only getting started." Responded Genjuro, pulling out an odd looking kunai.
"Hah, what kind of kunai is that? Looks pretty useless" said the second voice.
"…not safe for work.. but we'll show you a burning world if that's what you wish young Uchiha" said the first voice in retort.
"Huh? What are you talking about bro? Not safe for work?" the second voice said reluctantly. At this point the recovering shinobi from the first attack were being healed by the medical portion of the wind division.
Genjuro turned to Idate and saw his eyes. They were brown. His eyes red with the heat of the battle exploded with energy as he charged toward the three with the funny kunai held in his left hand.
The first of the hidden 3 leapt backwards to form the rear support of the three, knowing what was in store for his foolish siblings.
The first two started making hand seals of which Genjuro could not recognise but he did recognise the third sibling's technique.
"Crap, a wind release technique… but this could only mean.."
The two shinobi at the front both finished with tiger seals and shot out a heavy stream of fire from their mouths.
The third positioned at the back released what he spent moulding that entire time "KATON: FUTON: ENPU NO RAPPA" (Fire style: Wind style: Inferno rough waves)
The blazing inferno of heat caught onto the wind that was produced at the back easily. Genjuro still charging toward them attempted to dodge by jumping up but the area covered by the smouldering flame increased as time raged on.
The fires dispersed but nothing was to be seen by the trio. "Where did he go bro? Did we get him?" said the second shadow. "No, this is the end brother" said the first shinobi of the trio as the oddly handled and shaped kunai pressed against his throat.
"The funny thing about the cloud is, they have so much talent, but use it for the wrong things." remarked the man holding the kunai. "Sorry, this is it"
The cold steel slashed through the unidentified shinobi's throat as the other two siblings watched in fear.
"YOU TRASH!" screamed the third, female shinobi.
A blue orb flickered violently in the palm of the blonde-haired, tall, skinny looking shinobi.
The third shinobi rushed out a quick lot of hand seals and proceeded to shoot more fire towards the blue chakra wielding man. All of it to no avail as he was no longer present.
The forest was silent once again when the sound dropped from the trees for a second time, only this time there were no birds left to scurry out of the canopy.
"RASENGAN!" shouted the man as the woman hit a large hardwood tree only to be blasted through the entire trunk and left on dead on the other side.
Before the second shinobi could act he too had already dropped to the forest floor, which had a thin layer of dew covered grass over it but with a lot of hard dirt patches in-between bouts of evergreen trees.
Genjuro thanked the man heavily. "What's the status, Genjuro?" said the man still acting some what casual about the entire ordeal. "We were attacked by those three, some have died… including Idate but we discovered a small resource caravan not far from this rendezvous point, Captain Minato."
"Gather whatever divisions we have here and bring 2 medical ninjas, 2 wind style users and yourself, Genjuro. We're heading towards the epicentre of the fight now. If we can over come the next wave of mercenaries it will be downhill from here."
"Right!" Genjuro enthusiastically acknowledged
To be continued…
Authors notes|| If you would like to request an uncensored version of this story (language) then you can shoot me a message and I'll email it to you there. Also, thank you for taking the time for reading this, the next issue will be out soon.
Thanks,
J.A.